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Norwich bulletin., 1917-08-31

The consumer is to be protected, of course. But he isn't the only toad in the puddle. The producer must be protected, also. or he will stop produc- ing And what will the consumer do then, poor thing?
 If it is right that coal miners should be allowed to charge only S4so a ton at the pit mouth and coal jobbers be permitted to add only 15 cents ton for their commission. because inVesti- gatlon shows that both can make ex- penses and a living profit at these min imum rates. then why shouldn't the hay-grower be assured Of a minimum price for his product which will assure him expenses and living profit?
 to every question It is almost univer- living, and we all would like to see il reduced. We are perfectly willing to have government step in and do some want it. also. to step in and cut down our income?
 tice could be done to all concerned, consumer, producer, 1aborer, would be for this same government to ascertain the exact cost every last thing pro- duced or consumed in the country, and then fix both maximum and minimum prices for it all-fron coal to hay, from gravestones to shoestrings- nrices which should never fall below a.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
WAS A MAGNANIMOUS PAGAN
SaIadin, Conquerer Of Jerusalem, Did
Not Shed Drop Of Christian Blood
When City Fell.

It was in 1893 that Saladin died In
Damascus, leaving behind him a repu-
tation for magnanimity unique in that
age, and only exceeded by his fame as
a warrior.
1t was only six years before his
death that Saladin defeated Guy de
Lusignan, the Christian king Of Jeru-
salem, and obtained possession Of the
sacred city, which had been captured
by the Crusaders S8 years before. The
golden cross was pulled down and
dragged through the streets Of the
city, and the Mosque Of Omar, which
had been consecrated to Christ, was re-
stored to the worship Of Mohammed.
But not a drop of Christian blood was
shed after the capitulation. Instead Of
butchering thousands Of the inhabi-,
tants, as the Christians had done after
conquering the city, Saladin ordered
that none should be harmed. The
weeping queen was treated with great
consideration, and Saladin was SO
moved by her misery that he Is said to
have shed tears Of sympathy. Later,
during the third crusade, the Chris
tians under Richard Occur de Lion be-
headed in cold blood 5000 Saracen
hostages, and Saladin revenged himself
upon Christians in his power. On the
whole, however. he was vastly better
than most Of the rulers Of his time.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
NEW EXPLOSIVE BEING USED
Rochambolite, Introduced by French
on Western Front, Has Terrible
Effect on Enemy.

ROchambOlite is new and terrible
explosive that has recently been intro
duced on the western front by the
French and employed in the defense of
Verdun, says the Argonaut. The ex-
plosive, when tested in action at Yer
dun, was found to possess a most ter
rible and demoralizing effect upon the
Germans.
The explosive is powder which.
upon ignition, changes into a molten
metal and very large volume of gas
in an infinitely small space of time.
This sudden change in volume and
the terrific heat which is generated
cause an immense pressure on the
walls of the vessel that contains it.
shattering the walls and hurting the
molten metal and wall fragments in
all directions, spreading death and de
structiOn in their path.
The effect of this molten metal on
the Germans can hardly be imagined.
Pieces Of metal upon striking them inn
mediately burn their way deep into
the flesh, even to the bone, causing
Intense pain and suffering to the vic
tim. So deadly and so demoraliZng
have the French found this explosive
to be that they are now utilizing it on
the entire front.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
% Man Without
q A Country q
81 Ed\uard Everett Hale

