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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

Application to organize the Citizens National Bank, Of Bloomsbury, N. J., capital $5o.0eo, was received by the Controller of Currency.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

E1iphalet Johnson, ninety-eigh years of age, widely known as and Indian fighter in the frontier days of the middle west, died in Dresden, Kan
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

August Martin of Jersey City was murder of his two brothtrs-in-law
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

The Bergen County, N. J., Board of Freekolders appropriated $14, GOO to aid in mosquito extermination
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

$1.25 and $1.5O black veavetta cov-
 cred hats .,.... .1...... 25c All velvet covered hats formerly
 priced from s2.OO to $7.oO now less than half prices.
 sas5O trimmed hats ........ s4Sc $500 trimmed hats ...i........ 98c S4.OO trimmed hats ....... $1.4s Sz .OO trimmed hats AS $1O.OO trimmed hats $S.4S All trimmed hats formerly priced
 from S12.0O to $5O.00 now $s.sS to $14.OO.
 200 all silk ribbons ....... 1Oc yd soc all silk ribbons ...... 1850 yd soc all silk ribbons x. .s.... 25c yd Marabout nnuffs and capes less than
 half prices
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

An epidemic of smallpox is sweep ing Vienna, causing Emperor Franz Josef and members of the court to flee the city, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

Dominic MargoId, aged Is, was shot to death in Cleveland by Joseph Fin dura, grocer. The boy was stealing bread.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

The threatened strike at the Read Iron Go. plant at Reading, Pa, was ayeEted by the acceptance by pudd1ers and helpers of a cut in wages from s5 to $4.50 a ton
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

Four persons were overcome by gas in their home in Philadelphia. when a. meter thief broke the gas pipe.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

The aerial of the big wireless sta ton at Sayville, L. l., was damaged bJ the heavy snowstorm in New, ork.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05
FIR soAREs FIR M11FI

FUR
 is wolf and many other urs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

Eastman Kodak Co. declared an ex mon stock.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

Viscount North1and, son of the Earl of Ranfurly, a descendent of William Penn, died of wounds received at La Bassees where he served in the Cold stream Guards.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

 yca capta
  New ennau off his dynamite Canadian  actSva an acof
  gh Ito s n errnan here
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

The Federal Employment Bureau bflis was .favorablys reported by ys-st the House committee.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

MT. and Mrs. Richard Fray of Will Iiston street are rejoicing over the ar rival of a, ten pound baby boy. Mir. Fray. is employed in the needle de- I partment of the Singer Manufacturing leo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05
ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY

The Gibbs loom factory at Leices- ter, Mass, was burned with a loss Of i$1oo, 900.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

The board Of directors of the r. w
 c. A. met this afternoon at the home of Mrs.E W. BirdseYe, 753 Fairfield avenue Flor a tea at which the work
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

Many of the unemployed are per
 fectly willing to work. if they can have za sit-down job.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

v nile meat is reported a little cheap CT, prudent people keep the beef bone in their tin box along with their eou- pon bonds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05

The annual tea of the Bridgeport La dies Charitable society will be held on Thursday afternoon of next week at the. home of Mrs. Hamilton s. Shel- l ton, 1.464 Fairfield avenue. The so- ciety is 100 years of age and included Isthe ladies of many of the representa- tive families of the city among it's members.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05
SOCIAL ArsD PERSONAL


 Miss Margaret F. Somerset, head of the French department of the Bridge port High school, is chairman of the committee on. modern languages for the 24th annual meeting of the Con- necticut Association of the Classical and High School Teachers which will be held in the New Haven High school on Saturday, February 27
 The meeting on modern Languages will be held insroom TOT, second floor of the building, and Rev. Howard La Field of this city will make an address on saThe Desert of Modern I4anguages.'' .'' Rev. I.aFfeld is of the German depart rnent of the local High school Other speakers on this program are E. N. Wilson, formerly principal of High school. Areclbo, Porto Rico. who will talk on s"Teaching Modern Languages | in Porto Rico and Professor Kenneth Mckenzie, of Yale University whose topic is saThe Claims of English on the Teachers of Foreign. Languages in 1Connecticut."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-05
AFTER INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE

