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I 10 Colonel of Missouri By KIPLEY a LAUNDERS Copyright. 1911. by the Bobbs-MerrlB Company (Continued.) "I haven't either:" denied Maty In stantly. "I've only laughed at your high and mighty -ways now and then, and you know it." Tom's angry eyes looked straight to ihe front. - "You had no right to say that about ne,"' continued Mary. "I've been aalghty good to you." "Up to a certain point, yes," agreed Tom. "But just the minute I get seri Dua about anything- you begin laughing at me." "Why, Tom, I don't do anything of the sort!" protested Mary. "I never dreamed of such a thing! You can try me this very minute and see!" "All right, I will!" spoke Tom quick ly. "Mary, I love you. I want you to promise to be my wife. Won't you? I've loved you all my life!" "Tom Strickland!" cried Mary, blush ing hotly. "Tou ought to be ashamed of yourself! You've got no right to say that Just because just because I I was trying to be good to you!" "Mary," said Tom sturdily, "ifyou don't know I've been in love with, you all this time you must be blind. And now I've told you, why well, you've got to give me an answer and I love yon so that I'm afraid to hear it!. If If a no well, it'll break my heart, that's all!" . '- "" There was no answer to his pleading. Mary had given him one startled look. Then her eyes bad softened and turned away, from his. It seemed to Tom that she was crying. Mary." he said humbly, "I didn't mean to say anything to trouble you, bat I had to tell you some time or other. I've loved you a long, long time. Is there any chance for me at all?" , Still there was no answer. ' "I reckon I've been the blind one," laid Tom sadly. "I reckon you can't care for me the way I care for you. Yes, Mary, I reckon it's me that's been Hind!" "Yes. Tom,' replied Mary Todhunter, "it's you that have been blind." Tom bowed his ' head. "I ought to have seen that you didn't love me," he said. "I ought to have seen it- Then I wouldn't have given you the. pain of having to tell me so." "I'm not going to tell yon," said Mary. "All right, Mary," replied Tom. "I'll take my answer without hurting you ' there any chance for me at all?" by making you put it into words. I'm no hog, anyway; I know when I've had enough." To his amazement Mary burst out langhing. "Of all the funny things to ay at such a time!" she cried. Her eyes were full of mischief, yet beauti fully tender. "Oh. Tom, indeed you are the blindest of the blind!" A sudden hope stirred in Tom's soul. "Mary!" he exclaimed. "Xou don't mean" "I do, Tom," softly replied Mary. "How could you believe I didn't love rou? You ought to be ashamed of your elf." - And Tom Strickland took Mary Tod hunter In his arms, leaving old Solo mon to go his own way unguided. "I'll tell Mrs. 'Todhunter and the colonel this very day," he announced t few moments later. "Lord, they'd tee it anyway in my face, I'm so proud tnd happy. I want to know if they iiink I'm good enough for you." Mary tossed her head. "They'd bet ter think so!" she retorted indignantly. 'Not good enough, Indeed!" But Tom was near to being panic rtricken when they had gained the iride gallery of Mary's home and were ronfronting her parents. ' ,. "Howdy, Tom!" spoke Colonel Tod hunter. His glance passed from young 3trickland to his daughter with just the faintest twinkle of amusement in Bis gray blue eyes. Tom Strickland had taken Mrs. Tod hunter's hand. "Howdy, Mrs. Tod aunter Howdy, colonel,'', he said, his Tace an open book of confession. "I well, I Mary was good enough to lay I could come fcome with her!" "We're glad you did, Tom," replied Mrs. Todhunter. "And you've got to tay to supper." Colonel Todhunter's lips were twitch ing. "I don't know about that, honey," eannVa..'ojn don't look to me like fewest nr.