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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-01-25
Case Still Pending.

Mr.. Love referred to the case pend
ing in the federal court which was filed
the same day that the supreme court
Of oklahoma handed down a decision
against the express companies. This
case is still pending. Mr.. Love voted
against admitting as evidence the
transcript of the records of the federal
court showing the pendency of the eX-
press cases, but he was oyerruled by
commissioners Humphrey and Hen
shaw.
Judgment will be entered in the
case Feb l on the figures of the eX-
press companies as supplied to the
commission showing the amounts of
the revenues from which the amounts
of refunds have been figured. The
sum viii be approximately 100000.
The express companies will not pay
the refund, however, without further
fight This status of the refund case
has made il improbable that any
change viii be made in express rates
lin oklahoma prior to the ultimate de-
cision of the federal court here in
the cases now pending
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
BINDING FUNDS 10 FEED ExrRAvAGANGE .

N n NDER THE MANAGEMENT Mr.. King, Mayor Wilson's
~ administration does not lack holiness It may be
with of desperate which seeks
and let tomorrow take of itself
by of IS mills after having
rate administration appears be- preparing
nothing less than increasing the
grand jump. of this
will go to brought the industrial BOOM
15OOOOO0 fall upon property formerly taxed the
Bridgeport list.
Undoubtedly Wilson, he views this
is filled has high tax rate he will be
sxaTnped with opposition.
valuations confronted with ouburst of ndigna
brought the city to the serot<
necessity O raising large
While Mr. King and the mayor are ponderng which course
to take the citizens may the tendency things
There must be an Invitations grand
property finally be for its full value.
Only economy protect the future Now is
the time expenditure for Warrenite,
other things and get down to business basis.
property Bridgeport cannot indefinitely stand the
multiplication office holders hundred at time
with the concomtant budget increases.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
THE NECESSITY FOR EXPERIENCE

NK7 HAT HOWARD ELLIOTT can do as railroad manager
IVY remains to be The New Haven is not yet
oense Elliott without
chastity of English purity of argument
Mr. Elliott the if not the of railroad presi
dent in America His speeches models of breyi
OF ingenuity.
they butter parsnips. Freight cng sidngs and
terminals, like sticky fly paper infant.
Eotts address Young Christian Assoca-
tom the Chamber of and the Twentieth Century
is fully equal to he has made during his campaign
T apology. f
speaks necessity government should work
through the aid of regulation
roads in such to create the assumption that the gov
something experienced railroading
to railroad There Mr. Mellen for in
stance who has recently completed five days the witness
stand the occupation of turning States evidence they
used to put it in the days of the Old Bailey,
experienced railroad m o
directors with what these experienced
gentlemen did to the New Haven much the whole
story is not known yet.
Connecticut government
interviewed to arrest the course Of experienced railroad
The kind experience government for regula
ton much wider and broader than that enjoyed by the
knowledge laws Of justice, systems accounting
of many other things.
probably railroad the United States
the knowledge necessary the regua
ton railroads. But the government Ill itself OF the
services Of many SUCH
1t is perhaps true that Utilities Commission of
railroad Why should they be?
They it They the whole thing
part it. They know the law, well the
If Mr. Elliott thinks the Utilities Commission lacks expert
raroadng let him observe the accidents that happen
Time let him note what the utilities
accidents, let him note how the
number serious accidents has diminished,
The best thing for the railroads will be NATURALIZATION The
It might well the
and save the and of doing
second hand through incompetent private control
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
EDUCATION OF
WORKINGMEzN

