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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

When taking a cutting from a plant, form the habit of rubbing a. bit of damp earth upon the end of the slip and also upon the spot where it was broken off. This prevents what is call ed bleeding-a, loss of sap-aud saves the vitality of both. It is putting salve upon open sore.
 My white enameled bed became very much soi1ed, and a friend advised washing 1t with soda water. She dis solves one teaspoonfuI of baking soda in one pint of warm water and after washing the bed with a soft cloth saturated with the solution, wipes 1t off with a dry one. This treatment will clean any white enameIed furni- ture.
 It is a difficult matter to- out away the material under lace insertion with out severing a wrong thread unless means of overcoming the trouble be employed Use a piece of cardboard four inches long, rounded at one end and cut wide enough to slip along be- tween lace and the material. This will make the work easier and safer.
 Make small, dainty sandwiches, spread with butter and a layer of mar rnalade Or thtnly sliced cheese Put them on pie tins and then under your gas broiIer, and when lightly toasted on one side turn and toast the other The cheese will be just melted enough and the marmalade just warmed enough to be deitciously appetizing.
 To clean white kid gloves, if they are not stained only soiled, take a lit tie sweet milk, a, piece of soft white flannel and a. piece of common brown soap; put the glove on the hand and put the flannel tightly over your fin ger, dip it in the milk to moisten it very little, rub the soap on 1t and rub the gloves gently. The kid must not be wet through.
 In cutting out dress patterns it is of ten difficult to find piece Of paper large enough, and one may not happen to have any paste at hand with which to join the pieces. In such an emer- gency, if you have a piece of cold boiled potato, 1t will answer the pur- pose fully as we'll as paste. Rub the potato over the edges to be Joined and press them firmly together.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29
METEOR FALLS IN RIVER
Shock of Its Explosion Breaks Win
 dows in I1verton, R. I.

Fall River, Mass. Aug. 2s-A meteor fell into the Seaconnett river near Tiverton, R. l., Wednesday night, churning up the water and producing an explosion that sounded like the discharge of a. twelve-inch gun. The phenomenon occurred during an@ cleo trical storm. 2
 The explosion was heard for a dis tance of twenty miles. In the imme- diagte vicinity windows were broken and crockery~ shaken from shelves, while at Island Park, nearly two miles away, a merry -go-round was jared into motiSnS
 Persons who saw the fiery body as it hissed through the sky say it was of unusual size and travelling so rap idly as to appear almost like a flash of lightning. Great jets of steam spurted from the water when the me teor struck the river.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29
WOODEN LEG WINS BATTLE
McStay Uses It as a shiIIa1ah and
 Brophy Goes to the Hospital.

{Tarrytown, Aug. 29-Don't fight q man with a wooden leg is the advice of Michael Brophy of South Broad way, who now lies in the Tarrytown hospital with three ribs broken and a pInctured lung. Brophy had a fight with, James McStay, who lately arriv- ed here from Ireland, bringing. q wooden leg with him. When. hostili- ties started McStay unlocked his les and used it with as. good an effect as if it had been a shiIlaIah, and Bro phy was battered up and carried off to the hospital e ,.. McStay has put up the plea of self defense, and the police admitted that he succeeded very well.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29

garians were not guilty of atrocities. as alleged in war dispatches. It was because of these reports that a commit tee representing the peace movement was recently appointed in Paris at the instigation of Dr. Nichols Murray Butler, president of Columoia college, to investigate the conduct of the com batants
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29

New York. Aug. 27-The return of
 keneral Nelson A. Miles, retired, from his European trip was made interest ing by the fact& that he was bottled up at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, during the war of the Balkan allies among themselves General Miles was quoted when he IefteLondon for Aneri- ca as saying that he>believed that Bull.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29

Harper's Weekly sayss '"The ma ture of women has been influenced a good deal in the past by what men have wished. The nature of men ia to be influenced a great deal fin tIo future by what women wish" To which the New Bedford Standard re- plies: The nature of men has been influenced a good deal in the past bT what women have wished. The ua- ture of women is to be influenced a great deal in the future by what men wish You may take your choice One is as true as the other Harper'8 Weekly has given us a platitude iu the guise of an epfgram and just haIf true.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29
A BETTER WAY.

