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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10
HUNTERS OUT
 COST OF LIVING.
Reduce Meat Bills by Eating Rabbits
 Caught i'm IAtchheId Hills.

w9rsted, Conn, Dec. 10.-The hunt ing and trapping season in the Litch- neld Hil1s Is by far the best in many seasons. Skins and belts bring un- usually high prices.
 Many nimrods are reducing their meat bills by living off rabbits, which hre very plentiful A hunting party from Bridgeport returned home yes terday with eighty-two rabbits. It ls against the State law now to use c gun in hunting rabbits but they may be taken with dog and ferret.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10

toyable one for all, while the little ones have entered into the real spirit of the work. All should be encouraged by a good attendance.
 Miss Margaret Moran of New Ea- ven is the guest of Mrs. P. W. Camp bell.
 A number of whist parties in oif- ferent districts are to be given next Thursday evening by members of St. Roses parish. Lovers of the game will have an opportunity to spend a plea sa rt evening
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10

The Young women's Christian As sociation announces it's classes for the second terms beginning January 27. There will be evening classes in dress ing, embroidery and chochet, elocution, singing, French, English art and crafts, and paper rope work. And during the day classes in cooking and marketing. first aid to the injured. millinery and dressmaking. This Is the time to be thinking about the matter and to register. The classes are open to everyone. and affords most excellent instruction. Call at the of flee, 1os7 Broad street, and see the secretaries.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10
'. w. 0. A.

A social will be held at the branch, 6e Beach street, Friday evening" Dec. 13. The December number of the most popular magazine will be pre- scented in tab1eau and song. Social time and refreshments. An invitation ts extended to all who may wish to spend g pleasant evening with us.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10
Piles Quickly
 Cured at Home
Instant Relief, Permanent Cure Trial Package Mailed Free to
 All fin Plain Wrapper.
The Pyramid Smile.

Many cases of Piles have been cured a-y "a trial package of Pyramid Pile Fsemedy without further treatment. pVheu it proves it's value to you, get more from your druggist at Soc a box. and be sure you get the kind you asl for Simply fill out free coupon below and mail today Save yourself from the surgeons knife and its tor tIlre. the doctor and his bills.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10
U. M. c. BRANCH.

The Friday classes of the U. M c. branch of the Young Women's Christ ian Association will be held this week Wednesday. evening, on account of the social evening Friday at the branch, 56 Beach street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10

No matter what you want try the Farmer Want Col umn.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10

A Turkish Bath taken once a week at the Hotel Atlas is the best invest mGnt. o~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-10

TWO OF THE SMALLER HATS
 The tdraped toque is made of mole skins, with a single long loop of coral pink velvet ribbon, the ends of which disappear under the folds of the fur C1everly interwoven with the fur are twists of silver lace, and friII Of this material is used around the edge of the hat.
 The black plush hat is one of the new low-crowned shapes, turned up on each side and set square on the head. A twist of white velvet and a white feather form the only trimming.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
PUBLIC UTILITY
BOND AND STOCK
LEAD THE MARKET
Preferred Railway Shares
Sell Freely on a Ris-
ing Scale.

Trading in the local stock market
was largely in public utility bonds and
stocks of the railway companies. Gas
bonds sold at l10% to Ill, and Capital
Traction fives at ll0k. Small sales of
Government bonds were decorded at
New York bid prices.
Capital Traction stock came out with
a quotation lot at 12S Railway pre-
ferred sold at 96 to 96h. and after call
a fraction more was added on a quota
ton lot. The common stock sold the
offered shares at SO to S9k, with calls
for more at the same figures.
Fragments of Union Trust, and 100
share lot of East ashington Savings
Bank came out at current prices. A
few shares of Lanston sold at 93R.
The Washington Chapter of the
American Institute of Banking an.
nounces the final lecture of the law
course, to be delivered at the chapter
rooms in + street on the evening OF
May IL. Edwin &. Brandenburg viii
speak at that time on Insolvency and
Banking" The usual invitation Is eX'
tended to members of the chapter to at
tend the lecture. Prof Brandenburg Il
the author of a treatise on bankruptcy
widely used In law schools as a text
hook and Is regarded by the legal pro-
fession as an authority on the subject.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
Realty Transfers

