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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24
RAILROADS WEAKEN UNDER HARD ATTACK

New York June 24-Opening-Suc ehanges as occurred at the outset of today's stock market operations dealt chiefly with the relatively inactive is- sues Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis common, better known as Panhandle" fell six points in an tfcipation of the passing of the divi- dend at today's meeting of the direc- tors in Philadelphia
 Western Union registered a further decline of over a point on announce ment of the dissolution of the svndf- cate organized some months ago to take over the holdings of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co1npany Otherwise quotations were but slightly Selling pressure, howeVer, soon re- suited in a pronounced reactionary movement.
 Noon-Traders pressed their ad- vantage in the morning and the weak ness of certain railway issues with in the scope of the pending freight rate decision gave rise to fears con cernfng the outcome of that oues- hon-s New York Central lost over 2 points, with declines of. one to one S-4 in Baltimore & Ohio, Reading. Le- high Valley and Chesapeake and Ohio
 Western shares were not immune Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Union Pacific losing a point. Cop pers were off from fractions to a point but Steel held comparatfveIy steady. Can common and preferred lost 1-2 and 1 1-2, American Tre1a phone declined 2 in sympathy viii, Western Union and Cast Iron Pine preferred fell on passing of the dfvi- dend-
 Bonds were heavy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24
CREW RISKED LIVES
 TO AID PASSENGERS

HuEhtown, Sciny Is7eQds, June 24- The saving of the passengers Of the wrecked Belgian steamer Gothland was effected through almost superhu- man efforts on the part of the officers and crew of the steamer and by the life saving boats crews which came to the rescue when she went ashore on the Craig rocks yesterday
 Members of the life saving crew from St. Mary's describe the scene as awful when one of the Gothland's g small boats, crammed with passengers and seamen, broke away from the da- wits and fell thirty feet into the sea. The bottom of the boat was smashed when it struck the waves and all those it contained were dashed into the water. Most of them were women and children.
 A quartermaster of the Gothland spranE from the steamers deck and succeeded in saving three of the won- en.
 Several of the life-saving crew also jumped into the water and handed drowning children to their companions in the rescue boat until all had been saved.
 Meanwhile heavy sea rendered all salvage work perilous, but eventually all were put safely ashore
 The crew of the Gothland, which was
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24

Mrs. Edgar Mccauley, of West Arl- ington, Md, shot and killed her hus- band as he entered her home She claimed her husband threatened to at tack her.
 Mathey Hale, chairman of the Pro- gressive state committee, is seriously i'll of heart trouble at his summer home in Dublin, N. H.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24
SCORES HUMPHREY
 FOR ABSENTEEISM

Washington, June 23-Representattve Donovan of Connecticut paid his com pliments to Representative Humphrey or Washington yesterday afternoon relative to absenteeism. Last week, Tuesday, MT. Humphrey moved a point of no quorum and the House stayed in session until late in the night to get a quorum, and among. those whom the sergeant arms sought was the rep resen ta.tive from Washington who, af- ter causing the night session, failed to remain to help make up the neccs- sary attendance.
 Yesterday while the advisability of a night session in order to finish the Sundries Civil Bdll was being discussed MT. Humphrey aroused, his colleagues by saying.
 T will say to the gentleman from New York CNdr. B1tzserald) that. after the appropriation bills are disposed of, unless change my mind, which, of course, is within the bounds of possi- bility, he will keep very late hours in this House unless he keeps a quor- um.''
 MT. Donovan of Connecticut said.
 'tMr. Chairman, wish to make an observation about the gentleman from Washington. hope that he will not go out.''
 Tn few minutes the Connecticut member secured the floor but MT.
  peared.
 MT. Donovan said:
 MT. Chairman, the gentleman from Washington who is very much inter ested in conservation, see has left the hall, I believe that the gentleman ought to attend to his duties as well as any of us- It was not possible for him in the last week to help make a quorum or raise the question of no quorum, and if everybody had done as the gentleman from Washington did last week, the House would be empty. It is a great characteristic of those members who go out ana leave this chamber after voting for a night session to come in here and raise the question of no quorum, and thereby get into the record that they are then present.
 The gentleman could not raise, I repeat again, that point of no quorum in the last week, because he had flown the same as the rest of the absen- tees''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24