''so your uncle paid your debts; that was very kind of him.
 "Humph! don't think so. He might have given me the cash and let me pay thern.''
 what difference would that have made?'
 'It would have re-established my credit. From the Boston Advertiser.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-29

there is practically no secIusfor. The women often attend the fairs and mar kets, they are free to go from house to house and often we find that they make far better managers than their husbands
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29
Are Working for
National Suffrage
CBv United Press Associations

(By United Press Associations
Washington, Nov. 29.-Leaders in
the fight to enfranchise women from
practically every state in the union
gathered here today to attend the
forty-ffth annual convection of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association. Fully 500 delegates are
expected in Washington Dy late this
afternoon.
The opening session today was de-
voted to inspection of credentials and
to an all day board meeting. Tonight
the executive committee will hold ar
important session at the Bellevue ho-
tel, and tomorrow the delegate will
attend a suffrage mass meeting at
which DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, pres
ident of the organization; Miss Jane
Adams of Hull House, Chicago, and
State Senator Helen Ring Robinson
of Colorado will speak. Sunday night
there will be reunion.
Suffragists today declared their be-
lief that the present convention is
likely to be one of the last before the
universal suffrage is adopted. They
felt that the earnestness of womens
demands for freedom in this country
will be impressed upon the senator's
and representatives by this gathering.
Among the prominent women here to-
day are DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormack, State Senator Helen Ring
Robinson of Colorado, Miss Jane Ad-
dams, Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lucy
Burns.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29
10 CENT "CASCARETS"
is YOUR LAXATIVE
Best Liver and Bowel Cleanser and
Stomach Regulator in the World
Work While You Sleep
Get a 10 cent box.

Get a lO cent DOX.
Put aside-just once the salts,
pills, castor oil or purgative waters
which merely force passageway
through the bowels, but do not thor
oughly cleanse, freshen and purify
these drainage organs, and have no
effect whatever upon the liver and
stomach.
Keep your "insides" pure and fresh
with Cascarets, which thoroughly
cleanse the stomach, remove the undi-
gested, sour food and foul gases, take
the excess bile from the liver and
carry out of the system all the consti-
pated waste matter and poisons in the
bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never gripe, sicken,
and cost only 10 cents a box from
your druggist. Millions of men and
women take a Cascaret now and then
and never have headache, biliousness,
coated tongue, indigestion, sour stom-
ach or constipated bowels. Cascarets
belong in every household. Children
Just love to take them.--Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29

United States government can pur-
chase Argentine beef lower than the
American product, think the peo-
ple of the country ought to know why
they are not entitled to the same ad-
vantage.
Mr.. Britton insists that the people
should know whether the American
beef trust is responsible for the diff
ference in price between American
cnd Argentine beef.
The cold storage trust is running
for cover before the threatened in
vestigations by the department of JUS
lice and congress.
Daily hundreds of letters from cold
storage men offering to lay the secrets
Of their business before the depart
.nent of justice are received by the
attorney general.
1t became known today that Mr..
McReynolds is inclined to grant these
requests. He hopes to reach an ad-
;ustment of the matter without ex-
pensive litigation. Cold storage deal
ars who come to Washington with
facts to present regarding their busi-
aess and their relations with other
iaalers will not be turned away.
Meantime the search for data re-
'ating to the methods of the trust in
!pholding the cost Of living in possible
violation Of the conspiracy clause of
the Sherman statute will come under
special investigators.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29
Indicts Alfalfa Seed Sellers

Milwaukee, Nov. 29--The indict-
ment of Rosenberg & Lieberman, one
of the oldest firms on commission
row, for misrepresentation in the sale
of alfalfa seed, marks the first step
In nationwide effort of the govern
ment to protect farmer purchasers of
seed from the incorrect statements Of
statesmen.
The indictment charges that the
firm misstated the facts when it
claimed all its seed was Montana
grown; that it claimed to have sold
100000 pounds of Montana seed
last year, which is more than the en-
tire product Of the state; that it
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29
OIL COMPANIES
PURCHASED BY FOREIGNERS

