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from the country's reserves. The dinated to the general good. Per- mission to make payment for staple articles of common use is readily granted,
 It. is well known that the govern ment of Great Britain has sought to discourage the importation of unnec- essary commodities because adverse balances were created which lowered the purchasing power of the pound sterling. It has placed obstacles upon the exportation of gold from London under such cir cumstances, while freely shipping gold to the United States. But as the pound sterling was artificially supported here, 1t became possible to sell sterl- ing drafts here at slight discount. and take the. proceeds away in gold. The effect was to nullify the efforts of the British government to control mer- jchandise importations into that coun- try and also to nullify it's efforts to sustain sterling in this market.f The exportatfons of gold under such cir cumstances are not desired by Great Britain and certainly do not serve three months of May, June and July, the exports of gold from this country aggregated $1S3,, ,900,00 The policy of ''earmarking'' gold, or segregating 1t for safe-keeping. has been disap- proved, as having practically the effect of exportation.
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 MARRIED.

CRESU---FERRAR Norwalk, Oct. 4, Mario Cresci of Danbury, and Miss Lydia Ferraro, of Nor walk.
 ROB- LINDBLOM---Benj Roe and Mrs. Christine Lindblom. OHNSON-MUCKRI Nor walk, Oct. 16, Wesley C. Johnson and Miss Edna>G. Muckridge FUESSENICH-CAM New York, Oct. Is, Frederick W. F'ues. senich and Miss Jean A. Cameron KANE-BURKE+I Litchfield, Oct 16, Miss Nellie c. Burke and Mel vile Kane.
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DIED.

KREBS-In Danbury, Oct. 1T, Miss
 Margaret M Krebs. aged 24 years. WOOD-At Stamford, Oct. IT. Miss
 Catherine Wood. HEGGARD-In Norwalk. Oct. 16,
 Albert D. Heggaxd. aged 69. REED-In Ridgeaeid, Oct 15. How
 ard L. Reed.
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REPORT JAPANESE
 SCHOONER LOST

Tokyo. Oct. 22-The Japanese steamer Hftachi. due in Delagoa By, Portuguese East Africa, Oct. 1. is miss ing and is believed to have struck a mine with the loss of all on board. The number of passengers on board is not known, but MT. Onai, London manager of the Nippon Yuzen Kaisha, owner of the vessel, was among them.
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JAMES STAPLES & GO
 1S9 STATE STREET
CITY OF BRIDGEPORT SEWER PROPOSALS

SEWER PROPOSALS
 Proposals will be received by the Paving and Sewer Commission of said City, at office of Secretary, Room No. IS, City Hall until Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1917 at 2:30 o'clock p. m. for the construction of sewers according to maps, plans and specifications of City Engineer, in the following named streets:-
 Deacon street. about 6S0 feet.
 Parrott avenue, about 175 feet.
 Taft avenue, about 2S0 feet.
 Success avenue, about 800 feet. Bronx avenue, about $40 feet.
 Ellsworth street, about b6o feet.
 Siemon, Bryant & Huhben streets, about 2.500 feet:
 A certified check for ten percent. of amount of bid. must, accompany proposal The Commission reserves the right to reject any ~or all proposals. PAVING & SEWER COMMISSION.
 Bernard Heating, Secretary. Room No. IS, City Hall. G 20 be
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FARM III ACRES

Part tillable and balance in pas ture and woodland; numbers of fruit trees: frame house of eight rooms, two barns, henhouse, well, two COWS, 50 chickens, three heifers, about Is tons hay, bull calf, pig; all tools. Price $4,o00. Between Bridgeport and other good towns. Let us show you this.
 ALFRED H. CLARK 8 SON 1924 Main Street Room 400
 P23 elf
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KIIRoY CASE CONTINUED

Further investigation of serious charges made against James Kilroy by Esther Pirone of 1S6 Sterling St., is required, and Judge Bartlett con- tinued the case until October 25 under bonds of $S,000.
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Harry Lauder and dozen Scotch pipers appeared at the New York gub-treasury to aid the Liberty loan. Mfr. Lauder made an address.
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New York Stock
 Exchange Quotations

Reported over the private wires of 4. L. Watson & Co. Bankers and Brokers. Corner Main and John Stu. Bridgeport. Conn. Members of New York Stock ExcnaaEa.
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF
 STOCKHOLDERS


