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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04

ness. Recently in Pittsburg he
spoke where a monument was TO be
erected for some great achievement,
and he said at that time that two
additional monuments should be
erected, one for the man who made
woman who baked the first loaf Of
bread. Connecting this with the
earlier civilization, he showed that
the first pyramid had been erected
within 100 years Of the building Of
the first stone house, and he describ-
ed some Of the tools used, saws for
cutting stone with carborundum tip
ped teeth, tubular drills, and other
tools which have come down without
Improvement for generations. All
this showed the brainpower of the
early man, and led to the conclusion
never lower, although perhaps more
primitive. But always man and not
a monkey.
Mr.. Cobern spent some time COM
pairing the codes of laws as given
in the Old Testament and those
and showed that most of the good
laws of the peole are continued in
the code given by Moses. but that
there were some startling changes
made. Both codes called for an
eye for an eye, but the older code
Also naQ law Oh caste, between
equals 1t was an eye for an eye, but
from higher caste to lower this did
not prevail. The laws relating to
medicine, one prescribing the fee for
the operation for cateract of the eye,
and fixing the fee for a successful
operation, and providing that II the
eye were injured the operator was
to lose his right hand. were quoted.
There was but little malpractice in
those times, said the speaker.
A friend in Michigan, dean of
law college, was writing a treatise
upon wills. He asked DIR. Cobern If
he had any which were older than
six or seven centuries before Christ.
DIR. Cobern read him one executed
100 years before the birth of Christ
which the lawyer said would stand
good in Michigan law today. In
mathematics, astronomy, in fact, in
nearly every department Of human
endeavor, the speaker showed the
ancients to have been well advanced,
and all tending to prove that the his
tory in the Bible is correct in every
essential particular.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
AHEARN AND HIS
HORSE SLID INTO
HOLSTER CREEK

Cornelius Ahearn, well known
market gardener of Stratford, was able
to leave the Bridgeport hospital today
after a long restful sleep following
an experience in the icy waters of
Hillister Creek at the foot of Smith
street that he would not repeat for all
the market gardens in his home town.
Ahearn drove his horse off the foot
of the street in the storm after mid
night this morning, slipping down the
steep embarrassment and before he
realized what had happened dropping
into the water up to his head.
With admirable presence of mind, he
slashed the harness with his pocket
knife, freed the horse from the wagon,
and then with the assistance of neigh
bors who answered his outcries and
later with the crew of the chemical
engine and No. 8 engine company an
swering a still alarm towed the ami
NAL ashore.
Ahearn suffered from exposure and
also from injuries Of the face where
the horse kicked him. DR.. McQueeney
answered an ambulance call at the
emergency hospital. and took the man
to the Bridgeport hospital for stimula-
ton and rest.
The horse, like it's master, showed
no i'll effects of the immersion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
ADVENTURES and
INCIDENTS AMONG
THE ARAB TRIBES
Interesting Lecture at Chautau'
qua-AddresS by State Or
nithOlOgist Job

