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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08
Youth Gef Used to AZ.

If you are. married do not sigh,
Just take life as YOU find II;
The longer you are married, why
The less you seem TO mind it,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08
The Wise FeoI.

Seeing is believing, observed the
sage.
Not always replied the fool. 81
saw man today wouldn't believe
under oath
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08
DIR Daily SneoiaL

When you stand on your dignity
don't put your foot in it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08
Daily Heath Hint

When you 4Tant to dust your shoes
off never tuse the ehamois rag that
your wife keeps on the dresser to doll
her face up with.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

Here's sTarros Miyake, boys.-the
little japanese jiu-jitsu champion, who
is ready to meet any wrestler in the
worldly no matter what his weight.
Miyake backs up his challenges to the
world with forfeits ranging from ST.
900 down to So. He'll give $1,000 to
anyone who can defeat him and pay
So a minute to anyone who stays more
than seven minutes
Tarro Miyake is cleaning up in
vaudeville in this country after a big
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

William Dwyer. aged 80, a. Civil War
veteran, died as a. result of suffocation
when his home at Fort Palm, N. Y,
was burned.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08
STOCK MARKET


New York, March 8.-Opening-
Stocks manifested a stronger. tone. in
today's early dealings in spite of lack
of encouragement from London where
the international list again registered
substantial declines, Leaders in the
local market made fractional gains
while New Haven rose over a point on
the company's improved showing for
January. Reports from various indus
trial centers Indicated renewed aetlV-
Tity.
Noon-Following the lead of Union
Pacific, Reading and U. s. steel, the
market moved to higher levels before
midday. Trading in the forenoon was
Of a confident nature. New SIlaYen
gained 2 X and Canadian Pacific. New
York Central and the Southern group
participated ito substantial degree.
Missouri Pacific and Rock Island were
strongest of the minor railways Gains
of L to g. points were made by numer-
Gus industrials and speciaIties.
Bonds were active with increased
selling of foreign accounts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

An official celebration of the Tooth
anniversary of the birth of the late
Prince Won Bismarck Will be held in
Germany on ApzgA 1.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08
Paness.

Panes.
eyes are. the windows of the soul
I've often heard. said Lem;
+ 'tAnd it's true, III bet my roll,
For mine have pains in them
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

Perhaps some of these people that
send you the picture post cards of the
exposition are congratulating them
selves that they thereby escape hav-
ing to call around and see you after
they get home.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

N Easter Custom WooIens
NEW LYFORD BROTHERS SEE
w East Side and West End e
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

The Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown,
Pa, received an order for 46, 500 tons
of steel valued at $4,000, $50, to be used
in the manufacture of shrapneI for the
Russian government.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

The Coast Guard hospital cutter An
droscoggin, on her voyage to the fish
ing banks in January and February,
aided three vessels and gave medical
assistance to n fishermen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

If the trolley car companies should
place their steps four feet above the
ground the women certainly cou1dn' t
object as far as the spring styles of
skirts are concerned.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

Billy Sunday proves that it paysNto
advertise. Hts congregations exceed
those of the ordinary preacher by
just about the same proportions as
the customers of the stores that adj
vertise exceed the customers of the
stores that don't.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1915-03-08

hume expert, says Lefty High is show
ing up well in practice with the New
York Americans and is sure to
siren CITIZEN the Yankee outfield.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
HIS PARTNER

man died the other day, and about the sin
cerest mourner was his partner, who said:
He was great fellow. He my partner.
He stood by me in all my business deals. He
helped me get the money. He shared the risks.
He was great man to talk things over and help
with word or two of timely advice. He was a
partner, and was a business manager and so he
never dictated to me- but it was great help just
to have him around and get his opinion on things.
Sometimes made money, and then he was glad
as well as l. and sometimes we lost in DEAL and
then what partner he was! He never put on a
sour face or suggested that ought to have done
differently. He took his share of the loss and his
share of the blame as we'll, even though the fault
was all mine. We made money, he ard l togeth-
er. A man could not help it with such partner
as he."-Utca Globe.
How would you like to have that said about
you when you are dead? 1t sounds better than
any sermon, does it not! How many of US have
heard different eulogies about some friend and
partner after their life extinct?
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
:. E ID IT o II A L ..
BOOST FOR HOME TEAM!

