New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1914, Page 6

MEW BRITAIN DAILY. HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1014. ¢ Lremial D PURLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. — dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m Berald Building, 67 Church Bt New Britain Matter. d at the Post Office at @s Second Class M ered by carrier to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. iptions for paper to be sent by mail ayable in advance. 60 Cents a Month $7.00 a year. only profitabble advertising medtu @ city. Circulation books and pre reom always open to advertisers. [Herald wUl be found on sale at Hota- 's News Stand, 42nd St. and_Broad- ay, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. VHAT PROF. FISHER SAYS. rof. Willard C. Fisher is an inter- g character and an intelligent too, more so than the average heard on the stump talking poli- He was here 'yesterday and ed to a number of factory men t the workmen's compensation and about his own candidacy for rnor. He says that he is being losed by the organization but that is going to win, and as evidence is belief he suggested that his lience paste up the prediction some e where they could see it. ere is no organization opposing f. Fisher, but there are people who Inot think that he can be nominat- and even if he were he could not elected. This ig not a reflection his intelligende or his integrity, rather that he is not regarded as n about whom the voters are apt rally. He says that he is not an in- pendent democrat, but that on the htrary that there is no democrat pre regular than he is, yet if his mpaign is to amount to anything is that he is not a bellever in the ‘method of doing things, that he broken away from the conven- al method and that because of this organization is opposed to him. Professor Fisher's candidacy had origin at the Compounce confer- jce, at which there were not many lo inspire confidence as democrats, d_were it not. for ex-Senator \Spel- .of Hartford, who spoke a word the Fisher boom, it would have the lake without the backing of irecognized democratic authority all. The professor is entertaining number of people around the state lith his talks, but if they have awak- hed any enthusiasm for him as a indidate for the nomination for gov- or it has been carefully concealed WILL TAKE ANY NOMINATION. Harvey D. Hinman has made clear position as to his candidacy for he nomination for governor of New ork and it is that if he is nominated n any ticket other than the republi- an ticket, he will consent to run on hat ticket. The purpose of this ex- lanation is evidently to show that if lhe progressives nominate him he will ept. He announces that he is a didate for the nomination as a re- ublican but if any other party nomi- jates him .he will be its candidate. District - Attorney Whitman is also a indidate for the nomination and as e is also a republican, and as he ys thdat he will not seek the nomi- ation of any other party.it is going be a bit embarrassing if he should n the regular party nomination nd Mr. Hinman should be selected by i progreséives. = According to the tter’s statement he will run and will e an opponent of Mr. Whitman. Mr. Hinman is opposed to the boss jystem so called, and specifies both Barnes and Hurphy as the men to ba jpposed. ‘This opposition to bosses is ipposed to be popular, although there s o reason to believe that any party .ln hope to be successful without aders, and if the New York republi- jans are not going to have Barnes ‘hey must have some one else or they 11 not have any organization at all. ere is of course a difference be- een bosses. There is the man who inderstands politics, who knows that inless certain rules are followed out d certain conditions are recognized, party cannet win, and with this view Jways in his mind he insists so far as lhe can that certain things be done lin. the interest of the organization. hat is one kind of a boss, and then there is another who does certain things for pay, and Who his [j:osition to further his own personal interests, such ag Richard Croker, [\ ho, though recognized as a sagacious political leader, once confessed that e was working for his own pocket all time. -If Barnes is ousted in New lork it does not mean that some one 1 rise in his place and say “let " Mr. Hinman and Mr. Whitman are ‘prmig men and each fias a good record. On a ight fight » tatter would wir, bat with uses the help of the progressives will go | farther towards electing Hinman than a straight republican nomination will go towards EIECt_lng the district at- torney. If Mr. Whitman should be beaten it will be because of this feel- ing and not because of any belief that Mr. Hinman would make any better city official than he. The reform work that Mr. Whitman has been doing has been the means of making