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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-08
WHITE AND UNMARRIED
 BY JOHN D. SWAIN
SYNOPSIS:

SYNOPSIS:
 Billy Kane, crook, known as the Hermit, is left S1OO,OOO by his uncle, Ten-Carat Murphy, who died after making 8 killing at New Orleans. So Billy decides to reform. Having put aside the tools of his trade, the easiest kind of chances keep cropping up, but with one exception he passed them up. That exception was a house near Atlantic City, whither he had gone to kill time. On his return to New York, he visits the Police Commissioners and gives $500 to the Police Fund.
 Firing of New York, he goes over to Paris, hoping to find some excitement. But things are very tame until one night he visits the sNIin of the Half Gods" There he meets Andree Duphot, a pretty little dancer. He dances with her. and is having wonderful time when an Apache, an admirer of Andree, interveneS.
 Chicoq-as he is called-seizes Ahdree by the arm as she talks to Kane, who turns and grabs the Apache by the wrist. As Chicoq reaches for his knife, Kane hits him on the jaw and Chicoq hits the floor. Andree nees and Billy is urged to flee by a young man who says his name is Mare cha1. Marechal pilots Kane to 6 restaurant, where he relieves the American of his watch. Kane, however, ges back the time-p'ece by lifting it from the waiter to whom Marechal had passed it.
 Kane goes back to the 'MilP' the next night but Andree had left Then he begins fruitless search for her until one night at the ''MiII'' the little page, Victor, tells him where to find her. He goes to the address and meets her. Then begins a wonderful time for. Kane. But Chicoq learns of Billy's visits and knid- maps Andree. The mfdinetteS, who live with Andree tell Kane, when he calls, ''She Is gone, and we don't know where they have taken her.'
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CHAPTER x At the Chouard Farm

A battered old taxi-auto sped along
 the Boulevard Rochechouart at the
 hour of twilight that same day. De-
 spite its decrepit looks, an expert
 would have heard with approval the
 organ-Iike note of it's sweet enegine.
 It could have passed with ease any
 of the luxurious cars which at this
 hour were bearing to their homes the industrious rich. Kane had di- rected little Victor to produce a chauffeur who could be relied upon, for a price, to go anywhere and ask no questions.
 The man whom in a surprisingly short time he brought to the Cafe Royal, where Kane awaited them.
 did not inspire anything like a. warm glow of confidence. He had hard boiled look, wore a green patch over one empty eye-socket and was as squat and hairy as a gorilla-a re- semblance heightened by the ape-like swiftness of his salute as he touch ed his greasy cap with a thick and very dirty forefinger.
 Victor swore by the name of a | name of a sacred pipe that Francois would, if properly paid, drive them to hell and not even comment on the temperature. There was nothing to do but to take him, and with the boy as interpreter, Kane directed him where to go. Victor was as uneasy as if the | lumpy cushions were red hot To-
 night was the climax of his youthful dreams. Kane had been averse to fetching him alone, but it was vital to have some one who could spea k the language in which he only grop- ed. And Victor, crossing and re- | crossing himself and taking terrible and mouth filling oaths. had readily promised absolute obedience. As always when he had cast the die, Kane was as indifferent as one of the grenadine-sipping idlers win o watched the traffic from the hun dreds of little cafe tables they pass | ed. His face was almost insane as he lounged at ease, an amused eye upon his small companions wrigg1ing body and eloquent hands and eyebrows. He wore a dark blue serge suit with flannel shirt of the same color dark cap and rubber-soled shoes. No- where about him was there anything that could show gleaming white or sparkling ornament. Tn one coat | pocket reposed the faithful automatic, with an extra clip of cartridges; in another small but powerful flash | light and. as an afterthought, a heavy knuckle-duster made to slip over his left hand.
 If no emotion showed in his face, deep content abode showed in his heart It was like old times, this setting forth with the tools of his trade, to turn a neat trick all on his 1 owni
 | Copyright. 1922. Thompson Feature Service.
 (To Be Continued1
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don't you?' .'I do,'' said Kane sim ply.
 'Uhuh, Well, I can't see what earthly interest you can feel in these little mormons of the cabaret; but we'll waive that
 Kane did mot know what a rnor- on was. but he drowned at her tone of contemptuous patronage.
 You haven't found her yet?"
 "No!' Kane's eyes widened "You had heard about it?''
 More than that-I know where she is."
 She checked his questions with a languid motion of her hand.
 Friend Marechal is mixed up in with the Apache crowd, somehow not as one of then but perhaps he uses them sometimes or they him. 'I don't know, Anyhow. the en- gazing one they call Chicoq-the one with no nose. whom you knocked down the night you and he quarrel ed over the pretty lady of your dreams-came once or twice to see my devoted spouse. The last time. I was dressing. I had gone into the big closet over there-we have but the one room-and so when the key unexpectedly turned and Marecha1 | entered, with Chicoq, I stayed quiet | ly in there, and they took it for granted I had gone out. They con | tinued a conversation evidently be- gun on the street; and it concerned this Andree. She was then in some | house on Montmartre, where it was | not prudent to keep her more than day or so; and Marechal was of | fering little he had out in the coun- try. He was glad to help all he could, you see. to pay you back for telling papa he was q crook I l Kane's thin lips.
 T wrote it down on paper as soon as they had left. understand French quite well; but-the kind they talked was not taught at my school I lost a good deal; but I did get the address, which is the main thing
 She handed him a slip of paper from under a cushion on the couch Kane read it carefully, nodded, and put it in his pocket.
 And now what do you propose tc do?"
 Do? Why go get her. of course!'
 ''She will be well guarded" | What of it?"
 "I think you'll get her." admitted Dorothea; ''but to do it, you will probably have to get them."
 Probably" he murmured indif- ferently.
 "I'd really be awfully grateful i you'd do me one little favor," sh, coaxed.
 Name it!" Kane promptly replied "Marechal is out there with them | I think. The mourning costumes this season in Paris are simply stunning Pm positive they'd become me. Make me a wid
 The last words were breathe6 through her teeth, and were startling like the hiss of a snake. Kane stared for a long minute into hel eyes, fixed almost lazily upon his. Sh' lifted her lovely, slender arms, ana the wide sleeves fell away from then nearly to the shoulders as she clasp ed her hands behind her head. Bru tally outlined on each arm, wei above the elbows, were the blue livit marks of a mans hands.
 Kane rose slowly.
 | "Ill call taxi-auto," ke said sob erly. eff you'll pack up whatever yol brought here, and be ready in hal an hour to go home fo your father I'll get Marecha1-whether I eve find Andree or not! Is that goo< enough? ?"
 Dorothea, too, rose and faced him smiling faintly. "Ill be ready in exactly twent. minutes she agreed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-08

