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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
ATTRACTIONS AT
 1.-THE THEATRES
POLES THEATER

Headed by the Melody Monarchs
 and a Maid, five of the classiest music
 al wonders that ever appeared in this city the entire holiday program which opened yesterday at Polls big theater for the first three days of the week, is high class and Feplete with entertain ! ment from the beginning of the pro-
 gram to the last of the special first run movies The wonderful ability of the piano players together with the charming little actress who is pos sessed of a rare musical voice scores a big success. In perfect time and harn4ony the players render classical and rag time music with plenty of ginger in it. The telephone song at the close of the performance is beau rifu1ly staged and the Melody Mon archs responded to many curtain calls last night.
 Swinging on ropes and rings Blanche Sloan, sister Of Tod Sloan, scars out over the audience and gives them the thrill of their lives. Known all over this country and Europe as one of the most daring and sensational aerial gymnasts in vaudeville, Miss Sloan accomplisfes wonderful feats in the air. Odiza, the great Japanese penman wizard, came in for his share of applause and credit yesterday He writes beautifully the alphabet upside down, backward and forward, with both hands and does many astonish- ing things;
 SaInpel and Reilly Fashion Plate Entertainers,' are a duo delightful and novel entertainers and the riot of costume in which they appear bears out their title. They have varied repertoire of the latest song hits and are one of the biggest acts on the bill. Lazar and Dale are 8 pair of funny black faced comedians and musicians; They are wizards at the piano, and, with vioIins and a French horn, keep the spectators convulsed with laugh ter.
 B. Kelly Forrest, a comedian of great ability, keeps the audience in a con tinuaI roar of laughter. He has a whole line of brand new jokes that are highly amusing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
RHEUMATISM
 AND GOUT

sufferers have been cured for twenty years past by Hills Rheumatic ReTne- dy. It gives relief in twenty-four hours. One bottle will cure most cases. It is Q guaranteed remedy. At all drug stores or direct on receipt of price One dollar per bottle. Hill Medicine Co, IT East 24th Street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
THE PLAZA

f'The biggest bill of the season" was the general comment at all three shows at the Plaza yesterday where the cosy theatre was packed with en- thusiastic suftors at every perform ance. Comedy was the keynote of the program and each act furnished more than it's share, while the crowds en- tered into the spirit of fun from the start.
 KesseIy's Marfonettes was the big attraction. The manner in which these mechanical actors went through their numerous stunts, including wire walking, dancing, performing acroba- tic feats and flying through the air on the trapeze, besides all the comedy furnished by a little clown and po- Iiceman, just licked the children pres ent and was appreciated by the older folks.
 Doneta & Co. was another big hit Doneta is a very pretty miss with tal- ent just sparkling from her finger tips and she is assisted at the piano by a dainty and clever young woman. Both were exquisitely gowned- Her imper- sonation of a. petted baby trying to sing and restrain from crying at the same time was immense ~
 Fred LeDMkea & Soa offered achighly entertaining comedy sketch with a strong vein of the drama interwoven that scored heavily The plot is writ ten around a string of pearls that are worth a fortune and concerns the suc- cessful attempt of female Rallies to get possession of them.
 Edwards & Brown were on the bill and they made an impression on yes terday's audiences that will never be altogether forgotten. The way those boys sing character and syncopated songs is a treat.
 Long, Chapron & Green, three dain- ty and handsomely gowned singing and dancing coTnediennes were given a warm welcome.
 t'An Orphans Romance" a vitalIy interesting dramatic story in two parts, '+The Champion and Beware of the Paint were shown on the pie ture screen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
AGRICULTURE HEAD
 DEGREES PRESENT MARKETING SYSTEM

Washington, Dec. 30-Bumper crops under the present system of marketing g neither enrich the farmer nor benefit the consumer. On the contrary, de- creased production may assist the farmer and not materially injure the consumer.
 High prices will continue as long as the middleman absorbs profits, rang ing from five to five hundred per cent. The remedy:-Better organization of farmers and better system of market ing.
 by experts of the Department of Agri- production totals of the last few years made public today. They show that for the year 1913 the total value of farm products is $9,750, 100000, bring ing an actual cash income to Ameri- can farmers of $5,847,OOO. Although there was a falling off in the farm production for this year, as compared with last year, the farmers receipts are many billions more, and make of 1913 the most successful year of hus- bandry in the United States, despite floods and droughts.
 It is predicted that when farmers are better organized and possess nRore direct systems of marketing their pro- ducts they can obtain better prices without increasing the cost to the con- sumner and they will be encouraged to increase their production so that danger of a food shortage will be eliminated.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30

