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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-02
GTEAArROAT
Bridgeport Line
 tO New York
FARE 60 CENTS

STEAMER NAUGATUCK leave Bridgeport PeQuonnock Wharf, foot of Union Street, daily, except Satur- Hay, at 12 night Returning, 1eav' New York, Pier 27, E. R., daily, excep ! Sundays, Il A. M. Due Bridgeport s:20 P. M.
 L. B. MCPHERSON, Agt. Ehe New England Steamship Company
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-02
.ERCHANTSLINE
Daily Fucept Sunday

Daily Except Sunday
 Leaves New York, Pier 19, East River, 8 EL m- Due at Bridgeport, S.3O D. H1- Leave Bridgeport, Joy Lime Dock, 2 a. m. Arrive New York a. mn For further Information and rates apply to J. B. 6hepard, Agent.
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PROLOGUE.

Jacques Brachard, MarSeilles cross
ing sweeper, loses his heart to Anne
Marie. little daughter of the Marquis
and Marquise dAndeline. After ten
years he appears in Paris, the richest
man in France, through copper invest
ments The marquise, Impoverished,
induces Anne Marie to marry Bra
chard, though the girl tells him or
her dislike Jerome Govain, enriched
through Brachard, makes love to Anne
Marie Advised by Grace Rutherford,
whom Govain has Tilted, Brachard
foregoes a trip to London and watches
his house. A woman leaves in an au-
tomobile. He smashes the locked door
of his wife's dressing room. She is not
there. Her maid summons the Dan
defines They send for their son Max.
Brachard enters, then Anne-Marle ap-
pears. a blood stained handkerchief
around one hand. The D'Andelines re-
tire. Historically Anne Marie admits
having had a lover Govain), though
emitting his name. Her hand was hurt
In breaking away from jewellers at a
Brachard locks her in his room, tele-
phoning for Deveaux, his agent. Grace
Rutherford describes the supper party.
G0vain's money is in copper, and Bra
Chard instructs DeveauX to break the
market. Govain, invited, reaches Bra
chard's hotel. Brachard, feigning warm
friendship, requests his companionship
while he passes through a dreadful
period of his existence" Deveaux ar
rives unexpectedly to report a hitch in
Brachard's plans. Govain is in another
room. Brachard commands DeveauX
to obey his orders. The agent promises
to do so and departs. SummOning Co
vain, Brachard denounces him and says
copper will fall to 600. The men Crap
pie, Brachard scorning Govains invi-
tation to engage in duel.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
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Closed Season For Froas.

Madison, Wis, May 11.-Assembly-
man Spoor of Green Lake county prob
ably is the first laWmaker to grow elo-
quent over the humble but active frog.
Mr.. Spoons bill providing for closed
season for frogs from Nov. until June
/ is now law. The bill forbids the
use Of frogs for food during this time,
putting them in the class with game
birds.
IF this law referred to the frogs in
your throat" said Mr.. Spoor, ut might
be trified with. But the fact that there
are being shipped out of this state five
carloads a year of frogs legs and that
all in the middle of winter, makes a
serious subject of it. And this is not
all. The brutal methods pursued in
preparing the frogs for the market is
to be considered. You should see, as
have, men with large shears cutting
live frogs in two by the thousands,
throwing the front half on the floor,
to struggle until they die.
The frog has nothing harmful about
him. On the contrary, he purities the
waters of our streams and ponds by
consuming vegetable matter and insect
eggs. Because the frogs are being an
initiated we are compelled to use Of
fensive oils and pOisons on our ponds
to destroy the mosquitoes"
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CERMANY's COLD,
More Than $3O,OOO,OOO Stored
In War Chest.
WELL GUARDED AGAINST LOSS
Stocked In 1900 Large Wooden Gases,
Which Are Kept Behind Thick Steel
Doors In the Julius Tower at Span
dau-Treasure Examined Each Year.


