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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-25
AmuSenaentS
POLI'S

Tonight affords a final opportunity to Brfdgeporters to see B. A. Rolfe beautiful musical comedy offering, .sThe Fashion Plates which has been the headline feature of an all-star proA gram that has packed Polls the first three days Of the week. The offering is the best of all eRolfef acts
 Andy Toombs, a versatile comedian, and Lola Wentworth, q dainty bit of feuaininity, are in the leading roles and are supported by a big cast and beauty chorus. The gowns and hn- gerie displayed are the envy of every woman in the audience.
 Another RoIfe feature is thead1ined in the photoplay program. It is q five part feature, When a Woman 1ovess and stars Emmy Wehlen, the talented Viennese actress, and a big support ing cast It is full Of human interest and Is superb in dramatic construction and photography.
 Other features are: Crawford & Rroderic4z,> in songs and dances; Burns R Kinan, in 9 Iaughable nonsense act; Weir & Mack, in a comedy p1ayIet; and Emile Sisters. aerial sensation alists.
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Feel Young Again CERTILAX CThe Certified
 Laxative).

Beware of the habit of nstipation. Coax the overw orked bowel muscles back to normal action with CERTI- LAX, '.the certain laxative" It is the favorite prescription of an eminent New York City specialist, selected by live hundred physicians, who have tried out thousands of laxatives- and decided upon CERTILAx as the best They believe in gentIeness, persisten- cy. and Natures assistance. CERTI- LAX opens the bowels; their action Is gentle yet positive, never accom- panied by gripping or pain. One at night will give positive relief. GER TII.Ax IS FOR SALE AT ALL DRUG STORES, or will be-sent direct upon receipt of price. CURTIS CHEMICAL GO. IF D. 24th St., NEW YORK, PRICE. 19c, 25c. 56c. One at night makes you right.
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From Bat Boy To
 Backstop; or, Hank x
 Gowdy's Triumph

| 2 Gather about. children, and we will tell you aA true story, entitled, From Bat Boy to Backstops or, Hank Gowdy's Triumph. This tale teaches us that the harder they fall the higher they bounce, and other useful moral lessons.
 It was a quarter of a century ago
 Monday since the stork visited the Gowdy home at Columbus, O., to de- liver a male child. In the course of time this youngsker was christened Henry and sprouted red hair on his cranial appendage. He grew into A big, upstanding youth, and while still in his teens lowered six feet into the atmosphere. He early became ad- dicted to baseball and one of the proudest moments of his life was when he made his debut on the base ball yard of the Columbus American Association club in the capacity of of f1cia1 bat boy.
 Hank-as he came to be called was inordinately. proud of his job, as we'll he might be, since it made him the envy of all his companions, but when the novelty wore off he aspired to something higher During. his ser vice as bat hoy and in playing ball on the Columbus lots he gained consider able f1nesse in the national pastime
 and at the age of eighteen he enter ed the professional ranks as a mem Der of the Lancaster club of the Ohio State League. Hank was then a first baSeman,, and a very good one, for h remained with Lancaster only a cou- pie of seasons before he was called up higher. Hanks next berth was with Dallas, in the Texas League, and ever since he has been called a Texan, aI- though he did not remain long in the Lone Star State A big 1ong-faceds long -limbed, rather gawkyI sorrel- matched kid,s he looked like a living picture of the effete Fasteners con- Eception of 9 wild and woody Texan.
 Hank had been with Dallas only a few months when he attracted the att tention of lawn McGraw. He was
 given a. try-out with the Giants, but the Polo Grounds fans did not take
 kindly to him He was too slow of I hoof to shine on first base, and in
 July, 1911. McGraw swapped him to Boston for Charley Herzog.
 Manager StalIings had an idea that Gowdy might develop into a good
 catcher, aud he sent him to Buffalo to break in as a backstop. Hank wasn't slow in proving that he had the goods. and the Giant cast-off
 quickly developed into one of the sen-
 sations of the International League It was the Feds who gave Gowdy a chance to break into the Hme1ight as a worlds series hero. Rariden and Whaling were the Boston catchers in 1913, and, if the Feds hadn't hurled
 Rariden away, it is unlikely that Hank would have been given much Of a | chance with the Braves last veal
 With Rarfden absent from the lineup, Cowdy was recalled and made such a
 showing that he soon became the reg
 u1ar man behind the bat.
 I Anpthers Boston played who ce1e-
 brated his birthday yesterday is Harry B. Hooper the Red Sox olItfielder who was born at Santa Clara, Cal, August 24, 1887. Hooper first played
 ball with a college club in his native town. He became a professional in 1907, when he joined the Oakland club [ as a pitcher. Later in the season he
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CONNECTICUT MAN HAD UNDERSEA BOAT
 WAY BACK IN l777
simon Lake Not Only Con necticut Apostle of Sub
 marine Vessels.