Saturday will be greatest Bargain Day year Extraordinary cleanup Millinery Ribbons, Flowers Shirt Waists, Pettcoats Long Cloth Coats price.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
LOOK TO YouRsELE

Today is the day to take stock Of
yourself, not mentally or morally but
physically. 1t is Medical EXamina-
ton Day" designated as such by the
hoard of health, which thinks that
every one of us no matter how we'll
we may feel should let a doctor look
us over once a year Says the health
board.
mo engineer who understands ls
business thinks Of keeping his engine
running continuously without an oc-
sasional Oyerhauling He does not
wait until it breaks down The hu-
man body is a very complicated and
delicate machine yet lots of peo le
seem to think it can get along with
out any attention whatever
There is no doubt shat most vhrln-
&c diseases can be prevented if caught
in tine A doctor often can detect
symptoms long before the laynan
notices them, and it is wise pre-
cautionary measure to give a physi-
clan chance to look you over once
every twelve months 1t isn't Qucs-
tiou Of looking tor trouble but of
seeking to avoid it, If every one in
New York observed Medical EXami-
nation Day the doctors probably
would have less to do the balance of
the year and the city would be much
better OF for il in many ways
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
Health Talks
Break II Gently To The Coal Man
BY WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

A MEAT MARKET proprietor
~ who recently had occasion to
diminish the size Of his
market by one-half and eoonomize in
other sensible ways, gave out as the
reason for this contraction a state
ment alleging thai people were eat
ing less meat than they did a few
years ago; that the doctors are to
blame for the falling of in the
demand
That is encouraging. DR.. Osler's
dictum is at last accepted-we eat
too much.
Now let's get after the coal man.
He enjoys a monopoly in COM
modify Of which We consume more
than is good for us. There is no
doubt that most Of us keep our
dwellings too warm. 1t is high
time to inaugurate propagandum
against the coal man.
The coal man looks with feelings
of sadness upon the fad of sleeping
on the upstairs porch. He is no
ardent advocate Of the open-air
schoOl-roOm, nor the tent wards for
the treatment of pneumonia, nor the
outdoor treatment of anemia, nerv-
Gus trouble, tuberculosis and con-
yalescence in general.
Coal dealers used to have a father
ly liking COR thermometers. They
even sent little thermometers around
to old and prospective customers as
a souvenir of the Happy New Year.
But the propagandUm against the
catching cold deuson has changed
all this. Coal dealers these days
send customers nothing but the bill.
1t seems that people have been abus-
ing the thermometers. Formerly
everybody endeavored to see how
high the mercury could be kept with
out breaking the glass; now the aver
age householder tries to keep his
living-rooms at the lowest possible
temperature consistent with physical
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
TIE GOOD OLD WAY

Salem Journal Some intelligent
women were discussing methods oil
education, old and neS strangely
enough or, perhaps, naturally enough
for there is apt to be reaction from
one extreme OF thought to another
the concensus Of opinion seemed to
be that some of the old methods we're
not so far wrong after ALL
II IS all well enough to talk about
making work pleasant and allowing
the child to express himself in his
work and play These and good
many other kindred phases sound
well.
But these women agreed that there
is still place for the old learning
by rote" system Of acquiring knoWl-
edge
when it comes to multiplication
tables for instance, the most direct
and cffectual method is to learn by
heart-to repeat and repeat a given
combination until the answer he
comes merely a reflex action. lot
OF this sort of mental equipment r.
necessary to all o. us, and the 1nlV
way 10 get IT is by hard work-Iust
o'd.fashioned drill Or drudeery, if you
want TO call it that
But little drudgery isn't bad for
ANYBODY; and whether II is good or
bad for us, life holds lot of it for
most everyone All who have achiev-
ed much have known drudgerN and
did not shrink from it.
It is a good deal like the problem
OF mastering music or art; technique
is attained only through hard drill
and drudgery After technique is
gained indiyduality If there is any
will express itself in rich harmonies
OF sounds and colors-but not before.
The learning to do things thoro1eh-
lv is the soul of real education The
training Of ones self to do wen
whatever is to be done is the first
half of high achievement
Drll means discipline as well as
drudgery and discipline is another
word which everyone has to learn the
meaning Of sooner or later, and the
sooner the better
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
PLACE OE HONOR

