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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
IN THE THEATRES
JACKsoN's
JACKsoN's VAUDEVILLE.


 The bill of vaudeville which opened at Jackson's theatre this afternoon will undoubtedly prove one of the most popular that has been presented at this theatre thus far. For healthier Manager Jackson has secured one of vaudeville's most celebrated singing organizations, The Herald Square quartette, famous from coast to coast, and incidentally one of the highest sa1aried quartettes in the business They come to Bridgeport fresh from vaudeville theatres where in each in stance they were the feature attrac- tion. They are one of the few quar- tettes that combine good singing har- mony with clever and original comedy and their efforts never fail to please and amuse. Their offering this season is a, character farce comedy playlet, with musical numbers interspersed en- titled ''The Booking Agents Busy Day. and offers these popular young men a ability. The fact that they have ap- peared in this city before a number of times and made good on each occa- able engagement, and large outpour- ing of their admirers is expected this evening. The remainder of the vaude- vile bill is in keeping with the quality grams, and includes, the well known entertainer Clyde Bates, and his excel lent assisting company presenting their newest and best comedy sketch My Wife's Gone to the Country This playlet is unusually funny and offers unlimited opportunities to these talent ed players. Another feature of the bi1ls that is sure to prove intensely in teresting is the sensational aerialistic speciality presented by The Magin1eys, assisted by their clever trick dog 'EProps'' Casey and Smith in a pleas ing comedy musical skit concludes the vaudeville portion of the entertain ment. The usual three reels of the latest and most interesting achieve ments in the world of life motion photography will be exhibited That same popular little price will prevail
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Own Your Own Mind.

Have you ever considered the possf- bility of doing this? Remember that living in rented mind, furnished with opinions bought on the installment plan, never offers any inducement with it for the future. Not only this, but you are not saving up anything.
 The advantages of owning your own mind will be apparent at a moments thought.
 In the first place, you come to take a personal interest, which you do not feel when it is owned by some one else. Then again the natural increase in value rebounds to your own profit. You have no one to dictate to you as to the inside furnishings and decora tions. Besides, it makes you more par ticular with regard to what you put into it. If you live in a rented mind you don't care much. You will drive nails in the walls and get generally careless about it. But when you own your own mind you are constantly go- ing about picking it up. You take real pride in it.
 Be it ever so humble, there is no place like a mind that you own your- self.-Life.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Tounh Turkex.


 Mark Twain when he worked in Ne vada on the Virginia City Enterprise inserted in the news a good many boarding house jokes.
 In revenge the humorist's sensitive fellow boarders in Virginia City de- cided to put up a game on him. They enlisted the landlady's help, and at the Thanksgiving dinner at the boarding house Mark Twain by a dexterous piece of sleight of hand was served appar- ently direct from the fowl with a tur- key leg of painted wood
 The humerist sawed away solemnly at the wooden leg for some time. Then he said to the landlady, with a smile:
 You've changed your poultry dealer. haven't you. ma amp
 'sWhy, no, MT Clemens,'' she replied. What makes you think sop
 ''This turkey he answered, giving the wooden drumstick a little whack with his knife. Its about the tender est morsel i've struck in this house for some months
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Lenqth of Dreams.

Three physicians were discussing the matter of the length of dreams.
 "One afternoon" said one of them. q called to see a patient, and, much to my satisfaction, found him sleep ing soundly. 1 sat by his bed, felt of his pulse without disturbing him and waited for him to awaken. After a few minutes a junk dealers cart with discordant ringing bells turned into the street, and as their first tones reached us my patient opened his eyes.
 "sDoctor.' he said, I'm glad to see you and awfully glad that you woke me, for have been tortured by a most distressing dream that must have last ed for several hours. I dreamed that I was sick, as am, and that my boy came into the room with a string of most horribly sounding sleighbells and rang them in my ears, while l hadn't power to move or speak to him. 1 suf- fered tortures for what appeared to be an interminabIe time. Pm so glad you woke me-
 f'The ringing of those bells for one second had caused all of that dream and just at the waking moment
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
.LASKY'S MUSICIANS AND WILSON & co.
 SCORE AT POLL'S
Riot of Hlirth Greets PerenuialIy. Popu. lar TraYesty Trio.

