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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22
SAVING OUR BIGGEST TREES IN SEQUOIA
 NATIONAL PARK

Washington, Dec. 19-For the first time in the history of the establish nlent and preservation of America s national playgrounds in the form of forest parks a national organization has come to the aid of, the United States government. The story of how the Giant forest, which contains the largest and oldest trees in the world has been saved for the .Ameri- can people is told in the following bulletin:
 ''In the scenic heart of the Sequoia National park, the only section of the magnificent 160,000-acre playground situated in California which is at the present time accessible to motor driven and horse driven vehicles, stands a group of trees. the Sequoia Washingtoniana, known as the Giant forest, and in this forest are 67O ac1 es of ground on which grow the lofties st and most venerable things that nature has produced in the countless ages which have passed since the waters and tho earth were separated, and the greater light was placed in the heavens to rule the day.
 ''The Sequoia National park was constituted a government preserve to safeguard these very trees some of which were 2,000 years old when the Christian era dawned. But it was a preservation which did not protect, for the very acres upon which grew the finest specimens of the Sequoia Wa ashingt oniana were not purchased by the government but remained in the DOssGssiOn of private parties in Califol mia.
 Some months ago, the department of the interior, realizing that the con- stantly increasing value of timber had become rapidly growing temp tation to these owners to convert the trees into lumbar. secured from Con-
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gress an appropriation for $50,000 to purchase the coveted land. When the effort was made to buy the holdings, however, it was discovered that the owners would not part with their Sc- quoia trees except on condition that adjacent property be purchased also the supplementary lands bringing price up to $70,0O0.
 After learning from their expert appraisers that the actual market value of the timber standing on these holdings amounted to $156,000e and that the price, of $To,ooO was, there- fore, most reasonable, the depart ment secured on option on the land for six months.
 With the expiration of the option only three weeks off, and with no prospect of being able to secure the necessary additional appropriation of $20,000 from Congress during it's pre-holiday session. the department of the interior had practically lost all hope of saving these most highly prized of all trees for the American people. Tn this predicament one of the officials of the department-h name has not been made public-re- called the splendid work which has been done for number of years by the National Geographic society in stimulating public interest in the pre- servation of the nations playgrounds and in safeguarding our song birds and wild life. Why not appeal to this society, whose more than a half a million members represent every state in the Union and who would be deeply interested, individually as well as collectively in the preservation of this forest wonderland? The sug- gestion was adopted and the appeal was submitted to the societys board of managers.
 ''As was so earnestly hoped, the society's governing body immediately appreciated the exceptional oppoT- tunity which was about to be lost to the American people for all time, and realizing that never within the life time of nation could nature repro duce such trees, quickly appropriated the necessary $20.000. And thus was accor @'shed unique cooperation of great national scientific society with the national government where by one of the country's greatest scenic resources is to be presented to the American people for their per petual enjoyment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22

Moore as follows: Please accept my thanks for the little book you sent me entitled Washington as an Angler
 T am a little curious to know whether the absence of detail as to the result of his fishing is owing to bad luck, lack of toleration of fish stories at that time among anglers or to the fact that, even as to the number of fish he caught, the Father of His Country could not tell lie."
 Tn the light of MT. Moore's etate- ment that mo good fisherman was ever a bad man, and history will bear out the assertion that the best Presi- dents have been the best fishermen" il is interesting to record the names o1 the fishing Presidents.
 They. are George Washington, Mar tin Van Buren, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Willard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson. Ulysses Simpson Grant, James Abram Garfield, Chester Alan Arthur Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roose- welt and William Howard Taft. George Washington as boy and man fished in the waters of Virginia.
 
