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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
EDUCATIONAL TYRANNY.

The candidates are practically un- animous in stating that the tests in mathematics, particularly arithmetic, were very rigfd-News from Annapo- Ifs.
 This is very wrong. The whole ed- lucationaI tendency of the age is to- ward greater dexibility. If Greek is too hard, make reading novels 8 sub stitute. If history is too dull, try mo ton pictures. If geometry conpels too much hard thinking, simplify it. If any subject is unpopular eliminate It. If schooIboys fail to pass their exam forrn-the examinations. If inte11ec- tuaI currency is too scarce, put out rnore5 let there be plenty for every body, even if worth but 30 cents on the dollar Try to find out what the children want and let them have it. Shall the people rule?
 To this liberal and progressive pol icy there are painful exceptions. The treatment of candidates at West Point and Annapolis is as brutal as forcible feeding and ought to be investigated by Congress. Out of 570 candidates who have just taken the examination for admission to the naval academy, only 26O, or A per cent, passed, which shows concIusively that some thing is wrong. Decidedly suspicious is the statement that Officers will not disclose the cause of resulting conditions" Why this reticenee if there is not something to conceal? But the facts speak for themselves. These results we are told, are probably the most disappointing in the history of the mental entrance examina tfons' p What can this mean if not that the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
BRIDGEPORT DOCTORS
 IGNORED WITH OFFICE
 BY STATE INCORPORATES

The 63rd annual meeting of the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical So- cfety was held in New Haven, yester- day. At the business session Dr. Royal F. $. Hayes Of Waterbury was elected president and Dir. Frederick D. Wilcox of Willfmantic was elected vice president The following off eerS were reelected: pr. Henry F. ASage of New Eaven, treasurer: Dr. Samuel Worcester of South NorwalA reelected to the board Of censors his term having expired in May, this year It was voted to hold the next semi annual meeting in MeTiden, and the next annual meeting in Hartford.
 The members of the State examining board are: Drs. H. A. Roberts, Der by; D. c. M Hall, New Haven; D. H LinneIl, Norwich: William Pitt Baldwin, New Haven; Frederick E. Wilcox, Wi1Iimantdc.
 The following are on the board of cenosrs: Drs. Royal B. S. Hayes Waterbury; B. S. Adams, New Haven; Carl J. Hart, New Britain; Charles H. CoIgrove.s Willimaa1tic; c. N. Payne, Bridgeport
 On the legislative com1nittee: Drs. E. B. Hooker, Hartford; c. F. San ford, Bridgeport; B. H. Cheney, Flew Haven; c. B. Stark, Norwich; A. J. G1vens, Stamford; A. w Phillips. Derby; M. J. Adams. New Haven, and
 Dr. A. W. Phillips of Derby Is the member of the State Board of Health. Dr. Edward B. Hooker of Hartford and Dr. Clarence N. Payne of Bridge port are mem bers of the Interstate Of Homeopathy, and they will attend the international meeting, to be held in San Francisco in July.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21

authorities are dogmatic aristocrats increasingly out of touch with modern
 progress? Is it not an axiom that if
 an examination does not fit the aver age candidate something is wrong with the examination?
 Specially significant is the fact that the candidates are practically unan- imous" as to the rtgidity of the tests in arithmetic. There is hardly any subject in which pedantic and narrow
 minded examiners can work more mfs- chief They have been known to be fussy about small points like punctua- tion, such as giving the answer as 432-7 miles instead of 43.27. In res pect to the multiplication table they are strict constructionists and allow nothing for temperament as to the product of seven and nine. In prob lems in percentage they give no Iatf- tude to taste or individuality as to which number shall be divided by what All this is wrong. Tine navy has thrown port and <sstarboard'' overheard to left and right respective ly; is it not time to chuck the old stand-pat multiplication table after them? A system which Hunks 56 per cent of young Americans from the public schools, academies, and col leges is manifest1y out-dated and in need of a sweeping reform. Shall a naval career be b1ighted by mere technicalities like the position of a decimal point nt?-Springf1eld RepubIi- can.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
FinIay Gray The
 Hoosier Statesman
Striking Character Whose Con- greSSiOnaI Career is NOte-
 worthy
CBy Our Staff Corres.l

