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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24
HAIR FELL OUT
BY THE HANDF Ill
Face Broke Out With PimpIes. Al
ways itching. Scalp Itched and
Burned. Head Full of Dandruff.
cuticura Soap and Ointment
Cured Both Troubles.

A6 Cold Spring St., Woonsocket, R. L.
NY face broke oue with pfmples which
looaced Ike little eorea nom scratching All tho
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24

HecEWere you ever injured in a
runaway?
Peck-Yes, I e1oped with the woman
who is now my wife.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-24

T. L. WATSON 8 co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
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CAPE STTEF

Cruel is the sea, and the hardest thing of
all
Is her taking and her leaving, and the
way it seems to fall.
How always it's the best men who have
to hear the call
All. Cape Stiff. and the big seas
pouringi
And of all good sailormen that use the
Where would you find a better or a truer
lad than he
the foremost barque Tralee.
By Cape Stiff, ana the great
gale roaring?
1t was all hands on deck, that night, to
heave her to;
The sails were frozen hard, the cold wind
bit you through;
You couldn't hear man beside you
speak, so loud it blew,
Near Cape Stiff. and her yards
dipping underi
The night was black as hell I
never saw him go 9
1t wasn't till the dawn broke I'd time TO
ask and know
The sea that swept us out and back had
rolled him far below,
BY Cape Stiff, in the great
seas thunderi
And fair weather or foul weather, it's all
the seas in the half-deck and the
empty bunk aswim,
It's a long watch below for weary head
and aching limb
By Cape Stiff, and the loud winds
cryingi
And now we're rolling home DeIore the
good trade wind,
But I'm thinking night and day how
we've left him far behind
Him that was merry, him that was so
kind,
By Cape Stiff. in the cold deeps
lyingi
C. Fox Smith in the Pail Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09

reason McCarty smiled at his patient with
more kindly eyes.
Better go up on deck now and get
some air., he said and realized that tae
ship was beginning to toss.
1t was late the following night that DIR.
McCarty was called in to see Miss Thorne.
The ship had been tossing all day and
half the passengers had succun1bed to its
power. He found Pamela with very
white face and in very dainty blue
kimona lying on her couch. She greeted
him with a wan smile.
This is no way for stewardess to be-
have, laughed the doctor. Il thouS TT
you could have braved any seas. Stew
ardesses are supposed to-
But 1 am not a stewardess,' cried
Pamela. Il am struggling writer-look-
ing for atmosphere-in the Panama" ssre
added.
You seem to be finding it," said the
doctor. He had strolked the golden strands
from Pamela's smooth brow. Pamela
seemed to revive, for a delicate pink
added beauty to her cheeks. The doctor,
too, expressed joy at her rapid recovery
by a smile that lay only in his eyes.
Il wanted SO much to see the Gatun
lock and the Culebra cut and''-Pamela
glanced swiftly at hint do so want TO
see that old French hospital where all the
poor yellow fever patients were!
'We-you-can take that in first, said
Dr. McCarty
Pamela biushed. She realized with start
ling suddenness that Pamela going to
Panama" was going to prove the most
interesting of her stories.
That civil engineer, Mr.. woodrow.
thinks the locks are far more interesting,
she said, by way of bringing a flash into
the doctors eyes.
After the flash he smiled, for Pamelia's
glance had taken away the sting.
Mr.. Woodrow does not know every
thing" he told her.-(Copyright, 1918, by
the Associated Literary PreSs.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Really. there isn't anything worth
fussing over
Making half the people mad is no way
to start the New Year
What has become of the O. f. man
whose favorite literature was the al
manac?
Most of the noted murderers are among
those opposed to capital punishment.
Still. anarchy would be a lot worse if
the big league pitchers should join the
Reds.
Cartoonists, being wealthy may not
know there are homes of the poor where
the plaster isn't knocked off.
Among the larger variety of people, you
may have met the gent who wears a
fob although he has no watch.
Blessed are the meek. but they shouldn't
carry that idea so far the geek in
searcE of appointive office.
Neither is there any valid reason why
the Good Fellows should limit their eff
forts to the Joyous Holiday season.
Speaking of doing two things at once,
you may have observed a woman chew
ing gum and the rag at the same time.
A man who marries the champion whist
player shouldn't complain if she doesn't
turn out to be the best cook in town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

