New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1914 NEW BRIIAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. [Issued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. At Herald Bullding, 67 Church St Entered at the Post Office at New Britain v as Second Class Mail Matter. Delivered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. Bubscriptions for paper to be sent by mail payable in advance. 60 Cenis a Month $7.00 a year. Tha only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press rcom always open to advertisers. e Herald wil be found on sale at Hota- Jing's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Rusiness Office. Rditorial Rooms. BIG BUILDING BUSINESS. , The report of the building inspector in New Britain for last month shows a larger line of work having been done for July than other month since April, 1911, so that it is very evident that\business in at least some respects is of \the best in this city. As has lbeen pointed out before in the Herald there is\a demand for new buildings, but ‘unless money was available they could notybe constructed and the fact that it is\available may be taken as sufficient proof that out door labor is being profitably employed and 'when'that is:done it cannot be truth- fully said to be hard times in New Britain, When such conditions prevail in one city is it not reasonable to as- jsume that the same conditions prevail all\ over the state? It can be said with lali\possible assurance of it being truc hat\, manufacturers 'generally are llooking forward to the largest fall and Inter\trade this year they have en- jloyed in\many years, The reasons are obvious. The crops are good and with the exception. of unskilled labor to a 11 degree employment has been 1y good. The man-who works only nine hours a day'when he worked ten be- lore does not suffer. He does not save s he did: before, but he supports him- jelf and those dependent upon him, lhe clothes them and sees that they ave opportunities for pleasure. He s not as well off as before, but there s no suffering, except among the un- Ekilled classes whose wages are al- ays small and who cannot stand a ong period of idleness. But these are n a minority and it cannot be said he business depression so called has aused any hardship, but that on the ontrary things have gone on pretty much as usual and that with a large ortion of the people there has been but little if any chenge. WAR SITUATION TODAY. “Diplomatjc relations between I'rance and Germany were broken today; the latter has stgmified its ntention to begin hostilitles against Belgium If it\feels that such a course s necessary and from now on it will egard it as an enemy. There is some 1k of Japan participating in the ruggle, and while it is all talk the Hevelopments continue to tend .owards general war in Burope. An parly battle of any great consequence s not looked for for several days. '‘here may be some skirmishing but his will in no way give any inform- tion as to what the probable result 1l be. 157 It is thought in Burope that the ar will not be a long one because lhe participants are close by, that ‘hen the armies meet there will be 'ul slaughter, that a few such peetings will convince the powers of hat the end Will be, that there will a cessation of hostilitles on such a apid fire basfs and that there will e an inclination to talk over the sit- ation instead of continuing the pro- am of destruction when there is ch little grounds for it. It appears the feeling between Germany and nce has become intense and that eir engagements will’be with all the atred back of them that is possible b create. The opportunities for a sea ttle is likely to hasten the end after jhe real fighting begins as all the ountries, they are not interested in bell equipped for fighting on lana nd sea and when the armfes ana avies are gotten well under way :t i1l ‘be an almost continuous struggle ntil the forces are virtually wipea ut or the powers begin to see a light. The United States has begun to take Leasures to insure safety of Ameri- ans who are visiting the countries | avolved in war. An appropriation of | ,000,000 will be made to expedite work . It ought to be an easy mat- to get those men and women away. ey are in no way bound to these puntris, they are not interested in hem, their homes are on this side of e Atlantic and it ought not tc be a fieticult job to arrange for theéir de- ANYONE SEEN CARNEGIE? Has any one seen Andrew Carnegle since war broke out in Europe? He has lectured us all’on peace, he has talked about The Hague and it seemed a year or two ago as if Eu- ropean powers would not think of taking the field without first consult- ing him. Bombs have tossed around, there