THE FARMER: MAY 28," 1914
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WEDJTESDAX, MAX 27, 1914.
THE NEW 1HGH SCHOOL.
THE FUTURE OF DECORATION DAY
BRIDGEPORT IS investing more than a mil
lion dollars in a high school, half for
bricks and mortar, and, half for interest on bor
rowed money. Under these conditions Bridge
port is entitled to the best, and should gat the
best regardless of the feelings and pocketbobks
of contractors. f
The Board of Education should hold the
architect to strict accountability for the quality
of the work, and he in turn must "see that the
specifications are fullyt complied with. ; The
public will keep a watchful eye on the job, and
will pass its judgment when the work is done.
The work up to this time has not progress
ed in a satisfying manner. It is to be, hopedjthe
future may-show better results. -
RELUCTANT SIR. ROCKEFELLER.
Hili WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER wants '- to be
VV - left alone. He thinks- it is time
"persecutions of .business men came to an end."
He doesn't propose to testify, before the Inter-,
state Commerce Commission unless'lie has. to-.
He, thinks bookkeepers and auditors - and "those
who know something" about how ihe.joad was
run," should be called instead of himself.
There you have the attitude of. a man who
has been greatly enriched by . the : privilege of
living in the United States, and under the" pro
tection of its govenment.j He flouts "the laws of
the landr regards himself as a person- too "su
perior to answer to -the -whole of society and
takes the attitude .of a spoiled .child." - V
What he says carries a lesson. Mr. Rocke
feller probably does know4very little of. how the
New'Haven company was run,-though he was
a director. He, got his, and that maybe is all he
knows. :." :r'.-'-'-. : ; i "J"'-"";' ' ' .-S;r-i,: r.'yV
Theargjmet.-fornattphol.vpwepship.(;-of:
railroads is strengthened. " Itiisrhot the costly
directors, some dummies and ; some thieves,
who run the railroads of America. . It is a large
number of able, honest conscientious men who
work for moderate pay, and who would do bet
ter work 'under &ix honest ? government ' than
they do under, the direction of thieving finan
ciers and the representatives of-such financiers.
ripHE SPIRIT of Decoration day exercises,
L held May ,30 throughout the Northern
states inihpnorv of. theheroic deadhasvastly
changed of,' recent years.x ' Ohce ; there was ithe
glamor of crowds a stalwart parade.df former
soldiers, arid enthusiastic! gathering
ship. " ''V V -'Vv"; ;S:,',v': '''."':-' " -(:y.
The depletion-of the ranks "of ; the veterans
by death ; gives each recurring Decoration' day ,
a deeper note of ; sadness. H.The spirit of sec
tional triumph and bitterness has ' gone, for
which all are thankful. But. in the. place of the
sturdy marchers of 20 years ago, there' is but a
fragment left, who usually proceed to the ceme
teries in carriages and automobiles."
The surviving soldiers urgently , entreat
their townspeople to give these commemmora
tive. exercises the support of a dignified assem-,
blage. But too often the Veterans seem to, have
passed from the center of the; stage. The
younger generation know of their .deeds only
throrigh : dull history books ; ' Ball) games: and
outdoor life draw the crowds, while these patri
otic services are " commonly not, well attended.'
Similarly , the observance of the. various Me
morial ' days of the southern states takes on a
aeeper noie 01 pamos eacn year.
; All who admire .the heroism shown in the
Civil war will wish to see the exercises in hon
or of the, Blue and the Gray continued after the
last veterans-have gone. But in a few years
there .will he few or none who feel directly rer
sponsible for carrying on this work,
i Many of thos'e, few will be affiliated with
the Sons of Veterans, and they may be expected
to- devotedly seek the perpetuation of the valor,
and services of their ancestors.) , -
In some, towns, various churches and so
cieties have already organized to observe this
occasion, - in place of the. veterans who have
gone. - Graves of, federal and confederate dead
alike are decorated. Honor is done-to all who
made these sacrifices of the -past, and a 'similar
spirit of self-devotion in future is urged. Cer
tainly-Decoration day should not be suffered to
lapse as the two armies depart on'their long
journey," and there- need to be , some observ
ances other than those at the ball park.
