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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-14
UNCLES TROPHIES


Tom Brown and Jack Smith
had been schoolmates together,
but, as often happens, had drift
ed apart during the years that fol-
lowed. Then, quite accidentally,
they met again one day, and
somehow the conversation turn
ed to the subject of athletics.
''Let me seeI said Brown.
"You never came across my
brother, did you? He's a fine
runner, you know. Why, only
last week he won a gold medal
in a Marathon race"
"Ahp said Smith, raising his
eyebrows in genuine admiration.
Then, a faint smile playing round
his lips, he added: And did I
ever tell you about my uncle? ?"
We'll, in his day, not only did
he get a gold medal for five miles,
and one for ten miles, but two
sets of carvers for cycling, a sill
yer medal for swimming, two
cups for wrestling, to say moth
ing of badges for boxing and row. |
ing. |
you see," Smith continued, |
while his friend sat speechless |
with amazement, the uncle in !
question kept pawnshop"
Garage owners are setting up
an awful roar about the increas-
ing price of gasoline. Ha, ha |
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-14

Garage owners are setting up
an awful roar about the increas-
ing price of gasoline. Ha, ha!
We're glad to hear those garage
Williams roar. But, confound it,
we've been paying the bills, come
to think of it. Hear US! Wow,
WOW, WOW!
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-14

Two young women were ex-
changing condolences one afteEl
noon as they slipped their tea. ER#
didn't tell me he loved me, said8
the younger of the two, with al
happy reminiscent smile, as sffe-l
toyed with her spoon, but h6t
kissed me" well" replied tbs
other, "he must love you if he
kissed you" md
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-14

At any rate, Adam couldn't
have been a poet. Poets are born,
not made.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
HIGH SCHOOL AND
RAILROAD COOPERATE

Boys in the high school at McConfo
City, Miss, earn from $12 to $1s a
month regularly while attending
school,. A plan of cooperation has
been drawn up between the high
school and the Illinois Central Rail
road, whereby the boys attend school
one day and work in the railroad
shops the next, according to inforna-
ton received at the United States Blu
reau of Education The Student
apprentices as they are called, are
paid for their work in the shops, the
minimum wage being II cents an
hour. After four years of combin-
ed high school attendance and shop
work the boy is prepared to enter col
lege or draw mans pay at his trade.
Railroad and school authorities both
/ agree that the plan works well. The
railroad official in charge of the boys
said: AFTER actual tests it is shown
that the plan of cooperation between
the Illinois Central Railroad shops
and the McCoInb City High School is
not only feasible but that it is work
ing out in a manner entirely satisfac-
tory. I believe it to be for the best
interest of the railroad company TIC
fill all vacancies in the Apr enttce-
ship system as far as possible with
cooperative apprentices Superinten-
dent Hughes, of the school system, is
equally enthusiastic over results from
the schools point of view. He be-
lieves the plan offers one solution OF
the problem of keeping boys in school;
that it fosters a boys spirit Of indie
| pendence and satisfies his comm end
able ambition to get into the game of
life.
The McComb City plan is another
| Indication of the strength of the pres
ent movement for systematic vocation
| al education in connection with the
public schools. It is noteworthy in
| that it does not lose sight of the need
{ for continued culturalral training fol
the boy who may want to earn his liv-
ing in the shops.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
BR1DGEPoRT,s DUTY.
(Ansonia Sentinel

It is officially announced from
Bridgeport that her greatest product is
children. This being the case, it is
manifestly up to Bridgeport to see to
it that they prove her best product
that the children made in Bridge
port are also made good men and
good women. If this is the chief
aim the dividends of the years to
come will be vastly greater than can
be secured from any other investment.
The well-broUght-up child pays for
his bringing up, good measure, press
ed down, shaken together and run
ming over. This is the child that is
worth wh1le-the child that pays in
character, in comfort, in satisfaction,
in love, in all that is desirable, and,
if reckoned in a purely nercenary
basis, pays in actual dollars and cents.
When Bridgeport takes inventory and
places an estimate upon her valuation
what will be the estimate, we wonder,
of the real value of this product which
she announces to be her greatest and
which she should be proud to claim as
her best? Bridgeport without her
children would be poor indeed
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
WANT TO
FEEL YOUNG A.?
IT'S OLIVE TABLETS
FOR YOU!

