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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
SEMI-INDUSTRIAL WORK
IN A MODERN SCHOOL

1.-THE oId-fashioned set course with
cultural aims has caused many
failures, produced hundreds of mis-
fits, and driven innumerable boys and
girls to leave school as soon as the
law will permit" declares Edwin L
East Chicago, IN a statement ad-
dressed to the United States Commits
sioner Of Education.
East Chicago is a city of cosmopoH-
tan character and strong democratic
tendencies says Superintendent Canine
There is no wealthy nor especially
cultured class and extreme poverty
Is unknown His problem, therefore,
was probably somewhat different
from that Of other school men. In
his efforts to solve it he emphasizes
tsenai-industria1 work. a maximum
minimum plan of assigning school
lessons, and a method of reducing the
number of daily rotations are econ
Senai-industriaI classes were formed
when it was found that some chill
dTen. especially in grades five, six and
seven appeared unable ito carry the
regular work, even after repeated
trials 3. Special attention was given to
these pupils. One-third one-fourth
training or domestic science depart
ment where the work was made \as
practical as possible. Then the spe-
cia1 teacher took them for about the
them in the subjects of the grade in
which they failed. Under these con-
ditfons, superintendent Canine re-
ports. SOME of the boys passed not
only the grade in which they failed
but the next grade as well. These
semi-industria1 classes are open also
to children over fourteen years of age
who have left school and are unem-
ployed and to those already at work
who are permitted by foresighted en-
ployers to attend school part Of the
time.
The maximum minimum plan of
lesson assignment adopted in Superin-
genious application of the principle
from each according to his abilities"
The pupils do not all have the same
| amount to do. If the average pupils
! of the class are assigned fifteen prob
| lens in arithmetic, for instance, the
slower pupils are assigned eight, ten,
or twelve typical problems, while the
| brightest are asked to do twenty or
more. The same principle Is applied
| to geography and history, and to some
extent to English.
| Believing that the energies of the
| pupils are unnecessarily divided and
dfssipated by the constantly increas-
| ing number of school subjects, Super
| intendent Canine has devised plan
| of reducing the number OF studies.
In the four lower grades literature,
history, and nature study, instead of
ricu1um are combined in language
! work" Other similar combinations
are made throughout the course.
AS in many American cities, the
| school work in East Chicago is by no
means confined to the period of the
| conventional school term. The prin-
cipaIs and Industrial teachers are en-
| gagged for the full school year, that
they may carry on the summer work.
| In the summer session pupils may
make up deficiencies; an exceptional
| ly bright student may gain a grade;
| the industrial work is kept going( es-
! pec1ally the home garden): and play
| ground activities, under the super
| vision of trained directors. are at their
| height
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17

come tax bill, and many measures
for the. ame1ioratfon of the lot of in
dustrial workers and public servants,
have been put into effect during the
Fa1lieres administration.
President FallieHes bids farewell to
public life without regret. He is
seventy-one years old, and the cares
of office have become a>burden. His
long, quiet and useful career has been
crowned by election to the highest
office in the gift of his countrymen.
He leaves content
e1 am delighted OF go back to
Loupiilon and live among the vines
and the good people where I was
born,' says President Fanieres. 81
shall become once more a simple wine
grower
Fashionable Paris greets this sim
pie farewell with jeers, and fashion
able America echoes them. The boots
will not trouble Fallieres. The fash
ionables are few, and the people are
many
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION

The first C11autauque Assembly was
accordance with plan formulated
by Lewis Miller, an inventor and phil
anthropist, who died fourteen years
ago today With the assistance Of the
Rev. John H. Vincent, Miller extended
the Chautauqua system of popular ed
ucation all over the continent. Fifty
thousand people now attend the annu-
al assemblies at Chautauqua; there
are over a thousand local aSSemb-
lies, patterned after the mother Chau1
tauqua, held every year in the United
States and Canada. Besides the as
semblfes the institution conducts Sum-
mef schools, and also a literary ana
scientific circle, which has more than
100000 members enrolled. The Pur-
pose of the circle is to promote habits
of reading and study and stimulate
interest in literature history, art ana
the science without interfering with
the regular routine of life
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
FALLIERES RETIRES TODAY

