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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18
MALE HELP WANTED.
WANTED.-Responsibie young

WANTED.-Respons young men, who are able to furnish team and wagon, to sell on commission to farmers, the best line of household necessities, for the oldest, largest and most responsible company of the kind in the world. About 2,000 salesmen now working. earning on the average over $100 per month net clear of all expenses. Net earnings of best men, over $500 per month. Two million farmers now using these thoroughly adver- rised goods. Established 1SsS
 Capital $2,O00,OOO. Address, The J.
 R. Watkins Co.,, 113 South Gay street, Baltimore, Md. R15* If.
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CHAPTER II. "OPENw

F HAVE mentioned poison as my first thought It was a natural one, the result undoubtedly of
 having noticed two small cordial glasses standing on little table over against the fireplace. When I was conscious again of my own fears l crossed to the table and peered into these glasses. They were not club glasses, and they both were empty. However, they had not been so long. In each found traces of anisette cordial, and, though no bottle stood near, was very confident that 1t could readily be found somewhere in the room. What had preceded and followed the drinking of this cordial?
 Alas, there was but little more to see! A pair of curling irons lay on the hearth, but I had no sooner lifted them than I dropped them with a shudder of unspeakable loathing, only to start at the noise they made in striking the tiles, for it was the selfsane noise I had heard when listening from below. These tongs, set up against the side of the fire place, had been jared down by the forcible shutting of the large front door, and no man other than myself was in the house or had been in the house-only the two women. A stick or two still smoldered on the hearth stone. In the ashes lay some scat tered fragments of paper which crumbled at my touch. On the floor in front I espied only stray hairpin. Everything else was in place through out the room except the cushions and that horror on the lounge, waiting the second look I had so far refrained from giving it.
 That look I could no longer with. hold. I must know the depth of the gulf over which hung. I must not wrong with a thought one who had smiled upon me like an angel of light a young girl, too. with the dew of in- nocence on her beauty to every eye but mine and only not to mine within shall I say ten awful minutes? would look again and perhaps discover that my own eyes had been at fault that there were no marks on Adelaide's throat, or, if marks, not just the ones my fancy had painted there
 Turning, I let my glance fall first on the feet. I had not noted them before, and I was startled to see that the arc. tics in which they were clad were filled all around with snow She had walked then as the other was walking now she who detested every effort and was of such delicate make that exer- ton of unusual kind could not readily be associated with her. Had she come alone or in Carmels company, and, if in CarmePs company. on what osten- sible errand if not that of death? Her dress, which was of dark wool, showed that she had changed her garments for this, trip. I had seen her at dinner, and this was not the gown she had worn then-the gown in which she had confronted me during those few intolerable minutes when I could not meet her eyes. Nothing spoke of the dinner party or of her having been dragged here unaware, bat ell of pre-. vious intent and reconciliation. Surely hope was getting uppermost. If had dreamed the marks
 (To Be Continued.)
 NUGGETS Havana filled are a
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NOTICE TaxList 1910

The tax payers of the City of Bridgeport are hereby notified that the taxes on the Grand List of 1910 are now due and payable.
 The undersigned will be at the Col Iector's Office, City Hall, on Monday, May is'' ercenied rc % fro,a u 2 .iiereataer; 1T, D. m for the purpose of receiving said taxes. After June 1st, 1911, three- quarters of one per cent. will be add cd to all unpaid bills, and the same on the first of each month thereafter.
 JOHN NJ. DONNELLY,
 UT If. Collector.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18
FOR SALE

FOR SALE.-Edison Triumph Phon- ograph and TO Amberol records, almost new, at half price. Call evenings, S2 West avenue, top floor. R16 ssp
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PERSONAL

CARD READER-Advice on all af. fairs, 25c. Mrs. Levy, 674 Madison Ave. fourth house above North Ave.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18

NUGGETS Havana filled are z dream.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18

STORAGE OF FURNTTURE-sepa- rate rooms, securely locked. furnf- lure and china packing. Furniture and Pianos removed. large vans. careful handling. Bridgeport 5tor. age Warehouse Co, 1287 Main St. Cor. Congress St. Tel. es4-2
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18

FURNITURE, BEDDING. STOVES. housefurnishings, cash or on easy terms. Your credit Is good. Ask for prices and terms. The Sterling Fur. nituFe Co.,. 12S7 Main St Tel ss4-3
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TO RENT.-F'ive room flat, first floor,
 all improvements. 199 South ave-
 nue. U12as*p
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FOR RENT-One store and rent, 17S6 Main St. H2 eff
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18
TO RENT-FURNISHED ROOMS.