Life Among the Arabs was the
title of an interesting lecture deliv-
cred before the Bridgeport Chautauqua
assembly yesterday afternoon by DR..
Camden Cobern. of the faculty of
Allegheny college.
DR.. Cobern spent several years liv-
ing among the savage tribes, and nat
urally his career was replete with adj
venture.
The Arabs, he declared, are the old
est people on the earth and were an
ancient race at the time of Abraham
and Moses. He decried the ordinary
belief that the Arabs are a mean peo-
pie, but declared that they are indie
pendent, hospitable and loyal to a
fault
They are jealous, too. One day DR..
Camden was watching a girl draw
some water from WELL when a young
Arab, mounted on one Of the beautiful
desert steeds, came dashing down at
him and came within an inch of run
ing him down. The rider wheeled his
horse, and gesticulating wildly, >re-
peated the performance. Naturally DR..
Cobern was nervous. The rider shout
ed at him in wild Arabaic which DR..
Cobern could not understand. He re-
Piled In English, which ponlplussed
the Arab. Perhaps the doctor saved
his LIE In this manner, for the Arab
made off and the doctor beat a hasty
retreat before his excitable friend
could return.
On another occasion when DR.. CO.
bern and Persian count visited an
Arab chief for the purpose Of pur-
chasing some camels, the chief became
so impressed with the count that he
tried to induce the count to- settle
down as an Arab and marry the
ch1efs two daughters
DR.. Cobern had difficulty in restrain
Ing his laughter at this offer, but it
was fortunate that he held himself in
check or his head might have paid
for it,
The count, too was in difficult
position. If he refused such a flatter-
ing offer as marriage to the chiefs
two daughters, he might find himself
In trouble. He got himself gracefully
out of the scrape by declaring that he
was too young but that he would try
TO become great man and deserve
the honor which had thus been prof
fered him
Other interesting things of these
people of the desert were related. a
story which had been handed down
from the time of Moses and which
exemplified the facility with which a
woman can keep a secret. how they
used wheelbarrow for the carrying
Oh dirt from the excavations, by
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04

was ringing in their ears. Had there
| been gate in that part of the wall
nothing could have saved them from
being torn limb from limb.
They Never Went Back.
Finally the important bearing OF
the two impressed the soldiers ana
they shouldered their carbines and
went to .'call the captain" Whether
they did or not DR.. Cobern never
knew. as he and DIR. Bronson ran to
where their horses were tied, MADE
greatest speed to their hotel, packed
their baggage and left at the earliest
moment. They have not been back
occupies the site of the Temple OF
Solomon and Of Herod, they have no
desire to again visit the place.
Some of his trips to Egypt furnished
material for further stories OF the
Arabs, his visit to the Sphinx, carved
out of mountain 80 long ago tnat
even the approximate date cannot De
ascertained, and the feat Of a little
Arab boy in climbing. to the top OF this
huge monument was related. These
little Arabs, said the speaker, are
much like Yankees in making trade.
and think that all visitors are In
search of eantiques" so that every
two days old is described as an
teeka."
The story of the finding Of the
tonobs of the Pharaohs, even that OF
Rameses the Great, who conducted
the persecution of the Israelities. was
told, and finally Dr., Cobern concluoed
his lecture by discovery Of his own
in buried city of Goshen which
proved the Biblical assertion OF the
Tsraelites making brick without straw
In this latter trip the speaker mao
narrow escape from having his dis
covery perish with him. His conclud-
ing lesson is that modern research
rr9 that the Bible is the Word of
God.
The evening lecture was that by
Rev. Herbert K. Job, editor ana nat
uralist and the official orthologlst Tor
Connections. He was happily intro
few hrief words! One hundred pic
t,lres photographed and colored 10y
himself were thrown upon a screen,
the curtain being so placed as to be
visible from all parts of the room.
Mr.. Job was in good voice ana MS
story was so natural and straightfor-
ward that he carried one direct into
the fields and woods along with him.
He was applauded and many times
laugh went around the room at some
exploit with the camera.
One who sees these pictures for the
first time and hears the tale of how
thew were secured marvels at the
confidence of the wild things which
are represented. To see the tiny
black throated green warbler AND Its
voung resting confidently on the hand
of man is hardly to be expected even
from this well known friend of the
feathered tribe, yet so it is. Some
instinct must give Mr.. Job the I'M
usual power to attract the birds and
to find their secret haunts.
Mr. Job spoke of the growing in
terest in birds and the efforts being
made by the state to create sentiment
in their behalf and among other |
means to this end he named the press, |
speaking especially of The Telegram, |
which he highly, complimented, the |
Audubon society and the schools. He |
urged the discontinuance Of feathers
as ornaments in millinery.
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placing barrow and all upon their
heads, and other features. OF the
town Arabs. the beggars, but who
were nevertheless descendants of the
f1rst peoples of Egypt and Babylon
he said they were the people amona
whom originated the three Mono
theistic religions of the earth, the
Hebrew. Mohammedanism and Chris
tianity.
Talking of his adventure at the
Mosque Of Omar, DIR. Cobern said that
one day he with DR.. Bronson had set
out to make a tour of the wells of
Jerusalem and had proceeded quite
a distance from their hotel and done
some difficult climb bling, passing
around the chimneys of the houses
upon the wall. Finally they reached
point where the wall rose somewhat
abruptly about 80 feet above the por-
ton upon which they had been stand
ing. DR.. Cobern climbed the higher
portion and there before him were
10, 600 Arabs with their heads bowed
in prayer. He viewed the spectacle
for a moment or two. Then he was
reused from his reverie by roar such
as he had never heard before. ST
have gone to Sleep" he said, with a
wildcat singing his song not 80 feet
away from me and fell asleep before
the song was ended; I have heard wild
beasts roar in the desert; but never
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04

