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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02

agin, red as one of them harvest Ap- stole it and she'll have you and your show arrested"
 reads the name agin. 1t was feThe Lost Heir" I seen had her good and leased now, so I says, .'It must be one of these here love stories by the way you take on over it."
 Its not" she says, getting ready to cry. And what right have you got in our wood lot anyhow?'
 s'Well," I says, 'tI was jest about to move on and climb out of it when you holIered to me from that tree.''
 'I didn't!' she says. But she was mad because she knowed she had spoke to me first, and she was awful sorry she had. She began to walk away and to cry.
 I got up and foIlered her a little piece. And itScome to me all to oncet had leased her too hard, and I was down on myself fur it.
 ''Say," says, kind of tagging along beside of her, ''here's your old book"
 But she didn't make no move to take it, and her hands was over her face, and she wouldn't pull 'em down to even look at it.
 So tried agin.
 well" I says. feeling real mean, CT wisht you wouldn't cry. didn't go to make you do that"
 She drops her hands and whirls around on me, mad as wet hen right off
 '.Pm noti I'm notr' she sings out, and stamps her feet +'I'm not cry ing!'' But jest then she loses her holt on herself and busts out and jest nateherally bellers q hate you!'' she says, like she could of killed me.
 That made me kind, of dumb agin, fur it come to me all to opcet liked that girl awful well. And here I'd up and made her hate me. I held the book out to her agin.
 We'll, sir, she snatahes that book and she gives it sling. thought it was going kersplash into the crick But it didn't It hit right into the fork of limb that hung down over the crick, and it all spread out when it lit and stuck in that crotch somehow. She couldn't of slung it that way on pur- pose in a million years. We both stands and looks at it minute.
 +tOh. oh!" she says. What have done? It's out of the town library, and I'll have to pay for it!''
 'T'1l get it fur you," I says. But 1t wasn't no easy job. If shook that limb it would tumble into the crick But clumb the tree and eaeed out on that limb as fur as dast to. And. of course. jest as I got holt of the book that limb broke and I fell into the crick But I had the book. It was some soaked, but reckoned it could still be read.
 CTO be Continuen-l
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02

my back to her and opens 1t And I was trying all the time to think of something smart to say to her. But couldn't of done it if I was to be shot. Still, I thinks to myself, no girl can sass me and not get sassed back, neither.
 i hearn scramble behind me which I knowed was her getting out of that tree. And in minute she was in front of me, mad.
 Give me my boolz,'' she says.
 But I only reads the name of the book out loud, fur to aggervate her. had on purity good duds, but kind of wisht I had on my Injun rig then. You take the girls that always comes down to see the passenger train come into the depot in them country towns and that Injun rig of mine and Looey's always made 'em turn around and look at us agin. I never wisht I had on them Injun duds so hard before in my life. But I couldn't think of nothing bright to say, so jest reads the name of that book over to myself agin, kind O grinning like I got a good joke I ain't going to tell any one.
 ~You give me my book,' she says
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02
CHAPTER VII.
Martha,

T LOOKS up, and that was how I got acquainted with Martha.
 She was eating one herself, @ setting up in the tree like boy In her lap was book she had been reading. She was leaning back into the fork two limbs made so as not to tumble.
 Well" I says, 'tcan I have one?"
 You've eaten it already she says, ''so there isn't any use begging for it nows,
 seen she was tease, that girl, and I would of give anything to of been able to tease her right back agin. But I couldn't think of nothing to say, so I jest stands there kind O dumblike, thinking what 8 dern purity girl she was and thinking how dumb I must look, and I felt my face getting red. Dr. Kirby would of thought of some thing to say right off. And after I got back to camp I would think of some thing myself. But I couldn't think of nothing bright, so I says:
 ''Well, then, you give me another onep'
 She gives the core of the one she has been eating toss at me. But I ketched it and made like I was go- ing to throw it back at her real hard. She slung up her arm and lodged back, and she dropped her book.
 I thinks to myself I'll learn that girl to get sassy and make me feel like dumbhead, even if she is purty. So don't say a word. I jest picks up that book and sticks it under my arm and walks away slow with it to where they was a stump a little ways off, not fur from the criek, and sets down with
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02
WHERE FRANCES DREW THE LINE

