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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-08
CHINESE READY
TO GO TO AVER
In NEXT BATCH
Fourth Division Boards
Contribution Is @. K.h by
District Board.

From lists of the Fourth division
board, the first to be finally passed
upon in this city, for the departure
of the next quota of drafted men to
Camp Devans, Aver, Mass, The
Farmer today is able 10 furnish the
names and addresses of those Who
.lcontinued on Page TuaA
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-08
SEND ORGANIZER HERE

Thomas Carroll, an organizer of the
International Association of Machin-
lists, has been sent to this city to take
charge of the strike program of the
machinists, which 1t is contemplated
to put into effect week after next.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-08
EXPLOSION in
ARSENAL KILLS
g.; INJURIES 23
Frankfort Arsenal in Phila-
delphia Wrecked in Early
Morning.
LOSS ESTIMATED
AT OVER $500
Three Investigations Start
ed to Determine Cause
for Explosion.

PhiIadelphia, Sept. s.-Three work
men are known to have been killed
and % persons were injured in an eN-
pIosion at the Frankfort arsenal in
this city early today. According to
workers the explosion was accidental,
there being nothing to indicate that 1t
was caused. by an outside agency.
Two Of the injured are young women.
Nineteen Of the injured were treated
at a nearby hospital. One is expected
to die. Later all but five of the in
tured were able to go to their homes.
None of those hurt was able to give
a coherent account of what happened.
Major Montgomery, commandant pf
the arsenal, and his aides are 1nvestf-
eating the exlosion and decline to
make any statement until they have
completed their inquiry. Carelessness
of a workman, it was believed, was the
cause of the accident
New York troops are guarding the
arsenal and no one is allowed to enter
the government reservation.
The explosion occurred in one Iof
three small buildings known as de-
tonating dry rooms, where the primer
caps for three and six inch shells amid
small arm cartridges are dried. The
building in question had its walls
packed with cinders and every pre-
caution was taken to prevent aoci-
dents.
Fire followed the explosion anc
spread to several other small build
fngs known as the artillery assembly
unit. In these there were three and
six inch shells, but prompt work o:
arsenal employees and city firemeI
saved the buildings and. contents from
destruction. The monetary loss is es
timated at about $30,0N0.
Today's explosion was the secont
fatal one within the last five months
Two men were killed by the bursting
OF a shrapneI fuse in the high explo
sive building last April.
Three Investigations were undel
way >soon after today's explosion, il
which federal officiss the police ana
the cogoner participated
Y Cause Unknown
Washington, Sept. as--No cause fol
the explosion at the Frankfort ar
senal in Philadelphia is assigned il
official reports received by Gen. Gro
zier, chief of ordnance. They merel.
say that a primer and a detonator DIR.
house blew up, resulting in four othe
scattered explosions. twenty-five
hundred dollars was requested fo1
| making immediate repairs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-08
TWO BRITISH SHIPS
SUNK BY GERMANS

An Atlantic Port, Sept S.-News of
the destruction OF the s.4s2 ton British
steamer Turakina by torpedo from a
German submarine on August 13 was
brought today by several members of
\ her crew who arrived on an American
I passenger ship from Great Britain.
The ship had but recently landed in a
British port a detachment of 1,2oO
New Zealand troops and was on her
wag to New York to take a cargo of
OIL
Z According to Charles West, refrig-
orator engineer of the ship, three
members of the crew lost their lives.
The others, 72 in all, escaped in life
boats and were picked up eight hours
later by British destroyer The at
tack occurred about $50 miles out.
An Atlantic Port, Sept. 8. - The
British steamer Delpnia, S.2I3 tons
gross, one of the White Star line fleet,
has been sunk by a submarine, accord
ing to word received here to-day. The
4 sinking occurred August Is. the advi-
i ces said, some distance off the Irish
\ coast and white the vessel was under
convoy. The crew were all saved.
C1ea ring Tonight. Sunday narf1v
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-08

Clearing tonight; Sunday partly
cloudy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Girls! Try This! Makes Hair Thick,
Glossy, Fluffy, Beautiful-No
More Itching Scalp.

