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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31
SUIT AGAINST COP
 SETTLED AGREEABLY

An amicab1e adjustment has been made of the suit that George A. Rob- iertson of State street brought against Policeman John Cody, Jr. An attach ment which had been placed with the city auditor against the policeman's salary was removed to-day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31
SIX YEARS
 OF SUFFERING.
Woman Made Well byLydia E.. Pinkhan's Vegetable
 Compound.

Columbus, Ohio.-s'I had almost given up. l had been sick for six years with
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

John Harvey of Pocantico, was ar rested as he was stealing a traffic standard at Ta-rytown, N. Y. { The Chinese province of Hu-Nan declared it's independence.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

A forest fire burned over 300 acres near Sante Fe, N M
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

The United States Coast Guard cut ter Mohawk, which grounded near New London, Conn, was refloated.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

Pictorial Review inches
 bustP
 These Home Dresmang articles especially this very by Review.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

Fire destroyed the summer rsort of Boynton Bach, N. J.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31
ASKING HER
 PARDON TOO OFTEN

f'Of all affection taught 8 lover yet Iris sure the hardest science to forget. Good nature and good sense must ever
 join; To err is human, to forgive divine"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

Sizes s4, ae. ss. 40, 42, A and 4e inches
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-31

Pictorial Review Blouse
 bust Price, 15 cents
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Midway Island,

Midway is the name of small coral
island in the Pacific ocean which is
made to bear its part in mans scheme
of things as a relay station of the
Commercial Pacific Cable company
at the beginning it was just about
large enough for the purpose to which
it is put, but it is growing and has
bright prospects. Every three months
a schooner is sent to Midway with
food and other supplies for the cable
operators. Whatever space there is
in the ship not required for supplies
is filed up with the native soil oil
Hawaii, where the vessel is QUILTED
and the earth is dumped where it will
do the most good toward rounding out
the periphery Of Midway. This pro
cess has been going on so long and
successfully that there is now a mead
ow almost extensive enough to afford
pasturage for COW. Not all Of the
facts herein set forth might be read
lily accepted as such, but they are
rendered doubtproof by publication
in Commercial Reports" which, as
all know, has the backing and sane
lion Of federal government.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
PROPER DIVISION CT THE
sleeD and Work and Pleasure Should
All Ee Given Their Proper
tions in Order.

Generally speaking, ( man sixty
years old has slept twenty years.
played twenty years and worked
twenty years. That is to say, he has
divided each day of his life as follows:
Eight hours for sleep, eight hours
for pleasure and recreation and eight
hours for work.
Of course, there are exceptions to
this rule, but the man who violate
this division of his day for any con-
siderable length Of time in the end
likely will pay the piper. If he sleeps
too much, he's a dope. If he plays
too much, he vegetables and disquali
fies himself for work. If he works
too much he breaks down.
Only a third Of ones life seems a
small proportion to devote to work.
1t would seem that man could not
accomplish much who devotes two
thirds of his life to sleep and recrea-
ton, and some men do not accom-
plish much, but that is because they
do not make the most Of their work
ing hours.
The secret of successful accomplish
ment in the days worlI-the secret of
success in your life's work, lies in in
dustry. While you are working, work.
Boston Post.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Business District for New York.

Planning a model business district
where the merchants, manufacturers,
realty owners and transportation
heads will cooperate in eliminating
the unnecessary friction in industry
and commerce due to unscientific
methods and lack of teamwork, the
Central Mercantile association has in
vited city officials to confer with it's
directors as to the first steps which
may be taken to realize this ideal. This
associations industrial survey Of New
York city and of the central mercan-
tile district is to be used as the basis
for the constructive program. Tenta-
tive plans include development along
industrial, residential, transportation
and real estate lines. Merchants and
manufacturers are working with rail-
road and steamship officials to assure
the maximum efficiency Of the central
mercantile districts shipping facili-
ties, which include the Chelsea docks
and the freight and passenger service
of many of the largest railroads. Co.
operating with the city planning COM
mission, the Central Mercantile dis
trict is to be provided with restricted
zones for residential purposes, where
apartments of all types may provide
for 10000 workers in the plants Of
the district.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Elephants and CameIs Drill.

