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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-18
things the non-union men do not en- joy for lack or organization.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

Stephen Grohol. Jr., a student at the St. Bernard's Seminary. Rochester. N. Y., is spending the summer vacation with his parents in Brooks street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-18

Popular COmedlan FOII StOck CO. the popular Poli Stock company in the cast.
 In the cast for next week will ap- pear Florence James, a Bridgeport girl and one of the most talented of Miss Grace Dalyrymple Clarke's stu dent players.
 At the Monday matinee the Alice Fleming Hat which has been on ex- hibition all week in the display window of NJ Lcstig at HI Main street will be presented to some lady patron of the theatre.
 Seats for the entire week are now on sale at the box office.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-18

A with his parents in Brooks street
 Miss Nellie Painter. Washington ave- nue, and Mrs. Mary c. Farnam who have begun a tour through Europe, have reached London safely Both are in excellent health and Miss Paint CTS health was even much improved by her sea voyage.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred W. Neupert and George H. c. Kohem were recent visit ors in Brooklyn, N. Y, and also were present at the reception given Sunday by Mrs. Neupert's mother Mrs. Vaeth. wife of Col. Andrew J. Vaeth. in honor of her birthday. The day also mark ed the second anniversary of the ordi- nation of Rev. Father George T. Vaeth of New York. and son of Col. and Mrs. A. J. Vaeth. Father Vaeth is well known in this city. having at various times said mass at St. Jo- seph's and St. Mary's churches in this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-18
DISTRICT OF FAIRFIELD, ss. PROBATE COURT.

May Ibs IJIU. Estate of Agnes Gould late of Fair field, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the Dis trict of Fairfield hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the Creditors of said Estate to exhibit their claims for settlement Those who neglect to present their accounts. properly attested, within said Iimo. will be debarred a recov- cry. All persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make i'm. mediate payment to
 ABRAHAM H. GOULD, D r b *p Administrator
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14

ond volume of the new Century edition
of Shakespeare Besides this, he was a
frequent contributor to the reviews ana
magazines, especially on Shakespearean
subjects, which were his hobby.
But 1t was as an editor that he did the
greatest work and the greatest volume
of work. His Shakespearean editing was
monumental, and his name will be Tor
ever identified with that of the Bard OF
Avon; but for all poetry he had nice
feeling, which made it particularly ap-
propriate for him to edit editions OF
Gray, Mrs. Browning, Robert Browning,
Lamb, Macauay, Wordsworth, GOLDSMITH.
Milton, Tennyson and others. And 1t Will
be found that his selections and editions
of these poets have come into popular
use, because of the high value of his
commentaries and notes. AS headmaster
at Dorchester, Lawrence, Salem and
Cambridge he made his reputation as an
educator and he numbered among his
pupils some of the great men of his time
But it is by his permanent contributions
to English literature that he will live in
the minds of his countrymen, and MS
lifelong devotion to Shakespeare and the
results from that study which he gave
to the world are likely to live as long
as Shakespeare himself.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
Chef Menteur'S Railroad Bridge

The war department has ordered the
Louisville and Nashville railroad to
substitute a bridge with a draw span
sixty feet in width for Its present bridge
at Chef Menteur. The rights of trans
portation. by water are superior to those
by rail. H
When the bridge at Chef Menteur has
a movable span sixty feet wide two
boats and barges can pass from Lake
Borgne to Lake Pontchartrain at the
hack door of New Orleans. The New
Orleans Times-Democrat says the es-
adjustment of a drawbridge across Chef
Menteur will facilitate the movement
of coal from the Alabama mines to
New Orleans
The matter has been pending before
the war department long time and 1t
is not expected that the decision reached
will be contested or opposed in any
manner. The present bridge is an I'M
reasonable obstruction of navigable wa
tiers, and it will have to give place to
drawbridge having a movable span
sixty feet wide.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
Mary Gardens Salary Demand

