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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
WILDERB CONVERTS" TELL
OF HEALTH RECLAIMED
Those Who First Tried Famous Treatment Months
Ago Most Enthusiastic To-day.
SUPER TONIC PERMANENT TN IT'S ACTION

Bridgeport converts to the Wilderb
treatment, the remarkable new stom-
Rch tonic and system purifier are now
being numbered in the thousands. T.
s.. jackson personal laboratory repre-
sentative of DR.. Pierce of Buffalo who
lately perfected Wilderbs Gull ex-
tract) is meeting literally hundreds of
people daily at Hindles Main and
State streets store and taking the
blood pressure when permitted to. In
fact both the Hindle stores have be-
come magnet for hosts of local peo-
pie suffering from stomach trouble,
and general run down condition
Those benefited seem to tell others of
it's great value and so the endless
chain of satisfied users is continually
heightened.
+ Many of those who call are return
Ing to describe extraordinary benefits
received from the use of the Wilderb
treatment. They feel that it is their
duty to let sufferers at large know
how they can be restored to perfect
health. Every day dozens of such
cases are reported at Hindle's.
One of the most convincing of the
experiences described, was told by
Mrs. r. A. Shaw of SO Cottage Place.
The Shaws are property, owners in
their neighborhood and their word is
accepted as reliable and sincere by
all. They were one of the first Bridge
port families to give Wilderbs, the
new health tonic trial and they are
Jas enthusiastic about today as they
were way back in July when it first
lcame here. Mr.. Shaw is trusted EN- !
ipl9ye at the Remington Arms Co..
MIS-. Shaw says:
1--WE have. added DR.. Pierce's Wild
|erbs to the family medicine chest. My
husband started taking it when it first
lcayne to Bridgeport and he says it has
fdofe him more good than any medi-
cine he has ever tried. He had a.
touch of malaria and was tired and
sleepy all the time. He did not sleep
well at night and was sometimes more
tired in the morning than when he
went to bed, and had little ambitionl
for his work. 1t built him up SPLEEN
9didly. and increased his appetite. He
didn't miss a single dose. 1t was the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
SHE WAS A FIGHTER.

(, For a member of the so-calIed
weaker sex to be laid to rest with
military honors is an event Of rare
occurrence and no less distinction
Il To earn such a tribute argues serv-
ices of the highest merit, and very few
lwomen have had the opportunity Of
Qualifying for such honors, still fewer
,having achieved them.
Of these few, perhaps the most fa-
lpmous was Mother Ross. Her life was
la military romance. In the year 1893
Ishe Joined the army as a man, and
1t was not until she had served for
fd3 years that her real sex was dis
fcovered.
AS a. trooper in the Scots Greys she
Etook part in the battle Of Families
land was hit by. almost the last shot
fired by the French. Then it trans
tpired that she was a. woman. Later
she married a soldier and in the ca
Epacity Of regimental cook accom-
lpanied him on active service.
So imbued was she with the fight
hing spirit that when any scrap" was
going on she would abandon her
saucepans and fire her musket with
the best of her comrades in arms. by
Queen Anne she was granted a PEN
sion Of shilling day on hereretire-
ment.
Her death took place in 1898, and
she was laid to rest in the burial
ground Of Chelsea hospital The
funeral was conducted with full milf
tsry honors earned by right valiant
et-tce on many battlefield. :,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20

