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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
JULY WEDDINGS
BURDzWILBUR.

Miss Julia F, Wilbur of Naugh- right, N. J., and MT Wesley Burd of German Valley, N. J., were maFried Wednesday evening" at the home of MT. and Mrs H. P. Chase, of 496 Broad street, the ceremony llbeing per formed by the Rev. 1T. G. Wiener, pastor of the German Reformed church The bride was attired in blue crepe de chine. Her sister, Mrs@ Louis B. Chase, attended her and her costume was of pale pink John Lz| Wilbur a brother of the bride, was MT. Burd's best man. The guests at the wedding were the imnfediate rela- tives and friends of the young couple. Upon their return from their wedding trip, MT and Mrs. Burd will reside ali 80S Broad street.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
STOCK MARKET

New York, July 3o-Opening: Heavy buying of industrials which have figured in the weeks rise was re- sumed at the opening today, notwith standing the slump in these shares, in yestrday's late trading. Transac- -tions ran largely to the war, stocks. CrucibIe@ Steel rose 8 E points, Beth Iehem Steel 6 points, Republic Steel IA, American Coal Products and many others 1 to14 points. In the early rise, however, prices did not reach ther ecord made before yester-- days break. St. Paul opened r lower but subsequently rallied PA
 Noon.-The market was flooded. with stocks after the early rise and a reac- ton occurred; canceIIinge the advance. esterdays break made traders more cautious and the general movement lacked the resiIiency of the preceding session. Transactions fell off sharply in volume There were further wide fluctuations in some instances Beth leheTa Steel, after advancing to 269 broke to 255. It then rallied to 26z- CrucfbIe Steel fell from 78 1-2 to 6s 1-2 and rebounded to "A 1-2. Towards moon another effort to bid up prices was ar-s tended with some success. Nesting house led in the rally, touching a, new high mark at III 3-A Bonds were strong, with striking advances in Westin ghouse Electric and Copper con Vertib1e issues
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
HOOVER FURNISHES STAGGERING FACTS
 or RELIEF WORK

Iondon, July 3o@The principal speaker of the opening of the summer session of Kings College was H. O Hoover, chairman of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium. His address was description of the Ho ork of the com1nission-
 IT could bore you stiff with details of the mllltitudinous branches of our werH,sss 2 he remarked, "but the main facts are efhese=
 ssFoodstuffs worth $55,ooo, 900 have been supplied and sold up to June
 TWO hundred ninety-three com pIete shiploads, comprising over 60o,- GOO tons of bread stuffs, have been imp orfed;
 we are spending s3s5oo, 600 for the upkAep of the canfeens for Bel Eians absolutely destitute;
 we have spent $5eo.0o0 through the scoznn1ittea appointed to look af- ter homeless and orphan children: 24,00O children have been placed in tenporary homes until after the war;
 twenty tsaolassEld foreign refugees ! In Tselei lso being cared ssfor
 Cd 5000 mas been spent in the erection of lem porary she1tersss
 sc4othing worth ss,4oo.ooo has been distributed through the Central clDIhing Bureau in Brussels;
 er the purchase Of clothing To- caiiy, $2,2OO, GOO has been distributed to the destitufe;
 he total subscriptions up to date In actual cash have been about $15.- 0O0DOO;
 the dasFr4 button of food over 50 p1zznt ntRer s5V7ozs skerss mostly Be1gzazss hake been eTnpIoyetfs
 ssThe relief work has extended--to the Distribution of medical supplies and to the distribution of thousands Of tons of seed to agrieulturalIsts
 s.m France where the nation is still behind the dispossessed 4 industrial Fkorkers, the com1lissIon has foundit sufci ent to grant money subventions 10 the co1n4nunes which undertake the care Of their own desitute.s 2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
IF Ef7T OF GUN FIRE
 UPON BIRD FAATILIES
 IS INTERESTING STUDY

