New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1914. it it may result in a better looking Salem than ever before. | The city has an opportunity to put ! into practice the ideas so often vanced in favor of the city be‘duliful; (EW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PURLISHING - COMPANY, Proprietors. ad- ued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m at Herald Building, 67 Church St. ntered at the Post as Second Class a much more advantageous than those cities which much built up. vered by carrier to any part of the city [ Pe8In practically all for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. sections and it therefore has an op-| bscriptions for paper to be sent by mail ' i BRREIs in Ao arce. 60 Ceritals portunity to put into practice plans| Month $7.00 a year. which it could not utilize before be- cause all its central land had lmenl All two family houses | must have a fire' proof roof, so that in way are ' pretty | Office at New Britain Mail Matter. Salem is about to over in certain he only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press reom alweys open to advertisers. covered. be Herald will be found on sale at Hota- Mng's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City, and Hartford depot. when ‘the new Salem is constructed it will be better than the old and evi- dently a safer place in which to live. The fire after all, as costly as it has been, may have some good results. The landlord and the tenant will be| TELEPHONE CALLS. usiness Office. itorial Rooms WAR IS ON. the better for the arrangement. Whatever doubt that may have ex- ed as to what Germany might do as result of the Austrian-Hungary-Ser- an war has been removed and the Imperor has become the leading mili- ry figuré in Burope. He has been redited with being the brainiest man Imong all the European monarchs, t his actions during the last few lays do not bear out this estimate f\the man. He appears to be aching pr = fight, has attacked Germany’s old Jnemy, France, without any formal leclaration of war, apparently with- ut anyireason whatever, and has erefore: drawn into the contest nother nation that up to a day or two gothad been trying to keep out of it. here: is noimistaking the fact that the lerman; emperor is a thorough soldier Indithatthe has an immense army be- ind\him,)but he cannot hope to with- and the: opposition. of Russla and nce withithe possibility at this time England with her powerful navy Inding it necessary to-take action to revent her rights being'imposed upon. Wo'of her merchant vessels have been hterfered*with by German ships on no nds.except that the war feeling S0 stromg that' the attacking party pemingly § feels that something must e done to\proclaim to the world that ny istin the:fight and must be spected. The \stage is now set for :the great- war the world has ever known; Il the modern implements of war are hand and it is awful to contem- late the slaughter that is bound to 1t. The next few days are likely develop some startling conditions nd“what must strike the average rson with peculiar emphasis is that e original cause of all the difficulty, e - Austro-Servian dispute appears b have ceased, atileast;it is no longer e main feature of the war, and there WHAT WILL BE THE EFFECT Of WAR? What effect the European war will have on business in this country a question that many people are ask- ing just now, and it is one that is difficult to answer in detail. The export market is bound to suffer; it cannot be otherwise. The late Presi- dent McKinley held the opinion that the United States was large enough to support itself, but that notion. has | long since been dispelled. The Amer- ican manufacturer of firearms should do well while the war is in progress. It is not the only country, however, where firearms are made, but the European countries now at war are not likely to deal largely with those concerns doing business within a wide radius of the actual seat of war be- cause, if for no other redson, there may be difficulty experienced in de- Hvering the goods. The war as it is now seen is estimated to cost some- thing over $40,000,000 a day, and if continued for any length of time will make a total estimate that is bound to have a depressing effect upon the countries involved for many years af- ter hostilities have ceased. Society itself will be disorganized and it will take a long time for the people to regain the sound financial condition they have been enjoying for a great many years. Burope, and particular- ly those countries immediately in- volved in the present struggle, will go back half a century as a result of the conflict as it is now anticipated. There is much talk of men return- ing to the old country to participate in the defense of their own respec- tive land, and if the number should extend into large figures