New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1914. W BRITAIN HERALD| ERALD PURLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. ted) at 4:15 p. m. daily (Sunday ex - 87 Church St. it Herald Bullding, at the Post Office at New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. red by carrier to any part of the oity: P 15 Cents a Week, 65 Conts a Month. criptions for paper to be sent by muilj| vayable in advance. 60 Cenis a Month $7.00 a year. profitabble advertising medium in jho city. Circulation books and pre: reom always open to advertlsert Herald wil be found on sale at Hota-. News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- New York City: Board Walk, e City, and Hartford depot. TELEPHO! nnes Office. . orial Rooms. ISENATOR McLEAN’S SPEECH. hen Senator McLean delivers an ress he usually something lich . his audience likes to remem- because he always says it so well, b when he talks politics he is apt to et the broad grounds from which views\other things and travels the 1 beaten path of party alleglance. was ome of the speakers at the dgeport\meeting Saturday and in addressyhe said, among other ngs: Tet says us comsider our fate as a fion i we been permitted to iduce those things only which by gon of our superior natural advan- es wes could produce at a less cost n anytother nation. I do not want lexaggerate. It is impossible to tell, course, what the precise situation juld be, but if there is anything of e in the theory to which our pres- chief executive and the democratic is so strongly'wedded, we would today absolutely dependent upon foreign producer for a very large centage of the common necessities comflorts of life. The republican y has urged the necessity of diver- jed industries in season and out of and it seems to me that he who 8 ‘may and must read and admit it industrial independence is as 1 to the life and happiness and pwth of a nation as is its political Bependence. The nation that takes by other position will sooner or later naked or hungry in times of war ld be robbed of its birthright in es of peac Let us 18ave the chief executive and democratic party out of the argu- Ent altogether and discuss the situa- j as every man, woman and child understanding now sees it and we all see, how fallacious is the posi- n_ofithe gifted United States sena- r. The war has proven to the people this country how dependent we are b other:countries and how the policy at has been urged by the Tepubli- ns in season and out of season has isled the people of this country. A |ghn tariff was necessary to give our nufacturing business a start; no one miesithat, but republicans said that mustibé continued or we cannot do inessrand people believed them, but he claim is without foundation in ct and the evidence can be found on ery hand. The American meanufac- prer is making a large amount of 0ds: for less money than they are ade in foreign countries and s piling them there and the proof of it jes in the fact that when this coun- ’siexport trade ceased bacause of the r the effect was felt in factories on is side. It also became apparent that e American manufacturer is also de- ndent on Europe for some, at least, the supplies which enable him to n his own factory so that all the lk of the need of a high tariff to leep. out foreign goods on the ground at unless it is done the foreigner i1l undersell us in our own market Ind our own factories will close is videtly not so,because if it were there ould not be the depression in this ountry that is now felt because of e Inability to ship goods abroad and bfain supplies from the same place. t is only natural that business should come quiet for a time following the nactment of a new tariff law because is necessary to adjust It to the new bonditions, but to say that this coun- v is experiencing the fear of foreign ompetition as it did some twenty-five br fitty years or so ago simply is not s, that's all. Let us be reasonable in discussing s subject because in a business ense what injures one will infure all y some form for we are all depending | n each other, the farmer on the nanufacturer for the tools with ich he cultivates his flelds; the anufacturer on the farmer for the | icod he eats; the skilled and unskilled | orer give their services to their em- luloyer to develop his business, re- jving in return money with which ey pay for the support of themselves i d their families and so on. This | ¥ not be the theory of the man who | nts a public office but he is in a ! oeful minority and his interests aro ot to be considered In the same th with those of the remainder of had | hounds which chase Eliza across the people to be on the level with each ! other. By all means let us have the logislation we need, let us protect our- selves in every possible way, but let there be no more humbug about it, PROGRESSIVE AND REPUBLICAN GATHERINGS. The greeting given Theodore