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENT
 Dear Dr. Peters: I have been los ing my two pounds week. feel better, look better and my feet don't hurt. Haven't had a headache since I began. I don't do the exercises. I figured by the time I moved the lawn Ca big one), fed chicks, made garden, cooked for six, and the 101 other things a farm woman must do from f a. m. until ?. m.. there was no need for any more exercise. Have lost IT pounds.-Mrs. H. H. S.
 It is surprising how many letters l get from farmers wives who are fol- lowing our reduction course. I have had many outline even more work than you, Mrs. H. H. Now it would seem impossible that woman doing as much work as you have to do, could gain in weight, and I can only account for it by the delicious butter, milk cream, honey, fat meats and preserves that you may serve at your table. All of these foods, of course, are very high in caloric value. Doing as much work as you do, you need q liberal diet. but evidently you have been having too many Galleries of these things I have mentioned.
 As far as the exercise is concerned you undoubtedly get a lot, but if you try the kicking exercises, the bending g and touching the floor. the arms and body stretching and twisting, you will probably find that you have muscles that have not been touched by your work, and I advise you to take the exercises.
 I am happy that you are getting along well.
 Dear Doctor: My age Is 51, my weight five weeks ago was 16S; it is now 156, a loss of 12 pounds Great improvement in heart action and general f1exibility of my spine. There Is great rejoicing in the family as the fundamentals of your system take root and bear fruit with a 14year- old son who was candy bloated We make game of your work. Please accept my lasting gratitude. as I was a can didate for some doctor when your first article appeared. Yours for the finish. Mrs. H. L. F. S-I find that the three days liquid diet is quite a bogey to most folks
 am glad. especially for that 14- year-old boy of yours. Candy is an energy food only and very high in Calories. sugar being 115 c. to the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-08-08
ALMANAC

USE TIMES WANT ADS. FOR BEST AND
 QUICKEST RESULTS
, 1922-08-24
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To the Residents of Saratoga and vi
cinity:

To the Residents of Saratoga and Vi
entity:
Mr.. e. l.. Gould. my representative
In the undertaking business in Sara
toga, having expressed a desire to be
released as said representative OF Sep
tember LIST, / take this means of an
nouncing that 1 shall remain in the
undertaking business in Saratoga. The
location and person in charge will be
announced later through the columns
of this paper.
The residents of the Platte Valley
may be assured that any business in
the future, as in the past, entrusted to
me, will be properly attended to either
by myself or an able assistant, and l
will guarantee honest, reasonable and
competent service.
In case my services are required be-
fore all new arrangements are com
pleted, please call me up at Rawlins by
phone at my expense and either my
self or assistant will respond promptly
to your call. Yours Truly.
H. RASMUSSEN.
Phone, week days, 81 Nights, Sundays
and Holidays, 20.
, 1922-08-24

ming farmers and more than sufficient
water allotted from the Platte to supply
the 10000 acres in the Saratoga region.
Last week this project was visited
by ii party of reclamation project en-
gineers. including Director Arthur p.
Davis. Chief Engineer f. f. Wey-
mouth, Andrew Weiss. who is in charge
of the work on the North Platte. and
Mr.. Emerson. As "A result of the visit
of these officials it is announced that
actual construction is assured as soon
as certain details are worked out and
the financial feature taken care Of.
The final stamp of approval on the
part Of the federal reclamation depart
ment has been placed upon the great
development plan which means so
much to this section.
, 1922-08-24
PLANS MATURING FOR
HIGH SCHOOL HERE.
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maintain the high school which the
valley needs.
Present available funds for the main-
tenance of the district grade schools
would not be affected by the formation
of u high school district. In fact, o
a district maintaining an accredited
high school.
Tuition for pupils going to a high
school nut of their own district would
be done away with. Whenever "A dis
trict dOes not maintain a high school
and a high school education Is desired,
that district from which the child goes
must pay whatever tuition the district
in which he attends school may ask.
Any district belonging to h proposed
high school district would be maintain
ing a high school and therefore not
liable for the tuition of any pupil GO
ing to any other school,
Cooperation of the several districts
will make possible "A high school in he
valley. so vote YES for the forming
of a high school district. You never
heard of anyone leaving a community
because they had good schools, but you
have heard of someone leaving or
Cooking elsewhere because they did
not have good schools.
President Harding says: I'VE have
just awakened to the fact hat the edu-
cation of the American child has fallen
below the standard necessary for the
protection of our future. We have to
face the fact that our school teachers
are underpaid. that in physical train
ing. in the teaching of American civil
government and American history, in
the principles of Americanism and Of
Americanization we have been deplor-
ably delinquent. But nowhere is there
more cause for alarm than in the fact
that he rural school term is far to
short and that four-fifths of the rural
schools are one-teacher schools. result
ing in hasty and careless teaching. and
that the opportunity for country boys
and girls to have high school education
is all too slight. We owe it to the
childhood of the nation and the child
hood of the agricultural districts of
our land to place at its disposal the ut
most in educational facilities"
Watch his column for '"The Value
of a High School Education
, 1922-08-24