1913 Oregon street northwest-Joscph B.
Band ct ux. to George w. Blankenship,
lot l33. square 49, so.
i36 l. street northwest-Leroy Gaddis. jr.,
ct ux TO Peter A. Drury. trustee,N lot ia,
square 515. SO
F street northwest, between Twenty-fourth
and Twenty nth streets-Chr Heurich ct
uN. to Peter A. Drury, trustee, part lot 5.
square 81. $40.
Petworth-DwIght j. Particle ct ux. TO John
A and Ruth J. Campbell, lot "a, square
3Ol7. SO.
Fourteenth street Terrace-Lynchburg In
wood lot g. square 27lt. SO
Fourteenth strcets-H. X. Howenstein ct
ux. TO Wilhelmina Z. Loeffler, lot 1@0
square lO43 so.
Florida avenue northwest. between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streets-Samuel Saks to
Rose Saks. lots IS and IS, square ia. $40,
Twelfth street northeast. between I and X
streets-Catherine Beckert ct al. to John
T and Elizabeth c. Hobbs, lot rs, square
1902. SO
Cleveland Park-Brayton II. Ransom ct ux.
to Lea Hill lots 70 and "A. block 7. SO.
Eningham place-George Ryneal. jr., to Bar
bara NJ Graf, lot l. block 10. $40.
High Niew-Harry WsTdman ct al TO Rich =
ard l. Purcell. lot l07 square east of 1856.
$40
100 ID street northeast-CharIes White, jr.,
administrator. to James 7. Owens, lot SO.
square 725 81, 900.
Fsirview Heights-Josephine w. Rice TO
Anna s. Hazleton, lots 81. 50. and part lot
33, block l. SO.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
Toll of Jungle Is
Especially Heavy

India still pays its annual tribute Of
human life to the jungle. In fact. the
number of deaths from snake bite or
the attacks of wild animals has steadily
increased during the last three years
The rising waters have driven the SER
pents out of the lowlands up into the
villages and have diminished through
drowning the natural food supply of the
larger wild beasts.
In 1910 fifty-fve persons were billed
by elephants, twenty-five by hyenas lO9
By bears, 351 by leopards, 3lS by wolves,
Sa2 by tigers and 6SS by other animals,
including wild pigs. No less than 22.-
4S died from the bite of poisonous
snakes: The grand total of mortality
During the same year $1,000 cattle
snakes.
The losses on the part OF Inhabitants
% the jungle were nearly but not Quite
% great as those of their human enc
miles and domestiCated animals COM
bined. Ninety-one thousand one hun
dred and four snakes and over 1000
wild beasts of various kinds were
killed.
The Times also reports that a great
many cases of snake bite were success
fully treated with the Brunton lancet
and permanganate of potash, but that
II is nevertheless, impossible to assert
the value of this treatment, since no
one knows whether all-or even a very
large number--of the cases treated were
caused by the bites of really venomous
snakes.-L london Times.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
PROTEST AGAINST
HIGH WATER RATES
IN GEORGETOWN
Citizens Association In
dorses Project to Purchase
Land for Park.

Each member Of the Georgetown Citi-
xesn Association will voice a personal
appeal against the proposed increase
In water rates in the District, through
the medium of printed postcards to be
sent to Senator GallinEer, chairman of
the Senate District Committee.
Vigorous protest against the increase
OF rates on water was voiced at the
last meeting of the season of the
Georgetown association, in Potomac
Bank Hall, ,ast night. After President
A. X. Paris had explained the ranli-
Efications of the bookkeeping statement
upon which the increase was based. the
association unanimously irdorsed the
,Ciallinger bill providing for the main
ltenance Of the present rates.
The association also indorsed the
Wetmore bill providing for the purchase
OF land along Rock Creek from its
mouth to Rock Creek PARK The bill
PROPOSES that the valley be turned from
dumping ground into park connect
ing Rock Creek and Potomac. tie two
greatest parks Of the capital. and that
it b" made the location for the new bo-
tanic gardens. In placing the bill be-
fore the meeting, George King called
attention to the alleged procrastin alton
of the Jury Of condemnation appointed
nv. the District Supreme Co;rt, to OBJ
tain the necessary land fcr the ap-
breaches to the new Q street bridge
Congressman Robert o. Harris made
an address in which he promised per-
sonal cooperation in inc efforts of the
essocia ticn for consideration for the
District from Congress
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
CLOCKS OF CAPITAL
BACK ON THE JOB
AFTER THEIR SPREE

