New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1914, Page 8

EW BRITAIN HERALD MERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietons. hed daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. at Herald Building, 67 Church St Office at New Britain Mail Matter. d at the Post as Second Class ivered by carrier to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. eriptions for paper to be sent by mall payable in advance. 60 Cents a Month $7.00 a year. o only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. e Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling’s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. siness Office. itorial Rooms. —— IGOVERNMENT HAS SURPLUS. The closing of the fiscal year June , shows a surplus of $33,784,452 in e national treasury, provided that hnama canal payments are disre- rded and if they are not then there’ 11 be a deficit, but the law provides at bonds may be issued to reim- rse the treasury for such payments. ‘Washington administration circles is felt that the financial results b the year are a vindication of the tariff law. The income tax has bt yielded as large & return as was pected by several millions of dol-| , but the total amount of the sur- jus comes within less than 84.00?,000 _the estimate of the secretary of & treasury. | There has beeh & difference of opin- jn among congressional leaders of pogite paruq‘\ a¥ 'to the new tariff s a rovsqxg«woducer, the re- ns clafming it would be & and the democrats would be ed to amend it in order to jt realize the needed ‘incomei This as now been digpelled and the nistration is being vindicated in ‘financial calculations, which |is Bite" important as it is being put pon the griddle for its management the affairs; the country. "It was not feally expected that the hcome tax would be as great a suc- s as a revenue producer the first r as it will later when the govern- ent has had a better opportunity b observe its manner of operation ind to get a line on the people who re obliged to pay. The general sen- iment is that a great many are not aying as much as they should and jhe government is going to have a ificult time of it in getting down o the details and ascertaining just ow much each should pay and then, lo see that they do pay. The law itself is a bit intricate, advantage s being taken of it in this way and lhe government will undoubtedly find t necessary to clear it up in such manner as will permit it to re- feive all that belongs to it. The sur- blus, however, is an almost positive ndication that the government is on he right track, that fts legislative cts will do what hfln!eted and that business revwai is ‘eoming to the ountry. _THE DICTAGRAPH AGAIN, The dictagraph has been heard Ny again. A woman patient was ot dead through a window in a octor’s officé-at Freeport, Ly L, this eek and an ‘investigation revealed a fictagraph in the .house, one end eing in the doctor's office and the ther in a drawer of his wife's desk in hn upper roomi ‘The woman is sup- gsed to have been jealous of her usband and employed this means in der to hear what he had to say to his woman patients. On the morning fter the murder of the wotman in her [husband’s office she had the dicta- raph removed but when questioned @amitted the -whole thing ' to -the heriff. ‘The - authorities are now eeking a ‘mysterious woman whom hey think committed the murder. It. ls a queer case but it looks as If ‘the police will in a short time ‘have the guilty party in custody. The dictagraph first came into prominence through Willlam J. Burns, the detective; it has alse been used in other criminal cases and it has been made to play a prominent part in the gramatic production, “The Argyle Case,” in which Robert Hilliard gtarred a season or two ago in New York. In the Freeport murder case it may be the means of un- raveling a mystery that so far has not shown either the slayer of an ap- parently innocent person or even a motive for such a crime, OF PROGRESSIVE PARTY AND SENATOR ROOT. ‘'he New York Tribune which is gupporting the progressive nominee for United States senator in ~Penn- ‘sylvania as against the republican candidate who received & very large yote in the primaries, is inquiring why on the face of the pesition taken Iv Colonel Roosevelt in his Pittsburg speech the progressive party, shoula ot disappear.. It inquires what need Is there of two opposition parties, both mmmmmflfi ALK upon the issues that are likely to be uppermost in the coming campaign. If the people disapprové the demo- cratic tariff policy it says that the republican party is their historic re- course. If they wish to hold the democratic administration responsible for hard times they will naturally con- centrate upon a party which has hopes of winning, not throw their votes away in behalf of one which repre- sents a constantly dwindling minority, It then goes on to say that there |is need for a progressive party in Penn- sylvania where it says the republi- cans made the serious mistake of nominating Penrose who has been in the senate for a number of years. The Tribune, however, does - re- gret the retirement of Senator Root in New York, he having made the announcement that he will not run again. He is an able man and his ability has been generally admitted. i Even