 Notice is hereby given that Special Meeting Of the Stockholders of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company will be held in Har- rnonie Hall, No. Elm Street, in the City of New Haven, Connecticut, at three o'clock in the afternoon of the twenty fourth day of October, 1917, if the Annual Meeting shall have ad- tounrned at that hour; if not, then inn mediately upon the adjournment of said Annual Meeting. fer the following purposes:
 1. To act upon the acceptance of the
 amendment to the charter of this
 corporation contained in an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut,approved May 18th, the Charter of The New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company" in reference to the is- sue of shares of preferred stock.
 3. To act upon the accc ptance of the amendment to the charter of this / corporation contained ill an Act passed by the Commonw calth of Massachusetts,a approved May 18th, l 1917, entitled: "An Act Relative to 1 the Issue of Preferred Stock by The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company" 6. To act upon a proposition to
 authorize the issue of not exceed ing four hundred and fifty thou
 sand (450,000) shares of cumula- l tive preferred stock of the par value of one hundred dollars
 ($100) each, the holders of which shall be entitled to receive out o1 the annual net income of the Company, dividends of not exceed.
 ing seven per centum per annum For the purpose of this meeting thu transfer books of the Company will b. l closed from October 10th to October 24th, 1917, both days inclusive.
 Dated at New Haven, Connecticut this first day of October, 1917.
 By order of the Board of Directors
 ARTHUR B. CLARK, Secretary. G1 us
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c1asptnE her two weeks old daugh- ter in her arms, Mrs Elizabeth Flor-' 1a jumped from the ffth floor of a chtcaG0 hoapitaL Roth vera killed.
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Arizona Com sh
 Am. Zinc 191z
 Copper Range 501z
 East Butte 10M
 Franklin AZ
 Hancock 9H
 Mohawk 72
 New Arcadian
 North Butte 131a Old Dominion 41A Osceofa GA Pond Creek 19 Quincy 70 Saint Mary's 58 Shannon Superior 6 Boston I U.l s. Smelling 531a
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BOSTON STOCKS.

Boston 1880 F. M. Prices Reported Over Private Wire tO IT. I.
 Watson E Co.
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WANTED

w WANTED TOOLNIAKERS ON JIGS AND FIXTURES TOOLMAKERS ON GUAGES MACHINISTS AND LlNEMEN TO SET UP MILLING MACHINES. CUTTER GRINDERS.
 Give experience in detail, wages expected, age, and na- tionality, In first letter. Call, or write to the N. E. WESTINGHOUSE CO,
 Employment Bureau. Walnut St., ChicOpee Falls,
 G IS u.
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FRED H. BoWEksOcK. B. O. E- ILL. B. Attorney and Counsellor st Law in Patent and Trademark Causes. Solicitor Of Patents. esE Main St. Suite 20. Phone 11s Bar mum. 14 years practice in New York city. New York office. Go> . Rector s.
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sl1R1TuALIsr MEDIUM

SPIRITUAL HEADING by a born medium. Mrs. Clark, 5s6 Newfield Ave. Daily except Thursday. Spir- itual meetings every Tuesday night 7:30. P 23 eff
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MRS. HEATON BARNES, spiritualist medium. readings daily. Meeting Thursday evening 7:S0 p. m. for the unfolding of spiritual gifts. 314 French St. neaS Main St D 22 all
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PATENTS-Two Horses Feed Bag. suitable for government Gurrin. 19. Linen Ave. e 8 ssp
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A BabvLonian Epic.

