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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
ROCK ME TO
 SLEEP, MOTHER"

Backward, turn backward, o Time,
 in your flight.
 Make me child again just for to-
 night"
 These are the first two lines of one of the most popular of those homeIy poems which make so strong an ap- peal to the masses of the American and English people. Rock Me To Sleep, Mother" was first published in the Saturday Evening Post of Phila- delphia in 1860. Since then it has been set to music by numerous com- posers, published and republished in every collection of American verse. and recited and sung by millions of people. The authorship of the poem was in dispute for many years, but it has been definitely established that it was the work of Elizabeth Akers Allen, who was born in Strong Maine, eighty-six years ago today, Oct 9, 1892. She was born Elizabeth Chase, but became the wife of Paul Akers, a prominent sculptor, who died in 1861. | and several years later she was mar ried to A. M. Allen, a New York man, 1 She began to write verse at the age of fifteen. Her masterpiece, "Rock Me To Sleep Mother" was written in 1859, while the then Mrs. Akers was living in Portland, Me. where for some years she was literary editor o1 the Portland Advertiser. She went tc Rome in 1860 with her husband, and it was from the Eternal City that she mailed the manuscript of the poem to the Philadelphia publication which first gave it to the world.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
MUST HAVE NEW PHRASES.
Changing the War Game Has Made Old Terms In-
 appropriate.

We lack the speed in changing our phrases that we've shown in chang ing the war game. lover the top" suggests parapets and paradoses, fire steps and traverses, barbed-wire and No Mans Land-the whole rigmarole of stabilization in ditches. Over the top now goes for any sort of advance, charging across wheat fields or de- ploying through thickets.
 Its a hand grenade game" they told us when we landed in France. Ii was, then. Forge that rifle stuff" they said.
 However, rifles were still being packed around. Nothing else had yet been issued on which to fix bayonets. The Yankees were willing to put some smoke on the grenades and to try to cut the plate. under instruction, but they rebelled against the mental exer- else of trying to forget how to shoot A sergeant told me of the report some of the men brought back who had been bilited with the British, the | story of Tommy who sprinted half i across FIanaders dragging his rifle in his left hand and trying to catch up with a routed Heinfe raider so that he could hurl a bomb, The ser geant ended up, Say, believe me. re- membering how to shoot has allowed us to forget lot of that trench stuff
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
PERILOUS SERVICE.
Operating a French Baby Tank Is
 Very Trying Business.

Reference has been made to the new "baby tanks that participated in the Picardy battle, and that are said to be quicker than a man in running and turning. Some description of thes1 is contained in a private letter juft received from somewhere in France The writer says:
 -''The new French tanks are tiny little things each just big enough for two men to crawl into. They arrived here on fiat cars, and it is the funniest thing to see them get off. They look like clumsy baby elephants. They hesitate and wiggle nervously, and finally with great dignity they walk off the car, and waddle off to their stamping grounds, and the next comes along until they are all lined up. This is the only branch of the service more dangerous than aviation, (the baby i tanks, not the big ones). In fact, it is so dangerous that each man has to be a volunteer and unmarried, the conse- | Quence being that as most Frenchme1 | marry very young, the tank crews are still younger. They wear short black leather coats, tight blue trousers black leggings, chasseur officers berets, wide brown belt worn short waisted, with a revolver and a long thin dagger, and just as artillerymer are usually big and blond, these are very small, with black cury hair and 1 brieht compleXfOns.
 "One of them told me that wheI
 they were first sent in they were no | armed at all, so the gentle boche. | used to climb up on top of the tank.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
TASHUA AND LONG HILL.

Miss Adeline Schmidt, daughter of Mir and Mrs. Richard Schmidt, who will become the bride of Edwin Gar goshe of Huntington, has recently been given two showers by Bridge port relatives. The first was a linen shower given by Mrs. Horace Hill. Wednesday afternoon, Sept. g. Mrs. Lester Buckelew, Miss Schmidt's sis ter, gave the second shower last Wednesday afternoon, a miscellaneous shower Her little niece Helen brought the gifts to her on her kiddie cart. About 20 were present who were the Misses Matte Carcell, Helen Car cell, Lillian French. Mildred Beard. Margaret Beard, Lois Hill, Anna Frickel. Anna Schmidt, and Adeiine Schmidt.
 MT. and Mrs. Lac1are and Edward Ellis of Bridgeport were Sunday guests of MT. and Mrs. Benjamin Turney of Tashua.
 The Tashua and Long Hill auxiliary of the Bridgeport chapter of the Red Cross held its annual meeting al Grace Episcopal church Monday af- ternoon at 4 o'clock. Rev. F. Robert Sheffield presided. The chairman elected was Mrs. W. I. Davis and the secretary, Mrs. G. W. Cole.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
BEANS MUST BE BEANS
Decision Against Restaurant Which Adulterated Beans
 With a Rock.

