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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-26
Today's Anniversaries

One of the greatest Investigators
in the realm of modern chemistry,
and man who Is known as the faith.
er of the science, was DR.. Joseph
Black. who was born of Scotch par
entage in France in 1928, and died in
Edinburgh 11S years ago today, Nov.
rs, 1799.. His work as scientific
discoverer revolutionized chemistry.
and disproved scores of the stories
that were relies of the superstitious
dark ages By proving that a gas not
identical with atmospheric air was
found in alkalies, he made it plain
That various dissimilar gases might eX-
list, and thus laid the foundation for
pneumatic chemistry. He introduced
the, name and theory of latent heat,
and this discovery suggested to Watt,
his pupil, the improvements in the
steam engine. After a long and useful
life, he died while sitting at a table,
and so gently that he did not drop
the glass of milk which he held at
the moment in his hand, but rested it
upon his knee, and was, at first,
thought to have fallen asleep.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-26
Servant Wants Job.

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Iio not go any longer without this
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ure" written upon his most momen-
tous enterprise. Yet he does not des-
pair. The war, he believes, may be
the darkest before the dawn, and out
of the roar of conflict and the Welter
or carnage the goddess of peace may
emerge triumphant. MF. Carnegie was
in Nov. 25, 1885, at Dunfer1ine, in
Fifeshire, Scotland, and came to
America in his thirteenth year, when
he settled in Pittsburg
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-26
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jeremiah a. O'Leary, who wrote
to ex-President Taft, offering his
services as advisory counsel to draf.
board, was indicted on charge OF
violating the espionage act.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-26
LITTLE BENNY's
NOTE BOOK
(By Lee Papcl

-
Ne and Pubs Simkins and Leroy
Shooster was setting on my frunt
steps after Sundey skool last Sundey,
tawking about wat we was going to
be wen We groo up, maybe, and Pubs
Simkins sed, g. heer comes Lew Davis
with bran new patten lether shoes on,
lets pertend we dident notice them,
hes got a swell he'd enuff allreddy.
Wich jest then Lew Davis came up
trying to look as if he dident know
he had patten 1ether shoes on, saying.
Hello, fellows.
Hello, sed me and Pubs and Leroy
Shooster. And Lew Davis sat down
on the bottim step and stuck his pat
ten lether shoes away out on the pave
mint, and us fellows dident say any
thing, and Lew Davis sat on the End
step and put his patten lether shoes
on the bottim step, and Pubs Simktns
sed, Did you see the perrade last mite,
Lew?
Yes, sed Lew setting on the Bird step
and nuttine his patten lether shoes on
the End STEP
Gosh, Lew, you're nerviss today, I
sed-
You cant hardly set still, can you,
Lew? sed Leroy Shooster, and Pubs
Simkins sed, After he sets on 2 more
steps he will haff TO start all over
agen.
Watts the matter, the steps amt gold,
are they? sed Lew Davis And ne
crossed his legs. making one pa1ten
lether shoe stick way up in the air.
And nobody sed enything, and ne
crossed them the other way, and then
he took out his handkerchief ana
started to dust off his shoes, and Le-
roy Shooster sed, Hes serteny acting
nerviss, Amt he?
Aw, you fellows must be blind, sed
Lew Davis And he got up and -kepp
ON wawking.
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Russia's array will be reduced i'm
mediately by releasing the class Of
the year 1889, the Lenine government
ordered.
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-05-25
SYNOPSIS.