The Metropolitan Opera company OF
New York is up against singer who
refuses to have her salary marked down.
The singer in question is Mary Garden.
She not only demands $500 a night but
she also insists upon guaranty of 50
performances so that her earnings for
the four-months' season will be 1000
The opera company is now concentrate
ing its gray matter upon this question.
s'Is Mary Garden worth the sums NAM
ed?" It is a question of earning ca
pacity with them rather than of artis-
tic merit, and the chances are that Mary
Gardens dramatic talent will triumph
In the decision. She may not be a great
singer, but she never forgets to be dra-
matte, and this gives the American sta,
. high-earning capacity.
The salary list of the Metropolitan
Opera company promises to he fully $780,
600 next season, and it is doubtful IL
It exceeded this sum when Mr. Hammer
stein was a competitor for the high
priced singers. The latter was indeed
out for the purpose of reducing the pay
Of leading singers and even of subor-
dinate singers to the European basis,
hut the demand of Mary Garden goes
TO show that the wages of the singers
cannot be ruthlessy cut down. 1t is
q game that both sides can play at and
Mary Garden is playing her side of the
vgame with vigor and aggressiveness
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
CAPTAIN Ward Passes Away

Capt. William C. Ward. able lawyer
and battle SCARED veteran of the Con-
federacy, Joined the silent majority yes
terday. A native of Alabama he cher
ished her traditions and was proud OF
her history and at the call to arms in. 81
he was among the first to enlist in the
ranks.
Captain Ward was a member of the
famous Fourth Alabama, which receiv-
ed its baptism of blood at the first bat
tie of Manassas. The Fourth was in
Thomas ]. Jacksons brigade and In
that memorable fight bore the brunt.
This Alabama regiment was decimated
at Manassas and it was the splendid
valor of officers and men on that his
toric field that brought to mind the he
roic charge of the noble six hundred
at Balaklava. And it was this glorious
intrepidity at Manassas which caused
General Bee to call out to his own
troops: "There stand Jackson and his
men like a stonewall!
Captain Ward was one of the few
survivors of the original Fourth Ala
bama and had his war record stopped
there he would even then have merited
distinction as a soldier But he saw
four years of service and was in nearly
all the great battles of Northern Nir-
einia. He was three times wounded
once at Gettysburg, and later twice at
Spanish Fort.
Coming to Birmingham to live in 1885
Captain Ward was prominent not only
at the bar but in every important move
ment for the upbuilding of the city. He
was animated by high ideals both in
his law practice and in his civic career.
He loved truth and justice and in all
the relations of life he was a shining
exenplar. Brave, kind, clean of speech
and clean of heart and mind, Captain
Wards influence for good was strongly
felt throughout this community, and
Birmingham will be poorer for his TAX
ing off. Peace to his ashes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
GAEkWAR OF BARODA
Is Very Rich and Has His Peoples Wei
fare at Heart

From the Washington Herald.
"Syaji Rao. Gaekwar of Baroda. who
Is visiting this country, and is at pres
ent in New York. said Maj. st. George
s. Williams, of the British army, at thu
New Willard. last night, ranks at the
head of the native rulers of India for
personality, culture and, character-one
of her greatest independent sovereigns.
Independence. so far as fealty to Eng
land allows; for these emperors of old
hold but the title of subordinate princes
now and can take no part In the worlds
politics or action.
However brilliant and powerful they
may be-" continued the English officer.
lat each court there is kind of little
viceroy, called the British resident, who
Is always on the watch, and no real
step can be taken without hts sanction.
THE Gaekwar of Baroda is an i'm
mensely wealthy man, and his magnifi-
cent palaces and jewels which would
dazzle any European potentate or
American multimillionaire, But the
Gaekwar cares more for his hospitals
and colleges than his palaces, and pub
lie institutions of excellent character
may be found all over the state. Also
his highness supports many students
abroad. The Baroda college is one of the
finest modern buildings In India. The
Gaekwar is entirely wrapped up in
thoughts for the welfare of his people
and keeps In daily touch with the af-
fairs of state, both by letter and cable.
"Her highness, the Maharani of Ba-
roda," added Major Williams, lis wo-
man of great charm and poise, with the
retiring dignity and modesty of the
east She observes strict purdah of her
rank and caste while in India, but
travels with her husband in European
fashion. though without discarding the
graceful folds of her sari They have
a daughter and three sons, beside the
crown prince. The boys have been
brought up at Elton and Oxford, and they
are quite European"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
SOUTH AND IMMIGRATION