 years
 The first President was president of the Federal convention that met at Philadelphia in the summer of 1781. When the convention adjourned on July 26 not to meet again until Aug. 6 following, Washington set out for Moore Hall in order to visit his old quarters at Valley Forge.
 On Monday, July 30, he records in his diary, ''In company with MT. Gov. Morris went into the neighborhood of the Valley Forge to a Widow Moore $ a-fishing, at whose house we lodged"
 The Widow Moore" was the wife of Judge William Moore, who owned an ancient stone mansion, farm and mill in the township of Charleston, in the County of Chester, situated on the SchuylkiIl, 23 miles from Philade1- phia.
 The judge has been referred to by MT. Moore as "the most conspicuous and heroic figure in the County of Chester in his day and generation"
 On the day following, Gen. Wash ington, in his diary of July 31, says: Before breakfast I rode to the Val- ley Forge and over the whole Can torment & Works of the American army in the winter of 1777-8, and on my return to the Widow Moore's found MT. and Mrs. Dob. Morris. Spent the day there fishing sc. & lodged at the same place."
 On Friday, Aug. 3, the first Presi- dent writes: Went up to Trenton on a fishing party with Mir and Mrs Robert Morris and MT. Govr Morris Dined and lodged at Colo. Sam Og- den's--in the evening fished.''
 On the day following the General records: Tn the morning and be- tween breakfast and dinner f1shed., Dined at Gen. Dickinson's and re- turned in the evening to Colo. Os-
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breach, may be adapted the lines:

breach, may be adapted the lines:
 Such a meagre troop, such thin
 chapped starvelings. Their barking stomachs hardly could refrain
 From swallowing up the foe ere they
 had slain him."
 , But the defender of Fourt Vaux was not dangerous. Surrounded by meat rations, he was hollow as 8 drum. With 5000 bottles of mineral water piled about him like cordwoods there was not drop to drink. . It was n tdeep mouthed welcome" that h: sounded, but hoarse falsetto of min gled defiance and distress. The one mongrel was neither of form nor color gree of the gutter, which is none. No doubt he was half deaf from the dir of bombardments. Lacklustre Of eye, unkempt and soiled of coat, the dog of Fort Vaux was a true soldier of the trenches. ,esr
 To the "polius' all dogs look. alike; none is too low in degree to be taken to their hearts. Common perils and pr1Vat1OnS make all dogs conrad Besides, this one was the only Ger man holding the fort. He deserved decoration. And he had been left to perish. tool So the dog of Fort Vaux was greeted with a clamor of de- light, and then and there, as the trt- color went up, he was enlisted to serve for France until the end of the war. His captors waited upon him as if he were distinguished ally Food was set before him, and he Tapped his fill of water. He joined the mess with tail wagging joyously
 Henceforth this deserted dog will bury his bones in soil never to pass to the Germans again: he will fetch and carry for Verdun's heroes; the wounded whom he succors will be "poilus"; all his company tricks will be French, and he will be called by a French diminutive; and he will wear collar with a brass plate in- scribed "The Dog of Fort Vaux." Of course he will always march at the head of the battalion as it's mas cot.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22

den,S.' tsfi ,yH9& Gen. Washingtons fishing compan-' ions were Gouveneur Morris, called "the inspired penman of the Federal Constitution''; Robert Morris of Phil adelphia. the great fnancier of the, American Revolution; Mrs. Robert
 Morris, whose charming face lwaa
 painted by Gilbert Stuart for the
 pleasure of future generations; the widow Moore, whose husband in his will stated was a, happy woman, a. pattern of her sex and worthy the re- lationship she bears to the right hon, orable and noble family from whence she sprang''; Gen. Philemon Dickin-, son, distinguished officer of the New i Jerse line, and Col. Samuel Ogden, brother-in-law of Gpuverneur Morris, "a worthy representative of that grand army, of the Revolution .'-Was arlington Post.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22
lF0uRTEEN. Of OUR. PRESIDENTS HAVE. BEEN FISHERMEN '
Cleveland Was An Enthus. fast and Wrote Book
 On It