seething caldron and disappeared into the foliage, just as the first of the re tI1'ning natives entered the gate at the far end of the village. He turned to watch the proceedings below, poised ike some wild bird ready to take swift wing at the first sign of danger.
 The natives G 'el7 .~J .he street, four of them bearing the body of Kulonga. Behind trailed the women. uttering strange cries and weird lamentation. On they came to the portals of the very hut in which TarZan had wrought his depredations.
 Scarcely had half a dozen entered the building ere they came rushing out ill wild. jabbering confusion. The others hastened to gather about There was much excited gesticula ting, point ing and chattering. Several of the warriors approached and peered within.
 Finally an old fellow with many or naments of metal about his arms and legs and a necklace of dried human hands depending upon his chest, en- tered the hut
 It was Mbonga, the king. father of Kulonga.
 For a few mome1fts all were silent Then Mbonga emerged, look of min gled wrath and fear writ upon his hideous countenance. He spoke a few words to the assembled warriors, and in an instant the men were flying through the little village sea xchfng minutely every hut and corner within the palisade
 Scarcely had the search commenced than the overturned caldron was dis covered and with it the theft of the poisoned arrows. Nothing more they found, and it was a thoroughly awed and frightened group of savages which huddled around their king a few mo ments later.
 They stood in little groups, talking in low tones and casting affrighted glances behind them from their great rolling eyes.
 Tarzan of the apes watched them for awhile from his lofty perch in the great tree. The sun was high in the heavens. Tarzan had not broken fast this day, and it was many miles to where lay the toothsome remains of Horta, the boar, So he turned his back upon the village of Mbonga.
 It was not yet dark when he reached his tribe, though4he stopped to exhume and devour the remains of the wild
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
LYRIC

The Lyric Theatre, Bridgeport's lat est and finest motion picture theatre has certainly come into it's own as the popular photo drama house of the city. This can easily be realized by those who were in attendance last evening at the first showing of 'fNotre Dame de Paris,'' one of the most won derful photo productions ever exhibit ed. The theatre was crowded to more than capacity and many were unable to secure admission.
 NsNotre Dame de Paris" is one of the greatest achievements of the mo- ton picture age and is being repre- sented at the Lyric in manner that makes it an equal to HThe Last Days of Pompeii."
 'tNotre Dame de Paris will be shown matinee and evening today and tomorrow. The remaining three days of the week the Lyric management will present a five reel production of f'The Third Degree" the most suc- cessful dramatic offering in years.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30


 boar he had cached the preceding day and again to get Kulonga's bow and arrows from the tree top in which he had hidden them.
 It was a well laden Tarzan who dropped from the branches into the midst. of the tribe of Kerchak.
 With swelling chest he narrated the gfor1es of his adventure and exhibited the spells of conquest
 Kerchak grunted and turned away, for he was jealous Of this strange member of his band. In his little evil hrain he sought for some excuse to wreak his hatred upon Tarzan.
 The next day 5Tarzan was practicing with his bow and arrows at the first gleam ofSdawn. Atsfirst he lost nearly every bolt be shot, but finally he learn ed to guide the little shafts with fair accuracy, and ere month had passed he was no mean shot, but his prof ciency had cost him nearly his entire supply of arrows.
 It was during this period that the young English lord found hidden in the back of one of the cupboards in the cabin little metal box. The key was in the lock, and few moments inves- Hgation and experimentation were re
  the receptacle.
 In it he found faded photograph of a smooth faced young man, a golden locket studded with diamonds linked to a small gold chain, a few letters and a small book.
 Tarzan examined. these all minutely. The photograph he liked best of all. for the eyes were smiling, and the face was open and frank. It was his fa- ther.
 The Iocket, too, took his fancy, and he placed the chain about his neck in imitation of the ornamentation he had seen to be so common among the black men he had visited. The brilliant stones gleamed strangely against his smooth, brown hide.
 The letters he could scarcely deci- pner. for he had learned little or noth- ing of script. he put them back in the box with the photograph and turn ed his attention to the little book
 This was almost entirely filled with fine script; but. while the little bugs were all familiar to him. their arrange met and the combinations in which they occurred were strange and entire ly incomprehensible.
 Tarzan had long since learned the use of the dictionary: but. much to his sorrow and perplexity. it proved of no avail to him in this emergency. Not word of all that was written in the lit tie book could he find. and so he put it back in the little metal box. but with a determination to work out the mys- teries of it later on
 It was the diary of John Clayton,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
LITTLE BENNY'S
 NOTE BOOK
(By Lee Pape.)

