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Evening journal., 1917-09-26
sOcIlBLE FOR SOLDIERS.

A musical entertainment will be held
in st. Paul's NJ. +. Church tomorrow
evening for the beneft Of soldiers and
sailors. No admission will be charged.
hui a collection will be taken. The
program will comprise patriotic selec-
tlons.
Evening journal., 1917-09-26

on vacation. can accept no more en-
gagements because feud exists be-
tween them. George. the rlght-hand
twin. became strongly pro-German dur
ing an engagement IN Berlin, and Earl
is a loyal American. They light so con-
stantly they are in danger Of dying for
want Of sleep.
Evening journal., 1917-09-26
TO PROBE LABOR TROUBLES

BY The United Press
WASHINGTON sept esPresIdent Wilson's labor
..,. ,onorroys to complete plans for probing
,.,,. ,,r.., including searching inquiry INTO the ia
nous Mooney bomb plot case
Evening journal., 1917-09-26
HANOyFR PRAYER SERVICE.

what Makes Life Worth Living TO
Me- viii be the subject OF the week
~ prayer service in Hanover Presby-
terian Church tonight The Rev r.
L. Jackson Will lead the discussion
and members Of the church will take
part. Mr.. jackson also VIII explain
next Sundays Sabbath School lesson
A. large attendance OF the church
Numbers IS desired.
Evening journal., 1917-09-26
TWINS NOT NEUTRAL.

DELAWARE CITY. Del. Sept 26.-
The American Siamese twins. who have
exhibited In side shows all over the
world, and are now at home near here
Evening journal., 1917-09-26
THOMPSON AspIaEs 10 I. $ SENATE.

THOMPSON AsPIREs TO u s SENATE
BY The United Press.
CHICAGO Sept 2s-winam Hale Thompson Mayor Of the
sixth German city wants to be United states SEN
ator He announced today through formal statement TO the
peope OF Illinois, in announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination primaries September 1915 to
succeed James Hamilton Lewis
Evening journal., 1917-09-26
TopAY,s TEMPERATuRE.

At the Evening Journal 0hice.
son A. M....-67 1901 p. NJ. 7t
1000 a. M. 90 1.3O u. M..... IS
Evening journal., 1917-09-26
ENGLISH ADVANCE IN FRANCE.

ENGLISH ADVANCE N FRANCE
BY The United Press.
LONDON Sept attained by Anzac and
British troops in the region today Brit
push" resumed.
Evening journal., 1917-09-26
WEATHER

Fair tonight and Thursday
with moderate temperature.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
London Educators
Revise Methods
For Examinations

London, Jan. 31-Every London
school teacher has been sent by the
educational authorities a new syllabus
of orders and suggestions for the con-
duct of examinations in grade, schools,
Some of the suggestions involve a
more or less complete upsetting of
the old methods of preparing ques-
tons for examinations In many
cases, an examination wherein the
pupil is allowed to consult his text
books is insisted upon.
There are some things that are
not worth knowing" says the. sylla-
bus. Questions on historical nobodies
are out of place, and a years study
of geography cannot be tested by such
questions as, Say all you know about
Australia or the Mississippi or Name
six of the products of Europe or Can
ada.
: Information on these points is de-
sirable, but it should not always be
tested in this dulling form. Tests
of intelligence should be more fire.
quently set than tests of knowledge
and skill.
"Just as in history, SO in nature
study, quest is often better than a
question"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
Hints For the Autoist

In the February Woman's Home
Companion there is an article about
motoring in which the writer says:
THE good driver never applies
brakes swiftly except in an emer-
gency. When drawing up at street
side, she cuts off ignition early and
allows momentum to carry the car to
the stopping place, using the service
brake gradually. The good driver
thus saves gasoline and wear upon
brakes, coasting to a stop with the
smoothness Of operations of an easy
start.
"A good driver never uses the emer.
gency brake, because she never has
emergency before it arrives; the poor
driver rushes into trouble and de-
ponds upon quickness in grabbing the
emergency lever to save life. More
than one accident has followed futile
attempt to find the seldom-used emer-
gency lever in hurry.
1.-THE good driver rounds sharp cor
ners to the right, goes over extremely
rough stretches of road, or hits unex-
pected thank you-ma' ans, with clutch
disengaged, to save the rear axle
mechanism
1.-THE good driver uses the wheel
with the least possible motion. She
does not drag it suddenly. from side to
side, but turns it so gradually that
passengers are unconscious of the
fact. In rounding a corner she COM
mences to straighten the car up before
it is half way around"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
JAPAN VISITED BY SNOW FALL.

