New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1914, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1914. EW BRITAIN HERALD | — IHERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. 4 daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p, m. at Herald Building, 67 Church St d at the Post Office a New Britain as Second Class Mail Matter. red by carrier to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. eriptions for paper to be sent by mail * payable in advance. 60 Cents a Month $7.00 a year. only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. be found on sale at Hota- News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atlantic City, and Hartford depot. TELEFHONE CALLS. ess Office. forfal Rooms ‘hevopposition to the appropriation $25,000 for street work did not nifest itself very strongly at the ¥ meeting last evening. There was e+ opposition, but it was not suffi- t, nor anywhere near it, to prevent b money being provided. It was a rly representative meeting; many the customary faces were absent ' in their places,were many new es and particularly among young ple Who have never been in atten- ce at city meetings before. The e was emphatic, though not unani- us. A [Phe only speaker against the pass- p of the resolution was Edward XKilbourne and his position was t he thought that some explan- on ' should be made before the qn to adopt was passed. He make a good point when he said t the board of finance and taxa- n had given the board of public ks about all the money it thought pught to have and if there was to any more: voted that the reasons it should be explained. Council- n Jester replied that the money to be used to furnish employ- nt for idle men. That seemed to sufficlent: and the resolution was bpted. 2 e money will be used for grading d when completed the board of blic works will have accomplished eat deal. of work tihs year, but it ms as if the appropriation now have a tendencyto reduce the propriation next spring on the pund that a large amount of street rk was done this season. Of course pre will always be a demand for a ge appropriation for -streets, not rily for macadamizing or grad- but for permanent pavement and more,there is of that the more il be the expense and the better il be the appearance of the streets. ere will always be an opportunity the expenditure of money on our ghways; they cover several miles d it will be a few years yet before ey are all in the condition that the jople would ‘like to see them in. Tt 11 take much money to accomplish SERIOUS AWTO ACCIDENT. ‘hat was a wery unfortunate acci- Int \which happened outside of Hart- ra late last night when three en were instantly killed, ir amtomobiles skidding and strik- g aitelegraph rpole. There were four the car and one escaped but he les not' seem to; know just how fast car was going when it left the dway. The assumption, of course, that the speed was a rapid one or e car would not have skidded on a Juntry road or:if it dia the driver uld have been-able to control it. IMotoring, is a pleasant pastime but L has its dangers. These can be nimized,.however, by carefulness on part of'the driver, but when a car being run-at high speed most any- ng is likely to happen and when it es there is no telling«what the ex- Int will be. The killing of the three men about as bad an auto accident the state has ever had and it again ustrates the need of carefulness on e part of those who drive the cars. yding is very dangerous; some es- Lpe, but it claims victims now and hen and jt is only when a human life snuffed out that any serious at- ntion is given to it. ' One autoist ran a heavy truck fough New Britain at a high rate peed yesterday and was fined $100 hd costs in the police court for it morning. The penalty seems , but the idea appears to be to a stop to speeding and the impo- tion of « heavy fine will undoiibtedly e that effect. Thé columns of the every Monday morning during warm season contain accounts eath or injury of people in auto’accidents and a loud ‘demand’ is being made on the law department everywhere to put a stop to those forms of carelessness that lead to such Laccidents. WE COULD STOP WAR, Evidence has been introduced the John Doe investigating proceed- ings now being conducted in New York by District Attorney Whitman to show that if an embargo placed on wheat, ‘flour and _ similar products that the war Europe would cease, that.the surplus thus created in the local markets would lessen prices at home and the country and the people would be the better for it. It is stated that Russia alone is