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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
GRAND OPERA AT
SMITHS THEATRE

I'll Trovatore". the celebrated opera
by Verdi, was sung in Italian at
Smiths theatre last night to a. small
but appreciative audience. Leonora,
which was to have been sung by Mar
gherita VaSSallO, was rendered by
Lena BertozZi who came from New
York in response to an emergency call,
VassaIlo having become indisposed.
The change did not affect the giving
of the opera, as Mime. Bertozzi pos
sesses a rich soprano voice and SPLEEN
did control.
Azucena was sung in English by
Miss AlVord. She proved herself an
excellent actress and gave a fine por-
trayal of the part The work of the
chorus and orchestra were excellent
and the lovers of music expressed a
desire that such excellent organiza-
lions as the Imperial Opera Co. come
to this city oftener.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

The funeral of George 7. Eadie, who
died in Middletown, was held yester-
day afternoon from the home of his
mother, Mrs. Robert Eadie, 300 Fair
field avenue, and attended by a large
number of friends and relatives, there
being present a large delegation from
the Mfddletown Aerie of Eagles, as
we'll as many employees of the South
ern New England Telephone Co. Rev.
e. J. Craft pastor Of Christ Episcopal
church, officiated- Interment was in
Iakeview cemetery.
Funeral services over the remains OF
John Sawyer were held yesterday aft
ernoon from his late home in Penn
broke street, Rev. IT. A Davenport,
pastor of the Peoples Presbyterian
church, officiating. Delegations from
Samuel H. Harris lodge. l. o. o. F.,
and p. T. Barnum lodge, K. of p, es-
corted the remains to their last rest
ing place in Park cemetery. The pail
bearers were H. p. Fitzroy and G. w.
Drew from the I. o. o. F.; j. Schmitt
and E. Cave from the K. of p, and
d. w. Green and J. T. Cooper.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
GALLERY GIVES
WAY;;HUNDREDS
ARE INJURED
Many Fatalities May Result - Panic
Stricken Crowd at Indoor Marathon
in Seattle.

Seattle, May 1T is now certain
that the list of injured in last nights
accident at the National Guard Ar
mory here will reach $50 and it is de-
clared by the doctors at the hospitals
that many of them will die. Just how
many are fatally hurt will not be
known until later in the day as the
hospital attaches are rushed to the
limit caring for the badly hurt
The disaster followed the finish of
the Marathon which was the feature
OF the indoor competitions given I'M
der the auspices of the Northwestern
Athletic Association. A big crowd had
filled every point of vantage in the big
spectators gallery just above the fin
1sh mark. The race had been most
exciting throughout and despite the
fact that it was nearly morning the
crowd held fast. Finally in the last
lap E. Jackson of the Seattle Athletic
Club. the favorite with the crowd.
sprinted and went into a long lead. AS
he broke the tape the crowd overhead
began to cheer. Those in the rear
crowded those in front and there was
a thunderous cracking sound.
Captain Maurice Thompson of the
Seattle Guard, shouted to the crowd
in the rear to fall back but his cry
was not understood and the pressure
became more and more intense. Fin
ally the balcony gave way and the
front were precip1tated to the floor,
distance of II feet. In an instant one
of the worst panics in the history of
seattle had been precipftated. The I'M
injured persons started on a run for
the exits, men and women screamed
wildly while from the great jumbled
mass OF humanity piled high on the
floor of the armory came means and
screams of fright and agony. 1t was
fully five minutes before those in
charge got their heads about them and
started to relieve the tangle of terribly
injured humanity.
Men and women were piled in a
seemingly inextricable mass and many
of them had suffered broken limbs
while others were bleeding from scalp
wounds and Commissions. Hurry calls
for ambulances were sent in and soon
doctors from every institution in the
city were on the scene. In the mean
while the officers of the guard who
were in the armory had restored some
semblance of order and all of the po-
mory. A Gordon was thrown about the
building and no one permitted to en-
ter while the soldiers and policemen
arranged the injured in long rows on
the drill hall floor.
AS fast as a doctor got through with
a patient he or she was carried out to
a waiting ambulance or patrol wagon
and taken to the hospital. Soon from
the hospitals came word that all of
the wards were filled and then the
authorities pressed into service other
city buildings to act as temporary asy-
lums for the wounded while those
whose hurts were not of a too serious
nature were conveyed to their homes.
1t is charged to-day that the officers
in charge of the armory were directly
responsible for the accident as they
permitted the gallery to become over
crowded.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
WHAT IS A LAWYER
WORTH BY THE DAY?.
Experts Testify That Ordinary Ones
0ught to Get $40, but Some May Get
S5o-Mrx Thompson Disputes Fees