FESTIVAL OF VENERABLE REDE, J
' THE FIRST ENGLISH HISTORIAN
-N THE CALENDARS of both the Roman
Catholic and Anglican churches today, the
twenty-seventh - of May,' is. the festival of the
Venerable Bede, the first English historian.
Bede, or Baeda, the' Herodotus of England and
the greatest figure, in ancient English literature,
was a native of, Mohkwearniouth, Durham, and
was born about thevyear 673. At six he was
left an orphan, and' was intrusted to the care of
St. Benedict Biscop, and educated in the Bene
dictine Abbey of his native village. K Later he"
entered the monastery : at . Jarrow, where he
literary labors which were to win? for him a
permanent place in the world, of letters.
! Bede was a student of eyery branch of science
end literature then known, and familiar with
Latin, Hebrew and . Greek. . His industry ' was
enormous, and?, in the intervals of performing
his duties as a priest, he wrote biographs of
saints, pious homilies, epigrams, hymns, and
works on history, grammar arid chronology.
The great work which made him the Her
odotus of England was his "Ecclesiastical His
tory of England," in five. volumes, gleaned from
native chronicles and oral tradition. This work'
-was translated from the original Latin into Anglo-Saxon
by King Alfred. The first printed
editions were issued from Strasburg in the fif
teenth century. , !
s . In the treatise which he compiled for his
students, and which is still extant, Bede brought
together a- veritable encyclopedia of " informa
tion and religious-and secular knowledge, com
prising about everything the world thenv knew
tf history, chronology, physics, music, philos
ophy; theology, poetry, mathematics, and medi
cine. His commentaries on the scriptures are
still in use by the Catholic churcn, "although
about twelve centuries have passed since they
were written.
In his latter years the Saint suffered much
from iHness and lack of appreciation of his ef
forts. When he died, in 735, he was engaged
La translating the gospel of St. John from the
Greek. By sheer will power he held himself
to the task, and on Ascension Day he saw it
completed. In the evening one of his boy stu
dents said, as Bede laid down his pen,'"Master,
there is yet one sentence unwritten!."" "Write
it quickly, then," said the Saint, and the youth
wrote, "Consummatum est."' "Good! tnou hast
5 iid the truth," remarked the father of English
I j3ry, and then reclined upon-the cold, bare
Coor of Ms cell. and died.
THE GREAT CHARTER.
MIE- FIRST STEP toward English constitu-
JL " tional freedom. was the- Magna dharia,
which was the beginning arid the basis of those
liberties now enjoyed by1 Englishmen and English-speaking
" peoples i throughout i the J globe.
King John, I who granteo; ; the ; great- charter
much against his will," was crowned king of
England on May 27, in 4 199, at the age of thirty-
three. Among both nobles and commoners he
soon became the object of almost universal con
tempt; and hatred, and the barons determined
to limit his powers, " Though censured and
condemned by the Pope, the barons assembled
in arms at Oxford in 1215, and immediately ,p ro
ceeded to. warlike operations. King John, in
timidated and f rightened consented to what
ever terms the) rebellious barons chose, to jiic
tate. The' seventh centenary of that . historic
meeting between John and the barons at Runny
mede, when the "Magria Gharta was presented
and accepted"by the monarch,' will be celebrated
next year.' The- fundamental parts of the "great
chapter", were derived, from : earlier Saxon char
ters. The document not only protected the no
bles against the crown; but secured important
privileges ior every class oiireemen. jonn
raised an army' hf mercenaries to make war on
the nobles and overthrow the "charter but be
fore the conflict was decided he died in Newark
in 1216. , ' ,
This charter is the basis of the constitution
of the United States, and furnishes the funda
mental rights guaranteed by, the charters of the
several states.' , It provided the liberty of
France, and has influenced the laws of all free
nations. - , -,v'. -'
EDITORIAL NOTES
June 14 is flag day. It is generally felt that
everybody ' else should hang out a flag;
. After' a summer hotel man gets his dance
hall built, he can then see to providing a dining
room. . -
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It is frequently less expensiveto get "next'-'
to the man who has an automobile, than it is
to buy one of your own.. .
t . 4 ' ...
