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THE FARMER: NOVEMBER 19, 1913 BRIDGEPORT EVENING FARMER THE MIRACLE WORKERS FROM SMALL SINS GREAT DISASTERS GROW: (Founded 1790.) tHK FARMER PTTBLISHIXO CO, Farmer Building, 177.179 Fairfield Are4 Bridgeport. Conn. .TELEPHONES Editorial Rooms, 1387 Business' Office, 1208 REPURIICAX FARMEF-, Published Fridam, tfly Edition. . . Weekly Edition . .$ 1 per annum per annum Entered In Post Office, Brtdgreport. Conn, as Second Class Matter. S WED3BSDAT, NOV. 19, 1918. SEMI-CENTENARY OF LINCOLN'S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG SPEECH. is t As Ions aa the English language en dares memorable address deliver ed "by Abraham tjIii at Oettysburg jkst half, oeaatary ao to-day will be treasured as one of the most lmprea mlw utterances that ever issued from Tr lips. . . In public schools tbrongbont the ' United ' States" " the speech wm .be repeated to-day,' in cel ebration of the semi centenary of its deB ery. AX Gettysburg a monument f granite and bronze will preserve the speech far future generations. Not asV the United States alone, but of many nations, have pro. la this brief address of only 267 words mm.oam of-etho. supremo Sights of ora- O-RAILROAD lawyers, railroad financiers, and railroad factotums who do Inuch talking and little work, ever grow up. That irrepressible, imaginative Peter Pan of the Con necticut lobby, otherwise E. D. Robbins, general counsel for the New Haven Company, has just finished telling Judge Shel don, of the Supreme-Judicial court of Massachusetts, that the I.French loan, which J. P. Morgan secured about 1907, saved the road. "Had the loan been delayed a week,". Mr. Robbins said, "the consequences would have been- disastrous to corporation, stockholders and the commonwealth." But not so disastrous as Mr.1 Morgan's control of the New ttaveA property was. The receipts of the New? Haven road drop ped off a little in 1907 and 1908, but that organization remained a very profitable institution, just the same. There were some things which had been added to the New Haven properties,. how ever, which did not do well in panic year, or any other ,year, when the returns from th&o ;were measured by the values which New Haven stockholders had been dragooned into con tributing to acquire them. Mr. Morgan's life saving feat was that of a gentleman who, having pushed somebody into the water, shoves a plank out:to the struggling victim before he sinks. But for a real miracle worker, commend us to Mr. Robbins, who used $150,000 of the money of the stockholders of the New Haven so successfully that he got the General Assembly to vote unanimously for miracle working legislation. Mr. Robbins is too modest. . Esom - after the terrible battle . of OotCyaborg. .where the Union triumph ed ewer the Confederacy after a Jong aLd. bloody ' conflict, the government de-temdrfced to set apart the battlefield for a national soldiers cemetery. On Nov. It, 18 68. the field, which then contained the graves' of 3,580 Union col til ra, was dedicated by President "ttneeln. The speech was hurriedly prepared while the President was on his way to ' Gettysburg to deliver it. It was earnest, honest, vigorous, with no striving for oratorical effect. ' It was pure gold, refined in the furnace of war. It. is a message, not for one nation nor one century, but for all time and an humanity. "Fourscore -and' seven years ago," Lincoln fcegan''onr fattier br5 light forth, upon this continent a new na tion, conceived in' liberty,- and deai cated to the proposition that all .men created equal. Now we are en gaged In a ' great civtt war testing whether that nation, or any nation,' so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met upon a great battlefield of 4hat war. We are met' to dedicate- a portion of It as the final resting' place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It la altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hal low this ground. The brave men, liv ing and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will lit tle note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they ' have thus far so nobly carried on. It Is rather for us to be here dedicated t the great task remaining before us that from those honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full meas ure of devotion that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died In vein that the nation shall under God, ha- st new birth of free dom, and that government of the peo ple. bythe people for .the. people, 1 shall not perl'sK'from the earth." BnXYSUNpAY, TEE BASEBALL EVANGELIST, X J- r ' 1 IS FIFTY TO-DAY. Like the servant girl and the black brother, Billy Sunday, the- baseball evangelist and wholesale saver of sick souls, is a. "problenu" Thousands and thousands tif good people and ex-sinners firmly believe, that Billy is heaven-ordained to pluck brands from Via burning, and .Jerk . souls from the a- of Jeopardy, and will so express them elves in letters and messages of con gratulation to the evangelist to-day l the occasion of the semi-centenary -f his birth. Other men and wome equally good, have little Hieing for the former baseball player's evangelistic methods, and have not hesitated to say so. " .. . Two views of the work of the pro fessional evangelist, as represented by Sunday, are presented by prominent clergymen in recent numbers of The Congregationalism Writing of Sun day's work in Toledo two years