San Francisco, Nov. 29-Capt. John
Darneson has returned to this city af-
.er an absence of several months in
England, and announced the conclu-
sion of a deal that will result in the
eventual investment of approximately
s75,000,O00 British capital in Cali
fornia oil properties, placing the Gen
aral Petroleum Company and probably
the Union Oil Company in much
sounder financial position than they
have heretofore occupied. At the same
line, the syndicate, which has under
aiken the underwriting of holding
corporation for these two companies,
enjoys commercial affiliations which
can take, with the opening of the Pan
ANA canal, the entire output, both
crude and refined, Of General Petrol
,am and Union Oil.
The syndicate, which has signed
preliminary agreement, will be man.
sged by A. NJ Grenfell of Chaplin,
Milne and Grenfen and R. Tilden
Smith. Among the members of the
syndicate are Andrew Weir and 9TH
ers, whose names will not be an
nounced until the permanent agree
r1ent is signed. This final formality
is contingent merely upon the agree
rnent of the General Petroleum under
writer's that they VIII deliver half
the outstanding General Petroleum
bonds for exchange, and they assert
that enough of the bonds are in the
hands of the cantral group, so that
hey are in a position to meet this
obligation.
The syndicate intends to form a
British holding company, whose Sc
curities will be listed in London, and
actively traded in in Paris, whether
listed or not. AS it requires consid-
cradle time to organize such a COM
rany under the British laws, this
matter has been left until the sign
ing Of the final agreement. The hold
ing company will be authorized to is
sue $50,000,000 of per cent cumula-
tive preference stock, either in $5 of
$50 shares, and 100000 shares of
ordinary stock of the par value of
$25,000,000. In other words, the total
authorized capital will be approx
nately $75,00O,OO0, of which $780,
100000 will be preference and $685.
100000 ordinary. The preference
shares will have no voting power.
The syndicate obligated itself to
furnish $3,O00,OOO in cash for the
use of the General Petroleum Com
pany, of which 100000 has already
been supplied and s2,OOO,OOO will be
on call after January 1, 1914. The
company's requirements for the pres
ent and immediate future are for
51,8O0,0O0, which will leave $780,
900 for working capital and for de-
velopment.
The agreement provides that the
per cent bonds Of the General Pc
troleum Company shall be exchanged
for the z per cent cumulative pref
crence stock of the holding company
par for par. The original under
writer's have signified their willing
ness to make the exchange, and il
is believed that the small holders of
bonds will make the exchange, be-
cause it is to their interest to do So
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29
DENTISTS
LAWYERS

CHILDERs & BRUCE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA
suite 81 SECURITY SAVINGS BANK
BLDG. Ell Centro, Cal. Phone Main 15Q
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29
Cotton Seed Meal for Horses and Mules

s al y
COTTON HORSES
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Of
% @ Augusta
tn. Aid
sR :y
Imperial Valley press., 1913-11-29

warned against sales when this firm
purchased for sale large quantities
of seed from an area declared in
fected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13
Banner Year for Birds.

The need of more uniform and eff
ficient protection of birds has long
been apparent to every intelligent
and unselish person who has given
the subject any attention. Such men
realize that birds are steadily disap-
pearing, and that the decrease has
been at an alarmingly rapid rate dur
ing the past years. AS far as mi
gratory birds are concerned this di-
minution is bound within a short
time, under the present conditions, to
reach the point of absolute extinc-
ton.
1t is a hopeful sign, therefore, that
cor gress, in furtherance of a move
ment to protect and bring back the
birds, placed in the new tariff bill
the essential features of the drastic
proposal framed and urged by the
New York Geological Society. The
new tariff bill proposes to prohibit
absolutely the importation of all
plumes, skins or feathers of wild
birds other than ostriches that are
for sale or for use in MILL
merry. This action has been taken on
the broad ground that the American
people have no right to assist in ex-
scores of species of the
worlds most beautiful and curious
birds.
This, then, is indeed a banner year
for the birds, and if the people of
this country finally take the lead of
the great nations in protecting the
birds of the world they will then be
in a position to insist that England,
France, Germany and Holland shall
take similar action.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13
Cheaper School Books,