Toxic, Jan. 81. A snowstorm
which, covered some sections of the
northern provinces to the depth Of if
teen feet. wreckfng some houses and
blocking railway communication; a
tidal wave which demolished a hun
dred houses on the western coast and
wrecked a large number of fishing
boats; and a fire which destroyed over
400 houses at Shinagawa, one of the
suburbs OF Toxic. formed an unusual
series of disasters the past month.
About $50 fishermen who were out in
their boats at the time of the tidal
wave are missing.
The fire at Shinagawa rendered sew
eral thousand people homeless at four
o'clock in the morning on the coolest
day this winter Destruction Of sew
eral hundred houses in a single fire,
however, is not remarkable in Japan,
where the tiny wooden houses are
always consumed with amazing swift
ness The recent frequency of fires,
however, is calling the attention of the
authorities to the necessity Of improv-
ing means for f1re-fighting.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
McADOO SHOWS TO ADVANTAGE

VIZ HEN SECRETARY McAdoo was appointed a member of
the cabinet he was the of securities
Kinds which, be assumed would his mind
special interest in Industrial banking organza
Mons However proper such interest may there no
doubt of the right Of business securities Mr.
McAdoo evidently determined that interest,"
sgh should stand between him and his duty public
officer He disposed of his stocks and bonds received
Tor them and to deal with financial situations
which had long needed government attention
From the treasury department he representative
the City National bank of New York. the largest probably
the most powerful bank in the United Nor did he hest
tate to deal with the Riggs National Washington
grown pompous, naughty and somewhat threatening
Nor did he Wall street according to the
Of of On the contrary he advanced
loan banks and aided much in the creation
system which is to say that he democrazed credit
Such bound to show up well in the testimony.
It is surprise that he is exonerated from Mr.. Lawsons
charges of control and this by the testimony of Pny
and Mr. White the whom Lawson said would
the control
Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Fisk have been friends for many
woud not be strange if Mr. Fisk could call by
telephone and receive matter of fact
has had occasion to do any such thing there
ter stands. .saa tasf~
Wall street is singulary unfortunate in its latter effort to
smirch Mr. McAdoo and through him, the administration
Mr.. McAdoo is strong man. He is not complaisan
arrogant he is neither weak unfair He wants fair deal
for business but he wants also fair deal for the
people He believes these ideals to be entirely compatible
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
A Dinner In Berlin

Dinner at the Esplanade tonight
was really too awful We had Meth
err meat nor bread cards, so were re-
duced to a dish called "lost eggs, .
and asparagus. The eggs were lost in
some dreadful vegetable and the as
paragus was that fat, white, and
stateless stuff they grow here. Billy
remarked that the sauce hollandaise
must have been difficult to make with
out either butter, eggs, or olive oil
and his tea, he said reminded him
of when his nurse used to stick heI
finger in a cup of hot water and tell
him to drink his tea, Dearie." I had
apricots for dessert and ate a great
number; that they had begun to fer
ment was no longer a drawback-at
least they tasted of something.
They are going to oblige one to
have cards for clothes now. Billy
says he wants to know how the city
authorities are going to know the
next time he needs a new undershirt
The February Worlds Work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
SUPERIOR court
CLERKS SEEKING
HIGHER SALARIES
Fairfield County Appropria
tion Would Be $4,000
Larger Under the Pro
posed Bill.
Especial to The Farmer.

