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THE FARMER: NOVEMBER 7, 1913 ERIBGEFGRT EVENING FARMER A SCHOOL FOR THE "HAND-MINDED". COUPON BONDS. Founded 1T90.) JfHE PARMER PUBLISHING CO. farmer Building, 177-179 Fairfield Are, Bridgeport. Conn. TELEPHONES Editorial Rooms, 1287 Business Office, 1208 REPUBLIC A V FARMER, . Published Fridays. Dally Edition . .$ per annum Weekly Edition.. 1 per annum Entered In Post Office. Bridgepert, Conn., as Second Class Matter. FRIDAY, NOV, T, 1913. EDITORIAL TOTES The first missionary to the Frisians was St. -Wlllibrord, whose festival will toe celebrated today in Germany and Xenmarc by the descendant of those he converted to Christianity in the seventh century. St. Wlllibrord was a native of Northumberland, andi studied in Ireland under St. Egbert.. In his thirty-third year he felt impelled to labor among the pagan tribes of north ern Europe, and with twelve compa nies he set out to the mouth of the Sthlne. These districts were then 'oc cupied by the Frisians, who were pa eans, and for a time they steadfastly refused to accept the religion, of Chriet. TVlllibrord could only 4abor in the track of Pepin Herlstal, converting the tribes who were subjugated by that warrior. He converted multitudes, and hollt churches and appointed .priests all over the land. Willbrord was con secrated the first Archbishop' of Ut recht, and continued his missionary 1 labors in Friflia and Denmark until his death In 738. ..,'- . - One hundred years ago " this ' week General Andrew Jackson gave the hos tile Creek or Muskogee Indians' a" taste of the "bad medicine" of the palefaces by utterly routing their warriors in the battle of Talladega, In Alabama. The uprising of the Creeka against United States authority began early 1n 1813. when the young braves, excit ed by the oratory of Tecum sell, began to "dance the dance of the Indians of the lake." The spirit of revolt flamed forth in the massacre of Fort Mims, on the Alabama, where but seventeen persons out of 275 men, women and children living at the post survived, the savage wrath of the unfuriated redskins. Gen. Jackson, although he had hardly recovered from the wounda received In a duel with Thomas H. Benton, led a. force of Tennesseeans against the aborigines, and captured two villages. - On the seventh of November, 1813, Jackson's forces, consisting of 1,200 in fantry and 300 mounted men, gath ered In a circle about Talladega, one of the chief gathering places- of v the hostile redo. . Xfesultory fighting- con tinued through the seventh . and . the eighth, and on the following day reached the point of a pitched battle. The general action began at sunrise and raged with incredible ferocity for fifteen minutes, when the Indians hroke and fled in wild confusion. They were pursued ' for several miles, and over 800 Indians were slain, and many wounded. The white loss was fifteen dead and eighty-five wounded. Despite this defeat, the Creeks fought on -until the following March, when the fiercest body of savages, called Red Sticks, were defeated in a, battle which became a massacre, from which not more than twenty warriors es caped. The Creeks were forced to en gage in a treaty by which they sur rendered a large part of their finest territory. Within a few years the once proud tribe was reduced to a . small strip of territory, and in 1832 they re linquished the last of their lands east of the Mississippi, and were removed' to the Indian Territory. There5 they abandoned the chase and, with the as sistance of negro slaves, devoted them, pelves to the cultivation of. the soil .At the time of their removal to the Indian Territory the Creeks, numbered 22.SM. Twenty years later they aggre gated only 14,888. Their alliance with the Confederacy was disastrous, for they not only lost their slaves but in J866 were forced to cede to the United States 8,000,000 acres of their Indian territory domain for thirty cents an acre. The Creeks In Oklahoma now number 18,717, and, contrary to the general opinion, - they are Increasing in numbers rather than diminishing. The Creek or Muskogee confederacy formerly held all of the present State of Georgia and a large part of Ala bama. The Creek women were noted for their beauty, while the men were athletic and graceful . and famed , as brave warriors. In summer both sexes went naked, except for a drapery of Spanish moss about the waist. They were skilful architects and artisans, and walled towns and beautiful tem ples abounded In their country. They worshipped the sun as their Deity, and to it made sacrifices of animals and rraln, while the slaughter of infant boys was sometimes required. " When a human sacrifice was considered nec essary, the mother was compelled to witness the slaying of her child. De spite such savage practices, the Creeks had a higher order of-civilization than ny other North American Indians, ex cept the Iroquois. When 'that fearsome cry of "Cornell! f