Jack wilson & Co, presenting as an added feature of the bill at Poll s theatre this week the perennially- pop ular traVesty f=An Upheava1 in Dark town, scored one of the biggest 1augh- ing hits of the year with the first nighters who in goodiy numbers pray ed the rain last evening to witness an entertaining bill. Wilson followed his usual tactics of burlesquing nearly everything else on the bill. and this with his fund of new parodies, eccen- trfc dancing and clever dialogue kept the audience fairly bowling with n1irth. The company comprises Ada Lane, enbonpoint and charming as ever and F'ranklyn Battle. a dashing baritone.
 Jesse Lasky, the producer of many of vaudevil1e's big musical acts, con- tributes the headfiner this week, Las ky's Imperial Musicians. who play diversified program upon many instru- ments. and conclude with q deser1p- Visit to New York; This is a med- ley of popular airs, introducing two accomplished young women who be- sides performing the duties of drum n1ers work an amazingly widespread variety of effects with humorous re- suits.
 comedienne, for several years favor ite with the Poli patrons, receives her accustomed warm welcome. Her songs are new and catchy, and she has lost none of the dainty mannerisms that have made her a popular entertainer.
 One of the spectacular novelties of the season IS the aCrODaC1c pGFISiI1- ance of the Pederson Brothers, who introduce several genuine thrills and perform many extremely difficult feats with agility and ease.
 Porter Emerson Browne the broad shouldered young playwright who is collecting royalties on A Fool There Was'' wrote. s@The Duchess which is presented by Beatrice Ingram & Co. It blends in satisfying proportions the elements of h1mor and pathos in the telling of a story of the hardshfps of a. pair of working girls. Miss Ingram is assisted by Blanche Holt. who evokes much mirth by her enactment of the part of the boarding house mis- tress, a grotesque character; Claire Victor, as her i'll conpanion; and Emile Collins, formerly of the Poli Stock Co., who appears as a store de- tective.
 sammy Burns and Alice Fulton opened the bill with Q, series of whirl- wind dances. Jack B. Gardner pre- sents ''IVhe Early Bird', but last night he didn't get the worm with it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Picking a Horse.

A British cavalry officer, speaking of horses, said:
 Give me free hand and I should pick a roan-that is, for good temper and quick learning. Dark grays and blacks are mostly strong and hardy, and so are dark chestnuts As a gen. eraI rule, light chestnuts and light bays are nervous and delicate. A rusty blacks sulky pig nine times out of ten. Then, again, there are white stockings as they call them. You know the old saying, One white legs bad un, two white legs you may sell to a friend, three white legs you may trust for a time,' four white legs you may lay your life on.'
 This does not agree with an old Yan- kee saying:
 One white foot, buy him;
 Two white feet, try him.
 Three white feet, look well about him;
 Four white feet, go on without him.
 Now, however, the American idea is similar to that of the sergeant, and they say, -Four white feet you can stake your life on hfm."-London Spec tator.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
at Jackson's Next Friday
 House Next Door,

tongue 1ashings are laid Justify over the backs of the family next door, with an injustice so absurd that it becomes comic with a biting wit. The head of the house next door is Sir Isaac Jacobson, a man of singu1arly long pa tience under the misunderstanding of prejudice and a man of high character and ideals. The character drawing all the way through is said to be excellent, so that the audience sees a slice of life instead of listening to a dissertation on the rising power of the nouveau rich. The story is simplicity itself. The young people of both houses have fallen in love across the family barrier and love for his daughter, together with respect for the magnanimous con- duct of Sir Isaac eventually wins the crusty old baronet over. MT. Dodson one of the finest character impersona- tions ever seen and the cast as a whole is not much behind him. The seats are now selling.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Just a Eft.