Hartford, Jan. 31.-Salaries Of the
clerks and messengers Of the Superior
courts throughout Connecticut have
not kept pace, during the last two de-
cades, with the pace set by the high
cost Of living, according to many
clerks and other attaches of these
tribunals who appeared at the hear
ing before the Committee on the Judi
ciary in the capitol yesterday after
noon.
Included in the docket Of the COM
mittee yesterday were several bills
having to do with the increase of sal
aries for these officials. Fred w.
Tracy, assistant clerk of the Superior
court of Fairfield county was one of
the several such officials to appear in
favor of the measures. None APP
peared to oppose them.
The Fairfield County clerks now re-
ceive an allowance Of $11,500. 1t is
desired to increase this by $1,000, and
to increase the allowance for clerical
assistants from $500 to $4,000.
The Hartford County clerks want
the allowance increased from $1,000
to $4,000, and for clerk hire, from ST.
500 to $4,000 The New Haven
county increase proposed is for the
clerks. from $4,000 to $4,000, and
for clerical assistance from $1,000 to
$4,000.
Litchfield county representatives
asked the committee to recommend an
increase for the clerks office from 81
400 to $500 with an allowance of
5000 for clerk hire. Middlesex coun-
ty modest1y asked for $4,000, instead
of $4,000, and Windham county's pro-
posed increase was only $500, with
$50 for clerk hire.
The salaries of court messengers
proposed were: for Fairfield county,
from $1,000 to $500; Waterbury dis
trict court, $1,000 to $1,000; Hartford
county, for the superior court from
$1,000 to $780,; Common Pleas
court $1,000 to $1,000.
Another measure favored by sever
al Hartford county lawyers was the
appointment Of an associate judge of
the common pleas court, at salary
of $1,000 year.
u. S. District Attorney Thomas j.
Spellacy appeared, among others, to
favor this measure, but he suggested
SIS per diem as pay for the judge
rather than the fiat salary.
Other measures that were heard IN
cluded one that would automatically
void attachments on real estate that
have been standing for Is years; a
bill to prevent the transportation of
prisoners or insane persons on troll
ley cars, and a measure that aims to
authorize the American Baptist For
eign Mission society to sell a bequest
of a home in Norwich, which Isl re-
motely situated for the purpose OF
place of trecuperation for invaded
missionaries.
The measure relating to the use OF
trolleys for transporting prisoners and
insane persons provided controversy
representatives of several smaller
communities protesting against the
expense that abolition Of this method
of transportation Of such persons
would entail on their communities.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31

say to all who would listen: "Piehve
hates me and reviles me. Just wait
little and you shall see how he VIII
be punished"
Then, when Piehve died of purely
natural illness, but rather suddenly.
he said triumphantly: "You see, In
such way are those who revile me and
are my enemies punished" And
though many shrugged their
shoulders, others were impressed.
AS for his influence over Russian
women, I am sure that has been eX-
aggerated. Women everywhere takes
an interest in occult matters, Rus
sian women are not different from
others.
1 have been invited to houses where
Rasputin was guest, but I have al
ways declined to meet him, as did
many other Russian ladies.
When he was invited it was as
sort of curiosity by silly women who
like to have novelties at their parties.
I think his boosted creed of life and
his supposed conquests were about as
much to be relied upon for truth as
his assertion that it was through his
power Piehve was struck down.
Rasputin was so cruel, SO ruthless,
so overbearing and INSCRIPTIONS, the
only wonder is his enemies did not
destroy him long ago.
But there is one thing which should
always be remembered, and that is
that the Empress is an adoring wife
and mother and that it was her terri
BILE anxiety for her child which led
her to suffer Rasputin's presence in
the first place. Any other statement
is merely shameful calumny.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
ST. BR|DCET'S EVE

| Tonight will be st. Bridget's Eve
when in former times Irish lads and
lasses held many removals design
ed to secure the aid and protection OF
the fair contemporary Of st. Patrick
The day dedicated to the sainted
woman who shares with ST. Patrick
the spiritual patronage of the Elmer
aid Isle is the first of February, but
the eve of the feast day was long the
favorite time for seeking her interces-
sion, especially in affairs of the heart
ST. Bridget was a native daughter
of Ireland, having this advantage over
Patrick, who was a foreigner" OF
Roman parentage and Scottish birth.
She was born at Fochard in Ulster
about the year 453, which was about
forty years before the death of St
Patrick, who is reputed to have pass
ed away in the year 493, in the 121st
year of his life. Bridget was a daugh-
ter of one of the princes of Ulster,
and, although Ireland was still large
ly heather, she early became remark
able for her Christian piety.
Bridget, having taken the monastic
VOW, became the first nun in Ireland
the pioneer of a vast army of de-
voted women who have dedicated
themselves to the service of the
church in that island. She is describ-
ed as having been very beautiful, and,
in spite of her religious vow, many
gallant young suitors sought to induce
her to leave the religious life and be-
come a wife.
What is perhaps the most remark
able sacrifice ever made by a woman
was then offered by st. Bridget. Fear
ing that one of the holder of her low
ers might carry her away bodily, she
prayed that she might become de-
formed and ugly, and thus lose her
value in the eyes of men. This pray
er, it is declared, was delivered with
such heartfelt fervor that it was i'm
mediately answered, and from a lovely
maiden she was changed in an instant
to a plain and homely one. When her
lovers saw her they Immediately
thought Of another engagement de-
manding their immediate presence
elsewhere, and st. Bridget was freed
from their opportunities. After a
time, when her Conservation to God
had been attested by miracles, Bridget
recovered all her former beauty.
The mother of Irish nunneries built
her first cell under large oak, which
had been the site of pagan worship.
1t was named Kil-dara, meaning a
cell of the oak, and later become the
site of the city of Kildare. It was
the fame Of Bridget, which brought
many pious pilgrims to her nunnery,
that caused the erection Of the first
secular edifices in Kildare. Bridget
died on Feb. 1, 523. Several centuries
later her remains were deposited in
the same grave with st. Patrick What
is said to be the head of ST. Bridget
is now one Of the relics of the
church Of the Jesuits in Lisbon. The
worship of st. Bridget extended from
Ireland to Scotland and England, but
in the latter countries she was and
is still known as st. Bride.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
A SAFE, EASY WAY
TO CURE. ULCERS