rumors of heavy firing at sea, no one knows what each day may bring forth, the little man with the barrel of money has not been heard from and the European powers have been going ahead as if they did not care a continental about Andy, his peace program or his money. It is remark- able that what was supposed to have been a great movement should have petered out so quickly and so noise- lessly, especially at a time when it should have been of some value, But the strangest of it all is the attitude of Andy. He has not stepped forward with his advice as usual, he hasn’t read a paper and so far as the public knows he may be at some shore re- sort fishing or telling his thoughts to the waves. How sad he must be with all his money, his libraries and his influence, and no one demanding that he step forward and stop hostilities in Europe. As he is a man of peace and plenty perhaps he feels that it is not his business to stop wars, but rather in times of peace to talk peace. What a great man he was and how he has fallen. He has deserted the world when his services were most in deimand. Perhaps he is preparing a paper on peace to be read to the world when the war is over. Just now there is a whole lot of talk in Europe but Andy is silent in Ameri- ca. now been have been LEGISLATIVE REUNION. The coming reunion of the general assembly of 1913 should be especially interesting this year because of the great uncertainty existing concerning candidates for state offices. The re- union will not be confined to mem- bers of the last legislature but the meeting will be a Mecca for all the democratic and republican politicians in Connecticut; available candidates will be discussed and out of all the talk will probably come some definite understanding as to what may be or what should be done this fall. There has been a great deal of talk on both sides of the fence but while the democratic situation is more easi- ly understood than the republican, it is the latter that is arousing the most’ speculation. It is reasonably certain that one of two or three men, whose names have been frequently men- tioned in connection with the govern- orship, will be nominated by the democrats, but there is no such unanimity of sentiment on the repub- lican side. If the republican leaders were to have their say they would nominate Judge Henney or Judge Holcomb if they would accept but both have announced their unwilling- ness to run. Judge Holcomb will soon retire at the age limit and will be given a pension, whereas if he re- signed now and ran for governor he might be beaten and would be de- prived of the financial advantages that will come to him if he remains on the bench until retired as he will be within a year. But when the legislative reunion is held there may be some resourceful gentleman pres- ent who will think out a plan that can be placed in operation and out of which may come some degree of success. These occasions have -al- ways been productive of much politi- cal gossip and it would be strange in- deed if this year’s meeting should be an exoception. A Word to the Bridegroom. (Pittsburg Dispatch.) You will think she is an angel, of course. At her best, she is; that is near like one as mortals can be. But don’t let that scare you, for, after all, she’s human. She will need three meals a day, a surprising lot of clothes, much affection, more forbear- ance and your constant. steadying. She won't always look or talk like an angel. Sometimes she will seem a fright, and act the part. Then, young fellow, is when, if you are wise, you will get right down out of the clouds, cease to worship, and With a smile on your face take her into your strong arms, put a kiss Wwhere nature intends it, and lay down the law ‘We sav this, not in the least ap- proving of masculine tyranny. There will undoubtedly come times, Vvery many of ’em, when she ¢o balance the account, will also lay down the law. Yow'll obey Withouta word, if you're wise. The point is, do it smilingly, and with a kiss. 1t all depends how you lay the law down whether you are a tyrant or not. If you do as we say, we'll guar- antee that, nine times in ten, she'n like you the better for it; and if, the tenth time, she gets or stays huffy, well, that ought to be a good enough score for one who isn't an angel in as | fact. And now we want to state a bhald truth. In spite of eugenics, heredity and all that sort of thing, your wife re, They are anxious to get ne and tinder ‘the conéitions no can blame them, is llkely to be pretty much what: you make her. You can make her a shave, a doll or a comrade. Better try for the latter. | utes past seven. CTS AND FANCIES. The most wonderful thing about the science of politics is that the politi- cian knows where, when and how to whisper, where a keg of beer counts and right where the pork barrel must be opened.