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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
ONE STEP & FOX TROT

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 TAUGHT BEGINNERS AT OUTFITS SCHOOL OF DANCING Colonial Ball Room. 271 Fairfield Ave. to 9 o'clock Thursday and Friday Evenings. Advanced Glasses, 9 to 12 o'clock, new dances and dancing
 ADMISSION
 Thursday, S5 cents; Friday, 50 cents
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

After dep1oring the candy habit among the young, the Old Timers drive dowon to the grocery store and load up with the annual order for new maple sugar.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07
PATENTS S

A. M. WOOSTER, Attorney-at-I.ayv
 Late Examiner U. g. Patent Office 1115 MAIN ST. SECURITY BLDG.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

The country does not waste as much money on war as some, but a heap is spent on getting handsome1 school houses than the next town.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

Three Shows Daily. ?, 6:45 and 9 Mats 1Oc-Eves. 1Oc, 15c, 25c
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

The prediction that skirts are again to be long promises to give the street sweeping department the assistan ce it has lacked for some time.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

The Carranza dollars are worth onl four cents, but at the prices of 1abo in Mexico there is a profit in printin them even at that.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

Our citizens seem to like to sail the ocean on armed ships, as it would be such an honor to be killed and have the country go to war for them
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-07

The Literary Club may not be able to comprehend the works of Henry saying "Oh, how lovely when the reading is finished.
 President Wilson is overworked and should take a rest, but this does not arc use half as much. anxiety as re- ports from the training camps about the baseball players with lame arms
 The fact that the Radcliffe college girls weren't informed about current events does not prove that they can't talk about them.
 News from the Southern resorts tells are taking the rest cure by dancing until 1 a. m.
 It will be a most unpopular stand bu tthis newspaper is unalterably op- posed to pensions for the members of the Ford peace party.
 The people who enjoy staying at home get much comfort from the fact that they are giving up evening dissipations during Lent.
 After dep1oring the candy habit among the young, the Old Timers Qr1V0 OOWOn to the store ana load up with the annual order for new maple sugar.
 The country does not waste as much money on war as some, but a. heap is spent on getting handsomer school houses than the next town
 The prediction that skirts are again to be long promises to give the street sweeping departm ment the assistance it has lacked for some time.
 The Carranza dollars are worth only four cents, but at the prices of labor in Mexico there is a profit in printing them even at that.
 Our citizens seem to like to sail the ocean on armed ships, as it would be such an honor to be killed and have the country go to war for them
 The South is chiefly notable in the minds of some people, not as the home of King Cotton and fair women, but as the location of the baseball training camps.
 The men won't have much opinion of the intelligence of the Womens Current Events clubs, until they
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
MIR. ROOT AND CURRENCY
LEGISLATION.

In their search for material for use
in the campaign, let not the republi-
can managers overlook the speech in
opposition to the currency bill which
was made in the United States senate
by Elihu Root, of New York.
The partisan press, when the speech
was delivered, heralded the utterances
of Mr. Root as a crushing argu-
ment' against the currency measure.
The distinguished party leader de-
clared among other things that the
bill, if enacted, would bring complete
disaster unto the people of the United
States.
"Ah, Mr.. President" said Mr. Root,
I'VE are turning our faces away from
the fundamental principle upon which
we have come to our high estate"
He also said: Nv e are turning them,
(Our faces) weakly towards practices
which history shows have invariably
led to decadence, to degradation, and
the downfall of nations. We are set
ting our steps now in the pathway
which through the protection of a pa
ternal government brought the mighty
power of Rome to its fall"
Poor old Rome! How many thou
sands of arguments have even great
minded men, not CnaTIdIdnS OeCeSSdE-
lily, culled from the eternal city'S his
tory of decadence to thwart beneficial
legislation which for selfish reasons
they have opposed
But there were men to answer the
Rome objection. The president of the
United States was high in advocacy OF
the proposed measure and democratic
senators were there to resist and over
throw the arguments of one of the
most astute attorneys of corporate in
terests and their demands that ever
was awarded a senatorial tOga.
Time, too, has in the meanwhile come
along and with the resistless logic Of
the experience that it has permitted
the laws operations has proven to the
country and to the world that those
who advocated and enacted the federal
reserve law were wise in their gem
Grafton and statesmen in their con-
structiveness.
Will Mr.. Hughes make the law one
of his campaign issues? If so, will he
quote from the senate speech of MIR.
Root to give form, substance and pith
to his denunciation?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
The Daily Story
Study for Painting-By F. A. Mitchell.

