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noon, a distance of 10 feet, and re
ceived an incised wound on the head
and a contusion of the left leg. He
was working on the ground floor and
was moving boxes into the cellar by
way of the elevator. In the room
where he was engaged it was quite
dark and he did not notice that the
elevator platform had run down to
the cellar. He was pulling a box to
ward the elevator shaft when he back
ed into the opening and fell to the
cellar ' floor head rst. His wounds
were dressed at the Emergency hos
pital. THEIR TRUNK. DECORATED.
The trunk "of Julian Sterling, Jr.,
and bride attracted considerable at
tention at the depot this afternoon.
Spme well-wisher had pasted on the
tip of the lid a placard in large let
ters which read: "Bride, and Groom,"
while another had tied a bunch of
white ribbons to one of the handles.
COLLARS
COLLAR
A Sale That is Sure to Set This Town Talking.
THE FARMER: OCTOECER 22, .191-1
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UNEl HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
1 ' A CONQUERED COUNTRY.
The following extract, of a letter
la from a distinguished Trenclimatf,
who formerlyjspent some years in the
United States, and -was long consid
ered as one of the ablest of the repub
lican ' party In France, hut has lately
been an advocate for limited mon
archy, as more congenial to the man
ners and habitudes -xt his., country
men: : ' , . ..,'"
1' . '"Paris. Julv 29. 1815.
"That monarchy of mind, which ex
; fets In France, can never be. siibduefl
by foreign force. ' Napoleon was not
the choice "of his party, nor is Louis;
and no crown will sit on any head
which has not Its.- approbation. -' r ",-
"How long France shall . now rest,
depends , on events over, which the
people will haye no.'controL France
is now" literaliy a conquered -country;
op. at' least it appears so. Foreign
troops occupy the capital and all the
strongholds. The army of France is
tented on the banks of the Loire! The
Congress 'at Vienna have adjourned to
Paris and the people have" no depu-
... ties there. '
' "In America you may imagine all is
calm here while the French are pay-
1 ing foreign troops here and' also the
' expenses of this war and for guard
ing the capital ofv Franee , from
j Frenchmen! , Previous to the most'
- Jreadful and fatal explosions of Mt.
Stna.f her bowef rumblings are only
j leard 'by the peasants in the nearest
land lowest values. " . ' -V
IISTAJYT 'kKR.vc: OBDEftSj: i: " j
I .' .," London. England,' Aug. 3, 1815.
- A messenger arrived at Portsmouth
t on Friday morning at' 4 o'fclock with
" the dispatches for General Cordons
commander-in-chief at-that ' garrison,
5 desiring him to place the Fifty-third
j. rjgiment- Under orders for a; distant
! -Fervice. Orders were also sent oft on
Friday ; night to Chatham, for ' the,
? Northumberland of 80. guns, Captaiii
Koia,' to proceed to Plymouth, there
to receive the' flag of Admiral Sir
4 George . Cockburn, who' is appointed
commander-inrchief ; at the Cane of
' Good Hope! The Bucephulus, Cap-
talnWestrop,- anS the Ceylon, Captain,:
.; Hamilton, have been also ordered to
tit for fdrei.i service.- On the arrival
bf these" ships-and troop at Plymouth,,
' Bonaparte. will be trans-shipped into
the Northumberland, and the-whole
': will sail immediately ,after wards for
St. Helena, -;,
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
R. K- ACCIDENT AT COS COB.
"We Ifearn.-' frbm the New Haven
Journal ,of this morning the 'particu-
f. lars of another apd ' serious accident
a on the N. Y. Sk N.- H. road last even-
ing aboutj.7 o'clock, at a point about
t one mii and one-quarter this side or
Cos Cob bridge. ' :'
V It appears that a milk train from
s the,. Danbury Norwalk Railroad,
running down the' bridge, came in col-
lision with a' construction- tr.ain '"re
turning witfi . workmen from the
bridge. The shock was so great as
f to wedge the two engines together, to
throw-several cars of the Milk train
off the track, and to pile up three
platform cars ,of- the. construction
trainone upon the other. t .
Two passenger cars in the latter
j train Were .cpmpleely smashed . up
and of course both engines were badly
'v demolished. ' One passenger was kill
J rd, a passenger from Bethel named
5' HuTlburt, riding on the engine of , the
i milk train, having come down from
curiosity , to see the burned bridge.
