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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06

opened, letting out flood of yellow light There was a yep. and something soft was hurled against
 What i. it7" he asked, bending over T kicked him out sir.' the elevator boy explained from from. the do1rway .. its stray dog He's been
 Well, you are nice bruteI Burton commented and with the cur in his he entered the elevator
 The boy carried him up and landed him on the fourth floor with the warning You'd better let him alone, sir. He's common cur.
 Hump" was all the answer that Burton vouch- safed, and when he had let himself into his room he dropped the trembling little creature the rug
 "So they kicked you out, did theyp he asked. Well, you're not the only one, pupsie."' A half-hour later as the dog, washed and fed lay 50 they kicked you outf Well know how it feels
 Over the fireplace was a. Burne-Jones head of had selected All the other elegances were the result of Billys taste. But that one picture Burton
 sYes T know how it feeis he s.'i repeated CD % slowly and suddenly he sat there looking at the beauti. full dropping head he caught his breath in sob, and his own head went down on his arm. and the room very still
 The little dog staggered up his weak legs, and Then he put il paw on Burton's knee and wRined. |
 Burton raised his head and looked straight into the anxious brown eyes.
 "Oh look here," he said unsteadlly. you know how It feels You're ugly and common. and nobody wants you"
 brute gave sympathetic attention
 Say, let's get out Burton continued .Yos don't 1t 1n here ana don't My mans out tonight thank the Lord, or he'd make no end of row about you- There's an old aunt of mine up in the country, and she's poor used to be, and she4 got a little farm, I'm going to make it big farm before get through: and out there can be the ba frog in the puddle, and we'll tramp around tho country and therell be people talk to and not feel they're lookn' down me
 The little dog, hestating- crawled into his lap had sudden comforting sense of ompanionship. Here was no snug, selfsatisfed aristocrat. but . friend who loved him.
 "You're pretty nice" he whispered T guess we're two of kind"
 His voice broke. And for long time they sat there together the little common dog and the little common man, seeing visions of the freedom of Goda country and the life of thair kind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06
THE PLEBEIANS

in Burton's bosom died out forever.
 he he anr ia sD B they t S shrfsa bs ne that gets Marcia Wells
 Wei don't I know now the fellow will be iuelys" Billy stormed. "Rut that doesn't make it any easier for me"
 Billy turned on him. What difference does that maker? he flung out bitterly q adore her. and she
 "Why not?"
 "We are both dead poor. Billy said. "Welsboro is mortgaged up to the limit She has has oot to marry
 Barton felt the cold strike deep within him. He Marcia avoided him, and why her mother had been and they all knew it. But they wanted his money!
 On through the storm went the big machine pounding the eorne5s e sill silently speeding
 -If loved girl" Burton said at last out of the turkey. I'd marry her if loved her..
 Billy, turned and looked at the fat little figure class Bates a T he said but if loved her and an she cared I'd marry her if had to run away with her. But if she didn't-care-she might beg me on her knees. She couldn't marry me for what have"
 "Well," Billys laugh was hateful, "H you wait Burton Burt n SDi @AieS '0' '0N' ' As ''.''e'
 It was dastardly thing to say, but Billy was 
 that, except for his money he could not have touch ed the outer rim of the circle in which Marcia and Billy moved He was an adien' an outsider, Pariah!
 The automobile drew up to the curb in front of the big apartment house in which Burton lived. The little got and Billy started to follow.
 "No" Burton said and Billy stopped and stared mo- don't want you to in tonight, Billy. My will take you home. I know you were upset and all that, but I can't quite get over what said just And I not quite sure that I shall get over it, Billy.
 1;t+1a rad- r1a ahaia all bundled up in fur coat and with his breath com ing short, but in that moment Billy knew that his hold upon the little gone. He had killed the goose with the golden egg.
 As Burton went slowly up the steps. the door
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06
By TEMPLE BAILEY