Within ten minutes after an appli-
cation of Danderine you cannot find
single trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after
few weeks use, when you see new
hair, fine and downy at frst-yes-but
really new growing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately dou-
bleS the beauty of your hair. No diff
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at time. The effect is amaz-
fng-your hair will be light, fluffy and
wavy, and have an appearance of
abundance; an Incompatible luster,
SoftneSS and Insurance.
Get % cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and prove
that your hair is as pretty and soft
as any-that it has been neglected or
injured by careless treatment that's
all-you surely can have beautiful hair
and lots of it if you will just try a lit
tie Danderine. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

calls this in his book, Personal Recol-
lections of Abraham Lincoln
Mr.. Rankin was a schoolboy who
acted as court messenger at Peters
burg, ILL.,, while his father was sheriff,
when he first met Mr.. Lincoln, then a
rising young lawyer. Later he was a
student in the Lincoln and Herndon
law office in Springfield, admitted to
the family circle.
The picture of Mary Todd which Mr..
Rankin draws is charming one.
Though not beautiful, she was decided
" pretty, he says, with clear blue eyes
which looked through one, and a mo-
bile face which was responsive to her
every thought. She was easily the
belle of Springfield during her resi-
dence there with a married sister, her
own home being in Lexington. KY. Her
family objected to Lincoln because of
his humble parentage and his poverty,
and their engagement was broken off,
but two years later Mary Todd defied
the family opposition and welded the
man of her choice.
Mrs. Lincoln was not only attractive,
but she was cultured, Mr.. Rankin says,
and throughout her married life, at
least until the tragedy of the assassi-
nation. she kept up her French read
ing and other literary pursuits. Hers
was a keen political perception
amounting to almost provision, too,
and her advice was that most carefully
weighed by Lincoln in his political and
public affairs.
All the world knows that when Lin
coin received the news of his nominal
ton he said: There is little woman
over on Eighth street who is deeply in
terested in this news; will carry it to
her." and he left his cheering, con-
graduating friends to hurry to his
home Not so well known is the fact
that the happiest person in Springfield
was Mrs. Lincoln, and that she never
closed her eyes that night, for fear
she would miss some of the towns joy
over the honor done its brilliant son.
Mrs Lincoln's terrible sorrow on
the death of the martyr drove her
abroad-"the lonelieSt of all the wives
widowed by the Civil war'-and she
was allowed to spend the last years
of her life '.amid chilling neglect and
Misrepresentation" Mr.. Rankin says,
but he adds that when history shall
reflect the truth, in time to come if
it is not already here, '.she will be
awarded the recognition her merits
have always deserved. Till then she
can wait; for, like her husband, she
belongs to the ages"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
Couldn't Remember.

Before we We're married." sobbed
Angelina, "did you not always call me
your little drop of cream?'
We'll, you KNOW" answered Har-
old, cream turns sour if you keep it
long enough. was fool when mar
ried you"
And didn't you tell me you had
plenty of money behind your asked
Angelina
THAT was correct. I lived in front
of a bank" the willy Harold replied.
And you never take me out now"
said the wee wife.
Not since you took me in," was
Harold's cold rejoinder. 81 used to
enjoy single life, but now I'm that mis-
cradle L don't know myself until 1 feel
in my empty pockets; then it's easy
to remember who 1 am"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
LINCOLN EVER KIND
Tenderness of Heart Evineed at
Times When He Was. Under
the Greatest Stress.
EFT me present another aspect of

