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The Washington herald., 1917-01-14
Oil and Nor. Oh Wanted E,.rywher..

Oil and More Oh Wanted Everywhere.
The automobile manufacturers estimate their
output for 1917 100000 cars There will be Ioo-
900 farm tractors In Railroads, Steamships,
Manufacturers and even householders turning to
Oh as a fuel The u. S. Navy building nothing
but Oi-burning ships The production Is inadequats
to meet the demands Oh b the one sure money
onstrated by the enormous dividends being paid by
every producing Oil company, and making fortunes
IN the continued enhaneeneM in stock values.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-14
ANEW OIL FIELD


dollars before h is Dced
m lwayT GraSa Go
Ibanns land in Hs The
The Washington herald., 1917-01-14
Change at Capital Bank.

II. c. Stewart, formerly assistant
cashier OF the National Capital Bank of
Washington. 3ls Pennsylvania avenue
southeast. has been promoted to cashier
and ID. ID. Walker appointed assistant
cashier.
The Washington herald., 1917-01-14
s2.Ssqo Of All Wells Are Producers

Figures compiled for the first six months
OF this year show I2.3f2 wells drilled and
1929 WERE PRODUCING wELI.s. The
element OF risk is practically eliminated.
When 2B holes are sunk in a proven Geld. 20
will be producers. Figure the smallest min
imum of 100 barrels per day at s3 per barrel
and the income viii be $1,000 per day. ovsr
100000 per year. Single wells have pro
duced more per day than this estimate gives
for a year. Drilling rigs and $4,000 worth Of
machinery and well caring are now on the
ground Additional wells are being drilled
others are drilling. and Big we'll would be
the sensation OF the oil world and start .
stampede to this field. You have read of the
and possibly doubted the truth Of many OF
them
The Washington herald., 1917-01-14

kead the Report Of DR.. Frederick Saiathe. Ph. d.
The indications are that after passing through
the Gaping of this present sand rock the bottom
OF the well oil will be struck In very large Quantities
The character of this oil proves sufficiently this well
when drilled into the oil sand will be large pro-
dueer In my opinion not less than $50 to 800 bar
res per dem as such light gravity oil Is generally
found in large bodies. The market for this oil is un
limited and especially as power generator"
The Washington herald., 1917-01-14
Your 0pportunity-Aet Now.

You know what the OIL Fields of Pennsyi-
vania. West virginia Texas Oklahoma and
One OIL Company In Texas has paid its stock
holders Six Million Dollars; another has
earned 800 every dollar Invested Invest
ors in still another company have increased
the values of their holdings from every $40
invested to $3.50 and $500. These facts and
figures are open TO investigation The high
atty of the Oil which the Great Salt Lake
dfics 10 he ,xEells hrnIlshf in
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
Lincoln Would Never
Pass Efficiency Test

There is an editorial in the Febru-
airy issue Of the Woman's Home Com
paf1ion in which the writer says:
1--WE shudder to think what the YER
dict Of the efficiency experts would be
upon Lincoln. Why, the man had no
sense Of money at all!-and to get
the money is, of course, the chief pur-
pose and end Of efficiency.
"He had worked hard for an aver
age lifetime before he was elected to
the Presidency. Yet at his Inaugural
ton his entire fortune consisted of
his house and lot in Springfield, and
q little wild land in Iowa, granted to
him for his services in the Black
Hawk War. A few years later he is
reported to have said: I now have
about ten thousand dollars. hope
before I die to increase it to twenty
thousand dollars, which is all the
money any one man ought to want
s'He seemssactually to have had the
idea that money is merely incidental
to the business Of living, not nearly
SO important as friendship. or a sense
Of humor, or q clear conscience. He
assumed that after man had enough
to- pay his debts, and attain q reason
able degree of independence, it was
useless, and even a trifle absurd, for
him to seek to pile up a great for
tune. A more hopelessly inefficient
point Of view, Of course, could hardly
be imagined"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
Smoked Cigarettes in
Shop, Girl Fined,

