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CHAPTER XII.

n Z will now become necessary to
glance in passing at the personal
= characteristics of Professor Ed
ridge. This man wSs In about his
fortieth year, tall, square, keenly
intellectual in countenance, cold,
possessed of an absolute reliance of
science, beyond which his mental
processes did not stray His man
ner was distinguished by stiff I'M
bending formality; his expression by
a glacial coldness of steel-gray eyes
and a straight-line compression of
thin lips; his dress by a precise and
unvarying Journalism, and his speech
by a curious polysyllable stiffness.
This latter idiosyncrasy would, in
another, have seemed either priggish
or facetiously intended. With Pro-
fessor Eldridge it was merely ma
tural method of speech. Thus, ar
irving once at the stroke of the din
ner hour, he replied to compliments
on his punctuality by remarking:
81 have always considered pune
tuality a virtue when one is invited
to partake of gratuitous nourish-
ment"
Withal, his scientific attainments
were not only undoubted, but so con-
siderable as to have won for him
against many odds the reputation OF
a great scientist. His speciality, II
such it might be called, was scientific
diagnosis. The exactness of scien-
tifc laws was so admirably dupli-
Gated by the exactitudes of his mind
/ that he seemed able, by bloodless
and mechanical sympathy, to pene-
trate to the most obscure causes of
the strangest events. 1t might be
added that practically his only social
ties were those with the Warfords,
and that the only woman with whom
he ever entered into conversation
was Helen.
At sight of him Percy Darrow's
lounging gait became accumulated to
exaggeration.
Hello, Prof." he drawled. ION the
job, I see Good morning, doctor,
he greeted Knox. What do you
make of it?'
st make of it that the Atlas build
ing will shortly be without tenants"
replied the doctor; me. for one"
Eldridge surveyed barrow coldly
through the glittering toric lenses of
his glasses.
THE cause of these extraordinary
phenomena is self-evident." he stated.
You mean their nature, not their
cause" replied Darrow. "In nature,
they refer back to the interference
with etheric and molecular vibra
tions. That" he added lis a fact
that every boy in the grammar school
physics class has figured out for HIM
self. The cause is a different mat
ter
81 stand corrected" said Eldridge.
"Such lapses in accuracy of state
ment are not usual with me, but
may be considered as concomitant
with unusual circumstances"
tTo Be Continued Monday
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[ ROSTRUM
Father conroy,s Champion.


To the Editor of the Evening star
A woman" correspondent in last
Sundays Call finds fault with some
remarks made by Father Conroy
relative to the teacher question. It
is a shame and almost unbelievable
that a man, who sacrifices family
and home, and gives his entire time,
and in the end his life to make us
better men and women, should be
publicly insulted in the public press,
and by a woman" at that.
Woman was the cause of the down
fall of the earth, it is true, but why
don't our correspondent complete the
sentence and say as Father Conroy
did, that there is enough good men
in the town to sit on the school
board, meaning that a woman was
out of place in politics, out of her
sphere. the home, where the real
woman finds the whole of her time
little enough
Still this woman says, shame on
this educated preacher of the gospel
who would try to lower womanhood,
and / hardly think he is a product
of our public school," and calls on
women to raise a protest.
l have nothing at all against the
public schools, but they cannot nor
never will be able to teach half as
well as the parochial schools the true
respect due to womanhood and moth
erhood. The very first day the child
enters the Catholic school it is taught
to say: BLESSED art thou among
women, Holy Mary Mother of God"
Here we have the woman and the
mother, not in lectures or readings,
but in respect and intercession.
Still we try to slight woman. Shame
on this woman" that would seek TO
try and slight man like Father
Conroy, who has and is giving his
life to make us real men and wom-
en-.
1t is a relief, however, to think that
no one only herself shares these views
and she is welcome to them all. thank
you just the same woman"
AS to the concluding part of her
letter will agree with her that there
are some conscientious men on the
school board, and no one is more
conscientious than the president of
the board.
He is fair and square in every way
and | hardly think said what was
attributed to him, at least I don't
believe it, He is too predetermined to
be bigoted, and his daily contact
with Catholics would only and does
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OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS

Percy barrow, young scientist in
search of a job, enters the office of
Boss Mccarthy, of New York. Nc
Carthy has just been threatened by an
anonymous message ordering him to
leave New York in peace and fee for
Europe. Mccarthy does not take the
message seriously. barrow goes UP
the elevator to try for a position with
the noted scientist, DR.. Eldridge. Sud
IDENTIFY the electrical connections are
cut off. None of the expert electricians
called in can locate the trouble. Just
as suddenly they go on again. The
next morning Mccarthy receives an
other message that unless he leave
New York Immediately sign will be
sent him at 6. Immediately at 6 the
entire electrical apparatus in New
York is cut off. The city is thrown
Into a panic. Percy Barrow thinks he
has clue and engages the help of
Jack Warford, a college athlete. They
visit Mccarthy and offer to run down
the cause of the trouble. Mccarthy
has just received another wireless. AS
they go out barrow is arrested, but
he is undisturbed, because he is GER
tain that another sign will appear at
6. At this time all the town Is dark
and all hearing is suspended. Under
cover of this confusion barrow escapes
from Jail.
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Copyright. 1919, The BobbsMerrill Company.

burned, just the samel" He rushed
about from one to another, display
ing his injured palm to whoever
would look.
Darrow paid little attention to this
gathering crowd. First of all, he
scanned a paper he held in his hand;
then plunged back again into the
blackness.
Jack warford and Hallowell, left
together, hesitated uncertainty
Hell be back" the reporter de-
cided finally, land he's the man to
tie to-"
While waiting he proceeded to pick
up what information he could from
the bystanders. 1t seemed that the
first intimation of eSything wrong
was followed very shortly by the
emergence of Mccarthy, disheveled,
hatless, staring. gasping. The boss
had stumbled into the street, hesi-
tated, then started south on a run.
Before anyone could stop him he had
turned a corner and disappeared.
The excitement at the Atlas build
ing had distracted attention from
him. Nobody wondered at his
getting ratified and running away.
The few tenants remaining in
the building had stumbled forth,
vowing never to return to such a.
assorted Notwithstanding That
was all there seemed to be to say.
In the meantime the crowd had
increased from fe1 hundred to
thousands. Police appeared The
corridors were cleared of all but a
few. Among these were Hallowell
and Jack Warford; the former as a
reporter, the latter as the repor-
ter's companion. Doctor Knox and
Professor Eldridge arrived shortly.
After a time barrow reappeared,
sauntering quite calmly from the
pail of darkness, as though emerg-
ing from behind velvet curtain.
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THE TRAINING OF THE BOY FOR MANHOOD.

TEN THOUSAND boys engaged in athletic exercises and
performing elected the highest praise of onookers
made suggestive spectacle Central Park yesterday There
an old saying the father to the man. but its true
meaning only beginning to be grasped The average boy
when not has been left up amid his own en-
ronment result in most is hoodlumsm New
city suffering today from its sin of neglected youth
which has bred the gangs the city But there
evidence of enlightenment in the training of youth
growing organization admirably adapted American life is that
of the Boy Scouts which destined to have powerful in
uence the shaping of American manhood while the athletic
competitions boys making vigorous
and promoting the interest morality interested in
athletics eschew and their larger growth
less disposed to Weld to the more serious
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ida meant, among other things,
sight of thousands of snowy
herons. A trip down any of the
rivers on one of the little stern
wheelers was sure to reveal hun
dreds, but he is fortunate indeed who
sees half a dozen of these immacu-
late birds in a whole season there
now. Along the upper reaches of the
st. John and its tributaries they
nested in thousands, filing the air
when disturbed like some enormous
white cloud. In those days they did
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Gossip Of the Toilers