Washington, May 20-Everybody who knows Washington knows FinIay Gray, of Indiana. His tall, gaunt figure, loosely knit, clad with a rough ascetic face, his shock of untamed hair, and his deep-set eyes burning with zeal for the pueopHaII combine to make his figure one of the most familiar on the floor of the House of Representatives.
 FinIay Gray is a friend of the peo- pie. He is progressive, not because progressivism Is good politics, nova days, but because he cannot help 1t. He has always been 9 progressive, and was born one.
 In his Congressional service he has never been wrong on any matter of legislation. That is because he has right and wrong of proposition. He works and votes as he feels. The wrongs which have been put upon the people, the blind struggle of the masses for easier conditions of life these are in Finlay Gray's heart. He knows.
 And because he is such a man justi- f1es me in setting down here portions of the speech Mr. Gray made in the tariff debate. The words came straight from his heart. The climax of his speech was reached when he exclatna- ed:
 ''I deny the principle of high protec- ton as it affects the vital nece9asrdes of life. I deny the right to increase the cost of necessities for private ben efits and render them more difficult to obtain. I deny the right to main tain system Of tariff taxation under which the cost of the vital necessaries of life have been raised too high to the Ia1oor1ng man that he can no longer with his own hands and his labor sup port a family, but must drive his chill dren out of the cradle into the fac tories and into the sweatshops to earn their own living and burden society with the curse of child labor
 Mir. Gray commented sarcastica1ly upon the fact that no man had ap- peared to speak for the woo1en trust in the debate, but all the argument was in the guise of defending the worfdngman.
 kThfs plea of defending others is a subterfuge as old as history. used to divert attention from that which can not be openly defended he declared Every man who has enslaved another man has enslaved him under the claim that it was for the benefit of the en- slaved. Every nation that has con- quered and subjugated g. defenseless people has done so under the claim that 1t was to better the condition or the subJugated. Every burden that has been heaped upon the masses o1 the people for the benefit of the few has been heaped upon them under the claim that it was for the benefit Of the many.
 'irhis plea Of defending 1aboW is only a repetition in histor-the defense of monopoly, e0tortion, and the invasion of human rights
 . @There is and can be no justification for taxing the vital necessaries of life to make a so-called reasonable profit, ar +o make any profit other than the fair and reasonable cost of their pro- duction, because necessarles are part of the earth which man takes along with the right of habitation. You have no more right to restrict t1Fefr use to the people than you have to set a linn it upon the right of man to Ilve-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

wardbaErg. Norway, has the longest day of anS civilized community, Tor, beginning today, that little city Tn the Land of the Midnight Sun will have continuous daylight for sixty-tWo days Wapdburg's famous Hong day begins on the tWenty-frst of May and continues to the twenty-second of July, on which latter date the sun dips out of sight for g few minutes. With the development of Spitzbergens long a no mans land, the North Cape of Norway is likely to lose its prestige for length of continuous sunlight, for the Spitzbergen group of islands in the Arctic Ocean, 400 miles north of Norway and about midway between Greenland and Nova Zemblas have day three and a, half months in length. Alaska, northern Canada and Green land can boast of lengthy days, but they cannot compete with the Spitz- bergen archipelago.
 Spttzbergen has lately been deveI- oped to a considerable extent, largely by American capital. and it's title of mo mans land'' will soon be a thing of the past. Several nations. incIud- ing Russia, Norway. Sweden. England and Ehe United States, will be repre- sented in a conference to be held within a few months at Chrisdana, having for it's purpose the final settle rnent of the status of the archipelago.
 
 land by right of discovery, since 1t was an English exposition headed by Sir Hugh WilIoughby that first set foot on it's barren shores Sir Hugh supposed it to be a part of Greenland. Later in the same century it was vis- ited by Barentz and Cornelius, who claimed to be its discoverers, took pos session in the name of Holland, and christened the island Spitzbergen-a name meaning sharp mountain, from the many disappointed mountains with which it abounds. In the seven teenth century Spitzbergen was 8 re- sort of whaIers, and large settlements for the trying out of blubber were es- tablished on it's shores. For over a century whales have been so few in the vicinity of Spitzbergen that tho industry has 1anguished- The hunting and fishery industries have long been carried on by Norwegians. Norway, Sweden, and Russia lay claim to the islands on account of their geographi- cal location. The United States is to be represented in the coming confer ence because it has been due almost wholly to American capital and energy that the vast natural resources of the archipelago are now being developed. Spitzbergen is rich in mineral wealth. and gold has been found in consider able quantities.
 A year ago this month Russia, Nor way and Sweden entered into a con vention for the administration of Spitzbergen. It is probable that this convention will be adopted by the powers, in which case the archipelago will be neutral territory, open to all tee of three, representing Russia, Norway and Sweden. Both Germany and the United States opposed the ,clainn- of any single power to zzaA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
1antity the price could