and their craft into very much bet
ter perspective If they would realize
that for. some people anything ap-
preaching a bright view Of human
imperfections means treason to the
highest part Of their nature. This
was the Puritan--a gloomy character,
perhaps, but a logical one, and not
necessarily a canting humbug, as the
comedians have long held. But the
Puriton is rare, and his remedy is
obvious-he can stop away from the
music hall and review
"As for the rest Of the world, with
less logic but a more agreeable talent
for life at large, it finds no particu-
lar difficulty in taking a bright view
of human imperfections. 1t takes
one constantly in it's intimate con-
versations; and human nature being
what it is there is far more ground
for regarding the view as a sort of
moral safety valve than as a person.
al, and headlong incentive to the pro-
duction of imperfections. 1t is con-.
stantly. being corrected and held in
check by the fact that no one ever
took a bright view of imperfections
which had landed him in some OBJ
vious and undeniable mess, nor is
this salutary effect limited to the ac-
tual author of such a disaster. The
latest slippery farce can represent
deceiving ones wife as q brisk enter
tainment, with much busting in and
out of bedrooms, hiding behind
screens, and trying on of bathing
costumes; and many audiences will
applaud it with approval. But this
does not prevent them from being
well aware that in sober truth this
particular infirmity of human nature
is nothing like such bright, exhila-
rating business. The knowledge is
not the highest safeguard for virtue,
but it serves-so well that some have
based whole theory Of morals on
1t. And critics OF an institution
which ought never to be admitted as
anything but essentially earthly
would save themselves a good deal of
anxiety If they remembered that the
safeguard exists. People are not 30
easily. .debauched by a mere conven-
ton that imperfections don't matter
when all experience, even of this
world, goes to prove that they mat
ter Supremacy.
''But if it is a little unreasonable
to expect comedy Of this kind to do
anything but steer just as close to the
wind as public opinion will let it, one
thing can be demanded Of it with
some assurance-that it's view Of our
failings shall be a bright one. In
deed, most Of the hostile critics
would be on a good deal safer ground
if they dropped morals altogether
and complained not that a great deal
of the stage is low but that still more
of it Is dull. A good many Of our
disreputable friends on the other side
of the footlights need to be taught
that there Is nothing at all bright in
simple demonstration that man is
an animal They have also got to
prove, that he is a witty animal, that
his antics have salt in them and can
amuse even where they are least edi-
flying. Bathing costumes, beauty
choruses and fine feathers may be a
background for such qualities, but
they are no sufficient substitute. On
the results of an attempt to use them
as a substitute, the intelligent world
ling and the strictest Puritan can
shake hands with the most cordial
agreement
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
CRIED HERSELF TO SLEEP.
Twelve Year-Old Girl From Belgium
u Cannot Find Her
t4 Parents.

"a Rachel Leah Gitlin, 12-year-old
belgian refuge, fell asleep in an Ellis
Island ward last night with sigh and
ia prayer. She had been unhappy in
fthe morning, happy again at noon,
unhappy at shutdown. Her dream
that she would at last see her family
after years of separation was of only,
q few hours duration. Rachel.is to
be deported.
The girl reached the United States
In the steerage of the ST. Paul last
Monday. She was Russian by birth,
she said, and had left the Cars do
fnfnions with her mother three years
aago. On the way she had contracted
trachoma. Germany would not take
her; France did not want her. The
Il United States was a closed door. But
lshe found refuge in Belgium. For
several months she wasein an Antwerp
hospital
II told my mother not to wait for
me" she explained; that / was real
big girl and could take care of my.
Iself and that would follow as soon
as was cured. So my mother went
Then the war began. The girl was
almost cured. The Germans were
Fabout to enter Antwerp, and the order
was given by the civil officials for all
Russian and English citizens to leave
for London. A Sister Of Mercy carried
Rachel to ship.
II lost my fathers address, . ex-
lplained the girl. II was treated like
1.-THE other Belgian children. But I
knew all the time my father would be
lsearching for me. So went to Ernest
tSchiff, of the Poland Street Refuge
land he tried hard to find my parents.
;I1e gave me this Slip
On the paper had been written 1929
ssHunterdon street, New York" A tele-
gram had been sent to that address.
There had been no reply, and Rachel
faced deportation to London and, I'LL
Ultimately, to Russia. But an official,
in the girls presence, mentioned the
words s'Hunterdon Street yesterday
1norning -
Where is it? Where is it?'' the
girl cried, The official gazed at her in
,amazement
I'm Newark" he replied : T live on.
That street"
A telegram was sent to Abram Git
Hin. 1t read:
& Daughter Rachel waiting Ellis Is
Iaand for relatives to call Moments de-
Hay may mean deportation. Call inn
slrhediate1y"
But there was no reply. Even the
advertisements inserted in all the Yid-
dish newspapers by the Hebrew Shell
ltering and Immigrant Aid Society
drought no results. That was why a
lfaxen haired, blue eyed girl cried her
self to sleep on Ellis Island last night.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
DEAD ON FIELD OF HONOR.