The Methodist church at Lakewood, N J., was destroyed by fire. The work is believed, to have been incend1ary
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24
Kaiser Gives Cup for
 Sonder Glass Yachts

San Francisco, June 24.-The an nouncement that the German Enpe- TOT will give a cup to the winner of the sonderklasse yacht race at the Panana-Pacidc exposition was con fatned in a telegram received yester- day by the German consul, Franz Bopp. from the German ambassador in Washington.
 This makes the third cup from the head Of great nation, as President Wilson has offered a. cup for the win ner of the twelve metre race, and King George y.sof England has put up a. cup for the Class N., race and under universal rules.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24

Farmer Want .Ada Ie a word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24
JUDGE FUTILE FINDS A. & B. co.
 TAX EXCESSIVE

Judge Futile in the superior court yesterday afternoon in the suit of the American & British Manufacturing Go. against the city of Bridgeport, decided in favor of the company. The suit resulted from an appeal from the tax valuation placed on the company's property. The city placed the vaIua- ton at $S70. .1ss. Judge Futile fixed the value at $275. .0oos He found that much of the machinery had decreased in value
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24
DIED.

ANGEI1A-Tn this city, June 2s, 1914, Sister Mary Angela.
 Funeral on Friday, June 26 from St. Ma<y's church at 3 a. m., with solemn high mass. Interment at St MichaeIs cemetery. M D 2S SC SAGAL-In Providence, R. T., June E 2S, 1914. Abraham M. Sagal, aged 48 years.
 Friends are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of his niece, Mrs. l.. H. Schwartz, s53 Colorado avenue, on Thursdav. June 25 at 2:So p. m. a"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24

mental condition. James ". A6eli. 90 State street, was held for sentence Saturday on a theft charge at today's city court session. He is charged with the theft of a suit of clothes, wall ued at g, from Leopold Kleinwald.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-24

on the voyage from Montreal to Rot terdam again went on board today to 3ettison some Of her cargo of grain in the hope of Tightening her sufficient ly to enable her to be re-foated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09

fresh hive. The stronger the colony
and the bees the less is the honey
consumed
This appears strange, but it is quite
true; a small lot of bees in a hive
containing several combs are restless,
with the consequence that they con-
SUNNI honey to raise the temperature
lowered by the cool air surrounding
them.
The food supply may be ample
owing to particularly favorable sea-
son after the supers have been re-
moved, but even if feeding has to be
resorted TO, very little time will be
needed to perform this part of the
work.
In order to obtain young bees for
wintering, a supply Of sugar, given at
the close OF the honey flow, will prob
ably be all that is necessary to con-
tinue breeding up TO tLc middle OF
September, when whatever further
supply is needed to make the colony
safe for winter can be given in the
form OF strip.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
RETURNS FROM WORK HORSES
Many Little Points Are Enumerated
That Will Lessen Cost of Animal
Labor on the Farm.

(By A. H BENTON, Assistant Agricul-
turist, University Farm, ST. Paul.
Mimi
One of the most frequent sources OF
loss on the farm is insufficient return
from work horses.
Have you satisfied yourself on the
following points?
Do your horses earn enough to paw
for their feed and care, and enough
to meet the interest, depreciation and
other expenses, as harness costs and
shoeing?
1t costs 500 annually to keep the
average horse, in Minnesota, but this
horse works only little more than
three hours each working day. This
makes the horse labor cost approx
mately ten cents an hour.
Do you handle the horse labor on
your farm so that the annual cost of
keeping your horse is less. than the
average, or so that the number Of
hours worked is greater? Both meth
DDS will reduce the cost of the horse
labor. but the latter offers by far the
greatest opportunity.
Can you revise your cropping sys-
tenn so that fewer work horses will be
needed, or so that the work will be
more equally distributed and thus
make 1t possible to employ them more
hours each year?
Can you raise colts and thus reduce
the cost Of keeping your horses?
Can you arrange to use your work
horses for outside work when not busy
on the farm?
Can you reduce the cost of keeping
each horse by feeding less feed or
cheaper feed and still give a proper
ration?
Farm work done with fewer horses
means a saving OF 500 a year for
each horse not needed.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
What Bernard Shaw Said.