Upon the shoulders of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Mas sachusetts was lately laid a momen- tous burden. It came about in this way; A certain woman went into a Boston restaurant and asked, as Is the custom, for Boston's sacred food. But she later brought against that food provider the charge that, where as she had asked for beans, they had given her a stone. That Is, a false and perilous pebble, disguised as ! bean, had secreted itself among the priceless legumes. Biting upon it with that trusting eagerness with which Bostonians approach beans, she wrecked upon its resisting rock two good teeth,' one natural, the other artificial. So she did appeal to the courts to award her recompense for so rude and disastrous a betrayal of confidence, and in the course of time the matter came before the highest court of the state.
 Now, had the report been unani- nous, perhaps this case might have been lost to sight in a mass of mat lSI-O1-COuISG uGC1SlOIS. AC lOWGl courts did, in fact, award the plain tiff damages of $150. It seems to have been agreed without hesitation that to adulterate beans with stones was serious thing, even though the adulteration was involuntary. Thus the integrity of beans was maintained. But the defending restaurant com quibbled. Granted that the stone ought not to have been there, 1t was not admitted that its presence was the fault of the restaurateur. He bought it for a bean, he served it in good faith as bean. They must go back of him for the responsibility. It was on this contention that the casa came up to the Supreme Court.
 But the lady is vindicated. That is, six out of seven of the judges said she should have justice. and that there being no other responsible party in sight, she should have it out 0f the restaurant. It is regrettable that the seventh did not concede this point but 1t must be assumed as granted that he recognized the important truth that beans must be bears il | Boston. So is the integrity of the bean upheld, and a sacred institution | is safe.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
TODAT'S ANNIVERSARY

The first Christian bishop of Paris was St. Denis, or Dionysius, who flourished in the middle of the third century, and whose festival is cele- brated todal by all the Catholics of France, who regard Denis as their patron saint. He was beheaded by the pagans on the spot still called Montmartro, or Martyrs Mount, and afterward, according to legend, walk ed three miles with his severed head in his hand. It Is alleged that he was thrown into a cage with lions and tigers who only licked his feet. Next he was thrown into a furnace, but the flames had no power to harm , him. Another legend relates that when the saint was crucified, he calmly preached a sermon to his per secutors. He was taken down from the cross and led to the place of ex. ecution, where his head was cut off Then, runs the legend, he arose took his head in his hands, and walked tC the spot now occupied by the Abbe! of St. Denis, afterward the buria place of French monarchs.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
SPREAD OF SPANISH INFLUENZA
 MENACES OUR WAR PRODUCTION
U. s. Public Health Service Begins Ma.
 tion-wide Health Campaign.

Washington, D. C.-In order to limit the spread of Spanish influenza and keep 1t from making still further in- roads on the nations war production the U. S. Public Health Service under authority of the resolution just passed by Congress appropriating $1,O00,000 to combat the disease has inaugurated q nationwide campaign of public health education in cooperation with state and local health officers to teach the people of this country how to safe guard their health, keep themselves physically fit and so help maintain the high standard of war production at- tained within the last few months.
 Secretary McAdoo, under whose di- rection the work of the U. S. Public Health Service is carried on, is taking an active interest in the health cam paign. Despite the tremendous de mands on his time because of the Fourth Liberty Loan and the work of the Railroad Administration, he has personally asked the help of the na- tion's newspapers in putting this inn portant educational work before the people.
 In response to a request for definite advice concerning Spanish influenza, Surgeon General Rupert Blue of tha U. S. Public Health Service has au- thorized the following statement:
 The disease now spreading over
 sn1s country Is highly catching and
 may invade your community and
 attack you and your family unless
 you are very careful.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
OUR MORNING MEAL.
Answer to Plea That It Be Made a Family Unify-
 ing Force"