Fourteen of the 27 Presidents have been fishermen. When fishing and ! the Presidency are mentioned the mind instantly recalls Cleveland, the fishing President He is the one President who wrote book discussing angling. It is not generally known but the first President of the republic was an enthusiastic angler.
 Indeed, the late George Fl. Moore, librarian of the old Lenox library, himself a devotee of angling, wrote a monograph in 1887: Washington as an Angler, With Extracts from His Diaries, 17S7-17S9." This book was published in 1887, 100 years following the time his book referred to.
 MT. Moore dedicated the book to Grover Cleveland, President of the Uni- ted States at the time, saying: Tt is known to me that there have been sktllful fishermen, more than one, 5 among the Chief Magistrates of the Nation.
 "Your immediate predecessor has left an unsurpassed record among them, and it is with no ordinary pleas .ure that those of us who profess the faith and follow the precepts of The Compleat Angler have been assured that you areX. inclined to indulge in similar recretaions betimes.
 No good fisherman was ever a bad man, and history will bear out the as- sertiQn that the best Presidents have been the best fishermen
 No one of the many biographers of the first President of the United State> has done justice to the character of washington in this important feature, and the present publication of extracts from his diaries is intended to be a timely tribute to his fame as man among men, in which it will be no dis paragement to you to share.
 "In the first century of this Nation s life he was the first and you have been called the last President. I trust that the beginning of the new era will find as good a fisherman as you are in of flee and that the line may continue to stretch out, like that of the blood bo1- tered Banquo, till the crack of doom."
 ThD5dshinG President replied to Mir.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22
THE DOG OF FORT vAUx.

The only tenant of ruined Fort Vaux when the French troops march ed in was a dog. He was not willing challenge There was no guardian of the cases of cartridges and boxes of rations the Germans hAd abandon ed but this mongrel with neither food nor water. To him, bristling in the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22
Cleveland In Grip
 of Heavy Blizzard

Cleveland, O., Dec. 22-The worst blizzarN of the year and one of the worst in many years, struck Cleve- land and vicinity early today. Swept by 48n1ile gale several inches of snow drifted over steam and inter- urban railway tracks, making through trains hours late and ser- iously handicapping city electric
 lines. Fears for the safety of any lake steamers which might have been caught off their guard were ex-
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pressed, though no definite tnforma-
 tion that any were damaged was re-
 ceived. The temperature was 26 above zero.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22
BONUS FOR OIL co. EMPIoYEs,

New York. Dec. 22-The Gulf Re- filming Co. today announced a bonus of 10 per cent. of one years salary to employees of more than six rnonths' service who receive less than $2,500 annually. t
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22
DIED.

M DIED. ARNDT@1n this city. Dec. 21, 1916, Andrew Arndt, aged 62 years.
 Friends are invited to attend tha funeral from the residence of his daughter. Mrs. J. Mayer, 52 East Washington avenue on Saturday. Dec. 2S at 8:S0 a. m, and from St. Joseph's church at a. m.
 Interment St. Michaers cemetery. this city, Dec. 21, 1916, Allen, infant son of MT. and Mrs. John A. Macdonald
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the undertaking par lors of J. H. Carroll, No. 54 Elm street. on Saturday. Dec. 2s. 1916, at 2:30 D. m.
 Interment St. Michaels cemetery.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-22

Gold to the amount of $500,0O0 was withdrawn from the b-Treasury for shipment to Cuba
The Southern herald., 1916-12-29
FEEDING-BOTTLES LONG AGO
Specimens Preserved Show They Con.
stituted, Besides Their Proper Pur.
pose, a Rattle and Picture Book.

Possibly a hollow gourd constituted
the first baby's feeding bottle. Torn
from its parent tree, its edible interior
would have found its way to the stem
ach of Its adult plucker, after which
the hollow shell would be filed with
milk, or other liquid refreshment. for
the satisfaction Of the infant.
In tropical countries, again, the coco
nut would constitute a natural feed.
ing bottle, already filed with the nee
essary nourishment.
Without, however, indulging in spec.
ulation of this kind, it may be noted
that the archaic vase room at the Brit
ish museum contains specimens of
feeding bottles-tetinoe, archaeologists
call them-datng back to between six
and seven hundred years before
Christ.
These very early babies bottles are
usually gobular in shape, are elabor-
ately decorated, and are covered with
small knobs which, it is conjectured,
were used to hang tiny bells upon.
In short, the feeding bottle of those
days was also a rattle and a picture
book combined.
The Southern herald., 1916-12-29
Don't Neglect RIinaT
Swamp Root, Dr.. Kllmer's pr....
tlOn' OVercOmeS Kidney TrS1SIa

