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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26
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 1sOe-1-Aa KAtffnaan defeated Dave Barry in $ rounds at Los Angeles.
 1s06ARay Bronson knocked ont Tommy Grant in 1st roa1nd atePeoria-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26

He-Have you read about thiD fight over the Heteh Hetehyg
 She=No, but I think all those ltl- moral dances ought to be stoppsd.-- Boston Transcript.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26

No lecturers wife ever attends his public meetings She knows she could not we'll avoid interrup ting him.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26

It ought not to be very difficult to elevate the stage. It has wings and fies.-Christian Register.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26

ADVERTISE IN THE FARMER.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-26

: Jelaq1 Ganzel, the former catcher of tIae-Bdatgf1 BFaaesc syaaped seriously Ill in that .city. lis the rrcilei. by a 1s6 the
 money subscribed by his ffiends n
 basebad1.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-25
Notice TO Executors & Administrators

Why embarrass your friends by asking
them TO 20 on your bond and thus, pos
tate when a Surety Company will go on
your bond Tor a small sum and the cost
u the same will be charged against the
estate which you are administering?
Each and every kind of FIDELITY AND
SURETY BONDS issued
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News In Brief

The plant'of the Delaware eader at
Laurel, Del, was almost ruined, and
Col. S. B. Marvil, editor of the paper,
narrowly escaped serious injury when
fire Quilted the office Of the newspaper
early Friday morning of last week.
Colonel Marvil was sleeping in the
office of the newspaper when he was
aroused by DR.. H. f. Farlow, of Laur
ell, who was passing at the time. Col.
Marvil and the physicion formed
bucket brigade and poured buckets of
water into the blaze, which, for time,
threatened adjacent property.
Cornelius p. Swain, one Of the best
known men of lower Delaware, died
at his home at Bridgeville, Thursday
of last week, after brief illness OF
pneumonia, aged ~ years. He is sur
vived by widow and two adopted
children. The deceased was we'll
known in political circles where he
had worked hard for the success of
the Republican party all his life.
J. Palmer Goldsborough, game war
den for Queen Anne's county, died at
his home at Centreville, Wednesday of
last week, from nervous prostration.
The morocco plant of Barr & Dou-
gherty in Wilmington, which was de
stroyed by fire several weeks ago, will
be rebuilt.
Minnehaha Tribe of Red Men, of
Newark, celebrated its twenty-ninth
anniversary Wednesday Of last week,
when u large class of palefaces were
adopted.
Havre de Grace Baptists have eX-
tended call to Rev. S. Hawkins, Of
Quinton, n. j.
Recently paroled from the Eastern
Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Samuel
Wheatman, colored, was arrested in
Hagerstown on the charge of picking
+. K. Rohrer's pocket.
John Lowery, of Hagerstown, was
recently hurled from a wagon and sus-
tanned broken arm and other injur-
les.
Wilmington citizens are arranging
for "Clean-Up Week" to begin on
May ii.
badly crushed that it had to be ampu-
tated, Emory Curtis, coored, of Mar
shallton, Del, was found along the
railroad, near Elsmere, one day last
week.
Postmaster English, OF Whining
ton, has had the post office renovated.
j. Harvey Russell, aged AZ years,
an expert court stenographer, died at
his home in Philadelphia, last week.
Mr.. Russell was born near Newark
and was graduated from Delaware
College and Goldey College. The de-
ceased is survived by widow, mother
and ono SON.
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Ackerle and it fell we'll within his
reach, but he made no effort to catch
it and was quickly carried away by
the tide. 1t is believed he had stroke
Of apopleXy. His mother and sister
live in Philadelphia.
Friends of Old Drawers Church,
near Odessa, are having a brick wall
erected around the yard Of that an
cient and historical church.
Wilmington Water Commissioners
are planning to purchase two automO-
biles.
Governor GoIdsborough has signed
a bill increasing tn. salaries of Har-
ford County jurors from $3.50 to So Il
day.
Harry Conner, aged %, Of Whining
ton, was drowned Monday of last
week in The Bush river, where he was
working for j. a. Baker 4 Co., CON
tractors, OF Wilmington, who are tear
ing down the old Philadei phia, Baiti-
more q Washington Railroad bridge
across that stream. He went to work
for the first time for the company at
1880 o'clock that morning. His body
was recovered an hour later Conner
fell from platform while dipping
water for an engine. Other worKmen
threw him planks, but the tide carried
him beyond their reach.
Eben b. Frazer, Gotlieb Fader and
Joseph Luton, members Of Newark
Town Council, were reelected mem
bers of the Council without opposi-
ton, at an election held last weke.
Mrs. Carrie Y. Cutler, widow of
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-04-25
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hildT en- cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
G a 8 T Q RIA

