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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
OBITUARY
RRIDGEr doHNsoN

Bridget, widow of Patrick Johnson, died at the home of Miss Lizzie Collins, 247 Gregory street this morn ing. Mrs. Johnson was TO years of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

A new. revolution has broken out in several cities of Portugal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15
ALMANAC FOR roDAY

ADVERTISE IN THE raRRrEEl
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15

SPECIAL SALE OF
 F E R N S JOHN RECK & so~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15

Auction Sales of Horses and Automobiles each week. Watch tomorrow's paper for list. 10, ,00o square feet of floring all under cover are heated and up to date. A big sale is booked for Friday. If you have anything you want to sell telephone me. I will have plenty of stor- age room for cars this fall. This new place you will find between John and State street. rear. Watch for the flags or call me up. I will take your consign- ment up to time of sale.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15

Schools in Pittsburgh were closed yesterday afternoon because of the heat. The temperature reached 92 de- grees.
 Hundreds of prospectors have gone to the Row Rash river section of west ern Ontario where gold was discoy- cred
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-15

ApvERTIsE IN THE FARMER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
SUNDAY LOVERS
Their Simple Lives Contribute Real Romance n
The World.

They swarm the street cars on Sundays-tbo-
pale lovers-pasty-faced lean mild-eyed Tho
always smell little of gasoline. Neat and ia
neck, and a prominent Adams apple She noostI
wears glasses. Their boots have been briuiap+Is
mended her gloves are of white cotton, very cIor
His tie is carefully arranged to hide the worn na
and his coat shows signs of repeated pressing -
They sit sedately with a good modicum of do.
light between them They obviously shv snooI
little, contemplate the awe of matrimonv IA
silence. But they are lovers, the great muItjtrd IA
ers the kind that fill our little four-room hnn0
lows and never give satan chance.
They are the great solid world-romance Thor
will buy their home on the installment plan ana
their furniture by degrees" They will have -
pale-faced baby to make the eugenists writhe He
ambition is to become head clerk" but five mon
must die before there is the remotest hone for
him. And he may lose his job yea1s before that
But she makes over her dresses, retrims her hats
with cheerful acceptance. She continues the pracS
ing of his much-pressed clothes. They live and
die in small, humble habitaton, respected MON
bers of the church, voters, citizens, parents the
source of rising population, increased valuations
of property, numerous and efficient schools" tbn
very foundation of a growing city.
Pale Sunday lovers, so unostentatious, unobtrus-
ive mild, shy we pass them by without second
glance. They figure in the newspapers
never see themselves as having entertained with
bridge luncheOns debutante parties never even
march with the Elks, parade with the knights
of something. Vice knows them not satan him
SELF has no use for them. She wears glasses and
he has indigestion, but they are the real romance
of the world.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
A Romance of the Harvest