The proposed measure of Repre-
sentative McCrory of Schley county,
to provide for the printing of text
books by the state, has attracted con-
siderable attention. and most of the
comment has been of a favorable
nature. The reduced cost of school
books is a matter that affects ev-
cry home in Georgia, and if Mr. Nc
Crory succeeds in bringing it about
he will be public benefactor. In con-
nection with the discussion of the
question it is especially interesting
to learn that the average cost of
text books the country over is but
60 to 20 cents per pupil. 1t would
be a hard matter to convince fathers
and mothers of Georgia school chill
dren that the cost in this state is not
above the average. In Ohio it is said
that the cost of the books needed in
an eight-year course for one child is
S6.17, or II cents a year,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13
ADONISES TO SPARE.

From the Macon Telegraph.
Can a man be beautiful? What
ever the average male creature may
think, it would appear that women,
even of the suffragette variety, are
disposed to answer this question in
the affirmative At all events the
management of the suffragette pa
geant on last Friday night, at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New
York. advertised for AZ male beau
ties" to pose in the proposed tab
leaux.
And thy did not advertise in vain.
The woods up that way must be full
of Adonises and Greek demi-gOds of
physical perfection, for volunteers
answered the call of the suffragette
committee until the problem was not
dearth but an embarrassment of
beauties" They answered in per-
son, by phone and by letter. Choice
quotations from the last named ap-
locations have crept into print and
are in part as follows:
One writes: 81 believe, Madam,
and other people. to, that I am very
handsome, young, healthy man"
Another says: II am a young man,
unusually we'll built and consider
ed handsome among my lady friends.
Pardon this self fiattery."
A third according to his own sta
tistics, is 20 years old, six feet two
inches tall, slender, of healthy COM
plexion, good appearance and educa-
ton, and weigh 165 pounds. A
fourth gives his chest measure as "A,
his waist SO and military carriage.
The description of the fifth shows
him to be about six feet, very SYM
metrically shaped, small waist, deep
chest and quite handsome"
Among the masculine birds too
wary to be caught in this net, some
are perhaps wondering where these
easily-hooked male beauties" are
not to be employed to point moral
as well as to adorn a stage. 1t is the
object of these enterprising suffra-
gettes to prove that men are as vain
as women and therefore are no more
fit to vote?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13
Treatment of InebriateS.

Many of the newspapers of the
state are commenting approvingly on
the proposed measure of Representa-
tive Pickett, of Terrell county, to
provide for an inebriate's asylum in
Georgia; in other words, for the ar
rest, detention and treatment of con-
Grmed drunkards and users of harm
full drugs-persons who cannot con-
troll their desire for intoXicants. The
underlying purpose of such g meas
ure is commendable Inebriety, or
inability to control the taste and de-
sire for liquor and drugs, is recogniz-
ed as a disease, and it may be be-
lieVed that in many instances wise
and humane treatment-that would
keep the patient away from liquor
or drugs or opportunity to get them
would have beneficent results.
1t will be distinctively wise and
humane to provide means whereby
the man or woman who has become
slave to alcohol or drugs could be
helped, and the state might appropri-
ately have part in the WORK
of helping such victims. In Chi
IA, where dwell a people most
of Us think of Is heather, the gov
eminent has established thousands
of depots carrying remedies for the
opium habit They dot China, these
detots, for the government is making
an effort to stamp out the opium
habit.
Shall society abandon the victim !
of alcoholism, refrain from effort TO
help and reform? BY no means. |
the all-pervading sentiment of hui
the recognition that there is
a field for work, should inspire in
terest and effort along well consid-
cred lines.
If drunkenness is a disease, as
medical science declares it
is, surely a highly civilized and
christian people may aspire to help
the victims of inebriety by instituting
wise means for their treatment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13
Notice to Teachers.

