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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-15
OBITUARY
MRS. HARRIET s. CLEVELAND

MRS. HARRIET Q. CLEVELAND
 Mrs Harriet C. Cleveland, widow Of Joseph Cleveland, died this morning from the infirnities of old age She was born 91 years ago at White Oak Ridge, N. J., but had lived in Bridge port for many years. For years past she had been a faithful member of the Washington Park M E. church and had been active In it's work The burial will be at Elizabeth. N J..
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Germany Warns All Civilians To Keep Their
 Window Blinds Shut

Brussels, Aug. 15-AII the newspa- pers print in large type, on their front pages a Warning to Civilians en- joining them to keep their doors and windows closed and, in the event, that hamlet is occupied by German troops to evacuate in order to give the Germans no opportunity of accus- ing non-combatants of firing on them
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CARD OF THANks

We desire to extend our sincere thanks to friends and neighbors; also the Garfield Rubber O., and Batch ei1ers Corset CO, for Kindness shown us in OUT late bereavement in the loss of our beloved sister, Mary J. TItz- gerald. We also desire to thank all for the beautiful flcraI tokens sent.
 NELLIE FITZGERALD.
 ANNIE FITZGERALD.
 ELIZABETH FITZGERALD
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REPUBLICANS MARCH AWAY TO
 SHEEP BAKE

tcontinued from Page 1) fEschard Brown, George Sanger John B. C1app, Charles M. Gould, J c. Cur tis. Charles D. Kingman. Frank B. Somers. Thomas Coulter, C. E. Moore IT. W. Cook, s. Powell Henry R. Par rotE first president of the Bridgeport pRepubfican club.
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JOHN H. FATHERS ON SUES
 ALICE IN DIVORCE ACTION

John H. Paterson Of Huntington has brought divorce proceedings against Alice L. Patterson of Washingt ton, D. c. Sterling Parker Of Washington is named as correspondent MT and Mrs. Patterson were married October 3. 1901 Mrs Patterson,s maiden name was Alice Earl.
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InHN L KINNAME.

The funeral of John J. Kinnane was held this morning from the home of his mother. ss1 Capitol avenue, at g o'clock. being largely attended. The eomrnitta1 service for the dead was read by Rev Joseph T. Picker. assist ant pastor of St. Patrick,s church There were many floral tributes about thes easket The bearers were Lewis Blair. Gus Meyers, Peter Carley. John O,Brien, Harry SIocum and Daniel OfBrien. The burial was in St. Angus tines cemetery
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Spanish-Americans
 Are Sent To Spain

Paris, Aug. 15-Francisco De La Barra, former provisional president of Mexico, and the Argentine, Brazilian and Chilean minister here, have CO., operated in sending 1000 Spanish Americans to Spain, where they will stay if they desire to do so, until the
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WEATHER FORECAST
General

Showers were reported during the last 24 hours from the southern dis tricts, the eastern portion of the lake region and the northern portion of New England. There is no well de fined storm area this morning east Of the Rocky Mountains and pleasant weather with moderate temperatures prevails in nearly all districts.
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Mrs. Sarah Beers was arrested this morning at Harrison Place, Milford by Detective Peter Hall for the theft of baby carriage in this city be- longing to Mrs. Lombard. 1e1 Read street, Bridgeport.
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New Haven
State

Forecast: Fair and slightly warm CT tonight and Sunday.
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Automobile Drivers

Fair tonight and Sunday: gentle to moderate winds mostly west.
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Albert s. Btcknore, educator, natu- ralist and trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, died at Nonuuit. Mass. aged 75 years.
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BRIEF ITEMS OF
 LOCAL INTEREST

Tonight's session of the police board fiction is said to have in view provis- ion of an extra chauffeur at police headquarters during the times when both the patrol and detectives, auto mobile are likely to be used Several times recently, the chauffeur on duty has been out with one machine when there has been a hurry call for the other. Two, who were assigned as chaufeurs before civilians were ap- pointed, are aEailable Policeman George H. North, now on street duty, and Motorcycle Policeman, James Burns.
 An excursion to Plum Island, in Gardiner's Bay, a well as a general criuse about the Long Island coast in the power boat Hattie is scheduled to begin tonight. Among those who will participate are Frank Mills, owner of the Hattie Charles Keith David Don ovan Harry Gould, Richard Dunn and P. W. Peterson. The party expect to get big catches of large blue fish
 Lars Sweusons home at 15 Linwood avenue was entered by key workers yesterday afternoon, a gold watclS and chain and three rings being takbn.
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N SIS CUSTOM SUIT SALE s NOW LYFoRD BROTHERS SEE East Side and West Fad
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Almanac

Automobile drivers should light their lamps at 7:21 o'clock tonight.
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the designs when finished.

