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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
ST. JAMES PRE-LENTEN
 WHIST AND SOCIAL AT
 TOWN HALL, STAMFORD

A Pre-Lenten whist and social under the direction of Rev. Father O'Ccnnor will be given at the town hall, Strat- ford, Tuesday, Jan. 25. Two floors will be utilized, one for whist and one for dancing. Door prizes of gold, ci- gars and articles of food. There are many beautiful prizes for whist. These entertainments are the most popular given in the vicinity of Bridgeport. Special trolley service will be provided to and from the whist for Bridgeport oY,S
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
SCHWABS TO GIVE MASQUERADE
 ON TUESDAY, JAN. 25

Lest We Forget is a good reminder for us to remember that by far the most spectacular masquerade ball ever given in Bridgeport will be that of the Schwaebischer Maenner Chor at Eagles' hall next Tuesday evening. Entirely unlike any ball of this char acter ever held in Bridgeport before, this ball will have some of the fea- lures which have served to make the New York masquerade balls such spec tacular successes in the past, as for instance the tableau from WaSner's
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21

'$1.00-$1.25 Untrimmed Hats. -. .19c French Frames to
 to cover .lSc $2.OO-$2.5O Childrens Hats. .7oc $3 Trimmed Dress Hats. .75c $350-$4.O0 Trimmed Dress Hats 9Sc S5-S6 Trimmed Dress Hats. AS SS Trimmed Dress Hats. .$2. As S10 Trimmed Dress Hats. .$3 .4S $25 Trimmed Dress Hats. .... .$9.9S $T5 Imported Pattern Hats. $25.OO $125-$15O Imported Pattern Hats.
 E .SfO.UU Our entire stock of trimmed hats
 marked at proportionate prices.
 $6 Black and Brown Opossun Muffs
 ..f $l..So $6 Black and Brown Opossum Throw
 Scarfs S2.9o ST Brown Fox Muffs and Throw $1O Brown Fox Muffs. $4.9S $15 Brown Fox Muffs ....... $7 AS SIP Grey Opossum Shawl Scarfs $6.9S $1O Grey Opossum Muffs. .$4.9S $15 Blue Wolf Scarfs. ....... AS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
WATER
 AND THE DEATH RATE.


 AND THE DEATH RATE
 CFrom Speech of Dr. William HI.
 TOlman.)
 In a recent study which I
 made of the important indus tries in the United States found only between 10 and IS per cent. provided filtered water. It is well known that there is a direct con-
 nection between typhoid and inn pure water. Based on the esti-
 mate of a recent commission of the highest authority S5 per cent.
 of the cases of typhoid in the
 United States are traced to con- taminated water. The introduce
 ton of a public water filter re- duced the typhoid mortality 50 per cent. It is now demonstrat-
 ed that for each life saved from TYPHOID two or three lives are saved from OTHER DISEASES. Prof. Fisher states that at least
 years could be added to human life by securing reasonably pure air, water and milk.
 The barbarous treatment to which injured workmen in the United States are submitted by their employers was the main theme of a discussion or Social Engineering, which occurred D6IOrC lIlo II0IIlDc1o OI CiiC Io1 IOSCRoi and Historical Society last night The speaker was Dr. William H. Holman.
 The United States. Dr. Holman de- clared, is economically unprogressive III two great ways By the failure of American employers to provide simple and readily installed safety appliances 100000 workers are annually sacrificed in life or limb.
 The sum lost by this appalling sac rifice of the strength and power of the workers is enormously great.
 Does it pay?
 Answering this question: Dr. Holman said that the people of Europe are a greed that it does not pay. The em- ployers of Europe not only do their best to prevent injury to the workers by the use of safety appliances. but they alleviate the distress that follows by carefully thought out systems o1 compensation to the injured worker, o1 to his family. if he is killed.
 Almost nothing of this kind has yet been done in the United States, but the workers are made the victims of g savage system of Jurisprudence whict costs millions to maintain, and which benefits the injured, or the families o1 the killed very little.
 Germany feels,'' said Dr. Holman "that the wear and tear of the laborel should be compensated. as well as the wear and tear of the machinery, anC should be charged into the cost of pro- ducing the goods, the same as any other cost"
 German employers, he explained, arc
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21

It is a dangerous thing to take a cough medicine containing opiates that merely stifle your cough instead of curing it. Foley's Honey and Tar loosens and cures the cough and ex- 'pels the poisonous germs, thus pre- venting pneumonia and consumption. Refuse substitutes and take only the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar in the yellow package. F. B. Brill and The Curtis Pharmacy, local agents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
REV I. w. WILLIAMS TEsTIFIEs.