aOh, I don't know," he hesitated again
 Marcia leaned over and took the dogs black
 "Old fellow" she said softly and looked deep into his eyes, and his tail began to wag slowly and his lips wrinlied back from his teeth in grin of happiness
 As they stood there together, the girl and the dog Burton felt that they were two of kind in that back of them both prdefu ancestry, and in both of them ran patrician blood. He was seized with an inspiration.
 "Let me get him for you, Miss Marcia" he said. "he won't look at me after seeing you"
 Oh mo- M Marcia refused q quickly M but her mother we can take him down to Wellsboro with us next week"
 The brightness had all died out of Marca's face. and her perfuncory thanks chilled the little fires of Burton's hopes.
 But for every naughty withdrawal of her daughter and now, as the tag that made him the property of Miss Marcia Wells of Wellsboro, tied about the spirits were reTived bv the other tast have done much for Marcia. You mustn't mind if she IS bit overPowered
 Now, she shouldn't feel that way" little Burton protested. T like to do things for her. Mrs Wells She is a beautiful girl" And Mrs. Wells said We
 And then Burton bore them off radiantly to lunch and they ate in great golden-1ighted dining room and Burton ordered the grape fruit and the lobster Newburg and the chiffonade salad and the dainty wines, and tried to enter into the gossip of the elect
 But Billy and Marcia talked only to each other; Marcia, composed outwardly, but glowing with inner fire that lighted her eyes and tinged her cheeks with pink; Billy expressing by every into nation of his lowered voice his adoration.
 And in the face of their preoccupation, Burton grew more and more Respondent the courses pro- gressed until Mrs. Wells made remark that sent the blood singing to his heart:
 "We want you to come to Wellsboro for Christ week, Marcia and I. Billy will be there, and lot of young people, and we expect to have some
 Burton's effervescence following the invitation a thing that made Billy stare.
 We will you Soon, the little said, as late that afternoon he put them down at their door. And hope when get to Wellsboro you will have a welcome for me-
 Indeed we shall" said Marca's mother but it Marcia that Burton looked. And Marca's eyes were on Bly-the tender eyes of loving
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06
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Copyright 1909. by Benj. B. Hampton

szf cHEERFULLY. .dnni. that it is annoying" EDn said the dean of the department, "so annoy NB ing that my admission is the only cheerful VT and as. during in the last four years ears of his lis minority, you supplied him with enough money to
 g a Tta . college which is in Boston if the boy chooses to by diamond necklaces for chorus girl who is in
 The stout, ehop-whisleered parent from Chicago hsid up fat. white hand of protest.
 T put Jim in your charge" he said.
 pendent eo1sded sf9Ss1 s desn oh don't mean, he explained, "that the boy neglected his work If he had done that, or if it had come to would In the natural course of events, have been returned to you long before this. only wish now that he had been. But far any of could see, his conduct above reproach, and that is, just what makes his present position so-so surprising.
 Well. but he is not stopping at buying diamonds. Hes had the iu1pudence, so his roommate writes me, to propose to marry the woman"
 "Reaflys am sorry to hear it, but the fact doesn't alter my opinion. Personally, Mir. Ferris, I am willing to do all that for you, but the lad graduated last spring and as, week ago, he vol school must insist that tn. university is no longer in any wise responsible"
 "I don't care who's responsible" declared MT. uscbalI Singer With which G sG remark T he bogne s cd of the office and boarded car for his down town hotel
 Meanwhile, in a typical study not a thousand yards from where he been talking dstressingly sornber couple-a tall, broadshouldered blond lad and slip of dark-eyed grl-were claspng hands f1at-topped desk and looking long into each others somewhat frightened face
 "I really believe you're sorry," said the boy in thoroughly masculine endeavor to conceal his own weakness by accusing his comrade.
 But his comrade not so to be cornered.
 You know I'm not Jim," she reproachfully pied "Only-" v
 "Only what?"
 He pressed her hand encouraeingiy, and with that pressure her face cleared.
 "Only nothing" she laughed up at him.
 He bent far across the desk to kiss her, brushing aside neglected volume photography that fell with regretful thud to the floor.
 But 1t Is a risky thing" she added.
 "FWas,' not is,'" Jim stoutly corrected. '1 make it ali right in fifteen minutes, and there
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06
Copyright 1909. by Benj. B. Hampton