Frances was only years old, and it was her first visit to her relatives in a Connecticut town. A crowd of aunts, uncles, cousins hovered about her and she was much kissed. With all she exhibited an extraordinary de- gree of patience and stood for" the miscellaneous osculation without de- Tnur. After a while, when the gaunt- let had been run, her Uncle Dick said 1:
 Now, Frances, I am going to take you out to see the cow"
 Outside the door the little one as- serted herself.
 ''See here. Uncle Dick.'' she said. 'I want you to understand that I am not going to kiss no cow."--Chicago Rec ord Herald.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02

By the end of June, Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter will all be morning stars, but Fo1ey's Honey and Tar Compound is at all times the Star medicine for coughs, croup and whooping cough. A cold in June is as apt to develop into bronchitis or pneu- rnonia as at any other time, but not if B'oIey's Honey and Tar Compound is taken. F. B. Brill, Stratford avenue and Sixth street-AdV *1 8 5
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02

[ LOOKS up, and that was how I got acquainted with Martha.
 She was eating one herself, setting up in the tree like a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-08-28

of India which is very small indeed. Added to
this is the fact that fell work has been done by
the bubonic plague, and the population has been
rdthlessly thinned out. AS a result there con
stantly is dearth of laborers, especially at mar
vest time. Then, too, during the cotton season
it IS necessary for the many ginning factories
which have been established to coax to them
men, women and children who otherwise would
be available for field work. This further shortens
the labor supply on the farms. Indeed, the short
age is so great that the government irrigation
department which is constructing supplementary
canals to bring more water to the Punjab colo
MES finds it necessary to employ mechanical eX-
cavators since coolies are not to be had for love
or money. IN such a circumstance it is only
natural that wages should rise. that the land
owners find it more profitable to employ labor
saving machinery than hands.
The same causes which have induced the Pun
iab colonies farmer to modern implements
are persuadng their brothers in other parts of the
country to take them up. Whenever one thinks
OF India he has in mind its teeming millions and
cheap scale OF wages; but he rarely remembers
that the price of labor has risen a great deal
during the past few years and still is rising,
polling the wise native to employ mechanical in
stead of manual help. Moreover the agricultural
department, which maintains well-eQaipped expert
ment farms at the principal centers OF India, and
schools and colleges dotted all ever the land
where scientific agronomy is taught to the sons
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SAFETY DURING STORM

air between acting insulator. If the air
is sufficient to keep apart the two currents no
discharge will take place except from cloud
TO another. Now, as the storm moves on it comes
closer to the earth or meets some object in it's
path which offers less resistance than the air
maybe a tree pole building etc. The electrical
pressure is SO great that the slight decrease in
resistance offered by such object is sufficient to
cause the current to jump the intervening space
and we have the destructive discharge. This ex-
PLANTATION will be clearer to those who have seen
the spark gap from coils used automobiles.
Now let Us assume that instead of the object
before mentioned, such tree, pole, building,
etc. We have perfect conductor Of electricity,
a steel building, steel tower pole in electrical
contact with the earth; the passes through
this into the earth silently, the pressure is re
feyed and in the great majority OF cases there is
no violent explosive discharge.
Here is where the function of the lightning rod
appears, similar to pipes tapping the tank and
drawing of the water before dangerous pressure
is brought to bear on the tank. A properly CON
structed lightning rod will, in the vast majority
OF cases, act in, this manner by silently discharg-
ing the current from cloud to earth. thus pre-
venting the violent discharge which We call the
thunderbolt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-08-28

