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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
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FIREE; REsUlEs: BURN

Frank Burns, aged g. of 841 DIsrt tie avenue, poured Kerosene on
 smouldering stove fire yesterday in an effort to get quick results. After ula lids had blown off and Burns dound himself several feet away from dlle stove, it was found that the fire was all that might be expected. 1t was quenched. Burns had first degree burns on the left forearm and fac, treated at the Emergency hospital,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
Pope Aids Iaouvat1 Iabrary

Rome. May sIshe official Roman Catholic organ, the Osserva4ore Ro- u1ano announces that the Pope, wish ing to help in the reconc4 1ia;tfon of the library atS Louvains has offered the available duplicates in the Vatican library. besides promising future ii nancia1 aid
 Considerable significance is attach ed to an article in the Oservatore Ro- mano appealing to the generosity of Catholics to offer portable field aItaFs- The article also speaks in favor of the instfkution of military chapzaans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
w. R. c. MEETING IS
 ADVANCED ONE WEEK

The women's relief corps will meet Thursday, May 6, at the G. A. R. hall, at 2:3O D. m. This meeting is called to take the place of the meeting of May 13. The state convention of the Women's Relief corps will take place on the latter day. Many of the Bridgeport members desire ito at tend.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03

Seventy thousand short measure milk bottles. manufactured by East ern milk bottle concerns, and sold as full measure containers, have been confiscated in Los Angeles.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
1Iasza,a nrother No.laded

wfanna, May Count Ludwig lis sEecant battles in the Carp athdans. He faa n years of age. and " hen the war EsfaHaed obtained a commission as eI Iaex6enant In the Honved.
 GoMnk TIaza. has another brother. fthe caxpazhaans.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
THE PHETTTBsr rAfgm

and the most beautiful hands are oR- ten disfigured by an unsightly wart. It eap easily bs removed in a few days without pain by using Cyrus Wart Remover. For sale enIy at The Cyrus Pharmaey. AIS FairfiaId Ava
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
1Zaaser sends Envoy to Pope

Rome. May s-EIerr Erkenberger, 1eader oxEha German center in the lRehczskaE haasax14yed at Rome and 1t 7s nenorted that he is entrusted with a --nenfaa 1zasssson to the vatican He is
 tarn bearer Of an autograph letter Npora &ke Kaiser to the Pope
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
asaslE.11.g..as. AasaclE lDernl0l a.rsE's Peaoe

xsSSSr1,a, Sza.5Zss lstter read at a mass aisse in Rn5E6lazzd. Me-, on April IT, III which the former Gersnsn Colonial tsecnstan.y saad that Germany would Eavansuate the occupied portions of
 Fsxnpe and Belgium only on cond1-7 kk4s[,ss that the seas be freed and that IF4ezsz,esny have freedom to expand be- Fsro9ad her frontier h Europe. has caus- Fed considerable discussion in the Ger lEnaa newspapers, says a. dispEech from lA11aseerdam to Relter's Teaegrarn lConpany
 Tlla Post of Berlin says the hetter eSzspnlsse a sfsai1 and final proof. of Dr.. f5tssE aburg 1hcapAciE1 as states II1A an, and the newspaper character lf4as his reznarks as a '-1ne piece of spokdGra1 1oolery z
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03

The coast guard cutters Tallapoosa and Ossfpee were launched at the -> swport News, Va. shipyasa.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
Ialser HszI c..s VglnseF War

2 vxndon, May STHne German Gov EerrxrAeyzsf aaa ordered all pareparat1ons t9or aanudaaez winter campaign, accord-
 I7Fsass s4 z4ss1.l,arsfst who ascrfbes his s4zrfannxan&4bn to thoroqghly trust { zgs ss;ad nazst tral pIQ T1ntic source
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
Germans in Poland Seize Cereals

Berlin. May s-lThe German ad- nIristration of Russian Poland an nouncas the appropriation of all wheat, rye. and barley in the dis trict. Until the coming harvest nf- ty-five pounds of grain per person is to be allowed to the inhabitants.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
May Day Iernored in Berlin

