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iH,,1.,Mril.r,ll.MWBIm,wiilM.l, Mmmm -tttimmiHumft, mm ftni iiiliMtnM-'rtHi ii.imrrti iMnir.nliiiiiiiaii - r-i m-tm nmma ' - 11 tin ifryi-i tw.innt rim m liiiiufci ir-' -- u - - ....... , , ,.. .n . 1 18 THE FARMER : APRIL 25, 1913 lux 0k Y ,rfi v f . xv f -51 PRESIDENT TAFT'S TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO MAJOR ARCHIBALD W. BUTT. Major Archibald W. Butt was ono of tho hefroes of the Titanic Ho was President Taffa military aid. After Major Butt's death the president, with tears i.-s his eyes and faltering voice, made him the subject of one of the moat heartfelt eulogies ever pronounced over a gallant man, praising his manhood, his courage, his loyalty, his self sacrifice. ' . ' . . , . . "Everybody knew Archie as Archie,"' said the president. "I cannot go into a box at a theater, I cannot turn around in my room', I cannot go anywhere, without expecting to see his smiling' face or to hear his cheerful voice in greeting The life of the president is rather isolated, and those appointed to live with him come much closer to him than any one else. The bond is very close, and it is difficult to speak on such an occasion. ..... Archie Butt's character was simple, straightforward and incapable of intrigue. A clear sense of humor light ened his life and those about him. Life was not for him a troubled problem. He was a soldier, and, when he was appointed to serve under another, to that other he rendered implicit loyalty. I never knew a man who had so much self abnegation, so much self sacrifice, as Archie Butt. ""Occasions like the striking of the Titanic frequently develop unforeseen traits in men. It makes them heroes when you don't expect it. But with Archie it was just as natural for him to help those about him as it was for him to ask me to permit him to do something for some one for me. , . "He was on the deck of the Titanic exactly what he was everywhere. He (eaves a void with those who loved him, but the circumstances of his going are all that we would have had, and, while tears fill the eyes and the voice is choked, we are felicitated by the memory of what he was." - - Before entering upon military life Major Butt displayed high literary ability. The best of his atones Is "Both Sides of the Shield," a splendidly written romance of love and war. - (Continued.) "Bravely Bliuii:" abe cried. .... "And I will do-Tf ial? I caif make-you take Christmas dinner -with us. And now remember to be nice to all the" homely plrls you see tomorrow evening1, and I promise not to get jealous even if you dance with the pretty ones as well." Bud was still asleep . when we got back to the house. "We roused him, and all went quietly to bed. I did not Bleep much that night, and somehow I Aid not think Miss Ellen did either, for I did not feel as lonely as when every body was unconscious in that spacious mansion. I CHAPTER V. The Wishing Stone. IB' TTF girls who had been invited to spend the night at the Pines came early the next day, and I vent, to the fields with Bad. for Miss Ellen told me that I would only be in the way if I stayed at home. I saw Bud at his plow and watched how cheerfully he did the work of a day laborer. t I lit my pipe and walked several of the furrows with him, and then, heartsick at see ing this fine specimen of young man hood trudging wearily to and fro in the thankless soli, I wandered off In the woods to dream of Miss Ellen and weave schemes for the rest of the fam ily when she would have become my wife. When? The question brought with it a flood of doubt, for.i after all, would she give up the work she had undertaken, or would her pride allow her to accept any assistance for her family? I felt there were depths to her nature which I had not been able to sound hi the short time I had been there. For fear of wounding her I had re mained silent, but I was now resolved to speak to her before leaving, and had I received orders that night to return ' to Boston I would have told her of my boundless love and asked her to be come my wife. Still wavering between my inclination to declare my love and fear of being too precipitate, I returned to the Pines. I did not see her until dinner time, however, then only during r hasty meal, after which we assisted her to clear the table and place a number of small ones on the side porch for the party. We laid the collation for the evening's .entertainment and then went to dress. It was with some misgivings that I donned my evening suit, but on com I Ing downstairs I found the colonel ar rayed in one of an anterior date