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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
sheridan's Double Mar~Iaae.

It was in 1857 that the Gretna Green marriages we're made illegal A glance at its registers may yet inspire the novelist of the future. One entry will be sure to puzzle. Twice within few days occurs thekrecord of the marriage of Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Miss Grant. There was only one R. B. s.. only one bride for the same gentleman. The double entries are not the result of any blunder on the part of the Rev. MT. Vulcan The parties were really twice married at Gretna Green. Arriv- ing on a Sunday they were duly we'd ded and sped away to Edinburgh. There, however, Sheridan chanced to glance at a newspaper in which ap- peared the lucubratons of a lawyer. In these plainly stated was the fact that no contract executed on a Sunday Is binding. Clearly, then, their wed ding was not legal. Back to Gretna Green they scurried, to be ren0arried on week day and leave the dual rec ord to perplex later generations.-St James Gazetta.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
Made It Good and Long.

Neither man nor boy is ever at loss for excuses for not knowing what he has no mind to know or for not doing what he has no mind to do. The wittiest that is recorded in college an nals is the reason given in the senate house for not answering the question, ''Who were the minor prophets? ?'' "I do not fill this in,'' wrote the candi- date, sfbecaVse the inquiry is so invid- ious.''
 A schoolboy has now improved upon this by handing in a written medical certificate to excuse his nonattendance- 'I certify the medical authority was made to say, ''that this boy is unfit to attend school for BOA days" The schooImaster thought it odd, the in terim being so long and at the same time so particular in it's date, and upon inquiry it turned out that the doctor had written 8 or 4 days, which the boy had altered to SO4.-Argonaut-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

forum. Three years later MT. Stuck astonished his friends by giving up his
 position at Dallas and going to Alaska. The bishop of Alaska, the Right Rev. pr. Peter T. Rowe, is one of the best known bishops in the Episcopal church, brought into prominence at first by the late J. Pferpont Morgan of New York, who financially helped
 him. Becoming his archdeacon, MT Stuck did the difficult thing of re- maining perfectly loyal to Bishop Rowe, not taking a. single laurel from him. and yet himself attaining worldwide fame as a daring mission ary. From distant Alaska, without once leaving it, but for eight years sticking to his job,. he wrote descrip- tive articles about the Episcopal church in Alaska These were pub iished in the missionary magazine of his church. The outcome is that Archdeacon Stuck is one of the best known leaders. When he comes to New York in October next, to attend the general convention, the same body he attended in San Francisco in 1901,. hardly another man will be more gDught after as a speaker. And he did it all while himself remaining in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
TIaera, Whiakara

It is a fact that lions or a tigers whiskers once taken off will never grow again. These animals shed their hair ordinarily once a year, all ex- cept the whiskers The shedding de bends entirely upon the climate, and there is a peculiar thing connected with it. Men who have taken wild animals from Asia and Africa to Eu- rope say that they never knew a lion or tiger or any animal of the cat species to go through the Red sea without changing coat. They will shed at Suakin and come out with hair fresh and glossy as silk, and yet going through the Red sea they will shed again. No one has been able to account for it, but it is a fact never theless.-London Tit-Bits.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
Ind Ruax Rea~er.


 Enos A. Mills. the author of. ssfn Beaver World" sums up the beavers character thus:
 As animal life goes, that of the beaver, stands among the best. His life 1s full of industry and is rich in repose He is home loving and avoids fighting. His lot is cast in poetic places. He is practical, peaceful and 1ndustxi- GUS. Be builds permanent house and keeps it clean asad In repair. Beside 1t he stores food for the long winter. He takes thought for the morrow These and other connnendabfe characteristics give him place of honor among the hordes of homeless, hand to mouth folk of the wild During the winter he has but little to do except bathe and eae his two or three meals a day from the food he has stored in au- tumn. Toward spring, when his wild neighbors are lean, hungry and cold, be is fat and comfortable In the spring he emerges from the house, but then his only work is occasion ally to cut a twig for food In the summer he plays tourist. He visits ofh- CT colonies and wanders up and down streams, going miles from home. In the late summer or early autumn he returns, makes repairs and harvests his food for the winter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

