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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02
MRS. OMANS IS
AGAIN CHOSEN
TO HEAD STAFF

Hrs. Joel p. Omans, who has been
ms president of the woman's STAFF of
tf1ae Chfldren's ward of the Bridgeport
fhogpftaz since it's organization, Novem-
sbew D, 1894, was yesterday honored
SW1th O reelection at the twenty-sec-
<oud annual meeting held at the
fbome OF MIRA George e. Somers on
sEast Washington avenue. Mrs. Omand
has proven a most capable executive
and under her direction the star has
taceOmp1fahed q great deal of good.
I Aeccrdfng to the reports nineteen
chfzdren q day have been admitted to
the ward for the past year and alto
tgekher TOO children have been treat
cd m the WARD during the year. The
rnsnabersfrfp committee reported that
az NOW Numbers Its 81 members and
AS rs members. Mrs. John Merwin
WAS elected recording secretary in
place OF Orr. Louis z. Gould. who
resigned after a number of years of
efficient service and Mrs. Dever H.
sWaxner was elected a member of the
iexecutiye beard
Mrs. Lena Mason Barns1ey, soprano
/ so9cfst OF the Omitted Church, sang a
group Of sozgs, acting as her own ac-
comp~zz<gE. She was very gracious in
tho n1ateR OF sucores and her voice
WAS m& ftm beast. MFRS. Omans presid-
\ ca at ehs urn at the social hour that
Ifof1prs6 fhs business meeting.
Uho Newsstand Circle Of the United
Chuvch gHve q social and reception
lvem6erGay GfpeFnoun at the home of
1fre Eawayd gterlfng on North ave.
nus m compliment to Mrs. Warren
Dax, mother Of DE-. william Day. pas
itor,0f tho United Church. The COCA
sion was very pleasant ono and was
made naore 20 by a very delightful adj
drmw by Mira Day, who told in a very
fptaragttng MARINER of the meeting OF
sitls1 National congregational Council at
Columbus, o., which she attended re-
certify, Mrs. Robert B, Hard sang
q group Of songs in a very charming
and finished manner accompanied by
Mrs. Elmer Beardsley,
Mrs, George Noble of Strafhe1d
road, opened her home yesterday af-
ternDon for neeflng Of the Ladias'
5E1Rsiohary soeiety OK tao First Bap-
t{af church. and the HaeHsRers had tho
plsasure of listening to a very de-
1iahffuI talk on Red Gross activities
by Mrs. Ellie N, SpeFFy. Mrs. sper-
ny spoke at length On the disgraeefu1
stories that are being circulated about
the Red Cross fa order TO hinder the
wr7endid work that IL is doing, She
Hofd Of the need for aiding the Red
EpesE and REUSED a, great deal ef ea-
49, I-.-- 4-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02

scheme of Land purchase, under the
inspiration of the Cadets. Bold as
their scheme loked to English eyes,
1t did not satisfy the Socialists while
the landed class, which included the
officers Of the army saw In it red
ruin. The result of attempting this
lsanaense social change, before the
representative SYSTEM was censo1ida-
ted ar EVIL rights secure. was that
autacraey triuRphed, while the spee-
pie split into theee eaaapsr-Llharal
ppsaRe1tT. : Ge8za&Ra4aves nraRersx. and
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02

the haif-aroused proletartat, The
raising Of the land question at that
moment seemed a gross error In tao
tics. but the more one talked with
Russians about it. the more one rea-
1ized that it was inevitable.
No revolution can succeed in RUS
STA without peasant support. and the
peasants will follow a revolution only
when it's leaders promise them land,
The present revolution was made by
peasants, since the revoitea regiments
Of the RetrosTaa sarEispz, sEzaza HG4ap
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02

gates formed the Soviet (counciD,
we've all composed of reservists only
recently called up. The main body
of the Socialists has been commend
ably willing to cooperate with 'fbour-
geois" parties. but from the first
there has been one point on which
ii admits no compromise, It stands
for the abolition of private property
in land, The Russian revolution was
inspired by Socialists. and in those
first daya OF fighting when the Liber-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02

they lost all chance of directing it. It
was rather naive 10 imagine. as our
English press did and still does, that
Socialists had shed their blood mere-
ly to set up a Liberal republic.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02
THE REAL onuE TO RUSSIA

fH. n. Braiisferd' Ia The New Repub-
iie1
The source of the us@est in Russia
is the thing whiah destroyed the
abertive revaiutieza at 1Aes-da. When
the first Buzna met, it's first aet was
to set ta-WsEfz ia draft an amAttsaase
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02