In order to check the increase of
unemployment in their branch of in
dustry, Barcelona, Spain, printers
have resolved, by 34s votes to 232, to
inaugurate a movement for the re-
duction of working hours from nine
to eight hours per day.
Average daily wages of the cigar
makers in the provinces of the Phil
ippines are as follows: Occidental
negroes, II pesos or S1s cents; Cebu,
rs pesos or 80 cents; Cayagan, 1.47
pesos or 1919 cents. The average nun
Der of hours work reported range
from ten to twelve per day.
OF the 1S2,6S0 men and boys EN-.
ployed in the bituminous coal fields
Of Pennsylvania during 1912, 437 were
killed while at work, and of the 49,
1854 employed in the anthracite coal
fields in that State 593 were killed
making total of 1,030 during the
year.
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sPURTs OF HEALTH BOARD DUTY.

THERE WAS witnessed the day prior to the publication
of the report experts the Russell Sage Foundation
the public health system of Newark unusual incident
Inspector seized of decayed strawberries the
of much the latters establishment
AS sold openly Newark this
evidently had reference to the forth
coming experts report Criticism of the State Board of Health
increasing throughout the State Evidently the State board
conscious of it. Yesterday the board made
plants against nearly hundred gocer and other dealers
violating the sanitary law requiring
screened from contamination by dust and
flies law which supposed be enforced Newark
regarded everybody There enforcement
Eewarks public market
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Woman.

Woman.
Woman, made mad, as st. Jerome
said, by the superiority which she
imagines is claimed by man, deter
mines to fight for her right to equal
ity and with the frenzied energy
which always characterizes her moods
when opposed, either in the home or
in the arena, that is, in this day, her
club, resorts to the most violent
tactics. She has not, save, perhaps,
in few instances, read st. Jerome,
but if she had she would marvel at
the applicability of his observations
today. AS curious accompanying
phenomenon there is the apparent
belief among women that the present
hour alone is the one in which the
star of femininity has been in the
ascendant. This belief is fostered
and disseminated by the modern
newspaper woman, often charming,
but seldom logical or profound. Her
one object is to nourish the vanity
of her sisters, making them imagine
that they alone have found the way
to freedom and discovered the Sc
cret of the armor demanded if they
would enter the lists with their male
combatants. To women who are
thus misled by the hysterical and
half-instructed feminine journalist
should be recommended a book just
published by Messrs. Lippincott. 1t is
entitled THE Advance of Woman"
and it is written by woman, one
who is logical, who has a clear mind
~ Cd. Aau l1U Wv n
is, indeed, the equal of any man in
intellect and literary ability. 1t would
be useless to tell the woman reporter
of the yellow press to read the
book She is too we'll encased in her
own Grass egotism to listen, but to
the vast number of earnest women
who are eager for the light in this
inquisitive age it would serve as a
guide and an inspiration. The author
is Jane tombstone Christie. The one
VITAL salient, unanswerable argu-
ment she advances is, ''the female
not only typifies the race, but is the
race!" Young women especially
should read the book. 1t will show
them what the modern world asks
and what it has some right to expect
from them. 1t will also prove to them
that other ages of the world have
known women as notable, certainly,
as those who now are clamorous for
the crown of the emancipation of
womankind, utterly forgetful, nay,
ignorant of the names of hosts of
women who We're stars of the first
magnitude long ages ago.
THE ADVANCE OF WOMAN" By
Jane tombstone Christie; cloth, s1.50 net =;
postpaid, S1.65. j. B. Lippincott Com
pany, Philadelphia, Pa.
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A Beautiful Love story.