-.J J? vi:'-.to 0 f ""-TV i T JEN X Si W be's very hungry."" ' Mary flashed swift indignation at her father. Mrs. Todhunter. looked at the colonel in surprise. Then in sud den understanding, she shot a quick glance at the yoaag people. Tom Strickland blushed redder than ever. Mary fired at her mother one soft vol ley of entreaty- from dewy eyes and then fled precipitately into the house. Her face filled with comprehending tenderness, Mrs. Todhunter followed Mary, making no excuses. "Tom," said Colonel Todhunter, "you seem to have been kicking up a mighty funny rumpus this load o' poles, young man!" ' .... Tom stood like a condemned felon In the dock. "I reckon I have, colonel," be made 'answer. Then, after a dis may filled pause, "I I I've been ask ing Mary to marry me, sir." Colonel Todhunter's face was impas sive. Tom Strickland stood very erect. Pride shone in his eyes. "I don't know, sir, whether you've noticed it- or not," he resumed, "but I've been in love with Mary for a long time." A rellshful twinkle was in Colonel Todhunter's eyes. "And, sir and well, Colonel Todhun ter, it's just this," exultantly but blush bgly exclaimed Tom, "I know I don't deserve it I can't hardly believe it but Mary says she loves me, too and well, sir, 1 want to ask Mrs. Todhun ter's and yonr consent to our marriage, Bir." Colonel Todhunter was contemplat ing the young man with eyes brimful of kindly amusement - - "Tom," he said, "as long as' yon live you'll never forget how skeered you are this minute, sub.. But yon got through with it like a hero, a blamed eight batter than I did .when I asked for Mra.f Todhunter. That sure was a terrible experience." But the next moment his face was grave. He laid his hand on young Strickland's shoulder. "Tom, my boy," he said, "I'd rather give Mary to you than to any other man in the world, and you ought to ha' known it without my tellin' you. I've known you and liked you all the time you've been growin' up, and I love your father like he was my own brother. I am glad you and Mary have got it all settled, and I'm sure Mrs. Todhunter thinks as much of you as I do. God bless you and Mary both, my boy." There was "a sudden break in the colonel's voice. "It's up to you and Mary to arrange all the rest of it, young man," he spoke again after a little pause. Then, with a whimsical smile: "And all of your troubles are ahead of you both. . May the good Lord have mercy on your souls." A splendid gratitude shone in Tom's eyes. "AH I've got to say is this, Colo nel Todhunter," he said, "God helping me, IH make Mary the best husband -in the world." "YouH need the Good Marsters help considerable, too, my boy," responded Colonel Todhunter quizzically. "And don't bank on bem' too blamed success ful in that there undertakin', snh. Be in' a good husband ain't no sinecure, not by a long shot. If s the biggest con tract you ever undertook, and you've got to keep hammerin' away at it ev'ry minute, snh. If s enough. . to skeer a man to death, Tom, if it wan't for one thing beln' a good, husband means havin' a happy wife, and that's the fin est thing on God's green footstool.' Xou fast live up to that great truth, Tom, and it's all I'll ask of you." "Yon won't have to ask more than once. Colonel Todhunter," replied Tom fervently. "I'll think of nothing but Mary's happiness all my life, sir. And that'll mean mine, too; we're going to be the happiest couple in all the world, colonel." - "Now that's where you slip np again, Tom," said Colonel Todhunter. "Mar ried life ain't just one long dream of unalloyedbliss, not by a jugful, snh. You got to take it as it comes, the bad with the good, and sometimes it may look like the good ain't as plentiful as it might be, but that's percisely when you got to sit tight and watch and pray for a change o' luck. And a man's wife ain't no chronic angel,- young man, no moren't a woman's husband is. You'll be powerful lucky if Mary makes you as good a wife as her mother's made me, but, all the same, I've seen days when Mrs. Todhunter looked more like a destroyin' cyclone to me than any thing else. And she can tell a hundred shortcomin's on me where I can tell you one on her, so there you are, suh. It's give and take, that's what it is, and you just got to do your best, keep on whistlin for cheerfulness' sake and stand ready to make a quick duck if things get too stormy, suh !" iom Strickland could not help " but laugh. "Well, colonel," he responded, "if Mary and I are as happy as you and Mrs. Todhunter I'll be more than satisfied. And I'll try to make her a good husband, I promise you that." "I know you will, Tom," replied Colonel Todhunter. "And I know Mary'll try to fill her part o the con tract the same way too." The young man's gaze went nervous ly past the door through which Mary and her mother had vanished. "I wonder where they are. colonel?" be ventured apprehensively. "I hope