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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-26
An Arab Proverb.

When you have done any one a favor throw into the sea the remembrance of it, and if the fishes devour it God will remember it
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-26

Fashion is gentilfty running away from vuigarity and afraid of being overtaken by it. It is a sign the two things are not far asunder--Hazlftt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-26
CHANTING BOOK BARGAINS

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HOUsEKEEPER widower. Wages Call evenings or Sunday.
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WANT ADS. GENT A woRDl
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by using three widths of lace in the nounce and gra
ating the distance between The then hed
with graduated dots the largest the bottom They
should be heavily padded TO stand out we'll
Sometimes the insertion Is obong oval
panels, and the bottom OF founce into shall
low sendcrcles, which the lace Is rolled. In the
center of each panel is worked floral design IN solid
open work embroidery Instead Of making the
panels OF the insertion oval medaons OF Valencennes
lace. be used outlined IN wreath OF open work
embroidery beyond a line OF satin stitch.
The IN the old fashioned dark blue sh ades
pretty and practical They like all the
terials Of the OF the softest quality. A
costume OF this Is made with short skirt The
skirt appears to be made from perfectly straight
breadths- There is in the middle tapping
large buttons, and side shadow pIast
stitched edge below hips. I the back
1t is adjusted under wide single box plait pressed
into width waist At the edge
of the skirt up the SIDE stitched
The coat is long. reaching within few inches OF
the hem. loose perfectly straight It shows
novel feature in the disposition Of front One
side laps from the bust line to the hem. to the
sde line Of braid embroidery follows Hip pockets
outlined with the embroidery wide armholes
defined with It. The sleeves are however extreme.
ly tight and covered entirely with rows OF the
braid embroidery circling the set lines.
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which easily from
Something the order OF cashmere nuns veil
ing chais cashmere would be pretty; and II the
garment is ripped washed and carefully prepared one
should we'll repaid for the work No cutting must
every piece has been planned for and then
there will be mistakes to regret
y
The little combination garment is comfortable and
and easy to make. The yoke be of the
material, tucked. plain material, trimmed with
narrowest this is attached to the
body of the combination which should be htted In
little under the putting the knckerbockers and
plain sleeves into bands Of some contrasting
material this the little two piece jibba"
made with the shoulders and under the
The garment is straight in the middle front and
back and for that reason must be well gored under
the 1t not ft in to the figure at all. but
starts to widen out As the arnhole is left
This is ideal style for play dresses for summer
made OF gingham percale
An entirely different style dress. pretty for girl
from to 8 years. is the with the double
row Of buttons down the front of the waist There
should be difficulty in cutting 1t down from large
dress. For this time OF year would be pretty
the lighter weight cloths would be equally The
skirt and blouse separately Joined
the belt The skirt a circular pattern
and has one box plat with two shallow plaits either
side, both the front and the back and is finished
around the bottom with deep hem
y
The blouse be from any ordinary pattern by
first marking OFF the little straight yoke 'front.'
then taking two lengths for the OF the
laying the plaits like the picture. back in
piece, laying the plaits those front
and laying them from neck to bottom. The
are cut from ordinary piece pattern, with
slight curvfng in the and the tucks laid
the cuffs before the is stitched
in, then baste the together and try to
that the sleeve is not too tight.
If the cloth that this dress is to be made from will
not admit of circular pattern being used for the
skirt, nearly the be had from straight
breadths, with the plaits laid the straight or re
goods then laying the paits closer together at the
to give the flare.
Boys knckerbocker suits and small coats
often be made most successfully from full
sized garment provided 1t is something woolen and
of good quality but 1t is folly to take time to cut
cotton clothes for the OF making over. If
such things have had any reasonable the cloth
will be too tender pay time and labor
Perhaps a dress sometimes be cut into
apron and give little wear, and this is not
bad for the labor little.
Girls who like to do make pretty skirt
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Lay pieces pattern
goods and change them until they laid to the
best advantage.