The first to advocate and put into
practice the education of workingman
in the application of science TO the
practical arts was DR.. George Birbeck,
who was born in Yorkshire, England,
40 years ago to-day. He was the son
of a banker and was educated for the
practice of medicine. While profess
sor of the Andersonian Institution at
Glasgow he established popular lec-
lures for artisons, thus laying the
foundation for the Mechanics Institu-
lions which afterward came into ex-
isstence all over Great Britain. This
course was sssolely for persons en+
gagged in the practical exercise of the
mechanical arts, men whose educa-
ton in early life had precluded even
the possibility of acquiring the small
est portion of scientific knowledge
The first lecture at the Glasgow in
stitutions attracte d SeVenty-fiVe arti-
sans. They went away so enthusiasts
tic that 200 men attended the second
lecture, and 500 were on hand the
next time. DR.. Birkbecks pupils were
so grateful that they presented him
with a silver cup as a token of their
esteem. Later DR.. Birkbeck gave a
similar course in London, and a per-
Mechanics Institution was
founded with Birkbeck as president.
The movement for the SCIENTIFIC edu-
cation of workers has since spread
over the world, and employers of la
Dor, who at first opposed it, now usl1-
ally favor and support such schemes
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10

which he alleged were invented" by
the Journal. The German-American
press has also been paying much at
tention to Mr.. Rathom, and one New
York publication recently devoted sew
eral pages to tHThe Mystery Of John
Reve1sto1e Rathom, President will
sons ConfdaIt." Mr.. Rathom was
educated at Scotch College in Mel
bourne and at Harrow, England, and
years ago as a war correspondent, in
the Soudan for the Melbourne Argus
During the Spanish nerican war he
was employed by the San Francisco
Chronicle as it's eorrespo ndent in Gu
ba. Prior to that time he had accom-
parted expeditions to the wilds Of New
Guinea and to Alaska, and had visit
ed many other out of the way parts
OF the earth. After several years as
a. staff corresp ondent of the Chicago
Eecord-Hera1d, he became managing
editor of the Providence Journal in
1908, and has been connected with
that paper ever since He is the
author of -Four Years in the Chinese
Navy and other books, and is Also
noted as an authority and lecturer on
iinJ7ai grafton and other sociological
and economic subjects. Mr.. Rathom
was born on the Fourth of July, in
1868, and since settling in the repub-
lie which comm enorates it's indepen-
dence on his birthday he has attained
prominent place in Journalism. In
regard to the Journals exposures of
pro- German activities in Afnerica, Mr..
Rathom declares that an attempt has
been made to .sbribe it into silence
by ''the offer of a, large sum Of mon
ey for the formation OF a press bu-
reau."
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10

Farmer Want Ads One Cent a word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
CENTENARY Oh THE
SAFETY LAMP WHICH
MADE MINING SAFER

While this war has demonstrated
| that a great and terrible advance has
been made in the science of slaughter
| it should not be forgotten that equal
/ " great progress has been made In
the scientific conservation of human
| life. In practically every field of in
dustry the risks of life and lamb have
| been greatly reduced, and labor is
now surrounded by many safeguards
undreamed of by our gTandfathers.
One of the most hazardous or all
occupations, that of mining, has been
among the last to be affected by the
new industrial ideal which places hui
man life above dividends. 1t is only
within recent years that the various
governments have grappIed with the
problem of reducing the death rate
in the mining industry, but already
there has been 3. notable diminution
in fatal mining accidents.
To-day marks the centenary of one
of the greatest of Individual triufnphs
over the dangers which encompass
those who toll in the bowels of the
earth. It was in the early days of
1916 that Sir Humphrey wDavy, the
great English chemist and natural
philosopher, perfected his safety lamp
for miners.
Prior 10 that period miners had to
carry on their work by the ra1nt and
hickering light of what was called a |
ttstee1 MILL consisting of a disk of |
steel kept revolving in contact with |
a piece of flint. This device served |
only to- make the darkness seem the I
blacker, and was of very little practi-
cal value Those who used other |
.hghst were subjected to the constant |
menace of the deadly fire-damp, and |
exp osions in which many miners were |
killed were of frequent occurrence
1t was a, terrible mine calamity
which occurred in 1912 which set /
two men to thinking about the prob /
lem of providing a safe lamp for min /
ers. One of them was Sir Humphrey
Davy, who was famouse as a, scientist
throughout the world; the other Geo.
Stephenson, an engihe-wrigI1t at a coll
liery near Newcastle. Davy, aftetr a
long investigation into the nature of
6re-damp, the explosive was respon-
sible for so many mine disasters,
produced lamp which, while en-
tirely safe, gave adequate light. About
the same time George Stephenson
perfected Al similar invention, but, as
the man who afterward perfected the
LOGON otiye was then unknown Sir
received the major share
of the credit for the, epochal inven-
ton.
It was just one hundred years ago
that a clergyman, the Rev. John
Fsodgson, rector of a church near
Newcastle, put the Davy safety lamp
to its first practical test. Supplied
with two of the lamps by Davy the
brave rector descended into Ho1born
pit, mine noted for its gases. In
a terrible atmosphere of f1rf1e-damp,
the clergyman walked about, and held I:
become full of blazing gas without
producing any explosion. miner
who was not aware of the trial to be
made was SO terrified when he saw ii
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
EAST YOUNGSTOWN STRIKE
IS HE STRIKE at East Youngstown, with its vi