there's nothing serious happening." Colonel Todhunter tugged at his griz zled mustache to keep from smiling openly in Tom's face. "Don't you worry none about Mary and her mother, suh," he spoke. "They're just havin' a heart to heart talk on the all absorbin' subject of marriage, Tom, and they got to have a good cry while if s goin' on. I bet they've already shed-- enough briny tears to float a battleship, sub. . That's a woman's way at such a time as this. All mothers has got to wall over their daughters then like they was goin' to die "stead o' gettin' married. But they're all right after that. suh. When Mary and Mrs. Todhnnter get through and wipe each other's weepin' eyes they'll show up out here as serene as a summer's day. I reckon ifs the Good Marster'a will they got to do it that way; suh." ...... At this moment Mrs. Todhunter ap peared in the doorway. She went straight to Tom and put both hands on " his shoulders and kissed him on the forehead. "God bless yoand make both of you happy. Tom," she said, her voice trem bling. - "Mary loves you very dearly. You've got to be a good man, Tom," for her sake. ' You will, too, won't you?" ' Mary's sweet face was now in Tom's view from where she stood in the shadowy old hall behind her mother. The young man bowed his head at Mrs. Todhunter's tremulous speech. "God helping me. I will. Mrs. Tod hunter," he replied. Something very like the dimming of tears came Into Colonel Todhunter's eyes at the picture thus presented. But he strove manfully to conceal the fact of such emotion. "Come out here. Mary," he cried in dignantly. "You've been leavin Tom Bo face the music alone long enough." But when Mary Todhunter obeyed the summons her father took her into his arms and ' pressed his suspiciously quivering lips to her brown hair. "Ain't you ashamed of yourself, hoii ey," he. asked, "for bein' so willing to leave yonr mother and me just because that snip of a Tom Strickland wants you? We're goin to' be mighty lone some without you, daughter." And then because Mary cried, nor face hidden on his breast. Colonel Tod hunter scowled ferociously at Tom. . "It's all-. your fault, you young ras cal," he ejaculated, patting "Mary soothingly on the shoulder at the same time. "You had no business wan tin' her, and you know it." At which not one of his three hearers could refrain from laughing, - and this was precisely what the colonel desired. ' . CHAPTER IX. v Colonel Todhunter Takes the Stump In Rural Missouri. A S a result of Colonel Todhunter's picturesque prosecution of the . Strickland campaign in St. Lou is he was unanimously chosen by the Hon. William J. Strickland's managers to invade the Yancey strong holds throughout the state. "Todhunter's a champion vote getter. Strickland," said old Governor Leslie, "and that's a mighty rare gift Any ordinary spellbinder can keep a candi date's own friends in line during a campaign and get 'em to the polls, on election day. But it takes a man , of uncommon ' qualities to steal friends away from the other fellow. Todhun ter's that sort of man. He's a natural born campaigner, and the sooner we put him right on the firing line the bet ter." This fitted in admirably with the colonel's own wishes. It was at the big barbecue in Dunklin county, where he met the redoubtable Bedford Giles on the stump, that Colonel Todhunter made himself famous throughout the length and breadth of Missouri. Bedford Giles was probably the finest living matter of the old school of perfervid political oratory that once so powerfully swayed the .minds of men in the south and middle west. It may be true that he lacked the sense of humor; but. offsetting this delin quency, he possessed a sort of leonine earnestness that had never failed to score tremendously in the campaigns of which he was a conspicuous figure. The announcement of a speech by Bedford Giles was In itself sufficient to concentrate Missourians at one given point from a radius of twenty miles around. And they were never disappointed, because this renowned spellbinder, in his temperament a rant ing tragedian of the old- Edwin For rest type, Invariably tore their emo tional beings to tatters and left them convinced for all time that they had assuredly been listening to the most Irresistible orator of their day. (To be Continued.) mnm E7 TONIC IN ACTION - QUICK IN RESULT