French and English soldiers have
been driven from Serbia and the
Irish troops OF the British army were
accorded the honor of bringing mp
the rear and defoudne the stragslers,
who are making most mastery re-
treat.
For .wo hundred years John Bail
has graciously accorded an eXccp-
tional uonor to his Irish troops.
He has permitted them 10 lead for
lorn hopes, to scale the heights of
death and to guard the rear and face
the enemy. but in times of peace the
survivors We're denied the right Of
selfgoyernment and remained autom-
atoms of the crown
This is the reason why men Of Gel
tic blood the world over hate oppres-
sion and the war lords Of these mon
arcb-ridden countries The bones OF
these specially honored Irish troops
VIII wniten in the Balkan passes. and
when the summer sun comes hanks
o. hare and rusted buttons Of their
uniforms will be their monuments.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
Vest Pocket ESSAYS
Poetry
BY GEORGE FITCH

" OETRY is the science of teach
ing thought to shake it's feet.
- 1t is one of the oldest of human
habits. but has spread greatly in late
years. Whereas at one time poets
were so scarce that One poet was
passed around among thousand
manors, they are now so plentiful
that one editor has to be passed
around among thousand poets.
Poetry has existed since the time
of Homer, blind man, who peddled
verses considerably B. c. A great
many critics declare that the quality
Of poetry has not improved since
then However the sale has i'm
proved greatly since Homer was in
the business, Homer had to beg his
bread, while Rudyard Kipling now
has his metrical grouches cabled all
over the world as pure reading mat
ter and gets a thousand dollars
grumble with bonus if it Is against
the United States.
In the very early days poets had to
carve their verses on stone with a
mallet and chisel. This was a
splendid idea and kept down the out
put very nicely as it took a poet a
whole day to knock out a single line
Later on, however, ink was invented
and since then poets have gotten en-
tirely beyond control. The output has
increased enormously and unruly and
egregious poets are causing great dis
particularly in England since
the war anG Harold Begbic began.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
Current Poetry
Weird War Chants

lFrom British officers letter in
the London SPECTATOR
have heard lot of weird war
chants already. One runs to the
tune of "The Milky Cocoanut,"
which you may know:
Coo-oo-oolness under fire.
COo-oO-oolness under fire.
Mentioned in dispatches for
Drinking the company rum.
Coo-oolness under fire!
Then the little chanson du occur,
Il Want to Go Home"
] want to 90 home: (bis)
The coal-boX and shrapnel they
whistle and roar,
! don't want to go to the trenches
no more
] want to 90 over the sea,
Where the Kaiser cant throw
bombs at me.
P-o-o-o-o-h! aye.
! don't want TO die. T..
81 Want to Go Home"
There is another song called
l1e-a -aye-ee-aye-O oh, really one OF
those cumulative farmyard songs.
but these Welshman sing other
verses besides to it. They have:
Now old Won Kluck he had a lot of
men,
Ee-aye-C o-aYe-Oh!
hnd every man he had little gun,
Ee-aye-ee-aye-oh!
With a ping ping" here,
And a ping ping" there,
And here a ping" and there a
ping" ping pinging"
verywhere.
It's old Won Kluck he had a lot OF
men.
Ee-aye-ee-aye-oL,
On the march, amid other weird
and wonderful songs, they have a
haDit Of breaking out with:
Three cheers for the Vaterlandi
Ock, Ock, Ock!
Mein GOtt!
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
Beans

Beans
Beans are what some people don't
know, about anything.
Also they are what you spill when
you bungle.
The human bean is the most
erratic bean there is,
Especially when stewed.
The Mexican bean has been writ
ten about a great deal by botanists.
But there's nothing in it.
That Is, Judging by the samples
of Mexican brain work we've seen
lately.
One might easily be led to be-
!ieve, from the militaristic tendency
down there, that the Mexican bean
and the army bean are one and the
same.
But they are not.
They are bush beans-ambush
beans largely.
Even as vegetable beans swell
when they are stewed, SO does the
human bean
Doesn't It?
There is a mescal bean growing
in Mexico that provides one of the
most highly-spoken-of dry iags that
we have ever noticed. (West Nir-
ginia papers please copy)
No regular Indians happiness is
quite complete without a pocket
full of that spiritf fruit.
In California, where they raise
more Lima beans than they do in
Lima, o., or anywhere else, they
. .,-ftI !,
a French" dinner which also in
cludes a bottle of dark-red ink,
"frijoles."
Boston is where you run the
baked bean to its lair.
In fact, they usually come in lay
ers, alternated with fat pork
Beans are held in great ridicule
in the kitchen
The cook is always stringing
them.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
EACrS EOR suEEERERs

