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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10

Evaporated Apples 2 lbs.
for 25C
Evaporated Prunes, Med
ium size, 5 lbs. .25C
Jumbo Peaches, 2 lbs.
Tor 1919. &0C
Evaporated Peaches, 4
lbs. for. $500. Csc
Large Meaty Prunes, 8
lbs. for Csc
Extra Large Prunes, 2
lbs. for .25C
Evaporated Pears
16c. per ID.
Evaporated Raspberries
3Oc per ID.
Fancy Florida Grape
Fruit 8 for CSC
Florida Oranges, juicy
and Sweet SOC peck
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10
Coffee

Flat Bean Santos Coffee
19c To-, 5 lbs. for 9OC
Maracaibo Coffee zoe
TO-, 5 lbs. for CSC
Club Coffee zoe To-, 5
lbs. for CSC
Public Market Special
27c 10, 5 lbs. for
SIPS
Our Queen Quality Blend
Coffee SOC To-, 5 lbs.
S1.A
Our Very Best Coffee
33c H., 5 lbs for
.... $1.5S
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10

New Orleans or Porto
Rico Molasses, jug free
all for .S5C
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-10

Pure Cider Vinegar, full
gallon, Jug free, all
Tor $500. >. &oC
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
France Accommodating Gold.

Paris. Correspondence of the AS
ISOLATED Press The Bank of France
has taken in billion and a half fracs
in gold in deposits and in exchanges
for paper money and government
bonds since Dec. "a, 1914, and the re-
ceipts continue at the rate of FIVE mil
lion a week. These receipts have
brought its gold reserve up to about
five billion mark and maintained
it there Notwithstanding shipments
abroad in the meantime of $4,000, 900,
most Of which went to Great Britain.
The Bank of France is not a govern
ment bank in the strictest meaning of
the term, but it is the states banker
the lender to which the state applies
when 1t needs to borrow money.
The bank has now advanced to the
government 7,10O,O00,000 francs. The
money is lent at the special rate of
one per cent interest by the terms of
the contract with the government, and
is to be repaid within one year after
the end Of the war or before. If the
loans are renewed after that period,
they will bear three per cent interest.
Besides financing the government
the bank has protected the exporters
unable TO realize on their foreign cred
its at the outset Of the war by buying
up their drafts to the amount of $780,
100000 francs, and furnished guaran-
tees for an English loan of 5000, 900
pounds to a Partisan bank and for an
American loan for $4,000, 900. 1t has
at the same time contributed largely
to the revival of trade by facilitating
payments in installments of balances
due from merchants at the beginning
OF the war, involving a stupendous
amount of work since at the beginning
OF 1915 there were in the main bank
alone 500,538 drafts and bills of ex-
change of more than 200, 900 different
debtors, amounting to 2,07S,982,2l5
francs. The transactions of the bank
during the first full year Of war, cash
receipts and payments combined,
amounted 10 PA, 225 900, 900 francs.
One result of the perturbation in
finances resulting from the war was
the encouragement given to customers
by the bank TO make their transfers
by check instead Of currency. 1t may
result in a permanent and general use
Of the American check system. thus far
looked upon with little favor in
France.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15

In Colonel Roosevelt's address to the
Methodists the other evening-his lat
est concio ad clerum-he apparently
followed the model of Lacordaire For
it was of him that GuiZot wrote: His
history and theology were full of orig
inality. Indeed, they were absolutely
original, for he invented them as he
went on. This gave to his sermons
the charm of perpetual novelty"
To the credulous Methodists Mr.
Roosevelt made this statement:
Il was president seven and a half
years. This nation during all that time
never for one moment permitted any
power to wrong this country or to
wrong Americans either in their per-
sons or property to to make US re-
creant to our duty to others; and yet
during these seven and a half years
not one shot was fired by any man in
American uniform against any foreign
foe, and not one American man, woman
or child was slain by representatives
of any foreign nation"
His reference was to Mexico Very
well, turn to the Tribune index for
1904, under Mexico" We find the en-
try, July %, Two Americans Shot
In the year 1905, the record for Jan.
IS is Il. A. Sanger Murdered, and for
Jan. %, 'Yaquis Kill Four Americans"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
DOCTORS AND WORK

