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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16
FRENCH SALUTE
TO. MEMORY OF
DEAD COMRADES
Custom Is Always Carried
Out After Men Have Left
First Line Trenches in
Honor of Men Who Sacri-
flee Lives

French Front. Oct. 16-''Attention!
The division will salute the memory
OF those of. itG comrades who have
fallen while fighting for their coun-
try!"
The voice OF General Michel, one OF
the young french commanders who
py sheer merit has made his way tc
the front rank during the war, rang
cut clearly over stubble field no!
far from the fighting lines. The
troops OF his division. drawn up IL,
deep formation facing towards the
point whence the sound Of the Ger
man guns could be heard plainly, pre-
scented arms and the drums tapped on,
general salute, while the colors OF
the various regiments were lowered
out of respect for those who had died
The long rows Of bayonets remained
perfectly still for several minutes
while the roll of the drums continued
and. even after this had ceased and
absolute silence reigned, the men
stood motionless for a further period,
their thoughts with their former COM
rades.
This ceremonial honoring of those
who have made the great sacrifice is
always carried out after division has
left the front line trenches, for dur
ing the lighting it is often impossible
to perform any religious service over
those who fall and are buried where
they die. Respect for the dead is
deeply ingrained in the French char
acte1 and the soldiers appreciate
greatly such an opportunity to honor
those who have died a warrior S
death.
The division concerned today had
seen much fighting all along the front.
It had served in Alsace, at Verdun
on the Somme and on the Asne, where
have been of daily occurrence for
was a battalion of the famous chas-
fighting is heavy, and before the
memorial service another ceremony
had taken place, for 1t was this bat
ta1ion's turn to be entrusted with the
charge of the regimental flag of the
chasseurs for a period of three
months. Each battalion in rotation
is accorded this honor and every man
in the battalion guarding the color
seems to feel a personal pride in the
emblem beneath which he marches.
The flag bears at the head of its staff
the three highest military decorations
the Legion of Honor, the military
medal and the war cross-bestowed
as reward for the constant and con-
spicuous bravery of the soldiers who
have fought under 1t.
These chosen, troops, the chasseurs,
had made history long before this
war. The first Napoleon had a bat
TALON of chasseurs in the Guards
Corps of the Grand Army. After
wards they disappeared from the
army list for a time. but were recon
stituted by the Duke OF Orleans under
Louis Philippe.
Solferino. during the Italian war of
Liberation, and Sebastopol in the
Crimean war. added to the fame of
the chasseurs, and during the war of
1870 against the Prussians they dis
tinguished themselves on many occa-
sions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16
SNAKES ARE VALUABLE
/ ASSET TO CONSERVATION
OF FOOD SAYS NORTON

Snakes are a valuable asset and
there should be campaign against
killing them. writes Gayne T. K.
Norton in the current issue of the
american Forestry Magazine. The
article goes on to show what the
snake does for food conservation by
way of killing rodents and insects, the
greatest enemies>to grain that man
knows. The public has become ,ac-
lpainted with snakes as never before.
writes Mr.. Norton. because of the
thousands who have been engaged in
Hhe campaign for war gardens that
has been conducted by the National
Emergency Food Garden Commits
sion.
The plea for the snakes is illus
trated with pictures of Miss Gladys
pitmars, daughter of Raymond L..
Litmars. curator of the New York
Geological Society. fondHng a King
snake. Allen Samuel Williams found
or of the reptile study society and
George Won .Buehren of New York
city, who has one of the best private
collections of snakes in the world.
The: work of the Ditmars club of
Newark. N. j., whose members go
I DtldhC iiuiAAA6s 10 ACN4%Co III NOre~AA@
with this summer the millions of
war gardens have given the snake
popular Interest," news angle editors
must consider" writes Mr.. Norton.
The gardens brought outdoors many
who ordinarily would not step from
paving blocks. Tremendously in
creased tiliage has brought people
snakes together. ~
Unless much educational work is
done the number of snakes that will
| be killed next year by the welf-mean-
ling but nfsinformed gardeners will be
Usery large. Our snakes, and we are
Fitch in reptile life, are national asset
worth many millions of dollars. Snake
killing will never become national
sfssue-conserved as an economic fac
/ tor. destroyed as a. menace-yet the
snake, particularly this time, should
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16
WHAT AMERICA is
FIGHTING AGAINST