Berlin, July o-=Exreriments and observations made in between times at the various battle fronts by bird lovers have reyealed some striking characteristics of the feathered broodss that have not been frightened from their accustomed haunts by the war. Quite as unusual 1as any other conclusion is the showing that crows, from generations of experience, fear rifle fire but not artillery fire, while song birds, never having known the Tear of the hunter and his rifle. break Into song when the guns are fired. but are alarmed at the tremendous explo- Eions of shells
 Even the trained artillery horses explosions tharl sRe 5lTssls. r3e Ero5ns for instance do not even trouble to take flight when a shell lands near them but does not explode and only rise for an instant when it does go ofE But when the rifles. begin to pop they put as much distance as possible between themselves and the trenches
 Many of the soldiers have canaries In their trenches. and have conducted numerous experiments with them. Usually the discharge of a rifle is a sound of breaking glass will bring the same result. The same is true to a great extent Of the wild song birds that abound, especially along the French front
 The birds of course display a sharp ness of vision that even powerful telescope will not equal, and many times the warning of an. attack has come first of all from the crows and other birdss rising in alarm at some movement that the sentries for all their watcafu1ness had not detected
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
MORATORIUM HITS HARD OWNERS OF
 FRENCH PROPERTY
Markets Do Business On Cash Basis While Landlord Has
 to Wait.

Paris. July 30.-For the fourth time since the beginning of the war the hopes of Partisan landlords have been deferred oy the extension of the pe- riod for the payment of obligations The average tenant finds it easier to observe the. moratorium than to pay. The tax-collector knows no morator- ium, however, and the corner grocer and the butcher are doing business on a, strictly cash basis, so the man whose Partisan estate brings him in what he requires to live on is worse off than the man who has no property at all The latter may apply to some. of the relief organizations; the owner. of an apartment house. however, wonld be turned away.
 Out of a total of SO.O44 apartment houses in Paris. according to the cen sus of 1911, 6S,723 brought in 8 to- tai revenue of less than $24oO yearly of less than s1.200. a year Nearly every one of the buildings bringing an income of $2,400 or less are in habfted by families that pay less than $200 a year rent each and consequent ly are able to occupy their apartments so long as the moratorium continues without paying a cent to the pro- prietor.s The accumulation of a years rentals, amounting in the aggregate to at least fifty million dollars, is de- NOAOPA44S o LA4O1hy 4d0SLAOA tI1dL lIlS government has found it necessary. to ta ke into consideration.
 While the moratorium decree aI- lows landlords to pursue the collec- tion of rents in case the tenant is able to pay, the burden of proof is upon them and is so difficult that almost wherever it is tried the result is only an accumulation of costs on top of the accumulated rent.
 No one pays rent willingly, even if they are able to do so, for the reason. that most of the modest1y. situated tenants expect a compromise, impos- ed by law, in the end, as was done after the war of 1870-71.
 My neighbor desn't pay,'' they say, because he wants to get the benefit of any reduction that may be made in thelend; if pay and compromise is effected after the war the landlord certainly won't return me any m oney.''
 It is proposed that the city and the state each assume a share of this ac- cun1uIated burden~ while requiring the landlords to make concessions on their part, excepting in the case of tenants who are well able to pay Some landlords antici pating such in tervention, have either reduced or re- mitted entirely the rentals of some 1 of their tenants.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
WILL REPORT IN FAVOR OF. HICKS
 STREET CLOSING s
Most of Property Owners Acql1iesce in Plan of
 Acme Shear Company.

A, favorable report on the petition of the Acme Shear Go. for the discon- tinuance of Kick street from Joseph street to .Knowlton street will be sub- n1itted to the common council at the
 meeting of next Monday night. There have been a number of protests against this petition by persons who own property below the part of the street it is proposed toi discontinue Last, night E. M- Botsford and Will liam Tooker, owners of property on Hicks street below Knowlton street, appeared and told the board they. were satisfied to have the discontinuance of the street made as the. Acme Shear. Go. had petitioned.l The company owns all the property on both sides of the street in that section.
 & Dwight c. Wheeler. secretary of the compay, said the closing of the street would mean that eventually the con cern will build additions to it's factory to take in parts of the street and he felt the property in the neighborhood would not be injured. A large mum Der of persons have spoken in favor of the plan for the discontinuance of the street, including former Alderman Ste- phens Meaney.
 Joseph Sanger, owner of the lot at Shelton and Joseph street, is opposed, however. He said the value of his property would be appreciated and that he would be unable to get 5s4. 800. the price he had set on his lot if the street is discontinued. Frank G. Fin ney, owner of a. lot in Hicks street. opposed the petition as did Attorney Frank Munich, representing Joseph and May E.. Frisbie. In reply to them MT. Wheeler said that when his con- cern first considered the petition for the d1scontinuance of the. street the first person he had spoken to was Jo- seph -Frisbie and the latter had said
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
Ill44tDSTURM UP TO 50 YEARS ORDERED
 TO REPORT AGAIN

