New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1914. EW BRITAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. at Herald Building, 67 Church St 4 at the Post Office at New Britain a8 Second Class Mail Matter. red by carrier to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. riptions for paper to be sent by mail payable in advance. 60 Cenis a Month $7.00 a year. i l i only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. ald wiil be found on sale at Hota- s News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantie City, and Hartford depot TELEPHONE CALLS. iness Office. . torisl Rooms. EW BRITAIN FOR WEBSTER. ccording to the basis of two dele- es for each senator and each repre~ htative in the legislature there will 586 delegates in the republican te convention this year and the candidate for.the nomination of ernor with any votes behind him present is Morris C. Webster of rwinton, formerly of New Britain. le ‘other candidates spoken of are dge Henney of Hartford and Judge plecomb of Southington, neither ot om say they will run, but it is well own that their friends have thus refused to take no for an answer. . Webster is assured of some hun- bd delegates from small towns and managers are working tooth and 1_to gather enough delegates to minate him on the first ballot. . As ards other candidates for governor 8 believed that there will not be important developments until the tht before the convention opens. lere are some leaders who continue indulge in the hope that either of b judges will consent to run in the il and if that result should be ob- ned an effort will be made to mpede the convention for him, breby giving him the.benefit of all L enthusiasm that such an act uld arouse. e ew Britain. will ingall -probability ha a solid- Webster ¢ delegatign to L convention and itf1s peculiar that ‘uncertainty that{exists so far as v other candidatedis concerned is ing his candidacy an impetus that ks now as it would make him the minee, Mr, Webster mdde many lends while speaker of the " last use’ and they seem to be sticking to pretty solidly just now. He s strong with thejfarmers and they quite a factor inia-republican con- tion. Ly ‘WARY} SPIRIT. IThe war spirittis very strong in Eu- pe just now. Germany, Austria, ssia, France, Great Britain and Ser- are engaged in killing each other; lgium is defending itself as best an against invasion and now comes news that Austria has declared r on Japan. The population of En- pe will be very 'much decimated by time it .is all over, and, between th and destruction of property, the untry will: be in such a condition t it will’ take more than half p ntury to recover from it. It seems if these countries are bound to ht it out to:a finish, and the sooner ey complete their work the better 11 be for themsewes and the world general. [Lord Kitchener is quoted as saying the war may last at least e years. He ought to be a good imatpr of such things, but it seems jprobable that the present force of bn could last that long, provided ere Is any truth in the reports that now coming from the front, There enough of men engaged ip the ggle now on between Germany d the allies in Belgium to cause an ful slaughter if they get close ough and stay there. And to think at it is all over nothing. The issues ve not beem strong or serious sugh to cause a disagreement, much a war. Some of the countries now engaged avar have been preparing for it for There has been much talk of ace, but at the same time battle- ips were being built, and even in own country the doctrine was eached that the way to promote juce was to build more fighting ves- If the armies of Europe were as large there would be less ex- n on the people and there would ive been a less desire to engage in . A big armyand a big navy are bars, JERRY DONOVAN HAPPY. The happiest hour in the public life of the Hon. Jeremiah Donovan of Norwalk is at hand. ' The house has passed a resolution to penalize absen- tees by deducting $25 a day from thelr salary for each day of their absence. Mr. during the debate, was, Donovan's voice wus not raised but Mr, He said that the primaries in Mann’s the south are over, that the resolu-‘ tion introduced by Mr. Wwas unfair because it hit at the nortn- ern republicans who are to have their primaries, now and in some instances the members of congress are being obliged to fight for a renomination. Sonze of the absentees have been away for two months and the supposition is that they have been campaigning. Of the 4356 members of the house there were but 248 who responded to the roll call on the penalizing resolu- tion. Of the forty-three members from New York there were but six- teen in their seats yesterday. The Hon. Mr. Donovan is always in his seat except when he is making a