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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
BIGGEST LIFE
 POLICY EVER
Chicago Firm Under One Blanket Document InSureS All
 Employees

The largest life insurance policy ever written was issued recently by the Equitable Life Assurance Society to the mail order house of Montgom- cry Ward & Co. of Chicago. It was the result of a new system of insur- ance by which an employer may in sure the lives of his employees under a blanket policy. The policy is for one year and each individual is in- Sured under it for a percentage of the years wages.
 President William A. Day of the Equitable Life is of the opinion that this will be but the first of many similar policies taken out by employ CTS who wish to solve the pension difficulty and encourage the loyalty and efficiency of their employees. He says that the present policy is the largest ever written from the view point of the number of lives insured and the amount of insurance in- volved.
 Ordinarily in such cases all em- ployes are accepted on an equable basis, old Or young, weak or strong, and no discrimination is made. There is not even a medical examination of the individual except in States re- quiring it, but in the case of Mont gomery Ward & Co. all employees are examined by their own medical staff O6IOre DeIuS emplOy0O. Iue EQulCa- ble Life is interested in the employees only as a group and if the group comes up to the standard set it is &C., cepted as a risk without regard to the condition of the individuals in it.
 The employe is supplied with a certificate of insurance by the en- ployer after the blanket policy has been issued. In the event of the em- ploye's wage being increased the in- surance is increased automatically, as it also begins and terminates auto- matiCally when a new employe is added or one leaves.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

Hundreds of young men every year graduate from our Universities, colleges, and other institutions of learning. Many of these young men have no fixed purpose, no special aim in life. They have spent a certain called an education but what is in reality only the commencement of an education, only recommendation, Q license so to speak to enter one of the special avenues of a life work, which may lead to fame and fortune to public esteem and confidence. Many capable young men of this class said to be we'll educated, ask what shall I do to get business ex- perience, to get a start along pracri- cal lines and still continue to learn? Why not enter the Government Ser vice or prepare yourself for it. Many thousands of positions are now open to young men through the Civil Ser vice or Merit System, that under the old spells system were closed and only possible through processes that often were disgraceful and humiliating to an honest, self-respecting citizen.
 But to-day, thanks to Geo. Will liam Curtis and our presidents, Grant, Hayes, Cleveland and Roosevelt, con ditions have been changed and both men and women can now enter the service of their country because they possess ability, because they want to give good service and can show prom ise of being able to render such ser- vice. Young man, why not help to strengthen and elevate the merit sys- tenn; place it on such level, up to such a standard, that you will esteem it an honor to be in your country's service.
 Through the merit system the door
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
GOVERNMENT SERVICE UNDER .
 MERIT SYSTEM PROMISING
 FIELD FOR YOUNG MEN
By $. E. VINCENT

to Government Service is open to you, such an entry is honorable, even though you may not desire to spend your life in that service. If you will investigate you will find that there are many positions that give comfortable remuneration and put you in touch with the great machin- cry of business and Government and you do not bow to the political boss for them, or trail after the. dema- gogue for favors. Shame on the Barbarian system that we have fol- lowed for so many years giving the best to the least deserving, paying po- litical debts with public trusts.
 Young man, look into our Post Ot- flee, internal revenue, engineering and consular service. There are many promising positions there wait ing for the worthy, the willing. and the efficient young man. Many men of great ability have served in these departments. Are you inter- ested? They are open to you, 260.- 900 Government positions are now fill ed under the merit system. 100000 should be so filled. will you help to put them all under the Civil Ser vice? Will you help to raise the standard of that service? Will you try for a position? Yourself? Pres ident Hayes motto was courageous one: ''No dismissals of competent officials except for just cause; no appointments to pay political debts" His convictions cost him his head, politically, but the cause lived, it has grown and men are beginning to say that Merit should be the qua1i- flying standard by which public ser wants are tried if they wish to enter the Government service.
 S. B. VINCENT.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
CIRCUS CARS ARE SENT TO NEW YORK
Large Crowds Watch De- parture of Barnum & Bai ley Trains Yesterday.

