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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08
Lot Number 8

Union suits in high neck, Ios
sleeves and ankle length that were
made to sell at $1.95, slightly sOilsd
marked down to CSC.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08
Lot Number g

Ladies silk and wool Union suits.
in high neck and long nIeevess ank Re-
length, the very best quality OF q.
hand finished garment, regular s2.98.
now $2.49.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08

Riverhead. N. Y-Miss Esther Har-
ris. who walked out of the jail with
the jai1ers keys. is barred from re-
&-,rniug Warden ConkIfn changed
- &=17 locks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08
Lot Number 10

Ladies' 39c fleeced lined avests fi
high neck, long sleeves. at 25 cents
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08

WANT Ans GENT A WORD.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08

1000, were $500 to $1,000.
Marabout Muns $4.4s to $1,000, were
$3.50 to $500
shirt Waists at cost prices.
Raincoats at cost prices
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08
Lot Number 10
lot Number Ill
Lot Number 70

An assortment of silk fringes sold
originally at SO and 4 9 cents per yard
sale price 39c per yard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08
Lot Number 1

An assortment of odds and ends in
all over laces, tucked and dotted, also
embroidered designs in co1ors white,
blue, ecru and lavender, originally
same were 49c and 39c, sale price 19c
per yard.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08
Lot Number 1

Lot Number 1
Ladies' medium weight corset COW
ers, high neck, short sleeves that were
originally made to sell at acc, now
sec.
Lot Number 2
Ladies' vests in medium weight iu
high neck, short sleeves or high neck
and long sleeves made to sell at -
cents, now reduced to S9c.
Lot Number 3
Ladies' medium weight pants. were
SEC, now reduced to S9c, (knee or
ankIe.)
Lot Number 4
Ladies' part wool corset covers with
silk facing that were 75c, now re-
duced to sec.
Lot Number 5
Ladies Vests in part wool high neck
long sleeves or high neck and short
sleeves finished with pearl buttons
and hand crochet bands, were 75c,
now sec.
Lot Number 8
Union suits in high neck, Ions
sleeves ana ankle 1GnBLns were 2 A-.'Ir
now 69c.
Lot Number z
Hand finished extra size Union suits
in high neck, long sleeves. ankle
length, regular SIPS, now soc.
Lot Number 8
Union suits in high neck, Io1-
sleeves and ankle length that were
made to sell at $1.95, slightly s0iIsd.
marked down to CSC.
Lot Number 9
Ladies silk and wool Union suits.
in high neck and long nIeeves, ankle
length, the very best quality or e.
hand finished garment, regular S2.98.
now $2.49.
Lot Number 10
Ladies' 39c fIeeced lined .vests in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-01-08
Lot Number 2

Odds and ends in all over nettings.
tucked and dotted designs, originally
were 49c per yard, sale price 24c per
yard.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
WEARS WIFE's BODY IN RING

An ingenious method of disposing of
the ashes Of cremated body was re-
corded in London. After woman
had been cremated the husband took
the ashes to a chemist for the pur-
pose of extracting the iron, which he
is now wearing set In his ring as one
would wear diamond.
The amount of iron in a human
body, according to the statement of a
well-known analytical chemist, is at
best very small-a matter of grains :
and 1t varies very much according to
the state of health. Anemic people
have very slight traces of iron in
their bodies, but in normal persons
there is enough to use. as 1t has been
used, in place of stone in ring.
The London Cremation company
has knowledge Of the case of we'll
known woman who always carried the;
ashes of her late husband about with
her. and gave instructts.Is that, when
her end came, her body was to be Gre
mated and the ashes mixed with those
OF her husband. With the growth in
the number OF cremation cases 1t Is
becoming quite usual practice to
have the ashes compressed into a
small tablet. with short inscription
stamped upon It.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE
Proof That Savage Tribes Are Pos
sessed of More Than Rudlmentary
Ideas About Known Facts.

