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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-13

band who was about to be shot for not returning to his regiment at the end of furlough during which time he had married. During the honey moon his regiment was moved, and not knowing this he gave himself only time enough to reach their former station and found himself too late to join them at the next camp. He was accredited as a deserter. The Presi- dent listened to her story and sent her to the War Department. Here she was met with a curt refusal and re- buked for troubling the President. With her hopes at a low ebb she turned to leave and met the President coming up the steps. She was weep ing and the President, recognizing her at once, asked her if she had failed to see the Secretary. Through her tears she explained her treatment and again begged the Presidents aid. promising that her husband would never again fail in his duty. ,
 "Give yourself no further trouble" said the President, batting her on the shoulder. The order was issued. The young husband gave his life for his country at Gettysburg a year later.
 The President frequently visited the military camps and questioned the men, especially the prisoners. His love of justice was proverbial and on several occasions he saved men from being shot as deserters after an in- vestigation of their cases and turned them into far better soldiers than they had been before.
 One might tell hundreds of stories Illustrating the splendid character of this. man who served his country so well, but in the short space of a news paper article space will permit only a few-yet enough to show the kindly nature and love of justice of this rare statesman who went down to his death just as bright day was dawning over a reunited country-the land he loved so we'll. ys
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ence in the way 6f making a right choice of a lover.
 Last Friday was St. Valentines Day." she wrote, "and the night be- fore I got five bay leaves, and pinned four of them to the corners of my pillow, and the fifth to the middle; and then, if I dreamt of my sweet heart, Betty said, we should be mar ried before the year was out. But to make it more sure, I boiled an egg hard, and took out the yolk and filled it with salt, and then l went to bed. eat it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it.
 we also wrote our lovers names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them into water; and the first that rose up was to be our valentine. Would you think it. MT. Blossom was my man? I lay a-bed and shut my eyes all the morn ing, till he came to our house; for I would not have seen another man be- fore him for all the world"
 Few O.d Valentines Extant.
 Coming down to the past century we find an English journal taking a very serious view of certain flights of industrial fancy made by "an enter prisihg perfumer," who in the year 1868, endeavored to impart to the ancient usage somewhat novel char9 acter, and had on sale a large assort-- ment of boxes containing articles of millinery, singing birds. scents and so on, in lieu of the simple letter with its enshrined notices, device or car toon, which satisfied the taste of the last generation.
 So we improve upon our ancestors and, so to speak, tread out old cus- toms; for, whatever may be the gain here in elegance and costly effect the simple rites of the original festival of St. Valentine are seriously tam pered with, and we are Eos sure whether there may be a few still li1- ing who will regard this daring in- noyator with an unfriendly eye.
 It is a strange fact that with all the collecting fads there are remark ably few old valentines extant, and in none of the largest and best known collections of archives is there a yaft entine collection to be found The fragile flowery and lace paper mis- sives of our grandmothers are among the things which have disappeared. and few of the beautiful modern pro- auctions of 1917 may be compared with thosa of th~ ---A
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-13

included human sacrifices, which was later superseded by that of dogs and goats. The chief actors in these pagan
 cerem monials were young men of noble
 family, their part being to receive 9 slight cut in the forehead with the
 knife which had slaughtered the anil mals.
 They then cut thongs from the hides
 of the beasts and, running through
 the city, they struck the women and
 maidens as they passed who awaited their coming, for to be struck by the Luperci was held as a lucky omen for love and marriage.
 These early pagan Roman rites nat
 urally led to great abuses, and iii an
 effort to supplant them with Christian cerem onials the religious men of the
 Christian era set February 14th, the date of the death of St. Valentine; as the day for choice of lovers; and, plac- ing the names of saints in the urns, they urged the young men to draw these names and to make the par
 ticular saint thus, drawn the model for
 the year. This custom is practiced in
 some religious houses to this day. But custom is stronger than priest | ly letCLIIiSS dHu u1otOiy IeldlcS CudI i in the fifth century Pope Gelasius was i still exercising St. Valentines Day of
 some of it's grosser practices. St.
 Francis de Sales did his utmost to-
 ward the end of the sixteenth cen-
 tury, to rob St. Valentines day of it's l loverly intent by forbidding and con-
 demning the sending of notes, valen-
 tines and frivolities, himself provid- 1 fno religious substitutes Ruf all to
 no purpose, for in that and following
 centuries St. Valentines festival con- ] tinued to reign as the time of loves
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-13