, Is there any connection between the ' con
tinued hot spell and' the testimony of Charles
Sanger Mellen at Washington? Undoubtedly
Mr. Mellen's revelations are causing more than
one malefactor to" sweat around the collar.
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' At least Mr. Morgan didn't burn the books.
Maybe he'll wish he had, before Folk gets
through with them. Our own Billard and
uOakey" Thorne are the champion little incen
diaries in this line.
What kind of an ailment is it that this man
Rockefeller is subject td that manages to inter
fere with his pleasures only when Uncle Sam
feels thatrhis presence is necessary for the pur
pose of shedding illumination upon a'very in
teresting question affecting the morals of some
of our very best citizens.
According to one of our oldest and most re
spected Irish settlers yesterday's blow that dug
out great arms from trunks of giant trees and
hurled chimneys from roofs in some places was
no more to be compared to the ' "Big Wind,"" in
Ireland, than the first breath of new born babe. '
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
Great ' Lakes Navigation.
Th first steamboat on Lake Brie,
the ' "Wstlfci iw-the - Water." ' was
launched at Black Rock, a short dis
tance bejow- Buffalo, - ninety-six. years
ago to-day,. May, 28. 1818. She made
her maiden Vvoyage, from Buffalo to
Detroit,' In the following- August. The
first steam craft on the Great Lakes
was the Frontenao, which was launch
ed in 1816 on Lake, Ontario. The
Frootenao, built by Canadians at a
cost of 1 7 5, 000, was for many years
the most magnificent and palatial of
Great Lake steamboats. Steam nav
igation on American rivers had com
menced some years 'earlier. In 1807
Robert Fulton's steamboat the Cler
mont, made a trip von. the Hudson
from New York to Albany. ' In' 1811
the first steam" vessel on the Ohio and
the Mississippi made its maiden, voy
age t rom Pittsburgh to New Orleans.
The same year John Molson built the
first! steamboat on the St. Lawrence,.
which plied between Montreal and
Quebec, The year which witnessed
the beginning of steam navigation on
Lake- Erie also saw . the , passage of
the Atlantic by' the Rising Bun, a
steamer built' by-Lord Cochrane, and
in 18 IB an American -built steamship,
the Savannah, of, S80 tons, sailed from
New Tork to Savannah, and thence
to Liverpool, and St. Petersburg.'.
regls-h,
Columbia. School of Mines. .
t More than local or even national In
terest attaches to the celebration in
New Tork to-day of the semi-centennial
of ' the ; Columbia University
School of . Mines. The establishment
of this institution was epochal, since
It marked the triumph of the "new
education" :over the old, and the ap
plication of education to the practi
cal problems of life. ' There 'were
those who - considered the utilitarian;
School of Mines an innovation 'that
would blast Columbia's future. Tech
nical education was then in ltsinfan
cy and was bitterly opposed by those
who. held to the old and ari at oc ratio
notion ' that the mission of the col
lege was to prepare the, youth of the
"upper -classes" to be "gentlemen,"
and to follow genteel pursuits, such
as medicine, the law, and the church.
The old educators worshipped at tha
shrines of outworn idols, and ; prayed
to their fallen gods In -i dead lan
guages. : Mining was not considered
a respectable , occupation,' and the
School of Mines was anathema. -The
predictions of ' the prophets were not
realized, and the . founding of the
School of , Mines at Columbia . marked
the beginning of a new period of pro
gress for the old college, - which Has
now become a. university : second to
none in the world in the number of its
students. . --i.;.,,-,.-:,,,.,,.- ;
The establishment: of the College or
university, practically marked the be
ginning of technical education in the
New World. : v Forty years before, in
1824, Stephen Van Rensselaer , had
founded a scientific school in, Troy, N.