simon Lake, pioneer in modern submarine construction, is not the first Connecticut inventor to make actual use of undersea contrdvances for warfare purposes. A. H. Ross of Newark, N. J., in an interesting let ter to the New York Evening Post, points out that shortly after the United States declared independence from Great Britain, there was a Yankee inventor with a, submarine vessel used to blow up hostile ships. The Jetter follows:
 Sir-In Saturdays issue of August IA claim is made that the 'Cenfed- crates used the first undersea boat" This same claim was made by a cor respondent in the New York Times October IA 1914 In Volume of Jno. R. Spears History of the Unit- ed States Navy, the credit of the first submarine is given to David Bush7 tor who devised, in 17T7, turtle shaped affair, carrying 150 pounds of powder. with mechanism to fire same when in contact with a ships bottom. A letter of October 1787, to Thomas Jefferson describes in detail this in Tention. a copy Of which appears in Spears. history This sundersea boat was handled by Ezra Lee. in New Yor1s harbor, against the 64-gan Ship of Enaland MacClay, in his first volume. History of the Navy. men tions that a citizen of Connecticut invented Submarine which nearly succeeded in blowing up the British frfgate Families. The United States navy refusing to adopt then this method Of warfare. experiments of this pa atsaEes NegEe sanBa ken by individuals. a practice in vogue even allowing vessels to be fitted Out as privateers, the case of John Paul Jones being a notable instance.
 Unlike the Confederate submarine, more damaging to themselves than the enemy, BushnelIs s invention Acre- ated only injury to the British. The concealed torpedo, as stated in Scarns History of the Confederate Navy. destroyed 40 United States vessels giving the name of each. Bushnell also invented a naineAlayer which did some damage to a British vessel Despairing Of recognition by the government, he gave up his work of destructive submarines. returning to the peaceful life of a teacher.
 A H Floss.
 Newark N. J.. August IT.
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CELERY PLANTS
 15c Per dozen EOHN RICK S SON
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Fred Mitchell Helped To Make Braves
 World Champions

When the Boston Braves breezed home ahead of all the other National League clubs last year, and then cork ed the climax by taking four straight the fans were of the opinion that a miracle had been pulled off, and they gave the credit to StaIIings and Trojan John. While the. bouquets were being passed around. however, a big one should have. been handed to a fellow by the name ofsYapp. The mem bers of the Boston club, if not the general public, fully realized that MT. Yapp had been Invaluable in building up the Braves and. if he didn't get many plaudits, Yapp at least got his full share ofFthe worlds series swag,
 For the benefit of those not familiar with the remarkable career of MT. Yapp, it may be explained that he was born thirty-six years ago today in Alton, Mass. When he, broke into baseball with Concord, N. H., away back in ancientA history, he decided that Yapp wasn't a name likely to long survive the jibes and jeers of the scribes and fans, and wisely changed his monaker to Fred Mitchell.
 Fred started his career as a pitcher, and in 1898 he was good enough to get a job with Lawrence, in the New Eng land League. He was the star twir1er of the circuit, and soon landed a major league JoD WlIn the Boston Nat1Onal League. club. In 1901. when Ban Johnson put an American League club in Boston, Mitchell switched his allegiance to the-Red Sox The next year he was with Connie Macl's bril- gade. He then returned to the Ma tiona1 League and for four years wore the uniform of the PhiIIies
 Mitchel1's- big league career seemed over in 1906. when he slipped back into the minors, going to Toronto, in the InternatienaI League. Gradually he1ost his speed and curve, and it was rapidly becoming evident that Mitchell was about all in as a twirler, when he suddenly flashed into fame as a catcher Fred's work as a backstop with the Toronto club was so good that he was soon recalled to the
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Superb PhotopIays
At the Park Theatre '

