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6 THE FARMER: AUGUST 20; 1913 BRIDGEPOR T E VENING FARMER (POUNDED 1790.) ' Published by The Farmer Publishing Co., 179 Fairfield Ava, Bridgeport, Conn. WEDNESDAT, Mr. Taxnaver. Hote i j. i Cheap Macadam Is The Sign Of The pavement which -will road, viaduct to Fairfield is the. form of bituminous con crete which is sold under the name "Warrenite." It is probably as good as any other nobettqr. , ;; ;. ' 7 i ' -:. " y'-'-:-.. ' The fact remains that in the performance of this work the city has not had the benefit of competition and an open market. Consequently the city pays too much for what it is getting t y y -- ' '-.n '.:'i-f- y v y: A loaf of bread may be good. A ton of coal may burn as well as another ton. It does not injure the quality of a commodity to pay more than it is worth. " : The ordinarily prudent man wants a good article at the 1 WEST MARKET PRICE. The lowest market price, such is human nature, is seldom ; obtained where competition is excluded. The process by which the city has engaged in the pavement of Fairfield avenue seems to be illegal, and un justifiable. ' ; " y'! It is no defense to say that the pavement that has been laid is a good pavement. The city has a right to a good pavement at the lowest market price. The city also has the right to have its laws obeyed. - .- ' y We may add that the pavement isn't a good pave ment, because the Connecticut company has been excused from its obligation to lay a good pavement; one just as good as .the -city laid. , ' '; y-y;yy.; r" "y :; r'--'r'' y :''.r, Through the shining stretch of hard bituminous con crete runs a streak two trolley tracks wide of the familiar water bound macadam-to distribute dust to hasten the decay of the better pavement, and to stand as a shining example of the disadvantages of government by double machine fiat,. -' : y; ; "' . : y' ; ;T-'' - -v1''"- ;' -1 : It's fine and fat for the Connecticut company to be excused from laying costly pavement, ' It's sad and lean, for the taxpayer, however. , v r ; - 1 Double machine government is always like that. It ; provides nice, rich fat pickings for the powerful, and a good lead diet for the plain people whose chief function is to pay the bills. V r 'y Certainly They Will Serial Ilciies; The : tieeris , The Those who were surprised because the entire issue of serial notes is to be used, have not thoroughly mastered the double machine, policy, which has been from the be ginning to iricrekse the indebtedness of the city. This would-accomplish twd results.' f " A large debt would delay the municipal ownership of public utilities. ; The expen diture of large sums of money would place in the hands of the double1 machine politicians the power to employ many persons, whose services in the forthcoming primar ies would bef utijizedji ' v: -. '5tS'A w' V' I Fortunatel'y'the, sums at the disposal of fchis pleasant program are smaller by some millions than they were in tended to be. f ,!-;.. -4 ': . . . . N .' The people, at the ballot als totalling more than $2,00U,U0U. The General Assembly refused to authorize the issue of something more than $2,000,000 without a referendum to the people, and this despite the. pleadings of a double machine lobby and leadership. . , , y . ' , y Bridgeport would now be in a pretty pickle had the double machine plansbeen completely realized, y ? -V "With millions to spend the political cormorants an - i ' : r? t i. i j j i - -! -1 mi. ixieir special privilege uacjs.t;rs wuum ieei mvmciDie. me talk of swelling the police; force, with yet more men, which they dare not attempt under existing circumstances would be turned brazenly into action, and the combined power of public services, double machine politicians, and millions in process of being spent, would lead the taxpayers a mer ry dance, and burden the homes of Bridgeport mightily. TWO WAYS OF . y The ways of the American apple grower in past years have been in singular contrast to the care used in orange and lemon, cultivation. The orange grower , has always understood that he must cultivate and fertilize his or chard, and to prevent bruising must handle his fruit as if it were eggs. ; y The need for-. equally scientific methods in the raising of apples was the dominant theme at the 19th convention 5f apple shippers, just held in Cleveland, O. To-day you find an intelligent minority of farmers who treat their ap ple orchards as if it was a real crop. They give the land its proper food. They also handle their fruit on padded bins and tables, and pack it in tissue. Most of the older farmers would as soon think of taking these precautions with stove wood. : . Science counts. Three times as many oranges were raised in the United States in 1909 as in 1899. During the same period the apple product fell off 16 per cent. ' The average farmer has regarded his apple orchard as merely a wild crop, something like .huckleberries or timber. A thick growth of grass and weeds under the trees absorbed a