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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12
Raioes Funds For Homo Missions.

Hai0eS Funds For F1on1e WlSstons'
Through the efforts OF the Woman's
Home Missionary society of the Meth
odist Episcopal church In Texas $500
has been raised to complete the Eliza
Dee home. Mrs. E. s. ,Ratlfh IL pres
ident of the society, whose annual
meeting was. recently held at Waco
.TeY
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12

The Bystander now under special
rates is $l.00 for one year, if sent in
to the office.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12
CITY LOCALS

Attv, s. Joe Brown was in Monroe
county yesterday On legal business.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12

Mr.. VIM. Jones, our court bailiff at
the court house, is sick this week.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12

Mrs. J. Alvin Jefferson has been
mite sick the past week.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEET.

The board of directors OF the Home
for Women and Girls will meet in Des
Moines at 2 p. m. Friday, January 70
Mrs. J. B. Rush, President.
Mrs. Matte Warricks, Sec'y.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12
THOMPSON HOTEL GUESTS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wagner, city;
VIM. A. Given, Council Bluffs Homer
Jones. Keokuk; David Danbo, Youngs-
town, Ohio;J. w. Dishman, Ft. Dodge.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12

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rt t' WIN MRS. Geo. Young on January
VII, VIII MRS. Nellie Gregory and Fannie
wilson We're added to membership
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-12

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burke announce
the birth of a daughter Tuesday night,
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
PECT LOPEZ DE ASSOCIATION
 WITH THIEVES

Regarded by the police as a suspic- 1ons Character, Richard Lopez. of ETA Capitol avenue, Is neio III $l,059 bond, kpday, pending investigation and hear Ang/tn the police court next Saturday,
 fthe result of his arrest for the al- eged attempted theft yesterday of an automobile belonging to Dr. D. H. A4onahan, of the Board of Health.
 Detectives say that Lopez has been ass0ciating with characters who are believed to be automobile thieves, and his past will be carefully looked into. Drs Monahan caught him in the act, # Is said. of trying drive away in the machne he had left in the street Opposite Polls theatre only a short while before.
 Lopez told the doctor that he had been told by a man in nearby sa- loon to take the car to garage. The Stranger, he said, had claimed the car to belong to a man who would give him job as chauffeur when he deliyered the machine. When the suspect saw that Dr. Monahan in- tended to turn him over to the po- lice, he darted away. ran through the lobby of The Stratfield with many people chasing him. and was finally caught on Golden Hill street by Traf- 1ic Policeman Corrigan.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARY.

The American postal service, the flrat regular service of it's kind on this slde of the Atlantic, was established 24s years ago today. Dec. 10, 1872, when the government of New York lnaugurated a regular monthly post 10 Boston. Some 30 years before that q postofice had been opened in Bos- ton at the house of Richard Fairbanks for all letters which are brought from beyond the seas. or are to be sent thither.p In 1857 the Virginia Assembly provided for the rapid irnnsrnission" of official communica- lions from plantation to plantation on penalty of one. hogshead' of tobacco for each default. Four years after the Establishment of the New York Boston monthly mail, the colonial cccrt of Massachusetts founded an ofilcial postoffice in Boston. In 1892 a royal patent was granted to Thomas Neale, who was authorized to trans port letters between England and America at such a rate ''as the plant ezs should agree to give" Neale be- gan operations in Virginia, and the other colonies soon joined in the movement The English postal sys- tenn was extended to the colonies in 111O. The rate on a single letter from London to New York was one shilling and four pence, or eight cents Was charged for each 60 miles from New York,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
CONSCRIPTION OF LABOR IS
 NOT LIKELY TO BE NECESSARY
 FOR THE WINNING OF THE WAR
Secretary Wilson Asks Congress to Conscrp Industries As Well If That Step Becomes Necessary Annual Report of Secretary of Labor.

absolutely essential. Consequently it has become necessary to establish several additional war emergency of fees of the United States Employ ment service and to employ travelling field workers and agents to locate qualified workers for the yards.
 ''The extraordinary demand for man power on the industrial as dis tinguished from, the military side of war preparations was responded to by the department through it's U. 8. Employment Service as soon as the demand arose. Much of the demand was found to- have been influenced more by eagerness for labor at low or inadequate wages relatively to the sharp rise in living expenses than by general labor shortage. But in some places, especially in the neighborh ood of intuition establishments which had been serving European war demands at enormous profits, there was a gen. uine scarcity of labor for less profit able forms of production On the whole, the problem at first probably was less a problem of labor scarcity than of imperfect distribution
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
NINON DE LENCLos.