speech denouncing the absent mem- bers and now that they are to be fined his cup of joy is flowing over. One of the planks upon which the Hon. Jeremiah will seek a return to con- gress will be down with the absentees. He and Mr. Hill will not differ on the tariff for while Jerry voted for the Underwood act Mr. Hill says that he has no opposition to it and with the tariff out of Mr. Hill's platform there will not be much left in it. While Mr. Mann objected to the penalty resolution, 4 good document. There is no more reason why a man should absent him- self for a period of two or three months from his work as a represen- tative of the people than it would for him to leave his desk if he was work- ing for a private corporation. Jerry has his faults, but his attitude on ab- senteeism is everlastingly right. Underwood VACATION SEASON CLOSING. These cool mornings are indicative of the approach of the closing of the vacation season for those who spend it at the seashore. The days are warm cnough but the evenings are no longer such as can be spent on the verandas of the summer hotels without wraps of some kind as a protection from the chill which is now in the air. After Sunday next the exodus from the £shore will begin in earnest. There will of course be some.: warm .days after that but the person with the means who still has the vacation fever will seek to satisfy it by long walks In the open and evenings-at an inn before a fireplace. September and October are as attractive months as are May and June, though it is in the latter that one sees the flowers Bloom, the grass grow and hill and dale take on their season’s beauties. In the fall the crops are ready for the har- vester and the fruit ripens while each day brings into beautiful fruition the autumn colors, the russets, browns, rinks and scarlets, the ripening nuts, the gatherers, the golden sunshine and the exhilarating air which quickens the blood and makes life worth the living. The summer seems to have passed quickly. There was no hot weather to speak of during the early part of | the season and only spasmodically ever since. There have been some very warm days, but the spells were of short duration and those who con- duct the summer resorts have found it difficult to make both ends meet this year. If the weather is fine next Sunday the motorists will be at those piaces in large numbers but they will find that the regular boarders are be- ginning to pack up preparatory to coming home where the larger portion ot them will have better accommo- Gations than while they ‘were on their vacation. The price of meat dropped in New York yesterday, but the reason for it is not known. There is a suspicion that housewives have quit buying, as the sales have decreased. Well, that is one way to do it. 1f the demand for meat decreases the price is bound to fall, Colonel Roosevelt has written the Missouri progressives that there is as much need of a straight progressive fight now as ever. The candidates nominated at the convention pledged to prohibition, were . It does not pay for tipsy autoists to go motoring in Worcester, Mass. Four of them tried it Yesterday and were sent to Jjail for four each. The police are making paign against joyriding. months a cam- Boston is all excited over the pros. fighting purposes and when they increased . beyond ordinary h it is for one purpose. Europe ng an object lesson for the pects of its national league ball team winning the championship. It is only one point behind the Giants and St. Louis and Chicago are hotfoot after them. It's a great race now, it is nevertheless | Governor Cole Blease has been beaten for senator from South Caro- lina, but the returns from the pri- maries are. not sufficiently complete to tell #He was a poor candidate, how much. It is being predicted that New Eng- land will profit greatly by the Iuro- pean war. Let the evidence be troduced at once, in- News comes from Newport that the American woman will buy her gowns at home now, FACTS AND FANCIES. An esteemed contemporary has harsh things to say of the revengeful man who recently refused to eat din- ner with Colonel Roosevelt at a Con- necticut hotel. Which is a reminder that it was just four years ago that Colenel Roosevelt refused to sit at table with William Lorimer.—Brock- ton Times. Tingier and Halloran is the slate predicted for the democrats by an up- state leader, who says that the record of these two men makes them the strongest nominees for governor and lieutenant governor the democrats could select.