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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19

St. Lukes church, Stratford avenue and Sixth street, W. H. Jepson, rec tor. Services at and 10:45 q. m. Sunday school ct 10, Evening at 7:SV' Red Cross Monday and Tuesday. Wo- mans Guild Thursday,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19

The Peoples Presbyterian church. Laurel And Park avenues. Prayers, 10 a. m. Worship with sermon, 1o:3O, Self f-PerpetuatEon." Sunday school, 12---1 c. D., S:30.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19

Holy Rosary, ss5 East Washington avenue. Rev. Angelo De Toro, pastor. Low masses, 6, 7:30. Children's mass, g. High mass, 10:S0.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19

Park Street Congregational church corner Barnum avenue and Park street. Gerald 1T. Beard, minister: 10:So, public worship. Sermon, 'The Sword in the Mouth; 12:o5, Sunday school. mems classes; 7;S0. Illustrated lecture, Pilgrim Pioneers"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-19

Washington Park M. E. church, Barnum and Noble avenues. Rev. A. F. Campbell. minister. Preaching at 1O:S0; subject, Man in the Making" Sunday school at 12:10. Epworth League at 6;3o. Evening service at 7:3O; subject of sermon, "The Voice of God"
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Field Crops of Canada.

The census and statistics office has
issued it's preliminary estimate of the
total value of the field crops of Can
ada for the past year, as compared
with the finally revised estimates of
1916 and 1915. The estimated values
for 1917 represent the prices received
by farmers and are calculated from
current market quotations. According
to this preliminary estimate, the total
value of all field crops for 1917 is
placed at S1,OS9, 6S7 900, as compared
with 1886, 494, 900 in 1916 and $780,
600 in 1915. The items making up this
total are as follows: Wheat, $751;
$4,000: oats, 1926, $4,000; hay, clover,
and alfalfa, $145,561 600; potatoes,
Ss1 $50, 900; other grain crops, $134,-
OO6. 700. and root and fodder crops,
S4O974,7O0.
In the year 1916 the crops were
as follows: Wheat, 1914, O96, 400; oats,
$21O,957, 500; hay, clover and alfalfa,
$171,6139OO; potatoes, S5O,9S2,3OO;
other grain crops, S84,679,SO and 9th
er root and fodder crops, $S4.16o,OOO.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
AT CAMP DEVENS.

Col Heron of the 304th Regt has the
following to say about health condition
there:
At the end of four months occupancy
of the camp the report today showed
that among So coo who have entered the
camp but 20 deaths have occurred at the
base hospital and some of these were the
outcome of accidents happening outside
of camp. Six of the deaths took place
IN December.
During that period the cases of SOLO
patients received the attention of physl-
clans and surgeons in the medical CORPS
Soldiers have not been kept at regimental
infirmaries over night but have been sent
to the hospital for the best treatment
specialists could render. The cases have
ranged from the minor ones of colds to
pneumonia, of which there have been 81
cases under care. There are now six
pneumonia cases in camp. The reason
for the low mortality rate is the require
ment that prompt treatment shall be
given for any or all trouble of whatever
nature Immediately upon its discovery.
Commissioned and non commissioned
officers of the companies keep daily tabs
on the health of the men in addition to
the inspection by medical officers.
The above shows that the death rate at
Camp Devens has been quite as low or
lower than it would have been had the
men all been at home.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Waits Who Make Good,

Everybody has read stories of waits
who got chance and made good, we
mean in fiction. That they also make
good in real life, says the New Orleans
Daily States, is proved by the annual
report of the Children's Aid society
of New York.
For some time the society has been
diligently searching the country for re-
liable testimony regarding strays who
made their mark in the world, and it
has made up this list of successful men
rescued as children from the street or
taken from an asylum or corrective in
stitution.
One state governor, one territorial
governor, two congressman, two dis
trict attorneys, two sheriffs, two
mayors, justice of the supreme court,
four other judges, two college profes.
sors, two dozen clergymen, seven high
school principals, an auditor general,
nine members of state legislatures, two
artists, "a bankers, 10 physicians, IS
lawyers, II postmasters, 81 teachers,
many business and professional men,
farmers and clerks, besides 1000 sail
0rs and soldiers.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
THE CLOTHING SHORTAGE.