The cause of death was , the rupture
of an artery in the head.. From 15
I to 20 persons were injured, more or
-,less severely. ; . tl J . - "-"?
-4 Mr.! Parsons, conductor "on the
y I5anbury & Norwalk train, was hurt
quite severely and taken to Norwalk.
Lngineer Lymanf of the N. iTi & N: H.
y R. R..." who was on the milk- ;train
piloting it down from Norwalto, was
'j also injured in the legs but not ser-'
piously. . Mr. Willis Mansfield, track
" superintendent at New - Haven, : suf-
"feredd severely - wrenched ankle.
,Httiron -T. Douglas,- car repairer of
I New ' Haven, was y feruised about . -the
tiegs. John Dorian, a workman giving
;rat Stamford, had an arm' dislocated. -
.'" IICRT ON THE RAILROAD, - j '
Among the injured by the railroad
accident last - evening on the ' N. T.
, & N. H. Railroad, was John Hinck-
ley, foreman of the pile driver, who
Dives in the Eastern District and was
t on the iconstructlon train. He was
Jseriously bruised in both legs, leaving
.injuries, of a painful though not
'erious. . ' i
AS It
WAS
YEARS AGO;
of The Evening Farmer) ".:
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
"-.'.' PRICE OF COAL JRAISED.
The retail price of coal has been ad
vanced to $5 per ton here, 50 cents
more than recently., ' Dealers here
give as the reason- that the whole
salers have advanced the price, beV
ginning with 2 5 cents per ton then in
creasing to 50 cents ,and Anally ,90
cents. : -- r . .
This rise, they claim, . necessitated
to advance in the retail price, which
could not " be kept down to ; 4.50.
J when ; such advances . were made by
END OF JUBILEE.
Madison Hall ' was aglow last even
ing with lights" and -color, the 'occa
sion being a parish reception to Rev.
Father Ariens, , the jubUariari priest.
The .hall was crowded . to overwhelm
ing but -' everyone ,was comfortable.
The stage was almost hid wRh palms
tnd a. large bust of Pope Leo IX. was
prominent .. among grouped floral
pteoes. -Over1 the . stage ' , was fthia
sign; : "Rev. Theodore. Ariens, QUin
quacenario - Ju hilar i Merito - Felicia
Totus Optavit Clerus." ,
Shortly after , 8 o'clock Father
Ariens entered the: hall,' accompanied
by Fathers DeBruycker of Willi
mantlc, Nootenbart of' Rochester, Van
Oppen of Meriden, Albert, of Butler,
N-- "ST1 Van Den Noort? of Putnam,
Aitfof "of Holly , Springs,- Miss., and
Carrol? of East Bridgeport. Twenty
little tots all ''dressed in white and
wearing; golden, bands on their hair,
marched n the .staged as" if they had
been' In drill practice all their lives.
There . thejr sang a German "jubilee
song. Little Louise; Eisemann. next
delivered a- jubilee - greeting that
brought down the house. The third
feature of the program was a Molin
solo by little MVss May Brady, j Miss
Carrie.- Barske then stepped forward
and made a presentation addressto
Father . Ariens. , The address was ac
companied by a; bouquet of "flowers
and a large purse." ..- i :
. One. of the features of the evening
was tne reading of the letter sent bjr
two ' Jittle : blind girls i!n Syracuse to
Father Ariens. The letter was print-
ed'in the letters of the blind.-Another
letter-of importance . read was one
from Adolph Weber of Racine. Wis;,
president of the German Catholic
Central Society of ' America. v
The, program concluded by the en
tire v audience singing -"Grosser Gott,
wie loben dich,". with ' Father Albert
at the piano playing the' accompani
ment.4 The reception was in charge;
of Peter Hellman and Jacob Herb,
trustees' of the church. ' ; ' -''
The. solemn high mass corem.epis
copo, at St. Joseph's church this fore
noon was the greatest event of the
golden jubilee exercises. The officers
pf the mass were Father Ariens, cele
brant;: Father I DeBruycker,, deacon';
Father Van Den Nobrt,.'sub-deacon;
Father McElroy of Ansonia, assistant
priest; "Fathers O'Brien and .Doherty,
deacons to the bishop. The following
clergymen were present: '
Revs. Patrick Mulholland, ' New
Haven;t A. Van Oppen, Meriden; T. J.
