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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
Australia to Keep
 Middleweight Limit
(By F. s. Andrews.)

Australia has kept the limit at 160 pounds at o'clock. Looking back over the middleweight list and all things considered, it lis evident that the 160-pound limit is better suited to that class than our own at 158 ring side A pound or two one way or the other between men of that class makes very 1ittleN difference and there should be no such arguments about the weight as we have had for years. Take such good fighters as Jack Di1- lon, Eddie McGoorty,- Leo Houck, and it is almost impossible for them to make 158 rdngside, but they can do it for big match at o'clock weighing and 160 pounds would be easy for them. It Is very probable that the promoters will get together during the winter and endeavor to bring about a uniform scale of weight and posd bly establish a list of champions, the same as the French Boxing Federation has done. However, the Clabby-Chip match will be a good start for 8 mid- dleweight champion, so go ahead
 Even far away Australia has been effected in a boxing way by the Eu- ropean war It was not suppoBed that the war would cut much figure with the people down under but reports coming from the Antipodes are not encouraging for the boxing game just now, which accounts for the return homo of Eddie McGoOrty, MiIburn Saylor and others and the early. re- turn of Gus Christie, Johnny Grif- fiths, Joe Shugrue and others n6w there. The sending of about 50, ,00O men from Australia has had telling effect on the game in Sydney and Melbourne, for many of the men were from those cities and the attendance at the shows naturally fell off. Up to the time the war started the boxing game was thriving in the Antipodes; in fact, it had never known such a boom before, even in the days of the Johnson-Burns contest and others. According to reports just at hand the game is still alive and well, but much of the enthusiasm has been taken out of it on account of the war and the indications are, unless there Is a change for the better, that Snowy
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
AME RIcANS QUIT
 BELGIAN TOWNS

Washington, Nov. 2.-Ghent is iso- lated from communication. according to a despatch received by the Ameri- can government sent by messenger to Sluis.. Holland, by American. Consul General Henry Albert Johnson. ]. : Thc~ despatch added that the Amer .fcan con>1 general had ordered the consulate at Osteupd closed and had gone to Ghent where he was safe but without communication. Om- cia1s here infer that the fighting was so fierce in the coast towns that ali Americans have withdrawn to the in- teT-iOr.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
CRUISER GOEBEN
 BADLY DAMAGED

Petrograd, Nov. IA despatch from Sebastopo1 says that the former cruiser Goeben's bonbardment of the Black Sea fort was put to an end by the Constantinowskaw batteries, which forced the warship to with
 1.-The shore station subsequently, in tercepted a wireless telegraph mess age from the Geeben. which said:
 Damaged: will return to Constan- tinop1e for repairs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
Samples Free by Mail

Tor panaples and blackheads the following is a most effective and economical treat nasnB. Gently smear the affected parts with Cutacura Ointment. on the end of the finger, bsle do not rub. Wash of the Cuticura Ointment in i've minutes with Cuticlra Soap and hot water and continue bathing for 6urne minutes. This treatment is best on rising and retiring. At other times use Cutdcara Soap freely for the toilet and bath. % aasEst in preventing inflammation, irr1- tatton and c1ogging of the pores Sold throughout the world. Sample of each mailed free. with 3z-p- Skin Book. Address postcard :. Cuticura. Dept. T. Boston
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
BURGLARS GET MErAL.

Several hundred pounds of valuable metal were stolen from the plant of the Riverside Pattern & Foundry Co.,, 2o7 Knowlton street, last night, en- trance being gained through the fore ing of window.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

were also on his limbs and chest and he was very cross and fretful. They itched and burned and he scratched and this formed sore places. It ttched and burned so the little one could not s1eep nights.
 Ger
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
MARY E. JOHN SON.

The funeral of Mary F. Johnson, 75 Fulton street, was held at g o'clock this forenoon from M. J. Gannon't under taking rooms on Broad street, with Rev. Ira s. Jacobs, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. church, officiating. There was a large attendance and many floral tributes. The body was taken to MilIbrook, N- Y, for burial.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

rnsnss and they failed to help him. i got two ca1res of Cut5crra Soap and two boxes q CutScura Ointment and bathed the child R1sh the Cuticura Soap twice daily, then Fit the Cutfc1na Ointment on each time. Ie was only matter of two or three weeks Nlen the child was heaIed.s' (Slgne0 Mira Mlaxa Hutchtnson. Feb. I9, 1914.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
LosRs sRALsKrN cLoAK.