Elephants and camels, carrying two
machine-gun sections of the Twenty
eight company Of the United States
marine corps quartered at the exposi-
ton at San Diego, Cal, took part in ex-
detrimental maneuvers and quickly
demonstrated the feasibility of their
use in actual warfare conditions such
as now obtain in Mexico.
Mounting one operator and tripod
machine gun to an elephant, attended
by several United States marines on
foot, the elephants displayed surpris.
ing agility in traversing over rough
ground and wheeling into proper posi-
ton for firing. The elephants, when
ordered to lie down, made a perfect
breastworks, behind which the ma
rines were enabled in 80 seconds to
employ an effective machine-gun fire.
Both elephants and camels would
prove useful in an extended campaign,
such as the present one in Mexico, an
official declared, for both can carry
large loads and can go long distances
without water. Elephants are more
nervous under fire than camels; but
with proper training they can be cured
Of gunshyness.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11

sHsssy spaaasi9a, sif!stas "a ast,aa, tlsas
you Forget Tho audience. Whenever
you feel nervous just before q public
appearance, turn your thought to your
work. Disp.ace the fear and worry
thought with thought Of interest in
your work Learn to abandon your
self to the part you are to play until
you have crowded out the fear
thoughts and driven them entirely
from your mind.
Slow rhythmic breathing will in
variably help you Hold the breath just
an instant before you expel it. AT
frmation and prayer will help, in pro-
portion as you have faith in them and
apply them with feeling. Physical re-
laXing exercises just before a public
appearance will also help. Mrs Annie
Payson Call has written some very
practical books on relaxation and poise
that would help in this matter.
Do everything deliberately and slow
ly just previous to the time you appear
before your audience. Worry is close
ly allied to the feeling Of hurry. Keep
your mind occupied so that you will
not get to feeling hurried and panicl1y.
Make all your physical movements.
and your breathing deliberate. This
will help you to control your mind
If your thought is distracted by up.
plause during the delivery of your lines
bring your thought right back to your
work and abandon yourself to your
part as if the audience did not exist.
Remember, the one thing to aim at
is to displace the worry thoughts,
crowd them out, by keeping the mind
occupied with your work. The psy
biologists say that the best way to
break up train of thought is to dis.
place it with another train. You will
have to put forth some effort of will
at first, but if you wade in" each time
with the determination to go through
with it anyhow, doing the best you
can, you will soon find it is a little
easier to let CO." and the worry and
tension will begin to relax.
These methods are equally good To-
any kind Of bashfulness or selfcoI
seriousness.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
New York Nations Beauty Market.

In the beautiful women stage New
York leads the world. Such is the die
tum Of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., master
inlpresario CT the musical stage, who
is keen Judge Of charming feminity.
1t is an art with him-an art which has
made his productions famous. 81 am
not speaking at random when l say
that the capitals Of Europe cannot pro.
duce anything to compare with the
American beauty Of the STAGE" says
Mr.. Ziegfeld. I'm my career l have
probably passed judgment on $4,000
young women, and not more than one
in rs was chosen. The type l demand
must not be more than 5 feet in
height, beautiful in face, form and
manner, possessed Of youth, grace,
soul, personality, and she must not b.
more than twenty-five years old. The
showgirl type is a type that has
passed. The girl of Irish extraction is
the ideal chorus girl. The thin girl
the fat girl, the waX-fgure girl is not
desired. The American chorus girl is
the most beautiful, most finished type
in the world. And New York is the
beauty market of the nation"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
PopgIaticn's Flow and Ebb.