Pop, sed to pop, yestidday. Do I heer myself beeing paged, sed pop.
 If I'm good will you get me sum thing, I sed.
 Don't I awlways get you sumthing, sed pop.
 meen sunthing speshil, I sed. Sutch as what, sed pop. A air rifel, sed. If you moo as hutch as do of the tradjedies' that folio in the wake of air rifeIs, you woodent of sed that, sed pop, III jest tell you wun of the meny 1 tradjedies I no of, and aftir you heer it you'll no moar wunt an air rifel than you'd wunt duzzin cases of kas- tir oil.
 III be karef111, sed.
 Ah,. that's what this littel boy sed, but he killed his grate grandmothi jest the sa1rn, sed pop, but wate and III tell you the hole sad stoary, this littel boys naim was Jonny Skikkits. It's funny naim but I assure you thares nuthing funny about the stoa- ry. Well, jest like you, he bothired his 1uving farthtr, whose naim, by the way was MT. Skikkits, till the poor old Jentilman got him an air rifel in spite of the fackt that wen MT. Skik- kits was a boy, the only thing he got wen he asked for an air rifel was a panefiII applkayshin of his farthirs hare brush
 Well, as soon as Johnny got the air rife1 he ran to sho it to his grate grandm othir, who happened to be prackttsing the grape vine tango in her room, and she sed, Johnny Slxik- kits, take that thing out of heer, it mite be loaded, and Johnny sed, How can it be loadid, grate gran mothir, wen I haven'e put enything in it yet. And he pulled the trigger jest to show her, and To and behold a built about the size of a kokonut calm out and hit his grate grandmother avn the mole above her rite eyebrow, and she dropped ovir ded in the middle of the grape vine tango step and they had to berry her in that pizzishin bekause they found it tmposserbir to untangel her. And now you see wi it wood hardly do for you to have an air rifel, don't you.
 No sir. sed, haven't got eny grate grandmothir.
 By Jorge, sed pop, I nevvir thawt of that, well, III think it ovir.
 Wich hope he dug
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30

London.-Catain Raouf Pasha, of the Turkish navy, who commanded the Hamidieh in the Balkan war, arriv- ed to complete the purchase of the Brazilian dreadnought Rio de Janeiro for the Turkish government.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
LATE TROLLEY SERVICE FOR
 STRATFTELD AND BROOKLAyVN

Acting npon. the request of the Stratfe1d Improvement association, as a matter-c of sBceofF1Tnod da6fonr Ntho ose living in the Stratfield section, as we'll as members of the Brooklawn Coun- try club, the last car, leaving railroad station at 12:45 a. na., now. running to Mountain Grove cemetery, will, af- ter reaching cemetery, be run back to Brool1Iawn avenue and out to Strat- field as far as passengers go, in all events running to end of double tracks in front of Country Club. This will be of great convenience to club mem bers as we'll as those coming in late from the city and if patronage war rants will be continued indefinitely.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
csAAzxER M.
.R1nn nnE.I.a..Ann.

AAsAa% - @41<pReNfADSG
 NRZAN dropped to the ground
 beside th'e ca1dron of poison
 and stood mot1nnIess, his quick
 eyes scanning the interior of hepakisada.
 No-one wassinzsight- Hisqeyes-r rested upon the open doorway of a nearby hut He would take 8 look within. thought TaFzans and so cautiously he approached the low matched building For a moment he hesitated without, listening intentiy. There was no sound. and he glided into the semi darkness of the interior.
 Weapons hong against the zvaIAs- Bong spears, strangely shaped knives, a couple of marrow shields. In the cen ter of the room was a cooking pot and at the far end litter of dry grasses covered by woven mats, which evident ky served the owners as beds and bed ding. Several human skulls lay upon the floor.
 Tarzan of the apes felt of each artt- cle, hefted the spears, smelled of them, for he ~saw" largely through his sensi- live and highly trained nostrils. He determined to own one of these long pointed sticks, but he could not take Dne on this trip because of the arrows he meant to carry
 One by one as he took each article from the walls he placed them in pile in the center of the room, and on top of all he placed the cooking pos. Inverted, and on top of this he laid ore of the grinning skulls, upon which he fastened the headdress of the dead Kulonga.
 Then he stood back and surveyed his work and grinned. Tarzan of the apes was joker.
 But now he heard without the sounds of many voices and long, naournfH hOwls and mighty wailing. He was startled Had he remained too long? Quickly he reached the doorway and peered down the village street toward the village gate.
 The natives were not yet in sight, Though he could plainly hear them ap- preaching across the plantation. They must be very near
 Like a flash he sprang across the opening 10 the pile of arrows. Gath ering up all he could carry under one arm Kith kick be overturned the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
AS WE'LL AND AS EUCH

