New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 1, 1915, Page 6

Mo COMPAX lexcepted) at ‘ll‘ P 5eT5T Cnarch St poat_Ofice Inss Dlatl PMatter. k. €5 Cents s Month. paper to he sent by mall 60 Cents & 7.00 a year. ot New' Britain | ber of 'the committee ed attaches of ‘other countries coin- cident with furnishing it to citizens. m | There is a committee to take charge . of our military affairs. Every mem- undoubtedly entruated not to impart valu- | may of the city | able mtnnn-uon to foreigners but ‘as | far as possible we should place the matter in the hands of efficieent valu- lbk men and give them full sway savortising meatum 18 | with no questions asked. tion books and press vertisers. e b found on wale at FlotAe nd, 42nd St. and & The ormement question is to e\efl' ‘one of -us, just at present the para- -mount question. We hope that we do not know all there is to know about army and navy affoirs. If we do everyone else does and the element of protection is diminished. Let us hope that preparations for war. have been put under way. Not because orthy ones under [ we want war but becouse we must fii}:fi i\nvns beset them, discussion that | us keep our peace. te le. American pub- méeting is being held decide what further | magde upon the Ger- and to draft a note Germany just .what , | protect durselves. While hoping let If we demand knowledge the one we are to' fight will get it tdo. Secretary Daniels at this time is conducting an investigation into the whys and wherefores of our lack of submnflne efficiency. The result of this country is on the that investigation and the steps that soe of paper recently for- in answer to the protest | never become public, ‘of the Lisgitania when have been taken to remedy it should. Our country is too big, our interests too broad and ‘Who decreed the killing frosts? The kniser?—Ne\y York Tribune. For a time the Duke of the Abruzal ‘wul fail to figure as ‘the prospective husband of this or that heiress.— { Rachester Union. Germans didn’t eat their Christmas | dinner in Paris, but we'll bet the Ital. ians will be roasting chestnuts in Con- stantinople before July = 4.-—Pough- keepsie Tagle-News. His Wish—Maybe that hole in the sun which amateur astronomers per- sist in calling a ‘‘spit” is merely a makeready for the kaiser.—New York ' Herald. What the rest of the prcfessional literary fellers are dying to know is whether Woodrow Wilson thumps out the diplomatic correspondence of W. J.§Bryan on his typewriter with ons, forefinger or twq——Brookl\'n Stand- | ard-Union, When will that new station be built? Of course, we might annex Roches- ter some’ day and use the beautiful | Central Station erected. there a little over a year ago.—Buffalo Commer- cial. The women of Speaker Champ Clark’s’ household believe that Mr. Bryan euchered Mr: Clark out of the presidential nomination, so Mr. Brvan gets no invitation for the wedding. That is a more dignified means of re- venge that calling Mr, Bryan names or GERMAN NOTE TO UNITED STATES, (Springfield Republican.) .The impression Americans must re ceive from the German government's reply to President Wilson's strong pro- test against the German submaring warfare is that no ground will be yielded on this issue except after a de- termined defense of every act in the least capable ot defense. There is a stiffness in the communication that reveals no remorse. Yet by no means js it flatly unconciliatory or defiant. 1t does not leave the situas tion hopeless, The attacks on American ships, guilty of no hostile act, are plainly disavowed as contrary to instructions and the principle of reparation is conceded. Disappointing is the fact that the German investigation into the cases of the Cushing and Gulflight | is still unfinished but the assurance seems fair that due compensation will be given, in accordance with the principle avowed by the Berlin gov- ernment. Inasmuch as these cases are still under official investigation, Berlin could not be expected, perhaps, to give definite assurances that im- mediate steps would be taken to pre- vent their recurrence, yet it should be possible to assume that such steps would necessarily follow in order to aveid the commission of further out- rages of American ships on.the high seas. (Hartford Times.) The German note is purposely in- definite. 1t raiser assertions, the[ accuracy or falsity of which can be | determined only by investigation. | This will take time. Time brings calm. Perhaps the indignation aroused by the tragedy of the Lusitania may be forgotten in the contemplation of newer and greater horrors along | the battle front and in the soothing emptiness of protracted diplomatic ' correspondence. Meanwhile it is stupid to regard | the situation as other than grave. Wisely or unwisely, we have made demand upon Germany. Germany reveals no intention of complying | with that demand. ‘What are we going to do about it? Cincinnati Freie Presse ' The German note is courteous in tone and the hand is out for a set- tlement of differences. The note does not say that the American position is untenable. It merely demands that the facts in the case he first estab- lished. It takes the good old ‘Ameri- can view that the complaintant must 1 i bring forth the evidence of the guilt | of the accused. ) e | Chicago Abendpost. | The American note really was an | indictment hased solely upon British | 6cean as far Views oo all sides of