Those who had the privilege of hear
ing the evidence in the appeal of Mrs
Louisa Thompson of Stamford from
the finding of the Stamford Probate
Court, allowing the fees of certain
LAWYERS and of the New York Life In
surance and Trust Company, were con-
fused yesterday. They could not make
up their minds whether lawyers charge
according to a scale, or simply "an that
the traffic will bear" Grenville I.
Emmett, a New York lawyer. who had
worked for the estate, has a bill for
over $4,000. The bill includes 128 en-
tries. Attorney Frederick d. Hubbell
has a bill for $4,000. Mrs. Thompson
testified that she was told by mem
her of the Trust Company. that Mr..
Hubben did not receive $4,000, but ST.
500 The company took $500, she said,
as commission. for giving him the
job.
Two lawyers were called as experts.
One was Asa B. Woodward, for long
probate judge Of South Norwalk. He
thought that $40 day was a fair price
for the service of a lawyer The other
was James T. Hurlburt. who said upon
cross examination by John c. Cham
berlain, that few lawyers in the coun-
ty get $50 for a days work, either in
or outside of their offices.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
BROOKS BILL TO TAX
SAVINGS DEPOSITS IS
UNFAVORABLY REPORTED

Hartford, May 7.-After holding
hearing No. on Senator Isaac w.
Brooks bill for the taxation of saw
ings departments in national banks,
the Finance committee voted yester-
day to report the matter unfavorably.
Tax Commissioner w. H. Corbin. Lu-
cius F. Robinson and Deputy Treas
urer B. Frank Marsh appeared to sup
port the bill and Charles M. Joslyn of
Hartford and Mr.. Trumbull of Plain
vile in opposition. The contention of
the opposition has been that the State
should not go on record as favoring
savings departments in national banks,
and that the present laws cover the
ground if thew are enforced.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
KNOWLES ADMITTED
TO SCHOOL FOR DUMB

Hartford, May THE admission of
F. Lawrence Knowles of Bridgeport
to the Mystic Oral School for the Deaf
has been authorized by the governor
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
CREDITORS OF ART
STORE HOLD MEETING

The first meeting of the creditors Of
the Danbury Art Store, Kenyon p.
Fitton and James Mcdonald proprie-
tors, was held before U, S. Commits
sinner in Bankruptcy John w. Banks
at IL o'clock this morning. The petit
ton was filed April "a. The assets
of the company are s2.15o.eo; liabilities,
s724332
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07

Chan q minute at q
time. My doctor
said an operation
w a s t he onl y
chance / had, and
/ dreaded it almost
as much as death.
One day 1 was
reading how other
women had been
cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound,
and decidad f0 try
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
From The Stoddard Millinery Co.

Our large April business has left us
with some handsome dressy suit hats
newest colorings and shapes that we
will. place on sale Saturday morning.
Hats that sold for $500 to $500, each
special at $500. Good values await
you in hats for general wear at $500
to $500 each.
Special line of dressy toques for mid
die aged ladies at Reasonable prices.
You viii be well repaid Il you make
a special effort to look the stock over
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07

Ann NJ. Barnes, widow of William
F. Bradley, died last evening at her
home. 79S Myrtle avenue, aged Is
years. The deceased was twice mar
ried. her first husband being Samuel
B. Dayton. She resided for a number
of year in Long HILL The deceased
is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
Sarah e. French, a granddaughter,
Mrs. Herbert E. walker, both of Long
Hill, and one grandson, George B.
French, of Trumbull.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-07
OPERATION
HER ONLY
CHANCE
Was Cured byLydiaE. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Adrian, Ca" suffered untold
misery from female weakness and
disease, and could not stand more
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-12

