davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
Snlendid Nerve.

q thought Janet would be very nervous about running her automobile herself, but the girl is perfectly fear less.'
 'I should say she was. The last person she ran over was a traffic cop"
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
I;hertv Bonds At Par.

New York. A block of S864,000 worth of Liberty bonds sold at par on the Stock Exchange here. The clos ing price the day before was 99.94.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
He Needn't Bother.

Horace-Must take ticket for a dog?
 Agent-No; you can travel as an or dinary passenger.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than dis belief in great men.-Carlyle.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

STOP THOSE SHARP SHOOTING PAINS "Femenina" is the wonder worker for all female disorders. Price tI .oo and Soc. Adv.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
To Drive Out Malaria
 And Build Up The System

Take the old Standard GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking. as the formula is printed on every label. showing it is Quinine and Iron in tasteless form. Tho Quinine drives out malaria. the Iron builds up the system. 60 cents
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

Don't despise the failure. He may have tried to dull care and gloom away and does it in a hurry.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

Wash day is smile day if you use Red Cross Ball Blue, American made, therefors the best made. Adv.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
Eoyptian Cotton Seed.

Alexandria, Egypt.-The govern ment has purchased the 1917-18 crop of Egyptian cottonseed.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

The man who boasts of his small feet may have head to match.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

Pretending to know things you should know but don't know occasion ally answers the same purpose.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
Something Lacking.

For the first time Louis was hearind| the cherry y-tree-and-hatchet story. It( was very dramatically related by patriotic aunt, but Louis was not so deeply impressed as he might have been. When the climax was reached and George Washington said. "I can- not tell lie," Louis displayed his first glimmer of enthusiasm.
 Couldn't he? he asked. What was the matter with himT'-Phlladelph Star.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

Don't be a miser; coffins have no pockets.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23

Some folks are so industrious that when they haven't anything else to do they worry.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
INTERNATIONAL SUNlGYSQlOOL
 LESSON

(By REV. P. B. F1TZWATER, D. D.. Teacher of English Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago)
 Copyright 1917, Western Newspaper Unton.)
The Carlisle independent., 1917-08-23
LESSON FOR AUGUST 26.
THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH.

LESSON TEXT-II Kings 25:1-H
 GOLDEN TEXT-As I live. saith tht Lord God. have no pleasure in thu death of the wicked.-Ezekiel 33:u.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
THE BESETTING ERROR
- HE AMERICAN is sovereign This is an expire

HE AMERICAN sovereign This is an expression fire.
u quently heard about election ime-it truth
Every American is privileged to be sovereign
take the trouble But the job has its difficulties The king
who wishes to hold his job must work at it. Many Americans
not willing to take the palms. time
most pfge duties attached to the job American king
to do with the of the country than the
tives OF Tmbuctoo
Sometimes citizens give attention government taking
the standpoint of what they to be immediate selfish
interest One sell his vote outright for So bill.
Another prefers job at the polls another likes work
pGaae s'sno wen with the county com
Bridgeport has group of citizens engaged in an ancient
selves rather sovereign in politics than the rank
Of Americans
The reference group Dealers who dur
ing the years have ardent support
machine in City Hall.
The city hall machine up private drinking club
speak for private profit gross injustice to the peo
breach of obligation between the
Finding itself able under these
conditions the city hall machine years
triple relationship presented to the churches appearance
of a lofty morality.
taunch support and received repeatedly the
support of the drinking clubs of which the Bridge
port has steadily increased
That is successful politics. if not lofty politics. which
lies to its support the church element
the saloons which private drinking clubs:
and the drinking clubs which like city machine
Out Of three chances to do the thing by its friends
the machine took honestly drinking
clubs The spanked and with the other
punished the conng churches which accept its pretenses
facesvalue
Such condition could not endure. At city hall ma
chine has been obliged to to show down. Ihas
obliged choose It's police commissioner
superintendent Of schools and its city treasurer many
other saunch adherents to be definitely arrayed
license movement with the pulpit definitely assisting
For the second time in its the city hall has
taken definite position.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
QUEENS DAUGHTERS
HONOR MRS. ALLEN,
RETIRING PRESIDENT