skiff, to show him q cane-brake or
cottonwood tree, as he said, really to
seduce him; and by the time the sail
was over, Nolan was enlisted body and
soul. From that time, though he did
not yet know it, he lived as "a Man
without a Country"
What Burr meant to do know no
more than you, dear reader. 1t Is none
Of our business just now. Only, when
the grand catastrophe came, and JEFF
ferson and the House Of Virginia Of
that day undertook to break on the
wheel all the possible Clarences Of the
then House of York, by the great
treason trial at Richmond, some Of the
lesser fry in that distant Mississippi
valley, which was farther from us than
Puget Sound is today introduced the
like novelty on their provincial stage,
and, to while away the monotony OF
the summer at Fort Adams, got up, for
spectacles, O string of court-martials
on the officers there. One and anoth-
er of the colonels and majors were
tried, and, to fill out the list, little No
Ian, against whom, heaven knows,
there was evidence enough, that he
was sick of the service, had been will
ing to be false to it, and would have
Obeyed any order to march anywhither
with anyone who would follow him.
had the order only been signed, "By
80 Pnrr " Tho
courts dragged on. The big flies es-
capped, rightly for all know. Nolan
was proved guilty enough, as l say |;
yet you and I would never have heard
of him, reader, but that, when the
president of the court asked him at the
close, whether he wished to say any
thing to show that he had always been
faithful to the United States, he cried
out, in fit Of frenzy:
Oh the United Statesl I wish
I may never hear Of the United States
again! ~
1 suppose he did not know how the
words shocked old Colonel Morgan,
who was holding the court. Half the
officers who sat in 1t had served
through the Revolution, and their
lives, not to say their necks, had been
risked for the very idea which he so
cavalierly cursed in his madness. He,
on his part, had grown up in the West
Of those days, in the midst Of Spanish
plot" "Orleans plot" and all the rest.
His education. such as 1t was, had
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19

been perfected in commercial expedi-
tions to Vera Cruz, and think he told
me his father once hired an English
man to be private tutor for a winter
on the plantation. He had spent half
his youth with an older brother, hunt
ing horses in Texas; and, in q word, to
him Omitted States" was scarcely
reality. Yet he had been fed by "Unit-
ed States" for all the years since he
had been in the army. He had sworn
on his faith as Christian to be true to
Omitted States" It was "United
States" which gave him the uniform he
wore, and the sword by his side. Nay,
my poor Nolan, it was only because
UNITED States" had picked you out
first as one of her own confidential
men Of honor, that "A. Burr" cared
for you a straw more than for the fiat
boat men who sailed his ark for him.
1 do not excuse Nolan; I only explain
to the reader why he damned his coun-
try, and wished he might never hear
her name again.
again. From that moment, Septem-
Der %, 1907, till the day he died, May
IL, 1868, he never heard her name
again. For that half century and
more he was q man without q coun-
try.
Old Morgan, as said, was terribly
shocked. If Nolan had compared
George Washington to Benedict Ar
mold, or had cried, "God save King
George" Morgan would not have felt
worse. He called the court into his
private room. and returned in fifteen
minutes, with q face like a sheet, to
say:
prisoner, hear the sentence Of the
court. The court decides, subject tc
the approval Of the president, that you
never hear the name Of the United
States again."
Nolan laughed. But nobody else
laughed. Old Morgan was toe
solemn, and the whole room was
hushed dead as night for minute
Even Nolan lost his swagger in mo
ment. Then Morgan added: "Mr
Marshal, take the prisoner to Orleans
in IN armed boat, and deliver him tt
the naval commander there"
The marshal gave his orders, ant
the prisoner was taken out of court.
Mr. Marshal" continued old Nor
gan, "see that no one mentions tn,
United States to the prisoner. Mr.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
Whales,

Whales are able to attain such an
enormous size because their bodies are
supported by the water In which they
live. A bird Is limited to the weight
which its wings can bear up in the air.
A land animal, If it becomes too large,
cannot hold Its body of the ground
or readily move about, and is doomed
to certain destruction. But a whale
has to face none Of these problems
and can grow without restraint.
Because whales live In a supporting
medium their young are Of enormous
size at birth, in some instances the calf
being almost half the length of its
mother. I once took 25-foot baby
which weighed about eight tons from
an S5-foot blue whale.-Exchange.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19

small losses, comparatively, suffered
by the British in the Arras offensive.
He placed them at so to IS per cent
less than those Of the Somme, while
the enemy losses were tremendously
larger.
The U-boats, he said, had taken
large toll, but they were at greater
cost to Germany because they had
aligned against the Germanic allies the
greatest neutral, the United States.
Mr.. Law was introducing the new
vote of credit of S2,500.00O,000, which
he said was disturbing, because the
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
HEAL BABY RASHES
That Itch, Burn and Torture With cuti.
cura-Triai Free.