Bernard Shaw once gave expression
to one of the finest things he or any
one else ever said. Here it is: Keep
yourself clean. Remember you are
the window lights through which you
must view the world"
You may try to convince yourself
that 1t will not matter TO the outer
world whether or not the windows of
your life are kept clean. But there
is one thing as certain as anything
can be certain, and that is that 1t
matters to you, whether it does to
anyone else or not, for if you cannot
get the right perspective on life and
upon all the various beauties that life
gives out, then you are cheating your
self
Everything matters that has to do
with your individual happiness.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
ORIGIN OF THE SPLIT SKIRT
English Explorer Reports Discovery
Of the Vogue in Region as Far
Away as Papua.

1t will no doubt interest feminine
readers to learn that the slit skirt Is
rot exclusively feature of latter day
civilization. 1t seems, indeed, to be,
as some male critics have suspected.
product of savagery. Where the idea
originated is not quite certain. 1t has
been variously attributed to Paris and
New York. The discovery has now
been made that this latest creation in
feminine attire is in vogue in places
where civilization is unknown, where
no white woman and very few white
men have ever set foot and most of
those who have ventured there have
been killed and eaten.
In report to the minister for exter-
nal affairs in regarding his recent ex-
petition up the Fly river, in Papua,
Judge Murray of London, England,
states that he visited parts of the
territory which, as far as he was
aware, had not previously been ex-
Dlored, and one of the most interesting
of his discoveries was the fact that
all the women in one of the tribes
were wearing, slit skirts. This style
of apparel seemed 10 have been in
use for many years.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09

GLASS VS. BULLETS
BY FRANK FItSoN.

The sheriff had known all along that
she half-breed girl was tricking him.
But big Tom" Bagley had meant to
be tricked. He wanted to set eyes
upon "Kio" Long. not TO follow a du-
bous trail that might lead nowhere.
And he had been certain that. at some
time or other, the Kid" would show
up !, Naidas shack
Naida lived alone, save for the old
crone who was said To be her mother
and looked like her great-grandmothe
twelve miles out in the Painted Des-
ert. II is the cruelest OF all deserts.
1t breeds scorpions and gilas and ven
omous things. and those who take
to IL, whether perforce or ;7om natural
affinity. share the same nature.
Half Spanish, half Indian, Nadia, at
seventeen, was a fit mate for the
Kid" the most bloodthirsty, and at
the same time cowardly, of the bad
men, OF Parthenon county. The list
of deaths which he had checked off
In notches on the barrel of his Win
chester had all been of inoffensive
men. and nearly all had been killed
unarmed or unawares. Big Tom"
Bagley had laughed when he was
warned of tho outlaws reputation
James Penney, the sheep owner, a
man universally esteemed for his
quiet law-abiding nature, had been
shot in the back by kid" Long. on
account OF some grudge the outlaw
bore. and Bagley had just taken down
his rifle, saddled his mare and ridden
out to Naida's cabin.
At first the Indian girl tried an af-
fectation of ignorance, then cajolery,
then threats. None of these moved
big Tom" Il reckon il your man
amt here he'll be along soon." he
said. and took up his quarters in the
cabin.
Nadia began TO be in deadly fear OF
the big, quiet man who treated her
with such Difference. She planned to
ride out to the kid" and give him
warning. The kid" was lying up
among the hills, fearing a posse. and
1t was cold there. He longed for the
comfort of the cabin. But If he had
known that only "Big Tom" was there
he would not have hesitated for a mo-
ment The coyote is always a match
for the lion in guile
AS soon as Nadia, at dawn. had
leaped upon the back of her mustang
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
vETCH Is IMPORTANT CROP
Its More General Growth Would Aid
Materially in Live Stock Indus
try-AIso Improves Soil.
(By A. SMITH,