This takes all have with me-" he
said, except enough to get me back 10
Paris. Take it and give this man a
receipt"
When the papers had passed and the
landlord had gone both the woman
and the man turned a grateful and In
curing look upon their benefactor.
"How am 1 TO pay you any more
than the other?" asked the husband.
"You owe me nothing" said the 9TH
er. you and the others have posed
for me. The picture I shall make of
this quarrel will be worth ten. perhaps
twenty, times the amount l have ex.
pended. But must get more material
on the paper before the action has had
time to fade from me-"
Turning abruptly from them, be be-
gan to work anew with his pencil. Els
model looked over his shoulder and,
struck with the action suggested by
the few scattered lines, exclaimed:
There is in those lines the making
OF great picture"
The stranger, after working awhile,
gathered up his materials and said:
81 am off for Paris. I viii send you
and your wife the wherewithal to fol-
low me. l want you both and your
landlord. If can get him, to pose again
for the painting shall make from this
outline. YOU" he added to the hus-
band, have talent. | have seen that
in your pictures. will be glad to have
you for a pupil"
In due time funds came for the mod
els, and they all, including the land
lord, went 10 Paris. When they mount
ed the stairs that led to the studio they
saw a card on the door on which was
the name "Meissonier."
When the picture was finished II was
pronounced one of several OF the great
artists most wonderful productions.
The pupil who began his studies at this
time became one OF Frances noted
artists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
FISH SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES
SAID TO BE IN NO DANGER OF DEPLETION

Flesh and fowl may fail US, but
Americas f1rsh supply is going on for
ever, according to censuses of the
finny tribes which inhabit our lakes,
streams and coast waters from Alaska
to the Florida Keys. DR.. Hugh M
Smith, the leading authority in this
country on the subject, tells of Amer
ica's surprising fisheries in a COM
munication to the National Geographic
Society, now made public in the fol-
lowing bulletin:
with the acquisition of Alaska
there came to us marine resources of
such transcendent value as to over
shadow all other natural products and
to give the United States fisheries the
leading place among the nations.
THE creatures which support our
fisheries are not all fish, but belong in
various classes, some of those con-
tributing most notably to the import
anCe of the industry being crustaceans
and mollusks. The total annual value
of our fisheries at the present time is
approximately $76,000,000.
THE most numerous fish in economic
Importance on the east coast of the
United States is the menhaden, which
is known also by a large number of
other names, some of them inappro-
pirate and misleading. 1t is a mem
Der of the herring family; goes in
great schools in the ocean, bays and
sounds, and supports a fishery from
Maine to Florida
Although the menhaden is a pala-
table food fish, its principal value now,
as in the past, is for conversion into
oil and fertilizer. At times it is ex-
ceedingly fat, and yields cheap grade
of oil much used in the industries,
while the part remaining after the ex-
traction of the oil is rich in ammonia
and is one of the best fertilizers,
whether employed alone or in com
binatiOn with other ingredients. The
chief purpose, however, which the
menhaden serves is as food for num-
erous valuable fishes along the entire
coast. 1t forms at times the principal
diet Of bluefsh, swordfish, squeteague,
mackerel, Spanish mackerel, etc, and
often when we eat these fishes we are
really consuming transformed men
haden. The abundance or scarcity of
menhaden in a given season or on a
given port of the coast may determine
the abundance or scarcity of various
important food fishes; and for this
reason, in addition to its immediate
value to man, it has by some persons
been regarded as the most important
fish on the Atlantic coast of the United
States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
THE HUGHES ARGUMENT
FOR WILSON.