Coleman, Fairfield; August Althoff,
Holly SPrins. Miss. L.' Mayuer,
Voluntown; J. J. Duggan. Norwalk;
Anthony Lammel, New York; J. T.
Winters, South Norwalk; A. A. Nate
baert, Rochester, N. Y.;, P. J. O'Leary,
Bristol; M. J. Traynor, Danbury Ign
na,tius Kost, Meriden; ' J. . Guinet, La
Sallette College, Hartford; M. Mc
Keon. New Haven;,-' T. J. Preston,
Danielsville; Thomas Cooney, Gros
venordale; F..P.;'0'Keefe.' Jewett Citv:
Joseph V. Hanselmah, Holy .Cross
College, v Worcester; C. T. MeCann,
Plainville; J." H -. Fitzmaurice, 1 Day-"
ville; T. F. Shilley, Kensington; W. J.
McGurk, Hartford; Timothy M. Crow
ley, Bridgeport; J. F. Corcoran, New
Haven; T. J. Finn, Derby; . M. J
O'Connor, New- Haven; Luke F3tz-'
Simmons, ,.New- Hartford;: James - B.
Nihlll, Bridgeport; Patrick Fox, New
town;: William J. Blake, D.- J. Hurley,
C. A. Leddy, this ... city; Domlnico
Splinter, O. P., New York; William
H. Redding, .Unionville; T. J; Dunn,
Wil liman tic; Benjamin Berto, this
city; Philip J. .Waldman, O. S. TP.,
Winsted; J. ,J: Curtin, New Milford;
John Synnott, Taftville; ' W. J. ' Doo
lan, Southington; John L Russell,
New Haven; John H. Carroll, West
port and D. J. Cremih of . this city.
At the conclusion of the .mass Rt. Rev.
Bishop Michael Tierney delivered a
stirring eulogy on the character and
works of Father Ariens. ' ,
FELL DOWN THE ELEVATOR.
Willie Gritman, aged 14, who works
for the 'Marigold' Printing Co., fell
down their elevator shaft this after-
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WENTWORTH FURNITURE GO.
OUR GROWING INDUSTRIES,
The . new factory which is to be
erected at the foot of Seaview avenue,
in the East End, will be for the man
ufacture of roofing paper -jnostly. A
number of Bridgeporters will be in
terested in , the enterprise, among
them being Frederick Sailer and
Gould Bros. Mr. Sailer has subscrib
ed for $10,000 of the stock, and says
that he will take more ff desired. - It
is said to be the first time he' has ever
invested in - stock.
The salesroom of the factory will
be located on Fairfield avenue, .near
the Methodist church.;
, STERLING HOWES. ,
Miss Harriet Frances, daughter of
William- T. Howes, was married at
high noon today to Julian Sterling,
son of Julian H. Sterling, and1 grand
son of the late D. , H. Sterling, - the
late president of the Connecticut Na
tional Bank, also grandson of the
late Sherwood Sterling, who was
president ot the City: National Bank.
The ceremony was conducted by the
Rev. Edward Grier Fullerton at the
residence of the bride's parents, 109
Barnum' avenue.' The maod of honor
was Miss A. Florence Howes, sister
of the bride, and the best man was
Paul Sterling, brother : of -the groomJ
Only members of the family were
present. The hridal tour will include
Florida and the Atlanta exposition.
READ CO, ISSUES
ATTRACTIVE BOOK
"AFTER 58 YEARS"
Handsome Souvenir Will Be
Prized By Shoppers at
Big Store. . ,
The D. . M. Read Co. has' issued an
unusually attractive booklet with a
double cover of delft blue and many
handsomely illustrated : pages upon
which are told the history of this en
terprising, department store from the
. ; .... . i. . t. ... . .-jy
uuic Luat it, VY-cua iusliiulcu.
The title page bears a message to
the women of this section in general:
"The reconstructed - store in all its
elegance lis at the- service of the
women of ; , Bridgeport and vicinity.
Use it f6r shopping, Treat it as a
club or meett ng place. ." It is for your
service and pleasure." v ' ' ; .,- - .-
The frontispiece bears- the likeness
of the founder of the store, David M.
