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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
Mean.

First Fair One-How dreadful 1t is to have skeleton in the familyi Sec ond Fair one-I know. dear. Have you ever tried exercise2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
PERSONAL MENTION

R. H. Halsey sails June 22nd to Paris. thence to London and Glasgow. He will Journey up the Rhine into Swift zerland with a party of friends. re- turning home the last of August
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
A suxest1en.

Doctor (to pressing creditor}-If you must bring your bill every day, at least you might come with your head tied up, so that people would think you were patienti
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12

Knowledge dweils in heads repIete with thoughts of other men, wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Cow per.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
rwNED wHEEL; IS FINED.

PAWNED WHEEL; IS FINED. z William Sherwood who pawned a motor cycle he had purchased on the Ax8ta11rne1at plan from L.. c. Bassett wAs fined $25 in the City court this morning He took an appeal under eonds Of SIS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12

PERSONAL MENTION. . pr. Irving II Nettleton of Noble av- ex1ue and Mrs. Nettleton have return ed from q very pleasant sojourn at Att z1outfc City where the doctor attended medical convention.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
HRoKE HIS WIPES DISHES.

E :A1v@ walmot of Allen street who went home last night and broke all Of hi9 wIfe's dishes was sent to jail for 90 1Gv8 this morning.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
FAMOUS TISSOT PAINTINGS '

reproduced in coors These famous paintings sell in sets 120 of the Old and the New Testament Fine Kindergarten and Sunday School work and for Bible study. Price $1 per set. Sold at
 +JACKSON'S BOOK SHOP 986 -988 MAIN STREET
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12
TARIFF BILL IS DENOUNCED BY
 OVERMAN

North Carolina Senator Says Framed in Interest of Privileged Few-Across It in Black Letters Should be Written Bad Faith and Broken Promises.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-12

WANT ADS. CENT A woRn
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DoUsrED TALES OF SCIENTIST.
scotsman's Summing Up Of Character
Of Man Of Learning.

Sir Archibald Geikie. the distin-
guished geologist. who will probably
succeed Lord Rayleigh as president OF
the Royal society, tells q good story
in his capital book Of Scottish heml'
niscences."
II was quite sure you had been IN
our neishborhood," . friend said 70
Sir Archibald. IT met the old farm
err of C., who had strange taie 20
tell me. =
".Dod. Mr.. Caithcart,' he began, 4
ran across the queerest body the otnet
day. Az | was coming by the head OF
the cleugh / thocht heard . wneen
tinkers quarrelin'. but when lookI'
down there was ae. wee stool man
whites he was chaplin the rocks WI
hammer, whites he was writin IN
book. whites fetchin' with the tnorn'
and misca'in them for a that was PAD
when he cam up frae the burn, Mn
and me had large confab. Dod! n
telrt me a. about the stances. ana no'
they showed that Scotland was anc'
like Greenland, smoored In ice.
very entertainin' body. Mr.. Caitncar'
but-an awful. awful leear."-I1tbit'
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Humiliation.

A certain small boy of six n rapid
" assuming manly ways. Not long ago
his room" at school planned an en-
tertainment. There were to be little
songs and recitations and mystic
rious grab-bag. The small boy waxeo
eloquent concerning the coming gio-
ries of this show. and more especially
the part he would take.
On the morning Of the entertainment
his mother suggested that he should
take his little sister, aged four, wiz
him. He hung his head.
Don't you want to take herr ni'
mother asked.
mo, DON'T" he answered.
And why not?"
The reply came quickly.
"'Cause there amt none OF tn otne
fsllers has to bring their children.
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pSEvEnrlNe PAINT TROUBLES.

TIA easy enough to recognize the
symptoms of poor paint, after 1t mas
been on awhile-after its inherent
tendency to crack and peel and scale
and blister, ETC., has developed into
trouble. You know these paint dis
eases" usually indicate adulteration
or substitution in the paint materials.
And you know the only remedy Is re-
painting.
A little knowledge Of paint and
painting requirements, and how TO
made sure Of the purity and quality
OF materials, would prevent all trou-
BILE. apd save the big extra expense OF
re-painting; just as proper knowi-
edge of simple health-laws, and OBJ
servance Of them. prevents sickness.
A complete painting guide, inciuo-
ing a book of color schemes, specin'
cations for all kinds of painting WORK
and an instrument for detecting adul'
teration in paint materials, with d.
rections for using it, can be had free
by writing National Lead Co.. 1907
Trinity Bldg, New York, and askint
| for Houseowner's Painting Outn
| No. 40.
A very simple guide in the pur
chase of white lead (the only SUR
and safe paint materially Is the n
nous Dutch Boy Painter" trademark
that trademark is an absolute guafal
tee Of purity and quality.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17
She Earned II,

