The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-10

in that humble job, and within a cou- pie of years he was placed in charge of the bureau of railway inspection in Chicago. His next important advance
 was to the position of superintendent of freight terminals in the Windy City. In 1899 he was advanced to superintendent of motive power, and in 1901 he became general superinten- dent of the C., B. & o. at Chicago. He left the service of the Burlington in 1905 and returned to the Orient as consulting engineer to the United States war department in relation to the railroads of the Philippines. His connection with the Wabash system, which has 2,500 miles of lines ex- tending from Ontario to Missouri, be- gan in 1905, when he was made first ce-president, and soon afterwards president, of the road. When the Wabash went into the hands of receiv- CTS he continued as the principal of
 dcer of the road. MT. Delano was appointed by MT. Taft as one of the mission of Industrial Relations, au- thorized by Congress about year ago.
 Robert Woodrow Archbo1d, the United States federal judge last Jan uary was found guilty by the Senate of Thigh crimes and misdemeanors,' and was stripped of office and for ever DcLIT0O 1TOIn ItOlOlDS POSlLlOuS OI public honor or trust, was born in Carbondale, Pa. sixty-f1ve years ago to-day. The besmirched jurist had spent twenty-nine years on the bench when the impeachment proceedings put an end to his judicial career. Judge Archibold was the third man to be convicted on impeachment pro- ceedings in the Senate since the or ganization of the United States gov ernment. He graduated from Yale in 1871 and for many years practiced law in Scranton. After seventeen years on the State bench he became a federal judge dozen years ago. He was convicted of a corrupt use of Judicial power to further the private interests of himself and his friends in the acquisition of coal lands in Penn sylvania-
 The seventh Earl Roulette, whose talented wife was formerly one of the London "Gaiety Girls' rounds out his thirtieth year to-day. The Earl made a. tour of the States and Canada this year, and also visited the Pana- ma canal. Lady SyIvi Poulett was a Miss Storey, daughter of the Eng fish actor, Fred Storey, and was eight cen years old when she captivated the scion of an ancient house and left the stage to become a lady of title. The family came into prominence some years ago when London organ grinder, who called himself ''Viscount Hinton," attempted to establish his right to the earldom.
 The first meeting of the British As sociation for the AdVancenen ent of Sci ence-which holds it's 1913 convention in Birmingham, England, beginning to-day-was convened at York in September 1881. Viscount Milton Prof. John Phillips was the first sec retary, and Francis Ronalds the first superintendent of. the associations ob- sequent conventions have included dall, Hersche1, Brewster, the Duke of Lubbock, and many others. Of late years the association has devoted much time to the discussion of social gram of the session commencing to- day includes such questions as explo- sions in mines and means of prevent ing them, the best way to get the full heat out of coal, problems connected with the cost of living, trade union ism, success in agriculture, working class expenditure, the Panama canal and wireless telegraphy. The sec ton on botany will have a woman president Miss Ethel Sargant.
 Judging by Minister Gamboa's let ters, it would be fairly safe to break a number of the Ten Commandments