little dog: s;. tail s.1 tucked in tightly tightly
 as the wind blew the snow against his f hollow sides.
 The little man, buttoned up his ears in fur coat had no hollows. He was round and fat and rolled when he walked.
 Helor he said, as he stumbled the dog Where did you come from?"
 Burton called By Bates aho arom shs big blue motor-car at the curb, "get move on; Pm freez- Burton raa down the steps and came up the man an take that dog in" CT, climbed a se to have Get a good one, then," Billy adInonished "We might go up to the kennel show and look them IAN right" Barton agreed But as they whizzed away, his eyes went back to the little creature erouched in his doorway, seeking shelter from the cutting blasts.
 What you want" Billy explained, 'is good city dog. A bull terrier, I should say. One of the fellows has dachshund-brought him over. you know, and paid for him by the yard, and another has French poodle and ties his hair in front with red bow, but those are eecentricites And fox the country. If you want dog that Is perfectly good form, should say bull terrier"
 Could keep bull terrier in my rooms?" Burton -Youve heard of bull in china shop" remarked Billy facetiously, "and this couldn't be worse"
 DurtOn ldugneQ ne always lduPneQ at ms friends feeble jokes It of the easiest ways of paying his debt of gratitude. For Billy had made ship of the two men was based on Biy's social canniness and Burton's willingness to pay all bills It Billy who chose the irreproachable bachelor apartments where Burton lived in lonely state; 1t Billy who furnished the buffet and the valet; 1t Billy who coached Burton in the ethics of up-to-date gastrononiy; and 1t Billy who shared in all of these benefits. gratis Hence 1t was the cards that, under B:llys chaperonage, Burton should buy his dog!
 Al Inc of he Kennel Club they Marcia Wells and her mother.
 Marc;2a had an abundance of red-gold hair. She s-.ic-t g-ay walking sut trim gray lat, and the viclSts th2t Burton had sent her And she joy foTevs-l
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06

is only one thing in the whole day that 1 am going to regret.
 What's thata'' she asked with puckered brow. That it has all probably to be spoiled by having to sit out in the Stadium and watch Yale win
 But you forgot that I'm Yale girl"
 Impossible" he declared. "Your gown is not blue and'-he sprang around the table and caught her in his arms-.your cheeks are crimson
 She struggled vain1y
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06
A CRIMSON ELOPEMENT
By Reginald Wright Kaufman

we were starting for the field There, nowi Please don't any more. Just suppose somebody'd come"
 They're all too wrapped up in the game. But who cares, anyhow?"
 Evidently he did not, for he persisted in the for bidden caresses until brought to sudden halt by a knocking at the door
 There" she gasped in loud whisper q know itl Oh knew it What shall do, Jim? Quick"
 Ji1ns own presence of mind somewhat dis
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06

T should think they would be now," she pouted But then wish you were playing this year" [. "Because?"
 Because then Harvard would win"
 "Hurrah for the Yale grill didn't do such won ders last year. But this is conversion with vengeance. Would you really rather have us win than have with your"
 That's not fair question. And it's almost time
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-06

turbed He looked about trifle at loss Then "If you don't mind" he incoherently began in the startled voice, 'in there's where bunk. back of those curtains. It's rather mussy-
 Again the knock
 "Oh, I don't mind anything!" walled the girl "Only hurryl"
 With stride Jim slipped her behind the DOT tieres, speedily drew them together, and with an-
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-15
NEARLY EVERY
HOUSE WRECKED
Terrific Explosion Occurs Near
Pleasant Prairie, Wis.

Pleasant Prairie, Wis, March TO-
Five powder magazines of the Dupont
Nemours Powder company, containing
$50 tons of finished black powder and
dynamite, exploded at the plant of the
company one mile northwest of here.
One man, E. S.-Thompson, fore
man, is known to be dead. Miss Alice
Finch of Elgin, ILL.,, dropped dead of
heart disease, caused by fright, $50
people were injured, several hundred
houses in this place were blown COM
pletely down or were so badly dam
aged as to be uninhabitable and build
ings ten miles away were wrecked.
The force of the explosion was felt
more than 100 miles from here, it's ef-
fects being evident in broken windows
as far away as Michigan City, Ind,
100 miles distant. In all the towns
along the shore of Lake Michigan
from Milwaukee to Michigan City
buildings were damaged and windows
smashed.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-15
MEXICAN PEOPLE
NEED NOT WORRY
President Again Gives Assur:
ance Of Good Intentions.

