New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1914, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1914. EW BRITAIN HERALD — HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. 4 daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m- at Herald Butldiix, -67 Church St 4 at the Post Ofce at New Britain a3 Second Class- Mail Matter. ered by carrier to any part of the city for 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. bscriptions for*paper to be sent by mafl payable in advance. 60: Cents a Month $7.00 a year. ™ only profitabble advertising medium in the city. Clrculation Books and press room always open to advertisers. e Herald wo! be found on sale at Hota- Jing's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk, Atiantic City, and-Hartford depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. siness Office. lditorial Rooms. 9128 ...929 SULZER OUT IN THE COLD. | William Sulzer seems to be so com- pletely outside the breastworks that ere does not appear to be the slight- st chance of any political organiza- flon picking him up and heading him owards any office. That is good news jor all who are interested in good overnment and having good men in pfice. THe was seeking the endorse- inent of the New York progressives lor governor but at a conference held n Utica yesterday the leaders of that rganization decided in favor of “rederick M. Davenport and Colonel 200sevelt, who was not present, says hat he will stump the state for him ind the remainder of the ticket. Itis probable that the names selected at he conference will be adopted by the primaries. but there are some who foubt it. 4 The progressives wanted Roosevelt o run but he refused and the senti- ment seemed to be for Sulzer. The olonel did not want him and his in- istence on Davenport was -for the purpose of . saving him from being placed in the unpleasant predicament pf being forced to support the de- posed governor, to remain silent or o back to the republicans. The polonel has had his way so far and pow that he has.declared for Daven- [port the latter expects him to help plect him.. The colonel is going to Btump for him but that is not going 0 make him a winner. If the pri- aries endorse Davenport the people will not make hifi governor. That is ps sure as anything can be just now nd any one who closes his eyes to hat fact will _be very much dis- Jappointed -when the campaign is over and the votes are ‘counted. The con- [ditionis in New York are simply how imuch of a figure will the progressives cut in the election this year. The lcolonel himself couldn’t pull the party through ‘this year and when he couldn’t d if Davenport cannot and neither could Sulzer. PURE MILK. / Chicago is making.a fight for pure milk and is having a hard time of it. A new guarantine law has just gone to effect which prohibiits the impor- tation of cows unless they are able to ktand the tuberculin test and the out- fside dealer in cows as well as some of jhe inside dairymen say that if the uarantine is enforced Chicago will be obliged to ‘pay more for fits milk. This step, however is along the lihe of many other states which are making an effort to obtain pure milk, bat Chicago doesn’t like to be inter- fevred with and those who are en- deavoring to insist upon conditions that will insure pure milk are up against the same kind of opposition as has been - encountered in other states. * A story is told of a dairyman in Il!jnuig'whn had a fine looking herd of forty blooded cows and deciding to go out of the business he sold his stecck. The purchaser who lived in another state, concluded to have the test applied to the cows and foung that thirty of the forty animals had tuberculosis. A great deal of the i1k sold in Chicago comes from cows B¢ tifat Kind afa the authorities have ncluded that ‘it must cease. It is Fery aificult tp disssree with that a, but the propc‘smun is causing a ¢ dgal of) opposition in Chicago ther# are some dairymen who saying that unless they are al- a a free hand in the milk busi- s they will fatten up their cows for ughter, let Chicago look | for ts Ik elsewhere and that if it has to lo outside the state for its supply it 1] mean high prices. The authori- S ought ot to be frightenéd by any *mk. They probably understand {ihat if tubercular milk is given the SBabies of that big city that its effects e bound to b felt later in weak iliren and a neWw generation of eaklings. 