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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
New York Stock
 Exchange Quotations

Reported over the private wires of l. L. Watson & Co.,. Bankers and Brokers, Corner Main and John Stxe Bridgeport. Conn. Members of NeU sOrk Stock Exchanzo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08

Two hundred delegates attended the opening session of the New York State Fish, Game and Forest League at Buffalo. N. Y.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08

''The Camera Man." by Francis Arnold Collins.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-08
BOSTON srocKA

Boston 1S2D ?. m. Prices Reported Over FKfvate Wfre of T. L.
 Watson q Go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
FARM HOME INFORMANT.

Farm efficiency is not by any means
found altogether in the fields. says
Farm Life. 1t is largely in the farm
home. That is the heart of the farm.
1t is where the power is generated.
The farmers family is worth more to
acres are titled solely for the mainte-
nance of the home. Consciously. or
unconsciously, all the labor and man.
agement are directed for the comfort
and independence-the happiness-of
the home. If the machinery of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
SIDE TALK S
An OId-Fashioned Child.
ny RUTH CAMERON

Do you like to read diaries. famous
ones, 1 mean? In the same proper
ton that I love to read biograp hies
must confess L don't care for
diaries.
An effort to read Madam OAR
bIays "reminiscences has reminded me
of, and confirmed me in this preju
dice. Nevertheless, 1 want to tell
you today about the one thing that
deeply interested me in that book.
And that was Frances Burney's at
titude toward her father.
Frances Burney spent a large por-
ton of her waking time doing cleri-
cal work for her father, a musician
and writer of some small note. Her
own novels were crowded into the
spare moments
Yet, in her intimate diary there is
never a hint of resentment or rebel
lion. never a suspicion of her own su-
periority.
And everywhere there is the most
wonderful filial humility.
1 have copied out some passages
because 1 want some of the young
people of the present day to see
them.
Her father returns from a jour
ney, and she writes:
THE moment he arrived 1 forgot
everything but the pleasure of seeing
him. He was more kind more affec-
tionate than ever, if posi- BILE"
Again, without any special occa-
sion, she breaks out in this rhapsody
remember. she did not expect her
father to see the daryl:
How strongly, how forcibly do l
feel to whom I owe all the earthly
happiness 1 enjoy. 1t is to my father,
to this dearest, most amiable, this best
beloved, most worthy of men, it is
his goodness to me which makes all
appear so gay, it is his affection which
makes my sun shine
But the entry most interesting is
this. Her sister had been very i'll
apparently with pneumonia, they
called it inflammation of the lungs)
she had nursed her and had written
to tell her father and mother, who
were absent. One entry of the diary
is full of anxiety, the next of graf
itude. The sister is better and my be-
loved papa and mamma have both
written to us quite kindly
Quite kindly. Fancy.
When 1 was a newspaper woman
| 1 went to interview a new-elected
mayor. In his elation he repeated a
certain statement several times. The
| last time the eldest daughter spoke
| pertly up, Say it again, papa"
I thought of that experience when
I read of Frances Burney and her
Copyright by George Mat
| thew Adams.)
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home runs smoothly, if the occupants
of the home are contented-then the
farm is efficient and prosperous All
this is so true that it sounds trite. Ev-
erybody knows it, you say. Yet ev-
erybody forgets it, part of the time.
Some of US forget it all the time. The
crops and the livestock and the ma
chinery of the fields become too i'm
portant for us. We become almost
idolatrous. We sacrifice the fine spirit
of the home to the uncaring fields.
We have a dim idea, perhaps, that we
are working for the ultimate good of
the home. We are skimping and slav-
ing now. so that by and by we may be
independent and comfortable. We
might reverse the statement and be
nearer the truth: Let us be happy,
now, so that in the future we may be
prosperous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.]
Too often bad motives are attached
to good acts
The hardest work an industrious
man can do is nothing.
Stage carpenters make more hits
than the high salaried stars.
But, oh. when loves young dream
develops into a matrimonial night
marei
A man isn't necessarily a manufac-
turer because he's always on the make.
It takes a woman to make every
word tell when it comes to imparting
secrets.
Some men are as anxious to get into
the limelight as some others are to
dodge it.
Many a so called charitable man
draws the line when it comes to buy
ing his wife new clothes.
When a girl under Is is ambitious
to become an actress it's up to her
mother to do movie stunt with her
slipper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LF'rom the Atchison Globe.l
bet if you lose.
A good resolution is the easiest thing
in the world to forget.
Some of those who are easily shock
ed go around looking for shocks.
When some people talk of liberty,
they are thinking of a license to raise
hell.
Being a little better than the aver
age in your line means a lot in salary.
There has never been a time or a
place where congregational singing
was any too good.
What people don't know sometimes
arouses their curiosity and hurts them
until they find it out.
Wishing to give credit where credit
is due, 1t may be said that some of the
bores are very polite about it.
In one respect the only difference
between a parrot and the average
woman is that the parrot is Gagged.
The crowned heads of Europe are
not so numerous as the fat heads,
alhto they may belong in the same
class.
Strange how a man can rememb her
the occurrences of his childhood and
forget the events of day before yester-
day.
To be all that you hope to be, you
must follow the example of the anna
teur pianist and practice a few hours
each day.
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United States. which produces three
fourths of the mineral oil of the world.
but because of our superior facilities
for refining and marketing the prod
uct; and this is also true of the mil
lion dollars worth of copper imported
in 1916.
The chief exports to Mexico are
manufactures, including machinery,
railway and mining supplies, pipes and
fittings, pumps and pumping machin-
cry, wire, miscellaneous manufactures
of iron and steel, boots and shoes, and
other manufactures of leather. cotton
goods, coal. wheat and flour, meat and
dairy products and cottonseed oil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15

