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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-06-01

THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

Interest ia the progress Of the war for
the present in this country is centered
the preparations here and particularly
ON "Regstration Day" next Tuesday
when more than five millions of young
men wall register themselves as liable to
military duty aud for the most part will
do 80 willingly and patriotically.
There is and will be certain amount
Of opposition. There always is to any
great movement. Some people are con.
stituted that way. Most of these have
not reasoned it out with themselves.
They are acting on impulse and emotion
rather than reason. AS matter of fact
proven by tina history Of all military ex-
}perlence and notably during our own
Civil War, these ''pacitists'' if drafted.
make just as good soldiers as volunteers.
Men always follow their leaders when in
the ranks no matter how much they
have objected to being taken into the
ranks.
Most of anticipated trouble is really
the result of pro. German feeling. Some
of it is genuine and comes from persons
OF German birth or ancestry, who never
really become full Americans. Some of
it is stirred up by pro German agencies
who work upon the feelings and ultra
beliefs of socialists, anarchists. I. w
WIS and all other similar classes. To
these may be added that numerous class
in all communities who go by the name
of "knockers' who are always dlsatis-
fed and like the Irishman who did not
know to which party he belonged, they
"are agin the government anyway"
But because these will make trouble
because they will thus attain sort of
prominence, and because the papers will
be full of their rebellious acts, they will
seem more numerous and their contrary
ness more menacing than they really are
the vast majority of this American peo-
pie are intensely patriotic, and in this
statement we want to include our natu-
ralized or born citizens of German
descent as we'll as all of our countrmen
themselves or whose fathers were born
across the seas. Because il this latter
is.not true then the republic of the
United States is failure and is not
worth fighting for.
Both law and reason make it impos-
sible for man to be true citizen of
more than one country.
A few weeks ago the earth was bare
and the trees were leaaess. But below
the surface, unseen and unheard, mighty
forces, infinite in number, we're working
in profound quiet. In The few brief
days the world has changed and billions
of blades of grass have covered the sur
face while the skeleton limbs are bur
dened with green leaves. Seeds sown
by farmers begin to take the forms of
food and the world that seemed 80 dead
is again in the full springtime of life.
A few weeks ago this nation was dull
and bare Of patriotic enthusiasm and
sentiment, but underneath in the hearts
Of the people. mighty forces are moving
and soon tho surface will be covered
with kahki and ''o|d Glory" blossoming
in every direction.
He that is not with us "a against us.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
TITLED ITALIAN
 NURSE AWARDED
 MEDAL OF HONOR
Helene of Aosta Praised for Bravery on Battlefield
 in Two Wars.

The King of Italy has awarded the silver medal for military valor to the Duchess Helene of Aosta, whose nur- band is lieutenant general in the Italian army. Although a daughter of the Bourbon-Orleans house, the duchess is an English princess, hav- ing been born at Twickenham and married at Kingston-on-Thame She is noted both for her beauty and her intelligence. She has been. associated with the Italian Red Cross on the bat tlefield in two wars and in the terrible Messina earthquake.
 The military medal goes to her not only for her bravery in caring for wounded soldiers under fire, but for nursing those suffering from cholera since the beginning of the Italian cam paign against Austria She has been active in Red Cross work in the pres ent war since Italian troops took the field and now is one of the chief in spectors of the organization in Italy and a wonderfully energetic worker who permits nothing to interfere with her war duties.
 The Duchess Helene saw active ser vice in 1911, when she went to Fri poll with Italian troops and took charge of the Red Cross units there She was also one of the first to carry aid to the sufferers of the Messina dis. aster and stayed among the refugees until all had been provided for. The duchess is the daughter. of the Count of Paris, head of the Bourbon. Orleans family, whose secretary she was as a girl. She was married ir
 1895. Her elder son, the Duke o1 Apulia, was only seventeen years old when the war began and was a sudden, at a military school He enlisted as a private soldier and won his corpor. al's stripes on the battlefield
 Her second son, the Duke of Spolete
 is only fifteen and frequently accom-.
 panies her to the front when she zoe: to inspect hospitals.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
LAURA JEAN LIBDY'S DAILY TALKS ON HEART TOPICS