It is now conceded by pbv,;.i.. !.
che kidneys should have NOR r'',las y. tlii
as they control the other ORGAN, ass'slta
markable degree and do a S trov Y y
amount Of work In removing tbs tbsusaaea s..a
and waste matter from the '-o ~. p9'9ls
filtering the blood. "s'sn b
The kidneys should recsiv.
sistance when needed. We tsLa 'Jas lug y
ercise, drink less water and a. y g
more rich, heavy food, therebvvi bvi'sa e IT
the kidneys to do more work H. iulsitg
intended. Evidence Of kidnsv v4l naISls
such as lame back, ANNOYING TLlogoA, LlA,
troubles, smarting or burning D's0ass Is
dust or sediment, sallow conn, % uliss
rheumatism, maybe weak or lp.sAlsa ;luso
heart action, warns you that vo,r sSsI I!'
neys require help immediately y w. ~,
more serious trouble. " s'Oa
An ideal herbal compound that I..t
most remarkable success as A I'D w aas
bladder remedy is DR.. Kilmerjs y ala
Root. There is nothing else Gks
is DR.. Kilmer's prescription useJ i ~
vate practice and it is sure to hon beUosa Y n
Get bottle from your druggist ' y0a'
q However, if you wish first 10 a.. 4,
great preparation send ten cent. ~. !. !Ds n
Klmer & Co., Binghamton, N v y =
sample bottle. When writing be s,Ira 4 VI s,s !
mention this paper. Adv.
The Southern herald., 1916-12-29
Love and
Lions
BU Mabel La Roche


Copyright, 1916. by W. G. Chapman.)
'I guess you'll turn down the job
like the rest Of them," sighed the fat
man in the tent. "Tve interviewed
eleven this morning and they amt tax
ing any. It's to go into the lions den. "
"That'll suit me first rate" said
Harry Lee.
Six weeks in the city, and at last
penniless, he had become desperate.
His landlady was threatening to turn
him out of the single room he occupied
unless he paid her the four dollars,
representing two weeks rental, by eve
ming. And Harry, who had been accus-
toned to good food, was singularly
empty.
What aggravated the situation was
that he had secured position at twen-
ty-four dollars, to start in on Monday.
But this was only Friday, and he saw
no prospect of facing the ten days that
would elapse until he drew his first
pay envelope and surviving. At twen-
ty-six one feels that way.
Harry was a competent photographer.
He knew that within year he would
be making his thirty steadily. And the
firm that had interviewed him was of
the best in town. The problem was,
how to convince his landlady, or, in de-
fault, raise few dollars for the neces-
saries Of life.
Desperately he had jumped at the
advertisement offering twenty-five dol
lars to a strong young man who was
not afraid Of animals, for one nights
work at the circus
He had been prepared to scrub the
kangaroo or feed the performing fieas,
but he was bit startled at being told
that 1t was to go into the lions den.
"Slm and Pete and Lady are as tame
as CATS" said the fat man. 'They
The Southern herald., 1916-12-29
Boilers Need Another eauna.