The vast crops have in large part been har-
vested, and already the returns are so great that
dispatch from Topeka, Kan, says that the banks
of that state are actually overlooking with mon
ey," and the Emporia Gazette joyfuy notes that
1T is a great symphony of prosperity that Old
Lady Nature is directing out on the Kansas farm
Kansas does not do things by halves, either run
ming with prosperity and optimism or send
ing out a hard luck story in bad season with
more often than not barbed shaft winged against
the money power of the East. The connection
between Wall street and agricultural adversely has
never been obvious but complaints of this sort
that have been heard in the West are at least
convincing the modest claims of political
party to the authorship of plentiful rains and boun
tiful crops.
The present paean of prosperity recalls former
great crop year in Kansas, and to the Homeric
story of a wealthy farmer in that state who offered
his daughter as prize to the young able to
harvest the most wheat in given time. Farmer
Woolsey's wheat fields were yellow with heavy and
beautiful grain, but laborers scarce and capri
cious, and he was threatened with almost an en-
tire loss of his magnificent "dead-ripe' crop. In
desperation he hit upon the plan of Offering his
daughter a prize to the best harvester, where
upon young men focked to his fields from far and
near and the crop was saved, Willis Roadway
beating all rivals and winning the girl who was
only 10 and evidently winsome lass.
Had this event occurred few thousand years
earlier and in ancient Hellas it would have been
chronicled by poets and perhaps taken rank with
the race for Atlanta, if not with the laborS of
Hercules; for it was such test of strength and
manhood the old Greeks loved When the wan
dering bards Of that far time struck their harps
in the court of the androntis of Greek homes they
would have sung not merely of the voyage of the
Argonauts, the Kalydonian boar hunt the Trojan
war; not merely of the deeds of Pereus and Her.
acles Thesus and Meleager, Jason and Achilles
not merely of the early heroes of the Isthmian
Nemean, Pythian and Olympian games but per-
haps also of Willis Roadway who wrought might
lily in the wheat fields and the fair daughter
of old Woolsey-certainly imperial parent built
on the antique model of legendary romance or he
would not have been ready to risk his daughters
happiness in order to his wheat crop. Wheth-
er the herO-harvester of Kansas proved worthy of
his prize, whether it love on both sides as
well as great strength and staying power that
caused him to win, whether they lived happy ever
AFTER and have this year harvested a great crop
with their children playing about them, can only
be matter for conjecture.
But we can be that this year also has
brought measure of distinction to young farmers
who wrought nightly in the fields and that many
maids were wooed and in the course of the
busy season
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26

Emperor Franz Josef is IS years old and has
been in poor health for a long while At present
he is said to be dangerously i'll. Otherwise the
grim old ruler would doubt be at the front
with his troops.
But Kaiser Wilhelm is at the front, and the Bull
garian king will probably lead his battle vans when
they approach the line
Gar Nicholas some time ago assumed active
charge of his armies, deposing his cousin, Grand
Duke Nicholas.
The kings of Serbia and Montenegro have been
on the firing line since the began.
King Albert of Belgium led his men almost from
the first moment of hostities. King Victor EN-
manuel is fighting with his Italians
With one exception the nations mentioned belong
to the prepared class. All militaristc except
Belgium, which was forced into the against her
will, and Belgium herself not entirely devoid
of militarism
England and France more nearly represent the
ideas of nOn-preparedness as understood.
President POncaire and King George have content
ed themselves with occasional visits to the trenches
Neither of them is much of military naval
man. They know little nothing of war and its
tactics. All the other mentioned more or less
experts in the game. Perhaps the president and
the king think they be of more genuine
vice to their nations by remaining at home and at
tending to other details than actual fighting; per-
haps their close advisers believe it best.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Fakers Are Busy Again.

The temperance of all sorts of smooth-tongued
takers and peddlers which of course is a natural
consequence of the return of better prices for cot
ton, is reported by Georgia exchanges. This
gentry knows the people of Georgia have more
money than last year, and wants a good share of
it. They making their appearance in Terrell
county, which has always proven to be a fertile
field for them, and no Georgia community need be
surprised to receive visits from spectacle, buggy,
stove picture and medicine pedders and sellers of
rugs which solemnly said to be made in Per-
STA or Turkey and Struggled into this country I'M
der the of customs inspectors and a great
variety of other people of the same sort who de-
serve to make sale at all.
AS the Savannah News aptly says, the business
firms of Georgia deserve the support of all Geor-
ga people; they are here in good times and times
that are not good; they do not close up shop when
the money Of the people is scarce and then come
into the in hocks when it is more plentiful.
1t is not only fair to them, but profitable to the
people themselves to do their buying from Georgia
business men. Prices are fair, stocks are ample.
Fly-by-night takers should receive no encourage
ment in Georgia this year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Dogs Feast on The Dead.
Awful Picture in Poland. Where Children, Fed On
Water and Chalk, Are Slowly Dying