EFT me present another aspect Of
Lincoln's many-sided charac-
ter. During the momentous
week when Grant was hammer
ing at the gates of the Confederate
capital, the president, feeling in every
fiber of his being that the end was
near, took passage for City Point, in
order that with his own eager eyes,
weary with long watching. he might
see the last act in the drama of war
and, doubt not, that he might check
any overt and unseemly act, should
occasion require, writes Johnson Brig
ham, state librarian of Iowa, in the
Youths Companion.
Late one afternoon, while he was
resting from his writing on the gun
boat River Queen, he observed several
little kittens, hardly able to stand,
blindly crawling about the floor. He
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

lifted them tenderly to his desk, and
for sometime watched their move
ments, as if bordering the greatest of
all problems-the mystery of life. See
ing a loosening film over the eye of
one of the kittens, he carefully wiped
it away with his handkerchief, and,
as he placed the little fellow on the
floor again, said gently, There, little
one, I've done for you what even your
mother couldn't do"
AS have time and again recalled to
my mind that incidental use of the
word mother" have thought that at
that moment there must have come to
the president some recollection of the
delicate, hard-worked woman who had
toiled and struggled for her son, and
who yet in her poverty felt that she
could do SO little for him. What the
word mother" meant to this man can
be inferred from his oft-quoted saying
to friend ''AIl that am, or hope to
be. 1 owe to my angel motherlLless-
ings on her memoryr
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
Don't Call on Pneumonia Patient.

kissing pneumonia patient is al
most as hazardous as to kiss a diph-
iberia or scarlet fever patient" Health
Officer J. II. Lands asserts in an ed
ftorial in the weekly bulletin of the
health department, in which he de-
clareS that pneumonia is communi-
cable disease and that contact is an
important factor in its spread" He
declares that numerous physicians
have referred to the unusual preva-
lence of the disease and the severe
type that prevails"
''Visitors have no business calling
on a pneumonia patient" Doctor
Lands states.-Cincinnad Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
HIGH COST OF LIVING

This is a serious matter with house
Keepers as food prices are constantly
going up. To overcome this, cut out
the high priced meat dishes and serve
your family more SINNERS Macaroni
and Spaghetti, the cheapest, most de-
licious and most nutritious of all foods.
Write the Skinner Mfg. Co, Omaha,
Nebr., for beautiful cook book, telling
how to prepare it in hundred different
ways. It's free to every woman.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
LINCOLN

Twas NOT his head that made him Great ;
1t was his heart,
That gentler part,
Which, in its kindness, went straight
To all the people, torn and sore,
And like balm lay softly Ger
The Nations wounds, and glorifed
The life beginning when he died.
WI. HAMPTON
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

proved and am now the mother of a
fine baby girl and do all my own house
work. Mrs. ALLIA B. TIMMONS, ZIG
Almond ST., Poplar Bluff, Mo-
In many other homes, once childless,
there are now children because of the
fact that Lydia E. Pinkhan's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal,
healthy and strong
Write to, the Lydia E. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co.,. Lynn, Mass, for advice-it
will be confidential and helpful.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
HAVE SOFT, WHITE HANDS
Clear Skin and Good Hair by Using
Cuticura-TriaI Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, the
Ointment to soothe and heal. Besides
these fragrant, super-creamy emol-
iients prevent little skin troubles be-
coming serious by keeping the pores
free from obstruction. Nothing better
at any price for all toilet purposes.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
LIQUID aIUE9

10, hir. Grocer, that's mostly water.
Since the war started it's more nearly
all wxte- than ever. Give me Red
Cross Ball Blue, that's a two-ounce
package of real goodness. You should
see my clothes. / just can't keep
from smiling out 1oud.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
HAPPY
With mary TODD
Reports That the Great President
and His Wife Were Incompati-
BILE Are Without Truth, Accord
ing to One Who Knew Them
Well.

NHERE are stories, some of them
written into the biographies of
the martyred president. that
the married life of Abraham
and Mary Todd Lincoln was unhappy.
These stories go SO far as to say that
when the wedding day came around
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
MOTHERHOOD
W0MAN'S JOY
Suggestions to Childless
Women.

Among the virtues of Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the
ability to correct sterility in the
cases of many women. This fact is
well established as evidenced by the
folk wing letter and hundreds of others
We have publishedin these columns.
Poplar Bluff, MOI want other
women to know what blessing Lydia
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

Il. R1nknam s NegG-
table Compound has
been to me. We
had always wanted
a baby in our home
but ! was in poor
health and not able
to do my work. My
mother and h u s.
band both urged me
to tryLydia E. Pink
h am s Vegetable
Compound. / did
an nv health inn
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
Ancient History.