Read, with the dates of his' life,
1830-1893. 'In the pages that follow
there is a picture . of the first store,
which was located where the Bridge
port Public Library building now
stands, a double page picture of "The
Home of the D. M. Read, Co. of To-1
day,'" smaller pictures of the late
C. B. Read, of the late D. F. Read,
of the interior of the remodeled store,
plans of its various- floors, and last but
not least, views of the delivery ser
vice. Besides this, each page has its
small illustration of the style of the
year IS 57 when the store was estab
lished, of the year 18 6 when it mov
ed to Ita present location at Main and
Fairfield avenue, and of various at
tractively arranged articles carried by
the store. .- : ..- . -,. . .
. "After Fifty-eight , Tears" ' is " the
title of the second part of the book
where in the new store is attractively
described and a brief account given
of what . each . department contains.
The last four pages are taken up with
shopping list., ; ' i '
The booklet is an interesting soou
venir of the growth of one of the
greatest and most up-to-date depart
ment stores in this section ' of the
country. It will be greatly prized by
every woman who "buys at Reads."
A CHOICE OF
, MANY STYLES
in women's fashionable,
durable boots
$2.00 '-'
V":'. and
$2.50
Bmnze laee hoots with
bronze color cloth top
' $3.50
Suierior frrade bronze
" kid hoots -
, $5.00
Boys footwear in all
sizes and widths
AN ATOM I K SHOES
ollan
1026 MAIN ST.
or to Be Had All Grades
More than 15,000 Perfect Collars in all the
Newest Shapes. Scores of Styles in every size
for DRESS OR BUSINESS WEAR
REGULAR 25c and 15c GRADES
, Four of the Most Celebrated Brands Are in This Sale
' EARL and WILSON SEARLE NEWELL CLUETT PEABODY; (De Luxe) BRAND
ALL WE SAY SOME, VALUE
The wise man
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
ROTH rMECKEIi.
" A wedding of interest to pnany in
this city was held yesterday at the
Congregational church,' 56th street
and Broadway, New York city at 12
o'clock noon when Mrs. Anna Meckel
and Mr. Adolph 'Roth were married
with a double ring service. Miss
Frida Showbeck of -this city was
bridesmaid, and Robert Roth, brother
of the groom who is associated with
him in the automobile business here,
was hest man. The, bride wore: a
wisteria colored :suit of silk poplin,
trimmed with imported gold lace and
a picture1 hat ornamented with a bird
of paradise. - ,
In the party also were Miss Eliza
beth Roth, sister of the groom, and
Charles F. ' Walters, '. brother of the
bride and several New York friends
of the groom who joined the. party at
the Hotel Wallick where the wedding
dinner was served. Later the entire
party.' attended the performance at
therHippodrome: Mr. and Mrs. Roth
will 'stop for a few days at the Hotel
Wallick and' later they will leave -on
a wedding trip west stopping ; at
Niagara ' Falls, Washington, D.- C, and
Detroit,- Mich, i They plan to Ose away
about two. weeks. They will reside
in this city when they return. , Both
she and her husband have a. host of
friends who wish them unlimited hap
piness in their married life. y
The erirls of the senior class of the
I Bridgeport High school will entertain
.,, r, kt the iunior class Friday
evening. - October 29, at the Dome oi
Miss Mary Louise Foster, daughter of
Judge , and Mrs. Carl Foster, 2,0i0
North avenue. Miss Margaret Myers
is chairman of the committee of ar
rangements and a Hallowe'en scial is
being planned. The -event will be an
unusual one in that it marks the first
time that the members of an upper
class have entertained the under class
men. .. , - '. .. '
. HOLLAND JANNEY.
Announcements' have , been1 received
in this city . of the marriage of Miss
Bertha Betts ' Janney to Ir. Ernest
Summer Holland, which' , was eol
emnized on Wednesday at the. home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Reynold Janney, of 21 Claremont ave
nue, New York. The wedding was a
simple hut pretty home ceremony. Mr.
ad Mrs. Holland are now enjoying a
wedding trip to Atlantic City, N. J.,
Albany, N. Y., and Boston, Mass. They
will be at home to their friends after
two , weeks at 503 West 124th street.
