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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01
CHAR TO GRAB
 SHAFTS TERRITORY

St. Petersburg, July With General Snarsky at the head of a large force racing across Persia from Tabriz to Teheran with credentials which make him practically reuler of Persia, it is unofficially admitted today that the continuation of the Czar's long con- templated grab of the Shah's terri tory is at hand. Snarsky under orders from the Foreign office, is hurrying to reach Teheran before the Persian Lib erals, or Bajhkieres. The rebels un- der their leader Sardarasad had re- stunned their march toward Teheran after a run in with the Russian diplo matic officials. If they reach Teheran before iSnarsky and his army arrive there is no doubt that bloody fighting will be followed by pillaging. Grave concern is felt for the foreign residents in Teheran, as many of the rebels are a most savage type and Sardarasad is reported to have designs on the throne.
 The only government troops now in Teheran are 1900 Persian Cossacks and there is no hope that they would be able to hold off the rebels if the lat ter arrive before Snarsky. Arrange ments nave been made at the Russian legation in Teheran to receive and care for the Shah as soon as -hoStilities be- gin This precaution was taken as soon as it became known that the rebels had left their quarters at Cashin.
 With the Shah under the protection of the Russian legation and a Russian force in control of Teheran, the rule of the Shah would be practically at an end and the control of Turkey, which Russia has so long contemplated, would be realized.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01
PRESIDENT TAFT WARNS
 CONGRESS AND LEADERS
 OF REPUBLICAN PARTY
Must Live up to Promises or be Relegated to
 Position of Minority.

Well, when you come to discuss what is a Democrat these days, you same difficulty that I have before me now in giving certain rules for the construction of the pure food law as to what whisky is. They say there is straight whisky, and then there is 'rectified' whisky, and then there is imitation whisky.
 ''Now I speak with good deal of hesitation in saying whether my friend Dickinson is a straight Dem ocrat, or a 'rectiied' Democrat. I would not dare to say in his presence that he was an imitation Democrat.
 "The truth is, and speaking serious ly, I consider myself most fortunate that I was able to obtain for that important place in my Cabinet a man who represented the highest ideals of the South, who knew no section in his patriotism, and whose coming into Cabinet was significant of the friend ern section that it is in my heart to bring close to the North.
 'fNow, my dear friends, in suggesting differences among Democrats I am far from ignoring some difficulties that there are on our side. I remember in 1904 that Charles Francis Adams gave what I may call a perfectly good Ad- ams reason for the election of the Democratic candidate over the Repub- ucan candidate.
 'sHe said that one of the essentials of a successful free Government was an able, patriotic and efficient opposition, and that as the Democratic party had utterly failed in reaching that ideal, he was in favor of putting the Republ1- can party in that place.
 z 'sNow I venture to say that while that may not be the reason, which shall move the American people it is true that if the Republican party does not live up to it's promises and what the people expect of it, it will be rele- gated to position like that of his Majesty's opposition. And, therefore, I may say by way of caveat that we have troubles of our own"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

New Haven, July 1.-President Taft paused in the course of an after-din- her speech to 1,SOO graduates of Yale, gathered at the annual alumni dinner, to sound serious note of warning to Congress and to the leaders of the Re publican Party. The President de- clared that if the Republican Party failed now to live up to it's promises and the expectations of the people, it would be relegated to the position of a minority opposition.
 MT. Taft had been speaking humor- ously of his own college days under the elms, a fact which made his sud den change to a serious one all the more impressive to his hearers.
 The President made no effort to ex- caught his meaning and the signifi- canoe that his remarks came at this time of the tariff debate. They stood upon their feet and cheered for several minutes. MT. Taft had been speaking of Secretary of War Dickinson, a Dem ocrat, upon whom Yale yesterday con- ferred an honorary degree. He taunt- ed the Democracy with the best of good humor as to its present-day condition, and this led him into the declaration as to his own party.
 tJust to show,' the President said of our own.''
 In the beginning MT. Taft paid com pliments to others who had received honorary degrees. Reaching Secretary Dickinson, the President said:
 You went South of the Mason and Dixon line to get a Secretary of War to whom to give a degree. It is well that you did, because he is going to build the Panama Canal, and other universities will follow where you got in early. One of the difficulties that has confronted Brother Dickinson out in Chicago, where he has a temporary residence, was a discussion as to what constituted an orthodox Democrat, and whether he really ought to be counted as a Democrat if he allowed himself to go into the Republican Cabinet.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