the jury he produced the almanac and proved that there was no moon on the night of the murder. The man was promptly acquitted.
 During his entire career as lawyer he never took a case when he felt the man was guilty, and on one occasion he was asked to defend burglar who he felt sure was guilty. He was off, fered a large sum of money in advance if he would take the case, but he re- fused and sent the man with a note to another lawyer. "1f you can do any, thing for this young man," he wrote, please do so. I am sure the jury would know that felt that he was guilty, so will not take the case"
 Always Charitable.
 In his law practice he was charit- able and defended many poor people, never receiving a penny for his work. although he was a poor man himself. Once when his wife urged him to sue client for his fee he declined. saying that he knew if the man had the money he would pay, and then added that he knew his duty toward his fel- bowman.
 Gets Out Of Critical Situations.
 He was an adept in getting out of critical situation, especially when he found his opponent in temper, and in these cases his dry humor served him we'll. A keen student of human na- ture, he knew how to handle people to the best advantage and how to avert a clash. On one occasion Governor of a State called to see him because a man he had recommended for a cer- tain office had not been appointed. He remained a long time in the Presi- dents office and finally emerged smil- ing although he failed in his mission.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-13

a
 EITHER the twentieth century
 rush nor the practical age of
 scientific advancement can erad- - - fcate the romance in human na- ture; and though efforts have been made in every age to abolish various uses and abuses of St. Valentines day, 1t yet prevails.
 Time but rarely alters sentiment. Tho romance which dwells in every heact, sometime unknow1. sometimes unbidden, is there; perchance to find It's Awakening through a valentine. The little god of love is immortal and will reign as triumphantly on the com- ing fourteenth day of February as he did two thousand years ago. when the names of maidens were placed in an urn for the young men 10 choose by lot as their sweethearts for the con- ing year.
 A Survival Of Pagan Times.
 The celebration of St. Valentines s day is a survival of pagan times AL though frequently attempts have been made to abolish it as silly and sense- less and even harmful custom, 1t has Withstood the attacks of logic and philosophy Of every age. Within the past decade or two. thanks to the uni- versal discoura cement of all which is Gr6tesque, unkind or cruel, the vulgar or the caricaturing valentine is gen. crafty tabooed, and any hint in this direction is regarded as distinctly out of taste of sentimentality, or a mes sage of the clever, harmless comic type, will be delivered by his hand.
 There is nothing to prove that the good saint for whom the day is named had any part in it's observance, al- though there is a pretty tradition to the effect that when a cruel Caesar ordained that there should be no marrying among his young men be-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-13
Little Stories of the Happenings in the Life of Our First .Martyred Presi- dent.
Int, 1917, by The International
 Syndicate. U.