His Love Story a daintily con-
ceived novelette,, is such a perfect
picture of love as it arises in the
heart of man and a girl or woman,
of the characteristics of two races,
of the fathomless devotion, under
standing-I use the word advisedly-
and courage of a dog that it Is
unique in the mass of fiction of the
day. The hero, a French captain, is
one of the type of Frenchmen who
are forever to be associated with
their protagonist, D'Artagnan. He
has the courage of lie Cid" the de-
votion of a Dunois and the refine
ment of patrician. The heroine,
an American heiress, is such a char
acter as a father would wish that
his daughter should be, or that a
lover would desire that his inamorata
should become. The dog, Pitchoune,
is a wonderful creation, but neither
improbable nor impossible as those
who understand the heart of a dog
will testify. The scenes of the story
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THE FARMERS MARKET QUESTION.

THE MAYORS veto of the Common Council resolution for
purchase city block for for farmers market pre-
cogent that unanswerabe the
luton rescinded The city has neither the legal authority
the money for the purpose of the resolution And that
market plan dead acceptable may be adopted
acquired for market purposes ado
Market there adjoining block filled with cheap buildings
that acquired although the knowledge
ton will excite the cupdy of the properowners and
large expansion of prices for the city to pay.
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not confne themselves to tropical
regions, but wandered as far north
as Maine. On Long Island gunners
were well acquainted with them, and
as late as 1910 a few were noted in
South Carolina.
These dainty birds of the South fall
without the pale of protective colora-
ton. Against the dark green of man.
groves or cypress their snow-white
forms stand out like canoes. Deep In
the interior of the Everglades hand
full of the once powerful Seminole IN
dams are making their last stand. In
these same wilds the last of the snowy
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herons are struggling against extinc-
ton at the hands of the plume-hunt-
ers. They are gradually disappear
ing. often they are shot from nests
that frequently contain four or FIVE
young, who die a lingering death by
starvation.
The National Association of Audu-
bon Societies has accomplished Won
ders in protecting the snowy heron
and other birds. The setting aside Of
reservations on government land by
executive order, where the feathered
inhabitants can find sanctuary, has
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sarah Grand,s Method..

In a recent issue of the Evening
Star I mentioned Sarah Grand's
novel, "Adnam's Orchard" in connec-
ton with an unfortunate omission Of
a quotation on the title page. l have
been reading the book more seriously
than at the first glance when it was
lately published. The second reading
filed me with amazement at the wide
range of life covered by the gifted
author. Her story is designed much
as is the canvas of a great panoramic
painter, who must fill his world OF
pigments with heroes and armies of
more than one combatant. Sarah
Grand takes as her picture whole
county. representing its inhabitants
from a wearer of the strawberry
leaves, living in his ancestral castle,
to the rector, the laborer and the
derelict. This wonderfully compli-
Gated scene and diversified range or
characters reveal the author in her
greatest and her weakest moods
Her egotism, so apparent in all her
writings, is here overspread through
out the whole narration. AS a critic
has said, her own personality is made
the more a feature of her books the
wider she stretches her field of vision.
Above all, her sermonizing mood Is
a distinct menace to her artistic
sense This discursive fault leads
her to give didactic utterances on va
rious subjects quite foreign to her
meter, such as heredity, woman's
rights, music, social science, what
you will. Thus. in this last novel all
the host of characters are subsidiary
preachers in the pulpit of the author.
In particular sense Sarah Grand is
like certain American of the day
who but lately indicated himself
under the charge of inebriety.
She says herself, as a climax to
enc of her didactic frenzies, all Of
which, being obvious, clamors for in
slant expression" This passion for
the obvious is the fault of "Adnams
Orchard"
"ADNAMS ORCHARD" BY Sarah
Grand. Heinemann, London.
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Tagging STATE INVESTIGATORS.

THERE has been inquiry to when the legislative
appointed by the Legislature probe the retail coal
dealers this State would begin inquiry meet
called Jersey City yesterday
held Assembymen Matthews of this county, and Rich
ards county, did put appearance There
appropriation of 200 pay the of the Investigation
the is equaed by the zeal of the committee there
satisfactory the public there is
evident lack of zeal at the beginning of the quest
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THREE NEW BATTLESHIPs.

