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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
HUMAN cREpuLlTY COSTS
MILLIONS

Human crCdulity passes all limita-
tions. Before me lies a newspaper
story from Chicago: A man was on the
way to savings bank to deposit s145.
Two smiling strangers met him, fooled
him with the story that they had
magic handkerchief which would dou.
BILE the strangers money II he would
fold his bank roll within it. After the
operation the strangers told him 20
watch the handkerchief and see the.
money grow. They disappeared. They
had his money and the handkerchief
contained waste paper. Does this
sound impossible?
Here is another story, even more
improbable, but true. In New York a
company, appropriating the name Of
well known corporation, advertised
to sell its shares at a bargain, and
fixed price that was just twice the
stock market price. A cirhular was
sent to the Italian quarter intimating
that great opportunity was presented
for workingmen to secure an interest
in wonderfully prosperous railway,
that only few shares could be had,
and that they must be bought at once.
A rush was made for the stock, al
though every daily paper printed the
quotation of the same security at half
the price at which the swindlers were
offering it. The police put an end to
the game.
If people are so credulous, is it sur
prising that the postoffice authorities
report that S15O,COO,OOO year is taken
from the gullible by dealers in fake
securities? If Wall ST. did this kind
of wretched business it would deserve
reprobation
None of the cheap mining, oil. plan
tation, real estate and similar schemes
could get foothold in the Stock Ex-
change because, before a stock can be
listed, it must submit detailed report
and show that 1t represents a legiti-
| mate enterprise. This does not mean
that occasionally stock is listed that
should not have been, but it means
that as rule, listed securities have
merit. Nor does listing mean that
they will advance in price. Securities
only represent business institutions
subject to the laws of trade, but
chances of profit in the purchase Of
listed securities, or those that are sold
by representative bankers and brokers,
rather than by irresponsible peddlers,
should be the choice of everyone with
money to spare.-Jasper, in Leslie's.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
THE LONELY MAN

The city round about me roars and
lifts its raucous voice again, and all
the region out of doors is full of wo-
men and men. In such hummng
luman hive u man should have his
friends, you say. Alas! there is no
man alive who's lonelier than today.
I'm lonesome as the heartsick gent
who dwells upon desert isle and
hopes a shir will soon be sent to take
him back where cities smile.
see a group Of neighbors stand
about the corner of the block, and
approach them, hat in hand, to hear
and share their cheerful talk. But on
belolding me they roar, as speedily
they turn their backs, Here comes
the balmed jimtwisted bore who talks
about the income taxi" The corner
where they lately stood deserted is,
as is the street, and all throughout
the neighborhood hear the sound of
fleeing feet.
have a hundred vital views that |
am signing to express, and I could
tell more sparkling news that all the
columns of the press; l long to join
my fellow.men, but when they see me
forward stride they look disturbed
and say again, "Is there no hole in
which to hide? Here comes the Jay
who never told a story, since his day
of birth, that wasn't forty times as old
rs any chestnut on this earth!" One
scornful glance they cast on me, in
whose sad heart grim sorrow reigns,
and then like startled deer they flee
and hide in culverts and in drains.
l seek the halls of dazzling light,
where winsome maids and stalwart
boys enjoy the glamour of the night
and would fain increase their joys.
have a hundred playful jests that |
TO all of them would tell, but at the
thought the brilliant guests throw up
their hands and start to yell. HE
takes as long to tell a yarn" | hear
my vile detractors croak, "as would
take to build a barn, and there are
sdeboards on each joke. So let us tn
the basement fly and hide for seven
hours or ten; perhaps the tiresoIne
mutt will die before the band starts
up gain"
drift into the grocer's store, to buy
some Goldfish and some mace, and
there are loungers twenty-four on
chairs and boxes in the place. know
they find existance stale, and so
think I'll cheer their way by telling
them a merry tale that | got next to
yesterday. l thus dispense the whole
blamed gang; they mutter, as they
doorward forge, Before he winds up
his harangue he'll dig up facts from
Henry George!"
Oh, let me on an island dwell, some
island in unoharted seas, where my
anecdotes may tell to helpless mon.
keys in the trees!--Walt Mason, in
Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
AGENTS