Copyright, 1917, by The International
 Syndicate se ~ ERHAPS no man in American
 history has connected with his
 name and career more stories and incidents of the time in which he lived and the experiences Of the frontier where he spent most Of his life than Abraham Lincoln. The characteristics of the man were unique and his wonderful insight into human nature combined with @ faculty of illustrating by quaint metaphor, apt and terse expressions, and by appro- priate stories or humor. makes his career the most interesting as we'll as the most instructive of all our great men.
 Fond Of Children.
 It Is a well-known fact that Lincoln wore a beard because a little girl wrote to him telling him that she thought a beard would be more be- coming to him than smooth face. All during the war when the wives of soldiers brought their children with them when asking favors they were always given his closest attention. He was an indulgent father, seemingly unwilling to cross his children in any, thing. He loved to take his boys and their little friends to the old magic lantern shows, and had he lived in the present age he would undoubtedly have been patron of the movies"
 His youngest child, "Tad," seems to have been the favorite, and many stories are told Of the fathers slecial interest in this boy as we'll as his tact A. l. I.s- ; c. s~ >1~ I.. said to have been the possessor of a temper that was far from mild, and the President was used to "giving in" for the sake of peace. The following little incident occurred just after Lncoln's election. Little Tad came running into the room where his par ents were sitting.
 "Oh, Father" he exclaimed, 'now that you are elected we will all be President, won't we?"
 .sNo, son." replied MT. Lincoln look ing lat his wife, "only me and your mother" s
 Fine Story-teller Himself.
 Lincoln himself was regarded as a fine story-teller, and during his law practice he turned many a jury in favor of his client by the aid of a story which illustrated the point he wished to make. He was shrewd in his cross examinations, as shown in the case where he was defending a man charged with murder. One of the witnesses testified that he had seen the crime committed by the light of the moon. Lincoln drew the man out and had him tell and retell the story. Finally, when the case was ready for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-13

International Syndicate.
 cause it made them less willing to go to war, Bishop Valentine of Rome in- terceded in the cause of the lovers and married many of them clandestinely.
 History does state that this holy man was beaten and then beheaded on February IA, 27O, A. D., and it is possible that the reason for his mar tyrdom was his breaking of the cruel edict of Claudius II. The good saint lies buried in the Church of St. Pres sede, in Rome.- His place of death Is just outside of the Piazza del Popolo, in Rome, near the gate now known as Porta del Popolo, but for long named in honor of the saint of lovers, Porta Valentini.
 For years maidens and love-sick swains said prayer as they passed through the portal of good Saint Val entine to the patron of their cause, on their way across the sunny piazza. History which chronicles these events may be erring, but romance is strong, surviving every age, and today senti- ment asserts itself on St. Valentines day as persistently as truth itself.
 As For Centuries Past.
 Nor has time greatly changed the messages of love from age to age; and honeycd words, their intensity en- hanced by pictures of pierced hearts, cupids shooting their fatal darts and lovers meetings have been the accept ed medium of exchange of valentine professions. Flowers through all the ages have gone on their fragrant mis- sion carrying more delicately than any other token their love-fraught mes- sage; sweets still go to the sweet as they have gone for centuries on this anniversary. their purpose more meaningly conveyed through heart shaped boxes and other delicate sug-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09
Women! It's Easy!
Dry Clean With
GasoIine---Save SIS
Nothing shrInks, fades Or win.
klss and . wash boiler
will do nicely.

Women here who nave tried dry
cleaning find it very easy and mex
pensive to clean and freshen all the
ribbons, silks, satins, laces. Jokes
furs. silk shirtvaists. kid gloves anG
hoes. neckties. children's clothes
suits. caps. Swiss. lawn, organdie and
chiffon dresses. wooden garments
fancy vests. draperies. rugs. in fact
any and everything that would be
ruined with soap and water.
Get two ounces of solvite at any
drug store and put it in two gallons OF
gasoline. where it instantly dissolves
then put in the goods to be cleaned
rub little and out they come looking
as bright and fresh as new. You will
find nothing fades. shrinks or wrink.
les. requiring no pressing.
You can do five dollars worth OF
home dry cleaning in an hour at little
cost. It is 80 easy and you can't
make mistake. Any grocery or gar
age will supply the gasoline and you
can obtain two ounces OF solvite at
the drug store which is simply gaso-
lire soap, then wash boiler or large
dishpan completes your dry cleaning
outfit-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09