Ninon was born in Paris in the year 1913. Her father served under Henry ". and Louis XIV, and gained considerable reputation for bravery and knowledge of military tactics. After he resigned his commission he spent the rest of his life in social pleasures and dissipation. Ninon was brought up in this environment with little discipline. She manifested pre- cocious wit and great aptness for learning. Her father delighted in the admiration she excited, neglected both her moral and religious educa- ton. At 16 years of age Ninon was left an orphan. Even at this tender age she was famed for her charm. Men of distinction frequented her house, among them being the Marquis of Gersey, to whom she bore a son.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
SENATOR CORE, 47 TODAY,
 BLIND SINCE 11TH YEAR

In Mississippi the politicians take thetr politics very seriously, and, since duela with firearms are no longer in leshion. they occasionally settle their differences with their fists. As/ no gentleman would fight blind man, Thomas Pryor Gore, who was later fo win fame as United States Sena- tor from Oklahoma, found himself at q decided advantage when he began ais political career in his native Mis- sissippi. On one historic occasion, when the youthful Gore was debating paint of politics with Senator Hern- Ando De Soto Money, the latter be- cnane enraged at the ridicule heaped Npon him by his verbal opponent, and 1neuted. "If you were not blind naAm. would whip you!" Gore,e tear- lnE of his coat, answered, Well, tie Handkerchief about wour eyes and Wade right in." The "rookus'' did not Sake place for Senator Money was so d1ll1hted with the spirit of the sight 1szs youth that he led the applause thak erected this sally. It was this iehkIng spirit which triumphed over
 fsrrfble physical disability and made Gore one of the leading statesmen of f1e republic. The Oklahoma Solon
 6s born in Webster County, Miss, 1oEty~eeven years ago today, When he was eight years old he lost his left eyd by being accidentally struck with a stick by a playmate, and three years 1afer the sight of his right eye was Extinguished by an arrow from cross hoM Despite this handicap, MT. Gore diatsd with honors form a nor rat1 school, taught school to earn z1oney to study law, and was not yet
 -one when he was nominated fpf the state legislature, but was ob- lzsed to withdraw on account of the SAinioraty as to his age. At twenty-one he engaged in the practice of law, and moved to Texas a few years later where he became noted as a populisi oeafor, and was nominated for Con-
 fess In 1901 he moved to Okla h1ua, where he was a member of the Territorial council, and, as a Demo crek was elected to the United States Senate, of which he has been honor sd member ever since. His term ex- ptres 1921.
 Since the days of Diodotus, who Iiv- cd ins Asia Minor before the beginning of the Christian era and became ia 1nous as philosopher and mathe- ina$1cian, thousands of blind people have attained fame and fortune, but there have been few statesmen in the 1ist Perhaps the first was A1exan- der Rodenback, who was leader ir she Belgian parliament about the middle of the last century. Like Sen nfor Gore, he was afflicted with blind ness at the age of eleven.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
MANY CANADIANS
 HAVE WON FAME ON
 EUROPEAN BAITIEFIFIDs

While the conflict in South Africa marked the beginning of Canada s official participation in the foreign wars of the mother country, individ- ua1 anadians have won fame and glory in practically every struggle in which England has been engaged for more than a century. The roll of British military heroes includes the names of scores fmen of Canadian birth. One of the greatest of these was Gen. Sir William Feenwick Will Hams, who was born in Nova Scotia 117 years ago today, Dec. 10, 1900, and who gained immortality as ''the hero of Mars"
 The defense, of Kars, in Armenia, by Gen. Williams, during the Crimean ,iWar, was one of the most gal1ent ex- ploits in the history of armed com bat. Great Britain, France and Tur- key were then allies, opposing Russia Gen. Williams, with 15,000 men, was shut up in Kars by a Russian army of 10000 infantry and 10000 cavalry commanded by Gen. Muravieff. The siege commenced on June IS, 1855 and continued until Nov. 18th. The defenders had provisions sufficient tc last three months, but ammunition enough for only three days of fight ling, but Gen. Williams was determin- ed to hold the place. When thei1 supplies had almost been exhausted and after suffering terribly from the l ravages of cholera, Gen. Muravief1 decided the time had come to attack the sorely tried garrison, and he or. tdered an assault. Feeble as they were the defenders of Kars beat back the Russians. Muravieff then determined
 upon a policy of watchfu1 waiting 1 and, after a month more of starvation 1 Gen. Williams capitulated.
 For his heroic conduct at Kars Gen Williams was made a baronet, witt the title of Sir William Fenwick Will. Hams of Kars, and granted a libera pension.
 Another Nova Scotian who gained 1 immortality by his heroism in a siege
 was Gen. Inglis, a native of Halifa1 who commanded the garrison al
 Lucknow during the Indian mutiny
 A few days after the beginning of the
 siege, Sir Henry Lawrence, the com.
 mander, died, and Inglis succeeded tt
 the command. For eighty-two days
 he held back the muttnous hordes
 until Sir Henry Havelock raised the
 siege. Inglis was made major-gen'
 eral and Knight Commander of the
 Bath. -7-=s...s
 At Balaklava Canada was repre-.
 sented by Lieut.. Alexander Dunn, o1 Toronto, an officer of the immorta
 Light Brigade. He was the first na.
 tive of Canada to receive the Victoria
 Cross. At Waterloo Capt. Alexander
 McNab, the first Canadian to hold 2 kcommission in the British regular
 army, was among the heroic dead o1
 that historic battlefield.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
MEN WITH C. DIS
 CANNOT ENLIST

