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The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
DID WORK OF HIGH ORDER
Designs Wrought by Ancient Peruvian
Dyers Have Been Given Much
Praise by Experts.

The ancients of Peru, by a curious
coincidence-for there could not pos
sibly have been any intercourse with
their contemporaries in India and
Egypt-seem to have used much the
same kind of processes in printing
their designs upon the fabrics they
manufactured. Both HerOdOtuS and
Pliny. among early historians, have
told us about the cloths of vegetable
fiber made by the ancients but in all
likelihood the fabrics of the Peruvians
We're of even a more remote date. In
some respects the methods of today
bear strong resemblance to the older
practice The chief difference con,
sists in the patterns now being en-
graved upon copper rollers and several
colorS being printed at one time. just
as today the cOloring matter of dyes
is not affixed by merely printing it on
the material, but is secured by means
of a substance known as mOrdant, sc
did the PeruvianS make use of prop.
erty which caused the dye to adhere
and to withstand test of thousands
of years wear and tear. Experts have
declared that in the direction of tech
meal and artistic value the designs III
question have no equal.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
FOREIGN.

The republic of Lithuania has been
proclaimed at Riga
Former Emperor William signed his
abdication at Amerongen, Holland.
The former empress of Germany ar
rived by train at Maarsbergen, Hol-
land.
Bolshevik forces are reported to
have captured PskOff, Dvinsk and
important cities in northwestern Rus
STA.
BY official decree the grand duchy
of Luxembourg changed from German
to French time, the clocks being set
back fifty-five minutes.
Influenza is epidemic in Annoy,
China. 1t is estimated per cent of
the population is ill., There have been
comparatively few deaths.
The celebrations of the victory over
Germany opened at Picking with a re-
view Of the Chinese and allied troops
by President Hsu Shih Chang.
One hundred and fifty-six American
officers and noncommissioned officers,
the first prisoners of war in Germany
to be released through Switzerland,
were repatriated Nov. 30.
An apartment is being prepared in
the royal palace of the Quirinal for the
disposal of President Wilson and Mrs.
Wilson during their stay in the Italian
capital. according to the Rome Mes
saggero
Prince Macmillan of Baden, form
er imperial chancellor, is favored as
the first President of the German re-
public by democratic circles, accord
ing to advices to the Berlingske
Tidende
1t is reported that at the election for
choosing members of the revolution
airy committee at Dresden, the Social
lists cast 87,483 votes against $500 for
the Independent Socialists, who will
have but three seats in the committee
which numbers fifty.
Dr. Won Bethmann-Hollwe German
imperial chancellor at the outbreak of
the war, is eager for an investigation
into his share in the origin Of the con-
flict, according to statement he has
made to the North German Gazette of
Berlin, as quoted by the Central News
correspondent at Copenhagen.
Germany sinned AS whole, fought
and was beaten as whole, and as
whole must suffer, is the opinion of
the English press This feeling has
been intensified by the Bavarian rev.
Citations of Germany's part in starting
the war contained in Count Lerchen-
fields kilograms to Count Won HerSling
in 1914
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
BIG GAIN IN COLORADO CROPS.
Records of Grain, Fruits and Veqeta-
bIes Shipped Show increase

Denver-Colorado broke all records
crops, and reports received by rail-
roads and various organizations inter-
ested in farm production indicate that
next years yield will be even greater
The transportation division of the
food administration, under the direc-
tion Of A. V. Kipp, has compiled fig
ures on vegetables, fruits and grain
shipped out of the state during the fis-
cal year ended June 80.
There is no comparative table at
hand, but the size of the Colorado
production, exclusive of livestock, is
shown. Fifty-seven thousand three
hundred and sixty-five cars, amount
ing to 2,235,S12,955 pounds of vegeta-
bles, grain and fruits were shipped
from the state The figures in pounds
on the various shipments follow:
Wheat, 594,342,00O; alfalfa hay,
96,760,955; alfalfa meal, 142, 190,56
potatoes, 6OS,S99 200; beans, 103.028,-
$50; oats, 80 $50, 100; corn, SO,225, 700;
barley, 13,369,9 2O; rye, 14,317,OOO; mil
let, 11,409,320: wild hay, 1891 900,
peaches, 35,S20,0O0; peas, 9,429,OO0;
cantaloupes, 36,SOS.000.
The figures also show there were
500 ,139,048 pounds of flour manufac-
tured, and 24,612,667 pounds of flour
shippe dout. The sugar shipments to-
tailed 5000 cars or 46S, 500, 900 pounds,
and the condensed milk shipments to-
tailed 434, 769 cases.
The canning industries packed $685.
All cases of goods which amounted to
80 ,531, 1853 pounds.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
The LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT TIE WAR.