big share of the soil V nutriment--Useless AUG. 20, 1913. That Streak Of . On Fairfield Ave. it The Double Machine soon extend from the rail rjavement of the type, and Issii LLfThe Double Machine Money- To., .Spend box, defeated bonding propo- RAISING FRUIT. suckers were parasites on the trees ' growth. The soil un- derneath was never stirred, and much of the rainfall ran off the sunbaked earth. Unsprayed fruit trees were juicy feasts for cohorts of worms. In picking, the apples were tossed from bas ket to barrel or pile to pile, as if they were potatoes. Placed loosely in a barrel, they shucked during transpor tation like anthracite coal. ' Happily the methods of spraying, cultivation and packing which the apple shippers urged throughout their Cleveland meeting are coming into more general use. As the apple is grown successfully in every state in the union, it bids fair to become more of a national asset than it has been in the past. ' Among those who have done most to bring home to the agricultural intelligence of America the -place of sci ence in fruit growing is J. H. Hale of Glastonbury, who has made peach growing a great and profitable business in Connecticut, and who also has given a new impetus to ap ple growing. Mr. Hale once said: "Ttttakes ten years to bring an apple orchard to bearing. That is too long for men to wait. Most of the men I know who have planted apple orchards are more than fifty years old. " y It is the age of hurry. t Results are demanded, over night. t Young men are too old to wait. But signs of a change are. at hand. Science, patience and perseverance will soon again make New England hillsides rich with tree crops. ' . y . , . M. Raymond iPoincare, President of France, will today pass bis fifty-third milestone, having been born in Bar-le-Due on August , 20, 1860. The emi nent statesman who recently succeed ed "Papa" . Fallieres in the Elysee, comes of a. fa-mily eminent in litera ture ' and science.. His father , was a prominent official, and one of . his brothers has also attained high posi tion in the government. His cousin, Henri Poincare, the famous mathema tician, was elected to the French Acad emy in, 1909. The family nam of the President was originally Poing-carre, meaning square-fisted. M. Poincare Is the ninth chief-of-state since the mighty structure of the French republic was reared on he ruins 1 of . the empire in 1870. In the opinion qf many, observers of. Euro pean affairs, he has alread shown a fitness for the high office that entitles him to rank among the greatest of the nine. . . -( , M. Poincare earjy gained an enviable reputation as a lawyer, and was one of the leaders of the Paris bar, where his eloquence, wit and -humor attracted wide attention. He was only twenty seven when he. was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from his home district. He. carried on a personal campaign, visiting all -of the 172 com munes of the arrondissement. The op position was based, principally ; on his extreme youth, but to this be. replied, "I promise you that it is a. fault of which I will speedily cure myself." At. the age of thirty-two M. Poin care became" a 'member of the govern. ment,.as Minister, of Public.. Instruc tion, a position requiring ability of a high order. Next he 'was chosen finance minister, and afterward Pre mier of France. . . , Oreat as was his ' success as a law yer, M. Poincare in his young man hood had an ambition to become a which were published in a Bar-le-Duc newspaper. Sir. trior, T, ras at. taine"d such . ability as a writer as to be elected to the Academy. In ap pearance he has been described as "un - galnly," and his face, although pleas- ing and intellectual, is far from being i moulded on classic lines. He is scarce ly Tnnro than "NT a rw-l pnnlf fr ttfl.tlire. being only about five feet in height. LnirOT4IW , mD ' His pointed beard is streaked with j MOTJ3JTAIX IJVIfl FOB , -gray,, and his eyes, which are small . FOREST KESEBVATIOIfS and piercing, are also gray. ; - . Mme. Poincare, the first lady of re-. Washington, Aug. 20 More land is publican France, is of Italian birth, - actually tncked away in the peaks and and $he Pfesident is her second bus- valleys of the southern .Appalachian band. She married M. Poincare after I and White mountain ranges than hith he had cted as her lawyer in securing ' erto has been suspected, the forest a divorce frorh , her first husband, a service announced, today, basing its German who had been an attache of, the Kaiser's embassy in Paris. Julia Sanderson, star of The Sun shine GirL" will celebrate her twenty- sixth birthday today, but, despite the'PO?8- fact that she - is in the full flower of k her youth and beauty, she wishes it distinctly understood that . no matri monial , candidates need applj. . Miss Sanderson recently secured a divorce from Tod Sloan, the Jockey, and she had to coin a new word to express her Joy. "It's perfectly! phospholorus to be single once more!" she told the re porters, and added, MN more matri mony for me!" twhereat the scribes went out "into the night, weeping si lently. Miss Sanderson . was born in Springfield, Mass.; and began her stage career at the . age -of: - five with Fore paugh's Stock " Company- 'in Philadel phia. '- She was only seventeen - when she married Tod Sloan,; the ; celebrated Jockey. : According to testimony given at the divowse shearing,, the wedding feast became an: gy as; soon as the bride had departed, i Sloan was found eating breakfast with one, of 'the wo man guests on the -morning after the banquet, 'and,, when -thehousekeeper remonstrated "with, him for . his neglect of his bridej Sloan only remarked, "Aw, calm yourself,. Rosemary.. 