Today the Bible needs no corrob-
grafton, according to DIR. Cobern, it
stands as the most correct of all
histories and the only one regarding
the ancient peoples of the East which
tus, he said, for hundreds of years
was considered the authority, but
recent research has proved that
Heroditus was but a repeater of
Dragoman's tales and he is no long
er regarded as authoritive. The
history of Brooks Bey, which scholars
at one time preferred to the Bible
holds that distinction, and is abso-
lutely discredited. He has n.en
proven wrong in every case where
the difference has been shown. The
Bible is the only history which needs
no revision.
Man, Always Man.
The Hebrews, he said, knew little
Of science and perhaps but little of
history, but they were well advanc-
ed in religion, but the theory that
they were not advanced enough in
literature to have written the books
Of the testament has been absolutely
disproved, and it has ever been
shown that the civilization of Baby
Ion, supposed to antedate Jewish
civilization by many hundreds of
years was in reality first borrowed
from the Jews.
These explorations and excava-
tions have demonstrated one thing,
said the speaker, and that it that as
far back as We can go has always
been man. Regardless of the theory
of evolution, as yet no traces Of the
prehistoric man has shown that he
was ever less than a full man and no
trace or connection with swine or
monkey. He may have been primi-
tive, but he was fully developed as
man, showed power, land s4inyentive-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
PLIGHT FUND FOR
LOCAL AVIATOR MAY
REACH $4,000 FIGURE

In the presence of Mayor E. r..
Buckingham, City Attorney Thomas
M Cullinan, City Treasurer Fred w.
Hall and Prof. James Atlas, Frank b.
Paine, the local lad who has suddenly
leaped into fame as an aviator. YES.
terday afternoon, signed a contra ct
to make flight from Seaside park to
Steeplechase island and return. The
flight is to be made on Washington's
birthday, Feb. a. If the weather is
unfit. the flight will be held the next
fair day.
1t is hoped that young Paine, if
he Is successful in his fight, will re-
ceive $4,000. That amount is not
settled, as 1t is not known just how
much the people of the city will give
to promote the exhibition
In case Paine makes q failure Of
his flight, he will have to stand all
the expense. as the contract calls for
compensation only If the flight is sue
cessful.
1t is now up to the public to not
only help along a Bridgeport boy, but
to boost the citv. 1t is suggested that
all checks lie made payable to the
treasurer Of the areo fund, Fred w.
Hall
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
BALANCE IN TREASURY.

At the fourth annual meeting of the
Bridgeport Poultry. Pigeon and Pet
Stock association held in the Lincoln
Building. last evening, reports show
ed that the total proceeds for the year
We're 1897. leaving a substantial ball
ance in the treasury after clearing all
indebtedness.
The offices of president and secretary
were placed upon a salary basis and
the incumbents named as delegates to
the Connecticut convention. The new
officers are: President. D. j. Ryan,
Sr.: vice president. George w. Hills,
Charles Rohrbach; secretary, George
Seltsam: treasurer. H. ]. A. Bodine;
auditor. T. F. white; executive COM
nlittee. /. B. Williams. A. e. Jessel.
Charles gchmid
The fair showed receipts of nearly
$500. The association appointed a
committee to consider the purchase of
1000 coops Cor shop purposes. The
plan is to rent the coops to other asso-
cfatipnsS-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
DR.. Swain to Preach
Upon Course of Work.