Austria-Hungary lost 100000 killed
and wounded during the war.
German troops which have been oc-
cupying Russian territory are return
ing to Germany.
Gen. Won der Marwitzs Fifth army
began crossing the Rhine Friday. The
crossing will require eight or nine
days.
Eight more German submarines sur
rendered Dec. 1, making total of 122
which have been taken over by the al
lies.
Casualties in the royal air forces
from April, when the air forces were
amalgamated, to Nov. IL, were: Killed,
$3.50; wounded, missing and prisoners,
4,909. =
Dec. 16 has been set as the date on
which the preliminary conferences will
begin between President Wilson, and
Premiers Lloyd George, Clemenceau
and Orlando
William Hohenzollern, former kaiser
of Germany, systematically robbed the
nation for several months before his
flight, declares the Neue Leipsiger
VOlks Zeitung
Austria-Hungary is violating the
armistice by releasing Italian prison
ers without food and poorly clothed,
says an official note issued through
the Stefani agency at Rome.
1t is announced that approximately
stroyed during the war. The total
number of all types built by the Ger
mans is estimated to have been $50.
More than million and a half pris-
oners of various nationalities have
been released by the Germans, accord
ing to estimates based upon reports
received by the American Third army.
Casualties in the British Indian
army during the war, according to fig
ures given out IN London, totaled 1O1,-
439, of which number 33,051 were
killed, died of wounds or are missing.
The wounded totaled 1926 and 1902
were taken prisoner. :.
Three million German troops, a mil.
lion horses and great quantities OF
baggage, withdrawing toward the riv
er Rhine from Belgium and northern
France, are conducting the movement
in an orderly manner, according to a
telegram from Dusseldorf, Rhenish
Prussia.
Twenty-Five hundred Serbians, all
the inhabitants OF the Serbian village
of Vlassotinetzi, were killed by the
Bulgarians during the Bulgar occupa
ton of Serbian soil, said dispatch
from Nish. All of the magistrates,
priests and school teachers in south
western Serbia were shot or hung by
the Bulgarians in an effort to exter-
inmate the Serb race.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
WASHINGTON.