1{ i§'not an easy matter introduce new health laws and en- { them but it-needs to be done and ' ism’t the people will pay for it health. MARKET BASKET COMING BACK. It is being remarked that wherever the public markets have been estab- lished that the market basket has come into use. People who have had occasion to visit the market places in the big cities have noticed the large number of people, principally women, who visit there in the morning with their baskets on their arms, make their purchases, stowing them away &s they bought and when they leave it 1s with well filled baskets of such goods as desired and all fresk In Paris the people come about daylight to the public market believing that by so doing they will be able to find bet- ter goods and a larger variety. Since the price of foodstuffs has been raised public markets have sprung up in many places and the early morning scenes are repeated everywhere, the market basket being in evidence and full of the choicest of produce. It is being remarked that the telephoning to the store for goods without know- ing anything of the quality is being supplanted by a visit to the public market and the purchase of better goods at less money. The formal retirement of the mar- ket basket was characteristic of the rapid day in which we live. No one cared to visit the store, so the dealer in order to compete with his neigh- bor sent his clerk to the house, the price naturally went up, because the clerk had to be paid, the team in which the goods were delivered cost something and after a time the cus- tom became easy for the purchaser and the increase was lost sight of in the accommodations afforded. Now, however, the prices have gone up and the careful housewife has returned to the ways -of her mother and she is finding that by going to the store in person and bringing home the neces- saty supplies she is saving money, in- cidenfally making her dining table more attractive, and the viands more palatable. The market basket, which has had such a long rest, is now per- forming its proper function and the family is the better for it. Some real war news is beginning to get through the censored despatches. The retreat from Malines towards Antwerp is described by a witness this way: “For twenty miles every road was jammed with clattering cavalry, plodding infantry and rumbling guns, their caissons covered with green boughs to mask their position. Chil-" dren and aged, rich and poor, lame and blind with their few poor belong- ings on their backs or piled in push- carts clogged roads and impeded the soldiery. These people were abangdon- ing all they held most dear to pillage and destruction.” To add to this bombs were dropped from airships which killed women and:children and tore their bodies t6 pieces: Truly war is what Sherman said it was. There was a time when the Crodo- dile dinner meant the ‘gathering: of politicians of all parties, political talk, booming of candidates and partaking of a sort of a big public affain It was only a few years ago that Senator Judson was one of the speakers there and other more or less celebrated orators have enlivened the occasion. The dinner this year, while a good one, did nét have the same political interest as some of its predecessors: If Denis A. Blakeslee of New Haven | iz only a receptive candidate for the republican nomination for governor and will not lift a finger to get it, it/ is as certain as anything can‘be that he will not be nominated. Senator Spellacy of Hartford appar- ently has no love for Governor Bald- win. His arraignment of him last evening was about as severe as if it came from the most pronounced re- publican spellbinder. The latest reports from the demo- cratic campaign managers are that Congressman Mahan is crowding the Baldwin senatorial boomers to the wall It is being noticed that the munici- pal ice is being sawed when a five cent plece is wanted while the other fellow chops it off, thereby wasting more than the municipal dealer. Birds Destroying the Army Worm. (Edward H. Forbush, Massachusetts State Ornithologist). The army worm pest has come and gone. Fields of grass, corn and other grain have been blighted and de- stroyed, and human ingenuity has been tested in the effort to cope with the infliction. Doubtless the number of the worms and the injury caused by them 'have been exaggerated, nevertheless great damage has been done in some localities in spite of all at could be done to check their averages. A great quantity of pois- oned bran was scattered about pro- miscuously, or sown in the trenches surrounding the flelds. As a result, numerous army WOrms, many birds