it may have a tendency to cause a’scarcity of un- skilled labor in this country, and this a disposition on the part of the| will have a tendency to increase gressor to mediate. Germany and | wages, which always improves busi- Russia have come into the arena to do | ness. Such a condition will in the heir fighting for them and it is what | natural course of events raise prices, Government-Owned Baseball. (Providence Journal.) A Missouri college professor has jumped all the minor radical theories and gone directly to the heart of a question that is of paramount im- portance in the eyes of millions of his fellow citizens. He wants the United States government to take over and control organized baseball, Not only is this his earnest desire, but he seems to be convinced that within the next twenty-five years the great national game will be operated under govern- ment ownership. It may be considered that the base- ball magnates have brought this upon themselves for already there has been some desultory talk of prosecuting the big leagues as monopolies in re- straint of trade, oppressive to the art- ists who play the game, and conduc- ive to inflated prices for the specta- tors. Things have steadily ing from bad to worse until at last the urgent need of governmental reg- ulation has impressed even the de- tached, scholastic conscience of the universities. Public ownership of tel- ephones, telegraphs, railroads and grocery stores isall very well; we may come to these things in good time and in due order, but at present they are comparatively of trifling importance. We are confronted by the persistent report that baseball is going to the dogs, and the need of federal inter- vention is apparent. Of course, it is understood that *‘Federal” is here used by no means in its restricted sense. The national game by rights ought to be in the real sense a National Game, and under the direct supervi- sion of a national commission. Con- gress may well drop some of the more trivial matters now engaging its at- tention and begin to frame the legis- lation necessary to the realization of this great object. The players ought to be placed on the Civil Service list, with graded salaries that in no in- stance would be permitted to exceed the salary of the chief justice. In time, tennis, golf, bowling and yacht racing might be added to the list of officially supervised sports, and even- tually it would become necessary to have a secretary of sports and pas- times, who would be a recognized member of the cabinet. In the pres- ent administration his appropriate seat would be right between the sec-~ retary of state and the secretary -of the navy. The professor who has evolved this beautiful theory of the govern- ment ownership of baseball is named ‘Wrench, which may have had some influence on his mental processes. He is evidently a profound thinker on baseball questions, but it is to be feared that he is quite a few years in advance of the times. The Missouri Mule, (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Will the Missouri mule be drafted for service in Europe? Will that pa- tient, oft maligned beast of burden pull the heavy cannon and keep the commissary department close to the men with appetites, or will the motor take his place? ¢ Across the veldt of South Africa, when' Boer met Briton, the Missouri mule patiently pulled the guns and the supply wagons for each. Buyers hunted the animals out of the pas- tures of Missouri and boats waited in southern ports for railway trains rac- ing to get more mules to the front. - hey will do thatiis now interesting the | but even that will have no ser- It was the same in the war with : depressing effect for the | SPain, when the Missouri mule was etd loud Jsdopresing ; || drafted and later distributed over mow ok M DIEGED S| Cuba and Porto Rico, there, beneath ATRSHIPS IN WAR. good and wages are high peo-|the tropical sun, to wear away his ple will have the money to make all necessary purchases, A war such as is now in contemplation Wwill be Speculationihas often been indulged as to the.value of the airship in ime of war; now the question is to flamage with bombs, The operator, owever, needsito have an assistant vho can handle -the weapons of war ‘hile he guides the machine. The bperator must ever be at the mercy bt the sharpshooter, who may pick im off before he reaches the point jrhere he can drop his bombs and if e does care must necessarily be taken to the probable landing place of he machine for when it descends here is apt to be an explosion when : strikes the ground. If these ma- hines can be used at night they can ho more damage with less probability bt capture, although the click of the otor can be heard quite a distance bnd that would be sufficient warning for the enemy to prepare for the visit, Bombs dropped with rapidity into camp occupied