It may possible cut the skirt out without any
pieoing; not try to have the pecng come where
It disguised by bias bands or trimming of some
sort to the best advantage. But above all things
cutting should be done until every has been
planned for When 1t is all allowed cut the
skirt out and make, trimming not best
short boned girdle has to be perfectly fitted
the skirt is hung from the top of this. The skirt will
look well with absolutely trimming and If it turns
out well Will be worthy of blouse to with it.
This should match the skirt perfectly color but
one may choose from a variety OF materials. soft
silk satin crepe de chine tucked net will be
equally suitable and pretty If one something
dressy plain satin matching the skirt in color
and make like the blouse with skirt n the
illustration. The body of the blouse from
shirt waist pattern. making it plain back:
and in the front laying one inch plat each
shoulder the arhole before pinnng the pattern
in position
Cut out, baste together try on Chalk line
around the neck. going down to "v" in the front;
take of and continue the rounding the
back, but the "v." Cut out one-half inch above
the chalk line, to allow for a Turn in
the edge OF the neck all around, finishing the
shoulder seams and baste down. Cut paper
pattern fancy vest forgetting the shoulder
tabs. allowing 1t to show much above the silk in
the back it does the There are no
shoulder seams in the vest
This vest be pretty made of a fancy silk hav-
ing for the ground the color the blouse and
after the pattern has been made, fold through the
middle and from bottom Of the point in
the middle of the bottom of the pattern
in the back to how long length of silk will he
least three-ouarters Of an inch should he
allowed to rest under the edge of the blouse around
At the points where the shoulder tabs begin snip
the in both back and front ends the turn
ing IN point, then turn the edges. of the tabs In
baste down, and face line with the plain silk This
is particular piece Of work and great be
taken not to stretch part of the After the
tabs lined the should the blouse
and stitched in position Then the backs turned
in and finished with hooks and eyes the rounding
neck faced with piece OF bias silk last is not
piece of work and unless the handling is of
the most delicate the neck easily be stretched
out of shape.
The plain loose caps are. when finished four inches
long and cut from the top part a plain shirt
waist sleeve pattern The lower part the blouse is
put into band and under the skirt enfs-
cite and sleeves Of wash blond tucked would
be excellent plan. If thinks it worth while to
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get enough whole blouse, getting the white and
dyeing it the the blouse. Make 1T
solutely plain and it then a chemisette
to the silk blouse separate waist. this way
for comparatively small outlay there will be couple
of pretty, simple dresses
Sometimes dress put away for year or two
for one reason another and indoors dress, of
voile, aolan cashmere such material of sew
eral ago. should be capable of making over
nicely. Take, for instance dressy gowns shown
on this page; one will easily be distngushable be-
longing to several ago the other gives a
suggestion as to the making
Making garment is always a questionable
piece Of economy where it is spend much
money for new materials to with it. OF course it
is all right to spend little, If necessary, but
should always aim to mako the materials hand go
as Tar as possible Trimmings OF various kinds which
have been taken and laid should be used
If possible In really making anything IT is best
to not use half way measures but do the work
thoroughly by ripping, sponging, pressing and any
thing which may be necessary Then see how modish
the transformation be made to be-
Some of the newest gowns recently show some
funess across the back either in the form of gathers
quarter inch tucks running and down-measuring
eleven inches down from the waist and put in about
one inch apart back breadths And In
old style dress like the shown there will be enough
cloth this nicely
The skirt can be left plain across the front and
Sides or. If the material soft enough there
left slight fullness The gowns shown made
of shadow checked voile In lovely blue and the
new skirt is finished around the bottom Of
the newest are with bias band of satin in plain
color In this the darker shade Of
blue VIII be appropriate The short WASTED effect Is
carried out by the grdle matching the trim
ming around the bottom both regards color and
material.
The bodice is a simple fulled affair with a broad
square cornered collar both in the back and the 'front.'
this Is made of the voile edged with lace
serton It should be possible to find what is needed
among the treasures which carefully laid away.