Roose- velt at Hartford Saturday suggests the great popularity of the man and inci- dentally of the cause which he repre- sents. He is the real progressive, and while that issue has evidently subsided to some extent in this there is still considerablbe enthus it and its influence in the next presiden- tial election will depend to a large ex- tent on what it does in the present campaign. Mr. Roosevelt's speech was not remarkable for anything In par- except perhaps for the little hoost which he gave Dr. Flavel 8. Luther for United States though there is some doubt whéther it was intended as praise for him or a desire to give a knock to Senator Lrandegee for whom the Colonel cherishes strong dislike. The gathering was an enthusiastic one as it was expected to be, notwithstanding the opposing forces which gathered at Bridgeport on the day. The latter was a republican it was announced that the state commit- tee had not lifted a finger in the in- terest of any candidate. The speeches ate, sm for ticular senator, a same feast and were of an optimistic character and that of Senator McLean was carefully worded though he still adhered to the old theory of protection without any regard to present conditions and against the evidence which has ac- cumulated since the European war started. There was no pleasant reference made to the ex-president of the United States who was cheered in Hartford as the next president, he being allowed to pass in Bridgeport without any recog- nition. It was a pecullar and an un- pleasant feature of our political life and shows how seriously we take things. When the big G. A, R. parade was held in Washington some twenty- five years ago ex-President Hayes ap- reared with the Ohio veterans and had passed down a long distance of Pennsylvania avenue before any one recognized him and yet he had lived in that city for four vears as the head of the government. Mr. Roosevelt was president for a longer period and a republican parade, many of the par- ticipants recognizing him, passed him in silence. The latter instance is more notable than the other because of the greater prominence of the colonel. The feeling must still be pretty bitter &nd the colonel, who is not very thin skinned must have felt a bit hurt at the lack of respect shown him in a visiting city. He might have been recognized, not as a progressive or a former republican, but as an ex-presi- dent’of a great countr) He would have been glad probably to return the salute, not because of any hope or thought of future recognition, but be- couse of old friendship and because of the position he held by virtue of the votes of the people of the country. We seem to take politics very seriously, republicans referring to democrats as people not to be trusted ard vice versa, and neither statement being correct. our OPPOSED TO STAGE THUNDER. The anti-nofse sentiment is belng felt in an unexpected quarter New York, objection being made to the noise of the thunder storms in one of the plays now being produced in a theater in that city. In most theatars thunder is caused by the shaking of a large plece of sheet iron, but in this particular theater the rill- ing and sharp detonations is produced by machinery. The neighbors, how- ever, claim it ig caused by the explo- sions of cannon and the dropping of enormous metal balls on sheet iron. Since the warm weather set the stage doors are left open and the noise is said to be terriffic. The wave of reform has in 50 many ways that it may be expect- ed In almost any quarter, but when the sensitive being objects to a stage thunder storm it comes near being the limit. A sweet potato has done duty in a cage for the family canary; we have all heard the man with a whistle imitate the hirds in the trees, the raging ocean has been pro- duced by cloth shaken by the indus- trious and intelligent stage hands, and the only kick has been when the work Wwas perfectly done, but there comes a stage thunder storm so real- istic that it is said that some timid ladies thinking it was thing raised their umbrellas passing the theater in other evening and the ject. Nothing will them except the actual clash of the clouds, the electric flash ana e rain running down the aisles. Thepa must be no more faking. There must in in set in the genuine while auestion the neighbors ob- probably catisty be a real canary, the ocean must run right in on the stage and the blood- ice must be of pure blood, If that cannot be done then the anti-nolse law must be amended. ple. 'All that is necessary is for FACTS A ) FANCI to all the tales of out of Europe let it be noted that the New Jersey peach crop promises to be the finest in years. Norwich Record. Just as a relief bloodshed comn One wonders whether the p a war tax on beer will be regarded as a violation of our neutrality, Perhaps it would be better (o halance it by one 1s to treat the combatants Ansonia Sentinel. cing of they [0} we to B. democ: decide that M to Simeon United States senator, the rest of the vote they prefer Frank Waterbury Am n. If the prefer Bryan Baldwin for shall expect decide that Erande It may be a ble uise that sugar going to be expens doctors are blaming a lot of serious disorders to the use of too much suzar and not enough vegetables.