by soldiers would ause a heavy loss of life and in a ay to mangle bodies in a terrible sanner, vet that is what war means n these times and that is what a Jnation declares for when it enters pon a hostile campaign against an- goods which must find a market in order to add to the general pros- perity, It takes every country a long time to recover from a war; in our own country the South has mnot yet fully recovered from the war of the rebellion, which ended almost half a century ago. What, then, can be said of conditions in Europe, where the slaughter is likely to be much greatér and where the recovery must necessarily occupy a longer period? These visionary people who thought a day of international peace had ar- rived and that all disputed questions would be settled at the Hague, must now realize what an insecure foun- dation they have been building upon when the work of years has been com- pletely lost sight of, and now when it was supposed it would be of its great- est value, is not even mentioned ex- cept by those who look for sunshine in the midst of a heavy rain storm. FACTS AND FANCIES. The ) 1chusetts progressive stata organization is in debt for $20,000 and it has asked the creditors to settle for fifty cents on a dollar.——Bridgeport Fost. pbther country. SALEM'S NEW PLAN. has decided not to wooden tene- salem, Mass., pave any more large ment houses in that city, even pro- hibiting all over two stories because of the fire risk involved. The opin- jon is being held that there is no need of large wooden buildings in order to provide accommodations for lthe. people because in the outskirts there is ient land for all necessary lewo fa houses. Tho policy seems be to encourage people to bulld fiouses on the outlying districts where there can be a small garden with each huilding which will permit of beauti- ful surroundings instead of the large Biocka in the cehter with all the in- [ S2oUlq be IlaRFen Istent of & hin nt unpleasantness for families.| hour of the last day of the year.— is a new idea and it seems as Ansonia Sentinel, e The woman who hesitates to praise her husband for fear she'll make him proud and the man who doesn’t com- pliment his wife for fear he'll make her vain are worthy of one another, but they cannot make a home.—Nor- wich Pulletin. It is not 1915 by a long shot hut we nctice that the automobile department of the secretary of state already has | the markers for that year safely | stowed in the basement of the capitol. | Under the circumstances there should | be no need next January for any plea | for an extension of time for the secur- | ing of markers.. The distribution should be leisurely instead of a bar- | sical examination of the people days if he escaped the dangers of war. Raising mules in Missouri is a fine art and is one of the big industries of e demonstrated and so far there has | far-reaching in ns results and while | the state. Whether fate decrees he en sufficient evidence given to war- | it will certainly reduce the number |shall tramp the cotton fields of nt the assumption that it is capable { Of people who must be fed and sup- Gem;gla; D‘r tgks; scr\'(ilcel with ::e armies in lands beyond the sea, the y :h fami! causing awful destruction. An | Pplied with labor with which family | W= o 0 B s and per- hirship in the hands of a skilful | support must be provided, it will also | forms his daily duty. If his master bperator can do a great deal of | reduce the number of purchasers of | be appreciative he may have pleasant days, but mule is written mostly in sorrow. If there be a call from the land of the Slav the Missouri mule will go into new and strange lands. His is ever the duty of bearing burdens for man. In war or peace that duty re- mains his portion. history Fine, Doctor, But It Won’t Go. (Detroit Free Press.) Compulsory physical examination for all people has found a champion and a prophet in Dr. H B. Darling, who in the course of a medica] lec- ture of the University of Michigan summer course, queried after this wise: “Why shouldn’'t the health service in operation here be extended so as to include a physical examina- tion of every citizen in Michigan?” There is one vital reason. The peo- ple of Michigan wouldn’t permit any such drastic and impertinent Inter- ference. with their private affairs. They would probably kick the would- be examiners down their front door- steps. The good doctor doubtless means well, as other physicians who advocate similar measures mean well, but one feels on reading utterances like that credited to Dr. Darling that the speaker should undergo a com- pulsory examination to find out whether he is radically deficient in common sense. Those who advocate compulsory examination, and conse- quent compulsory medication, for the one is the logical consequence of the other, reckon without the fact that the people of the United States, de- spite a .good many encroachments on their rights, still retain some residue of their ancient impulse to manage their own affairs. Health is a very good thing—some people say it Iis the most valuable posession a man: can have—but there are a good many persons who feels themselves able to_take care of this possession without the supervision of the state. 