TFrom the Chicago News.1
Patience may be a virtue, or 1T may be
simply laZiness.
A woman's intuition can beat a mans
logic to a conclusion.
good way to have all the friends you
need is not to need any.
Some men expect receipt In full wnen
they pay a debt with promises.
The wise man puts his troubles in
pawn, then proceeds to lose the ticket
People who throw bouquets at them
selves are not necessarily fond of flowers
One way to avoid being bothered by
your relations is to be poorer than they
are.
In after years it may come to pass that
a spendthrift hasn't the cents he was
born with.
Probably a man never appreciates IT'S
wife so clearly when he wants to use
her as an excuse for. not going to war
On the mistaken theory that there is
always room for one more, many mar
tries to take home a bigger load than lie
is capable of carrying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
AYHAWKER JOTS

Miss Bulah Rule, of Lyons, will
probably continue to do that very
thing. even after she changes her
name.
Once in a while things are as they
should be. Two of the life-termers in
the Kansas pen are proficient at
playing trombone and cornet duets.
How can this be? And yet the re-
liable Advocate prints: 1t is reported
that there are several cases of scar
let fever in the vicinity of Paradise.
A smash between the eyes, delivered
by the Jewell County Republican,:
You blame the newspaper, but you
probably are not half as careful what
you say as the newspapers are.
Will Palmer of the Jewell County
Republican thinks that some folks
have the worry habit so bad that if
they went to sea they'd be afraid the
ocean would run dry and let them
stick in the mud.
AS the Marquette Tribune says: The
man or woman who says unkind
things to you about another repeats
his or her ISLANDERS to that other
about you. The scandalmonger is no
reSpecter of persons. ei..r
Through a typographical slip the
Marquette Tribune referred to Tom
ThompSon's paper as the Harvard
Courant. Now if the type had only
come out another way and called it
the Howard Classic, point would
Mrs. Tom Thompson of the Howard
Courant is authority for the state
ment that a young man recently gave
as one of his reasons for marrying
that ''he did not believe a fellow
should go through life guideless
wonder"
Glib Childers, relates the Howard
Courant, went around among some
fellers and collected up four dollars,
which he sent to a booze house which
sent an eight-quart Christmas pack
age with an extra bottle of port wine
thrown in. He gave his wife the wine
for her Christmas gift. Christmas
night, after the booze was all gone,
Glib played a joke on his wife by
stealing the bottle of wine to sober
up on.
No doubt a person of my age
should be leader in the strife, nor
hide the bigger things of life behind
a screen of persiflage, writes Mrs.
Kelley in the Toronto Republican. The
world is full of groans and signs, and
politics and graft and greed, and wo-
mems rights and sordid need, and
Horners picking plums from pies. And
yet if you should ask me why I seem
so frivolous and vain, I'd make to you
this answer plain: '"Tis better thus to
laugh than cry This world may be
a vale of tears, of sobs and storms
and sudden squalls, but if we'd hush
our caterwauls, we'd hear the music
of the spheres. So cheer up friends
and lend a voice to swell the gladness
of the earth, to help along it's joy and
mfrth and bid its little ones rejoice.
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down from age or i'll health and no
longer able to work, will tell you that
1T hardly pays him to run his farm at
the wages given help, that the hired
men have the profits and not he.
AS for the farm laborer's finding it
difficult to save enough to buy a farm,
it is true the undertaking is. a big
one. At the present price of good land
laborer in any trade would find it
hard to save enough for it. For any
laborer to buy farm means a good
many years of toll and economy, even
though he be blessed with the good
managing, industrious wife.
There are thoughtful, experienced
men in the occupation, both farm
owners and hired men, who will tell
you that the single man with his $50
per month and free board and lodgings,
or the married man with his $40 per
month and free house and garden and
potato-patch his chickens and the keep
of his horse and COW, stands a better
chance of saving the first payment on
a good farm than the average worker
in other lines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
UNUSUAL EXPORTS.