Washington, March 1O.-The scene
of activity in connection with the
movement of troops to the Mexican
border has shifted now to the long line
which they will occupy and official
Washington has become merely a
place for the receipt of reports show
ing the progress of the units toward
their places Of rendezvous.
Before leaving for Atlanta President
Taft had protracted conference with
Senior de la Barra, the Mexican am
bassador, and assured him as in a
previous telegram he assured Presi-
dent Diaz at Mexico City, that the
Mexican government and people need
have no concern as to the intentions
of the United States in this military
demonstration, no matter what gossip
there might be to the contrary. The
ambassador declared himself more
than satisfied with the presidents as
surances.
It was learned from official sources
that there has been more or less dis
cussion between the state department
and representatives of several Euro
pean nations as to internal conditions
in Mexico, but it was said that this
discussion had at no time taken on
the proportions of what the diplomats
call Representations"
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the government and the public, to
know your motives, to know how you
have administered your office and to
know the motives of those who have
assailed you.
81 do not hesitate to say that you
have been the object of one of the
most INSCRIPTIONS conspiracies for
the defamation of character that his.
tory can show"
And in the conclusion of his letter
the president declared that every
fiber of my nature rebels against such
hypocrisy l(referring to the attacks
upon Ballinger's character) and
nerves me to fight such a combination
and such methods to the bitter end.
lest success in this instance may form
a demoralizing precedent.
But personal consideration for you
and yours makes me feel that l have
no right to ask you for further
sacrifice"
The president goes on to declare it
evident that he has been himself the
Ultimate object of the attack and says
that to insist upon Mr.. Ballinger's re-
naming in Office with the prospects
of further efforts against you, is sell
fishly to impose on you more of bur-
den than l ought to impose"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-15
Twenty Thousand Men to Be
Stationed on Frontier.
CAUSE OF MOVE A MYSTERY
Training Of Officers and Men Under
Service Conditions Said to Be
the Reason for Action.

Washington, March S.-The most
extensive movement of troops and war
vessels ever executed in the United
States in time of peace is now under
way by order of the president as com.
mander-in-chief of the army and navy,
the objective being the country north
of the Mexican boundary and the wa.
tiers of the two oceans at either end
Of it.
Twenty thousand soldiers--more
than one-fOurth of the army of the
United States-of all arms of the serv-
ice are moving toward the Mexican
border; four armored cruisers, COM
prising the Fifth division of the Allan.
tic fleet, have been ordered from
Northern waters to the naval station
at Guantanamo, Cuba, and most of the
Pacific fleet is, or shortly will be, on
its way to assemble at San Pedro and
San Diego, CAL, and 1000 marines are
preparing to make the Guantanamo
station their temporary headquarters.
1t was officially announced at the
White House and at the war and navy
departments the purpose of this great
mobilizing, unprecedented save in war
times, is the training of officers and
men under service conditions and
practice in cooperation between land
and naval forces
Wood Avoids Reporters.
The thick atmosphere of mystery
and the Jealous efforts to minimize
the importance of the business lent a
curious significance to the fact Gen.
eral Leonard Wood, chief of staff of
the army, in an effort to elude inter.
viewers, slipped out of one of the rear
windows of the presidents Office and
beat retreat through the secluded
portions of the White House grounds
to rear entrance Of the war depart.
ment.
The real significance of these activi-
ties, which have been confined appar-
emily to the last forty-eight hours or
less, is thought to relate very directly
to the conditions in Mexico and to the
growing belief that the situation there
is by no means as satisfactory as the
Mexican government would have it be-
lieved to be. There are persistent re-
ports that the physical condition of
President Diaz has lately become such
as to alarm his adherents and that
momentous developments are to be
prepared for.
In command of force approximate
fng 10000 men, or more than quarter
Of the entire army, along the Next
can border, will be Major General
William H. Carter, at present rated
as assistant to Major General Leonard
Wood, chief of staff.
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Mr.. TAFT's RED, RED TIE.
Even More Gorgeous Than Champ
Clark's-It Starts q Fad.

Even wore 1or9eouS man InamP
Clark's-It Starts q Fad.
The president may not be conscious
Of 1t, but he has made red neckties
popular. Recently Mr.. Taft blossomed
out in a crimson tie of the gayest hue.
He exhibited great deal of it across
his ample bosom, and no visitor to the
inner Office of the White House es-
capped the fine impression he made.
Now they are all talking red neck
wear at the White House. The at
taches, the newspaper men and the
official callers are preparing to fall in
line. The haberdashers felt the effect
It was generally thought in official
circles that Champ Clark, speaker to
be, had a monopoly on red ties. He
had been famous for years for the
brilliancy Of his collection, and be had
been jealous of his unique distinc-
ton. But the Missourian has been
OutdOne.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-15

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halle Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O..
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him perfectly honorable in al business
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Hall's Catarrh Cure 10 taken internally,
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President Scores ACcusers in
Accepting Resignation.
CHICAGO Man GETS PLACE.
Waiter l. Fisher, Supporter Of the
Pinchot Conservation Ideas, Is
Named to Fill Vacancy.