Mrs. James A. Morris of 22 Washing ton avenue, has asked the police to To- cate a valuable sealsAin jacket that disappeared from her home during the past 10 days.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
OBITUARY
MRS. ELIZA MEssTER.

The funeral of Mrs. Eliza Messier was held at 10 o'clock this morning from the home. HAT Stratford avenue, with burial at Mountain. Grove ceme- terry. There were numerous floral tributes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

Baker, the Australian promoter, will curtail his importation of American stars for a time. Jeff Smith is on his way back, there having been un- der contract for several more matches, but negotiations for other American boxers will be dropped for the rresent
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
. M. HaIfacre.

W. M. Ha1facre, Dexter. Mo-. bought Foley Kidney Pills for Mrs. Halfacre, who was down on her back with kidneys so sore he had to help her move. He says: ''She would cry with pain across her kidneys, but af- ter she took the second bottle of Fo- ley Kidney Pills, she was a well and strong as ever" Hindle Drug Store Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02
ERUPTION ON CHILD ETCHED AND BURNED.
Like Water BIisters on Body, Face and Arms. Cross and Fretful. Used Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment. Child Was Healed.

R. ?. D. No. 3. Groton. -"Ady little hoy-s troszhle began all over his body and face and arms with water blisters They
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

Thomas J. Mccormick. deposed war den of Sing Sing prison, New York. was forced to hurry to the prison and beg the convicts not to carry out the mutiny they planned to show their disapprovaI over his removal.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

The Hawaiian American liner Arizo- nian struck a slide in the Culebra Cut, Panama Canal. and is stuck fast, effectively blocking the passage of larger vessels awaiting to pass through.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

Chicago meat packers are swamped with orders from the warning Flu ropean nations and will run three shifts Of men working day and night to fill orders
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

The Cuban government has warned the German steamer Bavaria, in the harbor at Havana, against the use of her wireless, as several times she has been detected using it and it is feared she is communicating with German W&rshipa.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

Fnranet Want Ada. one c<pt 2 word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-02

Warmer want Ads, one Cent g Word
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26

volver, or battling with the furies Of
the sea on unequal terms, and proving
himself the master of ship and crew
and natures unleashed forces. There
is here, indeed, a combination OF
Nietzsche and Wells-Of the superman
as the lieutenant Of the international
Samurai, the supreme commanders OF
destiny of Mr.. Wells's prophecy. The
captain, polished, quiet-spoken, aloof,
issuing from his seclusion only in the
hour of greatest danger to give the
quiet order that decides the battle with
the elements, is the Samurai; the su-
permen are his two mates, men of
horny fists, enormous physical strength,
utterly void of fear-master navigators,
too, knowing the ship and what she will
do willingly or under compulsion, and
loving her with the true sailorman's
love.
Then there is the Nietzschean crew
Of the unfit who yet manage to sur
vive-the weak, the craven, the inca
Fable, the criminal, the scourings of
waterside lodging-houses and the dark
places of civilization, driven by these
two supermen, forced by their superior
will and strength and ability to per-
form, uncomprehending, the difficult
work of carrying the worlds mer-
chandise from port to port. These two
officers have long records of bruised
and broken flesh and bone, of slave
driving without pity, of ruthless sup
preston of impotent revolt, of many
homicides. Mr.. London spares US moth
ing of the brutality Of this eXploita-
ton of the unfit. The story is not
only Strong; it is occasionally re-
Voting. Yet one of these two slave
drivers reyels in the music of the mas
tiers.
So the reader knows what to expect.
In addition, he may look forward to
some capital descriptions of the sea in
it's fury, of the handling Of the ship in
danger, Of rounding of Cape Horn in
the middle of winter. of all the bravery
and skill Of seamanship-fo at such
hours these men are giants, indeed --
with, for good measure, the courtship
a. the worthy daughter of the Samurai,
who has also some of the hard quail
ties Of his superman officers. Those
who like their fiction strong will here
find book to their liking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26
LITERARY CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
The Renaissance, FIumanism, the Reformation
and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Prisoners of War in France.

