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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
ABSENCE LEAVE
FOR U. S. BOYS
IN FRANCE FINED

With the American Army in France,
Jan. IA delayed )-(By the Associated
Press -Regulation governing the
granting of leave to men who have
been or will be at the front, are made
in a general order today. Officers and
men in good standing will be entitled
to seven days leave excluding the
time spent in travelling, after four
months of service in France.
This period is not as long as that
given by the French, but it is the
same as that in operation in the early
days of the war in the French army
and it is assumed that after the Amer
leans have been through long and diff
ficult service the period will be length
ened. Because of French military re-
quirements and other considerations,
leave to go to Paris will be available
only by special arrangement, so that
the number of Americans in the cap
ital at any given time may be lin
tied
It is announced that the leave-zone
limits are being established cnd will
be defined within a month. The reg
ulations will apply to civilian en-
ployes as we'll as soldiers. In connec-
ton with the issuance or this order,
it was disclosed that the American
troops in France will soon be intro
duced to permissionnaire trains, which
will carry men to the leave-zpnes,
many of which will be to the south of
the army zone. Orders regarding the
time of the return of men on leave
and their conduct will be particularly
strict. Upon the manner of compli-
anee with these regulations depend
many factors related to later leave
: arrangements,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
|BETTER THAN CALOMEL
Thousands Have Discovered DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets are
aHarmless Substitute.

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the substi.
tute for calomel - are a mild but sure
laxative, and their effect on the liver is
almost instantaneous. They are the result
of DR.. Edwards determination not to treat
liver and bowel complaints with calomel.
His efforts to Danish it brought cut these
little olive-colored tablets.
these pleasant little tsSlets 20 the good
that calomel does, but have no bad after
effects. They don't injure the teeth like
strong liquids or calonel. They take hold
of the trouble and quickly correct it. Why
cure the liver at the expense Of the teeth?
Calomel sometimes plays havoc with the
gums. So 40 strong liquids. 1t is best not
to take calomel, but to let Dr.. Edwards
Olive Tablets take its place.
Most headaches, ~dullnese" and that
lazy feeling come from constipation and
a disordered liver. Take DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets when you feel doggy" and
''heavy." Note how they "clear" clouded
brain and how they ''perk up the spirits.
1Oc az 25c a box. AL druggists,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
GEORGE
ACTS IN CRISIS
ON HOME RULE

London, Jan. 19-The fact that the
Irish convention has adjourned until
next Tuesday instead of closing this
week, as reported, is understood to
mean, according to the Daily News
that the government in the meantime
will ascertain whether a compromise
is possible on the, point at issue.
1t is reported from Dublin that
Lloyd George has taken steps to in
form himself personally of the atti-
tude of the Ulster Council toward a
settlement. In connection with this
matter the name of the Marquis OF
Londonderry is mentioned.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
DENY STORIES OF
INTERPRETING IN
AMERICAN ARMY
Published Statements, Says
The World, Are on Au-
thority of Letters by
Unknown Authors.
IN. Y. World

Every falsehood uttered by the
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and
Morals of the Methodist church. to the
effect that drunkenness and lust are
destroying the American army in
France is denied by trustworthy wit
nosses, military and civilian. Truth
may at length overtake untruth, but
meantime great harm will have been
done and anxieties, already keen,
cruelty increased.
The published SANDER of this po-
lictical bureau hiding behind a great
church rests upon a few private let
ters the authors of which refuse the
use of their names. With such a
flimsy basis we are informed that
Gen. Pershing's troops are whipped
at this moment by debauchery and its
diseases; that they are in hospitals
and guard houses by thousands; that
the condition of both officers and mer
is appalling, and that nothing car
save them but American Prohibition
enforced in France as some credulous
people think it is enforced here.
In regard to most things, Prohibi.
tionists have assumed and been ac-
corded the right to speak as they
please of their opponents. Theil
hearts are bitter and their tongues
drip venom. 1t is one thing, however
to exhaust the vocabulary of detrac.
ton upon political or social foe a
home, and emphatically another tt
apply libels to the armies of the Ma
tom now facing the enemy abroad.
We shall hear in defense of these
fGlsifiers that their intentions weFt
good, but can the authorities let it &c
at that? No matter what their inten-
lions may be, their work is evil anC
traitorous. There is not an enem!
alien in custody today whose hostilit!
to the American cause has been 81
harmful. Not one of the opponents
of the Draft Law now in prison is 81
stepped in guilt
Is Prohibition propaganda, deadlie1
than any with which Germany ha!
familiarized us, to be tolerated sim
ply because it wears rather more os
tentatiously than he the Kaiser
cloak of piety?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
LITTLE BENNY''S
NOTE BOOK
By LEE PAPE
nIIIlIEIIIIIIIIHIHTIIIIIIIEIIEIIfIIIINIF
The Park Ave. News

