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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27
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please" he said "Our grandmother, she lost over there. Her boy Jose run away from San Miguel three year ago so not Ito be in Portugal army. You understan He forget to write to her, an she all time say sine goin' over and fin him.
 She make the home here with us since l ask her daughter to marry. You un- derstan'? Bimeby her brother in Horta die and leave her little money. She buy ticket an go in beg sheep to fin Jose. That's all. Jose, he don write. She don write, too. My babies, they wan
 write Portuguese people in New Bed ford, United States. Nobody see Maria
 Souza. That al1.'
 It took me a few moments to draw out the remaining facts and make the story clear to Mrs. Landscan, who was deeply impressed with the recital. There was not much to be said for the missing Jose, who had been wild scamp before he ran away to escape service in Portu- gal; but the aged Maria had left vacant place in the none too large cot tage that nobody. had been able to fill. Manuel himself had never had the fever of immigration; he loved the island and his little farne but he also loved his mother-in-law, and he would not yield to E the fear that some misfortune had over taken her and that she might be dead. She was to have gone with a family whom she knew i'll HOnra DelgaQa, Dul sudden illness had postponed their erni- grafton, and she had taken passage by herself, knowing that many other island CTS would be aboard the ship. That was all Manuel could tell us, except that the consul had investigated the case, but without obtaining any information of the missing woman.
 We expressed deep sympathy to Man ue1 and his wife and offered one or two perfunctory suggestions; but there did not appear to be anything that we could do to help them, and, after a polite interval, we asked to be driven back to the city, as there were still the
 shops to be visited and there was no great time to spare before the steam ship sailed. Even as 1t was we came very near delaying too long in Ponta De1gada. One by one the boats that had l brought the other, passengers ashore
 had put off from the messy sea-washed
 stairs at the landing, until only our own
 remained when we arrived there.
 ] MT. Landscam made characteristic
 dash for the stone stairway as l as
 sisted his wife from the carriage, lost
 his footing, and with splash disap-
 peared into this remote corner of the
 ocean Presumably he went down with
 his mouth open and shipped an uncotn- monly large amount of salt water. for
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27

It is a well-Inown fact that an ounce of worry is more destructive of haDoiness and often of life than thirty nine pounds of real trouble. The Don't Worry Club has, therefore, been started by the undersigned, for the ptr- pose of eradicating this vicious prac- tice from our daily lives. As begin ming, I venture the following rules which wifi be found to be strictly harmless, and to contain. no traces ot Efornna1dehyde or other deleterious matter:
 I. If you are caught out in the rain eleven miles from home, don't worry, but sneak into the first open door you Econe to and borrow any umbrella that you may find in sight. Lest, being a perfect stranger, your request for the umbrella be refused, do not ask for 1t, but just take it, writing the announce ment of your appropriation with promise of it's immediate return on the hall mirror with a cake of soap
 g. If you have heavy bill falling due tomorrow, don't worry, but let it fall If you can't pay. it when the collector calls, invite him srnilingly into the house and play Under the Oid ADD1e Tree" to him softly on the piano1a, and every time he mentions the account laugh merrily and tell him he ought not to talk shop while Tnak- ing a social call. In short while all your worry over this Dill will De trans ferred to the shoulders of the man to whom you owe the money.
 3. If you are disappointed in love, don't worry, but think of old Blithers up the street who was not disappoint- ed in love, but was very much discon- certed by marriage. Reflect how his devoted wife always sits up for him whenever he goes to the club, and takes so deep an interest in his affairs that she opens all his letters and makes a practice of going through his pockets during the wee small hours while he sleeps.
 4 If you have been sent to jail for twenty-five years, don't worry, but try to figure out how much you will save in that time on living expenses, bad cigars, and uncomfortable vacations in American summer resorts. Con- slider, also, that, having been sent to prison, the chances of your going into politics are materially diminished, that you are likely to be spared the neces- sity of voting for a party candidate whom you intensely dislike, and re
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27

