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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

ley of .Stepney.
 The lawn fete given at B. s. Hurd's s last "Wednesday evening foC the bene- fit of Harmony grange was a great success, nearly $1OO being realized. Watch for the grand grange fair at Monroe center the latter part of Sep tenber.
 Miss. Nellie Osborne who has been at Woodmont for a couple of weeks, is expected home this week.
 Selectnan George s. Hawley and School Committeeman Edwin c. Shel- ton with their wives motoraed to Hart ford last, Tuesday on business con nected with their respective offices.
 Mrs. Fife Hubbell was committed to the institution at LakevilIe last Thurs day, and her three children to the county home in Norswalk. This is a sad case and comments are heard on every side.
 "A church fair will be. given at the home of Samuel B. Hurd on Friday, Sept 8 under the auspices of the ladies of St. Peters church. The young ladies in charge, Misses Smith and Habersham have planned many attractions, and it is hoped a large audience will be present to enjoy them.
 The Huntington Agricultural society will hold a three days fair Sept. Is. 15 and 1T and the premium lists are now being distributed
 Samuel B. Hurd has been having another siIo erected.
 Mrs. Lewis Thompson and son. Will liam, spent the week end with rela- tives in Bridgeport. &
 Everett Clark and wife have moved into the bungalow of Alfred s. Ed war ds, where he has a position as caretaker on the farm of MT. Edwards. Elmer H. Wakelee returned home Sunday after 8 six weeks stay at the Galen hospital, where he underwent a serious operation.
 The registrars of voters will be in session at the Town hall, Thursday, Oct. 16 from until 5 for the purpose of receiving lists of names of those eligible to be made electors who wish to participate in the coming election in October.
 Services will be resumed at St. Peters church Sunday. after a months vacation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
Experience of Tommy Atkins on Continent
 Is Liberal Education

London, Sept 3-Englishnen dis cuss perhaps more frequently than any other war subject the question,
 What influence will the experience of our soldiers in foreign countries suIar island ?'' These soldiers. con- stituting big proportion of the male population of the nation, will re- turn after having sampled. life in Belgium, France, Egypt, India, the Dardanelles and elsewhere Tn most eases their daily intercourse with the foreign peoples is very intimate, and 8 large proportion of the soldiers who return will come back with fairly easy command of a new language. with new thoughts, and new require r1entss'
 A contributor to a small English trade paper. writing from the front, says:
 ] tsI am under the impression that when Tommy comes marching home again he will expect lots of things he had not been used to before he began to travel on the Continent. And not only in the way of food; with regard to drink he will have got so out of the habit of standing up for his refreshment that he will insist on and only patronize those public houses that give him little tables to Slt round and chairs to sit on.
 "I notice him through the open windows and doors of the places in which he takes his ease, and it is ex- dinary how quickly he has picked up the foreign fashion of discussing his liquors. and has got out of the habit
 of boiling them, wiping his mouth, l and coming out all in five minutes
 Which is a, capital thing, and I hope l that in the peaceful years ahead our English publicans will see to it that temperance is served and pleasant
 company secured by adopting the
 cafe system our Tomnnies have dropped into so naturally
 Touching on the same subject the Daily Telegraph says: .-Yesterday
 these soldiers were just ordinary ci- vflians, perhaps ga trihe narrow in their outlook; tomorrow they will be
 men who have seen grim things, ac-
 quired strange Knowledge, and learnt I in the school of experience just what is wrong with things as we do them
 They will probably retain through : out their lives a suggestion of the
 newly-gained discipline of mind and body, a respect for order in their will not reveal themselves at once for at first everything homelike will
 be welcomed, but in course of time 1 they may be expected to review their | experiences and bring their freshly acquired knowledge to bear on the | old conditions in their native land 'i
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
CASUALTIES IN THE
 PRESENT GREAT WAR
(Arn1y and Navy Journal. )

