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on an ash heap. The scalp
must be kept clean. free from
dandruff and in a healthy con-
ditiou. The superior merits Of
Herpicide as a hair preserva-
tive and beautifer are well
known and It receives the high
est endorsements from profes-
sional men, stage folk and the
best people everywhere.
Newbro's HeTpicide is sold at
all toilet goods counters in 90
cent and si.00 sizes. Your deal.
er VIII guarantee the first bot
tie 20 satisfy or refund your
money. Applications obtained
ct ell first class barber shops
and hair dressing parlors.
Send 10 cents IN postage or
70 cover cost OF packing and
g. TO the Herpiclde Co, Dept. 6,
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the accumulation OF dandruff checked
the worst and most common enemy to
good hair Is eliminated.
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Japanese Festival Cars.

cTo be Continued Next Wednesday,
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silver 20 cover cost OF packing and
mailing. TO the Herpiclde Co. Dept. 6,
Detroit. Mich, for q sample bottle aud
valuable booklet on care Of the hair
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-01

YOUNG INCOMES COOPERATIVE STORE CO. Special AgentA
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CHAPTER TX.
A Bridegroom snurnsd.

''X you know-Aggie told you
that Cassidy was up here
from headquarters. He didn't
nut 4 name TO II. but LIN ON y
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
REFORM CONVICT
KILLED BY THUG
HE BEFRIENDED

Chicago, March 22-'Dick'' Lane,
Familiarity known as .tDead-eye Dick
who for As years led the life of a
criminal, serving five prison terms
during the time, and who for the last
Is years had engaged in evangel1stlc
work, died, yesterday, the victim OF
a thug he had sought to reform.
A few weeks ago he took home
with him man who had started out
for nights work as a pickpocket-
He talked with him and thought he
had him started on the right path. A
few days later this same man re-
turned with three thugs and the
quartet assaulted and robbed Lane
and fled Lane was seriously assault
ed and failed steadily.
During his career as a criminal,
Lane was equally ski1lful as a pick
pocket, highwayman, safe blower and
burglar He was a friend Of such
notorious criminals as Eddie Guer1n,
sfBaIdmore Pat, RED Farrell. "Ch1-
cago Jack" Mertweather and John
Barry.
According to his own statements,
robberies in which he participated
netted more than $4,000, 900. He began
in philadelphia when IS years of age
and operated in every large city in
the country He became converted in
Chicago while attending a mission
few hours after he had been ordered
by the police to flee the city He
wentsto H. H. Koh1saat and told his
story Mr.. Koh1saaG believed in his
sincerity and gave him enjoyment as
a ianitor. He was about IA years of
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
new HAMPSHIRE CLUB
ADOPTS PRESIDENTS SONG

Rendition of a new song composed
by the president and adopted as the
club song, will be a feature of the
third annual banquet of the New
Hampshire club of this city at the
Stratfie1d, Monday evening Arrange
ments for the banquet have been COM
p1eted by a committee of four, inc1ud-
ing two past presidents, H. L. Cram,
and DR.. c. H. Sprague, President Earl
L. French, and Miss Ellen A Burke,
the secretary and treasurer
Hon. George A. Wagner, judge of
probate of Manchester, N H, will be
the chief speaker, while others to re-
spond to toasts will be Mayor Wilson
and DR.. George L. Porter. Music will
be a feature of the banquet, chief in
terest attaching to the rendition of
the club song, set to the music of my
Old New Hampshire Home
The banquet will begin at o'clock
Before the guests are seated there will
be a reception in the colonnade.
Members of the club are privileged to
bring friends.
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ESCAPES between
SPEEDING TRAINS
WILLIAM SCOTS GOODNESS AND
NERVE SAVES HIS LIFE. BUT
re HIS FRIEND is KILLED

Hartford, March 22-With a few in
significant grease spots on his coat
tails as the only evidence of his exper-
fence, William Scott, of Westminster,
British Columbia, a tobacco dealer, es-
capped death at the Avon street grade
crossing in this city, yesterday, by
calmly standing sideways as two ex-
press trains dashed past him in op-
posite directions.
Mr.. SCOTS friend, Thomas H Ryan,
Of Binghampton, thought he could es-
cape from the predicament by darling
across the tracks, but he was struck
by one of the trains and ground to
pieces.
Before they discovered their plight
the trains were almost on the men,
who were walking from one side of the
grade crossing to the other. Mr..
Scott alone realized there was no time
to get past either of the trains and
cause he remembered having read
that there is just enough room for a
person to stand sidewise between two
trains.
There was a binding flash of head
lights. roar and suffocating blast of
dust for what seemed an hour said
Mr. Scott later SCI knew [ could
not move one-half an inch either way,
and so I escaped with just this grease
where my coat was drawn out to the
engine drivers. When the gate man
saw me as he came out to pick UP
poor Ryan he was the most amazed
person you ever saw. He thought I,
too had been killed.
Ryan's body was found 200 yards
down the tracks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
TRAlNMAN SIMMONS
NOT TO LOSE LIMB
First Report of His Mishap Was
Exaggerated-He's Pursued
by HOOdoo