Members of the State Senate as sertal, Tuesday, that test cars dam age roads more than do other automo- piles If it is speed alone which does 4he alleged damage, the assertion may .ibe well founded; if the damaging fac ator is weight, the test cars must be . acquitted; if the road injury comes from speed and weight combined, it must be attributed to the larger of the high-powered touring cars. As a mat ter of fact, the Farmer has never credited the tales of great injury to roads by automobiles. but has always believed that one heavy, steel tired, horse-drawn vehicle does more real in jury than a dozen rubber-tired auto mobiles. The latter merely draw up to be blown away the road surface which has been ground to powder by steel tires and thus made of slight, if any, value.
 Test cars are doubtless driven at aigh speed and, too often, recklessly, but the Senators who declare them the worst of all factors in road disintegra- . tion,S are-in popular phrase talking through their hatSe. for such is clearly not the fact
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

sT beg you to stop talking and do your work" said Speaker Banks on Tuesday. In that event. he said, the General Assembly could adjourn by July 18th.
 The Hartford Courant suggests that the Legislature "could do nothing bet ter than to adjourn to the first we'd Inesday in January" The move would jbe alike novel and popular
 Speaker Banks suggestion Is much f11e wiser of the two. An adjournment to January might easily mean another ! six months' session, for the members would probably be as interminably |1oquacious then as the Speaker virtual 1y declares them to be now.
 This much is a certainty: It will not he possible, with the having season just commencing, to hold the rural members at Hartford much longer. Quorums in the House will soon dis appear, and then business must cease.
 Stop talking and do your work, is most excellent admonition- It is not probable that talk will make or unmake any pending measure.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01
INCOME,
 OR INHERITANCE

The Senate is being flooded with pro- Itests from business interests against lfhe corporate income tax, and the 52 lRepublican Senators who are pledged Ito support President Taft's proposition, lare evidently beginning to wish that itheyshad. not been so nasty in commit lting. .themselves. It is now suggested |that the Conference committee may 3drop the corporate income tax and lreplace it with the Presidents other Esuggestion of an inheritance tax. This would. in Chinese phrase, enable the iPresident,to save his face"
 r Senator AIdrich has endeavored to fplacate the opposition by saying that Inc supports the corporate income tax sas a temporary revenue-producer only Ito tide over the present Treasury ld6ficiteard as the Surest means of }Preventing the imposition. of a tax on thoth corporate and individual incomes. i5t is not extremely probable that either Of his statements will placate the op- {position. Among the proposition's op- Iponents are men who say an issue of bonds is more wise than a temporary ntatement as a. mere subterfuge. It |1s practically certain that once the ex- ktensive and costly machinery for the ascertainment and collection of cor tporafe Income tax is installed, it will mot be Abandoned two years hence; if the revenue therefrom becomes un- needed, new expenditures to absorb it izzfiu be devised.
 As to an inheritance tax, nearly all
 the States now collect such taxes, and surely there is no valid reason for double taxation of estates. We do not apprehend that the Senate will vote to levy this tax, though it's extreme favor itism toward the big corporations may somewhat incline it to do so.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01
(By Edward Payson weston1

(By Edward Payson WeEton.)
 Golconda, New, June 30.-After try ing to rest all day yesterday, but fail ing owing to the heat, started at 5:S0 P. M. for Golconda, equipped with new inventions to deceive the very active mosquitoes. It only took the time to walk one mile when the mosquitoes had every new scheme beaten. and was again on the defensive side of the battle, fighting every inch of the way.
 I reached Iron Point, 25 miles west of Battle Mountain, where intended to rest a short time. The only avail able place was in the rear of a. tool house, which was full of mosquitoes. I made a fire, hoping that. I could smoke them out. The Nevada mos quito is not so easily defeated, and I finally escaped, being very badly stung and sore. Later in the night it got colder, and the annoyance was somewhat relieved.
 I arrived at Golconda at 1:45 P. M. to-day. The prospects for a rest is very good, as the Hot Springs Hotel is up to date and has fine, cool rooms. I will endeavor to leave at F. M. to- night, and am assured the mosquito will not be so thick. At present I am covered with a salve to heal the sore spots all over my body.-New York Times.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