Hen No. 7o7, a white leghorn, own-
ed by DR.. R. L. Ireland of Louisiana.
won the years national egg-laylns
contest at the Kentucky Experiment
E<zA
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02

There, will be a, meating Of the
Bridgeport Branch of the Connecticut
Junior Republic at the home of Mrs
Henry H1edget On Park Place, next
"Wednesday afterHapn at o'clock. 1t
is the regular HaeHthiy meeting of the
Bridgeport Branch and at this time
gtyesEeps eE uilassaas
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02
TERMS TO SUIT

thusiasm among the members Of the
snciety. Mrs. George GeuIden is
president of the society,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-02
In !
Oriental
All-Over
and Floral
Patterns.

been accomplished during the pa
month.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
(TO BE CONTINUED)
WAR TO Benefit AFRICANS
Negroes Taken to France as Fighters
and Laborers Will Go Back Home
Different People.

The transportation of great numbers
of negroes from the British and French
domains in Africa to serve as both
fighters and laborers in France during
the war is expected to have a very
marked effect on this entire African
population after the war.
Although there is not nearly so much
against the introduction of colored la
Dor, there is sufficient to have caused
the government to give guarantees
that it will return these African ele-
ments to their own country. They VIII
go back, however, a very different peo-
pie, for they are learning agriculture
and a good deal about industry and
the organizations and institutions Of
civilized countries. 1t is expected that
after their return the progress of civil
ization among their tribes will be
much more rapid than in the past.
1t would not do to assume that be-
cause this African dominion is in area
as great as the best section of North
America it is destined ever to develop
so great an Importance in the world.
That is utterly impossible by reason
of it's natural disadvantages.
1t does not possess anything like the
natural riches of central North Ameri-
ca. Great regions are under the trop-
les, densely forested with all sorts of
tropical timber, little of which is COM
mercially available now, or probably
ever will be, by reason of the long dis
tances it would have to be transported
But there are very extensive tracts, es-
pecially in the plateau region, capable
of great agricultural development.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29

in a blue moon," he said, still smiling
at her. Lets get it straight You
are not trying to tell me that you
object to decent clothes and good man.
ners per Sc, are your"
The colonel was coming out, and he
had stopped in the doorway to light
long-stemmed pipe. The young wom-
an got up and fluffed her hair with the
ends of her fingers-a little gesture
which Smith remembered, recalling it
from the night of the far-away lawn
party.
Daddy wants you, and I'll have to
vanish" she said; "but I'll answer
your question before go. Types are
always hopeless; it's only the hun
dredth man who isn't It's great pity
you couldn't go on whipping claim
jumpers all the rest of your life, Mr..
Smith. Don't you think SO? Good
night. Well meet again at breakfast.
Daddy isn't going to let you get away
short of a nights lodging, 1 know"
Two cigars for Smith and four pipes
for the colonel further along, the tall
Missourian rose out of the split-bOt-
toned chair which he had drawn up to
face the guests and raped the ashes
from the bowl of the cOrncob into the
palm of his hand.
II think you've got it all now
Smith, every last crook and turn OF
it, and 1 reckon you're tired enough
to run away to bed"
Smith took turn up and down the
stone-fagged floor Of the portico witt
his hands behind him. Truly, the cast
Of Timanyoni ditch was desperate
even more desperate than he had sup
posed. Figuring as the level-headeC
bank cashier of the former days, HI
told himself soberly that no man il
his senses would touch it with a ten
foot pole. Then the laughing gibes o
the hundredth woman-gibes whicl
had cut far deeper than she had imag
ined-came back to send the bloOC
surging through his veins. 1t woult
be worth something to be able to worl
the miracle the colonel had spoken of
and afterward
Colonel Dexter Baldwin was still
tapping his palm absently with tn
pipe when Smith came back and SAT-
abruptly:
ST have decided, colonel. I'll start il
with you tomorrow morning, and wei
pull this mired scheme of yours ou
of the mud, or I'll break leg tryin
to. But you mustn't forget what
told you out at the camp. Right in tn
middle of things I may go rotten O
you and drop out"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
MEALS IN CONDENSED FORM
Three Cakes, Similar in Size anei
Shape to Shaving Soap, One Days
Emergency Ratians for Soldiers.