—Norwich Bulletin. Assistant postmasters who have been on the fence because of a proposition of congress to take them out of the classified service, may breathe easier, as the lawmakers have decided that they will not place the officials under the spoils system.—Wa- terbury Democrat. ‘hardware establish- three their The decision of merchants to close ments at noon on Saturdays during August, with the intimation that it will be the Saturday half-holiday for them hereafter, is a sign of the times, and may start the movement. The public can accommodate itself to any reasonable arrangement of = business hcurs. ‘This is a reasonable arrange- ment.—Waterbury Republican. While the war clouds are settling down upon Europe, we can congratu- late- ourselves on the .fact that the Mexican situation grows daily more ercouraging. Persons who a few m.onths ago were absolutely certain that the president had adopted a policy that made a peaceful settlement impossible are now more than pleased te find that they were mistaken. —Bridgeport Standard. Now that the necessity for Sunday court no longer exists, a word of pub- lic thanks is due to Judge O'Meara. It was his willingness to sacrifice sev- eral successive holidays for Ruman- itarian reasons that saved this com- munity from a continuation of its shameful treatment handed out to suspects in the Grand avenue precinct lock-up. Such service deserves much more applause and thanks than it gen- erally gets.—New Haven Journal- Courier. In spite of all that is said about careful driving of automobiles, every few days one reads of children, and sometimes older people, who are run over in the streets. In large cities heavy truck wagons are also a cause of much fatal injury. Various agencies are at work to compel drivers to maintain due vigilance. But laws and regula- tions are difficult to euforce. There are all kinds of human types at the steering wheel, Officers of the’ law do not always want to see too much. -—Bridgeport Farmer. Joseph Bergeron, who is under sentence of death at Wethersfield for the murder of a New Haven woman a year ago, is sald to be showing signs of losing the iron nerve which has characterized his attitude since his trial. Several months ago he told his attorney that they ‘“could not get the rope too quickly to suit him;"” that he had ‘had a short life and a merry one and was ready to go, but as the time | when he must say good-bye to this world draws ‘near his nerve seems to be failing.—Naugatuck News. There is no reason why any particu- f lar favor should be shown William F. ‘Walker. His crime was a peculiarly cold blooded one. Masquerading under the guise of a religious devotee, he in- spired confidence in those least able to lose money through his chicanery. Since his incarceration he has given no help to the authoritiés in their en- deavor to, locate-some of the men mixed up ‘in the shady transactions in vshich he figured and there 'has been no disposition to assist in righting the wrongs of which he was guilty.—Meri- den Record. Already it is growing dark earlier. Have you noticed it? - Thus indicating the return of the sun toward its autum- nal equinox, incidentally marking the introduction of the well-known phrase, “game called by darkness” on the baseball page. Last night the sun set or was supposed to set, at seven min- But a few weeks ago it was setting at half past seven. How- ever, the summer still waxes, though the day wanes, much as we still grow, vrhile the medicos tell us that we begin to die at the age of 12, There is no answer to the poet’s plaint that “It is not always summer time.”—New Lon- don Telegraph. It is a pleasure to learn that John M. Billard has separated himself from the New Haven board of directors. Both.good sense and good taste re- quired that he do so. He is connected with one of the events in the history of the New Haven road that does not redound to his credit or that of Presi- dent Mellen and which cost the stock- holders of the road nearly $3,000,000. If suit should be instituted by the pres- ent board of direetors to recover the greater part of this sum from the Bill- ard Holding company it would be ra- ther an anomaly for the defendant in the suit to be acting as one of the pros- ecuting board.