A terrible picture of the sufferings of Poland
is drawn by Nine. Paderewski wife of the world
renowned pianist, who is in this country an
pealing for funds to aid the stricken Poles
You speak of Belgium she says, but I tell
you that compared with the sufferings of Poland
Belgium is prosperous.
I'm five districts you can walk for miles without
seeing a soul, nothing, only here and there at
intervals wild dogs digging with hurried and terri
BILE eagerness little mounds of dirt that barely
ceaI the body beneath them, and once and again
birds of prey.
1T is in district, Tatnow; it is so in
Grybow, Sarnow and Gorlice, while two millions
are camping in a circle of starvation in Wroe-
awck. Our forests in Tarnow were shot to such
intinitesmal pieces, utterly demolished that
you could not find wood big enough to make
matches with.
children are fed on water and chalk and are
dying slowly. There is not drop of milk in the
whole of Poland all the cattle, to cow were
driven out The whole price is not paid when the
soldier dies. What is left is paid ten-fold by those
who may not grip death with swift release from
deaths terror, but by those who have to watch
death coming to their children before it reaches
themselves.
Americas work in relief in European suffer
ing has been wonderful in many directions but P0
land has been forgotten in the tears of Belgium,
yet of the two which has paid the dearer? Bel
GUM has friends, the Dutch helped but Poland
has none.
You Americans forget because the picture was
but dim one in the beginning. Poland needs you
now. The winter is coming and 20, 1000, 900 women
and children are homeless and without food
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
The Wars Cost In Money.

There is considerable discussion by the press DIS
10 the aggregate daily cost of the European war TO
tba contesting nations, and a disposition to place
the figure at approximately $75OOOOOO day is
evident.
This seems entirely too conservative. me cost
70 ENGLAND alone is One-third of that amount Ger
many has not been wont to rush into print as to
what it is costing her. but it is known to be greater
than the English expenditure. In the early days
Of the war the daily cost to France was greater
than to England though this is no longer true
R1lssias daily outlay is tremendous on account OF
her huge army, but, at that, it is smaller than
Great Britain's. Italy certainly must be spending
several millions day, and the same is probably
true of Austria Hungary and Turkey. Serbia and
Montenegro are tiny kingdoms, but it is costing
them something to fight
Taken all in all, it seems to us that $lOO,OOO,-
600 per day would be a fairly safe estimate
This is 81 900, 600 every ten days or $1,000
900, 900 per month.
The figures involved staggering and one won
ders how much further the can proceed before
the nations which are fighting are entirely fnan-
cially bankrupt, to say nothing of the constant
drain on available fighting men. And beyond finan-
cial exhaustion there hovers another grim and I'M
deniable probabity-the utter exhaustion of cred
it, When money is gone and credit has followed
xvha
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Sins of the Movies.
From the New York Sun.

A correspondent of the Sum- with many others
Of discrimination, finds danger in the moving pct-
ures through the scenes of physical violence which
enacted. This form of entertainment has both
merits and dement's Fiction is uninteresting I'M
less novel and active in progress but it should be
confined to the limits of possibilities. All of the
episodes in the reels constituting serials in score
of presentations are prepOsterous in the extreme,
but seemingly not so recognized by the mild lmDe-
Giles who thrilngly applaud The main actors
of both sexes made to ignore the harbreadth
escapes from previous dangers and dumbly fall into
new and clumsy traps set by shallow villains VINO
invent elaborate death dealing devices instead OF
employing the speedier time hOnored means EV-
erybody is lacking in common precaution, and act
ing impulse does everything precisely wrong
and seemingly calculated to get themselves mo
trouble from which in real life there would be no
way out. All of the portraitures are based upon
impulse and impestuous conduct which are the
mainsprings of human mental agony. The attrac-
ton of the hero and heroine is solely OF the uheA
during physical order
No real high life that is rational conduct is pre-
sented. People of recognized consequence DO MOT
visit cabarets attend such card parties dances anu
the variety of cheap costly affairs shown.
Neither are there any Wallets to be found III In'
country except those in attendance on those phys
icaly incapacitated, while ladies maids are ABOUT
as scarce These two frequently in the pictures
and conduct themselves with un-American ODsequi-
BUSINESS and treated by their actor employers
with vulgar hauteur. All the scenes tend to cur
vate snObbishness and an envy of the dIsplaSeu
wealth which many in the audience do not releIn
Der artificial presen tatiOns and they 40 mo-
know that the real lady or gentleman is rehneu
modest and always under reasonable restraint =,
1t is on the above objections that the puIe!!
farcical movie in its intended prepOsterOusneSS ID
preferable to one of silly sentimentality.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
An American Patriot.