The "lady agent" always gets me,
skillful tongue she soothes and pets
me and blarneys me and draws the
kale.
The gent who sells the works Of
Dickens, in eighty-seven cloth-bound
books, pursues in vain; but, all! the
chickens-1 can't escape their velvet
books. often VOW, "Henceforth the
ladies in vain will seek M. humble
home; I'll see the whole fair tribe in
hades before I'll buy another time!
Too long, With language false and tibby
they have beset me on my way. I've
bought the works of Laura Libbey,
and also those of Bertha Clay; a five-
foot shelf of old Nick Carter now
ornaments my cozy den. Methinks the
maidens must be smarter, if they can
work me once again.
l grimly fame this resolution, that's
viewed with pleasure by the frau, and
pass around some elocution about my
adamantine VOW
And thus, with resolut' on laden,
to my musty office go. to which there
comes beaming maiden, who sells the
works of Edgar Poe.
Its no use," firmly greet her "The
stuff is Off will not buy" Where
at her smile grows all the sweeter,
and humor twinkles in her eye. Ah,
why is man so weak and washy when
round his chair fair damsels trot?
know I'll buy those volumes boshy.
cen while tell her l will not. | al
ways fall for female friskers. | still
surrender to their snares, where
would take man with whiskers and
kick his person down the stairs.
My words don't daunt her or af.
fright her. although ! say, Cant deal
with you! I've bought the works of
few! have the works of Pope and
Shelley, of Rex f. Beach and Richard
Roe; Pve Zola's books-they're rather
smelly; draw the line at Edgar Poe.
hate to raise this sort of holler w.hep
you come up here peddling rhyme.
but l will give you half a dollar II you
will let me off this time"
III Ndlhs III Fdln' ouS anu
twitters and lays q volume on my
knee; / know I'll have to take my bit
ters before she will consent to flee.
She talks about the text and printing,
but am thinking of the way Dame Ma
ture does her fairest tinting on dam
sells young and blithe and gay. She
talks about the illustrations, but am
thinking how maid can rattle kings
and shatter nations, II she has eyes
the proper shade She talks about the
leather binding, but | am looking at
her hair which like a rope of gold Is
winGiag above her forehead low and
fair.
might fill up a dozen colyums
about that agent and her charms, but.
having bought some thirty volumes,
I'll pack them homeward in my arms
by Walt Mason. from Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
CO RIGHT. At It
friends and Neighbors Will Show You
Way.

Get at the root of the trouble.
Rubbing an aching back may re-
lieve it,
But won't cure it if the kidneys ar,
weak.
You must reach the root Of 1.-THE
kidneys.
Reach the cause; relieve the pain.
Begin ut once with Doans Kidney
Pills.
Are recommended by thousands.
Here's one case.
Peter Wilhemsen, Benton ST., Oak
Harbor, Ohio, says: II had bad
attack of backache and could hardly
endure the dull pain across my kid
neys. l tried several kidney medi-
cines. but got no relief until / used
Doan's Kidney Pills. on friends ad-
vice. They helped me in every way
1 now keep Doan's Kidney Pills on
hand and take a few doses now and
then, always with good results"
Price soc, ut all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney piils-the same that
Mr.. WilhelmSen had. Foster Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, n. y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
row DISEASES ARE ncAueHr"