small white blossoms, and other plants and shrubs that were unknown to me. Do not assume that dwell upon these details with too much fancy. I am delib- erately sketching humble home in the Azores, that you may contrast it later with the habitation that so many an im- migrant finds when he becomes tene- nent-dweller in the United States for behind this story is serious purpose, otherwise it had not been written
 There appeared to be recognized eti- quette for the entertainment of visitors. Manuers arrival had been greeted by the shouts of half a dozen brown-eyed cI1il- dren, and his wife, good-looling peas ant, had followed and made a shy courtesy, after which she had withdrawn within the house, calling the children after her. But upon our return, from an inspection of the gardens we found that refreshments had been spread upon a rude table that stood beneath prin- tive grape-arbor, and we were urged, with a hospitality that could not be turned aside, to partake of fruits and native wine and few precious waters in an American tin box Neither Manuel nor his wife partook of the refreshment with us. but stood and served, happy in the service of foreign guests
 curve got fine place here, said MT. 1andseam when he had refreshed himself, feeling that some such statement on our behalf was necessary.
 Manuel shrugged his shoulders with a pleasant depreciation. Your country very gran',' he replied, No 1eed1e house like this. All big, gran"
 He's got the right idea" observed Landscam, with a wink at me. 'sYes, we've got something to talk about over there. Biggest country on the globe; booming night and day. You'll probably be over to see it yourself some day"
 
 States" said Manuel, seriously 'fYou know some Portuguese peoples, mebbe?'
 Can't say that I do" replied Land scam, humorously. Might have seen 'em, though, and couldn't tell what they were.'
 Have any of your own family gone over" J inquired, in order to shorten the preliminaries to what felt sure was coming.
 Manuel turned to me eagerly. "Yes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27

into the background of former casual acquaintances. never expected to meet either of them again, unless in the chance crossing of our trails by some future coincidence.
 t happened that in the early spring of the following year the crusade against the white plague was extended, to my own State, where it was prosecuted Yig- orously. Public meetings were held in cities and towns all over Massachusetts {; leading physicians took the platform to preach fresh air and hygienic living ; and public spirited men of foreign birth translated to their people of their own race the new rules for the treatment of tuberculosis: Every factory in the State was placed under district rnedica1 inspection, and rigorous measures were rlt in force to prevent the spread of the disease among working men and women.
 But we soon discovered that in cer- tain cities, where the local health depart ment was in the hands of mercenary politicians, the most dangerous breeding places of all, the infected tenement blocks, were still immune to the crusade and showed no decrease in their death rate. It became necessary to create sen timent against such conditions by pub 1icity-a work in which the newspapers and magazines stood ready to cooperate where the facts were found to sustain our contentious.
 It fell to my lot to examine into con- ditions in the city where the Landscams lived, though I was not aware of this at the time: and in the course of the week Fate directed my footsteps to one of the s1un1s that was occupied almost entirely by immigrant families.
 By this time I had become very fa-- ni1iar with the genesis of the slu1n and its process of development. Behind every di1apidated, reeking tenement block was landlord who had acquired the secret of making his money earn a greater profit than the richest trust stock in the country could offer. Much of the property had been well built originally, but it had run down and finally been bought in at a sacrifice. And this was where the slum landlord came in. He never repaired unless forced to do so by the last stages of disintegration; but he subdivided tenements, divided rooms of decent size into two or more rooms by partition-often leaving one of them without windows-and added ugly upper stories where none were ever intended. The newly arrived immigrant, finding uncertain employment and forced to hus- band resources, was driven into these tenements. He was charged a high rental in proportion to what he got and what the landlord paid to the city iu
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27

