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THE FARMER: DECEMBER 31, 1913 EE1BSEP0RT HENlltG FARMER 6 Railroad Policy Brings New Haven System Grief; How Can Methods Benefit The People Of Bridgeport? THAT' WAS really a remarkable picture which was pre sented in one of Bridgeport's leading hotels, Monday LARKIN, "FIERY CROSS" AGITATOR, WHO PLANS TO VISIT UNITED STATES Founded 1790.) THE KARMKR PCBMSHING CO., Farmer BuJMlng, 177-179 Fairfield Ave Bridgeport. Conn. yy.-- vc f & k . f HI r&at 'JUL -: . - TELEPHONES Editorial Rooms. 12S7 Business Office. 1208 REPCBUCAIf FARMEB, Published Fridays. Jaily Edition..... Weekly Edition... ,.. pir annum ...91 per annum Entered tn Post Office. Bridgeport. Conn.. a Second Class Matter. WEDXESDAY, DEC. 31, 191S. TWINS CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS IX ' v DIFFERENT YEARS. -" In Jnverness-shire, Scotland, there Uvea or did until Recently twins who celebrate their birthdays la different years. -The eldest of these Scotch twins will be twenty-seven to day, having been born on i Dec. 31, 188 6, while the junior twin was born on- Jan. 1, 1887. One of them arrived in the world a few minutes before the church bells began ringing out the old year, and the other was born a few minutes after midnight. A. much more remarkable case oc curred in England early this year. On Feb. 24 the. wife of a workingman, at Barrow, in Lancashire, gave birth to a son. Both mother and child soon recovered, and within a couple of weeks the mother was able to go about here housework. Then she be came ill again, and on April 4 she gave birth to another child, a girl. Six weeks intervened between the birth of the first and second twins. Under the Insurance act the father was entitled to a maternity benefit of $7.50. The sum is the same for twins as for single babies, however. The father alleged that an . Interval of six weeks 'was sufficient ' to destroy the twinship of the Infants, and Applied for, a second maternity benefit, thus giving the commissioners a hard preblem to solve. The most remarkable instance of this kind was reported In a medical journal several years ago, when a pbydcian described a case In which! trip ets were born a month apart. The second baby followed the first after a little over month had elaps ed, and the third was born almost a month after the second. ... Twins, joined together have, been born frequently, but few , of them survive long. ' The Siamese twins, Chang and Eng. were perhaps th-a best known of these freaks of nature. They were born abc-.i i century ago, and . died in 1874,' one on Jan. 16th and the other on Jan. 17th, one of thesn surviving the other about two hours. Chang and Eng enjoyed all the' factnltiea-and. powers usually pos sessed by people more orthodox in their physical make-up. They were united, by s- short cartilaginous band ; at the ptfc oHhe stomach. They were found Blviiag- on ths fcankd- of the Siam rive tqp ua. Amer 1 can traveller, Kob , trfc Elaaten He took: them to New i York, rlxe&euObteywer.flrst' exhibited, i amf, lat-dpt. . Coffin exhibited them i in, '"""'V IjateP"thej married two tslsterg audi ettlea oil a farm, but maden&J4xhbition tour "before- their dea-th - Ilttttsffi'wwniMMyffin fiit were the f am' , butTCtr yTTBadtvlt. ."Nightingale ' twins of'Koid Carolina who were born in Uii1 and died recently in. Ohio. Mil M s-CTirlaf na weret aiegroes. The up jper 3?oita off their-body was entirely ! distinct, tra thej were one in the If -pftrt Of'the-tSpinal column and ptvlfi, thefl four legs Obeying im pulsescfrom a common center. - The ' wCJ, - mder standing and. , conscience vera- fllstmct,. and this made a lot of trt tbIi"or""their manager. They sang as 1 danced very" well, but very often Vl a of -the- twins-would seek to break 'aateBgagcmeat on the plea, of illness. Ttis always angered the other twin, 'wiKf insisted upon appearing. Their manager had to be a. very prince of diplomats to restore the intente cor-di.-i.le. While Millie-Christine were very much attached to each other, they Quarreled constantly, and rarely agreed npsa anything. After a quar . rel one of the twins would indignantly demand that the other go away and leave her alone! FIRST MODERN REAPER The "first - modern American reaper was patented in the United States eighty years ago today, Dec. 31, 1833, ar,d was the invention of Obed Hus- se. Hussey cut a harvest with his m-uchine a year before, in 18 32. About ths same time a somewhat similar in ichine was invented by Abraham R xndall, but the Hussey machine was tke it est practical, and was widely imitated at home and abroad. . The ancient had crude reaping machines, . and the first of such contrivances re corded In history was used 1,800 years ago, taking tne shape ot kiwve-s set into the end of a cart and pushed along