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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-11
cHAPTER H.
The Man With | Scar.

: 1 ne Man w tHst a 0CSFs ff e WA IGHT thousand of my, money
 gone to glory" snarled the
 older man.
 l@Eight Wouldn't let me. pay duty. Condscated them. And your swell gets his ffty-ffty for his little game of I-spy. If I hadn't broken this leg! It will be three weeks before a@n use it. Push the button"
 The button won't help you. Leave that stun a1one.''
 -Hoity toityl know what want Push It. The young man did so, not without open contempt. ss-I'1 start out It will he job, but believe I can handle it.. And this other affair coming off i, with me here like dead man.
 "I have told you that that will be handled all right. Besides, it is my concern anyhow
 Where did you get them 7'
 sAThat also is my affair. If you want my advice you'll stick to this room till the thing is done. They may follow you"
 You're deep, boy
 sAhY' noncommittaIIy sI1l, be in again late tonight. Keep awake it Tou cam
 with this leg I won't have any ExoubIe.-'
 Meantime Cranford went directly to his apartments. He had arrived in America onsy the day before. He found his man taking off the sheets from the furniture. All the windows were open The air which blew. in was mild and summery. It was a promise of good weather. e the rooms. I have decided to go up weeks"
 teYou haven't bought any groceriea7'' ~No, sir.'
 "Then you can while away the time on your truck farm till I notify You of my return. Get out my fishing stuff and the old kit bag. You know exact 1y what shall need''
 You'll be taking your guns, sir?" ! Might as well. And slip in the au- tomatfc while you're about 1t. It's some sport potting cans al>s bottles" NIu attend to everything, sir. What time shall meet you at, the station ?, tsSoInewhere around midnight Train leaves at 12.'
 "Just before you catne man called. 9 ssWho?"
 He wouldn't give his names sir Letter of introduction. he said. When told him that you had Just returned from Europe lie said he'd call again. Master and man looked at each oth- CT steadily
 9WeH?v
 ''Very good looking chap, sir; well dressed, only I didn't like his smile'' Have you ever seen him before ?'' His face Is new to me, sir'
 Cranford walked over to one of the windows and gazed seriously at the touch of color across the river in the. wooded highlands.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-11
SPELLING REFORM.
simpufied Forms of Twelve Words to
 Be Used.
(Chfcago Evening Post1

The Illinois Daily Newspaper Asso- citation in session in Chicago. Oct. 19 and 20, desiring to cooperate with the Simplified Spelling Board in it's efforts to accustom the general public to the use of simplified spelling An print, expresses approval of the list Of twelve words proposed in 1898 and in use since that time by the Nation al Education Association and endorsed by the Illinois Teachers Association as follows: Tho, altho. thru, turnout thoro, thoroly. thorefare, program prolog. cataIog, deca1og and peda- gog.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-11
CHAPTER III.
"They Ain't No sech Thinaln

W T was raining pitchforks.
 M Across the river, through the
 opalescent blur, one could see the
 old sou'Westers piIing up on the point, just 2 little farther each time, for a wild sea wasI running in from the lake.
 You could hear the waves roar as they broke against the granite promon- tory, two miles away. Sometimes there would be seething white patches on the river's face-where the wind spitefully slashed down the rain. One or two hardy sc1s were fishing hope lessIy along the mainland lodges, where there was a bit of lee. The Knowing fisherman, however, saved hisf bait.
 (To Be Coninued.)
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19
Hopes Women Will
Adopt This Habit
As Well As Men
Glass Of hot water each morn
ing helps US look and feel
clean, sweet, fresh.

Happy, bright, alert-vigorous and
vivaciOuS-a good clear skin; a nat
ural, rosy complexion and freedom
from illness are assured only by
clean, healthy blood. If only every
woman and likewise every man could
realize the wonders of the morning
inside bath, what a gratifying change
would take place.
Instead Of the thousands of sickly,
anaemic-looking men, women and
girls with >pasty or muddy complex
ions; instead Of the multitudes OF
nerve wrecks" ''rundowns," brain
Tags" and pessimists we should see q
virile, optimistic throng of rosy
checked people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking.
each morning before breakfast, a
glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful Of limestone phosphate in it
to wash from the stomach, liver, kid
neys and ten yards of bowels the pre-
vious days indigestible waste, sour
lamentations and poisons, thus
cleansing, sweetening and freshening
the entire alimentary canal before
putting more food into the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, bill
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism,
colds; and particularly those who have
q pallid, salloW complexion and who
are constipated very often, are
urged to obtain a quarter pound Of
limestone phosphate at the drug store
which will cost but trif1e but ia
sufficient to demonstrate the quick
and remarkable change In both health
and appearance awaiting those who
practice internal sanitation. We must
remember that inside cleanliness is
more important than outside, be.
cause the skin does not absorb impur.
tiles to contaminate the blood, while
the pores in the thirty feet of bowels
do.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19
%PoWerof Of
Thought
x
By H. M. EGBERT