Tn the midst of it all man in Phila- delphia, professor, is calmly trans- lating a Babylonian epic. He has be- fore him certain tablets which were buried in Mesopotamian ground thou sands of years ago, upon which. In the time of Abraham, certain queer cone shaped characters were inscribed. Not many years ago the key to these char acter was discovered, n the form of an inscription in two languages, one of which was known, and the meaning of the queer characters slowly emerged. The Philadelphia professor has discovered that the tablets bear an epic poem. He is translating the epic and finds 1t to be the story of the way in which a half-barbarous chief tain, named Enkldu, was redeemed from a career of tyranny and violence by the love of woman. And day after day, while the papers are full of woes and wiekedness, and the drums of var beat on the streets, indifferent taAall the uproar this patient man goes on translating into good English the poem of Enkidu and his love.
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"T-there was something about a c-cable, general" Adams reflected, knitting his brows.
 Would you be able to fix the loca- tion If we sent you to the Canal zone?'
 That w-wouldn't help any, general I've b-been there."
 "So you've been to the Zone, have you?" inquired the chief of staff, inter- estedly. Recently"
 Not Hong ago. know all about the place up to date. used to w-work down there as a telegraph operator"
 The general dismissed Adams with nod.
 The chief of staff sighed. ''The question is, what are we going to do to obtain chemicals to decipher the docu- ment?"
 It was finally decided to advertise in Washington newspaper.
 Be careful when you examine the replies you will receive" Colonel Dare warned the chief of staff. You're apt to find fakers among them with hostile intent. Every foreign spy in America will answer that ad."
 'The ad, therefore, may serve two purposes, perhaps" replied the gen. eral, drily, as the meeting broke up.
 In the Washington newspapers that night the following advertisement ap- peared:
 s10,o0o-1nvisible ink expert wanted. Ap- ply. Chemical Building.
 The advertisement was repeated in the morning editions. To the amaze ment of the general army staff, this reply followed directly under 1t:
 Will be on hand tonight Ten sharp.
 "The Silent Menace!" gasped Colo nel Dare. He was alone with his daughter at the breakfast table.
 Later Major Brent was announced. Hs entered in grett haste, copy of nne newspaper in his hand.
 Colonel" :" cried the major. waving the newspaper. Are our eyes deceiv- ing us this morning? I note that you have observed the incredible thing Where Is he?"
 "Who?" asked Pearl, with thought ful infection. Adams. :"
 4 curious silence fell among the three.
 Absurd, major!' the colonel finally
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EIGHTH EPISODE
International Diplomacy.

The dramatic end of Bolero in his stronghold at Eaglita on the western boundary of Granada and the recovery of the Canal defense plans, proved several important things to the United States government.
 It established absolutely the exis- tence of foreign alliance; 1t cleared the Granadian government of respon- sibility in the Payne case, 1t being proven that Bolero and the murdered Granadian ambassador, De Mira, were traitors to their own country, secretly and independently in league with the foreign alliance in the furtherance of their personal ambitions; 1t welded the two nations more closely together than they ever had been. This marked the birth of a united American spirit to defend the Monroe Doctrine against invasion from overseas.
 Perhaps no more startling interna- tional plot ever had been woven than the attempt of the foreign alliance to embroil the United States and Gra- nada in a war for the purpose of ex- posing our unprepared position to de- fend counter-attack at our weakest place: the Canal. The government took the death of Bolero as an indi- cation of the failure of the plot.
 If only to settle public unrest, some 50,000 experienced soldiers were now added to the military garrison on our 40-mile strip on the isthmus; negotia- tions to purchase the Danish West h. dies were started for the purpose of making a new naval base in the Car ribean; more watchful gunboat pa trol was maintained on both the At lantic and Pacific sides of the big ditch; and with that the incident be- came closed one, so far as the public knew.
 But the incident was by no means closed in inner government circles First was the unsolyed mystery in the Payne case. It was now admitted by everyone connected herewith that there was more than reasonable as sumption of doubt of Payne's guilt which made his untimely death all the
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ressed it, too. It puts yoa up as a better kind of crook-not mrr- derer."
 T f-feel that way myself, he agreed, still mumbling. He lighted q fresh cigarette to cover his uneom- fortable feelings. q guess we're go- ing to b-be friends, Bertha B-bonn."
 She stepped up to him, extending hand "Shakew
 Same here!" stammered her visitor, grasping 1t.
 "Now, what do you want me to dor" she inquired, resuming lounging atti- tude, making a fascinating picture. "I'll go the limit with you"
 "You're o-on," he replied, bluntly. "You're going to r-reeeive a summons from Miss Dare. Don't answer it w-when 1t comes until g-give you the high sign"
 Bertha consented to the proposition. and more of this kind of talk followed.
 Meanwhile, the Canal defense plans lay in the vaults of the war depart ment undecipherable, for every invis- ible ink expert in the government lab oratories failed in the test for want of the necessary chemical combina- tion. A session of the general staff to discuss the subject was presently called. Adams attended this meeting.
 "You are probably the only living person to whom the Canal defense plans have been revealed" the chief of staff said to Adams when he was brought before him. This document has been in the hands of the foreign alliance. We do not know whether its secret is known to them or not. Sooner or later we hope to find that out if the alliance is still in existence. If the visibility of the ink faded i'm mediately after the application of the chemicals, it Is possible that the for eign alliance is still in ignorance. Were the drawings not clear when you read them?"
 Adams met the generals eyes un- fiinchingly and responded with the truth.
 ''They were clear, general, but I couldn't make them out because it was very dark. All I r-remember is that there was something about mines, as have t-told you before"
 The general frowned. You cannot recall the location of these mines?"
 "No, sir"
 "Were they connected by subter- ranean cable with the shore?'
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was her frank and quick response.
 That's about it." he admitted, show ing that he was a little surprised. I'd like tito have that photy."
 She did not seem to understand him. You would like to have it? Haven't you got it2"
 He ignored her question with a stare.
 Didn't you steal it from me and then decoy me to the Granadian iron tier with promise to return it if I helped you out of that scrape when they nearly had you caught at the senate building?
 T didn't" he replied emphatieally.
 Didn't your messenger send me to Senator Wartield's office with the packet and note when everybody thought that you had stolen the pre- paredness budget?" the girl insisted.
 He w-wasn't my messenger. Did you know the c-contents of that packet and note before they were opened?.'
 Her reply gave him a start. .sThe note, no. The packet-it contained the Canal defense plans. recognized the wrapper, most naturally"
 His eyes narrowed. And yet you l-let me get away with them plans you saw me stuff them lin my pocket and hand over the budget insteadY
 The girl merely nodded. T knew all the time that you were the thief they were after"
 Adams winced at the ugly word. .I wasn't the t-thief," he denied. "I kin explain a-all that if I want to-"
 .'Tell 1t to the marines, Adams !" she derided.
 "W-why haven't you squealed on me, if you're s-so smart?'
 That's what I call coming straight to the point. told you a moment ago that think we can get on well togeth- CT. I'll forgive you everything and keep your secret forever, if you give me back my locket and Major Brents 
 After an uncertain pause, Adams carelessly inquired: What if I told you t-that never seen that locket or photy? W-would you believe me and still keep my-secretT
 q don't see how I could do the former, at least" she retorted, in- specting him curiously. 'The latter, only for, well let us call 1t diplomatic reason"
 Lets git down to b-basis," he after another silence. You
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SYNOPSIS.

