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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
HARRIS LODGE TO GIVE MINSTREL SHOW
 ON MONDAY NIGHT

Members of Samuel H. Harris lodge, I. O. o. F., will have min strel show in their lodge room on Monday night. The entertainment will be given by members of the
 The interlocutor will be Neils P. Robert Kampf; soloists. Arthur Hay ward, Charles Richards, Leonard. John McAuliffe, Ernest Mercy and Charles H. Bateman; chorus, Clarence Drew, William Shonbergers Arthur Baum, Perry Allen. Harry Hamilton, Paul Becker. Ernest PerscheI, Gus tave Tesh, George Foreman, Alrich Clausen and Frank Jephcote; musical director, Frederick M. Card, pianist, George Tienaan; yiolinist, Frederick C1ausen.
 The program will present the usual minstrel features. There will be sev- eraI sketches. seWanted, g. Valet. will Joe presented sby Messrs. McAu-. life, Sanford, Larsen and Kampf. ."The Extra GuestH will be given by M Messrs. Mercy and Bateman.
 There will be recitations by Vincent Whitney and parodies by Messrs. Richards, Wood. McAuliffe and Ham iIton. A screaming afterpiece has been arranged. There will also be many local hits and other features.
 The committee of the arrangements is: Messrs. Mercy, Hamilton. Perschel, Richards and Rateman. After the en- tertainment refreshments will be served in the banquet hall above.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
MASS. TECH. STUDENTS
 HONOR BRIDGEPORTER

Two Connecticut young men, How ard L. Stone Of Bridgeport and John W Hines of Pennington, have re- ceived honor at the hands of their fellow seniors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by election to the s1ass day committee. This Is the group of students who have in their care the most important of the cere- monies of the graduating class. fhe committee represents the wide geo. graphical distribution, that is typical of technology. Charles E. Fox of San Francisco received the largest number of votes and will be class marshal
 Howard L. stone is member of the Delta Tau Delta and the Osiris He was manager of the baseball nine, ex- ecuttve committee Of the class. cleo toral committee on the Technique, the unior publication, a member of the Civil Engineering society and on it's program committee, and 8 member of the senior portfolie committee.
 John w. Hines of FaVnington is a. member of the Delta Kappa Phi and the vectors. He has been in the foot ball team, track squad secretary of the Cooperative society, which makes thousand dollars year, on the gymnastic team and is secretary of the Electric Engineering society.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28

Fire starting from a furnace explo- sion. destroyed the Hudson Bay store at Fort. William; loss s200,0O0
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS
 TAKE PLACE IN CHINA

Pekin, March aS-Persons suspect ed of treachery or sedition are being executed by the hundred all over the country; the, authorities are determin- ed to crush all attempts at rebellion.
 Here, two secretaries in the Presi- dentfa1 Palace, five former Senators and Mem mbers of the Lower House and a score of others have been sum marily shot after a drumhead court martial
 In Shanghai. three revolutionaries have been shot and native court ordered a. political murderer put to death by stranglfnE.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
OCEANIC PASSENGERS
 HURT IN MARCH GALE

Plymouth. March 2s-The White, Star liner Oceanic arrived at Ply mouth after four days of battling with a severe storm. The vessel ro1l- ed heavily and several passengers were injured; one broke his collar bone.
 F. Thomas Farnsworth. becoming insane, jumped overheard During the height of the hurricane the Oceanic received from the Chilian steamer Ma1pos an "S. O, S., from the Bay of Biseay, but as several steamers were hundreds of miles nearer the Oceanic continued her course
 A boat designed for the smuggling of Chinese was seized by government authorities at san Francisco. and will be used to chase smuggIers.
 Miss sBgarion Sdlovftch, a shop girl ip Brooklyn, was left s10o.O 600 by the will of her uncle who died in Odessa, Russia
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
THE DRAMA IN
 NEW YORK.
By Louis Le Brun.>