—Ansonia Sentinel. The New Britain Herald comes to the defense of the personal tax. Per- haps it would be unwise in the pres- ent stage of taxation ignorance to abolish the personal tax unless some- thing better could be invented—and adopted. The invention part of it is easy; the other is not, for very obvious reasons. The chief trouble with the present personal tax is its glaring unfairness, its double taxation features and its numerous unreason- able excmptions. It is a crazy quilt affair from the standpoint of equitable tuxation. Tt is the pet creation of the expert practical politician, and as such doubtless represents fairly Con- necticut’s political status, a status in which real intelligence does not cut a very imposing figure.—Bristol Press. WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald office. About Mules. (New York Sun.) “It is customary to deride, abuse, ridicule and generally belittle the mule,” said a man who confesses to an intimacy with mules, that fits him to know what he is talking about “but let me tell you right now that— first, though, consider the mule from my point of view, which is the proper one. There is no doubt that it i characteristic of the mule to loaf, and loaf hard, whenever he gets a chance, but he more than makes up for it when he knuckles down to work. If you will take an honest observa- tion of the mule you will see that he has a certain contemplative, ingenu- ous, open-minded cast of countenance, with a tinge of mournfulness in his expression, which comes, perhaps, from too much reflection on his some- what ambiguous status in genealogical classification. Nobody can look a mule ir the face without bias and not be convinced of his absolute straightfor- werdness and good faith. “In the face, by the way, and paren- thetically, is the proper way to look at a mule. He can’t kick with his fcrefeet, and straightforward as he is from a front view, he is quite as straightbackward from the rear if he is moved to take time from his re- flective pondering to demonstrate it, and, as a rule, you want to be sure of your odds if you are going to be, that he won't be moved. “It will not be viciousness, however, that moves him to such demonstration. It is simply the mule’s idea of play- fulness, the taking of a moment off for showing that he really doesn’t think life is all an empty dream and to show that things are really not what they seem, so far as that contem- plative and mournfully inert pose of his might confuse you into believing they were. He has no more thought of harm in it than—well, than a trip- hammer might have if it came down on you. “The mule is liable to run away, but if he does he does it entirely of his own initiative, and because it has sud- denly come into his mind that to run away would be a pleasing diversion from that disposition of his to fall into disturbing reflection. Cannons shot off ‘under him couldn’t the mule to run away. No outside in- fluence could impel him to it. “And in running away the mule brings to the performance of it the same unruffled dignity that marks him always, whether as the motive power of a canal boat or the gayly caparisoned impeller of a Spanish d:iligence. The runaway mule turns out for all objects in his path. A child, a dozen children, may be before him i{n the road, but never a one will he do damage to. Horses that run away are blind, and have no sense while thus engaged. They are frenzied. The mule shows no more emotion while running away than while tugging at a load of tanbark. “Yes. It is customary to deride, abuse, ridicule and generally belittle the mule, but let me tell you right now that when you are looking at a pair of up-and-up Kentucky or Ten- ressee mules, my son, don’t forget that you are casting your eye over some- thing that nothing less than 1,000 nice, round, fat dollars can be down as the equivalent of, and no par- ticular hurry to dicker ’em off even for that!” Plenty of Fifty-Cent Pieces. (New York Sun.) I notice that several papers through- out the eastern states are circulating the report that no fifty-cent pieces were coined last year, that for va- rious reasons the half dollar of our daddies is in disfavor and is.to be abandoned. While it 1s true that the United States mint in Philadelphia did not strike off any fifty-cent pieces for general circulation, still this con- dition does not apply to the mints sit- uated at Denver and San Francisco. The bureau of the mint in Wash- ington, under date of January 3, re- ported that during the month of De- cember 438,392 silver fifty-cent pieces were coined at Denver and San Fran- cisco. Coins struck at the mint have no mint mark, while those struck at Denver are distin- guished by a small letter “D” on the reverse, near the bottom, and those struck at the San Francisco mint have the letter “S.” The fifty-cent silver piece of 1913 is being freely circu- lated in New York city. Philadelphia The Passing of Mrs, Grundy. (Rochester Union and Advertiser.) “Recently,” writes Edgar Saltus “with a genteel