People have become familiar with the
fact that there is world wide shortage
of food. 1t is just beginning to dawn on
us now that there is also a shortage of
clothing 1t is not yet so obvious as the
food scarcity, but we may be sure that it
will force itself on everybody's attention
with sufficient inSistence in the course of
the next year or two.
The three big staples, wool, leather
and cotton, are all affected. Already
various measures have been taken to
make the available supply go as far as
possible. WOODEN cloth is made thinner.
Shoddy-old wooden cloth rewoven-is
more widely used. Since cotton is less
scarce than wool, more of it is mixed
with wool. Inferior grades of leather are
used. More leather is split, making two
thin sheets instead of one of normal
thickness. And under the direction of
the National Councils economy board,
there is a deliberate effort to save mate
rial by simpler, more economical design
ing of clothing and shoes.
There are to be fewer pleatS in Wom-
ems dresses, fewer cuffs on mems coats
and trousers, fewer pocket flaps, smaller
collars, lower shoes, etc. Much may be
done along this line without impairing
the real value of clothing and shoes for
warmth and protection. It's something
new for Americans to give thought to
such matters. Always before fashions
caprlces have had their way, regardless
of the amount of costliness of the mate
rlals used. Now materials are going to
dictate fashions. We have thrift instead
of whims. There isn't any real hardship
about it, so far at least. It's very good
for uS.-Bangor News.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Antiquity of Jerusalem.

The wonderful antiquity of Jerusa-
lem has only been appreciated in re-
cent years. Up to so years ago, OBJ
serves the Chicago Examiner, it was
thought that Jerusalem was of little
importance as a city until it became
the "City of David" king of Israel.
But with the discovery of the Tel-el-
Amarna tablets in Egypt new light
was shed upon the history of the sa-
cred city. There were found six letters
written by the king of Jerusalem to
the Pharaoh of Egypt, dating from the
fifteenth century B. C. The name of
this king of Jerusalem was Abd-hiba,
or, as some scholars read the cunei-
form, Abd-sadak. and he writes to the
Pharaoh beseeching him to send SOL
diers, almost as the Turks must have
sent messages to Germany asking for
re-enforcements that they might save
the day.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Goats Milk Is Favored.

Everyone who is at all acquainted
with the milk goat knows of the value
of the milk for infants and invalidS'
use-one of the first points about the
milk goat that presents itself, asserts
a writer. The goat is practically free
from tuberculosis. According to the
annual reports of the bureau of animal
Industry Gu. s., covering federal in
spection of animals slaughtered for
food, there were inspected during the
eight years, 1907 to 1914, inclusive,
579.617 goats, of which not a single
animal was condemned for tubercu-
Ioss. This fact alone should be the
strongest argument in favor of the
milk of the goat. The cream globules
of the milk of the goat are smaller
than those of cows milk, and because
of this milk being condensed the cream
globules are contained in more per-
feet state of emulsion than the cows
milk. An argument in favor of ster-
LliZed milk is that authorities agree it
is actually more easily digested than
is the fresh milk, this referring to
goats and cows milk alike.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
MOTORS. IN MAIL SERVICE.

Within three months the postoffice de-
partment's motor truck parcel post ser
vice will be extended, to routes totalling
between 5000 and 1000 miles. One chain
will extend from Portland, Me-, to New
Orleans; one will cover large stretch of
territory in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
West Virginia, and others will serve sew
eral California cities.
Routes already are in operation con-
Meeting Washington with towns in Penn
sylvania and Maryland.
The postoffice department believes that
the new routes and others to be establish
ed later, will aid materially in the dis
tribution of parcel post matter and lower
the cost of food products.
Introduction of motor trucks on all
star mail service routes where roads per-
nit, is planned by the department under
authority of recent law permitting it to
specify the type of vehicle used. The
department has no power to compel the
use of motor vehicles on the regular rural
routes, but legislation will be sought to
provide for government owned motors for
parcel post deliveries in this service, too.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
HAVE APfETIlE Fur PRAISE
Everybody Graves Words Of Approval
and Comment-Effect of the Time
ly Kind Attention.