Joseph AckerIe, % years old, Of VII
mington, employed on the Charles
Warner Company's sand dredge Phoe-
nix, fell overheard April is, while the
dredge was working in the Delaware
opposite PENIS Grove, n. j., and was
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09
hin.orln Landau RnlldInu.

The Inns Of Court hotel. London
which IL TO become the telephone er-
change for Holborn. began lie as the
Blue Boar tavern In PlaniRgeBet times
taking its name from the crest Of the
De Veres. who owned the hand there.
abouts VIXEN its neighbor and rival.
the George inn. was demolished under
Queen Anne. the Blue Boar annexed
the name George as its subtitle II
was At the Blue Board that Cromwell.
disguished as a trooper. stopped a
man about TO set out for Dover. In
his saddle be found . letter from
Charles l. which deterniDed him on
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09

the color Of your hpsi) No, It was not
then that 1t began-nor that dreadful
hour when you fought with me to save
my life-nor the morning you sat your
morse in the box-rows in that yew-
green habit that made your hair look
IKE molten copper. No, 1t began the
nrst afternoon, when / sat in my mo-
TOR with your rose in my hand! II
has never left me since, by day or by
night. And yet there are people in
this age of airships and honking high
ways and typewriters who think love
at-first-sight is as out-of-date as our
little grandmothers' hoops rusting in
the garnet. All, sweetheart, /, for one.
know better,
Suppose l had not come to Vir-
glnia-and known you'll My heart
Jumps when l think of IT, 1t makes
one believe in fate. Here at the Court
found an old leaf-calendar-it sits
at my elbow now, just as came on it.
Inc date 1t shows is May 14th. and
its motto is Every man carries his
fate upon riband about his neck.
like that.
That first Sunday at ST. Andrews,
thought of day-may it be soon!-
when you and might stand before
that altar, with your people Tiny
people. too. now around us. and
shall hear you say I, Shirley, take
thee, John And to think 1t is really
to come true! Do you remember the
text the minister preached from? 1t was
But all men perceive that they have
riches, and that their faces shine as
the faces of angels l think I shall
go about henceforth with my face
shining, SO that all men will see thai
l have riches-your love for me, dear
Il am so happy can hardly see the
words-or perhaps it is that the sur
has set. l am sending this over b,
Uncle Jefferson. Send me back JUS
word by him, sweetheart, to say
| may come to you tonight. And ado
the three short words l am so thirst.
to hear over and Overcome verb be
tween two pronouns-so that l cal
kiss them all at once!"
He raised his head, little fushe'
and with eyes brilliant, lighted
candle, sealed the letter with the rim
3 he wore and dispatched it.
Thereafter he sat looking into tn
3 growing dusk, watching the pal
!. lamps of the consultations deepen t
\ green gilt against the lapis-lazuli c
Y the sky, and listening to the inseC
noises dulling into the woven choru
: of evening. Uncle Jefferson was Ion
a in returning, and he grew impatier
q finally and began to prowl through tn
;, dusty corridors like leopard, the
:, to the front porch and finally to tn
= driveway. listening at every turn fC
: the familiar slouching step.
: When at length the old negro a
peared, Valiant took the note
brought, his heart beating rapid
!. and carried 1t hastily in to the candl
/ light. He did not open It at once, b,
e sat for a full minute pressing 1t b
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09
Washington, Return Home.