Vetch should occupy an important
place in the agriculture of those states
where 1t can be raised with success.
In four years comparisons on over
500 fields. vetch has consistently made
heavier growths and greater yields
than crimson clover. red clover, or
bur clover, although under favorable
conditions these have done we'll
Vetch is high in protein content, is
a good hay, pasture, and soiling crop.
and its more general growth would
aid in the development of the live
stock industry and remove much of
the existing necessity for buying hay.
Vetch is used as a cover crop to pre-
vent the teaching and washing of soils
Like all legumes, it improves land by
adding nitrogen and organic matter
TO the soils. AS it grows through the
winter and spring and may be har.
vested in time to plant corn or cow
peas on the same land, it should be
used in building up impoverished soils
and III maintaining the productivity
Of the land. The vetch crop does not
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
YOU CAN SAVE MONEY By
PARADISE FOR THE ARTIST
Oevotees OF the Brush Are Accorded
Accommodations Without Price
at Inn at Capri.

Capri, beautiful in itself as a winter
resort, offers an irresistible invitation
to artists, since il has an inn where
anyone, by painting a picture on the
wall, can get free board.
10 the lovely island of Capri. with
It's perennial summer, its blue grotto.
aud It's lemon groves, came, some fifty
years ago, ruined artist He opened
an inn, and died rich In his will.
leaving the inn TO his heirs, he made
these conditions:
The charge per day. two bottles OF
red Capri wine included, is never To
be more than six francs.
II any artist is too poor TO pay he
shall paint a picture upon some wall
space, receiving all the accommoda-
ton accorded to those paying the high
est price.
If any German artist shall come
to the inn he shall be accommodated.
and shall receive the amount OF his
fare to Germany upon his promising
never to return TO Italy"
The inn is conducted today on these
conditions. Its walls are covered with
paintings. Now and then German
gets his fare home.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09

An amusing story of oriental Justice
comes from the arrest of an Austrian
subject OF 90 years residence in Jaffa
for insulting the Turkish flag. The
Austrian had walked about the streets
with the flag wrapped around one
shoe.
AS ii was clear that he wore the
flag in this fashion in order to offend
the Turks. and as the Austrian consul,
with The backing of a powerful gov
ernment. demanded the mans release,
the Turk on the bench saved the honor
of both countries by his ruling:
THE cause of the offense is the
shoe ruled the resourceful court
You can therefore take the man, and
We will keep the shoe
The Austrian was then released,
while the offending shoe is still do
ing time"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
POTATO JUICE AS MEDICINE
London Scientist Gives Out a New
Idea, Which He Claims to
Have Discovered

Again science comes to the support
OF old wives medicine. Everybody who
has lived in the country knows that a
slice OF potato is the sovereign'st
thing for a wound, bite or bruise.
or even that dread malady of the farm
er. rheumatism. And now the London
Lancet publishes an article advocating,
from the results of some years ex-
perience, the introduction of potato
juice into medical practice. The author.
DR.. Howard of Chaplain. squeezes the
juice out of raw potatoes by hydraulic
pressure, evaporates off a fifth of the
water and adds little glycerin. He
finds its application to slfiamed Joints
gives prompt relief from pain and
rapid absorption of fluid. He also uses
it hot for govt in the toe If now,
any doctor calls il superstitious TO fol-
low the good old custom of MASKING
up raw potato and binding it on a
bee-sting or rheumatic limb he may
be respectfully referred TO the Lancet.
Very likely he himself will in a few
years be writing ext solani liq" on
a prescription blank and the druggist
will charge a dollar for it, But so far
science has afforded no confirmation
of the popular belief that carrying q
potato around in the pocket will cure
rheumatism
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
Inventor of the Airbrake.

