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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-18

Mrs Susan HawIey Davis, of Brook lawn avenue, who was attacked with the grip yesterday, Is feeling very much better today. She has the sym pathy of a large circle of friends and admirers. Mrs. Davis was to have ap- peared in a contralto role at the spring concert of the Bridgeport Ora tOrio society tonight.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
Joy in HomeIy Happeninos.

CurioGsly enough, as one reads let
tiers and reports that come to one
personally, one finds that the interest
of our boys in France is conferred on
the quaint and homely happenings of
everyday living. The big certainties
life, death, Immortality, God-they
joyously take for granted, with their
strange, new insight into things spir-
itual, their prescience of reality; but
perhaps for the first time they are
realizing everyday joys, know what
quiet means, and rest and needed
sleep; are aware of the holiness of
clean clothing, the exquisite flavor of
coarse food, the divine loneliness of
dawn, and neontime and night.
And so, having found out about Life,
they know all there is for us to know
about Death. Instead of losing its
strange distinction, death for them
has taken on new splendor, as have
the common things of life.
And as to their losing the vision,
forgetting-thos who live to come
back-they may. But they have known
reality, those boys, and one does not
easily drop into materialism after one
has attained that NOTWITHSTANDING
Monthly. IA
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RAINBOWS HOME SOON
Northwestern Fighters to Leave
France April Is.
500, 600 Yanks to Be In United States
by July Regular Army to Stay
in Europe.

Paris, Feb. 26-According to the
plans of the general staff announced
in a general order by Brig. Gen. James
w. McAndrew, chief of staff, nearly
100000 men of the American Expedi
tionary Forces will, before July l.
either have returned to the United
States or will be homeward bound.
The 9th, S5th, 18th and 91st divi
sions will sail in March.
The 26th, nth, 82nd, 35th and 42nd
will sail in April
The 32nd, 2Sth, 33rd, 80th and 8Sth
will sail in May.
The S9th, Goth, goth and 10th will
sail in June.
The 32nd division and the 42nd, or
Rainbow division, will leave about
April Is, 1t was announced.
The 32nd division Is made up of men
from Michigan and Wisconsin. The
42nd division comprises National
Guardsmen from all sections in the
Union. .
The places of the departing divi
sions will be taken by three Regular
Army divisions. The force of occupa,
ton will then consist of the First, Sec
ond,l Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh divisions of Regulars.
Details for the departure of the men
via the Rhine and Holland are being
worked out N.,.
BY exception of the so-called regular
army divisions the orders would indi-
cate that those units, will be main
tanned as the army of occupation as
long as necessary. 7,..r
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Many Uses for eunpowder.

Black powder has been made and
used for centuries, and up until few
years ago was the only kind of pow
der made. While it has been replaced
for many uses by high explosives, it is
still in great demand. More of it was
Used in the United States in the year
1917 than in any previous year. as
nothing has been found to equal it for
the economical mining of coal, blast
ing of slate, blasting of stone, where
1t is desirable to. get out large I'M
broken pieces, or in earth blasting,
where it is desired to move mass of
earth bodily, ard where there can be
no danger of igniting. dust gas or fire
damp.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
DEFENDS BREsT CAMP
General Pershing Denies Condi-
tons Are Unsanitary.
Replies to Cablegram of Protest Sent
to President Wilson by New
York Paper.

Washington, Feb. 25.-The war de.
partment made public another report
from General Pershing, denying that
unsanitary and unhealthful conditions
exist in the American embarkation
camp at Brest, France
The commander-in-chief,r replying
to cablegram of protest sent-by a
New York newspaper to President Will
son and forwarded to him by the presi,
dent, summarized report which he
had received from Maj Gen. Eli A.
Helmick, inspector generals depart.
ment of the expeditionary forces, com.
handing at Brest
The cablegram of protest sent to the
president charged that soldiers from
the front and Red Cross nurses were
practically held prisoners while in the
Brest camp and, If complaint was
made, were put at the bottom of the
sailing list; that wounded and i'll were
forced to stand In the rain for hours
for meals; that officers were overbear-
ing and harsh, and that conditions gen.
orally were unsanitary.
Declaring the charge that soldiers
from the front and nurses were con-
fined to quarters was absolutely
groundless," General Helmick report
ed as follows:
NO individual has been put at the
bottom of the sailing list. One or
ganization was held Is days on &C.
count of bad state of discipline and
neglect of duty and was released be-
fore expiration of time set on account
of honest efforts made to correct def
ciencies." a
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REDS DECIDE TO
PUSHPOLISHW War
Trotzky Dclares Russian Anar-
ChiSts Must Fight to
Last Soldier.
PROMINENT men SHOT
Red Leader Assumes Exalted Military
Attitude, Assembling About Him
Commissaries and Treating
Them as MarshaIs.