Beware of the habit of constitpa-
lion 1t develops from just a few
eonstipated days, especially in Old
People, unless you take yourself in
HAND
Coax the Jaded bowel muscles back
TO normal action with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets, the substitute for calo-
mel Don't force them to Immature
action with severe medicines or by
merely flushing out the intestine s
with nasty, sicl1ening cathartics
DR. Edwards believes in gentleness.
tpersistency and Natures assistance
DR. Edwards Olive Tablets oil the
Bowels; their action is gentle vet
positive. There is never any pain OF,
gripping when Olive Ia blets are used.
Just the kind of treatment old per-
sons should have.
Take Olive Eablets mixed with olive
oil and have no trouble with your
Every EttiS Olive Tablet has A
movement all iSJe avn" 1Oc and 25c
per box
The Olive Tablet Co. Columbus. o.
ADV,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
gets the legislation

gets the legislation of. 1911 which
bears directly on the point The ar
there is not a vacancy IN the office OF
the highway commissioner, SnaI II
there is not the present 1ncNn bent
must remain until 1915 and that the
governor has lost the right to appoint
because of the lapse Of time. AS to
this it may be said that whatever the
writer may have intended to declare
about the form, of the law is without
value, as it appears, through a confu-
sion Of dates and other apparent err
rors. The statement does not seem to
be that of a lawyer. In fact it is
difficult to understand just what part
of the intended arguments is For
the present we are disposed to prefer
the opinion of Governor Baldwin that
he has a right to make a new nomin-
alton and that the senate must con-
firm or reject it.
The position described in the Reg
lister makes no mention of the provis-
ions which the last legislature tackled
on to the bill appropriattng for the
highway commission. 1t was de-
scribed recently in these columns, and
it is enough to say that it was avow-
eddy passed to save Macdonald. 1t
provides the form in which a highway
commissioner may be removed from
office for misconduct, neglect or in
competence, and declares that after a
finding in a certain form the office
shall beconae vacant and the govern or
shall proceed to Q fill the vacancy
Therefore if as is suggested in New
Haven there is no vacancy in the Of
flee at present this machinery can be
set in operation. If there is a va
cancy, as others believe, why can it
not be filed under the provisions of
existing law
We admit freely that wonderful
things are done in the Interpretation
of law by skilled counsel, but we have
also great respect for the legal acu-
men of Governor Baldwin, and when
he proposes to make a nomination
for highway commissioner we incline
to the opinion that he is within his
rights.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
INSULTED.

A well known but broken down De-
troit newspaper man, who had been
a power in his day, approached an old
friend the other day in the Ponchar-
train hotel, says The Free Press, and
said:
received the prize insult of my life A
paper down in Muncie, Ind, offered
me a job
DO you call that an insu1t?''
mot the job but the salary. They
offered me $12 a week"
Well said the friend, twelve a
week is better than nothing
Twelve a week-thunder!'' ex-
claimed the old scribe. Il can borrow
more than that right here in Detroit y
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
NATIONAL BANKS.
New York Worldly

NNSW VI ~ O14O"J
National banks are chartered by the
United States government. They
have powers and privileges that are
denied to all other banks. Among
which is an attribute of sovereignty
itself Congress could, this very day,
repeal the act under which these
banks were created and send every
one of them into liquidation. It could
by a single law destroy all those priv
ileges under which the First National
bank, for example has made $50, OOO,-
900 in profits on an original invest
ment of 100000.
Yet George F. Baker, president Of
that bank 9Id1 tells tells a committee Of con- n
more right to my hist Of bank securi-
ties than the public has to my tailor
BILL He tells this committee that cit 9
none of congress business how many
banks are controlled by national
bank He tells this committee that
there is no reason for the surrender of
that las to the partners in interest, .
tells this committee that the purchase
of the Chase National bank by a Sc
curities company organized by the
sona1, private transaction
The old. order dies hard and it
fights to the last. It required years
of agitation and legislation to con-
vince the reluctant railroads that they
were affected with public interest
and that they could have no honest Sc
years of agitation to convince corpo-
rations that they were not above the
government that chartered them. Men
like Mr.. Baker still think that a ma
tionaI bank is a private affair. Other
men Of his type Justify proclaim that
the stock exchange is a private affair.
All of them exploit the ancient theory
that the public is a new mich COW
whose sole function is to be exploit
ed for individual profit. But their day
is done.
Mr.. Baker is an interesting but an
important relic of a. dead past. Ten
years from now f11anciers of his type
will be rare as railroad preside Tents
who deny the right of the government
to regulate interstate commerce.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
THE CIVIC SECRETARY.
MEMS SECTION