1t may be granted that general phy- of Michigan would prevent considerable disease. But on the other hand it is a question whether life would be real- Iy worth living if one must spend it under a doctor’s orders. A scientifie despotism might easily become as in- tolerable as any other sort —of despotism. been go-. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. Will the Front Seats Go? (New Haven Union.) Someone has come to the front since that Westport trolley crash n which four were killed, all occupants of the front seat, and has expresed the opinion that the front seats should be cut out or closed in such a way that they could not be occupied. That proposition will raise an in- teresting issue right away. In the first place the cost of reconstructing the trolley cars of today that have front seats, would mean a nice littte bit of money in settling for such an expensive elimination. It has been suggested that all the new cars that are to come to the Connecticut trolley company be built minus the froat seat. That is feasible enough. But can’t the company officials just simply issue an order prohibiting all riding on that alleged perilous front seat? Wouldnit that suffice? But is there 'much to be gained by the suggested change? What caused that Sunday tragedy of tie tracks or rather led up to it? Wasn't itavoid- able? To minimize peril, to have all th. safeguards possible and to do away with front seats in the process of reducing the element of danger will not incur any opposition. Here and for that matter probably all over the state of Connecticut, the running board of the open trolley 1s invariably filled when there is a crush of passengers all bent on taking the same car at the same time. The fear- ful risk that is thus run, has been em- phasized by company officials from time to time. Attempt to enforce a rul- ing to keep those running boards free from passengers, was not sustained by the police authorities, if we recollect rightly. And the danger is revelled in to this day. If a couple of those cars with run- ning boards crowded to the limit, should come together some day, just crash into each other on the side, and a number of the occupants crushed to death, there would be a greatand overwhelming cry to have the trolleys freed of the running boards probably, just as there is today a protest to longer gontinuance of the front seat. The appeal of the conductor or the railroad official to step up from the running beard. and take standing room in the car aisles, is unheeded at present. The passenger will not put himself to the inconvenience of tak- ing an aisle position and there you are, There probably would be about the sam measure of indifference to the rule of keep off the front seat. What Would “Grover” (Boston Herald) Ships of the new Cape Cod canal, for the long centuries of the future, will pass directly by, and very near, the point of land on which now stands the front porch of the summer home of Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States. It is as if a trans-continental railroad, destined to convey hundreds of thousands of Say? passengers, were to cut the lawn of the Hermitage or to tunnel under Monticello. This modest cottage at Buzzard's Bay ought in some way be marked, beyond possibility of its popular mistaking. Otherwise, the error of a passenger on the Rose Standish, to whom it was pointed out vesterday, will be many times repeat- ed. “Gray Gables; let me see, Haw- thorne, was our greatest American novelist, don't you think?" The Clevelands were first attracted to the New England coast in visiting their friend Richard Watson Gilder, then living in Marion. About the time of the birth of their first child, they ‘bought the place on the other side of the bay known as Tudor Haven, giv- ing it the name by which it has since been known. So intimate were little Ruth Cleveland’s life-long associations with this place that, on her death, her parents never felt like going back to it, and so turned their vacation steps toward the Granite Hills, But it was at Gray Gables that Mr. Cleveland heard the news of his third nomination for the presidency. From there he conducted the ensuing cam- paign. To that summer home he was taken from Mr. Benedict's yacht— which went through the canal yester- day—to convalesce from a surgical operation, much more serious than the country has ever realized, because of its happily fortunate eventuation. In fine, Gray Gables was a