fCepyright. 1875 by W. G. Chapman,3
DR.. James Dyce looked down on
the unconscious figure upon the bed.
The man had CEASED to mutter and
toss in his delirium, and now lay in
that stupor which was itself the crisis.
In eight hours he would be dead or on
the road to recovery.
Beside the doctor stood the white
capped nurse, almost as Silent and still
as the figure huddled among the sheets
and pillows. The mental crisis
through which the two watchers were
painfully struggling was almost SIS
acute as the physical crisis Of the
typhoid victim.
1t was not a severe case, b1t the
mans system, weakened by years Of
;debaucnery and months Of poverty.
seemed. unable to fight against the at
tack.
Doctor Dyce beckoned the nurse out
side the room. They stood face to
face together. There was on the doc
tors look OF grave inquiry.
THAT IS the man who WIS your hs-s-
band?'' he inquired.
Who is" She answered.
And you refused to marry me be-
cause Of him.
"Ycu are Unfair, Charles" SO an
swerca, in low, passionate protest.
1T is because he is what he is tha.
I know my duty is toward hi:l. He
recognized me. He will come back
to me. cannot desert him, il spite
OF all"
You love him!" sneered Dyce, anu
then suddenly caught her in his arms.
Molly" he whispered, 'you are
never going to ruin our two lives
for that man."
She let him kiss her, but sho with
drew from his arms and stood Still.
facing him, still pale and EXPRESSION
less.
Il cannot do wrong toward him,
much as love you,' she replieu. But
oh, Charles, it would he a r, ~~cy for
all OF US, and none would be better off
than he l. he were to die
The doctor, who seemed to be re.
straintng himself by mighty effort
OF will, now became the professional
man again.
We will try atropin," he said. q
believe it will give him his fghtin :,
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.

Forty years ago North Carolina wan
. good state to be from" Nov 4 10
one OF the very best states in tho
Union to be in"
Agriculture in those Aays Wa IL.
quently thought of ~ q hardship in
posed upon the unfortunstes who hal
to toll" the soil for living, and van
IN many cases looked upon - an -
cupation suitable only for those VA
were either financially or menkaHn
incapable Of pursuing . more popula
calling.
But change has come. Instead q
Being a drudgey and a deepise&
mental occupation, as it once wan
farming has within he last two do.
cades been elevated to a position nav.
ing the dignity Of profession, or =
business, touching the intellect IT
every angle and tang the mind 70
the utrcst in graphing with the prob
lens that daily arise on the farm
for solution.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19

10y VI aH~I SIOPOF WHICH was sI6Sn
the Crisis.
chance. / shall mix the prescription
myself. It is dangerous drug to use,
but it is 4 case where heroical meas.
ures are needed
Eyes, doctor. At what time should
. it be administered"
I'm four hours, when the crisis is
imminent. When do you go OF duty?'
! when the crisis is over
"You are wearing yourself out, Mol.
1y,' began Doctor Dyce. Then: well,
We must forget ourselves, with all our
hopes and fears, and do our duty"
She sighed. eyes, DOCTOR she an,
swered in a mechanical manner.
Doctor Dyce ate his supper in his
Office. He made his rounds of the
patients. bandaging, adjusting, while
his mind was working on a totally diff
ferent matter. At last he stood alone
before his medicine chest, where the
deaoliest drugs were kept, dispensed
only under his personal supervision.
There he faced his problem squarely.
| Dyce had little belief in convention.
al morality. He loved Molly, and she
him. The man on the bed In the little
room was useless to himself, useless
to the world. Was right that two
lives, or even three, should be blight.
ed so that the man should live and
cumber the earth?
He had mixed the medicine before
his mind was made up. lie remem-
bered afterward that he was working
IN the same automatic manner. and
his brain, cool and singularly clear
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19

