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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-27

est OF the children and the co-opera-
ton of the superintendent, principals
and teachers was most cordial and
encouraging. The league made CON
tribution to the free kindergarten and
aided Miss Meigs in whatever way we
could until the kindergarten was en-.
dorsed by the board of education and
became part of the public schools
of the city. Miss Martins lecture in
December OF which we have spoken
was in the interest Of the kindergar.
ten.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
Please Mr.. MeIIen Won't You
Let Us Pave Stratf0rd Avenue
Before The Next Snow Flies

A contemporary declares Mayor Clifford B. Wilson
is optimistic that Sratford will be paved before
snow flies cheerful view Of the situation rests seem
ingIy upon he has written to Mr. ellen, asking
him if he won't please do something And Mr.. ellen has
replied that he will ask his executive committee if it
ssto please do something -
All of which throws great deal of white light upon
the relations between the city of Bridgeport and the public
service corporations
The Connecticut Company is one person, artificial,
but ONE.
Several hundred persons concerned the paving
of Sratfsrd in the way the Connecticut Com
pay is They have the duty of contributing to the cost
of it.
AL of these other persons have been ordered do
the work.
Each of them has been told he doesn't do it. the city
win, and viii charge him for it.
Only the Connecticut Company, the powerful artf-
ca1 person. has been excused. Against it order of
legal sufficiency has been made.
Instead the chief executive singles out this art
fetal person to it to please do what the city has
right to say that it SHALL just said ala
the other citizens
When the Connesticut Company wanted to lay wa
ter-bound macadam through Warrenite in Fairfield
nue. isn't record that it said please may do it
to the mayor of Bridgeport.
Mayor Wilson is the legal head of city that is
city, but seems to know it. IF he did know it
he wouldn't be sacrificing the city's dignity by entreat
ing, where he should compel.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
Explaining A Paradox--HoW Rich
Railroads Doing A Great Business
Get Into A Receivers Hands

All the get-rich-q quick in America with all
the dealers fake stocks and bonds and fake securities of
all kinds have not robbed American investors of 1.-THE
of the which have been taken from them through the
anipulatons and thefts legal Illegal of the country
great financiers' stock jobbers and promoters.
The connonest thing in corporate dealings is for
railroad other public service, that is earning large
to go into recevershp because of its inability to
pay dividends and interest on loads of paper.
Almost Invariably examination of these properties
shows they have been looted.
The process of lootng is diverse, but the gent
eral methods always appear
There subsidiary parasite corporations which sell
things at large Margin while the managers Of the looted
company take the profits
There enormous commissions paid to bankers for
handling the waterlogged securities.
But the chief agency of looting in recent years has
been by the of leasing merging other
tons.
Tt is the simplest thing the world for the dishonest
trustees of great railroad property to organize trolley
company unload it onto railroad and put the tainted
proceeds into dirty pockets.
Under such conditions the apparent paradox will Of
ten be Of property that is enormously profitable
and yet threatened by premiership.
Again and again, in the history of railroads In the
United States appear the rich property the sale to it OF
the other properties the increase of its outstanding
tiles the cutting of the dividend the passing of the dv
dend and then the receivership.
Doubtless among the owners of railroad stocks in the
United States many red blooded courageous but
most men, the stock owning side of them, the
est Sheep to be SHARED Once sheared they
peousy bleatng to be shorn again. and often continue
regard the gentlemen who reap the rich fleece bene
factors of purest
It is fortunate for this class of that the pub
lie also suffers with them The public includes the great
courageous plain people who hate evil doing and whose
wrath accuu1ates until they drive the traders out of the
temple and save the fleece for it's Wearers
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30