On December 4. 1888. Washington
babe farewell to his officers In New
York and rowed across the Hudson 70
New Jersey. thence proceeding TO
Philadelphia There he handed 20 the
proper officers a statement OF The
money be had spent out Of bis Owl
pocket after he took command % the
army more than eight years before In
Cambridge The amount was SSt.5l5
For his services during dat time be
refused any pay. When he reached
Annapolis. where congress Was sit
ting. he resigned as commander in
chief OF the army. and proceeded "a
Mt Vernon. where be had been but
once during the eight years and half
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09
FOR ANCIENT SPELLING
4" about the First to Thun-
against Reforms" in
English Language.

eighteenth century we find
swift, whose mastery of
-e OF our delights. writing as
-fst article which appeared
'eEnowledged name A Pre-
correcting, Improving and
'Ls the English Tongue" He
nat the English tongue was
oeoased, but he attributed
IN part, to the liberties
.een and the other poets of
ration had taken in shorten
syllables by emitting those
.Aich our spelling reformers
Inmate.
gentlemen" wrote Swift. al
~ could not be insensible
our language was already
with monosyllables. yet
ulne and pains. introduced
-lous custom of abbreviating
" them to the measure OF
So that most Of the books
= .aGays are full of those
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09

m sure nope IL VIII. dne foeCuou
the fallen piece of bark and an
nounced: The collection this after
noon has amounted to a hundred dol
lars and seven cents, And now. chill
dren, we win skip the catechism and
will tell you a story"
Her auditors hunched themselves
nearer. a double row OF attentive white
and black faces. as Hickey with pre-
liminary bass cough. began in drawi
ing tone whose mimicry called forth
giggles of esctasy.
There were once two little eistera,
who went to Sunday school and loved
their teacher ye-e-ery much. They
we're always good and attentive-not
like that little niger over there! The
one with his thumb in his mouth! One
was little Mary and the other was
little Susy. They had a mighty rich
uncle who lived In Richmond. and
once he came TO see them and gave
them each a dollar. And they were
ve-e-ery glad. II wasn't mean old
paper dollar. all dirt and creases; nor
battered Whitley silver dollar; but
II was bright round gold dollar, right
out of the mint Little Mary and little
Susy could hardly sleep that night for
thinking of what they could buy with
those gold dollars.
Early next morning they went
downtown, hand In hand. TO the store.
and little Susy bought bag of goober'
peas. and sticks and sticks of striped
candy. and timber Jack. and gold
ring, and wax doll with a silk dress
on that could open and shut Its eyes"
"Huh." said the captious Cozy
you can't buy a wax doll for dollar
My littlest, llttlest one cost three. and
she didn't have stitch to her back"
shut up!" said Hickey briefly
Dolls we're cheaper then" she looked
at the row of little negroes. google
eyed at the vision OF such largess
What do you think little Mary die
with her gold dollar? She loved dolli
and candy, too, but she had heart
about the poo-oo-r heather. There wal
tear in her eye. but she took the dol
lar home, and next day when she wen
to Sunday-school, she dropped II II
the missionary box.
Little children, what do you reckol
became OF that dollar? II bought
big satchelful OF tracts for mission
airy. He had been a poor man wit
! six children and a wife with d bone
4 felon on her right hand-not a chill
old enough to wash dishes and all G
A them young enough to fall In the Are
! 90 he had to go and be misaionar,
= He was going to Alabam-to a cam
> bal island, and he took the tracts an
. sailed away in ship that landed hi
y on the shore. And when the heathe
q cannibals saw him they we're ve-e-er
glad, for there hadn't been any shi
wrecked sailors for n long time, an
they we're ve-e-ery hungry. So the
\. tied up the missionary and gathere
a lot OF wood to make fire and coo
him.
a But Ia bad rained and rained an
n rained for 80 long that the wood w;
all wet. and It wouldn't burn, and this
F, all cried because they were so hungr
4 And then they happened to find Il
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09