In this scientific age, people still
labor under the delusion that infec.
tious diseases are transmitted by con.
tact with things. Some people are
afraid to touch a car strap or a book
that has been used by strangers, and,
much as they like to have 1t, handle
paper money with greatest caution.
In the Medical Record DR.. Alvah H.
Doty, formerly the efficient health Of
ficer Of the port of New York, shows
how foolish the public is in its fear
that infection turks everywhere, in
public conveyances, public assem-
blages, clothing money, rags, books,
car straps, etc, and that diseases are
conveyed by these means. IL disease
were conveyed in this manner old rags
would be one of the best transmitters.
To test this theory one should go to
the rag houses of Alexandria, Egypt.
The rags brought here are the CASTOR
clothing of natives, largely from inter-
ior districts, where some form OF In
fectious disease almost always exists.
Yet the British sanitary officers have
never found the slightest evidence that
any of the women and children en-.
gagged in handling thes rags ever con-
tracted disease.
The best test of the theory that
disease is transmitted through paper
money would be, not in its ordinary
use, but in the Treasury Department
at Washington, where clerks are con-
stantly handling an enormous amount
of old and filthy money prior to its
destruction. Yet this has never pro-
duced disease among the clerks. No
one cares to read dirty books, but the
fear of infection through the much
used books of public library is quite
RS groundless as that regarding the
! andling of paper money.-Leslie's.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
ANTHR ACNOSE BEANS
NOT UNDER BAN
Secretary of Agriculture So Informs
Governor Ferris.

Lansing, Mich.-After the bean
growers and shippers of Michigan
have beer greatly agitated over the
proi ibitioR by the federal department
of agriculture of the interstate ship
rncnt of beans affected with anthrac-
nose, ii Is discovered that the depart
meDt has never issued any such order.
ME bean crop in Michigan this year
is largely affeffcted with the blight,
and the prohibition of it's shipment
would have been n serious blow to
Michigan growers. G
Gov Ferris has received letter
from Secretary of Agriculture Hous-
ton saying that the shipment of beans
merely discolored by anthracnose is
not and has not been prohibited, as
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
COLD IN THE CHEST

Cold in the chest, head or lungs
easily relieved by the use of Wa-Ki.
Ton Ointment. Apply to affected
parts before retiring. Wonderful re.
suits. Try it tonight 25c. Fo
sale by druggists or sent direct ON re
ceipt of price. Wa-Ki-Ton Chemtcs
Co.. 604 So. st. Clair ST.. Toledo, q
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

their food value Is not affected. The
shipment of beans, anthracnose or
otherwise which has been canned and
are in filthy or decomposed condi-
ton, has long been prohibited under
the pure food act, but no ban has ever
been placed on the shipment of beans
which have been merely discolored by
the blight.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
BRIEF DECISIONS

The younS fool and the old fool have
mare than years between them.
popularity OF certain cranks Is
that they can not he turned.
A man who is in society and wants
to keep in must he continually going
out.-Judge. "rt"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
Quite a Philosopher

"Don't you wish you had sense
enough to make a million?"
mo. ! wish I had sense enough to
make a quarter OF a million and stop
with that and enjoy It," "e
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

Young man. don't take girls hand
in yours and tell her you could die for
her unless you are willing to earn a
living for her.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

Kindness and politeness would be
appreciated more if they were not
used so often as gold brick substi-
tutes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

Blessed is the man who expects
nothing but advice from his relatives,
for that is about all he'll get.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

You may kick. you may shatter n
boom II you will. but the hope OF .
candidate clings to 1t still.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

A married woman Is fond of having
her own way-and she can't unders
stand why her husband isn't.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

1t fiatters a girl almost as much II
. man proposes to her as II. does II
he had sent her a dollar box of candy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14
FROM A SINNERS DIARY

know woman who wants to be
it without the simple thing of really
being it.
If you hear a woman say she hates
housework and another answers she
doesn't, you're just as safe to take the
one that hates. 1t may be she hates it
because she does it, and the other likes
it because she shirks.
/ know a boy who went Halloween
ing and got bulldog fast in the calf
of his leg.
Do you hate to die? You'd make as
big a fuss If you thought you always
had to live.
l wouldn't want a S00-pound hired
mana good solid 100 of useless bal
last for team to tote around.
wish l knew any one else had as
much fun with me as / do. 1 was
just picking up walnuts for little SIS
ter to shuck, and an old hard pear
lying there looking exactly lige green
walnut motioned to me to be put in.
Whenever / think of little sister
clinching that pear to shuck. I'm
tickleder than if ninety-nine sinners
had come into the fold.
1t does not matter which enc of the
keyboard you sit, treble or bass, II the
right ore is the other in the duet. Then
everything wears halo-each COW
track and sand burr and lily leaf.
I've crossed bats with funny
woman lately. One day she has boxes
Of candy come to me by parcel post,
the next she wants to mop the earth
with me. eat the candy and regret
exceedingly that am not at liberty
to invite her to undertake the other.
Science is not the proper spray for
what infests humorists.
A neighbor has baby, anu In the
newspaper office 1t got mixed and was
laid where brothers new piano should
stand. But it wasn't mixed as bad as
brother when the congratulations be.
gan coming in!
Sometimes it's wonderment to me
that Pm not bigger idiot than am.
So many jobs are always clamCring for
me that absolutely l don't have time
to watch the circus go by Iven. II
I'm working by hand go across the
meadow and jump the ditch. II by
team, l can go grandly out past the
walnut tree, around the road and In
by the graveyard.
Quick and Quit would be good names
for twins.-From Judge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