Charles Simmons of 1850 Main St.,
the freight brakeman who was in
jured in an accident at Great Bar
rington, Mass, last Wednesday night
will not lose the leg which was so
badly mangled. At the House of
Mercy hospital in Pittsfeld where
Simmons is confined, it was stated
today that the leg will be saved al
though part of the heel and part of
the flesh from the ankle to the knee
will have to be amputated. The limb
will probably always be stiff but
Simmons will be able to walk on it.
At the time of the accident Sim
1882-1883 which runs between this
city and State Line, Mass, on the
western division He was struck by
a section of the train and three cars
ran over him. He was Immediately
taken in the caboose to Pittsfeld-
E The accident recalls the fact that
Simmons has been unfortunate in the
past. A year ago this month he was
switching in Derby when he was
struck by a passenger train His
jaw, right arm, three ribs and left
leg were broken His escape from
death was considered miraculous at
that time. Simmons is a member
of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
Lodge POL He originally came from
New Milford but has been living in
this city about two years
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
MONTESSORI METHOD Or
TEACHING LITTLE TOTS

Washington, March 2O-To make me
national capitol the Monteasori CEN
ter of the United States is the amri-
ton OF a group Of local euthusiasls
who already have established head
quarters at the home OF Dr. A1exau-
der Graham Bell, the noted fuven-
tor and scientist. DR.. Bell is SO en-
thusiastic over the MontessOr1 met
Cd of child teaching that he has turn
ed over one of the rooms IN his resi-
dence to be opened for the purpose
of introducing the system in Washing
ton.
The Montessori system OF child
teaching is the creation OF an italian
woman. Speaking of the system, DIT.
Bell says:
'aThe Montessort method may be IT,
Illustrated by the ordinary method Of
feeding chickens, which is 70 scatter
the food on the ground where the
chickens may get at il and then
leave the chickens to pick 10 I'D for
themselves"
The child is taught from the time
it begins to speak and because DR.
Bell lays much importance on the 5r~
fant's initiative instincts, the parents
will be able to teach the system.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
HOW MARK TWAIN
REACHED OLD AGE
VIOLATED ALL THE RULES OF
HEALTH, ACCORDING TO OLD
FRIEND, PROF. PHELPS.

Richmond, Va, March 22-Mark
Twain attributed his, long and healthy
life to his constant violation of all the
rules, of right living, according to DR..
William Lyon Phelps of Yale, who de-
liVered a lecture at the Richmond. Col
-Iege recently about the huInorist.
DR. Phelps was a personal friend of
Twain and. spoke of lTwain's life as a
wonderful romance, in which every cir
cumstance tended to push him forward
: in the great career for which he was
destined. In his youth he said he had
no literary ambition, and he would
never have left his position as a
Mississippi River pilot but for the out
break Of the civil war. Heethen be-
came a sminers in the West, and missed
striking an immense fortune by five
minutes, so that he remained poor and
had to become newspaper man He
was sent abroad as a correspondent,
and the book, fInnocents Abroad (,
which first made his reputation, was
the result.
The great flaw in Twain's charac-
ter, said DR.. Phelps, was his pessim-
ism, for, with all his hunor, he con-
sidered life wholly bad He declared
in all seriousness that he always felt
happier at a funeral than at a we'd
ding, because at a wedding the trou-
BILE was just beginning, whereas at
funeral it was all over.
MARK, at one tirne,'' continued DR..
Phelps ffsaid that for twenty-four
years he had known that life was not
worth Iiving.'' This trait, Dr. Phelps
said. showed that although a great lit
erary artist, he was not a great phil
osopher.
DR.. Phelps read several letters from
Twain to him, including one which
was probably the last that he wrote.
Mark Twain's hurnor, he said, was the
typical American hunnor, having moth
ing of the -cynfcisn and mockery OF
the French, nor of the careless good
hunaor. of the Irish. American huInor
he defined as an explosive reaction
against American nervousness. 1t was
a sort of broad and incongruous buff
foonery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
EASTON