Men who have been conditionally discharged by the Third District Ap- pellate Board cannot enlist in the governments military or naval ser vice, according to a ruling submitted to the board today by Governor Mar GUS H. Holcomb, who rules that these men are already in the government service. Yesterday about 80 of these men appeared at the board rooms. declaring that they wanted absolute exemptions so they could be enlist ed.
 Technically they are members of the draft army and when the cause of their conditional discharge ceases to exist they can be sent to a na- tional army cantonment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
ITNEY DRIVER
 HELD BY POLICE

Chrged with reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle while un- der the influence of liquor, Andrew Jontos, a jitney driver, of 469 Gregory street, was arrested by Motorcycle Policeman Salmons, this afternoon, after his jitney car had overturned on State street. Jontos tried to crowd in between two big touring cars, ana realizing his mistake, swerved so quickly that the spill resulted. One passenger, c. W. Norren, of 150 Sea- bright avenue, received abrasions on both arms. =s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

This son later became the victim of an unhallowed passion for his own mother, unknowingly. and when he learned that he was the son of the woman with whom he had fallen in love, he committed suicide. Christina of Sweden offered to attach Nfnon to her household, but this offer was re- lected. Up ti the very end of her life Ninon attracted men. When she was 80 years of she excited the violent passion of the Abbe Gedoyn, who was then only 29 years of age. She maintained her shameful habits of life until she died in her ninetieth year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

nan I ever was and recommend your omedies to all rnyfriends. "-Mrs. LENA TYNN, 2812 E. o Street, Richmond, Va.
 While Change of Life is most crit al period of Q wonan's existence, the moving symptoms which accompany may be controlled, and normal healt,, astored by the timely use of Lydia E. inkham's Vegetable Compound.
 Such warning symptoms arc sense suffocation, hot flashes, headaches ackaches, dread of ming evil. -imidity, sounds in the ears, p..,pitatio' of the heart, sparks before the eyes, irregularities, constipation, variable ap- petite, weakr@- ,7 4iz~inaes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
SHOWER OF BRICKS
 RECEIVED BY BIRGE

A shower of bricks from the second story of building in course of erection at West Ave. and John street, caught Otis Birge, aged b1, of 273 Frank street, az its victim, one of the bricks striking him on the head and causing painful laceration. After receiving treatment by Dr. J. F. Keegan at the Emergency Hospital, Birge was re- moved to St. Vincent's for observa- tion s5s .'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

V e g ct a ble Com pound I feel like g new woman. l a. ways had g headach
 during the Chang
 of Life end was ale
 troubled with othe1 bad feelings com mon at that time dizzy spells, nervous feelings and he 8 | flashes. Now I an fin hatfeP healt.,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

With the kind of shoe leather you get now, after you have put on a new sole to save the upper, it soon be- comes necessary to put on a new up per to save the sole.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

The fact that there were 20 arrests for drunkenness in Washington in one night, will encourage some people who hesitated to go to the Capital under the dry regime.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

It is amazing how a man who spends hundreds of dollars on his own com fort, will come swelling down town after he has given 8 dollar to make the soldiers comfortable in France.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

Fortunately all this advice being handed out to the farmer is so con- flicttng that he does not follow much ef 1t, so little harm is done.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

Be far as heard from, no one is mnifest1ng any desire to start beer saloons in the zones barred to enemy aliens.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

CORTEz c. ROCKWELL, plumbing and heating; iobbing speciality. 3o51 Main and Hillside avenue. Phone Stratford S26-2 B10"tf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

Chicago school children will have. an extra weeks vacation to save coal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

Fourteen Mexican Federal troops were killed by followers of Diaz.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10
ANNOYIHG.
 SYMPTOMS
How Heat Flashes, Dizzy Spells and other Bad Feel ings at Change of Life
 may be Relieved.