Even the modern burglar, with his
oxyacetylene gas, would find some diff
Guilty in getting at the Franco-G ermaa
war indemnity stored UP in the julius
tower of Spandau. Besides the indem-
nifty paid by France, there is also Il
vast quantity of specie which would
come in particularly useful if put into
circulation during the present shortage
of gold in the commercial world. But
high military considerations make it
imperative that the gold should lie
there untouched, says the Pail Mall
Gazette.
OF course every precaution has been
taken to guard this mass of treasure.
1t is kept in the citadel of the tower
and on two stories of the citadel AS
many as 1900 large wooden chests are
employed to contain this great mass Of
gold. Each chest holds $4,000 in gold,
50 that altogether the chests conceal
f6,000.000. They are piled up one upon
another thirty deep.
The invioability of the treasure
chambers is secured in the following
way: The rooms of the citadel are pro-
vided with three doors apiece, and
each of them has several locks.
The keys of these locks are kept by
different high officials of the war office,
so that no one by himself can enter the
chambers. The doors are of steel with
~ mol Il. ;<~I,e,
twenty-six hundredweight This gives
some idea of their strength.
The gold is not simply piled up in
heaps. but is stocked in bags. Each
chest holds ten of these bags. The
chests themselves are SO arranged that
burglary seems impossible. Every
screw in the wood is sealed up SO
that a breakage would appear out Of
the question. 1t would, moreover, be
Immediately noticed
The weight of each bag is known,
as well as the weight of each chest.
down to gram. An examination of
the monstrous piles of gold pieces
by counting them can naturally be
only very seldom carried out Never
theless the guardians of the treasure
make every year sundry examinations,
In the course of which an assay of the
metal is taken. On such occasions the
chests are looked over to make sure
that the seals are absolutely untamper-
ed with, the weight of a row is taken,
and some chests are even opened.
From these the sacks of gold are TAX
en-. and the pieces of gold are counted.
Frequently members of parliament
take part in the examination. 1t will
be seen tina" the precautions taken are
very thorough. and it seems incon-
ceivable that the most trifling theft
could he perpetrated. 1t only remains
to add that up to the present not the
slightest deficiency in the whole stock
has occurred
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AGlance at Current Topics and Events

Minneapolis, Mimi, May 12.-Porter
L. A. Ferguson of this city while
abroad with the agricultural commits
sion will make arrangements to bring
over number of Scotchmen, prefera-
bly, with families, as the pioneers of
the most remarka bic agricultural COM
munity in the world which he will es-
tablish near Gilman. Wis. 1t is his
purpose to devote the fortune which he
with his own hands has won from the
soil of the middle west states and Can
ada and the agricultural knowledge he
has thus acquired to establish this col
ony along the most progressive lines
known to modern social economy. It's
chief object will be the helping of
young Scotchmen to Independence
Eighty thousand acres of land have
been bought for the purpose, and the
philanthropy calls for an outlay of over
$5.OOOO0O.
OF the $4,000 acres purchased for the
project and comprising the major por-
ton of six townships in Taylor county
10000 have been set aside as an en-
dowment fund for the agricultural col
lege and demonstration farm, which
will be constructed along scientific
lines by private funds, but which also
will have the active aid of the college
of agriculture of the state university.
ia. Of hn
nifty will learn to become practical sci
entific farmers and dairymen without
money charge for tuition, board or
lodging. The farms of the community
will be model farms of uniform size,
eight eighty-acre farms to the section,
and each one will be laid out by a
practical landscape gardener Build
ings will be put up, fences built. por-
ton of the ground cleared and other
improvements made before the settlers
are allowed to come in. 1t is the pur-
pose to make Woodland Farms, as the
community will be known, model
dairying and agricultural center, a Spe-
cialty being made of the breeding of
blooded HOlstein cattle.
The new community will start out
with two state universities. Minnesota
and Wisconsin. among its sponsors,
with the Endorsement of men III ma
tional life. including United States SEN
ators, governors, clergymen, business
men and soil and farming experts of
recognized authority, sand with the ac-
tive cooperation of the University Of
Wisconsin and of several of the state
departments, including the department
of good roads.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-16
WHEN TEACHERS FAIL.
They Usually Do Not Understand the
Children With Whom They Deal.