short 400,000,000 bushels of wheat and it is believed that the conditions in all warring countries are such that this country could find a ready mar- ket for its entire crop of foodstuffs, but on the other hand it is believed that the farmers of this country would be very much displeased if the gov- i ernment at Washington took steps to place an embargo on the exportation of all grains to Europe. It must be apparent that if is to be large exportations of food stuffs that the effect will be higher prices here because it would cause a scarcity of those articles and that would send the prices skyward. This condition shows that there is some selfishness in the average man and it is because of this that socialism can never hope to prosper in this country. When the American buginess man sees an opportunity to make money in were in there he wants to make it and he will not | retain a kindly feeling for those who | oppose him. If the administration at ‘Washington prevents foodstuffs from being shipped abroad as it virtually has in the case of money, the agricul- tural element will never forgive it #nd that opposition is likely to be enough to cause it to hesitate about acting along the line suggested. The conditions, however, are worth seri- ous attention. BOND AND NOTE TAX. State Treasurer Roberts is taking pains to notify the people of the state that all persons owning bonds or notes Hable to taxation should write to him for lists and arrange.to pay what they owe on this tax. This -is one of the forms of taxation that is difficult to collect. Those liable for this tax ought to pay it in the town where they live, but under the law they can pay it to the state at the rate of four-tenths of one per cent., whereas if they do not pay it there, and desire to pay it where they live, which is not likely, they must pay the regular local rate which in New Britain for instance is fifteen and a half mills. It is difficult to induce people pay this tax and it seems almost impossibility to get them to own up to having the property. The state, however, is going to make an effort to force people to pay by passing a law in the next legislature, Treasurer Roberts says, that will compel them to pay this tax at the local rates for all the time which the owners of the bonds and notes have had them in their possession and did not pay the tax. This is to be regarded as a pen- alty and it seems as if it might be a severe one for those who are caught with the goods. For several years the state has been endeavoring to make people pay their taxes and it has been a difficult task, but it is now apparent that steps are to be taken in the case of those in- debted for this particular tax that will make it very costly for the de- linquents. There is quite a difference between paying four-tenths of one per cent. to the state and fifteen or sixteen mills to the town or city. It is very evident that it is much better to pay the state now than to pay the higher raté later on to some one else. The treasurer will be glad to give advice on this matter if interested people care to write for it. < to an Wanted, An Old-Fashioned Mother. (Detroit Free Press.) Etta, a 15-year-old girl, has bluffea the whole reformatory machinery of Wayne county and the state of Mich- izan and has been returned to Detroit from Adrain school for girls as too terribly incorrigible to be taken care of. Isn’t there anywhere in the state of Michigan one old-fashioned mother? Isn’t there a woman with a kindly eye and a stern hand, the combination which can inflict punishment but holds out hope of pardon at the same time? Perhaps this is one more myth of the pathos of distance, but it seems to us that the old-fashioned mother was an institution capable of dealing effective- ly with any 15-year-old girl who re- fused to be good. A good spanking perhaps, adminis- tered every day or If necessary once an hour unti]l relieved, might have itg effect; a fetv motherly talks, a littia sincere affection and understanding would probably be part of the treatment. Whatever methods she would use we would back a real old- fgshioned mother against, Etta in a contest for control of the &u&uon. D FANCIES, FACTS ! Governor Baldwin predicates his claim to the Connecticut senatorship largely on his knowledge of interna- tional law. With all due respect to the erudition of the governor it might { be pointed out that just at the present moment this special qualification of his is at something of a discount. The international law with which the governor has been so painstakingly storing his mind during a long life seems to be in process of revision by a strenuous convention held along the valleys of the Meuse and the Mo- selle, with large numbers of delegates actively engaged in ripping that al- wuys tenuous substance into many and minute fragments.