and some poultry were destroyed. #ntomologists of the United States department of agriculture have recommended wholesale poisoning from time to time for cutworms and army worms. Others have followed them in this recommendation and the newspapers have published this means of defense far and wide. Nevertheless, this wholesale poison- ing is unnecessary in the case of either army worms or cutworms as other methods may be used quite as effectively. Most state laws penalize the broadcasting of = poisoned baits. T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of the National Association - of Audubon societies has alrecady issued a warning against the wholesale use of poisoned bran and some of the newspapers have opposed it editorially, but without " avail. Nothing is more fully established than the fact that many birds from the domestic fowl down to the chip- ping sparrow feed on the army worm. While examining the recent invasion of these insects, I found the following birds feeding quite con- stantly on them,—the robin, bluebird, catbird, English sparrow, chipping sparrow, fleld sparrow, Song Sparrow, king-bird, red winged - blackbird. bronze grackle and cowbird. The brown thrasher, red-eyed towhee, flicker and several ‘ others were re- ported as feeding ~on :the worms. These birds and the humble toad must have eaten great quantities, and in cases where birds were encouraged and where no poison was used, the results were plainly to be seen in the reduction of the army worm pest. On my own farm at Wareham and on some . neighboring places where about seventy-five nesting boxes for hirds .were put upylast spring, bluebirds were seen feeding on the army worms early in May. Other birds followed suit. No injury from the army worm was noticed during the season on my farm, and very little on the others, but twenty rods away the grass was eaten, and a quarter of a mile away the injury became serious, continuing over a considerable part of the town. On a farm on the Island of Martha’s Vineyard where poison was used freely, hardly a bird was to be seen and the owner admitted that the birds had been poisoned, while on the state game reservation, only a few miles away where no poison had been used and where many nesting boxes and bird-houses had been erected, birds were plentiful, and the worms although very -numerous had done little serious injury. The corn showed no noticeable damage. This may have been due in part to the hun- dreds of heath hens on the reserva- tion and in part to the number of small birds as well as to the intelli- gent use of non-poisonous methods to check the pest. There was abundant evidence to be seen on all sides that the birds were flocking to tHe de- fense of the flelds. The warden thought that he had lost part of his oat crop, but he made no other com- plaint. (5 ‘On'the great state farm at Middle- boro where the pest had appeared in tremendous numbers, the superintend- ent fought it without the use of pois- ons because of the danger to birds which were regarded as among the best friends of the farm. It cannot be expected that our birds in their present numbers can entirely check such an-outbreak as that of the army worm,.but if we can avold kill- ing them by poisons and if we can increase their numbers they may be able to prevent the first increase which finally results in the overwhelming hosts that have attacked our fields this year. . FAOTS AND FANCIES, That unknown individual who for several years has annually provided the finances for the summer shore outing of the several hundred inmates of St. Francis’ Orphan asylum has a generous, kind heart, and thoroughly but modestly enjoys this method of entertaining youngsters whose lines in life have not been of the smoothest character. - His simple but effective orders are substantially that the lit- tle ones have everything and anything they desire on this joyful occasion, and if there is not originality or en- térprise sufficient 'in - the youthful mind to suggest what would go far toward 'emphasizing the pleasure ana entertainment of the day, then it rests with ‘an active ‘committee of promi- nent citizens to aid in providing a pro- gram of enlivenment that ‘will be sure to intensely interest the appreciative guests ‘of- the mysterious stranger.— New Haven Union. Professor Willard C. Misher of Middletown, frankly states Governor Baldwin hasn’t a chance to be nom- inated fgr the United States senator- ship, and of course that settles 1t What the governor actually thinks concerning Professor Fisher’s chances of securing the gubernatorial nom- ination, tl.e governor is too good a politician to state.