because in Holland suffrage and So
c-alism are so closely associated
Wilhelrnina, like her mother, Queen
Regent Emma, before her, is a stern
and uncompromising teetota1er. She
has never touched a drop of liquor in
any form or on any occasion, and
never permitted wine or alcoholic bev-
erages in the palace until after her
marriage to Prince Henry of MeckIen-
burg Schwerin a, dozen years ago. 1t
is said that many three-cornered quar-
rels between the Prince and his royal
wife and mother-in-laW disturbed the
atmosphere eof the royal residence be-
fore the Queen finally submitted to her
husbands wishes and permitted wine
to be served to guests.
The Dutch Queen is one of the
proudest and fondest of royal moth
ers. Upon little Princess Juliana,
now in her fifth year, the Queen Law
ishes a. wealth of affection, and all the
hopes Of Dutch monarchfsts are cen
tered upon the healthy but far from
beautiful little mite of feminine hu-
manfty. The wee Princess is all that
stands between royalfst Holland and
one or the other of two fates equally
horrible to the Queen-the "gobbling
up of the country by Germany. or
the establishment of a socialistic re-
public.
The Queen is rather haggard and
careworn in appearance, and looks
though not SO old as before the birth
of the Princess At twenty-eight she
looked forty and now, at thirty three,
with baby hands to smooth out the
wrinkles of fear and despair, she ap-
pears about thirty-dve. The Dutch
people declare she is growing younger
each year, and her photograph bear
out this statement.
AS a girl ruler WilheImina was in
clined to be domineering and some
]
licly rebuked her ministers about mat
tiers of no moment, apparently "just
to show her authority Since the birth
of Juliana. she has been too much oc-
cupied to care about affairs of state.
Yoshihito, Emperor of Japan, will be
| the recipient of birthday congratula-
tions on Sunday. The youthful Ngika-
| do who rules over the destinies of old
| Nippon will pass his thirty-fourth
| milestone, having been born at Kioto
on August 81, 1879. One of the first Off
/ cial acts of his reign, which began just
| a year and month ago, was to an
nounce to the representatives of the
| foreign powers that the imperial birth
| day had been change dfrom the third
| of November, Mutsuhito's natal day,
| to the last day of August.
! The new Mikado does not appear TIC
have been entirely successful in win
ming the same place in the affections
of his subjects as was held by his
| father Mutsuhito's reign will be for
| ever memorable as marking the change
/ from the old to the new Japan. Pro
! gressive as he was, however the late
Emperor adhered to most of the ole
| customs, and did not wantonIy SHOCK
! the seneibilities of the elder states
linen and the conservatives. YoshihitC
| has not been SO diploma tic. He is
/ thoroughly occidental, and unwilling
! to make any concessions to -old~fash,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
How The Chinese Government
Plans To Exterminate The Opium
Habit Among 4OO,OOO,OOO People

Opium smoking is the great national vice of China
introduced to that people by foreigners e59 years ago
The evil wrought by indulgence drug may
fered from recent statement by President Yuan Shih
Kai, in which he said:
More important by far to the present generation of
my people is the complete determination of opium and the
opium habit China has been dying from this for
half century. Her people overcome by
vile drug have been half asleep and have not known that
they and their country are dying -
Some years ago movement against the use of opium
grew up in China, very much movement against the
1906 the nation, turned prohibitive legislation
It is interesting to what form prohibition took
among this nation Of 40OO000OO souls and what the
suit of it has been
In this year, 1906 China produced the larger portion
opium and imported remainder The prohibi-
tive statute which had the form of Imperial decree,
proceeded upon the theory that the opium had
long established and that it would be impossible to de-
sroy it by mandate, in single year. Ten years
creed the period in which the traffic might prevail
cade it should finally be terminated.
The first portion of the statute aimed at the
land devoted poppy culture should
thereafter be for that purpose that the quantity
tor at the of one-enth in each year Conventions
with foreigners sought that the importation of the
Persons using opium were divided into two classes,
those and those under go years Those 60
regarded as corg1be but those under 90 were given
term of years in which to abandon the Of the drug
Noperson permitted to purchase the drug, to
have it sold to him. except he procured government Ii
cense
Thus the sale of the drg was substantially prevented
to all persons who had not in the year of the Decree
tracted' the habit.
The worst class of opium houses Immediately
suppressed and provision made for the elimination of
all places where opium sold within the decade.
Extensive measures for the free treatment of the
opium habit undertaken.
All gentry in public office and officers in the
army and navy forbidden to use the drug f unable
to give the habit they were denied permission to
tinue in public service.
Tt would seem that the prohibition law of China is
rather effective than prohibition laws Of countries
claiming to be civilized.
result been most successful, and the future is
frightened the consideration Of the matter given
the Second international Opium Convention which has
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
EDITORIAL NOTES