A hot Cuticura Soap bath is soothing
to irritated skins when followed by
a gentle application of Cuticura Oint-
ment. Use Cuticura for everyday toi-
let preparations to prevent such trou'
bles. After this treatment baby sleeps
mother rests and healment follows.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. l.,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
ENORMOUS OUTLAY FOR WAR
British Chancellor of the Exchequer
Gives Facts When Introducing
Measure for New Credit.

London.-Andrew Bonar Law, chan
cellor of the exchequer, in the COM
mons discussed most of the main fea-
tures of the war. Some Of them, he
said. could be viewed with great satis-
faction by the British. Others were of
a most disturbing nature.
One encouraging point made was the
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19

figures represented total daily ex.
penditure Of $37,25O,OOO. Between
April 1 and May, the chancellor said.
there was a daily advance of $4,000.
900 to the allies Of Great Britain and
to the dominions.
The credit brings the total since the
outbreak of the war to S22 ,21O, ,OOO. 900.
America, however, continued the
chancellor, had acted with prompt.
tude, for which the nation could not
be too grateful. The present vote
would carry the government on until
about August l.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
FIRST iNSTALLMENT.

No document In actual Amer
lean history conveys a more
powerful lesson of what citizen
ship In this republic means, none
delivers a more searching appeal
to loyalty, than this fancifuI re-
citai of the Man Without
Country. The unhappy creature
whose living death 1t has graved
upon the memory of mankind .
wac but a figure born of a writ
er's Imagination. Yet, the &C
count of his passionate outburst
and Of his dreadful expiation
stirs tho duIIest soul, and will
awaken emotion In the minds
Of readers Of generations yet un-
born. There can be no more ar
resting lesson for the disloyaI or
the needless, no more Inspiring
appeal to the spirit of true Amer
icanism, than this memorable
work Of literary art and high
souIed patriotlsm.1
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
Stickin's.

When a boy asks his mother II 1t Is
wrong to play marbles for keeps, 1t is
q safe bet that he has come home with
more than he started out with.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
NOT Very ReIioouslY.

Physician-"Did your husband fol.
low my directions, taking his medicine
religiouslyY Wife-I fear not, doc
tor. He swore every time gave him
a dose."-Puck.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19

Nature and environment give every
person character, but they have to
supply themselves with a reputation.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
LILY FACE CREAM pIdppa
Is cent coin. BOX Is, LONG BEACH, GALE.

The fellow who would "die rather
than fight for his country" would do
a patriotic thing, anyway.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
PIMPLY? WELL, DON'T Be!
People Notice It. Drive Them OFF
with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A pinply face will not embarrass you
much longer if you get package of DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin
should begin to clear after you have
taken the tablets few nights.
Cleanse the blood, the bowels and the
liver with DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets,
the successful substitute for, calomel-
there's never any sickness or pain after
taking them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do that
which calomel does, and just as effec-.
lively, but their action is gentle and
safe instead of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets IS
ever cursed with "a dark brown taste"
a bad breath, a dull, listless, "no good"
feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad
disposition Or pimp1y face.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil; you will know them by their
olive color.
Dr. Edwards spent years among pa
tients afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result.
Take one or two nightly for week
See how much better you feel and look.
1oc and 2sG per box. All druggists.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

the most votes, Mics Gertrood JON
son, having next to the most votes
started to make sutch fearse faces al
her that Mrs. Watkins quick stopped
the contest. II
In the Woods.
Pome by Skinny Martin.
A little rabbit climbed up a tree
And wiggled both Of its ears,
And then mulch to everybody's SER
prize,
It started to give cheers!
Visiting cards printed on brain new
printing press, for a sent, ones with
smeers on them, for a sent. See
Artie Alexander. Avvertizemint.
Intristing Facks about Well known
People. After he thawt 1t wood be
fizzically impossible to eat eny more
Krissmus dinner, Ed Wer11ick got UP
and wawked wunts GROUND the table
and came back and ate anuther pritty
big peece Of minis pie.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
T
TODAY'S POEM
THE STARS SHINE ON.