..MarryinE Money is a comedy the program says so in plain type tnat couldn't possibly be misunderstood by Washington Pezet and Bertram Marbl1rgh. and was produced at the Princess, until recently the theatre or thrills and short, shocking and sen satfonal play1ets. The delightful at mosphere of mystery enshroud1ng the title attracted many to the little play house, although some of us Sherlocks of the press, with that intellectual penetration for which we are noted. rather surmised that the drama might have something to do with conner cialized matrimony. And we were right. as usual. As the night wore on,s and act followed act, there broke upon Us the realization that Marrying Money has for its main theme that alliance of 1ucre with love, that talnt-F ing of hymeneal aspirations with sor- did greed, which is one. of the great cusses Of our modern degenerate so- ciety Tn the earlier acts the farce drags along through morass Of ln-= eptitudes from which it would seem impossible to extficate it, but in the. final and concluding act there is dis tinct brightening and the play finishes with a snap and dash like that or an O. Henry yarn. Some inventive gen. jus has suggested that a good way to reduce the mortality from rear-end collisions on railways would be to
 
 a reversal of this process. leaving out the first two acts, sMarrying Money could be made into g really amusing farce
 Theodore yanderpool, hero Of the play, is a young man of excellent fam siIy who is cut off without a penny by a distant relative from whom he had expected to inherit a fortune. P1ung-s ed into the slougks of despondency. and with the horrid alternative Of work staring him in the face, sTheo- dore determines to marry rich girl. To decide is to act with Theodore. and it does not take him long to find a beautiful heiress who is apparently willing to exchange her millions for the Iuster of the Vanderpool name. It happens, however, that this young la dy's papa has just lost his fortune. all though this statistic has not yet reach ed the public In accepting Theodore. the supposed heiress was also anfmat- ed by mercenary motives, not having been informed that Mandy had been disap ppointed in his hopes as a legatee~ So, each believing that the other is disillusioned. but, in the meantime, the fortune-hunters have fallen in love with each other, and are happy in spite of their poverty. Marrying Money, has too many epigrams that are not epigramatic, and too much much satire that is not satirica1, but as previously remarked, the last act helps to atone for the shortcomings of it's predecessors.
 One of the authors of Marrying Money Senor Don Alfonso Washing the Peruvian legation at Washington, and the son of Senor Don Frederico Alfonso Pezet, the Peruvian minister to the United States.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
RESINOL HEALS
 TORTURED SKIN
HOW This Wonderful Ointment Ends
 Itching and Clears Away Eruptions

How This Wonderful Ointment Ends
 Itching and Clears Away Eruptions
 The soothing, healing medication in Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap penetrates every tiny pore of the skin, clears it of all impurities, and stops itching and burning instantly. Res incl speedily heals eczema, rashes, ringworrn, and many other eruptions and clears away d1snguring pimples and b1ackh heads, when other treat ments prove worse than useless.
 Resino1 is not an experiment. If is a doctors prescription which, proved so wonderfully successful for skin troubles that it has been used by other doctors all over the country for nine. teen years. No other treatment for the skin now before the public can show such a record of professional approval. Every druggist sells Res incl Ointment (5oc and $1.o0). and Resinol Soar. C25c); but for trial size. free, write to Dept. SIR, Resfnol,. Bal timore, Md. Avoid "substitutes. - Adv. Szs..A
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28

comedy will be given it's initial pro- enth of April.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28

than $75, 5,0OO,OOO, not including inter est, on account of debts which have been in default from forty to seventy years, according to a report of the Council. of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders.
 This association, organized forty years ago to protect the interests of holders of foreign securities. has for many years had eleven foreign states It's black list but this year the Re public of Guatemala, under pressure from the Foreign Office, has resumed payments after a default extending over fourteen years.
 ssThe elimination of Guatemala says the report, s.s1eaves the urenvi- able distinction of defaulters to the Republic of Honduras. and nine states of the United States of America; namely, Arkansas, A1aban ma, Florida, Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia
 It has not been possible to- obtain reliable information with regard to. most of these debts. but it is under stood that the loans were contracted include Confederate bonds or war debts.
 MILLIONS DUE ENGLAND.
 With the exception of Alabama's debt, of which no reliable information is obtainab1e. the amounts owing Brit ish 5bondho1ders are estimated as fol- lows:
 Arkansas ........$ s,7oo, 900 Florida. ............. 7.000,ooo Georg1a ........... 12, 100000 Louisiana, 6.0oO,000 Mississippi. ........ 100000 North Carolina. ..s... 12.6O0,O0O. South Carolina. .... 6,000,O0O West Virginia .......- 15,239. .370
 s75.239,37o
 Of these debts, the report. which Is signed by Viscount Goschen. the new chaifman, says:
 t.It is indeed deplorables sthat these prosperous and progressive States of the great American Union take no fn saffIo. f7s,fe1
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
PAGE LAUDS SCOTCH
 FOR THEIR FRUGALITY