Berlin, May sAGay Day passed virtually unnotlced in Berlin. There were a few Socialist nleet1ngs, but there were held for mempers only be- hind closed doors-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03
yHiHl Fqelat 0o . Fi1Iish

FnSss. May s.The eye ening papers rziste exxzacts Tram Dr. Ellotss book.
 ss-Ysizfs xnoad TcsgaRd Peacs Ills con ..sIxsIs<,Ia that the war Is likely to con 4fxlsIs unt1l one side is beaten finds suensraa acceptance here as represents s9ns fI1e universa1 detezIn inat1cn to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03

Dr. John Cameron Anderson of McptcIair, was found fatally injured in theswoode near Eagle Rock, N J., with bullet in his head. and a re- voIver by his side
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03

fight to finish
 The press constantly devotes editor ials to alleged German desire for peace, which all agree is simply one more reason for the Allies to con tinne. the war.
 Pr-isoner Shot in Canada
 Montreal. May 3.-As prisoners bound for the Spirit Lake prison camp were being marched to the Windsor Street station last night to embark on the 3 o'clock train one of them made 8 sudden breakaway and ran down Osborne street
 He was ordered to halt, but failed Ito obey, and was shot by one of the sentries while close to, the doorstep of the freight entrance. The bullet went through his right lung, and he died fifteen minutes after arriving at the General Hospital His name was John Bas1zsk, and he hailed from Austria. He was about S6 years of age.
 Major Gen. Sam Hughes. Canadian Minister of Militia, who was with Colonel p. Wilson at the station, wit messed the incident.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03

Arrested in Harfem for begging, Pat rick Johnson produced bank books showing deposits amounting to g 800.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03

Two robbers held up the four clerks of the Hanpver Shoe store in Paterson, N. J., and escaped with $ls5. s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-03

arnler Want Ads. One Cent word
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06

not supplanted the infantry charge, which is always preceded by heavy artillery fire, to sweep away entan- elements, blow up trenches and batter down forts. No matter how compli- cated war may appear to be, in the last analysis, it isn't the man behind the big gun, but the man who carries his gun with him, who completes the victory. He holds the captured trenches until the new positions are made secure. Artillery works tre- mendous havoc, but no descisive re- suits could be achieved with big guns alone, unless the infantry followed up the advantages gained.
 Science has succeeded in postpon- ing the infantry charge. Otherwise the foot soldier is just as necessary today to the success of military opera tions as he was thousand years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
RIDING A WEE

From the St. Louis Dispatch
 From the land O Robbie Burns ticks a tale of fickle love, and a false-hearted sol dier who courted two women-the char itabIe may lay it to his stress to secure a war bride in hurry. Corporal Sheldon had the. date set to marry the one when his affections lightly vaulted to the other, who was to be the first one's bridesmaid, seeing which, the two tossed a coin for him, the bridesmaid-to-b won the toss, the girls changed places-and the church intervened to forbid his marrying either one within 8 period of three months. Perhaps it was just al well to allow the seething situation to cool bit and re- solve into something like sanity. But the hope of posterity and the future of Scot
 land are manifestly endangered by bid- ding romance to bide a wee, since nobody is likely to want to marry anybody three months hence, even if Corporal Sheldon remains unhung, unshot, intact and able to obtain furlough from the trenches, land the lasses have not married some- one else, and the church is willing
 The time to yoke a Scotchman in matri- mony is the very first time you can get him to an altar-and this whether he is soldier or civilian. Statistics prove it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
The Sixty-fourth Congress