New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Janney
formerly lived iri this city where Miss
Janney attended the local High school.
Her education was completed abroad.
Mr. Janney ' was an executive of the
Locomobile Co. while in this city. The
family moved to Glen Ridge, N. J.,
about " April, 1908. Mr. Janney is a
noted inventor. His device for moving
heavy calibre guns from , One place to
another on a battleship has been
adopted by both the Russian and Jap
anese governments 'and is being used
In the present war. Mrs. Holland has
many intimate friends in this city.
" HODGKINS PERKINS.
" Invitations were issued yesterday
.for the wedding of Albert A. Hod-kins
of 768 Park avenue, this city, to Mis
Eva Clarke Perkins, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Perkins of-Whalley
avenue. New Haven, which . will be
solemnized on Wednesday evening,
November- 10, in New Haven. Rev.
Theodore Fischer will perform" the
ceremony at 7:30 'which will be fol
lowed by a reception from 8 until 10
o'clock . Mr. Hodgkins is with the
firm of A. & E., Henkels of this city.
CARTER-JEPSOX.
Miss Lilian Isabelle Jepson,. who,
during her residence in this city as a
student at the Connecticut Froebel
Normal Kindergarten Training school,
made a host of friends here .and Mr.
Dwight Herrick Carter, son of Rev.
and Mrs. Charles F. Carter, of Hart
ford, were married at '6:30 last even-
amd. Gas CoinralM
Full Line on the Floor. Call and See. Sold at .Lowest Prices. Club Plan -
947 MM ST.
will gladly allow himself to get "COLLARED" at
. ... . i
mg at the home of the brides Pa-r'
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wisnell
Jenaon. 622 Rummer street. Bristol.
The ceremony, which was attended by
only the immediate families and a few
intimate friends of the young couple,
was performed by Mr. Carter's fath
er. . i i ' ;"..'.
yVn unusual -feature of the wedding'
was the ring that' which had been
Miss Jepson's grandmother's ring on
her wedding day, 50 years ago yester
day. The bride was gowned in ivory
charmeuse and wore a pearl : brooch,
which also belonged to her grand
mother. ' Her bridesmaids were Miss
Iva Gertrude Burr of Bristol and Miss
Margaret Ellen Long of Williams-
port, Pa. Their gowns were of blue
charmeuse trimmed with fillet laoe
They carried 'armf uls of yellow chrys
anthemums. Eloise Marguerite String
er, who,, is two years old. Was 'flower
girl. - -v
The bride is a granddaughter of
the late Prqf . B. Jepson of New Ha
ven. ; Mr. Carter is well known In
Hartford. ... He Is a graduate of Yale
in the class of 1914. After the cere
mony and reception the bride's parents
celebrated their silver wedding anni
versary, and the 'birthday bf her fath
er, all of which, events the day signi
tied. . Mr. and Mrs. Carter will be at
home Jto their friends at 226 Palm
street, 'Hartford, after Jan. 1 Ifl6.
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Oelsner of
1,483 Park avenue, . entertained some
48 guests at dinner at their home last
evening in celebration of their silver
wedding. ' Miss . Lina . Oelsner, only
daughter of- the couple, assisted, her
parents in receiving. Chrysanthe
mums and red and white roses were
used in the decorations of the home.
Mr. and Mrs. 'Oelsner, who are promi
nent in Jewish circles of the city, re
ceived a number of handsome gifts in
honor of the occasion. ;
i
Mrs. Dennis Gaynor, formerly of
Park avenue, this . city, entertained
the members of the sewing circle of
the Queen s Daughters yesterday af
ternoon at her jiew home In Stratford.
The affair was in the nature- of a
housewarming and . during the after
noon bridge was played while later a'
dainty luncheon was '.served by the
hostess.- The guests presented their
hostess, who is a former president of
ithe Queen's Daughters, with a silver
fruit bowl monogrammed in Old Eng
lish, i Mrs. Lyman Hill presented the
gift to Mrs. Gaynor, who was happily
surprised. The guests: Mrs. Joseph
A. O'Brien, Mrs. William E. Allen,
Mrs. Joseph Whitcomb. Mrs. .William
Hickey, Mrs. James McElroy, Mrs. J.