Warsaw, Feb. 26.-"We must fight
the treacherous Poles to the last sol
der" This Is the dictum of Leon
Trotzky, Russian Bolshevik minister
of war, sent from the Perm front to
the Smolensk-Minsk headquarters,
whence the troops have been ordered
to advance on Baranovichi. Thotzky
is anxious to give the. Poles what he
terms lesson" as he especially
hates Paderewski. ~
1t is just revealed that prior to
Paderewski's becoming premier, the
members of the Polish legation in Mos
cow were arrested and some shot.
When the Warsaw government protest
ed, the Moscow government replied:
I'VE are surprised. We thought we
were doing you favor by locking up
your bourgeois representatives"
Trotzky has assumed an exalted
military attitude, assembling about
him commissaries whom he treats as
marshals. He holds frequent reviews,
sometimes riding on horseback wear
ing a high sheepskin cap and calling
out to the men: Good morrow, my
little soldiers"
Whereupon they reply: Good NOR
row, comrade."
"comrade" Steals Overcoat.
These close relations, however, did
not prevent one of his comrades from
stealing 'Trotzky's sable overcoat re-
Gently. during a halt, when the war
minister was. enjoying his usual 'sump-
tuous meal. ~
Trotzky, who has of late assumed
more power than ever, had fierce
quarrel with Nikolai Lenine, Bolshe-
vik premier, regarding the proposed
Princess Islands conference. He
strongly opposed this conference, but
Lenine prevailed. Lenine desires to
preserve Bolshevism at any cost, and
also to keep in as far as possible with
the Allies, in the belief that Bolshe-
vism will sweep the world.
Sverdloff of the Central executive
committee of.the council of workmen's
and soldiers delegates has been play
ing mediator between Trotzky and
Lenine and has been engaged at Viii
ma, Minsk and other points in urging
the Bolshevik officers to cease their
crimes and keep semblance of order,
as reports of murder and pillage are
reaching the "capitalistic press"
Meanwhile Trotzky is continuing to
build up an army, which is now esti-
mated at600.000 men. He is supposed
to have ammunition for six months.
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FORCED TO OBSERVE SABBATH
Church Attendance, Until Comparative
ly Recent Times, Was compui-
sorry In Great Britain.

Numerous laws in this country, Cam
ada and Great Britain forbid various
acts Of work and play on Sunday, but
not since the lapse Of the blue laws"
of colonial days have Americans been
forced by legislation to go to church
ON the Sabbath, an exchange says. In
England. however, it was not until the
middle of the last century, during the
reign of Queen Victoria, that all PEN
aitfes for nonattendance at religious
services were abolished. Some unusual
Incidents attended the enforcement of
the regulations, particularly upon the
Hebrews.
They were not released from the pro-
visions OF the law until 1871 and multi
tsdes OF them were prosecuted for in
slsting upon observing their own Sab
bath. In the thirteenth century, it Is
recorded, a Jew of Tewkesbury fell in
to sewer on Saturday. Although
almost submerged, he would not permit
himself to be drawn out, believing that
to do, so would be to violate the sancti-
ty of the holy day. On the following
morning he was quite ready to be re-
moved from his perilous plight, but the
authorities, out of reverence for the
Christian Sabbath, would not permit
the unfortunate man to be rescued I'M
Hl after sunrise ON Monday, when he
was found to be dead.
AS late as 1880 there were per-
sons in English prisons whose only
crime was refusal to attend divine serv-
ice. One of them was a young man
who had been convicted at the insti-
CATION of his own mother, who appear
ed against him. In 1917 Sir Montague
Burgoyne was hailed into, court to ex-
plain why he had neglected his relig-
ious duties. Rigid Sunday observance
in England began during the reign of
Edgar, in the tenth century, when the
Sabbath day was ordained to be kept
holy from three o'clock on Saturday
afternoon until sunrise on Monday.
The most innocent actions were con-
demned, and death was the extreme
penalty for continued violation of the
law. About three centuries ago parlia-
ment passed law imposing a fine of
one shilling for remaining away from
church on Sunday, unless some good
excuse was forthcoming This act re-
NAMED in effect until comparatively
recent times, and inability or unwilling
ness to pay the fine resulted in pris-
ON sentence. e
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
SWAMP-ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine for
durable ailments of the kidneys, liver and
bladder.
DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the
highest for the reason that il has proven
to be just the remedy needed in thousands
upon thousands of distressing cases.
Swamp-Root makes friends quickly be-
cause its mild and immediate effect is soon
realized in most cases. 1t is a gentle,
healing vegetable compound.
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles of. two sizes, medi-
UNI and large.
However, if you wish to test this great
preparation send ten cents to DIR. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for sample
bottle. When writing be sure and men.
ton this paper.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
MuSkrat Lore.

