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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
s.A DEN OF THIEVES ?"
dNew York worldly

At the annual dinner Of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, Nov. q,
Elihu Root said:
There are hundreds of thousands
Of people outside the great industrial
communities who think you are den
of thieves; there are hundreds of thou
sands of people who think that the
manufacturers Of the country are no
better than a set Of confidence men,
The man who uttered these words is
not a denagogue he is not radical;
he is not an agftator. He is the ablest
corporation lawyer in the United
States, and 50 far as intellectual pow
ers go, he is probably the ablest man
who has appeared in the public life of
New York since Alexander Hamilton.
Continuing Senator Root told the
members of the Chamber of Commerce
that the men who understand finance,
the bankers and merchants, are ''un-
der suspicion" Great bodies of people,
he said, will not accept what they
they will not accept what the experts
say. because they do not believe their
motives are honest
Senator Root was not justifying
these suspicious; he was describing
the popular state of mind and plead
ing for a better understanding. He
was trying to do in his Chamber of
Commerce speech what Gov. Wilson
was trying to do in his Chicago
speech, except that the Senator was
less tactfu1 and less heedfu1 of the
feelings O1 ms dQ01S11CO
Is Wall street determined to prove
that the popular suspicion to which
Senator Root referred is wholly I'M
warranted by the facts?
Certainly there is nothing to show
that Big Business learned anything
from the recent presidential campaign.
It is still fighting desperately to re
tain all it's opportunities for privilege
and plumber. 1t has fought the Pu5o
investigation step by step. It is as
sailing Gov. Wilson as an enemy of
prosperity. Tt is preparing g. new
campaign against the Democratic pro
gramme of financial and economic
progress It is shaking the threat of
panic before the American people.
There are two courses open to Wall
streets eminent dnanciers and cap
tains of fndustry-one Of cooperation
and one of resistance. If they accept
Gov. wilson's invitation to co-opera-
| ton, all important national problems
oan be solved with no great difficulty
and with no serious injury to any hon
est interest. But if Wall street is to
unite on a policy Of resistance to ev-
cry reform that touches it's pocket, IT
must expect to be branded as "a den
! of thieves" And it must expect to be
| dealt with a, den of thieves deserves
! to be dealt with.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
ARE YOU PREJUDICED
AGAINST ADVERTISING?

Most successful business men of
today recognize that advertising is
necessity, and when we'll authenti-
Gated FACTS are set forth in a dig
nffed manner regarding an article
they know that the sensible and fair
minded public Will respond in gen
erous way.
The "ENGLIsH HEMoRRHOID
TREATMENT is the logical out
come Of the practice and experience
of a New York physician, covering
many years of trial and experiment.
So successful was he with this treat
m lent, in his own practice and also
in the practice Of some of his pro-
fessional friends, he established
laboratory for the wholesale prepare
ton of this remedy with a view of
introducing it to the afflicted public
To accomplish this purpose, paid
for advertising was necessary-as it
could not be expected that publish
ers would exploit a business PROPOSE
ton without compensatfon-no mat
ter how beneficial the exploited article
might be to subscribers This is why
you will, future. see advertisements of
the ENGLISH HEMORRHO1D
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17
Bridgeport and

TREATMENT in Bridgeport and
other papers.
There is one point we desire to i'm
press on the mind of every reader
and that is the absolute sincerity and
truthfulness of every stateme nt made
by US to the public, by means of ad-
vertising. We believe the ENG
LISH HEMORRHOID Treatment"
is sane and practical; that it will soon
be used in hospitals throughout the
country and will be prescribed by
many good physicians and used in
their practice.
The "ENGLISH HEM RHOID
TREATMENT is for sale at over 60
drug stores in Bridgeport and vicinity.
Every druggist has a supply of
booklets on his counter for free dis
trtbutiOn. The booklet is a very we'll
written trea tise on Hem orrho ODDS
If Interested, send to your nearest
druggist for q booklet or write direct
to the English PharnacaI 14aborator-
les, Inc, 1881 Broadway, New York,
and they will send you one. IF you are
a sufferer it will interest you and per-
haps you may later find that it was
worth it's weight in gold" to you
ASK YOUR DRUGGIST! ASK YOUR
DOCTOR!-AdV.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

ct am very uneasy; I am sure my
wife has gone out without her UNI
brelIa.'
ooh, she will certainly seek refuge
in a department store
That's what makes me uneasy
PeIe Mele.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

