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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
New Year Is Born In the
 Islands of South Pacific

The New Year Is really old before change of date begins in the remote semi-tropical islands of the South Pacific. The first people to greet the birth of the year are the few mis- sionaries and Christian converts of these far-away islands. New Zea- landers are the first civilized people to cheer the birth of the year. Its westward progress Is at the rate of thousand miles an hour. It comes to the Australians next and then to | the Philippines, Japan and Asia, then Europe and Africa and then finally to America.
 In its globe -girdling trip the New Year finds many peoples who refuse to give it the reverence which we consider it's due. The pagan South Sea Islanders observe New Year on day of their own. Japan has adopted the Occidental method of measuring time, and China, since the establishment of the republic, has officially decreed the observance of the Gregorian calendar. The vast majority of the Chinese, however, cling to their old calendar, in which the year is lunar, the beginning be- inG marked by the first new moon following the passage of the sun into the constellation Aquarius The old Chinese New Year thus begins be- tween Jan. 21 and Feb. 19.
 The Moslems of Asia and Europe will also ignore our New Year, as they celebrated the arrival of 1886 of the era of the Prophet on Nov. 19 In all lands where the Greek church holds sway, the old Julian calendar is still in vogue, and the arrival of the New Year will not be celebrated in these lands until the 14th of Jan- uary, which corresponds with the first of January in our calendar Another important part of the worlds population, the Jews, will also officially ignore our New Year, and the Hebrews will not celebrate until Sept. g next, which marks the beginning of their New Year 5379.
 In addition to the Chinese, Mo- hammedans, Hebrews and Greek Christians many minor sections of the human race have New Year days peculiar to themselves. Among these are the gypsies, with whom New Year falls on the first full moon after St. Johns Day. Their months have no names, but are called the first, second, third, etc, and the moon reg ulates the number of days in each 1nCnth.
 Several Indian tribes of North and South America have calendars e their own, and celebrate New Years Day accordingly. A few weeks hence the Iroquois will celebrate the frs5 of the moon, -ko-wuk-ni. and the redskins of New York and Can- ada will give a festive greeting to the dawn of the 468th year of the Iroquois confederacy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
AMERICAN HEADQUARTERS SCENE
 or MILITARY SIMPLICITY
General Pershlng Does Not Believe in Ostentaton and With His Staff Lsad Very Simple Life; Is in the Best of Physical Condition.

American business man. Only uni forms of his military household set 1t apart, His personal staff lives w1sh him and his servants are negro soldiers detailed. And they are good cooks as his few guests can testify, placing on his table simple, well cooked American disRa& usually three or at most four courses, includ- ing coffee and cheese and served American style.
 No sentries are in evidence, noth- ing to mark the ,lateau as the resi- Gence of the commander In chief The visitors car drives through plain uEguarded gateway in a closely set grcve, along a. curving roadway for a few hundred yards, and then only is had the first. glimpse of the cid castle, lying in it's parks and lawns bordered on one side by a long, sweeping curve of the River Marne and its canal, lined on either bank with tall poplars set equidistant and lending an added touch of for mality to the always formal French landscape.
 Often General Pershing, himself, rises from a seat on the terrace to greet a guest and, if not, one of his staff. The meal is very informal, conversation being general and the commander In chief apparently does not like to finger at table. Alter ward coffee and cigars in the big lounge room or a stroll under the trees until the general indicates that his leisure is ended.
 General Pershtng has kept himself in splendid physical condition during these trying months. He is as lean end clear eyed as he was when he came from the Mexican campaign, as straight and soldierly in bearing as he was in the days of his Philippine campaigns when he first won notice His eyes still twinkle when occasion calls and the corners of his mouth still turn in the familiar, quickly passing smile.
 For those he has known in past days he always has some mutual reminiscence to recall, one incident Of the Philippines or of Mexico or the days when he was on duty in Washington, and his hearty laugh often sounds through the doors of his office as he chats with some old acquaintance.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

Chaumont Haute Marne, France, Dec, 90 - Correspondence of the Associated Press) )-When he is here at General Headquarters, General Pershing leads very busy but very simple life, There is little ceremony of an ostentatious kind either at his chateau or around his offices There is nothing to distinguish his office rooms in "A' building of the head quarters group from those of any other officer. One orderly sits at his door, there is no sentry and the vis- itor walks unannounced into the ad- joining reception room to be receiv- ec. by one of his staff.
 General Pershing's trips to and from his chateau In the country are made in his motor car, distinguished Cnly by Its red four starred insignia cn the windshield and where would bA the number plate, which slips un- noticed along the road and through the city. Ordinarily he Is accom- penied only by his personal aide, his staff following at a distance great enough not to mark the big cars as Cne squadron.
 In fine weather he sometimes walked the two or three niles from the outskirts of Chaumont to his country home, and that, with quiet horseback rides through the beauti- f'l country hereabouts, gave him his i.eeded exercise.
 Much of his time since last spring when the American forces began real participation in strength in the fight ing, has been spent at Advanced Army Headquarters These have been at various places, sometimes at a distance to entail long, hard auto mobile rides from them to ChaumOnt when circumstances demanded his presence here. Often after a hard day at Advanced Headquarters the general has made the three or four hour drive late at night, only to de- part early the net day. His pow ful closed car with double rear wheels usually travels at high speed and in its comfortable cushions he obtains the rest denied him in bed.
 Life at General Pershing's chateau Is plain to the point of simplicity. Except for the beautiful old castle and its picturesque setting in the Valley of the Marne, 1t might be the home life of any fairly well to do
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
THE ABBE CONsTANTIN.