—Water- Bury Republican. Bry Mahan said he didn’t want the democratic state in New London this y Doesn't Rryan want to show off what the state is getting for the million dollars handed out last year for the improve- ment of New London harbor?— fridgeport Standard. The problem of examining the bag of incoming tourists, for at leas the next three months, will be sre: simplified, selves lucky to have retained a chan of clothing in their lugzage, to say nothing of any things on which they might desire to evade the payment of duty.—New Haven Register. In a speech delivered the other day Speaker Champ Clark said that in the three years and a half in which he had Leen speaker he had seen only two Congressmen under the in- tuence of liquor and both men could walk, He did not say how many he Fad seen hefore he became Speaker, covering a period of more than six- teen years.—Bridgeport Post. Connecticut some three years ago, raijsed a cost of living commlittee which investigated conditions with the aid of a lawyer who was paid $5,000— more than the governor gets in a year —for a week's work. This commission published veluminous reports yet did net offer one suggestion or make one recommendation that is of any use to the state or any community at this time of all times when a means to fight the rising cost of living is needed. What a contemptible farce was per- petrated on the state by this com- mittee, is revealed more plainly by the present state of affairs than it has been revi led hefore.~—Hartford Post. The use of barbed wire discontinued to a very great extent. The plain wire is said to answer all the purpose withcut the injury to the stock which always results from the : of the barb. The forest officers of Washington and Oregon are plan- ning to make this change in their own fences and the public drift fences. They say barbed wire has no advan- tage over smooth wire; that it injures stock, and that it is more likely to be borne down by soft snow. Stockmen on the Ochoco forest, in Oregon, re- cently constructed drift fences of smooth wire, though with some mis- givings; now they say they will never used barbed wire agnin.—Hartford Times. is being Hatred of War. (Senator John Sharp Williams in the Senate.) s What 1 hate about war is not the men who are killed—they can be reproduced; it is not the number of women who starve to death—and 1 have seen it when I was a boy—for they can be reproduced; it is only a question of a generation of so. What 1 hate about it is that ecvery dollar that is taken out and literally burned up in powder and cannon and uni- forms is subtracted from churches and schools and agriculture and scientific research and educational enmarchment and from the great philanthropic soclal activities of every description which in time of peace push men forward. There never was a people yet who went through a war without losing, not dollar for dollar on account of this subtraction, but two dollars for one; because it is not only the dollar that is subtract- ed, but it is the other dollar taken out of the pocket of the citizen for war or economy purposes where he might have been producing something instead of wearing the uniform. That makes it at least two to one. If T were to go out of the senate door right now and attack the sena- tor from New Hampshire and pull a pistol upon him and he were to pull one upon me, it would be less idiotic and less Insane and less stupid and asinine than this war in Burope s right now. What do they say they are quarreling about? Because an archduke was assassinated by a fan- atle. You and I know that that s not the case. Tverybody knows that. T am a member of the foreign rela- tions committee, and 1 reckon T ought not to be too blunt in my speech ahout what Is taking place abroad. Being a United States sena tor. somebody might think it was a gort of a semi-official utterance that 1 had no right to make, and T shall not go further along that line. But what hurts me about it all is this: T have lived and seen, Take me my- self. T belong to a family of large people. FEvery boy I have except one {4 over =ix feet tall My ancestors were You people starved me to death when I was growing and starved my brother in the same way So you stunt everythine. You stunt education: you stunt religion: you <tunt secial progress: vou stunt hos- pitality: vou stunt international in- ter-relationship, which very precions thinz: and the, whole thing fe just simply—oh, 1 da know. 1 can not find language to expr what T think ahout it, becanse know of