'C ' . In all' of the seventy-one monaster ies of the Trappists, or Order of the Reformed Cistercians, the festival of j St. Bernard, one of the founders or the society, will be " observed today. The Trappists program for- the hon oring of the saint begins with ..' . the chanting of the divine ofBce short ly after one o'clock in " the morning. During this ceremony the Abbot; cloth ed in mitre and crozier, ' imparts a special blessing to the monks. The office Is followed by private masses, and -then comes the solemn pontifical mass. . In the afternoon solemn pon tifical -vespers are sung, and the sol emn benediction of the .most blessed sacrament is imparted. There are five Trappist monasteries In Canada, and four " in the United States, the . most famous being the Abbey of Notre Dame du Lac, at La Trappe, near Oka, in the province of Quebec. No other religious order im poses such severe discipline upon its members. Afoslolutje, silence iq tie rule, and the monks pend their days in unceasing toil, earning their mea gre sustenance by the sweat of their brows. " V St. Bernard, who died 760 years ago today, used to say to applicants for admission to the monastery, "If you desire to enter here, leave at) (the threshold the body you bays . brought with you from the world; . here there is room only for your soul." v Practically all of the Cistercians are engaged in agriculture, and their farm ing activities are carried on in the most progressive and scientific man ner, and with the most modern imple- ments. Throughout the long sum mer days they toil in the fields and gardens, speaking never - a word to each other, their superiors directing their labors by, means of a sign lan guage On summer working days , the monks rise at 2 o'clock in the morning. After several hours spent in devotions they are served a light breakfast,' consist ing of an apple or other fruit, two ounces of bread and a cup of tea. At 6 o'clock . they , begin the day's work. In mid-day they have an hour for rest and for partaking of a meal consisting of bread, and milk,, fruit, vegetables and olive oil. A similar repast con cludes the day's toi' ' No meat is served except to those who are very ill, and whose condition seems to- de mand it. At 8 o'clock all of the monks retire to " their sleeping cells, , which contain no furnish In era exceDt a mat tress and pillow, both of)stra.w. Their costume, a robe of coarse wool, is worn day and night. D-uring the win ter months the regime followed is even more feevere than: in 4he - summer, as breakfast is dispensed - with, and -the evening meal Is very light. All of the monasteries maintain a hostelry,: separated from the - other buildings, where male guests are wel comed. Women are riot permitted to enter- this office, and a. sign at the en trance of all these hostels warns the fair sex to keep away. The monastery -at Oka, Quebec, Is a shining example of what may be ac complished by hard work and scien tific methods in the agricultural de velopment of the mpst unpromising .soil. The thousand acres of once rocky and almost worthless land has been made to "blossom as the rose, and all of this has been accomplished within the space at thirty years. The first of the Oka monks landed In Oan ada in 1881, having been expelled by b Iench government from thir mumwmrjr in jjn. wiuo, x- lo.,,. J- first Trappists to come to America ar rived at Baltimore in 1803, and others came later, but in 1815 all returned to France, except Father Vincent de Paul - ed to- Rhode Island a dozen years .go. declaration on reports from its sur veying parties in the field. The sur veys are being made with a view to the purchase of the land by the gov ernment for forest reservation pur- The acreage, on the whole, ex- ceeds by one per cent, the estimate placed on the tracts of&ered for sale. AMERICANS REPORTED SAFE - . BTJT TYPHOID IS FEARED ' Ls-redo, Tex., Aug. 2 0 All Ameri cans in Torrion are reported safe by passengers who left Torrion August 11 and arrived here, yesterday A serious outbreak of- typhoid fever is feared, however, owing to the heavy rains which have flooded part of this city. : . ' . - . . Federals expect an attack on Tor rion soon. Two trains between Tor rion and Monterey were destroyed by dynamite within, two days. No one was killed. N. jY., N. EL & H7TF'D RIGHTS. The rights to subscribe to N. Y., N. H. & H. new 6 convertible bonds are now being actively traded -Ll- - ;; ; ' ' y ' : i, . " We will buy, sell, or quote these rights now and until the privilege expires. Holders of New Haven stock and old convertible bonds should give serious consideration to this new financing. We shall be" pleased toIiscuss the vari ous phases of it with any who are interested. ; HINCKS BROS & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange, 207-209 State St. 