bars registered 1905, being FIVE minutes
ahead of time in accordance with the es-
tablished custom, the railway clock
registered . O'Clock. And whoever heard
of closing a bar room at 9 o'clock?
UP on f. street the clock in front of
the Kellogg building has been Ave min
utes to / or minute to for almost a
week, while the clock over the bank at
Fourteenth and y streets has Just start
ed running regularly again after trying
to make every one that passed think II
was i:lO, no matter what their watches
said.
the clocks on Seventh street also
seem to have been struck with the same
Theological 'jinx," and If you took the
clocks word for II o'clock was high
noon and noon was breakfast time,
while two blocks down the street the
Government employe would find that he
was late for work the next morning q
Those painfully particular and accur-
ate people who claim their watches are
the basis on which the solar system Is
run and boast that they carry time
piece that never loses more than a sec
ond and q half a year have been making
charges against the ball on the State.
War and Navy building, which is sup
posed to drop just at noon Every noon
they are out in force to see whether the
operator drops the ball on time. few
days ago the ball got stuck and came
down seven minutes late, they say.
while only yesterday 1t was nearly three
seconds Off.
Today. however. most Of the clocks
again, but in the meantime a good many
| people who formerly depended on them
! had dropped into a jewelry store and
bought a pocket timepiece.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14

What has been the matter with the
clocks In Washington?
During the last two weeks most Of
the big time pieces that tell pedestrians
what o'clock 1t is have been on a ram
page and the man without a watch has
been wondering whether he was going
to or coming from work
incidentally the postoffice clock
Washington's town clock-which usually
gets "off it's feed" every few months,
has been establishing a new record.
While the other big clocks have been
from half an hour to half a day Off time,
the postoffice clock has kept right on
ticking, or rather, unwinding, within a
minute or two of observatory time,
which is going some for the postoffice
clock.
But the near-accuracy of the postoffice
clock has only added the confusion.
Given two clocks. one being the time
piece in the postoffice tower, the aver
age citizen assumes that the postoffice
clock is wrong. So. about a week ago
when the Southern railway clock al
Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue lost about three hours every
round, everybody in Pennsylvania
avenue dropped behind just about that
much time. Every one thought the post
office clock was off" again.
The proprietors of liquid refreshment
places experienced all sorts of incon.
venience in getting the regulars" tc
leave the bar so that they could close uI
at midnight. While the clocks in the
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
STRONG OPPOSITION
TO ONE TERM IDEA
Change Proposed in Constitution
Believed to Be Only Slap
at Roosevelt.

Strong opposition to the idea of
changing the Constitution so as to pro-
vide for a six-year term for the Presi-
dent and making him ineligible to re-
election Is developing in Congress.
1t Is not at all certain the resolution
for such a change will be forced
through Congress at this session. For
this there are several reasons One Is
that many of the progressives have
come to look on the change as dam
gerous They point out that If an unfit
man should be made President for so
long a term as six years. with no In
centive to reelection. the interests of
the public would suffer.
Besides there is a pronounced feeling
that the whole thing is trumped up to
hit at Roosevelt. The amendment could
not directly affect the pending cam
paign, but at the same time should
Congress go on record against more
than one term, the enemies of Roose-
Welt would at once proceed to try to
make capital out of II.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
He Had Odd Way
Of Making Decision

Kinglake, the historian. was polite,
yet frank. 1t is related that. upon one
occasion. while dining with old DR.
Marsham, the warden of Merton, he
was asked to give his opinion of some
port wine which was supposed to be
remarkably good. Il am no judge
of port. myself, Kinglake." said DR..
Marsham; but l know you are and I
should like your opinion We'll"
said Mr.. Kinglake. Il have three ways
of judging port wine. The first Is
by the color. the second by the odor,
and the third is by the flavor. Now,
the color OF your wine, Marsham''-
holding 1t up and looking at 1T crit
ically-"is good; the Odor''-here he
held the glass to his nose for a mo-
ment. and then added, with some hesi-
tation-"is far from unpleasant; the
flavor ts"-here he tasted 1t. and put
the wine glass down hastily. Would
you be kind enough to pass me the
sherry"
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
Wholesale Produce Market

