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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
Coroner to Probe Death of Child

Coroner John J. Phelan has begun an inquiry into the circumstances of the burning to death of Frieda Smith, 6 years. while alone in her ho3he in Stratfield road, yesterday morning. The girl according to reports was cooking an ear of corn over a kero- sene, lamp from which she had re- moved the chimney. Her mother to escape the cruel beatings of her hus- band had fled from home more than week ago.
 The father when the accident oc- cured was in the city courtroom re- ceiving 10 day jail sentence for drunkenness. The child was alone in the house when her clothing became ignited.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12

State street, who failed to report when he. was called to entrain for Camp Devans has been located and will leave with the contingent going from Bridgeport next week.
 Altogether the six divisions of the city will furnish about $50 men next week. Of this number one quarter will go each day beginning with the 18th and ending on the .22nd. The number will be so apportioned among the divisions as to represent 10 per cent. of the quota on each of the days fixed for the departure.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
MISSING FROM CAMP.

The following men are absent with. out leave from the headquarters oi the 102nd U.S s. Infantry: Private John O'Connor, 173 Cottage street:
 Charles Ludford, Main street, and John Solomon. 28 White street. all of Bridgeport. Their return is requested.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
CONNECTICUT PATENTS.

The following issued September 4, 1917. List furnished f-om the office of A. M. Wooster, 602 Security Build ing, Bridgeport, Conn. Joseph K. Skinder, Bridgeport. shoe cleaning apparatus George B. Thomas, Bridgeport. lamp socket.
 Andrew T. Hotchkiss, New Haven, blind buffer.
 Joseph Petrelli, New Haven, re- versing mechanism.
 Wilbur l.. Shepard, West Hartford. operating device for mixing machines. George R. Long, Waterbury, faucet. Krocor Hovhannesian, Middletown, combination tool
 Designs ! George H. Dyson, New Britain, pin.
 Trade Marks Warner Bros. Co.,, Bridgeport, (2) corsets.
 William J., Hellstern, New Haven. biscuits.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
'lN LETTER TO ROME POLES SCORE POPE FOR FAILURE TO MENTION IN PEACE NOTE THEIR INDEPENDENCE

Discreet Silence" of the Ponts Failure to Refer Absolute Necessity of Restoring Lorraine to and Express the Opinion That Holy See Evidently Opinion That the Poles Are Not Even Entitled to Decide Their Fate.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12

Mrs. Katherine Hanley of .12o Clin. ton avenue, left Monday to attend the convention of the Companions of the Forest, which opened Monday in At. lantic City. Mrs. Hanley was accom-. panied by her niece, Miss May Cor. coran of I'll Popular street, and Mrs Mary. Harwood of Meriden.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

MT. and Mrs. George Knapp, 5 Brooklawn Terrace, are rejoicing over the arrival of seven pound daugh- ter.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12
Fairfield Gauge Case
 Arrives At Hospital
 In Time to Fill Need

The Fairfield Chapter of the Red Cross has received communication from Paris, France, dated August 2o,- in which the members are informed that one of the cases of gauge sent by the chapter arrived and was turned over to a hospital by the clearing. house, just when there was great need of gauge. The communication was signed by Martha. A. White. =
 An appeal is being issued for more. workers at Fairfield. There is a great need for additional volunteers.
 John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers, accepted the invitation of Fuel Administrator Gar field to act as one of his advisers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12

FLORAL BOUQUETS AND DESIGNS.
 JOHN RICK 6 SON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12

Captain Guynemer brought down his fiftieth German airplane.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-09-12

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent Word
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
HELP CHEER THE JACKIES
Friends and Relatives Urqed to Write
Cheering Letters to the
Boys in Training.