The first attempt to explain psyche
logical phenomena on physiological
principles was made ny Dr.. David
Hartley, the English philosopher, who
was born POS years ago today. In
his great work "Observa lions on Man,
his Fame, his Duty and his Expecta-
tions.'' published in 1749, after patient
investigation covering sixteen years.
he elaborated his epochal theory. BY
the development of his law associa-
ton and chiefly by the law of trans
ference, he accounted for all the phe-
phenomena of the mental constitution.
According to him, the white medullary
substance of the brain, spinal marrow,
and the nerves proceeding from themb
is the immediate instrument of sensa-
ton and motion. When a sensation
has been frequently experienced, it
acquires a tendency to repeat itself
spontaneously. Ideas are both these
repetitions or relics of sensation, and
in their turn recall, other ideas. Thus
the sight of an apple recalls an idea
of its taste and this recalls other as
ISOLATED ideas. In this way Hartley
accounts for all human emotions.
Dutchmen everywhere will celebrate
today the birthday of their beloved
monarch, Wilhelrnina, the worlds only
ruling queen. The actual annivers-
ary of the Queens birth falls this year
on Sunday, but it will be observed to-
day as a legal holiday in the Neither
lands. Wilheinina was born on Aug.
81, 1880, and assembled the throne on
her eighteenth birthday, fifteen years
ago tomorrow.
The Dutch Queen is very old fash
Toned in her ideas and opinions. She
hates socialism, which has waxed pow
erfuI in Holland, and, if permitted to
have her way, would certainly attempt
the policy of suppression which in Ger
many failed utterly to accomplish its
purpose. Only this month the Dutch
/ socialists upset Queen WilheIrnina' s
| cabinet plans, and on many other re-
cent occasions she has had cause to
| hate and fear the disciples of Marx.
WHhelmina has inherited war-like
| instincts, and does not appreciate hay-
I ing The Hague made the peace CAPT
/ tal'' of the world At the last peace
conference in the Dutch capital the
| Queen remained sternIy aloof and her
| openly unsympathetic attitude, and
especially her refusal to lay the foun-
dalton stone of the peace temple,
| aroused much Indignation among the
pacifcists. It was only after long and
! earnest persuasions by her ministers
and other rulers, that Wilhelmina con-
scented to give royal sanction to the
ceremonies held this week at the peace
| palace. King George of Great Brit
ain and Emperor William of GermanE
are alleged to have used their inf1u-
/ ence in bringing the Dutch Queen to a
| less tagonistic state of mind in re
gard to the peace movement.
Queen WilheInina is bitterly oppos-
ed to woman suffrage, partly because
| it runs counter to her old-fashioned
notions about woman's sphere, partlz
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
HOUSEHOLD NOTES

Potato water is good to take mud
stains from cloth.
Sunhower seed Will make q better
bait for the mousetrap than cheese
Fresh fruit, if coated with paraffire
WILL keep almost indefinitely.
K. Stal CHI, with a few d ups Of Daraf-
fine in it, will not sticF.
To clean wings and quilts. put them
in { box with corn meal and slahe
them gently
A little dissolved geIatiue ADDED 20
cream while whipping IT viii cfteu
help in making it stin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
The D. M. Read Co.
RsfsSEsSsd 1857
On Labor Day the Store a0tU be closed.
Commencing Tuesday the sac o'clock closing boar a0U
be resumed. Saturday the store IS open ~ot1
mine o'clock.
Veilings Of Extreme Distinction
RsfSSHs6sd 1851.