Hughes governor and Goff a court justice, and Mr. Whitman may follow in He will have some strong poussibly their steps. backing. COMMISSION FORM OF MENT. It seemed as if the great that had been previously manifested in the commission form of govern- ment had been on the decline in this state until it was learned that Tor- rington is preparing to become a city and that perhaps its charter might be fashioned after this new system. Since then the talk on the question has been revived in general, but to those who have been really interested in the plan the system has never ap- peared to have had all the curative properties for varfous municipal ills that has been clajmed for it. It is stated that this system has proven a failure in Denver, that at the end of six months it has been found to be. very expensive and: the city is confronted with a deficit. It 18 always desirable to have a g00d sys- tem of government, but -uniess. - the. right men.ate elected to office the: system will be of little value. -* The c~mmission form narrows responsibil- it, o a smaller number of officials than the usual method of running a city and that in itself is a good fea- ture, but there must be vigilance or even that will not work out favor- ably. 3 Torrington has ample time to think out its own business plan before the legislature meets and it will fare much. better in the end if it does this than it will if it adopts a system which some one else may be pleased with but which may be faulty if ap- plied in another place. The plan which may work out well in a city like New Haven for Instance is hardly the one from which the same results could be reasonably expected in a community like Torrington. It has been stated that in the days of “‘Bill’ Tweed, New York had practically a commission form of government and yet it was the most rotten government any city ever had, and while the system in ef- fect there today is along that line it is- considered a success:\ No matr ter how this matter is twisted it will be found in the end that the secret of the success of any system will de- pend on the men. GOVERN- interest HUOKLEBERRY SEASON, Business may be good one year.and poor another, but it seems as if Dame Nature was able to provide plenty of huckleberries hereabouts every year for those who have the ambition to go after them.—Waterbury Republican. | ‘What has become of the boy who used to go berrying early in the morn- ing with a six quart pail, have it filled by hoon and return in time to se]l-his produce and obtain his dollar or so before the day was over? He does not seem to be in evidence these days and perhaps he may be talking hard times when in reality the cause may be only the fact that he has ceased working. There was a time when a boy who wanted a new base- ball, or when his team needed to have some repairs made to the ball ground which wag not encircled by a high board fence, he went out and picked berries, and sold them and the de- sired capital was raised. There has always been a market for huckleber- ries just as there is a demand for turkeys at Christmas. Here in New England mince pie and pumpkin ple have their seasons and so has the huckleberry. The one who patronizes the former may con- ceal the fact except for the beam that follows a meal of good ple but not so Wwith those who eat huckleberry pie in season, There are some who can dispose of a slab of this delicacy with- out leaving any surface indications 4s to what was the main dish at the table, while others will carry black and blue stains around the mouth and there have been people who have managed to have their nose smeared with the same colors, In the case of the youth, he carries those marks as proudly as does his sire his wounds received at Gettysburg, There have been good and had huckleberry years but this is one of the good ones, When there is talk of cost of moving the crops somehow the staple berry of .New England not considered, average boy will move it without any is cost unless the owner of the lot per-: haps catches him at it. : Barnes says his lawsuit against Roosevelt comes down' to the simple This 1s because the |, proposition: “Does Roosevelt tell the truth?” Some way or other that |1s the usual simple preposition in- volved in most of . R.'s. controver- sies’ ‘with . other men.—] American. 3 A5 COMMUNICATED. Made Concerning President Grant. Inquiry son of Editor Herald:—To decide a bet will you kindly state through the col- umns of your paper if General Grant, son of the late President Grant, is dead or living. If dead kindly give date of death. STAKEHOLDER. He is dead. Hig death occurred April 12, 1912 FACTS AND FANCIE§. Y Business is to start with a jump according to. the best of authorities. Of course to start off on a rapid pace during the vacation period would not be in conformity to business ethics. —Middletown, Penny Press. If Commissioner Davis really suc- ceeds in making Blackwell's Island a place for the sane sure and humane cure of the drug habit, she will not lack for patients. There are more poor victims than the fortunate im- mune realize who would gladly sub- mit themselves to such a treatment, in addition to those for whom it will be prescribed without thetr consent.