 In the Ex-Lbris Journal an amusing anecdote is given of man anxious for a coat of arms and fortunate in finding one. A secondhand bookseller bought at a country sale some 300 volumes of handsome but unstable old sermons. books on theology and the like.
 He placed number of these outside his shop. Soon afterward a well dress ed man entered and said, Have you any more of this kind of books with this shield on them?'' pointing to the bookplate attached, which bore the arms and name of a good old country family.
 ''That box, sir, is full of books from the same house, answered the book seller.
 What do you ask for them?' in quired the man. ''I'm going back to Chicago, and I want to take some books, and these will just fit me, name and all. Just you sort out all that have that shield and name, but don't you send any without that nameplate, for that's my name too. I reckon this old fellow with the daggers and roosters might have been related to me some way.'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01

ous as to his ability to cope with the duties of his new office. His colleagues in recognition of the occasion, gave him a dinner, after which he was called upon for an address. He made long and serious speech. which embraced about everything from free trade to England's foreign policy. Then, paus- ing 8 moment, he glanced round the crowded room and said:
 'Gentlemen, in closing can think of no better words than the lines of Tennyson:
 ':And may there be no moaning Of the bar
 When put out to sea-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
To Munch a Viper.

Though the prescription seems to have disappeared from the pharmaco- poeia of modern beauty specialists '' it was for centuries notorious that to feed on snake meat was the way to win perpetual youth; to cure goiter, again, or any other swelling, all that was necessary was to munch a viper, from the tail up, as it might be a stick of celery, while yet another snake, if eaten, conferred the power of under standing all the tongues of birds.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Crushinu a Lawyer,

De Wolfe Hopper was once a wit ness in a suit for islander, and the opposing counsel in the court room said:
 You are an actor, I belieye?"
 t'Yes," replied Hopper.
 'FIs not that low calling?"
 'I don't know, but it's so much bet ter than my fathers that I am rather proud of it''
 E'What was your fathers calling, may I askY'
 "He was lawyer said Hopper.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Costly Counsel.

'T can understand all you have to say on the subject in an hours time," said the judge.
 Beg pardon, your honor,'' persisted the young lawyer, "but I shall con- sume at least five hours in my argu- ment.''
 ''Very well; have it your own way, '' said the judge, with resignation. t'But it will take the prisoner about five years to tell why he employed you" -Harper's Weekly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
GRADE CROSSING BLOCKED FIRE
 DEPARTMENT
THAT $4OO,0 GIFT TO RAILROAD
 BY CITY AGAIN RECALLED.

Fight Fighters Find Line of Freight
 Cars Stretched Across East Wash
 ington Avenue and Are Compelled
 to Make Wide Detour Thereby Los
 ing Much Valuable Time.
 When the city paid the N. Y, N H. & H. R. R. Co. $4OO.00O to abolish grade crossings it was generally SUD- posed such were eliminated. Such however, appears not to be the fact. Witness the happening of last even ing when the fire department was summoned in response to an alarm from box 436 Stillman and Pembroke streets.
 Fire Chief Mooney in his car and No. Chemical Engine company left fire headquarters in Middle street >ex- pectlng to cross to East Bridgeport by means of the East Washington avenue bridge. When they arrived at East Washington and Housa tonic avenues the most direct route to the scene of the fire they found a freight train stretched across the street. the cars have jumped the tracks de- molishing overhead trolley wires and putting a portion of the trolley ser vice out of business. The fremen the Stratford avenue bridge or north to Berkshire bridge. They went north thereby losing many va1ua ble minutes The fire was, in the apart ments of George Bayus on the third floor of a tenement house at TSP Hal lett street. The man who pulled in the alarm could not hear the bells ringing in the distance so he sent in another alarm and brought three more fire companies to the scene.
 Fortunately the night was rainy one and the flames did not get much encouragement from the elements therefore the damage, $10O was much less than it would be ordi- parily. Hundreds were unconveni- eneed by the mishap to the trolley service.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
LOYAL SOLDIERS
 FIGHTING REBELS
 IN JAGDALPUR

Allahbad India, Feb. 2s.-Messages from Jagdalpur today report the ar rival there of a number of loyal ma tive soldiers who are now assisting the police in protecting the city against the rebelious native uprising. The troops encountered severe fighting on their way to the relief of Jagda1- pur, several of the soldiers being kill ed or wounded. The loss among the rebels was heavy as at one place a machine gun was used against them.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
PIauinn It Down Low.

q haven't much use for Blithersley,' y said the proud papa.
 'Why?'' asked the proud mamma.
 e'I listened to him for an hour today while he told me about what his baby had said or tried to say, and just as was about to tell him about ours he left me, saying he had to catch train ''-BaItimore American.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
FREIGHT CAR
 BREAKS LIVE WIRE

In the derai1ment of freight cars on the Housatonic avenue siding at the East Washington avenue crossing last night, the feed wires of the Con necticut Co. were torn down, traffic was delayed, and stormbound pedes- trlans lost their even tempers wait ing for trolley cars. The delay on several lines was more than half an hour.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
By Main Strength.