STRIKE Youngstown, with its violence, its kill
ings destruction property and its anarchy dem
nsrae what Incompetence and blind hatred and
strike Bridgeport would prob
settled within week But if agreement
could not early might continue for months,
fires, murder and militia
East Youngstown gentlemen would do well to ask the
leading Bridgeport employers, who grounded
labor the obligations
citizens With this skilled aid the East Youngs
would be out of their trouble and
session again O their ordinary
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10

the rector approaching with what
seemed to be blazing candle that he
fell on his knees and began to pray,
certain that death was about to over
take him.
Davy took out no patent on his in
yention, and the miners Of Newcastle,
in appreciation of his disinterested
service to humanity, presented the sci
enlist with a service of plate. The
tephenson safety lamp, known to the
miners as the ''Geordy'' also had many
friends among the miners, among
whom there was waged for many
years a furious controversy as to the
respective merits of the ''Dayy'' and
the "Geordy."
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
THE PEACE OF CINCINNATI

history repeated itself when the
warning maenates met recently in
Cincinnati to enter into a peace pact.
II was thirteen years ago to-day, jan
10. 1908, that Byron Bancroft john
son directed the drawing up of the
first famous ''cIncinnati peace COM
pact which ended the war between
the American and National leagues,
mt an end to high salaries for tho
Ss4avers. and tnaugurated the era of
orosperffy which continued until the
reds started another year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
PLANS NEW HOTEL.

Walnut Beach. Jan 1o-Thomas
Rock. proprietor of Groveland Hotel.
is reported to be preparing plans for
a Iargel hotel to adorn the beach
front. With the Sound View being
erected again and hundreds of new
cottages planned, Walnut Beach this
summer is destined to present a far
more active appearance than ever this
summer and many predict that its
summer crowds will eclipse any in the
state outside Of Savin Rock.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10

All this week will be bargain carnf-
val week at E. H. Dillon & Co.'S, 1105
Main street. Great bargains in winter
millinery, fur scarfs and muffs, angora
scarfs and caps. wells, separate cloth
skirts, cloth and plush coats, guaran-
aeed raincoats, sweaters, lingerie shirt
waists, silk and crepe de chene waists,
and petticoats. The knife has been
applied to prices with vigor on all
stocks without restriction.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
INSPECTING APPARATUS.

Fire Chief Daniel E. johnson and
superintendent of Machinery Arthur
L. Tracey, went to E1nira, N. z, Sat
urday. They are inspecting gasoline
feed engines at the American & La
France co. and will recommend the
STYLE of engine to supp1ant the anti
ouated engines No. and 8, which
viii he replaced by motor fire engines
IN the spring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
TWO EMINENT CANADIANS
HAVE BIRTHDAYS TO-DAY