—New London Day. Don’t worry too much over the ad- vence in the price of sugar. If you remember, the cost has been increased a little in former years along about the time the women folks wanted to do a little canning. The higher cost of flour, however, is not so readily accounted for.—Ansonia Sentinel. What has become of the old-fashion- ed jingoes, the congressmen and oth- ers who, only a year ago, were mak- ing speeches about the yellow peril. the rise of Asia, the helplessness of the United States. They are silent, but probably mnot from their own choice. It may be surmised President Wilson, with his high ideals of neu- trality and his rather firm control of congress, has something to do with the blessed silence in the neighbor- hood of Washington,—Brockton Times. People who have members of their families or friends abroad from whom they have not heard will do well to possess their souls in patience. The situation is clearing rapidly so far as Americans are concerned. The space they occupy is of greater importance than their company.—New Haven | Journal-Courrier. Isn’t Gov Baldwin’s announcement cf his candidacy for the senatorship the frankest ever? But it isn’t sim- ple or naive. There is policy behind it. While everybody is disclaiming ambition and modestly depreciating their own ability and fitness, the Gov- ernor frankly admits that he wants the office and plainly asserts his rea- son for believing that he is qualified and that he is the true representative of the people and' acknowledged by them to be such. There is a certain freshness and directness about theé governor’s statement which makes an appeal almost novel. It will be hard to overcome such strong open cam- paigning by the usual kind of politjcs. —Waterbury American. Hartford is investigating the reasons for the advances in costs of groceries and meats in the city. Good. There may be no resulting drop in prices, but while the light is turned full on them the speculators will not dare to show their hand.—Waterbury Repyblican. We could spare a lot of people for <| war who refused to go. For instance, a moblization of the I. W. W, for ser- vice abroad would be most welcome. —Bridgeport Telegram. The Real Tragedy. (Springfield Republican.) The tragedy of modern warfare is that it is not fought by the fighters. In the death on the battlefield of a born soldier, treading the paths of glory to the grave, there is nothing for the world to regret; that was his chosen career and the expectable end- ing of it. = The world has lost one more fighter, and nothing more; it is otherwise when a bullet makes an end of a man whose gifts have nothing to do with war. In the Austrian army is ong of the two greatest living violinists, Fritz Kreisler; in Belgium, over age but anxious to enlist to de- fend his country, is the other, Eugene Ysaye; in the French- army Jaeques Thibault is said to be fighting. All the armies are full of men of varied §ifts, many of them rare and fine, and quite irrelevant to war; such stuff is too precious for the battlefield—bul- lets one makes of lead, not of gold. “War is hell,” said Sherman, who was a keen military thinker but not a militarist; it is a view to which militarists have never given assent. They are declaring today as they have always declared, that war is the great- est of games, the highest expression of human energy, the instrument of the nation’s will, Nature's inevorable law of progress. And it must be con- sidered that the born fighters' war has never seemed what Sherman called it. Tuke, for instance, the rebel guerrilla leader, John A. Mosby, who saw as much hard hand-to-hand fighting as any man in the Civil war, and exposed himself to danger with zest—'‘not that he was reckless,” says one of his men, “but he was unconsciously brave, and loved war for itself; it was never ‘hell’ to him, as it was to Sherman, but on the whole he rather looked at it as a sort of martial picnic.” The philosopher will waste no time in deploring that the fighting man should like to fight, and if he is a hard-hearted philosopher he may even feel that it would not be a bad thing for the world if its fighting lood could be periodically let by put- ting the born warriors at the con- genial task of mutual elimination. But what his philosophy does not re- veal is why he, a man of peace, to whom slaughter {s abhorrent, and whose special gifts are wasted on the battlefield, should be eliminated along with the militaristic surplus. Art of Gl‘ow‘l!g Old Gracefully. (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) Few of us cross the threshold of a birthday to enter the open door of another year without the sorrowful conviction that we have been unprofit- able servants and without the hope that in the year to come we shall do better. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote “The Boys” for the reunion of his aged classmates to prove Old Time a liar; Joseph H. Choate, after he was seventy, said his experience proved to him that the eighth decade \vas the best .of all: and an astute Frenchwoman continued year after l Yyear to give her age as thirty-five, be- GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK LITERATURE, Adventures of a Newspaper Man. By Frank Dilnot. “Eighteen spirited storie ered by a special reporter for the Daily Mail in his search for ‘good live copy.” An honest humanitarian , and light philosopher of admirable temper, Mr. Dilnot sketches in his ad- ventures modestly, content to show their human interest.”—Bookman. o % The gath- Blanchette and Bugene Brieux. “Two three act plays. The first : tells the story of an innkeeper's daughter who has been educated be- yond her rank. The second is an ex- posure of medical charlatanry. The author has learned to make interest virtually continuous, to give his cur- tains the crispness of epigrams anad ! to dash at his point with a brusque precipitance which somehow lands him at his goal.”—Nation. .o Escape. By The Mob. By John Galsworthy. *The hero of this play is a youns | Englishman who opposes a popular war. The story is told with economy of words and with precision and | force.”—Outlook. ! B Readings From Modern Authors. Compiled by Frederick Starr. e e Sister of the Wind Poems. By G. F. Norton. “This new collection, the first since | the ‘Little Gray Songs From St. Jo- seph’s’ shows poetic growth in tech- nical facility and in range and force of imagination.” and Other e ox HOME ECONOMICS American Cook Book. By Mrs, J. M. Hill “Contains besides the old reliable recipes, novelties culled from the best of other lands. Written for all cooks, though the inexperienced one is ad- vised to study first the general pre- fatory remarks of each section. Not so elaborate as the author’'s ‘Practi- cal Cooking and Serving,” and so more useful to the average housekeeper.”— A. L. A. Booklist: e e Canning, Preserving and Pickling. By M. H. Neil. ... Care and Feeding of Childrer. By L, E. Holt. Seventh revised edition. | “A number of new sections have been added to the fifth edition, spe- | cially on different kinds of milk and on adenoids and enlarged tonsils; slight changes, made throughout the | book; and the index, much enlarged. The change from the sixth -edition, however, is very slight.”—A. L. A. Booklist. oo A complete book on sewing | i Dressmaker. ) all matters connected With and dressmaking. Y Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen. By Mrs. B. C. Howard. “A new edition of a book, out of , and Toilet Accessories. i I dell. print for a number of years, to which have been added many recipes long famous in Maryland and Virginia. More cosmopolitan than the name im- plies, though many recipes do: flavor of the south and are suitable only for large families. Kor the experi- ! enced cook who seeks variety."—A. L. ! A. Booklist. e Fundamental Basis of Nutrition. By | ) Graham Lusk. “In this little book Dr. Lusk main- tains that with a knowledge of what to purchase a family of flve can be sufficiently nourished at a cost of fifty cents a day. He then goes on to show how many calories a hypo- thetical family of five would require : to nourish them, and lists the foods that would supply those calories at fifty cents per day.’—Publisher’s Note. S0 1,001 Tests of Foods, Beverages By H W. Wiley. .. Practical Sewing and Dressmaking, By S. M. Allington. “Detailed and practical ifstruction about stitches, measurements, draft- ing patterns, cutting and making gar- ments of all kinds for women and children. A good book for the per- son intending to take up dressmak- ing as a business, or for the home dressmaker who has some training and much common sense.”—A, L. A. Booklist. FICTION Bat Wing Bowles. idge “The author has made a story, with plenty of —humor and plenty of exciting events. And his Arizona cowboys are = entirely all right.”