Pain results from injury or con-
gestiou. Be it neuralgia, rheun.a-
tism, lumbago, neuritis, t)othache,
spraiu. bruise, sore stiff muscles or
whatever pain you have Yields TO
Sloans brings new fresh
blood, dissolyes the congestion. re-
lieyes the injury the circulation is
rec and YOUR pain leaves as if by
magic. The nature Of its qualities
penetrates Immediately to the sore
spot Don keep on suffering Get
a bottle Of S'oan's Liniment Use it,
II means instant relief Price &c
and soc S10o hottie holds six times
ss much as the 25c. size.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
Peoples Legal Friend
SiIent Divorce Suits
BY E. r. BRANSON

The quietest divorce trial ever
conducted in Nevada took place at
Winnemucca. Not a word was
spoken to or by the plaintiff. Both
parties were deafmutes.
A wealthy landowner sued his
wife, Rebecca, alleging desertion in
October, 1910. They were mar
ried in November, 1909. She wrote
this note and handed it to him:
Il can't stand living with you
any longer. | wish you would
leave here-Becca The plaintiffs
attorney placed before him writ
ten list of necessary questions, and
the court waited while he wrote his
answers to each.
A similar case was tried in De-
troit. Working his fingers and
facial expression almost unceasing-
ly, deaf-mute told the judge how
his wife, who also is mute, scold-
ed and otherwise abused him. The
story was told through a deaf in
terpreter. The deaf-mute won his
suit.
Another witness, also a deaf
mute, told of things coming under
his observation, and none of his
testimony was objected to as being
merely hearsay! The clerk admin
istered the oath in his loudest tones
TO the deaf Interpreter, who in
turn worded it on his fingers to the
witnesses. Asked to give his ad~
dress, the complainant rapidly
spelled and gestured something
with his right hand. The inter
prefer, with a qui2zical look on his
face, turned to the Judge and re-
marked, Funny, but / never heard
of that street and the Judge
smiled and said he rad not, either
When the Witness showed how
his wife threw bottle at his head,
eYerybOdy dueked !-St lccted.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
Views Of The I Press
''Preceding The Hounds ;

T~HE bloodhound ranks as one
Ci the Oldest ii not the
i oldest a' all breeds of dogs
an frow time immemor'al his
wonderful power OF scent, pos
sessed in such marked de-
gree by u other breed, has been
made the sriloct of prose and verse.
In bygoEa ae a hound of the blood
hound type Was used in war; iii later
times they lave been used for the
detection OF -neep stealers and Other
miscreant
They are mentioned in history Az
ter the Battle of Sedgmoor the Duke
Of Monmouth was tracked by blood
hounds which were the means o.
his capture. Robert Bruce, the
defeated King Of Scotland, also was
followed by these hounds, bu' no
possessed q close and intimate
knowledge Of their characteristics
and baflled theW by wading down
a stream, eventually drawing hiu-
self mp into tree b. the aid of
friendly branch, and thus eluded
capture 1t IS recorded, however,
that the hounds tracked HIM to a
ditch.
As late as the reign of James l.,
slough hound, as they were then
called, We're used to track criminals,
and frequently deserting troopers,
Whhe in the days Of slavery it is
well known that a species Of these
hounds not the gentle beast we now
know. were Kept by slave dealers
g. , A.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

comfort. For It is getting noised
about that the warmer the atmos-
phere of living apartments, the better
for cold" microbes and catarrhal
troubles; the cooler, and hence the
more moisture in tho air, the
healthier for everybody Ia the house,
hold, from baby to grandma.
This sort Of movement the coal
dealer has no patience with at all.
Good common sense hygiene like
our grandmothers practised is good
enough for him-meaning an aver
age household temperature of about
eighty degrees, and the air as dry
and lifeless as the Desert of Sahara.
Careful scientific experiments have
shown that the fulness, fatigue and
listlessness that comes on in n room
Where the air is "close" and foul, is
largely, perhaps wholly, due to
warmth and absence of a draft. Sub
tects confined in an air-tight apart
ment felt all the depressing effects
Of bad air after a reasonable time,
but when electric fans and external
cooling Of the air were started,
without admitting a breath of fresh
air, the symptoms disappeared and
the confined subjects felt greatly re-
freshed. Sixty degrees is about
normal.
There are hard times ahead for the
coal man.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