In the early history Of medical work
in industry the regular employment
Of physician in an industrial estab-
lishment was usually considered an
evidence Of benevolent attitude on the
part of the employer.
Now it is proved that the work of
the physician in industry is as bene-
ficlal to the employers as to the en-
ploye. The physician protects both
against undue expense arising out of
injury and sickness and by promoting
better mutual relationship.
1t has also been proved that medi-
cal supervision Of employees increases
their efficiency and that prompt med
ical and surgical treatment of injured
and sick employees prolong their lives
and the period Of their industrial use
fulness.
The value Of the physician in in
dustry became more generally reaIiz-
ed with the enactment of workmen's
compensation laws, which compelled
the employer TO shoulder the expense
OF injuries to employees regardless Of
the fault of either party.
THESE laws forced the employer in
self-defense, not only to provide ade-
quate medical and surgical treatment
for employees injured in his establish
men, hut also To exert all reasonable
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15

living for a normal family is from $3.50
in the small industrial town to $3.50
in the large city The efficiency
standard of living for the normal fam
lily demands $500 in small industrial
towns to 5000 in the large city. Yet
our wage statistics show that 20 per
cent of our wage-earners are getting
less than $500 a year, and 80 per cent
of them are receiving less than $500
year.
This means, therefore, that ap
proximately 80 per cent Of the male
wage-earners are unable to provide
minimum standard of living in the
small town, and approximately IS per
cent cannot provide it in the large
city.
1T means also that IS per cent of
the male wage-earners in small towns
and 80 per cent in the large cities
cannot provide an efficiency standard
for the normal family. 1t means that
Of the families having between 500
and $500 income, 80 per cent are I'M
derfed. 80 per cent are underclothed
and So per cent are Over-crOwded.
The minimum cost of living for
single woman has been set in the
large cities at SIS to SO a week, and
the efficiency standard of living at $40
to $12, with 81 less in the small town
A fair conclusion from all recent in
vestigations is that so per cent Of the
women wage-earners of the United
States are receiving less thai 1925 an
nually, that 80 per cent are earning
less than $500, while only per cent
are paid more than 5000 a year"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
FOR WOMEN, NOT MEN.

1t is d significant and characteristic
thing that a meeting held by Rose
Pastor Stokes. the New York sociolog-
list and philanthropist, advancing her
views on birth CONTROL should have
been interrupted by the attempt of "a
body OF men" TO mock the speaker.
Men, not women, mind you. The mat
ter OF births TO men is an abstract
proposition; but it is d vital and per-
sonal thing to women.
Birth control is a delicate subject
says the Peoria Journal. 1t isn't pop
ular with prudes and hypocrites. But
every honest man and honest wife
knows that there are two sides to the
questiOn-One that is hypOCritically
talked in public (when the subject. is
allowed to enter at alb, and the other
that is honestly talked in private.
1t is an ominous thing, to the ordi-
nary mind, to contemplate popular ed
ucation of women in the matter of
birth prevention; interference with
the divine gift of propagation seems
repellant, and even blasphemous, to
the conventional and orthodox. The
corruption of society, it will be urged,
must inevitably follow the dissemina-
ton Of doctrine which would edu-
cate young girls in immunity against
the supreme penalty Of immortality.
But there is an opposing phase of
the question no less worthy of consid-
Grafton. The curse of undesired chill
'dren-a curse that rests both upon the
child and the parent, oftentimes; the
economic burden of large families in
these days when starvation and neg
lect threaten many a household; the
condemnation Of mothers to drudgery,
premature old age and nervous wreck
age; the saddlng upon society of
surplusage of children who cannot
have a chance-all these things enter
into the question as discussed by the
pioneer women who are risking social
ostracism and legal martyrdom TO de-
clare woman's right TO say when she
will not become u mother.
Popular debates on birth control may
be dangerous" But our private and
honest opinion is that il is question
to be settled by the women who bear
children, and not the men.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
DAN CORKEN.