FOR LIGHT housekeeping. Running water. Bath. Address Reasonable,
 care of Farmer. R17* If.
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FURNISHED FRONT ROOM, board if desired, private family, near Washington Park. Address c. M.,
 care Farmer. R q *p
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-18

kuOWluS WuGC l IedIGQ or WldC eX- pected to find, I tore off one of the cushions and flung 1t behind me. More cushions were revealed, but that was not all.
 Escaping from the edge of one of them I saw a shiny tress of woman's hair. I gave a gasp and pulled off more cushions. Then I fell on my knees, struck down by the greatest horror which man can feel. Death lay before me-violent, uncalled for death-and the victim was woman.
 It was she-she indeed. Dead Adelaide, the woman I had planned to wrong that very night and who had thus wronged me! For a moment could take in nothing but this one astounding fact; then the how and why woke in maddening curiosity within me
 But beyond the ever accusing, pro- tuberant stare those features told nothing, and, steeling myself to the situation, I made what observation I could of her condition and the sur rounding circumstances, for this was my betrothed wife. Whatever my in- tentions, however far my love had strayed under the spell cast over me by her sister-the young girl who had just passed out-Adelaide and I had been engaged for many months. Our wedding day was even set.
 But that was all over now-ended,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24

Say what have you done To Miss Dunlap the
Santa Fc, was in there this morning and she wanted
to know all about you.
4 hope you boosted said Louis. 1T won't hurt
your sales any to plug my game.
"She said YOU two are 'buddcs over the wire
what kind Of locker is she, Mr.. AIurphy.'
The sales manager shrugged his shoulders. ooh, she
looks as if she good to her mother then sauncred
away.
Mitchell in the DAYS following proceeded to become
acquainted the Big Four, and in a short time
close the T.aclwanna that lie called her Phoebe Snow
The ST. Paul asked for him twice afternoon, and
the Rock Island CHANGING ring up when he was busy
threatened TO hang Grape on the roundhouSc II nc were
not summoned Immediately TO enter order for
manholc crab. Within a week he became the most
thoroughly tclcphoncd person in the office, and had
learned the tastes the hopes, the AIMS and the a'nb
tions of his respective customers. Miss C. & L. l. for
instance, whose real Graft, bug on
music The Northwestern literary: she had read
everything Marion Crawford wrote and considered
cher" the greatest writer Indiana had produced, but
sorry to learn that her marriage to Captain Jack
Crawford had turned out unhappily-sonlc men
were brutcs anyhow. There a hidden romance
snawing at the Big Four's heart and Phoebe Snow had
4 picture of James X. Haclctt her desk and wanted
poultry farm. The Santa FG had been married
once; but had taken her maiden namc-it much
handler in business.
As Nitchcs telephone orders piled up. day after day.
Murphy began o treat linn more like employee
than hand and finally offered him a moderate
pensc account ii he cared to entertain his railroad trade
When the young mans anazcmcnt At this offer had
abacd sufficiently for him think he sent the Office boy
around the Santa Fc the rum instrllcng him
size Miss Dunlap and report. 1t was the first order
he had had the courage TO issue IN the office and
the spread quickly among the others that he had
been raised.
Mr.. Gross took occasion TO congratulate him with
ponpous insnccrity, at which Louis adrllonishld
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Mitchell learned That The puTchas-
ing agent was at West Baden on his
vacation; that he had stomach
trouble and was cranky; that the
speaker loved music, particularly
Chaminade and George Cohan.
although Beethoven had written
some good stuff; that she'd been
10 Grand Haven on Sunday with
her cousin, who sold hats out Of
Cleveland and was prince with
his money, but drank; and that
the price on that corrugated iron
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BY REX BEACH