Some men who have words with
their wives are proud of the privilege.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

It's mistake to air your views II
they are rank.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-10-14

Public display is often made posi-
hle by private economy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-09-11
RURAL SCHOOLS AND HEALTH.

DR. Thomas D. Wood of Co
lumbi University makes the state
ment in the last number of the Jour
nal of Education that the rural school
is the worst type of building in the
community. He says that rural
schools are less we'll adapted to their
purpose than prisons, asy1ums, and
a1mshouses.
Statements like these may sound
exaggerated, yet in a. great many
rural communities ally interested in
schools know there is some truth in
them. 1t would be a good idea now
that school work has begun, for the
slider thoughtfully how far these con-
ditions are an obstacle in the way of
developing healthfu1 young people. 9
Many country schools maintain
sanitary conditions that none but the
most ignorant parents would tolerate
on their own premises. The excuse
is given that all kinds of children at
tend the school, and that many of
them have unc1ean, habits. Probably
the real trouble is that many teachers
dislike to deal with such fundarn en-
tails of conduct. It is quite as impor-
tant that a child learn to be cIeanly
as to learn to perform examples in
partial payments.
Many teachers are careless about
Ne1lllatloh II 1tuey happen TO De a
little anaemic and unaccustomed to
outdoor life, they feel shivery the
moment a cool day comes. They
then close up windows and doors and
work with their. little charges in a
box for the rest of the season. No
wonder if they. all get colds and more
serious infections.
Where country children are scat
tered around at small schools, there
is specially liable to be neglect. Par
rents never visit the building from
one year to another. Water supplies
may be unsanitary, the building may
be poorly located, imperfectly heated,
and out of repair generally. All
which is poor business policy. A
clean, sanitary school building re-
duces doctors bills and ! makes a
town attractive for residence purposes
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-09-11

SUFFRAGE NEWS
"a. G. Porritt.)

The chief activity of the woman
suffrage movement during the last
week has been in connection with the
fairs, several of which opened their
gates on Labor Day. OF course the
most important was the Connecticut
Fair at Charter Oak Park, aHrtford,
and to this fair consequently the
strongest of the suffragist speakers
were drafted. Mrs. T. n. Hepburn,
president of the Connecticut Woman
Suffrage Association and Mrs. M Tos-
can Bennett, president of the Hart
ford Equal Franchise League have
both been speaking at Charter Oak
Park almost every day this week. The
sufra gists had a large and handsome
booth near the entrance, and this
was well filled with suffrage literature,
exhibits and posters containing the
facts and figures on which suffragists
rely to prove their case. Mrs. John
Allen. Mrs. Edward o. Parker and
Mrs. B. NJ. Lincoln have been in con-
slant attendance, and a Immense
number Of leaflets and pamphlets
have been distributed to the many
visitors to the fair. Suffrage souve-
Mrs of all sorts have also been on
sale and for free distribution, and it
was easy to see by mingling with the
| crowd in the park that the suffragists
were having a strong inning.
Salisbury, Haddan Neck, Goshen
and Norwich all had their fairs dur
ing the week and at every one Of
these fairs there was a good repre-
sentation of suffragists, although at
none of them was the showing equal
to that at the Connecticut Fair in
Hartford. Local suffragists did most
of the work at these smaller fairs,
but Miss Catherine Flanagan went
from Hartford to take charge of the
fair work at Salisbury and the .suf-
frage workers of New London county
under the leadership of Miss Kath-
crime Ludington, the county chairman
were in evidence at the New London
County Fair at Norwich.
AS the date draws nearer for the
taking of the vote on the woman suf-
frage amendment in Massachusetts
interest in the campaign increases.
The suffrage workers of Windham-
county are specially interested in the
work that is being done over the
border in Massachusetts, in Worcester
county. Miss Rosamond DanfeIson,
county chairman of Windham county
has several times led her forces
across the border and last Saturday
she was at the head of a band of
workers who went to help the trolley
campaigners of Massachusetts in
South bridge. Webster is also to be
Invaded by Connecticut suffra gists;
and a movement is on foot to have
every suffrage speaker make at least
one appearance in Massachusetts in
the final days of the big campaign
which will end on the eve of Novem-
Der End!
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-09-11
ToDAx's POEM
"A CHILD FROM MEXICO.