A large section of the West End population turned out Sunday af- ternoon to watch the departure of the Barnum 6. Bailey circus trains. For several hours a switcher was busy shunting cars in and out of the win ter quarters and finally two long trains were made up.
 Cars for the animals were included in the list as we'll ass fiat cars for the wagons used in the parade. There were also a number Of sleepers for the use of the performers and employees attached to the big show. The freight cars were painted a bright yellow and the passenger coaches a handsome shade of red. The Barnum & Bailey show has been playing in Madison Square Garden, New York, and therefore had no need of the cars The New York engagement closed Saturday night and it was thought best to send the cars to New York in readiness for the road tour. The circus is in Brooklyn this week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

We'll, you can't blame them. We ourselves would have thought them .'bit cracked" if we had thought any thing about them. which we didn't. We all knew it was impossible and the dream of a crazy man, to be compared only with the perpetual notion delusion or the alchemiSt's scheme for making gold from baser metals. You knew very we'll that's what you said, although you will probably deny it.
 Whats this all about? Oh, sure, we forgot to tell you. Today is the forty-fifth birthday of Wilbur Wright, of the famous Brothers, and we were merely reflecting that one can't find fault with the people of Dayton, O., for thinking that "old Bishop Wright's boys had a screw loose i'll their he4ds when they first began their ex- periments with flying machines. Hadn't all the wise editors declared that heavier -than-air craft were inn pOSSlDle or achievement AnO 1T one is not to believe the wise editors, who shall one believe? So, when the Wright boys began their tinkering, Dayton folks laughed in their sleeves, and sometimes openly with their mouths. and tapped their foreheads in a significant manner. Even the youngsters scoffed at the would-be inventors, and recited Trowbridge's Darius Green,'' '"The birds can fly, an why can't I?"
 Wilbur, who is forty-ive today, is the elder of the brothers, and was bornypeafS MfIlville. Ind. while Or ville, who Win be forty-one in August, is.-a native of Dayton. Their father, the Rev. Milton Wright, was long a bishop of the United Brethren Church. Both brothers were educat- ed in the Dayton high school. The bicycle buy was then working overtime, and the Wrights. through
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

paroxysms are preceded by peculiar sensation in the throat and chest. Air expelled from the lungs by sew era1 rapid and violent aspirations, fol- lowed by a rush of air to the lungs, producing the peculiar "whoop'' from which the disease takes it's name. This is weakening, the veins of the neck enlarge: the heart throbs ener- getically; the eyeballs protrude; the face becomes purple; the. forehead yields profuse precipitation, and it seems as if the child would cuffocate. minutes and suddenly disappears. This is followed by approximations of mucous and sometimes by vomiting, and often by evacuations of bladder and bowels. This stage of the dis ease usually lasts about ten days. if it is successfully handled.
 The same treatment as to the giv- ing of Kali Mur. as in the first stage, is about all that can be done, though close care to do everything to keep the child comfortable should be given to shorten the duration of the disease; protection from draughts and damp ness and the administration of plain, nutritious, diet.
 The third stage is only that of con- valesence. but it is a critical period. The child wishes to be active, to over eat, and to seek exposure. All these should be strenuously prevented, not only to promote normal health rap idly, but to avoid complications that are insistent1y seeking to attack the patient, in the weakened state that whooping cough superinduces.
 With care and prompt attention in the first stage. whooping cough pass es away with less danger than acute catarrh, and handled with this care and attention, is often quite simple and comparatively harmless. But, as before mentioned, it is an extremely dangerous disease and carries off more children in proportion to it's prevalence than almost any other disease. Often it is very stubborn and is something that should be spe- ly cared for and fought against, up- on it's first appearance.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
BENEFIT WHIST.

Under the direction of MT. and Mrs. Alexander F. Hatch a benefit whist and pinochle will be held this evening in St. Charles hall for MT. and Mrs. Edward R. Petrie of Hunt ington Road. Many substantial prizes have been secured
 Mr. Petrie suffered a shock 10 years ago that prevented his continuing his work, and what income the couple has enjoyed came through the efforts of Mrs. Petrie. Recently Mrs. Petrie fell down stairs in her home and suffered several fractured ribs and other injuries that made 1t impossible for her to work.
 MT. and Mrs Hatch and other friends of the family have arranged the whist and a generous response is expected for the worthy undertak- ing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
JOHNSON WHITE AND
 CLERK CATLIN TALK
 OVER MUNICIPAL WORK