Birmingham. Eng, Jan. 31-The
lives of eight hundred people in fac
tory near Birmingham were endan-
geed by girls love for cigarette
smoking, according to charges brought
BIZ the government in a trial just cor
Guided here. The girl Gladys Farr,
vas fined 10 pounds and received the
most severe admonition that it was
in the power of the court to admins 1
ter.
1t was explained that Miss Farr
was employed in the fuse huts at a
big munition factory. In these nuts
there was large quantity of open
powder. The huts were perhaps the
most dangerous section of the fac
tory's danger area Owing to the
large amount Of powder about, the at
mosphere itself was highly explosive
Miss Farr was seen to strike a
match on one of the fuse cases, and
to attempt to light a cigarette. An
other girl knocked the match out of
her hand hand. She told the court
that she lighted the match without
thinking what she was doing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
King Constantine
Adored By People
and Royal Family

Athens, Greece. Jan. 31.-The at
tacks upon King Constantine are serv-
ing to draw the members of his fam
ly more closely about him. Princess
Alice of Batenberg, Prince Andrews
wife, who is an English Princess and
whose two brothers are in the British
Navy, is as loyal and devoted to her
brother-tn-law as are his b1ood-rela-
lions. h
''Those who to-day are engaged in
the revolutionary movement will re-
turn to loyal allegiance the moment
the foreign influence is lifted from
them,' declared the Princess to a cor
respondent of The Associated Press.
my brother in-law,J she continued
lis precisely what the Greek people
need as king. He is a brave, and in
spired soldier, who has led them to
victory; and they adore him for it,
You saw the King at the Champ de
Mars ride among his people without
guard. the people pressing about him,
clinging to his saddle, touching him.
running. along beside his horse.
doubt that if in any other country in
the world monarch or president would
have been given so wonderful a re-
ception.
"Some of the Entente newspapers
said my brother-in-law was trying to
commit suicide by taking such risks!
That shows just how much they know
about it! The people of Greece al
most worship their King, and the
great mistake the Entente has made
has been to assume the contrary, and
to protect and foster revolution
against him. Had they spent a quar-
ter the time and good will seeking to
come to an understanding with the
King that they have spent in helping
to build up a revolutionary move
ment directed against him, none of
the sad events of the last few months
would have occurred; and he and
they would have been working in per-
feet harmony long since
mo-" the English Princess declared
II cannot believe that my own peo-
pie are so misinformed of the real con-
ditions in Greece as to consider for
moment any attempt to take King
Constantine from the throne But if
they should countenance it, I am pos
tive that they would realize in a very
short time what they should realize
now; that no one but King Constan-
tine is capable of leading Greece safe
ly through this world crisis; and that
should he go, the Greek people as one
man would cal him back!''
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
THE WONDERFUL
FRUIT MEDICINE
Thousands Owe Health And
Strength To ''Fruit-a-tiVes"

FRUIT the marvellous
medicine made from fruit juices - has
relieved more cases of Stomach, Liver,
Blood, Kidney and Skin Troubles khan
any other medicine. In severe cases
of rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago,
Pain in the Back, Impure Blood, Neu-
ralgia, Chronic Headaches, Chrouic
Constipation and Indigestion, s'Fruit-
a-tives'' has given unusually effective
results. BY its cleansing, healing
powers on the eliminating organs,
''Fruit-a-tives" tones up and invigor-
ates the whole system.
SOC. box, TO: So so, trial size, Csc.
At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit
a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, NY.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
4 CLEAR 0cOMPLExIO
Ruddy Cheeks-Spark1ing Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says DR.. Edwards, Well-Known
Ohio Physician

DR.. T.. M. Edwards for - yek-s
treated scores of women for liver and
bowel ailments. During these years he
gave to his patients prescription made
Of a few well-known vegetable ingredi-
-nts mixed with olive oil, naming them
Dir. Edwards Olive Tablets, you will
Snow them by their olive color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on
the liver and bowels, which cause nor
nal action, carrying off the waste and
poisonous mattertin ones system.
If you flave5a pale face, sallow look,
hull eyes. pimples, coated tongue, head
:ches, 1istless, no-good feeling, all out
If sorts, inactive bowels, you take one
Of DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly
for time and note the pleasing results.
Thousands Of women as welt as men
AXE Dr. Edwards Olive Tabiets-the
uccessful substitute for calonel-now
and then just to keep in the pink of con-
Gs;as, 30cand 25cper box AL d~.-e---e'
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
MODERN WARSHIPS