When we speak of the waves of i'm
migration rolling into this country the
backwash is frequently forgotten. In
1915 the number Of arrivals was 49,
244, while the number who returned
10 the countries of their nativity was
SS4, 174, or SO per cent. Last year may
be regarded as abnormal owing to a
general condition Of war; but, taking
she five-year period 1909-13, of total
ybf 7,454,239 immigrants, 3,210,95S, or
43 per cent, returned.
In fact, there is a regular ebb and
flow in the movement of population,
depending upon the rise, remarks the
Philadelphia Record, and decline in
the demand for labor. A considerable
proportion of the immigrants are birds
of passage, and there are many among
~ ,sI. who have come and gone two or
three times. Only one-half the arriv-
ala become permanent residents.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
hssa 6 81 N SassFs s l dSF a aHaEs
sasiaA IL Esha 81 assa. haa HI il

hsaa ofaafta aaseFs sNg Day al aaiilEs,
nSi;aA lii ssrs " 1854, as.a u "a
siaaIaaa that the werklngmea es the
establishment refused a bride of some
$4,000 to furnish copy Of the book
before the day of issue.
At banquet held at the four hun
dredth anniversary celebration OF the
beginning of the art of printing in
England by Caxton, Gladstone took
into his hands and exhibited to those
present copy of the Bible which had
been printed and bound entirely since
midnight of the preceding day. The
preparation of the India paper" used
by the Oxford University press is
business secret of great value. Al
though frequently initiated, it has
never been equaled. The largest folio
Bible printed in Oxford measures ~
by IL inches, and no erratum has as
yet been found in it. The Brilliant
Text Bible" measures 81 by 2h
inches and is three-quarters Of an inch
thick, and, bound, weighs less than
three ounces.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Ibsen's "Ghosts" Offended.

twenty-five years ago there took
place the first performance in England
of Ibsen's Ghosts" remarks the Lon
don Times.
The play formed the opening pro-
duction Of the Independent theater.
founded by J. T. Grein, who recalls
that the occasion elected no less than
500 articles, mostly Vituperating ID
sen, while some families closed their
doors against Mr. Grein on the ground
that he had produced an immoral play.
Another storm was raised by Zola's
"Therese Raquin," the second play of
the society-whose first members in
Guided George Meredith, Thomas
Hardy, Sir Arthur Sullivan and Henry
Arthur Jones.
One of the greatest successes OF
the Independent theater occurred in
1898, when Mr.. Grein obtained from
Bernard Shaw the manuscript of his
first play, "Widowers' Houses"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
OXFORD BIBLE WIDELY KNOWN
From Thirty to Forty Copies Are
Printed by the University Press
Every Minute.

The Oxford Bible is widely known,
but few persons are aware of the tre'
mendous scale on which it is produced.
The Bible publications Of the Ok
ford University press have been is
sued for 800 years, and can be pub
lished in $50 languages and dialects.
Every year fully six hundred tons of
paper are used for this purpose alone.
Orders for 100000 Bibles are quite
common, and the supply of printed
sheets is so great that an order for
half a million copies can be readily
filled. On an aver&e, from thirty to
forty Bibles are furnished every min
ute, and this number can readily be
doubled.
There are no fewer than 10 differ
ent editions Of the Oxford Bible in
English, varying from the magnificent
folio edition for pulpit purposes to the
brilliant" Bible, the smallest edition
of the Scriptures in the world. OF the
revised version, IA editions are pub
lished. More than one million copies
of the revised New Testament had
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
CHIvALRY IN WAR
RECORD is NOT ALL ONE OF
DEATH AND PAIN.
Stories That Come From the Trenches
in Europe Recall Similar Instances
of Gallant Deeds by American
Revolutionary Soldiers.