Mr. Roosevelt has characterized him of the best of presidential timber. Senator Root has given as a reason for retirement that he is get- ting old and were he to serve another term he would then be seventy-five years of age, but as .he has been a corporation lawyer all his life and has never come before the people as a candidate for office, if he did he would probably be de- feated. Whether Mr. Root had this in mind when reaching a determina- tion not to be a candidate for senator is a question, but whether he “had or not he will be missed in the sen- ate where he is now one of the lead- ing figures. In discussing this point the Tribune says that Mr. Root coula be elected if any republican could. FIRE DANGERS AROUND FOURTH . Just now the people In almost every city are being warned to.be.careful about fires around the Fourth.. In the promiscuoug discharge of fire- works there is always more or less danger of property being set on fire and once a fire gains any headway there is no telling where it will stop or what the damage will be. Danger from fireworks is not to be confound- ed with the firing of buildings as a Joke, which has been done on many occasions in New Britain and prob- ably other places. Many will remember the efforts that were repeatedly made to burn the old band stand which stood for so many Yyears on the southern part of Central park. It has cost the city a good sized sum of money for police service to protect that building, not from the rough element, but from the elite, who had misconstrued the statement of one John Adams, who said that In- dependence day should be celebrated with the ringing of bells, the dis- charging of cannon and as they fig- ured it out the burning of bandstands, but the ol.d building stood until it was torn down under lawful authority. It is recalled that one supernumerary upon being' detailed with several others to watch the band stand on' the night before the Fourth, asked where he should station himself and was informed that he should get into it and stay there until morning, and if there were any rows started nearby not to leave his place. This precau- tion was taken because in the pre- vious year a couple of specials left the building to stop what they thought was a fight and while they were gone some one set fire to the building, but the blaze was quickly extinguished. There does not appear to be so much of that kind of thing carrted on now- adays, but there is still need of watch- fulness as regards fire, The department has'been called out several times in years past to extin- guish’ incipient fires when the only object of the disturbers was to bring out the firemen. That kind of thing is against the law and those who may feel inclined to commit such an' of- fense this year may well keep this fact in mind. It may be the means of .eaving them some money. CONNECTIOUT CONGRESSMEN, “It is generally understood that ghere will be no opposition to the re-nomination of Congressman Au- gustine Lonergan in the first district. Congressman Lonergan’'s admirable record at Washington will bring him a re-nomination unanimously and it the ' electors of the -first district are informed as to the good work he has done in their behalf at Wash- ington he should be elected by an in- creased majority.”—Bridgeport Tele- gram. . A similar prediction has been made by fenator Landers and this seems to be ‘the feeling throughout the state. Mr. Lonergan has been very attentive to his work and those who have haad public business dealings with him In Washington all have a good word to say for him. It is claimed, how- ever, that the other Connecticut con- gressmen may not be so' lucky, al- though there is no evidence that Con- gressman Mahan is desirous of a re- nomination for the same office al- though he would in all probability like to be nominated for United States senator. There is some talk of opposition te C_onxreesman Ken- nedy and algo against Congressman ' Donovan but it 100ks as if Congressh man Reilly would have a walkover for a re-nomination. E. J. Hill is said to be an uplram. for Jerry Donovan's place and the Bridgeport Telegram says that he has practically made the announcement of his candidacy. Jerry beat Hill by something over 1,400 votes two years | ago, but it is' thought that he would give Jerry a closer fight this time, un- less it is that Mr. Hill may be garded as one whose ideas of govern- ment are of the past and it is well known that he has not changed his Congressman Donavan has re- views. created some excitement in Washing- | ton and for a new member has made himself pretty well acquainted, too well perhaps. FACTS AND FANCIES. A New Britain man ,who drove a lame horse after having been warned rot to use the animal was fined $25 and costs in that city the other day. It served him right and the probabil- ities arethat hereafter he will think twice before he uses a horse that is afflicted with lameness.—Naugatuck News. ¥ Colonel Roosevelt is not inclined to take the advice of his doctors, a course which a lot of people follow, though the doctor is usually found to be right, even though he may seem to be a practitioner in politics as well as medicine.