vet been made, but which woulc be eX-
iremely we'll worth while. Says Pro-
lessor Hulme: an the process OF be-
coming established as a separate class
the publishers found that they needed
men Of letters as assistants. These men
were known as proofreaders. They
were employed to estimate the value OF
the manuscripts submitted for publica-
ton, to give advice to their employers
regarding the probable sale and IN
trinsic worth of literary productions
Thus they exercised a great influence
in the civilization Of the time. Lead
ing men Of letters we're not reluctant
to accept such positions" A mono
graph on publishers readers from me
earliest days to those of George Mere
9th and beyond-here is subject that
should find its enthusiast. This by
the way, however.
From Spain to Lithuania, from Hun
gary to France, from Sicily 30 the
Scandinavian countries and the Meth
erlands, from the palace Of Pope and
Emperor to the cell of the thinker and
the hut of the peasant, in all the fields
of life and activity of the period Pro-
fessor Hulme traces the origins and
growth and waning, the interrelations
and influences of the three great
movements with which he deals.
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NAeoLs oHJ EM9AekAD0H
Foe ELLA (EeQH "HAPOLeoh
I'VE G7oLER " -AeFH1"oJ

written by relative Of the poet to the
Houghton, Mifln Company, may be OF
interest to those who are asked 20 CUB
scribe:
"Longfellow's birthplace on Fore St;
Portland, Me-, was not his parents
home. 1t belonged to Captain Stephen
son. an uncle-in-law of the poet, whose
mother was only temporarily visiting
there when he was born. The real
Longfellow home, built by the poets
grandfather, General Peleg Wadswortn,
on Congress st., was given by his SIS
ter, Mrs. Ann Longfellow Pierce, to the
Maine historical Society as pubic
museum and memorial. There are kept
and shown the old family furniture,
and some books, pictures and manu-
scripts. The Fore st. house, in when
the poet happened to be born, is now IN
a tenement house district, inhabited
mostly by Italians and is out OF the
way. The house has been dismantled
of its front door and sidelights, front
door steps and best mantelpiece, and
its partitions have been changed to int
il for six families. The movement LOT
purchasing this birthplace is not sup,
ported by either the Maine Historical
Society or the Longfellow family
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26
PLANT LORE
An Interesting Volume of
Popular Natural History.

TIE HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS BY
Royal Dixon. with 4 Illustrations in
colors and % in black and white Svo
pp. xviii, 20l. The Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
This is a delightful book for the
amateur naturalist. Its author has the
knack of giving to the study of plants
the quality of romance. He appeals to
the imagination, demonstrating in an
ingenious way how plants eat and
drink, sleep and wake, walk, run, swim,
fish, hunt and set traps; how they see,
hear, feel and smell; how they keep
servants to feed them and retainers
to defend them, and how they pay them
for their services; how they reproduce
and take care of Their offspring
in short, in their adaptation to envi-
ronment and to the conditions of their
struggle for survival they have in
many instances developed methods that
closely resemble those of the animal
world, and even our own. Mr.. Dixon,
like many other botanists, is a firm be-
lever in the theory Of plant psychol-
Ogy
He has transferred the methods of
the popular students of animal life
Of decade ago to the world of plant
life. If, perhaps, like them, he is a
little too much inclined to draw his
analogies with human life and human
mentality and intelligence too close,
one forgives him readily for the sake
of the revelation he makes of beau
ties and ingenuities hidden from our
unobservant eyes. "In many of the
plant acts described" he informs us,
81 am declaring heretofore unpublished
truths which must unquestionably
meet the eensure of the book taught
botanists of the old schools, but which
will quite as unquestionably meet the
approval of those naturalist botanists
Of the modern type, who accept no re-
suit without its use, and who study
life for the love of it, with no pre-
scribed limitations Of fact and posi-
bility."
Mr.. Dixon opens up new fairyland
of Nature for our youngsters. Their
elders will gladly follow them thither
once they have peeped into the pages
of his book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26
FIREWORKS.