The next general state examination
will be on Friday and Saturday, June
IS and IA. At this time questions
will be sent for Primary, General
Elementary and High School exami-
nations. The Reading Course for re-
newing first grade Primary and Cen
eral Elementary licenses consists of
the following:
Manual for Georgia Teachers; ad-
dress, County Superintendent; price,
free.
Hodges Nature Study and Life;
address, CHM & Co., Commerce Hall,
Atlanta, Ca; price, postpaid $1.OO.
Colgrove's The Teacher and the
School; address, Charles Scribner's
Son, Temple Court Building, Allan
ia, Ga; price, postpaid $1.00.
For High School teachers the
Reading Course will be:
Manual for Georgia Teachers; ad-
dress, County Superintendent; price,
free.
HOLSTERS High School Admins
tration; address Southern Book De-
pository, 121 Auburn Ave, Atlanta,
Ca; price, postpaid $1.35.
In addition to the above those who
propose to teach High School branch
es must be examined in those branch
es, viz: Algebra, Plane Geometry,
English Grammar, Composition and
Rhetoric, Latin, etc. All teachers
must have license.
j. w. F. LOWREY, c. S. E., T. C..
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13
EXCURSION RATES.
Cheap Rates Via the Central of Geor-
Ola Railway COMPANY.


TO CHATTANOOGA, TENN, and re-
turn, account United Confederate
Veterans Reunion, May 1929.
TO ST. LOUIS, MO-, and return, ac-
count Southern Baptist Conven-
ton, May 1921, 1913.
TO NASHVILLE, TENN, and return,
account Worldwide Baraca-Phila-
thea Union, June 21-25. 1913.
TO LOS ANGELES, CAL, and re-
turn, account International Con-
vention Tilted Society of Christian
Endeavor, July 9-14, 1913.
TO MONTEAGLE AND SEWANEE,
TENN, and return, account Open
ing Week, July $40, 1918, Bible
Course, July 1920, and Mission
airy Meeting, August 30, 1913.
TO ATLANTA, GA, and return &C
count General Assemblies, Pres
byterian Church in the U. S. A.,
United Presbyterian Church of
North America, Presbyterian
Church in the U. S., May 14-June
1, 1913.
TO SAVANNAH, GA, and return, &C
count Grand Lodge of Georgia l.
0. o. F., May 1929, 1918.
For full information regarding
fares, dates of sale, limits, schedules,
etc, apply to nearest ticket agent.
J. c. HALLE, Gen. Pas. Agent.
F. J. ROBINSON, Asst. Gen. Pas. Agt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13

1t is claimed that Miss Susan Steed
of Middletown, Conn, holds the
worlds record for Sunday school at
tendance. She has been present to
answer to her name in the roll call
of the Sunday school of the North
Congregational church every Sunday
for twenty-five years. A little more
time and some member of Superin-
tendent w. P. Hornadys Methodist
Sunday school in Dawson can match
that record indeed if it cannot be
done now. 1t is not an infrequent
occurrence for the attendance upon
the Dawson school TO exceed in large
mum bers the combined membership
of officers, teachers and pupils, II is
a remarkably interesting aud success
full Sunday school we have right here
in Dawson, and it is doing a great
work as an auxiliary OF the church.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13
Let the Sunshine Int

According to the Chicago health
department tuberculosis kills 1000
persons in that city every Fear-4O,-
900 every decade. Terrible figures,
aren't they?
The same authority says: Sun
shine and fresh air are the greatest
enemy of tuberculosis" So sit on
the sunny side of the house, the Of
fee or the fishing pool. Get out in
the field with the birds and the
beasts. Face the breeze. Roll the
window shades ever up and never
down
Remember, DR.. Sunshine is not on
ly an enemy to tuberculosis, but to
more diseases than you can remem-
Der to name, including the ingrowing
crouch and many other things. So
let him shine in!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-05-13

The question o: creating ew
United States district court (making
three) in Georgia is attracting some
attention. Dawson and Terrell coun-
ty, which are in the district pre-
sided over by that able and level
headed democratic jurist, Judge Will
liam D. Newman, is very well salts
fed with the present arrangement.
Unless another court is absolutely
needed it should not be created just
because somebody wants it.