While fewer party measures will press for consideration in the Sixty fourth Congress, which convenes to- day, than had the attention of the last Congress, there will be no lack of ex- citement in the legislative branch of the government this winter.
 The administrations national de- fense programme will have the right
 of way and will have the support of a large majority of democrats in both
 houses, though it will not be made a
 party issue. It will depend, however, upon the temper and tactics of the
 democratic opponents of President
 Wilson's preparedness proposition as
 to whether or not there will be any weakening after-effects upon the na-
 tional democracy.
 In view of the comparatively small
 democratic majority in this Congress, it is all the more important that har- mony be preserved.
 Oscar Underwood will be greatly
 missed in the House of Representa- tives, for besides being an authority on everything pertaining to govern
 mental economy he was the master harmonizer. Majority leader by virtue of his chairmanship of the ways and means committee his personality, temperamental equipment and tact fitness made his leadership doubly convincing.
 On one important measure urged by the President MT. Underwood found himself in disagreement with the administration. He had to be true
 to his convictions, and yet he saw to it that party harmony was not dis turbed.
 Chairman Kitchin, the new majori- ty leader, is not only opposed to in creasing army or navy expenditures
 but judging from some of his inter- views, he regards all tendency to- ward national security as nothing less than "frightfulness.' He, like MT. Bryan, has dhe talking habit,
 and like the peace-at-any- price cham
 pion, may prove to be very much of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
St. Louis Pulling Hard

Both Chicago and St. Louis are push- ing their bids the best they know how Tor the two big onventions-democrati lie and republican-and if both conventions cannot be secured each city will be glad to land one of them" said w. P Thorn ton Of the Missouri metropolis
 T am democrat and am especially desirous or having the renomination of President Wilson occur in our city. have attended two democratic conventions as looker-on-St. Louis in 1888 and Chi cago in 1892. I was not old enough to vote in 1888, but was old enough to en- joy the proceedings. President Cleveland was renominated by exclamation.
 From a commercial point of view the republican convention next year will bring better results to the host city than would the democratic. The latter, if MT. Wilson is to be the only candidate-and he will be-will hardly be in session more than three or four days, whereas the re- publicans with a number of candidates wrangling, will remain in session 10 days or two weeks.
 ''St. Louis is pulling for both the con- ventions."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
Alabama's Modern Farming

Since Alabama has made start iii crop diversification on a large scale the question of marketing will have consideration.
 In order for the farmer to realize good profits on certain products, such as fruits and vegetables, marketing associations meet the conditions, but the problem of disposing of grain crops, where the yield is far in ex- cess of the ordinary farm demand, is best solved by raising more hogs and cattle. There is never any diff ficulty in selling live stock, and espe- cially fine beef cattle, such as can be produced in this state.
 Andalusia, in building large and modern packing house, has set an ex- ample that should be followed iii many other localities. There should be scores of packing houses in Ala bama, where the farmer could dis pose of his hogs and cattle and get top profits.
 As large as Alabama's corn crop was this year it should be much larger in 1916 The cotton acreage will be kept down for two reasons the boil weevil and the insistence of the bankers on an increase in the food crops. The day when cotton was the only money crop is passing. There is profit in grain even when the farm CT does no more than keep money at home that had formerly been sent out of the state to pay for foodstuff. But with proper diversification he will find direct profit in everything he raises.
 With many farmers in northern Alabama cotton is now the surplus crop. It should be so in every part of the state.
 Let diversification be extended and good roads building be continued and Alabama will soon be one of the richest states in the union.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
Jere King on Western cftie.

T am proud of Birmingham and Ala bama, my native state, and always speak a good word for them when I can,' said Jere c. King, who has re- turned from California for short visit much improved in health. But we have a good way to go before we reach the class of some of the western cities in civic progress.
 "The only way I can account for it is the fact that they have so much more money than we have. While we have a good deal of carping and crit icism and lack of harmony among our selves we would probably be different if we had more money to work with.
 Take Salt Lake City for example, which has about 100, 1000 people. It's streets are absolutely spotless, its parks are ideal, it's trees and shrubbery look like pictures and it's combined city and county building is a work of art. Of course we are accustomed to sheer a little when we think of Mormons. but Salt Lake City shows they can teach us whole lot of things
 'I saw towns of 5000 or 5000 people in the west which had school buildings equal to anything we have in Birming- ham. What is it that makes that coun- try so progressive? Is it simply be- cause they have more money or is there something else that we lacll?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
DOORMAN NOT TO BLAME