This is the last day of Armand Fail
Heres as president of France. Come
tomorrow and the venerable old
french statesman will retire to his
FtnexaEassEy hide AE. r eineaire. will take
up his residence in the Elysee. Dur
lrg his administration of seven years,
Papa F-a1lieres has accomplished
much for the good of his country. His
influence on affairs has been consider
able. despite the allegation that the
Trench executives are mere figure
heads. Also, he has been an object
of ridicule among those fashion
ab1es'' of whom the character of Fail
Heres was incomprehensible. They
have made a mock of his simplicity.
5eered at his frugaiity, and derided
A4n estfmable wife. It was alleged
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
FIRST VICTIM OF
POLICE SYSTEM"

The first victim Of the police 'sys-
tenn which has grown up in New
York was James McAu1iffe, a plas-
terc., who brought death upon himself
by prosecuting a police CRATER. Elev-
en- years ago McAuliffe, a sober, in
dustrious man. left his home to visit
a sister The following morning he
was found horribly beaten, in a gut
ter, and died in a hospital soon af-
terward His Staying aroused almost
as much excitement as the murder of
Herman Rosenthal by the agents of
Becker. A short time before his death
McAuliffe had been the principal wit
ness against E. c. Glennan, an alleged
leader in the police graft ''syste EN- -
and his testimony resulted in Glen
mons conviction Thus he became a
marked man. The police records
showed that McAuliffe had been ar
rested on a charge of drunkenness on
Feb Is, 1902. Prisoners near the cell
into which McAuliffe was thrown tes-
titled to having heard the sound of
blows groans and cries. Newspaper
investigators alleged that the unfor-
tunate man had been beaten al
most to death in his cell, then bundled
into a cab carried a short distance
and thrown into the strRet to die The
assaesins of McAuliffe were never
punished
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
TRUMBULL

The members of the Christian En- En-
deavor society are planning to attend
the Union meeting at Kings High
way chapel this evening They Will
at this time return the banner Tor
largest attendance at home meeting
which they captured at the last I'm
ion meeting in October. For three
months previous to this the society
held the banner for largest attendance
at the Union meeting in June They
are Justly proud of the fact. that they
have had in their possession these
banners for the past SIX months and
would very much like to bring home
one again on Monday evening.
The society has steadily gained in
numbers which makes it more diff
cult to get a full attendance.
. Carpenters will commence work to-
morrow on the house owned by Rollin
r. Burton in the Center. Mr. Burton
is to build on a two story, eight foot
addition in the back of his house, a
yeranda in the front and south side,
also inside improvements. He will
move his family from Bridgeport az
soon as the work is completed.
Mrs Arthur E. Plumb will enter
tain the Ladies Whist club on We'd
nesday afternoon:
At the basketball game in the Town
hall Saturday evening, the Regulars
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17

that the President of France was
boorish, miser, and what on this
side of the Atlantic is called a ''rube.''
This was to be expected, for the
smart set" have always derided those
whb feed them. Yet Fa1lieres, in the
society of kings and the great men
of earth, comported himself with a
simple dignity that won their admira-
ton. King George found in the re-
firing President of France a kindred
spirit.
Many American writers have join
ed in the chorus of ridicu1e of Fall
Heres, forgetting that Honest Abe"
Lincoln, who is now almost worship
ped as the patron saint of the United
States, was when alive subjected to
the bitterest taunts and jeers
on the score of his obscure origin,
his extreme simplicity, his so-called
uncouth manners and his utter unfit
ness for the frivolous social affairs of
capital. Reading the, fashionable
journals of half a century ago, one
and danes of the Washington elect
President Lincoln was socially impos-
sible-oh, quite impossible. "A
grotesque and uncouth person. IAN
unnitigated Door," "a fellow better
finds that to the aristocracy suited
to the society of backwoods
tavern than of the White House.
such was the Great Commoner as
viewed by Smart Washingtonians of
his time Lincoln was a representa-
tive American, and Fallieres is also a
representative Frenchman-kindll Oily,
of simple tastes, frugal and careless
of the distastes of society.
With the close of the Fallieres adj
nninistration today, France is more
prosperous than ever before. and her
prosperity is more evenly divided
| among a whole people than is the
case in any other nation of the world.
The extremes of poverty and grea
wealth are little in evidence in
France. There have been riots and
labor troubles in France during the
Hast seven years, but these are the
necessary accomplishments of indus
trialism in all countries. The British
French entente cordiale, and the i'm
/ lions between Russia and France, are
to be numbered among the big prob
lens in which President Fallieres
| played an important role. The strain
ed relations between France and Ger
many have been patched UP. The in
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
Noted Men Who
Have Won Fame
By Hard Work
@.MARsE HENRY" wArrERsoN