toward the toy who estranged him
 from his home. Respect for her he has none and never had. The pas sions of the flesh and the tortured pains of illness cannot abide together. The latter vanquishes the former. Shame prevents him from sending for his wife and family to come to
 him. He doubts if they would come to him were he to summon them, so
 great has been their pitiful indigna- tion for his neglect of them. There
 might be a scene if the toy woman
 refused them entrance That would
 be the last straw. He puts from him
 the intense desire to be united to
 them. But he will show them that his last thoughts and act were for them. In secret he makes his will. Excepting a small pittance to her on
 whom he places the blame of the past, he bequeathes all his worldly goods to the wife of his youth, the young son who is to go on in the world without his guidance and his fair,
 loving daughters, whose presence he craved in his last hours. Thus the world knows where his sympathy lay.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

''It is the secret sympathy,
 The silken link, the silken tie,
 Which heart to heart and mind to
 mind
 Two bodies and two souls can bind
 A mans eyes may be clouded in his earlier years, as to right or wrong, put the years that follow are sure to lift the curtain and show him the full eX- tent of wrongs committed, which cry +out for adjustment The weight Of them lies a burden on his heart. Of all men who experience a change Of views in later years the man who has allowed himself to be lured away from wife and children siby a younger, fa1rer woman suffers in secret the most. As his infatuation for the newer fancy wears away he realizes what pitiful suffering he has brought to those whom God gave him to love and cher ish. A father can never blot out from his mind the fact that he is a father. His good suffering wife may have un- willingly divorced him. To her have been awarded his sons and daughters whom she has taken far away that they may not, like her, be humiliated by meeting the father who had broken
 
 While the youth and radiant beauty of the new flame lasts the man steels his heart against remorse. But he cannot be brought face to face with youths, who he realizes must be near lineage of his own boys, without feel ing stab in his conscience which he thought invulnera:ble to the emotions that arise. He cannot see fair young girls without gazing wistfully in their faces, wondering if his own daughters look like them. When he hears of fa,- therless young men going wrong he cannot cuTb the reStlessness that seizes him. Will their mother be able to guard them from dangers through that restless peuiotI of youth?
 Innocent women know not the folly which besets the paths of young men. How do they know of the midnight carousals they are inveigled into by the wrong choice of companions, shap- ing their future course toward a prison cell or making of them degenerate outcasts fleeing from justice? When the father sees the painted faces of mere young girls leering at him he grows sick at heart at thought of aib- sent daughters from whom he is es- tranged, wondering if by any turn of circumstances they might tread such a dreaded pace. When secret tortures of this kind are tugging at his heart even the toy cannot fill the gap with him. He may put on a bold front to the world, aye, and to the toy, but in his secret heart he is wondering how he can make reparation to the brave. loyal mother of his children-his neglected family.
 When a fatal sickness lays him low he feels repugnance and antagonism
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

and rivers of his native state. Observ- ing that the supply of fish was slow ly but surely failing, and being of that type of men who have at heart the interests of coming generations as well as their own, he began to give serious thought to the problem of replenishing and maintaining the fish "crop." He began to experiment first with trout and salmon spawn, and succeeded in increasing the yield of fish from 25 to 95 per cent.
 It was just half century ago.. in 1867, that Green invented his hatch ing box, by the use of which the Connecticut River was restocked with shad He then restocked the Huud- son, the Susquehanna and other rivers and lakes. In 1869 he succeeded in the artificial propagation of fish, and two years later carried young shad from the Atlantic to the Pacific cvoast For some years he was superinten- dent of the New York State Fish Hatchery at Caledonia. The pioneer pisciculturist died in Rochester ir 1888. sSince then his methods have been much improved upon, but he is entitled to all the honor that accrues to the pioneer. Green was the au. thor of Trout Cu1ture,' ''Fish Hatch. ing and Fish Catching," and various other works
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
TAILLESS CATS
 DROVE MERCHANT OUT OF ENGLAND
Hoax Perpetrated by Liver pool Men Threatened to
 Be Bane of His Life