Tell Tell Tell! Cornell!" was first heard at Ithaca awakening the good burghers of that "York State"? town from their- slumbers and to a realiza tion that they had become the inmates of a full-fledged 'varsity village, "Prexy" Andrew Dickson White pre sided over, the destinies of xthe new born Institution of higher learning and strenuous athletics. That was long ago In 1867,- to be exact, and Cornell has taken Its place among the world's great universities; - Since he left Cor nell In 1885, Dr. White has become a world's figure, a '- diplomat, historian end philosopher whom the learned bodies of all nations have delighted to honor, but Cornell . is ; the master enlevement of a long and illustrious career. Dr. White was born in Homer, N"; T.. eighty-one years ago today, Nov. - 7, 132. Sixty years ago he graduated from Tale, with the highest honors, and then went to . Europe for post graduate studies at the Sorbonne, the College de France, and the University (T LIKE this school because I never could have learned JL anything, and I am more use in the world." This is the way a girl pupil in the Elementary Industrial School of Cleveland, Ohio, describes her impressions of the new kind of school work, according to a bulletin just issued by the United btates Bureau of Education.- The Elementary Industrial hand-minded" boys and girls guage-minded" have always firrt cities in the United States the two types of children those who take to books and those who do not. In Cleveland, as in most American "cities, .about half the children have been leaving school in the sixth grade. The Cleveland 'school authorities saw that much of this waste was due to the attempt to force boys and girls whose interest was tary Industrial School was meant to meet this situation. To it boys and girls, were admitted if they were over 13 years of age and were two or more years In this school one half of mathematics, geography history and to hygiene of ,a thoroughly practical character. The re maining periods are given to manual and industrial work in cluding shopwork to domestic economy and gymnasium prac toice. A poll of the pupils showed that with the girls cook ing and be wing were favorite subjects ; with the boys, mechanical drawing and woodworking. In other schools of the same type which it is proposed to have in Cleveland, it is probable that the course will be extended to nitely vocational or trade school ific employment. , . ' --.. .The; school has been successful, even, in the face of .ad verse conditions. The enrollment has doubled in the past four years. Pupils who had long since lost interest in school work of any kind, some to the extent of being known as "duflards and incorrigibles," have become eager and alert, not only in the hand subject, but in the academic work as well. . - V , -' In speaking of the Cleveland author of the Bureau's bulletin, born among and for, the language sical culture -not manual was its aim. The industrial from it; he had no leisure for .it, This one-sideness still clings to dicate! .':-- "The Cleveland Elementary fer the best general solution, certainly not the only solution, of the problem; but it does offer a solution that lies in the right direction," and. one which is at : AGAINST BILLBOARD ADVERTISING. "7!L 7" IDESPREAD interest has recently been excited by a re- V port handed to the Mayor of -New York against tire abuses of street advertising. , It was stated by the commission that the. returns to advertisers from this form of publicity are low compared with other methods of giving information. The billboard nuisance would not exist had not the Amer ican people a tenacious sense of the rights ofthe landholder. If you beat a drum persistently, the neighbors could arrest you for disturbing the peace, even though you stand on your own land. If you go to the same spot and erect an ugly advertising sign that defaces the street, the neighbors can't touch you, even though you disturb their peace muchvmore than with a bass drum. .-.".'W vv:' ' As the New York Commission suggests, one excellent method of dealing with billboards is by taxation. You rarely see a billboard in a handsome residence district! They are an in dication that a neighborhood is not prosperous, and that owners of land are indifferent to appearances, and have to make their property look worse in order to make it pay. A man who erects a billboard damages the location and the community, and he should pay for the privilege. The most fundamental method of fighting billboard adver tising is by persuading advertisers that it does not pay. Years ago all advertising was mostly a shout to gain attention. ' There was little, logic about it, merely-the effort to suggest to the ob server that the advertiser was making a big noise. ' ' ' Now logic is at the basis of all advertising. Persuasion is the means, and the advertiser seeks to reason and argue and give facts and figures. The fragmentary glance