"Slip them to Trinidad.
Say. that's bully of YOU, Miss Santa Claus want
to-" but the wire was dead
Mitchell Srnncd for il seemed that personality did
count and that 1t could bc projected copper Wire
after ALL
An hour later when Miss Northwestern called him for
price saybot iron She did not ring of for
fifteen minutes, and then promised to take III" first
opportunity to have another chat. LIN similar
manner, the ice had been broken at the c. & t. H.
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position was not OF dignity that afforded
free play to any great talent III the money making
line.
And vet if craftsmanship really a science, he
reasoned there must be some way in which
clerk might profit by the knowledge. After analy
sis the young realized that il was not the telephone
itself that asked for price and time of delivery but
real human being on the other end Of the wire; and
then he reasoned fur her that if he could that
person that another human being answering her 1t
might be possible to get away, in measure at least,
from the mechanical part Of the business
HIS opportunity the following morning when an
IL irritable female voice over the Santa FG asked the
price twenty kegs of rivcts
"Good morning, he answered chccrlly
There was a moment of amazed silence; then the
young woman snapped, as this the Weather Bureau?
| want Conner Mathison.
Gee, Can't fellow have little sentiment in bust
ness? I'd rather be nice to You than not
All right Mr. Conner the voice replied sarcastically
MAKE a nice price those rivcts
Listen: my names not Conner, it's Mitchell and
YOU to ask for whenever YOU call up. Every
little bit helps YOU know.
Il see. You the carriage to call your num-
bcr ch2 Sure thing, Mitch If your out to lunch the
time | a dozen number ten Sheets I'll have
YOU PACED at the Union League Club
Say, if ever get Your number III do the calling,
Louis rctortcd mciningly.
Twenty three, kl Now beat it,"
as that 50? We'll, do the calling at house and
I'm going to call YOU right now. What's the price of
those rvcts?"
1.-TWO sixty-tivc'
"roo high Goodby.'
wait a mirutc!" Mitchell checked her hastily
Nov that YOU have those rivcts of your SYSTEM
may get personal for Instant:
lust about an instant: my arm is tired"
81 could listen 10 YOU all day.
"Oops Horace, He loves mel" Knocked the lady.
"Sec here I'm a regular person with references, and
I've been talking to you every day for six months SO
feel acquainted. Some pleasant evening when your
of porch sadators pals you let me come around
and show the difference.
"Indecdi I'll think il over.
Ten minutes later Miss Santa FG called up again.
Hello! | want MITCHELL the Junior partner.
This is MITCHELL
Were those rives two fifty
SHOULD they bc?'
"They should"
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might be raised
ten cents with
out losing the
order.
THE follow
ing after
noon Murphy,
the railroad sales
manager. stop
ped on his way
past Alitchcll's
desk To inquire,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24

Every day the
general railway
sales manager
gave him a
price list of the
commodities {.
& NJ. handled,
and when an
inquiry came
over the phone
all he was re
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q1ircd to do was TO read the figures
AMI quote time of delivery. If this
resulted in an order, the sales man
ascr took the credit. An open quo
tation, on the other hand, made
Mitchell the subject of criticism
for offering a target to competitors,
and when he lost an order he was
the goat. No one around the Office
was too lowly to demand his hon.
age, and no one was tongucticd in
the matter Of criticism; hence his
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-02
No Change in Fish Laws.

w. E. Shoemaker of Laceyville,
State fise warden, through the To-
wanda Review, calls attention to
the fact that the recent Legislature
made no changes in the fish laws
except as they apply to the Della
ware river and Lake Erie. The
fish laws effective allow the spear
ing of carp, suckers, mullets and
eels during the months of July,
August, September and October, in
streams not inhabited by brook
trout. Fish baskets or eel racks
from August 15 to December 1.
Outlines for carp, suckers, eels and
catfish after June l, as provided in
bEEt.S.
section six.
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WilliamspOrt is WOrmy.