PIG xy-wELL SHAPED SEED POTATO.
conducted along this line quarters
gave yield of seven bushels to the
acre more than two eye pieces and fif-
teen bushels more than one eye pieces.
The seed potatoes should be kept in
a dark place until planting time to
keep them from sprouting as much as
possible. New sprouts will grow II
the old ones are broken off, but they
will not be as strong. If the seed is
at all scabby it should be treated be-
fore planting. This is done by soak
ing the tubers for two hours in solu-
ton of one pound of formalin to forty
gallons of water. Afterward the po-
tatoes should be spread out to dry
and then cut. The cutting should not
be done until just before planting, as
otherwise they will shrfvel and lose
some of their vitality. The plan OF
getting the seed potatoes cut several
weeks or even days before planting is
not to be commended. Even If the seed
thus prepared is kept in dark cellar
the starchy part of the tuber is GER
tain to lose much of its freshness, and
the vitality of the seed may be i'm
paired.
Planting.
Early potatoes should be planted as
soon as the ground can be worked.
The later varieties, which comprise
the bulk of the crop, should be planted
about corn planting time or little
later. In the corn belt 1t is most con-
venient to mark off the rows with the
corn planter. Where land Is high and
It is desired to work it to its fullest
capacity the rows may be as close as
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-12
SuPERSTlTIoNs.


They Play at Times an Important Role
In Human Affairs.
When Sir Charles Napier had con-
quered Mehemet Ali, he found it i'm
possible to force or coax the willy
Egyptian into signing the treaty which
only would make his victory effective.
He had nineteen interviews with
Mehemet, in which the Englishman by
turns argued, fiattered and threatened
his antagonist, who listened day after
day with the same immovable, smiling
eountenance.
One day sSir Charles in speaking of
England said casually that it was
governed by lucky woman" A
strange flash passed over the pasha's
countenance, but he made no answer.
AS soon as Napier had gone Mehemet
sent for the English consul, who was
an Egyptian, and demanded
you were in London when the Eng
lish queen was crowned. Were the
omens ba,sa or good?'
All good"
"You think that good luck is writ
ten on her foreheadY
II did not think upon the matter be-
fore, but now that you ask me. / be-
lieve that 1t is. When she asked Allah
to help her in her work, her eyes ran
over. Allah loves the innocent"
mo doubt of that said Mehemet
anxiously. "She must be lucky"
Early the next morning he sent for
Sir Charles and signed the treaty
English power and English cannon he
could brave, but not 1.-THE luck" writ
ten upon the forehead of good wom-
an whom he had never seen.
General Gordon's remarkable infiu
ence over the Chinese was in a large
degree due, it is stated, to their belief
In his extraordinary luck. During the
TAPPING rebellion he was followed by
ar army which did not comprehend
either his ability or his religious zeal,
but which believed that he was pro-
tected by an invisible being who led
them to victory No sword could
wound him or bullet kill. A certain
black ebony cane which he carried was
supposed to be the magic talisman
which brought him victory, and Cen
eral Gordon was shrewd enough al
ways to carry this cane when he led
them into battle.
These superstitions seem absurd to
us, but they show that the ignorant
men who hold them believe In an in
visible power who can give good or i'll
fortune at his will.-London Truth.
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three feet. Where ten or more acres
are grown a potato planter win soon
pay for itself Where the acreage is
smaller than this two or three neigh
bors can often combine to purchase
such a machine.
Where hand planting is practiced
the rows should be opened with a
stirring pillow to depth of four to six
inches. The practice of dropping the
tubers in a cultivator track and cover
ing them lightly is responsible for
many of the low Yields. Potatoes
send up a strong sprout that is able
to penetrate six inches Of soil easily,
and the roots need to be well down in
the moist earth. After the tubers are
dropped the stirring plow may again
be brought into use to cover them, or
disk cultivator may be used. The
main thing is to get them covered
deeply. After covering two or three
borrowings should be given to level the
ground and kill any sprouting weeds.
The cut tubers should be dropped
from twelve to sixteen inches apart
one in a place. The amount Of seed
to use per acre viii depend on the
price. If seed potatoes are not too ex-
pensive it pays to be liberal with them.
Where medium sized potatoes are cut
into quarters and dropped every ff-
teen inches in rows three and one-hah
feet apart twelve to fifteen bushels
per acre will be needed.
On western farms, where land is
cheap and labor scarce, potatoes are
often planted in rows both ways. This
can be readily done by running
planter wire across the field and drop
ping piece of potato at each button
on the wire The wire is moved at
each end as in planting corn. When
planted in this way half tuber in
stead of a quarter should be dropped
in place. Such plan will not give
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-12
9bort gsrnrDns
For
5unnap Dalf- -Four
Theme:
POWER AND
RESPONSIBILITY

r + r
By Rev. Kaufman Kohier
+ r r
Text: "They helped every one his
nelghbor; and every one said to his
brother, Be of good courage."-Isaiah,
xiii, 6.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-12
MAN EATING TIGERS.
The Killing Methods of These Terrible
Brutes In India.