When Mr.. Hughes in his speech of
acceptance censured President Wilson
for having permitted the retirement
from office Of Mr.. Herrick. the Amer
lean ambassador to France, he made
an unanswerable argument for the re-
election OF the president.
Accepting for the sake of the argu-
ment, Mr. Hughes contention at its
not have been removed for political
reasons when a great international
crisis was on, the New York World
exclaims: How great and how mex
cusable the bIunder would be if the
American people were to yield the ma
tional interest to partisan expediency'
by making Mr.. Hughes president in
place of Mr.. wilson,"
And the World goes on TO say:
Aside from the fact that Mr. Herrick
became ambassador to France only be-
cause President Taft, for personal
reasons, drove one of the Oldest and
most experienced diplomatfsts. Henry
White, out OF the service, we agree
with Mr.. Hughes that the president
erred in substituting Mr.. Sharp for
Mr.. Herrick. Mr.. Sharp, like Mr..
Hughes. is an excellent citizen and a
good type of American: but here was
a great world war. and Mr.. Herrfck
was the experienced man on the job
Ambassadors are no longer highly
important persons, and we have no
serious diff culties with France, yet ii
II was a mistake TO send Mr. Sharp to
Paris 10 succeed Mr. Herrick. what a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05

head wires, gateways, etc, too low
ANY tell-tales in bad order?
Report these things by safety pos
tai cards.
Help to remove the cause before
the accident happens.
Look for dangerous practices when
you see crew switching, a gang of
men work, an engine, a train
Are these chances being taken ?
Each is a violation of safety instruc-
tons: e
Did engine start without ringing
bell?
Is anyone riding on engine pilot?
Or kicking a drawbar when cars
are coupling?
Or going between moving cars?
Or running around the end of NOV
ing cars to open knuckle or throw
switch2
Any rough handling of trains or
cars?
Any neglect to flag at public cross
ings when switching over same?
Hand ears-Are they running closer
than two telegraph poles apart?
See any hand car or motor car run-
ming with no light at night7
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05

British Headquarters in Mesopota-
mia.-(Correspondence OF the Asso-
ciated Press Flies, heat and dust
the three principal plaques OF Mesopo-
tamia, are what have stopped the
fighting for the past several months
in this theatre of the great war.
Flies are so thick that soldiers say
it is impossible TO keep them out OF
their food. A squadron OF cavalry
coming down a road looked as II they
were wearing chain armor. When
they came close enough IL was iound
that what looked like mail was lhe
steely blue metallic mesh OF flies.
At night the flies disappear and tNe
mosquitoes and sand-hies relieve them
Many species bite or sting.
The thermometer runs up 10 10 de-
grees in a tent All the men wear
sunguard over their helmets and spine
pad, for a person can get sunsuoN'
here through the small Of the back
The persistent hot wind rs beiVei
than complete stiffness, though
filings sand and dust in the faces o.
the men. who eat sand. breathe sanu'
lie in sand. have sand 10 their ears
eyes and clothes
There are different kinds OF neat
the moist and tropical heat OF w
swamps of the Euphrates ana tns
Shat-al-Arah. the parched and dess"
heat OF the Tigris and the karun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
SANE RAILROADING.

do Some Good in the World. 80
How to Be a Safety Inspector"
These are the captions of circu-
lar just issued by the Burlington
Route in the interest of safety. In
the circular is a letter, addressed to
all employees, stating that there have
been so per cent fewer deaths
and 25 per cent fewer in
juries to Burlington employees
augurated, and inviting every man to
identify himself with that movement.
The following suggestions are con-
tanned in the circular:
Around buildings, yards, tracks.
When you see danger, correct it or re-
port it; never neglect it.
Public crossin gs-Is view bad? Are
cars standing too close? Any brush
and weeds obstructing view? Did en-
gineer sound whistle and ring bell for
crossing?
Frogs and guard raf1s-Can you find
one not protected with foot blocks?
Platforms - Any holes, missing
boards, etc, in platform? Is ground
at ends of low platform not surfaced
up level with top of platform?
Baggage trucks - Are trucks left
standing too near track? Are the
tongues down? ANY holes in truck
platforms2
Mail cranes - Are there stations
where mail is being hung too long
before arrival of trains?
Stock chute gates-Are they left
standing out flush with edge of plat
form, contrary to instructions?
Pathways-Is there any obstruction
by reason of signal wires without box
ing. unnecessary holes. etc?
Nails-Are boards with nails left
lying around with points up2
Machinery-Do You find any which
is dangerous for lack of safeguards
around gears, shafting. etc.2
CleaTances 49, Are there buildings
tracks, switch stands, telegraph poles
etc, which IL would be practical to
move TO safer clearance? Amy over
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05