Eggs-Ncarby, fresh. lsc per doz.; South
ern, l7l2a1Sc.
Cheese-New York. new. 17a1sc per lb;
nat Ice per ID.
Butter-Best. print. S5c per lb.; tub, $50
per lb.; process, SOC per ID; undersrades,
2Sa30c per ID.
Live Pouitry-Hens. 14a14I5c ID; chickens,
25a30c per lb.; sprngers, 3sa4"c per lo. roos-
tiers, Sasc per lb.; turkeys. l5alIc per ID ;
geese, plucked case per ID: unplucked. ga
IOc per lb::. ducks. 14aisc per lb.: keats
young. l2al4c per lb.; old. 1oal2c per Id.
Dressed Poultry-Turkeys. 15a2oc per ID.
chickens, 20a25c per lb.; hens. 16a17c per lb.
ducks. 16a17c per lb.; geese, 12al4c per lb.
Green Goods-oranges: Florida, s3.ooa3;5 50
per box: California. 81. 50a3 per box; grapefruit
IS. 5oa4OO per box: apples, 33.5Oa5. 90 per bbl.
potatoes, new. IS. 0oa6OO; old. $3.50 per sack;
celery. 76c per dOz.; ksle. 6Oc per Dbl.
spinach. $3.50 per bbl.; carrots. SOC per bas'
ket; $3.50 sack: onions. new. 81 0Oa2.60 per
crate; sweet potatoes, $3.50 per bbl lemons,
S.5oa4.oO box: strawberries. saioc pei
box; cucumbers, S1.75 per basket: tomatoes
s.. 100 per crate; peas. 81. 5oa2.oo per basket
string beans. 81. 1.50a$2 90 per basket
Live Stock-Calves, prime. sashc per ID.
medium. 7a71ac per III, common. basc per 10.
old sheep, $500 per cwt.; lambs. spring. SIC
per h.. medium. DC per ID,
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
Doctor of Health
Is Latest Degree

An interesting departure from aca-
demic traditions is made by the Uni
versity of Michigan in instituting the
degree of doctor of public health as a
reward for services in preventive medi-
cine and disease eradication.
The degree admits the man who has
cleared an infected region of yellow
fever or reduced a city's death rate or
won any other victory of sanitation to
equal commencement honors with the
one who submits a thesis on the use of
the enClitic under the Antonines or
finances a bank through a panic.
To this new college honor the patient
men of science are eligible who spend
la borious days in laboratories seeking
new remedies for disease, or who go to
China, like Metchnikoff, to study the
plague, or who rid Cuba and Panama of
infectious disease, or, like DR.. Heiser in
the Philippines. perform a conspicuous
work of sanitation in exterminattng the
bubonic plague, reducing leprosy and
combating tuberculosis and smallpox
National Pharmacist.
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
-
Churches Most Often
Hit by Lightning

Some unbelievers, who have lost their
religious faith. appear sometimes to
marvel at the fact that nine-tenths Of
the buildings strI.k by lightning are
churches. According to Prof Ogg.
teacher Of physics at tic Training
High school, this phenomenon is due to
the comparatively greater height of the
church structure than the surrounding
buildings.
"During an electrical storm every
cloud has 10 a certain extent a charge
Of electricity in it, stated Mr. Ozg.
And when this cloud falls so low that
the attraction Of the charge on high
structures pulls the electricity from the
cloud. there ensues a powerful stroke Of
lightning. the destructive effects Of
Which are well known. ANY other ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon. in my
opinion, is made only bv individuals
who d" not understand tho elements
and behavior of electrical disturb
anceS. kansas CITY Journal
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
Fuel Oil to Change
Warship Methods

Fuel oil is destined to exercise a
powerful influence on the design OF
future battleships. The oil-fuel era will
be marked by two distinct stages Dur
ing the first stage oil will take the place
OF coal for raising steam in the boilers.
Its experimental use in torpedo boat de-
stroyers has given such excellent re-
suits that IT Is now to be used in the
boiler rooms of our latest baSleships.
the Nevada and Oklahoma Before
many years oil will be used exclusively
for steam-raising on naval vessels,
says the Scientific American. Then will
follow the era of the internal com bus
burned directly in the cylinders. The
experimental work, both here and
abroad. gives great promise OF the ulti-
mate application OF the heavy oil en-
Sine to battleship propulsion; but It
Will be some years before the first
motor-driven battleship Is in commits
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
SINGER OF HYMNS
IS SUED BY WOMAN
BILLY" Sundays Choir Leader
Defendant In Breach of
Promise Action.

CHICAGO, May 14-Homer Rode
heaves, singer of revival hymns. who
has been connected with the tours Of
the Rev Billy" Sunday, is defendant
in suit for $4,000 damages for breach
or promise filed by Miss Georgia w
Jay. Miss Jay, who now, lives in Chi
cago, met Rodeheaves in a small town
in Iowa, when the singing evangelist
was there with Sunday two years ago.
According to the complaint, the two
became firm friends. The syndicate that
maps out Rodeheaves' tours is a Chi
cago concern, and when he was not
travelling about the country he spent
much of his time in the girls company.
My lawyers" said the girl today,
tell me there never has been a case
in Chicago in which a girl was more
entitled to damages. He posed as an
evangeltstic singer devoted to his
church. but has shown himself to be
censurable In his mode of living and his
intentions"
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
Market Dali and Irregular, With Advancing Price.
BULLS BOOM SPECIALTIES AND
PRICES SHOW GAINS IN
EARLY TRADING.