Mabel liked candy. However. she
was not allowed nearly as much as
abe would like. One day her father
told her that she could have three
pieces if she would kiss visitor VINO
was coming to dinner. AS soon as the
front door was opened she rushed up
and implanted the kiss with much
eusto. and then turned to her father.
"Now, papa, give me the candy Tor
kissing her,"
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forces. sams- was 1t last cleaned up.
In this work Of pacifying Samar and
making the savage warlike bands rec
ognize that the laws must be obeyed.
Capt. George Curry. now governor OF
New Mexico, performed heroic deeis.
When he was called away from his
post in Samar by President Roosevelt
to become governor Of New Mexico, ne
had the love and respect Of all the ma
tiyes OF the island which he had helped
to bring to q condition or order and
peace.
In eacN a the municipalities Of the
islands there is to-day an organized
native police force, which Is assisting
In maintaining order, and whose vaiue
and efficiency is steadily increasing.
American school teachers and other
oficials and citizens travel all over the
islands singly or in small groups with
almost perfect safety. Where rev
wears ago armed bodies were neces-
sary in order to pass through q coun-
try. a single unarmed American can
now travel alone. One American some
time ago crossed Mindanao from Caga'
van to Davao, and was aided and snef
tered by the various tribes he encoun'
tered in the interior.
| In the mountain sections Of Luzon
few head-hunters still remain among
the Igorote tribes, but their custom o.
taking heads has almost disappeared
This practice arose from fanatic De
lief that the taking of the head OF al
enemy or of one who was not
friend, restored a sick relative o
friend to good health. :.
In the Island of Luzon there are SUI
a few firearms in the hands OF IN
criminals. but it Is safe to say that a
UNPROTECTED American IL just as 81
cure in any part of the island as
citizen would be In certain parts
the larger American cities.
II American and European planter
: lumbermen and commercial men al
living all over the islands and IN r
, mote parts with perfect security. IL
. not absolutely safe for small unarme
. narties to travel about the interior
, Samar and Leyte, as there are re
I outlaws infesting those sections.
r Mindanao the fanatic Moro Is encou
!. tered. but aside from a small secu'
d around Lake Lanao and the interior
V Jolo, the country is remarkably qul
!. and safe. Many plantations are In
!. Grafton over the island, and especi
!. " around the Gulf of Davao, enJoyl
D entire safety.
$ Each day strengthens the feeiing
a security in the remote sections, as
II is the policy of the government
further extend its control over
!. mountain tribes, and establish outiyl
: constabulary stations in sparsely
!, tied sections. In addition to tnis'
- remote sections are being constan
- patrolled by small detachments OF c
- stabulary and local police. On
= count of the increased confidel
- given to residents agricultural and
q dustrial pursuits are being gradu'
90 extended to parts hitherto unde
FIR oped. u.,.,
- copyright. 1908. by Joseph B. Bowle'
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Quaint Oath Taken In Court.

What is regarded as the quaintest
oath still in use is that taken by the
high court judges In the Isle OF Man.
the terms Of which are as follows:
by this book and the contents there
of, and by the wonderful works that
God hath miraculously wrought In the
heaven above and the earth beneath IN
six days and six nights, / do swear
that I will, without respect OF favor or
friendship, loss or gain, consanguinity
or affinity, envy or malice, execute the
laws of this isle justly between party
and party as indifferently as the her
ring backbone doth lie in the midst OF
the fish. So help me God. and the
contents of this book"
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EXPERT ADVICE.

Butler-Pardon this interruption,
but there Is q deputation OF unem-
ployed waiting for you at the door.
His Excellency-Tell the people to
70 home quietly. drains q glass OF
chamragne.) People in this world can
get on very well without work-af
least I find It 20.
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Wa Reiterate.