by oxen. The first modern header was invented in 1826 by the Rev. Patrick Bell, of Scotland. Hus sey, in his reaper, used the Bell reel, and Cyrus IT. McCormick's first ma chine, patented in 1834, was an Im provement on the Bell type, rather than an original invention. : Hussey's machine speedily won favor among main growers, and in 1839 he evening. An audience 01 zou men, some 01 tnem respected and leading citizens of Bridgeport clapped lustily, and gave evi dences of enthusiastic pleasure while Senator. Brandegee and E. J. Hill pictured the American people . in the throes of a panic, and gloated over the. prospect of a general distress. , Let us not become unduly excited, nor assume in speakers, or listeners, any undue" Callousness, or extraordinary- hard heartedness. MrV Brandegee and Mr. Hill are two politicians of the old schoool." One of them has been thrust out of office and wants to get in. The other expects to be thrust out of office and wants to stay in. ' So they 'make the conventional plea, in "the conventional .way, to a conventional assemblage of party: men gathered to have a good time. ' . Nobody actually believed the American people are . going to be in serious distress. . The whole thing was accepted for what it was, a good time, slightly mitigated by the old fashioned sppeches of old fashioned politicians, who felt obliged to com miserate, deplore, condemn and predict because opponents are in office instead of themselves. ' r - Were distress really imminent these same gentlemen would put aside their affectation and I'here would have been hp -applause and no enthusiasm, for people do not rejoice at a funeral. In this" case there was re joicing because' nobody believed perhaps a .political one for Mr. The banquet was a proper given to Mr. King, by persons who are properly grateful to him because they have been rescued from the predicted bread line by being added to the public pay roll. "They ought to feel grateful It was entirely proper1 for the best' fellow in the world and entirely correct for Mr. King to reciprocate by calling Mayor Wilson the best of men. They are mutually grateful for reciprocal favors enjoyed and to come. Neither was it incongruous ment should have turned into railroad. ' ..v"-- ' -:". The guest, of honor began byist for the road. : Judge Banks, who was a guest of honor, had been distinguished for his opposition to the Utilities law, which . Mr. Judson and the business men of Connecticut wrote into the statute books. The railroad is a fountain of political honor. Without its favor Mr. to go back to the Senate," nor - wonder Mr. Hill sympathized declared that it has been "abused Since none 'of the eleven thousand women stockholders of the road were present at the feast, it Were a$ well that their im poverished views should not have been': presented," and they were not. One matter may well attract izenship. In the midst of all this pretended weeping, and ac tual droll eryj one serious purpose was betrayed. It was. that of Mr. King, Mayor Wilson, and their Overlords, to plunge Bridge port. into a great ; debt."'--"' , The New Haven road which fully serve and more of them career of imposing debt creation. What debt has done to the Bridgeport. The policy which would create a, great municipal debt here, is borrowed from railroad finance,1 and is a dangerous and a disastrous policy. ; ' ; : - . Fortunately no debt can now be created without the con- sentof voters. It will be up to them to say whether they will take New Haven methods for their financial guide, or whether they will continue in Bridgeport's historic policy of pay as you go, v ; " '' ' .';' ' ' - It is very pleasant for gentlemen in oliice to nave the ex penditure of large sums of easy money. But pay day always comes and the citizens always have to pay. . HOVV TO BECOME NOTORIOUS 4 4 gT OME MEN," said Toastmaster George M. Eames, at the King banquet, "go to Congress and become noted, while some men go to Congress and become notorious." And some men become notorious without going anywhere. ' v established a factory . in Baltimore for their ' manufacture on a large scale. The next development of the idea found expression in the modern self -binding harvester, the invention of two farmers, Charles and William Marsh. McCormick, Deering and oth ers developed the Industry, until now a large proportion of the harvesting machinery used through out ., the world is manufactured in ; America. KEEP WELL IN YOUR . OLD AGE BY WALKING . . . . If you would reach an active, hap py and .hearty old age, walk from five to fifteen miles every day. . '-This is the advice of M.' Emile Loubet, former president of the French republic, who will celebrate his seventy-fifth birth day today. Incidentally, the same ad vice is given and practiced by the only other living