Plerpont Stafford. with his daughter
Gloria. is wintcFing at Palm Beach. Clio
ria Is vivacious but willful young lady
who chafes under the restraining hand OF
n governess from whom she repeatedly
escapes. Her childish capers cause young
Doctor Royce TO fall in love with her.
into the hands of the Seminole Indians.
Gloria falls in love with her rescuer. Ere,
neau Five years later she leaves school
and meets Freneau at the theater, he has
forgotten Gloria. Later Freneau per-
suades her to forgive him. Gloria's Sis
ter-in-law, Lois, becomes Intensely 1eai-
GUS and Doctor Royce discovers in her
an ally Freneau takes leave of Gloria
She sees from her window an attack made
upon him. Doctor Royce convinces her IL
IS a delirium. A telegram followed by
letter comes from Freneau. She replies
but her telcgrams are returned. 5he &C
cidentaliy sees the supposed suicide OF FIRE.
neau reported in the paper. Gloria swcars
20 fnd the murderer of her lover. Royce
Stnfrord. They seek TO prevent scandal
from enveloping Gloria. She accuses
them of conspiracy against her. Gloria
derer Royce warns Mulry to tell Gloria
nothing. Gloria calls on Mulry and there
sees Lois who Is ] also worried pd 9nav Gi9aias
ors to show her the difficulty she faces.
Gloria goes to David's country home. She
meets Mulry who fees at once. Gloria In
sists on going to Palm Beach. Again she
sees Mulry there. He leaves for the
North. She is recognized by her one-time
her that Royce and not Freneau wns her
rescuer Mt that time. Gloria attends night
court. she sees Mulry there, also the
tramp who attacked Freneau. But Judge
Freeman releases him. She follows the
tramp when he leaves the court and falls
into the hands of hold-up men. She finds
herself in low saloon dance hall, and Is
selected by one of the patrons as his part
ner. Doctor Royce. however. follows her
down a riot their heads. The hall is
raided and the crowd. including Gloria
and Royce, are arrested and taken before
Judge Freeman. The newspapers feature
Gloria's arrest. Reporters surround the
house. Casimir arrives with the child
Gloria promised to adopt. She orders
Royce to take Casimir's wife to the Stat
ford home. She follows Trask and lands
on a houseboat to hear him accused of
Freneau's murder. She confronts him; he
fmprisons her. but she ties him up and
escapes. By many stages she arrives at
home. In the yacht Gloria and the
men pursue the barge. Trask fires on
them as they near him.
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chamber in palace. And his daugh-
ter was established in an adjoining
room whose fittings would have salts
fed princess. They almost terrified
the poor habitant of canal boat.
Royce decided to motor into the city
to fetch his surgical instruments and
bring out his assistant. While he was
gone Gloria stole into Trask's room
to question him, but he had passed into
state between sleep and coma, and
she dared not trouble him. She found
that Nell had fallen asleep. too. worn
out with emotions of every sort. Clio
ria stole away to her own room. She
was tired out, too. She felt that she
was on the brink of discoveries that
would mean everything TO her. She
was little afraid of them.
She paused at her window, and, see
Ing Doctor Royce just stepping into
his car, she mused on him. He was
an increasingly interesting mystery to
her, very much at her beck and call
in some ways, and absolutely beyond
her control in others.
He looked back and waved his hand.
She thought he waved to her and she
answered his salute. Then she saw
that he was signaling to someone else
and had not seen her. 1t was a wom-
an he was signaling to, for he lifted
his hat. Gloria wondered who it was.
and felt an odd quirk of jealousy. 1t
needed her like a stitch in the side.
She would have felt sharper stab
IL she had known that Doctor Royce
was waving at Lois. Lois was with
Casimir's wife, reading to her and COM
forting the sick woman as best she
could. The sight had startled Doctor
Royce, as much as it pleased him.
The wild and ruthless Lois had given
up her perilous intrigues, indeed, if
she could give herself to the monot-
the sick and take pleasure and pride
in such service as a substitute for u
social lawlessness that had made her
hateful in Royce's eyes.
AS he rode on into the city he felt
a great elation. He was not a relig-
ious man, but he loved a wholesome,
healthful soul as well as a body that
| was clean and well. He had
kept Gloria from learning of Lois
affair with Freneau for Gloria's own
sake. Now he believed that under
cover of the deception Lois own soul
had been enabled to redeem itself.
He felt that Lois had earned the
right to have back the letters she had
sent to Freneau. Whether she would
| wish TO DESTROY them or keen them n G
a reminder and warning from her evil
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him. He had told Gloria that her ac-
count Of witnessing the murder was
only delirlum. He had lost her con-
fidence and her respect, and they were
precious to him. He did not know
that Gloria was tormented by dual
emotion toward him, one of suspicion
and rancor, one of gratitude and af-
fection. Gloria was helpless in the
quarrel of her emotions. She could
neither love nor hate Royce perfectly,
neither trust nor distrust him.
While Gloria was at little distance
Royce was questioning Trask in n low
tone, trying to persuade him to speak
the truth, warning him that he might
not have long opportunity to un-
bosom himself of his crime. But Trask's S
mouth. distorted with suffering, was
also twisted with sneer of hate. He
would not even answer Royce's ques-
tions.
Pierpont had drawn Gloria to one
side. and he said: "Well, now that
you've got your man, what are you go
ing to do with him?"
''Find out why he killed Dick" Glo-
ria said, "and then turn him over to
the police"
I'm spite of all the publicity?" Pier
pont asked.
'In spite of all the publicity" saiG
Gloria.
Pierpont gave up the fight. He
loathed the prospect of newspaper
scandal, but if it had to come, he must
brace himself to endure it. He had
done all that he could legitimately do,
and more than that, to thwart the po-
lice, and now that the necessities of
the law compelled him to give the law
the right of way or suffer the con-
sequences. He resolved to turn
Trask over to Judge Freeman as a rep
resentative of the law and let the
judge assume the future responsibility.
When the yacht reached the country
house at length, Pierpont sought for
Judge Freeman. He had left the house.
Pierpont would have sent Trask on
after him, but he wns too weak to be
moved farther. Besides, Royce was
insistent in giving Trask the full bene-
fit Of his medical and surgical knowl-
edge, and asked for guest room to
lodge him in.
Now Trask was stupefied indeed. He
had expected that his enemies would
throw him into prison cell. And
they had installed him in luxurious
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-05-25