-. - a. ~, :.
In Time OF war, On ausoe. aSy =
fpest CONCEIVE ~ ~ ts :. 80.
1ne $3.50 u1. 80 ~, - a,,as,,r~ +,,,,r-
81 ms 80 $1,000 a..
e' 49,. a. 'n.r,,an,,. s,,cca.. Tn
pans. plains -, 20 -.-r,: ~. ..v.-st
uine y w., ~ - -.
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OK the one nunoreo luminous VI - -
zens mas nus own ne'noo iol enuiis
the conmcl a.
IN ulas =. 49, 81 49,
lne tuI e. =. sosel -. nn 49, 80. es
-.s - aoS a,,s,i+v
1Actullns l-nnvou o. $3.50 ~,
vne. y I'll lnan soa ~
niacn1ne -
I4niveV On -,n e. ~as 49,
the tasK ol s Nv 1870 4.n
mat or ny -. Ss- 2. -. -
D.yo 49, on r~rrser 49,. =. 80, :
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"oHr anu Aneliua eiDAoh
neros the nocas me vneyaIu' .ne
orcnaro, the nDrary, tno sane1y lno
court OF 1usuce- 1ntenectuaiiy' some
lor us cannot understand now = snep-
nerd can Watcn woives tearing Inc
throat Of iamp IN tne beislan sneep-
told and the French sneepIoio' Wniie
Ene sfanas Dy ana WAITS until Inc won
tears some more lambs ana sneep IN
the American sneepIoio- Wnen
bbrave man has seen WON tear the
Throat OF one lamb, ne ought TO leap
from hfs place OF safety ana take ms
place beside the lamb OF course, the
wolf has many explanations 10 oner,
but for myself the explanations OF the
wolf do not interest me-
There's are some things, IKE slavery,
that have to be cut by the surgeon OF
war The symbol OF Jerusalem Is an
Npliftedl cross the sympoi OF Atnens
Sculptor, crowned Win iaurel
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16
LOSS OF APPETITE.
LOSS OF WEIGHT.
SLEEPLESSNESS, ETC

are all overcome by Recupertabs. they
are made after the formula of DR.. AL
pest Robin. the famous French phygi-,
cian, and are being used very largely
IN Faris and other European capitals
Wnen taken for a short while they
VIII give positive relief in all cases Of
nervous exhaustion. mental depression.
lack vitality. general debility. ane-
mia, etc. -
The Glycerophosprates of which
Recupertabs are composed. contain
the element necessary 20 overcome
these conditions They are now h<,fn .
prescribed and recommended by many
PHYSICIANS in this and foreign coun-
tries as the best, quickest aud surest
nerve and blood tonic that they know
Recupertabs are for sale at All DRUG
stores at SOC and $1.0O per packaze
or VIII be sent direct upon roceipt or
price 80
Curtis Chemical Co.. No. 414 west
zsrd ST.. New York. Distributed IN
Bridgeport and vicinity by ]. ID. Harti-
gan, No. 81 Fairfield Avenue-Adv.
RI II
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16

be conserved. The relation it bears
to successful crops, is important
important than even the average
farmer realizes.
Reptiles may not manifest friend
ship toward us, few would welcome
such condition, yet they are not enc
mics. They never attack unless in
self-defense. OF our III species but
II are poisonous-two species OF
Flaps, coral snakes, and Is special of
Crotaline snakes, the copperhead and
moccasin, the dwarf and typical rat
tlesnakes. On the other hand the
help they render is valuable. The
pests destroyed each year, especially
the rodents that injure crops and
carry communicable diseases, roll up
a large balance of good service in their
favor.
Rodents are destroyers of farm
products, cause loss by fire through
gnawing and insulation from electric
wires and of human life, through
germ carrying, particularly the bu-
bonic plague. Before the war the
United States Department of Agri-
culture placed the bill at 100000
600, one-fifth of which equals the loss
is increased.
They also destroy eggs. young
poultry. squads and pigeons, birds
and young rabbits, pigs and lambs. A
loss to husbandry not estimated in fig
ures but realized as extensive Is due
to the killing of fruit trees by GRID
ling or other injuries to the bark by
species of wild rodents. Eminent
medical authorities agree that many
plaques can be accounted for by ro-
dents. As a destructive agency the
rodents have no rival.
The gross ignorance regarding our
snakes causes slaughter of all things
tht wear scale sand crawl. Farmers
should protect and breed the harmless
snakes rather than kill them. Many
European countries have protective
legislation"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16