Aberdeen, March 2S-'tAl1 the pros porous nations of the world are run ming wild with wastefuiness,'' declar- ed American Ambassador Page at a banquet here. He lauded Scotch fru- gality and said the Scots, standing for liberty, equality and frugality, have contributed enormously to the character of the American people.
 Comparing the last trait with those of other nations, MT. Page remarked:
 ssEverywhere there is waste-in government administration, in private expenditures. Even in America we have to check ourselves lest we waste the very soil.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28

William Hurlburt's newest play ig entitled The Man Who Would Live,'' and will soon open in New York
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
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 BEST LAXATIVE
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 Cascarets work while you sleep. cleanse the stomach, remove the sour undfgested, fermenting food and foul gases: take the excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the coustipated waste matter and poison in the bowels.
 A Cascaret tonight will straighten you out. by mornings 10-cent box from any drug store will keep your stomach sweet; liver and bowels reg ular. and head clear for months. Don't forget the children They love Cnscaress beeauge they faNte good naFex Ez5an or Hzcke2.-1xz
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28

George Randolph Chester, the crea- tor of Wallingford, and his wife, LiI- 1ian Chester. have coI1aborated in 2. four-act comedy entitled ..CordeIiaL Blossom. :, The play is based on the series of ma gazine stories by MT. Ches- ter in which the social diplomat, Cor della Blossom. figured as heroine. The
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-28
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or these debts, the report, which Is signed by Viscount Goschen. the new chairman, says:
 'It is indeed deplorab1es sthat these prosperous and progressive States of the great American Union take no steps to settle their sdefa uIted debts, and it seems, to say the least of it, an anomaly that the United States should insist on compliance with it's obligations by a country, like Santo Domingo when so many of the states within it's own borders are not observ- ing their own engagements.
 THREE GENERAL EXCUSES.
 The excuses put forward by these States for non-payment are manifold, but they may be generally ciassed un- der three heads:
 "(1)-North Carolina pleads that that her defaulted obligations were contracted while the State was being administered by the Federal Govern ment after the Civil War. The answer to this, of course, is that the bond holders have nothing to do with diff ferences between the states and the Federal Government. One or the other must be responsible for the is- sue of the loans in question. and it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10
WILLIE J. WINS
BIG j. s. DERBY
Winner of the LetOhatchie
Derbies Adds to His
Victories

Grand Junction. Tenn, January ..
Willie j., an English setter, owned by
w. ]. Shaw of Brownsville, Tenn, and
handled by e. d. Carr Lagrange, KY,
winner of the national and southern
derbies at Letohtchie last month, to-
day added the United States derby to
his list of victories. The setter, Count
Patrick, owned by W. d. Sherfick of
North, Shoals. Ind, and handled by
Herbert Fishel, Washington, Ind, was
second, and Whitestones Beauty, an
other setter. entered by Fred Hamil-
ton, Omaha, Neb.. and handled by j.
M. Avent, Hickory Valley, Tenn, third.
Willie j. and Count Patrick ran as
brace mates in the second series today
and the margin in favor of the Ten
nessee dog at the end of the race was
narrow. Both found birds ran wide and
first in the strin, their range giving
them the advantage over Whitestone's
Beauty, which was high dog in the first
series.
Todays races ended the meeting of
the United States Field Trials club.
At a meeting of the club this afternoon
it was decided to hold the trails here
again next year.
Next week the amateur races of the
A1l-America club will be run al Rog-
ers Springs. Tenn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10