ago. Rev. Dr.' Ernest Bowmer Alien said: "The millennium has not arrived in Tolddo as the result of the meeting:." bu the air was cleared as by a storm. The fierceness of Billy Sunday's at tack on sin, the hatred his preach ing inspires among sinners tn the up per as well as the lower classes, his Intense passion for personal and pub lic righteousness, the vivid fllustra- lion in his own life of a man redeem ed from sin all these unite to make his work vital and as permanent as that of other evangelists. ' ' The learned and .scholarly "Dr.. "'h.lRgton Gladden presented the I KIND WORDS FOR A YOUNG CROESUS. THE public may feel curious about its multi-millionaires. But its personal feeling to them is one of Indiffer ence; almost hostility. An exception seems to be made of young Vincent Astor, who has been the recipient of many friendly expressions since his engagement was announced, to Miss i.Huntf ington. The public is not so much hostile, to wealth as to its sel rish isolation. ' '." ' "". . ' . V ' ; ; "' ."' Y ' ., V,''...':' Many young fellows in-his position would call politics a stupid bore, would shield themselves from tiresome contact with tenants of their property. They would, dangle; around at summer and winter resorts, seeking to hurry .along . Father Time's lagging feet. Young Astor seems to think that the pur suits that ordinarily amuse his kind are rather childish toys. . The "idle rich" is an overworked phrase, not always des criptive. Some of them are overworked, by a toilsome search for a good time. Others beeorrie mentally decadent through in ertia. . Most of them, though surrounded Ty hosts (Of followers, and sycophants, are more or less friendless, as real friendship - t - - - - " " i rr-i ; . . goes. They are isolated ny tneir giiuering prize, inis removes them from the common interests created ny laDor anq struggle. The best thing, after all, is effort and competition, the zest of winning sometimes, the manliness of being a good loser, pro vided the game on the whole is fitted to -your powers. Young Astor can't know all this. V But the world is kind to one who works at any honest task. Vincent Astor, 'with . his Scientific agriculture, his politics, his' searching inquiry into business detail, seems to have the blood of the toilers in his veins. If also he pays the debt of human sympathy that the possession of great wealth entails, he will find that his world is full of friendships that are real and not mercenary.'.' :, " " . " "' ' THANKSGIVING DAY RE-UNIONS. TO SAVE the finer spirit of the old Thanksgiving Day, something more than a plump turkey and accompany ing dainties is required. The real charm lies in family reun ions. This is difficult where one brother is in California, a sis ter in Florida, an uncle in Vermont and the cousins scattered all over. ' " In the old days when all the folks used to settle, down with in a carriage drive of the old fireside home; there were young sters enough to fill the house with roaring merriment. A clan spirit of family loyality united all hearts. . Modern life has scattered the old families to the winds of heaven. The Thanksgiving feast can rarely be a general as sembly of all branches of the family tree. But it still serves to bring together friends from a distance. The modern Thanksgiving is less uproarious. J3ut the meet ing of long separated kindred may give the day a deeper senti ment than in the old times when reunions were easy and fre quent; - - - . , " ' . '' , " ' MR. BROOKER'S RESIGNATION . HE resignation of Charles F. Brooker is late, from the standpoint of a certain former president of the United States. Brooker of the Brass Trust, and of tne' notorious direc torate of,, .the New Haven Company . and rBrpbker under indict ment for alleged violation of. the anti-trust law, was, as a mem ber of the Republican National -Committee, a big load for Mr Taft .to carry. - . RECKLESS young man, in the neighboring city of Derby, l. raised two small checks and obtained from .the Birming ham national bank some $2,500, which did not belong to him. He is under arrest, but the cashier of the bank is dead. The cashier killed himself, moved to despondency, it is said, because he had been reproved for carelessness in paying the raised checks. None can foretell the consequences of an evil act. . This cashier apparently had lived a life of probity for 51 years. He had served his bank 22 years, had wife and children, and was a man respected in the community in which he lived. The motive to which his suicide is attributed, seems insufficient, but the hu man mind is an instrument of .many tones; and none can tell what discord may shatter it. Frequently acts small in themselves are followed by large consequences. And this is true in every area of human action. A man loves and rides away, but the woman chooses not longer to remain humiliated in a world- of brass and iron. A manu facturer, to promote his profits, locks doors that lead to safety and a hundred women die in fiery agony. Ships go abroad, with life bots too few, and crew too cheap and inexperienced, and hundreds of the picked men and women of the world, are numbed too unbroken silence in the icy waters of the great deep. ' It behooves a man to consider carefully the marching army of disaster that walks unseen beside the seeming tiny evil which he desires to do, believing his own comfort somewhat thereby may be promoted. . -' ' HONEST INCOME TAX. RETURNS. MOST people's judgment of