While as yet the war department has
not solved the emergency ration"
problem to it's satisfaction, it has tried
some interesting experiments, one of
which is represented in three con-
densed meals for a soldier, says the
Philadelphia Ledger.
Three cakes about the size and shape
of cake of shaving soap are COM
posed of cereal and meat, deprived of
moisture and pressed to the hardness
of a brick. Wrapped about each of
them is a piece of tissue paper bear
ing printed directions to the effect that
the contents, if boiled five minutes in
three pints of water, will make soup =;
or, if boiled the same length of time
in one pint of water will make a por-
ridge.
The porridge, if allowed to get cold,
may be sliced and fried, if bacon or
other fat is Obtainable.
The three cakes, supplemented by
three disks of chocolate wrapped in
tinfOil, are expected to furnish three
meals; in other words, to supply one
fighting man with sustenance for one
day. They together with the chOcO
late) are packed in tin can which
is carried by the soldier in his KNAPP
sack. A compartment in the bottom
of the can contains pepper and salt.
Of course such rations are meant tx
be used only when the soldier, sepa
rated by accidental circumstances from
the supply train, is obliged to fall bacl
on them.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
SURPRISE BY WOMAN LAWYER
CheapIy, But Soon Began to Take
More Time Preparing Cases.

Anna Moscowitz, a successful wom-
an lawyer in New York city, has had
many amusing experiences with her
opponents, we are told in the American
Magazine.
'They are invariably overpolite, call
ing her my fair adversary and our
feminine opponent At first they held
her cheaply; but when Miss Moscowitz
began to win case after case, New
York lawyers began to take more time
in preparing their briefs.
"One distinguished lawyer walked
up to her and said she had defeated
him because he had thought so little
of woman lawyer that he had been a
little careless with his case. She met
him in court a few weeks later, and
he came over, shook hands, smiled, and
said, I'm ready this time
witnesses, judges, attendants, in
fact, everyone connected with courts,
looked at Miss Moscowitz with great
curiosity at first. Witnesses would not
talk to her, and one day man walked
up to her in court and said, DO men
really give you cases to tryT
Sometimes the little lady an
swered, smiling at the question.
"Do they pay your
Sometimes was again her rejoin.
der.
""Then they must be FOOLS And he
walked away"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
New Type of AirpIane.

A new type of airplane has been
planned and constructed by an officer
in the Swedish army, Lieutenant Won
Porat. 1t differs from ordinary types
In that it is made entirely of steel
and woven fabrics with the exception
Of the propeller, which is of wood
and in the arrangement Of the wings
The lower plane of the machine
which is a scout byplane with some
resemblance to the Fokker type-lies
for three-quarters of its width back
of the upper plane, instead of being
directly under it, as in most machines.
The especial advantage claimed for
the new airplane lies in its climbing
ability, which is declared to be 5000
feet in four to five minutes. Its speed
Is 100 miles an hour. The motor is of
100 horse power.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
Italy Tons Timber Reserves.

To provide the necessary timber for
the use Of the army since the war be-
gan, recourse has been made to the
immense forests of Sila in Calabria,
southern Italy. Before the war the
country imported two-thirds of the tim
ber required annually for the use of
the civil population from abroad, prin-
cipally from Austria, and no small
problem was presented to the author
tiles By the necessity of providing the
enormous quantity of timber needed
for the miles of trenches and for all
the temporary buildings which have
been erected behind the front. Com
mittees were set up to devise metho-
dical system by which, in all the woods
anywhere near the zone of the war all
cutting down should be done that was
possible without complete deforesta-
ton. To further the telling of the
timber in the forest of Sila roads have
been cut and quantities of machinery
set up. 1t is expected that the district
will provide about 35,O00,OOO more
cubic feet of timber this year than in
normal times.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
Makino Good Advice Better.