The snow is still on the ground; but it's fact
that the baseball will open within the course
of three months. Not only is this true of the
national sport in the outside world, but it is also
true of the baseballitis of the Silent City, Yes,
indeed we going to PLAY ball this summer
and games of that sort and class that all opponents
will envy our success. Just as soon as the snow
disappears, the last years manager of the famous
Green Sox will try to make such arrangements as
will permit him to put the NJ. S. p. baseballits
diamond into frst-class shape and condition for
the interesting and snappy contests anticipated by
the promoters of the Green Sox. Of course. you
understand, that even an A l diamond is not all
that is required, though you have all star
players on the team. The Green Sox will have the
diamond and will have the men; but other things
of paramount importance they do not have as yet
to make the game complete. They will need
other paraphernalia. In short, the M. S. P team
will need complete baseball outfit, the cost of
which, approximately, would be between 1925 and
$50 This would include everything as we have
previously made mention of having both the dia-
mond and men.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
THINK 1T OVER-THEN GO SLOW

If you think the world is not using you as it
should don't undertake to force the world to change
it's The world is great deal stronger than
you and a great deal more likely to be right. The
world will knock You down many times when it
should raise you up doubt; but if you think your
course out very carefully before you and then
go SLOW you'll find that the old world is great deal
better than people are apt to give it credit You
are indignant perhaps at the injustice which you
meet every day and you feel hot and restless and
apt to go little too fast at times But if you'll
think to slow up and reason when you meet barriers
to your progress and not try to run over them you
won't be likely to have barked shins and bruised
bones at the end of your journey. You'll find that
someone else will often get the sugar plums that be-
long to you; but keep cool and go slow or you'll
lose not only your sugar plums bnt your chance of
getting others in the future
It's terrible thing to have to keep cool under in
justice. OF course it is, but you straighten
out your own bones by breaking those of others.
And then. if you should find you have been wrong
after all when you think that everything has gone
back on you and your dearest rights have been
trampled on, don't lose your grip but keep COOL
think it all out and then 60 slow.-Ex.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
"PRAYER FOR OUR ENEMIES"

An admirable prayer for our enemies dating
from the Napoleonc wars, has been resurrected
by an English clergyman and published in the
Liverpool Diocesan Gazette. 1t is an extract from
a form Of prayer issued by authority for general
fast day on March 20. 1911 Have mercy, we be-
seech Thee, upon our adversaries in the present
war. Deliver them from the guilt of ambition and
blood, and dispose their hearts to clemency and
justice. Let all mutual offenses and hatred be re-
moved from our hearts, and grant that, being re-
conciled one toward another, we may unite in
striving together to exist and glorfy Thy glorious
name'''
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
BASEBALL'S GREATEST STARS ARE FAD
ING FROM SPOTLIGHT

The Duluth Herald has the following to say
about the star baseball players of the major
leagues:
Another five years and most of the present day
diamond stars will be but memories. Father Time
has been lenient with some but there is a limit to
Father Times patience, and certain it is that his
patience will be exhausted in many cases.
Lajoie and Wagner the grand old guard, are
on the down grade. 1t is possible that both may
stick it out through 1915, but it's beyond the hope
of fandom that they can go through 1916 in major
league company.
Mathewson, the wonderful Giant pitcher, enters
his fifteenth year major league company. Matty
is still good-but Matty is slipping Three years
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
ENVIRONMENT AND BACKBONE
By Beau Espritd


It has been said that man is what his environ
ment makes him. This is comfortable theory.
1t doesn't require any effort on the part of the in
dividual who accepts it. 1t is the most popular
excuse for mistakes, mis-steps, and weak willed
following of the line of least resistance, which man
has invented. And it is about as true as that
a man is what his clothes make him.
mans environment is what he makes ii,
rather. No man need submit to environment, any
more than he need submit to the temperature of
the atmosphere. 1t is not necessary or inevitable
that man freeze to death because the mercury
drops to zero in the thermometer. He can clothe
himself in garments, build fire in his house,
and be comfortable any summers day 1t
is the same way with environment. If your en-
vironment has fallen below the moral zero it is
not necessary or inevitable that you fall with it,
You need not freeze to death morally because the
moral atmosphere about you is at zero. You can
make yourself as comfortable morally as you
would physically and in exactly the same way
You keep up your ply -ical temperature by pro-
tecting your moral body against the surrounding
evil influences. If you live in a cold climate you
create warmth for your own preservation by build
ing fire, and by eXerting yourself to procure
fuel wherewith to sustain it, And if your environ
ment tends to make you what you do not want to
be, you can create sustaining atmosphere by
building against that environment and by exert
ing yourself to withstand the encroachments of
your unsatisfactory surroundings, just as You
withstand the encroachments of cold by fire. This
is true in any situation in life.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18