Mr.. William H. Taft has recently made the
declaration that he will not be candidate for
president next year. We are glad Mr.. Taft will
not be a candidate. In common with thousands of
other democratic newspapers The News has East
respect for him a citizen and patriot. He is
a high-minded gentleman, whose splendid charac-
terstics have been emphasized since he left the
executive mansion. striking contrast is afforded
between Mr. Taft and Mr.. ROoseyelt-the one en-
deavoring to uphold the hands of the present adj
ministrauon in its difficult foreign policy, and the
other running verbally amuck making a spectacle
OF himself.
Some newspaper said recently that Mr.. Taft is an
American first and then a republican. OF course
as the latter he has an inalienable right to stand
Tor the presidency if he wants to; but We hope he
VIII not want to. and that his mind is made up.
no republican be elected in the forthcoming
contest, and Mr.. Taft is one man We would regret
10 see 90 down in defeat
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
A Common Sense View.

There are those who are opposed to the $780,
600, 900 loan to the allies. and among them, no
doubt, are some who are producers of agricultural
crops large part of which will be exported to the
allied nations. They have not stopped to think
that if the credit of these nations is allowed to dis
appear there will be huge loss to American crop
producers whose sales of exports will necessarily
be curtailed discretionary.
Another view of this matter and very sensible
and conservative one, is the following from an
interesting editorial in the Saint Louis Times,
which is decidedly pro-German in sentiment:
Both Germany and Great Britain are float
ing war loans in this country, and man who
doesn't wish to buy German or English bonds
isn't compelled to do so. The man who wants
to buy German or English bonds should have
the right to spend his money as he wishes
The above paragraph is significant. Here is
newspaper which would be glad to see Germany
win, and whose sympathies are avowedly against
the allies; but the Times believes in looking at the
loan logically and with plain common sense. We
commend this utterance of of the leading pro-
German newspapers in the United States to those
of our people who believe a great sin against neu-
trality has been committed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Tourists Millions Kept at Home.

The secretary of the interior says that it is
not at all improbable that the expenditures of
American tourists abroad, including the eXtrava-
gancies of multi-monares, fell not far short OF
$500, 100000 year before the war. He subscrbes
to $2OO0OO00O a very conservative minimum
of the amount spent in hotel bills, transportation,
gratuities and the other usual expenses of travel
The difference represents the money expended on
souvenirs, gifts clothing, jewelry, art objects and
other luxuries. The imports of art objects into
this country have averaged $40,O00,0OO annually
for the last few years and have gone as high as
100000 900 some years, The war has caused an
immense contraction in this foreign expenditure,
and quite apart from the expenditure for which
value is received this side there is great saw
ing to America The hotel keepers and transpor-
tation agencies of the United States are benehtng
by the misfortunes of their brethren in Europe
And the American tourist is helped to a better
knowledge and desirability of his own country
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Too Many Reformers.
BY James Galloway.

What Bishop Gambler says is worth reading.
He recently said:
For one, | am tired of the revoutionists who
call themselves 'reformers | weary of the
men who would pull down our system of govern
ment in order to correct evils which lie beyond the
utmost of the Wisest legislators and the most
skilfully framed legislation. | cannot follow men
who know no way to get the rats out of the barn
except by burning it to the ground. What need
is not more prObings but more pety; not revolu-
ton, but religion 1t is not big business, but bad
business that We should fear, and will have bad
business by individuals and corporations despite
congresses and courts until the nation is Christian
in fact well as in name
One error the 'reformers'' commit. So frequent
ly they employ men whose moral and political char
acter do not appeal to thinking people. Here at
our own home have been subjected to moral
orations from men whose own lives and methods
are not above reproach. Those trying to reform
others should have clean records.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Enforcement, Not More Laws.