.T4Aere Is a new official in American
.i+z Rsfe-fne Acdvdc secretary He
tepresents the link between education
md life in the big cities. For a NUM-
her of years American educators nave
been striving to bridge the chasm
that seemed to exist between educa-
FionzJ Influences and the everyday
hives of the people By means OF eV-
nn4rzy schools, libraries. extension leo
lures and more recently civic social,
and recraafional oenIers, much mas
been done. It has remained to com
htre these connecting educational
forces under one active offRcer, and
this has been accomH1ished by the
new position OF civic Secretary
The 'tc#vic secretary" at Duluth,
Nina, - appointed by the board OF
uubIAc welfare Of that city, according
to tr1NoEnEztton received at the UNITED
States RHreaa OF Education He has
charge Of ali the local social center
work Fslans to secure the same sort
Of officer azeRepoEted TO be under way
IN several other o1ctes of the Middle
west The official may not always
ne caHed the -+ctvfc secretary but his
functions are generally the same. He
orsanszeS educational extension work;
gives 1utekktgent and sympathetic aid
TO rAay and recreattons stimulates dis
cuszaon OF public problems; in short
he ccnsoatca4es and directs the civic
agencies of the community for the
benefit OF al the citizens.
In Superior. wis, q lefty exposi-
4for1'' ts PLANNED by the civic secre-
gary u1ao 4s here caned director of
tSae civic center department In
this city exposition not only the local
Industries but the educational and mu-
intcipaA institutions viii have on APP
nortunaty to exhibit their methods and
results. The exposition idea is only a
single item in a large program map
ped out by the director. There will
be various social and recreationa4 &C
Invites. lecture cozEsess civic and
ward improvement clubs. and a clip
uping bureau villa be. established to col
hect Information on social, civic and
municipal meters.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

When you take food into a stomach
that is tired and over-taXed, the gas
trio juices do not form fast enough to
digest it properly. So the food becomes
sour and at once begins to throw off
gases Your stomach becomes inflated
just as surely as if you attached a. toy
balloon to a gas jet. Then the gases
and foul odors issue forth and poI1ute
your breath Your tongue quickly be-
comes coated and you can taste the
fouln ess that is within you.
Now all this condition is changed
almost instantly by d Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablet. This little digester gets
busy at once-supplies all the diges-
tive elements that were lackfng-di-
gests the food in q jiffy and sweetens
and refreshes the mucous lining of the
stomach and bowels and restores peace
and content.
One grain of a single ingredient in
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will digest
5000 grains of food. This saves your
stomach and gives it the rest it needs.
All muscles require occasional rest if
they are ever over-taxed. The stomach
is no exception to this rule.
Try a box of Stuart's DyeYe psia Tab
let's and you will wonder how you ever
got along without them. They are SOLD
at SO cents by all druggists every
where.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
WHAT HE HAD.

He was an artist, and the hum drum
life in the butchers shop vexed his
noble spirit. Somehow, selling scrag
of mutton and the best end of the
neck was not appreciated by his arts
tic temperament and so he went to
London, where talent is recognized
and paid etimes.
For a time he wrote glowing letters
home, describing his progress and sue
cess. Then there came silence.
Success reflected his sorrowing
parents, has been too much for him.
He has forgotten us. Alas, alas!''
But he hadn't for, one evening, just
as his father was sitting down to
supper and preparing to enjoy his
humble chop, a small boy brought a
note.
Dear Dad" it read, '.pIease meet
me by the old bridge at midnight and
bring with you a shirt, a waistcoat
and a Jacket. I have a hat, John. -
London Mail.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
DrFFERENUE IN LOCATION.