one gives to a billboard does not permit that kind of an appeal. The big noise advertising of the billboards is 10 years be hind the times. , '' ' of Berlin. ' At twenty-two he became an attache at the United State3 lega tion in St. Petersburg. He was a mem ber of the faculty of the--University of Michigan when . called . to become the first president of Cornell. Hs person ally, contributed $300,000 to the infant Institution, and later founded the school of history and political science which bears his name, but his eighteen years of devoted labor as Cornell'! head was of greater value than any amount of money. After leaving Ith aca he was made minister to Germany and Russia, and later' ambassador to Germany, and many other important missions were entrusted to him. As an author his fame rests principally on "A History, of the Warfare of Sci ence with Theology In Christendom," a monumental work which has been translated Into French, Italian and other languages. Oxford, .Jena and fit Andrew's, as well as a host of Ameri can' universities, have conferred de grees upon Dr. White. Birthday honors will be showered to day upon that illustrious feminine dev otee to science, Mme. Marie i Sklodow ska Curie, who, with her, late-, husband, discovered radium. Mme. . Curie was born in Poland, the daughter of a pro fessor of physics in the University of Warsaw, forty-six years ago today. As a child she assisted in many chemical experiments conducted by her father, and When he died she went to Paris to study the science to which she had determined to devote her life. In the face of poverty and many obstacles which would have daunted the aver age man she held firm to her ambi tion. She was a pupil of Prof. Pierre Curie, and, after their marriage, they worked together in scientific research, which was crowned by ithe j discovery of that magical substance, radium. Prof, Curie always declared that his wife was his scientific superior, and h Indignantly refused all honors In which she was not permitted to share. Trag edy came into the life of Mme. Curie in 1906, when her husband was run over and killed by a cart. For a time she was overpowered with grief, but time and mother-love partially healed the wound, and she returned to her work. Mme. Curie's mether was Swed ish, and her father a Polish Jew but School was established to give .as good a chance as the "lan had. Cleveland was brie of the to make a distinction between abstract intellectual effort on in doing things. The Elemen behind their grade in school. the time is 'devoted to 'English, the two in close connection include a year or more of defi work, in preparation for spec 1 ' . .-,':.: ; y work, Prof. W.N. Hailmann, says: "The, ordinary -school was minded. Intellectual and phy self-expression and economic insight worker was practically excluded no time to engage in its play. the school, and it is hard to era Industrial school may not of least a promising beginning." " I a Catholic. The distinguished woman J scientist is extremely modest, and loathes publicity and attentions. -r She has never attended a social function. "LID" ON TALETS JUNIOR "PROM.' . New Haven,' Nov. ; 7 Tale clamped the "lid" down hard today on the Junior promenade, the big social event of the university, putting a ban on the famous "dawn." teas;' the "morning after"n dances at the Taft hotel and the Saturday and Sunday entertain ments. Heretofore :? the - promenade festivities opened Saturday night with a play on the campus. - Now. they are to begin Monday, the faculty thus cut ting off nearly two days of he gay week. - : ." . The members of the promenade com mittee today received notices from Frederick S. Jones, dean of the Aca demic Department, and Professor Rus sell H. Chittenden, . director of the Sheffield Scientific School, directing them to crowd the events in the period from Monday noon "until 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon The long drawn out celebration left the students in an exhausted condition, - Dean - Jones said, when asked to explain the no tice. "It not only interfered with their studies, but affected them for days afterward. It was greatly overdone last year and the student body In gen eral is in accord with the new ruling," said Dr. Jones. The promenade takes place -In Feb ruary. (As late as 12 o'clock in the day following the last one, the Juniors and their fair partners, were dancing in the Taft ballroom. The faculty then decided to ring the curfew at 3 o'clock on the morning after the prom enade. . . PAIN IN BACK AND RHEUMATISM Torment thousands of people dally. Don't be one of these' sufferers when for so little cost you can get. well rid, of the cause. Foley Kidney . Pills begin their good work from the very firfit dOSe. ThftV fTM4 an nva action on the . kidneys -and bladder mat me pam ana torment of back aohe, rheumatism and kidney trouble is soon dispelled. Hlndle's drug store. Adv. TO THE penniless man, coupon