The yoke and long, tight sleeves are made of blue
chiffon over white but rather than to the expense
OF getting new material for these-it will to
several dolars--t will be far sensible to
something In the house, for instance white net or
lace Or change the style or the bodice making only
the tintest kind of yoke necessary leaving OF the
broad collar and making sleeves and OF the
vofle.
always seem to be growing out of their cothes and
frequently 1t is satisfactory to cut the big
dresses for the little girls and buy clothes for
oneself sensible pretty little dress is shown
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4 I" things wardrobe. a question
that most economically inclined women
are confronted with probably
- twice year If a good suit,
tggIM33Sk bought last year. and It of the
t8SSSEI standard instead Of exaggerated style. It
should look well left as it Is. with the
possible exception the sleeves If they
quarter length and finished with a deep Gun. many
were. the cuffs be taken of. the sleeves be
pieced down almost the depth Of the cuns, and the
cuffs put again the piecing.
No that the sleeves large at the top for
the present style If viii be satisfactory
rip them out, rip them apart, and make
tirey If they piece sleeves, the only
thing take them off between the top and the
ebowhere VIII not be enough cloth to cut over into
two piece After the has been basted try
the sleeve and be careful not to make It too tight
When this has Will have to be
ripped open and pattern laid and shaped around
the top again.
The piecing shoud be done while the sleeve seam is
open, then the is put together and the sleeve
finished the before. 1t is always better
DO little altering possble-that L. If the gar
ment thoroughly good style first made the
chances are Will still look so the following year. pos
sibly with two small exceptions. Often times
however. has suit, skirt, gown which will not
DO at all it is, and yet viii aunt OF being made
over-as good new-and the result viii be It will
probably be liked better than when it first made
Take for instance one OF the short plated skirts
which have been popular for years now-If
the material good IN the first place it will pay
make It 1t should be entirely ripped apart
beaten, and brushed, then washed in tree bark
package Of which be bought any druggists
s cents and on the package win be full directions
for using.
Before it is dry each piece should be pressed If
the cloth is reversible the wrong for the right
side and DO the pressing which Is to be the
wrong side. The irons must not be too hot or they
VIII scorct; must be held in one spot or the
outline OF the iron viii be left piece must be
.-rsssed until perfectly dry. IT will change to
make the cloth up in Of the gored models and
II the skirt hemmed around the the lengths
VIII be long enough to have corselet top: OF course
this viii necesstate facing the bottom
pretty one is illustrated this page which
serve IS guide A six gored pattern
doubtless win cut to good advantage as any and
after the usual precautions OF applying ones own
measures, including all length measures have bean
taken, work dining table with or two leaves
added II possible and out smoothly all the pieces Of
material putting the pieces that match together and
~edng the piece for the front breadth through the
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om Making Over Last Years Clothes Solved for the Economical Woman

HE problem OF remoqeling, at least some
things IN ones wardrobe. is a question
that most economically inclined women
are confronted with probably once or
twice year. II one owns a good suit,
bought last year, and 1t was one Of the
standard instead Of exaggerated style. 1t
should look well left as It Is. with the
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get enough for whole blouse getting the white and
dyeing 1t the shade the blouse. Make 1t alb
sontely plain and it then be chemisetts
to the silk blouse separate waist this way
for comparatively small outlay there will be couple
Of pretty, simple dresses
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SYNOPSIS.

Murray Sinclair and his gang of wreck
&rs were called out to clear the railroad
tracks at Smoky Creek. McCloud, a
young road superintendent. caught SIN
Inc wrecked train Sinclair pleaded in
nooence. declaring 1t only amounted to a
ANAL sum--a treat for the men. McCloud
discharged the whole outfit and ordered
Che wreckage burned McCloud became
Acquainted with Diclisie Dunning. girl
Of the west, who came to look at the
wreck She gave him message for Sin
chair. whispering" Gordon Smith told
President Bucks of the railroad, of Nc
Clouds brave fight against gang OF
nraued miners and that was the reason
9oY the superintendent's appointment to
his high office McCloud arranged to
board at the boarding house of Mrs. Sin
clair, the ex-foreman's deserted wife.