Eleven thousand miles of motion
picture film, 80 million dollars worth
of automo biles, a million dollars
worth of telephones, and more than
100000 worth of aeroplanes were
among the exports from the United
States in the year just ended.
The United States is the worlds
largest producer of motion picture
film, and the quantity exported during
the year aggregates more than so mil
lion feet, approximately II, 900 miles,
or enough to stretch from New York
to Manila.
The popularity of the American
automobile is also evidenced by the
fact that the exports of automobiles
and parts thereof, including tires, ap
proximates 80 million dollars in 1912
against 22 million in 1911, Is million
in 1910, and million in 1909. Tele-
phones have only been separately stat
ed in the export figures since the mid
die of 1911, but sufficient data are at
hand to justify the statement that the
exports of 1912 are more than a mil
lion dollars in value. Aeroplanes
have only been shown as separate
class since the middle of 1911, but the
figures at hand indicate that the value
Oh tie year > 08pOTlS Will D0
SIPS, 900.
A striking fact shown by the auto
mobile figures is the marked decline
in the price at which the machines are
exported. In 1907 the average export
price was nearly $500 per machine;
in 1909, $1,47O; in 1911, about $1,000;
and in 1912, a little less than $1,000
each, the average export price at the
present time being thus but little
more than one-half that of 1907. The
average price of aeroplanes exported
in 1912 was about IS, 400 per machine.
The automobiles exported are sold
chiefly in British territory. OF the 21,-
707 machines exported in the II
months ending with November, 1854
went to Canada. 4,371 to the United
Kingdom, and 3,112 to British
Oceania. OF the motion picture film
exported, over three-fourths went to
the United Kingdom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
TILE FIRST TRAIN DRESS.

1t is pleasant when the homely, do
mestic note rings out in the noisy af-
fairs of state; when the sounds of
Home, Sweet Home mingle with tri-
umphal marches, so to speak
They did the other day when Gov
ernor Deneen, of Illinois, halted the
machinery of Office to please his
daughter; most of all to please him.
self.
| The governor is a busy man these
days. State business comes to him
rapidly and in large measure. So just
before New Years he had planned a
! business trip to Chicago, and he would
have carried out his scheme if his
daughter hadn't stepped in and inter-
fered.
The governor, be it known, is one of
| the old-fashioned fellows who hate
fuss and feathers in all phases of life.
He will have none of it in executive
| affairs and he sidesteps it skillfully
in the family circle. So when he
heard that his eldest daughter was to
have coming-out festivities-a reception
in the afternoon and a dance in the
evening-he gave his parental ap-
prevail, signed the necessary checks,
and went about his business.
In his simple way he imagined it
was to be one of the scores of tea
fights and the like which were al
ways happening at his house, but when
he heard he was not only to be
among tn present. but an active
and leading participant, he fatty re-
fused. And he would have persisted
in his refusal if his daughter hadn't
told him the occasion was to be the
greatest in her young life. Not only
was she to be debutante but she was
to have her very first train dress.
And then the governor capitulated,
donned his glad rags and gave the
occasion political and personal dignity
by standing in line with his family and
receiving heart-warming congratula-
tions on the beauty and attractiveness
of his daughter.
The daughters plea was the one
touch of nature that made him sympa-
thetic. He recognized that it was her
formal, official passage from mere girl
hood to young ladyhood. The day he
donned his first pair of long pants
was far away but not so far that he
could not remember what it meant to
him. 1t was a part Of his enfran-
chisement. The daughter might have
made any number of other pleas and |
they would have failed. This long |
train appeal brought him down at the |
first shot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
FARM HELP AND THEIR PAY.

An interesting discussion has been
going on in Farm and Ffreside about
the wages paid to farm help. The state
ment was made in a recent number
that back as far as 1870 farmers were
paying about as much for hired men as
they are now. In the current issue a
contributor takes exception to this
statement. Following is an extract:
Take the counties of northern Illinois
in the corn belt and much of the state
of Iowa, a comman price for married
man now is about $40 per month with
house and garden provided, also shed
ding and feed for a COW and horse. 1t
is safe to assert that in the majority
of prosperous districts throughout the
North and West and Middle West much
the same wages prevail. We know of
one or two cases recently where a man
of this kind got only $50 per month,
and of another who got as high as s65,
but those are unusual instances, about
$40 per month being the common pay
A first-class single man will get, be-
sides board and lodgings and the keep
of a horse, at least $50 per month
These wages were not paid farm la
borers in 1870. Twenty-Five years ago
s23 per month was high pay for single
man, $25 or $50 the highest for the mar
ried man. There are many careful
farmers who will tell you that their
help have an excellent opportunity to
save if so disposed Most especially
is this true of the young man who
gets room and board and $50 per month
More than one farm-owner. broken
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
HUMOQ OF THE Dzy