Johnson White. the noted municipal expert from Kalamazoo, Mich, met with Clerk Catlin of the board of con- tract and supply, yesterday.
 While MT. White came here prin- cipally to supervise the installation of civil service in the various city de- partments, he is willing to go still further and give all departments the benefit of his advice.
 MT. Catlin expects to buy oats for the fire department by the coarload.
 "An excellent idea," said MT. White. thoroughly in accord with our idea of efficiency and economy"
 ''The firemen have little enough to do. They will object at first to show cling and hauling the oats, but when they get used to it, they'll come to regard it as part of their routine. We have tried out this plan in Kalamazoo, and find it to be highly satisfac- tory.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
ECLIPSE OF SUN TOMORROW WILL
 BE VISIBLE IN UNITED STATES

view having passed through the an- nular eclipse before rising. The phenomenon will not be accompanied by dense darkness in any part of North America, but there will be varying degrees of twilight. If the sun is not obscured by clouds, there will be the barest suggestion of dark ness along the western limit of the path of the eclipse, while in New England and Nova Scotia the more perfect obscuration of the source of light will not bring about that black darkness that in the past has fright ened the superstitious to sudden prayers and piety. Harvard Obser- vatory will be the most favored point in North America for the scientific observation of the eclipse. British astronomers have chartered a steam ship from which to make observa- tions at sea, off the coast of Portu- gal. where the duration of totality will be longest. Observatories in southern Europe, including those of France and Russia, will also make observations which, if conditions are favorable, are hoped to be of great scientific value.
 The last annular eclipse of the sun visible in North America took place in June, 1908, and Florida was the only section favored by Old Sol. The next total eclipse North Americans will be permitted to view will be on June 8, 1918, and its path will extend across the country from British Co., lumbia to Florida. There will be another eclipse, visible in the eastern portion of the United States and Can- ada in 1925.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

Tomorrow morning Old Sol will go into eclipse and the phenomenon will be visible as a partial eclipse in the eastern portion of the United States and Canada. A line drawn from Winnipeg. Man., through Grand Forks, N. D., Sioux City, Ia, Glas- gow, Mo-, Memphis, Tenn, Pensacola, Fla, Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela, will mark the extreme western border of the path of the eclipse. The central eclipse path be- gins in eastern Venezuela, moves northeasterly across the Madeiras, Portugal, Spain and France, passes along the southern shore of the Bal tic,T through northern Russia, and terminates in Siberia The eclipse, as viewed from any point in the United States or Canada, will be annular- that is, the sun will not be totally obscured, but will seem to be a ring of light when the eclipse is central. New England and Nova Scotia, in
 
 by Old Sol, although the northwest corner of Spain will be the only point where the eclipse will be total. The eclipse begins before sunrise in all parts of North America except North eastern New York State, and the New England States and the extreme east ern portion of Canada. In New York City and southern Connecticut the eclipse .begins shortly before the sun pushes above the horizon. In the southeastern States and the Middle West, as we'll as in the eastern States with the excetpions noted, the sun upon rising will be seen partially eclipsed. the sun for those points of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

and will occupy the entire week. A year from today will be the fiftieth
 anniversary of the running of the batteries at Vicksburg by the Missis- Porter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

the District of Columbia. It is also the semi-centennial of Frances de- claration of war against Mexico. The annual Battle of Flowers fiesta in San Antonio. Tex, is in progress today
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

The new cotton ottomans are ex- tremely pretty; especially good are those striped alternately in blue and white, violet and white and tan and white
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

Cennecticut's Republican State con-
 vention, to choose delegates to the national convention, meets today in New Haven. Today is the semi-cen- tennial of the abolition of slavery in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16

Hats with pancake crowns and dou- ble brims and little or no trimming are featured
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
Uhr a. M. Rran Unttpany. & EBtahliaten 1H57.

SALE OF TAILORED SUITINGS, MIXTURES AND STRIPES, NOVELTY WORSTEDS OF GOOD GRADE
 AT MARKED REDUCTIONS. There two lots of these Cloths, obtained by from clearance of manufacturers weaves, and they are especially seasOnable because the styles dccid edly in fashion now. ta #.*IE tss Medium and rough weaves, worth from $Ioo to $I.5o, S9 cts.
 About two hundred yards only in effects of tan gray, and brown.
 second and much smaller lot, worth from $I5o to $2.oo,
 at $1.25.
 On sale immediately
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
ART NEEDLEWORK LESSONS
 ON WEDNESDAYS.