AT the meeting of the Queen's
Daughters Friday evening, Mrs. Frank
c. Sanford was elected president. She
succeeds Mrs. w. E. Allen. who has
served four years with marked ability.
Mrs. Allen will give her entire time
to work of the Ladies of Charity of
ST. Vincent de Paul She was pre-
sented with a beautiful bouquet of
flowers by the Queens Daughters.
Plans for work in the fall were dis
cussed at the meeting, which was
viewed as one of the most successful
held this year.
Mrs. John McElroy was elected vice
president, Mrs. Lyman FIJI recording
secretary, Miss Agnes Fitzpatrick
financial secretary and Rev. James
B. lNihill, treasurer. A delegate from
each parish in the city was elected to
the board of directors, which is as
follows st. Augustine's parish, Mrs.
James McEIlroy, Miss Frances Arnold;
ST. Charles parish, Mrs. J. H. Sava,rd,
Mrs. F. C. Mullins; st. Patrick's par
ish, Miss Margaret Brady, Mrs Fred
erick Holste; St. Mary's parish, Mrs.
William Hickey, Mrs. W. E Watson;
St. Peters parish, Mrs. F. E. Lalley,
Mrs. Stephen Horan; Church of the
Blessed Sacrament, Mrs. NJ A. Kenny,
Mrs. A. l.; Krohse; Sacred Heart
church, Mrs. D. Buckley Mrs. G. J.
Laughlin and Mrs. Thomas Mcmillan,
custodian
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
WISDOM OF VALUATION

u OR MANY public service corporations United
States have been operating without much regard
principles of sound business Sound requires the
value Of the physical plant shall bear close relationship
figures for which the company is capitalized If
actually invests 100000 in rights ties
houses and other appanage
lne 1t vail have in city like Bridgeport and in state like
Conneccu wherein population is Dense difficulty
ing substantial dividend
But If the street railway, which cost five millions
capitalized at thirty Millions at eighty hundred
lions 1t cannot dividend that capitalization, should
expect to- and will not be permitted to-
The Connecticut Company has its hands lot trolley
lines that watered debt well watered
Fancy having pay interest each year millions
Hons than the physical value Of the property
service This is what the trolley lines doing large
part of the United States.
The Connecticut Company retail dealer trolley
1t is trying to take the third profit This
todo if the plant capitalized at its physical
Any may easily erect house. and get rent enough
the usual his investment But another
house, much rent the house ought
bring and then tries to charge enough rent to give himself
profit he will find difficult to do The problem would
If the second renter should lease to third person.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
Id then try to make a third profit.

would then try to make third profit.
The Connecticut Company the troleys from the New
Haven Company 1t does not them The New Haven Com
does not the property It leases it of the Connecticut
Railway and Lighting Company, at rental of than mil
lion dollars year and taxes.
The Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company Gre
ated which waered When
the water added. Then the New
Haven got the properties, and more water added
The New Haven turned the properties to the Connec
Company Just luck asserted that its
a stock would be forty millions The Connecticut Company
people pay profit to the Connecticut Railway and
Lighting Company benefit of the notorious u G. and
wants pay second profit to the New Haven Railroad
profit the Connecticut Company This is really
too much. .S.,-
profits overcapitalized and heavily waered
street railway system is two too many.
Bridgeport wants trolley service at wholesale.
Let's get of the middle Transportation at retail is
too costly
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
DISHONEST GOVERNMENT

HE MATTER of providing improvements for city is
thing The method by which improvements are bought
and paid for is another good pavement laid street
where there has been is excellent but it is excellent
to buy that pavement in the highest
market
IL Is not good business it is not honest government to let
paving contracts favored bidders
certainly and justly create deep seated suspicion the
tses which public servants to abandon methods suggest
by the experience of and proved by long
There with such little faith in the intelligence
the citizens that they will the people do not how the
city lets contracts for pavement what it COSTS provided it
laldn front of their homes This short sighted
person is not usually willing to twice much for pound
OF sugar of the quality be had at half the
price Everybody who has desires purchase
suitable goods in the lowest market The people Bridgeport
have different human nature than others.
If they do not rebel against the Warrenite contracts it
because they do not yet know that good pavement
have been laid for half the price, and would have BEEN the
contracts had been awarded in the usual way.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
LIMA CATHEDRAL 2s2 YEARS OLD