— New Haven Register. We do not wonder that Mr. Elliott, head of the New Haven railroad sys- tem, has taken to the solitudes of the Maine woods for rest and, recu- peration. The burden that has de- volved - upon. him, - beginning in the very first week of his service here, with the terrible smash-up at North Haven, and, cantinuing ever since, has been enough to tax _heavily the strongest constitution, and the report that he is, ,or.has.beén; néar a com- plete nervous.break-down is not sur- prising. —New Haven Journal-Cour- ter. The line between professional box- ing and prizefighting is indistinct. The two :arts merge into one.another al- most inevitably and American senti- ment dislikes both. - In: England and France the prizefighter, thinly dis- guised as a boxer, has become & proud hero whom everybody 'adores. Wo- men pay him reverence and show their :jewels and feathers at the ring- side. France has produced a cham- plon fighter and glories in his prow- ess, We produce many champions and scorn them. In the light of our worship of football heroes this is curious.—Norwich Record. Science offers help to the consu- mer who views with alarm the up- ward march of the prices of meat. ‘“Eat less meat and more fish,” is the scientific advice which should gppeal with special force to people living on the seaboard and within easy reach of sea-food at all seasons of the year. There has always been, and is likely still to be, a difference between the price of meat and the price -of fish that is,in favor of the latter, and by-a judicious balancing of the two. in: the household accounts the -average may be. kept from any serious i{ncrease,—Bridgeport Stand- ard. : Danny’s Backwardness, (Newark News.), ““Sure, it.is a happy woman I am this day,” sald Mrs. Finnigan, as she rested her ruddy arms on the washtub and beamed across the suds at Mrs. Schmalz. “I'm ‘glad somebody can be happy in this’ block,” replied her neighbor. “What with thé cars pounding around the curve every half-minute, and the kids crying and always making trou- ble, and the heat like a cookstove, it would take much happiness to get a smile out of me. What's happened to you? Rich uncle die, or anything pleasant like that?" “No, it's better than that. It's about -my boy Danny. You know what a time we've had with him at the school, being backward in his les- sons, and all that. Well, it turns out that he’s as bright as any other boy, bless his heart, and all the lickings and jawings the poor lad has got wasn’t needed at all.” “He ain’t been promoted years, has he?” ; “No, but he will be after this, and if he don’t catch up With your Au- gustus by next June and go ahead of him, I miss my guess. It was Miss Brown, his teacher, that found out what was the matter with him. ‘He ain’t a dull boy, nor vet a bad boy, she says to me. ‘I'm certain it's his hearing that’s wrong. He's just as smart as any of ‘em, but 1 don’t be- lieve he hears.’ “So she had the school doctor test his ears with a watch. + First they held the watch to one ear anél drew it away, slow-like, and he could hear the tick about a yard. Then they tried the other ear and he couldn't hear the tick more'n a foot. ‘You'd better take him to an ear specialist,’ the doctor said, and yesterday we got enough mgney saved up so we could. “The specialist, he put Danny in a chair and. looked at his ears with a looking-glass, and then he took and pulled a lump of wax out of each ear as big as a sparrow’s egg, and when he spoke to him Danny jumped as if somebody had fired a pistol, because he hadn’t been used to hearing voices so plain. “The queer part was that each lump of wax had a little wad of cot- ton inside it, that I put in Danny's ears. three, four vears ago, when he was a little lad, the night mby sister Nora had her wedding party at our house, so he could go to sleep, and forgot to take out again in the morn- ing. What do you know about that?" “Kids is a care,” sighed ' Mrs. Schmalz. “Yes,' answered Mrs. Finnigan, bending over the washboard again, ~But Danny won't be a care long now he has got- his hearing back. He's going tp_get up with his class that he started out- with, and grow to be a fine, smart man, and make a grand living some day, and take care of his old mother that loves him. 1 guess kids won't be a burden always, Mrs. Schmalz, if their fool parents give ‘em a chance. i in " two WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. In Nature's Orchestra, (Indianapolis