While, lecturing on atoms at the
Royal institution Sir Joseph Thomson
alluded to an extraordinary method for
obtaining fire that was practiced by at
least two savage tribes-a method in
which compressed air was used, says
the London Standard.
Sir Joseph had just been explaining
how intense cold could be produced by
suddenly expanding air and how equal
COMPRISING 1t. 1T is one Of the most
extraordinary things in connection
with the habits of savage races" he
continued, that at least two tribes
use this method to get fire. 1t 10 an
extremely difficult problem to know
how ever they got hold Of the idea.
/ am quite sure they did not obtain it
from lectures on physics, SO it must
have come from some kind of practi-
cal experience"
Even with special apparatus 1t was
not easy to accomplish this feat In a
laboratory. One could easily under
stand how men had discovered that
branches rubbing together sometimes
caught fire. This would give the idea
of rubbing sticks together, but so
highly complex an operation as max
ing fire by COMPRISING air could hard
ly have been copied from any natural
phenomenon.
that these tribes must have been ac-
customed to shoot their flrrows from
blowpipes. If one of these wooden
tubes got INSTRUCTED it was conceiv-
able that vigorous efforts to dislodge
the obstruction would cause the blow
pipe or some part OF 1t to take fire.
The larger part of the lecture was
taken up by an explanation OF the vari-
Gus ways in which atoms had been
counted and the wonderful agreement
between the results obtained by diff
ferent methods. The figures are amaz-
ing. Two grams (about thirty grains)
of hydrogen contain so many atoms
that no ordinary nomenclature can be
used in expressing the number. If put
down in ordinary numerals it would be
IS, followed by 20 ciphers, which
means that a cubic centimeter of gas
contains 275, followed by II ciphers
Even these gigantic numbers are ex-
ceeded by the number Of ultimate cor
puscles in the same volume of gas. No
perfectly reliable measurements have
yet been made. but Sir Joseph stated
his belief that molecule of mercury
contained between 400 and 600 of these
electrified corpuscles.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
TO Do AWAY WITH ALCOHOL
New Regulation In Federal Military
Expected to Bring Relief to Evils
Complained OF.

1t is notorious that drinking and
drunkenness are great evils connected
with army life. It was to protect the
soldiers from this debauchery that the
canteen was abolished. To further
stimulate them to lead temperate
lives an order has been issued by the
federal government which reads as
follows:
Provided, that no officer or en-
listed man in active service. who shall
be absent from duty on account OF dis
ease resulting from his own intern
perate use ct alcohol or drugs or other
misconduct shall receive pay for the
period Of such absence from any part
Of the appropriation"
This new regulation in our federal
military service is expected to bring
relief at least in some measure, to
the evils complained of; also it is re-
garded as another step toward abolish
ing the use of alcoholic beverages in
the army entirely.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
NOTED MEN WHO SAW GHOSTS

Goethe states that he one day saw
the exact counterpart OF himself COM
Ing towards him. Pope saw an arm
apparently come through the wall, and
made inquiries after its owner. Byron
often received visits from spectre.
but he knew It to be creation OF Inn
agination. DR.. Johnson heard his
mother call his name In clear voice.
though she was at the time In another
city.
Count Emanue! Swendenborg believ-
ed that he had the privilege of inter
viewing persons In the spirit-worid.
Loyola, lying wounded during the siege
of Pampeluna. saw the Virgin, who en-
couraged him to prosecute his mission.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, leaving his
house, thought the lamps were trees,
and the men and women bushes. agi-
tated by the breeze. Oliver Cromwell.
lying sleepless ON his couch, saw the
curtains open and gigantic woman
appear, who told him he would be-
come the greatest man in England
Ben Jonson spent the watches OF the
night an interested spectator of q
crowd Of Tartars, Turks. and Roman
Catholics. who rose up and fought
round his arm chair till sunrise.
Benvenuto Cellini. imprisoned at
Rome, resolved to free himself by self
destruction, but was deferred by the
apparition of a woman of wonderous
beauty, whose reproaches turned him
from his purpose. Napoleon once
called attention to bright star he
believed he saw shining in his room,
and said, ct has never deserted me.
see it on the occasion of every great
event, urginb meonward. 1t is my un-
failing omen of success"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
GREATEST OF H0USE-HuNTERs