Great Lakes. Ill.-A movement to
bring little more JOY into the lives
of the young men at the United States
naval training station here has been
started by the Loyal Girls Of America
This society has inaugurGted cam
paig1h TO impress upon the friends and
relatives Of the blueiuclptS the i'm
portance of writing them cheering let
terS.
Don't write your son John that you
are unhappy while he is away in the
service Of his country" says Miss Ger
trude ElmOre, secretary Of the society
Don't tell him that his favorite dog
is pining away. Tell him how enviouS
the boys at home are of him and his
opportunity. Tell him that you expect
him to make good that he must make
good for the sake of himself, his home
and his country"
Many Of these youthful sailors are
away from home for the first time in
their lives and it is but natural that
they should feel little hOmeSiCk at
times. Letters from home written in
cheerful vein will work wonders in
keeping up their spirit and inspiring
them with the determination to give
their best service to their country in
its hour of need.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
The Man Who Saved Belgium

Herbert c. Hoover, being nineteen
years of age, depending on his re-
sources, quiet, self-confident and spar
ing of speech, presented himself in
as the first student to be registered,
the first occupant of Encina hall, and
as the nucleus Of the department of
geology and mining. AS nearly every
body else among the 465 students was
a freshman likewise, lack of expert
ence was no bar to anything. So. as a
freshman, he organized the finances of
the student body on sound system
which remains to this day when the
student group spends many thousand
dollars year in its varied activities.
Duly graduated in 1895 as a mining
engineer, Hoover accepted the first pO-
sition offered, place on the staff of
mining corporation in Nevada coun-
ty, California. The pay was 81 per
day, the assignment to push ore-laden
cars from the mouth of the mine to
the reducing works. The cars all
reached their destination, and a more
specialized job followed. Next he ap-
peared in the most desolate spot In the
civilized world, Broken Hill, in the
desert of New South Wales.
In this desolate, forSaken wallow of
sand, zinc and gold, Hoover and his
team mate, D. 2. Mitchell, of '96, spent
a red-hOt summer night discussing the
chances of return to the world.
Should they go on as wageworking
mining experts in the countries God
forgot, or should they throw it all
up and 90 back to some honest trade
The fact is, they stayed by, and then
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18

came series of events which led
Hoover to China and Mitchell as n
general manager to Melbourne.
He was thirty-fOur years old by this
time. we are told by David Starr Jor.
dan In Sunset Magazine. He had gone
TO the limit as mining engineer. He
could do nothing more with 1t as pro.
tesslon except to pile up more money.
lie had all the money he needed and
ne wanted to do something else. There
was Agricola, whom he would like to
translate. There was lot of ancient
record stones from his mine on Mount
Sinai. Hoover considered entering
American politics.
When the war began there were
more than 100000 Americans scattered
over Europe. These met with all sort &
of troubles and grievances great and
small. Some were rich and tempora
stranded, some permanently poor
some eking out petty incomes or aIi-
monies In the cheapest villages of
Bavaria. Saxony or France. The Hooy-
ers took charge of the commission
for their relief. The operations OF tho
committee at the Savoy hotel, wholly
American and wholly unpaid, showed
the marvellous tact and skill with which
American folks can handle n new situ-
alton. About 5000 Americans wore
sent home, and several times that mum
ber gained temporary relief. The re-
lief of 100000 of Belgians agninst
democratic famine working dny and
night was problem of infinite dimcn-
sions, but Hoover tackled It as pnrt
of the days work. If Belgium snycd
Europe, as my. good friend Snrolcn
says it did, then America saved Rel.
GUM, and Hoover was her agent.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
GRAIN WENT THROUGH FIRE
After Ten Years 1t is Found in Ruins
Of an Elevator in
Louisiana.

Blanchard, Lain excavating for
new approaches for the Farmers ele-
vator, the debris of the elevator fire
of ten years ago was unearthed.
Among other things was pocket of
wheat containing bushel or more,
charred black but whole, that had lain
there all these years. Every berry
was as perfect as the day of the fire.
Covered by earth and ashes, 1t was
hermetically sealed from the elements.
The old elevator was the property of
J. III. Walkinshaw and Mckee Broth
ers, and burned to the ground full Of
wheat, corn and oats. There was some
insurance. They rebuilt the present
structure, replacing the destroyed ele-
vator. Wheat then was worth lea
than 80 cents per bushel
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
Nurses Aids Nav Be Needed.