—Norwich Bulletin. Representative Mondell of Wyom- irg ‘says: “I don’t think anyone doubts that Roosevelt expects to ob- tain the republican nomination for the presidency in 1916.” In view of the «<olonel’s recent’ utterances, the gates of the Ananias - club. m almost ready to swing open for f of a new member.—Bridge dard. And still the quiet work for defe- gates is going on all around state in the democratic camp. runs across it everywhere. If it cut to be effective and backed b right kind of “stuff” some one is to be tremendously surprised ¥ the democratic state convention mé in September.—Bridgeport Post There is an ounce of common sense in the weather man’s makeup. He knows when to keep the weather cool enough so that the fellow who cam’t afford a shore cottage, or who wants to learn how to play golf before going on his vacation, may be kept happy a little of the time.—Water- bury Republican. Pennsylvania railroad passenger trainmen have Tteceived instructioms that whenever passenger coaches are crowded a member of the train crew must announce the number of seats available in other coaches, and must also tell the number of seats available in each coach. Special attention is di- rected to this practice at the larger terminals where passengers are liable to be inconvenienced by the conges- tion of travel.—New Haven Union. More power to the arm of Austria as she deals righteously and sternly with the groups of anarchists within her borders. Those who make a busi- ness of assassination need not be sur- prised at the passion with which their program is greeted by those who are the victims of their bloody trade. The greater the number of anarchists im- prisoned or put to death in Austria the less the number able to flee the country and bring their detestable doctrines here.—Ansonia Sentinel. How Immorality Is Banished. (B:.imore Sun.) A life insurance company has re- fused to pay a molicy of $5,000 writ- ten by it upon the life of a western man who was shot to death by a jeal- ous woman. The company claims that a married man who has an affi- nity has assumed a great risk. In concealing knowledge of that risk from the company he commits a fraud upon it and therefore invalidates the contract. Tyis particular policy- holder, it should be premised, had been asked the gquestion, ‘“Are you engaged in any hazardous undertak- ing?” and had said that he was not. Science und business are the great factors making for morality in these times. Ganbling is taboo nowadays because en.: !cyers, even though they have a little game themselves now and then, will not trust gambling em- ployes. Drinking is coming to an end because the railroads and other big corpora‘ivns will not have drink- ers in their er:ploy. Affinities may become unpo; tlar shortly, not because they are .- «cral but because they invalidate life insurance. Henry Drummond uvsed to say that advances in mental and psychological study would ensahle sveryone very shortly to read the t™cughts in everyone else's mind and that this would banish all crime and immorality, because no one then would dare think an ugly or an immeoral thowght. Thus is the millennium achieved. In Better Condition. (Philad~lphia Telegraph.) One afternoon a stranger happened in a country town, and while attend- ing to some business in the corner grotery a old man rambled in. The stranger became interested and asked him his age. “I am just 100 vears old,” answered the old man, sitting on a packing box. “Is that so?” jokingly responded the stranger. ‘“Well, I'll bet you don’t live to see another hundred.” “I don’t know about that,” was the smiling rejoinder of the aged native. “I am a lot stronger now than 1 was when I started on my first hun- dred.” i o’clock, Saturday at 9, as usual. ——————————— ey In long Russian tunic style, $1.98 Full Length, Tan With strap across back 'as DAY $1.48. : $2.98 Full Length, Most serviceable for DAY $1.98. 0dds and Ends of $1.98 ik llé Black and colors, only a few FRIDAY 88c. White Shoes = PUMI low Cuban heels, made of Sea Island Duck and Canvas, regu- ‘Jar $1.50 value, FRIDAY $1.19. BATHING SHOES, all colors, take a pair with you to the shore, 29¢ and up. WOMEN’S WHITE CANVAS OXFORDS, with rubber soles, worth $2, on sale FRIDAY at $1.39 and $1.50. ’Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. LY 2, 1914, This Store will close Fridays at 12 o’clock, July 10 to September 11 Two styles of flowered crepe, tunic model D € with double minaret, skirt piped, regular $3.98 value, . $3.98 New White and Pencil Stripe Woo! Serge Skirts, Friday but New Voile a Blouses Organdie Blouses of allover embroidery, some have fine pin tucks, with flare collar and vestee, finished with embroid- ery and a choice of other good models made of voile and tunic silks, colors and white, regular $1.50 yalue, FRIDAY $1.00. DAILY DELIVERY in New Britain, Elmwood, Newington, Cedar Hill,: Hill and Clayton. : WISE, SMITH & Co., "HARTFORD,, Other d.n at 6 SMITH & CO. $3.98 New Style Wasli ; $2.00 ON SALE FRIDAY AT 90 5 Maple Our Restaurant, an_ ideal place for a light lunch, a cup of tea or substantial re- past. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. Western Harvest Wages. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) Two boys from Columbus, O., who went west in search of high wages as harvest hands have written back home that they can find plenty of work, but not at fancy prices. Ac- cording to the Columbus Dispaten “they have encountered the $2-a-day employer who works his mem from 4 a. m. to 9 p. m,_ with fifteen min- utes for dinner and supper, but they have yet to discover the $5-a-day employer such as one reads about.” Up to date these two Ohio boys have tried Oklahoma and and they are now trying Nebraska. All these states have been employing outside help in order that they might save their wheat crops. Desperate cases require desperate remedies, but no farmer is going to pay $5 a day to harvest hands If he can get them for $2. As a matter of fact, much of the imported labor probably is dear at the $2 figure. The hours of work on the farm are long but one to find that out. In many instances they are unreasonably long and this is one of the reasons why the boys are leaving the rural districts and why farm labor constantly is becom- ing scarce, The Kansas people ought not, how- ever, to talk about $5-a-day wages if they mean to pay only $2 a day. The average Ohio or Kentucky farm boy can get $2 a day at home during the harvest season. There could not be much profit in taking a trip to Kan- sas to work two or three weeks at the same stipend. Two dollars a day will hardly pay railroad fare and abrased fingers of the Ohio or Ken- tucky youth who is lured to the western fields by promises of $5 a day and board. The Moon and the Crops. (San Antonio Light.) One by one they are taking our ancient beliefs from us—these scien- tists, A black cat across the path is just as unlucky as a white cat, and no more so, Thirteen at table will mean a death in the company within a vear if one of the company was go- ing to die anyway. It is bad luck to walk under a ladder if the ladder falls or the painter drops a can of paint. A journey begun on a Friday possesses the same chance for fortune or mis- fortune as a journey begun on Thurs- day or Saturday. Now come a lot of weather sharps at Washington to tell us that the moon has nothing to do with the weather. “The belief, still to be found in all ‘countrles, that the planets and the Kansas | need not leave Ohio and go to Kansas | buy arnica for the blistered arms and ; moon do affect the weather never had any scientific basis whatever,” says a bylletin issued by the depart- ment of/ agriculture. “It is only-a remnant of the many superstitions generated and fostered by that other greater superstition, astrology.” And the bulletin finally concludes: . “We have every reason to believe that neither the planets nor the moon can have any appreciable effect on the weather, because they furnish so lit- tle heat, upon which all weather changes ultimately depend, and this bellef is fully supported by weather records.” Did you ever hear anything like that in all your life? These scientists would have us believe that the change of the moon has nothing to do with whether or not the weather varies. They would tell us, forsooth, that a “wet moon” and a “dry moon" are all the same, so far as affecting the chances of a good crop. They would set their new-fangled science up against the folk lore of centuries. Doesn’t everybody know that a “wet moon” means rain, and a “dry moon” means a drouth? Suppose it doesn’t always work, it works often enough | to keep the belief alive, doesn't it? Of course there is this to be said, that some folks say it is a “wet moon" when the corners are turned up “to hold the water in"” and others call it a “wet moon” when the point is down to “spill the water out,” but the re- sult is that about half of them are | right, whatever happens, Drat these scientists, anyway! They are iconoclas all of them. First thing we know, somebady will issue a bulletin to the effect that it isn't lucky to see the new moon over your right shoulder, or that there is a chance you may not get your wish if you say that little “Starlight, star bright,” verse over the “first star you see tonight.” We no sooner get to really knowing a thing than some | image-breaker comes along and says | it 1sn’t so. | Besides—if we don’t know how does anybody know it it is so, isn't so? | Married Seventy-eight Years. (Sioux City Burlington Iowa, Gazette) Seated beneath the shade of an elm tree at their home, Mr. and Mrs. John Tanken, who claim the, distinc- tion of being the oldest married cou- ple in the Northwest, Friday ob- served their seventy-eighth wedding anniversary. The occasion was only observed and {not celebrated. For seventy-eight years they have observed their wed- ding anniversary in this quiet manner and they intend to follow out this plan as long as they live. He smoked his old German pipe, which has been in his possession for the past twenty years, while his little | wife, wrinkled and slightly stoopea, was busily mending hosiery. Not only are Mr, and Mrs. Tanken an exceptionally old couple but they are a very interesting couple as well. Mr. Tanken .is. past 107 and.. Mrs. ! land milestone next ‘November. She s very healthy and has not been m for a number of years. She is as ac- tive around the house as the average American woman is at the age of 50. He has not been as fortunate as his wife in the matter of health. He has been ill' several times, but still he maintains that he is as healthy as the present day middle-aged man. He has always been fond of his old pipe and smokes