Some idea of the abundance of
menhaden and the magnitude of the
fishery may be gathered from the fact
that in 1913 more than one billion fish
were caught and converted into over
six and a half million gallons of oil
and nearly ninety thousand tons of
fertilizer, valued at three and a half
million dollars. These fish, if placed
end to end, would have extended in an
unbroken line six times around the
earth at the equator, and their weight
exceeded that of all the inhabitants of
Greater New York.
Among the fishery products in
which America is preeminent, the most
conspicuous is the oyster. This, our
most important aquatic resource, is
not only more valuable than in any
other country, but more valuable than
in all other countries combined. The
American oyster has the further dis
tinction of being a staple food of com
paratively low price, while in praCti-
cally every other country having a
well-developed oyster industry the
oyster is a high priced luxury. It's
commanding position is shown in the
fact that it is a commercial commOd-
ity in every coastwise state except
two (Maine and New Hampshire) that
it is the leading fishery product in 10
states, and that it is the most eXtens-
lively cultivated of all our aquatic ami
mails. The annual oyster crop of the
United States is about 35,000,000 BUSH
els.
The salmon resources of the Pacific
states are among the natural wonders
of the western hemisphere, but they
now take rank after those of Alaska,
whose fisheries as a whole have ex-
perienced their remarkable develop
ment and attained their present sur
passing Importance chiefly because of
the salmons. Since Alaska became a
part of the national domain, the total
value of the products taken from the
waters of the territory up to the pres
ent year has been nearly 100000, 900;
the fishery reached it's climax in 1915,
with a value of $21 900 900, which is
three times the purchase price of
Alaska.
The ample experience of private
fish culturists in all parts of the coun-
try confirms the opinion often ex-
pressed by national and state fishery
officials, that under given conditions
agriculture may be more profitable
than agriculture; that an acre of the
best water may yield larger returns
than an acre of the best land, and that
food supplies of untold volume and
value may be expected from what are
now unused waters"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05

monumental misfortune 1t would be at
this time to send Mr.. Hughes to Wash
ington to succeed Mr.. wilson, 1t is
the president, not the ambassadors,
who IS charged with the responsibility
for the foreogn affairs of the United
States. If foreign governments were
perplexed and misled by the retire
ment OF MIR. Herrick, as Mr.. Hughes
insists. what would be the state of con-
fusion that inevitably followed the de-
feat of President Wilson,
For four months the United States
would be without foreign policy in
the most critical period, perhaps, of
the war. Every belligerent govern
mRnt would know that the American
people had repudiated the foreign pol
icy of President Wilson, which had
been in effect since the beginning of
the war, but none of them could have
definite assurances as to what the for
eign policy of Mr.. Wilson's successor
would be. That hiatus might easily
be the means of drawing the United
States into war"
Mr.. Hughes, it may be added, has
had no experience in International af-
fairs. He has no intimacy whatever
with the world events of the past two
years. Hitherto unknown questions
have arisen, new precedentS nave DeeH
established.
He has no settled policy concern
ing them and could not have any.
His public utterances show only that
he is opposed to everything that Presl-
dent Wilson has done. Beyond that
he is a mystery. The natural assump-
ton must be that if elected he intends
to substitute force for diplomacy and
sustain his demands by means of war
| That is the form in which European
governments, unfamiliar with process
es of partisan politics in the United
| States, would naturally translate Mr..
/ Hughes's fierce invectives against the
| president and his failure to enunclate
| definite policies of his own.
! If Mr.. Hughes is sincere in cTticising
/ the president for the withdrawal of
! Ambassador Herrick, he must realize
as a citizen that his own election
would be a colossal blunder on the
part of the American people, regard
! less of his qualifications for the office
Electing him or any other man in
place of President Wilson at such a
time as this would be playing with
! dynamite. 1t is unbelievable that the
sober, thinking elements of the Amer
| lean people are in a mood for such a
reckless experiment. and Mr.. Hughes
! has given to them the best of reasons
why they should keep Mr.. Wilson in
| the presidency for another term.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
HOW TO DIGEST YOUR FOOD.