P. Seery, Mrs. George! T. McCarthy,
Mrs. F. Richard Irwin, Mrs. John W.
Moore, Miss Frances Arnold, Mrs. J.
A. McGuinness. Mrs. Thomas McMul
len andMrs. Hill.
The Mothers' club, will meet next
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. Charles S. Lindsay, 782
Colorado - avenue." Miss Kathryn I.
Hewitt, superintendent of the Bridge
port Protective headquarters, will talk
on ttta "Children's Work of the Pro-,
tectiye Association." , i
. ; i '
VILLA CONSULATE IN
NEW ORLEANS CLOSED
New Orleans, Oct. 22 :Jse Gara,
in charge of. the Villa consulate here,
closed ,the consular offices yesterday
and .delivered to Local Carranza rep
resentatives his records , and ,oflice
property, expressing a desire "to con
tribute to the early pacification of our
country" and declaring his willingness
to aid the government recognized by
the United States and the Latin
American republics.
The Vijla consulate in New Orleans
was considered one of the most im
portant in- the country.
A report from Amsterdam states
that six Belgian civilians have been
shot at Bruges as spies.
Fifteen tnousand persons and 300
floats participated in a parade at San
Francisco of builders who are there
for American Builders' Week.
Complete House
Furnishers
EACH
' I A M fl a n nnnm ril
I A f J i 1 1 A I I- HKIIKI I IVl
I. I llUULLIIJ
IN PHILIPPINES IS
NOT FOR ESPERANTO
.
English Bound Soon To Sup
plant Fifty Native Tongues
1 of the Archipelago.
, Mohonk Lake, N. Y., Oct. 22 "The
Language Problem in the Philip
pines" was 'one of the subjects of dis
cussion at today's session of the Lake
Mohonk Conference on the Indian
and Other Dependent Peoples. ..
Dr. C. Everett Conant, professor of
Modern Languages In the University
of Chattanooga, who was formerly a
government translater and interpreter
at Manila, said: " i
"There are more than 50 native
languages of the Malay-Polynesian
family spoken in the Islands., The
majority of 'these languages are so
different from jpne another as to be
mutually unintelligible. There is be
sides an Indefinitely large number of
local dialect varieties of speech, many
of which are rapidly becoming extinct
owing to increasing Intertribal inter
courses..' ' ; ' r i - . r . :
"Fully 90 per cent of the Philippine
Malays still speak their native tongue
In the , home. The language situation
is therefore- a real problem. A com
mon medium of speech is essential for
the social, commercial and political
unification of the polyglot , peoples of
the islands. Before American occupa
tion the: Spanish language ' served
only to a limited extent as a common
language, as only i a comparatively
small number, of the population had
the opportunity to learn it.. ' ,
''In recent years there has been
much talk ' of adopting .TagaJog, . the
language of Manila and . the surround
ing country, as the common language
of the islands, but very few of the
six millions, of non-Tagalogs are ,in
favor of the movement, for; although
Tagalog is the speech pf .the capitol.
it . is spoken by less than one-half as
many people as , speak Bisaya (Visa-
yan). . '
"The adoption of an artificial lan
guage, like JUsperanto, wniie , advo
cated by few, has never been seriously
considered by the people as a whole.
"Since the introduction; of the
American- public school, the , problem
of a common medium of speech has
rapidly been approaching solution.
While ' most of the school children
speak - their native languages in the
home, they use English in' conversing
with children whose native language
differs from their own. Thus,, while
the indigenous vernaculars will live
on for many generations perhaps for
centuries- English is destined to be
come in the neVr future the lingua
franca of the entire archipelago."
JEWS IN RUSSIA.
Russia has the largest Jewish pop-
ufatlon of any country In the world.
Although their lot has not always been
an enviable one under the rule of the
Tsars,, the great war has found tnem
loyal citizens of their northern fath
erland willing and anxious to contri
bute their sacrifices to the success or
its cause. According to private let
ters and dispatches from Russia,
many Jews have come forward to en
list; they have opened and equipped
hospitals for the soldiers, and dis
played an eagerness to aid with their
goods and their labor. The warmth
of their patriotism has been a surprise
in Muscovy. The position of the
JTewish subjects of the Tsar, as it was
before the war, is told in a bulletin
just prepared by the National Geo
graphic Society. It reads as follows:
"More than one-half of the world's
total 'Jewish population, numbering
about 6,500,000, dwells within the
Russian Empire. Tha total number
ofJews In the world numbers about
13,000,000. The United States and
Austro-Hungary. each with more
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than 3,000,000; Germany with 600,- '
000, and the British Empire with i
400,000, are the . other important i
homelands of this scattered nation.