From the standpoint of the plant.
owners whose money is being spent,
the question of the true method of
burning fuel economically probably is
most vital, and yet, strange to say, 1t
is one that remains most frequently
unsOlved. 1t is regarded as eminently
proper to provide each boiler with a
pressure gauge, so that the firemen
may at any time know the exact boiler
pressure; but it is not thought neces-
sary to furnish them with telltale to
indicate the state Of combustion. And
as a result, the average boiler plant
usually wastes from 5 to 25 per cent
sometimes more-of its coal.-Engi-
neering Magazine.
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wouldn't hurt a 1y. Leastwise, not q
big fly. But our regular man can't
show up. You see, this is a two-night
stand, and he can't marry the same
lady twice over in this burg. So it's
up to us to get the gent and get the
lady. We got the lady, and she's q
peach. Are you on?"
'You mean I've got to get married in
the lions cage?" stammered Harry.
mot really married." said the fat
man insinuatingly. "Just a fake mar.
riage. Rev. Eliphet-he cleans the
cages-isn't authorized to perform mar.
riages. Why, Judge Perks and Madam
JOrabella's got married every evening
for year now, and each got homes
and families Of their own. Come on
and I'll introduce you to Mamzelle Lib.
ertina. Your names Giovanni. And
don't forget it."
The scared and shrinking girl whom
Harry met looked about as much a
novice as himself. But it seemed the
policy of the fat man to keep them
apart until just before the circus
opened that night to admit the public
Then came the rehearsal.
Fearfully, the girl looked at the
three lions, seated upon their launches
and regarding them, in turn, with mel
ancholy interest. Then Harry stepped
boldly in, and, as the lions took very
little notice Of him, the girl followed.
Up came Rev. Eliphet, book in hand,
and took his station just inside the
door. Harry watched the lions out OF
the corner Of his eye while Ellphet
was mumbling. Not hair of any beast
stirred.
"Finel Finel" exclaimed the fat
man. "Now we shan't be long. The
real thing will go off just as WELL"
They stepped out of the cage, the
girl smiling pitlfully at Harry. He
imagined that she was more humili.
ated than alarmed. There was half an
hour to wait before the real perform
ance. Seated side by side before the
cage, which had been wheeled just out
side the arena, they exchanged conf
dences.
Her name was Lucy Vernon, and she
had come to the city three months be-
fore. When her money was gone she
got position In a department store.
Her country manners and unsophistl-
Gated ways were not what that par
tieular store wanted. She was laid of
at the end Of the busy season. And
then had come the awful struggle with
The Southern herald., 1916-12-29
LITTER IS IMPORTANT
Quite Essential in WeII-ReguIated
Poultry House.
No Excuse for Not Providing Fowls
With This Needed ArtieIe-chopped
Straw Acts as Absorbent Un.
der the Roosts.

1t will not do to underestimate the
Importance attached to litter in the
poultry business. 1t is even more es-
lsential in well-regulated poultry
house than a carpet is in the modern
farm home.
1t does not take the place of car
pet, but 1t answers as such for the
poultry and is more. 1t is a good thing
In a poultry house, summer or win
ter.
We have been in poultry houses
where litter was as scarce as icicles
on an autumn MONDAY, says a writer
in an exchange. Such houses are usu-
ally as bare Of convenience as the
floor is bare Of litter.
1t pays to have a large quantity and
the supply should be liberal enough
so 1t can be changed at least once q
week. By this means the house may
be kept sweet and clean, and scratch
ing the litter will afford exercise so
much needed by fowls when kept in
closed.
On every farm there is an abundance
OF chaf and straw and there is no
excuse for not providing the poultry
house with this needed article.
The best litter is chopped straw. It
acts as an absorbent under the roosts
and as receptacle in other parts for
the grain that is thrown to the poultry.
IN winter chickens should be made to
scratch for every grain they obtain.
For every grain they should give
peck.
Chaff, buckwheat hulls, or almost
anything Of that nature will answer
well for litter. We have seen poultry
hOuses Uttered with shredded fodder.
One more good thing about litter is
that 1t helps keep the feet Of fowls
sRarm In winter.
The Southern herald., 1916-12-29
ONE SIGHT HE HAD MISSED
American Traveller In Rome PsrtIn.
larIy Anxious to View Corral
Where "Bulls" Were Kept

A traveller tells this story Of a
American fellow wanderer in Rome.
The American, who had come from
the plains of the West, visited the VA.
ican, and was shown over the psual
palace. He asked many questions Ana
desired to see everything.
After the customary sights had bean
shown, the priest who attended him
asked:
'Ts there anything else, Signor Amer.
icano, that you would like to sect?
"There is one thing" replied the
American, "that I want to see more
than anything else, and 1 haln't been
on the edge of 1t yet"
"What is that, signor"
"The cattle pens"
"The cattle pens? Why, we have
nothing Of the sort, signor."
you hain't? Then where in the
world do you keep them papal bulls
that we're always hearin' abOut?--
Exchange.
The Southern herald., 1916-12-29

practically maintained herself and pro-
duced milk upon succulent feed; she
will soon be returned to the barn where
she will spend the greater part Of each
day. 1t should be the aim Of every
keeper to see to it that his cows are
housed as comfortably as possible and
provided with a goodly quantity and
variety Of palatable feed that will nour-
ish her abundantly and help her pro-
duce an even flow of milk.
The right kind of COW will repay
with interest every cent invested for
her comfort-for warmth, light, venti-
lation, and feed. If she is not COM
fortably housed her returns will be
cut down in proportion to her discom-
fort.