My food doesn't seem to agree with
me.
| don't assimilate my food.
Everything sours on my stomach.
Can you suggest something TO inn
prove my appetite?
These are the grand old libels of
the well nourished, too prosperous
victim of autointoxication upon the
hardest working, longest enduring or
gan in the general economy.
Try our little pill. 1t is a hard pill
to swallow, but 1t digests your food.
Here is the formula: Instead OF eat
ing lunch at noon take one banana and
two-mile walk.
You assimilate all the food you need
if your weight is not below standard.
You assimi1ate more than is good for
you If you are steadily putting on
weight
Give your stomach a rest and it will
sweeten up.
Join the Bread and Milk club. Mon
day isn't such a long day--a meal eV-
cry two or three hours. at your pleas
ure, one glass of milk and one cracker
or bit OF bread, from early morning
till bedtime. 1t tones down BILIOUS
ness. 1t takes the fire out of aciditS
III Stops DlO6tlHs. bIedh diu MIN
club members develop old time pep
after a few weeks OF blue Mondays.
Don't be so dignified. Dignity is
hard on health. Unbend. Get down
and crawl with the baby. Try head
stand Turn a few summersaults.
Turn yourself upside down and shake
the fermenting food out of the corner
pockets. Unkink.
Amateur gymnastics will not cure
gastric ulcer or hardened arteries or
chronic appendicitis, but will help to
prevent all of them. Dignity is the
polite usher of old age. Preserve your
elasticity and you will retain your
youth.
A glass Of cold water at the begin
ming of each meal is natures own ap-
petizer and aid to digestion.
Digestive tablets? When you reach
the stage of mental deterioration you
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
HOW TO PROVE OUR SINCERITY
TO OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBORS.
CBy Herbert Quick.l

CBy Herbert Quick)
Being understood in South, Central
and Mexican America is very import
ant to US 1t is also important that
Europe and Asia understand our atti-
tude toward Mexico and her sister
Latin republics.
If we are fundamentally predatory
and imperialistic in our attitude to
ward South and Middle America if we
are impelled by our national soul to
carry the Stars and Stripes as the en-
blem of conquest from the Rio Grande
to the Isthmus of Panama it is well for
the world to know it-and for that
part of the world that objects to this
policy to prepare to fight us.
On the other hand, if we of the Uni
ted States agree with Wilson, as I
think we do, in believing that we want
no more territory, that we believe in
the right of the MeXicans to settle
their own destinies, even while we are
fixed in the determination to protect
our borders, it is the best thing in the
world for our friendship with South
and Middle America. for our trade with
all the western hemisphere south of
us, and for our own peace, that the
world be shown, by the most convinc-
ing demonstration possible, that such
are our peaceful intentions.
If you and l and 20 others were to
be suddenly thrown together under
circumstances which established mus
cular power as the only guaranty of
safety we should all be afraid of the
man 10 feet high if such a one hap
pened to be of our party. And if he
began taking things from us we should
soon hate him, even though his en-
croachments might be justified by our
own turbulence or foolishness. Well,
we are the man 10 feet high among the
republics of the western world. And
we have taken from the others right
royalty We took large part of Mex
leo, we have our power established
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-05
I'll III
T A l. K 3
Xe1MLLlAt1 sRA0Y. r1oH

are beyond reforming. The best Al.
gestive tablet ever produced acts No.
on the food, but on tho imaginafior
The minute quantity Of digestive fsr'
ment contained in any tablet win al
gest, say, one-fftieth OF the bulk -
food in the stomach n that will relieve
you. But st would be a sorry dirss.
ton that would take care Of forty-nine.
fftieths OF the food and balk On. tba
remainder.
Eat little less and unbend a. Ut,is
more If you quarrel with your vIctnaIs
It sounds like a foolish system n
treatment TIL you have tried n ON,
privately. The food tube stands harS
usage and will respond almost eazevlr
to a show Of encouragement