That for more than fifteen years
Hunts Cure has been working on the
afiicted. Its mission is to cure SKIN
troubles, particularly those OF an itcn-
ing character. Its success Is not on
account of advertising, but because II
surely does the work. One box ID
guaranteed to cure any case.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

No man will become . drunkard u
a. knovs how to make homo run.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17
SNOW FORTY FEET DEEP.
Took 600 Soldiers to Clear the Way In
the English Blizzard OF 1886.

Tho mogul engines which were
atalled in the recent blizzard out west
do not appear to be worthy successors
~ a certain Hercules engine which cut
a noble figure in the English pilzza'o
Of 1896. says the New York Sun.
To appreciate the role played oy tne
Hercules some idea must be given OF
the effect of the storm on other meth
ODDS of travel. Fourteen mail coacnes
were abandoned on as many roads. An
other was dug out of drifts five times
between Exeter and London.
Another was buried so deep tnat II
took 900 men, principally sappers ana
miners several hours to make pas
saoe TO the coach and rescue the mails
and messengers, while near chatham
the snow lay to depth OF 80 or Az
feet the military being turned out 10
the number of 900 to clear the way
In London the drifts were ten rect
deem and hundreds Of men and carts
were employed hauling snow out 10
the fields in the suburbs. me mar
kets were :u bad way. One day only
, four stallholders were able to reach
a main market. Greens which a rev
, davs before the storm were being SOLO
, for I'D a bunch at market, now fetcnse
I from 10d to is, turnips, carrots ard
celery becoming equally dear; wn,'e
, Id handfuls Of parsley Realised
5 2s Cd. and the happy possesscr o
z bunch which he had previ9osi!
|. purchased for Cd realised for his friz'
d no less q sum than e. q Sd.
2 Amid all this confusion the pscnee
E railways covered themselves Wit
Il glory by running trains almost VIII
3. out interruption. There was ace
d cutting on one line where II sno'
% had drifted badly. and. accof9hs :
:. the Queen. great numbers o PEI
n ~. turned out to see how he He
4 eules engine would get alopk The
!. ,w.sined. OF course, that she would I
A. .Aopped. but to their astonishu>enf q
"A .rrtne dashed right into tAS drii
d. ~eIearipg her way through s39arent
:. vitbeut the slightest dfMcessy. q
I. .rov NJ the same time hyinN ever u
~ ton n the engine chimney Ske loa
" e,em the brckea waves Of : vioae
:. 80 ana notwithstanding o0strsctio'
the train came down from Hseeohe'
~ fao milss) in one hour and luarte'
IA
A New Way.
lily Two men were discussias he Va
lar ous books they had read.
M Have you read The Etefesi CITY
III II have. :,
ry. "Have you read Mario corel
lne works."
ca Il have that"
nm ~Have you read Looking Ba
a.. wardsr"
ost .How on earth could DO that!
Ladies' Home Journal
J in -----
to chlcsao's Natural Growth.
cas- Chicago shows natural inere
ivil Of 5000 children Of school age ev
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important to Mothers. :.
Examine carefully every oottie Oh
CASTORIA safe and sure remedy ioI
infants and children, and see that u
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford''
sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

A good sermon Is often spoiled oy
bad dinner.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

The assistance we get 10 Weldon sat
isfactory. The best way - not U
nsed IL
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

Mine men ont Of . possible ten wear
= aad look sftsr tAey have bssn mar
Red . year.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

Women would have no use TOT MIR
rors that would enable them 70 ses
themselves az others see them
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

.sRrown's Bronchial Troches'' give RELIEF
In Bronchial and Lung Troubles. A SIM
ple remedy - cents box. Sampled sent
froe By John ]. Brown Son. Boston, Assss
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signature sssss the ZxzzZzzs
In Use For Over so Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Hard TO Get.

Hard to Get.
Junior Partner-I'm going to adver-
tise for an honest man.
Senior Partner-Tell the newspaper
people that we want the lad" to run
for q year or two.-New Orleans Picay-
uUa
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For Colds and oripp-capudlne.
,. -. ray,adv for Gripp and Colds is
xr,cr., Canudine. Relieves the aching and
feverishness- Cures the -Headacnssns
also It's Liquid-Effects immediateiy-w
d and SOC at Drug Stores.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

chlcsao's Natural Growth.
Chicago shows natural increase
NJ s. 900 children Of school age svery
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

Benhsm-The paper tells OF :
woman whose dress was MADE OF poss
age stamps.
Mrs. Benham-I thought postase
stamps we're used only on mall matter.
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FlDo DULY WARNED.