Perhaps the most interesting cathe-
dral to be found in the New World Is
that Of Lima, Peru. While the present
Lima cathedral is comparatively
modern, it occupies the site and is in
part constructed of materials used in
the original edifice, which was finally
finished and consecrated 292 years
ago today, Oct. 1, 1925, having re-
quired 90 years to build. The sacred
edifice was commenced in 1885,
shortly after the founding of the City
of the Kings-now called Lima-by
Pizarro, the cruel conqueror of the
Inca empire. The ground for the
cathedral was laid out by Pizarro on
the very day the cite of the city was
chosen. For more than a century the
grandees Of the viceregal court wor-
shipped there, but in 1746 the edifice
and practically the whole city was
destroyed by an earthquake. The new
cathedral was built on the ruins Of
the old, and was completed in IL
years.
The cathedral is considered one Of
the most imposing in the world. Dur
ing the celebration Of religious festi-
walls the visitor to Lima will still see
the costumes which were generally
worn Dy the famed D0duIlSS OIL tuo
Lima of other times. This costume is
| a strange combination of modesty and
boldness, for, while the face is COW
cred, the contour of the legs is plainly
revealed. The saga y manic costume
includes the saga. a petticoat made to
| fit so tightly that, being at the same
| time very elastic, the form of the
| limbs is rendered distinctly visible.
The manic is also a petticoat, but, in
stead of hanging downward, it is
drawn over the upper part of the body
and the face, and is kept SO close by
| the hands, which it also conceals, that
no part of the body, except one eye.
| is perceptible. For general use the
i saya manic was abandoned nearly
a century ago, and the Lima bellies,
| in common with the remainder of the
| world, now follow the fashion from
Paris.
| The good people of Lima find moth
| ing in their religion that conflicts
\ with free indulgence in their favor
4 lite sports of bull fighting and cocn
fighting, and the young blades and the
beauties of the city go direct from
the cathedral to the bull fight OF
cooking main. While thee athedra
was not interfered with by the re
public the old palace Of the arch
bishops is now used as senate cham
Der, and the torture chamber of the
Inquisition is used as cloak room b.
the legislators.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
PRICE OF. MILK
HERE STEADILY
UPON INCREASE
Fourteen and Fifteen Gents
Charged Today for Bovine
Product.

Milk prices in Bridgeport shot up
from IL IL cents to IA and Is cents
this morning with the prospect that
before spring pastures again make 1t
more plentiful. = -.
At the pasteurization plant of the
Farmers Dairy Co. 1T was said that
their milk, which will be turned out
now at a minimum of about $4,000
quarts daily will be sold through 10
cal dealers at standard rates, the
Grade A, which is a carefully col
Iected and handled quality selling for
Is cents and the Grade B, bulk milk
selling for IA cents.
Mitchell Dairy Co., one of the larg-
est distributors in Bridgeport said this
morning that their prices would be
IA and Is cents per quart to the con-
sumner as against IL IL heretofore
charged.
The dairy people who are buying
largely through the New York Dairy
Producers association state frankly
that the situation is a serious one,
with only a one-quarter cent margin
for handling, and that with the in
creased cost of feeds, the dairynaen
probably will demand additional pay
ments during the winter months,
which will send milk up in price I'M
til it is near the luxury class.
1--WE have to pay one and one-half
cents more for milk from the pro-
Queer today than we did last month. -
The Mitchell Dairy officials declare,
land are charging less than that price
to the consumer Other milk distri-
butors in Bridgeport say they find
themselves in a similar position.
The Farmers Dairy Co. plant which
opened for the first time today had
contracts for delivery of 10000 quarts
of milk from the county. The pas
teurization process will reduce this to
about $4,000 quarts which will be-
| gin sale in this city tomorrow.
Restaurant men today are consider
| ing the conditions, which may result
| in q six cent glass of milk or pro
portionately shortened quantity to the
patron.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
BOARD
TO TAKE UP GRIEVANCE
OF RAILWAY CLERKS