squeak, Mrs. Grundy gave up the ghost.” Our old friend died, we are told, “of mortification morbus, superinduced by what she saw at a tango tea, which, mistakenly, she had entered, thinking it was a sewing class. But previously she had been ailing. She suffered {from neglect and also from exposure. After the slit skirt came in she was never quite the same. Yet the mor- tification to which she finally suc- cumbed must for yvears have been latent.” Following the old lady from her birth in England in the early Victorian age down through the years in which she developed and Teigned as the cen- sor of discretionary etiquette, Mr. Saltus tells the readers of Ainslee’s that Mrs. Grundy’s first premonttions came when the Queen of Denmark “got on & wheel one day and changed the face of the earth.” What the bicycle began then, the motor kept. And the ways of run- away youth have been such that the chaperon was too fat to keep up. There were sports, after-theater sup- pers, all sorts of things. People asked less and less what Mrs. Grundy would say. The Victorian age and idea were passing. “Dumbly, in her shaky bones,” Mr. Szltus reflects, “the poor thing may have felt that that passing was her induce | plunked | own. Yet for her comfort there were the bookstalls, the ballroom and the stage. “Over these the early proprieties brooded still. What came over the floats was as_decorous as what went into print. In the ballroom, though the polka had gone, age had rendered the waltz respectable. Moreover, though girls rode, they did so with less grace, perhaps, but with the same modesty that had characterized their srandmammas. “Then, presto! One prop after an- other fell. The entire Victorian edifice crashed. Out from under rode girls astride. Playwrights took to sex problems and box offices to the re- ceipts. Novelists that had padded their wares with scenery and plati- tudes filled them with passion and baud grammar. “Yet to these things-—all of them, even to girls astride—Mrs. Grundy might have politely affected to be un- aware, had it not been that what Den- mark began Argentina completed. It was the tango that finished the old lady.” Blood-Sucking Bats. (Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner’s Magazine.) We were now in the land of the blood-sucking bats, the vampire bats that suck the blood of living creatures, clinging to or hovering against the shoulder of a horse or cow, or the hand or foot of a sleeping man, and making a wound from which the blood continues to flow long after the bat’s thirst has been satiated. At Tapirapoan there were mileh cattle; and one of the calves turned up one morning weak from loss of blood, which was still trickling from a wound, forward of the shoulder, made by a bat. But the bats do lit- tle damage in this neighborhood com- pared to what they do in some other places, where not only the mules and cattle but the chickens have to bo housed behind bat-proof protection at night or their lives may pay the pen- alty. The chief and habitual offen- ders are various specias of rather small bats; but it is said that other kinds of Brazilian bats seem to have become at least sporadically and lo- cally affected by the evil example and occasionally vary their customary died by draughts of living blood. One of the Brazilian members of our part, Hoehne, the botanist, was a zoologist also. He informed me that he had known even the big fruit- eating bats to take to blood-sucking. They did not, according to his ob- rervations, themselves. make the orig- inal wound; but after it had been made by one of the true vampires they -would lap the flowing blood, and enlarge the wound. South America makes up for its lack, relatively to Africa and India, of large man-eating carnivores by the extraordinary fer- ocity and blood-thirstiness of certain small creatures of which the kinsfolk elsewhere are harmless. It is only here that fish no bigger than trout Kkill swimmers, and bats the size of the or- dinary “flittermice” of the northern hemisphere drain the lifeblood of big beasts and of man himself. Napoleon as Pathfinder. (St. Nicholas Magazine.) That Napoleon was as quick witted as any of those he commanded is | evident from the well-known story of his cleverness in escaping from the Red Sea’ when crossing with his staff. The ford was lost. and, as it was dusk, there was fio landmark to guide the party. Gathering his officers in a circle, Napoleon made them all ride out- ward from himself as the center, as if they were following the spokes of a great wheel. So all the paths were tried and the right one was found. Tn reading such stories as this it is most important to see the idea in them, as the mere way of telling them