The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-19

1T ] - of strong men who accom- "A jA Fl plished many, useful things:
 IA il histories of unhappy men,
 NV J1 whose plans alw{ys went wrong: histories of fortunate men who carried without effort on their paft into the lap jof luxuryA histories of mag netic men. for whom love blossomed and to whom the complement of life given; his tories of careless men. leading happy lucky lives as soldiers of fortune; histories of will fully bad men, reaping the punshing rewards of wayWardness; histories of unfortunate men. whose lives always were overshadowed by trag- edy or the threat of it. histories of fortune. of happiness. of love tragedy
 And often it is found that these histories do not limit themselves one person. but extend to embrace entire family within their chap ters and sometimes they spread on from one generation to another. bringing happiness or tragedy. as the case may be, into the lives Of nlary people who. struggle and protest they n,a.t. unable to escape the unfortunate con quences of what seems to be almost a destiny Nil this is life The combinations and results of millions of such histories make up the history of the world. yesterday. today and tomorrow
 Fl mynce of yesterday that exist There is just as much tragedy. though perhaps mot so much TO- nance, in the world today as ever there was. 5ut the great tragedies of other times had their great historians to make them famous. while the tragedy of today is but a few min utes reading for the busy world"
 For instance. all know the story of Damocles compelled by the Emperor Dionysus to lire beneath a sword that suspended over his head oil. by hair. He lived thus under the shadow fei pending tragedy simply because he was careless in making remarks about the seeming happiness of the emperor and the latter wished to teach for the first time that unhappy , rests the head that wears & crown"
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 Monte crfsto's Life
 Z : HEN there is the immortal history os the I lie cf tie Count of Monte Clisto.I who !ise ed always tnneath the cffects of a tra gecy "fisy escaping from situation to become ir- solved in another, each of which was sufficient % wiring the heart and bow the head of any- but the strongest maa- In the epd. it is true tiIe obta I'd happiness, yet h's whole life must have beer tinge1 and ensbittered by the Tenle rnbrance of w,- he had undergone
 And, loo. must not overlook the life his- tory of the fair Eeanora, so rnuslcally set forth in I'll Trovatore.' The succession of sorrows. tragedies and disappontn:er-s that lead up to the prison scene where the ''Miserere'' sung. the final scene iE the dungeon Where she and her love. sing Pack to Ou" Aioontains'' they die together. is the far : .eichcd result of a morbid imag agination. but the uctua! representation: of the lives of many peo pie, not only in the time ir which she lived but today.
 One such history ttIs, i:, t:,e modern mat ter of-fact, cve.y day wolti is that Of Edward Eitner ot 4O25A Cote Eri.!,ante avenue. St. Louis For years his life has been Ende: tho sl.slG " tragedy Not just happening. bLt man. Of them, cast goora into ti:e life 0. tlls young .nan--for he stili is comparatively young.
 And ..lere is the threa tening portent of the DO .sioility of another tragedy 10 come-an evcI. greater one, perhaps than those which nave gone before, for It threatens not only the ! happiness, but also the security and even the life .of Bittner. He is lvlns under a Danaocle- sn sword. winch bangs above h:rn and i? held of only by the slender thread cf fear oi the h the part of anotr er ani no one "an teii when t.iis thread will snap -ud the sword de-