News,) From the maples in front of the hcuse you have heard through the long hours of the afternoon the stri- dent song of the cicada, which con- tinues until .the sun goes down and through the mellow twilight. His last rotes are invaded by the cheerful chant of the cricket, a sundown chorister whose melody continues through the night to cease only when “the sun in russet mantle clad walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.” To these has been added a new musi- cian, whose monotonous repertory will be with us each night until the first frost. The performer Is the tree toad, or tree frog. He deserves an annual notice quite as much as the robin. Though he never molts a feather, he sings, as does no bird in this latitude, all night long and may be called the Hoosiier nightingale. Step out into the backyard and try to locate him. When you stand be- neath the plum tree you are certain that he is in the apple tree a dozen steps away. You stand under the apple tree and his music comes from the cherry tree, One more remove and you cannot tell where is, he seems to be everywhere. He is indeed a ven- triloquist. If -you chance to deter- mine the tree in which he may be and place your hand upon its trunk’ his music ceases. None of these performers, neither cicada, cricket or tree toad, ‘is " a vocalist. They are all instrumental- ists. The cricket and the cicada are fiddlers. The cicada carries his musi- cal apparatus at the base of the ab- domen, the cricket makes his music by rubbing the bopder of one front wing against a horny ridge or file on the under surface of the other. Other fiddlers need to rosin their bows, but the cricket among fiddlers seems to be in a class by himself and is not dis- turbed by any fluctuations in the rosin market. The name cicada means ‘“tree cricket.” ' The insect, in its pgrfect state, lives but a few weeks. Its eggs are laid by the female in slits cut in the bark of live twigs and it is, say naturalists who have studied the in- sects, by cutting these slits and not by feeding on the foliage that the cicadas cause injury to trees. The young, which are hatched in about six weeks, do not feed on the green leaves, but drop to the ground and burrow down to the roots of the tree, where they live by sucking the juices of the roots for nearly seventeen years. The ci- cada then crawls up out of the ground, molts for the last time, and then we hear him in the tree tops. 1t is thus the longest lived of insects, requiring seventeen years for de- velopment. The eggs are eaten by ants and other insects and the larvae are devoured by birds, especially woodpeckers, and by toads, frogs ‘and other reptiles. There are some broods of cicadas that mature in thirteen years. . The tree toad or tree frog attains a length of two inches and is = green, gray or brown above, with irregular dark blotches and, yellow below. His croaks or trills are not sounds of revelry, he belongs tc no musicians’ union and frequently works for hours and hours overtime. Donovan of Connecticut. (Washington Letter to Bosten vertiser.) The greotness in congress of Jere- miah- Donovan of Connecticut grows, and indeed has gone so far that mem- bers of the house of representatives consult him more than they do Speaker Clark or Oscar Underwood, leader of the majority, the democrats, or James R. Mapn, leader of the mi- nority, the republicans. He is in fact the czar” of the house. Before they attempt to do anything the members consult him about their coming and their going, and especially the lat- ter, and as he gives permission they do. They also consult him about bills up for unanimous consent or near there. . Indeed, so important has Donovan become that he is treated after the manner of a Greek god, who has to be propitiated before any- thing is done. Donovan has attained to all this in the first term in congress, which is something extraordinary. Ordinarily a member spends his first term be- coming as much acquainted as he can, and he does not succeed far along that line, but Denovan has managed to make himself known to every mem- ber of congress. Not that he has sought their acquaintance; rather they have sought his. Indeed, Speaker Clark is not better known to them than the Napoleonic figure from Con- necticut. And, of course, he is known to the press gallery. Donovan has to be watched for thrills; he pro- vides them. Donovan succeeded a great repub- lican figure, Ebenezer J. Hill and it was never for a moment dreamed that Donovan would be able to become more conspicuous than Hill had been. The democrats even put him on such dead committees as those on the cen- sus, coinage, weights and measures and the expenditures of public build- ings. Perhaps if they had put him on some active committee, Donovan would not have himself pre-eminent in the house by specializing there on