1t is not strange that the young peo-
pie cannot understand the adults
about them-their motives. their inter
ests, their sensitive spots. 1t is not
strange that, as a result of their failure
to understand, the youngsters look
upon the grownups as enemies, just
as their savage ancestors looked upon
all strangers as enemies. The young
boys and girls cannot understand be
cause they have not had the expert
ence to serve as q basis for under
standing.
But why do not the adults under
stand the youth? We have forgotten
our early experiences. We have ac-
quired new ways of looking at the
world news ways of reacting to the
various stimuli that are hurled at us
from moment to moment. 1t is only
the person with exceptional sympathy
and Imagination. the person with an
abnormally prolonged youth of his
own, that can understand instinctively
what goes on in the mind of the grow
ing child-poets and dreamers and
SeerS. For the rest or us, we snail Gle
without understanding or be compelled
to resort to the studies of experts the
dreams Of the poets and the visions Of
the seers.
If the teacher could understand the
adoIescent with an understanding OF
the emotions as well as of the intellect
half Of her school problems would be
solved, declares the American Teach
err. for most children are normal chill
dren and are amenable to certain in
fuences that are entirely Mt our COM
mand Their reactions are for the most
part unconscious and, when once I'M
derst0od. almost as completely under
our control as the gathering Of moths
of a summer evening by means of "A
torch and mOlaSseS
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Women Horticulturists TO Band

Amber, Pa, May 13.-As ii result of
a national conference on horticulture
at the Pennsylvania School of Horti-
culture For Women located here it is
expected that permanent organization
modelled along the lines Of the Wom-
ans Horticultural Union of England
will be established. Men and women
representing the Pennsylvania State
college, Cornell university at Ithaca.
n Y, and the department of agri-
culture at Washington accepted invi-
tations to deliver addresses at the
Amber conference. Interested in the
movement are women from many Sec
tions of the country who have won
success in raising flowers, vegetables
and fruit. I20 81
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the street 1t was the shouting of
newsboys.
'Listenn' Brachard cried Listen
and be convinced.'
Govain, actually alarmed at last,
rushed to the window.
What. A panic on the Stock Ex-
changer he cried.
Brachard walked over to him and
shook him by the shoulders to make
him more thoroughly realize his ruin.
Yes, yes, panic!' he cried. THE
crash has come, Govain You are
ruined. You are wiped out"
He slapped Govain in the face. The
dandy was mad with excitement and
did not notice the added atfrOnt.
ut is truer' he cried in amazement.
cit is true Brachard tainted
You villain. You dirty thief" Co
vain shrieked.
1.-THE wolf is bowling now,' Bra
chard shouted.
You will fight me for this. Bra
chardr stormed Govain. You ban
dit. You coward. Yes, it is true |
took your wife away from you"
Yes, and it is true that you are ruin
ed, Govain."
You may repeat that as often as
you like. but your wife loved me and
she never loved you Govain shouted.
And when l meet you in the streets
hereafter | shall laugh at YOU
Enxvainf II iS 7 who will
| laugh"
Il shall laugh, | tell you, at YOU
You won't laugh any more, Govain,
and you won't think any more of my
wife You'll be thinking of your own"
MY own? You're crazy"
Listen to me, Jerome, Brachard
said tauntingly, the most exquisite part
of his revenge at hand. I've thought
of your future. my dear fellow. I've
got a wife for you. You will marry
Grace Rutherford"
| You're an idiot" Govain shouted
| Not at all" Brachard said coolly.
Grace loves you us she has loved al
most every one else. She wants you,
and you are SO poor, my boy. that you
| will have to marry her
You miserable IDIOT" Govain ex-
claimed trying to pass Brachard.
His memorable .ailer caught him and
I threw him half way back across the
| room.
You know you will do it. Jerome
lie said. laughing. How else will you
! live? You see my dear fellow. you
will have no time to laugh ut me-
You dpvilish sharper: will compel
YOU to fight with me. and | will kill
! YOU t.ov;sin Shriekcd.
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Harlakenden, Wilson's Summer Home