ex-President of France, "Papa" "Armand Fallieres, who was seventy-two last month. M. Loubet and M. Fallieres often ,do their walking together, and a jolly and hap py pair of pedestrians they make. In addition to long walks, ex-President Loubet says that old people should in terest themselves in some movement for the benefit of others, preferably welfare work for young petfple. And M. Loubet, and Mr. Fallieres as. well, practice this doctrine. Mr. Loubet has constituted himself - the protec tor of the health of all the children and young people of France, while pJump "Papa" Fallieres, radical in politics, agnostic in religion 'and ma terialist in philosophy, but as tender hearted a man as ever lived, has con stituted himself a public Cupid, and provides "dots" for young - women who might otherwise be deprived of husbands. "Papa" Fallieres married when Quite young, and he has often asserted that his wife made him president. He is a staunch advocate of early marriages, -and as the self- become" really sympathetic. there is to be a funeretl, except Brandegee. occasion for rejoicing. It was and they do. Mayor Wilson to call Mr. King that this mixed feast and la a: laudation of the : New Haven ," ' .' -' ' ' ' :. . his political promotion as a lob Brandegee could scarcely hope Mr. Hill back to the House. No with the railroad " and fearlessly in Connecticut. ' : v the careful attention of the cit iKli: f.v- "V ;' .V"" some ot the gentlemen taith- revere, has but recently closed a ;i . i ; New Haven road it 'can do to constituted official matchmaker of France he has brought about hun dreds of , weddings. ' . i - : -in his- great wor for the protec tion of the health of the youngsters, M. Loubet. launched 'a. society which has waged unceasing warfare on dirt. flies, ignorance, bad air, impure milk. and the adulteration of food. ; In Par is he built an anU-tuberculosis dis pensary, ' raising the fund by a na tional subscription of two cents a per son. Good food and plenty of it and the' open" air cure have saved the lives of thousands of Parisian children. "Father" Loubet has started a -whole new science, called puericulture, or child culture, and has interested prac tically, all of the worklngmen's orga nizations of France in the movement. As a1 result, -while1 "race suicide" is prevalent ; in France, the mortality rate among babies' has been vastly reduced. . France has fewer babies than any other country," in accordance with population, but it brings far more of them to maturity. Irj..'1907 the infant mortality was 150,000; in 1912 it was only 74,000, or less than half. "It isn't a question of how many babies are born in any country" says M Loubet, "but of how many are saved. In decreasing infant mor tality, France leads the world." And M. Loubet might have added, except that he is a modest man, that he was largely responsible for. this condition. Credit Is also due to Dr. Alphonse Hergott, founder of the Baby's Smile Society, who spent a large private fortune in advancing his life-work spent every cent of it, and was sorry he didn't have more. M. Loubet is a small, slender, some what undersized man. He carries a walking stick in his morning pedes trian trips across Paris carries it us ually protruding from his overcoat pocket. He also wears a smile, some what i'-oltairean and ironic, yet kind- J ly; his face is a trifle drawn, but iWn.... . I J V-, i Is ' s i&saat- .4.-.'sss ""- -ss -tAfcK W lCAR.(tO OXi vSHOULDefeg OF- OU&U N . tiQg. London, Dec. 30. James Larkin, the "fiery cross" labor leader, in a speech in Dublin, referring to 1 his - Intention to visit America, eaid he would not go without the consent of the Transport Workers' union, but he is certain to gain that consent. The Daily Tele graph's Dublin correspondent says a New York dispatcn intimating that Larkin is not likely to receive either a warm Welcome or much money in America has been reai in Dublin with much interest. "It is. especially grati fying to the Nationalists; -who have most free from wrinkles. .'He wears a top hat, and in his buttonhole the ribbon, o the Legion of Honor. M. Loubet was a mayor, deputy, senator. minister Of public Works, minister of the interior, premier and president of the Senate prior to his election as the seventh president of the French, re public in 1899. '..-. -''. . . FATHER, AGED 84, . 'MURDERS HIS SON Paris, . .Dec. 31 An- ; extraordinary tragedy occurred last, night.. -. A popu lar English . vaudeville performer-known-on the stage as Harry Fragson, was shot and killed by his ,84-years-old father. Fragson had dined at a restaurant ' and 'While on the way to the theater where he , has; been ap pearing called at the apartment which he occupied with his r aged father in the Hue de la Fayette, . ! He found the door bolted and was kept . waiting a long time before it was opened by his father. High words ensued and suddenly the father seemed to lose all control of himself. He drew a re volver and the son- fell with a bullet in his head. ' - The shot brought to the scene those living in. the adjoining apartments and the police. The son was hurried to the Lariboisiere hospital where he died. - : , - '".'