There is in life no experience more
universal than that of work. Today
we hear much of the labor question.
All interested ins that vital subject
VIII do we'll to hear the discourse on
The Curse of Work" which DR..
Swain will give at the South Church
vesper Institute on Sunday afternoon.
o'clock. Two questions have been
asked: Is. work curse imposed up
on man by an offended God? DO
thorns and thfstles grow because of
mans sin?
The basis of the lecture will be a
familiar and, to many, a perplexing
passage in Genesis to the effect thai
unto Adam the Lord said, because
thou mast hearkened unto the voice
OF thy wife cursed is the ground for
thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat
or 1t all the days of thy life. Thorns
and th1stles shall it bring forth to
thee"
music.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
PRETTY PLAYS FOR
CHILDREN PLANNED
BY UNDERGRADUATES

The plays for children planned by
Miss Fannie A. Smith to be present
ed Friday evening, Feb. 10, with mat
inee Saturday Feb. IL in Warner hall
bid fair to rival any dramatic enter
taiument of the season. Time and
principal Of the Froebel Kindergarten,
her assistants and the alumnae to
make this occasion one in which the
former pupils and the present little
ones can unite in common interest.
Pupils of few years ago and now
forming the younger set vii act az
ushers and attendants.
Bentleys orchestra will provide the
music and in his selections will be
recognized many we'll known kind
ergarten songs, among them the inim-
liable songs of Kate Douglas Virgins
the value of whose work as a kinder
gartner can never be estimated.
OF the plays themselves too much
cannot be said in anticipation. Con-
stance Darcy Mackay has written
little gem in 1.-THE House of the
Heart" This exquisite little play is in
costume Of the early English XIV
century, it's stage. setting suggests a
heart, the house of a child, to which
come the virtues and the faults. Wis
dom after tender counsel leaves the
child to choose between cheerfulnesS
with his merry bells and grumb1e be-
tween industry and laZiness with his
tattered garments, and others. Tho
second play is a drama tization of the
delightful old fairy tale 1.-THE finder
Box" In this magic dog, whose
name must remain a secret until he
himself tells it in the play, assists the
hero a brave soldier, to extricate him.
self from many a trying situation and
also secures for him the lady of his
dreams, a Princess whose parents have
kept her in a copper castle. The play
will be presented by Miss Smiths
training class and possess
possibilities which are developed un-
der the skilled direction Of Miss Grace
Dalrymple Clarke. to please old and
young alike. Tickets may be secured
at Jacksonss Book shop.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
Cleveland, Ohio, Who Lectured Today
ON :"The House that Jack Built

before or since have l heard such a
roar as that which then greeted my
ears, Looking down, the speaker
said he suddenly saw a soldier with
carbine levelled at him, heard the
click of the lock, and saw that his life
was in imminent danger. He tumbled
down from the part of the wall to the
lower portion and from there to the
ground, that roar still ringing in his
ears, and into the hands of a couple of
Turkish soldiers.
He and his companions did not
want to be arrested. There were
three ways to avoid this: Fight, brib-
cry or bluff. They chose the latter
and searching through their pockets
drew forth some documents tied with
red ribbon, a color for which the
Turkish soldier has great respect.
Then they loudly proclaimed their
Importance in their own country, de-
manded to see the captain of the SOL
diery. and ateonce.s And still thatsroar
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
CLUE
DOES NOT REVEAL THE
MISSING HERES

New York, Feb 4.-The report
that Dorothy Arnold, the missing
heiress, had been finally located in
Philadelphia was denied by members
of the family today. John w. Ar
mold, brother of the girl, returned to
his home here and reported that his
search of the Quaker city had been
in vain. There had been a promising
clue there, he said, but when it was
finally run down it was found that
the girl in the case was not the much
sought one.
the missing girl, is a passenger on
the steamer Pannonia, which is due
here, tomorrow. She searched
thHough,=Itaay -for-sher daughter
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
IN The LEGISLATURE
Long MINDED Session Ap-
pears to Be on the
Tapis
Alternative Is Adjournment
In April Until January
Following.