—Hartford Times. Absence will be likely to make the heart grow fonder in the case of thou~ sands o0f small boys whose school marms are still on the other side of the Atlantic and not likely to get back in time for the opening of the fall term of school.—Ansonia Sentinel, They are alluding to Congressman Jerry Donovan as “Foxy” in some of the newspapers of his own district. There is one encouraging thing about Donovan though, he has attracted at- tention enough in congress to get his name in print as coming from Con- necticut.—Middletown Press, P. Davis Oakey is to run against Congressman Lonergan, so Hartford papers report. P. Davis is po amateur in the political game, for that is about all he has done -of late years,—Meri- den Journal, - Sol s The idea of Guttftig fHié pay:cf ton- gressmen when absent is a good one, a ‘vindication of Congressman Jerry Donovan'’s crusade on his fellow mem- bers who don’t earn their salaries. There is a popular view to the con- trary, however, which holds that when the last member arrives who makes ; up a quorum some other man present ought to be shot.—Waterbury Amer- tcan. Sammer hotel proprietors along our McMILLAN'S Dainty New Blouses at 97¢ each, Values to $1.50 These new Blouses are being shown in several styles of organdies, Persian lawns and voiles, Two Hundred Rumpled Waists SATURDAY AT 49¢ EACH Values up to $2.00. These. are real Waist bargains, as every Rumpled Waist in the store must be sold before September 1ist. Wash Dresses SATURDAY AT $1.00 EACH Dresses that are worth $1.50 and $1.98. Down Separate Skirts of serges, Whip- cords and broadcloths in black, brown, navy, gray and fancy weaves. $2.98 Skirts now $1.98. $3.98 and $4.98 Skirts now $2.98, $5.98 Skirts now $3.98, $6.98 and $7.98 Skirts now $4.98. More Silk Girdles FOR SATURDAY SELLING All colors, best values in New Brit- ain. $1.00 Silk Mesaline Girdles at 69c each. $1.49 Messaline, Roman Striped and black and white Silk QGirdles at 98c each, at $1.98 and $2.50 Silk Girdles $1.49 each. Saturday Shirt Sale $1.00 Men's full size Shirts 69c each. Sizes 14 to 18 1-2 inch neck- band. Colors strictly fast. Fine qual- ity percales. : Men's “Cnyx” Silk Sox at 25¢ pair, value 50c These are the Silk Sox that al] the young men are talking about. In fact this wonderful Silk Hose has brought many new faces to this store, made new customers that are satis- fled customers. - That is our aim in business. e “ONYX" Silk Sox in all sizes. Col- ors, navy, tan, gray, white and blacl'(. Early Autumn Showing of New Drapery Materials Call and let us show them to you and see the selection af new things when our showing 1s complete, BIG AUGUST MARK DOWN " * on o TRUNKS, BAGS AND SUIT CASE! 1 D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET. several thousand miles of New Eng- land coastline may have to close up without a single sea fight in easy view of the veranda, but some of the stories will be retained for telling next year.—Brockton Times. One Hartford rumor has it that when the Hartford democrats, who are to support former Mayor Fisher for governor, find that he cannot be nominated they will go to Landers for governor.—Bridgeport Post, Professor Willard C, Fisher's asser- tion that Governor Baldwin has not a chance to secure the senatorial nom- ination recalls the prediction he made four years ago that Judge Baldwin could never be electeq governor.— New Haven Journal-Courier. “Our Ambassadors in Europe. (New York Times.) When Mr. Washburn was sent as minister to France in 1869 by Presi- dent ‘Grant, the comment on the ap- pointment by independent observers was far from flattering. The new minister was wholly unfitted for the sccial side of his mission. His ability and energy had been manifested solely in regard to American affairs and largely in connection with politics, #nd in that line his chief achievement was the promotion of the nomination and election of General Grant. Yet All Our Dress Skirts Marked | TRULY---OUR GREATEST AUGUST 'FURNITURE SALE An event that will go down in the big storw's history as one of the wonders of the y records for August furniture selling have been cclipsed. Hundreds of splendid furniture they have bought at this sale so advantageously. week of August Sale offerings and many features that will appeal to every lover of the home beautiful and the home comfortable.