. It is a human frailty to want praise.
We begin young to crave the approx
ing notice of others. "There is none
like to me-" says the cub in the pride
of his earliest kill But the jungle is
large, and the cub he is small; let him
think and be still" Children brought
up in school can generally be told
from those who have been trained sol
itarily, says writer in the Philadel-
phia Ledger, for the children thrown
much with other children are less like
~ to develop arrogance, selfishness
and conceit. They do not find their
schoolmates in a frame of mind to put
them on a pedestal or crown their
brows with laurel. They are not re-
garded as little tin gods on wheels;
they are lost to sight in the shuttle of
the classroom and the playground. No
body defers to their opinions; nobody
minds when they stamp the foot and
shout angrily.
Children of larger growth often
crave an admiration which they do not
get. They think to draw an audience
by harping on the theme of self, and
they find that the audience for that
kind of recital is likely to be limited
to the performer. To knock the Il"
out of ones conversation is not neces-
sarily to make it interesting. Many
times a narrative loses greatly in pith
and pungency by the impersonality in
which it is couched. A story of adven-
ture greatly gains by the sense of the
first-hand participation Of the narrator
in the incidents he describes. When
the first person is introduced for the
sake of the edification of the reader,
there need be no apology; when it Is
introduced for the glorifcation of the
speaker, it is odous altogether.
A man must do his work as well as
he can, whether he is praised for it or
not. The taste of publicity is likely to
be what the taste of blood is to tiger
or lion; it whets the desire for more
of the same thing. There are some
who rarely do a good deed without
rushing to neighbor or newspaper to
let it be known. To others the "free
advertising" is abhorrent. They are
made happy by glowing conscious
ness that the right thing was done, and
that auto-satisfaction of virtue is their
reward. But most of us have not
reached that lofty pinnacle wherein
we can abide serenely Independent of
what others think or say. We want a
kind word now and then to keep us
going We hunger for appreciation,
even when we tell ourselves we are
not worth it. Who has not knoWnvthe
lift a letter of encouragement, a SEN
tence of commentator, has brought?
The day is brighter for it, and we feel
refreshed, renewed. Blessed are they
who speak in time the heartening,
quickening word.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Coincidence.

Much has been said and written at
various times concerning ''the long
arm of coincidence" but surely rec
ord in this direction, relates a CORE
Spondent, was established in connec-
ton with an amusing little episode in
the career of the countess Of Dudley,
the enthusiastic Red Cross worker who
organized the first voluntary hospital
corps to cross the Channel on the out
break of the present world war.
When, exactly ten years ago, her
ladyship presented her husband with
twin sons, one of her first visits on
her recovery was to village church
near where she was staying at the
time.
The officiating clergyman was quite
unaware Of the presence of Lady Dud-
ley among his congregation. Never
theless, by an extraordinary coin
cidence, he chose as his text the words,
1.-TWO are better than one''-greatly
to the amusement need it be added,
of the countess and some friends who
were with her.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Rules FOR SALE OF SUGAR.

.N.ND, Jan. 10. State Food Admin
Dr. Leon S. Merrill, in state
st issued, calls attention to all
lie and retail grocers regarding
mount of sugar sold to each Gus
@ frequently reports have been re-
-.u2 at the Food Administration office
stIling of sugar in quantities, which
ale private boarding, This is true in
.- States likewise.
is utterly impossible fof the Food
uinistration to protect the food sup
of all of our people if few are per
lifted to disregard its suggestions" says
cd Administrator Merrill "Whole-
-ae and retail grocers are therefore in
rJcted to observe regulations in hand
4 The various commodities.
Sugar should be sold in towns and
Lies by the retailers to consumers in
TO five and one-half pound quanti-
to farm and rural customers in five
o II pound quantities; to ranchers %
miles or more from market not to exceed
ne and one-half pounds per person in
neir households without special permis-
SION from this office.
Wholesale grocers should not sell
agar IN quantities in excess of 1000
pounds at a time to retailer. Sugar
should not be shipped on back orders, nor
without a positive order from the buyer
holeSale grocers should use every pre-
a1ton at their command to prevent
llptcation of sales, which may give to a
TtalIer the opportunity to have more
-gar than is necessary for conservation
ilstribution."
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
CHAPLAIN PRAISE SOLDIERS
MORALS

With the American Army in France,
esday, Jan. g. by the Associated
freSs, p-Chaplains of both Protestant and
catholic faiths have Just issued reports
Ia The government in which it is MAIN
'.Ined that the morals of the men of the
American expeditionary force are most
YceIlent.
In performing our priestly functions, +"
DE reports say, 'it has been our privi-
&c to travel considerably among the
oops and it pleases us immensely to be
able to state that we find the moral con-
iilons very satisfactory The military
authorities are vigilant in removing
lemptaton and the men are honestly try
ing The result is thus far we have
can army. 1--WE are honestly convinc-
ed that the men on duty in France are in
less danger morally than they would be in
the service in our own country"
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Pioneers Lived on Corn.