Earem Veil is surely innovation, but here Il .,
and of very bewching 1t is plain open mesh to
the eyes and below the deeply bordered. 1t attracts
A Frame Veil is of lowered net with a plain oval
space in the center which encloseS the face picture
New Shetland Wells of exquisite texture and de-
Sign novelty in ShelandS is in white delcately flow
cred with black chenille dots. Very effective.
Motor Wells of shaded coral taupe MAIZE reseda
wistara russell brown and other fashionable tnts Some
DOUBLE two different shades secured in deep
These of good quality chiffon and washable
Yelling Section,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30

toned notions He smokes cigarettes
in public, prefers French and English
to his native tongue, wears the very
latest in European clothes, and scorns
the religion of his ancestors. Soon af-
ter he assembled the throne he told
Parliament that he proposed to be a
perfectly modern ruler and he has
been all Of that. The mystery, the
reserve and the divinity that have
hedged all former japanese rulers,
and made their subjects consider
them as more than human, have been
dismissed as vain Subterfuges by
young Yoshidito, and in the white
light that beats upon a throne he
stands forth man, and nothing more.
In the old days, when the Mikado was
little short of the stature of a, god in
the estimation of his subjects, men
were not only willing but eager to die
for him; but will they-the elder
statesmen are asking each other-be
as eager to die for MANI
Emperor Yoshih1to is not the son of
the Empress Haruko, as she had no
children, but of one of the late En-
peror's secondary wives, of whom he
had twelve. He married the Princess
| Sadako in 1900 and his son and heir,
Prince Tirchito, was born in the fol-
| lowing year. The present Emperor
| believes in rnonogany, among other
modern nations, and his harem is as
| cupboard.
The Emepror is surrounded by adj
visors as modern as himself, but the
elder statesmen, still a power in the
land, are apparently growing more
and more antagonistic. Mutsuhiro
was "a very prince of diplomats in pur-
suing modern methods while seeming
! to cherish everything ancient. Yoshi-
| hito's training was strictly along pres
ent-day lines, and he seems to lack the
! tact that enabled his father to p1acate
the elder statesmen. A few months
ago it was necessary to call out the
troops to assist the civil authorities in
guarding the imperial family.
Another significant fact is that the
people and the newspapers now sell
dom refer to the Emperor as f"Tenno,'
the title almost universally applied to
all his predecessors. ''Tenno" means
heavens highest and implies moth
| ing less than a claim to godhood of a
superior kind, with the right to BEL
stow a lesser kind. of godhood on his
! subjects. The Emperor has no SUR
name, for his ancestry is older than
surnames. Yoshirito claims descent
from the Emperor Jinrnu, who reign
ed over Japan over twenty-five CEN
| turtles ago.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
HANDBAGS for Misses

Any girl likes dainty little bag. bought expressly for
her, and of colored Saffian and
rocco attractive shades, dantily lined and fitted. Small
coin purse for carfares and school luncheon change
tiny bottle with gold cap to viniagrette parf
mer. Any little schoolgirl will like such bag.
so cts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30

81 N the sea with the Bidassoa rtv-
err in front while the center ana le1t
extended across several ridges OF mis-
toward St Jean de Luz. San Sebastian,
besieged by wellington. was haro
pressed. and Soult i, concentrated his
attention on raising the siege Soult' 3
plan was that Roil1e should take san
MarciaI. but Wellington was informed
of the French intentions, and dis
matched Freyre's Spaniards to occupy
the ridges of San Marcfal, with a BIT
ist division standing as a reserve
on the morning of August 31st
RoiIlle's troops forded the Bidassoa,
and carried the first ridge of San Mar
cial with a rush, but later broke IN
disorder, and were driven back to the
river by the Sipaniards. A second at
tennt resulted in another repulse, and
Soult drew Ro11le's force pacK across
the river.
Immediately after the failure of
Soult's attempt at relief the allies
took San Sebastian by storm, and oc-
cupied the city, although the citadel
held out for several days longer In
October wellington entered France.
San Sebastiai, in celebrating the
centenary of it's deliverance from the
Napolednic yoke, will honor yelling
ton as its savior. And we'll 1T may
To quote Napier: "The English gem
eral, emerging from the chaos of the
pen1nSular STRUGGLE, $1,000 On Inc sum
NIT of the Pyrenees, recognized con-
queror From these lofty pinnacles
the clangor of his trumpets pealed
clear and loud, and the splendor OF
his genius appeared as flaming bea-
con to the warning nations"
The second solar eclipse of the year
will take place on Sunday, but the
| phenomenon will be observed only IN
the extreme northeastern part OF the
continent, The partial eclipse OF the
sun will be visible in New foundIano'
Labrador, the extreme eastern por-
tions of Quebec, New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia, and in Greenland aad
| Iceland. At ST. Johns, Newfound-
land, the eclipse will begin at 5:SS.2
P M. and end at SO.
| This eclipse is dying out, and this
will be its final appearance to- the
neonle of a, civilized country. Tt will
play a return engagement for the ben
| eft of the Eskimos and polar bears
in September 1881, but it will be
much smaller and confined to the
north polar region. It's series began
at the south pole and will close at the
north pole. On the last day of next
I month a brand new eclipse will begin
at the south pole, and, during the
| next thousand years, will gradually
| work its wa ynorthward-
|
All vegetables for canning shou!d
| h. cI~,,14+eIv so11nd 7a.l Trash
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30
PAY OF RURAL LETTER CARRIERS