Your big dark eyes confess the woe
The fretful centuries have wrought,
In your fair Iand-the frequent throe,
The tickle rule, the wars for naught
My tiny peon, you're link
Between the old and new, I think.
Your chubby chest swells grandIy out
Beneath a, modern stuff<where blue
Contends with pink and seeks to roUt
In lively fight it's 'neighbor hue,
A hat of straw one guest might rend
Vaunts many a saucy ribbon end.
And then the baby po1yglot
OF your sweet chatter shows the
reach
Our harsher tongue has gained though
not
Enough to mar your bubbling
speech
Nor pretty gestures-+-lest we miss
And if you seek, as divine,
The kindergarten's cosy fold.
With pigmy chair and marching line,
And precious things to make and
hold,
Soon you shall shout our accents true
And do as those wee Romans do.
So much for you, small stranger guest!
What of the mother at your side?
wist she sometimes yearns, Cypress d,
To slip across the Rios tide
Her voice, once flexible as q, flute,
In our crisp talk, aIasI is mute.
Her oval face is russet brown;
A kerchief binds her blue black haiH
Safe from the breezes, prtsoned down;
Her dress - all! nothing modern
there!
Tradition shaped that shawrs quaint
And taught her lace threads how to go
My chubby alien, you must be
The madrelsa teacher - guide her
To where above some staff you see
The flags bright burrows fall and
Point her the one straight path to
wend
To make this wide. wide land her
friend!
-Jeannfe Pend1eton Ewing in
Youth's1Gomp anfon. Sis geffsg
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-09-11
The Stars and Stripes

The Stars and Stripes. as the ma
tfonal flag of@the United States, was
first unfur1ed in battle on the banks
of the Brandywine SO years ago to-
day. This battle. In which the Ger
man mercenaries led by Baron Knyp-
hansen played a prominent part and
in which Lafayette was badly wound
ed. was a defeat for Washington, al
though the Americans were able to
make an orderly retreat to Chester.
The American flag received its first
baptism Of blood in this conflict, but
it had previously been displayed at
F6rt Schuyler. ON the sftezof the pres
e11t city OF Rome, N. z This garrison
made the banner by cutting up sheets
to form the white stripes, bits OF
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-09-11
CORNER FOR COOKS
Ice Cream

Variety of ways to serve ice cream
is perhaps more important than vari-
ETY. of creams to be served. There are
many pretty Individual mo1ds into
which the cream may be packed, but
this means a good deal of work, and
there are other ways Of serving cream
that are easier and just as effective.
For example, ha1ve large oranges
and remove the pulp carefully, throw
the shells into cold water until they
are needed. Make a good orange jelly
out of the pulp, wipe half of the or
ange shells dry, fill them with the jel-
ly and set them away to chill. When
ready to serve wipe lne other na1r of
the skin dry and fill with ice cream
smoothing off the tops evenly then
turn a je11y-f1led half and an ice
cream filled half together Tie them
in place with narrow white satin rib
bon, draw a spoon through the bow
and lay them on a, paper dolly on the
plate, with a square of delicate cake
beside them and serve.