The feed of the muskrat consists of
grasses, apples, bark of trees, water
plants, carrots, turnips, cabbage and
corn, and craytish.
Although millions of these brown
colored rats are trapped each year for
their fur, the number does not seem
to decrease. When the fur is made In
to clothing it is called Russian mink
or Baltic seal.
One Of the ways of trapping the
muskrat is to set trap three or four
inches below the surface Of water in
a place where he has been in the habit
Of leaving the water. In this way he
will step into the trap as he under
takes to leave the water. Still anoth-
er way is to place the trap just below
the entrance into his home. Some
trappers use apples or turnips as bait.
The home quarters is usually quite
a large cavity and contains much grass
and sticks. During the first two or
three weeks of the life of the young
the mother muskrat does not leave the
home but depends upon the male to
furnish the feed supply.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
B0sCHEE'S SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's Syrup has been used
SO successfully for fifty-one years in
all parts of the United States for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung troubles? 1t
gives the patient good nights rest,
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration in the morning, gives nature
a chance to soOthe the infiamed parts.
throw off the disease. helping the pa
dent to regain his health. Made in
America and sold for more than half
century.-Adv.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
Mexico NAV Become prx.

Mexico City, Feb. 25-President
Carranza is, considering a plan sub
mitted by the National Board of
Health for the enactment of legisla-
ton that will gradually result in the
complete abolition of the alcoholic
liqGor traffic in Mexico. He recently
signed decree increasing from %
to so per cent the tax on pulque and
other alcoholic beverages in Mexico
City. The constitution, according to
the officials of the board of health,
gives that body powers to dictate
! health regulations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
Poles Escape German Plot.

Paris, Feb. 2S.-The Polish authori.
ties, according to a Havas dispatch
from Warsaw, have obtained absolute
" reliable information from Berlin that
President Ebert, Chancellor Scheide.
mann, Foreign Minister Won Brock,
droff -Rantzau, War Minister Noske and
Herr Landsberg at a secret meeting
adopted plan to deal with the Polish
question by which Germany; while
promising to make peace with Poland
would give orders to the German
troops on the frontier to continue Their
operations against the Poles.
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WILSON REFUSES
EARLY SUMMONS
President viii Not Call Extra
Session of Congress Until
Peace Work Is Done.
TALKS WITH SENATORS
Wilson confers With Martin of Wiz
glnla and Simmons of North Caro-
lima and Urges Quick Action
on Pending Bills.