News from Long Branch states that
the results of the Maine election have
started a boom in contributions to the
Democratic campaign fund and also
given the Democrats an awakening
that they needed. OF course, this
news item should not be construed by
any one as suggesting that the Demo-
Gratis have any idea that the forthcom-
ing presidential election is one tina.
might be purchased with cold cash.
Happily those days. and such political
ideas are of the past and dead in this
country. But the Democrats surely
did not go into the present presidential.
campaign with any idea that a victory
for their candidate was assured and
that it would be an easy one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

In contemplating an amendment to
The states constitution which will per
NIT Kansas to go into the highway i'm
provement business, or good roads
building activities as a state and with
state funds, the good road boosters of
the Sunflower state are finally started
In the right direction and the only
one that will make possible the devel-
opment of a system of really good
roads in this commonwealth. Had
Kansas done this thing a decade ago,
the state would have a fairly excellent
and extensive system of good roads
by this time, and their cost would not
have been much larger, if any, than
the amount of money that has been
dissipated and practically wasted on
the roads of Kansas in the same Pc
Rod under the defective system OF
road improvement by counties and To-
calities that has always been in opera
ton in Kansas. and practically the
only system that is possible under one
of the decidedly peculiar provisions OF
the Kansas constitution.
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a figure stood before her she iookeo
up, half hopefully. 1t was her fatner-
''Where's Dick?' he asked
Hes gone" Her voice was uu..
.sTJe-he leaves for Panama tomor-
row.
was silent
"why?" he questioned finally, :,
Because I wouldn't marry hlm
She tried to speak bravely, but SOD
caught in her throat
Don't you love him
.'I thought 1 didn't. but 1 do. on.
faddy daddy! Suddenly she buried
her face in his shoulder and sobbed
quietly He waited until the sobbinS
sad spent itself, and then he spoke
softly.
would you like to go home?
Yes, any place where 1 can be by
myself
iscence in his eyes.
you'll have to wait for ten minutes,
or So" he said. 81 must see a man on
business. But I'll be back just as soon
as possible"
The music began again, but ttis
time it was a fox trot, appeahngly
alive But Dorothy did not hear; she
was thinking of other things she
had drawn up before the club en-
trance A man doomed out of the
darkness and stood before her.
| Dorothy he said.
| Her heart leaped wildly. She sprang
to her feet.
"Dicki"
A strange mixture of wonder, unbe-
lief and happiness was in h err voice.
The man smiled into her eyes.
Your father phoned to me- he ex-
planned. He said that you wanted
me-
"Ohl' She seemed unable to find
voice for he varied emotions which
surged within her.
DO you?" he persisted gently.
She placed one hand on his arm.
timidly.
Yes she answered softly. mo e
than all the world"
The music had ceased, but suddenly
| it began a gain. Evidently some one
had demanded a waltz for an encore,
for the strains of aloha De" floated
out to them.
1T is our dance Dick said. They
are playing Farewell to Thee
Dorothy smiled up at him; hint of
tears bordered her eyes.
THE last time we heard it," shs
whispered, lit meant the end of things.
But now it is only the beginning. -
| Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure
| Newspaper SyHdicate.)
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What rare good sense appears to be
possessed by the new king of Greece
Perhaps it is tact. Then again he
may be a Safety First enthusiast,
where his personal fortunes are con-
cerned. At any rate, the news comes
from Athens that the first cabinet he
forms is to be a war cabinet. And
the extreme likelihood is that if he
insisted on naming any other kind of
a cabinet, somebody else would have
his job before many days passed after
the announcement of his cabinet Sc
lections, or the naming of his premier
to make them. 1t was the refusal of
Constantine, the erstwhile king of
Greece, to recognize the war party
of his land that led to his ostracism.
And where IS Constantine, now, by the
way? Probably at some German water
ing place, and where his wife will be
among friends and relatives. But the
recent queen of Greece is at least en-
titled to the credit that should go to
those who stick by their relations thru
thick and thin. And IN the big Eu-
ropean melee. she and her German
relatives are about the only blood rela.
lions that have continued on friendly
terms with each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15