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 You are no gentleman pr. Mary Walker had just told the doorman at the Hotel Astor when he refused her admit tance to the suffrage convention. He was about to respond in similar language because the doc had announced herself in staccato indignation. when the door was opened and she was rescued by one of the delegates. Dr. Mary had just se- creted her high silk hat and mink tippete in the lady's dressing room, ascertained that the crease in her trouser leg was straight, gently tiptoed to the dor when the doorkeeper, after a survey, said brief iy, No men," pr. Mary's tones at this salutation bored their way straight through the panels of the door. Agitated delegates rushed to, the hall to still the tumult and the advocate of bifurcations was admitted as compromise with a riot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
A CITy,s FACE

From the Kansas City Star.
 American cities are getting to be com petitors for population. When one city 1t isn't accidental. The city that grows, makes its increase because it has attrac- tions and advantages that the stagnant city lacks
 Writing to the Springfield Republican urging monumental bridge across the Connecticut river as part of city group of structures, Gerald Stanley Lee says: Springfield cannot be a great city and draw people to her without face. It is as impracticabie, expensive and visionary for Springfield to try to attract people, to make herself known to people without the citys having a face to look them in the eye with, as it would be for 8 man to try to make himself known to people to do business with people, without a face. We have enough dull gray faceless out expressing it and without looking it, without some one big, noble smybol to fling up on the sky of the glory and the hope of the people,
 That is the idea that is inspiring city builders these days. A city must be dis tinctive. It must have a face. No city in the country has such an opportunity to have a distinctive face to turn toward all the world as Kansas City has in the Union station with adequate surround ings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
A PRAYER FOR THE PEOPLE

Percy Mackaye in"The Present How
 Macmillan Company. God of us who kill our kind Master of this blood-tracked mind Which from wolf and Calban Staggers toward the star of man Now, on thy cathedral stair, God, we cry to Thee m Prayer. Where our stifled anguish bleeds Strangling through thine organ reeds, Where our voiceless songs suspire From the corpses in thy choir Through thy charred and shattered nave God. we cry on Thee to save. Save us from our tribal gods! From the racial powers, whose rods Wreathed with stinging serpents, stir Odin and old Jupiter From their ancient heis of hate To Invade thy dawnisig state. Lord. our God. to whom, from clay, Blood aud mire, Thy peoples pray Not from Thy cathedraTs stair Thou nearest Thou cfiest through oul
 prayer.
 For our prayer is but the gate; We. who pray, ourselves are fate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
HOTEL LOBRIES
Personnel of Ford Party

Tn numbers Henry Ford's peace ex- cursion party met expectations, but in personnel it is weak, only very few men of prominence being aboard the steamer Oscar IT," remarked Samuel J. Metcalf of Chicago.
 Tn looking over the published lists, I recognized only two names of real dis tinction-the Rev. pr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and the Rev. pr. Charles Aked, and Dr. Aked came near being left. He struck the gangway just as the ship was about 10 drift out into the harbor He was out Of breath from running and to add to the excitement the noted divine had to drag his trunk along with him, there being no porter in sight. Another of MT. Ford s guests who barely got aboard was Colonel Henry, newspaper publisher of Jack son, Miss
 Mr. Ford likes the spotlight and he chose spectacular means of getting in It. The war will end some day, maybe this winter, but not as the result of any movement such as MT. Ford has origi- mated. This is simply fine junket at MT. tord S expense Rediculous as it is, how ever, it can do no harm. I do not agree with Colonel Roosevelt when he spoke of 1t as altogether discreditable to this coun- try"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
Infantry Still Supreme