Brutes In India.
The theory that a man eating tiger
Is always an old tiger, more or less
toothless and feeble. which has found
the strain of catching vigorous wild
game too much for It's falling strength,
has been upset by the bagging of no.
torious man eaters which were found
TO be young animals in the full pride
OF their powers. And it is likely that
the taste for human flesh is passed
on from mother to child, the tigress,
herself man eater, teaching her cubs
to hunt as she hunts. How terrible a
thing a man eater may be can be
Judged from the fact that tiger gen.
orally kills every second night, whether
its quarry be man or beast. Having
killed, it makes one meal that night,
then drags the carcass somewhere into
cover and more or less conceals it as
a dog may hide bone. On the next
night its habit is to return to the same
kill. and it is In that second visit that
the hunter usually finds his oppor-
tunity. 1t is not the rule for tiger
to retg again a third time, not be-
causesit is above eating carrion, but
seemingly it tires of the carcass, which
1t has already. twice mumbled over.
Thus one tiger in India has been
known to kill regularly its fifteen ma
ttyes a month with almost mechanical
punctuality. Another, which seeming
" did not cenfine itself entirely to
human flesh. devoured an average of
eighty people. men and women, for
several years, while yet another Is
reported to have killed 127 people and
to have stopped traffic on a public
road for many weeks. There have
been both English sportsmen and ma
tive shikaris who have accounted for
their hundred tigers and upward, Dut
many a tiger has killed more human
beings than any man has ever scored
tigers London Times.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-12

M W II HELLER grown IOE udEkGi
MA or for home use only, it is
wv important that the potato
crop be made to yield as
much as possible With the right kind
of care yields of 200 to 500 bushels to
the acre can be obtained, making this
one of the most profitable crops that
can be grown. Even with the most
ly yields most generously.
The potato is very particular In its
soil requirements A rich sandy loan
Is the best soil. Not all farms have
such a soil, but almost any soil can be
so prepared as to make a fairly good
potato patch. Two things are essen
tia' mellowness and plenty Of mois-
ture. Clay is too heavy, and sand dries
out too rapidly. Soils which contain
too much clay or too much sand can
be greatly improved for the production
of potatoes by the addition of humus.
The ideal way to prepare a field for
potatoes is to seed it to clover for at
least year, manure 1t heavily, pillow
1t up and plant it to corn. In the fall
the corn can be cut for silage or fod-
der, so that 1t can be plowed before
winter. The blowing should be fairly
deep Two diskings and narrowing
or two the following spring make an
ideal seed bed for potatoes.
Potatoes are not raised from seed,
but from the swollen underground
stems that we call tubers or potatoes.
Any piece of a tuber that contains an
''eye" viii grow and produce more of
It's kind. A potato vine grown from
piece of tuber is really not new
plant, but part of the old one. If out
side conditions are the same the plant
will be the same and produce the same
kind of crop. There is much less
tendency to vary in plants propagated
in this way than in those raised from
seed
Large Versus Small Potatoes.
Because of the fact that the potato
is not seed it has been claimed that
small potatoes would produce just as
good crops as large ones. Growers
often sort out and plant the tubers
that are too small for market. TIL
outcome of four or five years of such
selection almost always means de
creased yield. If the potatoes planted
were small only because they did not
have chance to develop they would
produce nearly as good results as lar
ger ones from the same hill If, how
ever, they were small because they
came from hill of tubers all of which
were naturally small they would pro
duce mostly small potatoes like them
selves For this reason it is not safe
to plant the small tubers. Another i'm
portant point Is that there is not
enough food material in a small POI
tato to give the sprout the kind of
start that 1t needs to produce good
yield. 1t is the stocky, vigorous hills
that are full of large potatoes when
digging time comes. The start the
plant gets while it is first making its
way to the surface of the ground
largely determines the vigor with
which it will continue to grow through
out the season.
The experience of most potato grow
ers is that it is best to plant medium
sized tubers, about the size of a hens
egg OF larger, cutting each one into
four pieces. In experiments that were
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-12
Making Money
On the Farm
WIl.-POtatO Culture
By G. v. GREGORY,
Author of Home Course In Modern
Agriculture
Copyright. 1909. by American Press
Association