We ought to be proud of corn. The
corn-fed critter, human and otherwise,
always has been strong, vigorous and
Of high vitality.
In serving corn dishes on its dining
cars the Southern Pacific railway dis
tributes a small card giving recipes
and other interesting information, as
follows:
1.-THE government desires that wheat
be used as sparingly as possible and
that corn be substituted.
America was pioneered on corn
the Pilgrim Fathers almost lived on
it. Corn was the first crop planted in
all the virgin soil as it was settled,
from the Atlantic out across the Allie
ghenies; upon the broad prairies, and
beyond.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
old BLOCK PRINTS
Invention Is Credited to the Chi
nese in Year 592.
Books Not in Competition With Manu-
scripts Until the Middle Of the
. Tenth Century.

Printing from blocks is said to have
been invented in China in 592 A. D.,
during the enlightened reign of Yank
Chen, the founder of the progressive
but short-liyed Sui dynasty. Printed
books, however, asserts writer IN the
Oriental News and Comment, did not
compete with manuscripts until the
middle of the tenth century. From that
time block printing developed very rap
idly, resulting in great cheapenlng
and wide diffusion Of books and the
consequent rapid decline of the copy
lists trade. No doubt the rapid dis
seminatiOn of learning this entailed
had much to do with the great intel
lectual progress made in China during
the Sung dynasty, from $50 to 1880 A.
D., which has been called the PRO
tracted Augustan age of Chinese litera-
ture."
Disregarding the manuscript works
of the great Tang dynasty (61S-907 A.
D., which were doubtless tenfold more
numerous and more important than the
contemperaneous literary works of the
whole western world, the printed books
of the Sung Yuan and the early part
of the Ming dynasties up to the middle
of the fifteenth century have no coun-
terpart at all in Europe. They existed
in countless thousands of Volumes In
14O6 the Imperial Ming library con
tanned printed works to the extent Of
more than 100000 chuan (books) and
more than twice as many manuscripts,
and already many printed works of the
Sung dynasty had been lost during the
disorders incident to the protracted
wars with the Mongols. Undoubtedly
more books were printed in China than
in all the rest of the world up to the
middle of the seventeenth or the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century.
The great bulk of Chinese works,
aside from the Confucian classics, is
historical or literary. the latter being
mostly essays, short poems, or cri-
tiques. There exists also vast Bud
dhistic literature and very many Tao
list works.
Novels are not even classed as lit
erature, although famous ones exist
and some of them have been translated
into European languages. There are
also many famous dramas, some dating
from the Yuan dynasty. but these, too,
are excluded from literature proper by
Chinese photographers. The historical
records of the Chinese are of vast bulk
and represent conscientious and
painstaking record of the political and
sociological experiences of the oldest
civilized nation on earth. In close con-
nection with these records proper we
should consider the vast number of
geographic treatises and especially the
so-called gazetteers. These latter are
official publications issued by the en-
pire, province, district, or even town
ship, and treat not only geography and
topography proper, but also the an
Equities, natural and manufactured
products, and even the biographies of
famous men, population, taxes, astrol-
ogy, marvellous happenings, etc.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
MAINE FIRST AS HOME OWNERS.

The members of the Maine League of
Loan and Building Associations were
told in an address at their annual con-
vention by former Governor William T..
Cobb of Rockland that it is money saved
and not used for speculative promotion
or investment purposes that counts for
the security financially in big govern
ment enterprises such as the work done
by the government during the past few
months.
Frank L. Palmer, State bank COM
missioner, said Maine stands first of all
States east of Wisconsin for the number
of people who own the homes they oc-
cupy. Other speakers included Harry o.
Gurdy of Rockland, Oren M. Tucker of
Boston and Mayor Charles B. Clarke.
Norman H. Fay of Dexter was elected
president; Philip F. Turner of Portland,
vice president; and Harry F. Thompson
of Brunswick, secretary-treasurer.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Smart Boys.