Everyone enjoys Williams Root Beer. It's the purest, finest, most sat- 1sfying beverage in the world.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

Artesian wells are being sunk in
 Enpe Colony ct the rate of about 1,4Oo
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

The Government has called in $25.-
 900. 900 from the national banks which are Treasury Repositories, leaving only about $ss. .oo0. 900 still on deposit. This action is the result of the Treasury deficit for the just ended fiscal year that is, the Government has not taken fin enough money to pay its bills and is obliged to draw upon it's reserves in the national banks.
 Possibly, this may harden the money market; certainly, it will afford the kfNau Street ''bears'' an opportunity, and 1t comes right in their usual har- vest time. when the habftuaI support CTS of the market are taking their sum-
 mer vacations
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01

WANT ADS. GENT A WORD
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-01
MOSQUITOES
 LIKE WESTON
Nevada Insects Feast Off Pedestrian = Cannot Foil Them.

Weston's Transcontinental Walk. New
 York to San Francisco.
 Ninety-Third Day of Walk. Weston is in his seventy-first year. and his task is to walk across the Uni- ted States in 100 days. Sundays ex- ,cepted)
 Estimated Distance Revised Schedule.
 4,000 Miles.
 s--- --.--sS-- Miles March Is to 20, New York to Utica, 273 March p to 27. Utica to Chafee, =. 250 March 29 to April 3, Chafee to
 Youngstown, 22s April to 10 Youn gstown to Toledo. 239 April 12 to IT, Toledo to Chicago, 276 April 19 to A. Chicago to Lincoln. ITO April 26 to May 1, Lincoln to Mex
 1co. 246 May to 8, Mexico, Mo-. to Topeka, 239 May 10 to 15. Topeka to Wakeeney, 259 May IT to P. Wakeeney. Kan. to
 Hugo, Col, 219 May "A to 29. Agate. Col. to Num- 1s4 May 31 to June 5, Mum, Col. to
 Wyoming, ....-.... .-......... 167 June z to 12. Hanna. wyo.. to
 Granger. Wyo. ..'............-. POS June IA to 19. Granger. wyo.. to Ogden, Utah 149 June 21 to 26, Ogden. Utah, to Car
 lin. New. -..-.-................. 252 June 2s to Battle Mountain, New. 59 July 29. remained at Battle Noun June 30. to Golconda. Nev........ 4s Total ...-................ ..3 455
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Invento~ OF the fashion dolls of Paris h.
peplum. very much adjusted"
THE great couturieres say you give
away their models.
I'VE reproduce what We see," answered
Nine. COnte. Il am not dressmaker. /
do not know whether my dolls could he
copied"
And to prove it might he difficult she
showed me how they are made. They are
well named dolls of pure chic" To
the conscientious painter of the human
form. chic is drawing without a model,
but who shall reproach the lady for stuff
ing her dolls with cotton? Her models
are their exteriors.
Automatically. the lovely things are
frauds.
Two wires for arms, two wires for legs,
pack cotton around them, stuff hips.
waist, bust and shoulders: add delicious
little wax head-and then sew on the
draperies.
Il knew that their things were sewed
on to them" said; ''but it is a revela-
ton that they have no garments"
Nine. Coste took up one of the dolls
in her hand.
What is this little lady? An impress
sion, very perfect, of the beautiful mod
ern woman who passes. caught in her
flight for single instant in one of her
everchanging harmonies of line tints and
materials. Accept her as she appears
You have no business with the make of
her skirt. Suppose it is a simple scrap
of velvet. sewed knowingly to her? 1t
falls exactly as il should. The folds
where her foot peeps out suggest not only
anatomy. but grace and high breeding
Be content
They look all right" said.
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fashion dolls that superseded them. Some
of his modern dolls are dressed by pre-
miercs of the great Partisan dressmaking
esta blishments-in secret. my dear, they
would lose their places were 1t proved
against them! They are real embodi-
rnents-and not dead photographer the
elusive chic of changing fashions.
When ii is sprung on you quick like
that it seems WOODY craze. Hum, hum,
You say that crown-up men. presumably
sane. cherish dainty dolls that cost from
s. up? Yes. have seen them pass happy
evenings at the dining room table with
their dollies. grouping them In little CO.
teries. doll parties-this one comes to
visit: this one. seated, should be in the
center. can hear you say: what
nice men they must be-
But Is it, really, less sinister to see a
married woman. mother of dear little chill
dren. send them packing to the nursery
while she plays dolls in her salon? Mann
mas who are kind and thoughtful let the
Riddles stay and Sec ;f thy sit YER. .i:l'
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play. heard a new edition Of the talk
about her clothes The three fashion
ables were engaged in tearing a poor
dowdy dolls reputation To pieces: Yes.
my dear, she's hopeless How unfOrtu-
nate my dear. that she cannot learn.
1 tell the story as | heard IL, neither
approving or disappearing. II is the way
of the world. Little Helen b. of Kansas
has begun a trifie early. but as she will
always have plenty of money TO Se
elegant, there can he no harm in her
Identifying herself with the fashionables
at once. Her taste will he the surer
And the rank desertion of her old dolls
today may spare her the pain OF shaking
dowdy girl friends tomorrow. Growing
up fastidious, she will avoid their &C
qCaintance.
Her case differs only by her sudden
conversion from that of fifty little Amer
lean girls of the Paris colony and half
the rich and fashionable French. Ger
man dolls" as ordinary dolls are called,
even when they walk and talk. scarcely
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S. TAYLOR. president