The tenth of January commence
/ rates the birth of two eminent Cana
| dians-CardinaI Begin, the church,
man, and Charles G. D. Roberts, whose
works long ago won for him an unique
place in the worlds literature. Cana
da's latest representative in the SaG
| cred College of the Catholic Church,
the Most Rev. Louis Mazaire, Cardin-
al Begin, was born at Lewis Quebec.
seventy-six years ago to-day. His
father, charles Begin, was a farmer,
and the future wearer of the red hat
spent his youth on a farm and receiV-
! ed his early education at the Model
| School" of his native town After
wards he took a course at a COM
mercia1 school in St Michel but
business career did not appeal to him
and at the age of seventeen he enter.
| ed the Seminary of Quebec and bel
gan to study for the church. He rel
ceived the degree of B. "A. from Laval
name and fame of the first Bishop of
Quebec, and also took the Prince of
Wales prize. Having continued his
theological education at the Grand
founded by Canada's first great
ehurchnan two centuries before, he
left for Rome, where he was ordain-
ed to the priesthood in 1865. Re-
turning to Quebec, he was made pro-
fessor of theology at Laval University
years, later becoming principal of the
Normal School. In 1888 he was
made Bishop Of Chicoutini, and in
1891 became coadjutor of Cardinal
Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec.
who was the first Canadian to be made
a prince of the church. When Cardi-
nal Taschereau died in 1898, the far
mer's son was elevated to the arch
bishopric- of Quebec, and in 1914 he
received the scarlet biretta of the Sa-
cred College.
Charles George Douglas Roberts,
whose animal stories have made his
name famous throughout the world,
was born near Fredericton, New Brun-
swick, Jan. 10, 1860, the son of a
clergyman. After graduating from
the University of New Brunswick he
was in turn headmaster of a grammar
school, editor of a weekly paper and
professor Of English and French lit |
erature in a. Nova Scotia college. He
was only twenty when his first book, |
q volume of verse, appeared from the
press, and it was not until many years
later that he developed the capacity
for writing prose fiction. While he is I
best known by his animal stories, his |
novels dealing with Acadian life CON
stitute what is perhaps his most en-
during work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
j. r. RATHOM

John Reve1stoke Rathom. the edi
tor of the Providence journal, a pub
Hcation which has published many
news beats about the activities of
German agents and spies in the Unit
ed States, is a native of Melbourne,
Australia. When Captain Boy-Ed
sailed from New York he took a part
ing shot at the Providence Journal
and tits British-born Mr.. Rathon, >
attrihuting his dismissal to the stories
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-01
squeaky Shoes Once Priced.

While conducting research for in.
formation On the origin Of certain
fashions of the rast l discovered the
reason or the existence :; tho squeak
in shoes.
The squeak was once deemed fash
ionable, and men of great Importance
In the affairs of the country demanded
1t In their footwear, and cobblers were
paid two shillings extra for putting It
in. The squeaky boot denoted the ap.
proach Of someone Of Importance, and
the way was made clear at once in the
same manner as a bicycles shrill
whistle warns you to look to your
interests.
During the squeaky period men
found 1t difficult to sneak into the
house after twelve midnight without
being discovered and disgraced. Re-
moving the shoes before entering the
home Is an invention which followed
the squeaky shoes era, and while the
former Is now almost obsolete, the lat
ter Is still In vogue and as popular
as ever with married nen!-"Zim" I'm
Cartoons Magazine.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-01
TEETH NEED EXTREME CARE
Bodily Health Of All Descriptions Is
Dependent Upon Keeping Them
In Condition.

Lack Of care Of the mouth is pre-.
judicial to the health of children as
well as adults. A decaying tooth is
always a menace. and especially when
the decaying process reaches below
the gums. producing alterations, pyor-
rhea, ETC., which, being difficult Of ac-
cess for treatment, are always to DO
regarded as dangerous.
Aside from the pain and suffering
which these diseases of the teeth pro-
duce, the possibility of direct infection
must not be overlooked.
So-called blood poisoning and death
have been frequent results from dis
eased teeth. Some forms of inflam-
matory rheumatism are believed to be
caused by the infection Of pyorrhea.
and In general the health is injured
In proportion as the teeth are af.
fected.
Inflammation of the lining mem.
brsnes and muscular fibers of the
heart, chronic enlargements of tho
joints, acute and chronic Inflammation
OF the kidneys, tonsilitis, goiter and
even diabetes have all been traced di.
rectly to diseased teeth.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-01
Would Increase
Standing Army