No merchant ever failed if he advertised aS WE'LL and as MUCH as he could
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
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 His life among the brutes of the jungle left no opening for any thought that these could be other than enemies. Similarity of form led him to no CT roneous conception of the welcome that would be accorded him should he be discovered.
 His strange life had left him neither rnorose nor bloodthirsty. That he joy ed in killing and that he killed with a laugh upon his handsome lips betoken- ed no innate cruelty.
 So it was that now, as he cautiously approached the village of Mbonga he was quite prepared either to kill or be killed should he be discovered. He proceeded with unwonted stealth, for Kulonga had taught him great respect for the little sharp splinters of wood which dealt death so swiftly and un- err4ngly.
 At length he came to a great tree heavy with thick foliage and loaded with pendant loops of giant creepers. From this almost fmpenetrable bower above the village he crouched, looking down upon the scene below him.
 There were naked children running and playing in the street There were women grinding dried plantain in crude stone mortars, while others were fash4on4ng cakes from the powdered dows Out in the fields he could see stiH other women hoeing, wedding or gathering. Dozing in the shade he saw several men, while ct the extreme oueskzrts of the clearing he occasion ally caught glimpses of armed war riURs apparently on guard.
 Me noticed that the women alone worked Finally his eyes rested upon a woman -diSectly beneath him.
 Before her was a small ca1dron standing over a low fire, and in it bub- bled thick. reddish, tarry mass. On one side of her lay a quantity of wood en arrows, which she dipped into the seettfng substance and then laid them on a narrow rack of bows which stood at her other side.
 Tarzan of the apes was fascinated. Here was the secret of the destructive ness of '-the archer's'' tiny missiles. He noted the extreme care which the woman took that none of the matter should touch her hands.
 How he should like to Aave more of those little death dealing slivers4 If the woman would only leave her work for an instant he could drop down, gather up a handful and be back in the tree again before she drew three breaths. r
 As he was trying to think out some plan to distract her attention hesheard a wild cry from across the clearing. He looked and saw a black Vzarr1oF standing beneath the very tree fn which he had killed the murderer of Ka1a an hour before. A--e
 The fellow was shouting HultB weaving his spear above his head Now and again he would point to somet11kng on the ground before him
 The village REas in an uprOar an- stantlE. Armed men rushed from the 4n.tar1oF-oe many a hut, and raced mad W across the clearing towand the ex cited senEy. After them trooped 4he old men and the women and c1nadxen, Krut1@ kn4@4Don1ents ~the~E4lEage-x de aeEtad
 Tzrzau,aDf @aneaapes knew thats ffaey Dad found the body Of his victim, but that 4pfeEeated him far less than Ahe EBct that no one remained in the ~iI- Age%D prevent his taking e suppay=of khe-arzozEss hich zay below him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30
SEYMOUR MAN MADE RECEIVER FOR TWO.
 HAT COMPANIES

Hartford, Dec. 30.-George Mat thias. of Seymour, has been appoint ed by Judge Thomas in the United States District Court receiver of the B. J. Won Gal Hat Company and of Hawes Won Gal, Inc, of Danbury. He filed a bond of s25,OOO and was au- thorized to borrow $25,0OO to carry on the business. The assets of the two concerns which seem to be prac- ttcaIly one, are given as $5S2,S43 and the liabilities $233,555.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-09-08
OIL AND GAS