T.", which had no deceased or foreign
languages in its course of instruction,
and whose "studies included mineral
ogy, as well as : chemistry, v geology,
zoology, botany, and mathematics. Xh
1826 - the Rensselaer : School. ..which
then had. twenty-five students
tered, graduated nine, men) with the
degree of .bachelor -of science. ' In
1836 the, TVoy school conferred the
first degree In engineering, that of C.'
E., civil engineering, i, . ' :
. The .Troy institution remained al
most alone in Its field until -the early
' 6 0s, . but gradually other technical
schools . were launched -, in, ; various
parts of the: United States and Can
ada, and' degrees were granted in four
branches of ' engineering -civil,-, me
chanical," mining, and, latterly, electri
cal. The Rensselaer School was pe
culiarly American, and" it gave to its;
successors throughout the world the
invaluable "laboratory,, methods" of
technical instruction; by which 'jthe
student ' himself , makes ' experiments,
and is not merely a spectator of the,
experiments made, by an instructor.
Most of the early' technical ' schools,
such as Rensselaer, tartmouth Scien
tific School, , and Tale Scientific
School, restricted, their activities to
scientific-education without regard to
utilitarian ends, but the engineering,
mining and - other schools were itho
natural and inevitable development.
The Columbia School of 'Mines,
while it marked a new development
on ' this side of ' the Atlantic,' was not
the first of its kind. Thirteen years
before, the opening of . the Columbia
school, the British government : had
established a, school of mines in Jer
myn street, St. James, London, but It
was an independent institution and iri
no way connected with 'any college.
- In America, most of the mining,
schools are located in the . western
mining States. , The Colorado School
of1 Mines at Golden was established
in 1874, two years before the admis
sion of the Golden State. The Uni
versity of Missouri has a world : fa
mous : mining1, school at Rolla, and
there are a number of other Such In
stitutions, including the Michigan Col
lege of Mines at Houghton, the Mon
tana State School, of Mines at Butte,
and the South Dakota School of Mines
at Rapid City. ' ,
Thomas Agustine1 Daly. '
Poets, who have .no other source of
Income than the earnings of their
muse usually wear a. "lean and hun
gry look," but Thomas Augustine Da
ly, although he hale practiced the pro
fession of poesy for many years, does
not have tbe appearance of one who
is suffering from under-nutritioni "T;
A." was born in Philadelphia forty
three years ago to-day. His father
and mother were Irish and he is Irish
too, and also a Catholic and a Dimmy
crat. Mr. Daly- ranks among the
most .prosperous of modern Ameri
can bards, and It ia unlikely that he
would - swap incomes with : any of
them, although Walt Mason C might
give him a run for his money.. Mr.
Daly also adds to his Income by glv
lng humorous lectures and readings
from his books. He has made nu
merous tours all over America,1 and
always plays to large and apprecia
tive audiences. His recitations of .his
inimitable Irish and Italian, dialect
verses always "bring down the
house.". i i ''..;'-:"-.. .
Mr. Daly was educated in the pub
lic schools of his native city, and at
"Vlllanova . College, and Fordham
University. . He remained at the lat
ter institution only to the, close of
his sophomore year, but Fordham. la
ter conferred the honorary M. A.' de
gree upon her distinguished son.
.When tbie future bard left college
at eighteen to face the cruel, heart
less world, he got a Job. as a clerk,
and it was while engaged in the pro
saic tasks incident to this situation
that - he ' began to cultivate an ac
quaintance with the muse. - Af twenr
ty he became' a reporter on a Phila
delphia newspaper, and during a jour-'
naJlstlo service of seven years rose to
the rank of editorial writer. : In 188
he was made, general ma.nR.ger of the
Catholio Standard and Times, and it
was In the ' columns of that publica
tion that he published the first Jof
those dialect ' verses which were to
make him famous throughout the
world: , Newspapers throughout the
English-speaking world - copied his
poems and the name of Daly became
to put it In an original way "a
household word. - ,
'- In 1906 Mr., Daly published his
first volume" of verse, entitled , "Can
zoni," and in the same year his col
leagues of the' press elevated ihim pres
ident of the American Press Humor
ists., It. was at about this time, too',
that the poet discovered that golden
shekels In large, and nutritious quan
tities were to be accumulated by in
cursions on the lecture platform!.