Chattanooga, January 9.-(Special.)-ln
assuming the direction of the baseball
destinies of the New Orleans Pelicans
for the season of 1914 Johnny Dobbs is
undertaking his fourth managerial VEN
ture, all of which have been within the
pale of Father Kavanaugh's circuit.
Nashville was the first city to retain
Dobbs as a pilot, the Tennessee capital
being the scene of his diamond activities
in 1906, his first baseball venture after
retiring from the major leagues. After
one season there the boy pilot retired and
enjoyed the pleasures of life as a pri-
vate citizen of your Uncle Samuel until
1909 when he blossomed forth as the
helmsman of the famous Chattanooga
Lookouts who not only made a runaway
of the Sally league race and necessitated
a division Of the season, but also trimmed
the Atlanta Southern league pennant win
hers of that year four out of seven for
the championship of Dixie.
The next year found Johnathan still
in Chattanooga, but in the Southern
league instead of the sulphuric Sally. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10
AND TIOBLTTZELL
: WANTED BY F'EDERALS
Stars of Cincinnati and Brooklyn Clubs Offered Fancy Salaries
to Leave Organized Bal-Daubert Reported Offered
$4,000 for Three Year Contract

from the Brooklyn club estimated at
about $4,000 a year. It is believed that
the Federal league offer calls for a
sum of about s30 900. a large portion
to be paid outright at the time of
signing and the remainder placed to
Daubert's credit in bank or trust
company.
Daubert states that he has not as
yet decided to accept the Federal league
offer, but intimated in an interview
that he is giving the proposition seri-
Gus consideration. He said:
II do not think l can be expected to
turn down a small fortune for three
years work, when l am now drawing
ordinary pay for the same work. l feel
that 1 have a right to help myself.
II know the Federals have been
quoted as saying that they would not
go after players under contract and
would sign only those who were un-
der reserve, but I have never been told
that they were making that their def
mite policy. They approached me in
Cincinnati and l naturally listened to
what they had to say. Several of their
clubs were after me, but the talk was
rather general until I received the let
ter from Mr.. Barbour, whom | will
meet in Brooklyn next Sunday or Mon
day to discuss details"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10
i T I l
Il r. 1DD NO HIT
PACKARD, BRENNAN, COLE
AND KILLIFER SIGN WITH
CHICAGO FEDERAL CLUB

Chicago, January 9-Gene Packard.
pitcher for the Cincinnati National league
club; Ad Brennan and William I<illifer.
pitcher and catcher. respectively. for the
Philadelphia Nationals and Leonard
CKing) Cole, the pitcher obtained from
Columbus by the New York Americans,
today signed three-year contracts with
the Chicago Federal league club.
The amount of salaries the men will
receive was not made public, but accord
ing to Charles Weeghman. president of
The local club. who made the announce
ment, surety bonds have been deposited
guaranteeing tho players their full pay
regardless of the fate of the league. All
four also received advance payments.
Weeghman said other contracts had
been signed. but after conference with
James A. Gilmore, president OF the new
league. decided to withhold the announce
ments for a few days. He said that with
in a week the name OF the manager of
each of the eight clubs would be made
public.
Today's deal goes further toward pro-
viding fun pitching staff for the local
club.
Joe Tinker is said to have declared
that Packard is the most promising young
left-handed pitcher in organized baseball.
l<ilifer, in 1910. appeared with tho st.
Louis American league club, but was re-
leased to the Buffalo club of the Inter
national league, from whom he was
drafted by Philadelphia.
Cincinnati bought Brennan from Wichi-
ia, Kan. In 1902 and let him go In the
trade with Philadelphia by which Red
Coriden went to the Ohio city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10
SUPREME COURT IS
NOT LIKELY TO PASS
ON CONTRACTS SOON

Washington, January a.-Baseball play
ers and mana gers must wait a year or
moro before getting light from the su-
rreme court on the much disputed ques-
tion In major league circles as to the en-
fcrcibility by injunction of players con-
tracts.
The point has been raised that contracts
With players are not enforeihle by IN
j1nction because they contain a clause
giving the managers the right to termi-
rate the contract without similar right
to the players.
A case involving similar questions has
been brought TO the court by an oil
company. but the tribunal has Just re-
fused request for an early hearing of
the controversy.
This means that the case will not come
up for argument until next winter, TOO
late to affect baseball contracts for the
&C ming season.
How far the decision in the oil COM
panys case will be applicable to base
bal will be somewhat problematical un-
til the decision is announced, but attor-
neys for the baseball interests say it In
volved the same point raised in the ba Sc
ball controversy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10
CHARLES f. HOOKER
DEAD IN JACKSON
Distinguished Mississippian
Was SO Years Old-Had
Fine Record