Budapest Hungary. July 3o-A11 men of the Iandsturn up to fifty years Of age have now been ordered up for re-exanination by. the army doctors. In accordance with a new decree, all men will in the future be classified as either fit for military, Tit for guard service, or physically in capable of kind of work All thoss $ the first two: classes n 6e enltst6d those who are. not judged fi6 for military ser vice at the front will serve as guards for the prisoners camps railway lines, and warehouses;. relieving those now doing es1ch service for tie front Some of the men Of the e.s,yeunger Inili tary Or more medical examinations.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
ABANDONED MINES
 REOPENED TO FILL
 DEMANDS OF WAR
Ancient Methods Used in Working Pits, But Cheap
 Prices Prevail.

Manchester England, July 3O.-An interesting feature of the wartime de
 mand for coal is that it has brought
 about the reopening of hundreds of
 derelict mines in the remote valleys | of the, PenningS range, a. long line of hills that stretches from the vicin- ity= of Manchester straight north to the Scottish border. The entire re- zion lies. above immense fields of coal, but difficulties of transportation and lack of capital have heretofore pre- vented any extensive development.
 As the great coal districts of South
 ern Lancashire and Yorkshire become
 depleted, more attention must be
 paid to these upland deposits and the
 problem of reaching them with trans
 portation facilities must be met. At
 present there is no railway which
 reaches within twenty miles of the most accessible fields.
 Wartime prices, however, have turned attention to these old mines, and in a primitive way the owners and tenants have begun flecking out a few hundred tons here and there and. marketing it at various points which can be reached by horse trans port.n The mines are worked in old time fashion by a few ce1Iiers each There is little attempt at timberingss and the levels are constructed to drain naturally. The seams are approN-| mately a yard in thickness and as they pass level into the mOOrS are easily workable. Some of the mines were opened up many generations ago and later abandoned "a. few have been " orked in half-hearted fashion until galleries a couplezof miles long have been cut Old church records. old parchments and n1anorfal deeds are full of a1Iusions to- these deposits. The tenants of one manor were bound to attend twice ins each year at cer- tain pits with ponies and pa nI1eIs to carry fuel to the hall orScasIIe, Am ple refreshment for man and beast was provided by the lord of the man or. In other manors the tenants were bound to give certain days Of labor to mining In recognition of such ser -vices the tenants were universally permitted to make free use of their lordship's coal mine for their own use or for sale provided a certain small royalty was paid to my lords agents
 The cheapness with which the coal fnay be mined is indicated by the fact that at one pit above Wensleysdale, 1 for examDIe, 1t is sold at the pit mouth at $1 a. ton, but so severe is the sclim b to the mine that 8o0@ pounds is a good horse load The coal is of fair household quality. Nowhere in the entire region has anyone attempted to develop the property by sinking a shaft in search of those deeper de posits which the conf guration of the country seems to promise
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
ASTRONOMERS NAME DFEIAVAN COMET AS
 THE WAR HERALD

 2 Berlin July 30.-4In the light of the ancient su5 stitt1en that comets, par ticular1y an unusuaI number of them, presage disaster and war; astronomers have recently been calculating the number that have made their appear ance from late in 1918 until the pres ent time They have been unusually frequent, apparently, fir o1n which fact the superstitfolls are taking comfort.
 The real e%war comet says the astronomers, was that of De1evan, discovered by him in December, 1913-# This body was of unusual size and. brilliancy, and at it's zenith could be made out with the naked eye. It dis appeared early this year, and prob ably will not be seen agan for six or, seven years The astron omers eau ton against taking this as an indica- lion that The war will last that long.
 One of the first to be seen in 1913 was 'sEncke's comet which first was noted in 17S6, but not definitely p1ac- ed until 1816 It makes it's appear ance oncelNevery three and a. third years, but in 1914 was late. Close on the heels of this expected guest came some that were not expected, however.
 E On May is, 1914, Rudolph Paetz reports, Z1atinsky discovered comet like star, possessing the briI1iancy of a star of 1925 magnitude. It was given the name of Neujmin- Then came the Krit5tng comet of compaFa- lively little bri11iancy and the then from America. The first comet of 1915 was that of MelIish, also dis covered in America, which first ap- peared as a star of 10 magnitude and attained it's rnaximurn in June with the magnitude of a fourth class star
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
Government Service Has Many Good Jobs
 Open For Aspirants