and Bud transformed from the plow hand of "the morning in the suit he had worn at the time of his graduation. A number of young girls had arrived be fore Miss Ellen came down, and the men were assembled at the foot of the stairs as If waiting for her. My heart seemed to stop beating as I ijw her lithe and graceful figure, clad in an old brocade of ber mother, coming toward me. Her hair was built high on her head, which seemed to change her whole appearance and made me start as I remembered my dream picture. The brocade was fad ed, but its gloss and richness remain pd. Her shoulders were bare, and her tilted chin gave her the nlr of some quaint old medieval picture come to life. "Am i- not In keeping with the bouse?" she said. Interpreting my gaze. "You are like a queen," I said. Then you shall pay ine court for this one night," she answered and held out her hand to me, which I took, and, with the manner of an old time south ern gentleman, Just as I h:ul seen Colo nel Turpin do, I bowed low and for a moment let my lips linger on the tips f her fingers. "Ton have other courtiers," said one of several men who came forward to Join us. She held out her hand, and as she flld so fine looked at me for a second. Khe withdrew it gracefully and added, with a smile, "I was only admitting a new one," and then bade me fol low her. She Introduced me here and there and told me how many times I must dance with each. We went on the porcb, and, standing there, I was again struck with the resem blance to the lady In my dream. "You are like the first part of my. picture, I said softly. "Then let me play it fori this even ing," she said. "And If you can im agine me a colonial dame you shall be a courtier from King George's court." "Good," I cried, 'if you will admit tbat I have come across the seas oJ f I m 1:1 Ik inw fj&f MAJORJ ARCHIBALD W. BUTT Copyright, 1905, by J. B. Lippincott company. All right a-wooing!" "As you wfll, my lord," spreading out her gown and Courtesying. "But I will not be responsible for the conse quences. So see to it that you play well your part, else I will send you to your king again." After that I addressed her only as "most gracious lady" or "fair Mistress Ellen." I wooed her in the strange and quaint language of a hundred Xyears ago. Sometimes she seemed Startled at my earnestness, and when thinking my speech too fervent she would bid me go hence and add an other wallflower to iny already large bouquet ! I would straightway return and tell her of the court life and wove amid my imagery an odd mixture of my New England home. Once, taking her hand for a moment and looking Into her eyes, I said: "Ah, Ellen, I love you well, and I would take you to a court In truth where you would find a royal welcome, and you would be a queen to every one who knew you, and I would so guard you that neither poverty nor sorrow should ever come near you or to those you love." "I have naught to do with courts, ray lord," she said with a certain pathos, and I knew she was thinking of her duty at the Pines. . "So go back to your king, and, whether he be ambition or gold, or both, forget the simple colo- nial dame who more often plays the part of dairymaid. And now," she said, looking into my eyes and laugh ing, "go and seek out every maid over twenty-nine, and when you have- led them all through the graceful minuet come back to me." And I would do as bid and dance some old time watfz with some lonely maid and then return to Miss Ellen's side only to be sent away again to some one ' who she noticed was not dancing. Finally the supper hour was announced, and I was made happy by Miss Ellen, who chose me as her part ner for the march. Just as we were forming into line some one cried, "It is the hour for the wishing stone!" and then one and all, save myself, for. I did not know what was meant by the wishing stone, Joined in the clamor. Miss Ellen yielded at length, and, still holding my hand and bidding me give the other to the girl behind me, and so on down the line, we started out of the house through one of the deep, low cut windows. We circled the porch, crossed the gardens and passed .down the terrace. The moonlight filtering through the trees glimmtrM brightly on the colored frocks as we sped down the cedar lane. At length we emerged on an open knoll in the center of which was au old stone sundial covered with ivy. We formed a circle round it, and Miss El len, letting go my hand, stood on a step by its side and, calling one after an other by name, bade each lay his or her hand on the bare surface of the stone where tho ivy had been cut away and