= The deaths of Richard Hall and Ed
ward Kelly had brought home to this
country the mortal danger under
which the members of the American
Amb ulance Field Service, pursue their
tireless work of rescue, but the death
of Edward Carter Sortwell brings
closer still to Boston a true estimate
of their courage.
Mr.. Sortwell was not only a resident
of Cambridge, but he was also the first
Harvard man to be killed in the Field
Service of the American Ambulance
The call to service, however, had
reached him first when he was far
from home, engaged in a commercial
venture in India, where not even the
organized efforts to secure volunteers
for the American Ambulance could
have affected him, and only the voice
that spoke within could urge him on
to the mans work he might do for
the rescue of Europe's wounded, at
whatever cost to himself That urg-
ing Sortwell obeyed, and he had come
safely through the latter part of the
service which the gallant third sec
ton had done in Fraf,ce, where earlier
in the war the sections light we'll
driven American cars had replaced
tAAC llAulCS anu 1uuG1 IIduOCdIl Is IOTIn-
erly used in the steepest parts Of the
Vosges, and where later the section
did duty near Verdun, and he had
gone with troops fighting near Sa-
loniki, where it had been assigned es-
pecially on account of its skill in
mountaineering. There he lost his
lifea in one of those accidents, which
the field service. drivers defy every
night as they urge their cars forward
along narrow, rocky, mountain roads,
with no light to guide their way, ex-
cept that of their determination to
save lives and suffering, when every
instant of delay may mean death or
the prolongation of agony unspeak-
able to the wounded men entrusted to
their care.
1t was in such circumstances that
Edward Carter Sortwell met the acct
dent which gave him fatal injury.
And as he faced the end, when it was
that Edward Sortwell, exulting that
he had not been kept out of war, met
that most supremacy living instant
which is the instant of the death of a
hero.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
! TALKED OUT.

'Tt says here said Mrs. Diggin.
laying down the paper, .that tele-
phone girls make very satisfactory
wives
con the theory, 7 dare say said
Mr.. Diggin, that by the time they
marry they have got all the violent
conversation out of, their systems and
really yearn for rest and quiet. -
Puck
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
AN ESSAY ON WOMAN.

A woman is sometimes fugitive, ir-.
rational, understandable, Illogical and
contradictory. A good deal of for
bearance ought to be shown her and
a good deal of prudence exercised
with regard to her, for she may bring
about innumerable evils without
knowing it, Capable of all kinds of
devotion and of all kinds of treason.
monster incomprehensible,' raised to
the second power, she is at once the
delight and the terror of man.
Amiel
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20

first thing he asked for in the morn
ing and the last at night. He sleeps
good now and has gained several
pounds in weight. He no longer Is
sleepy through the day and says your
Wilderbs is the first medicine he has
have been taking it myself for my
stomach, liver and nerves and al
though I have just finished the second
bottle it has proved just as remark
able in my case. think about two
more bottles will be all I will need
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
In memory of
MOSES OGDEN

who was killed at Connecticut Farms,
7th June 1880.
in the Goth year of his age.
Then reader weep, for Ogdens dust
lies here. Lf
A brave Commander shown
His soul emerging from the dust,
With his progenitors we trust
Shall shine in realms unknown.
: Many years ago there lived in
Ledgard, this state, a man who sew
eral times tried to commit suicide.
He died at last a natural death from
disease, and this plain and signifi-
cant inscription marks his grave.
He died an honest death
Some years ago a. young woman
school teacher, of Brooklyn, received
a proposal OF marriage from a doc
tor, a widower, which proposal she
was not inclined to consider favor
ably. In urging his suit upon her
further consideration, he assured her
of the great regard he had for his
first wife, and little daughter, both
of whom had died about the same
time. AS an evidence of the esteem
in which he held them, he sent her
q letter, urging his suit, and a copy
of the inscription on their monu-
ment, asking her to reply by mail.
To appreciate the lady's reply it
should be stated that the doctor was
red headed, and in finally rejecting
his proposal, she suggested the Sec
onda epistle as fitting for his final
epitaph. IT'S
Death claimed the lovely flower,
Nor spared the tender bud.
Elizabeth
Wife of DR.. Levi Hillman, Physician,
Surgeon, Dentist
Tombstone of Italy. III.
Thou hast engraved upon thy sculp-
tured marble
The name and age Of one whose i'm
maculate
Virtue, heartfelt goodness, and tran
cendent
Beauty. were the pride on one whose
s heart is now desolate.
Dora Eta Glare,
Daughter of DR.. Levi Hillman and
the deceased
Elizabeth.
Cherub of beauty, sweet 1lower of in
nocence,
Adou NIoS ldhc lily departure IN all
Thy loneliness, while thy dear de-
parted mother
Was in heaven, and thy father far
from thee.
The suggested epitaph for the doc
tor was as follows.
DIR Levi Hillman, M. D.
Physician, Surgeon & Dentist.
This monument posterity raises
To one who's head was red as blazes.
Before he died for many a year,
The town he lighted far and near
And if a neighbour did desire
To. boil a kettle without fire,
Rumor s(best authority said,
They hung it DER the doctors head.
At last this lovely man did die,
He left the world; the Lord knows
why,
For head and foot they purchased
stones,
To show where rests his weary bones.
Oh: Vermont marble, could they
That he like that was streaked with
green?
His obsequies were performed quite
right,
He is out of mind and out of sight,
United to his partner fair,
And little Dora Eta Clair.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
The Daring Little Humming Bird.