turn-stile in the politics of the nation just two decades ago. Times change, and Politics change with them. But in some way, this spot, now that accident has brought it to a front lot on one of the world's great highways, should be distinctly noted on the great guide board. Senator Stone Reconsiders, (New York Sun.) There will be little satisfaction for Colonel Roosevelt in the decision of the foreign relations committee of the senate to hear him present his case against ratification of the treaty with Colombia, because it is evident that the committee has no intention of listening to him at this session of con-, gress, and perhaps not at all. He is to be heard when the committee takes up the treaty for consideration, but it is in no mood to do anything of the kind. In fact, Colombia just now is a subject the democratic. ma- jority does not like to dwell upon. As for the administration, it has troubles enough without trying to force upon the senate the question of paying $25,000,000 to Colombia with an apol- ogy for the m'sbehavior of the United States in its relations with that coun- try in the past. It was “Gumshoe” Bill who object- ed to Colonel Roosevelt's presence befote the foreign relations commit- tee “to put the administration in a hole.” Public sentiment emphatic- ally condemned his intimation that convention with Panama than any- views for the edification of the com- mittee but should not be allowed to appear before it. The senator, who vies with the chameleon in changing his hue and can tiptoe over eggs without breaking a single shell, easily persuaded himself that the ex-presi- dent ought to be received and heard— in the sweet by and by. This postponement or intended de- nial of Colonel Roosevelt’s undoubt- ed right to be heard can injure only the masters of chicane who are re- sponsible for such disgraceful palter- ing with a great question of interna- tional policy., Abolish Front Seats. (Hartford Post.) It is reported, on what seems to be | good authority, that the public util- ities commission will soon issue an order eliminating the outside front seats from trolley cars and also in- sisting that the ends of the cars be strengthened. his proposed order is the outcome of the wreck at West- port last week in which four were killed. All of those who lost their lives were on the front seat. The | metal dash, the iron rods that sup- ported it and the heavy controller were forced over upon them and their lives were crushed out. No one who was inside the car was fatally in- Jjured. Of course an order to elim- inate the front seats would mean great expense to the Connecticut company but an order prohibiting the use of the front seat by passen- gers would produce the same effect and the order doing away with the seat itself might be applied only to new cars thus in time eliminating them altogether. There is a standing order that no one shall be allowed to ride 4n the front vestibules of closed cars and these cars are a great deal stronger than the open cars. Of course this order is violated often but the person who does so, does it at his own risk. In connection with the report that the utilities commission | will issue such a ruling is another to the effect that Coroner Phelan will recommend such action in his verdict after the inquest is completed. It would seem that this plan is a good “safety first” precaution. The front seat of a car, is, of course, an enjoyable place to ride but there's air enough in almost any part of an open car and one can see the country almost as well as on the front seat. Several of the cars used on the Hart- ford lines have no outside front seat and there’s no complaint from the | passengers. It will be a mighty good thing if the utilities commission de- cides to order all front seats elim- inated on new cars and prohibits the use of them, on cars so equipped, by passengers. Anything that tends to the protection of passengers on pub- lic vehicles is good and any official | or board that makes and enforces orders that protect the public and lessen the danger of serious or fatal accidents is to be commended. Usual D€arth of Young Men. (S. 8. in New York Evening Post.) The number of young men this summer is below the ordinary level. | A fair estimate of the crop would be 2.3 per cent. as against an average of 4.5 per cent. for the preceding ten vears; this not only in spite of but because of the heavy rains. Where the young men appear they are im- mediately taken up. At the hotel last week two young men came in late for breakfast. At 12:15 they were carry- ing sand cushions and wraps for two | extremely attractive school-teachers from Brooklyn. I don’t know whether the scarcity of young men is due to the prevailing economic de- pression or whether it is merely an| aggravation of the familiar phenome- non bewailed by young women at the shore