differs with every author. In fact, the same stories are often told of different men. But whoever was clever enough to think of these things, it is well for us to remem- ber the facts themselves. The moral is: “Use your brains!” Inexpensive Woeds Trip. (New York Times.) The reduction of expenses in 2 woods trip is possible, especially if those taking it have any knowledge of wood craft and the handling of a boat. Even without this knowledge there are few men but could have an outing of some kind. If the woods do noi appeal to the vacation- ist he may choose the farming coun- try. There are many farmers who have pasture land where they allow a tent to be pitched free of charge, their remuneration being in the sell- ing of fresh milk, butter, eggs and garden truck to the visitor. The farmer might even be glad of a lit- tle help in haying time which in turn would be sport for the city man, and assist him in paying his expenses. Unused buildings are frequently found on farms. These can easiiy be utilized as living quarters, if a tent is not available. ~ Hammocks may be strung up for beds and improvised furniture put in. Such may be rented at amazingly low prices by responsible persons. Tin plates, knives and forks, cups, a coffee pot, a kettle and a couple of frying pans, making up a practical cooking outfit, may be purchased at the average country store, thus sav- ing the labor and inconvenience of carrying them on trains from the city. Blankets for bedding and a change of underclothing is practi- cally all that is needed, unless the camper includes a fishing outfit and, say, his favorite brier-wood pipe. The possibilities of a vacation of this kind are manifold and are limit- ed only by the ingenuity of the va- cationist. Families have been known to rent small, unused barns and trans- form them into comfortable summer quarters, by the use of screens and curtains. Many a city man of com- fortable income made his first visit to the country in this manner. Barns have later been purchased, made into comfortable summer camps, and oc- cupied by his family each season thereafter. A couple of men at all familiar buildings | with woodcraft can go into the Ad- irondack mountains with a small out- fit and make themselves as comfort- able as the heart could wish. An expert woodsman can tell the direc tions without a compass. He will point to the tall pines which invar- iably lean to the east because of thu prevailing west winds of the Adiron- dacks which have been forcing them cver ever since they were young strip- lings. He will look on the bark of the tree to see on which side the moss grows the thickest. He knows that will be the north side, where the most intense cold strikes. Should the camp matches become damp and refuse to ignite he will be able to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together until they spark. He will improvise cups and carrying uten- sils of birch bark with which he can bring water from the spring, and he will make many other things that will be a constant wonderment to the rovice. He can patch a boat, rig up a fishing outfit, or do any of the numerous things that are so import- ant about camp. The average man who loves to tinker around home, putting up shelves, mending wring- ers or doing the various odd jobs that come up in the average household, i« but doing this woodcraft in a citified form. Were he to visit the Adiron- dack mountains and spend a summer in rough camp, his ingenuity would know no bounds. In these days of modern conven- iences it is rare that a man has to start a fire without matches even in the most remote part of the woods, and camping kits with leather pails and similar utensils are so easily port- able that a higher knowledge of wooderaft is not necessary. In camp he constitutes himself “hired man, camp cook and official angler, and each of these jobs dovetails with the other. There are hardships con- nected with this primitive life, but, as a rule, men who at home are pos- itive sybarites will glory in the hard- ships of camping. Back Platform Talke. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) The philosopher looked around. “Vell,” he said, “who hears de call of de blood?" “I don’t; said the lawyer, “I've got the blood all right, but my ears are not as sensitive as they used to be. I'm inclined to believe that if all the Cleveland descendants of those troubled Europeean countries should rush to the defense of their mother lands, there wouldnt be much more than a corporal’s guard left here to pay 3-cent fares and taxes.” “Foolish business, eh?” said the philosopher. “I mean war. Killing off a lot of people—many of dem useful, some of dem needed. None of dem fit to die. Of all de wastes of human energy dere isn't vun in it mit war.” “You must be one of those peace fellows,” said the conductor. The philosopher stared at him. “No,” he said, “I'm a human slaughter house, 1 tear ’‘em to pleces und eat ‘em alive. I mow dem mit Gatlings and blow dem mit bombs. Me a piece man! Boom, boom, bang, bang, hooray! “Hold on,” said the lawyer, “you'll burst an inner tube. This war talk reminds me of a little story 1 came across the other day. An Athenian philosopher was hovering in the dis- tance while his fellow townsmen mixed it with the Spartans. As he stood there listening to the clash of swords and spears and the hoarse hoots of rage, he saw a fellow in a short tunic come pattering down the highway as if the Furies were at his heels. The philosopher stopped .him and shook him up and asked him what he meant by such cowardice. ‘I'm not to blame,’ panted the fellow. ‘No braver man ever lived. 1'd rather fight than feed on ambrosia. My soul hungers for the battle, my hands twitch to clutch the spear, my head throbs for the pressure of the hel- met, my breast heaves to meet the foeman’s thrust—but I've got the most contemptible pair of legs that ever stood in sandals. The instant they come within striking distance of the enemy they whirl about and car- ry away at full speed my hungry soul, my twitching hands, my throb- bing head, my heaving breast. I'm a soldier every inch of me down to my legs. Wow, here they go now!' And drawing away from the philosopher he clattered down the road and dis- appeared over a hill.” The lawyer paused. “It's a sad thing to have the fighting instinct without the physical backing.” “Public square!” shouted the con- ductor, Funny Bunny. (New Haven Journal-Courier.) In the near future it will not be the ambition of growing children to be- come president of the United States or a policeman, as heretofore. It is not because the job of president or policeman is not a happy one. It is because the way to fame lies along a new and untrodden path. One man so far has found it. he the czar of all the Russias? No! Nor the kaiser. He is a simple Amer- fcan with a face as peculiar in its way as John Pierpont Morgan's war, and yet he is not the late Mr. Mor- gan. Untold wealth he has not. No king of finance is he. Yet he sways thou- sands of subjects by his smlie. Let him appear before the masses and they are his, Children scream with delight. Women smile Men laugh out loud. And though he ignores them, they are not cast down. Though he goes his way unmindful of the presence of hundreds of thousands of spectators, not one of them loses sight of him or fails to watch him with affectionate interest. Who is this man? Children of the movies answer, Who is it that is Pockson in the humblest Russian village? What visage excites the swarthy natives of Mombasa to screams of laughter? Who is it appears the world over MoMILLAN'S STORE CLOS NOON DURI OF BIG SALE OF DRESSES At $1 Each Values up to $5.98 On Sale Wednesday morn- ing at 8:30 o'clock - See them displayed in our South Win. * dow until time of the sale, Sale of Wash Goods f‘- At 12 1.2c yard, Value 25c. On Sale Wednesday Morning. Here ,you can get the makings of dainty wash dresses at half price dur- ing Wednesday morning’s Half Hol- iday Sale. s WEDNESDAYS AT, i THE MONTH AUGUST, 25¢ 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 Iln-' derwear at 19¢ per garment athletic ahd . Made style shirts drawers. Big Mark-Down on Ham- mocks, Trunks, Bags and Suit Cases Most Unusual Parasol Bargains Children’s Parasols, 2ic and 3% - each. Women's Parasols, 98¢, $1.40, $1.98 and $2.18. Values up to $3.95. o D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. every night, his entrance and exits all marked by cackling mirth? Friends, patrons of the movies, who is it that will ‘amuse the inhabitants in every European country this very night, though signs of blood are in the air and signs of death? Who is it makes them laugh? Who is it has a per- sonal following such as has “never heen equalled in the nistory of the world”? Friends, patrons of the movies, it s an actor—a fat-faced gentleman who grimaces, who I8 probably known by more kinds of people than anyone who ever lived before, John Bunny! “The makes them laugh.” Let philosophers ticists scratch their and naked realists rot. man who ponder, roman- hairless heads, write their utter TO SAIL FOR HO! . Paris, Aug. 4.—Nearly 2,000 Ameri- cans are to sail for the United States on board the French liner France, whose officers have consented to give up their cabins in order to provide ac- commodations for passengers. Jean Jules Jusserand, the French ambassa- dor to the United States has booked passage on this vessel,