His Chance:-"Yes, my memory is get
ting very bad. By this time romorroSv T
sfall nave forgotten everything / have
done today Hint Could Won obIipe
Inc with the loan Of FLYER, old chap?"N
Tit-Pits
Exactly.-Hoax-I thought you said he
was a settlement worker. Joax-He ~
IIoax-Why, he tells me he's a bin col
lcctor. Joax-Well ?-Philadelphfa Record
They fell in love at first sight, How
did it come about?' He was looking
through Bradstreet's and she through the
Blue Book-"-L
How are they getting aIong?" "Beauti
fully. She's perfectly willing to spend as
much on gifts for his people as she does
for her own."-Detroit Free Press
Mrs. Gnagg-I'n say this for INV hus
band: He does not care for other women
Miss Caustic-IndeedI No doubt he fma9-
ines that all women are alike.-Boston
Transcript.
Passed That Stage.-BarDer-Here fs
something, sir, to keep your hair from
coming out. Nearbald-Keep Il from com
ing out? Man alive, want something e
coax it out--Boston Transcript
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FROM OTHER PENS
THE WISDOM OF MRS. SOLOMON.

THE WISDOM OF MRS. SOLOMON.
When Solomon decreed that the
child claimed by two women should
be cut in half, thus forcing true
himself renown as the greatest of all
judges. In South Norwalk, Conn.,,
Judge Walden tried to emulate Solo
mon by permitting every complaining
wife who appeared before him to act
as sort of Mrs. Solomon, each pass
ing judgment on her own complaint
and her own spouse. Mrs. George
Mills brought her husband before
Judge Walden, complaining that he
her husband-waS not only intoxi-
Gated, but disorderly. Then up spake
the judge: Madame. have come to
the conclusion that women are really
wiser than Solomon. If they were
permitted to decide their own COM
plants against their husbands, 1 feel
sure they would decide wisely. The
day is rapidly approaching when wom-
en- will have say in the making of
the laws and the administration of
such law. 1 am willing to begin right
now. You may act as judge in this
case" Bowling low, the fair plaintiff
thanked the court and pronounced
sentence on her derelict husband at
once. The defendant" she said, 'fs
ilned 81 for intoxication, IS for MAX
ing all the fuss, and is sentenced to
90 days in Jail for striking the COM
pialnant- Most persons will agree
that the verdict of this Mrs. Solomon
over, it was definite. The Judgment
was really the voice of the people, the
sentiment of the nation. But Judge
walden, IN a rash moment, recalled
the decision of the people as uttered
by Mrs Mills. He said that it was too
harsh: He told the defendant to leave
his wife in peace, and then suspended
sentence. Thus, in one fell swoop, the
judge showed himself a reactionarv.
proved that judges should be recall
ed, or at least called down" and
demonstrated that women should have
the pauot, so that they may elect
feminine judges who will have q
sense of mans responsibilities.
Washington Post.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

who have to shovel it off the side
walks.
i = i
There is a whole lot of crying over
spilled milk even if it doesn't do any
good.
!. + i
People who really haven't much to
complain about usually do the most
kicking. ,.
j = +
Most women are mistaken in think
ing they are well-dressed just because
they keep up with the fashions.
j. j. j.
No matter how long a fellow and a
girl may keep company they don't get
thoroughly acquainted with each other
until after they marry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
EVENING CHIT
Different WAYS of HeIpine Folks.
BIZ RUTXsCAAGERoN.