Give prompt relief from BACKACHE KIDNEY and BLADDER TROXJBLIJ RHEUMATISM, CONGESTION of th KIDNEYS, INFLAMMATION of th BLADDER and all annoying URINARY IRREGULARITIES. A positive boon Xc MIDDLE AGED and ELDERLY PEOPLE and for WOMEN. '" HAVE' HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION B. A. Davis, 627 Washinrton St., CoancrsviKq 1 i3 in his &5th year. Ho writes us: 'I he LjiT sT35orecl much from kidneys and biu jc I iiad sever backaches at'd my kiUney act I; r.s too frcqv-ont, causing ino to l-s mach sic ':. uisht, and i iny bladder thre was constF. -in. I took Foley Kidn.?v Pj!l3 for soma tin ' I p.ra now f rae of all trouVile and Rffai a ablo '.- ; pTid :?riniid FoV-.- Iidncy fills have t F. B. BRTLIj, Btratford Avo. and Sixth' St. No matter what you want try the Farmer Want Column. THE FARMER: MARCH 22, Infection Threatens Connecticut Cities Increasing Pollution of Rivers And Streams A Grave Danger RECALLS LONDON SOURCE New York And New Jersey Now Engaged in Suit Over Pas saic Sewage The yachtsmen, fishermen, owners of summer homes, and oystor-growera are arousing the interest of the entire public in the bill recently introduced in the Connecticut Legislature to pre vent pollution of inland and tidal wa ters. The pollution of these waters is now so great that enteric disease is becom ing a dreaded possibility. Hence this bill concerns the whole public instead of only the boatmen and the fishing and shell-fish people. The bill is House Bill No. ?08 and It provides that the supervision of the sanitary condition of all Inland and tidal waters shall rest with the State Board of Health, and that any city, town, corporation or individual found guilty of polluting a stream with filth or refuse shall be made to discontinue the nuisance. Connecticut is not alone in her fight for clean waterways, as laws have al ready been passed in New Tork, Ohio, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, pro? viding for such "cleaning up." In New York state, however, the provisions of the law are not as com prehensive at present as ' they will doubtlesse eventually. The result is that New York harbor is now in a disgraceful condition be cause of the accumulated sewage sent down to it by up-State cities and towns. In fact,v the condition of the har bor is now so bad that every effort is being made by the State of New York to restrain the State of New Jersey from dumping the sewage of the Pas saic River into New York harbor. New Jersey's plan is to build a tunntl emptying at a point near Robbin's Reef, just north of Staten Island, and New York has brought suit in ths courts to prevent the plan being put into effect. Some idea of what this would "mean may be had by referring to the Febr ruary issue . of Heart's Magazine, which contains an article entitled The Lair of the Plague Tiger." Dr. Wm. O'Sullivan, chief assistant tit Archibald E. Watson, Corporation Counsel for Greater New York, speaks as follows regarding the perils from polluted' waterways and it must be remembered that these perils are of the same nature in Connecticut as in New York and that they are rapidly becoming Just as threatening to the health and safety of the inhabitants of this State: "The measure of the digestive ca pacity of water is the oxynan content That the natural BcavengTn? agencies insalt or- fresh water may be able to disintegrate sewage and trade wastes, it- .is necessary that the percentage of dissolved oxygen in water be main tained; at a standard. " In clean fresh or salt water the percentage, of dis solved oxygen is 100. When the -oxygen content goes below 50 per cent, the water dies. Offensive conditions set in. , , - " ' "The percentage of dissolved oxygen at the mouth of the Hudson River, be cause of sewage, is already down jto 55 per cent, the oxygen per cent. 'at the mouth of the East River is down to 54 per cent while in the- upper bay the oxygen has been lowered to between 65 and 70 per cent. These waters are dying; the first two are all but dead. Kill off a few more per cent, of oxygen and these waters will be as dead as those of the Passaic. 