—New York Times. PP Cordelia Blossom. By G. R. Chest- er. By Dane Cool- lively . Governor of England. By Marjorie Bowen. “Historical. Setting forth the per- | sonality of Oliver Cromwell and his | dealings with Ring and parliament.” e Mr. Bidgood. By Peter Blun- A nautical comedy. “Humor of a quality which we as- sociate ‘with W. W. Jacobs' nautical Oh! | stories is here abundantly present and is deftly mingled with thrilling adven- ture.”—Spectator. .. Victim.. By Thomas Dixon. “A romance of the real Jefferson Davis, the book calls itself. It is a picture of a human being who Is too nearly perfect for acceptance. Bar- ring its partisanship, it presents a vivid and_ truthful picture of war days in the south, particularly at Richmond.”—Nation. cause, she said, she was not one who would be guilty of saying one thing at one time and another thing at an- other. Yet we do not all wear our years so gracefully. Some of us re- pine at the calendar’s reminder and would erase the record if we could. We .wish no commemoration of an unwelcome fact. We are content to let our juniors have the candles and the cake and the birthday presents. But there are ways of not letting the calendar know how old we are. The secret of perennial youth seems to have been whispered to a few for- tunate souls. We do not think of them as growing old, for their hearts are always young Within them and the spirit of play alive. They have the sense of humor and of blithe abandon which even the occasional minor cad- ences of tragedy cannot obliterate. They are not pessimists who brood upon departed glories and can fore- cast naught but black evil in the days to come. They believe that “the best is yet to be,” and they are unafraid of what the future holds. Each birth- day, though it may write some trivial legend of age upon the physical frame, finds the spiritual tenant younger still, Trials of Working Women. (Chicago Tribune.) Complaint is being made that in our recent agitation for the intelligent handling of the problem of unemploy- ment woman was completely lost sight of. As a matter of fact, it is stated, woman suffers from unem- ployment to a not inconsiderable ex- tent. Many of the trades open to her are seasonal. In time of general depression women get no more con- sideration from employers than men. While there are, however, & hun- dred and one places where the un- employed man can spend the day, and even night, where he can find shelter from cold and rain, where he can even get food free, the number of places open to the unemployed woman is very small. She cannot spend the day in a saloon. She cannot sleep in a Nallway. She does not enjoy the man’s privilege of panhandling. She cannot beg in the street the price of a cup of coffee. Why does not the woman who is in such a plight turn to housework? is often asked. To begin with, there is no housework for all such unemployed women. Then. again, not all such women are fit for housework. You cannot make 8 cook out of a glove- maker or a bindery girl on short notice, or no notice at all. The prob- lem of unemployment among women, it is argued, must be met with the same provisions and agencies that come to the help of the unemployed man. There is not only reason in this éemand; justice and humanity are on its side. The woman out of a job is entitled to all the consideration man gets—and more. A War Footing For the Family. (New York Tribune.) It is beginning to come home most of us that the effects of European Armageddon are by means confined to Europe. Here America a minority composed chiefly of farmers and meat packers are making more money than ever. The bulk of the country is feeling the pinch of a higher cost of living and reduced business all along the line. We are spared the tragic business of war, but its consequences touch us keenly. We are realizing more vivid- 1y than ever the and complex relationships which bind the modern world together and in con- sequence of which no nation can live to itself. Realizing our lot, what should we do? There is a lot of plain, hard sense to back a period of strict econ- omy.. Most American families, from father with his cigars down to Mary Jane with her tango slippers, have a long list of extravagances. Frugal- ity 1s not one of our national Vvir- tues. We have the habit of spending and we are proud of it. Well, the present is a splendid time to forget our natjonal predilections and start promptly to put our family living on a war basis. A few months of care- ful spending can be recommended to most of our households. Luxuries can be cut and necessities bought with extra care and attention. Waste can be reduced to a minimum. In the long run this country must