—Bridgeport Telegram. Governor Baldwin makes a sum- mary of what his administration has accomplished in four years. It does show progress, not surprising or sen- sational progress, but a forward step or two. From the partisan standpoint, however, the democrat who is satis- fled with the brief cataloging of achievements Is exceedingly easy to please. A good many of them feel that much more might have been ac- complished even under the limited advantage held, the house having re- mained all the time strongly repub- lican.—Bristol Press. War to the sout.: of us, war to the east of us, cannon to the north of us. Our peaceful, work-a-day life at home is getting to be like the charge of the light Brigade at Balaklava.—Ansonia Sentinel. President Wilson, during the hot weather, took a leaf from the book of the society girls, who sleep in motor cars on hot ' nights, after a strenuous evening. But he, unlike them, gets up early in the morning and takes his rides by the dawning light. Saturday morning he was riding from 5 to 9 o'clock, starting be- fore Washington was awake.—Water- bury American. The youths who ride their bicycles on the sidewalks are trifling with trcuble. They cannot offer the ex- cuse, if they are arrested, that they did not know they were doing wrong. —Meriden Journal. How It Feels to Be Under Death Sentence. In ‘the September American Maga- zine appears another Boston Blackie story entitled “Death Cell Visions,” written by Number 6606 who is now an inmate in a Wwestérn penitentiary. The author was at one time under sentence of death. He was awaiting the final day with another man who was to be executed at the same time. In his present story he describes in part as follows how it feels to be un- der death sentence: ‘The long monotonous days dragged wearily by. We were glad each time light came, and vet be- grudged the lost day. Each night left one day less of life for us. We read magazines, played checkers, tried novels, sang with the other con- demned men, but no mental diver- sion ever removed the specter of the chair that waited at the end of the road we were all traveling so swiftly. 1 remember one night I was reading an absorbingly interesting book. It was “Pere Goriot,” by Balzac. 1 read on and on, my eyves following the printed words on the pages. My cell mate spoke to me and I came out of my dream, realizing that for many pages I had not sensed one word T read. While my eyes traveled the lines of the book, my mind had been on the chair.’ 1 was wondering whether the cold, damp cap that was to be clamped over the shaven spot on my head would send a shiver through me that would be mistaken for cowardice. 1 threw down my book in disgust. “ ¢ “Pal’ " I said to my cell mate, “what's the use of lving to ourselves? Neither of us mention the chair— aloud. But both of us are thinking of it every minute we are awake and dreaming of it when we sleep. What do you say if we quit pretending and talk about what's in our minds? Tt may help us to pass the time.” ¢ “You're on,”'he cried eagerly. “I've wanted to suggest.it, but didn know how you would take it.” “ ‘After that we spent hours debat- ing every imaginable phase of our ap- proaching end. We recalled every printed account of an execution we had read. We argued the relative ease of death by hanging, by a bullet, and by electricjty! We even made a sort of game of it in this way: “ ‘T would say, “What will happen 11,520,000 times vet before we go?" You see, bovs, T still remember even the figures after all these vears. It was my cell mate’s task to guess what T referred to. In this case the an- swer was our heart beats. Each of.us vied with the other in inventing and computing these conundrums. Always we selected something in which the answer was some gigantic number, running into billions oftentimes. Tt seem to push the chair farther back into the future to have such an un- countable number of units of any kind between it and us. We used reams of paper figuring how far an express train traveling sixty miles an hour could carry us in the days of life we had left. We estimated how_ far an ocean sreyhound could take us in a round-the-world trin. We learned how fast the earth travels, and worked out with painstaking accuracy lthe_ exact distance it would carry us through space before the da: read a magazine article on a comet which was sald to be traveling to- ward us at dizzy speed, and learned how many round trips to the moon we had time still to make if we could travel with it. We made a table showing how many heart beats and how many breaths were left us at the end of each of our rapidly dwindling number of da And all this helped us to pass the time and keep down the ever-increasing mental tension.” " Menace to Fruit Trees. (New London Day.) Fire blight has made its appear- i ance in some gections of New London county this year and is far more seri- ous than hitherto. It promises to be more serious than San Jose scale, if measures are not taken immediately to check it. Fire blight in the