Meredith Nicholson, discoursing on
 breakfast and our breakfast habits in
 The Yale Review, makes a plea for Q
 cheerful meal, with every member of
 the family present, declaring 1t un-
 equaled as family unifying force.
 He wants 1t made a leisurely meal.
 deploring "an unhappy rush through
 ham and eggs"
 It may be true, as elderly and rem
 iniscent folk allege, that family life
 has been destroyed by modern condi- lions. We doubt, however, whether
 the restoration of the family break fast waits upon or would follow 1t. At least in cities and towns the fixed and 1mmovable breakfast hour, and the discipline which enforced the fam ily's presence, have become a mere tradition. It was a species of tyran- ny, usually imposed by the stern pa rent, who, obliged to get up himself, was as intolerant of sleepyheads as he was of lovers. Many individuals find 1t easier to belong to the com munity than to the family for just such reasons-the imposing of one will upon others, often with no better basis than the maxims of Solomon or Poor Richard" There are people who can "sleep the clock around" :" and others to whom Morpheus is g coy and reluctant visitor, and must be wooed. Children require more
 sleep than adults; so do the elderly, l usually; yet MT. Nicholson would have all routed out at a fixed hour, | regardless of personal needs.
 Life is much more complex than it
 was even a score of years ago; 1t has changed family life. Each member | has his or her individual claims and | duties to meet and must be left un- | trammeled. School, work, appoint
 ments and engagements call for more 1 personal liberty and responsibility | Breakfast is DO longer required as a | lesson in punctuality. Nor has. at | tendance upon the meal changed more | completely than the meal itself. Ham i and eggs, sausage, and fried potatoes l are memories of days of lower cost | of living in most households. Fruits
 cereals, and toast or mullins have re- 1 placed the old superabundance o1 | heavy viands, except where outdoor occupations and physical exertior
 make food less easily and quickly di
 gested necessity The mo break.
 fast fad has not prevailed to any ex,
 tent; in fact, it was not justified by i good sense. If any meal can bt | spared it is luncheon. We need foot | at tuesdays outset to stoke the hu l man engine for the days toil-De 1 troit Free Press.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
IS YOUR BACK A
 WEATHER PROPHET?
Many Bridgeport People Have Found Their Kidneys To Be At Fault

There Is no other organ in the body more susceptible to weather changes than the kidneys. Colds, chills, damn changing weather all play their part in bringing on kidney ills If you would be well, keep your kidneys well'' Is a golden rule of health and one Bridgeport readers would do weI to ollow If suffering from kidney sickness you can use no better remedy than Doan's Kidney Pills. This great kidney remedy has been used for kid ney trouble 50 years. Convincing proof of its merit in the statement of this Bridgeport resident.
 Mrs. Sarah Barrett, 153 Union Ave-, says: There is no doubt about it Doan's Kidney Pills are fine. I have used them off and on for some time and it is seldom I am without them in the house. Occasionally when a cold has settled on my kidneys, I have guefered with severe bacNache. Wher ( hevo had tneEs attacks, rheumatic pains have bothered me and I have, al times, been dizzy too. Doan's Kidney Pills, which I get at Nichols DruE Store, have never failed to quckly re move the attack"
 Price soc. at all dealers. Don simply ask for kidney remedy-ge Doan's Kidney Pills-the game tha Mrs. Barrett had Foster -MilburI Co.,, Mfgrs.. Buffalo, N. Y.--Adv.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09

Influenza is a crowd disease. Therefore keep out of crowds as much as possible.
 Influenza probably spreads most ly by inhaling some of the tiny droplets of germ-laden mucus sprayed into the air when ignorant or careless persons sneeze or cough without using a handker- chief. Therefore cover up each cough and sneeze.
 Influenza is probably spread also by the filthy habit of splitting on sidewalks, street cars and oth- CT public places. Therefore do not spit on the floor or sidewalk.
 Influenza is probably spread also by the use of common drinking cups and the use of common towels in public places. Therefore .shun the common drinking cup and the roller towel in public places.
 If you feel sick and believe you have Spanish" influenza, go to bed and send for the doctor. This is important. Don't get up too soon, your heart feels as tired as your legs and needs rest.
 In all health matters follow your doctors advice, and obey the regulations of your local and state health officers.
 All that has been said above about Spanish" influenza is true also of colds, bronchitis, pneu- monla and tuberculosis. Do your part to keep them away.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
CONNECTICUT PATENTS