uOMER S. TAYLOR, president OF the
l. L National Archery Association, said
at an archers' dinner in Chicago:
'An archer must be very skillful and
calm and cool to succeed. He must ham
die his bow as Mrs. Poarck Of Michigan
avenue handles her husband.
Mr.. Poarck came home very late the
other night from an important political
meeting. In the hall he kicked up rather
a row, growing and swearing to himself
until his wife called TO him from up
stairs:
What's the matter, my dear?
'Matter-hic-is, Mr.. Poarck shouted.
that there's two hatracks here. and
dunno which one to hang my hat on
But you've got two hats. haven't
your said Mrs. Poarck. soothingly. Hang
one on each rack and come up to bed.
You're tired. -
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TO the early part Of the eighteenth GEN.
fury. sent its tailors' fashion dolls all
over Europe.
orders in courts and castles, prosperous
cities and remote chateaux carried their
trunks full OF such doll models. The
dolls. thus dressed. showed the exact
stuffs. their tints and effects in combi-
nation. and the fall and hang and balance
of each garment, from every possible
point Of view.
And note, as lonG as the rich lived
very much upon their lands-being forced.
except when up at court, to order at a
distance-dolls of the Venice type were
necessary even to the local tailors and
dressmakers of Paris. London and Vienna.
They went TO great expense of money and
intrigue to obtain Venice dolls early each
year. and in turn issued their own dolls.
often valued by modern collectors for
their vet greater rarity seventeenth
century Madrid doll has sold for 500.
And !. myself, had chance this summer
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exist among them. Having taken away
from France over twenty years ago both
the mechanical toy and the undressed
doll trade. Germany has kick coming
at the slur of German dolls. which is
exact description. The dolls Of chic"
or dolls of Paris that super sede the IN
even in fashionable Berlin families, are
as truly French, and they have an ele-
ment in their favor that is novel and
unique.
When mamma herself plays with dolls
Of beauty and fashion. how shall the
child be satisfied with less?
And grown-up Aunt May, great big
girl, already in society? She has two
dozen of the new dolls in glass cases,
Yes, and bachelor Uncle Fernand, who
lives alone with his servants in that swell
apartment of the Pare Monceau? He is
a real collector of Conte dolls, and Boyer
dolls. and Venice dolls and the French
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Idlng the little lady in yellow in her hand
''Wher2 do you get the delightful little
wax heads?
Il make them" said the lady. simply.
The two little American girls of Paris
who are already collectors and are grow
ing UP 10 be philosophers of fashion sat
there with their dilettante. mamma. wide
eyed. solemn. all agog with intelligent,
self-contained interest.
Wouldn't you prefer dolls that you can
dress and undress@" / asked them finally.
DO you mean undressed dolls of COM
merce?'' inquired little Maud.
Yes" | said.
They would be a great responsibility"
unused little Amy.
I'VE should surely have to bring them
down here in the end. to have costumes
that set and hang right sewed upon
them" added Maud.
Something correct. but simple" sug-
gested Amy.
Good enough for poor relations"
summed up Maud.
STERLING HELLO.
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and make no noise by whispering or wrig
Cling in their chairs.
Yet, when the craze is understood, 1t
is neither abnormal nor even silly. 1t is
a cultured enough form of the collectors
mainland begins with old fashion plates.
Have you old copies OF Godey's Ladies'
Book. Arthur's Magazine or Peterson's.
a certain value. Similar plates from old
publications of Paris London and Vienna
enter into the great collections. And the
colored wood cuts and engravinss-es-
pecially the plates of great dressmakers
and fashion informers" issued sepa-