Hyker-When Washington took
command of the continental army he
held the key to the situation.
Pyker-Yes, but at that it took him
several years to wind up the revolu-
ton.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

arrived and the bride appeared in her
fnery, but the groom remained away !;
that finally, when they did marry.
Mary Todd accepted Lincoln and mar
ried him in a spirit of pique and petty
spite. to wreak vengeance on him
through their married life;;' while with
Lincoln it was a case of willing sac
rfice-"
"a cruel felton," Henry B. Rankin
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
Student of Human NJ;

did you see the boss?"
NO" replied the messenger; "but l
saw Teller that's tendin' office fur
him."
How do you know he wasn't the
boss 2"
No real boss would take a chance
on bein' as fresh as that guy was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
No Denial.

You spend money like waterI''
MY friend" replied Mr.. Dustin
Stax, 'if you will look over the rec
ords of my big corporations. you will
find that most of it really is water"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
Not QUIETLY.

Yeast-Well, the New Year came in
quietly.
Crimsonbeak-Quie You ought
to have heard the salute / got from
my wife when 1 blew in home New
Years morningi
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

A man should have Il good excuse
ready before committing a mean act.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

A postal card to Garfield Tea Co., Brook
lyn, n. Y, asking for sample will re-
pay you.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
Not TO Be outdone

81 had some fine silhouettes made
of me the other day"
$50 had our Ameliar, and the pink
plume on her blue hat was just per-
feet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10
The Reason.

A rich rascal writes: ST have five
brothers and only four of them say
unlSinei things about me. l never have
lent any money - the fifth."-Claude
Callan ia the Fort Worth Star-Tele-
gram
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

In Chile teaching has attracted ma
tive women
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

Since 1901 the Australian publ
debt has increased 40 per cent.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

Constipation can be cured without drugs
Natures own remedy-selected herbs-ii
Garfield Tea.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

A 100000 knitting mill in Florida
is owned by negroes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-02-10

There are no chorus men in Lon
don musical shows this season.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-04-20
W.. F.. NJ. s.

The Woman's Foreign Mission.
airy Society Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, Of Aberdeen
district, met in It's 18th annual
meeting April Is, II and ID, at
Britton.
Mrs. H. G. Hickman Of Bath,
vice president, presided.
Mrs. William Perry Eveland,
of Minneapolis, who with her
husband Bishop Eyeland, was
connected with the work Of the
Methodist Episcopal churc!, in
M~aylasia and the Philippines
for some years was the conven-
ton speaker, bringing in three
splendid addresses
BY different delegates reviews
of the work of the society in the
foreign field and at the home
base were given. Many well
prepared subjects pertaining to
the work were presented and
and we'll received.
In the business session the
work of the district a shown
to be in good condition. Last
years financial report showed
that the society in this district
had contributed to the foreign
work e. Al IS
Saturday evening was Young
Peoples evening in charge Of
their secretary, Mrs. J. +. Nc
Kinney, of Rockham.
Sunday afternoon was given
to children. work in charge OF
the secretary OF that department
Mrs. T.. f. BrokaW Of Clarement
Among the interesting feat
ures presented was a pantomime
20 Zion Haste given by Britton
young women Ill charge of Miss
Bnnton.
The jubilee session brought be
! fore the convention new plans
for work reaching toward the
great aim Of the jubilee move
ment, the five year jubilee cam
paign being now at the half way
point In April 1919 will he Gel
ebrated the 5Oth anniversary 81
the organization OF the society.
The financial aim for last year
was 81, 900, 900. The close of the
year showed 81 1888, 40. IS on the
national treasurers report.
Since the organization Of the
Women's society in the Metho
dist Episcopal church, the re
ceipts have aggregated STOOL,
1869
More than 800 missionaries
are in the foreign field as the re
suit Of this organization. O
these South Dakota has sever
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-04-20
MethUdisJ Episcopal Inurek

Public worship at lO:45 a. m. and
500 D. m. Al the morning service
the local lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and the afiiiat-
ed society, the Daughters OF Rebekah,
will attend the service i'll q body. in
honor of the anniversary Of the toun-
ding of Odd Fellowship.
At the evening service the pastor
will preach on "rhe Call for VOluG-
teers." Sunday school at II noon.
Junior League at 3 10 p. m. Epworth
League at 200 D. IN. A cordial wei
come to a home-llke church awaits
the worshipper here. Strangers and
those having no other church home
especially invited.
a. T.. BurifT, pastor.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-04-20
THE BURNING BUSH"
A Wonderful Plant Whose vapor May
Be Set Afame.