Representative Arthur B. Rouse of the Sixth Ken
lucky District has introduced bill increasing the salary
of rural letter carriers by ten per cent These
much underpaid Their duties have considerably increas
with the Inauguration of the parcel post They ought
to get more pay. We hope the bill will become law
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30

sought to arrive at results by which the
lous drug may be prevented throughout the world.
The conference established upon the initiative of
the United States and will do something to correct
weaker.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-30

All vegetables for canning should
be absolutely sound and fresh.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
FAMOUS BR|CKLEY BOOTS
CRIMSON ELEVEN TO SO
VICTORY OVER PRINCETON

leather hoods-Bradlee. the wonderful
Mahan and the hammering Hardwick
But the story is not so much the
prowess OF Brickley or Mahan or
Bradlee or Hardwick, but the fight Of
the Tigers. They were outsiders in
the betting and not conceded the
ghost of a show by the experts II
appeared to be the theory that the
best defense is strong attack and
so they did not wait for Tohn Har-
ward to come to them; they went to
him.
HOBBY Baker, the blond haired cap
tain of the Tigers. tried a number
of shots at the Harvard goal with
out success
Baker Tries for Goal.
Once in sheer despera ton he fired
from the 4T-yard line while the spec
tators gasped their establishment at
his temerity The attempt fell far
short Brickey, too, tried a goal
from the neiEhborhod Of the 45-yard
range at a time when Harvard had
commenced to regard her slippery
hold on the victory with apprehen-
sion, but As yards on wet ucld is
too far for even a BriclJey.
The Crimson won, but the Crimson
was no football iuggernaut to Squas.
the Jersey junglers at the within of
it's drivers There is no reason tc
believe that the mud handicapped the
Harvard team any more than it did
Princeton, If as much. 1t was simply
a case OF the old time Tiger spirit
leading up to the sight of the Cam
bridge foe and producing a battle
that will furnish an entire chapter in
itself for the football histories That
are to be written.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-10
Yale Eleven Returns
To For m and Beats
Brown Squad, 40

NEW HAVEN, Nov. s.-Displaying a
most pronounced "feturn to FORM" the
Yale eleven crushed Brown here to-day
II to 0. yaies goal was threatened
but once during the entire contest. In
the fourth period Henry intercepted a
long forward pass and broke away for
80 yards, taking the play into the Blue
territory for the first time in the game
The score represents two touchdownsr
two goals ana a field goal.
Three minutes after the whistle blew
for the start, Yale threatened to score
Beans tumble was captured by q Yale
player on the 35-yard mark and the
Yale backs alternated in carrying the
ball through till the 5-yard line was
reached. Here the visitors stiffened and
took the ball on downs
In the second period, the Yale attack
quickly proved to be superior to the
Brown defense. Knowles and Ainsworth
carried the ball for and 10 yards each
TO the 5-yard line, where Dunn carried
it over. Before the end of the period
Knowles kicked goal from the 2O-yard
line.
Avery's dash for 40 yards in the third
period again placed the Brown goal in
danger. but Knowles try went too
low. From the 30-yard mark Cornell
Dunn and Wilson carried the ball to the
second touchdown.