Rev. l. w. Williams, Huntington, W. Va, writes us as follows: This is to certify that used Foley's Kidney Remedy for nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble and am free to say that Foley's Kidney Remedy will do all that you claim for it. F. B. Brill and The Curtis Pharmacy, local agents. Is
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21

opera 'Tannhauser'' depicting the re- ception of the Prince and Princess Of Hesse and their official suite. the whole forming scenes of great magnifcencs and beauty. especially when given with electric light effects. This will bs presented under the personal supervis- ion of Herman Hussler of New York who has been active in managing sev- eral of the most noted New York mas nllerade balls,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21

which workers are subjected. He oe, clared the necessity of Altering, ana referred to the diseases other thad1 eS- nhoid which are produced by unfilter- ed water.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21

SIP Jap Mink Muffs $5.9S $15 Jap Mink Muffs. ... .$7.93 $20 Jap Mink Muffs $9.9S $25 Black Fox Shawl Scarfs. SPAS $35 Black Fox Shawl Scarfs. .$1S.9S $50 Black Lynx Shawl Scarfs. .$24.9S $75 Black Lynx Shawl Scarfs. .$37.9S $30 Eastern Mink Muffs =. .$14.9S $50 Eastern Mink Muffs. .... .$14.9S S30 Eastern Mink Scarfs. .... .$14.9S $50 Eastern Mink Scarfs ... $24.9S $2 Brown Coney Scarfs 98c s15 Caracul Sets .$7 AS $10 Caracul Sets. .$4. 9S $7 Caracul Sets $S. .48 $5 Children's Fur Sets. .$1 .98 $5 Coque Boas .$1.9S S100 Black Pony Skin Coats. .$49.9S $120 Black Pony Skin Coats. .$59.9S $8 Silk Rubberized Raincoats. .$3.9S $10 Silk Rubberizod Raincoats. .$4.98 $15 Silk Rubberized Raincoats. .$7 .4S $10 Cloth Military Capes. .... .S3.98 $20 Cloth Tailored Suits. .... .$9.93 $15 Cloth Tailored Suits. ..... .$7 .4S 75c White Lawn Embroidered Shirt
 WdlSlS o0C
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
DIED.

SCOTT.-In Danbury, Jan. IS, Marion Agnes Scott, aged 30 years. PHILLIPS.-In Danbury, Jan. IT, Mar tha A., wife of Clinton R. Phillips, aged 75 years. BOOTH-In Oronoque, Jan Is, Eunice A., widow of Isaac E. Booth, aged S6 years. PERRY.-In Westport. Jan Is, Mrs. George K. Perry.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
E.H.DillOn & Co. 11oe Main s5ee3 Mains Street. 1tord.C Paris
 Leading
Tomorrow, Saturday, CIean-Up Bargain Sale

~ ~ ' HALT 'Nff f'N@ AND 90h All ONE QUART
 sozs Sfs & a sSSS SS5S s @ @ $ sR S TInss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
Specials for Saturday.

Meats-Roast pork Qancy), fresh shoulders (smaiD, legs Of lamb (genu- inc spring, legs of mutton, pot roasts beef, rib roasts beef, sugar cured hams, sugar cured bacon. Poultry: This week we have our usual big display of choice turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea hens. roasting chickens. fowls, broilers and squab. Grocery specials: Fancy California prunes, choice peaches, fancy evaporated peaches. Muscatel raisins, fancy evaporated apricots, me- dium prunes, fancy evaporated apples (sliced), pitted plums. Vegetables: Fancy lettuce, carrots, fancy tomatoes, yellow turnips, cranberries, beets, eel cry bunch), yellow onions, celery (stalk), kale Cnative), sweet Florida oranges. Notice-We have recently taken out a license at both markets for the sale of oleomargarine. We shall carry a big line of the best grades which will be sold strictly in accordance with the law. Bridgeport Public Market and Branch State and Bank streets East Main street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21