Inc FdTh ave. news
Weather. People blaming their
colds on it.
Big Explosion. There was a fearse
noise all of a suddin in Sundey skool
last Sundey, ony being Sam Cross
trying one of the bloc and wife hand
kerchiffs he got for Krissmas so ev-
erybody wood be sure to see it.
Sissiety Notes. Mr.. Sid Hunt put
his 1500th stamp in his stamp albin
last Thersday aftirnoon, the ceremon-
les taking place his parler, Mr.. Ben
ny Potts being paste holder and Mr..
Leroy Shooster putting the paste on
the stamp. Among those present was
Mr.. Artie Alexander, Mr.. Algernin
(Skinny) Martin, and Mr.. Lew Davis.
Spoarts. A waiter drinking contest
took place between Ed Wernick and
FUds Simkins last Thersday in Pulses
kitchin, Pubs winning by drinking 4
and a quarter glasses to Ed Wernicks
and quarters, Ed Wernick admit
ting his defect but saying be bet no
body in the werId Good beet him at a
lcmminade drinking contest if sum-
body would pervide the lemminade.
Pome by Skinny Martin
Sumthing Must of Broak
I had a silver watch,
1t was a Inger SAUL,
And after I dropped it the 7th
time,
1t woodent go at all.
If Lew Davis will retern the sent
he sed he coodent find wen he helped
Leroy Shooster look for it, he will
lern sumthing to his advantage. CAV
lVertizement)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
OUR NEWT0WN
a: news letter
Especial to The Times.)

NewtoWn, Jan. 19-The coal situa-
ton is in an acute stage in town, no
coal yard in town having any for sale.
Schools, churches and private homes
have to depend on wood. Most for
sale, however, is green and is not
of much use in zero weather. The
price, however, is reasonable. and
there is no actual suffering so far. The
ceSr dealers look for no supplies be-
fore spring.
The Home Guards of Newtown are
to hold a dance Feb. 1, at Newtown
hall
Mrs. Edward Lake of Newtown has
returned home after short sojourn
in New Haven.
John C. Beers lost a valuable reg
istered Holstein COW and calf by death
this week.
w. 3. Glover water commissioner
Of Newtown, went to Hartford today
TO attend meeting of the State
Council of Defense.
Druggist A J. Grove of Corbett &
Grove, Sandy Hook, spent Tuesday
night with his parents in Bethel.
On Saturday evening, Jan. %, there
will be held in the reception room of
the Beach Memorial library the first
one of a series of whists for the bene-
fit of the book fund. At the conclu-
sion of the whist there will be AT
auction of cent articles. Everybody
is invited to be present at both
events.
The wife of Herbert Robinson of
Botsford was removed last week to
Middletown, suffering from (ementia
The Fabric Fire Hose company OF
Sandy Hook is furnishing steam coal
from it's bins for the use of the New
town Inn.
Frederick F. Johnson. son of Bishop
Frederick Foote Johnson of st. Louis
who has been at school in the East
has gone to his western home.
Butchering Of porkers is the pre-.
vailing activity among the farmer.
since January /. The slaughterin.
charge is now $3.50 minimum, run
ming to 50 in some instances. Mos
pigs are of medium weight this year
showing that the high prices for grail
discouraged most growers of hogs
and they let their stock come alon!
as best they could.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19