bonds convey an impres sion of security and ease. Cutting coupons as they be come due seems like the last luxury of idle ease. A play was once popular called "Coupon Bonds." The. very name suggested the remote and exclusive privileges of large wealth. Today a greatly increased number of people place savings in this form of security. " The problem of collecting the new in come tax from the infinite number of coupons handed to the banks, is proving' most perplexing. It is a process likely to cause irritation by whatever means attempted. - Non-registered bonds, the interest collectible by coupon, have been' in favor for many years with secretive people, who wished to conceal wealth, either to avoid taxes, or from other motives. Often such people took big risks of losing their money, for the sake of this secrecy, v- . ? They would take an unregistered bond with interest and principal payable to bearer, and deposit it in knot holes in the walls, or under loose stair treads. During their absences from the house, the bond might burn with the building. Thenthey would have nothing to show for their thousands but their own word. " , i " .' Nowadays, careful people are apt to have at least the prin cipal of their bonds registered, even if interest is collectible on coupons payable to bearer. And the possession of this form of property does not confer quite the feeling of security that the penniless think. ' V It usually represents property at remote distances from the purchaser, tied up in complicated combinations of capital! The ownej" knows little about the real worth of his security. Very frequently this lack of information results in losses. The cou pon cutting at those times is an irritating reminder of financial mistakes and anxieties. -. , - ORDER BU0II0M0 TO BE HANGED FOR MURDERING WOMAN -After deliberating for over three hours, a jury in the criminal superior court yesterday afternoon brought ii a verdict of .guilty in the case of Joe Buonomo, charged with the murder of Jennie Cavaleri in Stratford In Octo ber, 1912. . Judge Reed ordered Buonomo to be hanged on March 18 and the prisoner broke down when he heard the court's order. His aged mother also wept hit- terly. . . , . The evidence was aU finished yester day morning and the arguments began before noon. Attorneys John J. Culll nan and John C. Chamberlain for the accused and State's Attorney Judson for the state were heard. After hear ing the verdict Judge Reed, adourned the present session of the court with out date. . McCombs-Williams Nuptials In London Catholic. Church London, ' Nov. 7. William F. Mc Combs, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Miss Dorothy Williams, daughter of Col. and, Mrs. John R. Williams, of Washington,- D. C, were married today In the Roman Catholic chapel of St. Peter and St. Kdward, Palace street, Westminster, by Father Bernard "Vaughan. " . The bride was unattended. Charles Woodruff Halsey oltNew Tork, a class mate of. Mr. McCombs at Princeton, acted as best man, ' - A distinguished congregation gath ered at the chapel, including Walter H4nes Page, the United States ambas sador, and Mrs. Page, Myron T. Her rick," United States ambassador to France, and. Mrs. Herrlck; the Earl and Countess of Creven, the latter for merly Cornelia Bradley Martin of New Tork; the Count and Countess of Suf folk; the" latter formerly1 Margarite Hyde Leiter; the Earl and Countess of Derby; Earl ' Curzon ; Mrs. C. W. Hal sey; Major Collins Powys Campbell and Mrs. Campbell, formerly Nancy C. Jjeiter, Mrs. Richard Townsend and Mrs. Newhouse. ; A. wedding breakfast was held at the Rita? hotel after the ceremony. HANNA THREATENS TO DISCLOSE "SUCKER PLAYS' New 'Britain, Nov. 7. Secretary W. W. Hanna, of the Connecticut Roller Polo Xeague, threatened this morning to -disclose the "methods used by cer- tain players to hook suckers" after he had read an account of the American Roller Polo League meeting held In Springfield last night. His ire was arouused by reading the names of men in the American League poster who, he said, have signed contracts to play with the Connecticut league. He named five of the most prominent players and says he will publish broadcast the let ters and telegrams from tfifem in order that "lovers of clean sport" might be given a peep behind the scenes. Mr. Hanna also said that the Connecticut League would disoand should men whose contracts he holds appear in uniform when the American League opens on Nov. 10. Only One Trained Mouse : For Police Stenographer In order to really test the report con cerning the ability of Mrs. Kate Burroughs,- assistant police clerk, in the training of mice. Doorman Willis N. Benham of police headquarters ap peared this morning with a tiny live mouse in a rat trap. This he present ed to Mrs. Burroughs wtth his coiapll. ments and made the request that It become a companion of the one report ed as hovlng been trained by her. She objected vigorously