paid to the primaries in California and
the meeting of local conventions In sew
eral of the states. Politics Is becom-
ing more of a factor in the stock mar
more attention as time goes on. But so
far nothing has transpired to check bull
enthusiasm and talk around the Ex-
change is all upon that side of the
market
The course OF the market today has
been an irregular and higher opening
for the specialties. selling to higher
ground in the early trading, then set
high, which may now be regarded as
the leader of the market, opened three.
fourths OF a point higher, at 177h. 1t
sold up to 17sE. and later fell back to
177%, with some subsequent gains. AZ
the higher points the price met much
stock, and could not hold. Reading
opened higher, and sold down the lilie,
reaching 1854 and railing to lI6h.
Canadian Pacific, mostly on the
strength of crop reports in the North 4.
west opened up q point and a half, AT
26I sold upward to 2623s and declined
to 2s11,. Great Northern, likewise, gain
ed about two points, and held the ad-
vanced ground until the noon hour.
Steel was stronger today, on the OASIS
of the rise In other specialties, and on
the increasing OF ders for future delivery
of produCt. II closed yesterday at 6SIs.
at coz. sold up to Il, and relapsed u
7OM Smelters passed through a sim,io r
change In prices on a narrower scale:
Rag and paper was strong again, ana
showed some substantial gains. But
for the most part the list was inactive
and the market dull. outside OF the
stocks enumerated.
Trading continued dull into the after
noon, with some show of strength IN
prires as time advanced. The special
lies we're most in evidence upon the
nuntotion boards, but manv OF the
u,ietcr storks carn.n out now and then
Win fractioHal advances. Lehigh rose
TO the sigh point of the morning., ReaI-
ing was some stronger. and Steel came
slowly forward with the rest or the
st
The Washington times., 1912-05-14

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE stock mar
ket today presents about the same ir-
regularity of movement that has marked
4 for the last six days. Bills are BOOM
ing specialties, the majority of stocks
are nearly quiescent, and bear selling
and bull profit taking meet every ad-
vance in prices beyond certain figures
This gives the quotations a spotted ap-
pearance and the fluctuations of few
stocks, like Lehigh. Reading, Canadian
Pacific, Rect Sugar and Steel, are not
exactly true indications of the trend Of
the marekt as a whole.
The bull pool that has been booming
Lehigh for two weeks has at last car
ried the price Of that stock above Read
ing, apparently making free use OF
Reading and the other coal roads to
create the bulge Lehigh crossed Read
ing yesterday, and all this morning
ruled above 1t. Yesterday in the selling
movement following the announcement
that the Supreme Court would not hand
down its declson before May q, Read
ing was sold freely and the price de-
clined, sufficiently to enable the pool
handling Lehigh Valley to make good
their boast that they would carry that
stock above that of the Reading Com
pany.
Today the center of interest Is IN the
meeting Of the coal miners In Wilkes-
barre to pass upon the compromse
proposition worked out between the
committees of the operators and the
miners. Coal men in Philadelphia nave
said for the past two days that the
compromise would be ratified by the
miners. but that impression Is not
shared elsewhere. and many believe that
the outcome of the convention VIII pc
further conferences and delay IN the
settlement of the strike. ~ .o,n,
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
He Cooked With
Canadian Accent

The landlord of the best hotel In the
small Western town was solicitous
about the impression that his accom-
modations had made upon his distin-
guished visitor. Il think we set a good
table" he confded to the departing
guest. You Fasteners are awful nm
icky about your meals, and for a long
time we had difficulty in getting a cook
who could do anything more than slam
ham and eggs and fried potatoes to-
gether. We have one of the best cooks
in the country now-yes, sir. a regular
Partisan chef. He worked In lot OF
the best restaurants in Paree-told me
so. himself"
DO you know this chet?" inquired
the visitor.
Certainly"
Have you any influence with him?"
Naturally"
DO you talk to him often?"
"Of course"
Then tell him for me that he cooks
with a Canadian accent"
The Washington times., 1912-05-14
Substitution.

"Oi can see red rowses bloomin"'
sang the street vocalist, and he was
about to broach the second spasm
when a carpenters apprentice beck
oned him to his side.
I'll give YOU tuppence. he declared,
"if you'll stay in this shed and sing
TIL l come back. I'm dying for n
drink OF milk" And the songster as
sented.
Soon the apprentice reappeared' and
paid over the twopence.
ct s'pose," said the vocalist that
my voice Is about the same as yours.
and you thought your boss wouldn
know the difference-eh?"
The other looked at him indignant
ly. and then replied:
"Your voice the same as mine! II
you want to know. it's the same as
nv saw's"-London Tit Bits.