'PPfiPDCQQIlCQ rnUblllZuulV LU TO USEJIOVIES Plan to Put Them in Tovns Throughout State In ' , ! Their Campaign The progressives of the state expect to make, in the next' state campaign, a very general use of moving pictures, according to the Hartford Times, which says that the progressive state leaders are going to resort to the moving pic tures to aid in showing up what they claim is wrong in the methods and managements of the two old parties, particulary the Republican end of the political game in this state. Accord ing to the Times informant it will not be long before the picture moving ma chinery will be started in every big and little town in Connecticut and the voters i will have a chance to see what the progressives think about the acts. the laws and the plans of the Repub licans of Connecticut, for the drive will be made especially at the O. O. F. It wil be ' called the progressive ser vice campaign or something like that. One of the things that will be shown up in this state is the operation of the child labor5 law in the factories of the state or wherever else child labor hap pens to be employed unjustly or not in accordance with the ideas and prinr cip-les'for which the progressive party will stand. ' t Many pictures will also be Used and is seen in reveaing . the manner in which the state of Connecticut deals with prison labor and the progressive moving pictures will tackle for a se ries of views what is being done in the eight county Jails of the state and will sow up Just how' the labor is per formed In these Jails, how the prison ers do their work, what the machines "look like on which they have to work, and so on. The interior of the Jail shop will be made plain In the pic tures, so it is said. " Accempanying the production of these views will be ad dresses to demonstrate how the labor that is done In the county Jails is in antagonism to the labor market of the world and what an injury it is to hon est labor outside the Jails. It is also planned to have something to say about the recent Connecticut general assembly in this moving pic ture performance that will be put on in the various towns. There were some things done in the last session that the progressives did not like,' and there are some things which the progres sives' would like to have done at -the same session, which i were not done. These are to see the light of day in the progressive moving pictures. This part ef the picture program has not been fully determined upon in detail. MASKED ROBBERS y HOLDJP TRAIN Portland, Ore.. Aug. 20. Four Or live masked --robbers held up the Soo-Spd-kane fast passenger train on the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Naviga tion ' Line " as it was passing under a viadict here last night, going through the coaches and forcing the paesen ircrR to give uP . their valuables and firing more than a score of shots to intimidate the trainmen. A tramo riding on top of one of the Pullman cars was shot and seriously wounded., It is uncertain whether the amount of booty the roooers procurea was large. - . ENGINEER RUNS DOWN' MEXICAN REBELS-AND FIVE ARE CRUSHED TO DEATH Mexico City, Aug. 20. A series of at tacks upon trains running between the capital and Vera Crux which have hitherto been unmolested is feared as the result of a serious incident yester day, a short distance outside of the canital. The engineer of a. train from Vera Cruz wso saw a column' of rebels crossing the tracks deliberately plung ed his train into the rans, crueamg vc mn to death beneath the -wheels. The Zapatistas opened fire upon the train, but no one was injured. p WOMAN DIES AT S AFTER BIRTH OF SEVENTEENTH OHUjD Columbus, O., Aug. 20 Following the birth of her seventeenth child, Mrs. John OTtonnell, aged 39, of this cltv. died, last night, at a local ho- pltal. Besides her husband, Mrs.O'Don- nell is survived by eight or tneir eev enteen children. Mr., CDonnell is the father of 28 childreh,' eleven having been born under a former marriage. He is a railroad employe. - 1 . The theatrical ' companies having secured a few fellows who once car ried spears in New York theatres, are now starting out on the road as the full original Broadway productions. Bridgeport, Conn. The D: M: Read Co. EsUitisktd 1857. The Store Closes every day but Saturday at 5 o'clock. On Saturdays at 9 o'clock. Sale of Fancy Silk The Silk Section offers wonderful values this week". and the front counter is just now one tumbled mass of rich colorings in a profusion of designs. No matter what a woman may want silks for, she can find very many pleas ing patterns. ( Many dress lengths, waist lengths, and pieces for coat linings and petticoats. All $1.00 values, soft Taf fetas and MessalineSf , 75 ct lighten the stock. ' Novelties in Jewelry Sterling Silver Coin Purses, with places for half and quarter dollars, dimes and nickels. Beautifully finished with one side plain for monogram, the other chased in unique pattern. $9.00. Sterling Silver Vanity Case, large, round and flat, con taining puff of a size to be useful. Plain finish, very rich looking. $4.00. Sautoir Chains with light ribbons, white, pink and blue to match summer frocks. 