roll-calls, the censoring of speeches and odd incon- sistencies in the house. Donovan is the terror of all ab- sentees from the house, and there is nothing he likes better than to call some one to order for violating the rules of the house. He has even made James R. Mann, the minority leader, see the error of his ways sev- eral times, to the great astonishment of that leader. o Donovan has liked nothing better than to survey the house and note the absentees and to announce that he sees no one present, for instance, from the great state of Illinois. Conster- Ad- found time to make: nation and commotion follow, as the‘ Illinois members somehow ascertain what Donovan has done, and they rush in to show themselves as pres- ent. He recently surveyed the New Eng- land minority and saw only the-faith- ful Congressman Greene of Massa- chusetts present to represent them, and he called the attention of the house to the fact, commending Greene. Somehow or other he had overlooked Congressman Gillett, but Gillétt wys not going to have any such record stand against him and he called Donovan to behold his presence, which Donovan sald he wa glad to do, but that he felt con- strained to note that Gillett was not as faithful in his attendance as he would like that great minority leader to be. So It has come about that before members of the house elect to go to the baseball game they visit Donovan on the floor to ask if they may go to the game on promise that he will not call a quorum, thus shoying them absent, and if he declines they purr very sweetly around him and stroke his back very gently and sometimes they succeed. But if he says he will demand a call of the house if neces- sary, they do not go to the ball game or leave the capitol. The Yellow Streak. (Detroit Free Press.) Cowardice, whether moral or physi- cal, is one of the meanest attributes of human character. We may feel some sympathy for the individual Wwho' hesitates to imperil his own life in an attempt to save that of a strong- er; he may not be of the stuff of which heroes are made and, after all, selt-preservation is the first law of nature. But we feel contempt for ] those who refuse to face the conse- ‘quences of their own acts, particular- Iy those involving neglect or careless- ness. % Down in Brooklyn the' other day the driver of an automobile ran into a group of children playing in the street, killing one and injuring- three. others. The chauffeur and Bis pas- sengers—a well-dressed man and woman—quickly r.moved the license and the manufacturer's numbers, and vanished. Occasionally, in our own city, in the report of an automobile accident, it is mentioned that the driver did not pause to ascertain re- sults. Having run down some un- fortunate pedestrian, he endeavors to evade personal consequences by leav- ing the victim to the mercies of by- standers, or as has sometimes . hap- pened, to suffer or even die unassist- ed. This 1s certainly showing the yellow streak. Very often prompt aid means the difference between life and death. Common humanity decrees that in such cases the least the driver— whether of automobile, motoreycle or other vehicle—can do is to ascertain the condition of the injured and sum- mon ambulance or physiclan. Indif- ference may mean death to the vic- tim. ‘A ‘double measure of punish- ment ought to be inflicted upon one who dfsregards the obligation to atone on the'spot in so far as is pos- sible, for hi¢ carelessness or to ac- cept hig share of the unavoidable, The long list' of children killed in Detroft streets every summer is wit- ness to the need of an increased number of playgrounds, especially in the congested sections, where young- sters may play in safety. The Old-Timer's Lament. ; (Parsons, Ks., Sun.) This department. has waited pa- tiently for the first rumblings of tne grasshopper scare stories .in thira district exchanges, but thus far not a warning message has been sent out by the department of agriculture or the State Agricultural college. The farm experts may fall down on their Jobs and perhaps the farmers are too busy threshing their wheat and oats, and 1ooking after their crops, to wor- ry about the hoppers, but there is no excuse. for the newspaper correspond- ents. They are plainly. remiss in their duties and are clear off their jobs. It doesn’t seem like summer in Kan- sas unless a train is stopped some- where and the crew shovels the pests off the track so that the train can proceed; and we won’'t be certain we've -had warm. weather, chiggers and chinch bugs unless these are fol- lowed by the annual “scarehead” in the big city dailies from somewhere out in the short grass, under a Con- cordia, Cottonwood Falls, or Dodge City date line, telling about the clouds of hoppers that obscured the sun at noon day for an hour or more. For old time's sake, at least, it would seem that