The question of personal safet: during thun-
der storm is perhaps the most interesting to the
majority OF people. If IN building which is iso-
lated in the open country is higher than sur
rounding buildings in group, avoid chimney or
other fues. open windows drafts, especially
warm currents OF air directly below high tower
or flag pole peak or angle of The structure, is
the warning given by the writer in the New York
Sun Keep away from overhead wires entering as
building-although these are generally protected
by lightning arresters, the currect is not always
arrested,
II in the open avoid trees wire fences or poles,
and if you happen to be the most prominent OBJ
ject in the landscape, as in an open field or on a
beach do not raise 4 steel rcd umbrella, or. in
fact, any umbrella you may become a living
lightning rod without approved ground connec-
ton. If you should happen to be caught in such
open space with lightning discharges coming
close as may be determined by the lessenng in
teryas between fash and report, it is better to
lie Fat on the ground and risk a soaking than to
offer possible path for discharge The reason
this is that the body, being warm, offers bet
ter conductor than the surrounding air and only
few feet rise is necessary to attract lightning
fiat ground
Questions as to the action of lightning striking
a building are frequently asked, and are some
what difficult to answer without going into
lengthy discussion of the various kinds of dis
charges and other matters of more or less tech
nical nature. Let US. however, take the most
frequent case that Of the ordinary "forked light
ming, as seen at a distance, which at close range
becomes the binding fash With the accompany
ing instantaneous crash often causing disastrous
results to life and property. This discharge is
caused by difference Of potential between earth
and cloud The one is heavily charged with posi-
tive electricity the other with negative with the
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El74CcO nZz1IYELWW RgWGAL

of farmers and Young men whose forefathers
have always looked down upon manual work, and
issues popularity written literature for the enght-
eminent of the agricultural classes, also are ex-
ertng their influence to persuade the cultiyators
all over British India to make of modern i'm
plements. Many Of the native states, too, are fol-
lowing the example of the British administration
and carrying a similar propaganda for the
enlightenment of the agriculturists. This IS espe
cially true of Baroda and Mysore, two of the
largest territories under native rule. 1t is quite
natural therefore that the demand for farm ma
chinery should be growing.
Since most Indian farmers are exceedingly poor
and cannot offhand afford expensive implements,
they have taken to clubbing together, sometimes
as many as ten OF them combining their resources
to buy q reaper; and in many instances they are
not satisfied with this machine alone but indulge
in improved machinery of other descriptions. In
the central provinces agricultural associations
have been formed to interest the tenantry in the
use of up-to-date methods. This means India
salvation for the implements now In use on the
land are of the crudest character imaginable. The
pillow is nothing more than crooked stick with a
blunt piece OF iron fastened to the point. The
handle stands up at right angles, and by this the
primitive share is laboriously guided as It is
dragged through the hard-baked earth by the pa
tient bulocks The cultivating is done with a
shorthandled hoe, which can be used only when
the worker is squatting on his heels, and he wad-
dies along at his task without rising. The corn
is cut by a hand sickle and threshed out by the
od-fasLoned method OF driving oxen over and
over IT.. The winnowing is done by pouring the
graiu out of small baskets held high above the
head by a man, either standing on the ground or
on q sort OF step-ladder, the wind blowing away
the tight chaff, while the falls in heap be-
low, Fodder is cut into shreds with small
hant-knife. Water is drawn from shallow wells
or rivers or ponds, sometimes by a Persian
wheel" operated by one or two oxen, sometimes
by hand, sometimes by baskets let down and
quickly drawn up and emptied into shallow,
narrow channel which conducts it to the field.
In view OF all this, the adoption Of modern nipple
ments is a move in the right direction.
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News Notes OF Wisconsin.