rately during the past 40 years-are
really very expensive.
Now, before color-printing was in
vented how were the styles indicated to
the world?
BY dolls.
Venice, capital of taste and pleasure up
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Here is a hat effect from Lewes. here J
from Esther Never"
''All done by sewing remnant ships
around wires stuffed with cotton!'
''The painter gets his effects with daub0
OF color. Our colors are the actual
fabrics"
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answered Women who have beautiful
outlines are not going to hide them I'M
der packages of stuffs. More than ever.
women are dressing according to their
forms. The empire IS falling. What will
II be? They are reaching hack to the
Gothic, the Greek. Look at this little
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How shall they mother In their arms
a cold. great LADY,
So they scolded round the new doll
whose place really seemed to me to be
under glass in a collection. but she
who had paid IS for the charming OBJ
ject, a rich young mother of the Amer
lean colony. smiled in a superior manner
on her friend from Kansas.
Ask your child's opinion. she said.
Helen. / give you this doll of chic. VIII
you love it?'
Mamma, mamma, may | have 1t?
little Helen b. of Kansas gasped. with
great. adoring eyes. She held the deil-
cate chic thing with deft little myers
not fold of the skirts fall was rumpled
you can't take its things OF, said
one lady.
mo, i could not put them back again
not yeti answered Helen.
will not your other dollies be ashamed
before her.? teased another.
NO, madame; she will be lovely lady
come to call upon them" replied the loyal
little American. and when she goes
they'll talk about her clothes.
A week later the infatuated party was
the mother, not the child. She had gone
down to Boyer's. near Brentano's. in the
Avenue de rOpera, and bought two more
dolls of pure chic" to go with the gift
one.
II could not stand Helen's wretched
play with her old dolls about the lovely
lady" she said. 1T wrung my heart
to hear them talk about her clothes.
hopeless. resigned, yet SO appreciative!
Could j allow my child to identify her
self with dowdiness?'
She had tasted of the tree of knowl-
edge" i suggested.
'.Sure: and IL is up TO me to make her
identify herself with the taste. No time
to lose. These early impressions are
important when they begin coming. Hell
en- has two dowdy. old-style dolls.
bought her two more specimens of the
pure chic variety. which makes three
with the gift that started the trouble.
give taste a majority. and all goes
well. This morning. Helen being at her
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to buy from mass Of artistic junk at
Toblach. the entrance to the Dolomites,
two rather sOiled and battered Paris dolls
of the eighteenth century for the trifie of
$50 apiece. One reason I did not specu-
late was the vague recollection of hav-
ing seen at the Boyer establishment of
Paris a so perfect modern reconstruction
of VelasqueZ's ''Infante' and the Marie
Antoinette of Vigee-Lebrun that I igno-
rantly mistook them for fashion dolls "of
the epoch
In any case my Toblack find would
have dated from the less valued period
when Paris had gone ahead of Venice, as
Marion Crawford tells in his "Gleanings
from Venetian History:
I'm earlier days Venice had set the
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':All the materials are snippings from
the great couturieres," she answered
THAT muff is real sable a square inch
from a damaged corner that fell from
the cutters table. Here is real astrakhan.
seal. mink. That soutache design is YER
batm Paquin, like the skirt it decorates.
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T TITLE American Girls in
l. Paris Love Them and
Grownups Collect Them
Craze for the Boyer Dolls
of Pure Chic"-They Have
No Bodies and They Wear
No Clothes-Yet Even Their
Fur Trimmings Are Real
The Essence of Fashion as a
Little Girls Treasure-Ab-
sorbing the Instinct of High
Taste.