ed that if it purchased in quantity the price could be materially improved.
 It appears however, that the Board of Education it's coal for six cents LESS ton than the Board Contract and Supply paid.
 Now if mistake not coal is of the items upon which the Board of Contract and Supply claims saving It is plain, however that the Contract Board would be able to show greater saving if it had permitted Board of Education to buy all the coal instead part of it.
 But suppose the position reversed? It costs 5OOO extra to the Contract Board takes good many savings of six cents to equal $5OOO.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
Spitzbergen.

Spttzbergen.
 St. Petersburg has the longest day ito return to that subject-of any great city. nineteen hours, while it's shortest day is five hours. Stock hoIm's longest day is eighteen and a half hours, and it's shortest five and q half hours. Hamburg's longest day is seventeen hours, and London's longest is sixteen and a. half hours. Tornea, Finland, will have a twenty-two hour day next month, and the same city enjoys less than three hours of sun light on Christmas day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21

and twenty-three section forennen and Iaborers who get $4s1.z4.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
SAVING THE TAXPAYERS MONEY.

With financial abandon the Board of Contract and Supply prints two columns of figures in parallel and claims to have shown thereby saving of thous- ands of dollars over former methods of purchasing
 The figures absolutely meaningless They do not show quantities. qualities comparative quotations with respect to any other purchases whatever.
 Some figures have appeared which do have mean ing The Board of Education has purchased coal The Board of Contract and Supply also purchased coal
 Goal is commodity of which the lattGr boafd claim
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21

Farmer Want Ads One Cent -a@Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
Children's White Serge Coats

A, second lot that were $2.5o,
 Infants Wear Sec
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
Cotton Ratines for Suits
Est06lzsAed 1857.

All fashionable colors, blue, gray, rose pink tan leather brown and others that the summer girl ap- 50, 75, 7o, so and $I.25 yard.
 Cotton Dress Goods main floor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-21
D M. Read Company.

Here is a chance to renew the Stamp Pad. Many kinds of Rubber Type and Print. ing Sets, SC, Sc, 25c, soc, 98c,
 Lot of regular Printing Presses with Metal or Rub Der Type, were 98c, $1.25i $1.95, etc. Choice of lot al 5Oc each.
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The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
Ugly Sores
| Quickly Banisked Ban j
You Marvel How Worst Skin Erup-
tions Disappear a. Result of
Famous Remedy.

II You have been fighting some blood
.roubie. some eruptive skin disease. call
IL eczema, lupus, psoriasis malaria,
scroflila or what you will, there is but
one sure, safe way to cure it. Ask at
any drug store for a sl.Q0 bottle OF
s. S. S. and you are then on the road to
health. The action of this remarkable
remedy is just as direct, just as positive.
Just as certain l. its influence as that
the sun rises in the east. 1t is one OF
those rare medical forces which act In
the blood with the same degree of GER
tainty that is found in all natural ten
denotes The manner in which II dom
mates and controls the mysterious trans
ference of rich, red. pure arterial blood
for the diseased venous blood is mar
yelous. -
out through every skin pore acids,
germs and other blood impurities are
forced in the form of invisible vapor.
The lungs breathe It out, the liver Is
stimulated to consirc a great proper
tion OF impurities he stomach and in.
testines cease to convey into the blood
stream the catarrhal, malarial germs;
the bowels kidneys, bladder and all
emunctories of the body are marshalled
into a fighting force to expel every yes.
tige of eruptive disease.
There is scarcely q community any.
where but what has its living example
of the wonderful curative effects Of
s. s. s. Get bottle Of this famous
remedy to-day and If your case is stub.
born or peculiar write to The Swift Spe-
cifc Co., I27 Swift Bldg Atlanta, Ga.
Their medical laboratory Is famous and
is conducted by renowned experts In
blood ana skin diseases,
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
GRAND CHAIN