west- ern states has changed many flelds over into wheat growing fields or pas- tures. The only way to control this blight is by cutting out all diseased twigs and sections of bark where it can be found, and burn them immedi- ately. This work must be thoroughly done in order to be successful. The disease often appears on ap ples, pears, quinces and other pn maceous fruits and is often called twis blight because on some varieties like | Baldwin and Ben Dav it does not get down into the lower portions of the tree, although it reaches them oc- casionally in less widely cultivated forms, such as the Alexander, Tran- scendent, crab, Ging, Wealthy ana Snow, When the young twigs are at- tacked, the leaves die down., turn black, and color up as if the twig had been killed by frost or scorched by fire blight. The disease may pass from young twigs into old branches or into the trunk, where it causes cankers—that is, dead sections on the bhark. Thage cankers appear at first as darker colored areas, which later become black. They enlarge'in all directions if the weather conditions are favorable: they tend to enlarge un and down instead of across the tree. Oftentimes it produces what is com- monly called.color rot. The disease generally works through the Dblos- som or through the bark, where some insect has punctured it. Water sprouts and rapidly growing twigs are more susceptible than other sections of the trees, It spreads more rapidly during the fast-growing months of May and June than in July and Au- gus Flies, bees, wasps and other carriers spread the disease. In cutting out the affected parts one should be sure to get back six to ten inches beyond where the dis- ease shows that it has worked. The pruning tool, whether shear or saw, should be disinfected with corrosive sublimate—one part to 1000 parts of water after making each cut. All dis- eased twigs and pieces of bark should be burned up immediately after col- lected, because bacteria leave even after the twigs have been removed from the tree. One should go through his orchard each week, looking for new infections and they should be cut out. Let all in New London county who are intéerested in the future of the apple business do their part to- ward doing awsy with this dread dis- ease. Call on the agent to inspect your orchards ifs you have any idea that this disease is present. War Just a Stimulant. (New York Medical Journal.) War belongs in the category of stimulants or narcotics, to the num- ber of which civilized man has con- stantly added to relax the strain and confer temporary oblivion of actual existence. It is indeed a question worthy of debate whether the ab- stinence from alcohol and tobacco now enforced in many places for economic reasons, together with the adoption of merciless speeding-up processes, has not so increased nerv- ous disequilibrium as to render war a welcome relief. Force upon men unnatural speed and concentration and take away their accustomed seda- tigs and you drive them to a more potent Lethan stream. Nothing can compare to the glori- ous intoxication of war in the mind of the healthy adult at his best— between the ages of 18 and 30 years; middle age, like night, brings coun- sel. The normal young man fights and makes love, both occupations de- plored and sneered at by the older, whose tissues are hardening. War- like vouth puts on its handsomest and most becoming raiment, takes along its most stirring muslic, heed- lessly leaves property behind, to be made good by justifiable loot, kisses its sweetheart good-bye in sure an- ticipation of more or less willing loves among the enemy’'s womankind. Even his horse is said to sniff the battle afar off and laugh. Apart from the irresponsible ex- citement of war, there are the healthful open air life, the coarse but wholesome food, the absence of any necessity for original thinking, all of which cause a superb euphoria. The chances of agonizing wounds, of death itself, are cheerfully accepted along with this tremendous joy of living. War is an irresistible temptation to man, still not quite civilized. Some day, perhaps, a boy caught playing at Kriegspiel will be treated like one who should today be caught tortur- ing a dumb animal; that will be a long time hence, when not only =& new kind of education will be uni- versal, but there will be compara- tively fower and wiser people. A scientifically regulated birth-rate may furnish a world of pepulation that has all childhood’s rights and privi- leges and is, consequently, strong physically and self-controlled men- tally. Such a population may well believe that it is too good merely to furnish food for powder. An Inclusive Taw. (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Payment of $1.500 to the widow of the man who lost his life