T . f
 At the Park Theatre 'to-
 night Selwyn & CO, the
 managerial firm that is fam
 ous for launching Within the Law and 'rUnder Cover
 will present here their laugh
 ter festival, Twin Beds,'' a
 ton of a certain familiar phase of modern metropoli- | tan life by Salisbury Field I and Margaret Mayo. author
 of Baby Mine.'' j. Irwin Beds which has the en- dorsement of being as clean as it is~funny, has just com pIeted a record run of fifty two weeks at the Harris Theatre in New, York where it easily took rank as the most popular laughing enter tainment offered to the e4act- ing Broadway playgoers in many a season. The story of Twin Beds' has to do with the adventures Of three vivid ,ly contrasted types of married couples who are neighbors in one of the fashionable tall apartment houses h a aDOuno III the larger sc1I1eS.- As one of the newspaper critics wrote, Twin Beds is one long, lingering laugh
 Because of it's great vogue in New York, Twin Bedsn goes to Boston late in August to begin a run scheduled to. keep the play ih the Massachusetts metropolis until after the ho1- z idays and local play-loyers are particularly fortunate in having the opportunity to see here the now famous original cast which Broadway praised for a whole year and which includes such favorites as Madge Kennedy, Ray Cox, John West1ey, Leo Carril1o, John Cumberland, Alice John and Jane Seymour. at
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-25

with their fathers, Anot at cross-pur- poses and against them.
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was with Sacramento, playing in the outfeld. He remained with Sacra- mento until the close of the 1908 sea- son, when he was taken over by the Red Sox, and the following year be- came regular in the outer garden.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-25

, Lieut.. Robert ?. Merrill, of the U. s. S. Tonopah, has invented a device for raising to the surface a submarine that has become disabled while sub merged
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-25

Japan is acquiring u1ucf1Sof the trade in China formerly held By the United States. Japanese competition is driv- ing American cotton goods from the Oriental markets.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-25

H. c. Slack of Boston, closed con- tract for 100000 high explosive shells and placed the order with two New England manufacturers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-25
PETER JOSEPH ALLEN
 VS. EMMA SNOW ALLEN.

 STATE OF CONNECTICUT, FAIRFIELD COUNTY, s., SUPERIOR COURT
 Bridgeport, Aug. 2s, A. D., 1915 Upon the complaint of the said Re- ter Joseph Allen praying, for reasons therein set forth, for divorce, re- turnable to the Superior Court, in and for Fairfield County, on the first Tuesday of September, 1915
 It appearing to and being found by the subscribing authority that the said defendant is absent from this state and. gone to parts unknown \ Therefore Ordered. that notice of the pendency of said complaint be given by publishing this order in the Bridgeport Evening Farmer, a news paper printed in Bridgeport, three times successively. recommending on or before the 18th day of August, A. D., 1915.
 FRED W. TRACY, Assistant Clerk of the Superior Court for Fairfield County.
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SCHOOL FOR DISCoNTENTs.

A School for Discontents" has
lately been opened in Kansas city,
Mo-, and is receiving the approval
of the educators Of other cities who
have been noticing its work. 1t is
based upon the principle that chill
dren are likely to be contented in
school II they are given work that M
terests them. The ordinary course of
study sometimes fails to do this.
Any child in Kansas City who mas
passed the fifth grade in the regular
school and Is discontented can De
transferred to the .Latnrop school,
where he will have his energies en-
gagged in some practical manner by
pre-vocational work of the kind which
he himself prefers.
Boys are taught shop work, pattern
making and carpentry. Girls are
taught cooking, sewing, millinery and
embroidery, with special provisions 10
meet individual need and DESIRES
The boys receive instruction in ma
thematics as .shop arithmetic" they
learn correct English as Commercial
EXPRESSION" and geography by the sSi-
dent need in their work Of securing
some knowledge Of the sources of the
supply for their different materials.
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An Evening Echo.
Make not of thy heart a casket
Opening seldom, quick to close;
s3ut Of bread a wide-moutned basket
or a cup that overfiows.
-GEoRGE MACDONALD.
.Aln Eyening Echo.
The "Bloody Shirt. /"