There are those to whom the appli-
cation of a nickname or other alb
breviation grows out OF deep rooted
attachment and fondness in friendship.
Dan Corken was one of those so re-
garded. No one knew Dan Corken in
timately but 10 love him, and hence
the term, Dan, was never mentioned
as il referred to him other than in a
sense of genuine affection.
For Dan Corken was a remarkable
man. He was of rare type. Of sturdy
character. Industrious, honest, fear
less in the right, he was ready at any
and all times TO fight for friend, and
90 to the limit and so he proved his
sterling worth in many ways. He was
type of the common people to be
proud Of, for he was proud of the
common people. He believed in the
dignity OF labor, and he gave dignity
to labor and to labor's cause.
Faithful in his friendship, he was
alike faithful to every confidence re-
posed in him, faithful to his fellow
worker, faithful to all mankind.
Devoted TO his family, he has gone
out Of a life where he played well his
part. and in his passing has left many
aching hearts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
ROOSEVELTS FORGETFULNESS

But the tell-tale year is 1906. The "in-
suits" to our flag were filed thick.
Here are some of the entries: "Ameri-
can Fishermen jailed; american
Sailors Charge Tortures." 1t was in
June Of 1906 that occurred the crown
ing ''infamy''-as Roosevelt would
have called it if it had taken place
under Wilson. Read this: How Amer
leans Died at Cananea." And then (oh,
shame-faced Americans, read this !:
Root Denies American Troops to
Cananean
There had been a murderous out
break at the Cananea mines. Several
Americans were killed. What did the
imperiled American survivors do?
They sent to Washington, through the
American consul at Cananea, d tele-
gram urgently calling for help. Even
the Mexican governor of Sonora was
reported as asking that the United
States government send in a military
force. But what happened? Why
Secretary Root consulted the chief of
staff, and the law officer of the war
apartment of the disgrace OF
actually looking up the law,-and de-
cided that American troops must not
cross the line" Imagine it, Uncle
Sam putting on pigtail like that
when Roosevelt was president!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
REDUCES WAR RISK

President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing are determined that the mere
pleasure or curiosity seeker shall not
run risks that might involve the Unit
ed States in the European war. Just
the other day the president issued an
executive order to further safeguard
the issuance of passports, allowing
Americans to travel abroad. This re-
quires that the certificate of the clerk
Of the state court as to the identity of
an applicant for a. passport will not
be accepted if federal court is with
in easy access.
Before the war, Americans desiring
to go to Europe just naturally went,
that's all. Except to Russia, Turkey
and the Balkan states, formal creden-
tials from the United States govern
ment were unnecessary. Now you may
not sail to any destination unless you
have Uncle Sans express permission.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15

"Oh, yes; see good deal Of human
nature as | travel about" replied the
tramp as he put his wet shoes against
the hot stove. "and the more I see of 1t
the more wish | was a hermit in a
cave up in the mountains"
do you find it growing worse"' was
asked
Preachers tell us that the world IS
growing better" continued Willie, but
If one days travel in the country
wouldn't prove to the contrary I'd give
my old hat I began touring sixteen
years ago. and / give you my word
that there Is at least twice the wicked
ness now that there was then, and 1t is
growing mighty fast Yes; III give
you some illustrations.
Il meet so many liars that l have
come to believe that not one man in
hundred has any respect for truth. L
get two or three days work with
farmer After the days work is done
tie family looks for me to sit down
and relate my adventures. They encour
age me to lie. They want me to tell
about the robberies and thefts | have
committed and the prisons have been
ia ami a,caped from. If don't lie out
rageousIy they think I am a villain
who will not give himself away; If
l do lie the chances are that they will
FOL HI fba nd 10
arrest me for the crimes l have con-
fessed.
81 have heard husbands lie to wives
and wives to husbands. l have, in fact,
heard so much lying as to disgust me,
and l am only tramp. There are n.y.
pocrisy and deceit everywhere. There
are swindling and graft everywhere. A
country constable who arrests me on
the highway as l am plodding along
will swear before the justice of the
peace that l was just entering Or leav-
! ing a farmers barn. The owner of
| that barn can be induced to go into
court and perjure himself, and the JUS
| tice who tries me will remark that l
look like a murderer.
Il very seldom ever heard one fam
fly speak well Of another in the coun-
try, but when they met they were al
ways very ELUSIVE. One afternoon a
farmers wife had me in the house
scrubbing floors and washing windows
and moving furniture about In three
hours time she blasted the character
of every family for five miles around.
She had Just finished her TRADE when
a woman that she had accused most
bitterly happened to drop in The &C
cuser rushed for her with open arms
and kissed her half a dozen times be-
fore she stopped.
81 have read and heard about saw
agery Of war the submarines, the
poisonous gases, the starvation of pris-
oners-but let me tell you that there
is savaeery elsewhere than in war.
Man was born savage.
Let me give you an incident I
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15