OIoksie Dunning was the daughter of the
hate Richard Dunning, who had died Of a
broken heart shortly after his wife,
demise, which occurred after one .year. or
married life. Sinclair visited Marion Sin
oiair's shop and a fight between him and
McCloud was narrowly averted. smoky
Creek bridge was mysteriously burned.
McCloud prepared to face the situation
president Bucks notified Smith that he
Sed work ahead. McCloud worked for
days and finally got the division running
IN fairly good order. He overheard Dick
sie crit!cising his methods, to Marion
sinclalr. A stock train was wrecked by
sn onen switch. Later a passenger train
was held up and the express car robbed
Two men of a posse pursuing the bandles
were killed. McCloud was notihed that
Whispering Smith was to hunt hunt the des-
proposed that Sinclair and his gang be
sent to hunt the bandits. A stranger, APP
parently with authority, told him to go
ahead PHnSng was t9ld th Smith ser
Srcached Sinclair He tried to buy him
nfY hut failed.
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cousin Lancet"

amends But such opportunities had
slipped away unimproved, and here
was the new railroad superintendent,
whom their bluff neighbor Sinclair
never referred to other than as the
college guy. being brought apparently
as a prisoner TO the Stone ranch.
Busted with her thoughts, Dicksie
rode slowly along the upper trails
until a long detour brought her around
the corrals and in at the back of the
house Throwing her Ines to the
ground, she alighted and through the
back porch door made her way unob-
served to her room. From the office
across the big hall she heard mems
voices in dispute, and she slipped into
the dining room, where she could hear
and might see without being seen.
The office was filled with cowboys.
Lance Dunning. standing with a cigar
in his hand and one leg thrown over
a corner of the table, was facing Nc
Cloud, who stood before him with his
hand on a chair. Lance was speaking
as Dicksie looked into the room, and
in curt tones: MY men we're acting
under my orders"
You have no right to give such or
ders," McCloud said, distinctly, nor
to detain me, nor to obstruct our free
passage along the right OF way you
have agreed to convey to us under our
survey"
Damn your survey I never had
4 plat OF any such survey. l don't
recognize any such survey. And If
your right-of-way men had-ever said a
word about crossing the creek above
the fume I never would have given
you a right OF way at all"
There were never but two lines
run below the creek: after you raiseJ
objection l ran them both, and both
were above the fiume."
We'll. you can't put = made there
l and some OF my neighborS are going
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when the proceedings had been closed,
a strong current of discomfort set
from the managing head of the Stone
ranch. Rumors of Lance Cummings
dissatisfaction often reached the rail-
road people. Vague talk of an extern
sive irrigation scheme planned by Sin
clair for the Crawling Stone valley
crept into the newspapers, and it was
generally understood that Lance Dun
ming had expressed himself favorably
to the enterprise.
Dicksie gave slight heed to matters
as weighty as these. She spent much
of her time on horseback. with Jim
under the saddle; and in Medicine
Bend, where she rode with frequency,
Marion's shop became her favorite
abiding place. Dicksie ordered hats
until Marion's conscience rose and she
practically refused to supply any
more. But the spirited controversy
on this point, as on many others
Dicksie's haughtiness and Marion's re-
straint, quite unmoved by any show Of
displeasure-ended always in drawing
the two closer to each other.
One March afternoon. coming home
from Medicine Bend, she saw at some
distance before her a party of men on
horseback. She was riding a trail
leading from the pass road that fol-
lowed the hills, and the party was
coming up the bridge road from the
lower ranch. Dicksie had good eyes,
and something unusual in the riding
OF the men was soon apparent to her.