Capt Ralph Payne, U. S A, is given se- cret plans of defense to deliver to Pana- ma He attends ball at the Granada em- baSsy with Colonel Dares daughter, Pearl As a climax to a series of mys- tertous incidents he is arrested for trea- son. The ambassador of Granada is found dead and the plans missing from Payne 8 coat Major Prent, Payne's rival. enters into suspicious negotiations with Bertha Bonn. Pearl Dare follows q burglar from her home; is drugged and left in field, and later overhears plotters, who almost capture her. Payne is sentenced to life imprisonment. 4 train carrying Pearl prison is wrecked and Pearl sees Paynes lifeless body at her feet She meets a mysterious stranger who offers her his services to trace the traitors. She learns that he has the plans. Pearl finds Adams in Washington and learns of his peculiar actions. Adams warns Senator Warfield that he is in danger from ring of spies. While they talk the senator's office is attacked by conspirators. Bertha Bonn asks Pearl to hand Adams a package which proves to be the plans. Adams is made Colonel Dare's orderly. They are ordered South. The Granadians capture Pearl and Adams to get the plans. Pearl contains the defense plans, They escape and Adams steals the belt from her. Brent confronts Adams communicating with the enemy. Bertha Bonn warns Pearl against her professed friends. Pearl is captured again by the Grena- dians. She is rescued by Adams. Dis guised as his brother she accompanies and poses as a chemist. They are rec ognized; in the fight Adams saves Pearl from harm. Colonel Dare arrives with American troops. The black scarf appears.
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think that g-got the locket and photy that I'm t-the trouble maker, that there Silent Menace-what do you think about M-major Brent?''
 You've bought him, body. mind and soul-thats why I'm your friend"
 Adams had difficulty in restraining a desire to laugh in her face, for this was not true. You got it in flor him hard, ain't you? You're jealous of someone, eh?"
 The abrupt question startled Bertha. "Of Miss Dare, yes" she admitted, her eyes flashing. Then, with catch in her voice, I'm afraid to analyze my real feelings for Thornton. To do so might lead me into rash behavior"
 You don't m-mean to say you love him?'
 "I hate himi' she began, impetu- ously; adding with doubt, II think"
 "There is something b-between you something big?'
 There was something-big," she re- sponded. her eyes fixed upon the floor. You know all about that
 Then as the hush of twilight fell upon them, Bertha told Adams of her girlhood romance as though she were repeating to him a familiar story; of her futile attempt to regain Brents affections; her threat to expose him to Captain Payne or Miss Dare through the medium of the locket miniature which proclaimed him to be her husband: of the disappearance of the loeket and its contents on the night of De Mira's supposed suicide and Payne's arrest for disposing of the Canal defense plans to Granada i; the making of her a secret messenger with the plans to be delivered to some one unknown on the Granadian iron tier-with the return of her lost treas ure as the reward for these pains.
 .I would have denounced you long ago to the army police as the Silent Menace, which you are" she conelud- cd with sigh. but for doubt have always had concerning Payne. Some how I can't get rid Of the notion that he was mixed up with you and that he got his just desserts when they cashiered him. You deserve to be shot if he wasn't"
 Payne was mixed up with me, ad- mitted Adams, thickly.
 T knew it! I'm glad you've con
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ject of checking the flow of specie abroad and of rendering the markets less dependent on foreign supplies. The war has had great effect on the de- velopment of the industry, and as an
 example of what has been done large works, containing roughly 1000 engine lathes. 800 capstan lathes and 150 drill- ing machines, were recently completed within three months of the first or ders being given out, over 90 per cent of the machines being made in Japan. h regard to methods of manufacture. jigs and fixtures are not used to any
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more regrettable. Yet, there was the testimony of Colonel Dare's orderly T. o. Adams-whe claimed to have found the Canal defense plans in Cap tain Paynes military belt, or at least in a belt which he swore on his oath came from Payne's body.
 Adams had so firmly re-established his position that his word was ac- cepted as the truth. Careful inyesti- gation of man answering his descrip- ton, haillng from Monks Corner. Nebraska, and in the various kinds and places of employment represented by Adams was made, verifying his claims.
 Between Toko and Adams quite a jealousy sprang up, and between one other person and the colonel's cele- brated orderly hostile feeling ex-
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SOFT, CLEAR SKINS
Made So by Daily Use of cutieura
 Soap and Ointment-Trial Free.