So much that is unquestionably ex- aggerated is being said about the terrible loss of 1ife'' in this war that it may perhaps be worth while to look at this question from another viewpoint than that of hysteria. We have heard much about this nation and that nation having lost million men already in the war. But this is little or no better than guess work.
 Has not history shown that as weap- ons become deadly the casualties are
 proportionateIy less? There is no reason to believe that the ratio of killed to the number of men on the
 dring line during the long series of engagements, which before this war had been steadily decreasing in pro- portion to the increase in ead1iness of firearms, is rising under the in- duence of this great conflict. As the first wild reports of the early days of the war have become tempered by thhe considerations of campaigns monotony, it is beginning to be seen that the accounts of enormous losses have been largely due to inability to draw the line between 9 large loss of men at one point and a lack of cas- ualties for many days along other parts of the front Prof. R. M, John ston of Harvard University, whose
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

Dick have sold to Elizabeth R. Re chel1e their property at the Center consisted of a dwelling and about 60 acres. The price, according to re- port, was about $2,5o0. The pur- chaser is the owner and occupant of the former Thomas Sanford place and it is conjectured that she has bought the Hes property for a friend.
 pr. Smith, as medical examiner for the county coroner, was called up on Tuesday to investigate the case of Mrs. Roxanna Murphy who was found dead in bed on Monday evening at the home of her son in Hometown. Her age was 82 and she had been mentally deranged and physically en- feebled for several years although able to walk about the premises on the day of her death. The examiners finding was that she had received proper care and that death was due to Bright's disease
 With the porch of E. P. Sanford s store at West Bedding as the stage the dramatic talent of Bedding Grange gave on Tuesday evening, a very successful performance of The Village Schoo1maIan" before an open air audience of nearly 200. As two scenes of the production call for a country store background the condi- tioRs of realistic scenic requirement were very happily met. In an artis- tic way the Grange players have nev- CT done bettr,
 Several cows belonging to A: D. Bartram of Lonetown scaled fences last week and gained access to Mail Carrier Charles Wards corn field where they proceeded to eat their fill. A few hours thereafter one of the cows died, a victim to gluttony and acute indigestion.
 For the coming year transportation for the Ridge pupils attending the Centr schools will be paid by the town only for the two eligible for the 9th and 9th grades. These are two in number and $100 has been vot- ed by the school board for their tran sportatfon.
 The Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.,, is tearing down and removing the ten ernent in Pleasant Valley recently oc- cupfed by Henry Warton and known as the Cable place It is only one of the dozen structures the company has demolished following their prop erty purchases along the Aspetuck river.
 The. Terry sawnil1 has moved from the Higgaman tract in Pleasant Val ley to a piece of woodland below own ed by Miss Waterman.
 Hen Schoch is at Fairfield Beach this week. as guest of B. M. Bradley.
 Se1ectman Fl. s. Barnes was called to New York. last week by the death of his mother, which occurred on Wednesday. The burial took place on Saturday at Buffalo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
Ships Captured By
 British Will Have
 Hun" Tn New Names

London, Sept. 3-The British Ad- ntralty has directed that all ex-Ger- man merchant ships taken over for Admiralty use as colliers or supply ships, shall be renamed with a title having the prefix Hun to associate their names with the original owners. Seven captured steamers have al- ready been so named, as follows: Hungerford, $500 tons, formerly the Lautenfels; Hunstanton, 450O tons formerly the Werdenfels; Hunt1ey, 1,2o0 tons, formerly the Ophelia; Hunsdon, 2,900 tons, formerly the Arnfried; Huntress, 5000 tons, for merly the F'risia; Hunsgate, 3,2O0 tonss formerly the Altair; Huntsend $500 tons, formerly the Lutzow
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
HAD THAT VACATION YET?