A gallant foe respects the courage
of his enemy. From the fighting line
in France came lately the story how
a German officer, under suspicion OF
having improperly surrendered for
titled angle of the German trenches
that was shortly after retaken by his
compatriots, was only saved from pun
ishment and the ruin of his career by
q Frenchman whom he had severely
wounded The French soldier, on his
way to hospital prison, learned by
chance of the accusation, and he in
sisted, at the cost of frightful pain
and exhaustion-for his wound was
in the cheek and jaw-upon debating
the testimony that cleared the man
who had nearly killed him and mad
disfigured him for life.
A notable instance Of soldiers
chivalrous defense Of his enemy's rep
utation occurs in the history of our
own country, as an American historian
has pointed out.
John Calender, an artillery captain
at the battle of Bunker Hill, was
caught by General Putnam in the very
act of leaving his post, and was or
dered back under pain of being shot.
There was no time to listen to eX-
PLANTATION or remonstrance. When
the fight was over Callenders state.
ment that his pieces hsd become
damned, and that he was withdrawing
them to cover for repairs would prob
ably have been accepted had it not
been also unfortunately true that the
men under lis command had all bolt
ed, shamelessly abandoning the guns.
At least, so it appeared; although the
fact was that they had broken away,
not to fly, but to fight in the ranks
with muskets snatchcd from the dying
and dead. But the court-martial that
tried the unhappy captain cashiered
him for cowardice.
At once Calender did a brave
thing: Drawer than fighting, although
it meant fighting, too. Deprived OF
his commission, he re-enlisted as a
private; and his comrades, if any
Stunned him at first, soon learned to
believe in his innocence. 1t was to
British officer, however, that he
owed his complete vindication. In
the course of losing battle, Callen.
der, fighting with desperate courage,
continued to load and fire his gun af.
ter all his officers were killed and his
companions had retreated. When his
ammunition was gone he mounted as.
tribe the gun, resolved that his death
at his post should give the lie to his
unjust condemnation. His conduct so
aroused the admiration of the British
officer opposed to him that he ordered
his men not to fire on the solitary, un.
armed hero, but to close in and cap.
ture him. Then learning his story, he
refused even to hold him prisoner,
but dismissed him without exchange,
bearing a letter to General Washing
ton that testified to his courage.
Washington joyfully restored his
commission and ordered his sentence
erased from the records.-Youth's
Companion.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Not Very Rich,

"Germanys fatless days." said DR..
August Breitenbach, German socialis-
the writer, in an address in New York,
give rise to some strange happen
ings.
"a waiter in a Berlin restaurant
spilled a plate of soup over the pink
silk bodice Of a lady's evening gown.
You'll have to pay the damage for
that" said the lady, angrily.
"'Oh, it's all right, ma'am. There
won't be any damage said the waiter.
To-day is one of our fatless days, you
know, and on fatless days our soup
doesn't STAIN"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
FIGHrOFf sHIITHEss
SELF-CoNScIOUS PERSON AL.
WAYS UNJUSTLY RATED.
Those Afflicted With That Form OF
Timidity Underestimate Because
Their Real Selves Are Never
Allowed Proper Expression.

DR.. Orison SWEET Marden, the world
known philosopher, says:
Hawthorne was one Of the shyest
men that ever lived. He used to walk
the streets with his eyes on the ground
to avoid recognizing others, and it he
saw anyone he knew he would cross
the street to escape the embarrass-
ment of a meeting. Later in life he
said God might forgive sins, but awk-
wardness had no forgiveness in heaven
or on earth. His own imagined awk-
wardness was due to his timidity, his
morbid self-consciousness.
After spending the evening at Emer-
sons house, George William Curtis
spoke Of Hawthorne, who had sat ST.
lent as shadow all evening and had
scarcely spoken to anyone. Curtis won
dered why no one had looked after
him. But being Cooked after" would
only have made him more miserable.
Once, when making a call, Hawthorne
asked his hostess what he should
talk about and she advised him "cli-
mate''
1t is not recorded whether he found
even this topic sufficiently inspiring to
tempt him to break his habitual ST.
lence. Visiting a naval officer, and
being pressed for something to say,
Hawthorne asked him if he had ever
been in the Sandwich islands. His
host concluded that the man who
would ask aimless, silly questions Of
this sort could not be much Of a
genius.
know people of great scholarly at
tainments and mental caliber who go
through life practically unknown, un-
appreciated even in their own neighbor-
hood. They live by themselves just
because nobody seems able to get at
them, to understand them. They do
to make themselves unapproachable.
There is something about them that
repels people, and yet they feel kindly
toward everybody. They would be
glad Of a chance to do favor to
anyone, but they are misunderstood
because they are too timid and shy
to come out Of their shell.
Shy people are constantly misundor-
stood and underestimated, because
their real selves are never allowed
expression. They are so afraid that
others are weighing and measuring
them in the balance and finding them
wanting that whenever they can they
flock by themselves" as the Irish
man puts it.
Their shrinking, self-effacing, apollo
getic attitude is fatal to their eff
cheney as we'll as to their comfort and
happiness. II, instead Of avoiding
others, they would mix freely in soai-
ETY. and undertake responsibility at
every opportunity, no matter how it
might pain them or how every nerve
might shrink from human contact; if
they would stop staying alone in cor
ners at receptions and in drawing
rooms, If they would cease worrying
about their appearance and manner,
and would force themselves into the
great human current, they would soon
entirely overcome their self-conscious-
ness.-Pictorial Review.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Poetry Increases Temperature.