The battlef1ag of Zeppelin Lac,
brought down in France, is at the
National Museum, Washington.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
WAR PUTS CRIMP
In ART FOR next
HALF CENTURY

1t is an oteWorthy fact that the
present war, far from inspiring any
great work in the domains of litera-
tCre, painting, and the other arts, has
apparently resulted in a deterioration
in the quality of the work of the mas
ters of literary and artistic express
sion. The immediate result of the ii
tanic conflict has seemingly been to
befuddle the brains of genius.
Yet there is worse to come if we
accept the dictum of the literary and
artistic prophets. At least so far as
Europe is concerned, little is to be
hoped for in the matter of art or
epochal invention within the next half
century. One reason given is that Eur
ope will be too busy repairing the ra-
wages of conflict to pay much atten-
ton to the fine art; another is that
among the millions slain and strick-
en- in battle there must necessarily be
a large proportion of those young men
who would have become great artists,
inventors, philosophers and scientists.
This war, in its immensely, is with
out precedent, but even the smaller
wars of the past give foundation for
the prophets of evil. Many a mute,
! inglorious Milton has died upon the
battlefields, and of these history can
give no record. We know, however, of
a multitude of cases in which genius
just budding, has been sacrificed on
the bloody altar of Mars. The case
of Lord Byron is the one which oc-
ours most readily to mind, but there
have been thousands of others almost
as pathetic.
On Jan. 10th, of every year, the ar
lists and art student of Paris have
been accustomed to pay tribute to the
memory of Henri Regnault, whose
untimely death in battle, at the age
of twenty-seven, brought to a, tragic
end a career which had promised tc
win for him a, place among the great
est of nineteenth century artists. i
was forty-seven years ago today thai
Regnault died gloriously for France
AS holder of the PriX de Rome, the
young artist was exempt from military
duty in the Franco Prussian war, bu
that did not deter him from enterins
the ranks He was offered a commits
sion as an officer, but refused, ant
remained a common soldier to thu
last On Jan. 10, 1871, he Tough
through the whole day at Buzenval
In the evening the order came to with
draw. II have still a few cartridges,
said the artist when I have fire.
them, L will return" He never did
and his body was found with a bull
let wound in the temple.
Regnault's most celebrated paint
, ing, "Salome," was sold at auctio,
several years ago for $4,000. A stat
ue of the artist has been erected a
Buzenval, where he fell during tn
, siege of Paris, and there. on the an
niverEary of his death, the artists O
! Paris have yearly paid tribute to hi
memory,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
UNITED STATES
BOYS TRAIN IN
"SEA OF MUD

With the American Army in
France, Jan. 19-Mud and water
knee-deep over the entire American
zone" is not stopping the Yankees
war training.
Steady torrential rains have eradi-
Gated the snow and engulfed the val
leys. Even hilltop trenches are
ankle-deep in water. Others are knee
deep in icy sIush.
The Sammies keep increasingly at
their war work, charging through
seas of mud. Battalions marchi-g
to the training ground are frequently
compelled to wade almost knee-deep
at places where the water has over
flowed the roads.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
BRAZIL IN THROES
OF HUN. SPY SCARE

Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil, Jan. 10
Brazil, now that it has entered the
war. is having it's spy scare and it has
become more general even than in
some OF the other belligerent coun-
tries. 1t is only necessary for per-
son to be a foreigner and a stranger
in any Brazilian town to become the
object of suspicious regard by the
people and even of police surveil-
lance.
Orders have gone out from Rio de
Janeiro fer the arrest of large num-
hers of Germans, many of whom ap-
pear to be innocent business men, al
though there is no doubt but that
German espionage is well organized
in Southern Brazil. Spies are report
ed to have been especially active In
the state of San Paulo and the gov
ernment has taken rigid measures for
Watching all suspects there.
AS soon as the government began
these measures of preeaution, how
ever. e large number of rich and well
knewn German business men who I'M
der Euspieion of being German gov
eminent agents succeeded in escaping
into the Argentine Republic with
whatever secrets they may have had
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
SPAIN SHY COAL, TOO.