given the sick man atropin after all,
and not the deadly alkaloid. He had
never touched the waved stopper Of
the macinite!
Suddenly he fell upon his knees and
poured forth his heart in Thanksgiving.
He had not prayed for years; now he
prayed for mercy, that the evil thought
might be purged from his soul even
as the deed had been.
When he arose he was TRANSPORTED
In an ectasy of happiness he hardly
heard the door open until Molly stood
on the threshold.
20 thank Gcd it is all right" she
cried. Il was afraid was afraid
you cannot guess what 1 feared!"
And now you fear no longer?"
Your face, Charles! Upstairs IT
was so clouded, and horrible thoughts
came to me; but now 1 know 1t IS all
right. l dared to mistrust you. Can
you forgive me? l thought
Il thought it too,' said Dyce, but
the thought was only a thought, Molly,
1t is gene now, with all the rast
Mol,7, ear, will you kneel down with
me and pray that no such thought
shall ever trouble US again?"
THE TWO DOGS.
Fron Wehster.s Elementary Spelling
1Soo: .ul, r.S.li 1886 i:i3 iapS ny T. and
&. Merriam. Reprinted by arraneemen1
with the American Book Company, pub
lishers)
A good-natured Spaniel overlook a
surly Mastiff, as he was travelling I'd.
on the highroad. Tray although an
entire stranger to Tiger, very civilly
accosted him; and if it would be no in
terruption, he said, he should be glad
to bear him company on his way.
Tiger, who happened not to be alto
gether in so growing a mood as
usual, accepted the proposal; and they
very amicably pursued their journey
together. In the midst of their CONVEX
sation, they arrived at the next VIII
lase, where Tiger began to display
his maligl, Int disposition, by an un-
provoked attack upon every dog he
met. The villagers Immediately sal
lied forth with great indignation to
rescue their respective favorite; and
falling upon our two friends, without
distinction or mercy, poor Tray was
most cruelty treated, for 10 other rea.
son than his being found in bad CON-
pany.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19

Fine Frostproof Cabbage Plants
oy parcel post. Jersey Wakefield,
Charleston Wakefield and Success
sion, 1000 for $1.0O postpaid. 100
Tor l5c postpaid. R. O. PARKS,
Utah, N. C.
FOR SALE-A pair of the best
young mares in the County. Well
broken and in the best of conditions.
M. L. Hunter, Webster N. C.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19

Go in and look at the pictures
the unwilling of the monument an
old Soldiers at the Sylvia Pharmac,
Geo. D. Sheriff..
LOST-One large bull dog, color
white With small oiacA sDecKs. Ears
shows mixture of hound. Anyone
restoring him to owner. or giving
int ,rmalioI will recetv- reward
Mrs. Addie Hayes, Big Ridge n. C.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19
BrySOn & Jones
GEST CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.

A bulletin of the State Board of
Health gives out the following bit of
advice to consunptives, especially
to those who are prone to 60 away
to take the climate cure 1t says;
Care without climate is a far bet
ter cure for tuberculosis than eli
mate without care and unless one
has the price for both that he had
better remain at home and have
the best care that he can afford"
The reason for this advice is found
in the now we'll known fact that
consumption can be cured any
where. And because this is true"
says the bulletin !" it is far better
for a patient of moderate means to
remain at home and take treatment
at nearby Sanatorium than it is
for him to seek some advertised
climate or resort without means 10
secure the proper care and treat
ment that his disease demands and
that he might otherwise have"
Rest, complete rest, freedom
from worry or cares, is now consid-
cred perhaps the most vital factor
in the cure Of tuberculosis, and this
the tubercular traveller with mod
crate means is not likely to have
The secret of the climate cure af-
ter ALL" advises the bulletin, is
living out in the open air day and
night and this is as practical in
North Carolina as much of the year
as in many of the western states.
Taking the cure is right much of
game anyway; il you play to win,
YOU win; if you are careless and in
different, you are more likely to
lose than to win"
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19
AGRICULTURE LEADS IN NORTH
CAROLINA