Courage has little or no relation to
bodily size. The humming bird Is tho
smallest Of birds, but also one Of the
most fearless and pugnacious He at
lacks kingbirds and hawks and those
tyrannical creatures though OF mon
strsus size in comparison, seem not at
all ashamed to fly from the onsets
The fights Of humming birds among
themselves are often fierce and pro-
tracted.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
DUBIOUS OUTLOOK

'I understand you have a new
friendly with him ?'
II hope for the best. but he has
five little boys. and my library win
dows are in an exposed POSITION
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
WILDERBS GULL EXTRACT)
NOT A LAXATIVE r

Do not confuse the Wilderb
treatment with ordinary Lax-a-
tive medicines, the persistent use
iyze' the bowels. This super
tonic is designed to assist nature
to restore health and will not
move the bowels any oftener than
is the regular daily habit.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
maine CAPTAIN
DIED A FATHER
OF THIRTY
But He's Been Dead Many
Years, According to Gem
etery Epitaph.
fBv DR.. r. M. Griswold.) )

(by LIZ. r.. TMs GEISWOlu.J
Among the many peculiar epitaphs
found in various parts of Maine, is
the following from little cemetery
near Harpswell:
Sacred to the memory Of
CAPTAIN THOMAS HART,
who died
on the FOURTH MAY, 1922,
of a boil on his neck
in HIS SEVENTY-E EIGHTH year.
He was four times married. and left
80 living children, beside
s dead,
L and was buried. in the hope of
the Lord.
Eighteen hundred & twenty-five.
! J The following curiosity of graveyard
literature comes from California,
yer. It was given me by an old for
ty-niner" who claimed to have seen
the stone and copied the inscription.
The late Captain Samuel Woodruff Of
Southington,r himself "a forty miner"
told me as late as 1880 or 1881 that
stone bearing such an inscription was
near Sacramento about 1851.
In memory of
Jonny Smith,, who met
VIERLENT DEATH
near this spot.
IS hundred forty-too. He was shot
by his own pistol, it was not one Of
the nu kind, but an old fashion brass
tha.rel. and of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven.
The following is sent me by IA
friend in Vermont as having been
copied by her from a stone in pri-
vate burial ground in that state:
AS Allen Ellen Rodd would do to God,
Were God but Allen Ellen Rodd,
And Allen Ellen Rodd were God
The tombstone of Mrs. Jemima Tute
at Vernon, VT, gives her history as
follows
MRS. JENNA TUTE,
Successfully relict of Messrs. William
Phipps, Caleb Halves &
Amos Tute.
The two first were killed by the In
dams. Phipps July 9Th, AID, 1743
Halves July 81, 1855.
When Halves was killed she and her
children
Then seven in number
Were carried into captivity
The Oldest daughter went to a French
settlement
And married a French gentleman.
The youngest was torn from her
breast
And persisted in hunger.
BY the aid of some benevolent GENTLE
men
And her own personal heroism
She recovered the rest.
She had two by her last husband.
Outlived both him and them
And died March Z, 1905, aged 80.
Having passed through more vicissi-
tudes
And endured more hardship
Than any of her contemporaries.
No more can Savage foe annoy
Nor naught her wide spread fame de-
stroy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20

The convention Of the American
Federation of Labor adopted "a resolu-
ton favoring a law granting to all
government employees in the classified
civil service a horizontal increase OF
salaries OF at least 1900 a yaar.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
EARLY RISING.

f'You say you owe your success in
business almost entirely to early ris-
ing?"
Eyes. I'm manufacturer of alarm
clocks. ''-Washingto Star
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20
Tribute to Country Doctor

The following inscription marks the
grave Of DR.. John Turner, in his day
a noted physician of northern Yer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20