From the Washington Post.
Mr.. Richard II. Edmunds of Maryland
in an address delivered before the Geor-
gia School of Technology some days ago
mentioned one fact that is generally over
looked in computations of the material
economies of the south that joined IN
the secession movement of 1861. He opined
that from 1865 till 1900 the south lost 2,5O0,
600 of her white population, and that TINS
drain was at a time when that section
most needed the energies of her pro-
gressive white sons and daughters. But
during the era of reconstruction there
was no field at the south for the am
bilious young white man and ne went
north or west Many thousands located
in New York city, where they were
welcomed with open arms, and they added
enormously TO the business energies and
material successes of the metropolis.
Other thousands went to Chicago, to Mis-
souri,, to Kansas, to Texas, though the
latter was one of the seeding states.
These emigrants were of the most ad-
venturous, energetic and ambitious whites
of the south, and their loss entailed in
calculable disaster upon that section.
But the tide is turned. More northerners
are locating at the south than there are
southerners going north. An entire COM
munity in a certain section of Georgia
is composed of emigrants from the mid
die west. north of the Ohio river, most
lv Grand Army men or their descendants,
and 1t Is a rather curious fact that they
refuse to allow a negro to dwell among
them.
The political carpetbagger of the re-
construction era was looked on with con-
tempt and loathing by the southern
whites. but the time has come when the
farmer, or other good citizen from any
region of the north who seeks a home
at the south is welcomed; and soon he
is as uAch a part of that community
as though he were native and to the man.
ner born.
The exodus of the negro from the south
to the north is great, and constantly In
creasing. Foreigners do not like the south,
except the Italians in Louisiana and the
Germans in Texas. The south must thus
depend on accessions from the north and
west and they will not fail her. If the
swamp lands of the south were drained
millions of northerners would rush there
to possess them.
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GREAT sHAKEsPEAREAN SCHOLAR
From the washington Herald


In the death, in his eighty-third year,
of William James Rolfe, America loses a
scholar Of ripe literary Attachments. and
one to whom a vast number of Ameri-
cans are indebted. For, while it will not
do to say that Professor Rolfe "popu-
larized" Shakespeare, 1t is certainly true
that, recognizing the need of an edition
of the works of the immortal bard~ that
should be full, adequate and scholarly,
without being cumbersome, he labored for
10 years in furnishing It, He began the
Rolfe edition Of Shakespeare in 1870. and
1t was not completed until 1888. It's 40
volumes are standard, as complete as
scholarship could make them, and they
are used not only by most educational
institutions in this country, but In Eng
land and Canada as well.
Professor Role was an author also. His
"Satchel Guide to Europe" written first
in 1872. proved such convenience, espe-
cially to American tourists abroad, that
it has had to be revised yearly ever since,
bringing 1t up to date. Early in his
scholastic career he wrote Latin gram
mar which has had a wide vogue; he
was the author OF Shakespeare. the
Boy and he furnished the twentS-sec-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
"wHo,s WHO" STATISTICS