Hundreds let The Farmer go with them as companion. You can do the same. Mailed to any address in tue United States, post age prepaid, for 12 cents a week. Phone order to 1908.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

Although modern young women claim to be interested in public affairs. they seem to spend more time studying the soda fountain list of flavers sthap they do the newspaper bulletin beaEN0
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

A large statue off Jupiter and other important archaeological discoveries were on the site of the ancient city of Cyrene, in the Baroa region, Africa.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

Two freight steamers, to cost about $1,000,000 each, will be built for the Crowell & Thurlow Steamship Go. o1 Boston, by the Newport News Ship building 6 Dry Dock Co.,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

country squires and a quaint char
acter. He had three or four large
country seats. Charborough, which is
mentioned in Domesday Book, is a
large, walled-in park containing ample
coverts for game and herds of red and
yellow deer and Indian cattle alpha
bet DraX, as he was known, also kept
emus and kangaroos, and American
turkeys and peacocks. He did not in
habit the house more than a month in
the year, in fact, it is seldom that any
one has been in residence there for a
long period. The icehouse of the man
sion is historic. having been used for
meetings in the days of William of
Orange.
Lady Dunsany, whose poodle thus
needs whole man to look after it,
was the only child of Col. Francis
Plunkett Burton. of the Coldstream
guards, After the death Of the late
Lord Dunsany, she assumed the sur
names of Erie and Drax by royal
license. Among her Drax properties is
the valuable estate south of Causar's
Camp, at Wimbledon, near London,
where she was involved, few years
ago, in dispute with the public over
their right to use footpath.
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DUKES DAUGHTER
MAKES MUNITIONS

At least two peers of the realm have
been employed in munitions factories for
sometime. and now a number of pretty
society girls are also learning to turn out
shells. etc. One of them. and one of
the contest, is Lady Mary Hamilton.
the eldest daughter of the Duke of Aber
corn. Lady Mary. who is 10. has busted
herself with several varieties of war
work since Armageddon began, but de-
clares that she finds munitions making
most interesting of all.
{ Meanwhile her noble father. the third
Duke of Abercorn. who retired from the
army u years ago. has rejoined his old
regiment, the First Life Guards. as cap
tain, the rank he held when he retired,
and is now at the front. His grace is one
of the biggest men. physically, as well
as one of the greatest mobiles in these
islands, and his choice of the Life Guards
when he entered the army is said to
have been due to his great stature. for
in any other regiment than this one OF
giants he would, his friends said. be too
conspicuous. So, into the guards the
Duke went and made himself Immensely
popular with his fellow officers who
promptly dubbed him Duke
The study of ornitholoy amounts to
a passion with this wearer of the
strawberry leaves and besides possess
ing an extensive aviary of rare birds
member of the council of the London
zoo. He. has shot big game in the
wilds of Africa, too; is clever anna
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
LORD DAyIDS ATTACKED