baby's efforts to talk, and baby talk fingers in many homes, an innocent but costly pleasure for the parents and the children alike. There are many persons of mature age at this moment who will never pronounce certain words properly since they be came accustomed to false pronuncia- ton in childhood because somebody thought it was cute. There are many persons who will never get over cer- tain false associations of ideas be- cause somebody thought it was very amusing and funny to see the child mixing up things in such a beautiful childlike way.-Dr. A. A. Berfe.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
WIL SON MESSAGE
 ON THE CURRENCY
PBSIdsni UTgsS Congress to
 Pass NBW LM.
R&S FOR ACTION AT gkGE

EhIaf Executive Appears Tn Psrpon
 Bsfors Congress to Tell che Need of
 immediate chanses In the Banking
 LS~e-fss Declares That Che Revi-
 sa.a.ssseIbe TsvfH NE5II Not Be Com
 plsks VBttgsout Further Legislation
 Vg9l1sh WlH Enable Business Men Co
 Take Advantage of the Csaassd
 csadskions.
 Address of the president of the Unit ed stnses, delivered at joint session oT the two houses of congress June g, zs1sE
 nEr. Sneaker, AIr President, Gentle men of the Congress-It is under the compulsion of what seems tO me clear and imperative duty that have a second time this session sought the privilege of addressing you in person ! know. of course, that the heated sea- son of the year is upon us, that work 1n these chambers and in the commit tee rooms is likely to become burden as the season Iengthens and that every consideration of personal convenience and personal comfort, perhaps, in the cases of some of us, considerations of personal health even, dictate an early C02EA68lOA session But there are occasions of publie duty when these things which toneh as privately seem very small, when the work to be done is so press ing and SO fraught with big conse- quence that we know that we are not at liberty to weigh aEa1nst-ft any point of personal sacrifice We are now In the presence of such an occasion It Is absoIusely-fmp that we should give the business men of this country a banking and currency system by means of which they can make use of the freedom of enterprise and of tnd1- vidnal Initiative which we are about te bestow upon them
 HwSt Leave Tools of Action.
 We are about to set them free We must not IeaEe them without the tools o4 aer1on when they are free. We are
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

New York, June 23.-''Leadfng an expedition to the top Of Mount Mo KfnIey. the highest mountain in North America, is not the first unusual thing the Rev. Hudson Stuck, archdeacon of Alaska. has done,' said Eugene M. Camp of New York, a personal friend of the missionary of some years standing. s.He has the fighting spirit, and believe pure grit enabled him to win. MT. Stuck, an Englishnan by birth, came to America as a young fellow and went to the University of the South. He became an Episcopal clergyman in 1892, serving under Bishop Johnston in western Texas. Two years were enough for him to be discovered in that distant field, and in 1894 he became dean of St. Matthew's cathedral at Dallas under Bishop Gar rett. After a service there of ten years he went in 1904 to iAlaska,whe he has been since. Dallas sent him in 1901 to San Francisco. d deputy to the Episcopal general convention Young and unknown, he won his spurs in that eventfuI convention. The late Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington of New York, one of the most brilliant ever produced, then at his height, led to five day debate. Young Stuck successfully met him and over and over again carried the whole convention with him against the famous New York debater. People began to ask who the Texan might be. They found out before the convention was oVer- Even pr. Huntington paid him the highest compliment as a fighter in the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
cauae and Consequenee.

An ambitious mother was tryingfto dissuade her son from becoming en- gagged to the girl of his choice because the girl had no fortune. Well, moth er," the young man expostulated, "I have heard you say that neither you nor father had a penny when you mar ried.'' That's so," the mother admit ted 'eBut,'' she added, fI accepted your father because I knew he would get on in the world" Exactly the youth returned, 'fand she's ready to accept me because he did get on -''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
Rinas and PIeduea.