After declaring that 1t would not
admit that :.Jeff% Davis was wrong
I'm his views of accession. and waving
the bloody shirt more or less fifty
years after the Civil war, the Expo
nett says the children of the South
should be taught these things, or
sseise in years 10 come our children
may actually become ashamed of the
Cohfederate solder
The inference is that the bloody
shirt must continue to wave in or
der to keep alive o sentiment and
~ cause long since admitted by all
men except the provincial and the
selhsh-minded as an unrighteous
one.
The exc Confederate soldier doubt
less was a very good warrior. but
his cause was not such as to be en-
during, and it certainly is much out
ot place at this late day to come to its
defense, even IL it "a in the round
about way OF try.ps 10 izolize men
who would have been executed in
any other country than our own.
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tween wtiiskey kisses and those Of
her clean-shaven policeman.
At the thirteenth door he recoliect-
ed himself a studious lad be twelve,
hammering his younger sisters NM
gertips to see Il the impact on the
fed cries.
At the ninth floor he saw himself.
aged two, but always the student. be-
ginning his famous researches BY
squirting milk through the spaces Of
his front teeth.
II only there were enough floors. .
thought Professor Passit regretfuIly.
II might remember experiences IN q
former incarnation. (Suddenly) oh.
! have taken no measures to soften
my fall. My experiment will come to
naught! Help! Help /.
Alas. 1t gas too late.
(The end.)
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!; TIE. sEARGHLIGHT
--latest News rsom thu Fields Of
vAntton.
BEAUMONT.

beaumont, Texas, occupies the spot
light of the nation for brief span in
the beginning Of this century for there
were encountered some Of the most
spectacularly productive oil wells that
has ever drilled.
The oil we'll that threw its column
in the air and seemed inexhaustibie,
the gusher, was then comparatively
new things. Beaumont was one Of the
first great oil finds in the south and on
its Spindle Top wells were sunk ON
every ten feet square and al became
producers. But with so many vents .he
supply soon ran out and today Spindle
Toy stands as monument OF past
gories. its hundreds of tall, skeleton
derricks passing into decay.
By the side OF the town creeps the
Neches river a bayou grown large,
fringed by tall jungle growth made
solemn by .he long boards OF moss 1t
wears. Thirty miles away is the Gulf
OF Mexico and the region between Is
semi-marsh, formerly scorned but now
yielding rich haryests of rice. Across
its endless flats stretch ribbons OF
railway tina. lead to New Orleans and
to Houston. Back Of 1t are lowland
forests of pines and cyprus and these
yield logs for It's mills and Single
factories.
Planted here in the wilderness Beau
mont presents to the visitor prospect
of Heterogeneous, red brick buildings
laid out in geometric squares with the
railroad tracks running down the
middle of the town with the ,clamor
OF bells and the odor Of coal smoke.
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The Philippines Also.

That President Wilson's obst.nacy
x and overbearing self-contidence are
sowing the wind from which this
4 country will reap the whirlwind in
the Philippines is the solemn warn
Aane of rex president Taft, Republican
though he Is, Judge Taft has Loyalty
upheld the hands of President Wilson
wherever he conscientiously could
and has even plagued some OF a:z
more partisan Republican friends by
q his praise of the present occupant OF
the White House.
But regarding the Philippines Mr.
TAFT speaks on the subject doubtfess
nearest his heart and of which he is
rtost competen. to speak and his de-
snunciation OF sGoyernor-G General Ear
rison OF the extent to which this adj
4 ADMINISTRATION is corrupting the Philip
pine civil service and setting bad
e1&mple to the people we have un-
fdertaken to train in the art OF self
4 government, should not fall on deaf
4 ears Mr.. Taft warns the people of
i the United States that the administra,-
ton is creating another Mexican situ-
alton.
The Philippines are SO far away
that only those estecially competent
to Judge Of conditions there, or who
4 have SPECIAL advantages of obtaining
information are likely to know the
facts unless. and until, there Is some
violent outbreak, but terrible retribu-
tfon will await the administration
4 which deliberately, or at least indif-
x fefanfly. creates in our far-Off de-
tendency the same anarchy which II
has SO successfully promoted In
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Professor Please Passit, that rare
thing. man OF action as well as q
dreamer, was about to prove his con-
tention that falling man actually
Is entertained on his way down by a
mental panorama of his past life.
Taking a long breath he dropped
from the twenty-s.xth story Of the
Cottonworth building. Tf.> result
exceeded his fondest expectations.
At the eighteenth floor he saw
himself as a young man OF forty,
purely kissing his wffe,s maid, and
taking down her impressions, in the
way Of science. of the differences be-
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Hon 70 Absorb al
LNlo Comp aim