when he came to the surface a moment later he was purple and gurgling and struggling wildly. Manuel had just dis mounted from his box, and without hes itatien dove gracefully into the water after his recent fare. He had an arm under MT. Landscam before the latter could go down a second time, and with hardly more exertion landed him upon the lowest step out of the water, gasp ing, grateful person
 After all, aside from the fright and the wetting, no great harm had been done, though MT. Landscana verify be- Iieved that he had been snatched from a watery grave. We persuaded him to enter the boat, since his change of clothing was to be found aboard ship; but he would not allow the boatInan to row us away until he had drawn his purse from a damp and reluctant pocket and had offered Manuel a handsome reward in money.
 But to the surprise of all the bystand- CTS the islander refused to accept it. That all right he said, beaming. You don give me money. You fin Maria Souza and then we all square. You upderstan'?
 gave a series of warning bellows as no tice that she was impatient to raise her anchor.
 HIH find her." declared Landscam, with conviction. "I'1l find her if we have to hunt the whole United States over for her. I'm a man who pays what he owes"
 'sThat all right replied Manuel, grin ming from the ancient steps. You hurry now. Good-by."
 When we were aboard the steamship and Landscam, clad in dry clothing. was lcomfortab1ys watching the island sink astern, he reiterated his promise. That | C. clared, with feeling Mfrs. Landscam never came nearer to being widow than to-day; and when I get home I'll find Maria Souza if I have to call in the PinlSertons"
 At Gibraltar landed, while the Land the passage to Naples Tn the course of the weeks that followed. crowded as they were with fresh incidents, my re- cent friends faded from my memory
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27
HIS DEFINITION.

The late H. c. Herrick. who waa for many years high sheriff of cer~ tain county, always took a great irl-'f terest in the local schools, and was at. one time chairman of the school committee Shortly after the death of Garfield, Sheriff Herricb visited q certain school and spoke to the pupils concerning the life of the distin-~ guished statesman, and then asked:
 "Now, can any of you tell me whaG statesman is7'
 A little hand went up and a little girl said:
 "A statesman is a man who makes speeches"
 Hardly that,S Mir. Herriclc replied ''For instance, I sometimes make speeches, yet I am not a statesman"
 The little hand went up again, and again the little girl answered:
 @I know; a statesman IS 9 man who makes good speeches"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27
JUST FOR FUN.

A Rhode Island farmer set bsn-l tam hen on fourteen turkey eggs, and great was the scandal thereof through out the neighborhood- Friends from far and near dropped in for to see and for to admire the freakish feet
 "Sa-ay, Silas," asked envious Fllraul Haggers, "haow many turkeys tg'eVlg' ca1'1ate ter git outer them aigsf
 "Oh, shuclesl" Silas answered. ''I' ain't caI'1atin' t git many turkeys [. jest admire t see that pesl1y little critter a-spreadin' herselfl'
 UsiSNgsal SyHdicGte
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27
Some Rules for the Don't Worry Club r

1oice that your sentence is so long thaa by the time you come out the whole world will have forgotten that y.ou ever hit your friend on the head with a piece of lead pipe and tried to run away with his pocketbook-
 s. If you are run over on the streG4 bv three automobiles and tossed by the last one against speeding troiley car which throws you under th9s wheels of a heavily laden brewery wagon, don't worry, but bear in mind a realization of how much trouble you have escaped in coming days No man who ever passed through this eSc@' Derience was ever afterward sued foni breach of promise or called upon to- make an after-dinner speech.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27

NE comes upon the Azores Islands like gorgeous paan- toms rising beyond a tunn- bling, tossing sea It is much as though, walking through a hot street of Naples in midsummer, one should suddenly behold a vista of real blocks of ice melting upon the curb stone, while indifferent clerks gossiped over the. soda = fountains in the shops. Any American would lznow that this must be a
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have become obsessed by the thought
of initiating the fashionable The pub
lie demands models OF all sorts We
have come to have patterns of many
phases of existence. In the great de
partment shops women are shown by
demonstrations" the proper frocks to
wear at all hours OF the day. how to
take their breakfast in bed how to fur
!, nish a house: and there are models OF
suburban places, where the commuter
may study the accepted disposition of
vegetable garden and shrubs.
This, Of course, is not peculiar Ia
America Paris has for years looked 10
Longchamps for the last cry in wom-
ems styles. And i'm earlier ages Eu-
rore was strong on rules Of conduct.
Polite society in the ancient regime was
developed by means of carefully worked
out formulas. The salons of great la
dies could never have been carried on
as they were unless there had been a
ner' was a thing supreme. DArtagnan.
for all his dash and love of physical
adventure. never thought of transgress-
ing very elaborate code of chiyalry.
And even princes were often brought
up on books of conduct. Indeed. much
of the charm of the older nobility lies
in the fact that they We're playing an
artificial game. yet one which had grown
out of supposed human needs. 1t has
been left for America. however. 10
broaden this game into a democratic in
stitution. The models of Longchamps
and New York are thrown on the cur
tain of the moving picture show in Sar
Francisco and in Walla Wala. And
shop girls are as familiar with the lat
est modes as are the daughters OF the
rich.
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Seeing q Soul.