The government service has many good jobs open at the present time, and requires men to fill them as soon as possible, according to the announce- ment of the United States Civil Ser vice commission The jobs run from a, real estate expert to submarine en- gineers, and from college professors to boiler draug ghtsn1en- And the salaries range from $36o to 8, 500 a year.
 The services of an eligible. man on submarine construction are needed i'm mediate1y in thes office of the Inspector of machinery, Electric Boat company, Grot0n, at a salary of $5.M a day. Men familiar with the purchase and sale of real estate who have had experience in examining titles, land Htigations, or in land or legal depa artments of any railroad, are wanted by the interstate commerce commission as senior land appraisers. There are two grades needed. the salaries being from $1.S0O to &, 500 a year. Examinations will be sheld in Boston. August IT.
 On the same day. examinations will Joe held for senior drainage engineer and drainage engineer at salaries ranging from g, 200 to 5000 a. year. office 5o of public roads and rural en- gineering, department of agriculture, for service in the field
 On August IS, examinations will be held for junior land appraisers, sal aries for which work will range from $500 to $500 a year Junior drainage engineers are also wanted, and candi- dates must be willing to start work at salaries ranging from $96O to. $1, ,620 a. year. High school graduates are want ed to take examinations for advanced apprentice draughtsrnen at $700 a year.
 "A college man with a. B. A degree and who has taken a. course in plant pathology, is wanted by the federal horticultura1 board, department of az ricu1ture, Washington, as an assistant pathological inspector at a salary ranging from .$1,oO0 to 400 a year. The examination VIII be held August 18th
 An assistant curator in the National Museum in Washington, in the depart ment of pa1eonto1ogy. is needed The salary will be $1, 800 This also requires a college educa ton and preliminary training. Marine draughtsmen at $3.52 a day, and a. messenger boy at $36o for the navy department are wanted as soon as possible. Other jobs open in HcIude a. meta1lurgist chemist at$1, 800, assistant inspectors of hul1s at g, 800 to $1,8O0, assistant marine steam en- gineer. carpenters, marine fremen, mates and oilers, and stationary fire men. The examinations for these will be held October l.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
BARNARD DE PLEDGE.

The funeral Of Brainards De Pledge was held at 2t3e. this afternoon from the mortuary chapel of Walker & Banks. and was attended by am un- usually large number of relatives and friends of the young man who was ex- cept1ona11y popular and we'll known. Rev. F. c. Rideout, pastor of the Sec ond Baptist church, conducted the ser vices. The casket was surrounded by a great number of Beautiful floral pieces The paHbearers were friends and near relatives of, the young man and 1interment was in Lakeview cen- etery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
Wants Cole Removed
 As Trustee of Estate

' Because Charles s. Cole claims, that as trustee of the estate of the late Ed ward A. Hawley he has a right to keep
 a 10 per cent deduction from the bills Of the repairs of the estate, Miss Het- tie Ha1w1ey has brought an action to have MT. Cole removed as trustee A hearing was held yesterday afternoon before Judge Miller in the probate court. Mrs. sHawley has been .receiv- ing $250 a month income from the es- tate. She has a life use of this income.
 At her death it will go to Ella T., wife of Dr. William Roper, and to Harriet
 H Miller. The estate consists of houses and Buildings in State street, Park. and Myrtle avenues and in Myr- t1e place. Trustee Cole admitted that in dfscounting bills for repairs he and not the bene1eiariess of the estate pro1ted but he declared that taking such profit was within his right as a trustee. Attorney s. F. Beardsley ap- peared for MT. Cole. Attorney John J. Culliran for Mrs. Hawley and Dr. Ro- per-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
PADS OF FASHION
 CHANGE TO CONFORM
 TO WAR SENTIMENT