but stopping short time in Indianap-
oils and Terre Haute heard a print.
or was badly needed at Palestine. Ill.
There was no railroad nearer than
Sullivan, fifteen miles away, and from
there I was q tramp printer" With
no intent of remaining long I staid
long enough to realize the quotation
made at the beginning of the FIRST Of
these memories
There is Divinity which shapes
our ends,
Rough hew them as We may"
Robinson a, few years before had
been the county seat of this (Craw.
ford) county, which celebrated its
centennial last year. 1t had never
had paper (the one at Palestine be.
ing the second venture for the coun.
ty). got charge of the Palestine out.
At within less than year and moved
it to Robinson. The second summer
following got the Wabash Shakes, y
which lasted me over three months
sold out and later returned to Old
Wayne.
Serves In Indiana Regiment
had a short term Of service in the
106th Indiana infantry, and after my
discharge, wishing to again engage in
business, with a thought that The
place to look for thing was where
you lost it, ] returned to Robinson
and started ''The Argus bringing a
part of an outfit used at Connersville
In the forties, later at Cambridge, and
still later at Centerville. and pur-
chased some new material to COM
plete the outfit. thought myself
then an Al printer but now when l
go into the mechanical department
and see the machinery and appliances
from the labor-saving slugs, leads and
rules, to the jobbers and cylinder
presses, and the multiple magazine
linotype, confess am "a back mum.
Der" in that department, even though
am the oldest newspaper man in
consecutive years of service with the
sane paper in the State.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09
SHARING
PLAN ADOPTED
BY TOOL PLANT

A profit sharing system has been
established by the management OF
the National Automatic Tool company
one Of the city's largest manufactur
ing establishments, for the benefit Of
the company's employees. There are
now over two hundred men on the
payroll
. Details of the plan, 1t is said, have
not yet been entirely worked out, but
it provides that certain percentage
of profits in excess of what is estimat
ed to be a normal plant revenue fol
each month is to be set aside for the
employees, this fund to be pro rated
among the employees. 1t is anticipat
ed that this profit sharing system will
provide an approximate ten per cent
increase in wages for the workmen.
Announcement was recently made
by the Teetor-Hartley company of Ha
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09
s. Women! Stop Corn Pain!
- Few Drops and Coms Lift Out
H$,9 Don't hurt bit! Cincinnati man discovers
lIFMN drug that works wonders-No humbug!
w Never let a corn ache twice.
Don't hurt q bit! Cincinnati

ness disappears and shortly you will
find the corn or callus so shriveled and
loose that YOU can lift it off with the
fingers. -..
Just think! You get rid of hard
corn, soft corn or corn between the
toes, as well as hardened calluses with.
out suffering one particle. Freezone
IS magic!
Genuine freezone is sold only in
these tiny bottles packed in a round
wood case. Don't accept it unless II
is in a round, wood case.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09

Your high heels have put corns on
your toes and calluses on your feet,
but why care now?
This tiny bottle holds an almost
magic fluid. A genius in Cincinnati
discovered this either compound and
named it freezone. Small bottles of
freezone like here shown can be had
at any drug store for a few cents.
Never limp or twist your face in pain
again, but get bottle of freezone and
apply few drops on your tender, ach.
ing corn or callus. Instantly the sore.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09
TENORS FEATURE
APRIL RECORDS

Tenor solos by William Schafer. Sam
Ash, Henry Pinckney and Jim Daugh.
erty feature the April recordings OF
the Emerson Talking machine COM
pany.
The list of releases includes chiefly
popular songs, such as Mother
80 Long Lefty" Come Out Of the
Kitchen" "Ida's Sweet as Apple
Cider"
The Emerson Symphony orchestra
llays several popular numbers, in.
GLIDING 1.-THE Missouri Waltz" and
Poor Butterfly"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09
Don't Let Your Cough Hang On

Don't Let Your Cough Hang On
A cough that racks and weakens is
dangerous, it undermines your health
and thrives on neglect. Relieve it at
once with Dr. Kings New Discovery.
This soothing balsam remedy heals the
throat, lossens the phlegm, its antisep-
tic properties kill the germ and the
cold is quickly broken up. Children
and grown-ups alike find DR.. Kings
New Discovery pleasant to take as
we'll as effective. Have a bottle
handy in your medicine chest for
grippe, Group and all bronchial affect.
ions. At druggists, 50c.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09

gerstown Of the establishment Of .
profit sharing system for employees,
and the Richmond Home Telephone
company has authorized a five per
cent. increase in the wages Of its
employees.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09
PROPOSES GREETING !
TO ENTENTE SOLONS
tBy Associated Press,