WW WHETHER grown for market
AM or for home use only, it is
wv important that the potato
eron no made fo Weld as
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1909-08-12
Force Of Habit.

sTm surprised that you should be SO
interested in watching those silly
dudes"
.Force of habit, guess. I'm presl-
dent Of 4 real estate Improvement COM
pany."
"Well?'
.Well, they're vacant lot."-Cath-
Ole Standard and Times.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-01
Dairy Notes.

Butter methods are gradually gain.
ing favor.
Working to the best advantage
means using brains.
Cold and overfeeding will kill the
young calf more quickly than any
thing else.
Don't try to keep q COW for milk
and beef. She will disappoint you ey.
cry time.
The man with dual purpose"
dream usually wakes up TO fnd that
he IL in the beef business.
It's Just about as hard to get a good
heifer out OF a scrub as 1t Is TO make
water run up hill.
The creamery patron has his month.
ly cream checks while the other fel.
low has the store bill.
The ordinary man may be Judged
By the company he keeps. but the
dairy farmer is Judged By the COWS
he keeps.
The best way TO insure high prices
for dairy products IL to make them 30
good that the people can't help eating
them
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-01
Truck Patch and Orchard.

When one Of our Western farmers
goes down East he is impressed with
the fact that the truck patch, the
orchard, the poultry yard and the
dairy are relatively of vastly greater
importance than in N's country where
broad fields of grain, alfalfa, spuds
and sugar beets are In fashion end big
punches of beef cattle enliven the
landscape. The great cities, some of
them containing more people than the
entire State of Colorado, must be fed
from the farms. The products of the
West are mainly such as may be
readily transported over long dis
tances. But milk. vegetables and
small fruits are better, as well as
cheaper, II produced near the place Of
consumption and this line of agricul-
ture has from the exigenry Of things
become the industry Of Eastern farm
ers.--Field and Farm.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-01
! | : 9

~ have suffered with piles for thirty
six years. One year ago last April be-
gan taking Cascarets for constipation. In
the course of week / noticed the piles
began to disappear and at the end of six
weeks they did not trouble me at all.
Cascarets have done wonders for me. l
am entirely cured and feel like a new
man" George Kryder. Napoleon, o.
Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good.
Do Good. Never Sicken, Weaken or Gripe.
10c, Csc, Soc. Never sold In bulk. The gen
uine tablet stamped c &C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. w
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-01
Commercial Egg Farm.

The production of market eggs Is
probably the safest branch of the poul
try business, and the amount of capi-
tai invested need not be very large
In the New England States, New York
and New Jersey there are many COM
mercial egg farms. keeping from 500
to several thousand hens. The farm
ers, too, In this section of the country
keep large fiocks for eggs for the East
ern markets, and all seem to be do
Ing well and making money. What
we need In the South is more egg
farms. Lands are cheap, material for
housing and labor cheap, and, again.
1t is not necessary in the South to
build such expensive houses. We have
every advantage in the Southland for
producing eggs at less cost than our
Northern brothers, and with quick and
satisfactory railroad facilities to the
Eastern markets the South should be-
come the greatest poultry producing
section of the entire country.
Other branches of the poultry indus
try may pay better than egg farming,
but none are attended with so little
worry and risk and are so certain Of
steady returns and a fair remunera-
tion for the time and money expended
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-10-01
Acidity and Butter Flavor.

1t has been a generally accepted
theory among teachers Of and writer's
ON dairy subjects that the production
Of good butter necessitates the devel-
opment of certain amout Of acid in
the cream, for two reasons, to develop
desirable flavor and to improve the
keeping quality. Recent investiga-
tons by the United States Department
Of Agriculture indicate, however, that
butter made from Pasteurized sweet
cream has better keeping qualities and
remains free from Objectionable flaw
ors for longer time than butter
made from sour cream. II these facts
are established it might seem that in
the years to come only sweet cream
would be bought for butter making.