about having It trained and also that It is impossible released, said that it was too old to be to train more than one mouse at a time. Justice Holmes Story Of Defective Complaint Told From Supreme Court Bench Washington, Nov. 7. Justice Holmes has the reputation, of citing more pe culiar cases from tne old law books than any other justice of the supreme court of the United states. The latest one he has told from the bench to the amusement of his associates, was "dur ing the argument in a libel suit, la which It was being contended that the declaration was insufficient because the offense was not stated properly. "That leads me to recall a case In the old' books," said the justice, "where an indictment set forth that the ac cused struck a. man on the head, split ting the skull until a portion fell down on either shoulder and the court held the indictment defective because It did - not allege that . the man was kiHed." . . ' ; Victims Of Marriage By Mail Play Hide And Seek ' A! Police Headquarters Charges and counter charges In the matrimonial troubles of Mr. and Mr. William A- Gorman continue to amuse the officials at the police and charities has a- continued hearing on' non-sup-slderable entertainment when William building and there promises to be con port charges. ' 'Exceedingly peeved over William's talkativeness, Mrs. Gorham visited the building yesterday and said that she was "looking for that scamp," meaning her husband. William was also seen in that vicinity and implied that be was busy keeping out of her way. In her search, Mrs. Gorham said that it was William, and not she, that advertised for a life partner. She admitted that his 'allegations might have had some foundation and als that the-,newspaper accounts were- "too true and personal."1 i WESTERN INDEPENDENCE TO ' UNDERMINE EASTERN FOLKS Boston, Nov. 1- "The morality of the east will be thoroughly under mined by our western independence." That is what Prof. W. H. P. Faunce, of Brown University, addressing the Baptist Social Union, last night, saia would happen . "when American In dividualism meets the castes." Prof. Faunce- has Just returned from the cast where he made a study at social conditions. STOTDAT APTEKXOON'S AT THE X. W. C. A. : In the first talk of her series, "Little Talks About Life," Miss Peck struck the right note if or all the Sunday af ternoon twilight services, "The Joy of Living." , Miss Peck was most en thusiastic over her subject and com municated her enthusiasm, to her audi ence so that a helpful and inspiring course through the fall is assured. The subject for Sunday is "Life as a Busi ness," and Miss Peck will have many practical suggestions for the side of life that ia a very real on for . every girl. The rooms at 1087 Broad street will be open at 3:30 and the Bamona club win act as the host during the social hour following the talk. RUBBER GOODS Buy all Rubber Goods at' The Ailing Rubber Store 'Our quality is the bestr Prices the Lowest DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES HOT -WATER BOTTLES We have a large line of Hot Water Bottles. .65c to $2.50 FOUNTAIN SYRINGES All sizes and kinds 75c to $3 RUBBER FOOTWEAR Arctics and Overshoes Men's Arctics. .98c to $8.00 RUBBER BOOTS All Styles, Best Quality - RUBBERS For Men, Women, Boys and Children. Large assort ment of Goodyear best qual ity Rubbers. GLOVES ! GLOVES X THE ALONG RUBBER CO. 1126 MAIN STREET , Syndicate Stores The D. M. Read Co. Established 1857, VVarm Robes for the Baby's Carriage Made of snowy, white lamb or sheep pelts, thick long hair, and lined with eiderdown or white quilted sateen. They have the convenient little pocket with flap, into which the baby rnay be tucked and kept snugly warm. Price $4.50, $5.50, $6.00. , - ' Carpet Store, first floor. Men's Sweaters, Special at $2.69. We had som little time, ago a lot of Sweaters. th5 discontinued number of- a $4.00 make. They went splen didly and those who did not secure one will be glad to learn that we have , obtained another shipment. They are all in Oxford or gray, with roll collar. Every one to be sold at $2.69. ; First Section, right, Main St. Brassieres, odd lots at Clearance - Very desirable styles, but not all sizes in each, some of them at half price. Mesh Brassieres with hook front, 3 els. Cambric Brassieres, lace-trimmed, were $1.50, 3 cts. Cross-back Brassieres, lace and embroidery, .were 50, - .now 25 cts. Center Counter, Corset Section. Dinner China, latest importations in sets and stock patterns now ready. Haviland, Pouyat; and other French China from Lim oges potteries, $35.00, $45.00, $50.00, $65.00 and $75.00. English Porcelains, ; Doulton and Whieldon set-, $20.00 and $35.00. - American China,' good quality, from $15.00 -up. Stock Patterns in English, French, Austrian, Japanese and American China, all grades, and more than one hun dred designs. One buys few- or many pieces. 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