Waukesha-A lease for two years,
with the privilege for five years, has
been secured by the board of educa-
ton on rooms in the y. NJ. c. A. build
ing, to be used for the manual train
ing department. The bids for com
pleting the third floor of the high
school reached nearly $4,000, while
there was something more than $4,000
available for that purpose. The board
is also of the belief that eventually
building can be erected on the pres
ent schoof groudds for about the
same amount of money as the contem-
plated improvements would now cost,
and that such building would be
far more adaptable to the purposes in
view.
Fond du Lac-It was announced
that through the gift of a friend, who
wishes his name withheld, it has been
possible to award a contract for the
construction of a marble chapel in St.
PauPs cathedral, which is to contain
the tomb Of Bishop Grafton. The
chapel which will be known as
Requiem chapel, will contain a black
marble altar, green marble wainscot-
ing and white marble floor.
Green Bay-Mrs. J. l.. Van Venroy,
mother of twenty-three children and
over one hundred and fifty grand
children and twenty-five great-grand-
children. died aged 73 OF the twenty
three children eleven survive. Mrs
Van Venroy came to Brown county
from Holland in 1852. Her husband
survives her.
Grantsburg Lundquist and
q team of horses were drowned while
fording the Clam lake thoroughfare
here. The team missed the regular
ford and got into deep water and tan
gled up in Their harness. In the at
tempt to asst the team, Lundquist was
drowned. He was former liveryman
Of Siren, Wis.
Madison.-E. Doty, secretary of
the Wisconsin civil service board
since it's creation in 1905, has ten
dered his resignation to the board, it
is reported Mr. Doty leaves the
Wisconsin commission, it is said, to
accept the secretaryship of the coun-
ty civil service commission of Los
Angeles county, California
Grand Rapids.-George Cirese, a
wholesale fruit merchant of this city,
was bitten in the hand by a tarantula
while unloading a car Of bananas. He
Immediately tied a string tightly above
the wound and doubtless quick action
on his part saved his life.
Marinette.-That some women are
al successful at the blind pig bust
ness as men was shown when Mrs
Peter Kusiak was arraigned here in
court on a charge of selling liquor
without license at Goodman, which
is dry territory. The Woman's fine
and costs amount to S104
Racine-Charles Christensen chief
detective of the Racine police force
for six years, who last spring shot a
youth arrested for wife desertion, ten
dered his resignation, to lake effect Oh
Sept. l. He said he resigned because
some of the patrolmen were continu
ally knocking" him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-08-28
News for Lovers of Terrapin.

Cop this from a Washington dis
patch:
The bureau of fisheries is ready to-
tell interested citizens how to propa-
gate terrapin in large quantities 1t.
is as easy to raise terrapin artificially
as to grow mushrooms
At present radium and terrapin are
about equally obtainable. One longs
for the day when quick luncherieS,
will sell beef and or 'terrapin and
at the same price-a single, humble
dime.
AS a necessary adjunct to the bu-
reau of fisheries, however, there
should be a bureau of cookery. AlIeg-
ed terrapin now costing two dollars BE-
portion usually looks like chicken liv-
ers and tastes like waT-according to-
General Sherman's definition.
A month hence look for ten millioa
bond issue by the teTrapin trust, OWL
ing options on all the salt hay swamps
along the Atlantic coast-Buffalo Ex~
press.
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MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee, Aug. %, 1871
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.

Milwaukee, Aug. %, 1913.
Butter-Creamery, extras, 2612c;
prints, 271ac; firsts, 24025c; seconds,
go 23c; renovated, 23@24c; dairy,
fancy, 24c.
Cheese-American, full cream, new
made twins, 14014hc; Young Amer
icas, 141A@15c; daisies, 15@1512c;
longhorns, 15hc; limburger, new,
1414c; brick, 131ac
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality, -1715@19c; recandled, extras,
23024c; seconds. 13@15c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, lac; roosters,
9@l0c; springers, 1SQ19c.
Wheat-No. l northern, 92c; No. :
northern, Gle; No. northern, Sic;
No. velvet, soc.
Corn-No. > yellow, TIC.
Oats-No. white, 43h@44c; stand
ard, 44c.
Barley-No. 4, 69@71c; No. 3, 72c.
Rye-No. =, Csc
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, $3.50
SIS; fair to best light, S.S0@9.25;
packers, 725@7.50.
Cattle-Butchers' steers, 6.S5@S.60;
COWS and heifers, 5.00@7.35; feeders,
6.10@6.85; calves. 1O.50@10.75,
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III axD7EN5uoNzD NZ2L4W OF E1zZI

= ERE and there the country life in India
u is changing. The old agricultural inn
u plemerts which have preserved
q through the centuries the simplicity
Il and inefficiency with which the primi-
q tive people of the peninsula endowed
them are being discarded, and their
place is being taken by chilled steel
plows and modern harrows, cultiyators.
mowers. reapers and threshing ma
- chimes, imported from the United
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stricken blind. Despite this handicap
he is still able to attend to his work.
Only one who is fully acquainted
with the difficult work that press as
sociation felegraphers have can ap-
preciate the wonderful feat Mr.. Selma
bel is able to accomplish each day.
running his typewriter rapidly in or
der to take down more than 10000
words of code news and averaging
less than a break day.
Mr.. Schnabel's af1iction came upon
him about a year ago. when the sight
of the right eye went first, and the
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Faith.

