The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-20

l Edward c. Stewart lives, at 234 East | 77th. street, and took away with ! them her three-year- son, Robert. l The woman, who found the burden
 of supporting her two little boys more l than her slender earnings would per | init, advertised in the newspapers the l other day that she would surrender possession of the oldest to any couple
 that would adopt him and give him a comfortable home.A dozen men and women called in answer to the ad.
 and after seeing the youngster, who
 is handsome broth of boy. healthy
 come back for him. In the mean time the couple in the automobile
 came along The man had heavy fur coat and the Woman's hands were
 covered with diamonds which glisten- ed like radium in the dark and gloomy fiat They asked If they could have imm ediate possession and
 when the mother agreed bundled the youngster up in a huge automobile rug and drove off with him without
 poor mother is now worrying where her child it and how it is being treat ed: Efforts to locate the cooSle nave failed to date. Of their ablity 10
 no doubt. The realization of this fact has accentuated public curiosity in them and their plans for the adop~
 ton of the youngster.
 | Henry M Tilford, president of the Standard Oil Company of California, | is the subject Of bitter comment in the will of his sister, Mary Trotter Chastain, wife of James Bruce Chas-
 tain, filed in the Surrogate's office. She accuses him of having prejudiced
 her mother against her, and with 1 having taken advantage of the for mer's invalid condition at his home to induce her to discriminate against her.
 Mrs. Chastain was the daughter of
 Catherine Hunt Tilford, who died at No. 118 West f'ifty-seventh street on
 Dec 18th last. About a year ago
 she won a fight in the Supreme Court | to break her mothers will, which dis posed of a $1,000,00O estate and left her share in trust for life. A half
 dozen members Of the Tilford family, 1 several of whom are multi-million- 1 aires, were engaged in the legal bat 1 tie. Henry NJ. Tilford, whose wealth
 is estimated at s50,000,000, was one
 of the 1itigants.
 l In beuueathing the bulk of her es | tate to her husband. Mrs. Chastain 1 requested him to conserve 1t and up- | on his death to leave it for the estab- l lishment in Lexington, Ky, of a | Kate Earle Memorial Home for
 Kentucky. Gentlewomen."
 | Those love oppressed couples who I StsiUQ OH IHe TlNoT Ddnk OH d CIGdT 1 night and 1anguishingly sigh of the
 radiant glory of Venus, want to wake up and have care, says Mary Proc | tor, the distinguished woman astron-r | omer, who takes exception to the sug- | gestion of a Harvard professor that
 fife on the brilliant celestial orb is | like one long summer day. In effect | Miss Proctor intimated that Hades, as conceived by those who believe there
 is such place, has nothing on the | f,.s1y ] ment. ! eff there is life on Venus, the in- 1 habitants have about as busy and | uncomfortable time as we," she says. They must live in cyclone eel | lars and wear heat-proof diving suits | to business How would you like to | live in a land Of perpetual tornadoes and hot water spouts? Venus makes i but one revolution on her axis as the moon makes but one in Q rotation l son we see but one side of the moon. This means that Venus presents the same side to the sun, year in and | year out. That side is fearfully hot. | fully twice as hot as our tropics. It | follows that the other side would be about twice as cold as our arctics.'' 1 It was suggested that if one lived l in the perpetual twilight between the two sides there should be delightful | climate there. That would be the worst place to live,' she continued. "All of this cold air on one side and hot air on tho other is an unnatural condition. In the twilight belt that you mention, | terrific windStormS are forming one after another, tearing across the face | of the planet with incredible force and rapidity. Tornado follows tor ! nado. Then, we know; or at least | surface of Venus is almost entirely | water, There would be a regular procession of hot and cold water spouts over the planet, pumping into rainstorms and tornadoes and all sorts of meteorological upheavalS.
 There is probably never a dull mo ment on Venus. These storms keep
 t}re surface of the planet constantly
 covered with rolling, scurrying clouds
 that make anything like accurate ob- cally impossible. It is these heavy.
 atmospheric conditions that probably
 give the planet it's beauty. It re- | fleets seven-tenths of the light 1t
 though only half as far away from the sun as Venus. looks like a disc of dirty zinc beside the Evening Star" | Disdaining to oppose his suit for | $25000 for breach of promise of mar
 riage and have her fckleness paraded
 before the court and a room full of | spectators, Elizabeth Kelley Downing, | an heiress, allowed Leicester M. Pond | of Spokane, Wash, to take judgment against her by default this week for ! the full amount claimed The judg ! ment will have to be presented to @ Sheriff's Jury for consideration and | determination of the actual damages sustained by Pond before he will be allowed to make levy on any of the defendants property. There is a strong suspicion that he will not fare
 so well before this body, which will
 put him through grilling that will
 make the ordinary cross examination seeem like a game of tag between
 two-year-olds. On the eve of his marriage to Miss Kelley, Pond claims she suddenly changed her mind and
 eloped with Downing, who was to | have been his best man. The couple | have been living quietly out of town | since the wedding and paid no att | tention to Ponds suit, Among their | friends they have justified their mar riage by pointing to the suit brought | against the bride as indicating that it was really her money and not her self that Pond was after in wooing her