MAEtSE IL "A1SIHHSON
For nearly a quarter of a century
the name of EtMarse Henry Waiter
son, editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, has occupied place at the
head of the list of American journal
lists. Col Watterson, last of the old
school newspaper editors-a school
that included Greeley, the elder Ben
nett, Dana, BowleS, Prentice and
Weed-was born in the city of Wash
ington seventy-three years ago, Feb.
16, 1910. At eighteen he became a
reporter on the Washington States.
but laid down his pen to shoulder a
rifle, taking the Confederate side of
the argument. During the intervals
of active warfare he wrote editorials
Rebel. For some time he was chief
of scouts in Gen. Johnston's army.
After the cruel was was over the pen
niless young journalist got a job as
editor of the Nashville Republican
Banner, and in that city won a bride.
His connection with the Louisville
Courier-Journalb began in 1868. Fiery,
original and outspoken in his editor
ial utterances, he gained a tremendous
following throughout the United
States. Never a yellow" journalist,
| measures, and in 1877 nearly plunged
| the republic into another civil war by
advocating that an army march to
Washington and, by force of arms,
place Ttlden in the White House.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
S. S. MCCLURE.

In County Antrim of the Emerald
Isle, ffty-six years ago today, a son
was born to Thomas and Eliza beth
Mcclure. That son of the ould sod,
Samuel Sidney Mcclure, is now inter
nationally famous as the editor and
publisher of the New York magazine
which bears his name. Coming to
America as a youth, he was educated
at Knox College, Ga1esburg, Ill, and
married the daughter of member of
the faculty of that institution of
learning Twenty-nine years ago he
arrived in New York, with very little
money but with boundless ambition
and an Idea. Nowadays every preach
er, pugilist and professor is running
a newspaper syndicate; supp1ying-or
offering to supply-feature articles 20
the daily press, but in 1884 the scheme
existed only in the head of young Nc
Clure, The project made a hit with
the editors, and within a few years
Mr. Mcclure had made a young for
tune from the business. He founded
McClure's magazine twenty years
ago and for time the publication
hung dfzziIy on the brink of failure.
All of the profits from the syndicate
went into the greedy NAV Of the
magazine, and it cried for more. At
ter while the reading public began
to observe that Mr.. Mcclure was Of
fering an excellent magazine for the
money, and the founder, plus few
gray hairs in has head and a mum Der
of worry wrinkles on his countenance,
was able to move into a brownstone
front on Easy street.
Mr. Mcclure has number of ideas
about this and that, which he airs in
his publications. One of his pet
| schemes is the commission form of
municipal government, as originated
| in Galveston and developed in Des
Moines and many other cities. The
editor of McCIure's has a poor opinion
| of the average run of American may
/ ors Not long ago, in the course of
Ian address on municipal government,
he remarked:
! 1--WE have to look to Germany. for
efficient officials. In that country
every municipal employee, from the
\ mayor down to the humblest street
! cleaner, is an expert in his line. You
can't find single mayor in North
America who could get a job in Ger
many"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
Smart Neckwear
Collars, Iabotsv and other FaI-LaIs