It's car-time when the autumn woods,
With flags of red and gold,
Are signaling the swift approach
OF biting frost and cold
What joy beneath the branches then
To smoothly speed along.
And hear the motors song,
It's car-time when the frozen snow
Is piled along the road,
And every leafless bough is bent
Beneath a pearly load.
To buck the drifts and leave behind
wake of flying white.
And scurry by the horse and sleigh
Is then supreme delight.
It's car-time when the orchards don
Their dresses. white and pink,
And busy garden-tools a tale
OF slips and seedlings clink-
Ills endless pleasure then to see
The moving pictures green
OF field and forest Keeling off
Before a fast machine.
But oh. the car-time of the year,
The time of times for me.
Is summer time, the carnival
of blossoms, bird and bee
My sceptre is the steering wheel
MY throne the chauffeurs seat,
And every day my auto finds
A kingdom new and sweet.
A little lunch of sandwiches
And olives. fruit and cake,
Beneath a wayside oak or elm
A royal luncheon make
Then off again with horn that wakes
The echoes far and near
But 10, to him who loves a car,
It's car-time all the year
-Mfnna Irving in Leslies-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
JAYMAWKER JOTS

A Wichita paper got the most out of
the Maine election, thinks the Hutch
inson News, because its headline over
the story about it was: Maine went,
clean bent, for elephant
Kansas photographers are having a
invented the rubber rolling-pin, notes
the Atchison Champion, and it adds:
OF course. he was married.
1t isn't everything that hits off
wrong. points out the Lawrence Ga
zette. The lime crop of Santo Domingo
went to the bad just at the time when
we don't want limeade any more.
One of the Day Dreams in a recent
issue of the Leavenworth Times: An
other good thing about the short skirt
is that it enables a girl to sit down
and wrap herself around the legs of a
chair.
AS Jess Napier of the Newton Kan
san-Republican observes: If you repeat
bad story, the truth of which you
cannot personally vouch for, you are
as bad as the fellow who maliciously
starts it.
Philip F1opover, whom the Lansing
News quotes so frequently, is a keen
student of human nature. Says Phil;
Women are a good deal like the pres
ent weather-they cloud up more
often than they storm.
A Fifty Years Ago item from rht
| files of the Atchison Champion of Sep
TENDER 10, 1866: "A large number o1
! boys of the gallant old Seventh Kansas
cavalry were in the city last night. The
regiment is camped five miles from
here en- route to Fort Leavenworth tC
| be mustered out of the service.
A crippled railroader, who lost bott
legs in the service, offers a suggestion
that strikes the Lawrence Journal
| World as having some merit. He pro.
poses the establishment of a college
or school in which cripples may bt
taught occupations at which they car
MAINTAIN themselves. The suggestion
is worth thinking over. The state pro
vides for the blind and the deaf arc
dumb, who are incapacitated by ma.
ture, and does its best to enable Their
to become economically Independent
But man who loses his limbs thrr
Industrial accident is left to shift fol
himself. Even if he turns to beggary
not much is thought of it. If societ,
had some plan to teach these unfor
tunates a means of livelihood, it wouIi
be the gamer and the individuals
would enjoy the self respect tina
comes with the performance of usefu
work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
BY w. T. ELLIS