Cornish, n. H., May 12.-While Har
lakenden, the estate of Winston
Churchill, the author, which President
Wilson has taken for the season, is i'll
New Hampshire, the vacation postOf-
fee address of the president this sum-
mer will be Windsor, Vt, a city To-
Gated across the Connecticut river, not
far from Harlakenden. In this way
two states will share in the distinction
of sheltering the president during the
summer months.
Harlakenden is an estate of about
100 acres situated on the east bank of
the Connecticut river. 1t is named for
Mr.. Churchill's wife's family and is
one of the jewel spots in region of
lakes and hills. The house itself is a
stately mansion, colonial in style, and
is surrounded by one of the loveliest
landscapes in the Granite State.
Mr.. Churchill built HarIakenden
House about ten years ago. The view
from the broad portico commands
many miles of the Connecticut river
winding among the green crested hills.
The lawns are adorned With formal
shrubs and bushes, but for the most
part the natural beauty of the estate
has been preserved.
Harlakenden House possesses the
quiet dignity of an English country
place. Blue Mountain park, one of the
most extensive game preserves in the
country embracing n large mart of five
townships, lies within easy motoring
distance of the presidents summer res
idence. This park is twenty-five miles
around and contains elk. buffalo. wild
bear, deer and moose. Because of the
beauty of its scenery and the natural
ruggedness of its hills the Granite
State, adopted by the nations chief ex-
ecutive, has often been called the Swift
zerland of America.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-16
Marvellous Animal Creation.

Los Angeles, May 12.-Appiying to a
colony of rats the principle used with
such marvellous success by Luther
Burbank in various forms of plant life,
George B. Culver, head of the biologi-
cal department of the Los Angeles
high school, expects to produce a breed
of various colored rats with zebra
stripes.
Culver has obtained twelve pure
white and an equal number of pure
brown rats. He has chosen each lot
from families whose ancestry has new
er been cross marked in any particular.
Culver also intends to apply the Bur
bank principle to domestic canaries
and wild finches in the hope of produc-
ing a bird Of wonderful voice and
startling as to color.
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Play of the Same Name
Copyri GIFTED.
By JOSEPH O'BRIEN

Govain did not believe that Brachard
had ruined him. He knew that such
a fall in Egyptian Copper as Brachard
had stated would irrevocably involve
the master of finance. He laughed.
You are fatiguing yourself useless
ly, Jacques. l am not such a fool as
I may look. Your story about copper
is childish.''
is it," Brachard said.
You can't brighten me like that"
GOvain declared "A panic to order.
How could you manage it?''
by sacrificing all that 1 possess
$5O.OOO,OOO."
Tell that to the Marines Govain
said, putting airily at his cigarette.
Il had made other plans. I intended
to wipe you out, my fine gentleman
and take what you had for myself"
Brachard said But an obstacle in
tervened, and now we are in the same
boat. l am ruined, but SO are you, Co
vain. You are wiped out"'
What, Brachard, your precious mon
ey? l can't believe it, and Govain
laughed.
Il love money and the power it
brings, Govain, and yet | throw my
fortune to the winds that it may crush
you as it falls. | acted on impulse
the impulse of Il mysterious power
that makes me bold and invincible''
Il don't believe you," Govain said
sneeringly.
AS the two men confronted each 9TH
er there came q confused noise from
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United States Army Elyino Boat.

Washington, May 12.-In view of the
startling plans now being made to
cross the Atlantic with a hydroaero
plane great interest attaches to the
styles of air craft designed to alight
on and rise from the water The United
States army probably has as efficient
craft of this sort as is at present in
existence.
The army aeroplane is called flying
boat 1t differs from other hydroaerO-
planes in that it is not burdened with
great pontoons at center and outer
points. but is designed to rest on &
single one in the center. The equilibrt-
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-16
Hold Up Customs Changes.

Washington, May 13.-Secretary Nc
Adoo decided some time ago that he
would make no appointments or pro-
motions in the customs service until
after July /, when the customs reor-
ganizati plan becomes effective. He
and his assistants are now completing
the task and Strengthening out the
rough edges.
The new scheme will necessitate a
big reduction in the customs force, and
as far as possible vacancies occurring
in the meantime will be saved for en-
ployees losing their positions through
the reorganization
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Direct Election of Senators.

Washington. May 12.-The constitu-
tiona amendment for the direct cleo
ton of United States senators by popu-
lar vote instead of by joint action in
the legislatures has been ratified by
thirty -one states, and only five more
are needed to make it law of the
land. 1t is predicted that in the next
elections the new plan will be in coun-
try wide operation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-16
Grizzly Becoming Extinct.