When a man declares that Ameri-
ca can never win this war before
he has seen the result of America
first shot, the question comes up how
badly he wants America to win it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16
Munitions Factories
Housing Conditions
To Be Investigated

Washington, Oct. 16-The ouncil of
National Defence yesterday appointed
a committee of four to make an i'm
mediate Investigation of the housing
situation at munition plants, and
recommend government aid to pro-
vide quarters should it be found
necessary.
The committee is composed of Otto
M. Eidlitz. building engineer of New
York city; G. Dubois, controller of
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., New York; William J. Spencer,
secretary of the Building Trades De-
partment, American Federation of
Labor, and Theodore Robinson, vice
president of the Illinois Steel Co., of
Chicago. Mrs. Finley ]. Shepard was
asked to serve on the committee, but
found that she could not do So
The committee was instructed to
ascertain to what extent. IL any, lack
Of proper quarters in the vicinity Of
the munitions plants, is hampering
the work of the plants and to recon-
mend a program for the government
to follow in correcting conditions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16

All anxiety concerning the welfare
of the colleges in war time is set at
rest by the prospect that football will
60 on about as usual.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-10-16
WARS YOUNGEST GENERAL

General Freyberg is the youngest
general in the British army, If not or
the entire world. He is but 81 years
old. and is considered military
prodigy. He compares favorably
with any of the famous youthful he.
roes of the French Revolution
Freyberg had enlisted in Genera
Villas army in Mexico, when the
world-war broke out. He had nc
money for his passage TO Great Brit
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07

in the South and so, when he was in
Florida last winter, he determined to
investigate.
Accordingly he stopped over at
Jackson on his homeward trip and
visited the Watkins farm. What he
saw not only convinced him that the
printed stories were true, but salts
fed him that farmers in his section
of the country are not nearly so well
posted in corn culture as are the bet
ter farmers in Georgia. He asked to
be allowed to take home with him
some of the corn with which young
Watkins record was made. This ac-
cording to his letter, is doing famous
ly on his Indiana farm.
To Employ Georgia Methods.
He is not satisfied, however, to
have the Georgia brand of seed alone.
He wants to transplant Georgia meth
DDS into his own county and state,
and he extends to Mr.. Watkins a very
pressing invitation to come to John
son county to live, promising all
kinds of inducements and saying that
he believed the benefit to his state
would be beyond comprehension.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
HIDDEN MILLIONS
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
HUGE SUMS DISCOVERED MAKE
CAPTAIN KIDD'S TREASURE
SEEM MERE BAGATELLE."

A hidden treasure rivaling the
tales of Captain Kidd for weird de-
tail was disclosed in an inheritance
tax case in County Judge Scully's
court, Chicago, involving the for
tunes of John X. Stewart, late manu-
facturer.
Unknown to the heirs, $2,05O,000
was discovered in six banks and safe
ty deposit vaults. Added to the al
ready known fortune of the automo-
bile accessories maker, Jean Stewart,
5 years old, and her sister, Marian,
Is, are now classed among the rich
est children in Chicago.
This is the second hidden treasure
unearthed in the Stewart estate, the
first being $69O,OOO, which the wild
ow, about three days before her
death, sent from her sickroom in
Aeon, N. c., to Chicago in a satchel
intrusted to Mr.. LaChance.
Money in Large Bills.
The second treasure, the S2,O5O,-
900, like the $69O,OOO, was discover
ed mostly in bill of large denomina-
tons. And the clew to the discovery
is as rare as fiction settings.
Mr.. Stewart died June /, 1916. His
estate, as then probated. amounted
to approximately S4.0O0.0O0. The
finding of the $500, 900, and now the
S2,O50,000, brings the aggregate up
to nearly s.. 100000.
The entire hidden treasure was not
found at one time. The first dicovery
was $1,000,000 The last collection
of cash was $250,000, found in a
safety deposit box.
Refuses Any information.
A clerk in Mr.. Stewards New York
Office is said to have discovered cash
deposit slips on Chicago banks for
100000 not figured in his estate.
One month later finding the 81, OOO,-
900 the clerk found deposit slips ag-
gregating 100000, which also was
found not to have been included in
the estate.
Bill For Rent Gives Clew.
Then a safety deposit company
sent to the executors and the guar
dian of the children a bill for the
rental of the safe deposit box. They
knew nothing about the safe deposit
box They did not know the estate
owed the small item of years rent.
al. Inquiries were set afoot A call
was made at the bank offices, and the
key to the box obtained. Presto! A
treasure of $250,000 in currency was
found
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
NOCULATE HOGS
TO PREVENT CHOLERA
TERRELL COUNTY FARMERS
ARE URGED TO MAKE FIGHT
ON THE DISEASE NOW.