Our sources of wealth In North Car.
DINA, named in the order of their ia.
pOrtance, are:
/. Fish and oysters 1908
and 1914 .sI.S0e =
z. Mines and Quar1ies, 1914 assoc, Il.
3. Values added by manu-
features, 1903. $4,000. O(la
4. Agriculture, crops and
animal poducts, 1909. ITS, 600, 900
5. Agriculture, crops alone,
1918 ..................2 1S, 900 ,0co
The farmers III North Carolina ou.-
number the workers in all other occ,a-
pations in the ratio O. ) to 3; and the
wealth they create year by year ia
more than double tina; Of all other in
dustrial enterprises t:oln bined.
During the tcn-year period from
1899 to 1909, the production of croD
wealth increased s14.0OO0O; but the
increase was more than $4,000 in tho
next six years.
But best of all, the increase durins-
this lac:t period is in food and feed
crops. We have less cotton this year
but more bread AID meat
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1915-11-19
THE MICE AND THE CAT.

Courtesy b. F. johnson PubhsokuU
Co.. from Graded Classics. Copyrighf.y
An old cat was fast killing all tAN
mice in house. The mice met ouu
night to see what they could do e,
make the cat leave the house. Each
mouse would get up and tell OF SONS.
way. A little mouse said, Il will ten
you what to do; hang = bell On the caA
50 We can know when she 10 connan&
and get out of hs1 way"
Good, good!" said the nice and
some OF them began - dance AnA
some ran 10 set . bell.
''Now who will hang the bell on The
cat?" said an old mouse.
mot !, not t. said all tho nice q
once.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22

by an eternal trust, to clear the home
atmosphere Of the deadly asphyxia en-
gendered by the modern dance as taught
in the columns of the Journal. For
when character shall have determined
destiny, there will be an appalling in
dictment against murderous influence,
whether it come from paper or parent.
Washing ones hands in prayer or
two or a puerle Il did not know" will
not stay the charge of blood. 1t is
ones business to know" Nor will a
financial reprisal for the risk of a dam
age that might not land yet did occur
offset the crime, though the considera-
ton be millions plus. 1t is the price of
blood. If it be that of your child, God
help you! There is one safe way-just
one-and that is: Put to death the
evil. 4"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22

sufferer, though all in vain, and when
that utter loneliness that creeps around
and invades the home the friends
thought they could be of some little
service. They tried together to render
this assistance in the hour of trouble,
for which the family was truly CRATE
full and thankful, for it is source of
great pleasure to anyone to realize the
fact that they did their duty and did all
they could. Then we have no regrets
to think over with all the other troubles.
This old Mother in Israel joined the
Christian Church at the age of eleven
years and lived true to her God and
church all these years.
Deceased was &c years, II months
and IA days old. She was laid to rest
in the Mount Ararat Cemetery, two
miles north of Old Troy.
Written by special request of the
family.
ANN MCALIsTER CLOAR.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22
A Tribute of Respect.

The subject of this ketch, Mrs. Nancy
Donaho, departed this life Jan. Is,
1915. She leaves four children to mourn
her departure: Mrs. Bell Roberts, Mrs.
Mary Gwaltney, Mrs. Lou Bell and Mrs.
Bette Henson.
Mrs. Donaho was daughter of
James Berry Deem. She leaves four
sisters: Mesdames Bette Grimes, Efie
Adams, Emma Rogers and L. N. Rags
dale. She also leaves two brothers:
John and James Deem.
After long and painful illness of
several weeks, she surrendered to death s
welcome sleep. She suffered intensely
but bore her suffering with the greatest
patience and christian fortitude, per-
fectly willing to Gross Over the River
and Rest Under the Shade of the Trees. "
Prof. Slower had the school children
march over to the home, which was
near by, and just before leaving for
the cemetery they sang two beautifully
appropriate songs, 1--WE Shall Gather
at the River" and Jesus Lover of My
SOUL" all of which was greatly ap-
preciated by the family.
Mrs. Roberts and children never left
anything undone that was in their power
to do. Mrs. Roberts and Ida watched
night after night alone before they
called for help. They tried so hard to
do something to relieve the poor old
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together, and
until the last few years supposed to be in
durable. For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable Science
has proven Catarrh to be constitutional disease,
and therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only consti-
tutional cure on the market. 1t is taken inter-
nally. 1t acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any it fails to cure. Send for cir
culars and testimonials. Address:
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22
A Worthy Protest.