7. J. Litherland and w. A. Me
lntire had business in Harrisburg
Monday.
Mrs. Gus Cain has returned from
a visit to Harrisburg.
Guy Bartleson went to Mounds on
business Tuesday.
Mrs. Voorhees, Coombs and Miss
LYDIA Barringer, of Cairo, visited
Mrs. Newton here Tuesday after
noon 1l
The Kit Kat Klub will give their
play in the l. o. 0. r. hall here oh
March 9Th. Everybody come and
have good time.
Mrs. Geo. Childers and Mrs.
Whalen went to Mound City shop
ping Tuesday.
Mrs. Dollie Weaver went to Cairo
Wednesday shopping.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Denver in the "Elocu-
tion Bug" described as the c-aziest
act on earth.
The Denyers do not offer this as a
dramatic playlet, but roaring
cyclone OF eccentric comedy that
will please the patrons of vaudeville.
Their stun Is said to be clean,
bright, original and up-to-date.
They carry stage full of trick fur
niture and mechanical props.
AS usual. the best part OF the Of
fering will be. in the opinion of
many of the patrons OF The Kimmel,
the excellent musical program, the
harmonious blending of the great
pipe organ and the grand piano,
presided over by owen Tul ey and
Mrs. p. Lind, pleasing everybody. A
new program of music has been se-
lected. which Will be rendered at
every performance.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
IA CENTER, Ky.

Mrs. Quinilan and Miss Burnley,
of Paducah, were the guests of Mrs.
Percy Jones Sunday.
Mrs. Quinilan and Mrs. Jones
spent Monday with Mrs. Burnley at
lngleside, Ky.
Prof. Via and Miss Jennie Camp
bell opened ithe spring school Nom
day.
s. T. Payne, of Maxon KY, is in
town this week.
j. r. Baker and B. C. Merri-
weather purchased plantation each
in Louisiana while there.
Miss Lillian Hally has returned
home after a few weeks visit to her
sister, Mrs. A. F. Whitnel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitnel leave here
in very few days, as Mr.. Whitners
business calls him elsewhere.
Brother Harlan will hold his regu-
lar appointment Sunday at tho Rap.
|tist church.
Jim Dick Gholson's home at Bar
low came very near burning Monda
afternoon. The fire was extinguished
by the fire department.
The Evans Drug Co. expects to
snon be in their new store.
MI Jackson is at home for a few
days. ~,
The Masons had jolly time TIES
day night.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
MYSTERIOUS BURGLAR"
SHEARS GIRLS HAIR

Baltimore. Feb. 26.--The family
of w d. Young of Roland Park is at
loss to account for mysterious
stranger, who gained entrance to
the Young home on two different oc-
casions. Both times he cut tse rair
from the head of Elsie Louise Young,
thirteen years old. after chloroform-
ing her. A feature that appears
strange to the police is that upon
the second raid two sisters of the
girl were sleeping in the same room.
but heard nothing.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
AGE NO BAR.

Everybody IN Cairo is Eligible.
Old people stopped with suffering,
Middle age, courageously fighting.
Youth protesting impatiently;
Children, unable to explain;
All In misery from their kidneys.
Perhaps little backache first.
Urinary disorders, dropsy may
quickly follow.
Doats Kidney Pills are for sick
kidneys
Are endorsed BY thousands.
Mrs. Ida Aliff. Main St., Mound
City, H., says: Three years ago
gave public statement in favor of
Doan's Kidney Pills and am
pleased to confirm it now as the re-
lief | received has beon permanent.
{ consider Doan's Kidney Pills the
best kidney medicine that can be
procured. One of our children was
afflicted with kidney trouble from
childhood and continued to suffer in
spite of all the medicines that were
used. Tie ehild's back panied him
and he had hut little control over
the kidney seeretions. Doan's Kid.
Hey pills soon affected cure in this
case. know that this remedy can
be depended upon to give relief in
cases of this kind. .
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
Doap's and take no other.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
.AMUSEMENT IS