A LADY OF LEISURE. BY E;helsSidswick;
I2mo. pp. 40. Boston: Small, Maynard
& Co.
Miss Sidgwick arrived in this coun-
try, in the literary sense, with the
publication, in rapid succession, Of
"Le Gentleman" Herself" and prom
ise," the last named book having since
had a sequel. That she is at her best
in her new novel cannot be questioned,
but one has reason to believe that her
best is too highly polished for its OWL
good. To be sure, Miss Sidgwick does
not write for the many, but, on the
other hand, the few demand tina:
brilliancy be not employed for its own
dazzling sake, but for that of the story
in hand. And it cannot be denied that
there is here too much intellectual fire
works-that the author keeps her own
cIeverness too much to the fore. Occa-
sionally one loses sight Of the story
and the characters while watching
and admiring Miss Sidgwick's amaz-
ing dexterity in managing her people,
their affairs and their talk. In conse-
uuence, the fascinating Mrs. Ashwln
remains a little too enigmatic for our
understanding, and, so far as we can
see. for her husband and daughter as
we'll. and for the French marquis, too,
with the result that the game she play'
seems utterly unsatisfactory, not only
TO those whom il disquiets, but to her
self as we'll. Miss Sidgwick, in other
words, is in danger of giving US her
supremely clever recipe without the
dish that should result from it. But
she keeps us reading, even though the
story is overlong, and she keeps us en-
Toying as we read 1t is, then, as an
exhibition of sheer literary virtuosity
that the novel makes its greatest i'm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26
PRISONERS OF WAR
Napoleon's Way with His
English Captives.

! NAPOLEON THE GAOLER. Personal FIX
| perieDces and Adventures Of British sail
ors and Soldiers During the Great Capptiy-
ity. BY Edward Fraser. With twelve Illus
! trations 12mo, PIP. X, 3l2. Brentano's.
The Napoleonic centenaries still con-
| tinue to produce their literature. Not
! the least curious of the latest publica-
tiors of this class is the present vol
ulne, whose bulk is devoted to the En-
peror's treatment of his English pris-
oners of war, but which contains also
some account of his ways with his
Continental prisoners, whom he treated
far more harshly because it was safe
for him to do so. In the case of the
English it was different, since they
always had far more French captives
than Napoleon had Englishmen-civi
ians. merchant mariners, military and
naval officers and soldiers and sail
ors. England alone had the power to
retaliate in case of ill-treatment Of
her subjects held by the enemy. Ill
treated they were, nevertheless, in
many cases, but nearly always, it APP
pears. in direct disobedience of the
y
them. One of the chief depots for
captive British officers was Yer
dun, where, on parole, they were
allowed to live in lodgings, rents jump
ing Immediately tenfold. On being in
formed of this, the Emperor gave his
loyal and frugal Verdunians to under
stand that if rents and prices of the
neCessaries of life did not immedi-
ately return to their proper level the
prisoners would be sent somewhere
else. A gambling hell was opened for
the plucking of the Englishmen;
Frenchmen were not admitted. Ma
pOieon ordered it closed Worth men
tioning is the fact that he ordered the
printing of a book of common prayer
for the use of his Captives. But the
commander of the depot, General
Meirion, exploited them in every pos
sible way. He invited himself to all
their gatherings, ate and drank at their
expense, and won their money at cards
by open cheating. They were, how
ever, allowed to hunt, and kept a pack
Of beagles.
Bitche, eighteen miles from Vcrdun,
was the principal punishment station
for refractory British prisoners
place where many abuses took place.
the narratives here printed are by
both officers and privates and furnish
mass of material for the study of the
treatment of prisoners of war in the
beginning of the last century. There
are several narratives of attempted
and successful escapes. One Of Ma
poleon's British prisoners commanded
the boat at Frejus which took him on
board the ship that transported him to
his first exile, in Elba. The illustra-
tons consist of reproductions of a
series of rare contemporary litho-
graphs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
The superman on the Quarerdsck,LOui' cU ,1
Tetralogy of Dutch Life-A New Novel by MISS
sSdo1vick-Some Minor Fiction.