Another volume of verse,. "Car
mina" was published - in ,1809, and
this wa.s followed by ' "Madrigal", and
"Little Polly's Pomes." ' In the . fol
lowing verse Mr. Daly gives the Ital
ian - peddler's, conception of govern
ment: "Da- govermant eet walk eets beat
Een unlforma blue,
For keep an eye upon da street '
An' watcha w'at you do;
An eef eet think you mak' so mooch
- You soon weel own da town,
Eet tak' banan ' peantit an' eooch
For keep da profit down."
Mr. Daly Is among the most gifted
of America's , modern , Parnassians,
and it is a tribute to the good taste
and appreciation- of his countrymen
that he is not compelled to waste any
of his time and talents by worry over
ways and means to keep the fieshpots
filled.- ;:. -." J '-r- ; - i i ,. :
cm
Representative Edwin , T.? 'Wehb,
'Democrat, - of :'North Carolina, .was
osen chairman of the House Judi
ciary committee, j , ' -
peciQii'noes
;c Oil y - our ' Baseball goods,
gloves and mitts as follow: ,
1 25c Now . . . A . , 1 . . -19c
50c Now . . . 43c
75c Now;. : . . . . - 69c
$1.00 Now . , . v". . . .'. 89e
$1.25 Now... $1.19
$1.50 Now $1.39
$1.75 Now w . . $1.69
$2.D0 Now ..,...- $1.89
Some lines that we are dis
continuing, we are closing out
at one-half price.' ' :v
All Baseball i
Clolhinfl
On sale at one-half price,
large line of bats, your choice
of all $1.00 bats at 85c. , v ' '
Everything "for the bicycle.
Tires in variety, $1.50 to $3.25
THE ALONG
RUBBER CO.
SYNDICATE STORES
1126 MAIN ST.
RADFORD
liBilMlffii1ffiiW
Fairfield Avenue VARIETY STORE Broad Street
. "THE STORE THAT PATS THE OAR FARE?"
ATTRACTIVE TEN CENT! ARTICLES FOR. EIGHT '
GREAT SALE FRIDAY BEFORE DECORATION DAY
STORE OPEN UNTIL 9 P. M.
At $3.95 Motor boat lights for boats 26 feet and under.
At 98o Life preservers and cushions.
At 8c Extra large soft minting flags on sticks. . .
At 50p Good spading forks. - "
At 98e Iiarge hammocks with pillow and fringe.
Af 25c Large newlot men's summer Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers.
At 12?4 Men's plain iiiiti fancy striped Seamless Socks.
. At 60c Great variety men's and boys' Negligee Shirts.
At 25j Big house flag (4 feet long.) "
At 85o Combination flag and pole in box, same as newspapers get more
for with coupons. ' R
At 98c Splendid gas stoves complete with S or 4 feet gas hose.
At 5c Red, white and blue decoration bunting.
At $1.98 25 feet garden or lawn- hose complete with coupling. .
At $1.25- Ready made awnings. : v
" At 98o Iiadles' lawn or voile shirtwaists. -
At 25c -Two sizes wire screens for windows.
At 8c5 Great variety fancy ribbon, very wide.
SPECIAL SALE BETWEEN 9 AND 10 A. M. ONLY. i
At 354 c Yard wide cheesecloth.. - ; ' '
' At 3?4o More of the best light prints. . . , ' r . -
At 4c Handsome challies. . v . . . ' .
At 4o Best dark prints. '- '
At 5940 Yard wide unbleached muslin.
' At e94cBest --Amoskeag apron gingham. .
At 7 c- Very fine and pretty fig-irred crepe olollrs.
. At 8940 Our new longdotb, best yet. "
The Store will be open Friday Evening
until nine o'clock.