Tonsorial Conversational hate a
barber that talks politics all the time;
don't you?'
Cant say do I'd rather have him
talk politics than hair tonic.''-Kansas
City Journal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

Half a century ago Mike Donovan,
the sturdy old fighter, enlisted in the
seventy-frst Illinois regiment and
marched away to the front to begin
his career as a battler After the war
he became a pugilist, and won his
way to the top of the middIeweight
heap after scraPpfng with a gum
said Prof. Mike recently, fighting
with bare fists seemed easy, and box
ing with gloves a real luxury" For
nearly thirty years Donovan has
taught the manly art to the members
of the New York Athletic Club.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

Just now the woods are full of
young baseball phenomena, who, ac-
cordtng to the scribes, are destined to
make the season of 1913 the ALFRED
est IN the history of the major lea
CUES. But many are called and few
are chosen, and, also, where are tho
phenomena of yesteryear? Answer
ing the latter question, it may be said
that most of them are still in the bush
leagues. The fireside fans demand
sustenance and SO each Winter brings
its crop of corners who are greater
than Ty Cobb. Statistics, always
dull, dry and sad, prove that not one
in a dozen of the great finds make
good in fast company. Of the scores
of players that will be tried out in the
next few months, only a handful will
be found good enough for a place on
q. big league of the American Asso-
citation, and not a few would find the
pace too fast in a Glass B aggregation.
Heartbreaking disappointments are
coming to a lot of lads who are now
dreaming dreams that will never be
realized. IT'S sad, it's sad, but then,
as Mr.. Schopenhauer, the German
highbrow, has remarked, life is very
sad at best.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

Go Be Coutinued.&
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-01-17

Farmer Want Ads 1c a word
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-06-28
West Virginia Traction e
Electric Company and City &
Suburban Gas Company's au-
thorized paw stations:

Company Cr.c". corner f2fh &
Cia-.1 30. ~'-.o' Wheeling ". Va.
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Tee First Nafiuul. hank. Elm Grove.
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stare fark - Elm Grove. Elm
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ier yrGr electric ..Fi'. waite ara
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s'ati-n G. j. JTNKI%S. Troae.rer
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-06-28

DRY faed - given as thc CAUSE.
Nayr- d. T.. Kirk has -'furucd
from IlN'rs. who. nr nf'.rdc a meet
ir- 81 roire.'u'1'i g q Whesltrgs
sV"0lfiVo commi''"r and ne S'nf"
S'r.i 'tu %'Druial 'nmul-~irn, held 20
consider matters relating % tho rcccu;
Celebration.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-06-28

IIU"TH"" Y "UTI
TIE c. c. KIMBERLY co.
= UuI' l.r i.lt.Ifa-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-06-28

With Patent Leather Belt-Size 10 to 2O-pure Liner
AMI cuiiS-laced or button Style-mOSt stores usually
33c.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
THE OLD ONES
FROM HEARST'S MAGAZINE
FOR SEPTEMBER.
Ly JAMES ]. MONTAGUE.

DO not care for problem plays I do yearn
The erring and luxurious of high society.
keen
belted earls who baw radzooks'
like odtime spurned
Knocks plotting badness galley turned
LIKE maiden before fathers
Instructed hahy to 0 no more.
like hear her many shvering quake
That royal raiment when they're
like to watch the villain to lure her off
And simply joy to hear her Away
LIKE to the hero thrust aside the proheed
And with beautiful disgust. demon rum for iuo
like to hear the villain say. his he mops
He has escaped for to-day Drops"
l like to hear the vllainess in sorrow.
Observe oh that bum distress
LIKE the lightning flash wine yaI
And listen to the thunder crash along lonely
Where heroine and hero meet ana O
The sound Of the purslers' about
like wonder what they'll do he flight
Although l know, and do you, De right
M, glorious plays by-gone days at old mills
OF henous crimes and wedding chimes and thrills
- thrills
You always knew just who who ana
In doping how they'd you astray.
until the
You didn't find tagged they meant!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01