Washington, March 8.-Richard A..
Ballinger's resignation as secretary Of
the interior, dated Jan. 10 last, has
been accepted by President Taft and
Walter l.. FISHER OF Chicago appoint.
ed as his successor, his commission
being signed Immediately by the pres
ident. Mr.. Fisher will take Office
within few days.
Secretary Ballinger rendered his
resignation in letter on Jan. 10, bas-
ing it entirely upon the condition Of
his health. The president replied at
once, expressing his confidence in Sec.
rotary Ballinger, his reluctance to &C.
cept his resignation and requested the
secretary to remain in Office until the
close of the session of congress. I'm.
mediately upon the adjournment OF
congress Secretary Ballinger renewed
his request that he be relieved at a
date suiting the presidents conven.
fence, but Immediately II possible
President Taft, in a letter. formally
accepted the resignation.
The correspondence between the
president and the secretary is not vol
luminous, but sets forth beyond ques-
ton the confidence which Mr.. Taft has
reposed in Mr.. Ballinger throughout
the long siege and the indignation
with which he has viewed the attacks
upon the secretary's personal and Off
cial integrity.
Il have had the fullest opportunity"
the president says in his letter &C
cepting the resignation, ito know YOU
to know your standards of service to
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-15
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, March Observation-Disclosures.
Texas steers, $4.40@5.7O;
Western steers, $4.70@5.SO; stockers
and feeders, $4OO@5.s5; cows and
heifers, s2.65@5.9o; calves, $7.oo@s..
90. Hogs-Light, $7.05@7.35; mixed,
s6.95@7.25; heavy, $6.8007.15; rough,
$6.s0@6.90; good to choice heavy, &c.
9067.15; pigs, 36.7007.25. Sheep
Native, $3.0004.s0; yesrlings, 34.750
SIS; lambs, @5.oo0s.4O. .. ..-
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st. Paul Live Stock.

st. Paul, March 11.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.50@6.25; fair to good,
$5.0O@5.50; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.50@5.25; veals, $5.75@775.
Hogs-$67O@6.9O Sheep-Wethers,
$375@4.35; yearlings, $4.00@5.OO;
spring lambs, $5.00@5.S5.
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ATTEMPT TO BAR DALzELL
Election Expense Account Attacked in
PittOburu.

Pittsburg, March 12.-John Dalzell,
the veteran representative in congress
from Pennsylvania, will have to do
some explaining before, he takes his
seat at the extra session April 4.
William N. McNair, prominent as a
leader of the younger Democracy, last
December called the attention of the
clerk of the house to an alleged IT.
regularity in Dalzell's election ex-
pense account.
In Mr.. Dalzell's account there are
two items which show that he gave
$500 to the Republican county commit
tee and "to my treasurer $500" Mr..
McNair insists on more detailed
account.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-15
-Four Dead IN Kentucky Feud.

Glasgow, KY, March 11.-Reports OF
q battle in Halfway, Allen county, in
which four men are declared to have
been killed, have reached here. The
shooting is bslieved to have been the
result Of the assassination of Wood
Ayres, in SSottsville, who was shot
from ambush last Monday. e
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-03-15
CHICAGO Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, March 11.-Wheat-May,
91hc; July, 9Oc; Sept, $3.50. Corn
May, 5Ohc; July, 50A @50%c; Sept,
51%@51Ac. Oats-May, 31Ac; july,
SIC; Sept, 30Hc. Pork-May, $3.50;
July, 1882 acknowledgements, 16
@26c; diaries, 15@21c. Eggs-14k@
1870. Poultry-Turkeys, 1Sc; chick
ems, 13c; springs, 13c.
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, March 11.-Wheat-To ar.
rive and on track-No. I hard, 9Shc;
!. No. 1 Northern, 97hc; No. North.
ern, 94A@95hc; May, 97%c; July,
9SMc. Flax-On track and to arrive,
$2.66A; May, $2.65K.