no stronger words that have already used. If T knew any, would use them. not 1 1 T convention held | Some of them think them- | e, WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sidcs of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come o Her office. The Return of Cannon. (Minneapolis Journal.) The return to public life of Joseph G. Cannon as ress in his old Illinois dis- trict is an event of national interest. Cannon has long been a unique per- sonality in American politics On the official side nobod sented hetter the kind of satism that was called It was Hanna who first at poker metaphor, but it was non who seized and exalted it. the personal side none of the republican group who left with him shared his power of appeal to people of every class and color of opinion The feeling for him was a mingling of unquatified loyalty, involuntary af- fection, irresistible interest and curious wonder what diverting thing he would do next. The “Uncle Joe" epithet typifies this feeling. He will doubtless be nominated the republican primaries in ber. But the point of interest will be the division of the popular vote in the three party primaries. Illinois is a republican state, and if the pro- gresive vote has disapeared there, as it has in Pennsylvania, Cannon will return to Washington with more per- sonal acclaim than Penrose can count upon : He was defeated by a democrat 1912 by about a thousand, cause the progressive candidate half as many votes as he. TIn same election Wilson carried the state because Reosevelt got ten thousand votes more than Taft and Dunne was elected governor because the pro- gressive vote has disappeared there, as at Deneen. The Cannon district typifies a state situation; Tllinols typifies a national situation upon which political inter- est is intensely concentrated. tion to con repre- “stand- Can- old in ot the A Quadruple Wedding. (London Letter in New York Times.) Four sisters were married at St Barnabas church at Old Ford last Saturday. The event was the happy ending to a struggle with adversity The names of the brides and bride- grooms are Rlizabeth Bradley and Will Thomas, Florence Bradley and Arthur Effingham, Jessie Bradley and Thomas Cobb, and Julia Bradley and George Skeggs. The story of the young women's ef- forts to keep their home in Norman Road, Old Ford, together on the death of thelr father over two years ago is well known in the neighbor- hood and aroused admiration for their pluck and determination, Rev. A. B. Winter conducted service. Long before the hour fixed tor the ceremony St. Barnabas church was packed, and so great was the crowd outside the church that the police had to be requisitioned to keep a ‘ree space for the traffic. The four brides wore white dresses and orange blossoms, and bouquets, and each was accompanied by two pretty little bridesmaids, s0 dressed in white. The brides and their youngest ter had “kept house” since their fa- ther died, in the house from which four of them were married. By El beth's care and good management she made the earnings of the other girls, all of whom had found em- ployment with large firms of whole- sale clothing manufacturers in the district, tide them over the bad times and leave something in hand. Sweethearts came along and on it was determined not to break up the old home by leaving it one at a time. Mrs. Florence Effingham is, it is stated, to keep on inthe old home, keeping her voungest sister with her. Another sister is to live a few doors awa and the remaining one in an adjacent street. Two of the couples will spend their honeymoons at Brighton, a third will visit South- end. and the fourth will go to Hastings. § Germany's War Chest. (Collier's.) Out of the five milliards of francs, the war indemnity paid by France to Jermany in 1871, 200,000,000 marks in gold coins, mostly French, were put away as the nucleus of a ready war chest. In a little medieval-look- ing watch tower, the Julius near Spandau, lies this ever-increa ing driving force of the mightiest war engine the world has ever It is ever increasing, for quietly unobstrusively 6,000,000 marks newly minted gold are vear by year and added to the On the first October each year since 1871 three ammunition wagons full of bright and glittering twenty-mark pieces clatter over the and thece pieces are stored away in the steel-plate subterranean chambers of the Julius Thurm, ready at an in- stant's notice to furnish the sinews to the man wielding this force. Th is a tremendous power in itself, for there are now close to 500,000,000 marks ($120,000,000) in minted gold coinage in storage there. This pro- vides the necessary funds for the German army for ten calendar months, The authorities have necessity to ask the country, warring politicians—in _ this instance the ! Reichstag-—for money to | ;ampaign. They have got it I hand. Once war s dec started they will get the rest