nomination in the United States
give S75 churches, 10000 commu-
nicants with $4,000 in the Sunday
schools, and church property
worth $4,000, 900.
The Universalist authorities.
however, claim that these sta
tistics do not begin to give an
idea of the real influence of the
church in America. They claim
that that influence has honey
combed all the other creeds. and
that the overwhelming majority
of people to-day in all churches
have ceased TO believe in the ira
ditionalHelI with its endless tor
ment.
John Murray was not the origi-
nator Of the idea of universal SAL
walton. The great church father.
Orisen, taught the doctrine, nor
was it considered heretical until
about the year 400. The doctrine
was formally condemned at the
Fifth General Council A. D. 553,
in the following decree: Who
ever says that the torments of
the demons and of impious men
will at length come TO an end, let
him be damned. Anathema to
Origen Adamantius, who taught
these things"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
-. The Fine Art of CheCk=RaiSing

The man at the desk was a
wiseheimer. He says, IF you will
wait here we will send it up and
get it certified" "Sure!" And
the man sits down and lights a
corncob pipe. In ten minutes the
boy comes back with the check,
certified, and they pay him six
hundred and fifty dollars in good
cash.
And so he works all around
over Buffalo, each place with
different name and never looking
alike in any two instances.
And the weeks go by, and the
months go by, and the police have
to do something, 50 they pinch a
certain man because the man has
done things similar to this, and
when they have him in Jail they
send for me to come and see him.
Where the Loss Fell.
E' anu STE nm anu 1 NIH uON
connect him up with the high
brow with the ginger whiskers
and the pious smile-about the
same size. They send for each Of
the men who cashed a j. F. Hub
bard check and not a man can
identify him.
Who got the money has never
been discovered. But whom the
loss falls on has been decided by
the courts. The loss fell on the
bank that had originally drawn
the draft.
The bank in Buffalo was held
to be innocent in the matter.
They recognized the signature on
the draft, and this is as far as
they were supposed to go.
What's the moral? Simply
this: That an individual who
draws a check or a draft would
do well to protect himself against
the fine art Of check raising.
Safety First,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
John Murray
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

NINETY EIGHT years ago,
N on September 3. 1915, died
John Murray, the founder
OF the Universalist Church in the
United States of America.
Murray was born at Alton,
England. in the year 1741. When
a young man he CHANGED to read
book on Universalism. by James
Roelly, which converted him to a
belief in that faith. Being rather
enthusiastic in the expressions of
his newly found convictions he
was accommodated by the
Methodists and, in his extremity
he turned his face toward the
New World
Murray preached his first SER
mon in America at an obscure
hamlet in New Jersey, called
Good Luck, on September 80,
1870. The people seemed deeply
interested in the new gospel and
several converts were the fruits
of that first Universalist discourse
in our country. Encouraged by
the success that attended his
initial sermon. Murray continued
to preach until his death, in 1916,
at the age of "A.
The Father of Universalism in
America was a patriot to the core,
and when the battle, with King
George began he offered his serv-
ices to the Congress and was
made chaplain of a Rhode Island
regiment. General Washington
and Murray became close friends.
The COMMUNICATIVE took
great delight, we are told. in lis
tening to Murray's discourses.
and often consulted him regarding
the affairs Of the army and Con-
gress.
When Murray died, in 1915. the
Uuiversalist faith was well
grounded throughout New Eng
land and the Middle States. and
to-day the statistics Of the de-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01

Never much Of a sucCess-these
men who borrow from women,
are they? At least not for the
women from whom they borrow.
What is it about a man that
makes him dislike the woman
who does too much for him?
Have you ever seen a man really
in love with his rich wife-if he
himself is poor? Did you ever
know man TO be grateful to
woman who belittled him by
helping him too much?
Self-respect, courage, pride
take these things away from a
man, though you do 1t with a kiss
and he'll hate you for it, as if
YOU offered him cold poison.
Who is the child the mother
loves the best? The one most
dependent upon her.
Who is the woman a man loves
most faithfully? The woman who
demands the most from him
and what a glorious thing for hui
mainly it is that it is so.
Poor foolish young man-you
who died out West the other day
because you had borrowed
money and faith and confidence
and love and could not repay it
when the time came-you are
just one of type. l am afraid.
Isn't il fortunate there are so few
Of you, after all?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01