ilege. He did not feel that he had
surrendered any of his rights as a
man and a citizen by being a Chris
tan minister His far-sightedness per-
do not understand, the wisdom and
justice of Rome's invariable practice
of caring for her citizens wherever
they might be on earth.
So he watched with calm eye the
proceeding of binding him and tying
him to the stake. No needless strug-
Cling or resistance was met with on
his part. He waited for the dramatic
moment, when all attention was CEN
tered upon him, and then, in smooth
est tones, he asked quietly, Does the
law permit you to flog a Roman cltl-
zen-and one who is uncondemned? ''
Explosion, Commotion, Consterna-
ton. The soldiers who had bound
the prisoner to the stake fall back
in alright. The man with the knout
is terror-stricken. The captain most
of all is alarmed. He best knew the
gravity of crime against the person
of a Roman citizen. So in trepidation
he hurried off to the tribune with
his alarming news.
Observe that Paul was no morbid
seeker after a martyrs crown The
early church was greatly troubled by
devotees who courted martyrdom.
Not SO Paul. So long as he could
serve his Master by voice and pen and
life, he meant to do SO. The normal
ness and wholesomeness of Paul are
contagious. He was all of a man and
all of a Roman and all of Jew, as
we'll as all of a Christian. He had
sense as we'll as sanctity, spunk as
well as spirituality.
The flash of the Roman eagle was
in PauPs eye as he confronted the
Roman tribune, who asked, Are you
a Roman citizen2"
Yes" proudly answered the pris-
oner.
Il paid a large sum for my citizen
! Ship said the tribune.
But L was born free replied Pau
with simple dignity. At that the
tribune retired in alarm-he hae
bound a Roman citizen.
| Now nothing can keep Paul from
Rome. The wheels of Providence are
turning. Christ's man is on his wit
Messing way to Caesars presence
Mobs and plots are of no avail agains
! him. He has borne faithful testimony
to multitudes: now he is to bear the
same testimony to the ruler of the
! earth.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

There may be reason in all things,
but sometimes it is difficult to locate
X * X
Praising people too much is as bad
for them as not praising them enough.
Is = *
The impression will not down that
any number of folk enjoy being fooled
or taken in.
X :: x
Another general rule with few ex-
ceptions is that the man who gets
what he wants has to go after it him
self
x X X
Regardless of the old saw, a mans
life isn't always what he makes it, and
for the very good reason that many
things and persons intervene oc-
casionally to prevent him from
making said life as he would.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15
BED T HMllE TALES
THE BUILDING CONTESTS
BIZ CLARA INGRAM JUDSON

A great, big raccoon. a great, big.
fierce-looking fellow, hoped right up
and dived 'kplunk into Pinkley Pool
that's what happened next.
After that there seemed to be no
next or order about the whole thing.
Perhaps the Wiggleiskskens had some
plan, but certainly the newcomers
couldn't tell what it was. Every crea-
ture there seemed to be jumping or
diving or swimming or dancing. till
Mother Beaver actually grew dizzy
with watching.
Are we TO do something like this"
she whispered to Father Beaver in dis
may 1--WE never, never can-neyer!"
Don't worry" said Father Beaver
with a comfortable assurance he did
not feel IF they only let US wait a
while longer We'll be all right For
soon everyone will be SO tired that
they won't know what We are doing"
Which just goes to show that Father
Beaver had considerable sense, even
though he was som ething of a coward.
But the Wiggleiskskens had sense,
too. more than Father Beaver was
giving them credit for. They knew
they were getting tired; and they
knew getting too tired would spoil the
fun. Just after Father Beaver spoke,
the big, old beaver who had been at
the head of the beaver court rose in
his place and said. Enough of this,
We will now have the building con-
tests"
At that everyone found a COM
Portable place to sit down and all talk
ing and laughing stopped. 1t was
plain to see that this part of the per-
Torrance was thought to be impor-
tant.
one after another of the Father
beavers went to the edge of the brook
and showed their skill in showing
logs and in pushing grasses into place.
And wonderful workers they were, too.
mo wonder they are particular who
! comes TO Join them" said Father
! Beaver admiringly; they do beauti-
/ full work and they want no unskilied
| creatures aroundt
Just wait till they see you work."
1 exclaimed Mother Beaver proudly;
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One after another of the Father
Beavers went to the edge of the
brook and showed their skill in
showing logs.
Beaver land she was right. tooD, and
Bushy and Little Brother were so in
terested in the whole show that they
quite forgot all about themselves and
that they were to do a stunt too.
They quite forgot. think of that,
So you can imagine their feelings
when the worker beavers finally came
up out of the water. hen all the
WiggleisKskens sat around in a polite
semi-circle facing the newcomers and
Policeman Billy shouted out in his
great voice (for all the world like a
train-caller's voice., THE newcomers
will now do their stuntr Just that
way,
oh, dear. think how those poor
beavers felt!-(Copyright In
gram Judson.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15

Some of the local Democratic wits
are almost certain to insist that there
the brief visit in Topeka Thursday
morning of Mr.. Fairbanks, the Re-
publican vice presidential candidate,
and the weather wave that was so cold
for this season OF the year and which
hit these parts at about the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-15

How does it happen that the pro-
hibitor.- law enforcement authorities
in and around Topeka. either city.
county or state, or all three, permitted
Budweiser TO put in an appearance in
the 2:14 pace at the fair grounds
Thursday afternoon2
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''you can work as we'll as the best of
themi"
Father Beaver became so inter-
ested watching the Wiggleiskskens
display their skill, and Mother Beaver
was so busy telling herself that they
weren't a whit better than Father