gain and gain greatly through Ku- rope’s setback, In the present months of stringency we can, if we will, bt_)th help ourselves through the passing troubles and incidentally pick up a speaking acquaintance with the ad- mirable virtue of economy. w0 the no in innumerable Didn’t Want to Laugh. (Detroft Free Press.) Raymond Hitchcock, slpping an iced drink on a wind-swept Atlan- tic City terrace, shook his head. “Seashore morals,” ne said, “have their comic as well as their tragic side. “Thus, as old Gobsa Golde, swel- tering in his shirtsleeves despite the | studied | breeze from his electric fan, the ticker feverishly in his metro- politan oflice, his typewriter girl rushed in on him and said: “‘Oh, Mr. Golde! Oh, poor Mr. Golde! The butler has just tele- phoned from the shore that Mis. Golde eloped last night with a col- lege boy!” * ‘Ethel, you bad girl,’ said Gobsa Golde reproachfully, ‘don't make laugh—you know I've got a split lip. GERMANY FIGHTING FOR CIVILIZATION Kaiser's Troops Oppese Eaibarisin of Russia, Says Capt. Boy-£d. New York. Aug. 27—The official press bureau of the German navy depart- | ment yesterday issued through Cap- ! tain Boy-Ed, naval attache of the Ger- man embassy, who is now in New York, a statement accusing England with having made before the war “binding arrangements with France as well as Russia, although this her ministers had repeatedly and vehem- ently denied.” In declaring that “Ger- | many is fighting for civilization | against the barbarism of Russia,” the an Poles greet our troops wherever they come with open enthusiasm and furnished them vol- untarily with the best they could af- | ford. In Poland, in Finland, in the Caucasus and in the Ukraine revolu- tions have been started. All the Aus- trian peoples, especially the Poles and | the Slavic Czechs, declared enthusias- | tic demonstrations that they are re- | solved to take vengeance for the cruel murder of the archduke. Germany Badly Treated. “In France and Belgium German citizens were treated in the meanest and almost incredible manner. They were driven out of Paris and Antwerp, and in many cases their money and railrond tickets were taken away. They were then left, without the slightest protection, to the mercies of the mob. All Germans without means have been transported to southwestern France, where they are forced to do work of the lowest kind. “In Belgium excesses against Ger- man citizens have taken place which should be expected only from sav- ages. Every store owned by a Ger- man has been wrecked. Practically all Germans were robbed of their be- longings. Many who tried to escape were slaughtered and the clothes torn from their bodies. German women have been stripped, dragged through the streets by the hair when naked, and shamelessly abused. Killed By Inhabitants, “In France and especially in Bel- gium, the inhabitants have attacked and killed many small detachments of soldiers, physicians and wounded trom ambush. The German consul in Marseilles was beaten by a mob and bottles thrown at him. The Ger- man embassy at St. Petersburg has ‘been demolished. And in all these cases the police made not even an | effort to interfere. According to | trustworthy reports all Italians have | been ariven from France, after being | abused shamefully. Successes Belittled. “Our successés have so far grossly belittled or not reported —at all. Liege was completely in our possession about the sixth day of mobilization. This is a success that has no equal in the history of tne world. On the preceding dgy an at- tempt had been made to surprise the fortress, with weak forces, which was repelled. Out of this a great and important defeat has been con- structed. “We knew from absolutely reli- able sources that the French army intended to march into Luxemburg and Belgium immediately hostilities were .begun. The neutrality of Bel- gium was first violated by French | military aeroplanes, many of which flew over Belgium in an effort to ob- serve the movements of the German army, without any protest on the part of the Belgian authorities.” been The Shortage of Beef. (St. Louis Republic.) European war and the anticipation of an expected demand for beef to feed a few million fighting men have helped to bring us a little nearer the realization that we have a livestock famine in this country. On Thurs- day cattle sold in the East St. Louis vards at $10.40. The receipts are low, much lower than they were last sea- son, There is little indication that there will be much of a movement of cattle to market, as there is no great number of cattle in stalls