Two thousand Manx tailless cats, ordered in a spirit of levity, while at lunch with group of business friends in Liverpool, were the cause of Wilberforce Wiggens, a merchant of that city, having to flee England for safe refuge in the United States, so Mr. Wiggens explained in New York.
 Mir. Wfggens had been invited to lunch with some friends at the Hotel Wolcott in Liverpool and was late in keeping his appointment. His friends inquired the cause, and MT. Wiggens told them he had been delayed be- cause he had received a hurry order from the Indian Government for 1,- 900 Manx tailless cats, for which he was to pay $25 each. The cats were to kill snakes Continuing the joke he told his friends that in order to have one thousand cats arrive in In- dia in good condition, it would be necessay to secure two thousand of the tailless felines, as probably half of the consignment would die en route.
 Each man present left the table one by one to secretly corner the
 
 and the walters at the hotel, hearing the story, proceeded to telegraph their rel-tives in the Isle of Man to buy up all the available cats.
 Before Wiggens could explain his prank he was deluged with every va riety of cat known in the United Kingdom. There were large cats and small cats. black cats and white cats and a steady stream of telegrams poured into the Wiggens home, in- forming him that more cats had been secured. Ragged urchins congregated each with one or more cats clasped firmly in his arms. meanwhile Ioud- ly demanding their five pounds. ($25) per cat.
 The Liverpool docks were clutter ed /up with consignments of cats. The Board of Health was seriously consid- ering either putting MT. Wiggens in jail for a year or fining him two shillings (50 cents) for every cat.
 To cap the climax, beautiful An gora kitty belonging to MT. Wiggens' rich aunt disappeared and that estim- able lady at once hied herself to the docks to see if her lost pet was among the rowling multitude gathered there. At the moment of her arrival a huge crate of cats burst open and she was mortified to see her own pet aristo- cratic feline walking away with a nasty black cat'' of the gutter vari- ety.
 Wiggens about that time had arr rived at the conclusion that discre- ton was the better part of valor, and gained the gangplank of an outward bound ship just in time to save him. 1 self from his aunt and various other interested cat owners.
 l MT. Wiggens said today the date of his return to Liverpool will be en- tirely governed by the market price of cats.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
w |'-'- VI W - LITTLE BENNY'S
 NOTE BOOK
The Park Ave. News
N(By Lee Pape)


Weather. Fair please. Ding! ding! Militerry News. Kumpiny had a pleeceman, wen the intire kumballs at the door mob of Miss Winkels frunt door until Miss Winkel stuck her he'd out the parler window mad and sed she wood send for a pleeceman, wen the intire cumpiny reatreeted, con- sisting of Genrel Martin, Kaptin Potts. Lootenant Wernick, Kernel Simkins. Sargent Hunt and Private Persey Weever.
 Sissiety News MT. Charles (Puds) Simkinses cuzzin Ralff is staying at his house for a week, being a crawss eyed little kid with nook neez but more of a gentilman than most little kids on account of being willing to run errinds for you, wich is more than most little kids will.
 Pome by Skinny Martin
 The 2 Eggcorns
 little eggcorns sat in the dew
 Telling eetch uther a joak,
 And the ferst thing one of the egg
 corns
 The uther eggcorn was oak.
 Spoarts. Maud Jonsons Skinnfe cuzzin Mabel beet all the fellows high jumping last Satidday, on account of n0r dresses HSlplHS tO kCcp IIcT III tIo air. and it was decided at a meeting of the Park Ave. Athaletic Association rite aftirwerds that all athaletic con- tests after this are for fellows ony.
 Intristing Packs about Intristing Peojle Sid Hunt was presented with pennife for his berthday last week by his admiring family, containing 2 blades, a buttin hook, a finger nale file and cork screw, being very use- fill for all sorts of diffrent purpisses until he lost it the next day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