The schoolmaster was giving the
boys a lecture on thrift and pointed
out how squirrels stored up nuts fol-
the winter. Then he asked for an.
other illustration of thrift in animals
and one boy cried out:
"A dog"
"a dog In what way does a dog
practice economy?"
"Please, sir, when he runs after his
tail he makes both ends meet"
The master laughed, and another
boy said:
"A bear"
"Well, what does the bear do?"
"He makes one coat last him life.
time"
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
NATIONAL BANK RESOURCES.

Resources of national banks have risen
to new high level of S18, $50, OOO, 600.
Deposits amounted to S14, 798, 600, 900
or 81, 564, 900, 600 more than Sept. 18th,
and 81, 3O9, 600, 900 more than on the APP
proximate date year before.
Loans and discounts amounted to 49,
535, 600, 900 or "a per cent of the deposits,
an increase over Sept. 18th of S48O, 600
and over the year before of 81, 189, DOC, 900.
Cash in vaults and the amount due
from federal reserve banks was 81, 759,-
600, 900. Bills payable and rediscounts
were reported as 5000, 600, 900 and capital
and surplus amounted to 81, 236, OOO, 600.
Securities other than government bonds
held by banks were 81, goo, 600, 900.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
FREE OF CHARGE

Any adult suffering from cough, cold
or bronchitis, is invited to call at the
drug store of VIM. O. Poor & Son and
get absolutely free, a sample bottle of
Boschee's German Syrup, soothing and
healing remedy for all lung troubles,
which has successful record of fifty
years. Gives the patient a good night s
rest free from coughing, with free expec-
toration in the morning.
Regular sizes, Is and rs cents. For sale
n all civilized countries.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
kerensky Real Diplomat.

Here is a Kerensky story told by
man lately returned from Petrograd.
Kerensky was summoned from his no.
tel after midnight to the headquarters
of the provisional government. A fell
low guest at the hotel met Kerensky
as he was going out and, learning Of
the summons Kerensky hSd received,
exclaimed:
"Not another revolution, hope!"
II don't know" replied Kerensky,
and hurried away.
The next day his fellow guest asked
Kerensky what had been the trouble
which had brought him out so late the
previous evening.
Kerensky smiled.
st had forgotten to sign letter." he
rGplied..
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
FELT LIKE A new
PERSON
After Taking Only One Box Of
'Fruit-a-tiVes"
Fast SHIP HARBOUR,

FAST SHlP HARBOUR,
SIT is with great pleasure that write
to telRyou of the aoondet7nI benefits I
have received from taking "Fruit-a-
tives''. For years, I was dreadful
sufferer from CONSTIPATION and Head
aches, and was miserable in every way.
Nothing in the way Of medicines seemed
to help me. Then I finally tried
splendid. After taking one box, feel
like new person, to have relief from
those sickening Headaches.
Mrs. MARTHA DEWOLFE.
Soc. box, 6 for $3.50, trial size, Csc.
At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit
a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, NY.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17

eJco HeUvy 0u11,
twitching eyelids, itching of the nose.
itching of the rectum. short dry cough,
grinding of the teeth, little red points
sticking out on tongue, starting during
sleep, slow fever.
Dr. Irue's Elixir, the Family Laxative and
Worm Expeller, will surely and quickly expel
worms, correct upset stomach and constipa-
hon. Adults are also benefited. and write US
letters like this: "Dr. Trues Elixir has done
me world of good. John Glass, Houston,
Texas" At all dealers.
u.s.. N.sCsO =.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Chicago Boys for Farms.

A farm service reserve corps for boys
more than sixteen years old, will be es-
tablished in the Chicago High schools at
once. Instruction in agriculture will be
begun in an effort to make up for the
great shortage of farm labor in the spring.
The boys and girls of Maine will be
found doing their bit on the farm next
summer Last year was only try-out.
Next year they will meet the situation
almost UNANIMOUSLY.
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Maine Central r. r.
BELFAST AND BURNHAM

On and after Oct. 1. 1917. trains connecting
at Burnnam and Watervile with through trains
for and from Bangor. Waterville. Portland and
Boston. will run daily. except Sunday. as fol-
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17

Signs of worms are: De-
ranged stomach, swollen
upper lip, sour stomach,
offensive breath, hard and
full belly with occasional
gripings and pains about the
navel, pale face of leaden
The Republican journal., 1918-01-17
Guard Children Against Worms

Pinworms and stomach worms are
some of the most dreaded diseases of
children.