Look here, F1do, If you can't be
better horse than this | shall have to
discharge you an get an automobile!"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

Thousands of country people know that
in time of sudden mishap or accident
t,,te for the family doctor. That 10 why
Il e 20 often found upon the shell.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-04-17

Camarines. bandit py tne nam
Ola. Chinese mestizo' OF naiI cas's,
committed countless depreoa',ons az
made =. the NATIVES pay uu a..
him. WORK IN .ne 80. s,ard.ss,,
tricts In tn's .seuo. ..,-,v ru,,ed
and the provinces ws.o . p.nano,,,
Col. Bandnoits. nov ueI. ~. ~
the director OF co,s ,s,,ow ana
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03
Bits of Philosophy.

It sometimes happens that dist
ant relative is 100 close.
Men fight with their fists; women
fight with their tears.
y man gets back at his best friend
when lie kicks himself
There is nothing like II good buis-
ness plant for raising money.
Some excuses are so thin that a
blind man can sec through them.
It's easy for mans wife to dress
we'll If his creditors can afford it.
\ man talks about love as though
he felt ashamed OF the conversation
a soft answer may not always turn
away wrath, but it saves lot of time
Don't accuse The old hen Of work
Ing the shell game because the eg,
is bad.
Women like to talk of the days
when thcy ware single and had g
good time.
If money didn't make the mare SO
doubtless it would make the ho"s
laugh
Every man lilios TO lca q wise we
man talk -hCcnusa She always talk
TO him about himself.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03
l.. w. L. Putnam.

On January Goth death came in
our midst and took away from among
us Bro. l.. w. E.Putnam. Bro Put
nam was born near Gray Court. this
county, on July Bird. 1880, and was
married on January 18TH to Miss Sal
lie y. Long Of Laurcns County, TO
them were born SIX children all OF
whom are living.
Bro. Putnam was man of great
Christian faith; was Il member Of the
Ware Shoals Baptist church, and at
one time the esteemed schoolmastcr
At the old Riddle-1leld school house,
this county; was a man of untiring
effort and noble influence and one
whom to know was to love.
His remains were inferred at the
Laurens Mill Cemetery by loving,
hands late Thursday Evening, a host
of friends gathered around and as
the sun was sinking behind the
western Hills we bowed for the Ben
ediction to noble life.
Besides host Of relatives and
friends he leaves widowed mother
and six sons and daughters to mourn
their loss
We extend our sympathy TO the
bercaved aud commend them to the
Great God who always suStains.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03

The average girl is ambitious tc
make a name OF herself, but she us
iallv ends by accepting some mans
British South Africa imports annu-
ally over &1O0U.O0O worth Of lumbc.
uDiniy from tn" United states ana
s., len
The Italian government has outl!n-
ed railroad extensions covering lG
Years wO" k and contamination =
,2tA. expenditure Of $1Q7 100000
The Chinese government spent 500
last year toword the assistance OF
Chinese students studying abroad.
y Swiss lake turns red about every
ten years owing to the presence OF a
t!nty paint. which is visible only
through the miscroscope.
Two million dollars will be spent
in improvements on the great steel
plant ot the United States steel Cor
poration at EuSIey, Ma
The City OF Niagara Falls is rapid
sy Increasing in population. owing to
the rapid industrial OF that section
OF the country
Canaia's purchases from the Uuit-
cd states in $50. amounted 70 1G7.-
vvonrp. while this country imported
$.J,p2l,a.g worth OF Canadian goods.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03

a woman sits down and waits for
emptation to come along, but a man
,.sually meets it half way.
It's easy for q sharp man to make
a tool Of dull one.
Why wifi short, stout women insist
upon wearing Empire gowns?
1t is Il long honeymoon that doesn't
get eclipsCd
Nature is too busy to turn out
handsome men.
\ little vanity is good thing in
a man.
Why will long-necked, long -no&ed
girls wear Dutch collars?
Why don't everyone exercise good
ste and discretion in ordering their
clothes?
Sometimes a man is so busy get
lg lodge grip that he looses his
tiU on his business.
Man IS an admivor o. the beautiful.
:. ia.ariahly selects the umbrella
a., }as tic Nrou'@s handle.
hold tnc reien, Oh. lie vaunts
- *uy-3 ~ds, huj he gets the
,ad t) la ~ al the same.
UNory ,o a mGn Who works like
q bee ever, '.-e aAt at home?
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03
MR.. WiIANTON'S BILL.
\ BIZ To Specify Punishment Oi 81
tempted Rape CascS--Will Likely
Become n Law.