or pastures to be moved anywhere. i The dry weather that has injured sections of the United States for four straight years has finally pretty well exhausted the supply of cattle. It cut down the number of sheep and hogs. Feed buying has taken the courage out of the farmer and livestock breed- er, He marketed what he had and determined to wait for more favorable seasons before restocking his farm. This, with the quick change from range lands to farms in the west, created the condition and the war comes along at a time to accentuate 1t. All the cattle offered did not sell at $10.40 per hundred that Thursday The market was, in fact, no higher than on the previous day. But there is little chance that it will go lower with the farms depleted of livestock and a heavy European demand cer- tain, The restocking of farms must first take place, for the beef, as well as pork and mutton of the future. must come from the farm and not from the range, Liberal. News.) English (London Cor. Wall St. The majority of the largest firms in England announced that when the war | is over they would reinstate the men | who had answered the call of the col- ors, and, in the meantime. would give cither half or full pay tc the wives or relatives of the men during their ab- sence at the front, James Buchanan & Co., whisky dis- tillers, declared that tiey would give full time to the riarried men, and half McMILLAN'S SWEATERS Cool For These Evenings CHILDREN'S SWEATERS 98¢, $1.69, $1.98, $2.; $2.98 cach. WOMEN'S AND MISSES' SWEATERS . $2.25, $2.98, $3.98 to $5.98 each. MEN'S SWEATERS 50 and $5.00 cach. MIDDY BLOUSES FOR SCHOOL WEAR. Special at 97c each! NEW BUREAU SCARFS AND SHAMS Values up to 76c. Your choice 44c each, More than a dozen styles to choose from. NEW PLAID DRESS GINGHAMS at 12 1-2¢ yard, Our new plaid dress ginghams are now ready. These make pretty dresses for school wear, HEAVY 50c values. Wool dress fabrics and heavy washable plaid materials for school wear. NEW WIDE ROMAN STRIPED RIBBONS Special at 39c yard, BEST MAKES OF CHILDREN'S SCHOOL HOSE > at 12 1-2¢ pair, White, tan and black. CADET SCHOOL HOSE at 25¢ pair. Fine, medium and heavy weights for boys and girls. Cadet Hose sold in New Britain only at McMillan's. Exta size Cadet Hose for large boys. Sizes 10, 10 11, special 20c pair, D. McMILLAN 199.201-203 MAIN STREET. employ and joined the British army, in addition to giving the jnen their jubs back when they returned from the front. The Associated Portland manufacturers have agreed to reinstate the men upon their return from the will. turn Cement war, and in the meantime over to the wives or relativeg of the warriors the difference between their regular wages and those which they will earn in the army The Dunlop Rubber Co., which lost 1,000 men through enlistment, has an- ncunced it will keep their places open, and during the war will pay to their wives half the salaries of their married men, The Union Castle Mali Steamship Co., will give half pay tc the married men, and the General Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals will give half pay. Both organizations will reinstate the men on their return. Hundreds of firms and institutions tkroughout the United Kingdom have been equally iberal. REFUGEE DESCRIBES BATTLE AT ANCELSIA Shell Which Fell Near Narrator's House Falled to Explode—French Shells Decimated the Germans, Parie, Aug. 27, 6:46 4. m.—A Bel- glan refugee, a hat manufacturer from the town of Anvelaia, near Nam- ur, upon arrival here described the fight that took place his home town, French infantry heid the place, and afier some sharp rifie fire the Germans brought up their artillery. A shell fell close 1o the narrators house but luckily for him failed to ex- in plode. French guns on the heights opened fire soon after the battle was started thuir shells decimated the Ger- mans. The French infantry retired from the bridge to permit their artillery to sweep its approaches, Although they Jost heavily a certamn number of Prussians succeeded in en- tering the village and threw into the house some inflammable preparation which set them on fire. The manu- facturer and his wife fled, and after walking all day and witnessing all sorts of horrors they reached Mous, where they were fortunate in board= ing the last train that left the city and HUERTA IN SPAIN Santander, Spain, Aug. 27, via Lon- don, Aug. 11:35 & m.—General Victoriano Huerta, until recently pro- visional president of Mexico, landed from a steamer here today, He wiil 27, ‘time to the single men who left lhell’l proceed shortly to Asturias. o4 .