naval officer would have been
considered as fit subject for an in
sane asylum who in 1863, the year OF
NV entry into the service, had pro-
phesied the creation in less than hall
a century Of a, United States fleet OF
great seagoing battleships of more
than 10000 tons displacement, each
with several turrets, any one OF when
could throw against an enemy at one
discharge a greater weight of metal,
| Of incomparably greater destructive
power and range, than was possible
from the full broadside of one Of Nell
sons largest ships of the line. We
may gain some idea of the tremen-
dous increase in the power of fight
ing ships when we realize that in a
short time and without danger to it.
self one modern dreadnaught could
destroy the combined fleets that
foukht at Trafalgar in 1905.
In the widest stretch of the imag-
ination our prophet could not have
foreseen the addition to the fleet or
| torpedo boat destroyers of thous-
and tons displacement, speed of 80
| or 35 knots and torpedoes of great
accuracy, high speed and an effective
range of 10000 yards. A "bag of
powder on the send Of a spar" was our
conception of an offensive torpedo in
those days. Good work could be done
even with that crude equipment, as
Cushing proved when he torpedoed
! the Albemarle.
[ think our prophet would surely
have had a padded cell provided for
him had he attempted to describe the
modern submarines, which are cap
Oil a "a
days, which have a radius Of action
of 1000 miles or more and which are
able under favorable conditions to
creep unseen upon the most powerful
vessel and at one discharge destroy
it. He would have found few indeed
to listen to him if he had asserted
the possibility that scouting or bomb
throwing air craft would act in con-
junction with the fleets or foretold
the influence of electricity and the
wireless upon operations of the fleet
both in peace and in war.
All those wonderful changes and
advances in naval design, construc-
ton and equipment have taken place
within my period of service. In sea
power, in military efficiency in COM
forts and conveniences, we have
greatly gained, but I think that those
of us who started our careers when
the great naval advance Of the last
generation was still to come, who
made their early cruises in sailing
ships with auxiliary steam. power
only, look back with tender memory
upon the old and less mechanical en-
vironment
The romance of the sea conveyed
by Marryat and others in their stories
has not really gone; the conditions
only have changed. The sea and it's
effect upon those who follow It never
change and there is as great a field
in the navy to-day for the adventure
Gus youngster as ever, perhaps a
greater. Certainly he can have as
many heart thrills on board sub
marine or destroyer or flying craft as
he could have had on board brig
or schooner cruising for pirates in
the oldeu days.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
FROST DAMAGES CATHEDRAL.

Rheims, France, Jan. 81. - Frost,
thaw and then RAIN. have caused the
plaster to become loose from the arch
es Of the famous cathedral which, ear
lier in the war, was badly damaged
by fire from German shells. Large
pieces fall constantly and are strewn
about the stone floor, particularly in
the side aisles. Up the nave there are
large pools Of water. The depart
ment Of Fine Arts Of the French Gov
eminent is being requested to hasten
work Of protecting and repairing GER
tain portions of the cathedral. Car
dinal Lucon remains at Rheims, much
of his work being devoted to aiding
people whose homes have been de-
stroyed by the German bombardment
and distributing supplies sent by the
American Clearing House. Many pack
ages and cases for the poor come di-
rectIy from the United States from in
dividual donors, and the Cardinal is
yep. busy acknowledging these gifts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
CAFE NAMED ssKING ALBERT

Havre, France. Jan. 31.-The most
crowded cafe in Liege is that showing
the sign ITO King Albert" The Ger
mans made the proprietor cover up
the name of the King on the outside
of the cafe, but have not interfered
with the inside decorations or fittings
though these all refer in one way or
another to his majesty. The princi-
pal part of the cafe is a long broad
corridor the walls Of which are tapes
tried with ornamental leather, and at
the end of the corridor is life-sized
portrait of the King in generals uni
form topped with the royal arms and
encircled with electric jets, All the
glassware and coffee cups are inscrib-
ed ITO King Albert" and out of these
the German as we'll as Belgian fire.
quenters of the cafe drink
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31