There was an ancient. Morse custom according to which when an oath was imposed the person by whom it was pledged passed his hand through sil- yer ring, which was held sacred to the ceremony Tn Iceland the bridegroom when plighting his troth used to pass his four fingers and thumb through large ring and in this manner receive the hand of his bride. And even as lately as the end of the eighteenth cen tury in Orkney a man and woman pledged their faith at the standing stones of Stenn1s by joining their hands through the perforated stone of Odin
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

 asuut to set them free by removing Inc tramnels of the protective tar1ff Ever since the civil war they have waited for this emancipation and for he free opportunities it will bring szth 1t It has been reserved for us ko give it to them Some fell in love, Indeed, with the slothful security of Their dependence upon the govern ment: some took advantage of the sheI- Der of the nursery to set up a mimic mastery of their own within it's walls.
 Now both theAtonic and discipline of liberty and maturity are to ensue. There will be some readjustments of purpose and point of view There will follow a period of expansion and new enterprise, freshly conceived It is for us to determine now whether it shall be rapid and facile and of easy accom- pIfshment This it cannot be unless the resourceful business men who are to deal with the new circumstances are to have at hand and ready for use the instrnmentalities and conveniences of free enterprise which Independent men need when acting on their own Initiative
 Constructive Statesnsanship.
 It. is not enough to strike the shack
 
 manship is not negative merely. It is constructive also We must show that we understand what business needs and that we know how to supply 1t. No man, however casual and super 6cfal his observation of the conditions new prevailing in the country, can fail Co see that one of the chief things business needs now and will need in Ereasfngly as it gains in scope and Vteor in the years immediately ahead If us is the proper means by which readily to vitalize its credit, corporate and 1ndfgddnal, and its originative brains.
 Whaf-usRin atR nrodt us to be free if we are not to 1xnve the best and most accessible fnstrumentaIities of com merce and enterprise2 What will 1t profit us to be quit of one kind of monopoly if we are to remain in the grip of another and more effective k1nd7 How are we to gain and keep che confidence of the business com ll7nrfty. unless we show that we know how beth to aid and to protect .tt7
 what shall we say if we make fresh MnfnrpAEeSs necessary and also make 1t wexT difHcnlt by leaving all else except ahe tar1T just as we found it2 The fyrann5es of business, big and little, lie within the field of credit We kuow that. Shall we not act upon the knoszledge2 Do we not know how to act upon ft? If a man cannot make his assets available at pleasure, his as- sets of capacity and character and re- ssuEce. what satisfaction is it b him 9o see opportunity beckoning to him @usnsanazz hmmfk -.EEazne eQEhaEz have the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

Keys of credit in their pockeks and treat them as all but their own prl- vate possession2 It is perfectly clear that it is our duty to supply the new banking and currency system the coun- try needs and that it will immediately need it move than ever.
 Need Of Currency Changes.
 Ehe only question, When shall we supply it-now or later, after the de- mandS shall have become approaches that we were so dull and so slowe Snail we hasten to change the star1f laws and then be laggards abouts mak- ing it possible and easy for the coun- try to take advantage of the changer There can be only one answer to that question. We must act now, at what ever sacrifice to ourselves. It is duty which the circumstances forbid 5 us to postpone. should be recreant to my deepest convictions of public ob- igattons did I not press it upon you with solemn and urgent ins1stence.
 The principles upon which we should act are also clear The country has sought and seen its path in this mat ter within theAlast few years-sees it more clearly now than it ever saw it before-much more clearly than when the last legislative proposals on the subject were made. We must have a currency, not rigid, as now, but read fly, elastica1ly responsive to sound credit, the expanding and contracting credits of everyday transactions, the normal ebb and flow Of personal and corporate dealings. Our banking laws must mobilize reserves, must not per init the concentration anywhere in a few hands of the monetary resources of the country or their use for specuIa- tive purposes in such volume as to hinder or impede or stand in the way of other more legitimate, more fruit full uses. And the control of the sys- tenn of banking and of issue which our new laws are to set up must be public, not private; must be vested In the gov ernment itself, so that the banks may be the instruments, not the masters, of business and of individual enterprise and initiative
 cenn1ittee Ready to Report.
 The committees of the congress to which legislation of this character is referred have devoted careful and dis eomplishing these objects. They have hoAored me by consulting me They are ready to suggest action. have come to you. as the head of the gov ernment and the responsible leader of the party in power, to urge action now, while there is time to serve the coun- try deliberately and as we should, in clear air of common counsel.
 appeal to<yoa with a deep convic- tdon of duty. believe that you share this conviction. therefore appeal to you with confidence. I am at your service without reserve to play my part in any way you may call upon me to play it n this great enterprise of exfgent reform which it will dignity and distinguish us to perform and dis credit ms to neglect
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
rao*fuT Toast,