tmely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald ] effice. S NS UEATY & LTRSS (Lo UL W . Thé Stake in Colonial Empire. (Springfield Republicar.) “The result of our next successful- war ‘must, if possible, be the acquisi- tion of some colones,” said Tretschke in one of his lectures at the university of Berlin. The virtual completion of the conquest of German Southwest Africa by Gen. Botha, who captured Windhoek about two weeks dgo, has made Africa British from ocean to north as the Zambesi river, barring the east African posses- sions of Portugal. But the Germans stil] hold in central Arfica their sphere on the east coast, notwith- standing British attacks from the north, and also Togo and Kamerun on the western coast. Their total Afri- can possessions have shrunk over one- third in square miles as the result of Gen Botha's campaign, although the estimated total popuplation of Ger- man Sowthwest Africa is less than 100,000 as compared with a popula- tion of 10,000,000 (native blacks in German East Africa. | There's nothing left of the German colonial empire outside of central Africa. In Asia the kaiser had Kauchau until the Japanese took it; and scattered about the Pacific ocean | were eight or nine islands or archipe- lagoes under the German flag, but the British and Japanese fleets have swept 4 White Goods' s f for Graduation VOILES 17¢, 19¢, 26¢ and 39c yard. - m RICE CLOTH 15¢, 19¢ and 26c yard. BATISTES, FLAXONS AND SHEER LAWNS, 19¢ to 36c yard. WHITE SILK CREPE DE CHINE At 39¢ yard, regular 50c value. SILK CREPE DE CHINE $1.50 value, special $1.19 yard. iy 8 h and pro-British testimony and asked ! of Germany that she admit her guilt and do pennance without furlher ado. | i In'view of this the German note W:u\ our conditions too easy for ‘the pre- unlimited = military I lives were lost. Ev- ig land wishes that the | sent system of pulling Mrs. Bryan's hair.—Wilkes- barre Record. SILK TULLES AND PONGEES Yard wide, 26c, 39¢ and 79c yard Fancy striped organdies, volles, dots (New Haven Journal-Courier.) | There is only one point at issue be- ' them clean of German authority. It was never a colonial empire of much importance or desirability, even from tp settled “satisfactorily | knowledge to continue. . try and tne offend- 5 "‘thlqk that Germany casion with any spirit United toward ' the "is an, expreasion tuation. few, and litical . Jingoes, ‘most of that who are r demands that the var on Germany at Advices say that the Serbs have re- entered the fleld of ' military q,ction against Austria. Sorry to say we had f | missed them in'the shuffle and dldn’t !l!nt the recent Ger- "teoler" and that | oy, and on our ‘part will know they 'hadn’t been n‘hung Tegu- However, Welcome strangers. Germans are putting sails on their submarines to fool skippers inclined to keep out of the way of suspicious | ‘objects. ' Mermaids will be running| the Zeppelins before Iong. tion is not as it pos sident Wilson is the uardian of everycit- untry. He wishes to has been: proven, In y the gnosts of the Amer- e ;‘lm on tha British boat y and nl‘ht? They are anc lwwavsr, by the ‘thousands that will | s 'in event of armed con= nt of national honor the scales: might prove every other considera- vent war will come. mmt the United States .in it is unknown. There but that our mext note it of no quib- t .gwer is reulvad 'fibmp states ts. y wishes to gain reflect as little dis- : a possible and | a ¢ sparring 'was thought. u@er thing by her states- ‘mote sent to this country, . did not reflect credit upon & nation. | Possibly a Wsss‘tion that the coun- n.to ‘argument, as Germans Suppose they already have pink ribbons on the muzzles or their guns and beer signs over their trenches. That note wn; about the same line of bunk. However there was a good crowd at 'the mearby amusement = resorts yes- terday. The fireworks and merry-go- rounds received the customary amount of attention. id Like to know how many nickels were collected on the jitneys. ' They were all well loaded up. ¢ All this war stuff makes a fellow want to.go fishing. Dr. Dernberg. ¥ (New Haven Times-Leader.) The New York Herald’s treatment of Dr. Dernberg is a disgrace to jour- nalism and all fair-minded newspa- pers should protest against it. Dr. Dérnberg came to this country of free speech and a free press be- it 'was | cause the people of Germany were de- nied opportunity to freely discuss war issues except by wireless, everyline of cable news being censored by a insinuate, but that side | British officer. overlooked by prac- excepting. the pro llh way of proof, The Geéerman government believed that its side of;the war situation and sentiments in respect to public matter of grave importance ought to be fairly fox. arguments pro and | presented to the people of this country t.;m Um- for a declar- and Dr. Dernberg was selected for this delicate mission. He has conducted himself as a gen- "“ @lso reddy for | yiorman should. He has presented his factions down | views to the best o his ability and no- \)'fl*wgth ;\dflce to let | body denies or questions the right of ing people be fed. . The dif- 3 mnt beset President Wison the Herald to differ with him if it Bees fit to do so, but why continually insult him by demanding that he quit ainly’ the greatest that'have | New York and leave the country? fito the ot of any president of The American'| German be denied the right of free ir’ at least. they nave any ‘element o Demanding that this distinguished