Many many articles included pillow tops, scarfs centers list of novelties waists corsetcovers gowns and hoods, dresses bis bootes robes etc. for children
 Artanno e1nbroideries in packages all stamped and ready for making There included needles of the right plenty of floss color charts and full instruc tions for going ahead Makes very without experience to obtain excellent results.
 Prices range from 25c to $1O0 per package
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The Weather:-
 Fair and Warmer Sunday.
Embroidery beautiful.

Real pleasure in look ing over this display of Artamo embroidery. New est and most artistic de signs. Many pieces have been daintiiy worked to show us how attractive are
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1OWIzAND'

Bridgeport, Conn.
 Saturday, Aug. IS, 1914.
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lease him. The Saxon law allows the flogging of men, who continue to idle after they have been put in tile home. In Saxon labor homes some men have been for 20 years and more. Every where the idlers get longish periods. Tn Oldenburg the minimum term for which an idler may be committed is two years. A man who is brought back after re- lease gets a minimum three years. The Prussian law requires that each idler' s case shall be periodically reconsidered at least onSA d year.
 States slaves are well fed, well clothed, and as a rule we'll treated. The ya'ac of their work is allowed them This value is low, because they are put to do work which could not remuneratively be done by free labor. They earn from 50 cents to 75 cents day. not very much below the earnings of the average German un- skilled workers, and they have no days of unemployment From their earnings the labor home deductsS the bare cost Of their food and clothes and pays the balance to their families or to the poor law authorities which supports the faJni- lies. When they leave the home. reform ed, they get a lump sum. job, and other help. Most of them come back. That Is <Eaxony's experience; Russia s experi- ment has been too short for judgment.
 Experts. who otherwise quarrel as to the merits of the state slavery system, agree about this. The system is worth less from the standpoint of the reforma- tion of idlers and drunkards: but 1t ia successful because it compels idlers to support their families as long as they are in the homes and 1t relieves the state of burden and gives 1t valuable con sideration in the shape of reclaimed land and other useful worKs. Only about 1s per cent of the habitual idlers have been reformed by term of slavery to the state. Many are temporarily reformed. After . couple of years' hard labor under
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the confusion of the administrative sys- tems in the different states.
 Prussia. Saxony and the other states
 maintain numerous labor homes or col onies, which in effect are nothing but slave plantations. These are mostly sit uated in remote districts, often on bar ren land, which demands reclamation. The men work under guard in the open coun- try, but the houses in which they sleep are surrounded by hign fences and are guarded by police. The idlers wear no prison uniform, but that does not make escape easy. The police demand iden- tification papers from all unknown men: and in case of doubt they hold suspects without fearing the consequences. Under this system about 40,00s idlers who have never been tried for any offense are held under administrative decree in the dif- ferent labor homes of seven different states.
 Prussia's excuse for such severe laws Is that she is more plagued with idlers, tramps and vagabonds than other coun- tries. This is true, though foreigners do not. suspect 1t. Dr. Hans Ostwald of Berlin. an expert on this problem. esti- mates that Prussia has 10000 tramps and the minister of the interior says that since 1902 the number of families deserted by husband and father has increased 34 per cent For this reason Prussian legis- iators decided that 1t was necessary to lock up habitual idlers and compel them 10 work. The trouble was to find sat isfactory definition of an habitual idler. Therefore when Prussia set about draft Ing her law she turned to the smaller states which already had state slavery system It was resolved that only men who are bodily and mentally fit for work should be ciassed as idlers; but that in or other excesses culpAbly unfit them- selves for work. The idleness must be of Kind which burdeps tho public. Inc
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BY RICHARD s. SCOPE