The changes In the material of
the navy have produced correspond
ing changes in it's organization and
personnel. You no longer see the
gray bearded boatswain's mate, quar-
termaster or quarter gunner about
the decks of our ships. They were
brave and loyal to the core, and their
yarns Of experiences on all seas and
in all weathers interspersed occa-
sionally with a little good advice to
the young officer tactfully given.
whiled away many an hour Of quiet
night watches in port. n
/, The old type of sailorman under
stood his duties as thoroughly and
one could desire, but machinery has
banished him. His place has been
taken by the younger, better educat-
capable, but who does not as a rule
follow the sea for lifetime unless he
wins early promotion.
1t is now a rare thing to see in the
lower ratings an enlisted man who is
more than 80 years old. The great
majority are much younger. The life
is too strenuous and it's conditions too
abnormal, as measured by modern
conditions on shore, to hold men to
it. And yet 1 believe that no other
occupation open to American youth
offer them so many chances to sue.
coed as to acquire a provision for old
age It is in the power of any young
man of fair elementary education, in
dustrious and good moral character
to enlist in the navy, say, at the age
of 20 and to retire at the age of so
with life compensation Of from $50
to 500 a month. That class does
not include the considerable number
Of those who obtain warrants or COM
missions, which bring much greater
emoluments- Admiral Charles j.
Badger in Youth Companion.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
WILL utilize
RESOURCES OF
HER COLONIES
French Plan For Promoting
Economic Recovery After
War Ends.

Paris, Jan. 81. - Frenchmen who
believe in developing the home mar
ket as the best means of promoting
an economic recovery after the war
are calling for grand MASTER Of
raw materials, or something like the
Imperial Office for the economic tran
sition period in Germany. A compe-
tent man, with sufficient legal author
ity and with full control of the utili-
Zation Of the natural resources of
France, they think, would accomplish
in the restoration Of general indus
tries a work comparable to what M.
Albert Thomas, the Minister of Num-
tons, has accomplished in the produc-
ton of arms and prOjectileS.
The French colonies, it is pointed
out, would be a rich field for the eff
forts of such a department. Algeria
has petroleum, copper and zinc. 9th
er North African colonies have rich
deposits Of copper, zinc and anthony
while the Southern Sahara, Dahomey
and Congo are rich in vegetable oils
and seeds for the manufacture of
vegetable fats. OF this production
Germany bought and exported sew
enty-five per cent. before the war.
Great Britain is profiting from the
blockade and from the poverty of the
French merchant marine to displace
Germany in this African trade, buy
ing up allogeneous products of the
French colonies for the time being
The danger of being distanced by
Great Britain in the utilization of the
products of their colonies is not over
looked by Frenchmen who, after rs
years of comparative neglect, realize
now what they lost by too little at
tention to the resources of the colon
les.
The development of those resources
by the aid of a rebuilt merchant ma
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
ESK|MOS CARE
<NAUCHT ABOUT
WARS 0UTC0ME
Inhabitants of Chilly Green
land Marvel at Waste of
Human Life.

London, Jan. 31.-The Eskimos o.
pie in Europe who are not interested
in the outcome of the great war. Such
is the impression given by Jen Dan.
gard ImSen, governor of Greenland
who has come all the way to Londor
oappear as a witness in claim OF
the Danish government to a cargo
Of fish seized by the British as q
prize of war.
''They have heard Of the war; sai6
the governor, ''but they have only g
vague impression of the gigantic
struggle. Two Eskmio papers thai
are published once month give them
a rough idea Of the conflict but the is.
sues are entirely foreign to them
These papers are printed by native
printers trained in Denmark. In them
are reproduced war pictures taker
from the Danish papers"
The waste of human life makes the
deepest impression on these Green.
gard 1.-THE Eskimo believes il
wicked to kill humans" he went on
''Ie kills all animals and thinks he
I
shrinks from the thought of taking g
human life. He heard of men being
thrown against machinery in the great
struggle to the south Of him and be-
lieves the whole thing absurd
The governor summed up the Green.
lander's unique position which he re-
marked may have something to dc
with his detachment from the war
'"The, Greenlander," he said, "has these
advantages:
"He has no army to support.
'tIe has no navy to worry about.
There are no policemen in Green
land.
''He has no taxes to'pay.
There are no movie shows or thea
tres
.AI doctor bills are paid by the
Danish government.
There added the governor, you
have a condition unique among the
peoples of the world. And it must not
be forgotten that the standard Of CIV
ilization among these Arctic High
landers is being raised, slowly by ne
cessity I am also pleased to re-
port that his numbers are increasing.
The present population of $4,000
shows growth of about IL per cent
in ten years.
1.-The Danish government, which
controls the country, carefully looks
after the well-being of the Eskimo,
and by a rigid ban on visitors to the
country-nobody is allowed to go to
Greenland except by special permits
sion--leaves him to develop on nat
ural evolutionary lines"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
STAND UP.