No matter how bad a. sore or ulcer
afflicts you, it is believed that Hokara,
the pure skin healer, will cure it, but
if it doesn't cure, the purchase price
will be refunded.
w. P. Hindle. the local agent for
Hokara, who has sold hundreds of
packages, say they have yet to find
any form OF wound or disease AFFECT
ing the skin that Hokara does not
heal, and it's relief comes SO quickly
that those who try it are simply de-
lighted with it.
Pimples, eczema, blackheads, acne,
BARRIERS itch, and all skin troubles are
quickly relieved by applying this sim
pie skin healer and tissue builder. 1t
contains no grease or acids, and is
Clearly to use.
w. P. Hindle Drug Store is selling
a large package of Hokara for 35c.-
Adv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
NEW YORK NOW SAILORS MART

New " ork, Jan. 31.-New York city
is rapidly replacing Liverpool as the
labor center for sailors shipping on
merchant vessels between this coun-
try and Great Britain, according to
Dr. George Sidney Webster. secretary
of The American Seamen's Friend So
ciety ''The shifting of the labor
center. for seamen is DUE he says
"to the fact that many ships of both
American and British connections
have adopted the policy of signing
their men on for the forward and re-
turn voyage at this port. Under
present conditions, men are more
available on this side, and there are
almost no instances of desertion on
the British side in comparison with a
considerable number of the part of
sailors shipping to this country from
bellgerent nations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
NATHAN STRAUS

! In little Bavarian town on the
Rhine there lived, in the middle Of
the last century, Lazarus Straus anC
Sara, his wife, pious Jews. To them
were born, siXty-nine years ago to.
! day. son whom they named Nathan
He was their, second son, Isidor, the
elder, being then nearly three years
; old. A third son, Oscar Solomon
was born in 1850. In 1854 Lazarus
Straus, with his wife and three sons
sailed away from the continent where
their race had SO long been subjected
to persecution. bound for the New
World, the land of promise. They
did not stop in New York or some
/ other congested center, but boarded 8
| train which carried them with their
few belongings to Georgia.
The first American home of Ma
than Straus and his brothers was the
tiny village of Talbotton. There the
Straus boys were known simply as
! barefooted, happygo-lucky country
youths, and they learned to plough
and to hoe the garden. Their mother
was very fond of gardening, and she
introduced into that section Of Geor-
gia several new vegetables and flow
j ers, asparagus being one Of the nov.
elites. Lazarus Straus was a Biblical
scholar Of repute, we'll versed in He
brew, and the circuit-riding minis
ter's Of that period made the Straus
home their headquarters. The fam
! lily were prospecting until the civil wal
cost Lazarus Straus practically every.
thing he had. In 1858 he removed
to Columbus, Ca, and two years later
with the proceeds from the sale OF
some cotton, he took his family to
New York.
Nathan Straus was seventeen when
he began his business career in the
metropolis. At first he attended
school, working in his fathers store
after school hours, but after COM
pleting a business course he became
a. regular partner in the business OF
L. Stratus & Sons, importers of pot
terry. In 1874 the Straus firm opened
a china and glassware department in
Macy's department store, and there
Nathan Straus gained that keen in
sight into department storeI methods
which was later to make him one of
the greatest merchants in America.
In 1883 he became a partner and i'm
portant official in the Macy firm, and
in 1892 entered the firm of Abraham
& Straus, which built up in Brook
lyn a department store rivaling the
greatest Of the metropolitan concerns.
Isidor Straus and his wife lost their
Lives in the Titanic disaster, but Ma
than Straus continued active in the
great business built up by the broth
ers until 1913, when he retired to de-
vote his entire time to his various
pfilanthropic enterprises in America
and in Palestine Oscar s. Stratus, the
younger of the brothers, studied law,
and served as a member of President
Rooseve1t's cabinet and as ambassa-
dor to Turkey.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
FOOLISH REASON NO. 999