Lecturing on marine biology at the
Royal Photographic society's exhibit
ton. r. Martin Duncan said recently
that the greatest house-hunter In Gre
alton was the hermit crab. 1t was
never satisfied with It's whelk-shell
and was continually abandoning 1t for
another. It was an amusing sight, on
placing couple of these crabs in an
aquarium. in which they had selec-
ton OF whelk-shells. to watch the man
ner in which they changed their quar-
tiers. tenanting each of the shells In
turn. If only two whelk-shelIs were
available, the two crabs engaged in a
fight. and the victor entered the van
pushed ones shell, while the evicted
tenant had to be content with the dis
carded shell of the victor. But within
q quarter Of an hour the victor would
grow dissatisfied with his new she'll.
and would renew hostilities for the
possession OF his old quarters.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

the women are entirely too ready to
work Independently. They have not
the moral courage to stand back Of
their husbands and spur them on to
do anything that comes to hand.
THE majority of men have some
special trade or profession and think
If they cannot get work of that par
ticular nature they cannot and will
not work at anything else
Their wives will go out to work
and take anything they can get
I'VE must remove all distinctions of
sex. Remove woman's political disa-
bility and you take from her the fun
damental stigma of inferiority. Equal
pay for equal work will drive out the
children now doing the work which
men and women can do and will send
them to school When the children are
gone and equal pay is assured, then
intelligent grown people will be en-
ployed in the places of the children;
and when there is better pay for men,
more married women will be enabled
to stay at home"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
INTERESTING TO A FARMER
Closing Of DIstiIIery and Brewery
Would Set at Liberty Large Amount
Of Capital and Labor.
By PROF. JOHN A. NIcHoLs.)

tBy PROF. JOHN A. NICHOLg.)
They cry out that If the liquor traf-
dc is abolished one Of the markets for
grain win be destroyed and a terrible
calamity viii fall upon the farmers.
But the closing Of the distillery and
brewery would set at liberty a large
amount of capital and labor which
would be diverted to other channels
of business, including among other
things the development of produce and
its adaptation to the wants Of the
people. Many millions of dollars now
expended in liquor would be expended
In farm produce Of various kinds.
There Is a large proportion of our
people who do not consume as much
OF our farm produce as they need and
desire, because of the waste of wealth
in the consumption of intoxicants, and
II this waste ceased the demand for
farm produce would at once increase.
Experience has shown that the closing
up Of the saloons and the outlawing
of the liquor traffic has always proved
great benefit to every legitimate In
dustry. A chapter In the history Of
Ireland furnishes graphic illustra-
ton. During the years 1800-10 and
1894 the distilleries of Ireland were
stopped on account OF the famine, on
the ground that these distilleries
wasted the grain that might other
wise be used by the people as food.
The results were surprising. The con-
sumption OF spirits fell off nearly one
half. On the other hand there was a
tremendous increase In the demand
for dry goods, blankets, cotton goods,
sugar hardware, crockery, groceries
and other necessities, thus showing
that a. year of scarcity with prohibition
is better than year of plenty with
out It,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
CURIOUS TOWERS OF CHINA

The Chinese for ages back have
been great road builders in stone. The
wall surrounding China is not only
one of the wonders of the world from
a scenic standpoint, but it is likewise
huge engineering undertaking.
China has many curious stone towers
scattered throughout the country. In
some of these structures, built pre-
sumably for defensive purposes and
idol-worship centuries ago, the archi-
tectural features are attractive, and
the masonry is marvelously carried
out. The floor and foundations, as In
the case of the towers themselves. are
of solid stone, and the winds and
storms of hundreds of years have not
swayed the high mass of material out
of plumb, so there are, SO far as re-
corded, no leaning towers in China
Somehow on many of these old struc-
lures vegetation finds soil enough to
sprout in, regardless of the fact that
the eyesight reveals nothing but
crumbling stone and mortar.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
BLOW TO PERSONAL LIBERTY
No Person Has Inherent Right to Sell
Liquor or Buy II In Saloon,
Says Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court of the United
States says that no person has an in
herent right to sell liquor, and now
the supreme court of the state of
Washington declares that no person
has an inherent right to buy liquor
In saloon. In its decision the court
said:
Just as the right to engage in the
liquor traffic Is not an inherent right
In any citizen. neither is it an inner
ent right in any citizen to treat an
other In licensed saloon which is
under the control of the police power
being exercised by municipality.
Whatever the right of the citizen may
be elsewhere, he has no inherent
right even to buy liquor at such
place"
Another blow to personal liberty"
as interpreted by the liquor trade and
It's friends!
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
new YORK men
SUPPORTED BY
THEIR WIVES