AS a conclusive consequence of the
woman's rights movement will come
to If successful was well illustrated,
during the. proceedings Of sthe strong
minded females convention at AL
bany, New York, few weeks ago.
During one Of the days Of it's ses-
sion street car was crowded. There
entered severe looking female. An
old gent rose to give her seat. "Be
you one of those woman's righters?"
"I be-" replied the ancient. 'You be-
lieve a woman should have all the
rights Of man, do your" he inquir-
ed. Eyes, do" was the emphatic
answer. Then said the man, "stand
UP and enjoy them like a man." And
she had to stand up.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
FINGER INJURED.

Mr.. M. Seeley, a joiner at work in
Swords and Stillson's sash and blind
factory had the end Of one of his fin
gers taken off yesterday by a buzz
saw. At the same moment a stick
was jerked by the saw from his hand
and thrown back with violence hit
ting him in the breast and knocking
him over into a pile of refuse, which
lay behind him. He was taken home
and properly cared for. Mr.. Greene
another workman in the factory had
the index finger of his left hand bad
ly cut by the chisel of a mortising
machine a few days ago, and has
since been unable to do anything at
his business
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
THE LATE EGBERT

MARSH'S WILL
The will of the late Egbert Marsh
was admitted to probate on the Mon
day of this week and Henry S. Ny
gait qualified as executor. BY this
will Mr.. Marsh gives $500 to the new
Milford centre cemetery association
and $4,000 in private requests. A
trust fund is created and provision is
made for the care of his wife during
her life. The residue is given to the
town Of New Milford in trust for a
fund for a free public library, the in
come to be used solely for the pur-
chase of books and other reading ma
terial. The inventory is not yet
made and it is not known what resi-
duary Of the legacy will amount to but
1t will Undoubtedly be $4,000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
STUCK IN THE SNOW.

It does seem as if the hospital au-
thorities should clear the paths lead
ing to the emergency entrance of that
institution. The ambulance was
obliged to take James Vanilla to the
hospital yesterday. The injury to the
man was a fracture of the SKULL The
ambulance could not get within Is
feet of the entrance on account of the
bank Of snow. Surgeon Hair and
Driver Jack of the ambulance made
the attempt to carry the injured man
over the snow-bank on the stretch
er. They could not accomplish it
alone, and some of the doctors at the
hospital came out and gave a help
ing hand. Driver Jack got stuck in
the snow and could not move at all
at one time. It was rather an un-
handy way to take an injured man in
to a hospital.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
EXTRACT OF A
LETTER FROM SPAIN

The prosecutions in this unhappy
country still continue. or even increase
Neither high nor low rae separated.
Two distinguished patriots have been
condemned to confinement,> one for
ten years and the other forever. A
contribution Of five hundred million
rails (about five million pounds)
which the government intend to i'm
pose upon all classes of the nation
with the exception Of the clergy ex-
cites a general feeling Of displeasure
and causes fermentation that may
result in unexpected opposition.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
SLAVE SHIPS ARRIVE

"A late Havana paper states the ar
rival Of two vessels from the coast
of Africa-one with 800 and another
with IA slaves. Gentlemen from
Havana informed that the Spanish
merchants were buying UP all the fast
sailing vessels for the African trade.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-31
You Need, the Services
Of a Watch Expert.

The best watch that was ever con-
1tructed needs occasional attention.
It may be accidently dropped or
jammed or In any event a yearly oil
ing ana cleaning is advisable.
Entrust this important service to
our repair department and rest as
sured that it will be well taken care
Of.