50 cts. - - 1 y Solid Gold Collar Pins, a new assortment, plain, rosa gold, Roman or English finish, very attractive, very useful. 59 cts a pair, solid gold. . Lapel Watch Chains ; with slides and holders. 0 cts. s The Special Subscription for The Designer, 25 cts fcr six months, will hold good through the month of August. The Autumn Style Book is on sale, 20 cts with .1 Uzz pattern. . ? - y - "The Cup that : Cheers." Everyone likes Tea Room, and at home, call at . ment. For the asking you will receive a little ticket, which signed will entitle you to a gift on one -half pound of 6Q ct Primrose Tea, by purchasing one-half pouh.-' at 30 cts. Three flavors: , - Orange Pekoe, Formosa (Doling, Mixed Blade - , and Green. Tickets may also be obtained in the Tea Room. f The D. M. Pvead Company. 1072 Main St. DEPARTMENT STORE, 83 FalrSsld Ay " "THE STORK TO FISB 6CAKCK ARTICUES" AJiD XHH1 STORE THAT COUPON GOOD r THURSDAY, AUG. 21 j OTJB WHOLiESAIiE ' SQOCE OP ' LONG 50c CORSETS WITH COUPON 29c r ' wMMmmMmmwwammmmmmam TEACH IRISH HISTORY Hfberniaite Want Optional Coarse Put "" In High ScbooL t New Haven, Aug. 20. An attempt Is being: made-by the United Irish etHjie ties of thia city to persuade the board of education to place IHsh history among the. elective studies at th local high school. To this end a committee, consisting of J. Edmund Miller, chair man, -Mrs. J. J, Carroll, Mias Ellen ix. -Molloy, Joseph H. Mulvey and Michael MoG-rail, of the. Ancient Order of Hi bernians will wait upon the board of education at their nixt meeting to urge the adoption of such a course. The same committee will approach the . pastors of the Roman Catholic churches of the city which maintain parochial schools to secure their con sent to teach Irish history in these schools. The Hibernians have been in strumental in placing copies of stand ard Irish histories Jn all these schools, and now - desire that a course in the study be pursued- The decision of the hoard to make Italian optional with high school stu dents has determined the .Irish soci ties' members to ask for an equal con cession to descendants of the Irish race, only they do not request that Gaelic, the language of ancient Ire land, be taught, but that pupils or Irish parentage and traditions be giv en an apportunity to receive instruc tion, if they desire, in the history of their forefathers. They claim it will entail no extra expense upon the board, other than a few. boohs. JACK ROSE IS NOW JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT Westport, Aug. 20 Jack , Rose, principal witness in the Rosenthal murder case, will lecture for the bene fit of the Christ Episcopal Church, Norwalk, his subject being "Life in the Underworld." The entire pro ceeds from the lecture will go to the church treasury. Rose's offer to lecture free was in reply to an appeal sent out by the rector of the church, the Rev. J. H Brown, which stated that funds were needed to meet certain obligations. A voluntary contribution fund was hoped for to meet the debt, but this was not forthcoming. Jack Rose responded to the appeal with a check for $10 and an offer to lecture free. His offer has been accepted and a date will soon be set. "''' the tea that is brewed in thi if anyone would like to try it the Tea and Coffee devzri- FAYS IHB CAlt JFARJ9 We make this .price -co n to reduce our surplus ztozl before moviig. Splendid corsets -with hczi supporters attached, reuls.1 price 50c. Lot small sizes $1.00 Ccr sets, Thursday, 10c. CHARGE CITY KOUfCS WITH POLIFmG WATE3 Goshen, Aug. 20. Edward Hai?. and .Mtos Anna Dailey of ."e Tora were brought before Justice of tr Peace Roy Kimberley ytsterday oa s charge of polluting the water of KnriJJ Goshen Pond, one of the chain of lk- forming the Torrington water suppi?! The man was charged with bathing- i the pond and the woman with wash, ing clothing, in it. Mrs. Anna M. Bourke, with whom the city peor ; boarded wa0 appointed guardian ar.4 gave bonds for their appearance at 1 hearing next Tuesday. FOUNTAIN SYRINGE 3 75c to $2.50 RUBBER SHEETING The kind that gives satisfy o . . tion 40c yard up ELASTIC STOCHH7G Z For years we have had f large business in these goodj Prices arid quality guars ry teed. ELASTIC TRUSSES BANDS, BANDAGES, ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS, ETC THE ALIiriO RUBBEH CO. 1126 MAIN STREET Sjpidicat Stores -Tmrr Want Ads. One Cec- V.'