John Drew, the actor, at the age
of so books no more than IS. Compli-
4nented on THIS fact, Mr.. Drew said:
IT try to keep my hair on and my
stomach o6-that IS the true secret
Df perennial youth,
Then he told one of his famous
stories illustrative of the horrors OF
corpulence-
"A fat man" he said, could not
help laughing one day at the ludi-
rrous appearance of very bowiegged
rhaP-one of those arch-looking chaps
Fou know.
Though total stranger to him the
Tat man slapped the bow1egged chap
Dn the back and said:
BY lingo, brother, you look as If
FoE'd been rfd4n' a barrel
The bowlegged man smiled and
YoEed his forehnger deep into the fat
hans soft, loose stomach.
And you look as if you'd been
Svallowtn' one he said. washing
ton Star
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

been possible twenty, or even ten,
years ago. It marks a new sense of
fairness in politics that speaks well
for the performance of the pro
gresstve" element of the party that
President elect Wilson hopes for. The
dem ocra4s made g. genuine sacrifice
to a principle, for the majority of
these positions now are held by Re
publican incumbents.
But unfair as the presidents action
may have seemed to those who look
upon appointive spoils as the ueces-
Sary accom- panina of an incoming
administration, the reform had to be-
gin n1etime and the Democrats have
put an end to It, so far as the house
is concerned, by voting that it begin
now,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
A SIMPLE NAU@RATroN
(PhiEadelp4aia Press.)

President-eIect Wilson has anked
that the Essex troop Of Newark be
detailed as his personal escort at the
Inauguration. In this he follows out
the Jefferson idea, for when Jefferson
went to be iaaAgurated for his first
term he was escorted by militia Or
sHntKation from HIS own state. a Viz
g1nta artillery company.
There are Democrats who still fond
~ cling to the old story that Jefferson
rode up to the capitol on horseback
and took the oath and then rode back
in the same Nnpretentious way
Though Jeffersonss inauguration was
simple enough, the horseback story
was pure fiction, and never got into
any auth entic history. The only foun-
Dalton for it was the relation of an
try at the time and did not of course
see what topk place.
The real tnita4or of Jefferson was
Governor Sulzer, who walked to the
Albany capitol to be 1naugura$ed.a JEFF
fsrson walked. Edward Thornton,
who at that time was IN charge of the
British legation, wrote to Lord Gren-
vile that he came from his own 1odS-
ings to the capitol on foot, in his OF
binary dress, escorted by a body of
militia artillery from the neigh boring
o fta1e navy and treasury, and a mum
Der of his political friends This
was by an eye witness. 1t agrees
with the newspaper publications of the
time, and no other story has ever
been used by any responsible historian.
Washtngton's second inauguration
and John Adams inauguration seem
to have been conducted with equal
simplicity. Our inaugural parades
and demonstrations are a matter of
gradual growth. and it has been so
because the people like the show. The
inauguration demonstration, is not now
the partisan jubilation it was in the
/ times of intenSer partisanship. It has
a broader significance to the most
of those who participate and is not to
! be treated as the celebration of a par
| ty victory.
Presid ent-e1ect Wilson has frequent
| Iy expressed himself in favor of a
simple inauguration as many other
presidents elect have done before him
| but 1t Is easier to say that than &c
get it done. Mr.. Wilson VIII be in
augurated with the usual display, be-
cause people who like such things
and most people do-must have thei1
part in the event.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
REVIEWS
FROM
Our Exchanges
TEACHERS PENSION.
New Britain HeraId.)