Wellington, Jan. 25. -Unqualified
nonpartisan support OF military pre-.
paredness was urged today by Minor.
ity Leader Mann in a ringing speech
on the floor OF the House. He was
heartily and repeatedly applauded by
both sides OF the chamber.
While 1t has been understood that
most OF the Republicans favored army
and navy increases, until today none
of their leaders had spoken on the
subject. Consequently, coming as it
did, on the eve OF the Presidents de-
parture on preparedness speaking
tour, Mr.. Mann's address was regard
ed as particularly significant. He re-
marked himself that he always has
been known as a small army and
navy man,
Representative Mann based his plea
on the ground that 1t behooves the
United States now to prepare for any
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-01
The Youngest
Reporter in America

A recent issue of The American
Magazine tells of Philadelphia
school boy who is probably tho
youngest reporter in America.
"A member of the Fourth Estate
at eleven years of age space writer
on a morning newspaper at an age
when most boys are possessed only
OF an infinite capacity for mischief
that Is the achievement of Alexander
Segal.
1T was on Sunday night of last
winter that he made his first appear
ance In the local room of the Phila.
delphia Public Ledger and asked for
the city editor. Stammering with
embarrassment, he told that busy in
dividual about an accident he had
witnessed-a collision between an am
bulance and another cart.
"The city editor swung around AMI
looked at him. Did you see the acct
dent? he asked. Yes, sir. Well, tell
him about 1t, and the editor indicated
the star rewrite man at an adjacent
desk.
please sir, was the hesitant an.
swer, ! already wrote 1t out myself.
And a chubby little fist reached into
an inside coat pocket and brought
forth some copy, written on two or
three sheets Of paper cut from
school composition book.
"The city cditor glanced over II.
Give it to him, he said once more,
pointing toward the rewrite man,
and tell him who you arc and all
about yourself.
For several minutes the rewrlta
man quizzed Alex. and then told him
that would he about all. Can't
wait till you finish? Alex wanted to
know. Tho rewrte man told him
he could, and Alex sat Still in Ma
chair, twiddling his cap, until the
story was finished and turned over
to the city edit'r. TIE city editor
nodded his head.
wen use your introduction. he
said, and let the kids story follow.
Just as he wrote it.
with his voice trembling with
eagerness Alex asked, viii the story
I wrote be in the paper?
u guess 1t viii son, the city editor
told him.
'Alex aspires TO be regular re-.
porter. The police at first refused
to take him seriously and often tcld
him to run along. Now there is
hardly a policeman on the force who
does not know Alex and try to help
him when he IL after story
almost any Sunday night Won can
see him sitting at the big desk IN
the corner OF the local room. careful
ly writing his latest story
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-01
TOO BIG AND HUSKY

Pittsburgh, Pa, Jan 31.--Michae'
Tuholski, steel mill puddler from
Cleveland, Ohio, aged 20 years was
today rejected at the United States
Marine Corps recruiting station in
this city as too big and husky" for
the Marine Corps.
Tuholski measured six feet and
five inches in his stocking feet and
weighed 257 pounds without clothing,
The medical examiner pronounced
him a perfect physical specimen, but
the maximum height for Marines is
70 inches and no giants or pygmies
are wanted in the Marine Corps, ac'
cording to Sergeant Michael De Boo
who is in charge of the local recruit
ing station for sea soldiers.
The giant recruit, who says he is
no white hope and has no desire to
meet Jess Willard or Frank Moran.
will resume pudding in the mills he
told De Boo when the latter rejected
him.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-01
AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE FOR
OPERATING Doors ."
A GARAe :

For installation in a pubic ~""ag"
where motor cars are continur1r o.
tering and leaving the buildlro ~
electric apparatus has been d. sol
for operating the doors, II is ar HNF
ed so that by pressing button %
Gated at convenient point, tn M
trance NAV he opened or c'osed 'ry
quickly, thus affording good service
to patrons.
The apparatus is comparatively
simple in construction, low in rpkNep
and moderate in cost, Especially N
a large garage. It effects a. consider
able saving. for it eliminates n door
man and does away with the loss OF
time occasioned by mechanics and
other employees leaving their work
to answer repeated calls to the door.
Popular Mechanics Magazine.