The beautiful city of Williams
port is menaced with a plague of
caterpillars and their ravages have
become so great that the trees of
the city are in danger of being de-
stroyed. City officials are prepar-
ing for general war against the
pest and a fund has been started to
meet the expense of exterminating
the caterpillars. Meetings have
been held and advice given by eX-
perts from the State Department of
Agriculture. The situation is be-
coming alarming as the chief pride
of the city, its trees, is at stake.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-02
A Horticultural Puzzle,

ITS no use," sighs the nature wiz
ard. II may as well give up"
What is bothering your" we ask
sympathetically
II got started few years ago on a
whim Of mine. I took head of cab
bage and crossed 1t with white pota-
to and grew eyes on it; then crossed
that with cornstalk and grew ears OF
It.; then l crossed that with a squash
and grew a neck on it; then I crossed
that with cocoanut and grew hair on
it, but hanged If 1 can figure out what
to do for nose and mouthw--St
Louis Republic.
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Derrick

George Derrick of Picture Rocks
and Miss Laura Fiester of Nord-
mont were united in marriage on
Thursday evening, May IS, 1911,
by Rev. Hertz at Sonestown. The
bride is one of Nordmont's most
beautiful young ladies and the
groom is we'll known and highly
respected. The young couple have
the best wishes of host of friends
for a long and happy married life.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-02
A Cow For a Life.

The Ober Gabelhorn is peak no.
torious for the dangerous cornices
which decorate its upper ridges. OF
many accidents reported in connection
with 1t perhaps the most remarkable.
says G. ID. Abraham In "Swiss Noun
tain Climbs" was the adventure which
befell an amateur and his young guide
In passing along the dangerous final
cornice 1T suddenly gave. way under
the amateur, and he went flying
through space to apparent destruction
The guide at the other end of the rope
seemed in hopeless plight, but with
astounding presence of mind he flung
himself down the opposite side Of the
ridge, thus saving two lives. The rope
cut deep into the snow above, but held
firm. The young guides name was
Ulrich Almer. His reward was a cow
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-06-02

Y ~ III WOIlldu W NHoii pSSh
81 revealed the truth knows what
III mistake it is to give oneself
despair. Then everything is
lost! History teens with stories or
men and women who but for despair
might have won. Literature is loaded
with instances of individuals who by
holding out little longer might have
lived happily ever after"
Sir Tannhauser, the legendary hero
of Germany, escaping from the thrai-
dom of sensual passion, sought abso-
luton at Rome from the pope, who
said, you can no more hope for par
don than this dry wand can bud and
bear leaves"
Tannhauser, giving up to despair
went his way, and, behold, the pope's
staff miraculously sprouted! Messen-
gers were sent to find TannhaNser, but
he was gone. Instead of hoping he
had abandoned himself to the awful
blackness of sorrow and had disap-
peared.
Woman, Tannhauser would have
been absolved, he would have been
restored to happiness and to love, II
he had stood out against despair.
Consider the case of the Babylonian
lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. To the
tryst at Minus tomb came Thisbe.
Driven away by lion, she fed to
place of safety Pyramus, arriving at
the tomb and believing his beloved
Thisbe was dead, gave himself up to
despair and killed himself. Thisbe, re-
turning, found her lover cold in death
and took her own life.
Had Pyramus embraced hope in
stead of despair the story would have
had most delightful ending, or might
not have been written at all.
In Matthew Arnod's poem, "Tris-
tram and Iseult," Tristram, lying
wounded, awaits the coming of Isolde.
If the white flag were hoisted it was
} she that approached. When told the
sail was black Tristram gave up and,
counting death, died before Isolde, un-
Her the white sail, arrived.
Just little more hope, just little
t more faith. and all would have been
we'll
How many defeats have been turned
; into victories by some brave heart that
refused to be conquered! How many
armies have gone down to defeat be
cause they acked leader possessing
the characteristic that makes maj
5 fight on and on against great odds, dc
fying defeat. knowing no conqueror
demonstrating no Subiugatori
, your fight is, no matter what the lont
, you are carrying, do not enter the
slough of despond, do not despair
Some time there will come relief, some
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NORDMONT.