From the New York World.
OF the 1856 persons whose names are
in who's Who in America for boil.
lust issued, 15,51S gave general education
al data concerning themselves. 1t ap-
pears that $3.50 of this latter number, or
81 SO per cent are college graduates,
while 476 are graduates of the United
States Military and Naval academies.
Those who attended college but were
not graduated were 204s. Only 200 were
educated privately; 81 were self-taughe.
Lawyers are SoS1 of the grand total in
the book; physicians, 1915; clergymen,
2Os5; artists, s2s; musicians, 2sS; persons
in technical pursits, 1924. 1t Is strik-
ing fact that of the physicians 49.36 per
cent, just under half, are college gradu-
ates In the ministry the percentage is
81 %: in the law, 50 Is; among the work.
ers in technical professions 1882; among
musicians. 12.as; among artists, s.ss.
OF the 1885 persons listed, 1851 are
natives of the United States, S79 of Eng
land, sS3 of Germany. 331 of Canada, liz
of Ireland, 121 of Scotland. New York
furnished 297O of the native born; Mas
sachusetts, 1853: Pennsylvania, 1916; Ohio.
1874; Illinois, 744; Connecticut. 532; Maine,
52e: Indiana, ST.. Virginia, New Jersey,
Vermont, Michigan, Maryland, Wiscon-
Gin, New Hampshire. Missouri and Ken
lucky are the other states contributing
more than 800 natives each.
In present residents as listed New York
leads with $685. which Is 191 less than last
year Massachusetts has III listed resi-
dents; Pennsylvania, 1896; Illinois, 1859:
District of Columbia, 1907.
The editors of the work call attention
to the westward movement indicated by
such facts as that Colorado, with only
| five natives In the book has 1893 resi-
dents, while Montana, with one native,
has 46 residents. They might well quote
California, with al natives and $50 resi-
dents In some eastern and southern
states the conditions of migration are
reversed. Even Pennsylvania shows 1871
natives, against 1863 residents. while fol
Ohio the figures are 1874 and GAS the
wrong way. Illinois, with Chicagos aid
balances for the residents by IA to 1859
New York state, holding New York city
presents 1881 residents to 2S70 natives.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS LATIN

From the Springfield Republican.
The awesomeness of learning will be
perceptibly lightened to the laity by the
admission of President Butler of Column
bia university that it is true that Prof.
Harry Thurston Peck, whose resignation
has lately been asked for because of a
breach promise suit, wrote the Latin
address which he has taken with him,
beautifully engrossed on parchment TO
deliver at Berlin before the German men
of learning When interviewed Friday in
London. according to cable dispatch
to the New York World, President But
Ter said promptly:
Yes It is quite true Professor Peck
wrote the Latin address that am to de-
liver at the Berlin university in October
He writes Latin particularly well and has
written all the Latin addresses issued
by the university for several years past
1t is a part of his duty to do so. There
never has been any secret about it,
Doubtless not. in the university, but tc
the world outside it may come as a shock
to find that the elaborate show of learn.
ing put forward so bravely by universe
ties is a fake. Gaping sceptics listening
to these sonorous Ciceronian periods may
have felt sometimes as the learned Seal.
tiger did about the difficult Basque Ian.
guage: '"They say these Basques un.
derstand each other. but ] for one will
never believe it." But 1t is new reveal.
ton that even the orator himself is mo-
required to understand what he says
Let us hope that Professor Peck has pu
no iokers in the Berlin address like the
"Quid rides which the wit offered to the
rich tobacconist as a motto for his car
riage panel
No doubt it may be said that by "as
suming responsibility for the sentiment
and for the temporal clauses with cum,
the executive head of a university he
comes the real author of the address ht
delivers, even though another hand helt
the pen But the result of this disclosure
of this academic secret, it is to be feared
will be to make the coarse, ignorant work
jeer at orations in Latin. Some may ever
ask why such addresses are not given II
a tongue which the orator can speak arc
the audience understand.
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN GIRLS

From the London Times.
London-Compared with American
girls, English girls excel in natural
possibilities" such as complexion, hair
and general health. However, the
American society girls understand the
art of dress far better than do their
English sisters besides, they exert
themselves to the utmost to be brilliant
and hence delightful companions. The
English girls live more alone and con-
sequently are duller.
ION the other hand, the American
girls are much more local in their
knowledge and interests. The range of
thought of the English girls embraces
the world. Many of their men folk are
addicted to wandering, which often de-
velops into the power of colonizing
This broadens the minds of the girls
and their charities extend from Leban-
on to London. They study sport from
polo in India to cricket in Australia.
There are two keynotes to an Eng
lish girls life-politics and sport-in
which she INDUCES with that clearness
and vigor which are possible only with
healthy body and mind, and perhaps
with the accompaniment of rustic dull
ness The American girl Is pampered
whereas in England the boy comes first
Before marriage English girls see
little of men; American girls much
After marriage the situation Is re-
versed. English husbands and wives
live common life; American husbands
and wives have their absorbing individ-
ual interests. The men are absorbed in
business, whereof they tell their wives
little or nothing. The women are alb
sorbed in their own intellectual pur-
suits and pleasures
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14