at Avon Beach in May in a balloon ascension, the balloon being blown out into the iake, has been ordered by the state industrial commission. Under the terms of the law, as it stands to- i | | g | We | day, the cluim of the widow was valid. Only a few weeks ago a young man, terribly crippled In a motorcycle race, | The | was given a substantial award, law, as at present drawn, covers em- ployes in usual and unusual occupa- tions, if the employer has five or more people on his pay roll. No one will deplore the payments to the injured, or to the dependents of those killed. Sentiment will ap- plaud that which has been done and the law sanctions it, but the time will probably come when the state fund will protect itself from the foolish h: ards that are undertaken for pro- fit, and compensation will be limitea to the gainful occupations in Wwhich employment does not carry a prohibi- tive hazard. No private insurance would quote ordinary rates in extra hazardous occupations. will always be much of sentiment in state compensation, but to make sen- timent possible the foundation must rest on sound business principles: If men will persist in defying the laws of nature, violating the rules of pru- organization these | dence and taking risks known to be exceedingly great, where there is no real need for such employment state may deem it just to say the fund shall not he maintained to cover such cases. Compensation is for the regular and needful occupations in which men labor for common good. 1t ought not to be broadened to in- cludle those unnecessary hazards tak- en by the reckless. The two cases have brought out the possibilities of the broad provisions of the law, and the safeguards that may be required are being investigated. Senator Tillman’s Farewell. (New York Evening Post.) Senator Tillman's “farewell ad- dress’” to the people of South Caro- lina is in part retrospective, a campaign document having for object the defeat of Gov. Blease for renomination at the primaries next Tuesday. The senator announces that he will not be a candidate for re-election, as upon the expiration of his term in 1919 he will be 72 years old. It would be easy to find recent precedent for remaining in the senate much beyond that age, but Tillman asked for re-election two vears ago because he wanted to “die in the harness.” With reference to this possibility, he is characteristically frank. For forty vears, he remar! many men in South Carolina have had their eyes on the seat he holds. “This is natural because of my illness and the expectation of my early death.” But his attack upon Blease gives no sign of waning power. He recants his impatient exclamation of two vears ago, provoked by the election of ‘Blease, to the effect that he doubted whether he had not made a mistake in “giving the people the ballot and teaching them how to use it”—referring to’ the political revolu tion of 1890. And he is at last forced by the logic, of events to come out for .compulsory education—*if a statute can hé framed that will force the white children into school, and at the same time give the blacks only the kind of training—manual and in- dustrial—which they can assimilate.” | Narrow as this position is, it is one more Indication of the changes that have come over the man whose ap- propriate symbol was once the pitch fork. : What Ts True Love? (Dr. Frank Crane, in Woman's World for September.) Once into the life of almost every man and woman comes an experience that anakes existence divine. Then human creatures live not on the sor- did earth, but in heaven. They are transfigured within, and become as if All is changed also around the stars This ex- rew-born. them, the streets are gold, sing, ‘the world is crystal. perience is called true love. It is a kind of madness. It is like intoxication. It is a dream, a wonder, a miracle. Common to all people, it is yet the most uncommon, amazing, shattering thing known. Tt is the love of one man and one woman, Tt js the mating instinct of Nature as translated into spirit gualities by the deep human heart and the majestic human brain. The first effect is to shut out all the rest of mankind. The two are walled up in a world of their own. They want no one else. Their :houghts cannot escape intense concentration upon one another. They ara mono- maniacs. To the man in true love with one woman all other women have some- thing repellent toward him. Monogamy is not merely a custom, nor an artificial or economic arrange- ment, nor a state prescribed by the authority of religion; it is psychologi- cal: it is a natural law of souls; it will continue forever because when true love comes to normal people it is al- ways exclusive. We may love many times, but the great true love comes but once. Shingle Roofs