30 Set Af'ame.
The burning bush." which Is known
to botanists as the Dictamnus fraxi-
nella. is regarded as one Of the most
wonderful plants in the world. This
plant is native to western Asia. though
it is now found in some gard ns OF the
temperate zone. In connection with
the dictamnus ii Is rather remarkable
that the species Is common where the
incident of Moses and the burning bush
is said to have occurred.
A great many people who grow the
plant are quite OF its strange
habits. As Il matter OF fact. the die
tamnus Secretes u fragrant essential
oil in great abundance, which. botanists
say. Is produced in especially large
quantities by the flower stems, in
warm weather yolatilizing so that the
air surrounding the plant is impreg-
mated. Further. this vapor is highly
hlflammable. and il Il naked flame is
brought near to the plant the fumes at
once take fire with u most singular re-
suit. The whole plant Is surrounded
with cracking. shooting flames reddish
i'll color and leaving II highly aromatic
odor behind them. The burning bush
does not seem to be injured In any way
by the fire. for the flames do not actu-
ally come into contact with the plant
itself.
Several conditions are needful il the
experiment with tho burning bush Is to
be Il success. Thus 1t ~ essential that
the air should be very dry and warm:
also that there should be practically no
wind. The best effects are secured
only just after the opening OF the flow
ers. 1t Will he realized that these con
ditlons cannot always be relied upon.
a plan has recently been devised by
means OF which the infiammable ma
ture OF the vapors given out by the
Ting effect.
A strong plant OF the burning bush
is raised In Il pot. AT the time when
the flowers are just reaching perfec-
ton the plant Is placed in Il glass jar
or u case. This Is closely covered for
some hours before the time OF the ex-
pertinent On removing the cover q
light Is held owe the plant, when there
Is at once Il tremendous outburst OF
flame. So great may be the rush OF
1re that the expertmenter Is cautioned
to keep his face away from the top OF
the jar. as a serious burn 10 not by any
means out OF the question. After al
Interval Of IA hour or % with the jal
or case closed up the experiment may
be repeated with similar results.-Den
yer News.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-04-20
Modern Berlin.

1t was Frederick H., styled the Iron.
who constructed the first building Oh
the site of modem Berlin. This was Il
castle which VAS the first donicile or
the R~ranlenhurg electors. II vas much
damaged In the Thirty Years war, but
after this the town started 10 loom
up around II. However. Its present
strength dates from the formation or
the German empire and II ranks third.
after London and Paris in population
~ the cities Of Europe
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-04-20

Sunday April I'D, 10:45 a. NJ. Ser
mon BY the pastor. Anthem by the
choir. IL noon sundhy scnOol ses-
sion. Let our aim be to have perfect
attendance in all the classes. ) D. m.
Junior Christian Endeavor Society,"
Mrs. Olson superintendent. ] p. m.
Senior Endeavo, society. The young
people OF the church should increase
the attendance at this service. . p. IN
Evening worship, Special music by
choir and orchestra under the leader
ship OF Prof. Hopfner. II not wor-
shipping elsewhere worship with us.
Wednesday April % h. Prayer
meeting ir the church parlors.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1917-04-20

city, and almost all the users Of
electric lights in the city. The
petition asks that the light be furn-
ished at the same rate or basis as the
company is furnishing it in nearby
towns.
The people Of Milbank believe
that they should have their electric
light and power furnished as cheaply
as any Of their neighboring towns,
and it the present company is unable
to do this at a profit then it will
have to get out of the way for a cor
poration that can and will do it.