definition of d habitual idler is man who refuses to support himself. his wife, children and other dependents. The law lays down that the urban and rural aus schusse' or committees test each case. The poor law authority which supports the idler's family reports the case. and the committee takes action. and orders the offenders arrest. The offender Is committed to labor home; there to he kept until reformation or for an indefinite period, spending his time in working for the benefit of his country.
 Prussia and the othe.. states which pun ish idleness with slavery boldly trans gress the principles of personal free- dom. The accused idfer has practically no protection. In some cases the police themselves do the imprisoning; in other cases the police evider.ce as to the man s character decides the result. Only in Hamburg must one momber of the com mittee which investigates an idlers case have magisteriai qualifications. Also 8 Hamburg citizen may not be turned into state slave until he has first had a chance to repent and until other re- sources have been exha listed. The au- thoritfes must first sn, him for neglect ing. his family; next they must send him to a labor exchange which will offer him work and If this fails. they must give him several days warning of his fate if he remains obdurate. Should he ignore the warning he is requested to enter a labor home voluntarily: and only if he falls to do that do the police arrest him.
 In Anhalt the idler must be warned twice before he can be sent, to home. trative authorities or the police can seise an idler. and imprison him as a slave for an indefinite period He can appeal to the so-called control authorities'' which are . branch of the administrat ation, { but no court will hear; m case Gf rs-
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years for the benefit Of the state. This is under a law which passed only two years ago.
 and it violates also the conscience of mild Bavaria. So when last Christmas two Prussian idler-slaves escaped from a labor home at F'ulda across the Prussian- Bavarian frontier. the Bavarian govern ment refused to extradite them. Bava- rias premier, Baron von Hertling, stood hrm Prussia's severe minister of <the interior Herr von Dallwitz, stood equally nrm- The quarrel ended cOmically The fugitive slaves, rejoiced to find themselves in Tree country with excellent beer, got gloriously drunk. When sober.they applied to the local Bavarian auth6rities for support and relief; and-Bavaria is a Christian land-they got both. The good news spread Within month five other escaped Prussian idler-slaves crossed the hospitable frontier; drank like Berserk CTS; and applied for relief and support. That was too much. Freedom-lovinr f3a- varia kept to her resolution not to ex- tradite them, but she resolved to expel them. They were put across Prussia s frontier, where they were promptly seized by Prussian policemen and brought back to their slave plantations.
 State slavery for idlers fiourishes not only in Prussia. It is an old institution in Saxony. Wurttemberg, Oldenburg. Meek lenburg-Schwerin Anhalt and the. free re- public of Hamburg. All these countries have constitutions which proclaim that no man may be imprisoned without trial, but they all have laws which enact the contrary, and there Is no supreme court to condemn the laws as unconstitutional The laws proclaim that idlers may be turned into state compulsory workers without any trial on the mere command of the police or some other local author ity. Though this is pure slavery no eff fcctive protest is raised and the system would be established tomorrow as law : for the whole empire were 1t not for cer- tain technical obstacles which arise from
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mind what all the hurraw was about He gave a plaintiff bleat when they stabbed him with the speers and would have beet hasty retreet for cuvver, if they had mt closed the gate on him. His hide hung on his trembling frame like Muther Hub bard on hat rack. A bold and feerless matty door understudy advansed upon him and shook red rag in frunt of his bud shot eyes The bull tried to eat the rag; he was as confiding and inoffensive as a forrain missohery The crowd cheered and the bull looked round wunderingly and maid a mosion' to adjourn. Seenor Cacktus told me confidensially that the bull was verry crafty, and when they leest expected it he would probabully make a mad dash
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stern overseer's eye. they get to loathe servitude. They make sincere vows to lead an industrious life. On this they are released. Freedom and drink make them soon forget their good resolutions, and within few weeks or months they are again state slaves. Of 5p men re-
 leased from an Anhalt labor home, E.
 were sent back within six months. All of them had worked well while in tha home. Experts say that such men by weakness of will are incapable of voun- tary work. They make good workers. as horses do while under control. Hamburg
 is the only state where temporary slav- cry has reformed many iders. This is put down to the mildness of the Ham, burg system. and to the efforts made to bring moral pressure on the men.
 Progressive Germans oppose the system. They admit that idlers should be forced to slave in order to repay the state for what 1t does in educating and protecting them, but they demand judicial guaran- tees. Every case of alleged idling should, they hold. be tried by court. and the police should be deprived of their too great power to put away inconvenient persons at night Prussia's government rejects this standpoint. It fosters the existing system because the tclce find in it. a useful lever over the poorer class population. The leverage may be used for political ends. A ''sound l. e.. conserva- tive local. knows he will be treated with more consideration than a social demo- cratic idler. As the law now stands, the police could intern compulsorily in a la bor home a large proportion of the work ing class populati tion whether idle or in- dustrious This is because Prussian law defines literally the duty to support irela- tives. The citizen must provide not only (nr vrylFA av1A rkf Psrt al frt.f f.<1t6 parents. for four grandparents. and if they happen to be alive, ever for all eight great grandparents. An industrious Prussian who supports both parents and wife and children can be asked why he is not supporting an so-ysar-old Insane
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till the last man was out in the ninth inning, and then protested the desission. Accord ing to the descripsion he would fite den of wild cats, or total strangur with equal Indifference. In ordur to get up his ''pep" couple of attindents hung above speers into his hide and left them hanging speers into his hide an ldleft them hanging theere; this was dun to annoy him and make him vissious
 With a grand fan-fair of trumpets and small-bore shreeks frum the ladies, the bull was forsed into the ring. He came out look ing as bleer-eyed and harmless as the prize drunkard of Portland, Maine. He looked as though he had been on debauch the nite before and was'n't just cleer in his
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Genuine Bull Fight
 Seen Tn Vera Cruz