Discussing the lamentable fact that,
according to the last census, half the
Canon Hughes Scott recently said:
The trouble is, perhaps, that Amer
leans have a wrong idea about the
church. They think the church wants
them to believe a lot of outworn dog
ma. That is not true.
Yes, the trouble is that the people
define faith as the little girl defined
it in school.
Faith, the little girl said, is
believing what you know isn't true
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-08-28

Madison-John Mitchell, represent
ing the American Federation of Labor,
as member of a committee that is
Investigating worknen's compensation
laws in different states, praised the
operation Of the wisconsin law and
predicted more complete success IN.
der the amendments and incorpora
tons at the last session of the legis.
lature
Madison.-Miles Riley, secretary OF
the governors conference, left for Col
orado Springs to arrange for the meet
ing there Oct. IS.
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left eye is so affected that he cannot
sec the keyboard Of his typewriter.
With indemitable courage he set to
touch system, so that now he is able
to turn out copy with very few mis-
takes in it.
With the loss of his eyesight other
OF his senses have become remarkably
developed. Slightly deaf all his life.
hearing, which has reached so fine a
point that he can hear pin fall that
has been dropped on a soft carpet.
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PROFESSIONALLY Considered

The declaration of independence is
a wonderful document" said the pa
triotic citizen
Yes" replied the legal expert. It's
one Of the abIest documents | ever
saw. And the most remarkable thing
is that, with all the ability it repre-
sents, nobod appears to have re-
ceiyed a cent for drawing it up"
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Erjre4gs Schema

why, Bridget. you surely don't
consider those windows washed?'' said
the lady Of the house, reproachfully.
Sure, ] washed 'em nicely on the
inside, mum, so we can look OUT re-
piled Bridget, but l Intentionally lift
thin little dirty on the outside so
thin ignorant Jones children mkt
Magazine
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Skyscraper Cities.

Opposite the post office, in lower
broadway. New York city. there has
Just been completed q building $50
feet high, which will provide working
quarters for 10000 people. II all the
men and women employed in this one
''skyscraper" should attempt to go up
town by the subway at the end of the
day, it would take the ten-car express
trains, running at intervals now es-
tablished. Is minutes to haul them
away Though this happens to be the
highest structure in the city, there are
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Shocked.

The Clergyman had no idea pro-
family vas SO prevalent till | began to
drive a car.
His Wife-Do you hear much Of
it on the road?
The Clergyman-Why. nearly every
one / bump into swears frightfulIy,
Puck
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Could t,anoen Only in Boston

Eager young man who has called on
adored one: Il can't wait any longer,
dear. / really had to phone. Will
you marry me-"
Gentle voice. In reply: why, yes,
of course | viii. But haven't you got
the wrong number"
And he had.
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Probable Promotion.

Rosenbaum (proudly)-My son Soily
vent to work rebording on a news
baber yesterday, undt last nighdt hees
city editor sendt him oudt on an as
signment.
Cohenstein (approvinglyl-Dot vos
doing splendid! Maybe tonighdt he
geds sendt oudt on fre-Puck.
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CHANGE of Thought.

4 sad-looking man went into a
chemists. Can you give me-" he
asked, something that will drive
from my mind the thought Of sorrow
and bitter recollection
Then the chemist nodded, and put
him up little dose of quinine and
NORWOOD and rhubarb and Epson
salts and a dash of castor oil, and
gave it to him, and for six months
the man could think of nothing in
the world except new schemes for
getting the taste out of his mouth.