so mentioned. Porringers, salvers, mugs and cups with the regulation vessels for religious use, seem to have been the most common shapes in early use on the Continent.
 There is good deal of Scottish communion pewter. One vessel which is peculiar to Scotland is the 'quaigh,' a deep saucer with two ears. It had a variety of uses, as a. drinking ves- sel, for holding broth and porridge and even in the church.
 Making Pewter in America
 In America the industry seems to have made little progress prior to the first half of the eighteenth century. The earliest products were oil lamps. tea, coffee, and chocolate pots, meas ures, and candlesticks. It is probable that a. good deal of pewter was brought from England by the colon- ists and that it served as models for the colonial craftsmen. English moulds, too, were no doubt used for time, and American measures, mugs and plates follow the English forms. On plates, however, one seldom finds the hammer marks which show with such regularity on English chargers and dishes. Our craftsmen at first attempted very little decoration, out side of simple mouldings, but later when they did try to initiate elaborate silver shapes they were far from suc- cessful
 There has never been any fixed standard of quality for American pewter, and no regulations as to marking it. Most of it is unmarked, but a few examples of marked plates are shown. The touches are much like the English ones, and doubtless many of the first pewterers were men who had learned their craft in the old country. Very little is known of their lives, though the names of about one hundred makers, gathered from many sources, are added to the intro duction. From the Salem coure rec ord of 1642 we get the name of per- haps the first pewterer, Richard Graves. To Mrs. O. s. Paige of Taun- ton we are indebted for the following facts relating to the industry of that town: James Danforth set up a shop !, there about 175O and 25 years later an Englishman named Richard Lee began to make pewter buttons. This was a new departure, and he is said
 to have supplied buttons to the Con- l1neHtal Army. Joseph ana J1reh Strange. the Porters, father and son, l also made pewter at the end of the eighteenth century. But Taunton is
 best known for its -Brittania ware
 Rabbit and Crossman, both of Taun-
 ton, started the industry there fin 1924 l being the first to make Brittania in
 the United States. A gravy spoon by
 their successors, Grossman, West and
 Leonard, is in the desk case. Henry
 G. Reed and Charles E. Barton, the
 founders of the Reed and Barton
 firm, revived the manufacture o1
 pewter in 1S47, making tableware
 sticks, lamps and other objects of do-
 mestic use. Other American makers
 produced pewter for a short time af-
 ter Brittania had become the fashion
 in the nineteenth century, and the
 same marks are found on both Bu, ] by then the use of it for household purposes had about ceased. Bostor
 was always the centre of distribution
 for both the imported and the domes.
 tic product, and it is said that this
 city supplied the whole section nortI of New York-Boston Transcript
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
> TODAY'S POEM }
-HE GATES OF PARADISE.

The gates of Paradise are double, And they are blue, Blue as the skies when no clouds
 trouble
 Their perfect hue; Blue as the calm face of the ocean When winds are still, And sunlight only is in motion To work it's will. S When skies are dull, the sea is lonely And means or sleeps; The quick winds or the warm sun
 only May stir it's deeps. The gates of Paradise are double, And they are blue; They open to love, but cold, gray
 trouble
 Will clang them to. Lord, give me strength that I who
 love them
 May live alright, And spread no tristful clouds above
 them
 To dim their light. By other paths may other mortals Win Paradise But keep for me it's clearest portals In her pure eyes.
 TT. A. Daley, Songs of Wedlock." :"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
ALDRICH'S WARNING.

Today, the tenth anniversary of the death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, seems an appropriate time for re- printing the following warning ex- tract from his poem, "Unguarded Gates: 70 Liberty, white Goddess! is it Fo leave the gates unguarded? On the : breast Fold Sorrows children, soothe the
 hurts of fate, Lift the downtrodden, but with hand
 of steel Stay those who to thy sacred portals
 come To waste the gifts of freedom. Have
 care Lest from thy brow the clustered
 stars be torn And trampled in the dust. For so of
 old The thronging Goth and Vandal
 trampled Rome, And where the temples of the Caesars
 stood The lean wolf unmolested made her
 lair"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
IS NAGGING WIFE
 CAUSE TO SEPARATE?

Joe writes: My sisters well-off husband was a good fellow to provide and make few years. It was dis closed that he fell in with undesirable companions. The tables were turn ed They drifted apart. He asserts that his wife estranged him by her hasty and ungovernable temper, her constant habit of nagging and quar- reling. Do you think she can regain her place in his affections?"
 There are always two sides to fami- ly disputes By all means, the wife must be patient, trying to be amiable to keep his affections. It's never too late to find them united and happy again. Silence in the future, will be golden
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
A FTSHERMAN'S CENTENARY