Giving advice that will be welcomed
by others is not only question of
good sense, but of sympathy. Good
advice always seems better when it
comes from a heart that is frankly
interested not so much in having its
counsel accepted as in having its low
ing sympathy known. 1t would often
be wise to refrain from giving coun-
sci if we cannot give ourselves in SYM
pathetic thoroughness and love to one
who probably needs US more than he
needs our judgment. Love is not an
noyed if advice is not taken, and ad-
vice offered in loving understanding
kind can be.-Exchange.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
a GeoIooicaI Discovery.

The minuteness and perfect state Of
preservation of some of the remains
found in the rocks of organisms which
lived untold millions of years ago is
beautifully shown by the researches of
Prof. F. w. Oliver on an archaic type
of seeds discovered in the lower coal
measures of Lancashire. These seeds
are only about one-fifth of an inch long,
but under the microscope their integu-
ment is seen to possess ten ribs, which
project like little arms from the top
of the nucleus. Many pollen cells were
discovered and these have been Sec
toned, and what appears to be fossil
sperms, occurring in pairs in each pol
len cell, have been detected. The
plants that bore these seeds have not
vet been traced.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29

courtesies and tea-table shop talk
They were all men, suppose, but I'm
afraid a good many of them had never
found 1t Out-will never find it out.
I've been calling it environment; l
don't like to admit that the race is
going downhill."
BY this time the sardonic humor was
once more in full possession, and he
was enjoying her keenly.
Go on" he said. ''This is my night
OF"
"Tve said enough; too much, per-
haps. But when you were walking
with mamma, you reminded me so
forcibly of a man whom met just for
part of one evening about year
ago in a small town in the middle
West. He was one of them. He
drove over from some neighboring
and gave me fully an hour of his valu-
able time. He made me perfectly fu-
rious ~
Poor you!" laughed Smith; but he
was thankful that the camp sunburn
and his four weeks beard were safe
guarding his identity. "But why the
fury in his case in particular"
Just because, / suppose. 1 remem-
Der he told me he was a bank cashier
and that he danced. He was quite
hopeless, of course. Without being
what you would call conceited, you
could see that the crust was so thick
that nothing short Of an earthquake
would ever break it."
] But the earthquakes do come, once
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
Effect of a Motto,

Samuel Grindstone was a hustler Of
the modern school. He believed in
the gospel of speeding up. Over every
desk in his Office he placed large
printed notice reading: do it nOw!"
But a week later, with tired fingers
and an exhausted air, he tore them all
down.
"Hallo!'' said a friend, dashing in
on the ceremony of destruction.
"What's UP? Doesn't hustlilg pay?
Going back to the old leisurely meth
ods?"
Eyes, 1 am" snorted Grindstone.
"Hustling doesn't pay. 1 gave sixpence
each for those notices, thinking they'd
spur on my staff to hard work"
"Well?"
"Well, the net result is that they've
all acted on the motto. The chief CASH
Ter has bolted with the contents Of the
safe, my typist has elOped with my
youngest son, four juniors came in yes
terday to ask for raise and the Office
boy has found a better job and ac-
ceDted it."
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29

me TO- said the young il..,-.. lie Wen'
up to Red Butte to see if he couldn't
rope in some of the old-timers on MS
ditch project. He was trying to sell
some treasury stock. His one-horse
company is about out of money.
Mickle, clerk in Kinzie's bank, tells
me that the ditch company's balance is
drawn down to few thousand dollars
with no more coming in.'
did the colonel succeed in making
a raise in Red Butter
"Nary," said the spy nonchalantly.
"Drake, the banker up there, was his
one best bet; but 1 got a man l know
to give Drake pointer, and he curled
up like hedgehog when you poke II
with a sharp stick"
That's better. The colonel came
back yesterday, didn't he?
Yesterday afternoon. His wife and
daughter met him, and told him some
thing or other that made hiEl drive up
to the DAM"
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
Swiss PRODUCING Alcohol.