The trouble is not so much lack OF laws as lack
of enforcement of those already existing
The legislatures of the states meet at reg
intervals and clutter up the statute books with
new laws, seemingly possessed OF teVerlsh ueSre
70 show their constituents that the legislative mem
hers are keeping busy; and these statute DooAs
wears ago became filled to oyerfowng win laws
50 numerous that many of them have oeeh loI-
gotten. , Co.
There are plenty Of laws, ana nave OeeH i0'
wears There are more than enough laws on the
hots 70 RIM every state in the union as it should
ba r,n. The trouble is lack of law observance
The citizen who endeavOrs to scrupulously observe
all laws already passed will find himself dong
sort of mental and moral skirt dance in an eHort
to keep up.
Less passing of new laws and more obeylns Oh
those already passed will solve any question that
needs solving.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Makes Cotton Grow Faster
From the New York World.

Results of revolutionary character in cotton
growing have followed experiments of Prof Will
liam Beecroft Bottomley at Kew Gardens, London,
with bacterized peat Prof Bottomey occupies
the chair of botany in the University of London,
Kings College, and several months ago he explain
ed in the columns of the World the marvellous re-
suits he had obtained from experiments with bac-
terized peat flowers and vegetables.
At the suggestion of the World he consented to
experiment with cotton. He has found that cot
ton grown in soil treated with bacterized peat at
tains maturity much sooner than when grown in
ordinary soil and is superior in quality.
Prof. Bottomley's experiments for the past year
have been watched with increasing interest, and
the attention of parliament has been drawn to them
with view to the possible widespread adoption
of his method. He has demonstrated that farming
can be revolutonized by the of bacterized peat
Many fine golf green's in the United States have
been treated thus.
In addition to ordinary plant food constituents
there is present in bacterized peat substance
which stimulates growth wonderfully. This sub
stance is soluble in water and is very effective
in the smallest quantities.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Saluting the Flag.

After this New York policemen will salute the
nag OF the United States whenever they pass it
OF 1t passes them. They are to show the citizens
1hey serve living examples of an outward tribute
to the emblem
II wouldn't hurt any of US if we followed the
example Of the New York policemen In the rush
anu nury-burly OF modern day existence we are
apt 10 forget the Importance which really attaches
TO the flag Of our country
Old Glory, with all its priceless traditions, is
certainty worth the effort required in the lifting of
hat
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Suffragists Badly Beaten.

The ant-sufragists won big victory in New
Jersey and the movement for votes for women
received a decided setback The fact that Presi-
dent Wilson favored and voted for equal suffrage
did not have the influence for the cause that its
advocates anticipated and the result is, of course
a bitter disappointment to suffrage workers in that
state not only, but everywhere else. Suffrage lead
ers in New Jersey cannot be charged with fail
ure to do their best for they talked, they sang
they toured about in automobiles and used all
sorts of things from toy balloons to sandwiches
to attract attention to their cause and win votes
for il
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-10-26
Shooting Tor Rain.
From the YOUTHS Companion.

At a recent meeting of the Royal Meteorologlcdsi
Society DR.. H. R. MILL director of the Brust
Rainfall Organization, discredited the theory 'n 10
the firing at the seat of war was the cause OF LLo
heavy rainfalls of last winter. Those who aTsu0
that cannonadng causes rain assert that the con
cussion shakes the air and thus precipitaleS tat
moisture in the clouds. If that theory is cOI5e IN
the precipitation should occur Immediately anu .ba
the within which the explosions shake up s
air strata. AS matter of fact the lack OF r ralA
in the western during the months oI o
tember October, March and April was noICeat5
and unusual In the way, he said peoplG IoT
attributed the exceptional wetness of the VIZ Ig
of 1903 to the general adoption of wireless Iii
raphy. The fact that the winter of 1872 VIZ" LIS
was long before the use of Hertzan waves "
notably wet, and that no year since 1908 ha mas in
nearly wet in spite of the enormous lneIea ab an
autobiography, shows the inaccuracy OF su0n
explanation.