They were listening to a piano solo at a club after dinner party.
 q know a girl,' she whispered, "who played the piano, and she had only four fingers on one hand"
 You'd think from the way this one is playing" said he that she hadn't any.'-New York Press.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Noted Artist Who Appears
 Night March 4, in "The
J. E. DODSON IN THE HOUSE
 NEXT DOOR,

NEXT DOOR,
 In providing J. B. Dodson with '"The House Next Door, J. Hartley Manners, the author, and Conan and Harris, his managers, have favored this sterling actor with a comedy pro- duction that has proved a great sue cess for two seasons. The play will be seen at Jackson's theatre, for single performance, next Friday even ing and will be finely mounted and cast. Mr. Dodson assumes the roie Of a disagreeahle old English baronet, who hates everybody not so we'll born as himself. He despises his next door neighbor heartily, because he is 4of humble origin and as much because he has become a power and rich, where as the baronet is impoverished. in his old age. The most vicious thrusts of the old baronet at his neighbor are re- ceived with shouts of laughter. His
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
ARRESTED IN WATERBURY.

Torrington, Feb. 2S.-Charles s. Warehouse. who was wanted by the Torrington police on a charge of em- bezzlement of 900 from the firm of Carroll & Leonard, was arrested in Waterbury last night.
 Warehouse was manager of the branch house of Carroll & Leonard in Torrington. He left town January 4, and it is understood here that he was on his way back to give himself up.
 The new silk and cotton bengaline, very supple and in a wide range of colors, is quite a favorite for house gowns.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
A Mndest Iudra

A certain prominent English jurist was transferred from the chancery court to the admiralty court rather un- expectedIy. While conversant with English law to a surprising degree. this gentleman had spent little time 3-- -aa-i..n Is- o.aa RaAhos. <7rlli-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
Inherited.

'fWhere did Phlyem get his pro- pensity for ballooning2''
 'I don't know, but his grandfather died in the air''
 Above the trees?''
 ''No; under ne''-New York Journal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
InsuItsd.

"Have you lived in this town very long, Miss Sear?''
 "Of course not! Do I look old enough to have lived anywhere very Iong?'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01

Think of your wonderful immunity from harm if you mind your own businesS.-Loomis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
The Greatest Finansier.

t'Who was the ,greate.t fnancier ever known?'
 'tNoah, because he foated his stock when the whole world was in liquida- tion''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
His Obligation

"L owe Pjenks a call.''
 "Going there this evening""
 .:No You see-er-that isn't all ave m"-Cleveland Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-11
BULLDOGS ATTACK
AND MAIN CHILD
Snarling Brutes Are Dragged
From Victim and Killed
With Pistol and AK


ALAMEDA, April 10.-Two ferocious
bulldogs attacked year old Joseph
Allegrini this morning shortly after 8
o'clock in Webster street near Pacific
avenue. One of the brutes fastened its
fangs in the boys left ear and the
other sank its teeth into the calf of his
right leg. The cries of the child at
tracted the attention of George john
ston and Charles Floyd
Johnston tossed both snarling CANNES
over fence and into a pen near the
Webster street firehouse. He then Sc
cured a revolver and sent two bullets
into each bulldog. The leaden slugs
falling to kill the tenacious beasts,
Johnston armed himself with an AK and
with this weapon exterminated the
bulldogs. His act was approved by a
number of persons who had witnessed
the savage manner in which the ami
mails had attacked young Allegrini.
The boy was taken to the Office of
DR.. Harold A. Miller, where his injuries
were given attention.
The dogs were owned by Frank Nc
Sherry, a conductor employed by the
Oakland traction company.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-11
HILL LINES TO TAP
COAST SfAPORTS
Railway Magnate Seeks tC
Dominate Traffic Situation
in Pacific Territory