.; , i - ,.' ,; The father was. taken to' a police station. The feeble , old man was greatly ' shaken and trembled as he told in a somewhat rambling- way his story to the police commissioner. He had bought the revolver, he said, With the intention of committing suicide because life had become unbearable. His son had brought a woman to the house in spite of repeated protests. Last night, he declared, his son was accompanied, by the same woman and reproached him for keeping him wait ing. He meant to kill himself in their presence and drew, the pistol. What passed he did not understand, but in stead of putting a -bullet into his own temple; he fired at his son. Why, he could not explain, . ' The Janitor of the apartment house and neighbors informed '. the police they had often heard the father and son quarreling,, but .never, 'dreamed such a tragedy possible in View of the great age and feebleness of the fath er1. WOMAN WILL AID IN CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS Somerville, Mass., Dec. 31 For the first time in this state a woman will assist officially , in ' formulating plans for city development.' Mayor Burns has appointed Mrs. ; Barbara Galpin a member of the city planning commit tee. A statute enacted by the last leg islature directed cities' and - towns of more than 10,000 population to create such commissions for the purpose of studying the municipal needs, par ticularly with respect to conditions which may be injurious to the public health and making plans for the de velopment of the municipalities with special reference to the proper hous ing of dependents. , SUICIDES INCREASE Chicago, Dec. 31 The number of etji cides in the Nyted States in 1913 showed an Increase over last year, the number being 13,106, as compared with 12,981 in 1912, according to figures col leotted in this city.' The proportion of suicides -as be tween men and women remains about the same as in previous years, being 8,602 males and 4,504 females. Physi cians, as usual, head the list among professional men, the number being 34. Sylvester "Walsh, six years old, was run over and killed by a team of horses at Glendale, L, I. - Snow, which ie rare m Berlin; cov ers the streets and the whole empire 34 in tbM srrln a havy storms. . yv i 4, lQi1t-v- "- T iit ,r i- bitter memories of the recent by-elec4 tions and. who are thirsting to j get their own .back," he continues. "Should Larkin persist in his intention to visit America It is fairly easy to calculate the amount of support he will receive from those- who have poured their dol lars into the Nationalist -war chest in years past. They, like the National ists here, will not condone his offense of -wilfully endangering" the passage of the home rule "bill, and his visit, if It ev,er comes off, should provide- inter esting incidents on ooth side of the Atlantic." - BULGARS PRAISE AMERICAN CLERGY FOR RELIEF WORK Natives In Dire Straits As Re- suit of Ten Months' War. London,: Dec.'- 3 1-'M Michael Ivan Madjaroff, the Bulgarian Minister at London, discussing the distress in his country following the war, said: "The present situation is indeed very grave. - The distress is . un paralleled. Men, women and chil dren are starving in the villages. "There- are .nearly 200,000 - refu gees practically homeless, without food or ' clothing. Eighty . per cent, of ' them are agriculturists and now, with a hard winter and the ground under snow,' they are deprived of the possibility of work. "Reports of the serious conditions and the suffering are., not exag gerated, f These thousands of refu gees, who have left their homes ' are entirely dependent' on Bulgarian and outside support. m , Greeks and Servians Included. , iney include ureens .ana Ser vians as well as Bulgars. When you remember that , Bulgaria had to yo through three wars - in .ten months and that at best- if is. not a rich countryv It is easy to see the serious difficulty facing Bulgaria in ; dealing with the . present problems of dis tress and famine. - - , "The government has 'done its best to set the refugees down in nev territories, but it is one - thing to take families there and another to provide for their wants through the winter.'. ',5 ' .