age jealousy. and then with her
almost equally savage flirtations.
Somehow l couldn't feel SO very
sorry for him.
There was the man Who want
ed to study in Paris, symbolic
art" he fancicd: but his fathers
Just a grocer and not so very
rich. and oh, so very unsympa-
thetic. so he went to visit a school
friend and-maUried the school
friends sister-a kindly elderly
person. who was SO grateful to
him for making love to her that
she lent him her allowance for
five years and sent him TO
study"
He studied-very hard-from
life, poor fool, and the lessons
that life taught him We're not
pleasant ones. So he shot himself
like the young doctor out West
and when his elderly wife came
to get his body. she said the rea-
son his pictures We're never
hung at the Academy was be
cause there was a clique against
him. jealous. they were. all Of
the clique, and the symbolist's
queer friends had so much that
was decent about them that they
agreed with her, and hid the pic
lures Of the girl he had gone mad
about. and helped her get her
husbands body home in decent
peace.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
Pity the Rich Man Struggling
TO BE HAPPY

Copyright 1918 !,

few individuals in this country have million or more
year good many have incomes running into the hundreds of
great many have incomes exceeding fifty thousand
dollars year.
Below that as you may surprised to hear,
considered "rch" in day.
The chief task that great fortune SPEND
ING MONEY AND TRYING TO BUY HAPPINESS.
1t is easy to spend money, IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY HAPPI
NESS And you can read truth bored tired
teres faces of the idle rich exceleny described and
alyzed by Frederick Hearsts September
Magazine from which reproduce the pictures at the top of
this page.
Martin knows the world that describes analyses
has had hard years trying escape being the
IDLE rich.
Read what he says it interests you in Hears Magazine
The following facts interest you and everybody else:
IDLE rich happy and cannot be happy For idle
itself curse and the spending of money matter how
avshy ooshy cannot buy the that comes with
full active mind.
Not all the rich fortunately this country idle
Rockefeller spends his millions for education for scientific
spends himself for personal pleasure and self
indulgence than spent by many with income be
twenty thousand dollars He happybecause he is build
ing constructing competing getting pleasure in activity not
trying to buy it.
So all the big builders such Hill Gould and
Gary the thousands of other directing workers in whose lives
spending is only a unimportant incident
Really miserable and be ped the IDLE rich Those
that this picture trying to buy for money the pleas
that cannot be bought.
idle brain, gives pleasure The foolish striving and ug
Cling the costly Coons the jewels the great houses armies of
servants and all the rest of it, you need not envy.
Even the monkey dinner itself is bitter disappointment
gardess Of the monkey good behavior and when the
poor monkey his round brown eyes sadly his fellow
monkeys of society and would say them he could Why
don you home? There happier monkeys than you
in the trees where used to live.
1t important that this should BE REAL REPUBLIC
the and believing in democracy and equality And
important that that people should understand
envy look snobbshy those idle rich whom
Martin dissects in his Hearst Magazine article.
gradually paying for respectable little house living
morally and peace with pasSonaey devoted to her
children working and planning minute for their welfare,
infinitely than the goose who drives the four horses
that fashion the stupid wasted and
interested her husband chaacteress
to interest any serious
envy the idle rich They the unhappy, the datS
fed-usualy the characteress and the immoral
Envy the and woman who living and working, plan
ming and building TOGETHER.
AL real happiness creation and buy good
thought with million dollars millions all the strings
of pearls and diamond sunburss and humble
bring happiness compared that OF the poor
caring for her children and respecting the who works for
tlsn both
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
Men Who Borrow Money from Women