escape. but no such good luck In his hur- " he run ovver one of the attndints care fully stepping on his fase and pushing out tooth or two. 1 encored this and told him to do 1t ovver l didn't see him good the first time. At this point one of the matty- doors succeeded in hedding him off, and got in frunt of him, propped on one knee and run a long sord up to the handle into his system and the poor little bull flurted his tail two or three times and cashed i'll. By this time Seenor Cacktus was positively unsafe to be permitted at large, while Sen- oror Cacktus gave final and sole-sturring yelp, like unto the last squak of an exhaust ed bath-tub and tainted on my new spring suit.
 l am as rule a verry gallant man. But this sitnasion was verry embarrassing to me. To have generously proporsioned- not to say fat brunett lady to whom had just been introduced with hur arms round my neck totally unconscious of our surround fngs her perfume laden breeth sturring the tendrills of my hair, while | was trying to figger out whether she had been eating garlic, or wild onions while out theere in the ring the matty-door with one foot on the emassated form of the poor little muth- erless bull, holding his sord aloft, was at tracting the attension of the peepu and her husband, and was verry trying on my nurves. 1 shook hur gently and toll hur this was hur station and it was time to get off, but she only clung the tightur, and mur- mured sumthing about 1t being horribull.
 told hur not to take on that way, the bull was no relasion of hur's, but she kept rite on talking shop, and weeping like a spring rain down my neck told one of the pass ing attindints that he would obIige me if he would take hur outside and lose hur, but he didn't understand English
 About this time Seenor Cacktus cum to. aud hurryed ovver and untangled the charming Seenora. I expected that he would hand me his card and advise me that his secunds would wait on me the next mawning, and was mentally figuring on how much life insuranse l had, and whether would chose pistols or batteaxes; insteed of that Seenor Cacktus threw his arms around me and kissed me on both cheeks, and seemed plum deeted. I was as badly bewildured as the bull when he was furst pushed into the ring began to beleeve then that the Seenor was going to try to wish the Seenora on me, and concluded that I had rather fite. However I erned that this wus meerly custum in Mexico When a Mexicon is verry friendly with you he's affecsionate as poor relasion.
 On the hole, can t say that was much impressed with the Mexcon bull fite How evver evveryboddy to his own nosion. It makes a big hit with most everyone in Mexico, exsept the bul He is rudely sac rifized for the pleasure of the peepul. It would tickle me plum to deeth if theere was sum way to ring in reel honnest good ness old Texas gentleman COW on theese fel- lows. I think there would be sumthing doing not on the program, but guess it cant be did. Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES.
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grandfather. and if he cannot give an answer satisfactorily to the police. he may be torn away from wife and children. and sent for a long term into labor home. This is tho letter of the Prussian law. Progressive Germans hold that po- licemen, and even administrators, are un- fit to be invested with such power, and they want to reform the slavery for idlers law. The chief demand is that Judges shall try every case Against the fact of state slavery few complain. It is part of the universal system of state compnlslon and state tntelaRe.
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fy1ERRY CROOZE,, May 13, 1914-Mis-