- - "If they can live until summer and start their' crops the problem will be simplified. The task of finding homes ia overwhelmingly difficult. .' Refugees Are Oasted. "Originally the refugees were housed in the 'barracks and schools, but upon the return of the soldiers from the war the barracks were re quired for them and the miserable creatures had to be distributed through the villages, where the peasantry themselves - were 'feeling the disastrous effects of the war. "The whole male population had to go out to fight against the -Turks, and Bulgarian was exhausted thereby. It is very, difficult for the govern ment to let tbe outside world know the real condition of the country. The -need for Immediate help cannot be too greatly emphasized. Many American Missions. "Already the government, with its emptied exchequer, has expanded two millions of francs in relieving the Immediate distress, which will be greater in the next three months unless there is assistance. "All over Bulgaria there are Prot estant missions conducted almost en tirely by American clergymen. They have done miracles in distributing help, being in constant touch with their churches in America. It is through them .probably that more help can be obtained. , "The American people may learn through these compatriots how sore ly help is really needed." AVIATOR FLIES UNDER ROOF; SMASHES CRAFT IN MAKING LANDING San Francisco, Dec." 31 In what la believed to he the rlrst biplane "flight Lincoln Beachey circled successfully interior of the' Palace of Machinery at the exposition grounds, but made a poor landing and smashed hie bi plane. Beachy was not injured. Fire again threatened the destruc tion of Montreal, but was extinguished with a loss of $50,000. " Established r ' Store closed on New Year Day. WINTER SCHEDULE OF BUSINESS. HOURS s Beginning January second. Opening 8:30 a. m. Closing 6:00 p. m., Saturdays excepted. Saturday 9:00 p. m. Annual January Sales Announcement Is Hereby Made of Clear' ahce Sales and Special Discounts in the Following Departments Furs, Winter Coats and Tailored1 Gowns Silks, Dress-Goods, Velvets and Fur Cloths Undermuslins and Ribbed Underwear for yomen. Men's Wear, Sample Hosiery and Handkerchiefs Laces, Trimmings, Beaded Tunics and Gami- tures. Leather Goods, Jewelry and Stationery, Wash Dress Goods, Notions and Holiday Novel- -; '. ties. , Household Linens, Blankets, domf or tabic r f Domestics, and all lines of House Furnishings in the Basa- ment. . Discounts of 10 and 20 per cent prevail outside special lists. '' , ' 1 Friday Morning, January Second ; Detailed lists will be published tomorrow. : T;he Clearance of Furniture, Carpets, Rvn. and Curtains is not included in this sale, 1; :t commences on January The D. M. Fvead Company. TftADFORD Fairfield Avenue VARIETY STORE THE STORE THAT WE HAVE MOVED TRYING HARD AS WE CAN TO GET ORGANIZED PANAMA'S CHIEF - DENIES INTENT TO PROVOKE DISPUTE Panama, Dec. 31 Discussing the ca ble dispatch from Barranquilla, Co lombia, on Sunday, President Parras denied that Panamanians . were en gaged" in a plot to prevent the settle ment of the Panama-Colombia boun dary" dispute. It was said that Pan amanians were trying to provoke Co lombia to some overt act, thus com pelling American intervention and complicating the situation. President Parras said: "Panama has no fear of losing her territory to Co lombia. The demonstration organ ized in favor of Senor Henriquez, which developed an anti-Colombian tendency, leading to an assault on the house of that country's agent and the subsequent withdrawal of the agent. Senor Ramirez, has no political signifi cance. It was mscountenancea by tne authorities. , "The affront to the Colombian agent was merely the acf of an unreason ing mob, infuriated by taunts of Co lombians. Panama does not desire to provoke American intervention be cause it sees no danger from Colom bia" Other Panama officials also say that the Colombian allegations concerning the cause of the recent disturbance are incorrect. CARRY VICUNA SKINS WORTH $80,000 AS GIFT TO THE POPE New York. Dec. 31 After a tour of Peru and Ecuador, the Right Rev. Adolfo "Vattuone and Signer Giovanni Patricl, left here yesterday with a consignment of vicuna skins, valued at more than $80,000, which they said would be given to the Pope for dec orative purposes in the Vatican. , The two men left on board the America, of the Royal Italian Mail line, after transferring their valuable o under bond from the Pastores, tenth. J f "J"l'1;i'';i7'"'1' -"TJ'"'""'a,'' PAYS THE CAR FARE from the lUnited Fruit line. The Rev. Mr. Vattuone ia atta to the Vatican, and has maJe everal exploration tours. RUBBER GOO We have an assorlmfnl tha cannot be equalled in wholesale house, and our Prita is the lowest. WATER DOTTLE 65c. to $2.50 FOUNTAIN SYRINGES 75c to '.$3.25 SURGEON'S GLOVES . 75c HOUSEHOLD GLOVES 50c, 75c and $1.00 pair. LEATHER GLOVES AND MITTENS 25c to $5.00 RUBBER FOOTWEAIi Rubber Overshoes for styles of shoes. TOE ALLIiJG RUBBER CC. ii26 i.iaiit cxr.:::;-. Syndicate Ctorca