that young men this year go to the mountains, and by young wom- en in the mountains that young men | go to tthe shore. This does not ex- plain everything, as it would appar- ently leave the young men in a con- dition like Mohammed's coffin, sus- pended between the mountains and the sea. One result of the scarcity of young men is a corresponding increase in the hauteur of the life guards. Where- as in ordinary years one of these semi- nude Apollos will pose an average of ten minutes with folded arms and corrugated brows bent upon the sea, this year by actual timing they will pose twenty minutes at a stretch. Got His Postage Back. (Washington Post.) The problem of how to ship what ordinarily would be termed “freight,” weighing several hundred pounds, free of cost by parcel post has been solved by a West Virginia postmas- ter. “There is a merchant in one of the small towns of the state who. sells everything from pickles and postage stamps to crepe de chine and mus- lin,” said E. B. Petty of Charleston, at the Raleigh. “This merchant hap- pens also to be the postmaster. The other day he shipped four barrels of flour from his store to a grocer at Berkeley Springs by parcel post with- out it costing him a cent, although the parcel post charges, according to the schedule, should have been $11.- 69. “This merchant is a fourth-class postmaster, and the salary he receives is dependent upon the face value of the stamps canceled through his of- fice. He wanted to ship some flour to a customer, and bought himself enough stamps to pay the parcel post charges, putting the four barrels into thirty-two sacks, on which he paid $11.69 postage. The flour was car- ried by a railroad company eighteen | miles, and when unloaded was hauled by a perspiring rural carrier to its| destination. | “In the shipment the postmaster made what is perhaps a new record for a fourth-class post-office. He | wanted to test the new parcel r\r\st' service, and did not take heed. per- haps, of the great cost of the ship-| ment. Had he sent it by freight it | hay government. postmaster discovered that having sold himself nearly $12 worth of stamps he had raised the revenues of his office to such an extent that he would receive from the government more in the way of additional salary than it cost him for his shipment of flour In other words, by his own act he had elevated his office to the third- class, and automatically raised his sal- ary.” Peanuts as a Crop. (Kansas City Now, when the heat corn, how many farmers are regret- ting they did not put at least one- third of that acreage in peanuts? Is it possible that farmers are not vet convinced of the value of pea- nuts for stock and the tops for hay equal to alfalfa? These by now seem to be commonplace facts. That pea- nuts will do for stock what corn and will both do, and that, they can be sold in the markets for humans to eat and made into peanut butter and what not is an old story As to surety of crop, it is almost invincible in Oklahoma. Journal.) is burning the Babies cry for them and pigs squeal for them, and each will leave their mother lap for them, and still the Oklahoma farmer had rather plant corn and have it burn up than pea- nuts and get rich. May Explore the Locker., (Cleveland Plain-Dealer.) From that remote date when mon first began to sail the sea, have been recurring wrecks that carried *down ships loaded with treasure. The lo- cation of nfany such wrecks is known. For years men have sought means by which this hidden wealth might reached. In most cases the wateis have been too deep for the operation of divers, A new diving apparatus has bzcn now perfected that it is claimed will e enable effective work to be. done at a depth of at least 212 feet. That is more than double the depth at which divers have been able to work in the past. If the new invention is all claimed for it there are millions of treasurc within reach in the Great Lakes and still more in the oceans. More thin a million of gold nuggets went down with the Islander off Douglas Island, Alaska, during the Klondike excite- ment, in 210 feet of water. Lake Huron holds the wreck of a steam that carried down 500 tons of copper bars and a safe that contained $307.