the javhawker hoppers de- serve honorable mention in the writ- ten reports of the biggest and best year Kansas has ever had. Colenel Roosevelt Kills a Tapir, (Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner’s.) ‘The tapir was coming down-stream at a great rate, only its queer head above water, while the dugouts were closing rapidly on it, the paddlers ut- tering loud criies. As the tapir turned slightly to one side or the other the long, slightly upturned snout and the strongly pronounced arch of the crest along the head and upper neck gave it a marked and unusual aspect. I could not shoot, for it was directly in line with one of the pursuing dugouts. Sud- denly it dived, the snout being slightly curved downward as it did so. There was no trace of it; we gazed eagerly in all directions: the dugout in front came alongside our canoe and the pad- dlers rested, their paddles ready. Then we made out the tapir clambering up the bank. It had dived at right angles to’ the course it was following and swum under water to the very edge of the shore. rising under.the overhang- ing tree branches at a point where a arinking-trail for game led down a break in the bank. The branches par- tially hid it and it wds in deep shadow .loose remarks because the signatures this time swimming the river, leaving the others yelling on the opposite side: and as soon as the swimmers reached the shore they were put on the tapir's trail and galloped after it, giving tongue. In a couple of minutes we saw | the ‘tapir take to the svater far up- stream, and after it we went as fast as the paddle could urge us through the water. We were not in time to head it, but fortunately some of the dogs had come down to the river's cdge at the very point where the tapir was about to lan Twe or three of the dogs were swimming. We were more than half the breadth of the riv- er away from the tapir, snd somewhat downstream, when it dived. It made an astonishingly long swim beneath the water this time, almost as if it had been a hippopotamus, for it passed completely under our canoe and rese between us and. the other bank 1 shot it, the bullet going into its brain, while it was thirty or forty yards from shore. It sank at once. Barefoot Time. (Indianapolis News.) The sun has been shining with in- creasing ardor and long ago there Was borne on the wings of the breezes that play across the fields the mes- sage to the small boy that barefoot- time was here. Barefoot time! Ah, what a caravan of memories, phan- tom-like, appear on the mental hori- zon at mention of the words! Memory draws a picture of a coun- try lane, bathed alternately down its way in‘the sun and the shade of the locust trees that line its edges. A barefoot boy meanders down the hot, dusty road, the dust spurting away from the impact of the small feet as they pad noiselessly along. Perhaps it was a journey through the.hot sum- mer sun of midday to the neighbor's a half mile -up the road on an er- rand for mother. - The shade of the locust was as welcome to the way- farer as the sight of the fronds of the date palm to the desert traveler. The padding feet stopped for an instant at the invitation of the tree’'s shade. Perhaps the boy saw Hiram Hen- sley's boy coming in the opposite di- rection and waited on the switch, so to speak. Hiram's boy had to tell all about the fox's den he had discov- ered over on Wilkin's ridge. Brown feet drew mysterious symbols in the cool dust as they talked. Now and again dusty volcanoes erupted from between spread toes. Then Hiram's boy moved on without a word of goodby. Or it may have been in the even- ing that the bare feet sought the road. The cows must be brought up from the woods pasture, and the boy had just dumped the last armful of wood into the box behind the kitchen stove when he was urged by the voice of his mother, “Johnny, you'd better run down and get Betsy and Mary Ann. It'll be dark before you know it, you lazy boy!"—and the playful thumb she gave the boy's back took :MGMEAN'S Last Week of the BIG JULY CLEARANGE SALE Store Closes Wednesdays at noon during July and Au- gust. SALE OF DRAPERY REMNANTS AT 9¢ Yard Values up to 39c. on Sale Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock. This is the sale you have been waiting for. See these Drapery goods on display in south window until Wednesday morning. .Hundreds of other rem- nants to be sold at cost. Rem- nants of Dress Goods, Wash Goods, Linens, Cottons, Lin- ings, Laces, Trimmings, Em- broideries and Ribbons, that have accumulated during our July sale. All marked for a quick clearance ‘Wednesday all the sting out of her words. The shadows deepened as he went over the road. The sun had begun to sink slowly into the west, as though loath to go. The air, now rid of the heat of the day, was balmy, and the smell of the woods and the fields rose