Appointment of commission to in
vestigate industrial conditions in Por-
to Rico has been approved by Presi-
dent Wilson.
The organization of four-minute men
of the committee on public informa-
ton will conclude it's work and be dis
banded Dec. "a.
Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the
War Industries Board, has forwarded
his resignation to President Wilson, to
take effect on Jan. /.
The organization of American army
corps in France as it existed Nov. 7,
four days before the signing of the
armistice, was made public by the
War Department.
An American who has just returne,
from a trip which extended as far as
Frankfort, Germany, says that the
withdrawal of the German troops is
being conducted in most orderly
manner everywhere.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
PRESIDENT GOING TO FRANCE SO
IDEALS AMERICANS FOUGHT
FOR MAY BE MET
TRIBUTE PAID HEROES
PASSAGE OF SUFFRAGE BILL AND
SOLUTION OF RAIL PROBLEM
URGED IN ADDRESS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Washington, Dec. 3.-In an address
to Congress in joint session Monday,
President Wilson formally announced
his intention to go to Paris for the
peace conference, saying the allied
governments have accepted principles
enunciated by him for peace and it is
his paramount duty to be present.
The President said he will be in
close touch by cable and wireless and
that Congress will know all that he
does on the other side.
Referring to his announcement that
the French and British governments
had removed all cable restrictions up
ON the transmission of news of the
conference to America, the President
said he had taken over the American
cable systems on expert advice to
make a unified system available.
He expressed the hope that he would
have the cooperation of the public
and of Congress, saying that through
the cables and wireless, constant coun-
sci and advice would be possible.
Much of the address was devoted to
the railroad problem, for which the
President said he now had no, solution
to offer He recommended careful
study by Congress, saying it would be
a disservice to the country and to the
railroads to permit a return to old con-
ditions under private management
without notifications.
The President declared he stood
ready to release the railroads from
government control whenever a salts
factory plan Of readjustment could be
worked out.
The President said he hoped To sec
a formal declaration of peace by
treaty "by the time spring has come"
The new shipbuilding program was
Endorsed, because, he said, it would
be unwise to attempt to adjust the
American program to a future world
policy as yet undetermined.
Paying tribute to the peoples con-
duct in war, he spoke particularly OF
the work of women and again ap-
pealed for woman suffrage by federal
anne ndment.
Declaring he had no tprivate
thought or purpose in going to
France, but that he regarded it as his
highest duty, the President added.
at is now my duty to play my full
part in making good what they
(America's soldiers) offered their
life's blood to obtain
! No definite program of recOnstruc-
ton can be outlined now, Mr.. Wilson
said. He expressed the hope that
Congress would not object to confer
ring upon the War Trade Board or
some other agency the right of fixing
export priorities to assure shipment
of food to starving people abroad.
AS to taxation, the President in
dOrsed the plan for levying six billion
dollars in 1919 and for notifying the
public in advance that the 1920 levy
will be four billion dollars.
The President concluded after
speaking forty-two minutes and left
the chamber amidst applause limited
to the Democratic side. Interruptions
of the address for questions which
had been threatened by some Repub
lican members of the House did not
materialiZe.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07

I improved in health so could do my
homework; we now have little one, all
of which owe to Lydia E. Pinkham' g
Vegetable Compound. - Mrs. o. S.
JOHNSON, R. No. 8, Ellensburg, Wash.
There are women everywhere who
long for children in their homes yet are
denied this happiness on account of
some functional disorder which in most
cases would readily yield to Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Such women should not give up hope
until they have given this wonderful
medicine trial, and for special advice
write Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass. The result of 40 years
experience is at your service.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07

nesses which are so common to women,
should take the right, tonic for the
womanly system.
If woman is borne down by pain
and sufferings at regular or irregular
intervals, by nervousness or dizzy spells,
by headache or backache, "Favorite
Prescription" should be taken. "Favor-
ite Prescription" can now be had in
tablet form as well as liquid at most
drug stores. Send to Doctor Pierce's
Invalids' Hotel Buffalo, N. ", for a
ten-cent trial package Of tablets.
For fifty years DR.. Pierce Pleasant
Pellets have been most satisfactory in
liver and bowel troubles.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
Results Count.

The American-What happened to
you?
The Tommy-TO tell you the truth,
I amt quite certain. About ten min
utes age was 'avin' tete-a-tete with
a German sapper. He was a nice
lookin' boy-'ad a face like a MUIR
derer. We was crawlin' on our stom-
micks, when we come face to face. He
says somethin' to me in German, an
l answers him in just as bad language"
'What happened then?"
"Well, I 'ates to brag; but I'm ERE
an e hain't." -EXchange.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
Awful Language.

''This Eengleesh language ! cannot
unerstan'," walled the poor French
soldier to his English friend. ''Now
zee ere; I look in my leetle book an
eet gay that eef | go queek go fast !;
eef | am tied up ain fast, eef spend
zee money too much / am fast.
can zen find Zis in zee Eengleesh
newspaper: Zee first one won one one
pound prize!' Oui, zee Eengleesh Ian
guage. Eet ees awful"
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07

and a good deal Of
the time was not
able to go about.
Our greatest desire
was to have q child
in our home and one
day my husband
came back from
town with a bottle
of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Com pound and
wanted me to try it.
1t brought relief
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
RECEIVING WAR CROSS