1t is an expensive business for a woman to replace herself in the
home. If she decides to take a job outside the home, and starts in to see
that the work she has been doing at home is done by some else. she
finds out that she cannot replace herself by one person, but must hare
several.
1t seems to me that when a woman. job a home fills her whole tine
che earns far more than she could ever earn outside, since She earnsp rac.
tcally the combined wages of half a dozen specialized workers she would
have to employ to replace her.
But in these days the home job doesn't usually I'll the whole time Of
a woman Housekeeping has been simpihed by the labor-saying devices
so much employed. The training Of children after the first few Years Of
their lives is carried on largely outside the home. and few women find their
whole time taken up by the business Of homemakng, at least after the few
years while their children are small. 1t is here that the difficulty lies. and
it is this situation that is responsible for the restlo@ness among modern
women and the increasing tendency among many of them to take jobs out
side the home.
, 1922-08-24
PARK GEYsERs ACTING auEERLy
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suddenly developed into a mighty giant.
Constant geyser. so named because of
its constant flow, but which has been
quiet for a period. has broken out into
new geyser is developing 800 feet south
of the Giantess.
Scientists don't know what to ex-
pect. They don't know what's going on
vestigators. who watch the geysers all
the year round, are up n stump But
the thousands of tourists who are in
the park this year are '.seeing sights
not given to all tourists to see.
The Morning Glory" has changed
from blue to a brilliant green. Scien-
fists have discovered the cause of the
change. Somewhere down in the earth
beneath the geyser something has
caused a decrease in temperature and
a minute vegetable growth, yellow al
g,e. has spread over the walls of the
Morning Glory. The combination of
the blue water and, the yellow walls of
the geyser results in Il most brilliant
green cast to the waters.
Old Faithful has developed another
phenomenon. 1t has taken to throw
ing rocks. Every now and then the big
old geyser shoots out a volley of small
stones with its millions of gallons of
boiling water. White Dome, which has
never been known to throw a stream
higher than 20 feet, is now playing to a
height OF 80 feet every hour.
The new geyser which is developing
near the Giantess, is small at present.
but is increasing in strength almost
daily. 1t is near to the regular tourist
route and plays every 10 or 20 minutes.
1t is expected to develop into one of
the biggest attractions of the park.
The awful Mud geyser seems to
be dying down. 1t nc longer ''spouts''
to the top of the cavern, but surges
back and forth. giving off its nauseat-
ing stencil of rotten sulphur and other
odors. Something's happening down
there in the earth. But the scientists
don't exactly know what it is.
, 1922-08-24
A REMEDY.

In an editorial on the subject of find
ing a romed- for strikes through the
prevention vi Inc operation Of causes
leading up to walkouts of national i'm
portance, the Munice, Ind, Press says !:
Perhaps the best way to cure
strikes would be for everybody to go
on strike at the same time, including
housewives. merchants. professional
men and farmers. If all would refuse
to work it would take only a few days
TO starve the whole population and
then we could begin all over-that is
h survivors could-and build a new
kind of society in which there would
be no unjust employers, no dissatisfied
employees and no restless public. There
is no question that in every life at
times comes the desire to go on strike
against conditions, to lay the burdens
down II walk off in n huff regardless
of consequences to himself and every
body else. The only trouble is Thai
this spirit does not seize everybody at
the same time.
IF it did we could paralyze all in
dustry, not to mention ourselves, in a
day or two's time and then maybe
we'd realize the meaning of the strike.
About the time a hundred million
stomachs would begin crying out for
food when there was no food, the
strike would end as suddenly as it
came, Labor disturbances always are
due to misunderstanding of the other
man's views.
For that matter, so are nearly all
misunderstanding of all kinds. If
union workmen could know the diff
culties under which their employers
labor and their employers for II short
time could live the lives of their EN-
ployes, there would he no strikes and
no lockouts. The difficulty lies in the
unreasonableness of men ana their in
nate se~lfishness."
, 1922-08-24

Watch this column for '"The Value
of Il High School Education
, 1922-08-24
LWESTOCKPRICES
AT SOUTH OMAHA
Corn Fed Beeves are Steady
--Grassers Sell Lower
BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN HOGS
Liberal Run Of Sheep and Lambs and
Fairly Brisk Trade at About Steady
Prices all Round. Market Closed
Stronger.

Union Stock Yards, South Omaha.
August %. 1922.-The week opened
with a liberal run OF cattle. 1850
head, mostly western rangers. Corn
fed beeves were scarce and steady,
best yearlings bringing $1,000. West
ern range steers and cows ruled slow
and lower.
Quotations on Cattle Choice to
prime beeves, $1O.25@1O.6O; good to
choice beeves. Se.65@1O.15; fair to
good beeves, S9.25@9.6O; common to
fair beeves. Ss.25Q9.25; choice to
prime y%earlings. $1,000 1850; good
to choice yearlings, S9.25910.OO; fair
to good yearlings, $S.50@9.25; COM
mon to fair yearlings, $7.759S.5O;
good to choice grass beeves, $500
1925 fair to good grass beeves, $3.50
G7.4O; common to fair grass beeves,
$5.5O@8.5O; good to choice grass
heifers, S5.50@6.5O: fair to good grass
heifers. S4.50@5.5O; good to choice
grass cows, S5.4O@6.25; fair to good
grass cows. $4.50@5.25; common to
fair grass cows. $3.75Q4.5O; cutters,
S2.75@3.50; Gamers, $2.OO@2.5O; bo-
logna bulls. $2.75@3.4O; veal calves,
S6.OO@1000; good to choice heavy
feeders, $7.60@s.25; fair to good
feeders, S6.75@T.50: common to fair
feeders. $6.O0@6.75; good to choice
stockers, S7.25@S.OO; fair to good
s~tockers. $625Q7.25; common to fair
stockers, $5.O0@6.W; stock heifers,
StO0@5.50; stock cows, $3.25@4.5O;
, 1922-08-24
APPROAL GIVEN
TO LOCAL PROJECT.
Continued from First Page