$1.25 White Lawn Embroidered Shirt
 Waists 69c $1.5O White Lawn Embroidered Shirt $1.75 White Lawn Elm broidered Shirt All our. better grades of shirt waists
 from ~$2.00 to $500 now marked at
 exceptionally low prices.
 $5.5O Black and Colored Taffeta Silk
 Petticoats ... ...... ... .$2.75 S7 Black Taffeta Silk Petticoats $3.9S $2.50 Black Heatherbloom Petticoats
 Sl.4o $1.75 Black Percaline Petticoats .9Sc S1.5O Black Percaline Petticoats. .75c $10 Black Willow Fumes. $5. .9S $15 Black Willow Fumes. $7. .9S $20 Black Willow Fumes. 10. 9S $25. Black Willow Plumes. =. .$13.98 $30 Black Willow Fumes. .$15. .9S $2-$2.50 Knitted Sweaters. .98c $500 Knitted Sweaters. ..: .$1 .9S $25 Caracul Coats $12.9S $50 Caracul Coats. ........ .$14.9S $1O Long Cloth Coats $4 9S $6 Long Cloth Coats. .......... $2. .9S
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-21
POINTS OF INTEREST.
Real Satisfaction

a matter of course to the people who buy coal regularly from the Nauga- tuck Valley Ice Co.
 White House Clothing Co. See the advertisement today and take advantage of the rem narkable values offered
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05

MUSHROOM POISONING.
The Way 1t Acts and How It Should
Be Treated.

Be Treated.
When one considers the frightful
consequences of gathering and eat
ing poisonous mushrooms in mistake
for the edible variety it is little
short of marvellous that one without
knowledge should dare go into the
fields and woods and pick and eat
any Of the fungi growing there.
If one is thoroughly familiar with
particular variety of edible mush-
room and can distinguish it at sight
from all others, however similar in
color and form, it is safe to eat that
particular variety, but one must be-
ware of other kinds that resemble
it, for, however slight the difference
in appearance, one may be edible
and the other poisonous. There is
no absolute rule for distinguishing
the edible from the poisonous kinds,
and it is better, therefore, to give
no general rules, but to follow only
one Suspect every mushroom which
You do not know positively to be
edible. To this rule perhaps may
be added a second: Learn to dis
tinguish the white spored agarics
and avoid them all, for. although
there is an edible species, it requires
an expert to tell it, and the poison
of another species is deadly, and
there is no known antidote for it.
The chief poisons in mushrooms
are two in number-muscarin and
phallin. The first of these produces
symptoms resembling those of alco-
hole intoxication. followed by con-
vulsions or paralysis, collapse and
death from heart failure. These
symptoms come on soon after the
mushrooms have been eaten.
In poisoning by phallin the symp-
toms do not appear until several
hours after the meal. They resem-
bic cholera, beginning with severe
abdominal pain, soon followed by
vomiting, purging and collapse.
In all cases of mushroom poison
ing, vomiting should be induced as
soon as possible, and a large dose Of
castor oil may be given to hasten
the elimination of any as yet unab-
sorbed portions Of the mushroom
Stimulants are needed to support
the heart, and milk containing an
abundance of magnesia or bicarbo-
nate of sodium may be given.
Injections Of salt solution into
the veins and-in case of muscarin
poisoning-hypodermic injection Of
atropin are often employed by ply
sicians with beneft.-Youth's Com
panion.
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SIGNALS OF DISTRESS
Point Pleasant People Should Know
How to Read and Heed Them.

Sick kidneys give many signals of
distress.
The secretiOns are dark. contain
sediment.
Passages are frequent, scnnty.
painful.
Baeknche is constant day and night
Headaches and dizzy spells are
frequent.
The weakened kidneys need quick
help.
Don't DELAY. Use a special kid
ney remedy.
DOan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid
neys, backache and urinary disorders.
Point Pleasant evidence proves this
statement.
S. p. Knapp, Fifth street, Point
Pleasant, W. Va, says: From my
experience with Doan's Kidney Pills,
Procured at Van elders drug store,
l have no hesitation in recommend
ing them. They not only relieved
me IF backache, and pains in my
sides, but regulated the passages of
the kidney secretions."
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-'
and take no other. 50
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE.
Mlssriss and lrritasions lneidsn. Upon
His Start In Life.