Closed Saturday, Memorial Day.
Friday will be the last day for special discounts b Porca
Furniture.' Deliveries will be made of late purchases.
Friday will be the last day for the special Cottage China
Sets and the clearance of Dinnerware. :. "
Friday will be the last day for the Special Sale cf Crepe
Meteor at the Silk Section. '
A Friday f Goo J L
: Embroidered Cotton Crepes,
y For Waists and Fashionable Tunics
! ! White rrounds in this lovely weave, which have been
lightly'; sprinkled with embroidered figures, small . florets,
bowknots, fleiir de ljrs,' and conventional designs in, French
pink and green. A" charming material for collars, tunics
apd ruffles on plain white crepe,, or for separate waists.
The same designs may; be, had in black and white for those
who desire it, and it is an altogether fetching corr.i: ia-
tion. : . - - ' : ... ' "
( S9 cts, $1.00 and $1.25.
Ask' to see it at the Cotton Dress Goods Sec!" a,
main floor. '
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Washable Chevrette Gloves ;
An" Imported White Chevrette Glove- of high eiia!IHr.
When one fastidious : woman7 meets another woman, 'a
friend, and says, "Oh, what lovely 'jhew- Gloves," and the
friend " replies indifferently, "My ar, it is their second se a
son : and : they have been washed ' many times," then it is
time to enquire the make of Gloves. : ' ; v . -'
These White Chevfettes are 12-button, the regulation
length, and a snowy white suede,; which washes .perfectly
and each time looks like new, ' because the Glove is mads
of a fine chevrette and perfectly shaped. .
:-:-yy-; 'j ' ;. : :.'They are. $3.00 & pair.-.: n.:,Jt ".;';..'
' That is; true', a little more expensive than the 'ordinary
washable kid glove, but it pays!, A word to -vl-i
woman. Ask, about them.
A UniorT Suit for Hot VVeathcr
Low necked and sleeveless, with a plain nect cv'C at
the ; knee," or ( lace trimmed if . one prefers. One xf Hi e re
liable manufacturers took a superior; quality of light weight
yarn and" had some thin and sheer garments made up, and
the sizes run unusually full. Both regular,and extra sizes.
SO cts, sizes 4 to 9. ; ; ; .
. .... 1 , - Underwear section, ..main- floor.
A Pneuform for Convenience in
x . Dressmaking
.A yerv capable demonstra
"tor is visiting us at the Pat
tern Section and showing to
everyone" who copazs H12 fea
tures of the pneumatic d.rss
form. , The Pneuform relives
" ope of all tiresome fittings
and is "of infinite convenience
to the woman who makes her
own gowns at home, as well
as to the dressmaker. Come
.. and, see. ? '.: -: :
Purchasers of ; the Pneuform will receive free cf
charge through this demonstration, a paper ' pattern of . the
exact. size,; drafted by .the. expert who is in charge of the
demonstration. This 'is anopportunity not to be slighted,
as perfect patterns are1 seldom to be had in ; individual
cases, especially wherft ; the figure may not . be normal
throughout.- . f ' 1 , 0
" r Ice Cream Freezers
The most reliable : styles which always give
satisfaction.
"'Alaska- " .- ". ' Whits - Mountain -
Qnart-size, - x.ou rmi size, .1
Two quarts, $1-75 . Quart, $1.C5
Three quarts, '( V $2.00 . Two quarts, ?2.CO
Advancing in price as the size increases. ,
Cemetery
Of heavy pressed glass,
Of dark green pottery, .
Vases
iu, i& and iy ctn.
SO etc.
China Btora.
The D. M. Pead Company
TOUB BEDSPREADS '
XMt as launder thfm wltJiout pnt
tltem! Ttieti thejll lay perfeci.?y r.i
and even Trlien pat on tlie beJ esno
the Eneets and Mllow Caaea. - We c -
of ''work for a , Uttle money. Piion -.
end tor your package today.
. The Crawford , Laixndr '
FAIRFIELD
ATE. AJO