Richmond Va. -"After taking seven bottles of Lydia E. Pfnkhurn' 5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

FRENCH AND DUTCH BULBS JUST ARRIVED
 JOHN RICK g. SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-10

Farmer Want Ads One Cent a Word
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-27
SURGERY Now Done in COLORS

were more restful to the eye; he had
also painted his walls green and Gov
cred the floor with green material
This suggestion was copied by some
American journals.
In a later number OF the same
publication DR.. Milligan expresses
himself as being in favor of such q
scheme, but DIR. Whiteford is much
more enthusiastic. His operating
room he has done tastefully in light
French blue, the surgeons are
dressed in white, the nurses in blue
and the onlookers in red. A DR.. Jeans
also states that he is doing his oper
ating rooms in blue this year. And
so the chromatic Outrageous con
tribute their impressiouistic ideas of
operating rooms.
In time, let us hope. We shall have
the perfect polychromatous physI.
clan; he will bewilder us with some
such display as this: The anesthetic
room will be in rainbow color, sig
nifyfng hope. the operating room will
be in red, meaning danger. the new
assistant will be green. the patients
relatives will look blue. and the fu-
ture will appear black
Seriously. however, it is time that
some such restful shade to the eyes
as light green should supplant the
glazing white of many hospitals. the
dazzling operating room. the cheer
less corridors. and the monotonous
patients rooms"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-27
Getting |"DRUNK" Without Drinking

HOSE who have tried the ex-
pertinent say that the same
sensations, minus the alcohol.
experienced by an intoxicated per
son who is trying to walk IN a
straight line or on a narrow sloe-
walk which is only 80 feet wide, can
be had by any one who takes the
trouble to draw a straight line on the
floor and then look at the line
through a pair Of opera glasses IN
reversed position.
After the glasses are focused try
to walk on the line as shown in the
at the right. You will find
it impossible to follow it closely. The
line will look like an ink scratch on
surface miles away and the closer
you look and try to follow the line
the more vexed your vision becomes
and as a result your feet wander
from side to side, getting farther
away from the line all the time.
Even with the naked eye it is diff
cult for some people to walk the
chalk" for any distance without
growing dizzy and staggering sus.
piciously.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-27

that they should have turned to Grim
inal ways in order to keep them
selves alive.
"Of course, the best method Of re-
moving this cause of crime is to see
that every girl is taught the house
hold arts in the elementary schools.
This is being done at the present
time in practically every school in
the country. The next step is to pro-
vide facilities for instructing grown
women in cooking. and the next is to
teach the women who are already
paying the penalty for their mis-
deeds.
For many years 1t has been the
custom of prison authorities to teach
the men convicts some useful trade
or occupation, and lately there has
been a widespread attempt to do like
wise for the women.
mo organized effort, however. has
yet been made to teach the women
convicts the elements of cookery, but
there seems no reason to doubt the
assertion that II every woman con-
vict left the penitentiaries when her
term was up with thorough knowl-
edge Of the methods Of preparing
nourishing. wholesome and appetiz-
ing foods. not nearly so many of
them would find their way back to
the prisons after a few months OF
liberty.
In order to see just what effect
lesson in cooking would have upon
women convicts, officials of the east.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-27
Strange FROGS That Have HAIR

TIMER than frog hair has long
been a slang method of express
ing the superlative degree
Doubtless no one ever gave it a
thought whether frogs have hair or
not. Probably no one ever realized
they did until Prof. G. A. Boulenger
discovered in the German Kongo
frogs that had growing upon their
bodies either hair or very good imi-
tation of it. It has since developed
that anatomically it is not hair, in
the sense in which that term applies
30 mammals. Our own hair is akin to
finger nails; it is a horny growth,
whereas the hair on the African
frogs is an abnormal development Of
the tubercles that appear on the skin
OF the ordinary frog. The ordinary
person, however. who places appear
ance above origin, will doubtless
call it hair
Were the mammals to lose one of
their distinguishing characteristics,
asks a writer in the Journal of He
redity, through its extension to the
frogs? Prof. Boulenger admitted
that he did not know much about it,
but said that these Whose dermal
papillae' were not nuptial attribute
of the males, but were rather more
strongly developed in the female
than the male. He suspected them
of being a seasonal appendage.
In 1902 he published another
short paper on the subject describ-
ing seven more specimens of the
same species In this case the fe-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-27
w JILL you have your appen-
M dicitis operation done in pink,

M dicitls operation done IN PINK
or nile green? Pink is said to
be a. more cheerful tone, encouraging
optimism, but green induces tranquil
litv. and doubtless has a sufficiently
Lethean quality, when dominating
walls and ceiling Of the operating
room. to enable you to forget the bill
that awaits your recovery. The point
is that physicians and surgeons are
beginning to believe the psycholo.
sists. who say that color affects our
moods, and also that our moods de-
termine to some extent the success
or failure Of medical and surgical
governments with our interior econ.
omy.
"a saffron tie makes us languor-
GUS. while purple one inspires us to
noble Deeds" says a writer in the
Medical Review. Green produces a
state of tranquility. while blue de-
presses US. And so on. But now
the chromatic scheme of things en-
tire has invaded the operating room,
that hitherto domain of the strictly
practical.
"Dr. Berkeley Moynihan wrote to
The Lancet stating that for two and
a half years he had been using green
sheets and towels instead Of white
ones in the operating room. as they