limited number of nurses aids
may be used at the front who lack the
wide professional training required OF
the nurse. Though the greater volume
of Red Cross work must he done at
home, the experience Of deepest human
interest will always be met in the
paths trod by the Rcd Cross nurse in
The professional Red Cross nurse who
Is so fortunate rs to reach the front
VIII meet with experiences to which
the supporting armies of women be-
hnd the lines are strangers.
The last request of the dying soldier
is often intruStrd for fultilment to the
Kcd Cross nurse and his last message
to her hands for delivery. American
Red Cross nurses have served in car
ing for wounded of all European
armies since September, 1914, but with
the sending of the Pershng expedition
TO the western battle front American
boys will bleed. suffer and die and the
Red Cross nurse will share
their sorrows.
Service as a Red Cross nurse. while
founded upon the principle of minis
tering to others. is not without its own
inherent hazards to those engaged, as
witnessed by the recent Mongolia in
cident, in which the lives of two Amer
lean hero nurses were sacrificed for
the American cause. The function of
the Red Cross nurse might be best
expressed in the words of Ian NAL
colin, the representative en- the British
recently In Washington Of
the British Red Cross, who defined it
to be "to draw great net of mercy
through an ocean of unspeakable
pain"
Incidents are legion which show the
patriotism, heroism and bravery of |
American nurses in the Red Cross |
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
BOXERS TACTICS Win A SkIRM|SK

IN again y Keep at him :" the crowd
shouts. And Feeny does as advised,
Macdona. unwary, has allowed him.
SELF to be backed into a corner, and
| quick as terrier. the shorter-arned
man steps inside his guard and gets
nome with two full-power punches on
the solar plexus. Macedonia swuys,
makes step into the ring, and then
fallS in heap with one arm relaxed
over the lower rope The referee
reaches the count Of "Ten" before the
fallen man moves at all.
Good scrap" says the machine-gun
officer to fellow lieutenant. but Fee
ny would never have won if he hadn't
got to close quarters"
A Week Later; the Trenches.
A week later. Two LITTLE grouns of
men are sheltering in two shell holes
far out amid the German wire. The
trenches two hundred Yards ahead Of
them are occupied A spray Of ma
chine-gun bullets plays across the lips
of the holes, and two men who were
ing In the bottom of the trench The
two parties are twenty yards apart.
Presently the machine gun stops IFS
patter and there is comparative silence.
There is an isolated thud in the dis
tance and the creScendo of an aD-
preaching shell. 1t bursts like an elder
powder puff, high and to the left, but
some of the shrapnel reaches one of
the shell holes.
The men have been out since before
dawn. for they were an advanced pa
troll They were discovered by the
Boches only an hour ago, however. and
their position is now made unenviable.
The ground behind slopes and they
would be exposed to machine-gun fire
all the long way to their trenches.
Now the artillery Is beginning to search
them out
They Try Out Feenys Tactics.
From the right shell hole there is
fiutter Of white, and slowly Morse
message is sent with a leaf torn from
notebook. ''Try Feeny's tactics" 1t
spells out. How about it?" The Off
Ger who receises the message smiles
to himself. "Yes," he answers Eve
will start when you signal. Give us
five minutes"
The signal is given. Both groups
dash forward and only one man falls.
Breathless, but revengeful, they fall
into the machine-gun emplacenent.
There Is some quick work with the
bayonet, the gun is wrecked, a dugout
is bombed, four prisoners are taken.
Ten minutes later. leaving two parties
of Germans bombing each other indus |
triOusly over traverse, the raiders |
streak across the No Mans Land. |
They are seen. but the machine gun |
Is out Of action and rifle fire is all |
that they have to fear. Then our men |
see them and heavy covering fire Is
kept up. They fall over the parapet,
bounce off the firing step and lie
painting on the duck boards In the bot
tom of the trench.
And Feeny, whs went on leave the
next week, found an envelope waiting
'or him before he left. There were
.wo hundred-franc notes In it and a
Message of eleven words: 'In payment
or lessons received In the noble art
# self-defense."
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
Chopped Off Finger.

Hammond. Ind.-George Rosek, a
Whiting butcher, hacked off his thumb
with a cleaver the other night. A
friend was condoling with him. 81
don't see how you did it." the friend
said. "Well, it was just like this" said
Rosek, lifting up the cleaver. and lay.
ing his hand on the block. He let the
cleaver fall, and accidentally chopped
off two more fingers and a part Of
his hand.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18

Very few states of this country hnvc
reliable birth registration systems.
The largest sugar refinery In tho
world Is located at Chalmette. on the
Mississippi river, near New Orleans
a disappearing orchestra pit I'm.
stalled in some Western thentcrs cun-
bles the musicians to come or 20 I'm II
body without any undue commotion.
A front bicycle wheel, equipped with
suitable handle and IL cyclomctcr, IL
now employed in number of the nm.
tiOnal forests of the West In measurlnv
trail
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
GERMANS BUY PRINCESS HAT
Women Fight With Police to Buy
Clothing Pawned by Louise
Of Belgium.