The foot soldier, the fighting man, whether he is armed with modern high-power rifle, a hand grenade, or a dagger in one hand and a bomb in the other, as the Paris "Apaches" are said to be armed when they sweep" trench, is still the indispensable factor in military operations on land.
 The present war has developed many methods of fighting which by reason of their novelty and spectacu- lar features have occupied a promi- nent place in the reports published in our newspapers" says the Infantry Journal. Many new means of attack and defense have been developed, and as one implement develops power, a counter agency to combat it is de- signed, just as we have seen the con- test between armor plate and gun power continue year after year with first one in the lead and then the other. The answer to the concrete fort is the 16-inch howitzer; to the wire entanglement and the easement, the shell; to the battleship, the sub marine: to the submarine, the wire net and the destroyer; and So on ad infinitum."
 WThe new devices of warface have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
WHAT TEETH CAN DO

From the New York Telegram.
 Lack of care of the mouth is prejudicial to the health of children as well as adults. decaying tooth is always a menace, and especially when the decaying process reaches below the gums, produc- ing alterations, pyorrhoea, etc, which, being difficult of access for treatment, are always to be regarded as dangerous
 Aside from the pain and suffering which these diseases of the teeth produce, the possibility of direct infection must not be overlooked.
 So-called blood poisoning and death have been frequent results from diseased teeth. Some forms of infiammatory rheu- matism are believed to De caused by the infection of pyorrhoea, and in general the health is injured in proportion as the teeth are affected.
 Inflammation of the lining membranes and muscular flores of the heart, chronic enlargements of the joints, acute and chronic inflammation of the kidneys, ton silitis, goitre and even diabetes have all been traced directly to diseased teeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-06
TREASURE ISLAND" STAGED

suite of the newest and biggest hotel in the world, but all the joy in the book has never been yours if you never read it in the country with the wind rattling the windows and playing tricks with the old oil lamp on the table beside your bed. MT. Hopkins playhouse has the very att mosphere and so has his production. An evening spent with it is evidence enough that it was just about time a good, pie turesque, colorful, oathful, costume melo- drama made it's appearance on Broadway. The scenes are too numerous but some of them are jolly sights The Admiral Benbow, the quay at Bristol where Long John Silver, that soft-spoken rogue, had his Spyglass inn; the cave with the sight of the sea at the mouth and the gleam of the pieces of eight in the corner; the cove where Jim finds the marooned pi- rate, hungering for a bit of cheese. and then the sight of the Hispaniola adrift- stirring dormant memories of ''Ben Hur'' these are stage pictures very good to look upon.
 And the acting. Some of it is exceed- ingly good. First place belongs to Ed ward Emery, now in his second season with MT. Hopkins and quite distinguish ing himself by his genial hypocrisy of manner as John Silver and to Frank Sylvester. who has the stage for only few moments as Pew. but who makes every moment count. Mr. Sylevester's is singularly vivid performance a most excellent piece of work. Then there is Mrs. Hopkins, slim, youthful and alto gether satisfactory as Jim Hawkins, the hero of the great adventure.
 There must be honorable mention, too for Tim Murphy, who plays Bill Bone with touch of brogue and a deal O ghsto; for Oswald Yorlxe who Is capita as Black Dog; for the veteran w. J Ferguson, who makes much of little; fo Leonard Wiley, and for Alice Belmore Mr. Hopkins lets the rich opportunities O. Ben Gum escape him, but let it be said to his credit that he, as general boss oi the Punch & Judy, has been content t, submerge himself in an inconspicuous role. M
 And then there is Cap'n Flint. No the spectre of the old pirate stalking tn, island where his rich gold lay, but Cap'I Flint, the parrot This enormously i'm portant part is brilliantly played by , fine Brazilian macaw, as handsome bird as ever came north of the equator Capn Flint rides about on Long Jim'I shoulder, now and then bending down if whispering villainous nothings to tha smooth -tongued worthy. Capn Flint has a thinking part, but he spreads his wing with great virtuosity; he squawks a bii as if ever about to chant, Pieces q eight, pieces of eight and, generally, hi is a gorgeous spot in that wealth of cold which is Treasure Island"