In the calendar of the Immortals of the French Academy the first of January is dedicated to Ludovic Halevy, dramatist and novelist, scion of Jewish family which has added lustre to music, drama and Oriental research, and the creator of the ad- mirable character, "The Abbe Con- s,antin." There is a melancholy recollection of the distinguished man of letters who passed from life in 1908, for the scene of the pious la bors of his most celebrated charac- ter, Monsieur Ie Cure of Longueval," :" is now but a mass of ruins. The war has brought destruction and desOla- tion to the spot, once so pastoral and peaceful, where the Abbe Constantin worked and prayed. The Cure of Halevy's story tenderly and carefully, and with prayers and tears, looked after the graves of the departed friends in the little churchyard of Longueval, but he would scarcely be equal to the task now, for since the outbreak of the war the graveyard has grown many times, while the rest of the village has all but disappear ed Longueval was almost demolish- ed in the first terrible rush of war, when the Teuton hordes swept over and crushed northern France. In his ] humble room in the vicarage of Lon- i guevaI the Abbe received Mrs. Scott ! the American woman who had been
 a circus rider, and her sister, Miss Bettina Percival, whose mother twas
 a Canadian, French and Catholic by | descent" Those who have read
 'FThe Abbe Constantin" will recall
 the great joy Of the Cure at receiv-
 ing this information, since he hat
 feared that the American purchaser
 of the castle and farms, the myster-
 fous Mime. Scott from America
 would prove to be heretic.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
THE MYSTERY OF INFLUENZA

The terrible epidemic of influenza, the greatest calamity of the kind in the history of the country, has had quite generally a revival in a less severe form. But the second edi- ton has carried away a great many lives. The disease continues to baffie the skill of medical science.
 At first the medical nien were con fident that 1t. passed only from per son to person. Yet the most singular instances of communication are re- ported A Ean who visited the Colorado mining region in November brings home the story of two camps up in the mountains. Both these villages were very isolated, When the epidemic first spread, they had been recently visited by no human being but the mall carrier, who clearly didn't have r. Yet the dis ease ragged in both camps. That might make it seem as if it was car ried by letters, and sometimes a person w,-o gives no sign of the dis ease will carry 1t to others.
 Some authorities are now saying that the germ is widely prevalent through the air, so that it spread. regardless of human communication let it is known to spread fastes where people herd together 1T crowded rooms, cars, factories, etc
 Wars and pestilence always seer to go together. It will be some time yet before this plague burns 1t self out The people must be or their guard against the peril ant every possible safeguard should bt used.
 It spreads very fast where a mum Der of people occupy sleeping guar ters together. This would seem tt account for its rapid communication in the army cantonments. If sever al people must occupy one room they should be very careful to get al the fresh air that Is possible. w should all live out door lives so ia as we can, and keep in physical con dition such that we can resist dis ease.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
WEATHER STRIPPING
 WILL SAVE YOU COAL

Following are few suggestions by the United States Fuel Administration on weather stripping" of houses, to save coal:
 It is best to put weather stripping on all doors and windows because, there is heat loss through every one, no matter how tight they might be. By all means strip those which are loose, or which have large crevices.
 All doors and windows which have a northern exposure should be care fully stripped. Windows thus exposed would be much better protected if dou- ble windows are provided, because there Is a certain amount of heat loss through the glass.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
MAKE AN AER-POCKET
 WITH WINDOW SHADE
IT KEEPS OUT THE COLD.

There has come to light the novel fact that a window shade will not only keep out the light, but will keep out the coldi
 Unreasonable. you. say? szz7E
 Not at all.
 A glass window, while 1t effectively keeps out the wind, allows consider able radiation of the heat from a room through the single thickness of the pane In very cold countries double windows are the rule.
 No matter how thin the window shade, if 1t Is pulled down and held snugly against the easement, 1t forms an air pocket which insuIates the warm room from the cold outside the same way as does the air space of the double window.
 For that reason, in cold weather, pull your window shades down at night. If the curtains or hangings do not hold the shades close to the easement, pin the shades. It Is not necessary to seal the shades tight against the easement, but merely to have them hang close enough so that the air will not circulate too freely.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
LOST HAND IN SAW.