A local disengagemento of heat seems
to accompany brain activity. DR.. ]. s..
Lombard found in more than 10000
observations that any intellectual ef-
fort, such as computing, composing, re-
citing poetry silently or aloud, and
especially that emotional excitement,
such as a fit of anger, caused a gen.
eral rise Of temperature.
The rise was in most cases more
marked in the middle region of the
head than elsewhere. Strange to say,
it was greater in reciting poetry 81
lently than in reciting it aloud. Doc
tor Lombard's explanation is that Gin
internal recitation an additional por.
ton of energy, which in recitation
aloud was converted into nervous and
muscular force, now appears as heat"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Water Used to Wreck Bridge.

In the wrecking of Berlin bridge
by water pressure, adopted to avoid
conclusion, steel cylinder, fitted with
cement at the other end, was inserted
in holes about 80 inches deep bored
into the piers. A one-inch pressure
pipe connected the cylinder to a n.y.
draulic pump weighing only about 60
pounds. AS pressure was raised in
the cylinder by the action of the pump
the pistons were gradually forced out
and the masonry blocks were split
away, one by one. The process is de-
scribed as rapid and almost noiseless,
operating without risk to nearby build
ings.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Keeping It From the Public.

One night during the run of Under
Cover at the Cort theater in New
York, William Courtenay, who is sup
posed to toss string of pearls to his
pal waiting beneath the window, made
a wild pitch, and the heavy jewels
went into the audience and hit man,
seated near the front, in the forehead,
cutting his skin deeply, and causing
him to bleed profusely. The man was
taken to retiring room, and his
wound dressed, and the press repre-
sentative bent every effort, and sue
cessfully, to keep the story from tho
papers. It's publication would not have
encouraged timid persons to occupy
front row seats and expose themselves
to the chance Of being struck in the
eye with smuggled pearls.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
a Stunned Detective.

Ezra Haskins, constable Of New
England village, had an exalted opin-
ion of his ability as detective. He
also read everything he could find
on the career of Sherlock Holmes, I'M
til he had imagined that he had there
by acquired wonderful deductive abil-
ity.
Now, gentlemen" said Ezra on one
occasion to his assistants in "a par.
ticular case, 1--WE have traced these
clues-the footprints of the horse and
the footprints of the man right up
here to this stump. From the stump
on there's only the footprints of the
horse. Now, gentlemen, the question
is what has become Of the man? "
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Did Well With His Talent.

An Atlanta pastor, who has run
shoestring of 500 into such real
money as 100000 by cotton specula-
lions, and who will now build trade
school for poor children, has admit
teddy manipulated his talent with all
the adroitness and effect one could
possibly wish.
Not a Garden.
care you going to make a garden
this year?"
"No," replied Mr.. Growcher. I'm
going to dig UP a place in the back
yard and put some seeds into it, and
then turn it over to the chickens for
q picnic ground"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-08-11
Geek Remedy From Sea.

10 save the life Of a patient in St.
winifrad's hospital DR.. Winslow An
larson of San Francisco, accompanied
N "A doctors and nurses, went out to
Goa in a Crowley launch for Sc gallons
20 tho unrest Of pure sea water.
fsaehe ailment from which the patient
n. enfsering will give way only to a
.Soatmant in which pure salt water
:. - the sea forms the chief element.
- 80 M marty carried twelve three-gal-
- .uas with heavy lead sinkers, by
Ja7 - which the water was lifted
az depth of 80 fathoms. The
in vent nearly TO the Farallon is