New York-Fifty thousand women
In Greater New York are today sup
porting husbands or other male rela-
tives, says Mrs. Alma Webster Powell,
b. A., NJ. A., Ii. d.
Rev. Howard Melish declares that
unless economic conditions are chang
ed the number will be doubled within
the next five years.
More than onehalf will be of indie
pendent means wko have married men
with the expectation of supporting
them, as is the assertion made by the
New York Sunday World.
Such is Mrs. Powell's statement,
based upon her own personal knewl-
eGge and observations of the present
trend of the times.
1t is an acknowledged fact among
an statisticians that one-fifth of the
population of the city consists of
women wage earners.
From the Women's Trades Union
comes the statement that of the 5,000,-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
Scarlet Fever Superstition.

There are measles at Osborne. but
they do not know the simple proven
tive which Essex puts up against its
epidemic Of scarlet fever. The chill
dren are walking about with cropped
heads, and In answer to puzzled in
quirer native cook replied that
Those are the ones that have not had
it. and won't have 1t" And she fur
Their explained that If you cut a
child's hair It viii never catch scarlet
fever. sure as anything. This is a
belief still prevalent within forty
miles Of the London hospital Lon
don Chronicle.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

citizens whose official capacity and
experience have been OF character to
justify such conclusions.
For an Object Lesson.
II the $4,000 women wage earners
who support husbands or other male
relatives should join forces with the
other estimated $4,000 women whose
finances permit the luxury of hus-
band, and the full complement Of
100000 paraded down Fifth avenue,
double file. it would require ten
hours for them to pass the reviewing
stand.
simultaneously there would appear
the thrilling spectacle of 100000 men
ranged along the sidewalks to cheer
the progress of those who supply their
daily bread.
More than that.
1t would require 1,10S subway cars,
extending for a distance of eight
miles, to enable those 100000 women
to get their male dependents safely
home again, each car filled to its seat
ing and standing capacity of $50 per-
sons.
One hundred thousand women sup
porting 100000 men in city the size
and prominence of New York and
Boosting a population of 100000 peo-
pie justifies question.
Why?
The 100000 men are not all invalids
OF given number of cases recently
investigated, rs per cent we're those
where the destitute condition of the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

William G. McAdoo of New JERSEY
tunnel fame was leaning hack in his
chair at his desk the other day, when
g woman was ushered in by the office
boy. This 10 pleasure" she said.
sitting down in the chair near him,
"a pleasure thai have often looked
forward to. Words cannot express
the impression that men like You make
on me. Why" she went on. the Nc
Adoo tunnels will be your monument. :
At this point Mr. McAdoo broke IN:
Pardon me miss" he said. but
don't care to have such large monu
ment.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

900 self-supporting women In the en-
tire country New York city furnishes
500, 000-an increase of nearly 100000
since the publication of the 1900 CEN
sus
More than 100000 of these self-sup-
porting women are married
By eliminating the number OF those
who are widowed and divorced, in
both of which cases the percentage
of increase has not been proportion
ately large, there still remains the
very conservative total of $4,000 Wom-
en- in the fields of labor and business
whose hard earnings are expended
upon $4,000 men.
Statistics Not Available.
Of the estimated other $4,000 WON
en- of independent means who success
fully maintain husbands in a manner
suited to their station In life, detailed
statistics cannot be secured
Rev. DR.. Anna Shaw cites as the
principal reason for the lack of such
statistics governmental discrimination
in favor of the men at the time the
recent census was taken.
So far as is known. the subject Of
usband-supporting wives has never
before been brought fully to the at
tention Of the public.
The men will not admit it. The
women do not want to admit it.
Both have pronounced and separate
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