few DAYS ago William Sherman
had the misfortune while caring for
his horses to have one of them bite
him quite badly ON the hand. The
bite severed the cords in his finger
and tore the flesh, making a very
painful wound. Mr.. Sherman was
taken to Bridgeport where his wound
was d1 eSEed. &.
school con Thursday for the annual
Easter vacation. Miss Logan will be
unable to resume her school duties at
the close of the vacation
Miss Mary A. Gillette of Suffield is
spending the holidays as guest of her
parents, M aatd MS Edward D. Gill
lette, at Adams Corn ers.:
Mr. and Mrs. Fred a. Mash and two
children Dorothy and Laurence, have
returned to Sport F1fd from a. short
visit as guests Of Mrs. 1farsh's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Seeley, in
Bridgeport.
Charles Keller. town fire warden, is
ready to issue permits; also permits
may be secured from his deputy, E
B. Stevens on Sport HiH Permits
must be had if enc wishes to build a
fire in the open air between March IL
and June Is
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Staples well
coined a. son to their home in Bridge
port a few days ago.
Howard Wheeler of Monroe, who has
had his saw mill for some time in
John H. Wheeler's woods, has now
transferred it to James Tyler's woods
Mr.. wheeler has a. number of pieces
of woods in this vicinity to saw dur
ing the spring and summer months
An Easter-tide jubilee of the mem
bers and congregation Of the Baptist
church will be held at their hall on
wednesday, March 26, at noon Din
rsSss viii be served after which reports
t---@e-- cnurch clerk, trea surer and col
Iectors- and also reports of the Sun
dav school. Dorcas society and the B
u. c. E. will be read
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
TRYING TO
STOP STOCK
WATERING
Reps. StOddaTd And Wilson
Have Charters Held in
Allegiance
CBy Our Staff Corres.)


Hartford, March 22-One of the
lively contests of the present Iegisla-
tive year is preparing. It has attract
i ed little attention A few days ago the
House chairman of the committee on
interpretations offered for passage a
Dill for a little electric light company,
in the northern part of the state.
Rep. Clifford Stoddard rose in his
seat and asked that the bill go to the
foot of the calendar, until certain fea-
lures OF it were Investigated. HIS ask
ed that the bill remain at the foot of
| the: calendar until H. B. 87S could be
reported by the. committee on fncor-
porations-
Rep Lynn w. Wilson reinforced the
remarks of Rep. Stoddard by calling
attention to the presence of certain
queer paragraph in the bill the most
permitting the capitalization of sur
plus earnings.
H. B. S78sis a. bill introduced by
Rep Wilson at the beginning of the
session. It provides for the supervis-
ion of. stock ISSUES of public service
corporations. 1t is an endeavor to
rectify the omission of this imp ortant
feature from the public utilities bill,
which was passed two years ago.
On Tuesday. Mr.. Wilson appeared
before Athe committee on <fncorpora-
lions with a substitute for H. B. sS7S.
The -SubSt1tute is gin. essence the New
York law supervising public service
stock Issues. "a
The committee exhibited consider
able interest in the bill and asked Mr..
Wilson IF he would not appear a week
from Thursday and make a fuller ex-
pression%of his views on this subject.
Mr.: Wilson agreed to do SO. In the
meantime> a charter of the. New Ha-
ven Gas Company came into the
House Rep. Stoddard asked that this
too go to the.foot of the calendar. 1t
did, This bill also contained clause
authorizing the capitalization of sur
| plus earnings, and it permitted the
gas company to issue $4,000 900
| worth of stock at its own will.
| Every charter of this nature will be
halted, unless the House changes its
mind, until it is seen whether the
state will declare general policy with
respect to stock issues of public ser
vice corporations.
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attempted in the schools during this
week and visitors will have a chance
to- Judge of. the regular. routine work
The mine in Long Hill has now re-
sunned work after having been closed
a short time.
MIS- Albert F. Lin1ey has been
spending a few days with friends in
Bridgeport
Mrs. Clara Freers of Long Hill has
opened her ice cream parlors for the
season.
The White Plains school will not
close for the Easter holidays because
of the enforced vacation during the
recent scarlet fever epidemic
Miss Dorothy Beach left town yes
terday for Eakeville, where she will
spend. her Easter vacation.
Burr r. Beach expects to build a
new barn this spring.
The basketball team met again for
practice Thursday night. On Satur-
day evening the boys hope to win the
game against the Olivet team of
Bridgeport.
Sunday morning, the pastor Rev. T
Yeoman williams will take for his
subject. 1.-The Power of the Resur-
rection'' Ernest L. Fitch of Bridge
port will preside at the organ and
render the following numbers: Pre-
lude, Pastoral, Lebach; anthem, Hail
Thou Glorious Easter Morning,
Schenecker % Offertory, Verset, Lefe-
yure. =Wely: anthem, THE Lily OF the
Valley E. N: Anderson; 'postlude,
.eHalleIujah Chorus Handel In the
evening Mrs. Howard S. Beach at the
organ viii. give. an Easter Voluntary,
Christ, the Lord is Risen Today f.
L. Ashford: Offertory. Andante in D.,
George Rosenkrans; postlude,- Choral
March, '"tsoldiers of the Cross
Faulkner Brandon. The topic for the
Young Peoples meeting is Vital Liv-
ing lesson for Easter; leader Miss
Nellie Thornton. The church has
been very prettily decorated with
ferns, palms, begonias, Easter lilies
and epirea, the. color scheme being
green and white.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
ALLOW STUDENTS TO VOTE.
Harvard Men, Not Self Supporting,
Entitled To Ballot.