Washington. Feb. 26.-An extra SEES
sion Of congress will not be called by
President Wilson until after he re,
turns again from Europe.
Senator Martin of Virginia, Demo
cratic leader in the senate, made the
announcement afterza conference with
the President at the White House
While the President did not state
when he expected to reach home after
his second trip overseas, Senator Mar
tin gave it as his personal opinion
that it would not likely be earlier
than June l.
President Wilson was said to feel
it his duty to remain in Europe until
the treaty of peace was concluded.
Confer Hour With Wilson.
THE President said he would re-
turn to Paris Immediately after March
5, and that he would not call an ex-
traordinary session of congress until
he returns" Senator Martin declared.
"He did not state the date of his re-
turn, nor did he authorize me to quote
him in respect to that point, but my
personal opinion and Judgment is that
there is no reasonable expectation of
his being back prior, to June L.
Senator Martin was accompanied to
the White House by Senator Simmons
of North Caroline, chairman of the
finance committee. They conferred for
nearly an hour with the executive, dis
cussing in detail the congestion of leg
islation in congress.
Further than the formal statement
of the Democratic leader, both sena-
tors declined to comment on their dis
cussions with the President, but it was
understood that the executive would
vigorously insist that all pending ap-
preparation bills and other urgent leg
islation be enacted before congress adj
journs next Tuesday, to provide, for
operation of the government in the
event his work at Paris should hold
him after July /, when the new APP
preparations would be needed.
1t was reported that failure of any
of the mass of urgent legislation
would be charged by the President of
administration leaders to the Republi-
cans. Mr.. Wilson was said to have
been advised that except for Republi-
can opposition the present situation
was such that all appropriation and
other bills could be passed. The
President was reported ready to ad-
wise the country of the situation and
insist upon enactment of all urgent
measures. ..hs.r .-tr- t
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Getting pa.a On Allied Needs.

Washington, Feb. 25.-In anticipa-
ton of Congressional action authoriz-
ing the War Finance corporation to
assist in financing foreign trade trans
actions, the corporation, in co-opera-
ton with the Treasury and the War
Trade board, has gathered information
as to possible needs of Allied coun-
tries for imports from the United
States in the next few months. Many
orders, officials declared, would have
been placed before this but for diff
culfies of obtaining adequate credits
in the United States.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
EUROPEANS NEED CLOTHING

Herbert Hoover Sends Appeal to Red
Cross for Aid.
Washington, Feb. ,25.-Herbert Hoo
yer, head of the European relief ad-
has cabled the American
Red Cross that an Immediate supply
of clothing of every kind is absolutely
vital to the health and life of mil
lions of men, women and children
freed from the German yoke"
In view of this situation the Red
Cross announced that 1t would conduct
a countrywide campaign in March and
hoped to obtain 10000 tons of cloth
ing, shoes and blankets.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
League of Nations Debated.

East Orange, N. j., Feb. 26.-The
league of nations is "a league for
war" not peace, declared Senator
Miles Poindexter of Washington in a
debate with Maj. George Haven Put
nam of the League to Enforce Peace
here. Il am in favor of continuing an
agreement among nations to maintain
peace" Senator Poindexter said "The
fight of the league is against militar-
ism, y Major Putnam asserted I'VE
are asked to surrender nothing more
than any other nation"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
PRESIDENT WILL
TEST SENTIMENT
Wilson Is Ready to Grapple With
Opponents of League of
Nations Plan.
HAS FIGHTING BLOOD
Chief Executive in Address at Boston
Throws Down Gauntlet to Those
Who Distrust Proposed Con-
cert OF Governments.

Boston, Feb. 26.-President Wilson
intends TO fight at home as he has
battled abroad for league of nations.
Returning from France, he had been
on American soil not more than three
hours before he threw down the
gauntlet to those who distrust the pro-
posed concert of governments, based,
he said, on the American ideals which
had won the war for justice and hu-
mainly. g
= An America combining to her own
territory her own conception and purs
pose to make men free, he said, would
be merely keeping her power for
those narrow selfish, provincial pur-
poses which seem so dear TO some
minds that have no sweep beyond
their nearest horizon
Americas New Purpose.
Before a responsive audience that
filed the biggest auditorium in the
city. the President pictured the old
world fighting with stubborn despera-
ton and expecting in the end nothing
better for the peoples than they had
-hlONn IOT centuries.
The President pictured the Ameri-
can nation entering the lists with a
new purpose,-the freedom of man
kind. The old world had caught the
vision and any treaty of peace drawn
otherwise than in the new spirit would
be nothing more, he asserted, than a
modern scrap of paper" and the
present peace, unless guaranteed by
the united force of the civilized world,
could not stand generation.
Bending over the speakers table,
his face set in tense lines and his
right hand clenched, the President ex-
claimed:
ANY man who thinks that America
will take part in giving the world any
such rebuff and disappointment as
that, does not know Amesica. l in
vite him to test the sentiment of the
nation"
He Is Ready to Fight. a.
interrupted by applause, the Presi-
dent halted and then evoked the great
est demonstration of the afternoon
when he added that he would accept
no sweeter challenge than the issue
OF the American purpose in the war.
Il have fighting blood in me- he
said, with apparent feeling, "and it
is sometimes delight to let it have
scope, but il it is a challenge on this
occasion it will be an indulgence"
At another point in his address the
President said that il the great hope
of the world for league of nations
was disappointed, he would wish tfor
my part. never to have had America
play any part whatever in this at
tempt to emancipate the world. l
have no more doubt of the verdict of
America in this matter than | have
doubt of the blood that is in me-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
Restorina Devastated France.