Tho week OF development work in
the eastern oil fields closed as IL be
gan. with the deep sand territory in
southeastern Ohio the stellar attrac-
ton. Since the West Virginia terri
tory shows no inclination TO present
new producing territory interest has
been transferred to Southeastern Ohio
where good producers have recently
been found in both old and new terri
tory. Holders Of territory in that sec
tion are optimistic as TO its future,
and are starting new work with a
prodigal.ty that has reached the pro-
portion OF shallow sand territory,
where the cost OF Development work
is very snail as compared with the
deep territory. In some Of tho shall
low sand districts IL costs but few
hundred dollars 10 complete and put a
well 20 pumping. while In the deep
sand territory the cost under most
favorable conditions is from $4,000 T.
$4,000.
In the Union Furnace district. IN
Starr township. Hooking county. the
Logan Natural Gas Company gave its
No. = on the Columbus Brick 4 Trra
Gotta Company's property a shot and
II responded bv producing ninety bar
reis the ensuing sixteen hours. This
we'll was completed more than q week
ago. but b proved a good producer and
the owners decided not To shoot u al
that time The Logan Natural Gas &
Fuel Company has lot OF new work
mapped out In the Union Furnace dis
irict r. is starting the following
wells SO. :. on IN" Brick x Trra
Gotta CoWpauy'4 property. No. !. on
the W : Phillips farm. and test on
the ". T. f.OLgstrcth farm. located ono
and onc-fourfh miles north % 40 on
the Brick q Terra Gotta Company's
property IN tho same district the
Union Furnace oil Company has tho
rig competed Tor . second test on tho
~ J. 4 T. g. Woodland farm and the
Grosscup OIL Company has started 20
trill a test ON The Hamilton Bros
.Irm. lOf.frd .5ui feet west Of 40 =.
ON 'ho Woodland farm Those ar. an
Important foa s.. and Will. when com.
Io'"d. have much 20 do with an *,
tcn-i ion or CrrfaI'm,ut o. the produc-
iur area 81 fho pool
ln th" northern end 81 The n..d near
cooks. fl." Harrison town Hir. T.rfs
county fHr Emery tuuI.fN Veil .u
o.. q Wtfts frfr stopped lowing
'"II"wf.s Hsr tn' If frl'r started 60
f.u goo .- rfnIr.I.r better ftsn 800
,l'. T." tw" ir"'Iu".-s "u
CO. WHtHi-. f"fr aro r.iIur $50 80
f'r'n'f r'. 1ri iro barrels 90 day. re-
SHALLOW sand rerrttory.
f,rt'.. n.th.r. h.f's 'ru Islt iuru-
'r. rI f.f f.V HHsffr. 'u GO. G.i'd-
veil a"fr.,t i.r.h t.vr,h'i N"ti,
I'D" fff 'I u +.lI a. Cnwu.r. iut.
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McMechen Eiofs.

MISS Frdyc- iru"~cr. 81 Akron Ohio
i ~rendnE Few days with friends ami
rcll tiN es here.
Miss torrinc cole. OF ClarkSburg IL
Mrs j. W Graudstaff. Mrs Iohr
iiHll Mrs. l'iEEs have returned home
from Niagara Falls. where they spent
the past few days
'""rEe furton and Richard Reese
nave returned home from Pine Grove
" mere they spent the past Few DAYS
IhyT" Is much talk Of orgauiying "A
foot ball team for the COMM, s.aso,
Many local persons have mad. ar
ranFeinents to attend the state fair nj
Wheeling this week
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-09-08
To Complete won rA,, w..%

IL Is likely that. the Wheeling Traction
company Will complete the work OF
eliminating all the curves IA the Mar
rows hclu" tLi.s city. this week A lar.-..
i'r'- "i men are at work on the new
TRACKS now and They VIII probably max.
the connections ON the frs: new trace
TOMORROW. he tracks are beng moved
closer 20 the large concrete retainin,
walls erected last summer
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certainly Hou can save. o. there is
al incentive. lots Of women u
w nee ing arc saving wrapper fSm
'r. ia-N soap Won know n you
i"'nIF IT'S" NJ frn wrappers and
tw0ronf stamp ~ the IIcvt.f ur.fr
@''u company. Dayton. Ohio. They
VIII send Won BEAUTIFUL arr r,prodr.
i''n. all ready for framing Some
f'lk- 20 fo picture store and p.r -,
lr. faf price fur tho s.me piriur,.
our grocer k,.rs Easy Task eo7r o-
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