D1f1erent Ways of Helping Folks.
There are different modes of obligation
| and different avenues to our gratitude and
favor. A man may lend his countenance
who viii not part with his money and
out his purse. How many ways are there
| In which our peace may be assailed be-
sides actual want! How many comforts
do we stand in need of besides meat and
drink and clothingnt-Hazlitt,
All the help and service that is given
to others in this world is not given wit
t1ngly and deliberately.
Many people confer benefits on those
about them in ways they know not Of
Whoever creates a beautiful thing of
any sort, even Though he creates 1t prin1-
arily for his own satisfaction, gives pleas
ure to Others and since pleasure is what
we all seek so eagerly, is not that after
all as valuable a gift as money or food
or drink?
Some years ago I was sent to interview
woman who was running for the school
board. was uShered into her living room
to wait for her. That room made an i'm
preston on me that L shall never forget.
1t was a room into the furnishings Of
and thought and taste. There was an all
pervasive sense of harmony and beauty
about it which not even the most casual
visitor could miss 1t seems to me that
the woman who created that room, by so
doing, conferred ZEAL a benefit upon
all who enter it as If she gave them
I know that even now I still think of the
hour 1 spent in that room with a sense
of pleasure. Moreover, it gave me higher
ideals of taste and beauty than L had
ever had before. Were not these as splen-
did benefits any more concrete services
she could have rendered me?
1t is sometimes considered frivolous for
women to cultivate their natural beauty
and enhance it by becoming clothes. To
my mind the woman who does TINS is
doing a good work, if she does not con-
centrate on it to the exclusion of higher
duties, because she is comforting a benefit
on mankind. And mind you, 1 mean man
kind to include womankind. know that
i have often wished to tell a pretty Wo-
man in a pretty gown how much l en-
joyed looking at her, and have heard
other women express the same un-catty
appreciation of their sisters beauty.
Nor is the creation or cultivation. OF
beauty the only way in which we uncon-
sciously benefit our neighbors- A strong:
serene personality is a continual gift of
strength and peace to all who come into
contact with it. A we'll ordered home
where peace and serenity reign is bless
ing to all who come into it In a thou
sand such ways we may unconsc1ousiy
bless and benefit others.
Indeed, If we make our lives as fine and
strong and beautiful as we know how, we
cannot help helping others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
by THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARSONS.

Doctors, appointed by the Pujo COM
mission, are going to see whether Bill
Rockeleiler Is sick, or merely suffering
from an attack of chilled pedal ex-
tremities. But before the doctors can
pass on Mr.. Rockefeller's physical con-
dit1on, it may be necessary for them
TO 1lrst catch their Rockefeller.
But, mayhap, they will speak to Mr..
Rockefeller's secretary about it, and
take his =Qrd just as the sergeants-
alarms took a secondhand verbal
at certain date.
Anyone who likes below zero weather
should be classified as the Irishman
classified anyone who liked olives.
1t was 2s below at Sheridan. wyom-
ing, and only below here. From our
method of reasoning, that makes To-
peka just % degrees less undeSira BILE
than Sheridan, Wyoming.
A coffin lid has been sent by parcel
post; and that opens up chance for
discussion; the law precludes sending
any package measuring more than six
feet both ways; but it does not preclude
shipping defunct human specimens, and
there are plenty of two-by-fours,-so
shallow that the other dimension
at any time. Why not mail them out
and bust the undertakers?
Some day, while We are on a street
car that is under good Roadway, and
pass Dave Leahy, we shall ask him
how he likes coon hunting along the
turgid Missouri river.
A dead horse kicked a Leavenworth
man, but the stunt was not so remark
able. We have known a dead horse to
sit on a working mans collar bone for
several years.
Our Washington correspondent says
Senator Bristow has a bill 1t IS rather
long and prominent, but we would
hardly go so far as to call it that.
1t is hard to tell, offhand, which is
the most insistent; a cat sitting on a
frozen porch and wanting in, or a Bull
mooser sitting on a state job and
wanting to stay in.
And, as We understand it, Mr.. Helm
has been cleared of all the charges ex-
cept that he sometimes goes. to Texas |
in company with Democrats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-09
DAFFYDHS
By q NOALL.

If the curfew told Nell did William
Tell overture?
CAS- Dat Abar says: The most popu
lar air with the average girl is the
millionaire.)
If a hen ate a floor mat would it be
reasonable to expect her to lay car
pet?
Il hold differently
Are members of a gun club clever
marksmen when they shoot off a tie?
(There are also many other ways OF
getting it in the neck.)
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.l
girl is so serious with a man because
he's such a joke to her.
What makes woman hopeful about
a situation is for it to be utterly hope
less.
A woman can understand a man en-
tirely because he can't understand her
at all.
A man can get nearly as interested IN
the babys food as he can in his own
smoking tobacco.
Make love to a woman all the time and
she'll forgive you for loving her only a
little of the time.