Who really invented the airbrake?
Certainly the automatic airbrake, the
one that has proved practicable and OF
perms. 1ent value in modern railroad
ing, was the product OF the late George
Westinghouse ingenuity. His patent
for the automatic brake was taken out
in 1872, superseding the non-automatic
or straight" Westinghouse airbrake
patented in 1869, and later the West
inghouse vacuum brake was invented.
But, as in the case of most other in
ventions, there are several claimants
for originality IN this field. Thus.
Nine. NJ. Drouane. daugheer OF NJ.
Debruges of Paris, claims the distinc-
ton of priority for her father. The
New York Times has a letter from
State Senator William p. Fiero OF
White Plains containing a patent Office
declaration by his grandfather, Henry
Miller. Of new and useful improve
ment in the application of steam and
compressed air to the purpose of OPP
Grating railroad brakes" recorded Jan
uary 2, 1855. Mr.. Miller was doubt
less pioneer in the progress OF air
brake invention.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
Seeing VS.. Photoqraphinq.


The relative sensitiveness Of the
Photographic plate and the human eye
has been the subject of recent inter
esting experiments by Professor P. G..
Nutting, of Rochester. An extra rapid
plate was used for the tests. A source
Of light that could be "dimmed" at
will and to any degree was placed
twenty feet away from the plate and
from the eye The professor found
that a light so dim that it required
three hours to produce a just percep-
tible image on the extremely sensitive
plate was easily visible to the human
eye after resting the latter for three
minutes in total darkness. I'm other
words" adds Professor Nutting, IAN
image on the retina just visible after
partial adaptation to darkness would
just produce an image on a photo
grapic plate after an exposure of one
hour. The retina fully adapted to
darkness is still a thousand times
more sensitive than this"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-10-09
ARRANGE FOR WINTER
TASK SHOULD BE PERFORMED
WHILE WEATHER is WARM,
Each Hive Should Be Examined to AS
certain II Required Stores Are on
Hand-There Is Nothing Bet
ter Than Sealed Honey.
fRy F. G. Hermann


II there is one item above another
having great Importance in the winter
ing problem, IL is the securing of the
winter stores near and about the clus
ter of bees I'm time for them to settle
down into that quiescent state so COZ
ducive to good wintering, prior to the
middle of October, in the more north.
ern localities.
To arrange these stores properly
and seal them, requires warm weather
hence all will see the fallacy OF put
ting off caring for them until cold
weather arrives. To be sur that
all have the desired amount of stores
there is only one certain way to do,
and that is TO open the hives and take
out each frame
If, after going over a hive and
weighing each comb, find that there
is % pounds of actual stores, | call
that hive or colony all right for win
ter. If less it must be fed the def
cheney; if more. it can spare some to
help another colony which is lacking
in the amount In this way the whole
apiary should be gone over.
Colonies left on the summer stand
require anywhere from 90 to 80 pounds
of good food for successful wintering
A little in excess Of this will do no
harm, but on the contrary will stimu-
late the colony in building up faster
in the following spring.
II one has on hand some sealed
combs of honey, a few of them can DE
distributed among the light colonies.
but in the absence of these it will be
necessary to feed liquid honey or a
strip made of sugar and water.
Do not think of using anything but
the best graduated sugar. When bees
can fly all the time, you can safely
feed them anything. But when they
cannot fly. there is nothing better than
sealed honey. When you cannot have
that use a strip of graduated sugar
If the feeding can be attended to
while the weather Is still warm, the
strip may not be quite so thick, say
about 2 pounds of sugar to one pint
OF water, which will make pounds of
strip.
If the feeding is deferred until cool
weather has set in, the strip will, of
necessity, have to be a somewhat
thicker consistency, for the bees will
net be able to evaporate the super
auous water out of it.
In making the sugar-sirup, be care
full not to burn 1t while boiling. In
fact 1t need not be boiled at all; Just
pour the boiling water over the sugar
and stir until thoroughly dissolved
when cool it is ready to give to the
bees.
1t is claimed by some beekeepers
that IL few tablespoonfuls Of extract
ed honey are added to the sugar strip
1t will prevent it graduating in the
comb. but there is little danger Of
this anyway. II there are weak lots
just unite two or more together, re-
moving the least valuable queen
The bees Of two lots may be united
peaceably by sprinkling them thinly
with sugar strip favored with pepper
mint, and then placing the frames
with adhering bees alternately in a