At the close of the wedding break fast a gentleman noted for his lack of tact arose, causing keen anxiety to the bridegroom, who knew his failing.
 Ladies and gentlemen he cried genia1ly, s'I propose the health of the bridegroom. May he see many days like this''-Ladies' Home Journal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
The Pillars of Success,

See the eminent author! To what does he attribute his sue cess?
 To the fact that he wrote a dozen unsuccessful books and wasn't discour- aged.
 And there goes the mu1timtIlionaire. How did he lay the foundation of his great wealth?
 On twenty failures.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
nefnition of prunkenneaa.

The following definition of being drunk has been given by a laborer in a Melbourne police court, writes our Sydney correspondents:
 sT go on drinking till I think Pm drunk. Then drink more till I be- lieve I am sober. Then am sure that am drunk."-London Mail
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
Alesu l nlftan tha caae

''Au the average man wants is fair play" remarked the wise guy.
 'sYes. but the trouble is he also wants bo act as umpire" added the simple mug. Record.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
rnn Enuious-

s'I have read three novels by your cousin, Amanda, and in not one of them do the lovers marry. Now, that is peculiarr'
 "Oh, not at all! She is much too en- kious to give others such happinessT' -Fliegende Blatter
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
Good Excuse.

Housekeeper-Why do you charge so much for your ice? Iceman-WelI, mum, the water was high where we cut it--Boston Tran script.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
A Foe to nRabx TaIk.v

It is not enough that a word be spoken. It makes a great deal of diff ference how it is spoken. The proper vocalization of words has an effect upon children which is often, one may say generally, overlooked Almost ev- erybody lis fond of repeating the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

Chicago, June 23-Mrs George w. Trout, president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage association, is leading the sHffragists of that state in preparing for a. big celebration on July 4 be- cause of the recent suffrage victory in this state. The legislature mas granted the vote to women as far as
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
No+ aupers+;+;o,,a

He-Are you superstidous about the number 13? She-I'm not bit super stitious; only I don't like it because I think it brings bad iuck.-London Am
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

the state constitution permitted Wom-4 en will be allowed to vote for presidenl tial electors and for municipal ofiicerss but certain other officers are withheld by the constitution The suffrage bin will go into effect July 1 if Attorney General Lucey holds the bill constituf tional and the governor signs 1t.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
A New Time TahIe.

f'When does this ferry run, UncIe2" asked the would-be passenger.
 eDts ferry, Marse,' said the old man, "she runs at quarter arter, half arter, quarter to and at"-Lippincott's
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
A Hsnnv coun,e.