Paris, July 30.-The short skirt has brought back into style the high shoes of the second empire. White and fancy co1ofS are 41o longer in ia vor with tie most fashionable won ens who incline rather to plain black en- tips The heels are higher than they have ever been since the eighteenth century. The extremists of this style frequently seen in the Bois de Bou1ogne carry themselves as if they were walking on: stilts.
 Referring to the outcry in Berlin against the sstyrannical domination of Paris in the matter of styles, and the campaign for purely. national Ger man fashions, one fashon authority declares that writers, politicians and economists are powerlegs to. alter styles.
 The Germans viii have no more success in theirswars on French styles than w1II8<have fl1e French on their war on German music, in inc opi nion of ths authority
 Tn proof of his assertion he pro- duces a recent number of Berlin sfash-. ion review with fashion plates show ing that there the sciosed umbrella with the same pIaits and trimmlngs as in Paris.
 The Berlin hat, too. has taken the rakish form of the forage cap and worn we'll over on the. ear, in a mar vicious imitation of what was seen until recently in the Bois de Boulogne and on the Champs Elysees. Now the hats in Paris have taken on a brfm and are gradually widening out. into a rational compromise between the parasol and the urban
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
POTNrs OF INTEREST

Tomorrow Gsaturday) is the last day of the great yellow ticket clearance sale. Bigger bargains than ever in
 ln lntrirnned and trimmed hats, shirt waists, petticoats, cloth coats. separate cloth skirts, neck ruffs, vethngs, auto clusters. guaranteed raineoats and sweaters at B. Fl. Dillon & Cos, 1,1o5. Main street.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
co. EMPLOYEES HAVE PARTY
 ON FAIRFIELD BEACH

A beach party and moonlight bath ing were enjoyed Wednesday evening at Fairfield beach by girls who are employed at. The Locomobile Co., Those who attended were the Misses Natalie DeRick, May Book. Marion Meath, Ethel Cooney and Anna Kin ney.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
OBITUARY
MICHAEL 10TH:

The funeral of Michael, the nine months old son of Michael and So- p1ie 10th, was held at g O clock this morning from the home of his par ents, 673 Wordin avenue. Inter ment was in St. AichaePs cemetery. The child died yesterday morning
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
1.Frlr PTsr-1.r,1tssr rAcn

ma the raost BeAut1xui hanus are oc. ten d1zfi ured by an unsightiy wart It can easily be temoved in a few days without pEatn bys using Cyrus ward: RemDyer. For sale only al Tne Cyrus 1harmacys AIS FairGsid Ava
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
FoRAfIsR s1INIsrER worNpEp.

Paris. July 3o-Adolp11e Messiny, former minister of war, was severely wounded in the thigh by shell splinter while on the vosges front, where he was in command Of a bataI- lion of ight infantry.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30

A despatch from Wellington states that the governments proposal for the formation of coalition government in New Zealand was defeated by the opposition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30

N Custom s4e Suit Sale. B NOW LYFORD BROTHERS BUY
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30

CELERY PLANTS :
 15c Per dozen JOHN RICK & SON
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
gettes

sunragettes te1ephoned 5o.p0O prominent New Yorkers, asking them their sentiments on the woman sui frage gquest tion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30

The New York state training ship Newport arrived at San Francisco.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30

According to private reports from Vienna the outbreak of cholera iu Austria is spreading. -f
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30

Farmer want Ads one Cent 2 Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30

Bathing Caps of Pure Gum Rubber priced )at 25c, 29c, 49c and 75c.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-07
Teeth of the Ancients.

The silence of the classics certainly
seems to indicate that the Greeks and
Romans suf cred very little from their
teeth. Worls for toothache and for
tooth extracting instruments can, is
deed, be found in the Greek and Latin
dictionaries, but the authors quoted
for them are generally late and al
ways uninteresting. We can hardly
believe that if toothache had been
common in Athens Aristophanes would
have made no jokes about it. But a
classical scholar may pretty safely be
defed to cite a single Greek Or Latin
passage about it. Even Lucretius,
when he gets on the subject Of teeth
in a passage where a reference to
toothache might be expected, merely
refers to the jar given to the teeth by
very cold water or by biting a stone
in ones bread.-London Chronicle.