need it. This money trol of the military has often been declared a know It to be a fact. Notwithstand- ing the financial straits Germany has gone through at times, or may go lthraugh. this money will never be and in coins tore. rt ready to red and if they the =ole uthorities i« under con- candidate for nomina- used | On | public life | Septem- | the | carried | al- | later Thurm | | been overlooked. ( seen. | taken | | has drawbridge | no | | 1! myth. I/ touched. It is there for one purpose {only and that purpose is war. Need- {less to say, it is amply guarded. Triple pe in this garrison town, devices to flood instantly the whole under fifteen feet of water from the river Havel, are but items in the sys- tem of protection. Twice a vear the | Emperor, or his heir apparent, per sonally inspects war ches Mechanically 1 ar employed to che It is a marvelously by means of which in less t N hours the whole of this vast hoard of gold v be accurately checked and the ence of a single gold | piece detected devices rect weight. simple mechanism Militants Will Be Good. (New York Globe.) When it comes to a question of | showing 'loyalty to their country the militant suffragists of England have | a8 much inbred patriotism as any one else. No sooner comes the announc ment that King George has ordered veleased from prison all suffragi ! serving terms for outrages than th militants declare their intention of leading in the relief of the women and children victims of the war. And that they will put even more ardor | in this work than they have shown in their struggle for women's rights goes | without saying. In serving 'thelr | country in this way the suffragists | will accomplish more toward further- ing their cause than they could | achieve by all the militant tact conceivable. It is not bayond the bounds of po | sibility that when the warring nations cease their mad strife England will grant to the women the right for which the suffragists have been fight- ing. There is nothing like a war for a great cause to bring the conflicting €lements in a nation together, and the settlement of this, the I of her internal troubles, permits Great Britain to present an undivided front to the enemy. Nations reward the men who carry their colors on to the battlefield. The women do not fight on the firing line, but none the less do they do their share when their country goes to war. The militants may win a peaceful victory at home, after all, while their husbands, sons, brothers and sweethearts are fighting to the death at the front for the honor of the British nation. republican | No Time For Rejoicing. (Detroit Free Press.) Aged ex-Empress France, now in Bologna, rejoicing over war between Germany and France, and as remarking “This is my revenge. 1 have waited a long time. Were the emperor only | here! May God protect France. The war of 1870 took a crown and throne from Eugenie, then beautiful and brilliant. The succe ve deaths | of her husband, the dethroned em- peror of France, and her idolized son, left her a mournful and pathetic | figure, an exile in England most of _her time, secure in the sympathy of the world. Her remarks show that either the sympathy of the world has been misplaced or that she has been so embittered by her misfortunes and memories as to have utterly lost the true sense of perspective and to have | permitted long-nursed sentiments of ate to obliterate the nobler, kinder, human feelings the world has long supposed were cherished by the lonely, saddened woman who once sat | on the throne of Franc: | No one can properly exult 'a deluge of blood is now over Europe. It is not a time to cherish feelings of race or personal enmity, but rather a time to pity, to deprecate, to mourn such an upshot | of twenty centuries of Christian civ- | ilization, such a spectacle as no bar- bartan age ever afforded, such a scene as must cause high carnival in atan's kingdom. For the finest men of the hest naticns in Europe are { flying at one another’ throats, Eugenie of is quoted as | | =0 in such as pouring another like hordes of ravening wolves and there is none with power to stay the red riot until it shall have forever shamed civilization, Let win who may, it is a time to hang heads in shame, to avert eves in horror. to pity and to mourn, hut | never to exult or to rejoice in the success or failure of any of the bleeding comt Skirts and Beauty. (London Mail.) Much has been said against the pre mode of tightly draped, clinging skirts, showing the feet ana ankles, but though, worn by the wrong people, they are, I admit, things to shudder at, yet they sess certain great merits which Tight have One of these is that since the Kng- lishwoman has adopted them she ha been forced to revise her which have hitherto been a n “weak spot.” The Frenchwoman never, through all the countless fashions of the years, been without the severely plain and perfectly