Boston, March 22-Students at Har-
ward university who are not self-sup-
porting but derive their support from
parents living in other states are en-
titled to vote in Cambridge during
their temporary residence there.
Such is the ruling by Judge Bra1ey
of the supreme court, in a test case
brought by William S. Warhe1d, of
Chicago, against the assessors of Cam
bridge for a writ of mandamus to
compel them to assess him as a resi-
dent of that city so that he may be
registered as voter Warfeld is at
tending Harvard and makes his home
at Craigie Hail. Cambridge.
Judge Braley did not think that the
mere fact that a student was not self
supporting rendered him Ineligible for
assessment and registration.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22

The yacht Constance, said to be the
Oldest ship in the world in active SER
vice, has just been sold TO a fisher
man of Skaw, up in Jut1and, vino VIII
use the ancient craft in his trade. Tns
Constance was built in 1920, one hun
dred and nfnety-three years ago, and
in her long life she has sailed into all
most every port in the world Her
timbers are still staunch, and her new
owner declares he can see no reason
why she should not sail the seas for a
century to come.
There is good reason to believe that
Prince Erick, cousin of King George
of England and King Christian q
Denmark, will complete his farrnfns
education by tour of the agrfcultur-
al districts of the United States. F0r
several years the Prince has been ~
work on his farm on Ffonfa, Island
with intervals spent at agriculture
colleges. Next simmer he will 90 70
England to study agricultural coudi-
tons there, and afterwards ne viii
sail for America.
If this young Prince considers thaf
he should go to the United States tn
learn agriculture, it is also apparent
that the American authorities are con
WINGED that Danish agricultural fnstt-
tutions have much to commend them,
for only last week a special govern
ment commission arrived here from
Washington and has already started
to study the rural schools, agricultural
schools and cooperative agricultural
societies of Denmark. The members
of the Commission are II. W Foght
Bureau of Education, Department d
the Interior; LII. Friend, State Super
visor of High Schools of West Wir-
ginia, and w. H. Smith, Rural School
Inspector of Mississippi
The Commission will remain for
three months in Denmark, and On fts
return make a report on the facilities
for agricultural education IN a couu-
try where the science has been devei-
oped more extensively than in any
other country in the world Just at
present the American visitors are I'm
vestigating the highly successful small
1andhoIders' school at Rfngsted.
The American Minister to Denmark
Maurice Egan, has given denial 70 the
persistent rumors that the Danish gov
eminent has approached him with
proposition for the purchase from ths
United States of the island Of Eindi-
anao, in the Philippines. He does not
deny that certain prominent Danes
have proposed that Denmark should
exchange Greenland for 1dfndauass
with the privilege Of trading the latter
to- Germany for SIesvfc, but he does
deny that such a proposition was
made to him by the German govern
rnenf.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
STRATFORD