-
The face Nhich - admired forit beauty
MuEk nave - eattn- smooth skin rick and
white ana youthful looking. 1iie only
compiexicn out OF an aged, faded. or dis
co.ored one-1 mean natural. NOT a
palnte1 eo9piexion-ip ordinary daercol-
orally absorbs the unsightly ciiticih. 8 iittie
Each d q he flser. healthy, girllah ekin
nsneAth GrednaIU beeping bit until NTH
N; N e weak Or 50 II is wholly ID evidence.
OK course such blemi4hes as frecfles, moth
pAte1as. LIVER ap1tx blotches and plmples
arr niecAfded with tho old siktn. n you
VIII procure an ounce Of mercoitzed wax
night wpShinE this OF inoFuIngf. you'll
ma u q Hetttable Wonder worRef.
Another valuable natural treatment is q
.SM NJ ~ i4!on g remove Wrinkles which can
dered saxoEte m y pit. witch hazel. HNthe
the face II. this and you'll ind Il works
IKE magic. ~ Phyllis Loore II To4rp Tdlk
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TIE Mexican Middle.


Like bread cast upon the waters, the
lbau1ders OF this administration in its
dealings with Mexico are coming back
after many days, and their conse-
quences arc dire in the extreme.
anarchy prevails in that unfortunate
republic, and so spineless and incon-
Efbsent has been Mr.. Wilson's policy
that many Mexicans nave come to
believe that they can with safety in
v&de the United States and that the
h1tsd "Gr.nsoes" will prove too COW
ardly TO strike hack. All along the
border are occurring raids by por-
stt0ns OF Carranza's army and tina! old
1Andit chieftain has thus far treated
the aast solemn petition OF. this gov
Stnn1ent only with supreme con-
tempt.
Turning o deaf ear to all advice
and with an ob:inacy almost incred-
Idle, Mr.. Wilson refuses to restore
the embargo on arms and ammuni-
Stion, despite the fact that already
the weapons supplied by the United
StAtes are bong turned on American
bldiers and many have been killed
INA wounded. Within thirty days
900 rounds of ammunition have
n66sSd into Mexico through the single
16ft 81 Brownsville, and the people
Hlcng the border and in state OF
fstfor. The greatest suffering con
tlntAs in the interior and no woman
Il safe from the fiends whom, agains;
an SSfhpetAnt advice Woodrow Wilson
las persisted In regarding as benefac-
tors and libefators of the race.
me sevcrest and the most just ar
= fknment of President Wilson'S course
it1 rcEardtto Merico has been pen
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VI
ned by his friend and fellow Demo
crat, Col. George Harvey and appears
~ an editorial in the North Amer
lean Review" for September. Colonel
Harvey reiterates his warning Of six
teen months ago. when addressing the
president. he said: Persistence In q
course which you must know 10 DC
wrong will be attributed to no kind
Iof rens0aing whatever, but to your
own stubborn pride" And again he
says: The crux OF the presidents
blunderins is to + found in his mis-
conception OF his own functions Inn
pressed by his nnprecedentedly quick
elevation from a college professor
ship to the most exalted political posi-
ton on earth, convinced OF the popu-
lari.y OF the hazy theories whose fas-
chatting articulation had charmed the
people. flushed by mis- successes in sub
originating co-ordinate branch Of Tho
government to his own will. isolated
and feared, he unconsciously, but
inevitably, assumed the attitude OF
ono divine1y appointed to conserve
humanity in new and striking ways
and forgot for the moment that he
was quito faliible and far from
onnipotent being who In reality lad
only been elected president Of the
United States. charged with the per-
formance Of certain official tasks spe-
cifically defined by fundamental laws .
In view of the fact that it was
Colonel Harvey who, probably more
than any other man, was responsible
for making Woodrow Wilson pres
ident, this criticism Is as pertinent
as 1t Is unprecedented.
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Hair Made Curly !
InSirgle Night
tWonan's Tribune. ]

It has been discovered that the. appll-
straight hair curly and wavy In a single
night Also IT acts as a. perfectly harm.
less hair beautifier and dressing. It has
the peculiar quality OF drying In pretty
waves, swirls and creases.
Straight, laniSy hair and the cruel CURL
Ing iron are no longer necessary. Any
druggist OF course can supply you with q
Il is neither sticky nor greasy, but very
pleasant to use. Apply to the, hair at
bedtime with a clean tooth brush. In
tiful and have O most natural curl and
waviness.