The great demand for calcium car
bide and the low cost of water power
In Switzerland have caused a big in
crease of the application of the cleo
tric furnace for the production of this
commodity. The leading Swiss hydro
electric concerns, as well as concern
with it's own big power stations at
Gampel, Viege, Thusis and Chevres,
have now finished their researches for
the production of pure alcohol for in
dustrial purposes out of calcium car
bide through treatment with hydro
gen and by the electrolytic decompo-
sftion of water.
AS the Industrial production and
sale of alcohol is under government
control in Switzerland, the introduc-
ton of the new industry will be a
joint work of the confederation and
the Lonza concern.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29

more to the calm-eyed, well-bred ma
tron who had given piquant Corona
to an otherwise commonplace world.
Mrs. Baldwin saw nothing of the
rude fighter of battles her daughter
had drawn for her, and wondered a
little. She knew Corona's leanings,
and was not without an amused i'm
preston that Corona would not find
this later Smithsonian phase altogether
to her liking.
Smith got what he had earned, good
measure, pressed down, shaken to-
gether and running over, a few min
utes after Mrs. Baldwin had left him
to finish his cigar under the pillared
portico with Corona to keep him COM
pany. He never knew just what start
ed it, unless it was his careful plac-
ing of a chair for the young woman
and his deferential-and perfectly
natural-pause, standing, until she
was seated.
'Do, for PHYS sake, sit DOWN. she
broke out, half petulantly. And when
he had obeyed: well, you've spoiled
IL all, good and hard.
Smith was unable to imagine where
in he had offended.
"Really?" he said. "What have ]
done?"
sit isn't what you've done; it's what
you are" she retorted. "You have
committed the objectionable sin by
turning out to be just one of the
ninety-nine, after all. If you knew
women the least little bit in the world
you would know that we are always
looking for the hundredth man."
Under his smile, Smith was begin
ming to understand what this aston
ishingly frank young woman meant
She had seen his relapse, and was
calmly deriding him for it.
"You may pile it on as thickly al
you please" he said, the good-natureC
smile twisting itself into the construc
tion-camp grin. Then, with malice
aforethought: "Is it one of the require
ments that your centennial man should
behave himself like a boor at a din
ner table. and talk shop and eat witt
his knife?"
you know that isn't what meant
Manners don't make the man. til
what you talked about-the trumper.
little social things that you found you
keenest pleasure in talking about.
don't know what has ever taken yol
out to a construction camp. 1 dom
believe you ever did a days harC
work in your life before you came t,
the Timanyoni."
1t was growing dark by this time
and the stars were coming out. Some
one had turned the lights on in tn,
room the windows of which Opened
upon the portico, and the young WON
ans chair was so placed that he coult
still see her face. She. was smilinj
rather more amicably when she said
"You mustn't take it too hard. /
isn't you, personally, you know; it
the type. I've met it before. l didn'
meet any other kind during my thre
years in the boarding school; nice
pleasant young gentlemen, as immacu
J lately dressed as their pocketbook
would allow, up In all the latest littl
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
Garnle From SAGE.

A simple and efficacious gargle is
made from sage Put thirty leaves into
a jug, pour on them a pint of boiling
water, cover closely and infuse for
half an hour, add two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar and two of honey; stir to
mix, then strain and bottle. 1t should
be used several times a day and will
generally give relief. The ingredients
are harmless and safe for children, as
if a little is swallowed by chance no
harm is done.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-06-29
Wild Life on st. John Island,

st. John is extremely interesting as
the best remaining example of what
the Virgin islands were like before
their discovery by Columbus, for
goodiy part of it is simply mountain
and forest, where wild pigeons, par
rots and other native birds abound.
Its scientific interest is further in
creased by the fact that it was
stronghold Of the Carib Indians, VINO
have given their name to the whole
region but are now extinct. On some
of the rocks in the mountains of st.
John there are very perfect and beau
tigul hieroglyphs left by these abort
gines