Prohibited. (Providence Journal.) Worcester has been added to the list of cities in which shingle roofs are prohibited. Evidently the lesson of the Salem fire was heeded, and the new ordinance is receiving the com- mendation of everyone who is not in the business of selling shingles. An excellent example was given New England cities by the owners of a big shingle industry in Nova Scotia. A spark fell upon the wooden roof and a valuable mill was destroyed. It was rebuilt, but fireproof roofing was used instead of the shingles sawed on the premises. When shingle manufacturers lost faith in their own product, why should any city take chances with combustible roofs? After October 1 wooden roofs can- not be laid in Boston, and the pre- cedents established by Worcester and Boston should encourage the Provi- dence city council to forbid new shingle roofs in this city without waiting to have the danger proved by a costly fire. a in part | its | [ been pracucany svlved. There | | every the | | to | 500 on | now AL AMERICANS 10 BE HOME BY OCT. 7 86 Garmson Says [ul Repaire- Lon Wit v& Accompashed Tn.n. Washington, Aug. 26.—Secretary of War Gairison s convinced tnuy the Proviem 0i sepallliation of Alcrican cluzens sUAnded I e wal Zone nas M. Garnson made public yesterday a iesume the cttorts of the comvined depa ments in co-operation with the Ameri- can diplomauc and consular omeers abroud and the ofticials ol the trans- continental steamship companies, which indicates that within six Weeks American in turope who so wishes may return to the United states, The compilation tixes Uctober 7 as the ultimate date at which full repatriation can be accomplished. Secretary Garrison said: ‘Ambassador Herrick has arrange transport the Americans in Swit- zerland by special trains from Geneva, gs follows One thousand on Wed- nesday, the 26th; 1,000 on Thursday, the 27th; 500 on Friday, the 28th and uturday, the 29th. The fol- lowing ships will sail from Havre for the United States upon dates not obstainable—the Rochambeau, oL | the Klanders, the France, the Lorraine | Breslau, | burg, | Hanover, | tin, and one additional ship, the name of which was not sent. “The ambassador has also arranged to transport 140 Americans on the Champlain, sailing from Havre on August 31. The Espagne sailed from Havre on August 22 with 800 Ameri- cans on board. J 8,000 Still in Berlin. “The assistant secretary of war wires from Berlin that as nearly as can be now ascertained the Americans in Germany are located at the follow- ing places, to the number named with respect to each place: Berlin, 8,000; Bremen, 300; Emden, 25; 500; Chemnitz, 50; Dres- den, 500; Erfurth, 60; Casel, 80; Ham- 750; Kiel, 50; Leubeck, 50; 225; Leipzig, 120; Magde- burg, 50; Mannheim, 900; Neustadt, 5; Munich, 2,500; Nuremberg, 200; Stet- 50; Danzig, 5; Koenigsbers, 22, and Stuttgart, 2. “He states that they are trying to arrange daily special trains carrying 400 passengers, each to be sent from Berlin to cities in Holland and Italy. Trains have already been arranged for today and tomorrow. Special Trains Employed. “Trains have been also sent in spe- cial instances from Munich with pas- sengers from Carlsbad and Lindau, Austria, and from Lindau with passen- gers from Switzerland, and such others will continue to run from time to time whenever there are sufficient Americans to fill them. “We are still awaiting more de- tailed information from Austria and Switzerland, although the Swiss situa- tion appears to be very much relieved by the arrangements made by Ambas- sador Herrick and above referred to. Franconia Bringing 1,733, “A wire has been received from the Cunard line stating that the Fran- conia, from Liverpool, left Queens- town Sunday afternoon with 553 sa- loon, 715 second cabin and 465 third class passengers, making 1,733 in all, for Boston. “Forty sailings from English ports to this country and Canada have been arranged by the International Mer- cantile Marine lines between now ana October 7, there being elght such sail- ings from Liverpool to New York by the American line, four from Liver- pool to Philadelpiha by the same line, weven from Liverpool to New York by the White Star line, five from London to New York by the Atlantic Trans- port line, two from Liverpool to Bos- ton by the White Star line, and six from Liverpool to Montreal by the White Star Dominion line, in addition to which there will be one from Naples about September 10 by the White Star line.” 200 Grasshoppers to Square Foot. In the current jssue of Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper pub- lished at Springtield, 0., Harlan D. Smith presents a most interesting ac- count of the big fight waged against grasshoppers in Kansas last summer. Twelve Kansas counties united in a ten-day campaign