Reports from various counties in
this section are to the effect that
cholera is making serious inroads in
to hog herds. In some counties the
losses have run up into the thou
sands while in others the losses have
not been so serious.
In Terrell county there has been
more cholrea than in past years, but
the increase is not regarded as out
of proportion to the increase in the
number of hogs being raised in the
county.
Farmers are making a determined
fight on the disease. This season of
the year is the time when efforts to
check the spread of cholera should
be most pronounced. During the lat
ter part of the summer and early
fall is the time cholera is most prev
alent, usually.
County Demonstration Agent AL
len is ready and anxious to help any
farmer in the county in his fight on
the disease. Serum can be secured
at cost through the state department
of agriculture and if the supply there
should for any reason become low
there are other places where it can
be secured at small cost.
\ The cost of serum is very small
compared to the security from chol-
era, according to farmers who have
inoculated their hogs. One good hog
lost will more than pay for inocula-
ton for an entire herd.
While in some sections of the
county good many hogs have been
lost, in other sections the disease has
scarcely been noticed at all. Inoc-
ulation is urged as a measure of pre-
vention. Immunization is even bet
ter than mere incubation, say per-
sons who have tried out both meth
DDS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07

Fall garden seeds of all kinds al
COLLIER DRUG co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
A DEAD" MAN CONVINCES
SURGEON THAT HE'S ALIVE
Body Starts to Kicking When 1t Is
Being Borne to Morgue.

ORANGE, N. J.-After 1920
volts of electricity had shot through
his body, Ezra Hill, an employee of
the public power plant here, was
dead, his shopmates felt sure.
But they called an ambulance as a
formality. The surgeon felt for heart
beats, shook his head and started
with the body for the morgue.
As the ambulance was crossing the
Lackawanna tracks Ezra's foot shot
out and kicked the surgeons assist
ant in the abdomen. A pulmotor was
soon at work.
An hour afterward Ezra was sit
ting up in a hospital bed talking
about it, He is Fl and will recover.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
HORSES ARE In DEMAND
AS FOOD In GERMANY
Many Edibles, Chiefly Those Con-
tanning Fats, Are Bringing AL
most Prohibitive Prices.

Information concerning food costs
in Germany show that many edibles,
particularly those containing fats,
are selling at almost prohibitive
prices. Fat for frying is bringing
more than $4 a pound. Goose fat is
sold at $3.50 a pound.
Fowls generally are high. Fresh
fowls bring $1.01 a pound; larded
goose breast, $2.O8; sailed goose legs,
80 cents; young country laying hens
1892 each; well fed geese, $11 to
$29 each.
The egg ration at Hamburg for
one week was one egg for each per-
son. Horses are in great demand
for food, and horsefesh sells at from
IL to sc cents a pound. Cheese is
quoted at from SO to go cents a
pound.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
Notice to Rural Preachers.

The rural white schools of Terrell
county will be opened on Monday
September Bird, and be continued fol
seven consecutive weeks.
The colored schools will be opened
on Monday, October 10th, and be
continued for eight consecutive
weeks. At that time, December 21st
all schools will be discontinued till
the first Monday in January, 1918
On that date they will all be reopen.
ed; the white schools for twenty
weeks and the colored schools for
twelve weeks. BY order of the board
August l, 1917.
J. w. F. LOWREY, Sec'y.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
GEORGIA METHODS
ON AN INDIANA FARM
A FORMER GOVERNOR OF HOO.
SER STATE COMES TO CEoR.
GIA FOR IDEAS ON CORN.