Sacramento. May II. The grizzly
bear is fast becoming extinct in Cali
forna The state fish and game COM
mission reports that of the hundreds
that used to roam the Sierras barely a
half dozen are known to remain.
The report says 10000 deer are killed
annually in the state. 10000 by noun
tain lions and coyotes.
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ming up of recent achievements in the
hygiene of the school.
The congress is international and ma
tional. Practically every foreign coun-
try and every state in the United
mated that at least 5000 delegates will
be in attendance. 5000 of them from
abroad
Many of the most prominent scien-
fists and educators in this and foreign
pers and lead discussions at the meet
ing.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-16
Er;ftv-seven Foot Hioh Oruan.

st. Michael's church, recently dedi
Gated at Hamburg. Germany, in the
presence Of the emperor. claims the
largest organ in the world 1t is Over
fifty-seven feet high and is divided into
five stories The organ is played on
five different keyboards. Two electric
motors, each Of five horsepower. sup
ply the air pressure.
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To Build Airship Destroyer.

London, May 11.-Colonel S. f. Cody,
the American air man, who has be-
come a naturalized English subject, Is
preparing to build an airship destroy
err, comparable with torpedo boat de-
stroyer, to protect England against
possible invasion by foreign airships.
H. said recently:
MY idea is to have an airship de-
stroyer in the same way you have a
torpedo destroyer at sea. l have or
dered a machine of 500 horsepower.
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HEI taunted hlm Will l"eA u
Il expected that word" Brachard
said quickly. II snap my fingers at
honor. / have no such thing as that
kind of honor. In the part OF Mar
settles where l was born the street
was called Thieves corner.
INV home was a thieves pawnshop.
At school the other boys formed a
league to beat me. They frightened me
until the battle was on, and then l
fought back by instinct. That day L
compelled a hypocrite to desist.
MY career has been like that.1
Scoffed at by men, I have made my
way with my fists. But [ haven't hon.
or. Where should have gotten honor"
Where, indeed?" Govain sneered.
"Yes. Govain, where should [ have
gotten honor?" he said. But with you
1t was different. You're the son of
soldier, brave and admired! Your
mother was a sanity woman. You
were nourished with the milk of
honor"
With the vindictiveness Of an animal
he pushed Govain back against the
table
You were taught honor, and you
grew up surrounded by honorable ex-
amples." he went on. $50 you have
honor. In truth, Govain, you have too
much, far too much. In duels where
YOU serve as second to some idiot you
ask $500 for your trouble. You have
SO much honor you don't know what to
do with it, so you sell it at so much an
hour.
In his utter loathing of the man, Bra
chard could not refrain from jamming
him down on the table again. Gova1n
struggled feebly, but Intellectually.
"You let a woman, Grace Rutherford,
pay your debts, and you promised to
marry her, and as soon as you made
money you brutally threw her over"
Bra&lard tainted. But you returned
her money because you are man OF
honor"
Brachards tone was whitening.
You graciously appeared to be my
friend, and in exchange you took my
money and my help, and then you de-
liberately stole my one chance OF hap
piness, the light of my life.
''You could do this because you were
q man of honor, you filthy wretch.
And if I were idiot enough to fall into
the snare you call honor, if [ were to
stand up with you tomorrow, l should
be stretched upon the field of honor"
Govain, released from Brachard's
grasp, made Il movement toward the
door. Bracbard stepped in front of
him:
If you try to get out of here I'll
break your face" he exclaimed.
Govain shrugged his shoulders.
II wanted Il cigarette" he explained,
pointing to box that lay on the table.
"Is the odor of smoke disagreeable to
you?"
Smoke, baby" Brachard said, throw
ing him the cigarettes.
Govain seated himself astride of a
chair and regarded his adversary.
without being too inquisitive, may
ask how long you intend to keep this
conversation up?" he asked. do you
intend to keep me here until tomor-
row?'
mo; only until your last penny is
gone. Brachard snapped. when you
are completely wiped out you can get
out of here. It's funny, isn't it? This
is a novel sport. old man.
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Crown Prince Mich of Japan Performs
Strange Traditional Duty.

subjects. This is to assure the gods
and his people that he will never be-
come too naughty to respect the needs
of his subjects. Neither will he fail to
remember the homage du, his protect
ing deities
When he wac 12O days old he per-
formed this duty, sacred to the Japa-
nese mind. By eating rice just at
that time assured his countrymen that
he would bring prosperity to the ma
ton and have a glorious reign. This
tradition is as old as Japan itself.