against an invasion of grasshoppers more terrible than any experienced in Kansas since the famous “'grasshopper year'—1874, Science and co-operation were too much for the grasshoppers. Sixty per cent. of them were killed by the first applcation of a poison recommended by G. A. Dean, state entomologist at the Kansas Agricultural college. Sec- ond and third applications brought the death rate up to ninety per cent. Crops were saved in which hordes of the pest had already made great head- way while few fields which were not infested were saved from damage. Saturday, July 12, was fixed as grasshopper day and what happened in Ford county is described as fol- lows: “That Saturday was a sad one for grasshoppers in Ford county. Before night came, 1,100 farmers had called for their allotments of poison and had sown it broadcast over the infested fields, Rug men from the agricultural college were at each distributing place to oversee the mixing of the poison and to explain the use of it. County officers checked out the allotments, Twenty-four hours after the poison had been spread in Iord county the effect was scen. Sixty per cent. of the ‘hoppers had been killed by the first application. Counts made in a num- ber of fields -#f average infestation showed 150 to 200 déad 'hoppers to the square foot. Farmers were con- vinced. Many of them ordered in- gredients, mixed the poison them- selves, and spread two and three ap- plications of it on their fields. Elev- 4 | MIDDY l McMILLAN'S LR SWEATERS For These Cool - V'S SWEATERS 98¢, $1.69, $1.98, $2.25, $2.98 cach. WOMEN'S AND MISSES' SWEATERS $2.25, $2.98, $3.98 to $5.98 each. 2.25, MEN'S SWEATERS .50 and $5.00 ecach. BLOU FOR SCHOOL WEAR. Speclal at 97¢ each. NEW BUREAU SCARFS AND SHAMS Values up to 76c. Your choice 44c each, More than a dozen styles 1o choose from. NEW PLAID DRESS GINGHAMS at 12 1-2c yard, Our new plaid dress ginghams ara now ready. These make pretty dresses for school wear, HEAVY DRESS MATERIALS at 39c¢ yard. 50c values. Wool dress fabrics and heavy washable plaid materials for school wear, NEW WIDE ROMAN STRIPED RIBBONS Special at 39¢ yard, BEST MAKES OF CHILDREN'S SCHOOL HOSE at 12 1-2¢ pair. White, tan and black. CADET SCHOOL HOSE at 25c¢ pair. Fine, medium and heavy weights for boys and girls. Cadet Hose sold in New Britain only at McMill 1 Exta size Cadet Hose for large boys, Sizes 10, 10 1-2, 11, speclal 29¢ pair. fo D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. en other wesfern Kansas counties fol- lowed close upon Ford county with similar crusades. Twenty-five cents an acre will cover the entire cost of an application of poison bran mash. If the ingredi- ents of the poison are bought in large quantities at wholesale prices the cost may be reduced to twelve or thirteen cents an acre. By securing the co- operation of merchants und druggists Kansas farmers were enabled to buy ingredients at cost. A sugar-beet com- pany in Garden City supplied syrup free for all the poison used in Finney and Gray counties, which was about 1,260 gallons.” DENIES REPORTS, Count Von Bernstorfl Says German Embassy Is Making no Predictions. New York, Aug. 26.—Count Johann Von Bernstorff, German ambassador to the United States, ment today in which he denied pub- lic reports that some one connected with the German embassy was mak- ing predictions as to the future or discussing peace or mediation in any manner whatever. “I am cut off from communication with my government,” the ambas- sador added, “and am absolutely r sponsible for any authorized state- ments; but 1 agsume no responsibil- ity for unauthorized interviews with persons supposed to be connected with the German embasey.” issued a state- CARDINAL FARLEY IN ROME, American Prelate Pays Last Homage Before Tomb of Pope Pius X. Rome Aug. 26, 9:30 P, M., vis Paris, Aus. 2:20 A. M.—Cardinal Yarley of New York, accompunied by Monsignors Patrick J. Huayes and John Edwards and the Rev D. Carroll ‘went to St and were received by Monsignor iseppe De Bisogno administrator of the basilica. They knelt and prayed before the Thomas Peters today tomb of the apostle and then de- scended into the crypt to pay a last homage before the resting place of Pope Pius X. They remained there deeply engrossed in prayer a con- siderable time CONGRATUL . Calcutta, Via London, Aug, 26, 9:20 A. M.—A representative of the Bene gal Moslems has telegraphed the grand vizier ut Constantinople offer- ing congratulations to His Imperial Majesty on the occasion of the feast of Bairam and expressing gratifica- tion at Turkey's neutrality and British assurance ‘of Turkey's integrity He add “Indian Moslems who consid er loyalty to the British crown their first paramount duty would greatly deplore any estrangement between England and Turkey.”