MACON, GA Middle Georgia
farmer is being besought by former
governor of Indiana to come to that
state and teach farmers of his and
adjoining sections how to raise corn.
For, after having seen Georgia's
"brag" corn fields, and carefully
studying the methods employed by
the best farmers in this state, the
former governor has come to the
conclusion that the farmers of his
state, long considered the banner
corn state of the entire Middle West,
do not know how the crop should be
properly grown and that Georgia
farmers are better fitted to teach
them than any others.
Letter Sent Here.
All of this came out in recent
letter from DR.. L. E. OFT, of johnson
county, Ind, to B. F. Watkins, ST.,
of Jackson, Ga. Ellsworth Watkins,
son of B. F. Watkins, took first
prize in the corn exhibit at the fair
here Last year, and it was through
this fact that the Indiana man came
IN contact with his father.
In his letter to Mr.. Watkins, DIR.
OFT sets out that the people in this
section of the country had been in
the habit of considering themselves
the peer of any corn raisers in the
world. They were very skeptical
about claims of heavy yields made
by members of the boys corn clubs
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
10000 NEGROES MARCH DOWN
FIFTH AVENUE IN PARADE

NEW YORK.-Negro men, women
and children estimated to number
10000 marched down Fifth avenue
this afternoon in "silent protest"
parade against the race riots in East
st. Louis and other sections. Except
for fife and muffied drum corps, the
lmarchers had no music, but carried
hundreds of banners inscribed with
various legends of protest.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
THAT HAND WINE STILL
INTERESTS THE LEGISLATORS
Resolution Asks That a Committee
Be Appointed to Find Out If
1t Really Exists.

Senator Wohlwender has introduc-
ed another resolution on the Hand
wine situation, which resolution is
even more vigorous if possible than
his first resolution calling for the de-
struction of the wine. The new reso-
luton calls for the appointment of
committee of three senators to in
vestlgate and find out whether there
really is any such wine in Mitchell
county; if so, why it has not been de-
stroyed under the "bone-dry" prohi-
bltlon law, and if the officers of the
law have been negligent this commit
tee is to take up with the attorney
general the matter of collecting from
these officials the forfeitures provid-
ed under the law for failure or re-
iusal to perform duty. These for
textures are $500 each for the sheriff
and solicitor.
FAN garden seeds of all kinds at
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07

sHIELDs-CEIsE LUMBER COMPANY
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
666

Ihls 10 prescription prepared especially
S or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
rive or six doses will break any case, and
taken then as tonic the Fever will not
.efurn. II acts on the liver better than
Eaiomel and doe DOT grippe or sicken. 25c
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15
Neutral Freight Ships
Are Held Up Here by
New Embargo LoD

Not a'single neutral freight vessel
left New York Harbor yesterday, on
the eve of the establishment of the
embargo against the expectation Of
foodstufFs. At midnight, when the lid
was clamped down. the Scandinavian
and Dutch ships, which have been lying
here, grain laden, for several days,
were still at anchor.
One Danish liner sailed hurriedly
with passengers yesterday, but she viii
put into Halifax for inspection.
The report that British cruisers were
living in wait for any neutral craft
which might try to slip out before the
declaration Of the embargo probably
caused those ships in port to remain
here.
Many of the grain-laden ships ex,
pect 70 discharge their cargoes and
remain here indefinitely. Grain, II con-
fined in a hold for any length of time,
swells enormously, and may burst
vessel.
Most Of the detained freighters have
moved into the reaches Of the Hudson
above 10th Street. Ten vessels OF the
Holland Line are mere, and
four more are at Baltimore. This line
apparently will suffer most heavily
from the embargo.
Before vessels sail they must first
receive licenses from the United States
for their csrgoes, and must then sat
isfy the British government that notn-
ing that they carry will find us way
into Germany.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-15
Can Army Win
Before Navy Loses?

The problem has been summed up IN
England in the phrase, "Can the army
win the war before the navy loses it,
It is problem that concerns the
United States in exactly the same de-
gree as every other ally. If it is not
solved by the Allies the military defeat
of Germany will be impossible. Amer
ica. as we'll as Europe, will have been
defeated by the submarine. Her vast
preparations, her great sacrifices, the
noble response OF her citizens, the
bright hopes Of her soldiers. the splen-
did professional skill Of her sailors, the
warlike spirit of nation reluctantly
stirred 70 action, but now resolved on
action to the end-sll these things Will
20 for nothing. Is th4 problem soluble =?
lNote-In the following article Mr.
Pollen wiU deal ,cith the pdiltdtives,
in 1rhich he 1cU describe the efforts
hitherto made TO diminish the submn-
,.ine menace. In the third article he
uiH suggest the only direction IN
achich TO look for a real c1Te.I