1 "When it does occur Manhattan and Brooklyn will be given prompt and awful notices of their death. -Once dead, and the oxygen percentage re duced below 50, putrefaction will set in :as sharply and offensively as though ithe Hudson and East Rivers were two huge dead pythons rotting in the sun. Even without the sew age contribution which New Jersey contemplates, New York's upper bay has already reached the stage where a dry May and June followed by a hot July and August would make Brooklyn and Manhattan Island mal odorous and loathsome." What Dr. O'Sullivan says further regarding the effect of the polluted Passaic River upon the people who live .on or near it, is of special inter est. Indeed it is only a question pt time when the Connecticut, Housaton ic and Thames -Rivers, and smaller water courses in this State, will be come similarly polluted, unlfss leg islation is enacted to protect them. "The Passaic River has become so foul that factories are about to aban don that region, their operatives being made sick or inefficient during the warm months, because of the putres cent gases evolved, from it. The ox ygen content of the Passaic has been reduced to 37 per cent. The river lies dead, and conditions are intoler able. It was that which led up to Hie Passaic project, by which the whole enormous mass- of filth is to be discharged into New York's upper bay. The already low percentage of oxy gen at "the mouths of the Hudson and East rivers, and the rapidly declining oxygen content of the upper-bay, make a water situation which could not re ceive this refuse without provoking sure pertilence. Also that pestilence would be sure to come to the city with all its terrors within the next five years." ' The effect upon the cities of our State, if pollution is to remain un checked and allowed to increase, will be something appalling. It makes one shudder to think of it. Dr. O'Sullivan mentions the action of sewage transported back and forth by the tides: "Sewage discharged Into the Hudson River swims up and down from five to six days before reaching the lower bay. Iuring -these five or s-ix days this sewage is depositing its most ob jectionable elements, and coating the jriver bottom herewith. As to the East River, the sewage and trade waste discharged therein swim back ward and forward with the tides from seven to eight days. The result is that New York's upper bay already has a deep coating of sewage filth all over its bottom. In some places the coating possesses a depth of thirty feet. The filth-floor of the bay is continually undergoing putrefactive changes. The federal authorities, for some time past, have been unable to dredge the main ship channel, during the months of July and August, the 1.913 dredging crews becoming completely overpowered by the stenches evolved from the disturbed sludge." "The Hudson is polluted from above Troy, and the scores of growing com munities along its banks, and, drained by it, are adding to that pollution ev ery day. In earlier times communi ties were punished for their unclean liness by plagues. If we keep on, we cannot long escape. The drainage area into New York's upper bay, as suming that New Jersey has her way, will be roundly 700 square miles. New Jersey, has succeeded, through her own unclean methods, in creating a pestil ential condition along the Passaic. She now proposes to relieve this condition by discharging the whole vile mass in to New York's upper bay. Should she be allowed to do this, it would beget a worse state of affairs than "that which shut up. the houses of Parlia ment and the law courts in 1858. The then population of London numbered but three millions. . The population of -what regions in New York-, and New Jersey are about to set that ex perience at defiance count above sev en million people. Upon such terms, we will be twice as badly scourged as London was. A word about the great London plague of 1858, due to polluted water, will be of interest: For the first time in the history of man, the sewage of nearly three mil lions of people had been brought to seeth and ferment under a burning sun in one vast cloaca the Thames lying open in their very midst.. Stench so foul, we may well believe, had never before ascended to pollute this lower airi For weeks the atmosphere of Parliamentary committee rooms was only rendered barely tolerable by the suspension before every window of blinds saturated with chloride of lime, and by the lavish use of this and other disinfectants. More than once, in .spite of similar precautions, the law courts were suddenly broken up by an