Orchard Butler Glaenzer, in Boston
Transcript
I have scanned the sky for clew
To the fury of hate
Which rends the Old World, riddles
| the New
But, alas, of late
Heaven is dumb, vault of stone:
The stars shine on, serene as ever
they shone.
I have turned to the sun for light,
But a thickening smoke
Smothers his gold, which seemed all
bright,
With a lurid cloak.
Must the gloom continue? Can moth
ing atone?
The stars shine on. serene as ever
they shone.
L have plead with the moon for a
Soft sphere of dreams;
But her lovely face, now drawn and
gray,
No longer beams; r
Her silver is furnished, her magic
flown,
The stars shine on, serene as ever
they shone.
So call to the stars: 80 stars
OF constant flame,
Fling us sop for the fate that scars
Our earth with shame!"
Fate? Not fate, but folly alone;
The stars shine on, serene as ever
they shone.
"Meat Of your marrow the flaw
And as old as time,
But bane that testers now that your
law
Is love sublime
Begrudging greed, the bone of your
bone"
The stars shine on. sere as ever they
Shone.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

"Our lives are albums written through,
With. good or ill, with false or true,
| And as the blessed angels turn
The pages of our years,
God grant they read the good with
| smiles,
And blot the ill with tears"
Putting an old head on young
shoulders never has been accom-
p:ished, and never will be. How could
one expect an innocent, playful kitten
to be as wise as those of it's kind who
have summered and wintered life
How could one expect the little lambs
gamboling over the lea to fear the
fate Of those who have gone before,
or the little speckled trout to be as
awry as the older fish that have sue
cessfully lodged many a bait set for
their undoing?
Youth knows none of life's perils. 1t
is satisfied with the pleaures of today.
1t thinks the sun will always shine
and joys are always to last. One s
duty is to warn the young where the
shoals and pitfalls lie. But will they
heed? Not they. Warnings and scold-
ings come in one ear and go out the
other. That's the proclivity of youth
not to want to hear anything unpleas-
ant. While girls should not be brought
up with the idea that they arr human
butterflies and joys are all that is
worth while in life, the cares that are
thrust upon their young minds should
be offset with an equal amount OF
pleasures. Cafe-free, happy youth
time is theirs but once. 1t should be
made the most of. After life holds
much that will cause them to be seri-
Gus enough.
Parents should make an effort to
keep the home so attractive for their
daughter that she would be pleased
to invite her young friends there. It
is great satisfaction for. parents to
know just what kind of companions
of both sexes their daughter takes to-.
The home roof is always a safe meet
ing place. Those who are denied COM
partnership at home may grow out of
the desire for bright happy friends
about them, becoming morose and dis
satisfied. The happy girl grows into
a contented, satisfied woman. She has
had what joys happy girlhood has had
to offer and is content to enter the
most serious path of life. She who
never had her youthful fling feels that
the world owes her something; that
she has been cheated Of her rightful
dues. Those with whom a girl is sur
rounded make her happy or unhappy.
All duty and cares thrust upon her
bake her a dull girl. Use caution in
checking laughter on girls lips. It
comes from her heart. Parents should
give their daughters all the pleasures
In reason which they can afford. Let
them have, if you have nothing else
to leave them, the legacy of a joyous
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

Now, to begin on the blouse, form
a plat in front, creasing on line Of
slot perforations; bring folded edge
to corresponding line Of small "olt
perforations. and press. Face rever
and adjust to position on front as H.
lustrated on reverse side of envelope,
matching small "o' perforations:
stitch back edge of rever to position
and roll lover as illustrated on reverse
side ,of envelope.
Next, close" seam as notched. Gath
er lower edge between double "TT''
perforations. Face cuff and turnover
and join, notches even. Close cuff
seam as notched to small "oo per-
foration; sew to sleeve, notches and
seams even. Sew sleeve in armhole
of blouse as notched, small CO., per-
foration at shoulder seam easing in
any fitness.
Trim the front and sleeves with
fancy buttons.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

HT-HEARTED WOMEN

A cheerful, light-hearted woman is
the joy of a mans life. Beauty will
fade, good figure will change, but
the charm Of health and cheerfulness
will endure to the end. But how can
woman be cheerful and happy when
dragged down by some female de-
rangement, with a, backache, head
ache. and often on the verge of a
nervous breakdown? =
Ldia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound is the standard remedy for
such ailments. During the last 40
years thousands Of homes have been
made happy by this woman's great
remedy for woman's ills.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