The last thing at night and the first in the morning, bathe the face freely with Guticura Soap and hot water. If there are pimples or dandruff smear them with Cuticura Ointment before bathing. Nothing better than Cutieura for daily toilet preparations.
 Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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No Chance.

''So the judge sent your husband to prison for ten years, Mandy"
 "Yes, he did. Oats powerful long time to have to get along widout a husband, missus."
 Tt does seem like a long time, but, : maybe, he can shorten it by good be-\ havior."
 "Good behavior, missus If my hus- bands gittin' out O prison depends on good behavior he'll be dere ten years t de minit."
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to this city after a short run there. To Philadelphia belongs the credit of producing the first play written by an
 American and enacted by profession al company. This play is ''The Prince of .Parthia," by Thomas Godfrey, Jr., of Philadelphia. put on at the famous old Southwark theater in 1767. It was successfully revived last year by the Zelosophic society of the university at the New Century. That production was one more case in point to prove the enduring vitality and appeal of many an old play that is allowed to
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MACHINE TOOLS IN JAPAN
Only Comparatively Recently Has That Country Undertaken to Produce
 Its Own Supply.

Japan has taken up the manufacture of machine tools seriously only within the last ten years or so. and. according to Alfred Rerbert's Monthly Review" |" little progress was made until about four years ago. when the government decided that 1t was time to encourage domestic manufacturers, with the ob-
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molder in the dust of libraries, ob. scureand undisturbed. Additional his. toric interest attaches to the playhouse where "The Prince of Parthia" was first given through the circumstance that Major Andre painted scenery for 1t when the British officers used 1t during their winter here; and for near iy half century his drop curtain, rep resenting a waterfall, glorif1ed the modest temple of the arts" till the theater was burned down.
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OF MUCH HISTORIC INTEREST
Old Philadelphia Theater Closely As sociated With the Earliest Days
 of the Young Republic.

The purpose of the Drama league to give a few weeks hence the first comedy presented in Philadelphia is highly commendable, remarks the Ledger of that city. Contrast" by Royal Tyler, a Bostonian, was first produced at the John Street theater, in New York, in 17S7, and was brought