Collars, Jabots1 and other Fal-LaIs.
Half the time it is the ndescribab1e but bewitch-
ing Fa1-La1 that makes the costume distinctive.
Broad flat Collars of Bohemian, C1uny and Point
Venise are the things affected by who wish to
be stylish comfortable. Happy the woman whose
neck is round and white.
Wide Lace Collars in elaborate patterns reach wei
the shoulders, and really make the trimming
for the dress waist.
Collars of white black satin in Directoire
Incroyable styles conspicuous for their novelty and
elegance
White for Mourning Wear.
Deep Collars of White Crepe with wide hens fas-
tened the with tiny Buttons
Collars fine white Brussels bordered inch-wide
with white crepe Very distinctive
White Orgndie Collar and Cuff Sets, some of then
all white, others stitched with black.
Collars, Cuffs and Chernisettes of tucked net.
Tailored Neckwear in and attractive designs
for the business Main floor, center
The White Goods Section is OVERLOOKING with new
weaves for the Spring Voiles plain striped figured
Crepes, Crepe Voi1es and fancy Madras.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17

During the recent unpleasantness in
Turkey the affairs of England have
been in the competent hands of Sir
Gerard Augustus Lowther, British
ambassador at .Constantinople, who is
fifty-ffve years old today. The distin-
guished diplomat, who is brother
of the Earl of Lonsdale, famed as a
patron of boxing, has served in Mad
rid, Paris, Vienna, Sofia, Bucharest,
Toxic and other capitals, and for a
time was secretary of. the embassy ct
washington. He was also minister to
Chile and Tangier before he went to
Turkey as ambassador in 1908. Lady
Lowther is an American woman. the
daughter of Anterior Blight of Phila-
delphia. Last month she appealed for
funds to aid the poor starving cattle
and horses belonging to refugees"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
Dress Poplins of Silk and Wool
Fine in Quality, Attractive in CoIorings

This week shall place sale very large as
of Silk and Wool Popns, in extended list
of coors, eighteen twenty shades. purchase
of Poplins made in grade worth fully SIPS a
yard but they will be offered at $500 yard
To this lot we have added the Poplins already
had in stock, which have heretofore sold at $I25 and
the entire quantity will be sold at
S1.OO yard, the width AZ inches
Colors for house and evening wear, and for the
street. Colored Dress Goods Section
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
RUBBER CLOTHING

Our line of Rubber and, Waterproof
Clothing is complete. We have vaIues
in Raincoats and SBpons which VIII
surprise you. Every coat guarantee
perfect.
Mems Raincoats. $500 to $500
Boys Rubber Coats. .S2.sO 70 3 ~
Ladies' RaInconts. $3.50 to $3.50
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17

Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth will celebrate their wooden
weddin anniversary today, this being
the seventh return of that happy
seventeenth of February in 1906 when
Alice Roosevelt became White House
bride, Two weeks hence the Buckeye
State lawmaker who captured the
heart of a Presidents daughter will
be Initiated into the Order of Lame
Ducks and retire from the House of
Representatives at Washington, in
which he has held mem bership for
ten years. Mr.. Longworth will be sue
ceeded by Democrat, Stanley e.
Bowdfe, who defeated sweet Alice's
husband by a mere margin of 1O1
votes. There was noticeable differ
ence of political opinion among the
members of the Longworth family
during the last Campaign, but peace
reigns again and at the wooden we'd
ding all is serene. Mrs Longworth,
it is said, contributed $1,000 from her
husbands purse to further her faith
er's> campaign, while Mr.. Longworth
was standpat Taft man, although
political enemies were mean enough
to intimate that Nicholas did not
stand so very, very pat when his wife
was among his auditors. And they
say-those devilish dimmy
Mr.. Longworth was SO anxious to
maintain friendly relations with his
wife and her family that he forgot
all he ever knew about campaigning.
However that may be, he was defeat
ed, and the halls of Congress will
know him no more-at least. not for
a time.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
MARTYRDOM OF BRUNO

The first great philosopher of the
Renaissance, and the first martyr to
modern science and freethought, Gior-
dano Bruno. was burned at the stage
in Rome s313 years ago today. A great
statute of Bruno, built by contributions
from the scientists and freethinkers
of the world, now stands in the Campo
Del Fiori, facing the Vatican, and a
great Bruno demonstration is held
there every year on the sixteenth of
February. Bruno's philosop51ic career
was a long search for unity, and in
his works he developed a sort of pan
theism. He taught that in all the di-
verse phenomena of the universe
there must be something that gives
unity and conference to the whole. This
unity, he asserted, cannot be some
thing apart, but must contain in itself
the universe, Which develops from it,
and it must be at once all and one
He taught that, as a part of the di-
vine whole, the human soul is i'm
mortal. The highest function of the
brain he held to be the study of the
divine unity, discoverable under u
multiplicity of forms. Bruno was held
in prison for seven years before. the
verdict of the Inquisition was passed
and he was burned alive.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17