Probably the most talked of and
fpubllcly) best abused man Eng
land at the moment is Lord st. Davids
This in consequence of his recent
speech in the House. Of Lords, in which
he made some severe criticisms OF
British generalship in France, which
he declared had muddled every big I'M
'dertaking that had been initiated there.
He also accused the British headqua-
tiers staff of devoting undue atten-
ton to bridge, to the fair sex. and to
other distractions not tending to pro-
mote military efficiency.
Since making his protest, 1inswhich
he was backed UP ny Lord Ribbles-
dale. the brother-in-law of the prime
minister, Lord st. Davids has been at
tackled from many quarters and was
this week given the lie direct both by
Lord Derby and John Redmond, the
famous Irish leader, who has just re-
turned from the front AS a result Lord
st. Davids declared later in the House
of Lords that more had been read into
his remarks than he had intended to
convey. What he originally said. how
ever. at least on the subject of mud
die. is precisely what one hears from
practically every British officer on
leave from the front
Today IS, Lord st. Dayids is the last
man from whom one would expect
wild statements. for he has shown
himself to be one of the most astute
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teur artist, and Is considered an ex-
pert on such divers subjects as cook
ing and uniforms He was treasurer
to his majesty's household from 1908
to 1905, and was member of Parlia-
ment for the city of Londonderry from
1900 to 1918, when the death of his
father, the second duke, automa tically
elevated him to the upper house He
owns $4,000 acres, which eventually
will pass on to his little son, Lord
Hamilton, who, although an uncom-
monty favored youngster in other re-
spects, is unlucky in this one, that he
has birthday only once in, four years,
having been born on February 20 Of a
leap year.
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business men In the kingdom, and,
beginning with practically nothing, he
is now the master, OF vast fortune.
Among other things he can boast of
one of the most luxurious family trees
in the kingdom. His peerage is of
quite recent date, but the family bar
onetcy is almost as old as it can be,
dating as it does from 1921. Yet even
this is a thing of yesterday compared
with the early records of his house,
for he traces his descent from one
Cadifor as Colwyn, Lord of Lyvett,
who died in 1854, and was of the same
tribe as that Vortigern who was King
Of Britain in the fifth century and was
descended from Maximum, King OF
Britain and Emperor of Rome.
Lord ST. Davids is the eldest son of
one of those "poor but prolific par
sons" of whom Oscar Wilde joked. His
father was the Rev. Canon st. James
Erasmus Philips, twelfth baronet, who
was far richer in lineage than in purse.
and his heir was the eldest of eleven
children. Lord ST. Davids went to Ok
ford and then tried the law, being
called to the bar in 1886. Two years
later he married and has two sons, the
eldest of whom is in the Royal Horse
guards. Lord st. Davids was elected
to Parliament the first time he as
saved to be, an assemblage that also
numbered two of his brothers. All
sons Of Anak, they. were the three
tallest men in the house and their col
lective heights or length, was 10 feet
2 inches! One of these two brothers of
his lordships, Owen, the member for
Pembroke. is now, perhaps, the larg
est shipowner in the world for be-
sides being chairman Of the Royal
Mail Steam Packet company he is the
moving spirit of many other com
panies, and. just prior to the war,
bought up Sir William Nelson's line
1t was not, however. either as a
barrister or as a member of Parlia-
ment that Lord st. Davids won his
spurs and incidentally gained fame and
fortune. One mans loss is another's
gain, one mans failure is another's
success, and it was at the time of the
Barring crisis that he found his truen-
netier.
Hanging up his wig and gown he
left the prosaic dust of the temple and
went out into the world among men
who We're not engrossed with blue
paper and ink alone Phoenix like, he
rose from the Barring ashes and has
never looked back since. Thus, by the
application of business ability that
must have been innate, he laid the
foundation of his vast fortune, and
he is now the head of one of the larg-
est share investment companies in ex-
istence. He was made a baron in 1908.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
PRINCESS FACES CAMERA

Princess Victoria, the only unmar-
ried daughter of the ate ksjlg Ed
ward and Queen Alexandra, has just
been photographed for the first time
in some years. Ever since her girl
hood the princess has been exceeding
ly frail and delicate and one hears OF
her continually as undergoing treat
ment at Harrogate or some other Brit
ish spa King Edward, it is said. was
keen on making a match between this
one of his daughters and Lord Hose
berry, but the earl failed to show equal
enthusiasm for the idea. AS TACT,
the lot of the man, even be he noble,
who marries an English princess is far
from enviable, the difference in their
respective positions being insisted
upon to such an extent that the hus-
band is little more than an equerry to
his wife. This the late Duke of Fife,
who married the present Princess
Royal, discovered. to his disgust so
tits said
At Sandringham, Princess Victoria
made herself beloved by many kindnesses,
and her admirers declare that only her
delicacy of constitution has prevented
her from making herself strongly felt in
English society.
Queen Mary always ready to befriend
one whose case she knows to be deserv-
ing. has been playing fairy godmother to
a strikingly pretty French girl, who is
the daughter of the late Baroness Tais-
con. Mile. Taiscon came to London some
months back as refugee Her father
had been killed in the war her mother
and sister had died and her home was
in ruins by shell fire. The girl was found
home by Queen Mary in one of the resi-
dences on the royal estate and has been
practically adopted by her majesty.
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this picture as his best and made cop
of the original painting. The crow
princess offered $500 for this picture, bu
Miss Hughes would not part with il
Not long ago, Miss Hughes returned 1
London from Berlin, but had to leaY
practically all her belongings in Berl
and among them the picture of Lad
Hood. The crown princess is taking car
of Miss Hughes pictures for her unit
the war is over, and so the picture ths
the princess desired to buy will renaj
in her possession until then.
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DUCHESS READS THE.
PAPERSCL0SELY AND
CLIPS HER NOTICES
The Duchess of Sutherland
Keeps all Articles Writ
ten About Her
LADY MARY HAMILTON
MAKING MUNITIONS
Prefers 1t to Other War WOrk-LOrd
st. Davids Being Attacked For. "a
His Charges Against Army.
Princess Picture Taken