William Henry, age 51 years, of S27 William street an employe of the William N. Buckingham Co. Inc, Al John street, while at his work on a circular saw, Tuesday rne----itass' slipped and fell. His hand was sev- cred at the wrist He was remov- ed to St. Vincent's hospital.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
NOTICE BRIDGEPORT HYDRAULIC COMPANY.
SEQ MAIN STREET,

Water rates for the quarter ending January 1st, 1919, are NOW DUE and payable at the nf7o.e oa 4'-- .~,>,-.' ,-,' porI4y, ryo 6zU Main Street. All bills must be paid on or before Jan. 18th, 1919.
 Business hours on Saturdays from A. M. to 12 M.
 For the accommodation of the public the office will be kept open from
 g A. NJ. to 8 P. NJ. Mondays, Jan. 9th and 18th, 1919.
 ALBERT E. LAVERY, al t" Secretary.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01
ENDORSES PLAN.

Worcester. Mass, Dec. 31-Clark College faculty today unanimously endorsed the plan for league of na- tions and sent request signed by 22 members of the faculty, headed by President Edmund c. Sanford, to Sen ators Lodge and Weeks and Con gressman Winslow to support the plan.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

A million and a half househols in
 the Middle West, accustomed to the use of anthracite, are getting either none or only partial supply of an- thracite this winter. Make the most of the anthracite you gre fortunate, enough to have. '
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

As the newspapers can now print shipping news, some of them are all ready noting that the railroads and express companies are frequently about a month late in delivering shipments of goods urgently need ad
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

Question is asked what all the rifle factories shall do for work now? We'll, the kids always require a vast number of air guns to shoot at the neighbours back shed windows.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

The best way of assuring yourself of plenty of domestic fuel this winter is by the use of wood. Gut wood on holidays and in your spare time and save anthracite.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

All they have to do to make Amer ican ships a success, is to pay double wages and give lower freight rates than foreign competitors.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

Our alien enenaies among us ought to be perfectly free in one particular, and that is to clear out of the coun- try at the earliest possible moment.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

Among the Germans who are clam bring so piteously for food, are those who stole and carried away all that machinery by which the French and Belgian working people made their living.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

Some folks ttea of how to show contempt fer the danger of inf1uen-a, Is to do a lot of coughing and sneezing in other peoples faces.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-01

Times Want Ads. One Cent Word
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07

series of inquiries which the Ameri- can Red Cross has made from the chief physicians of Armenia.
 The president of the republic, Alex andre Khatitian, himself a physician, says that once an orderly government is secured the people will return to their land, and the maladies of over crowding and underfeeding will dis appear There is small demand for surgery in. Armenia.
 Colonel Ford, physician and the representative of the peace counc'l at the Armenian capital, says that the epidemics and starvation of the last three years, which have killed two thirds of the Armenians, have tended to eliminate the weak, ana that the million Armenians who sur vive are unusually free of disease or
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
Commissions Will
 Fix Guilt of War

Berlin. Nov. 6.-The parliamentary commission appointed to investigate the questions of war guilt have de- cided to appoint four subcommittee which will occunv themselves in the examination of the specific issues in- volved. (Some of these sub-cornmlt- tees have since beeun their work
 The first committee will look into the pre-war diplomatic history. the second will investieate neace nossl- bilities and the third and fourth the economic and military problems, re- spectivelv.
 It is also pronosed to % into the Armenian atrocities question.
 Deputy Tandsbere brought un the question whether the s'lb-committees would be qualified to place witnesses under oath thus assuming the ore negatives of the main commission, but it was finally voted to refer ca ach individual case to the plerarv session of the National Assembly for definite approval.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
JUST HURT
 ALL OVER
Couldn't Sit, Stand or Lie With Any Comfort. Sister-in-law Gives
 Good Advice and Cardul
 Does World of Good.

Holland, Texas,-Mrs. Hattie Mes ser. of this place. states: "Apou1 three years ago I was in very cr!ti- cal condition. I had been sut1erlng for some time. To tell how hur1 would be impossible.
 I just hurt all over. ..,
 I couldn't sit, stand or lay with any \, comfort. my back, sides and head all gave me a great deal of trouble;
 I was especially bothered with a light swimming in my neaa. MY MY neople were very uneasy about me ana sent me to my relatives to see II a change would do me any good:
 I stopped at sister-in-iaW,s & anG she being a great believer in Cardul asked me why T. didn't try it. l de- cided to try it.. Lo,,
 had only taken few doeses wnen @ felt it would do me good. rms gave hopes and I used it right along and it did me just a world or good since which time l have never ceased to praise Cardul." , .;,,e l. Cardui is recommended TOT slmple fanoale complaints and womanly pains and has been found to beneflt m thousands of such cases when not que to m malformation or that do not re. uuire surgical treatment. Try lt.-aov
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
COachman of Lord Mayor Was Proud
 Of His Position