Losing and regaining sight Of them at
different turns in the trail, she made
out, as she rode among the trees, that
they we're cowboys OF her own ranch,
and riding, under evident excitement,
about a strange horseman. She rec
ognized in the escort Stormy German.
the ferocious foreman of the ranch.
and Denison and Jim Baugh. two ef
the most reckless Of the men. These
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low upon her head. She stood in her
saddle habit with her quirt still in
hand. ANY affair that may lead my
cousin into shooting is my affair. !
make it mine. This is my fathers
roof. l neither know nor care any
thing about what led to this quarrel,
but the quarrel is mine now. l will
not allow my cousin to plunge into
anything that may cost him his life
or ruin it," She turned suddenly, and
her eyes fell on McCloud. 81 am not
willing to leave either myself or my
cousin in false position. l regret es-
pecially that Mr.. McCloud should be
brought into so unpleasant scene,
because he has already suffered rude
ness at my own hands"
McCloud flushed. He raised his
hand slightly.
And | am very sorry for it," added
Dicksie, before he could speak. Then,
turning, she withdrew from the room.
81 am sure" said McCloud, slowly,
as he spoke again to her cousin,
there need be no serious controversy
over the right-of-way matter, Mr.. Dun
ming. l certainly shall not precipitate
any. Suppose you give me a chance
to ride over the ground with you again
and let us see whether we can't ar
rive at some conclusion?
But Lance was angry, and nursed
his wrath long time.
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BY ANDRE BOWLES
By CHS SCRl6MTR5 S0WS

/ three carried rifles slung across their
pommels, and in front of them rode
the stranger.
Fragments of the breakfast-table
talk of the morning came back to
Dicksie's mind. The railroad graders
were in the valley below the ranch,
and she had heard her cousin say a
good deal on point she cared little
about, as to where the railroad should
cross the Stone ranch. Approaching
the fork of the two roads toward
which she and the cowboys were rid
ing, she checked her horse in the
shade of cottonwood tree, and as
the party rode up the draw she saw
the horseman under surveillance. 1t
was George McCloud.
Unluckily, as she caught glimpse
of him she was conscious that he was
looking at her. She bent forward to
hide a momentary confusion, spoke
briskly to her horse, and rode out of
sight. At Marion's she had carefully
avoided him. Her precipitancy at their
last meeting had seemed, on reflec-
ton, unfortunate. She felt that she
must have appeared to him shockingly
rude, and there was in her recalling of
the scene an unconfessed impression
that she had been to blame. Often
when Marion spoke of him, which she
did without the slightest reserve and
with no reference as to whether Dick
sic liked it or not. it had been in Dick
sizes mind to bring up the subject of
the disagreeable scene, hoping that
Marion would suggest way for ma
king some kind of unembarrassing
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ton as they met any departure from
their traditions, with curiosity and dis
trust. On the other hand, the new and
younger blood took hold with con-
fidence, and when Glover called, 'Yo,
heave ho!" at headquarters, they bent
themselves clear across the system for
hard pull together.
McCloud, resting the operating on
the shoulders of his assistant Ander-
son, devoted himself wholly to for
warding the construction plans, and
his first clash over winter road-build-
ing in the Rockies came with his own
right-hand man. Mears. McCloud put
material yard and began track laying
toward the lower Crawling Stone val
ley, when Mears said it was time to
stop work till spring. When McCloud
told him he wanted track across the
divide and into the lower valley by
spring, Mears threw up his hands. But
there was metal in the old man, and
he was for orders all the time. He
kept up running fire of protests and
forebodings about the danger of ex-
posing men during the winter season,
but stuck to his post.
Spring found the construction of the
valley line well advanced, and the
grades nearing the lands of the Dun
ing ranch. Right-of-way men had been
working for months with Lance Dun
ming over the line and McCloud had
been called frequently into consulta-
ton to adjust the surveys to objec-
tons raised by Dicksie's cousin to the
crossing of the ranch lands. Even
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CHAPTER XII.
The Quarrel.

The beginning of the Crawling Stone
line marked the first determined effort
under President Bucks, while under
taking the reconstruction of the sys'
TEN for through traffic. to develop the
rich local territory tributary to the
mountain division. New policies in
construction dated from the same
period. Glover. with an enormous
capital staked for the new undertak.
ings, gave orders to push the building
every month in the year. and for the
first time in mountain railroad build
ing winter was to be ignored. The
older mountain men met the innoya