Insurance companies in Great Brit
ala. America. Sweden, Norway and
Germany are discriminating against
those who drink. even In moderation.
The insurance companies In Germany
have issued leaflets and posters show
ing the detrimental effects of alcohol
on the human body. Many insurance
companies place total abstainers in q
separate division. insuring their lives
on cheaper rates. It is manifestly UNI
Just to require that total abstainers
shall pay higher insurance rates on ac-
count OF the losses caused by the
drinkers insured by the same com
pany
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

growing thinner and paler each day
as the result of ministering to the
welfare of thirty boarders, announced
to the stout, well-dressed, well-fed and
placid gentleman whose name she
bore that he could no longer reside
at her boarding house unless he actual
" paid board. The shock was so
great that the husband fled and to
the star boarder was the lady soon
wed
Outlook Not Promising.
But the tragedy Of the whole stu
alton Is not Hghtened by much hui
NOR.
If In FIVE years the economic condi-
tions are not changed. as DR.. Howard
Melish suggests, the second largest
city in the world will be a spectacle
for the nations.
According to the statistics quoted
and assuming that economic condi-
lions remain unchanged, 100000 New
York women will be firmly establish
ed in the fields OF labor and industry
in the year 1898 and 100000 husbands
and fathers Of families will have
joined the various classes In chronic
idleness. shiftlessness and dissipation,
illness and disability and inability to-
procure work!
The whole situation leads us to
consider that the old young man is
fhx real problem OF the day. ex-
S - II II XX<<1f -
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

family and the necessity OF the wom-
an becoming the breadwinner was be-
cause of the dissipation and shiftless-
ness of the father. The class In
chronic idleness brought very low
markedly per cent-attributable
according to the head of an employ
ment agency, to the fact that the orna-
mental gentlemen to be found In two
thirds Of the boarding houses and
dressmaking establishments prefer to
be classified under the heads of dis
ability or inability to procure work,
thereby raising the standard of the
former to 20 per cent and of the lst-
ter to so per cent.
In the Day Nurseries.
Delving into these great and mystic
fious secrets of modern civilization
has brought to light much surprising
and interesting data
There is the Day Nursery on
Broome street, where 1t has been
necessary, in order to discourage idle
ness, to refuse to accept any children
whose father is reported not working.
Seventy-two Is the average number OF
cases refused annually at this nursery.
There is the uptown employment
agency, conducted by a married wom-
an, who refuses to find employment
for woman II she Is the aole support
of an able-bodied man, and thereby
loses, according to her own reckoning.
approximately 100 fees annually
A slight variation of the general
theme is occasioned by the resource
full boarding house landlady who,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

throws men out OF work and the WON
en- and children ara compelled to sup
port the family.
IF the women are to be brought
back to their rightful place in the
home our entire economic and indus
trial situation must be reorganized-"
Says Women Are to Blame.
1T fs the woman's fault" asserts
Rev DR.. Anna Shaw. "Two-thirds OF
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
TURNED BLACK IN SLEEP

Thinking her husband was an "a
truding negro in her room, Mrs. Harry
Chadwick, of Marcus Hook, Pa.
shrieked for help. He was equally
mystified for her face was also black.
They had slept beside an oil stove,
whose dense SCOT not only choked cnd
blackened them, but woke them up.
Finally Mr. Chadwick threw the burn
ing stove out of the window.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
LIME ATE LIES SAVINGS

sobbIng az she approached the win
dow Of Stockton (Cal) bank, Mrs.
Gruesky handed the cashier q bundle
OF rolled paper dripping wet and
bleached white. which she explained
was Gil that was left OF her life saw
ings Of 81 200. The woman explained
that she had the money In bag and
that her little child dropped it into
= bucket or chloride or lime. where II
laY two days before being discovered
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

''Nows Pat" said magistrate to an
old offender, what has brought you
here again."
Two policemen. sor." wan the re.
ply.
Drunk, suppose." dueried the
magistrate sternly.
Yes. sor," said Pat, both ov
Thin"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

reasons for not wishing to appear con-
spicuous.
The figures quoted are the result OF
careful and systematic canvass OF
agencies. organizations and individ-
nails whose work would naturally
touch upon the subject. They repre-.
sent logical deductions from the com
bined statements OF prominent social,
phissnthropic. scholastic and public
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18
SPEED or CARRIER PIGEONS

The Speed of a carried pigeon for
100 miles is about 1875 feet a second
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-04-18

More than 10000 bars have been
closed n Galicia. Austria Hungnr5 IN
= year.