The board of adjustment Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks will
take up the disagreement between the
New Haven railroad and the freight
checkers who stopped work last week
at the Whiting street transfer station
c. III. Motsett, superintendent at
Harlem River, has been notified by
R. s. Stearns, general chairman of the
board of adjustment, that the action
of the company IN discharging its
checkers constitute violation Of the
agreement between the Brotherhood
and the railroad, which will not expire
until May 4.
Representatives of the clerks said
today the road will have until IL noon
tomorrow to sustain it's agreement. A
meeting Of the clerks will be held at
o'clock tonight.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
RUBBER CO.
1926 MAIN ST.
THE NEW YORK NEW HAVEN AND
HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY
n - etaelrhalders of The New York,

THE NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN ANO
HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY
To the Stockholders of The New Z ORR,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Company:
Notice is hereby given that the An
nual Meeting of the Stockholoers OF
The New York. New Haven and hart
ford Railroad Company will be held IN
Harmonic Hall, No. 9 Elm Street, IN
the City of New Haven, Connecticut.o on
Wednesday, the oath day OF OCTOBER,
1917. at 1888 o'clock noon. for the
following purposes:
1. To consider and take appropriate
action upon the Statement OF enc
affairs of The New York. New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad Com
pany for to year ending December
81. 1915, and all acts described
therein or reported at said meet
ing.
2. TO elect a Board Of Directors to
serve until the next annual meet
ing and until their successors shall
have been elected and qualified.
8. To act upon proposed aIneno-
ments to the Stockholders BY
laws as follows:
Amend Article III by changing the
date for the Annual Meeting of
Stockholders from the fourth
Wednesday of October in each
year to the third "Wednesday or
April in each year, and by strik-
Ing out the WOFQS Via u 1hAf1iA VI
~ the Board and inserting In lieu
thereof the word President" 50
that said article as amended
shall read as follows:
"III. The annual meeting of this
corporation at which directors
shall be chosen, shall be held In
the City of New Haven. Con
necticut, on the third Wednes-
day of April in each year at II
o'clock M. at such place as
shall be fixed by the President
or Directors"
Amend Articles ". VII, and TX by
striking out the words Chair
man Of the Board wherever
they occur and inserting in lieu
thereof the word President so
that said articles as amended
shall read as follows:
CIV. A special meeting Of this cor
poration may be called at. any
time by order of the Board OF
Directors and shall be held in
the City of New Haven at such
hour and place as shall be fixed
by the President or Directors
''vII. For each annual and special
meeting of the Stockholders the
Board of Directors shall appoint
two te1Iers to receive and count
| the votes cast thereaf- In case
of the failure of the Board OF
Directors to make such appoint
ment, or in case of the failure
or inability of either or both. of
| the tellers to serve at such
| meeting, the President shall APP
point another teller, or tehers,
in his, or their places"
.sIx. All the meetings of this cor
poration shall be presided over
! by the President, when he shall
be present"
| 4. To transact any other business
which may properly come before
! said meeting.
| For the purpose Of this meeting the
transfer books of the Company will be
closed from October 10th to October
gath, 1917, both days inclusive.
| Dated at New Haven, Connecticut,
| this first day of October, 1917.
By order of the Board Of Directors.
! ARTHUR E CLARK, Secretary.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
IN
AMBULANCE unit
co TO ALBANIA
All Have Had Experience in
Intensive Warfare in
France

Somewhere in Albania. Oct. L.
Twenty-six Calif0rnians who form one
of the ambulance sections of the
American Field Service, are the lat
est arrivals in Albania. All Of them
have driven in France and expert
enced the intensive warfare that goes
on there, and who find the work here
much harder though just as interest
ing.
The shocking condition of most Of
the roads Is as largely responsible as
any other factor for making the work
more difficult. The country is noun
famous and breakdowns are the regu-
lar order Of the day. AS frequently as
not wheels come off or break and the
ambulances have to be left on noun
tain roadsides until assistance can
reach them.
Many of the posts are perched
on hillsides, often in plain sight of
the Austrians, and their trenches are
frequently in view. By the same tok-
en- the Austrians can see the ambu-
lances as the climb up and down. But
warfare in this section is not only
"gentlemanly," so that the Americans
of munitions up the hills is SO diff
cult that it is never wasted son moving
objects and is saved for definite sta
tionary objects.
Air raids are frequent and exciting
but the natives seem to get the worst
Of them. That is principally because
the Austrians seem to choose just that
time for raiding that the French are
over Austrian territory, and none OF
the aviators ever seem to get hurt.
The Americans had great difficulty
at the beginning with the food, water
and climate but are used to them al
now. In between their duties they
find time to study the native popula'
ton which in general is ragged and
poverty stricken. Many of them speak
English, since they have been in the
United States as contract laborers.
Much of the country has been bad.
ly devastated by this and preceding
wars, many villages have been raze6
and deserted, while scarcely a one bu1
shows evidence of the struggles. Prices
are sky high and going higher all tht
time. Bread, which used to sell fol
thirty confines per loaf before the
Balkan wars, is two trans per 1oa
now, and has been five francs a loa.
during the past winter. The popula
ton would have starved in fact If i
had not been for the French army, be
cause the people had sold its food sup
ply to the Austro- German forces.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
A MUSCULAR MILLIONAIRE.