WASHINGTON. April o. The
House was asked In q resolution in
troduced today by Representative Me-
dill Mccormick, Of Illinois. to con.
vey to the legislative chambers Of
the entente nations its greetings and
the hope that peace shall witness the
restoration Of Belgium and Serbia
and the establishment Of united and
self.goveming Ireland and Poland"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09

A bill to prevent baby angels" in
movies is before the New Jersey leg
islature.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09
OFFERS SIGNAL CORPS
fBy Associated Pressl

NEW YORK. April 9.-Perhaps the
finest single auxiliary signal corps
possessed by any army has been given
to the United States by the American
Telegraph and Telephone company.
About 500 engineers already have
been selected and some OF them have
been sworn into army service. The
differences between government pay
and their salaries with the telephone
company will be paid by the latter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-04-09

The f1,000.O 100000 raised for the
British war loan, if assembled in Ell
notes laid end to end, would stretch
four times around the earth near the
equator.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-01-30
ATTENTION LANDOWNERS!

Gradually beginning realize what the
politicians preparing do Them if the vicious bills
posed by the Tax Commission, adopted.
Every taxpayer especially every landowner should carefully
the resolutions adopted meeting recently held at Georgetown
Scott county. The resolutions follow
"Whereas together the
members of the Legislature extra session consider revision of
the Kentucky whereas
bill has been and published which proposed embody these
plans incorporated said revision: Be resolved
the citizens and taxpayers of the Scott public meeting
senbled:
already heavily debt
consider both and i'll advised this Indebtedness
5OOOO expended
ing expenses special Legislature
so. We condemn uncertain the provisions of the pro-
of the al
ready the buwar expenses
the revision woded apparently
reality will result increasing them least 50 per
and above what they required pay present
49, We condemn with equal conviction the provisions which,
piled stocks building organ
zaton liquidation thus deprive the
available for providing home for themselves and their families
81 We oppose provisions place
political party the time being
Democratic Republican that btow power
hands of few whose public voice.
influence the
politicians
IMMUNITY the will of the people opposed manipulation
50 We appeal to the present administration call
made the last election that proposed expenses
dispense unnecessary
f which place shoulders of the axrayers
Of the State.
Lastly We taxpayers to consider
carefully these measure at the same
time inquire the Representatives this
special session Of the Legislature whether they
patriotic reasons rather of them so
wisely called per diem day for their valuable services"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-01-30
PARIS CITIZENS
AGAINST SESSION

At a mass meeting of farmers
and other taxpayers, held at the
courthouse at Paris Saturday af-
ternoon to protest against the call
ing Of an extra session of the Legis-
lature, J. H. Thompson was elected
chairman and James ii. Fisher,
secretary. The following resolu-
tons were adopted:
First-It is the sense OF this meet
ing that an extra session of the
Legislature would incur a great ex-
pense to the taxpayers of the State.
Second-It is unjust to the great
farming interests of this State to
take any action on pending legisla-
ton before said interest be fully adj
vised of the terms and study the
effect of such legislation as regards
said interest.
Third-Therefore, be it resolved,
that we respectfully petition the
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-01-30

county people there everywhere begin
ring they interest in their public
possible public Office that they
made to greatly suffer for their negligence
Leading jefferson county who public welfare above
private therefore induced Messr Robert W. Bingham At
r Charles SchoE Jr candidates for
county Judge Bingham
County Attorney of jefferson county served reform Mayor Of the
city Judge Chancey Court; Mr.
of the leading lawyers Of the city, while Mr. sholE president Of
the Denunzio Fruit Company
people SPLEEN
did ticket overwhelming ay and then place the head of the
grade Greene County
they this predict they viii during the
the the their money!
n the county's history.