the bills under the tugpvat captains
very nose. They had the effect of cat
nip to cat. The captain began to
purr. also to reach out for the money.
LET us understand the transaction"
said Pierpont. "This man Trask is
wanted on a serious charge. He had
escaped from the Jurisdiction of Judge
Freeman. He was probably bound for
Canada. happened to have steam up
in my yacht, so came after him I'll
take him back and deliver him to the
judge. You tnke the barge on up the
river and deliver it to the consignee. Is
that the agreement?'
''That's the agreement, SIR" said the
captain. 'pervidin' I'm took care of
proper"
would those take care of your
asked Pierpont. holding out two bills.
"What does &C. stand for2" asked
the captain. 81 can only count up to
double x"
&C stands for a hundred" Pierpont
explained.
Two Cs will just about take care
of me, sir" said the captain. AS soon
as he touched the bill he touched his
hat, called his crew back to the tug
and set forth once more on his twice
interrupted cruise. Pierpont ordered
Jed released to care for the barge. He
asked Nell TO go with him, but she pre-
ferred to stay with her father, ut Clio
ria's invitation.
Nell was sullen with Gloria, but
Gloria was neither surprised nor re-
sentful. She would have thought less
of Nell If she had been too easily pla-
Gated by her fathers prosecutors.
1'rask was no more responsive to
Royce's ministrations. He was be-
wildered with pain and terrified by
his captivity. He was as little CRATE
full as lion that has been trapped and
bound.
To Royce he was doubly mystery,
both as patient ard as a criminal.
If he were guilty of numbering Ere
menu, then his life belonged to the
state, and 1t was Royce's curious duty,
as citizen physician, to save Trask's
life so that the state might take 1t.
Royce had done what he could to
keep Gloria from investigating the
murder. He had lied to her, knowing
that Freneau had been killed by some
person from some motive unknown to
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-05-25
SEVENTEENTH EPISODE
The TeII-TaIe Envelope.

Shots that are fired from guns do
not often hit the people they are fired
at. The coolest target puncturer grows
excited when his target Is man, and
more excited when II is woman. Gid
con Trask was not an expert with the
rifle. He had been crazy enough to
take the life of Dick Freneau-to
thought he had escaped detection un-
til, with an appalling abruptness, Clio
ria Stafford-though he did not know
her name-charged him with the mur-
der and declared that she had seen
him commit 1t before her very eyes.
He had not been quite crazy enough
or quite wise enough to kill her then
and there when she was alone and at
mis- mercy. He thought to repair the
consequences of his delay by shooting
her down now that she reappeared
with an armed force at her back. So
he fired at Gloria where she stood In
front of the pilothouse demanding
his surrender.
They told Gloria afterwards she was
brave as veteran and faced the as
sassln coolly. But she told the truth
when abe said that she was paralyzed
with fear, so frightened that she could
not even show her fright.
When the muzzle of Trask's rifle
spat at her. she heard the bullet sing
past her ear. she was already Won
dering whether she were dead or alive,
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-05-25