Philadelphia's muscular million
aire, Anthony j. Drexel Biddle.
author, explorer, lecturer, Sunday
school teacher, boxer and all-arounA
athlete, was born in the Quaker City
40 years ago today. Although he
inherited a large fortune, he was not
obsessed by his wealth. In his youth
he acquired a Heidelberg education,
explored the Madeiras and other out
of the way corners Of the world, and
worked for two years as a reporter on
a Philadelphia paper. He revived the
Philadelphia Sunday Graphic, found
ed Society weekly, and started
publishing house. In his leisure hours
he wrote books, travelled, taught Sun
day school, engaged in religious prop
uganda, organized 'gentlemen's
boxing club" and fought exhibition
boxing bouts with Bob Fitzsimmons,
philadelphia" Jack O'Brien, and
other professionals. He is fellow of
the Royal Geographical Society and
America. The muscular millionaire
breaches a military variety of Chris
tianity, and asserts that the effemi-
nate and milk-and-water type, Of re-
ligion is responsible for the fact that
few boys and men attend church.
Jesus, he asserts, was an athlete, and
he cites the election of the money
lenders from the temple as an ex-
ample Of His physical prowess. Only
a red-b1ooded, robust, manly type of
Christianity will bring the men back
to the churches, in the opinion of the
Philadelphia exponent of athletic
religion" Besides being a clever
boxer. and able to absorb as much
punishment as any professional. Mr.
Biddle INDUCES, or at least used to, in
many other forms of exercise. One
of his favorite stunts, which has
earned for him the title, of 1.-THE GEN
tleman With the Iron Jaw equals
the performances of professional
kstrong men. A piece of broom han
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-01
ATTEND
E.. j. HILLS FUNERAL

Congressman EbeneZer j. HILL who
died at his home in Norwalk last
Wednesday, was laid at rest in River
side cemetery in that city amidst
ceremonies that rartook of an almost
national character.
The nation, the state of Connecticut
and the county of Fairfield paid tri-
butte in the presence of its officials
and men of political prominence who
had been closely associated with Mr..
Hill.
Bridgeport was represented by its
Lieut.-Gov. Clifford B. Wilson and by
City Clerk Alex Robinson, Aldermen.
Primrose, Thornton and Lyons.
Senators Brandegee and Mclean OF
Connecticut, Harding of Ohio, Dilling-
ham of Vermont, Fernald of Maine,
Mcclellan of Tennessee and Congress-
men Lonergan, Freeman, Ti1son and
Glynn Of Connecticut, Collier of Mis-
sissippi, Dickman of Missouri. Crisp
of Georgia, Holvering OF Kansas.
O'Shaunnessy of Rhode Island, Carew.
GiIlett and Treadwell of New York
were among those present.
The body lay in state from noon
time until 2:30 when services were
read by Dr. Robert Moore of Brook
lyn, former pdSIOI VI LAS I ouLuIy 0A.
e. church, Washington, who also pro-
nounced the euIogy. About 1000 per-
sons attended the funeral.
A guard of honor was composed Of
Mayor Carl A. Harstrom, Former
Lieut. Gov. Edwin O.. Keller, Judge
Henry w. Gregory, DIR. James Greg
DRY, John P Treadwell, D. Warren
Fitch, William F. Bishop, Arthur c.
Wheeler, William c.. Baur. Lester
Hyatt, Henry P. Price and Eben Hill.
They accompanied the body to its
final resting place in Riverside ceme-
tery.