The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-28

could hear him roar for blocks. He wanted some thing done about it instantly, and raced up to person to do it. don't know why it is, but bores and nuisances and people with grievance to naturally children to their mother. Fred had his lawyers, not to speak of much more intimate friends than myself, yet 1t who had to bear the inhction of his bursting heart
 Fred ought to explain, the jarring note in Santa Dominica. He a short, thickset chap, with vigorous tawny hair and an energy that the climate had been unable to quell he disturbing to aristocratic calm bumblebee in a mosquito net. The dream of his life to make second Los Angeles, while 1t the dream of ours to stay just were, and preserve the drowsy charm of our old Mexican city, He in the real estate business, and would have been in oil, too, had we allowed him to disfgure the beach with derricks, which wouldn't.
 We'll there he was, in a highly wrought-up condi- tion. demanding sympathy and assistance What he to do? Great Heaven. what was he to do? He had straight to the person. ct cetera- Here Enor's letter dsmissing him. letter! And that with house bought and furnished, and date set for the wedding Cruel? Why it was in- credible! They had spirited her away; she had been forced to write under compulsion the old lady had thought him good enough for Elinor. and In cahoots with that black scoundrel to break it off What about breaking htms Taking him by the scruff of the neck and.
 I smoothed Fred down, gave him a cigar and told him genially that he was darned fool To tar and feather the Prophet, make a martyr of him In other 1gnominious fashion, struck most unwise. Indirectly it would be insult to Enor and her mother, and the worse he lambasted the Hindoo the angrier and resentful they you'd feel After all, what wanted not revenge but to win the girl back. Impugning the old lady's sanity institutng habeas corpus proceedings the suggestions of lunatic told Fred that the right way to deal with prophet was to give him rope, lots of rope-miles.
 "There'u be in that plane before long," I announced. Prophets don't last, at least modern don't, and sooner later there will be lady wrong with the cash box-and then down they'll all come like people in busted airship."
 "But what am to do in the meantime?" groaned Fred.
 Forget It," replied, In the vernacular. That's the basis of all philosophy, ancient, modern, and come-forget it. Hustle on your own low-down plane; exert exuberant talents in getting folks to buy lots; take it from that it will all right"
 "You seem mighty about it." said Fred, dub ously. Anybody that yoW aren't engaged to New Religionist" He lapsed into gloom, and then asked. somewhat at random, whether I thought feathers would stick to crude petroleum. "Its so easy to get crude petroleum" he said.
 tnan arlslhg any sense int4 your slily neaa of great deicacy and complexity, situation ing for tact and you propose to resolve it like wounded bull When you snorting around the arena, stuck all over with little red flags with Mr. Matador Ram BA, uttering shouts of triumph and a delighted audience whooping then perhaps you'll wish you had listened to muh !'
 "I don't like your slangy way of putting things" said Fred II am bad enough cut already without being made joke of If you can't help fellow, just say so, and let it go at that"
 'Its you who won't be helped" I cried. "Now listen women always dazzled by renunciation; it appeals to something in them that don't have; |; there's nun-streak in all of them, innate love of hair shirts and bare boards and half slice of bread for breakfast if only you persuade them it's for their spiritual welfare. You hear a prophet advocating full dinner pail pate toie gras champagne. He lifts his emaciated hand, and says My daughter, you must sacrifice everythingn If he didn't he'd never get the women! Elinor at first will be happy there the pathos of eternal separa tion from you will make her deiciously wretched : then she'll begin to get bored and mopy and and snappish and they'll find her peeping the edge and wondering what you doing"
 Fred sighed heavily. I really felt very sorry for Fred. It such commonplace little romance, his and Elinors Rising young real estate man, fluffy blonde of twenty general conspiracy to throw them together dinners and dances to help it along proposal moonlight picnic with everyone in the secret bell of roses and Episcopalian clergyman honeymoon at Del Monte steady advance in acre property and resultant prosperity, two tots and Japanese 1t all seemed as inevitable as death taxes And now it all knocked higher than kite. J guess poor Fred was entitled to sigh.
 "Its been wonderful comfort to talk to you about it." he said "Yes, wonderful comfort fellow can't travel far without hope, and I was about all out of mine till you gingered me up. My only idea to lick the stufing out of the Hindoo but you have decided to leave him alone and wait. Though I hardly know how going to do it waiting is the thing do it's awful. just sitting around and waiting"
 : You needn't stop york;" observed. Of course, you must work. Work is the universal panacea. If it wasn't for work the gutters would be running with blood, and the majority of the human family would , be in jail Mo- you go out and boom for all you're worth sing your glad song of climate and oppor unity talk of the profitable orange and the generous beet, and of agricultural gold mines awaiting the stckle of the hoe Take the enchanted Fastener by