Mrs. Harry Speary is spending a
few days with friends at Hughes
vile.
Hazel Diltz spent Sunday with
friends in DushOre.
Misses Freda Armes and Alice
King have gone to Eagles Mere to
work.
Bert Snider and Lenna Fiester
were the guests of Laporte friends
Sunday.
Mrs. Amos Foust was Dushore
caller Saturday.
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vile Saturday.
Dollie Snider spent Saturday in
Dushore.
Mrs. Ernest Botsford is on the
sick list.
j. H. Gansel of Williamsport is
spending few days here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Foust are
the proud parents Of daughter
born May 13.
Cecil Botsford, Morris King and
Harry Hunter are attending sum
mer school at Dushore.
George Wilson and wife of Uni.
tyville spent Sunday with their
daughter Mrs. Minard of this place.
Mrs. Boyd Camp was caller at
Picture Rocks Thursday.
Mrs. Ben Speary spent Thurs
day at Hughesville.
Miss Bennett of Unityville is Wis
iting friends here.
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time the sun will shine, some time
right must conquer might.
Despair dulls the mind, stops the
flow of pul"ing blood in your veins,
makes an invalid of you. Hope feeds
the spirits and quickens the body. In
the garden Of hope grow flowers for
every hand. Hope is an enchanter, a
tonic, panacea for all ills.
All about me in the city see men
who have given up the battle in the
turmoil Of trade. l see men broken
and dispirited, men who have aban-
doned hope and embraced despair.
Henceforth for them there will be no
sun shining through their cypress
trees. All ahead is blackness and OBJ
liyion.
They are the wreckage that floats up
from the great sea of endeavor. the de-
bris Of commercialism. Upon the
shore Of failure there lie thousands Of
these wrecked hopes that now are
symbols of despair, but upon that long
with hope in his heart.
Hope Is an old friend. 1t comes to
us at cradle time and will be constant
and true, even beyond the grave. IL we
will but make a conf1dant and COM
panion of 1t. Despair is stranger
that comes to us later in life to give
tears to our eyes and aching pains to
our hearts.
Despair usurps the place of happi-
ness and, rude beyond measure, drives
from the citadel Of our being all those
things that make life glad and happy
and worth living. And when all the
dear things Of our being have been
beaten out of us by this monster 1t
gives nothing in return but sorrow and
bitterness and woe.
Be on your guard, madam. When
despair leaves its visiting card at your
front door take warning lest 1t come
again and again and ruin your life.
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MILDRED AND RERNICE.

John Regan and wife of Mildred
visited Scranton friends this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry l.. Kellar
of Mildred are visiting friends in
Benton.
Oh, for some of that beautiful
snow that cost the taxpayers eight
hundred dollars to shovel away.
Hot, isn't it.
Owen Brink and wife and Jane
Gallagher of Eagles Mere attended
the Observation-Disclosures wedding on
Thursday, May 25.
Morgan Deiffenbach and wife of
Scranton visited friends in this
place.
E. L. Sweeney of Laporte was
eallinn on the hnsiness men of this
he left and the business men were
poorer.
Not many miles away Il consta-
bic had a warrant to arrest a man.
He got his man and did not get
him for the simple reason that
when the prisoner got permission
to wash himself before appearing
before his 'Squireship to receive
his just dues, he took walk and
left the constable awaiting his re-
turn, but up to this time he has
not come back. A word to the
wise is sufficient: Never enjoy
yourself in other company and let
your man escape.
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"Dr. Miles Nervine
Raised Me From
the Crave "-Mr.. Taylor

This is a strong statement to
make, but it is exactly what Mrs.
Thomas Taylor, of Blum, Texas,
said in expressing her opinion of
this remedy.
"Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine
raised me from the grave and Ihave
much confidence in it. l can never
say enough for your grand medicines.
If anyone had offered me $4,000 for
the second bottle of Nervine that
used would have said no indeed"
MRS. THOMAS TAYLOR,
Blum, Tex.
Nervous exhaustion is COM
mon occurrence of modern life.
The wear and tear on the nervous
system is greater now than at any
time since the world began. For
sleeplessness, poor appetite and that
run down" feeling, nothing is so
good as
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Memorial Services.

Memorial services held in the M.
E. church on Tuesday afternoon at
2 o'clock, which consisted of music
by the choir, reading of Lincoln's s
Gettysburg Address by Olive f.
Keller and an address by Rev. G.
Ii. Doupe. After the services the
soldiers, led by several children
bearing flowers, proceeded to Mt.
Ash Cemetery where the graves
were decorated.