as incense to the nostrils. The dust of the road was still there, but it had cooled and felt grateful to the feverish_little feet. Far across the fields came the sharp challenge of “Bob White.” Nearer, in the dense thicket, in a corner of the field, flitted the red of a cardinal; the frogs in the pond and along the bayou were almost ready to begin thelr serenade and the drone of the myriad insects that kept the night alive with their noises had begun. The bullbats, too, were wheeling overhead in search of their night's food. All Nature seemed busy with a hymn of pralse as the boy went down the road after Betsy and Mary Ann. When the day's chores were over a tired little boy crept into bed. Mother took a’ good night look at him as she held a coal oil lamp aloft. A smile played. over her face as she moved the lamp so that its rays fell on the dirty brown feet, that had got only a “lick and a promise.” “If you don't watch that boy every night he won't wash_ his feet at all,”” she said to the boy's father. k “Oh, well, Mary, 1 was the same way,” the father probably remarked, as they left the room, when the boy turned nervously in his sleep. And who would not, if he could, be a barefoot boy again in the country? Antisuffrage Notes. (Springfield Republican.) Charles L. Underhill of Somerville, the antisuffrage speaker, addressed the members of the Barre “Friday club” at the Barre town hall on the evening of Wednesday, the 22d. | Antisuffragists will be interested in the observation of a Boston business man, who has just finished a tour through certain of the western states where the battle for an amendment is to be decided at the polls this fall. “Somehow the new voting woman does not appeal to me,” he said. “In the collection of signatures for their petitions, the women already seem to be losing some of that indefinable charm which has for centuries helped to make the world better, Before 1 went west, I was, let us say, indif- ferent on woman suffrage. I regard- ed it as a rather amusing and trivial struggle between two factions of women. 1 knew that on the suffrage side T was continually reading the same names in the newspapers, and 1 assumed, and rightly 1 guess, that they were the professional paid work- ers. But when I founda young girls standing on street corners soliciting every man who came along for signa- tures and receiving and exchanging seemed so precious, I had a cold. chill at the thought of my wife or my daughters at some . stage going through the same service in’Massa- so that.it did rot offer a very good shot. My bullet went too far back, and the tapir disappeared.in the forest at a gallop as if unhurt, although the bullet really secured it by making it unwilling to trust.to its speed and leave the neighborhood of the water., Three or four of the hounds were by - chusetts. 1 saw the young girls blush time and time again at what was said to them, but still they. held out the paper for the signature, One young girl told me she would like to leave her corner, but they were under strict morning. Remarkable Sale of Lace Collars .and Lace Sets Wednesday Morning 39c cach Values up to $2.00. See them displayed in our show window until time of sale Wednesday morning. Sale of Long Kimonos Wednesday Morning 25¢ each Value 50c. Be on hand early and get your share of our Half Holi- day -Bargains. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. Which Is the Sentimental s‘ (Chicago Tribune.) Which is the sentimental sex in politi When Belva Lockwood, our earliest stateswoman, found the hard- ships of poverty joined to the disabil- ities of old age, an effort was made to raise enough money to save her home for her. The effort failed. Mrs. Lockwood, trying to remove her ef- fects, fell downstairs and broke her arm, Now that her tribulations have increased, another effort will be made to give her comforts for her remain- * ing days. If the influence of Joseph Cannon, for instance, should disappear, the sentimental males of his political faith not only in this state but throughout the country would pase the hat and get him enough money 10 keep him in his celebrated twenty- five-cent stogies the rest of his life. We have no fear of Joseph, He's a canny person, but his name occurs in this connection, We don’t believe he'll lose any considerable part of his now possessed share of this world's goods. Male politiclans are kind and sym- pathetic in desling with the crippled brethren, They will put a pillow un- der almost any statesman who is seen to be slipping and about to fall. Pos. sibly a reasonable caution guides them and suggests the advisability of do- ing as they would be done by, An: statesman may slip. Whatever the reason, one never sees an unfortunate rules, and she had no right to leave unless relieved. l _politician selling shoe laces on the street corner. . (