We are requested to publish the fol-
lowing from the Central Methodist Ad-
vocate, which quotes from the Midland
Methodist "A Protest" written by a
Mother" The protest is against dane
ing being taught by the Ladies Home
Journal. We think it timely article
and we wish to call attention to it. We
have wondered for months why many
voices have not been raised against such
a thing. The Ladies Home Journal
has had many good things in it and has
won its way into thousands of homes in
this and other countries. We are sorry
that journal with such wide circula-
ton has taken up such a detrimental
teaching. We challenge the Ladies
Home Journal or any other journal to
show any one thing that has tendency
to send more lives to ruin and shame
and finally to hell than the modern
dance of to-day. The December num-
Der has a picture on the front cover
page of couple dancing. About the
center of this same issue, two pages are
devoted to pictures on dancing. On
one page there are pictures, Nos. l, 2
and 5, that are very improper, as we
believe, to publish to the world. The
issue of September, 1914, page 20, has
teachings on the same subject we would
not want our children taught. There
are other issues of the year 1914 with
teaching along the same line. We hope
to see protests against this thing suf-
ficient to cause the Ladies Home Jour
nal to cut it out entirely.
The protest, " by mother" pub
lished in the Midland Methodist we give
below:
1t is a matter of surprise to many
readers of the Ladies' Home Journal
to find that excellent periodical lending
dts columns to the craze of the modern
dance. We are not careful to argue
the necessity for that class OF youthful
diversions, the answer to which, in view
of life's tremendous meaning, should
be "a saner vent for youthful ener-
oies " The essence of the matter is
that human nature is very human, and
its safeguards should be as impregnable
as Gibraltar against the entrance OF that
which would mar its stainless purity
and rob it of it's divine potentlallty.
Especially so in this mad generation
when the commandments are In dan
ger of the wastewasket and lust wears
the livery of public sanction. We decry
the open hell OF the blase, but we stand
aobast at the lure of it in density OF
nerception on the part of parents, with
the now added right OF way" to such
a dangerous diversion as is given in the
columns of the Journal. | write this
with profound regret, for in my earlier
davis no periodical was more welcome
visitor to my home. appeal to South
ern motherhood by the love she bears
the children who are in the world, and
not Of their own volition, and are there
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22

A bill to carry out the recent pro-
hibition amendment adopted by the
voters has been introduced in the
Arizona Legislature.
Four negroes were lynched in
Monticello, Ca, for beating a police
officer who ATTEMPTED to arrest one
of their number.
Five persons were killed in an
explosion on private yacht off the
Carolina coast.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22
Call $50 for coal of any kind.
Coal Oil Inspector.

Governor Hooper, among his last
official acts, appointed J. A.
(Uncle jerry Cloar Coal Oil In
speCtor for this point. He was ap-
pointed to succeed J. E. Cloar who
resigned on account of i'll health.
There are no better citizens in the
county than Uncle Jerry, and lots of
people will be pleased with the ap-
pointment.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22
Right Kind.

How would you like. to gather 100
dozen eggs per month? You can do it
if you have White Wyandottes and
notified Anconas.
That's what M. r. Powell did in De-
cember. You can buy stock from him.
Do it now, or buy some eggs later on
for setting. Telephone go. 41-2t
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-01-22

Call $50, Union City Ice & Coal Co.,
when you want coal right now.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-01-18

our hmd In circulation 10 immejutly
Lille Grimes let Que one Of her famous
howls u begun crying like every
thing Miss Palmer ast what was the
mater with the silly gurl, a Gene.
We've Hicks sed
"plese Miss Palmer its's becawse
YOU mentioned hlud n Lille Is very
tender harted a cant bare the site of
It." Miss Palmer ,ed when she sed
keap the blud IN circulation she did.
ent meme spillinr amy of II. 4 II
some gerls would waite 4 find out
insted OF hollering EVERY time praps
thay wOuldent he so lgnrunt 50 she
maid us all stand up In row and do
things with our arms, 4 h was very
good oanly when Torn Stchhns and
Steve Hardy stood too closl 4 hit
each uther In the eve
Fatty Believes sed he hoi it was
fine, Oanly the part WHARF she maid
us lene oaver and uch our toes IN
times. That was beyond Fatty the
osnS way he can II his shocs nrc