London, Nov. GA. Wright, who as the lord mayors coachman was known to all London and who for years flourished as one of it's most picturesque characters, is dead. For 27 years Wright played his part un' til the people came to regard him as an institution quite as important as the lord mayor himself.
 His greatest moment was when in 1906 Sir w. Vaughan Morgan, as lord mayor visited the French capi- tai and Wright, the state. coach and six horses were taken over. Paris was deliehted by him and all his glory. The coachman in his full regalia, with his wonderful wig, his stockings. three-cornered hat and gold braid, quite eclipsed the more ordinary parsonage Of the lord mayor
 Wright was proud of his office and nothinp could tempt him to for sake it. The offer of roval service under the late King Edwerd ever failed to entice him from his i'm pressive box.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
Plans Being Made for World League
 Against Alcohol

Westerville, O., Nov. 6.-Prelimin- ary arrangements for the first an- nual meeting of the world league of alcoholism, to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, next October, are being made here by Ernest H. Charring- ton. executive secretary of the league and an official of the Anti-Saloon League of America.
 When the league was formed in Washington in June of this year, MT. Cherrinpton said today. repre- sentatives of 20 nations signed the constitution. Such progress has been made, however, he added, that when the convention meets next fall at lease 50 nations will have represen- tives present.
 Before the Glasgow convention, MT. Cherrington said., a number o1 officials and quasi-officials represef1- tatives of several European eovGrI,. ments will visit the United Gfato
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
Rather Fly Around
 World Than Ride Camel, Says Flier

Paris, Nov. 6.-Lieutenantj Bous- soutrot. who piloted the airplane Goliath" in it's Paris-Dakar flight and came to the grief, on the sands of Mauretania, relating his experiences to the members of the aero club at a dinner given in his honor, said:
 Plying a thousand kilometers ov- CT the desert, making forced landing on the Atlantic shores. living on crabs and shellfish for six days drinking water saturated with oil with the temperature a hundred and ten in the shade. all that was nothing compared to that sixty miles we ne. gotiated on camels' backs to reach Port Louis.
 "I would rather flv around the world in the Goliath than ride 2 camel around the Champ de Mars.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
Oldest Mason Has
 Convention Record

Springfield. Mo-, Nov. 6.-Jobe Newton of Springfield, who is 94 years old, just returned from the grand chapter meeting of the Eastern Star in Kansas City. bearing the dis tinction of being the oldest active member and he also has attended more conventions than any other member. His trip to Kansas City was his twenty-sixth to a grand chapter meeting.
 To the members of the order he is known as "Uncle Jobe." and it is to him that many apply when they want to know anything about some of the meetings held years ago. "UncEe lobe" served as worthy grand patron of the order in 1905 and 1906. that being the highest office to which any man may be elected in the order. At every session since then the high place he still occupies in the esteem of the membership has been signi- fled by his election to some honorary office.
 His friends say that he knows more Masons than any other man ir Missouri. But special diversions dc not attract him when he is at the grand lodge sessions. He attends all of the meetings and has turned down scores of offers of friends who sought to entertain him during the conven. tion hours. It is business with him always before pleasure.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
Religious Service
 is Held in Clouds

Berne, Nov. An unusual relig ious ceremony was performed yes- terday in the shadow of Mont Blanc, The Abbe Coutin, accompanied by five Chamonix guides, carried to the top of Charlet Peak, an altitude of 12,240 feet, an aluminium statue four feet high and weighing thirty pounds. The summit of the peak was reached after a seven hour climb; the Cha monix aiguille is one of the most diff ficult peaks of the Mont Blanc range to ascend
 The Abbe blessed the statue after a short oration. The statue is of tht guide Charlet. after whom the peal I is named and who was the first tt
 conquer it in 1879. Charlet is now 82 years of age.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-07
Haig Doesn't Get
 Title He Coveted

London. Nov. 6.-Field Marshal, Lord Haig, does not after all become "Earl Haig of Bemersyde," as he had wished, but Earl Haig of Kingston , it is announced. His residence being at Coombe there were objections, it is understood. to the territorial des- ignation of Bemersyde, the Tweed side seat of the head of his family and remote kinsman, Colonel A. H. Haig.
 There are we'll defined rules as to the assumption of territorial titles, and the lord of a manor can object to a new peer taking his title from place over which the former has "rightsy Lord Fisher, for example, wished to be Lord Thetford, but his
 Norfolk manor belonged to w. D. Mackenzie. Lord Strathcona wanted
 to be Lord Glencoe, but the rights of
 the ancient MacDonalds stood in the way.