His Start In Life.
Anthony Trollope's start in life
was unpromising. As he knew nc
languages, ancient or modern. he
became classical usher at a school
in Brussels, with the promise of q
commission in the Austrian arrqy.
Then he was suddenly transferred
to clerkship in the London post
Office. He was disqualified for the
new position by general ignorance
and special incapacity for the sim
plest arithmetic. a vague threat
that he must pass an examination
vas forgotten before it was put into
execution, and Trollope characteris-
tically takes occasion to 6enounce
the system of competitive examina-
ton by which he would have been
excluded. Meanwhile he was turned
loose in London and attempted to
live ike a gentleman on EGO a year.
The results are indicated by a
couple of anecdotes.
a money lender once advanced
him 81, for which, first and last, he
paid s2oo. This person, he SAYS.
became so much attached to him as
to pay daily visit to his Office and
exhort him TO be punctual. "These
visits were very terrible and can
hardly have been of service to me in
the Office" This mild remark ap-
plies also to the visits from the
mother of a young woman in the
country who had fallen in love with
him and to whom he '1acked the
pluck to give decided negative"
The mother used to appear with a
basket on her arm and an immense
bonnet upon her head and inquire
in loud voice before all his com
panions, "Anthony Trollope, when
are you SoIAS 70 marry my oauSh-
teri"
No wonder that he was miserable.
he was hopelessly in debt and often
unable to pay for a dinner. He
hated his work, he says, and he
hated his idleness. He quarreled
with his superiors, who thought him
hopelessly incapable and felt that
he was sinking ito the lowest pits"
At last he heard of place in the
Irish postoffice which everybody
despised and was successful on ap-
plying for it, because his masters
were glad to get rid of him. At
the same time they informed his
new superior that he would proba-
bly, have to be dismissed on the first
opportunity.-St. James Gazette.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05

Mighty interestin' readin' 4" on
every page of the Register.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
a Novelty.

Suppose / give you your sup
oer," said the tired looking woman.
what will you do to earn it,"
Madam" said Wandering Mike.
'T'll give you de opportunity Of
seem a man go t'roo a whole meal
wi'out findin' fault wit a single
thing"
The woman thought minute
and then told him to come in and
she'd set the table. = Washington
Star.
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As BRIGHT =, He Wa. Bad.

He was a charming little fellow
Of four, pretty in his ways, good to
look at, but as naughty as could be.
BE sat on the bottom step kicking
his fat little legs and refusing ut
terly to obey his father, who had
told him to go upstairs several
times in increasing degrees of Sc
verify. After few minutes Of this
clashing OF wills his exasperated
parent picked him up somewhat
suddenly, carried him and sat him
down very firmly on a chair in his
room and then went out and shut
the door. Silence reigned. Not Il
sound from him for at least half an
hour. Then the door opened and a
sweet little voice called out, ga
Their, have you got over your tan
trum yet, for I should like to come
down ?"-London Tit-Bits
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

The Department of Free Schools
at Charleston has issued High School
Bulletin No. 9, from which the fol,
lowing is taken:
"Our great need as state is larger
opportunity for boys and girls to go
beyond the district school. Of the
population of West Virginia IS per
cent is rural. 1t is safy to say th1t
only a small fraction of the boys and
girls of IS per cent have adequate
school advantages. The solution of
this problem lies in the district high
school. There are S4a districts in
the state. About 10 per cent have
district high schools.
Such schools when fully establish
ed with an awakened public senti-
ment behind them will become the
centers of the educational and social
life of the districts in which they are
located. With their literary socie-
ties, debating clubs and public lee
lures they will do much toward ele-
waiting the standard of citizenship,
even among those whose school days
have long since become only mem
DRY. The sympathies of men and
women and boys and girls will be
developed and refined; their intel
lectual horizon will be broadened /;
their ambition will be stimulated I;
their ideals will be higher, and their
achievements will be greater. In
other words the community as a
whole will come nearer to reaching
the possibilities that lie wrapped up
in the human beings which compose
society"
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Sentiment for high'schOOls is grow
ing rapidly A forward movement
is going on all over the state. Let
US hope that the day will soon come
when it it can be said that no boy
or girl in our state is out of reach of
a good highEschool.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
lbs VoTld:.amed medicine Is Ssvi5s5.

NootheF medicine for wouan's us has any
such professional endorsement rs DR.. Pierce's
Fayorite Prescription has received. In the up-
oualtaed recommendation OF each OF It's
several ingredients by scores OF Heading nedI-
cal men OF all the schools OF practice. Is
such an endorsement not worthy OF your
consideration?
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-05
Tho Cause of Il.

HMay I ask, sir, how it IS that
you and your brother are so bald ?"
inquired the inquisitive barber.
"WelI," replied the customer,
'T'll tell you if you'll promise not
to say anything more about it
ooh, certainly. sir!p'
~Well. its because our hair has
allen out"
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The Chinese Wav.