Margaret Mayo's hilarously funny
comedy. Baby Nine comes to the
Cairo Opera House for the first time
under the direction OF William A..
Brady Ltd 1t has record OF eight
weeks at the Majestic theater, Bos-
ton; one solid year at Daly's theater,
New York; 1t is now in its second
year in London, at the Criterion
theater. and arrangements are being
made for early production in Paris,
Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, Aus
tralia, South America and Japan
From the very first rise OF the cur
tain the fun is said to begin, and its
two hours or more IL does some won
derful things with plots and situa-
tions, and fairly twink es like the
miniature ornament. II you have
a sweetheart, take her to see Baby
Mine" she will, like you much bet
ter after she has laughed for an en-
tire evening. She will say to her.
self THAT young man has the sense
to appreciate good play, and real
ICES that it is good to laugh. ! think
he. is the right kind of a man to
make me happy"
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
WILLIAM BARNES. JR.,
BUYS FARM FOR SON,

Albany, Feb. 26--Republican
State Chairman William Barnes, Jr.,
unlike Governor Suizer. is not going
to retire to a little farm by the
side of the road and become the
friend of man. even though he has
purchased an estate of 175 acres in
Valatie, Columbia county 1t was
explained that Mr.. Barnes had ac-
quired the farm as present to his
sea, Thurlow Weed Barnes, Har-
ward graduate, who will complete .
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
Change of Bill at The Kimmel

Tie bIlI Tor the last half OF thr
week at The Kimmel will begin al
matinee today with an entire chang
in acts, these as usual being booked
by the Interstate Vaudeville Agency
Opening the bill is Bessie Leon
ard, a "Klassy Kid in Komedy' and
of course very pretty and clever.
Cannon and Tracy are two girls
in comedy singing and dancing aet
second on the bill.
The feature on the bill will b.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
Black Patti.

The famous Black Patti Musical
Comedy Company will make its an
nual visit to the Cairo opera house
for one night, Thursday, March 9Th,
in the big new musical comedy
Captain Jasper which is the best
vehicle that this company has had in
years. Everything is new, and the
Black Patti (Madame Sissieretta
jones' will have ample opportunity
to display her art and talent. Some
very pretty costumes will be worn by
the company this season.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
course in agriculture at Cornell, Uni
yersity and marry in June.
BROKEN GLASS BETRAyS
AUTOMOBILE SLAYER

Louisville. Ky, Feb, ga trail
of glass from broken wind shield
led the police last night to William
A. Schumann, chauffeur. who ran
down and killed Mrs. Mildred
Stephenson on the Bsrdtown road.
Schumann fed after the tragedy, but
admitted responsibility when arr
rested.
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27

I'D rather steal that to Gus for
hese reasons: The same God who
ays Thou shalt not steal also says
Thou shalt not take the name of thu
lord, thy God, in vain. Cussing is
neaner than shooting craps and
there's lots more sense in it. Listen
Jou cuss for nothing, board oursel'
md go to the devil Now II you
steal you go to the devil sure, but
lou get paid for it. Why should a
person cuss? It's the most useless.
unprofitable and sense ess thing in
he world. If parents cut out cus5
ng, 'twould soon be lost art"
There's not enough value placed
upon our children. III we put more
value upon them. we'd be more care
ul of them"
believe preacher should be
paid for what he does and he should
nay for what he gets. l could get
one half rates at the hotels at which
{ stop by registering as Rev. but !!
want to say that have my first time
yet to do it. want to say that
ihe ministry of Jesus Christ should
et on an independent basis.
I One can never hope to reach the
highest point of moral deve opment
and apart from Jesus
ChrtHtibs
Man, with all his manifold pow.
ers has never yet evolved a plan of
salvation apart from the blood OF
Jesus Christ.
"Thc great act of the life OF
1hrist was not his death upon the
cross. No indeed But it was his
triumph over death, hell and the
grave and his ascension to the right
hand of God the Father. dc moi
hink of Him as dead Jew, bless
God, but as triumphant Christ"
The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-27
Ex-ALDERMAN FOUND SLAIN.

Dixon. Ill, Feb. 26.-J. A. Mimert,
a former alderman of Oregon, was
found dead in his home with a bull
let wound through the head. 1t is
believed a robber shot him.