to make a wish. One looking on might have thought we were a band of se cret plotters taking the onth of allegi ance on a tomb. It was no Jesting mat ter, I could see, for each one in that gay party approached the stone In si lence and reverence. The only sound that broke the stillness was that of .Miss Ellen's voice as she called each name in turn. At last my name was called, a little more gently than the others, I thought, and Miss Ellen, see ing me approach, held up her hand and motioned me to stop. "And now, Mr. Palmer," I heard her saying, "as a stranger to the wishing stone it behooves you to approach it reverently. There is no reason to tell the others this, for they know the legend aud its secret charms, but to you, who know it not and who come as a stranger to it, tempt not its anger by deriding it, even la your thoughts, or Its indifference by wishing for what is impossible. It was at this stone that my great-grcat-grand father wished for his bride, and in less than a fortnight they were wed. He enjoined his sons to seek this spot before wooing the wo men of tholr choice, aud it is a strange fatality that all our family who have not done so have gone to their graves unloved old bachelors and the women who have derided it as old maids. Of later years it has become the custom for lovesick youths and maidens in the town and county to seek it out and test its charms, and many a happy home owes more than we may imagine to the legend which clings about this ivy col ored dial. The moment has arrived when you can test its power too." Already I had become a firm believer TOW p.i . Treses -w. reaarved. "It behooves- you to approach it rev erently." In the wishing stone. Laying my hand on it and looking into the lovely eyes of Ellen, I made my wish and added a prayer that it might find favor with the fates. After I had finished we Joined hands again and made three circles around the stone. Then all be gan to laugh, and some one started up the rollicking chorus of 'Tis love; 'tis love, Tls love that makes the world go round. All joined in save Miss Ellen and me, for we strolled back Somewhat slower than the others. "What did you wish?" I asked, but she only shook her head and said she could not tell. "I wished that you" I got no fur ther, for she gave a startled cry that checked me before I could finish the sentence. "Don't oh, don't!" she said. "You have already said too much. I ought to have told you not to tell your wish, for If you do the fates become perverse and mock you.. If you even hint of what you have asked in secret some thing will happen to mar its complete fulfillment. I am sorry you spoke about it at all," and I thought her face grew a little paler. I dared not speak again, and we walked on in silence and joined the others in the old oaken dining room. Mr. Lamb asked the blessing, and the girls sat down, while the men waited on them and brought them supper. After a merry hour we danced again, and the incident of the wishing stone was soon forgotten In the frolic of the old Virginia reel. Miss Ellen led this old fashioned dance with me, and many a pretty ankle was displayed that night as toes were pointed and courtesies made, and many a' little love scene, too, went on that night, but I was too busy with my own af fairs to watch what others did. When the candles had burnt down to their' sockets and Mr. Lamb said the band had struck, then began the good nights, which lasted for another half an hour. The wagons were brought round and the horses saddled, and soon the whole gay company start ed like a cavalcade. Long after they had left we could hear them singing through the pines. Bud saddled his horse and rode out into the night to think of some young girl, I thought, but Miss Ellen Baid no; that sometimes when he became rest less he would ride for hours and re turn always with a. brighter heart and more cheerfully take up the bur den of his life again. When I bade Miss Ellen good night on the landing I held the tips of her fingers for a mo ment. (To be Continued.) There is no case on record of a cough, cold or lagrlppe developing In to bronchitis, pneumonia or consump tion after Foley's Honey and Tar Compound has been taken. The genu ine Is in a yellow package. Refuse substitutes. F. B. Brill, Stratford ave nue and Sixth street. 1 3 5 farmer Want Ads lc a word nave iuiui 111 iuur Cheeks-Be Better Looking-Try Olive Tablets If vour skin is yellow complexion nallld-7 tongue coated appetite .poor a bad taste in your mouth a iazy, no-good feeling you should take Olive Tablets. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets a sub stitute for calomel were prepared by Dr. Edwards arter l i years or stuny with his patients. These Olive Tablets oil the bowels yet have no oily taste. They are a vegetable compound mixed, with olive oil. If you want a clear pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days, you must get at the cause. Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calo mel yet have no dangerous after ef fects. The? start the bile and over come constipation. Thafs why mil lions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 26c per box. "Every little Olive Tablet has a movement all its own." Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing re sults. The Olive Tablet Company, Colum bus, O. Adv. VANDYKE QATJLITY always UP PRICE always DOWN We sell Quali-Tea 35c lb, 3 lbs $1.00 The Best.. 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Mew Tors," To the Board of County Commission ers of Fairfield County: I hereby apply for a transfer of a license No. 228 to sell Spirituous and Intoxicating Liquors, Ale, Eager Beer, Rhine "Wine and Cider from Martin Czako, at 383 Hancock avenue, to Martin Czako at 625 Bostwick ave nue. Town of Bridgeport. The pro posed place of business Is not locat ed within 200 feet in a direct line of a Church Edifice or Public School house, or the premises . pertaining thereto, or any Post Office, Public Library or Cemetery. Dated at Bridgeport this 12th day of April, A. D., 1913. k MARTIN CZAKO, Applicant. We, the undersigned, electors and taxpayers,! as defined by law, of the Town of Bridgeport, hereby endorse the application of the above named Martin Czako for such license and we do severally certify each for himself that we are taxpayers owning real es tate situated in said Town of Bridge port. Dated at Bridgeport this' 12th day of April. A. D. 1913. John Dichaz, Joseph Koletar, Mich ael Kozma, Emery Orocz, John Les- ko. I hereby certify that the above named endorsers are electors and tax payers, as defined by law, of the Town of Bridgeport. Dated at Bridgeport this 12th day of AprU A. D. 1918. WILLIAM THOMAS Town Clerk. U 18 bp 5 6 8TEAMBOAT8 Bridgeport Ling to New York FARE 60 CENTS STEAMER NACGATTJCK leava Bridgeport Pequonnock Wharf, foot of Union Street, daily, except Satur day, at 12 night. Returning, leav New York, Pier 27. E.R., daily, excep ; Sundays. 11 A. M. Due Bridgepori :20 P. M. 1j. 15. NICKER SOX, Aprt. The New England Steamship Compan i MERCHANT'S LINE Daily Except Sunday Leaves New York, Pier 19, East River,. 3 p. m. Ine at Bridgeport, 7:SO ix. m. Leave Bridgeport, Joy Line Dock, 2 a. m. Arrive New York 7 a. m. For further information and rates apply to J. B. 3hepard, Agent. ADVERTISE IN THE FARMER. Next Winter the price of coal will be high er than it is now. The pres ent price is the lowest in years. Why not take advantage of this opportunity to put in a supply a binful of coal in your cellar is a valuable as set. APRIL PRICE Nut Coal $6.25 Stove or Egg $6.00 25c 0ft for Cash (Immediate Delivery) THE Wheeler & Howes Company Stratfield Hotel Bldg. AND CQNGRESS ST. BRIDGE DO NOT NEGLECT THE HALL Too many people are too willing to let the hall of the house take care of itself the idea of appropriate fur nishings for it receives but scant attention which is wrong of course since of all places the hall should ex tend a warm and courteous welcome. Our new stocks reveal a wealth of pleasing surprises in furniture of this descrip tor A few minutes of your time will perhaps decide the perplexing question of just what is needed to impart an air of greater hospitality to tne entrance nan or your home. - Geo. B. Clark & Co. 1057-1073 BROAD ST. Opposite Post Office GET THE HABIT -USE FRISBIE'S PIES- SOLD AT ALL STORES Engraved Wedding Invitations Calling Cards Fine Stationery at SOUTHWORTH'S lO ARCADE $29 to $99 A Few Higher 1 $5 DOWN 50c A WEEK 15 PER CENT DISCOUNT FOR CAjSH. NAUGATUCK GARDENS AT NAUGATUCK JUNCTION 5c fare both city and beach. Free ears, 9 and 2 daily. Opening Day, THURSDAY. APRIL 17 J. W. WILBUR LAND CO. 1294 MAIN STREET U23 b 3 5 HOME DRESSED POULTRY So much of the cold storage va riety on the market just now that we know you'll appreciate our fresh killed fowl, even though the price Is a bit higher F. W. BEHRENS, JR. MARKET- 162 FAIRFIELD AVE. Telephone 781 Farmer Want Ads lc a word! AMUSEMENTS PARK THEATRE Thursday, Friday, Saturday Matinee Every Day THE TAXI GIRLS. Joe Hnrtlg Offers a Big Joy Ride wlb Taxi Girls and 52 CHAUFFEURS OF FUN 52 Headed by the Farrell Taylor Trio Mori, and Tues. Popular Mat. 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