south and east into Roumanfa
mont It is a token of affection and
respect of which any man might be
willing to spend his life in the service
of humanity" and tells it's story of
lifelong faithfulness without further
comment:
Here lies all that remains to remind
The FRIENDS and GRATEFUL
PATIENTS of
DR.. JOHN TURNER
who spent "a years of his life in the
service of Humanity.
Hundreds Of the poor attest his char
ity and all
HIS WORTH.
During his fifty-four years of practice
he was
Never away from his duty but three
days
And that on account of sickness.
He left no fortune except that which
he LAID UP IN HEAVEN.
He died in his seventy-seventh year
from canker
Sore throat contracted from a patient.
This monument
Is erected to his memory by his
Grateful Friends & Neighbours.
A. D. 1927.
At Weehawken, N. J., on the spot
where General Alexander Hamilton
fell in his fatal duel with Aaron
Burr, is monument with this in
scription: -
On this spot
Fell, July 18th, 1904. IN the
48th year of his age
Major General Alexander Hamilton.
A.. an expression OF, their profound
respect
For his memory, anG their
Unfeigned grief for his loss, the
Saint Andrews Society
of the =
State of New York
have erected this monument.
Previous to, and during the war
Of the Revolution, the family of
Ogden was one of the most promi-
nent in New Jersey, renownedAin law,
medicine, literature. and war. The
epitapIs from many of their tomb
stones are interesting, not only from
an historical, but from a literary
point of view. Mary, wife of Edward
Ogden, is commemorated in these
beautiful lines.
MARY
wife of
Edward Ogden
here rested from the hurry of life
on the 18th of Mch, 1772,
AE.a %.
Could the softness and eloquence
Which endeared human nature,
Could the heartiest friendship,
Or purest love, distrain
The King of TerrOrs,
She had not died.
When every pain and every joy is
DER,
When fortune, age, disease can pain
no more,
Virtues like hers, with radiant luster
glow
And breath refulgent through the
realm of woe,
ing breath,
And strew with softer down the bed
of death.
General Matthias Ogden, an in
innate friend of Washington, is
buried at Elizabeth. This is his
epitaph:
Sacred to the memory of
General Matthias Ogden,
Who died on the 23rd of Mch 1871.
AE. So years.
In him were united those various
virtues
Of the soldier, patriot and friend,
Which endear man to society
Distress failed not to find relief
In his bounty, unfortunate man a
refuge
In his generosity.
Of manly sence, and dignity of mind,
Of social virtues liberal and refined,
Nipped in the bud deserves compass
sions tear,
WEED HIS GRAVE CLEAN, YE
MEN OF GENIUS,
For he was your kinsman,
Tread lightly on his ashes We men of
feeling,
FOR HE WAS YOUR BROTHER.
In the same yard is this:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-20

Previous to, and during the war
Of the Revolution, the family of
Ogden was one of the most promi-
nent in New Jersey, renownedAin law,
medicine, literature. and war. The
epitaphs from many Of their tomb
stones are interesting, not only from
an historical, but from a literary
point Of view. Mary, wife of Edward
Ogden, is commenorated in these
beautiful lines 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-11
Births Reported.

The following births have been re-
ported to the health department in the
last twenty-four hours:
Frederick P and Frances E Wells,
boy.
William NJ. and Mildred Wilson. girl.
Homer J. and Grace S. Dodge. boy.
George H. and Sarah H. White, girl.
Charles f. and Virginia A. Thomas,
boy.
Hamilton ". and Minnie Swing, girl.
Harry NJ. and Eva NJ Rudisill. girl.
Sidney and Kitty Perry, girl.
Herbert f. and Alice Merwin. girl.
Michael and Nellie Keehan, boy.
Frederick ]. and Mary E. Jefferies,
boy.
James and Margaret Heany, boy.
William c. and Mary NJ. Henderson,
girl.
Thomas NJ. and Martha Hoyle. girl.
Alphonse W. and Blanche Gessner,
girl.
James A. and Esther Dugan. boy.
Andrew and Laura Corso, boy.
William and Molie Berry. girl
James A. and Emile f. Boorman, girl
Robert +. and Della l.. Browning
girl.
Edward and Bertha Walker, boy.
Roger and Birther Proctor, girl.
John and Maria Harris. boy.
William T. and Gertrude A. Hall,
girl.
John r. and Lurena Hill, boy
Clarence and Preal Griffin, boy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-11
RIBBON A WHITE ELEPHANT.
Reaches Conscience Fund in Letter
From Paterson. N. IT.

Three yards of silk ribbon are the
latest contribution to the conscience
fund. And thereby a great problem as
to how to cover the value into the
United States Treasury has arisen The
contribution seems something of
white elephant.
Probably the ribbon will be sold to
the highest bidder at public auction
and the amount realized covered into
the Treasury. The value of the ribbon
cannot be judged. and the prospective
amount of the credit to the conscience
fund cannot be estimated. The ribbon
is about four inches wide, varicolored
and of exquisite heavy quality.
The envelope containing the ribbon
was postmarked Paterson. N j. There
was no message inclosed. the package
being addressed simply to The Con-
science Fund, Washington, D. c." 1t is
presumed that the ribbon itself was
smuggled in and is now surrendered.