satchelfui OF tracts. and the tracts
were ve-e-ery dry. They took them
and stuck them under the wet wood.
and the tracts burned and the wood
caught fire and they cooked the mis-
sionary and ate him.
Now. little children. which do you
think did the most good with her dol.
lar-little Susy or little Mary"
The front row sniggered. and n sigh
came from the colored ranks. Dem
ar. can balls" gasped a dusky infant
breathlessly. "-dey done eat up ali
dat candy and dem goober. peas. too r.
fTo BE CONTINUED
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tween his palms as though to extract
from the delicate paper the beloved
thrill of her touch. His hand shook
slightly as he drew the folded leaves
from the envelope How would it be-
gin? my knight of the Crimson
Rose? ?" or Dear Gardener" (She had
called him Gardener the day they had
set out the roses) or perhaps even
Sweetheart" II would not be long.
only a mere Yes" or Come to me"
perhaps; yet even the shortest missiVe
had its beginning and its ending.
He opened and read.
For an instant he stared unbeliev-
ingiy. Then the paper cracked to a
bali in his clutched hand. and he made
hoarse sound which was half cry
ther, sat perfectly still. his whole face
shutldering. What he crushed in his
hand was no note of tender love
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09

manglings and authorizations" Dis
turb'd." "rebuk'd." are among the
words he finds especially unpleasant
Swift was further annoyed at a fool
ish opinion, advanced of late years
that we ought to spell exactly as We
speak; which. besides the obvious IN
convenience of utterly destroying our
etvmologv. would be a thing We
sbopId never see an end Of" Also he
noted with impatience in lflZ' IL -
sometimes a difficult matter to read
modern books and pamphlets; where
the words are so curtailed and Earleo
from their original spelling. that who
ever has been used to plain Englisn
will hardly know them by sight Ho~
many of our new" controversies were
waged centuries ago.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09

cent and behavior. read your heart
and earnestness. your thought and
will. which he cannot buy at any price
in any village or city. and which he
may well travel fifty miles and dine
sparely and sleep hard ID order to
behold Certainly. let the board BE-
spread and let the bed be dressed for
the traveller: but let not the empbaEis
OF hospitality lie in these things
Honor to the house vtere they are
simple 10 the verge Of hardship, so
that there the intellect is awake anc
reads the laws OF the universe
Emerson.
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the streets Of our big cities. but there
are plenty OF them IN the country. and
the farmer thinks just as much Of a
good horse now as he did In the old
days So. too. | have observed that
our men Of wealth. who FOR a time
took 20 the motor car. are coming
back % the fast trotter apd roadster
There f. nothing like real life when IL
comes 10 sport. and an automobile L.
an inanimate thing ~ - Washington
Post
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When the Shoe Pinehea.

She was a British militant suffragist
who. after an eight months absence.
turned up in a state Of Indignation
AGAINST the British postofice. The
postmaster general. she complained.
had been abstracting sufiragettes' cor
respondence from the post, Some
OF them hadn't received their notices
duly. -Abominable, The complain
ant had Just done time in prison for
setting fire to letter boxes and de-
stroying other peoples eorrespon-
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Lann. In s,llI King.

When il became a recognized fact
that the automobile was a practical
thing. the prediction was freely made
that the horse would pass'avay. but
we find today that there are more
horses in the United states than ever
before" remarked Alfred Watkins. en-
old sea captain Of Norfolk. at the
Raleigh.
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Receiving the Guest

pray you. o excellent wife. not 10
cunksr Yourself and me to get rich
dinner for this man or TINS woman Z
who have aIighted at our gate. nor a
he'd chamber made ready at too grea'
a cost These things. If they are cum
ous m, they can get for a dollar Al
.Dx villaee. But let this stranger
any a--t-u in ruur ae.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09
CHAPTER xxx.
Tn. Coming Of Greet King.

II was Sunday afternoon. and under
the hemlocks. Hickey Snyder had gath
cred her minions-a dozen children
from the nearby houses with the
usual sprinkling OF little blacks from
the kitchens. There were parents, Of
course. to whom this mingling Of color
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-09