" HE NEWSPAPERS giving currency to foolish
900, account for the most recent slump in the stock
the Company "New England manufacturers
slipping" New Haven stock is slmping.
The New Haven Company doing the record business of
the years. is making money hand fist The steam road
property earning than it is entitled to the value
the property used for the public
But when these great profits distributed the debt
created Mr. Melens time for subsidiaries there
not enough to go round
The New Haven stock keeps slumpng because slick
gentlemen stripped of it's values with the aid of the Connec
ticut legislature 5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
MIR. HALE's SPUR TRACK

HE PEOPLE Of Connecticut will hope the charges
against John H Hale of Glastonbury, member of the
Public Utilities Commission will not be proved They
tered by Representative Rogers of Manchester and consist Of
the claim that Mr. Hale obtained spur into his peach
orchard, because he public utilities commissioner
Mr. Hale has great peach orchards at Glastonbury These
orchards have brought capital and fame to Connecticut They
noted throughout the United States Mr. Hale furnished
proof that Connecticut is peach state and benefited himself
and many others.
He has endeavored for years to have spur track
tended his orchard but the track it alleged not actually
extended until he became public officer
There to be claim that Mr. Hale made any tend
Of influence service that the railroad company
manded In this charges will surely not lie against
Mr. Hale though the railroad not have been unaware
Of his changed status
Mr. Hales orchards asset to Connecticut
titled to freight facilities upon their merits Connecticut
industry
Connecticut proud Of her peach king feels
will make sound defense. l..It
Also the public will have feeling that the attack upon
may something to do with the purpose to get the Public
Utilities Commission abolished, thing that must by
be permitted
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
Fairfield County
Farmers Sell Out
Potato Holding

The potato shortage of Fairfield
county has its effect upon Bridgeport.
Dealers in this city declare that the
farmers have practically sold the last
OF their holdings on a rising market
and that the city is now subsistent
upon shipments from Maine, Long Is
land and Western states.
A slight stringency In the potato
market was relieved yesterday by the
arrival of 500 bushels by the steamer
Park City. This consignment was
quickly taken up and will likely be
followed by larger shipments in the
near future.
The price wholesale on Long Is
land is said to remain almost uniform
with prevailing prices in. Connecticut
with large sales reported to New
York buyers for speculative purposes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
LORD MAYOR REPLACES
CANADIAN MACE.

London, JAN S1.-An imposing
solid silver mace for presentation to
the Canadian House Of Commons is on
view here. 1t is a replica of the
mace destroyed in the fire at the Par
lament Buildings in Ottawa last jan
uary. Immediately after the disas-
ter, the Lord Mayor of London wrote
to Canada, offering to replace the
mace The offer was Immediately
accepted, and fragments of the old
mace were sent here from Canada and
Incorporated with the new one. The
makers, with the help Of photographs
have produced what may be regarded
an exact facsimile.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
AUTOMOBILE LEGISLATION

T~ USUAL flood of automobile legislation appears at
Hartford, of it wise, most of it unwse and little
of it vindctve, merely foolish Bills requiring
for drivers placing heavier penalties intoxicated
ers and forbiddng dazzling headlights among
may well be made laws.
number of bills designed to restrict the move
Of goods by motor truck might better be placed
convenient waste basket Surely Connecticut will not further
inure prosperity by restricting useful
sary of transport
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
ZONE BOARD TO MEET.

Alderman John J. Ford. Democrat
will be asked to preside at the meet
ing of the zone committee tonight al
$50 in Jefferson school. Alderman
Robert A. Mcbride, William T.
Hincks and Frank D. Anderson are
other members fof the committee OF
the Second district.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-31
Hustled ON TAX BOARD.

Henry E. Hustled of 413 Wilmot
avenue, has been named a member
of the board of apportionment and
taxation in place of Jacob Borstelman
who declined the mayors appoint
ment. Mr. Hustled is a Republican.
He is secretary and general manager
of the City Ice and Coal Co., and
one Of the most active Of the city's
business men.