The French government has already
made arrangements for bringing back
into cultivation the desolated and war
torn areas from which the enemy has
been driven. The dense population of
France makes prompt agricultural res
toration necessary to relieve the food
situation. Preference will be given to
farmers who originally lived in the 10
vaded regions.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
The Remedy.

Jimmy had been very naughty, and
father was correcting him rather vio-
lently. Whack! Whack! Whack
went the strap, and Jimmy's walls rent
the air.
This brought Jimmy's little sister
and stanch ally on the scene. She
stared at her father in CONSERVATION
for while; then, as the whacking
continued, she spoke firmly:
"Step on his corn, Jimmy" she said
"That1l stop him."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
Fatal Riots at Budapest.

Paris, Feb. 26.-An attack was made
ON one of the newspaper Offices in
Budapest by Communists and unem-
ployed, with the result that many per-
sons we're killed, according to adj
vices reaching here. A storm of bull
lets issued from the houses opposite,
whereupon national guards and police
opened fire with machine guns, rifles
and pistols. 1t is officially stated that
81 persons were killed, but witnesses
declare they countedi from SO to go
dead in the streets.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
FEARS INDUSTRIAL REVOLT
Premier Informs Commons Situation
Is Very Serious

Premier Informs Commons Situation
Is Very Serious.
London, Feb. ,26.-The United King
dom is faced with the prospects of
civil strife and the House of Commons
should do everything in its power to
avert it, Premier Lloyd George de-
clared in introducing bill to consti-
tute a committee to inquire into the
conditions prevailing In the coal in
dustry. s
The premier said he had been ad-
vised that to grant the demands of the
miners would throw a burden of the
most serious sort upon other indus
tries.
A commission of inquiry, the premier
added, would be appointed.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
Grape Growers Seek Referendum.

San Francisco, Feb. California
will launch a referendum movement
against national prohibition on Satur-
day, March 8, it was announced here
by the executive committee of the
California Grape Protective associa-
ton The campaign will be started
at an open meeting of grape interests
in all parts of the state. The legis-
lature recently ratified the national
amendment In order to place the is
sue on the ballot, 34,433 names viii be
necessary.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
WISCONSIN Bankers EIect.

Superior Wis, Feb. .26.--War con-
tinues, so far as the banks are con-
cerned, and the banks must continue
their conservation policy to be ready
to help the government to float the
next Liberty Loan, said Col. Marshall
Cousins, commissioner of banking, in
an address to bankers of Group No. 1,
Wisconsin Bankers association. OFF,
GERS of the. association were elected
as follows: L. C. Streator of Lady
smith, president; Grin Lord Of Els
worth, vice president; J. M. Smith of
Shell Lake. secretary-treasurer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-02-28
Barrett Has American Plan.

Atlanta, Ca. Feb. 25.- Suggestion
that International questions affecting
nations Of the Western hemisphere
should be left to the Pan-American
union for settlement, instead of the
proposed league of nations was made
by John Barrett, director general of
the union, speaking here at luncheon
given by civic organizations He said
the union was working, limited. Off
cial league of the American nations
that has stood steadfastly for the soli-
darity of the American republic.
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Small BEGINNING.

what have you there?"
'Some advertising matter from a
correspondence school,
"A fake, l presume" VIA
mo. rather think the professor in
this case. can do all he claims. He of
fers to teach me how to play the
piano with one finger in one lesson"
Birmingham Age-Herald.