Especial to the Evening Farmer.)
Hartford. Feb. 4.1The Introduction
OF new business In the general assem-
bly, closed with adjournment on
many Of the committees getting down
to real work The amount Of bust
ness is about up to that Of recent ses-
sions and certainly large enough to
preclude an possibility of adjourn.
first. IL 1t Is all disposed Of In one
session. The proposition to adjourn
along in April or May to next Jam
uary comes from q Republican source
for the first time In thirty years. and
this reason. but 1t is hardly likely to
be adopted unless it later becomes
clear that three days OF business q
week will not dispose OF all matters
before the legislature by September or
October. In this connection it Is wor-
thy OF remark that there are fewer
fool bills this session than usual
The appropriations committee put
through appropriations for the running
expenses OF the new state library and
sspreme court building for January
and for deficiencies connected with
that structure. Later the committee
must provide each months expense Of
the building to October FIRST when
will become available the general ap-
Preparation to be made for the build
ing 1t Will cost about $25, 900 a. year
to run the library and supreme court
building. Because of the heavy added
expense OF this building and the state
arsenal and armory.fn connection with
the construction Of which an effort
will be made to have the present as
sembly grant a deficiency appropria-
ton upwards OF $50, 600 which the 1909
legislators refused. the appropriation
for a separate general heating plant
for these two and the state capitol
will probably be refused
Next week the appropriations COM
mittee will hold hearings on whether
Waterbury shall have a new state nor
NAL school and If that at Dnbury' shall
be enlarged.
The House committee on contested
elections started hearing election con-
tests last Thursday with the petitions
Of John w. Brooks and John e. Girls
void Of Torrinston. Republicans. for
seats in the House. The committee
Win be busy this coming week with
the contests of Wallace q. Tomlinson
Of Oxford. Republican,; Willis M.
Cook and Samuel Flfgl1t of Hamden.
Republicans. and Edwin T. Hook, Mer-
ritt o. Ryder. Lewis w. Phelps and
John H. Reynolds OF Tolland County.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
225 Men and Women
Working on Trousseau
For Miss Vivian Gould
(special from united Press.)

(SpGCldt VOA4tcO IESSSsJ
New York, Feb. with only three
days remaining before she stands a
bride in St. Bartholomew church,
225 men and women are, today, work.
ing over time to complete the trous-
seau Of Miss Vivian Gould, which, in
many respects, will be the most Ella
borate ever worn by New York
bride. On Feb. Z, Miss Gould will be
welded to Lord Decies.
Miss Gould's lingerie, all made in
Paris, has been delivered al the Gould
mansion. Fifty women are embroid-
ering designs on the many evening and
afternoon gowns of the future Lady
Decies. One hundred women are
stitching away on a wonderful array
of waists and 75smen and women are
fashioning trunkfuls of skirts, the
women working on the soft skirts and
the men on the tailored garments.
Lord Decies will give his bachelors
dinner, tonight.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-04
EXPLANATORY RHEUMATISM
CURED IN DAYS

Morton L. Hill. of Lebanon. Ind.
says: My wife had InfiammatorS
Rheumatism in every muscle and
joint: her suffering was terrible and
her body and face were swollen almost
beyond recognition: had been IN bed
for six weeks and had eight physi-
clans, but received no benefit until
she tried DR.. Detchon's Relief for
Rheumatism. It gave immediate re-
lief and she was able TOT walk about
in three days. I am sure ut saved her
life" Sold by Curtis Pharmacy. Drug
gist 1149 Main ST. G. t.