The patriotic
spirit and devotion
with which Ameri-
can women have
SO far performed
war-service work
and made sacrifices
has never been
equalled in the
his tory of any
country. Mothers,
wives and sisters
support this burden
with strength and
ortitude. But.
those who are al
ready miserable
from tn e COM
plants and weak
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07

To keep clean and healthy take Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07

Atchss0m, Kans.-"I
took DIR. Pierce's Fav-
orite Prescription dur
ing expectancy and it
was a great help to me.
1t was the means Of
keeping me in good
health, and when I
came to middle life I
took it again and il
brought me through
this period in a good.
healthy. condition. I
attn always glad to rec
ommend DR.. Pierce's
Fayorite Prescription"
Mrs. C. G.. Hines,
S25 Mound st.
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07
THE JOY Of
MOTHERHOOD
Came to this Woman after
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to
Restore Her Health

Ellensburg, Wash" After I was
married was not we'll for long time
The Benson signal., 1918-12-07

Wears Pleasant Smile.
''Is this picture like your husbands"
Its like him only when he has his
picture taken"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-16
VIRGINIA STRIKES
 SNAG ON PLAN
 FOR TANGLEFOOT

Baltimore, July 16.---The State of Virginia has struck a snag in it's scheme to sell liquor in other States which it has confiscated within it's own boundary.
 Under the law which made the State dry all liquorf ound is liable to confiscation. Another law designed to make the seizure source of prof. to the State permitted it's sale to in- dividuals outside the State.
 After quite a lot had been seized, the officials found if the whiskey were sold in smalll ots, wholesale license would be required, so they quietly sold to an agent for a dealer here and on Thursday the consign- ment, consisting of 22 barrels, ' boxes and 145 cases of good and bad rye, was shipped. There are 700 gal Ions left, 38 gallons having been swip- ed in transit.
 Since the seizure, Congress has in- creased the tax $2.10 per gallon. As the sale was made tax free, the con- | signees refused to accept the goods. | Meanwhile the internal revenue of- l ficials got wise to the transaction and bounced upon the liquor, which can not be sold until the tax is paid. Also the State Virginia has vio- lated the law hy selling liquor with out license. The wet goods is now held for demurrage. It cannot be sold here until the tax is paid nor can it be shippel back to Virginia because of the Federal law prohibit ing the shipment of liquor into a dry State.
 Their little business cventure has | placed the Virginia officials in a rather difficult position
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-16
American Wounded Help To Cultivate
 Hospital Gardens

Paris, July 16.-Acres and acres of gardens located near the American base hospitals are now beginning to bring forth their harvest of vegetables. All were cultivated by American wounded convalescents who attended to the growing of the produce.
 Not alone has the venture been one of great economy for the hospitals The work of cultivation has been done upon the prescriptions of the medical surgeons so that double purpose is accomplished. The garden work pro vides relaxation for the men after their strenuous times on the battle front and their painful anxiety in the hospital wards. The diversion acts as a recreative agency in bringing back the men to normal mental and physi- cal state.
 The gardens are worked entirely by convalescents. Not a single dollar has been spent for hired labor. The ar my has undertaken a comprehensive plan of army provisioning along these lines. The American Red Cross all so is cooperating by the establishment of smaller plots in the centers where convalescepts are sent.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-16
LARGE WHOLESALE:
 GROCERY HOUSE IS
 FORGED TO GIVE UP