You must state the full details of your
business, the why and wherefore of
the journey, and, if then it is decided
that your business is real business,
you are equipped with most elab-
crate set Of papers To obtain these
you must upon oath declare your
American citizenship and prove your
right to the claim by witnesses. If
you are American born, a reputable
citizen known in your community
must depose that it is a fact of his
personal knowledge that you we're
born in the United States of Ameri-
can parents. If you are a naturalized
citizen, you must present your nat
uralizatiOn papers.
In giving your reason for going
abroad you must submit documentary
proof Of its truth. If you go as rep
resentative of a business house, you
must have letters from your employ
ers corroborating your statements.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
The Daily Story
The Tramp's Side of It-By NJ. Quad

was plodding along the highway one
summer morning about half-past 3
O'Clock. I passed country school
house Thirty rods beyond the house
I met the schooIma'am on her way
to open school. | had not quite for
gotten the manners Of other days, and
l raised my cap and babe her a good
morning. She passed on without a
word in reply, and a short quarter Of
mile beyond I met three children
going to school I gave them smile
and a word, and they laughed In re-
ply. That was the whole thing, sir
the whole thing. / knew that the
children stopped and looked after me.
but I stepped along without turning
my head.
at a farmhouse mile further on I
got work hoeing corn. | worked 30
hard during the day that the farmer
complimented me at night, and I
heard his wife whisper to him that
they had found tramp at last who
seemed willing to sweat little to earn
his way. / was to sleep in the barn
and soon after 9 O'Clock and when |
was getting ready to go out to my roost
there arrived at the house, headed BY
the schoolma' am, a gang Of FIVE or SIX
farmers. Three among them had guns,
two had clubs, and one had a coil Of
rope in his hand
There is the yillain-that's the
man. exclaimed the woman as she
caught sight Of me.
"'What is the trouble? asked.
"You ran after me this morning.
she cried. You would have caught hold
of me il I had not picked up a stone
| and threatened to throw it In your
| facer
"Well, that was a nice fix was fn,r
said the tramp. Nothing Of the kind
had taken place, and for minute l
was dumb with surprise. Then l de-
MED it, but it was no go.
"In a moment or two more something
would have happened to me II had
not thought of the three children met.
| I asked that some one might 60 for
them, and my employer was good
enough to hasten on that errand. He
said that I should have a fair show.
The children and their father came, and
it put a different light on the story at
once. When the young woman was
asked why she told such a yarn. which
might have brought about the death Of
a man, she carelessiy replied:
"'Oh, I was so scared that ] really
don't know just what did happen
my employer said to me:
"'You are an innocent man, but a
marked man. You will have to 60
You can't stay in this neighborhoodr
And Weary Willie moved on" was
the conclusion Of the story. He was
threatened with lynching because he
bad raised his cap and given good cheer
to a woman on the highway! Don't say
we have returned to savagery. Say,
! rather we have never lost it"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
Turkish Attacks On Snez Not Like