phrases; II was an abrupt dismissal
The staggering contretemps struck
the color from his face and left every
nerve raw and quivering. To be moth
Ing to her. as she could be nothing to
him." He felt CHASTITY inclination to
laugh. Nothing to her!
Presently. his brows frowning heav-
lily. he spread out the crumpled paper
and reread 1t with bitter slowness.
weighing each phrase. Something
which she had learned since she last
She had not known it. then. last night.
when they had kissed beside the sun
dial! She had loved him then! What
could there be that thrust them irfev-
ocably apart?
Without stopping to think OF the
the edifice would be closed. he caught
up his hat and went swiftly down the
drive to the road, along which he
plunged breathlessly. The blue star
spangled sky was now streaked with
clouds like faded orchids, and the
shadows on the uneven ground under
his hurried feet made him giddy.
Through the din and hurly-burly of his
thoughts he was conscious of dimly.
i moving shapes across fences. the
sweet breath OF cows, and a negro pc
destrian who greeted him in passing
He was stricken suddenly with the
thought that Shirley was suffering
| II TN he
should now be raging along country
road at nightfall to find something
that so horribly hurt them both.
1t was almost dark-save for the
starlight-when he saw the shadow O
the square ivy-grown spire rearing
stark from its huddle of foliage
against the blurred background. H,
pushed open the gate and went slowl!
up the worn path toward the grea
iron-bound and hooded door, Unde
the larches on either hand the outline
of the gravestones doomed pallidly
and from the bell tower came the fain
inquiring cry of small owl. Valian
stood looking about him. What coul
he learn here? He read no answer t
the riddle. A little to one side OF tn
, path something showed snow-like o
the ground, and he went toward 1
. Nearer. he saw that it was a mass {
q flowers, staring up Whitley from tn
n semi-obscurity from within an iro
. railing. He bent over. suddenly notin
I the scent; it was cape jessamine.
g With the curious sensation of almol
q prescience plucking at him. he took
4 box of vestas from his pocket an
o struck one. 1t hared up illuminatin
n fiat granite slab in which was CT
q a name and inscription:
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EDWARD SASSOON.
Forgive us our trespasses.


The silence seemed to crash to earth
like a great looking-glass and SILVER
into a million pieces. The wax dropped
from his fingers and in the superven-
ing darkness a numb fright gripped
him by the throat. Shirley had laid
these there, on the grave of the man
his father had killed-the cape jessa-
mines she had wanted that day, for
her mother! He understood.
1t came to him at last that there
was a. chill mist cropping among the
trees and that he was very cold.
He went back along the Red Road
stumblingly. Was this to be the end
of the dream, which he had fancied
would last forever? Could 1t be that
she was not for him? Was it no hoary
lie that the sins of the fathers were
visited upon the third and fourth gen
Grafton?
When he re-entered the library the
candle was guttering in the burned
wings of a night-moth. The place
looked all at once gaunt and desolate
and despoiled. What could Virginia
what could Damory Court. be to him
without her? The wrinkled note lay
on the desk and he. bent suddenly with
sharp catching breath and kissed 1t
There welled over him a wave o.
rebellious longing. The candle spread
to a hazy yellow blur. The walls fel
away. He stood under the moonlight
with his arms about her. his lips OF
hers and his heart beating to thu
sound of the violins behind them.
He laughed harsh wild laugh tina
rang through the gloomy room. Thei
he threw himself on the couch ant
buried his face in his hands. He wal
still lying there when the misty rain
wet dawn came through the shutters
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extent OF sl.sO0.O00. The not over.il.
Illuminating statement Of cash and
quick assets" shows surplus was re-
ducsd by about fi,2OO.00O. or from
t1O.71G.0OO TO S6.55O.00O
The superintendent Of the Victoria
at Eureka. Utah. il pushing work On
the 1000. i,l0O and 1900 levels and
says the mine was never in a better
condition nor the prospects brighter.
The lead Slopes between the 900 aud
LOO are giving splendid returns.
During the last two weeks Messrs.
Taunt and Dutre. who are operating
a gravel mining claim on Squirrel
creek. by what & termed the shooter"
system. have picked UP several large
nuggets Of coarse gold from the bed
rock al their mine. says the Tonopah
BONANZA.
Chino Copper'E output Tor May WAS
5.gGs. ISL pounds compared with 6.00s.'
SIS in April and 4.067.4s6 IN May.
1919 The total for ave months was
q. 05i 900 pounds against zo.lss.s0
last year
After al idieness Of nearly two
years. the result Of litigation with the
Bunker Hill a sullivan Mining com
pany. the Caledonia mine. near Kel'
logg. idaho. has resumed operations,
md IL is now anticipated that the
property win be producing from l.40O
10 l 600 tons OF crude ore aud con
| ,entrates In the next few weeks.