Russia, however, . today might be !
looked upon as the true fatherland
of the Jewish people, as the great
body of them live there. This comes I
primarily from the cause that the!
Slavs, more especially the Russian '
Slavs, have always been the most tol- !
erant of peoples in matters of re
ligion. The Russian Church, properly ;
speaking, is not a missionary church, j
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of the Russian branch of the Eastern ;
Orthodox Church, is regarded al- !
most as a law of nature in Muscovy, j
while the Russian j feels that it is just ;
as natural and fitting that a Tartar :
should be a Mohammedan, and that a i
Jew should follow the Mosaic creed.
"It is true that most of the Jews
were originally Polish subjects, and, -it
is said, that colonies of them Jived
in the basin of, the Volga and the
Crimea 600 years-before the birth of
Christ. Through the years of their -bitterest
persecution, the rule of tha
Poles over the Jews was a light and .
amiable one, and many hundreds of .
thousands of them passed to this
country. Thus, with Poland, Russia
acquired the greater part of her Jew
ish subjects. . '
"The. Tfcs.r'3 Jewish subjects are .
confined, by law, to a definite part of j
the empire, known as the Jewish Pale j
of Settlement. ; This Is an irregular (
belt ' of - territory, extending from the
Baltic to the Black Sea. The Pale in- '
eludes, Poland, Lithuania, White Rus- .
sia, part of Little Russia, and regions
in the Caucasus. A belt of land about
30 miles wide along the international L
boundary 1s also exempt. The Pale
proper," wherein nearly all of the Rus
sian: Jews dwell, comprises the entlrs s
territory of - Russian Poland, and the i
governments of Kovno, Vitebsk, Vitna,
Mohilev, Volhynia, . Grodno, Minsk,
Chernigoof. Poltava, Kief, Pololia,
Bessarabia, Kherson, Ekaterinoslav, !
and Taurida. Kovno, Minsk, Mohilev I
and Volhynia are the most thickly
settled by . Jews, who, in these gov
ernments, constitute about two-thirds j
of the entire population. Some Jews
wer nettled as aerieulturists UDOn the -
southern Steppe,1 and, despite the j
strict law, wealthy members of the j
nation are found, in business in Pet-,
rograd and Moscow. All disabilities j
which attach to Jewish birth in Rus
sia, gall away with the conversion J
of one of the race to Orthodoxy, but, j
nevertheless, such conversions seldom '
take place. This curtailment of the
freedom of the Jewish subjects is not J
a matter of religions persecution, but j
rather an expression of the Russian's:
dread of the superior business ability ;
of the Jew. .
"There are, however, certain classes
of. Jews allowed by the : law to dwell ;
without the pale. These are students ;
in educational institutions, merchants i
of the first guild, professional persons
and skilled artisans, and such as have j
served 2 5 years in the army. Mem--
bers of these classes, nevertheless.
must obtain special permission to en
joy their rights under the law. No
Jew is eligible to government ornce.
unless he becoming a convert to Orth
odoxy. "The Jews are taxed more highly
than other citizens Of . Russia, Their i
citizenship is of a qualified kind, for
the law states that Jews are aliens.
whose social rights are regulated by
special ordinances. Taxes on
kosher' meat, on candles ror use in
the synagogues, on skull caps, legacy.
taxes and special taxes upon their
business are taken by the state. There
are a host of other special regula
tions. The Russian Jews, on their
side, are organized for their protec
tion, with headquarters at Warsaw.
In spite of difficulties, however, the
Jews of Russia take a prominent part
in the country's commerce, and exer
cise a powerful influence of wealth."
Up to Oct, 18, subscribers to the
third German war loan had paid into
the Treasury $2,067,250,000. This is
68 per cent, of the totaL
Overcome by smoke while righting
a fire. Chief George W. Wallis of Sag
inaw. Mich., died in a hospital of the
effects of the fumes.