The following were issued Sept 8. 1918. List furnished from the office of A. M. Wooster, Solicitor of Pa tents, 1115 Main St., Bridgeport.
 Both, Tonjes, A. C., and A. H. Trumbull, Stratford, Conn.,, and R. A. Schoenberg, New York, N. Y, as- signors to The Connecticut Electric Mfg. Co.,, Bridgeport, Conn.,, Fuse plug.
 Hill, Dwight B., Bridgeport, Conn.,. Signal horn.
 Chadwick, Francis C., and G. H. Tansley, assignors to Colts Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co.,, Hartford, Conn, Firearm. Austin, Basil G., assignor to Austin Organ Co.,, Hartford, Conn, Pneu- matic organ-action.
 Gorski, Peter M, Hartford, Conn, Clothes line hanger. Forth, Benjamin P, Hartford, Conn.,, assignor to Underwood Type writer Co.,, New York, N. Y, Type writing machine.
 Hart, Gerald w., West Hartford, Conn.,, Remote control electric switch. Case, Ralph E., South Norwalk, | Conn.,, assignor to the R. U. V. Co.,, Inc, New York, N. Y, Sterilizing ap- paratus.
 Dickinson George J., New Haven, | Conn.,, Blotter. Donnelly, John, Branford, Conn.,, | Hacksaw frame. Reynolds, John N, Greenwich, Conn.,, assignor to Western Electric Co.,, New York, N. .Y., Telephone switch.
 Smith, George E., Meriden, Conn, Finger ring guard. Walsh, Lawrence C., Putnam, Conn.,, Sewing machine. | Wolawsky Albert H., Seymour, l Conn.,, Combination cooking stove.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09

and stick their bayonets through the slit that the gunner looks out of, and as the gunner has no more room to dodge than a tortoise in his shell he was rather helpless. So now they are armed with daggers, and they have made narrow slits all over the tanks so when brother bocae jumps on tho roof the occupant pushes his knife through the slit and brother bche slides off I would rather. do anything than go in one of these things, for you have to crawl on your hands and knees. and the driver must crouch from then on. The gunner can stand provided he keeps in the same spot. It is all pitch dark and the mechan- ism must be worked by feel. You want to scream the moment they shut the door on you"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
ONLY TREATMENT THAT GAVE RELIEF
Suffered Three Years Before
 Finding ''FTuIt-a-tIVes"
CENTRAL WHARF. BOSTON, MAS:

CENTRAL WHARF, BOSTON, MASS.
 'tFor three years, I was troubled with Constipation, accompanied by Dizziness and Violent Headaches. I took medicines and laxatiyes, bus without permanent relief.
 Last October, heard of "Fruit-a- tives" or Fra;t LSver- Tablets. I used one box and the results were so pronounced that I bought two dozen boxes. .,..
 I continued using ''Fruit-a-tives" until the twenty four boxes were finished, when my physical condition was perfect''. JAS. J. ROYALL.
 5oc. a box, 6 for $2 30, trial size 25c. At dealers or from FRUIT-A- -TIVES Limited, OGDENsBURG, N. Y.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09

The Norwegian Foreign Office noti- fled the State Department that French and British subjects who were in the American Consulate at Moscow and left had not violated the extra terri torial rights of Norway.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09

Ten million dollars worth of slr- plus supplies were reclaimed by the Divisions of Military Aeronautics since August 6, the War Department an nouncSd.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09
ANTITRUST CASES DEFERRED

Washington, Oct. 9-Upon the gov ernment's motion the Supreme Court today postponed until next term con- sideration of all government anti trust suits now pending, excepting that of the United States Steel Cor poration, which, it is understood, probably will contest the motion.
 The court adjourned until Monday because of the influeneza epidemic Only minor business was transacted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-09

in short order."-L. S. Kirt1and in Leslie's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-20
KNITTING CLUBS TURN bASKETEERS Central High School Girls Lay Aside Sweaters to
 Battle for Red Cross