If man does not want to do any certain thing,
there is no power on earth which can make hin do
it. And if man does want to do certain thing
there is no power on earth which can prevent him
from doing it. neither his surroundings nor his
companions.
All history is proof of the fact, that any
achievement lies within the reach of any man, if
he will but set himself to the task of attaining it,
and hold steadfastly to that task leaving stone
unturned no possible effort un-made
There are circumstances in which it appears to
be impossible to achieve certain things. Our
present position is one of them. Yet the mpossi-
bility is in appearances only. If we take advan-
tage OF the possibilities of our situation, we may
do what we wish with them. 1t may not be easy
it usually is not may not Get results as soon as
we hope to-we usually do not. But if we persist
In our efforts toward any objective on which we
have set our minds, working with the materials
which we have to work with, complying with the
conditions under which we must work temporarily,
and are not discouraged disheartened by the OBJ
stacles that stand in our way, we can achieve the
desired results
There are but three requisites to success, and
environment is not one of them. They are: Adapta-
bty; Persistence; Backbone.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
THE UNNOTED HEROES

There are heroes who have never
Heard the fearful din of battle,
Heroes who, unknown forever,
Labor where no sabers rattle;
There are heroes who are giving
Joy to others day by day.
Who are making life worth living
Just by earning honest pay
There are heroes who are wearing
No bright medals for their merit;
Heroes who may not be sharing
Splendor that the proud inherit
There are heroes who prefer the
Tasks of rghting wrongful things,
And thus make themselves more worthy
Than the pampered sons of kings.
There are heroes, uncOmplanlng.
Who are striving daily. yearly,
So the goals we would be gaining
May each morning shine more clearly;
There are heroes unrewarded,
Who, by toiling late and long
In surroundings that are sordid,
Help the luckless to be strong
There are heroes with wan faces,
Who uplift their fallen brothers;
Heroes who, in lowly places,
Labor for the love of others.
Why not pause sometimes to cheer them
For the courage they reveal?
Why not willingly revere them
For their patience and their zeal?
s. E. Kiser
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
Il. Nobody


The shop don't seem to be the same as twas when
he was here;
The bunch sits round quite solemn like an not a
word of cheer
Is spoken as we go to the grind-sometimes we
hear sigh;
We never thought the thirty call" would come
so soon for Guy.
His desk is empty over there, and his machine is
still,
We do not hear his CHEEKY voice. how goes it
Jack or Bill?
The room is kind of vacant, with scarce bit of
sound,
It's hard to realize that he sleeps underneath the
ground.
He used to sling pencil here, an write the clingy
stuff
The kind that made We Ed remark, that's ''copy''
sure enough;
No matter just how had the grind, how crushing
was the day,
He always some pleasant. with the best of
things to say
Some other writing chap once said that up there
in the sky
A comrade hangs a lantern to guide earthly COM
rades by;
Is such be so no matter how life jolts us or
jars,
Well see the light Guy hangs for us up there
among the stars.
If real good fellowship is worth portion of Gods
love,
We know that he is working on the great sheet up
above;
And when the day shall come at last for us to say
goodby
We hope the Master Editor will let us work with
Guy.
He grabbed his irty from the hook his desk empty ers
We laid a copv otthe sheet wih him and said praver
And IN sOut of souls voced hen die
Wen haze Iced that God acM put wring space ,oih
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
FEBRUARY

February is the month of important birthdays.
The following were born:
February |, 1859. Victor Herbert.
3. 1909. Mendesshon.
s. 3, 1911. Horace Greeley.
5, 1910. Ole Bull.
S, 1887. Moody.
6, 1888, Sir Henry Irving.
7, 1900, President Fillmore.
7, 1912. Charles Dickens
6, 1919, John Ruskn.
8, 1920 General William T. Sherman.
9, 1773, President VIM. H. Harrison.
10, ITS, Charles Lamb.
IL, l735, Daniel Boone
IL, 1847, Thomas Edison.
IL, 1909. Abraham Lincoln.
IL, 1909. Charles Darwin.
Is. 1858. Sembrich singer.
Is, 1884, Paganini, violinist
Is, 1895, George Peabody.
10, l843. Adelina Patti
20, 1929, Joseph Jefferson.
%, 1882, George Washington.
%, 1919, Lowell
%, 1885, Handel.
.1a 26, 1902, Victor Hugo.
a4 q, 1907. Henry w. Long fellow.
81 1S4S. Ellen Terry.
20, 1892, Rossini.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18

In the last months issue of the Nautilus Mag
azine, noted with pleasure the marked copy re-
garding the Mirror.
Under the caption of Magazines and Periodi
calls of Special Value, were pleased to note the
timely and encouraging words of praise about the
family sheet, aud for which extend our sincere
appreciation to the Nautilus. When such high
class magazine as the Nautilus finds space to in
clude us in its Review Column, this is evidence
that the Mirror still retains its previous excellent
standard at this time of the age In view of this
recent boost, think it might be quite appropriate
for some of the ''once was' Knockers fault-fnders
and otherwise chronic kckers," to HE themselves
hither and thther and henceforth BARK up hollow
tree. The tree. at least, would be in strict
formity with the kcker's or Knockers head-both
being hollow.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-02-18
The Drunkard's Soliloquy
SRLectRd