made tailor costume, with its unchange- able skirt, has always been known for her exquisitely 1 feet. lng- lishwomen, who have invariably shown, up till two years ago, a pre- ference for long. trailing skirts, how- ever out of place, have been known abrond for carelessness in shoes and boots. Now that the short, scanty clinging skirt has come to stay (for stay it does, in spite of all attempts at flounces and crinolines), we hayv to pay the same careful attention our exposed feet that women across the channel. The resnlt this is a general appearance of better dressing throughout try Moreover, the shore has greater cleanliness and lizhtne 1 cannot help thinking that the who inveigh against the nar kirt really are objecting without realizing it, to seeinz it on (he wrong people. A woman whose lines and proportions bad, and whose feet and ankles ugly, certainly shoes, tional who to do of much the coun- seanty may make a narrow skirt appear an two | mangling. maiming, slaughtering one | but slight, aver- sume n a i unseemly fashion, the | gracetul figure—on, indeed, age Snglish figure—it charming and very often lines. The moral of which Alice’s duchess would have that in order for each and éver woman to look her best she should never adopt a faghion because it is th | fashion i1 it is not personally Lecom- ing,to her. This a platitude but too often ignored |1 was asked the should pay more stead of less now tity of stuff The answer themselve: to insure When full terials were and . elaborate looked all wr made of the most silver brocades, and strikingiy beantiful and artistic they are. Certainly it is undeniable dearer no. the narrow skirt h made much better dressed n tion evident in practically every grade. said, is ¢y why one ses in- quan- them other da for one's dr that half the used to make simple; the twic costly dressmaker worn the imple, for would ses are now ous gold and is is are no loss to t skirts quite designs ng. I 1 ma- rich have were that or us a That social The Dem (New Are Of, ster.) ats Haven Reg What may be called the preliminary skirmish of the Connecticut demo- crats is over, and the dust is settling It would not be accurate to say that nobody is hurt, for the wounds are of a that will not develop until November, Hartford gets the conven- tlon, a central fact that is not sur- prising, Hartford will always do as a compromise city when no other city can develop strength enough. New Haven would have been glad to have the convention, would have taken care of it well and with fairness to ever) body. But to award it to New Haven was to concede strength to Governor Baldwin, and perhaps give him an a vantage, New London was out of the question for several reasons. Hart- ford is central, used to such things, and generally available. Everybody has an equal chance in Hartford, es- pecially as things stand now. It seems, moreover, that af least three of the would-be candidates favored Hartford, so that settled it. So we get little inkling of how the fight is going from the meeting of the committee, But no doubt a good deal of under-surface work was done, and it may now be fairly said that the democrats are off, That is, the real struggle to decide their candidate for senator, thence their candidate for governor, now begins. The election of senator by the people—or at least the ! establishment of the theory that the people elect the senator—introduces a new_element, 1t would seem to make hoice of governor center around senatorship more than ever it did before. The campalgn to get the sen- atorship used to be in the towns just before the caucuses to nominate re- | publican representatives, Now it will ! be in late August and early September * the delegates to the conven- After that, to be sure, the people will decide bhetween the can- didates of the parties, so by that much the situation has changed, Tt is go- ing to be a pretty fight, as fights go. Put fights of this sort are not to at- ract much attention his year as usual, sort Canada’s Militia in the War. (Manitoba Free Press.) It is in no spirit of vaunting, but as a matter of undeniable fact, which stands proved before the world, that the manhood of Canada stands ready to do its duty to Canada, and also to the empire. But Canadian volun- teer regiments are not like the regi- ments of the standing armies of Eu- fope, at the disposal of war lords in Vienna or Berlin or elsewhere. The manhood of Canada will not be found wanting when it is needed to g0 overseas to the assistance of Great Britain; but it will go in expedi- tionary bodies, recruited by volun- tary enlistment. In this connection it is to be noted that the militia act, after providing for the calling out of the militia, or any part thereof, for active service the defense of (% provides as follow “Whene jcil places the thereof, on active service, ment is then separated by Journment or prorogation