turned from one battle to another,
tearing now at Royce and now at the
captain. recovered from the stupor
with which she had watched her ia
TIERS disaster and. leaping over to the
yacht, knelt by him, calling to him
with wild appeals and threatening
Royce as his slayer.
Gloria came running down from the
upper deck and stood gazing at the re-
suit of her work with utter dismay.
Trasl1 was crushed and perhaps killed.
Jed was unconscious. and Nell seemed
to have gone out of her mind.
Gloria felt that her head was COW
cred with blood guilt. The sobs of
Nell were heart-breaking. Gloria for
got all her resentments against Nell
and her father. She forgot that Nell
had kept her prisoner. She saw only
that Nell was a motherless daughter
who saw her father dying.
She caught the girl in her arms. held
her in spite of her resistance. mur-
muring: Forgive me, you poor child
It's all my fault, but we won't let your
father die. Doctor Royce is splendid
| physician. He saved my life. He
will save your father's- You can trust
him."
Nell also forgot all other emotions
in that one necessity for hope. She
turned eyes of prayer on Doctor Royce
and beat him on the shoulder with Inn
ploring hands, urging him TO bring her
| father back. 1t was not Royce, but,
doubtless, nature that brought Trask
back to consciousness. Royce re-
ceived the credit and the gratitude,
however, when Trask's eyes opened
and his tortured lips moved.
Nell and Gloria were overjoyed at
the miracle, but Royce was the more
alarmed the more he ntudied Trask's
body with fingers searching every
where and finding everywhere the
hints of broken bones and internal
lacerations- He pretended none the
less to be confident, for the sake of all
three. Trask and Nell and Gloria.
A bucket of water restored Jed
roughly to what wits he had. He came
up yelling. as If the fight had not been
interrupted. They had to tie him up
to keep him from continuing the war.
1t had taken this much time for the
tugboat 10 round upon its course and
come alongside the barge. The crew
had watched the scrimmage with i'm
patient envy. They came aboard now
ready for carnage. They were armed
with weapons of every sort, and with
zest for blood. The yacht crew gath
cred itself to meet the onset of these
re-enforcements.
Now came the opportunity of Pier
pont Stafford to use some of the heav-
lest artillery of battle-fnnnce He
was too old and too little used to fisti-
cuffs to attack roustabouts with blow
for blow. He put up the shield of his
pocketbook. The captain of the tug
boat led his little army forward in
wedge, demanding with tugboat EN-
phasis:
''What kind of pirates are youse,
anyhow, and what you beatin' up
the old man fur? For two cents I'd"
Pierpont answered:
"That's what l want to know. What
would you do for two cents?"
I'D t'row de whole bunch of youse
into de river"
Il see," said Pierpont. "and what
would you charge not tor"
This stuinped the captain. He could
not quite make out Pierponts drift.
AS he pondered, Pierpont gave him
chance to look into the depths of
wallet full of bills of size and num-
ber that had not been seen hitherto
| in his circle. Pierpont kept moving
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-05-25
deckhnnd neIpeu Royce drag .rrusk to
the dock

deckhnnd neIped Royce drag ,rrusk to
the deck.
He was heavy, and his agony
seemed to Increase upon him when the
desperate necessity Of swimming was
over. He tainted the moment his drip
ping body was stretched out, and Doc
tor Royce had, as 1t were, to save his
life twice, first to bring him back from
the swoon Of pain. and then to bring
him back from the annihilation of his
shattered machinery.
Meanwhile Jed was locked in fe-
rocious wrestle with the captain of
Pierpont's yacht. who called the en-
gineer to his aid. AS the engineer
told Pierpont, II had to knock him
senseless before could knock any
sense into him"
And now Nell Trask. who had
The Elbert County tribune., 1917-05-25