Havana, Cuba, Jan. 19-The Ha-
vana agents of the Spanish Steamship
Co. have received a Cablegram from
Spain asking them to ascertain wheth-
err it is possible to obtain coal here
and in the United States for their
ships. If the coal cannot be obtained,
the company says it will be forced to
suspend service.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19

Tinaa4 Want Ads one Cent a Word
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-19
ADVANCEMENT OF
POST OFFICES is
TO BE CONTINUED

Washington, Jan. 19-The comp
trolIer of the treasury ruled today
that the regular procedure of advanc-
ing post offices to higher grades is
not affected by the order suspending
for the duration of the war all salary
increases of postmasters. Changes OF
classification of post offices, based on
receipts for the four quarters ending
Dec. 81, 1917, will be made public
about May Is.
Evening star., 1918-11-20
Buy Undermuslins Tomorrow for Gif
Crepe kimonos at

Long kimonos. made of
genuine serpentine crepe.
A breakfast coat model has
corded flounce forming the
skirt; finished with sash
and tassels. In all colors.
Evening star., 1918-11-20

Women's kayser Union Suits
Suits in low neck sleeveless styles. ankle
nF ! length. in white and pink reinforced.
Mo Also low neck sleeveless. and knee length
suits in flesh color, with shoulder strap or
\ bodice STYLE Sizes Sc and 38.
Evening star., 1918-11-20
Children's Union Suits
at $2.Z5

A special purchase of
Richelieu silk and wool
Union Suits with high neck
and long sleeves, in ankle
length. Sizes 5 to II.
Children's Union Suits
at $1.5O
Carter's winter weight rib
bed Union Suits with high
neck, long sleeves and ankle
length, with button attach
ments. Three garments in
one; ages 2 to 16 years.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-02-01
MADE.IN- GERMANY lies
CIRCULATED In CANADA

Canada is also having trouble with
hinder Canadian food conservation &C
cording to an official statement re-
ceived from the Canadian food con
troller by the United States food adj
ministration.
The stories bothering Canada are
Of the same general character as those
the United States food administra-
tor recently denounced In this coun-
try, such as the ridiculous salt and
blueing famine fakes and the report
that the government would seize
housewives stocks of home came
goods.
The Canadian food controller esti-
mates that when the people listen &,
and pass on such stories, each ont
has the power of destruction that lies
in a battalion of soldiers.
"Stories without even a vestige q
foundation have been scattered broad
cast" said the Canadian statement
Nor have they come to life casually
They have started simultaneously il
different parts of the country and in
each instance have been calculated Ia
arouse public Indignation.
"They are insidious, subtle, persist
emit Bit by bit they dissipate public
trust, the great essential in the worl;
of food control.
at lies with every individual to for
bear from criticism; to refrain from
passing on the vagrant and harmful
story. and thus the more effectively
to cooperate in work which is going
to mean more than the majority OF
people yet realize"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-02-01
RouQh for the SIaekere

For some time the boys in khah
have been recruiting from the hurri.
cane deck Of half dozen Fifth avenue
buses, which take UP positions along
the curb Of the white light section,
says a New York exchange. They have
been doing good work and have gained
quite few recruits, but at times theiI
tactics border on the rough-neck way
of doing things. For instance. th1
other night the recruiting buses were
stationed at points where the crowdf
pass, and to the young men who went
by, they shouted, "Aren't you ashamed
OF yourself not to be in uniform?' ''That
girl isn't decent if she walks with q
Stacker like you;" 'Theres another
who is robbing his country" and Other
similar remarks. The intent ia to
shame the man into enlisting at once.
That this is doing harm is evidenced
by the attitude Of the lookers-op. sew
eral comments Of whom left little doub,
that those who were insulted would be
Kept away from recruiting.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-02-01