Cinnamon have more castles even
than the East Indians. They say
you never find one Chinaman in a
low condition of life but you Will
ind him employing another China
man in a still lower condition. The
small Chinese farmer employs a
servant, to whom he is lord and
master. This mental is compelled
to serve him in any capacity that
may be required. For instance,
when the small Chinese farmer
takes pig to market he first kills
the pig or makes his "hired man"
Go it. Then the pig is carefully
packed on. one side of a single
wheeled vehicle something ike a
wheelbarrow. The weight of the
proprietor may Just balance that of
the pig, but if it is greater than
that of the pig then a few powders
are added to even things up. The
whole apparatus is then wheeled
along the road by the "hired man."
the Chinese proprietor meanwhile
placidly smoking his pipe.
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POOR CARRIERS
DOM LIKE THIS KID OF WEATHER TO
co FISHING FOR PENNE;

We find the following in
the POmeroy Democrat. We copy
It with few minor changes.
The life of the rural mail carrier
csn hardly be said to be one cOntinu-
al round of joys rides . Still there
are many thoughtful patrons Of the
rural carriers in NJ son county, who
r:ne nber them in various ways and
make the burden of life lighter.
However, there are many thought
less ones who put the carriers to a
great deal of unnecessary inconveni-
ence. One of the most common Of
these is the practice of putting loose
pennies in the box for the payment
of postage. These cold days there
are many things in their life much
more pleasant than fishing in these
boxes for stray pennies.
1t is hoped that the patrons Of the
Mason county routes will kindly re-
member this and buy stamps, thus
securing for themselves the benedic-
ton of the cold and tired carriers.
A rural carrier, who is also some
thing of poet, has written the lines
below, in the hope that each rural
patron will paste it in his hat:
I'm Uncle Sans most favored pet;
I'm hearty and I'm hales
I've nothing in this world to do
But glide round with the mail;
But one thing almost breaksmy heart,
And my nervous system shocks;
It's the everlasting pennies
That I'm fishing from the box.
carry stamps and envelopes,
And postal cards and such5
And l would like to sell a few,
'Twould please me very much.
But man can't sell unless you buy.
No matter how he talks;
So | have to keep on diving
After the pennies in the box.
It's all right in the springtime,
Or when summer breezes blow,
But different proposition
When it's one or two bellows
When all your fingers and your toes
Are frozen hard as rocks,
It's most anything but fuany
Scratching pennies from che box.
And now, quite confdeutially,
III tell you something more;
A rural carrier (way out vest
Forgot himself and swore,
Says he; Il can stand the snow drifts,
can stand the frozen docks,
But blast the measly pennies,
In the blasted measley box
When the roll is called up yonder"
And we shall gather there,
They wouldn't let a mail man in
Ifthey knew he'd learned to swear;
Ifyou want st. Peter to open the gate
When your rural carrier knocks
Buy stamps and don't be guilty
Of putting pennies in the box.
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A booklet OF ingredients. with uunero,s
authoritative professional endorsements by tho
leading medical authorities Of this country.
will be mailed free to any one sending name
and address with request for same. Adore
Dr.. r '. Pierce Buffalo. V. Y.
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Do Yen Think
For Yourself ?
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The makers Of Dr. Pierce,s FGvor.te Pre-
eertnsicn. for the cure OF weak. nervous. run
down oTer-worked. debrlItated. pa.n-racked
women. knowing this medicine to 30 made M
OF ingredients. every one OF which has The
strongest possible Endorsement OF the leading
and standard authorities Of the several
schools Of practice, are perfectly willinr. and
intact sre Only too glad 70 print. IS they do.
the formula. or LIST OF ingredients. OK which
It IS CONFESSED. Fl ploGn EnolGGh. on every
bottle-WappeE.
= = . = =
The formula OF d.. Pieree's FGTor,se Pro-
Scription WIN bear the most critical exanIna-
ton OF medical experts. for It contains no
alcohol narcotics. harmful. or habIt-fornlng
drugs. and no agent enters into It tia, Is no:
hiEhlJ recommended By the most advanced
and leading medical teachers and author
ties OF their several schools Of PRACTICE
IheSe arihor.tles recommend the ingredients
OF DE: Piefecs Eavorite Prescription Tor the
cure Of exactly the same ailments for which
IBIS World-tamed medicine Is ADVISED