Fishermen, the world over, have good reason to celebrate today, the centenary of Seth Green, the father of fish culture. The methods he in- itiated, since greatly improved upon, have resulted in an incalculable in- crease in the propagation of the fin- ny tribe. Fishing, both as a sport and an industry, owes much to this pioneer pisciculturist, whose long life was devoted almost exclusively to con- serving and improving the fish sup ply.
 Green was born at Irondequoit, N. Y, March 19, 1877, and received a common school education. In his young manhood he became @ fisher man and built up a thriving industry, employing many men, along the lakes
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
NORTH STANDS UNITED

Christiana March 19.-"If the dis countries it would also strike the other two," declared M. Morvinckel presi- dent of the Norwegian Storthing, at the opening session in the course of a speech advocating cooperation with Sweden and Denmark. Our interest" he added, "are binding us close togeth- CT, and we will keep together, not for love, but for the reason of practical politics. This ought to be made clear to the belligerents."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

derfully, so the soreness is all,gone now. I believe Lydia E. Pinkhanf 8 Vege- table Compound is just the remedy for female troubles" "- Mrs. ELIZARETR JOHN, R. F. D. No. 4, Toledo, Ohio. Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful lrugs, and today is regarded as the nost successful remedy for female ills.
 here are thousands of voluntary testi-
 1onials on file in tho Pinkham labora-
 ory at Lynn, Mass., to prove thia
 act,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
SrA~~~0~~c / CORNER FUk CUUhS )
 LN>~>~~~
With Boiled Fish.

Serve boiled fish with drawn butter, plain or with the addition of hard boiled eggs; or one may prefer lemon butter, tartar sauce, hollandaise, Ital- ian or tomato sauce.
 Fish to be boiled are cod, halibut, bass, founder, bluefish, mackerel and whiting, the large ones in a thick sauce, the smaller ones whole. Ten minutes to the pound is fair allow ance after the water boils.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
ANSWERS. TO CORRESPONDENTS

(Correct name and address must bo given to insure attention. not to print Cse ink. Write short letters, only OM one side of paper. Address Miss lab. bey, O16 President Street, Brooklyn ~. Ny
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
STRANGER IN COLD,
 FRIENDLESS CITY

E.. D. writes: 'I am a Virginia student. I came to the city to aid my going to school by working after D. m. and evenings to pay my way cheaply. I wanted bath privilege with small room, very inexpensive"
 Moderate priced small room with use of bath can be had for roomer who arranges carefully.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The first open meeting of the Young Women's Hebrew association, ad dressed 1by President Ida Ruth Wainer at 1S1 State street last evening, brought forth an attendance of over 30 members The entertainment pro- gram was assisted by Miss Edith Ro- senbaum. Herbert O'Connell, Alfred Fibre and Irving WeinIberg.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law. in the Commons, appealed to all Irish members to join in the .negotia- tions designed to effect 8 settlement of the Irish question.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

Mrs. A. R. Reich, ATT Colorado ave- nue, was surprised yesterday by many members of the Hebrew Ladies Tai- mud Torah society who presented her with handsome cut glsas lamp.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
Fish for Four-PoIlock.

Two pounds pollock, 16 cents; eggs and seasoning, 16 cents; total, 32 cents; 8 cents per person.
 When purchasing your pollock, have your fish dealer cut into slices. Dry these thoroughly, and season with salt, pepper and cayenne. Prepare a dish of well beaten egg yolks, and another of grated bread crumbs. Put some drippings into a frying pan and heat until the fat boils
 Dip the pollock outlets into the eggs, then in the bread crumbs, and place in the frying pan. Fry until lightly Drowned and serve very hot
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19

I c m 8 l e CrOu Q l @ that caused 8 great deal of s sor e n e s 8 across my back, and through my abdo- men. Sometimes it would be very pain full after a h ar q days work. I read a b out Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- t a b le Compound and tried it and it l.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-19
cents; II cents per person.

cents; II cents per person.
 Cook a cupful of rice until it is ten- der, seasVning it with salt, pepper and butter. Boil four-pound pol lock in salted water. After removing fish, let water boil until it thickens. sEsing this water, make a cream sauce, adding a little milk and enough flour to thicken.
 place in the bottom of baking dish. Pour a third of the cream sauce over it. Put in the rice and over it pour the remainder of the cream sauce. Bake in hot oven 20 minutes.