 tur Edditm.. Verry Crooze Is now
 l@assY as plassid as a Progressive Conven- sion, when Col Roosefelt is tempererry chairman, and T. Roosefelt is. purminint chairman, and ex-Presidint Roosefelt Is chairman of the Committee on Credensials, and Teddy Roosefelt is the only cannydate for the nommnasion. Evvery thing heer is now practically unanimus, and the peepul have returned to theere reguler occupa- sons The reguler seesun for the grate na- sonel passtime of bull-fiting is now on and was dewly innaugurated last Sunday. Bull fitting in Mexico is as populer as Baseball in the United States. The sport, it seems to me, ought to in time becum moor or less monotonus, becawse the home teem always wins, nevertheless the average Mexicon Is always abul to work up a considerabull amount of exsitemint and enthewsiasm ov- yer it. It is comparatively little truble for the average Mexicon to work up exsite- mint however; it's as easy down heer to raise a job-lot of perfectly wild exsitemint, eas it is to start revvolusion.
 | had the honur of attinding the bull fite last Sunday with Seenor Don Portif- furro Exzema Cacktus, Lait Minnistur of Inturmitten Relasions, and chairman of the Committee on Imported Sausage, and as- sistant to the Kustodian of Polytica Prizer- nurs the Cabinet of ex-Pressidint Dyaz Becawse of polytical unrest in Mexico, See nor Cacktus has been compelled to suffer i the unspeekabull humiliation of livving in secluson. Acting the roll of commun l laborur his disguise was completes; his en- emies newer dreemed of looking for him n the nayborhood of wheere enny work was being dun. Cents the Americons took Verry Crooze, Seenor Cacktus has been abnlfto apreer in his trew lite and has quit work entirely. His charming wife, Seenora ] Mersvdeetur Marree Cac<tus, promminint
 as an advocate for Votes for Wimmin, oc-
 cupied a box with Us at the bull-fite
 1 am frank to say that the bull-fite itself
 was a'dissapointmint. I had expected more
 actsion. The band played La Poloomer,
 and uther inspiring peeses, and the crowd
 cheered vosifferusy, and the Mattydoors-
 they air the fellers who valliently slav the
 bull, all dressed up in glad rags with red
 sashes-bowed repeatedly to the applawse
 of the maddened populase All the Greez-
 nrs frumsal ovver the outlying district
 weer theere, and it was galla occasion
 which evveryboddy, barring the bull
 seemed to enjoy immensely. The bull had
 about as much chanse as Republican can
 nydate in Dallas county. Aftur they had
 finnlshed the cheering and hurray stuff,
 the gates weer thrown open to turn in fe-
 rosious and crazed bull who had been
 aroused to the highest pitch of fury and
 rage by having his rasions cut off for the
 past two weeks We weer informed that
 this bull had been espessially provided for
 the occasion at grate expense. Also that
 he was as beigerrant as Willyum Randolf
 Hurst. This bull, they sed, cum frum sel
 lebrated fitting stock that newer gave up
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and toss one of the matty- y-doors plum into the bay This cheered me mp considerabul- ly and began to root for the bull
 But theere was nuthing to if. The bull was completely discouraged and apparintly overtrained. They pushed him around and did evvery thing they could to annoy him, but he did mt have as much resint mint as a grass-hopper. Finally he seemed to realize the situasion and became anxious and unhappy He ran hurryedly round the enclosure seeking an exit; everybody when Bakur nocks home run in the World Serius. Seenor Cacktus swallered his cigar eet, and began to gnaw the railing in front of our box; I was in hopes that bull mite