the fairness of a taxation law depends on. whether they have to pay under it. The taxation system existing in many States would not do credit to semi-barbarous countries like Russia or China, taking 30 or 40 per cent of the income of certain classes of property and ex empting wholly the income of other classes, when essentially there is no difference. " A national vice of tax dodging has grown up, sometimes provoked by .unjust laws, yet on the whole showing a yellow streak in the national temperament. How far will these habits of evasion affect the new income tax law? Shall we become a nation of liars, as W. E. Gladstone eaid.of Great Britain under its income tax? ' v The stealthy hoard' of coupon bonds under the back stairs or-in impregnable vaults, registered in no corporation books, their existence known only to the bank clerks who pays the cou pons is under the new law entered on the judgment books of Uncle Sam. . - ' " . ' V. The college professor, the bank president, the corporation officer, all these and other salaries become a matter of govern ment. record, as visible and assessable as real estate. But the lawyer, the doctor, the farmer, the merchant, the commercial traveller, these" and others keep their own, books and must answer yes or no to the internal revenue men and their own consciences. ' - But the law is the law. The people wno will have the most self respect will be those who act the . gentleman toward Uncle Sam, and. make honest statements.' It is difficult to get emo tional.over the man having $5,000 income; who asks public sym pathy on the ground that he has to contribute $10. . THE TWEED "RING." , The first great triumph of the peo ple over a political "boss" of an Amer ican city was recorded .forty years ago to-day.' when William Marcy Tweed, the "boss" of the "Tweed Ring," was sentenced to twelve years' imprison ment and fined $12,650. This was the answer of the people, as represented by their courts of Justice, to- the chal lenge of "bosslsm," fWliat are you going to do about it?" Tweed, a politi cian for many years, was appointed commissioner of public works'for the city of New York' in "1870; and the "ring" . of which he was the leader succeeded in barefaced appropriations of vast sums - of public money. . ' The "boss," sneerlngly confident of : his ability , to "get away witn, the swag," failed to properly appreciate the pow er of the press and outraged public opinion. Higher courts decided that the , imprisonment was . illegal, but up on Tweed's release he was thrown into Jail on another charge. ' Late in 1873 htf escaped and fled to Spain, but was recaptured, returned to New Torfcaod again imprisoned in Ludlow .. Street jail, where he died in 1878. The op erations of the Tweed ring, durirg five years of domination, cost the tax payers $160,000000. Except for the newspapers, it might have cost them many times that sum. - W see many hats turned ' up on the side. . "anti" view of the Billy Sunday "prob lem." ": i'.'Every day he mounts the judgment-seat of the universe and sends men by scores to the right hand and the left mostly to the left. Statis tics, of a sort, were kept , of . the num ber of -conversions; but of the num ber .of those -sent to hell, by name, no record, I believe,' was made. All evo lutionists are consigned to hell. Mr. Sunday names, one by one, those whom he supposes to ba evolutionists, and with a dramatic gesture fiings each of them Into perdition. 'There goes old Darwin! He's in hell, sure!' And the enraptured audience yells its applause, as one evolutionist after an other is dropped into the fiery pit One of Mr. Sunday's ministerial Supporters in Toledo, Rev. Dr. Wallace, after llsi enlng to this sermon about the evolu tionists, ventured to remonstrate witn him privately. The next day on the platform Mr. Sunday turned to the protesting minister and shook his fist in his face. William Ashley Sunday, to give the evangelist his full name, was born in Amos, la., fifty years ago to-day, and from 1883 to 1890 was a professional ball player with the Chicago, Pitts burg and Philadelphia clubs of the League. He began his evangelistic career In 189 6, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry ten years ago, - : ' . - Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word. SAFETY FIRST SAFETY firstrhaa- of late been the slogan in rail road operations. 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She lived in the thirteenth century and was a daughter of a king of Hungary. As the wife- of Louis, Landgrave of Thur lngla,,she transformed the palace in toa, refuge for the poor, built hos pitals all over the land, and person ally nursed the sick. After the death of her husband she was driven from the palace and spent the remainder of her brief life wandering the streets, her only refuge being the hovels of the poor people she had served. George Wheeler Hinman, who was recently inaugurated president of Ma rietta College, In Ohio, is fifty years old to-day. He was- educated in Ger many, and was long an editorial writ er on the New York Sun, and later editor-in-chief ;of the Chicago - Inter Oocan. ' ".-'- '" ' . Gabriel Hanotaux, eminent French statesman and former foreign minis ter, was born sixty years ago to-day. He is the author of many historical works. Woman Did you know that your dog killed my cat? Man Oh, yes, but I've got a muz zle on him so h can't do it again. 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