The ancients believed that to make a happy couple the husband must be leaf and the wife blind.-Florida Times Union.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.-EFancis Hutcheson.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

adu1terate it. My husband has but lit tie confidence in his fellow man.''- Kansas City Journal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

Property has it's duties as well as its rights.-Drummond.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23

A slip of the tongue is worse than that of the foot.-Spanish Proverb.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
A Suspicious Man,

''Why does your husband eat so much horseradish ?"
 sHe read an item stating that it is 70 cheap that t isn't worth while to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-23
Girl Wanted? Read tht

Farunar Wants Ads.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-16
THE TEMPE NETHODISTS
 WILL BUILD NEW CHURCH
Bids for the Structure Are Already In. It Will Compare Favorably
 With Any in thc Valley.

With the opening of bids by the building committee about the first af September, the last preliminary step will have been taken towards the actual construction of q new church in Tempe that is to be built on East Eighth street by the Meth odist Episcopal denomination. That the structure will be a credit to Tempe and in fact the entire south side iS readily conceded upon glance at the plans, recently com plctcd md turned over to the church officials by the firm of Lescher and kibby. the Phoenix architects.
 It was nearly a year ago when the first intimatiou was made that the Tempe Methodists were to have a new place of worship. Since then their plans have been rapidly formu- Iating until now everything hinges upon the return to the valley of the members of the building committee.
 The bids for the construction of the church have been in for some time but until the absent officials re turn about the first of September no action will be t2ken. Possibly two weeks later will see material on the ground and earth broken for the new structure.
 The new Methodist church will be located at the corner of Eighth street and Forest avenue directly fac ing the former highway. IL will be of the double tower type and. while pIans are not fully concluded. will likely he built entirely of Tucson white cream pressed. brick. Trim mings on the exterior will be made to correspond.
 The building will be composed of two floors, the basement and main assembly quarters. In the former place the social functions of the church will be staged
 The space directly between the two towers on the church floor proper will be used as the meeting room for the Christian EndeaVor league. on the east row of five class rooms, built of the double door type will be found. Behind the pulpit will be found the accustomed alcoVe for the choir and organ In the southwest corner of the building will be the pastors study. The auditorium around which all these various apartments circle will be built with the bowl floor. Roller partitions will feature the building and thus in case of eN- trcmcIy large audiences the entire building may be thrown into one with seating capacity of three hundred and eighty-two-
 The parsonage will be built shortly after operations on the church are started It will be situated just east of that building facing north.
 It is thought that the end of this year and possibly fifteen days sooner will sco the new structure completed and ready for occupancy. In the meantime services will be conducted as usual at the present place of wor- shin located at the corner of Sixth strnnt and MaDle avenue.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-16
BALL MEN IN PHOENIX

Yesterday was Phoenix day for majority of the Tempe ball team. It was the first opportunity for any of the nine to venture to the capital city with a safe feeling to back their tour of visits. Why Phoenix lost to Mesa and retains third place in the valley league, it is now the Gem City that Tempe baseballists are learY of Possibly after the big game to- MOTION the locals will feel free to roam the valley, and again-they may stay home for another week. Man ager Baum accompanied by John Mutt and John Spikes comprised the first detail to the city, taking the early morning train. LaRock the new outffeIder. was the early afternoon passenger and Captain John Mullen was his follower on the next train three hours later.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-16
Why Not Stop
 Drinking

Men and women who drink rcgu- larly and excessively cannot answer th.s question. When they realize they are slaves to the appetite for alcholic liquors they wish to stop, but find they cannot. They do not understand they are being daily poisoned with alcohol. until the cray ing for it has become stronger than tn" will power to resist. The only hope for these unfortunate men and women is proper medical treatment the Neal Treatment. which is safe sure. vegetable remedy that re moves the craving and necessity for drink in three days, without the use of hypodermic injections. The Neal Drink Habit Treatment will quickly make you sober men and women. Come to the Neal Institute, 1531 West Jefferson street. Phoenix, Arizona, or send for the Neal Home Treatment and become master of yourselves. Call and investigate. Get our proof and references. or write or phone for book of information. Phone 1733.
 DRUG HABIT UCCESSFULLY
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