—WISE, SMITH & CO., $53.75 Handsome Chairs and Rockers. genuine brown Spanish leather, gust Sale Carload Purchase Price $34.95. $39.75 Value Living Room Chairs. Large and com- fortable chairs and rockers, covered in fast comfortable, foreign tapestries,” August Sale Price $24.99. $43.76 Value English Club Pattern Rockers, covered in beautiful fast color foreign tap- estries, August Sale Carolad Purchase Price $20.95. $44.756 Colonial Wing Chairs. covered frames covered in fine imported velour, Au- gust sale Carload Price $29.99. $27.50 English Club Design Chairs and Rockers covered in genuine brown Span Sale Carload Purchase Price $17.99. $149.00 value 4-Piece Living San Domingo mahogany frames, hair covering, August Sale Carload Purchase Price $89.99. $64.75 Value Davenports, luxurious, 78-inches long covered in fine fancy denim, August HARTFORD. This Week W r. All past new friends won because of the And now commences another e Will Specialize On Living Room and Library And you will be able to ered furniture at prices a full 25 per cent. /1d have sold the same pi ible by the fortunate p L) makers at a great sacrifice ine upholstered pieces from one Furniture. buy fine leather and fabric cov: lower than we eces for last week. This is made urchase of A SOLID CARLOAD of America's foremost from his regular prices. They have been received, opened up and sampled and are now ready for you inspection. are so low able home. On sale 5 the fi They are good to look at and the prices that they should attract every lover of a comfort- oorAss always in a special lot first choosing will be best, remember these prices apply to the car- load purchase only and while there are over one hundred pieces*to dispose of, they will not last long, so avold disap- pointment and me early. Large and Au- fine fancy denim Price $18.66. color, Carload Purchase Spanish leather Chairs and $18.75 English Solid mahogany ish leather, August Room Suite. finest panne Solid mo- $40 Value Colonfal Arm Chairs. $29.50 Colonial Fireside Wing Chairs and Rock- ers, solid mahogany frames colonial design turnings, covers, August Carload Purchase Genuine brown solid mahogany frames, August Sale Carload Purchase Price $24.95. Club Type Arm Chairs and Rock- ers, covered in mule skin leatherette, August Sale Carload Purchase Price $9.88. $24.50 Colonial Fireside Wing Chaiyps. stered in fine fancy denim, August Shle Purchase Price $14.99, $24.50 Value Living Room Chairs and Rockers, covered in genuine brown Spanish leather, August Sale Carload Purchase Price $15.88. Uphol- Carload $60 Value Turkish Platform Base Rockers. Gen- comfortable, Sale Carload Purchase Price $49.75. $89.756 Value Davenports. backs, full, deep steel spring wo! " August Sale Carload Purchase Price $64.99, $76 Value Living Room Suites. frames upholstered in serviceabl August Sale Carload Purchase Price $42.88, $95 Value Colonial Living Room Suite. carved, claw and ball feet, fine ered, August Sale Carload Purchase Price $57.50. $125 Value Living Room Suite. any finish frames, genuine brown Spanish leather, August Sale Carload Purchase Price $59.75. Library Tables Underpriced - Fine stately, 'beautifully made tables from our regular stock that we priced to fit in with the carload stered pieces making it possible complete living room or library outfit pilce_ever knovfm on high quality- furniture. COLONIAL Phone orders Charter 3050, and Mail Orders promptly filled. Tufted REPRODUCTION — MAHOGANY LABRARY TABLES. Reduced from $29.95 to $22.75. Reduced from $33.95 to $24.99. Reduced from $37.50 to $27.50. Reduced, from $42.00 to' $31.50. Reduced from $49.75 to $34.99. 'WISE, SMITH & CO. $44.95 seats as and rk, soft down, Mahogany finish e tapestry, 3-pieces 3-pieces panne mohair cov- . 3 pleces, mahog- holstery, Greatly mahogany library have re- purchase of uphol- for you to procure at lowest These are also a great saving in uine horse hide or brown Spanish leather, Sale Carload Purchase Price $34.95. 