Selected
Backward, turn backward, o Time in your flight,
And make a again, just for tonight;
Let shake off these vile rags that l wear
Cleanse me from this foul stain that bear;
Oh let me stand where stood long ago,
Freed from these sorrows, unknown to this woe
Freed from a life that is cursing my soul
Unto death while the years of eternity roll.
Backward, turn backward, o fast flowing stream!
Would that my life could prove only dream!
Let me forget the black sins of the pas
Let me undo all the folly so fast
Let me live the life that is gone,
Bring back the dark, wasted years that flown,
Backward, turn backward o Time in your fight!
And make a again just for tonight
Yes, Back turn backward We swift rolling years.
Why does your memory bring forth these hot tears?
Why comes this vision of life lost in sin?
Why am thinking of what might have been?
Where is my home so happy and SO bright?
Where is the face whose presence was light?
Where the children who climbed on my knee?
Back, flowing tide, bring them more to me!
Yet, the tide rushes on, this wild flight of years,
And the days only deepen my sorrows and fears.
call but no comes back to now,
Naught but an echo weak as my
For meath the sad cypress tree, low in the sod,
Lies the body whose soul has gone back to God,
And out of the silence child voices come,
AS in days long ago in my sweet, happy home.
Backward? Nay, time rushes onward and on;
IT'S the dream that back of the days that
yielded strength when could have been strong:
l would fly but alas, fingered too long
The elhound had seized me-my will was not mine,
Destruction born in the sparkling wne
So, in weakness, totter in gloom to the grave.
A sovereign in birth. but in dying-a slave.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY CONCERNING CHICAGO

0uIIISSJ O6OZg SunSSIJ O6[fs
Robert Parker paroIed to mother
when he promised not to violate Har-
rison drug act again.
WiIIoughby Walling made defen-
.dant in $4,000 tax suit filed by states
attorney. Hasn't paid since 1907.
DR.. C. S. Drake, sec'y state board
of health, left for Frisco convention
to explain operation of embalmers'
act.
Verdict of $45, 900 returned against
B. & o. railroad. Jas. Wilson, brake
man, wash crushed between trains.
Dist Atty cIyne halted on trip to
California. Must go to Washington
to talk over pending cases with atty
general
Judge SABBATH placed safety first
sign below top of bench in speeders'
court.
Superior court dismissed Mrs. Eva |
DeVries' suit for annulment. Arie De I
Vries married opera singer so she |
could break contract.
Woman's Party of Cook county
congratulated mayor on his closing |
Sunday saloons. -
Federal grand jury again convened
after fVe-day recess. .....
Appellate court upheld in opinion
right of city to dismiss civil service
employees to curtain expenses.
Warrant out for Geo. Harding
Schmidt, 1908 S. Harding av., who
disappeared with $3.50 of Dodgers
Athletic club.
VIM. Rodiger left personal property
amounting to 1921, 012, according to
estate filed in probate court.
Isadore RabinoVitch, actor, stopped
in middle of act in Magnet theater,
18th and Kedzie, and had wife ar
rested for bigamy and robbery.
Last words of Will FIaherty, 1843
Maud av., was appeal to police to find
son who ran away night before he
died.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-06

ed. Wife and baby overcome.
Patrolman Nicholas Simon, detail
ed at N. Halsted station since it's erec-
ton in 1887, handed in resignation.
Fell from ''L'' station in chase after
thieves. Hurt.
Five new cases of typhoid found in
Oak Park high. May be quarantined..
Four rooms in ST. Charles school
closed when diphtheria broke out.
Half of $165,ooo estate of Ben
Gable, pres. of United Charities, left
to mother.
Four more girls selected by South
ern club to represent states through
which Dixie highway passes for part
in Grant park tableau.
Chas. Fitzpatrick, 1850 N. Clark, in
critical condition. Burned by boiling
oil which exploded in Nielsen Bros
factory, 2727 Quinn st.
Theo Lyons, tango dancer, fined
$500. Pandering.
Saloonkeeper passing fire at 1881
Baltimore av., which made Mrs. En-
ma Colon, widow, homeless, gave her
$50.
frank Mordon, 9747 Commercial
aV., sent to Detention hospital. Sent
false tips to police.
Detective Wragg raided crap game
at 1410 E. 63d. Claris Brent stole his
coat and shoes, which he took off to
climb fire escape. Fined $25.
Members WiImette village board
postponed consideration of request of
IS youths who want to use I'd floor
of city hall for clubhouse.
Adam Webster, Evanston taxi driy-
er, arrested for driving away with
Mrs. Fred Wagner's handbag con-
tanning $500 in cash and jewelry.
Appellate court upheld decree of d.
vorce of Nine Schumann-Heink
from William Rapp, Jr,
Moy Dong Hoy held christening in
Chinatown for son. William Thomp-