insupportable invasion of the noxious vapor. T,he river steamers lost their accustomed traffic; travelers pressed for time made a circuit of many miles rather than cross one of the city bridges. More significant still of the magnitude of the nuisance was the fact that five millions' of pounds were voted, by a heavily tax ed community, to provide means for its abatement. Dr.Ord reported to the Privy Council that steamboat men on the Thames suffered severely from languor, headache, . sore throat, nau sea, giddiness, mental confusion in other words, from, poisoning. There can be no question that the population of Connecticut will be threatened likewise if the pollution of our watercourses Is not abolished. The principles underlying the pro posed legislation (House Bill No. 707) has . been demonstrated and endorsed by such eminent scientists as Prof William T. Sedgwick of the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, Prof. Frederick Gorham of Brown Univer sity, Rudolph Hering, the famous san itary engineer, Dr. Townsend of the State Board of Health, Dr. L. O. How ard, Chief of the U. S. Bureau of En tomology, and Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, formerly Chief of the Pure Food Bu reau of the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. - As the interest of the entire public are directly affected . by the proposed legislation, it has been suggested that the readers of this paper write to their State Senators and Representatives, rirging them to Support House Bill No. 70S. 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(My commission . expires Feb. 1, 1915.) a AS WELL AND AS MUCH No merchant ever failed if he advertised as WELL and as MUCH as he could. LIMITLESS I VARIETY Jl Of SMART SPRING FOOTWEAR 1 for W031E.V MISSES GROWING ;iiu; BOYS AND SMALL CHILDREN Anatomik Shoe for men,, women and children afflict ed with broken instep or fiatfoot ii :J ; il W.K.M0LIAN'S 1023 MAIN ST. EASTER GREETINGS, - CARDS AND BOOEXETS Post Office News Store It ARCADE Kelley's Cigar Store 141 FAIRFIELD AVE. Tlie best cigars made In Import! nd domestic brand. Complete tiam of cmokersf supplies. JAMES H KELLY LADIES HAIR DRESSING Shampoo, Facial Haaaare, Seals Treatment, Marcel Wave, 8prr flnonf Hair removed wiU Klectla Needle, Manlcurin. Harriet E. Sherwood 112 Sernctty EafMfns; t!lH MAIN ST. Phone 1ST VLUMBING. HEATING. TINNING, CTKAM AND GAS TtTTLNG Oar Work Guaranteed Prices Right B. II. IIORVITZ B41 EAST WASHINGTON AVK. Notice to Property Owners Notice Is hereby given, that the un dersigned is required by law, to Till liens against all property on whicii the taxes upon the list of 1911 d i May, 1912) remain unpaid on th lt day of March. 1913. Farmemt wiii be received at the office of the Col lector, Room 6, City Hall, up to and including Monday, March ,31, 1313, without lien expense. B. F. COONET. S 17 d Collector. CHICHESTER S PILLS DIAMOND RRAM) fii.i, f-v 2 yeuiknownaf Best, Safest. Air SOLO BY DRUGGISTS VtSV2:E BACHMAN'S FMMKSAGOQCH MIXXCRE A splendid Female Regulator la eaa of suppressed menstruation, delays doe to colds, til health, or othr na. natural causes r $1.76 for ta wttoi outfit,' Made only at ths .WOMAN'S DKCO ETORB 870 Maui 'istreet, Bridgeport. Coca. Lady Attendants Always Hers SIDEWALKS 6and and Gravel THE BURNS CO. 3 FAIR FIELD AVENUE BEOKBN STONE, all sizas . EOOFINQ 014 IWeplwwas Hawley, Wilmot & Reynolds Undertakers sad Emtelnwn No. 168 State St, Bridgeport. C. An calls, day or nlirbt, wwff. ed from office. George B. Hw- ley, 61 Vine St., near Park A r ; Edward H. Wilmot, 865 Clinton A v.; John B. Reynolds, 39 Went Av. Wm. Lieberum & Sen! I ranbalxners and TJndertaksss ( I Office and Residence ( Ml MAIK (TRBKTtj Telephone Connection i John F. Gallagher Undertakers and Embslmera Margaret L. Gallagher The Only Graduate and licensed Woman iu the City S71 FAIRFIELD AV. Tf. 12SQ ROURKE & HOUR! Undertakers and Exnbalmers 1 1285 MAIN STREET. Tel. I fll , Calls Answered Day or Wth .4 M. J. GANNON FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND K M B A L M E li 1061 Broad St., near John Tbone S40S ! Residence, 1CSO Park Ava. 'Phone 135 4 Girl Wanted? Eeafi tit Farmer Want Ad3. ji t hl-cheM lrlaa,ond ((raaAV JMI! In Red ! Void WTic V boxes, eel wttto BJwsi ic ;on. V Take no tlrer. Tiny of " DraffarlMt. Ak fnr: lfl- Iffr.H.TVW ft" v