Jackson, Miss, January 9.-Col. Charles
E. Hooker of this city. known to the
American people a decade ago as the
'Silvery-tongued orator of the south"
died at an early hour this morning after
a long and trying Illness. aged Ss years.
Colonel Hooker had been in feeble health
several years, but until quite recently
was able to get about the streets of the
city, where he has made his home for
half century or more, and where he
was known to every man, woman and
child, white and black. and by all Of
whom he was held in the highest esteem.
Charles Edward Hooker was born in
South Carolina in 1925, graduated at Har-
ward law school in 1876, and soon there
after began the practice of his profess
sion in Jackson. In 1850 he was elected
district attorney for what was known as
the river district. In 1859 he was elected
a member of the legislature, resigning
two years later to enter the Confederate
army, serving throughout the war and
leaving arm on the hills of Vcks-
burg. In 1865 he was elected attorney
general of the state, reelected in 1868
and later removed by federal military
authorities.
Colonel Hooker then resumed the prac-
tice of law and engaged in farming on
his plantation on Big Black in this coun-
ty, but in 1875 he was turned to as the
one man who could throw off the repub-
lican yoke in this district, and after a
memorable fight against great odds of
negroes and carpetbaggers, he was elect
ed to Congress and served continuously
until 1SS3 when he was defeated by Mai.
e. Barksdale, editor of the Clarion, but
after two terms was returned to Congress
for two more terms Since retiring from
Congress Colonel Hooker has remained
quietly at Jackson among his friends.
loved and honored by all who knew him
and held in great respect by those who
did not.
The announcement of the death of this
distinguished Mississippian cast pail of
gloom over the state capitol and the leg
islative halls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10
IN MANAGING PELICANS
DOBBS IS MAKING FOURTH
VENTURE IN THE SOUTH

Lookouts opened up this season with a
terrific rush, leading the league in the
midst of May by about 100 points, but
the club took a precipitous tumble short
ly afterward and dropped out of the run
ming.
The opening of the 1911 season found
Dobbs in Montgomery having been re-
placed in Lookoutville by Billy Smith,
whom President Andrews wooed from the
Buffalo aggregation when he had gone
frcm Atlanta. Facing almost insuperable
obstacles Dobbs pulled the Billikens out
of the rut in his first year and repeated
the performance in 1912.
His remarkable race with the BillilSens
last season is too fresh in the minds of
Southern league fandom to require mar
ration.
Dobbs' greatest asset as a pilot un-
doubtedly lies in his ability to select and
develop raw material Dobbs Is truly the
Burbank of minor league pilots. His sue
cess at Montgomery was due almost di-
rectly to his remarkable ability to See
tho real athlete in the rough.
Among the diamond celebrities who owe
their start in baseball to Dobbs may be
mentioned Dock Johnston Steve Yerkes,
Derrill Pratt, Elmer Brown, Dutch Stem
gel, and a host of others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10


New York, January 9.-Jake Daubert.
first baseman of the Brooklyn National
league club, has been offered a berth
with the Pitsburg club of the Federal
league, according to a statement cred
tied to him today.
Daubert is reported to have been Of
fered by President Barbour of the Pitts
burg Federals what he terms "a small
fortune to sign three years con-
tract.
The offer which 1t is said calls for
a payment of $4,000 for his services.
is declared to have been made while
Daubert was in Cincinnati as mem
Der of the Baseball Players fraternity
at the conference between that organ
ization and the National commission.
Since his return home to Brooklyn he
has received a renewal of the offer in
q more definite form.
The Superbas' star first baseman is un-
derstood to be in receipt of salary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-10
JUDGE SPEER READY
FOR INVESTIGATION

Washington, January 9.-Federal Judge
Emery r. Speer of the Southern district
of Georgia notified the House judiciary
committee today that his health has re-
covered sufficiently for him to be present
when the subcommittee takes up the in
yestigation of the pending charges con-
corning his official conduct
The subcommittee in charge of the case
Representative Webb of North Carolina,
Floyd of Arkansas and Volstead of Min
nesota, expect to open hearings at Ma
con January 10. The indications are
that more than 100 witnesses, many of
them lawyers who practice in Judge
Speer's court, will be subpoenaed to ap-
pear at the hearings which probably will
be held at Macon, Savannah and Au-
gusta.