One of the hottest basketball games of the season was pulled off yesterday wien two teams of high school girls met in hectic encounter for the Red Crcss benefit.
 Those horrid. bad boys crowded into the Athletic club and made so much fuss that our fair basketeers had dif- ficulty in getting their signals during the Red Cross championship game be- tween the Reds and Greens.
 Manlike they proceeded to air their superior Knowledge of the game on every occasion, much to the discomfi- ture of the contenders, whose flying locks were entangled ever and anon during the furious scramble for the ball.
 Somebody happened to keep SCOT e. and when the final whistle blew, got up and announced that the Greens had won by the count of IF to 9. There being no evidence on the other side, this decision was accepted as final and all players kissed. made up and retired to the hair- dresser.
 The big idea in staging this contest was to help the Red Cross, and large, fat purse was raised for this cause. Return engagements of similar na- sure are looked for In view of the success that attended the efforts of these girls who were helping Ito do tLeir bit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-20
J. OF A. BOYS SHOW
 WORLDS OF CLASS
Alabama Has Chance to Win s. I. A. A. Champion
 ship, According to Dope

University, March 1@-( Special )-Thc baseball team of the University of Ala bama returned from Montgomery little tho worse for the bad beating it re- ceived at the hands of the Cincinnati Reds, and determined to get down to real work, and remedy the faults shown before the opening of the college sched- ule The next game is with the Bir- mingham Barons on the campus March 33 After this final preliminary game, the regular schedule will begin. The schedule includes games with Sewanee. Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana State Uni versity, etc.
 developing into one of the best that has ever represented Alabama in the South ern Intercollegiate Athletic association The greatest worry of Coach Noojn is the infield, but a number of new men have come out for the doubtful posi- ticns, and from them will doubtless bt found some who can hold down the places satisfactorily.
 The regular pitchers will probably be Christoyitz. Ross and McWhorter. witt Christovitz getting the big games Christovitz gave up + hits to the Reds support He made record for himself last year at Spring Hill. and if ht upholds it this year will be formidable contender for all-southern honors. Lena Styles is varsity catcher without any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-20
FIRED OVER 100000 IF SHOTS FROM ONE GUN
John w. Garrett of Colorado Springs, Col, Has Used the Same Shoot
 ing Iron for 20 Years

Tn John w Garrett, Colorado Springs, Col. boasts of one of the ablest of Uncle Sams great trap-gun army. Garrett not only can shoot just about as well as anyone in the United States, or the world, but, incidentally. he can shoot quicker.
 There are many who believe Mrs. Adolph Topperwein, the only woman professional trapshot, can load shcot and unshell quicker than any other shooter, but it is doubtful if the fair Mrs. Topp can work any quicked than Garrett
 l The recent publication of trapshoot- l ing records brought out many mcritori- l ous performances that were not listed, and several of these were to the credit of the Colorado Springs trapshot. 1 The one that he points to with credit l took place at Colorado City, Col, on Christmas day 1902. On this occasion
 he broke 200 targets straight in 90 min utes and 13 seconds. Garrett has broken
 99x100 targets in the last event of the Pastice Gun club programme, and was requested by other shooters to see how many he could break against time, con-
 sistent with a good score.
 Shooting alone, in strings of 2o five l from each peg, the same as if he Was l in squad, handling his own gun and shells and loading the same as if he was in competition, Garrett broke the 1 first 100 straight in 16 minutes and 46 sec
 onds. and the second 100 in 13 minutes and q seconds. There was no time taken out, the time being taken from 1 the firing of the first shot until the last target was broken.
 | The first 1000 clay target match event
 had Garrett as contestant. and he won. ! This match took place at Colora1o Springs, on August G. 1904 Garrett broke 965 targets, and J. H. Rohrer broke 9i0 I The actual shooting time was two hours and four minutes. and the elapsed time
 was four hours and 13 minutes Each
 broke 100 straight in practice before the event, and Garrett broke o6x1O0 in an open event following.
 l The men each shot at 975 targets with
 one gun, deciding after each had shot 2a targets to use one gun while the other 1 cooled. Quite naturally. this took a little more time.
 1 On June 8, 1901. Garrett shot a 100-tar- l get match with Walter Shemmell, at
 Colorado Springs, and broke 100 straight
 which, he thinks, is worlds record for an individual match.
 l In the grand American handicap af Chicago, H.. on June 2l, 1910, Garrett broke 80 singles and 10 pairs--100 straight l lin a field of o6 professionals and 17s amateurs. This is a worlds record. 1 Garrett attributes his success during
 his 20 years of competition to sticking I to one gun. one shell and one powder l He has fired more than 900 shots from his solid-frame shotgun, and hopes to fire that many more.