PORTLAND, April 10-That James J.
Hill purposes to have a railroad feeder
from the interior to practically every
seaport on the Pacific coast north OF
and including San Francisco, with the
intention. after the Panama canal is
completed, of dominating the traffic
situation in northern California, Ore
9on, Washington, British Columbia,
Idaho and Montana is the belief of
persons here who have made a study
or the railroad situation of the north
coast
Supporting this contention, it is noted
that contracts are to be let at once by
tn oregon Trunk Line railroad COM
pany Tor an extension of it's line from
Madras, its present terminus to the
north boundary of the Klamath Indian
reservation. This takes the Oregon
Trunk to no particular terminus and
simply means that klamath Falls is
the immediate destination of the road
Activity of surveying crews in the
Malheur canyon in eastern Oregon is
admitted 81. be backed by Hill interests
There is practically no doubt that the
Pacific and Eastern railroad running
from Medford. Ore, into the Cascades
is owned by Hill, and the Oregon Elec-
trio railroad company and United Rail-
ways, the one penetrating into the
Willamette valley from Portland and
the other headed for Tillamook bay
from this are both known to be Hill
companies.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-11
MARKET STAGNATED
DURING TIE WEEK
Fear of Supreme Court Deci-
siOns Against Trusts One
Cause of Depression

NEW YORK, April 10.-The condition
of the market last week grew so apa-
thetic as to verge upon stagnation. AT
times a number of causes might be
discerned for this turn of things. The
feeling of suspense, due to the question
of how the supreme court will settle
the American Tobacco and Standard oil
cases. was disclosed in the nervous
tremors of the market near noon on
Monday, when the court was assembly
ing.
The surfeit of new bond issue in
jected into the market is a contributory
cause of the lethargy. The Journal of
for March of $3S0,000,0O0 par value.
compared with only $75,000,O00 last
year, the months issues running, in
fact, more than $17,0O0,O00 over the
total for the entire first quarter OF
1909. Prices Of all high grade bonds
have droped under this weight, and
the foreign demand for our bonds, after
having absorbed between $150,000, 900
and $3.50. 200 900 of new issues, came to
a full stop.
Export trade continues to be cur
tailed by the high prices of our com
modities.
New rules of the stock exchange
designed to curb manipulative prac-
tices, operated to curb. the volume of
the market to a considerable extent,
and the closing up of a line of bucket
shops" by the government, subtracted
something from the usual activities of
the market.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-11
TO MAKE REPORT ON
OCEAN SHORE ROAD

The exhaustive and long expected re-
port on the physical condition of the
Ocean Shore railway will be fled with
Judge Van Fleet in the United states
circuit court this morning 1t was pre-
pared by Engineers Bogue. Foster and
Heuer, who were appointed for this
purpose by the judge in January.
On the facts as presented in the re-
port will depend much of the roads
future. If its affairs are hOpelessly
involved. the secured creditors will
make an immediate, effort TO foreclose.
If prospects are brighter. the plan now
considered by stock and bond holders
to reorganize and refnance the COM
pany may be carried through.
Receiver F. S. Stratton, at whose
suggestion the report was ordered, be-
lieves the receipts of the road will ex-
ceed operating expenses during the
coming month. His petitions to pay
rent on terminal properties and other
pressing debts will be taken up today
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-11
Handsome
sterling silper cup
offered BY
The Call
for best loaf of
California raisin
bread made BY any
housepife or cook
in California north
of Tehachapi. not
a professional
baker or
confectioncr.
Handsome
sterling SILVER
cup offered BY
The Call
as the prize for the
best loaf of Cali
fornid rdisin
bread baked by any
baker or
confectioner in
California
north of the
Tchachapi.

u AKERS
- side the Tehhapi and the Oregon nhere challenge and
chance you
Housewives and cooks other professional bakers
California within
the kind of a challenge and a chance for
handsome sterling The Call for best
or baked described
Another sterling
the best bread baked
tessiona baker confecioner in the territory
The
that but California shall be used So ahead bakers
echone housewives
what with the decaces California produces
Impartial judges will submitted
will be The Call Full
WI" also be published where when and how send the oves In
all likelihood the awards will be determined that they
nounced April 80, which is Raisn
good good cooks have tried their hands making
including
and hints will published The
competition, all that competitors stimulated
products add
things that the food
largey increased