whether the next one would strike
The pilot grunted and mumbled: "He
got me -
She forgot Trask and whirled round
TO see the pilot fall across his own
wheel. The yacht wavered and swerved
In its course. Gloria was the nearest
to the pilothouse. She had been a
pupil of the pilot only few minutes
before. She ran to him, lifted him
aside and seized the wheel by its pro-
jecting spokes, just in time to keep
the yacht from crashing into the barge
at full speed. She made sharp turn,
the yacht sweryed and ground along
the side of the barge. Gloria mean
while was alarmed more for the life
of the pilot than her own. She be-
gan to call "Stephenl Doctor Rycew
But Doctor Royce was too busy to
hear her call. His immediate inter
est was not in wounded man, but
in wounding a man. When he saw
that Trask was aiming his rifle ut
Gloria again, his whole being thrilled
with u ferocity unknown to him be-
fore. To save Gloria from being hurt
he would have massacred hundred
Trasks.
He leaped aboard the canal barge
before the deckhands could make it
fast. He sprang at Track and seized
the rifle he held. He twisted it out
of Trask's hands before he could fire
a second shot.
But he was pounced upon at once
by Jed, who pinioned his arms and
fiuAg him to the deck. The captain
of the yacht, following close after
Royce, laid hold of Jed and dragged
him away before he could harm Royce.
But he left Royce supine on the deck,
with Trask's fatal clutch on his throat.
Gloria, wondering at Royce's not an
swering her call, clung to the wheel
till she saw the cable fast, then she
ran forward to the edge of the up
per deck and saw why he failed her.
He was in the baleful clutch of Trask.
Gloria, looking for a weapon of res
cue, could find nothing but life pre-
server tied to rope. She began to
swing it about her head In circles of
increasing diameter, like lasso.
1t was revolving at violent rate
when it reached Trask. 1t smote him
grip for just moment. This was
long enough for Royce to shake free
and regain his feet. He hurled him
self at Trask, but Trask, seeing his
victim erect and menacing. lost oour-
age and ran. AT the edge of the barge
he slipped and sprawled. He would
have fallen between the yacht and the
barge into the river If the yacht had
not swung alongside in time to catch
him. 1t held him up, but it held him
as In giant lemon squeezer, and 1t
squeezed his bone and flesh with
dreadful force.
Gloria saw the agony in Trasks
face and the sight was horrible. She
saw the yacht swing free again.
Trask's body dropped into the wa
ter.
Now the life preserver that had
served as a weapon returned to its
original purpose. Gloria threw 1t to
Trask. Suffering as he was. he seized
1T automatically and hooked his elbow
through it.
Now Royce also reverted to his pur-
pose as he knelt down and clutched at
Trask's collar as Gloria hauled him
in like great fish. One of the deck
hands Tended Off the barge and the
yacht and kept them from closing in
again like scissors blades. Another
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royce Questioned irask IN Low Tone.
past, they belonged to her and to no
one else. Certainly Royce had no fur
ther use for them.
When he reached his office and gath
cred up his instruments he took the
package of letters from the safe and
put them in his pocket. Then he re-
turned to the motor and sped back to
the Stafford country home.
1t was long ride and he was trou-
bled about many things, about Gloria's
determination to probe into the se-
crets that could mean only cruel dis
illusionment for her. about the chances
for Trask's recovery, and the dangers
that threatened the Staffords If the
newspapers or the police learned with
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-12-21
comfort in this statement:

comfort in this statement:
Conditions prohibit the publication
Of details showing the program in per.
sonnet and material, but it is crafty.
ing to be able to report that the CORDS
is ahead OF schedule in all its work. ''
The report recites that at the be-
ginning of the Mexican trouble the
Signal Corps found itself poorly
equipped for the duties that fell upon
1t. Since that time. however, appro-
priations have been large.
AS result of this action" the
report says, the Signal Corps had at
its dispose! at the outbreak Of the
present war the nucleus of its war
personnel and complete information
as to the possibilities OF the material
market, and with the assistance of
the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics. the National Research
Council, and the Council of National
Defense. Immediately acted to meet
the emergency. Conditions made
necessary special air program. Con.
gress approved of the air program and
the bill was signed by the president
July "a. 1917"