0Odd Sofas. Genuine leather, August Sale Carload Purchase Price $24.95, $79.75 Odd Sofas. English club designs, genuine brown Spanish leather, August Sale Carload Pur- chase Price $50.00. $44.76 Value English Club Design Chairs. Genu- ine brown Spanish leather, August Purchase Price $20.99. $47.50 Vllue' Living Room Chairs. Elegant up- fine exclusive foreign tapestry August Sale Carload Purch Book Cases at Decisive Reductions Colonial mahogany lattice front, double door bookcases, reduced from $39.75 to $32.75. Colonizl mahogany scroll design, August brown Spanish Sale Carload covering, Price $32.75. our regular stock, price reduced so that you make complete your library furnishing at price. sliding double sliding door bookcases, reduced from $36.76 to $28.75. Mahogany finis! HARTFORD Colonial ‘mahokany scroll design, double door bopkcases, reduced from $39.95 to $31 liding h, plain front, triple door book- cases, reduced from $32.75 to $24.95. Mahogany colonial from $37.75 to $20.75. Mahogany colonial desig, from $26.7¢ to $19.75. design Esquetoire, reduced Esquetoire, reduced DAILY DELIVERY in New Britain, Elmwcod, Newington, Cedar Hill, Maple Hill and C'ayton. fate Teserved for him a very difficult and very successful career in the care of German interests in France, so _that at the close of the war no American diplomatist was more widely known, more admired or trusted, than this uncultured and inexperienced politi- cian from the middle west. Today our ambassadors in five of the great capitals of Europe are sud- denly -involved in like tasks of even greater: difficulty, complexity and ur- gency. In each of these our represen- tative is charged with the interests of the nationals of the power, or powers, with which the government to which he is accredited {is at war. In addition ~each "has Theen ° called upon to aid thousands of his tellow citizens, or citizens of hos- tile governments, to reach their respective homes over lines of travel congested by mobilization, through territory in some part the field of war- fare, across seas exposed to actual naval conflict. Hardly one of them but has faced troubles and perplexities even greated than those of Mr. Wash- burn, and some of them with even less experience in practical affairs. It is the general testimony of the returning American tourists and of the refugees from the territory of the warring gov- ernments that our-representatives, in this exacting and exhausting work, have heen equal to its demands, and have been efficient in about the pro- portion that those demands have been extraordinary. It cannot be denied that in the main these Americans were not selected for thelr experience in diplomacy gr on account of careers at home hich scemed to fit them for their posts. Certainly none of them was chosen with remotest reference to the amaz- ing burdens that have sudenly been thrown upon them. But they have borne themselves not only with fidel- ity and with unstinted devotion to duty, but with judgment, tact and un- failing courage and energy. It will hardly do to say that the general methods of their selection has secured these results. None of them would have been less excellent had he had experience and training for his post, as the example of Mr. Herrick, with his honorable record in Paris, shows. But it is gratifying to be able to recognize—and to have the world recognize—that these gentlemen, picked more or less at random from the class which has generally fur- nished the higher officers of our for- eign service, have met a vast and novel emergency with so much that we may call native capacity for what- ever comes along. On that score we can all be very well satisfied and a little proud. MRS, GAF EY OPERATED ON, Mrs, B. I, Gaffney, Gaffney, was operated uopn last night for appendicitis. day to be resting comiortably at her home on Vine street. wife of Judge She is reported lo-’ The Coming Maine Election, (Boston Herald.) of Maine are exceptional The people turning in numbers to hear the campaign speaking just full blast. voting in out now at Since Vermont has stopped September, Maine has be- come the recognized barometer of the nation. And its barometric quality will be shown chiefly by the returns of the second district, now represented by republicans. the fourth if they wish to foreshadow republican control of :he house. It has been a great many years since a republican speaker has been elected without the support of a solid delega- tion from the Pine Tree state. It would seem at this distance a fair | bredictioni thdt as the second Maine | district goes so will go the house, Some offsetting considerations | might, however, be noted. The bull | moose movement is stronger in Maine | than anywhere else in the Union, The | second district has béen swinging away from the republican column for some years. Even Mr. Littiefield, | with nis nationwide reputation, edr- | ried it by only narrow pluralitiés in the days when there were only two ]‘ parties. Its recovery now would sig- ralize such a measure of republican vitality as to surely foreshadow com- trol of the mext house of representa- tives, They should recover¥ - -