On their own admission of having variously violated the rules and regu- lations of the United States Food Ad- ministration, R. Cavallaro and Broth CTS, of New Haven, Conn.,, have been ordered by the Food Administration to suspend their business at midnight, July 15. The Cavallaro firm is the largest Italian wholesale grocery house in New Haven and does a big business among the Italians in the southern part of Connecticut For some time the Food Administration for Connecticut has had information tending to confirm reports that the Cavallaros were violating the regula- tions covering the sales of flour and sugar, both as to quantity and price.
 MT. Cavallaro admitted the accu- racy of certain invoices and sales slips showing transactions in sugar and flour. Cavallaro confessed he was not abiding by the Food Administra- tion's regulations for wholesalers his excuse being that he had never re- ceived the rules and regulations.
 For six months the Food Adminis- tration has been receiving complaints of the methods pursued by Cavallaro In his sales of flour, and lately of sugar. During all this period, at va rious times, Assistant Food Admins trator Farnam, has personally noti- fled him of reported violations, ex- l blaming to him that the Food Admin | istration did not wish so much to pun ish him as it did to have him correct his own errors and cooperate with the Food Administration by spread ing a helpful influence among the other Italians in New Haven who had been in the habit of seeking advice on matters relating to the Food Ad- ministration.
 Although Caval1aros suspension from business, served upon him per sonally several days ago, is for an in- definite period, he has been advised that his application for the reissu- ance of license, to do business any time after July 25, will be considered by MT. Scoville provided that in the meantime he has abided by the rules and regulations of the United States Food Administration and the instruc. tions of Federal Food Administrator Scoville.
 Cavallaro's suspension will cause considerable commotion, especially ir southern Connecticut, and the Foot Administration, in making the an. nouncement, hinted that there were several equally sensational cases un der investigation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-16
HIGH MILK COST
 CAUSES CHILDREN
 TO RECEIVE BEER

New York, July 16.---The high price of milk has driven many of the mothers of this city to feed their made yesterday by the Mayors Com mittee of Women on National De- fence. Tea and coffee are also being substituted for milk in many homes.
 It is proposed to meet the condi- tion by an organized effort in which money for milk will be contributed by the public. Alfred J. Johnson, City Chamberlain, will be custodian of the fund. MT. Johnson, has au- thorized the committee to use his own contribution of $500, intended for free ice.
 Upon investigation" says the com mittee, "the appalling situation is shown that 21 per cent. of the child ren in Greater New York between the ages of two and six years are under fed. To remedy this evil is a neces- sary war measure. The cost of food stuffs has risen over 100 per cent. and it has been discovered that many children have been given tea. coffee beer, etc, rather than the necessary nourishment.
 Ten dollars will supply the neces. sary quantity of milk for one child for the summer months All sub. scriptions. large or small, can be sem to Alfred J. Johnson, City Chamber. lain, treasurer, at the municipal build. ing"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-16
SKILLED WORKMEN
 NEEDED BY ARMY

Major W. A. Mercer, commanding Connecticut Recruiting District, states that the following classes of skilled workmen are needed in the machine shop, truck and miscellaneous units of the Quartermaster Corps CNational Army:
 Blacksmiths. carpenters, clerks, cooks, electricians, auto repair me- chonics, machinists, magneto repair. CTS, motorcyclists, mechanics, welders, wheelwrights, bakers, butchers, car gadors. chauffeurs, stenographers, typewriters, engineers, farriers, horse- shoers. laborers. packmasters, paint CTS, plubbers, printers, saddlers, store- keepers teamsters, tentmakers.
 The following volunteers were found physically qualified for military ser vice, and were sent to Fort Slocum, N. F.:
 Cavalry---Jerry M. Rapillo, Clifton Stretter, Leroy S. Headley, Bridge port; infantry, William S. Visokay Gustave E. Hallgren, Bridgeport.
 The following men were accepted for 6Sth Regiment, Coast Artillery and were sent to Fort Terry, sN. Y. Joseph P. F1aherty. George H. F1agg Bridgeport; Clifford A 6evigny, Ches. IteE ~ -S~
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-16
BIRTH DECREASE A CAUSED BY WAR

London, July 15-(Correspondence of The Associated Press)-The war has caused the belligerent countries of Europe the loss of not less than 12,500,000 potential lives because of the decrease in the number of births resul Ing from the war, says Sir Der nard Mallet Registrar General of Great Britain. This country, he as serts, has lost in these potential lives, 650,000 children. He believes that other belligerent countries have suf- fered in this respect more than has Great Britain.
 Sir Bernard estimated that every day of the war means a loss of 1000 potential lives of children to the the United Kingdom, France, Italy and the Central Powers. Dealing with the decline in the birth rate here he said the births registered in Eng land and Wales in 1913 numbered S81,800. In 1915 they fell to S14,- 614, in 1916 there was a further fall to 7S0, ,520, and in 1917 to 668.346; a decline of 24 per cent. compared with t1913,