as will not expire within ten s, a proclama- tion shall be issued for the meeting | of parlinment within fifteen days, and parliament shall accordingly meet and sit upon the day appointed by { such proclamation, and shall continue | to sit and act in like manner as if it | had stood adjourned or prorogued to | the same day.” | Tt is as well to have the facts in re- gard to the militia establishment of the Dominjon clearly understood and to have no misconception as the re- sult of militaristic vibrations radiat- ing out from Ottawa, The men every part of Canada, from ocean to ocean, jare ready to do their ! duty, as Canadian citizens of the em- pire; and an important part of that | duty is to resist in this our own coun- | try the beginnings of mania | militarism which has gone so far the continent of Europe as to come veritably a demoniacal sion—a red rage of destruction, caus- ing hideous of lives and the product of labor and inecal- culahle deprivations and SOTTOWS. ada, in coun- any part it parlia- such ad- the governor militia or ver of on be- posses- waste human agonies and “t Weep.” tar.) nd Women M (Indianapolis Tn thé streets of Pari and st tershu throngs of fille fangied 1o the and shouting of weeping women War had been ared and women. d0es not mean glory means parting from hus- from brothers and forever, It means heavy fear and dread; it means heart- ache and misery: to multitudes it mcans poverty and want because of and of Ber- 1long with with what wpirit of pa- wildly, were and chil- | tin of the they triotism crowd men be dren ae war, to To them i hands and lovers, possibly song, MeMILLAN'S dany We Close Wednes- Afte ms at 12:15 P, M) WE SHALL PUT NEEDAY MORNING A M FOR Oc A YARD Every Remnant of Wash Goods in the Store One to five yard lengths. No mat- ter whether the former price was 26c or b0c a yard if the length is not over 5 yards you get it for 9 a yard, Our Wednesday sales are the talk of the town If you never attended one of our remnant sales come, but—you who have attended our remnant sales before will be here sure, because you know what to expect. LINEN SUITS, Long Mohair Coats, etc. $1.98 Values up to $10 will go on esale Wednesday morning at 8:30 A, M, We don’t want to advertise these coats and suits too much as the Wednes- day crowds are hard to handle but see them displayed in our south win- dow, D. McMILLAN 199.201-203 MAIN STREET. ON SALE AT WED- 8:30 the taking away of the bread winners: it means for uncounted thousands widowhood and desolation. Whether to the waliting, tearful wives their warrifors are brought home dead, or are left, unknown, on the battle fleld; whether they come maimed and Lroken, or whether they return, final- 1y, living and well, but with their place in industrial life lost—which- ever is any soldier's fate, the women who love him suffer. 1t is greater and more bitter suf- fering than.any ruler has a right to inflict upon them save for a most righteous cause, and no such cause exlsts in Europe todagy. When such a cause arises, ar in our Civil war, women are ready to make supreme sacrifices and to give up their nearest and dearest for their country's sake. But more and more they are coming (o resent the wrong that is don$ them in wars for which there is no excuse but political ambitions. At the time of the Boer war this feeling found strong expression in England. Women of humble and high degree alike cried out uxulnm‘ giving up to the sword the sons they had borne in agony and to seeing them mown down by the guns of the enemy. The revolt is likely to be more bitter and of greater force in this needless conflict that is now convulsing Europe. Women have been helpless hitherto, they are helpless now: but their voices raised in solemn protest must be heard. The time will come When gov- ernments cannot g0 to war at their pleasure at he cost of women's bleed- ing hearts, The Yankee Spirit. (Detroit Free Press.) We've got a cable from him, he is safe and coming home, He beat it out of Munich and he head- ed straight for Rome, landed on a vessel without case, grip or trunk, Though he’s worth a million dol- lars, he is in a steerage bunk, He it | He paid seven hundred dollars for his cabin when he went, The beet was none too splendid, and he cared not what he spent; the women have his parior and at dinner time he's in The line of steerage fellows, with his cup and plate of tin Now It's the gpirit of his fathers, that he showing on the ship, It's the spirit of his country Yankee upper lip to share g care that's it's the pluck that And a steerage journey's the needs for it arise, it's the Set common, never dies easy when are pleasure's when skies Pomp and pride jewels, style is kept are fair, i But they quickly are forgotten when there comes & common care And Tt's then the Yankee spirit gleams and glistens at its best Ag these rich men in the steerage very forcibly attest. -~