The grand old man of science, Prof.
Ernst Hacckel, was born seventynine
years ago today, and for half CEN
fury has been the champion of evo1u-
ton and monism. He has come in
for much criticism because of his de-
claration that the human soul, SO
called, is only a function of the brain
cell, and the immortality of the soul,
therefore, only a myth without foun-
dation of fact.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
he .. NJ. Read Co.
Established 1857
Notice

It has been reported that house to house agents
offering Furniture Polish, representing that
The D. NJ. Read Company guarantee the same. We
know nothing of such agents and wish to denounce
the fraudulent representations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17

Mrs. s. S. S.. Van Buren, ST.. King
ston, N. z. Gull name furnished on
application had such decided benefit
using Foley's Honey & Tar Compound
that she shares her good fortune with
others. She writes: "FoIey's Honey
& Tar Compound brought my voice
back to me during a severe case of
bronchitis and laryngitis. Oh, how
many people 1 have recommended it
to-" F. B. Brill, Stratford avenue
A1ad Sixth Street-Adv> s1aa
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17

won against the Picked Five By q
score of 40 to 6.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-17
OIL CLOTHING
RUBBERS
BOOTS

We have q stock of Boots that cannor
be equaned in ~ -
Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-07

bee stronger than ever before in de [ mand for investment and houses. They say there is substantial move. ment on in a quiet way that exceeds anything that has before been en- joyed in the district and that there is every indication favorable to the con tinuance of this movement indefinite ly. More than that. in view of the large demand that there is for house. apartment and lodging room accom- modations, they feel that the way is very well prepared for a-moyement during the winter that will take on boom proportions.
 '1The opportunity is here, made by actual need and demand said II M. Daley yesterday, flor avery rapid ad- vance movement in building opera tions and realty investment. The rents prevailing here are food and well jus tify the erection of accommodations that are needed. Excellent interest re turns are earned by all house owners with renting properties, and no man in the district is paying so little rent that he could not make money by building his own home and paying for it through building and loan assOcla, tion or other borrowing plan, provided he has not the ready money. If there was a desirable subdivision on the Bisbee market today. with lots of fered at fair price, within the means of the average man. two hundred new houses would be put up by the people of the city within the next six months There is actual need here at this time for that number of new houses, and the way people are now coming l fully believe that by the middle of the win ter the estimate can be raised another hundred houses with entire conserya- tism'
Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-07
TURN HAIR DARK
 WITH SAGE TEA
--16n1s Kept Her Locks Dark, Glossy
 .1d Thick With Simple Mixture s- Sspe Tea and Sulphur

-7d-Eu mixture of Sage Tea Fr6 S-5rIsrf for darkening gray. strelEcd and faded hair is grsndmoth- crse treatment ard folks are again us ing il fo keep tleir hair Q good, even color. which H 01ite sensible, as we me living in n 1se when youthfui tpBearar.e j. ozslhe greatest adyant- bea ,
 N-1,Gay5, fhCr sh, we oont nave Inc troublesome r. of gathering the s,pc and the m mixing at home. nIf drug stores sell the ready-to-use S,rodtict called "W Wyeth's Sage ano EuIpbur Hair Remedy" for about So cents a bottle. 1t is very popuiaF s,scause nobody can discover t has asen applied. Simply mOisten your f1mb or a soft brush with 1t ana . aw this through your hair takins one small strand at time; by morn s7g the gray hair disappears, but wilay IeIizbts the ladies with Wyeth's sage S Sl,1l sasl,ur is that besides beautiful da-L sniag the hair after lew ai,- n, i., t also proclces tlat soiI 1astra aud -p oara'e9 ot u' L.9 xbihe ro Caetcs ta7 e uirur aat1s s-- --- taI' td -ftl----ls .
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