N-,J->,, .l.,..,,. I.u,,s H..
~ self ont West the other dav
IIev asa briybr voung man
and he wanted IS graduate nj the
medical school SO ne could On
right to practfcinr. So he bor-
rowcd money tn nav for his sdp-
cation.
He borrowed the money from,
TWO girls-8ud ,arh Girl be pron,-
is.d fo marry.-yben he was
fuir-fleGEed doctor
a., graduated. with medium,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
By WINIFRED BLACK

he was worth more than the
most Of them, this particular Dor
rower-he did turn out to be
genius after a fashion, but when
he did he forgot the woman who
gave him his chance, and he
didn't give her chance at all
He left her as coldIy as if she
We're some unworthy beggar at
his gates-and they say she
cried and begged him TO remem-
Der.
There was the man l know
the ne'cr-d o-weIL of good fam
ly-he married a little stenog-
rapher. she was proud of his
name and his mothers carriage,
and she sent him to school TO be
a doctor
He learned fashion
just enough to put a sign upon
his door and that was all, and
he ran away with his office assist
ant before he'd had that sign up
a year. He never turned out
much OF a doctor. l saw him
keeping the surgeons place
warm for him in a coast steamer
not long ago He wanted to ask
after his wife that used to be.
but he didn't quite dare.
His assistant was stewardess
on the same boat They say she
made il rather unpleasant for
him a. times. hgst with her say
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
By EBERT HUBBARD

may be a mistake I'm directing"
And she runs her knife through
the letter and finds the ac-
acknowledgement to J. f. Hubbard
for nine thousand dollars. I'm
mediately she sends the letter
back TO the bank. saying: Per
haps you have misdirected the
letter. We don't know any J. e.
Hubbard
And the bank bookkeeper
turns to the account Of J. r.
Hubbard and finds that the ac-
count was credited with nine
thousand dollars a week before,
and that now seven thousand five
hundred dollars has been drawn
out on It! Immediately the cash
Ter threw a fit.
He telographs New York, and
New York tejegraphs up to Hud-
son, and they find that the origi-
nal check was issued for fifty
one dollars. The man washed out
the date, washed out the name,
and he washed out the amount.
He was an artist.
He then wrote the whole thing
. in onc-colored ink, and the sig
nature. which was genuine, he
left, and that was in another ink.
How He Got the Cash.
Perfectly easy! But how did
this man get the money out of
the bank? Dead easy, too. He
goes into a furniture store in Buff
falo and buys furniture to the
extent of one hundred dollars, and
says, Il am from Spodunk," and
he presents a business card. John
D. Burt, dealer in furniture"
Then he presents a check for
$3.50, signed by J. F. Hubbard. He
says, you had better telephone
up to the bank and find out
whether this check is all right or
not"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01

acknowledging it. The letter from
the bank comes back directed to
J. +. Hubbard, East Aurora"
The girl who handles the mail
thinks J. f. Hubbard is a WISH
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01

u AME along a book-Ioving
guest lie was an intel
lcctual looking little man,
a sure enough highbrow
lie had gingcr-colored whis-
kcrs and a pious smile, and he
did something to me that / will
never forget.
| thought for n while ! was up
against It, lie pretty nearly got
my Angora. But do you know
when saw that fellow afterward
in the Buffalo jail l could not
positively identify him.
What a simple proposition this
was, He used my stationery,
perhaps wanting TO encourage
the institution and show his good
viii and advertise for us. He
wrote a letter to a bank in Buff
falo, and a Burns detective
brought that letter to me. The
letter Is written in a trembling
hand, the hand Of an old man.
lie writes uphill, and he says.
Gentlemen, | have sold my
farm. | got nine thousand
dollars for my farm My son.
you know. has an account
with YOU, and he said had
better send you the money
because You pay the legal
rate Of interest. | hand you
the draft Place it to my
credit. and I will be In and
talk to You personally about
the interest in day or two.
Yours, J, Z. HUBBARD.
Time for the Swindle.
The bank folks said. "Oh.
Hubbard, he is all right, and his
father ought to be all right with
lalapaloosa son like that"
And so they gleefulIy placed
the money TO tho old gentle
mans credit, and wrote back
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01

tor, TO be along in a day or SO.
and she lays the letter aside
awaiting his coming.
My fathers name. by the way
is Sllas Hubbard, and being
country doctor, he never saw
nine thousand dollars or nine
hundred--at one time his life
\ week passes and another girl
saws: Perhaps that letter Is for
us; the initials may be wrong. It
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-01
Stars and Stripes

The cheerful liar seldom at
tracts as much attention as the
vicious scandal mOnger.
Talking about impeaching the
Sulzer court crier for high crimes
against the law of grammar.
This has been a poor hunting
season. Only seven farmers shot
to date.
In way it's hard to break a
buckIng auto.