Munich, Bavaria.-There was re
markable scene here when hundreds
of women fought the police for a
chance to buy clothing pawned by Prin-
cess Louise of Belgium.
The center of attraction was 90 hats.
Other items included 81 robes, So UNI
brellas, 21 opera cloaks, 6S wells and
80 aigrettes.
The princess Is the daughter of the
late King Leopold Of Belgium and the
divorced wife of Prince Philip of SAKE
Coburg- -GOtha.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
HAVE 10000 PE0NY BUDS
Ohio Farmer Raises Blossoms Just to
Admire-Doesn't Sell Any
Of Them.

Cleveland, O.-Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Seither, who live on little farm near
here, started raising peonies 20 years
ago. At first they had small bed of
them. Then they began growing more
year by year, until now they have sew
eral acres. They estimate they have
10000 blossoms in their patch. They
don't sell them; they just have them
to admire
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
MUCH IN LITTLE.

Carrots and peas mixed make a
good dish.
Fossil fish, from which the much
used ichthyol oil may be obtained, has
been discovered in Texas. This ma
terial formerly came exclusively from
Austria.
The uutoped, which is a motor on
which the operator stands as 1t glides
along the street. has been tried by the
Washington post Office and has been
found to do good service.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
HIS BROTHER SLAIN;
OFF TO KILL KAISER

AtchisOn, Kan.-Herman Scha-
der, a Hiawatha confectionery
merchant, who was confined in
an Atchison sanitarium, broke
from his cage here and set out
on foot for Germany to kill the
kaiser. Schader became insane
when four of his brothers In the
German army were killed.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
Soldiers Remember How Feeny
Got Out of a Tight Cor
ner in Ring.
TRY IT ON THE GERMANS
At Close Quarters Count Enemy Out
When Feeny Goes on Leave He Gets
Token of Appreciation for
Lessons in Self-Defense.

London.-IIow the tactics of the
prize ring got two little groups of Brit
iSh soldiers out of a tight corner and
eventually gave them the victory in a
lively scrap with superior numbers
OF the enemy. is told in an interesting
story communicated by "a correspond
ent" to the London Times.
The story opens with glove contest
in room lit by four large acetylene
lamps; on tiers of benches and boxes
sit hundreds of khaki-clad men. They
have most of them been fighting all
through the week, and now they are
going to watch other men fight-with
gloves. Two men in overcoats step
through the ropes. AS the gloves are
being adjusted an officer steps into
the ring He Is loudly cheered.
"A six-rOund contest" he says, "be-
tween two IriShmen. (Cheers.) Ser
geant Kennedy Macdona. eleven stone
two, and Quartermaster Sergeant Tim
Feeny, eleven stOne'
Both boxers are fine specimens. Fee
ny, although he gives away only two
pounds, looks much the lighter His
body gliStenS in the white light. AS
he closes his gloves his muscles ripple
from wrist to shoulder, and his chest
Is f1anked with padding of muscle
to back up either hand. Macedonia is
older. His frame looks almost rigid.
There Is not the same subtle play Of
the muscles. but he seems made of
iron, and he has abnOrmally long arms.
His ears .ook as If they had been
punched fiat against the side Of his
skull. The referee calls, Seconds
out ~
Exchange Blows From the Start.
The two boxers step into the middle
Of the ring and shake hands. There Is
no noise save that of the slip, slip of
the soft kid boots over the resined
canvas. Feeny feints with his left, but
the other draws back a pace warily.
The feint has told Feeny something,
and there Is the quick phut.phut of
leather on flesh as he leads left
and right to the head. AS he steps
out the other man steps in and lands
hard one on the junction Of the ribs.
The blow has told. Still circling,
Feeny gets his man into the salient Of
the ropes and rushes In with a we'll
meant but badly planned attack. He |
has the shorter reach by inches, and |
he knows he must fight to the body |
and come inside the lOng-range blows |
of Macdona. Then he gets home again |
ard the older man is sent hard back |
to the ropes, but, being a master of |
ringcraft, comes back from them as
If thrown from catapult, and his left
comes round with full shoulder weight |
behind 1t. Feeny takes 1t ducking, but
too late; the glove comes home over
one eve. The round Is over.
Once more the boxers face each
other, but they now know each others
tactics. 1t Is good round, but when
It finishes 1t shows that the man with
the shorter reach must get in close to
his opponent, who has the range Of
him. He knows this, too, so he fights
hard, tunneling into Macdona's defense
with jabs and short-arm hooks clinch-
ing when hard pressed and smothering
In the break-away Feeny attacks
with furry Of quick in-fghting. "Go
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
1000 Await Artificial Limbs.