To use commonplace expression,
there is always something doing in
blouses; each week brings out some
charming novelty for the woman who
feels that as a separate garment or as
apart of her three-piece costume, her
blouse must express the last word in
fashion. This design is made with
open neck and revers Of contrasting
material. Crepe meteor and satin
would make splendid animation.
There is an underhody which may be
finished with high neck and stand
ing collar, or with convertible collar.
Cuffs finish the one-piece gathered
sleeves. In medium size the blouse
reauires 2 yards 36-ineh crepe, with
Is yara Of satin for the revers. For
the underbody 1ss yards 36-inch ma
teria1 are needed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

night to my uncle, the General Rob-
ert, when we entered, long after mid
night, the doors Of Twin Oaks.
When in my own apartment, alone
with the beautiful gran mamma cast
myself upon the bed upon which my
father had had birth and wept with all
my woman's heart, which beat so hard
under that attire of the raven.
And then suddenly the telephone upon
the table beside my bed gave a loud
ringing in tie darkness that was long
after midnight. Very quickly from
fear covered my head with my pillow
and waited with a great futtering tcf
heart.
Then a second time It rang with a
great fury, and perceived that I must
make response to 1t. !.
I arose and took that receiver into
my hand and spoke with fine though
husky calmness. *
"What is it?'' I asked.
els that you, Robert?" came the voice
Of my beloved gouverneur, which made
the heart of that anguished Roberta,
marquise of Gree and Bye, beat into a
sudden great happiness, though also
alarm.
Eyes, your excellency."
"Can you dress very quietly, get your
car and come up here to the mansion
without letting anybody know of it?"
Il will do what you command"
II need you, boy, and I need you
quick" 3
II come"
"Stop the car at the street beyond
the side door and come in that way.
Cato will let you in. Come to my bed
room quietly so as not to wake Jen-
kins. Can you find your way?"
Immediately I come to you"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
STUDENTS LOVE AND SORROW

Study writes: GAS student, I ask
your opinion. 1 am 81 years old. At
tend high school. This Is my laIt
year. I have become smitten with a
bright girl student of 10. She says she
cares truly for me. I have no position
as yet to make money. If so, I would
claim sweetheart as my brideAto-be.
She has other suitors. 1 fear one will
win her if I tell her I cannot support
a wife for some time. She Is anxious
about me. Wants a nice home besides
love"
Tell the girl just how you are sit
uated, how long it will be before you
can enter business and support wife.
If she is willing to wait-for loves
siake-propose and, in the future, wed
her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
HER FAITH SHAKEN
IN HASTY LOVER

G. c. writes: II am a young girl Of
20. A young man Of "a was intro
duced, became visitor and limited
earnestly he was on marriage intent.
This all occurred within three months
after we were acquainted. Haste is
not always luckiest. He went away.
wrote him. as he requested while
saying goodbye. I never heard from
him since. Did he care for me as he
sighed and vowed truly? Await your
kind answer"
He changed for some unknown rea-
son. Unless he replies with apology
better find another.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
=
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTE BOOK
(By Lee Pape}
The Park Ave. News.

Weather. Mixed.
Big Robbery. A berguler climbed
throo Pubs Simkinses kitchin window
last Sunday mite and stoled 2 overcoats
belawnging to his father and one be-
lawnging to his brother and then
climbed out agen. Pubs states that he
don't miss enything eXsept little bal
made out of rubber bands witch was in
the hall rack, and he don't know
weather the berguler took it or not
btu enyhow he thinks Sundey is a
fearse time for enbody to ge GROUND
stealing.
Sissiety Notes. A bewty contest was
held at Miss Mary Watkinses berth
day party, all the gentilmen starting
to vote wich they thawt was the bew-
tyest looking gerl, witch jest wen it
was neerly over and Miss Watkins had
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
Today's Anniversaries

Duke of Kent, father of Queen Vic
toria and one of the first to suggest
a British American federation, died
in 1920. This is the feast of St
Eusebia, a fourth century Assyrian
abbot, who gained fame by takins
nOurishment only once every four
days. The. first Royal Exchange in
London was opened by Queen Eliza
beth oni this date in 1871, but Ant
werp had previously had "bourse.' y
France formally annexed Madagascar
FL years ago today, Gen. Joffre hav-
ing aided in subduing the natives.