Commencing on Wednesday, this week, Miss Alden will be at the Art Department to give instruction to all who desire assistance in art needlework. She will show you how to do punchwork French laid work, and the mediaeval embroidery which is just coming in fashion
 On Wednesdays, at the Art Section
 Third floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
WHITE COTTON GOODS FOR
 SUMMER FROCKS.

OOMMEN FKOOhS. The White Goods Department is at it's best with
 snowy and dainty materials for
 weather. Embroidered and Dotted Baistes 5O 55 65 and 95 Plain Batiste 29 40, 50 and 75 cts. Embroidered and Dotted Swiss 25 45 55 75 and 85 Voies and Marqusettes, plain crossbar and striped, 25 30, 45, 5O 60, and 75 cts. Flaxons plain and crossbar, 25 30, and 35 cts Persian Lawns, 32 inches, 15 2O 25 and to 50 cts French Lawns 45 inches, 40 90 and 75 cts Dmty and crosbars, 121 15 %, 30 and 35 cts Crossbar Muslin 12H2 15 20 and % cts. Figured Madras 15 and % cts
 Heavier Weaves. Cotton Corduroy 25, 30, 35, 40 and 50 Near Linen 36 inches, 15, 20 and 25 cts. t, Mems Shrtng, stripes and figures, 25, 30, 35 and 40 cts Ratine. inches. linen finish 15
 40 inches, suiting 95 cts
 Center Counter lower floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-16
Wornen's Silk Vests


 Women's Silk Vests For warmer weather low necked, no sleeves swiss ribbed,
 9S cts special
 Worth $50 Velvet Grip Hose Supporters, to corsets. The genuine Velvet Grip at cts pair. o-ssP Corset Section. Attention is invited the fine Exhibition of Robes, embroidered and lace trimmed specimens of Ba- tiste and Lawn and appropriate for graduations and weddings At the Lace Section
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-07-31
WANTS PRESIDENT AT PARTIES
Mrs. Taft Does Not Like to Entertain
When Her Husband Is
Away.

The White House was unusually
quiet during the month Of May be-
cause the president was away
Mrs. Taft does not like to entertain
largely when the president is away.
The first lady of the land seems to
make 1t a point that the president
shall be at home when large functions
are given at the White House. While
the president is away Mrs Taft con-
tents herself with long walks and
with small tea parties in the after
noon. Two large garden parties were
Cancelled because the president had to
be away.
Indeed. Mrs. Taft is quite insistent
that the president shall be present at
her garden parties. Two years ago
the president had made arrangements
to visit Indianapolis. but It CHANGED
that this date was the same as the
first of Mrs. Taft's garden parties and
the president cared to yield to the
wishes OF his wife. and the Indianapo-
lis party trip was Cancelled to the
great dismay of quite a number of
politicians in that state. and they hur-
ried down TO Washington in numbers
TO learn what was the matter. not be
ing able TO credit that a mere garden
party had interfered with the visit
But they learned II was a fact, and
themselves yielded to Mrs. Taft's
wishes afterward. although a whole
year lapsed. entertaining the president
IN Indianapolis.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-07-31

Tex. Miss Morgan has just returned
to her home after spending the winter
as the guest of Mrs. Lurton, wife of
the associate justice of the Supreme
court She attended a great many
receptions and balls. and was a gen.
eral favorite among the different sets
which go to make up Washington so
ciety
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-07-31
TEXAS GIRL ENTERTAINED
Miss Katherine Morgan Was a Guest
at Many Receptions and
Entertainments.

Prominent among the many beauti-
full and charming society girls visit
Ing the national capital during the
season just passed. may be mentioned
Miss Katherine Morgan of Bonham
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-07-31
Shock Absorher

To absorb shocks that might de-
stroy tungsten electric lamps sus-
pended by cords there has been In
vented wire spring with hooks at
each end to engage the cord.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-09-17
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-09-17
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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1912-09-17
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