Lopdon.-It is officially announced
that S,S05 artificial limbs have been
made for soldiers by private firms at
a cost of $636,OOO, and that more than
1000 additional men who have lost
limbs are waiting to be supplied.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
Unconscious 1S DAYS.

Islip. L. I.-After being unconscious
for IS days here, Miss Urling Valentine
has recovered from concussion of the
brain sustained when she fell from her
horse some time ago.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
Her Biz Not Appreciated

Join the nrm, want to
cook. ehilSt as n
.r, ~ H. H. Sh-h! Hush nv do.
They're nrrcs'ins peonI, ,nn my dear.
'hr'nts against tho ,rm, " making
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
cumulative Dlaco,,

'h"y'vc discovered !, ro,
$50 """'E . trenches In France"
,,,, r'"d, hut they learned 49,
their ,.,, ,n", they Ind M elephant "n
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
FIND VAST DECREASE IN
BRITISH JAIL INMATES

London.-The war has had
the effect Of reducing crime In
Great Britain to an astonishing
degree. There are now 1000
fewer men and 700 fewer women
in prison than at the beginning
of the war. The total number of
prisoners Is 9.032.
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18

| -ZG ''t >l'h ana wounded ano
relief to dependent fami.
! Hes of SOldiers-carrieS an appeal at
| ms time to the American woman expr
! clSed perhaps by other organized wal
effort, either governmental or private
! 10 those who may have felt the pull
! OF thIS appeal or who may be in con
| temptation of eSSnying the difficult
| role OF the Red Cross nurse the qupS
tioh What does woman need to
know 70 be eligible as a Red Cross
hurSeE' must often have occurred.
\ glance at some of the most i'm
poi7ant prerequisites to service as a
lted Cross nurse will prove at once
mat more than 90 per cent of those
who aspire to 90 to the front as Red
'F0SS nurses must be eliminated nj
the start through lack of experience
necessary to fit them for the work.
IN" Red Cross nurse must have been
graduated from nurses school, giving
at least two years general hospital
training in an institution caring for
both sexes and maintaining daily
average Of at least 30 patients.
Some of the Qualifications.
She must be not only of voting age,
but must have added four additional
years of discretion and arrived at the
mature age of twenty-five. yet She
must not have passed her forticth
birthday.
If her state law 50 requires She must
have been registered as nurse under
the law.
II your potential nurse has satisfied
ali Of the requirements already named
she must be in addition member of
an organization affiliated with the
American Nurses association and nh-
tain the Endorsement of its executive
committee or two of its officers. She
must have the Endorsement of the su-
perintendent uf the nurses school
where her diploma was acquired, the
further approval of the local commit
tee on Red Cross nursing service, and,
finally, mhst pass the exacting physical
examination required by the Red Cross
before assignment to active duty.
4 woman needs to know many things |
and have wide experience to be eligible
as a Red Cross nurse. The work |
which must be done in the case of the |
wounded in hospitals not only de- |
mands skill and training in the tech
nique Of nursing, but also a constitu-
ton accustomed to bear the strain of |
physical effort and nervous system
which will withstand shocks of what
ever intensity. The stipulations made
by the Red Cross, to be satisfied by
It's nursing candidates, can be said to
The St. Charles herald., 1917-08-18
Want TO be uRo0 Cross Nurse?
This article tells zvhat are the
requirements and describes the
1UOrk some american 2u0Men in
GeM 5erlICe haze d0He in Europe
BY JANE A. DELANO
Chairman National Committee Red
Cross Nursina Service.

HE work of The Red Cross
divided roughly into two
first, peace ac-
tiNity in eases Of pesti-
Icnce, famine. fire and
flood, and, second. in time
of war, relief and care for
the sick and wounded and
relief tu dpupDdp0t faui-