Turkish Attacks on SueZ Not Likely.
Cairo, Egypt--tCorrespOndenoe OF
the Associated Press. )-Serious Turk
ish attacks on the SueZ canal and
Egypt, with the coming OF the hot
weather and the drying up Of many
of the desert water-holes, are now
said 10 be only a remote possibility,
though sharp raids may. it is thought
by the allied military authorities, be
attempted by the Ottoman command
erS
Turkish troops are still on the
Sinai peninsula, an arid tract OF Egyp-
tan territory lying between the Suez
canal and the nominal boundary OF
Turkey in Asia, stretching across from
Rata on the Mediterranean to Akaba
on the gulf of the same name, forming
an arm Of the Red sea. They are,
however, the object of repeated obser-
walton on the part Of allied alrne1,
and accommodating parties have Kept
in touch with them and made them
selves fully acquainted with their dis
positions. Only recently the occupa-
ton by allied troops of Jifjah2< about
90 miles TO the east Of the Suez canal
placed an obstacle in what woulu
have TO be the main line Of TURKISH
advance towards the canal TINS runs
from FL Audja to Ismailia.
Two other practicable routes led1
from the Turkish positions across ina
desert sands towards Egypt proper
The first runs almost parable. win
the Mediterranean coast line from
Rata through FL Arjsh and hatla 10
I'll kantara, but some time ago me
katia district with its water supply
came into the allies possession ana
rendered difficult any attempt by the
Turks to force their way along 10 lae
canal banks and Port Said
The second remaining line of possl-
Bile approach is further 10 the south
from Akaba by way Of the oasis Of
FL Hassana towards Suez. Ii was tals
oasis occupied by Turks and Arab
horsemen which was b0mbarded by
allied atrmen in March.
Nothing is permitted 10 be record
ed Of the preparations made by the
allies 10 meet any effort al a Turkish
offensive movement
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
Calling the Auto Dealer.

B. L. T.. in the Chicago Tribune,
says the following letter has been re-
ceived by the Howard Auto company's
Portland branch house:
Mastur Fiske: Ay ban wont to wrote
you fallers long time, so Ay wrote
now. Des har maskene Ay by from
you ent mulch guide. Et ent vurt mulch
as de angen wont run eff a skysklone
het him. Vot en- hal as de mataur Wit
ct. Ay wont you TO tai me. Come ote
to my plais an LUX at him. Eff der ent
ane tank de mater ay don't know. Den
yu klame des har Buke run al over had
or do anything. Ay wish ct vas on hal
before Ay get ct. Ay ges you vas write
ven you sd ct du anytang. Ay was
Winding at opp last week Torsda, ven
de sonafgun of krank hit me en- de fails
en- ey ent harde du anytang sense Et
koste me faften dollar for doktar. Eff
VI gefe me none bak VI kan hat de
kar. Ay don't tank Ay kno how to run
hem enyhow. Sumtank is rong vid de
transmiskens. Ded yu say put grees
on ct? Ay dednt put any any on yet
bekas ct won't sta der long. Ay oil de
reduretaor all rite regular butte de
angen wont run guide on gas oil any
how for de suker wont run nowhere.
Won mite he kot fire an burn dam ner
all her bak and Ay vii hat to get him
nu kofer for hes fronte tn. De oil al
lexis ote on de groun. Ay ges sum fall
lers vas smoker skigarutes an pute
one undre hem. Ay klame he is stikur
all rite He es alwes wheer Ay puts
him. Ay never mis- him or had him
stold onsed Ven kan w kom ote
Fiske. Brang sum tules along or he
vii haf to be fixed and sum gass and
sum skiiendur oil. Ay ent got eny.
Yures Trulle,
/ NJ c
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-15
1EAETHFTAlR
Symptoms of Bright's Disease.
William Drady,M.D.

l eat sweets if they agree with me!
We have been in the habit OF giving
our children bread and butter thickly
spread with brown sugar whenever
they want it. Are we doing right? Ia
brown sugar as wholesome as white
sugar? Should one take a physlc oc-
casionally even if the bowels are ac-
tive-especially pregnant woman!
Answer-Acute intestinal indlges-
ton in -stomach-aChe, vOm-
iting, feverishness. Stomach trouble
in older persons. You are nine pounds
underweight; sugar and pure candy
and other sweets are good for you.
as dessert. Keep up the habit OF
spreading on the brown sugar thick
1t is preferable to white sugar-cou-
tains more mineral salts, and is more
digestible because more sayory. TAX
en- at regular intervals, bread and but
ter and brown sugar on, makes the
ideal food for sturdy, healthy chill
dren.