Berlin has lost 100000 male popula
tion since war began. So says the
Bsrliner Tagezlatt. The present pop
ulation is 1889 800 and more than
million OF these are women The dis
ctepaney will be partly made up af-
ter the war, but the figures are a
prophecy of what war viii do to all
Europe. There will be for a genera
ton to come large excess OF fe-
male population
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

Miss Billie Burke is a wizardess.
She must be one of the brainiest
women in the world If she isn't
why is she to receive $l50,000 for
facing battery of movie cameras
twenty weeks President Wilson re-
ceipes $4,000 a year. Billie receives
twice that sum for twenty weeks
posing. Genius is highly priced in
this land of the free.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

poetry from prose by the way he
jerks and jumps while reading it.
Shakespeare was great poet, and
so were Tennyson, Byron and Goethe.
One of the greatest requisites for po-
etic greatness is to be dead. The
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

Henry Ford is a good old scout and
appears to be willing to take a
gamblers chance at all times, and his
latest wager is the Oscar II against
an English penny that the boys will
be out Of the trenches by Christmas. ,
Has Henry a poker face? He is long
on nerve even if he is short on iudg
ment concerning war lords and their
neace nrocliyities,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
)fAgin!OnAgini
cSTRlCKlNDlW GlLULMo

The Paved-STeet Town
In fitting DER the country, with the
hiker's ups and downs,
One sees a lot of villages, OF ham
lets, burgs and towns.
One promptly disremembers what
their names are, like as
An alphabetic lit OF them would
burden one lot.
But one OF them will always be
upon ones mind engraved
The brisk and busy village where
the streets were neatly
paved!
The others we're a sea of mud in
rain-in drought we're dust;
One simply won't remember such a
town unless he must.
The dirty, bumpy, rutty roads that
made its thoroughfares,
If in ones mind they linFer long,
are redolent Of "swears
But he'll remember that one where
the tightwads all were
braved
BY enterprising citizens who got the
highways paved!
Wheneer leave the bigger town
and settle in some place
Where city-weary man may strike
gentler. smoother pace,
VIII pick out a wqllow where the
streets are Jumps and ruts?
A score or more pish-tushes and an
avalanche of tuts!
I'll HE me to that burg by which
my fancy was enslaved-
The self-respecting, growing place
whose thoroughfares are
paved.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

mo one is living all right unless
he so lives that whoever meets him
goes away more confident and Joy
GUS ior the contact" says the Cotton
and Cotton oil News. Why this
rude rompng on the bill collector?
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

,GIouse Democrats are reported to
be in favor of extension of the emer-
gency tax one year, to December 81,
1arS. but as It will be as much need
ed the next year and will have to be
extended again, why make two bites
Of a cherry? DO you think it would
be easier for them TO explain during
the campaign next fall II only one
year had to be accounted for?
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

The Emperor of japan has paid
visit to the tomb of the founder of
his dynasty, 5000 years ago If some
Of our proud Emperors in Europe
were to do the same thing they would
have to visit a cave.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Grace DisQraced

Q. Are days Of grace for the pap
ment Of notes, drafts and other forms
Of commercial paper recognized in
all the StdteSP
A. No. In some states days OF
grace have been abolished.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

Mr.. Branson will be glad to answer all
questions. II your question is OF general
interest 1t will be answered through these
columns If not 1t will be answered per.
sonally II stamped. addressed envelope 10
enclosed. Address all letters to e X.
Branson, care Of this newspaper.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

1t is a great advertisement for Am
erican shoes in Europe. that Ambas-
sador Gerard makes diplomatic is
sue of his inability to get a pair for
his ambassadorial feet
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-12-18

The Lawton Constitution says that
many business men are fearing that
the town will be ruined if the law Is
enforced and observes that obedience
to law never yet in the history of the
world ruined town.