THE BATTLEsHIP question is again put up Congress
bill introduced in the House by Mr. Graham,
the building three batteshps of the
speedy any battleshp afoat building Leader
Underwood has dcreed that legislation this session shall
the tariff the currency and emergency appropra
bills but the Graham bill will easily within the
scripon emergency appropriation bill BY passing
bill government will make big march in
ucon and compensate for the stupid neglect of the
Sass
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COOPERATION IN FOOD INSPECTION.

PLANS TO bring about the cooperation of city, State and
of food products have adopted
dcpha arrangement has been made for the cys pure
inspectors depuzed agents of the dairy
commissioner that the city, State and federal food nspec
ton agencies may cooperation The adoption
cooperative plan by city State and federal inspectors
Jersey would be aid in food inspection for the
three nspecorial branches would be mutually helpful
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only prove too true the accuracy of
my statements.
What we do want is a Catholic
member on the board, and I hardly
think it would be asking too much
Respectfully. CATHOLIC.
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New 6ookS.H
- In ReBeWMM

are laid in Tarascon, that ancient
home Of romance and the court of
love, a spot re-enriched in our own
day by the genius of a Frenchman
and in the African desert. The mar
velous charm OF the Sea of Sand
is described with a power not in
ferior to that of the author of THE
Garden of Allah" and the glamour
of the whilom realm of King Rene
is as delightfully."- apparent to the
mind as in the pages of Daudet. The
story woven about these scenes is
told with grace and beauty of style
that is usually only possible to the
French writer. The sympathetic,
simple love of the brave Captain
Sabron is we'll contrasted with the
pure, noble passion of the American
girl whose courage and resourceful
nature are in no whit unusual, but
are seldom described with so subtle
a power or in so life-like picture.
We have called Captain Sabron the
hero of the book. 1t should rather
be said that the hero is the Irish
terrier, Pitchoune. Let those who
doubt that there could exist such
dog open Jesse's old classic. If they
do not there find tales quite as ro-
mantle, they will read instances of
canine love end spirit just as won
derful. We will not give a summary
of the story. 1t is too beautiful and
pleasant a feast for the reader to be
recited in advance in brief and mad
equate language.
HIS LOVE STORY-Illustrated In
colors by Howard Chandler Christy.
Decorations by Bertha Stuart. $1.20
net. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, In
ctanapolis Ind. "a
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saved more than one species from an
initiation.
Every day a different human inter-
est story will appear in the Evening
Star. You can get a beautiful intaglio
reproduction of the above picture,
with five others, equally attractive,
7x91a inches in size, with this weeks
Mentor" In The Mentor" we'll
known authority covers the subject
of the pictures and stories of the
week. Readers of the Evening Star
and The Mentor" will know Art,
Literature, History Science. and
Travel and own exquisite pictures.
On sale at the Newark Star office,
Branford place. and P F. Mulligan,
927 Broad street. Price, ten cents.
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AMERICAN BIRDS OF BEAUTY
Learn One Thing Every Day"
NO 6. SNOWY HERON

Copyright by Associated Newspaper school,
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tTo Be Continued Monday
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-08
Weather Indications

New Haven, April S-Forecast: Fail tonight; Wednesday probably show CTS and warmer.
 For Connecticut: Fair toight; Wed nesday increasing cloudiness. Moder- ate northerly winds.
 The area of high barometric pres sure which was central, yesterday morning, over the lake region has moved but very little during the last A hours It IS producing pleasant weather with low temperatures in the eastern districts. Freezing tempera- lures were reported along the north- ern border from Montana to Maine. FTosts extend as far south as Vir- ginia The western disturbance is causing unsettled, showery weather from Texas northeastward to Illinois.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity fair weather with low temperatures tonight followed on Wednesday by increasing cIoudiness and rising tenn perature with probable showers.