beino the representative work Of the
Dutcb "gensitiyist" school OF hctl0h'
has great charm as picture OF the
lifs and manners of The Hague, tne
Village capital" as it is called IN the
dinlomatic world. Majesty" Is a study
81 Nihilism as seen from the Russian
court circle. When 1t was written
rovaitv was much to the fore in Euro
moan fiction. The book appeared al
most simultaneously with Henri Lave
dams Lies Rois," with which 1t Is oess
compared. The story Of "Footsteps o.
Fate" is sufficiently summed up IN us
Since fctional fashions have
changed, and with them Mr.. Couperus's
n,ethod He has become reAiist OF
the minute type, wherefore he must teli
in four novels what once he wouio
have condensed. and ably, into single
gtorv. "Snall Souls" his translator IN
forms Us, is the first Of series OF FOUR
books describing the fortunes Oh
Dutch family. The main theme OF ths
first Of them is of exceptional interest
and is admirably studied IN al iIs
ramifications. The Baroness var, DER
Welcke, who deserted her husband ana
later married her lover, returns TO Inc
Hague twenty years after the scahoaI
in the hope of regaining the soclal po-
sition she had thrown away. She d0eS
this partly for the sake OF her chli9'
nartly from inconsistencies, most OF an,
perhang. because her union with the
mar of her choice has turned out TO De
en- utter failure for both OF them; her
brothers and sisters. their HUSBANDS
and wives agree to receive her for theiI
mothers sake, but the experiment ends
disastrously, for public opinion Is
stronger than she. and her relatiohS
room bow to it. She becomes the VIC
tim of q campaign Of malice ana SIAN
der that knows no pity.
All this is interesting, and, as mas
already been said, it is admirably told.
But unfortunately it is buried unaer
nasses and masses of trivial realistic
| detail. under endless repetitions OF in
| stances of the uncharitableness, the
/ treGchery, the envy, the time serving
and sycophancy of an upper middle
! class circle in an oyergrown village
J To be sure, every minor character tax
| ing part in this persecution thus be-
| comes a complete social and psycholog-
| ical study in itself, but the proportions
are distorted; the chief personages and
the main situation are too often thrown
out of focus, and here and there almost
lost sight of. This is, at least, the I'M
preston one receives after reading TINS
| first book, and without knowledge OF
what the other three contain. M
doubt Mr.. Couperus, who knows his
trade. will justify this elaboration OF
his minor characters in the sequels
| Certain it is that his title is well
chosen, for even his heroine and hel
sorry husband arc very average people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26
4 FAIRY STORY.
BAMBI BY Marjorie Benton Cooke II
Illustrated nv MARY Greene Blumenschcin
Emo, PIP. 366. Doubleday, Page & Co.

BAMBI. BY Marjorie Benton Cooke. IL
Illustrated nv Mary Greene Blumenschcin.
Emo. PIP. $685. Doubleday. Page & Co.
Bambi, which was short for BAN
bina, which was the pet name of Fran
cesca, married a genius because he
needed some one to take care of him
until this genius should burst INTO
flower municipalities. She married
him without his knowledge, while he
was in one of his fits Of complete alb
sorption--he called it inspiration-in
his drama Of humanity. Having mar
ried him, she found that she must sup
port him, so she wrote short story
for a prize competition announced by
n magazine. This is all that will be
told here of most entertaining fam
tasy. which has nothing to do with
the hard facts OF life, but a great deal
with what all of US would like life to
be. And there is great mystification
of the genius by Bambi, which at last
opens his eyes. We visit New York
or several hurried trips, and discover
that there are amiable magazine ed
itors and most approachable theatrical
managers. Charles Frohman has, no
doubt, already given the book an hon
ored place on the most cherished shelf
of his library. The story is capital
fun; it's love interest has the merit oil
being fresh and novel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26

" by tradition; the musical signs en-
ployed are directions for the manner
Of performing melodies familiar to the
musicians; and most of these are adul-.
terated with the secular folk tune OF
the various peoples amongst which the
Hebrews have dwelt. We believe that
of all the ancient instruments the only
one now in use is the shophar, or rams
horn. In England, at least, the harps
have disaDpeared, and not for the rea-
son Mr.. Galpin gives for their being
hung up when the Jews were in bond
age~namcly, that they were not al
lowed to play them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-26

real presence of their deHies, and blew
their trumpets and tinkled their cas-
tanets in token of most real faith.
One of the most interesting things
in the book is the Rev. +. Capel Cures
explanation of the word "selah," which
occurs so often and has puzzled so
many. According to Mr.. Cure, it was
a signal for the music to illustrate the
more tremendous meanings of the
words being sung-not an idle inter
ruption, as some historians have mag
ined; and he makes out a strong case,
though this again is conjecture. He
brew music has come down to us main