London. December 5-(Special.) THE
Duchess of Sutherland, who opened a
church army sale Of work In London this
week, is busy with many kinds of war
activity. like mostsof the other fair wear
srs of the strawberry leaves Previous
10 her marriage to the fortunate young
n.an who owns over 100000 acres, the
duchess was Lady Eileen Butler, eldest
laughter of the seventh Earl of Lanes
borough. The duke himself. who is Brit
ans greatest landlord, is only p. He
was married in 1912 and succeeded his
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26
Grandpa of Wolves

From the New YORK World.
Rhinelander, Wis,-The largest tim
Der woIr ever seen in the country wa
trapped by Deputy Sheriff Andrew Ar
derson near Twin Lakes.
The deputy brought the animal
body to Gagen where he had it o
display for several days. Mr.. Al
derson, who has trapped for 40 year
and has captured more wild animal
than almost any man in the state, DC
clares that he has never before see
a wolf anywhere near as large.
Weighing 119 pounds, the body meas
ured six feet from the end of the nos
to the tip of the tail. The animal wa
three feet in height, and had bee
caught in a trap before, the right for
foot having been clipped off.
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POODLES NEED A VALET

Men are wanted for Britain's forces
on land and sea. Also for Britains
poodle dogs, it seems! Ministers of the
crown from the premier down, keep on
preaching economy and yet many
prominent society folk who ought to
set good example in this matter per-
sist in ignoring these injunctions and
in lavishing money on superfluous
servants of all kinds (second and third
footmen and whatnot), and commit
ting other extravagances which, in
times like these. are little short of
criminal.
Here, for example. is an advertise
IN ent one Of many such, from this
weeks issue of a fashionable journal.
LADY requires immediately, superior
trustworthy man, % to So Ineligible
for army to take entire charge of
valuable poodle (Kent near Seven
oaksl; must thoroughly understand
dogs willing to help butler; good
wages, board. lodging; excellent ref :
erences required. Write fully. Lady
D., Charborough Park, Wareham.
/, Dorset.
Lady D." proves TO be Lady Dun
sany,. whose son, the present peer of
that title, has quite reputation as
writer of romantic prose and poetic
drama. and who is now with the Royal
Inniskilling fusiliers, though still
quartered in England. Lady Dunsany
inherited Charborough from the late
+. S. S. Erie Drax. the last of the old
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fa Their year later. His mother, Mill


cent Duchess of Sutherland, is renowned
for her phianthropic work of many kinds
and as an authoress of more than ordi-
nary talent Her Red Cross work since
the war began is too well known to need
to be recalled.
When the late duke passed away, his
youthful heir and his bride were on
tour in Egypt. A bit later an acquaint-
ance of mine was a fellow guest with
them at a fashionable hotel in Cairo.
" hen the next batch of illustrated week.
lies arrived from England, the duchess
was observed in the hotel reading room
with the entire collection in front of her,
apparently intent on mastering their con-
tents from beginning to end. Curious to
know what had interested her so greatly
some of her fellow guests subsequently
had a peep at these journals, and dis
covered with amusement that her grace
had carefully clipped out apparently for
preservation each and every paragraph
relating to herself and her distinguished
lord
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OWENS PRETTY PRoTEGE

Private dispatches from Berlin say that
her royal highness the crown princess OF
Germany is now the custodian, and will
be until the end of the war, of famous
at Of British artist, which the
Kaiser's daughter-in-'aw was previously
keenly anxious to buy.
The facts are these. Miss Alice Hughes,
daughter of the late Edward Hughes, the
distinguished English portarit painter
was in Berlin when the war broke out
She had with her there some of her
fathers pictures, among them his cele-
brated portrait of the late Viscountess
Hood, great beauty of the mid Vic
torian era. The late Mr. Hughes regarded
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-12-26

In normal times he is one of the most
ardent patrons of the turf and has a
big breeding establishment at New
market.
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