a pound of tobacco weekly. Both are advocates of fresh air and they can be found in the yard under the elm tree the greater part of the day. When questioned concerning the reasons for his old age, Mr. Tanken said: “The only reason I know of why my wife and I are still living 1s that .we are not good enough for the Lord and too good for the devil.” Ac- cording to Mrs. Shoop, his adoptea daughter, this is the onfy remark he makes about his old age. Mr. Tanken was born January 1, 1807, in Hengalow, Holland, while his wife caught her first glimpse ot the earth at Selen, Holland, on No- vember 22, 1817. They were married at the home of Mrs. Tanken in Selen on June 18, 1836. Early in the year of 1837 they de. cided to come to America to earn their fortune and landed in New York on the steamer Enswenberg late in the fall of the year. They imme- diately went to La Crosse, Wis., where they remained until 1850. It was in La Crosse that Mr. Tank- en established the first maple syrup mill in Wisconsin. In 1850 Mr. Tanken disposed of his syrup mill and located in Milwau- kee. There were only a few houses and people in Milwaukee at that time and they were located in the center ot ] a large forest. He has never re- turned to Milwaukee since he lived there and he is of the opinion that it is of the same size today as it was at that time. He engaged in the logging business while at Milwaukee. They left Milwaukee in 1853 and came to Grand Island, Neb,, where they remained until they came here with the exception of five years when Mr. Tanken returned to Holland to study medicine, They have made four trips to their old home in Hol- since coming to the Unitea States. They are very reticent nhoul their age. Mrs Tanken is like the average woman and she does not like to have her age discussed. They have never had any: children of their own, but adopted a son and a daughter. The son died in 1897, but the daughter is still alive. During their long life they have never had a picture taken and they shun the camera as if it were a weapon. On several occasions when the children attempted to get a snap- shot of thes they would become aware of the fact and retire to their room for the rest of the day. The ancestors of both Mr. and Mrs, Tanken lived a long life. His mother lived to be over 104 years old while 1Tanken will reach her ninety-eighth | Mrs. Tanken has a brother and sis- MGMILI.AN'S Store Closed All Day Sa'urcay, July 4,0pen Friday Evening Until 10 o’clock. Dainty Crepe and Voile Dresses 2,98, $39.8, $4.98, 1o $10.00 each, worth $3.95 to $15.00. Dresses at $1.98 each, plain colors with dainty W Materials‘ used in Dresses are mercerized 8, Hesper Cloth and Petticoats, at 98¢ plueés to $1.50. betticoats ars made to n dresses. We are 1 values in White -and Lawn with cluster tuck flounce. omen’s Blouses real 79¢c values. les and Crepes, in white effect: aists and Blouses at 97c each. variety to choose from. Silk Blouses at $1.98. ‘White, black and flowered Silk Blouses in all- sizes. Long Silk Gloves for the 4th. $1.00 values at 75¢ pair, Paris point embroidery. White Washable Hand Bags at 49c each, values to $1.00. These genuine washable Marjola Bags Will go nicely with the thin dresses worn this summer. Another Lot of Silk Girdles at 69c¢, 98¢, $1.49 and $1.98. All colors to match dresses. Bla¢k:Minerette Girdles. of Messaline or Moires, wide ruffle effects, $1.50 value -at 98c. $2.50 values at $1.98. New Roman Stripe Ribbons. at 25¢, 39¢, 50c yard. Extra wide Satin Taffeta Ribbons for girdles, also moires and satin striped effects, at 45c, 50c, 59c, 98c yard. . All the Young Men who have worn our “Onyx” Silk SBox at 25c a pair, will tell you they out- wear any other silk hose bought else- where at 50c. Colors white, black, Gray, tan and navy. All sizes in stock. Get your vacation supply now, Going Away Over the Fourth or when taking your vacation invest in one of our Trunks, Bags or Suit Cases. They are built for travel Trunks $4.25 to $12.48, Traveling Bags 50c to $5.00. Suit Cases 49¢ to $5.00, 0ld Glory Flags for the Fourth, 79¢, complete. for fast color Flags, 3 ftx5 ft, pole and bracket complete. Value $1.00. Large Wool Flags in all sizes. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. ter who are older than she still liv- ing and both are enjoying good health. Mr. and Mrs. remarkable couple City. It is known that they are the oldest living married couple in the Northwest, and in all probability there are not @ couples in the United § Tanken are the most living in Sioux Was Ready. Plain Dealer.) Policeman (Cleveland A night policeman patrolling one of our parks was keeping an eye out for spooners, 4s by ordinarce eéns joiried. Snooping about among ¢ shrubbery, he espied a couple © cupying a4 bench in a gloomy ret: and pussyfooting up on the un pecting ‘pair, he heard a girl's say, “Do you know, Jack, I havé er been kissed in my life?” A deep sigh followed this After waiting a reasonable len time, the cop came out of and flashed his lantern The of light revealed, first, an asf ingly pretty girl, and next, a diffident party of the second pal opposite sex. “Whatcha doin’ the policeman. “N-nothing!” answered thi “Whatcha goin’ ter do?” “Nothing at all.” “Hugh! Well, git up offa bench an’ hold this lantern fer minutes.” here?”