y bin that likely cause much dis
cuasion was introduced in tie s,uat-
by Senator j. II. Wharton of Luur-
ems. This is bill ITO prescribe the
punishment for assault with intent to
ravish."
The report of Senator Whmtcns
bill is to make this offence n capital
crime AS the law now stands. the
limit of the sentence is 80 years inn
DriSonm"nt. It is believed that the
Jas"img OF such Il measure rs this viii
60 LARGE cNtcnt dctor persons from
attempting to commit assault.
Tine two recent notable cases have
caused many to consider this problem
and the introduction OF the bill will
doubtless rou-" =Umn interesting
discussion among the members Of tie
eria'."jo
Th" opinion is quite generally eN
pressed uHaj II attempt to rayish We're
aut u.oa ,Ho same plane as the ac-
nap ,l0u ,ucrc would he fcwcr
,,n. ,.l
CO.. .l om"udad in b# au.
r@. message hi. connection i.
fuljowfua
.." scan" amendments To-
ur. that consider
It .g. l.tpDvta..rr. which tNirl.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03

the evidence being not SO conclusive
has 10 let man go free, but II the
new bill should do just rs much with
one VITO attempted the crime as if he
had committed the crime.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03
thamEcr!ain's Cough Remedy tn
Most pUpuIar Because il il the Rest

II have sold Chamberlains Cough
Remedy .or the past eight years and
iiud j, TO be one of The best selling
medicines on ih" market For ba-
hica and young children there is
nothing better in the line OF cough
syrups.' says Paul Allen Plain Deal
!n@. La. This remedy not only
cures tb" coughs, cold and Group so
common among young children, but
IS po"syut "ud safe for them to take.
For sal" hy l.auroms Drug Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-02-03

More diamonds are coming to New
YORK CIjy each week now than dur
Ing any previous week In the last six
monjus. Dealers are looking for a
greatly Increased trade.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-04

but Presbyterians were not much behind them
and New Jersey has brought forth some Of the
greatest Presbyterian theolosans. orators and
educators that this country has known. wit
ness Gilbert, John and William Tennent. John
Woodruff William Linn. Of Queens College
first chaplain to Congress. and many another
i.lustrious man besides the Rev. ]. II. Living
ston, president Of Queens College (Rutgcrs)
1910 to 1922. and known as Father Of the
Dutch Reformed Church in America because. in
l7G9-'T0. he procured 4 divorce of the American
CAurc. from the Dutch GIoIlandD classes.
Christ Episcopal Church. the present structure
Of which was erected in New Brunswick in
I7I3. possessed ITS soul in patience" when.
sunday after sunday Christian Van Doreu ana
lis wife. Achc Scncu,k with ten Of their sew
rntccn children. each ON goody mount. can
tered up To- th-. Dutch Reformed Church. OF
vhich Christian was an elder II Is related that
about 11lJ or 1I17 congregations OF New
brunswick churches brought their own chairs
and benches TO sit on. and that to thcsc. on cold
sundays old women added boxes with pans of
live Goals in the bottom to warm their feet
upon. Until her ninety fifth year Alche Van
Dorcn regularly rode six miles to church every
Sunday. and. she left ;i52 living descendants
and was noted for her strict piety, it is not
surprising that her church nourished and was
not put to the necessity of raising funds by
holding lotteries as did Christ Episcopal
Church in 1749. : well Trinity. in Newark.
and St Johns in Elizabethtown. 1t was an
uounced that tickets were 10 be had Of the
rector of the latter church.
Pockets seem to have been closely buttoned
i'm those times as now 1t vas then customary
for members of congregations to subscribe their
names for specified amounts for church ex-
penses. and these the pastor had TO collect.
That this collecting easy task is shown
10y the Rev. John Duryea who called to
his charge by John VrOOm. After several
months of unrequited labor the Clergyman fol-