was to shave, array myself in the
clothing Of my new friend, go where
l liked, spend what money I liked,
simply keep up the farce that I was
Adrian Noble, to delude the sleuths
who would be ever at my heels.
Adrian Noble prepared me fully for
the role l consented to assume. It
was not a difficult one To be well,
dressed, fully fed, provided with
money and comfortably housed, in
spired me with confidence in my pow
ers to carry the program through.
At times my mind misgave me, dur
ing a week when there was with me
the certain consciousness that my ev-
cry step was logged. I pretended new
er to observe my tireless trailers, but
a dozen times day discovered them
near me. One day I went into q bar
Der shop, and, removing my collar
seated myself in the hands of the tom
serial artist. CHANGING into the mirror
I saw one of the sleuths glide casually
into the shop. He feigned to look It
some pictures on the wall, gave me a
keen glance and went out again.
Just after I myself had left the
place, half square traversed. drew
into the shelter of an open hallway, to
get out Of sudden dash of rain. I
drew back as few minutes later both
of the men entered the hallway.
II told you" spoke the one who had
come into the barber shop. 81 had my
suspicious. The real one had a red
birthmark under the collar. This one
hasn't. Say, I'll bet we're flummuxed
We'd better get a wire to our people
instantly"
l found out they were indeed "fum-
muxed" before another "a hours had
passed. was seated in my room
Adrian Mobiles room-the next after
noon when, with a joyous cry Adrian
Noble himself rushed into the apart
ment: on his arm the loveliest, blush
ing, bright-eyed angel of beauty mortal
ever saw.
"My wife!' he shouted deliriously.
slapping me on the shoulder with
sounding thwack. sand you helped
me win her!"
Sand could kiss you for your brave
share in our great adventure" warbled
the sunny creature. "And for your
looking so bewilderingly like Adrian"
And the explanations: A tyran-
nous guardian had tried to hold these
lovers apart. While Noble was in the
city and at safe distance, the cruel
ogre allowed Nellie Wayne more free
dom than usual. He felt safe as long
as his city emissaries reported Noble
under their cynosure. Noble had stol-
en- a march on them, had managed to
elope with Nellie, and now they de-
fed the world.
He was man of wealth, and proved
It to me. Both cooling doves insisted
on starting me in business, sending for
the loving lass who had been waiting
Tor better times many, many weary
months. And better times had come
to stay-for Adrian Noble and for his
happy wife, for my faithful Grace ard
ter myself.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-02-01
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Helps PAY FOR BREAD

There has been much misunder1
standing about the bread program In
England. 1t is true that the English
man buys loaf of bread for less than,
an American can, but it is poorer,
bread, and the British government is
paying S200,000,O0O a year toward the,
cost Of it
All the grain grown In Great Brit
ain is taken over by the government
at an arbitrary price and the imported
wheat purchased on the markets at
the prevailing market price. This Is
turned over to the mills by the govern
ment at price that allows the adul,
terated war bread loaf of four pounds
to sell at Is cents, the two pound loaf
at 8 cents and the one pound loaf at s.
cents.
In France, under conditions some.
what similar, but with a larger ex-,
traction, the four pound loaf sells for
10 cents.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-02-01
Just Dream Of Love.

Turkish girls seem to prepare them
telves for marriage In the absence OF
lovers. They are wooed by dreams
and sweet thoughts; their faces be
come tender and their voices cooling
during the period when their parents
are making inquiries for a suitable
husband for them. But 1t does seem Q
pity that these pretty and charming
girls should never experience In any
degree that most delightful process Of
courtship. Perhaps when they emerge
Into the freer life that seemed prepar
ing for them until the war arrested
progress, that will be one of their
Rains.-Exchange.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-02-01
MAKING MEATLESs
DAYS PERMANENT,

In the meatless menu there Is a fer
tile field for developing new and nour-
ishing dishes, according to E. 81. Niles,
writing in the Hotel Gazette, who be-
lieves that the present shortage Of
meat and fats will not end with the
coming of peace, but may grow more
acute and continue for five or six
years, thus making 1t worth while to
develop menus of grain, vegetables
and fish on a more or less permanent
basis. Meat can be replaced by cereals
and other protein foods, or may be
served In very small portions as f1a
voring for other food. In making up
meatless menus this author finds our
American Creole and southern cuisine
a broad field for investigation.