From the New York World
So few people have ever seen a soul
and those mainly through the gift of Sec
ond sight, that general interest will he
felt in the assertion OF a Montclar wom-
an that she saw with her physical eye
sight the soul of her father-in-law take
flight when he died. And not only this.
but her vision was so distinct that she is
able to describe it as something with
wings. like a large butterfly. well de-
fined in outline but intangible and elud-
ing her attempt to capture it. If mem
DRY serves. this is more definite de-
scription of a soul than has hitherto
been given. decidedly more SO than that
Of the Omaha man who some years ago
claimed to have photographed one.
Possibly the doctors will say that such
sights are the result of a disturbance of
the faculties due. to the failure of the
lobes of the brain to work synchronously
at the moment Yet so many persons of
perfectly sound digestion at times get lit
tie insights into what seems to he the DC
cult that there is growing popular be-
lief in the existence of f1Idmentary
sense of spiritual things in man needing
only to be developed TO put him i'm touch
with the infinite.
At all events. the Montclair woman who
has seen soul has become by that fact
If fact it is, an object of peculiar interest
to psychic investigators In due time we
shall doubtless know what .'rof Munster
unlikely what Prof. William James
thinks, If the powers of the medium who
transmits his opinions from the spiritual
to the material world remain unimpaired.
And instead of prosecuting her as a
witch which might once have been her
fate. she will receive the profound atten-
ton of one branch of the intellectual
world.
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Art CT Storing Up Energy
FINANCIAL.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
1t is easier to work ones self into fla
tigue than it is TO work "iit Of it.
And yet one can learn how L. get over
the tired feeling. IT is matter of sNs-
TEN
With most people thought never turns
scientifically toward rest during tho day.
1t often turns that way as wish, not as
a definite plan 10 he followed
\ certain business man used IL take a
summer vacation. Then affairs crowd
cd upon him that ln had - work lifts
Two weeks year Every body thought 4
would eventually kill him. But it didn't
1t cured him.
Il learned" he said Ito enjoy spare
hour now and then-to enjoy II fully to
let 20 completely. / found this habit 40
well worth ctltivating that ! stopped car
rying nv business to lunch. TO the thea
fer and Ia bed with me ] Just gave wav
in those occasional free hours. and they
made "A new man of me. | am healthier
than l have ever been before. and ! like
my work better"
Now this plan is the plan of storing IN
energy. Stop now and then for one min
ute and relax the body completely.
Breathe as deeply as you can Close tho
ewes while doing 1t and then lot 20 with
the conviction that all YOUR fatigue and
annoyances are slipping away.
This last sounds liil. mind cure. docs ~
not? 1t is mind cure. TRY II. Your mud
is tired and when YOU have removed "a
thyme then vou arc III once more, That
is real mind cure
ANY one can tind frequently during the
day A minute or two in which To come
ont o. the working self mo the uphuild-
ing self
While il takes but a minute. i, builds
for "A good many minutes.
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Fail to Make Big Gains.
New York Bank Statement.