The New Britain school teachers
have joined with the teachers IN ofner
cities of the state in a maVenent TO
have Connecticut pass law estab-
nnents to be made from the state
treasury This is in line with the
spirit of the times, such a system pc
ing in existence in some states, ana IS
constantly being extended to others.
The pension idea is rapidly beco1n-
ing a fixture in cities, including, at
present police and firemen, the argu-
nent made in favor of these depart
naents being nowadays considered
sound, reasonable and unansw cradle
Policemen and -freInen are a necessity
IN every community, but as essent1al
as they are they do not rank IN I'M
portance with the school teacher who
Is intrusted with the education OF the
young the moulding of their oharac-
ter and their training for citizenship
There comes a period in their lives
when authorities feel that they should
make room for younger teachers and
whan that time comes, after, say thir-
able to take up another line of work,
not because of any physical weakness,
but because they have devoted such a
long period of time to teaching that
they cannot adapt themselves to an
other with any hope OF success A
pension enters into the situation at
this point at once. 1t would enable
the teacher to live as becomes his or
her position, providing at the same
time for retirement SO as TO make
room for a younger teacher which
school authorities feel is necessary
for the best training for the young
The more this question is considered
the stronger becomes the argument IN
favor of a pension. The system itself
manufacturing concerns and in time
Will be recognized as an expense to
be borne by all branches OF business
effort.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
THE CoNTAINER LAW.
(Brfstol Press. }

NbTfStOI 9reSS.)
The new package or container law
which went into effect on Saturday is
causing a good deal of bother despite
the long period given Tor preparation.
AS the thing is on the statute books
it will have to be enforced, no mat
ter how much Of a nuisance it may be.
And how is the purchaser to be bene-
flied? Prices will be jumped suffi-
GENTLY to make good, in many cases,
for the annoyance, expense and in
crease in contents called for and the
purchaser will be Indifferent to every
feature except the advanced price. The
intent of the law i& a great deal bet
ter than its clumsy and Impractical
application,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

New York Lodge To Celebrate Orders
Birthday February IL.

A letter has been received by Con
necticut Ellzs, announcing the 4Sth
anniversary of the birth of the order,
which viii be celebrated by New z ORR
lodge, No. 1, on Monday evening. Feb.
IL. A banquet is to be rendered to
Grand EXALTED Ruler Thomas 3. Mills
and his official family at the Waldorf
Astoria. and it is probable that quite a
delegation of Elks from this city will
attend.
According to the tenor of the letter
received the celebration and banquet
is to be an elaborate affair. with dele
cations of EJks from a number of
lodges from all sections.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
FINISHING TOUCH.

The lady was noted for her beauti-
full hands, which were small and ex-
quisitely proportioned and. casting his
eyes upon them, her supper partner
softly quoted Gray's lines:
Hands that the rod of empire
might have swayed.
Leaning back in his chair. cornpIa-
cent in the knowledge that he had
paid a graceful compliment, he was
somewhat disconnected when the fair
one srnilingly replied:
cor walked to ecstacy the living
Tyre. Telegraph.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
ESCAPED AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS

W. P. Broyles made a successful
escape after fifteen years of suffering
from kidney and bladder troubles
Foley Kidney Pills released him and
will do just the same for others. He
backache with painful bladder, irreg-
uIarit1es, and they do all you claim
for them" Refuse substitutes. F. B.
Brill, STAFFORD avenue and Sixth
street.-AdV. "135
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
THE HOLD-OVER COMMISSIONER
(EIa 1-tfnrd \

According to the New Haven Regis
ter the highway commissioner has re-
ceived legal advice that he cannot be
removed from office and is safe to
serve until 1915, whatever happens
1t quotes a good deal of law to sup
port this contention, but somehow for
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
\ BIT OF CRAFTSMANSHIP.


Thirty-nine democrats in the house
yesterday gave an object lesson in gen
uine craftsmanship when they voted
to sustain the order of President Taft
putting $4,000 fourth class postmas-
rers under civil service
Sob
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
AN ADEPT.

Bacon-Does he know how to han
Gle a whee1baErOw
Egbert-Does he? Why, say he's
ost every election bet he ever made
@YonkerB Statesman.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
An Excellent Tonic


Don't you think we have laws
enough already, senator?"
'fOh, yes; but if 1 don't let 'eYa know
what Pm here for I'll never get here
again. Atlanta Constitution
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

Princeton-Twe1ve students will go
TO Trenton, Sunday to sing in a choir.
As stri1ebreakers.