Stratford, March 22-What might
have res1Ftsd in a good sized fire oc-
CURED AT the home of Mrs Nellie
Wheeler, Thursday morning. After
Mrs Wheefer got breakfast she did
not feel well and putting some wood
On the fire she went to another room
to lay down. In a little while she
kitchen, and on investigation found
some OF her aprons hanging over the
stove hssf caught fire Her son came
t@&her assistance and in short order
had tffe fire out The loss of the
APRONS and the house full Of smoke
was all the damage done.
Howard Hoadley of Warwick avenue
who has been Ill with grip, is able to
be about the house and will return to
business in a few days.
Mr. and. Mrs. E E. Doohttlef are
spendfng their Easter vacation at Bea-
con Fails, and viii return early next
vTesk. es,s is=.- ass -e-
Mrs WflHam Strickland Of East
Broadway is Ill at her home, but IS
steadily improving. .
spending a few days with Mrs Her
bert Doontt1e on Barnum avenue.
Miss Peck is a teacher in Milford
school.
sunday morning at the NJ. E. church
Miss B. Derby has arranged for spe-
ciaf Easter program beginning at 1890,
assisted BY Mr. Stout, the blind organ
list. 2s- --77'= =
The program of Easter music at
Christ Episcopal church will be as fol-
lows, at 1880 service: Prelude. Christ
the Lord is Risen, s. n. Bodine, or
gan: Christ Our Passover. NJ H. Car
reN: re Deum, P. A. Schneider; Jubi-
late p. A Schneider; hymn; Kyrie
Eleison. b Tours; Gloria Tfbi' Anon;
Offertory 9tAs # Began to Dawn
Charles Vincent: Sanctus, Warren;
Communion hymn; Gloria in Excelsis,
Old chant. At the 1880 p. m. service,
chiIdren's carol service, assisted by the
choir of ten voices. Soloists Miss
bosch, contra1to; H Arthur Powell,
tenor; Allen Beardsley, baritone; Miss
Ruth Bartlett will be organist.
Easter services at the Congregational
church on Sunday morning are at
1880: afternoon at o'clock The
preach in the morning on -tFhe Power
Of Christ's Resurrection The an
thBenns will be: Awake Up Ny Glory
by Barnby; st Heard a Great Voice, .
Cobb A special service will be held
in the Sunday school room at noon
At O'Clock the cantata, The New
Life, VIII be sung and Miss Elsie
Smith will give several violin solos.
The rooms formerly. occupied by the
pool -parIor over Tuttle's drug store
are rented Tor another mems club
such as the CuphesE. = some of the
members are men who have formerly
belonged to Cupheag. Shang Wheeler
- the founder OF the new club The
name has not as yet been decided up
on
Mrs Alice Booth has been. suffering
from blood poisoning. caused from cut
ling a corn on her left foot. She is
stfu very i'll burt improving at her
home ON BarnszTns ssvenl1e-
Many of the Noung people who are
away NJ school are home for the Eas-
ter vacation.
A number of men under the diree-
ton of Selectman James Lal1ey were
at work yesterday fixing the bridge
on Nichols avenue
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
DR., TUPPER CONFERS WITH
FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT
ON MEXICAN SITUATION

Augusta, Ga, March 22-Dr. Henry
Topper, special commissioner of the
international peace forum, held a
short, private conference with former
President Taft, honorary president of
the forum, here yesterday to discuss
the Mexican situation. After the con-
ference today Mr.. Taft said:
ssDr. Topper called simply because he
was on his return from Mexico and
desired to confer with me in regard to
the international situation"
Dr. Topper will go from here to
Washington to confer with President
Wilson
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
'CASCARETS" THE
BEST LAXATIVE
No Headache, Biliousness,
Sluggish Liver, Constipat-
ed Bowels or Sour Stom
ach by Morning.

No odds how bad your hfVvF, stom-
ach or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and unconn-
Portable you are from constipation,
indigestion, biliousness and sluggish
intestines-you always get the de-
sired results with Cascarets ana
quickly, too.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache, biliousnesss, dizziness, ner-
vousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress
cleanse. your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 10-cent box means health, happi-
ness and a clear head for months No
more days of gloom and distress if
you will take a Cascaret now and
then All druggists sell Cascarets
Don't forget the children-their little
insides need a good, gentle cleansing,
tOo.-AdV.
Farmer Want Ads One Cent a Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-22
TRUMBULL

Mrs Samuel Ward returned home
Thursday night after two weeks
visit with friends in York State
The teachers and supervisor of the
town schools have extended an invita-
ton to all men in the town asking
them to- visit the schools during the
week commencing March "a The
teachers feel that the toWnspeople do
not take the interest they should es-
pecially the men; hence this special
invitation and it is hoped the men
VIII persuade their wives to accom-
Nanx them Nothing special will be