NEW YORK, June THE statement
| of the actual conditions of clearing
house banks and trust companies for the
week shows that they hold S2t9SS. 400 re-
serve in excess of legal requirements.
| This is an increase Of $2,179,9D from
| last week.
The statement follows:
| Loans, $1,9O4. Az. 900; decrease, $109l2,-
| Specie, $341 o2S, 600 increase, SS42.OOO
Legal tenders, Ss3,796OOo: decrease.
| $439,OOO
Net deposits. sl,752, s9e,OOo; decrease,
| $11 .O32, 600.
Circulation. s47.osl. 600; increase. s1a,-
600.
Banks cash reserve in vault, S359, 525. :
600.
Trust companies cash reserve in vault,
$50. 493.OOO
Aggregate cash reserve, S425. O24 COO
Excess lawful reserve, s2y,9ss, 400; in
crease. $2.779 800.
Trust companies reserve with clearing
house members carrying % per cent cash
reserve, So. $4,000
Summary of state banks and trust COM
panies in Greater New York. not in
cluded in clearing hose statement:
Loans, s587. OPS 800, decrease $161 800.
Specie, III. 1884. 400. increase, s32l,7O0
Legal tenders, $S,Oo4,2OO. increase $204,-
Total deposits s64o.Gos. 800. decrease
81, 3729OO
Money on call nominal: no loans
Time loans stronger; sixty days, 4l4a4i2;
ninety days. 412a4s4; six months, 5Aa511.
Close-Prime mercantile paper, J12 per
cent. Sterling exchange firm at 4.Ss. IL
for sixty-day bills and at 4.s6So for de-
mand. Commercial bills 4.S2a. Bar sill
yer, 59s. Mexican dollars 49, Govern
ment bonds firm. Railroad bonds irregu-
lar.
The Financier says this week:
The statement Of the associated
no, af r,cly f0r
ing June Z reflected. in part. the heavy
shown decrease in the report. based
on actual operations, of $10.912,0 900.
There was corresponding decrease of
S11,O32.OOO in deposits. and the only
feature of the statement that did not
seem in accordance with known facts
regarding the movement Of money was
the very small increase OF 100000 In
cash. The preliminary estimates made
the gain of the New York banks as
result of known operations nearly
$4,000 900, but this was not shown in
the statement The effect of changes
noted was to increase reserves by 81
$4,000. the surplus above % per cent
minimum standing Saturday at SEQ
98S.400. which reflects very com
Portable position so far as cash is con
cerned The trust companies of New
York city In their report, made in
dependently of the clearing house
showed a decrease In all leading items
the principal changes having been
shrinkage Of Az millions in deposits
and nearly 100000 in cash, while
loans fell about 100000.
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Memories of a Stamp Dealer.
the Boston Transcript.

From the BOSTON Transcript.
The recent death of the Englishman.
Edward Stanley Gibbons. has brought
the most romantic career OF the philatelic
business to a close. Born i'm Plymouth i'm
$40. the year the first postage stamp was
issued in this country. he began collect
ing stamps in 1854. when an assistant In
his fathers chemists shop. He estab-
lished himself as stamp dealer i'm 1888.
thus forming the famous firm of STANLEY
Gibbons now a limited company He
came TO London in 1874 and continued
to deal until 1870. when he disposed Of the
business for E21uOo to the present com
pany. He retired to Twickenham but
spent most of his time in travelling about
the world. He was a man of short
stature and one to whom nature had not
been kind. hut he was endowed with re-
markable business abilities and happy
tempe rament which helped him to enjoy
life to its fullest extent. and to bridge
over troubles when they came along.
One of his peculiarities was that he
would not keep a shop. but only conduct
ed business by post. This reserve nat
urally lost him many good customers
who took the trouble To cali on him. He
always said that he would not have his
time wasted b. callers, his business
kept him more than occupied. His first
big deal was probably his best. 1t was
in 1867 that two sailors saw some sheets
of postage stamps displayed In his
fathers shop in Plymouth. They inquir-
ed IL he bought used stamps. and on
being told that he did they fetched big
sack of stamps from their ship. This
sack. they said, they had won I'm shii-
ling rattle at capetown, and were highly
pleased to accept So for IT. The stamps
were all triangular Capes. including many
| rare wood blocks and Mr.. Gibbons
estimated that he made well over t''u
out OF the transaction. They would nave
been worth thousands today