From the Louisville Courler-JouiHai'
MONG the distinguished men who
"a were assigned to Reno to il
4 \ lumine the columns of the press
with their views of the prize fight was
Mr.. william Muldoon. trainer OF
athletes and a restorer of broken-down
brainworkcrs. Mr.. Muldoon vas not
content to accept the terse statement
of James Jeffries in explanation of his
failure to wallop the other pusilist
but has devoted time and space to ex-
planning how it happened. He intro
duces the revolutionary theory that Mr.
Jefries was fit physically to have
smashed his opponent into mass of
jelly, but that he was mentally UNIT,
or mot mentally great enough" as
Mr. Muldoon puts 1t. Ergo, he advises
college athletes not to neglect mental
development for physical development.
only to be crushed by the realization
that a person of inferior brute strength
but superior mental activity has proved
the value of mental training by deliv-
ering knockout blow.
Most readers of Mr.. Muldoon's opin-
ions are unfamiliar with the nature
and extent of the mental development
of Jack" Johnson. Does he read the
Mediations of Marcus Aurelius before
retiring, and learn one of the orations
of Demosthenes before tackling his iced
cantaloupe at breakfast? Does he pom
der the golden sayings of Epictetus
before punching the bag? Does he
solve a couple of puadratic equations
or study Ne~top's methods of divisors
before pounding his sparring partner
on the solar plexus? We don't know.
The literati who camped at Reno be-
fore the fight neglected Johnson sadly.
They were so much engaged In touting
the other pugilist.
1t may be that Jeffries' mind grew
nabby and pasty as a result of his hav-
ing spent too much time devouring tire
chocolate-cream descriptions of hts
physical beauty by Mr.. Jack" Lon
don, and swallowing sugared predic-
tions of the victory that was to at
tend his arms-and legs-upon the
Fourth of July Perhaps he should
have read a scientific work upon how
to climb a creased pole or buck against
a buzz saw, or some other book cal
culated to stimulate the mental &C.
tivities Yet, as ones eye travels over
the list of the notable men Of the ring,
| Illustrations of the triumph OF the
crudite prize fighter over the merely
muscular person are not plentiful
enough to constitute clinching proof
of Mr.. Muldoon's contention.
There was John l. Sullivan, for ex-
ample. He burned no other midnight
oil than the fusel oil which illuminated
him from within. 1t may be true that
Iff Mr.. Sullivan had followed after
strong drink from the wells OF liera-
ture and science he would have worn
I, championship belt several seasons
LONGER than he did, but the sporting
world Will always believe that 1t was
his thirst for alcoholic beverages rather
than his .distaste for books that has
tened his downfall. And as matters
stood he was a great pugilist.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Muldoon's In
teresting essays, and the useful mora
with which he adorns the tale of JEFF
fries defeat, II does not seem probable
that athleticism and the higher educa :
ton must go hand-in-hand. Mental
alertness is, of course. valuable in foot
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-14
TESTIMONY FROM ALABAMA

from the houston Post.
Judge John T. Lakeland of Grove Hill,
Ala. who was in Houston Saturday, voted
for the prohibition amendment in the re-
cent election in that state. He has been
allied with the prohibition side ever since
the issue was raised in Alabama. Here
is what he stated to representative
of the Post:
Il voted for the amendment becauce I
am a temperance man and / want to see
the traffic discontinued. But the amend
ment was defeated by $1,000 majority.
and I see now that state prohibition.
statutory or constitutional. cannot work.
Our condition in Alabama, from the
standpoint of temperance and sobriety, is
far worse than it was under the former
local option system. expect to see the
next legislature modify these laws to
such an extent that we will be put back
on a local option basis. And this will
be done in the interest of temperance