- do 000 of gold. It is in 167 feet of wu- ter and is said to be the richest prize that awaits the new invention. Its location is known. In 186 feet of water off the Vir- ginia Capes lies the steamer Merid, which carried down a rich cargo gold and valuables, owned by refugee Mexicans leaving their country for safety. The list could be multiplied, for he history of the sea records manys su:n wrecks. If this new invention makes possible the exploration of the f: corners of Davy Jones' locker, there will be hardy men to make the ex- ploration. In Praise of Wall Street, (New York Sun.) Ever since the dark cloud of a gen- eral war spread so swiftly over the Furopean sky there has been demon- strated upon the New York stock ex- change, not forgetting its auxiliary, the consolidated stock exchange, just what the real Wall street is, .the measure at any time of the solidity and stability which the American people have developed in their econ- omic life. It concentrates American resources of wealth, enterprise and capacity in the largest and most ser- viceable aggregate and renders them available for the uses of trade and industry by means of the stock and money markets. Directly under the shadow of the war cloud financial Europe at the be- ginning of the present week proceeded to go out of business. Half its stock exchanges were closed after a serles of violent panics, and on the rest utter demoralization was indicated by a practical cessation of dealings. In the Europcan money markets both rates and transactions alike have been reported as only nominal and no gauge of the real situation. The financial disruption abroad communi- cated itself to other parts of the world and evoked a similar response of paralysis and prostration, the prin- cipal stock exchanges in Canada, for example, having closed their doors. In all this time Wall street has main- tained the only money market from which gold could be withdrawn in quantity for foreign needs as well as domestic, and the only market in which securities could be converted in quantity into the equivalents of cash or credit. Only in Wall street this week has there been a market in which much business in stocks could be done, and the frenzy to sell securi- ties excited by Huropean develop- ments subjected the American market to an extraordinary test. The day in which the test has been endured is evidence of the substantial rcalities of American finance stripped of all the unrealities with which it has been obscured in the public mind. Let it be noted also that Wall street has done its work this week without any of that statutory transformation of machinery and conditions which has Leen the goal of so much reforma- ory zeal Wall street at all times is the country’s vote of confidence in itself or the lack of it. It is a locality only in name. Actually it is what the U'nited States thinks of itself in the terms of finance, and Wall street has in the last few davs been a strong vote of confidence in the commercial and industrial position and destiny of American people, xperimental crusaders will do well to remember how satisfactorily the ©1d apparatus of American finance pas | been working lately under the most adverse influences. Its operation has testified to the wholesomeness of the institution known under the name of the besides, | STOR LOSES WEDNESDAYS AT NOON DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST, BIG SALE At $1 Each. Values up fo $5.98 On Sale Wednesday morn- ing at 8:30 o’clock See them displayed in our South Wine dow until time of the sale. Sale of Wash Goods At 12 1.2¢ yard, Value 25c, On Sale Wednesday Morning. Here you can get the makings of dainty wash dresses at half price dure ing Wednesday morning’s Half Hole iday Sale. 25¢c Venice Lace Edge ' Handkerchiefs ‘Wednesday Morning 12 1-2¢ Each. These are imported Lace Handker- chiefs, all pure linen centers with Venice Lace Edges. Sale of Women’s Neck- wear at 19¢ each Value 25¢ to 50c. Choice of dainty embroidered Swiss Collars, Lace, Lawn and Net Fichus, 25¢ Men’s Nainsook Un- . derwear at 19¢ per garment Made athletic shirts and drawers. style v Wall street and to the predominant i would have cost just $2.25 or more tegrity of purpose and able hones Big Mark-Down on Ham- mocks, Trunks, Bags and Suit Cases Most Unusual Parasol Bargains Children’'s Parasols, 21ic and 3%¢ each. Women’s Parasols, 98c, $1.49, $1.98 and $2.48. Values up to § D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. of the managers of the financial mas chipery. Had Wall street deserved the abuse which has been heaped upon it it could not have endured so far the or- deal which Europe has forced it to meet. Under the ordeal it has excelled the rest of the world, and as it stands revealed today Wall street is an American institution in which the country can take pride, Our Famous Criminals, (Montgomery Advertiser.) Following are a few excerpts from petty-court dockets in various parts of Alabams + George Washington — Vagrancs, sixty days ’ Andrew Jackson—Drunk, five costs. William J. Bryan—Gaming t*n 3 dollars. b U. 8. Grant—=stealing cow, bound over. . Hans Wagner—Violating meat or-* dinance. Jim Jeffries—Carrying concealed & * weapons, e Theodore Roosevelt Jones—Disore ¥ derly conduc Abraham Lincoln—Larceny, ten and costs, William Taft—Speeding. the man who knows more about the | than $9 less than he had to pay the| . 3 2 body else living could write out his| “But after the thing was over the | | c OF DRESSES [ !