absolutely assure the continued opera
tion Of this essential railroad link.
When Mr.. Emerson assumed the of
flee of state engineer findings had been
put on record but not finally confirm
ed. 10 the effect that the Pathfinder
dam. which to a great extent serves
the people of Nebraska, was entitled to
practically all of the water of the
North Platte river, to the exclusion of
land owners in the state through which
the river flowed and alongside the
hanks Of which they had builded their
homes. This decision was revised and
adjusted equitably through the efforts
of the governor and state engineer with
II result that justice was done Wyo-
, 1922-08-24

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Lenke of Trinidad,
Colo, drove in yesterday for "A brief
stay. They will be accompanied home
by Mrs. Lenke's mother, Mrs. Snyder,
who has beer visiting here for several
months with the family of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. X. c. Willford.
, 1922-08-24

Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Senior of Gus
ter City. Okla, who have spent the
past week here, visiting at the home
of their daughter, Mrs, f. J. Shively,
departed on this mornings train for
their home.
, 1922-08-24

Miss Eva Brown of Rawlins visited
in Saratoga Saturday evening and
Sunday. She returned to her home in
the city Sunday evening.
, 1922-08-24
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Donald Rankin. cashier of the Stock
Growers Bank. drove to Encampment
Sunday for IA visit with his parents.
He returned home the same evening.
, 1922-08-24

A fish who keeps his mouth shut
doesn't get caught.
, 1922-08-24

After all, what good is alimony on a
cold night?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-16
Sonar Law Is Elated by Win
 in British Vote
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(SOnt1nucd rom rage one) the early returns Labor suffered a hard setback in the Widnes division of Lancashire when Arthur Tender son was defeated by the Conservative candidate, pr. George c. Clayton, af- ter holding the seat since 1919. The vote was Clayton, 14,679; Henderson, 12,S97.
 The Laborites rally to the polls ization and a keenness to carry their men to victory. Their successes were most striking in the northern indus trial areas, especially in Glasgow where seat after seat fell to their at tack.
 It is noteworthy that their triumphs came in the constituencies where they were regarded as most likely and it is not expected that later returns will show similar gains as the rural dis tricts are heard from.
 The majOrities by which the Con servatives were returned at the last elections are also much reduced where they were reelected, the case of Prime Minister Bonar Law being typical. The Premier yesterday was returned over the Laborite candidate in the central division of Glasgow by a margin of only 2,514, whereas in the previous election his majority was 12,915.
 Viscountess Astor Winner.
 Of the women candidates, Viscoun- tess Astor is the only one returned thus, and her victory. was won by a closer margin than when she was first sent to Parliament to represent the Sutton oiTision at Plymouth. Lady
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-16

Astor lost many votes through the Conservative split, but made com pensating gains from sthe Laborites and Liberals.
 Lady Cooper. running as a Con servative to succeed her husband Sir Richard Cooper. who retired to make way for her, was defeated by the Lib- eral candidate, in Walsall by only 52b votes out of the 29,223 votes polled by the two candidates. In the Brent ford division of Middlesex, another Strachey, Independent. was deci- s1veIy beaten by Col. Grant Morden. Conservative.
 On the whole the election was re- Inarkable for its good humor. The old time bitterness and Haunting of personalities were almost absent
 Stories of babes and stockings who accidentally were enrolled on the registers and who w1re taken to the polls 10 exercise their franchise. null tiply, while never before was there such 9 crop of centenarians as totter- ed to the various booths yesterday.
 One of these vetorsns was Sergeant McCalle, said to be the last Surv-' or of the eige of Lucknow. Another wa Frank Draper, re;outed to- have been a friend of Charles Dickens.
 Among the successful Labor can didates was ShaDurji Saklatvala, a Parsee born in England, who regards though elected for the prosaic work ing district of Battersea, South Lon don. He intends to look after the interests Of India education.
 Among the late returns was the re- election of J. H. Thomas. the Labor leader, for Darby.
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