speech may please the Frenchmen and £ the Englishmen with whom James whatsoever should refrain | Gorden Bennett asspeiates, but it is and be ready for the | offensive to all fair minds, ich u bouna to come. B] )i‘ mmm_'n' ON MW: ‘of yesterda Dr. Dernberg has in no way forfeit- ‘ed his right te be in this country ani until he does so he should be treated with respect—give the doctor a fair henrl —this {8 a country of freedom for tongue and pen. We do not gag Y | those whose opinions are not in ac- ‘giln. of a dynamite ' cord with our own. a harbor on the Pacific ‘today a dispatch from f Washington teling of the Cutting the German cable, ‘censor- ing all the German dispatches, deny- ing the German representative the right of free speech—are all acts that the fact that several of | are offensive to falr-minded men, no in Forts Warden and | matter where they were born or where been tampered with and they live. s persons had been in- vith - cameras. dis- the possible o t‘he That belng true the wise Pursuit and Possession. (Norwich Record.) All the world has long since reach- ed the conclusion that' there is.more pleasure in pursuit than in possession. ~smeés will all dc!mej, ‘Too tul they | begin at once to anticipate and pre- the Congres- ir.the minutes of some gation committiees. h easier, for them to get ated folders issued by hotel keepers > One “of ‘the 'xmd|~ republicare scoming alarm- pars for the fortnight’s vacation trip later on. Tho joy that comes from a study of vrallway and = steamship It | timetables and the heautifully illumi- and summer resort corporations is not measured, Just mow whin.m,ig t00 | whale of the intervening future seem “¥na {foner. wiil. make the.prospective por- ) €VerY | ;rhe real will pass by so quickly he | t+interest | will have hardly tims to think of it.| the fault committed in gne matter of _Every step. And retrospectively it may not seem ! the torpedoed Gulflight In any event umely planning will serve to make the ‘iu to prove M efficient Tand abq ¢iny ped is fondly fair. The level-headéd vaca- tion of his outing as long as possible. w. nearly so. worth while. " | real ou&nl conform nearly to the & |ideal. 'Begin now. | is, still the world cannot withhold its .ru-)el the thought . of the charm in which one is des. arent. The forts Have been|iinad to share later on makes the Germany fights doggedly on and on, while it is undeniable that the allles will steadily gain in strength. Yet the impressions gained from - each day’'s events lead to the conclusion that no Hving man can make a reasonable guess ‘as. to the duration of the war either in months or years.—New York Herald. “In two respects, at least. the re- constituted British cabinet is without a precédent. . Never before has a cabinet included so‘many members of the ‘opposition, and néver before have the ' functions of that great depaft- ment,' the war office, been divided, in the face of emergency, by the crea- tion of an entirely new post. But the driving necessities of the times are sufficient reason for the adoption of unprecedented measures.—Brook- lyn Bagle. Germany must have had, with those now present and accounted for, some 8,000,000 men in the fleld, and yet.the streets of the German cities are still thronged with young men, trade goes on the same and the flelds are culti- vated and raising the usual crops, and factories are full of workmen turning out munitions of war. It is a wonder- fully efficient country and, if it is wrong, as most of the world thinks it admiration « ‘for - its marvelous effi- clency.—Watertown™ Times. There are reports that the colonel is not averse to making up with Mr. Taft. It is never safe to predicate Theodore’s prospective -action, upon report. Still the Philadelphia gen- tleman who suggested a renewal of the old: friendship in a letter to the colonel received a reply which was not a rebuff, and he did not give out the lefters for publication without the colonel’s: consent. THe auguries are that the colorel is willing. The ob- stacle is the. mass of abuse he has heaped upon the former president since they broke—Syracuse Post. Standard. Germany For Peace. (New York -Press.) There is little doubt that the Washington adminisiration is at last in possession of | the 'main ' points which the Berlin Foreign Office will make (an answer to ‘President Wil- son’s ' note on the tusitania, Guilf- night and similar cases. There is no doubt that the Washing- ton Administration is now very much at ease about the German sit- vation, It is reasonable, then, for Ameracan public to assume that, whether the formal reply is deliv- ered to our State Department today, as expected in Washington, or early next week, as intimated from Ber- lin, there will be no truculent de- flance of the United States ' govern- ment's position by the Kalger's Gov- ernment, no aggravating indiffer- ence, no cynical hair-spliting, and therefore no open or no veiled provo- cation to war. This does not mean that Berlin is sure to concede all the contentions maintained by Mr, Wilson, The American people ar this stage are far ftom backing up all of them. Unquestionably, for example, they éo not agree with him that our Gov- ernment, is or should yet make it- self, the keeper of all neutral ship- ring and neutral lives. Again, be- cause of its possible consequences to cur own power of self-defense in case of war, they would be loath to establish the principle that subma- rine warfare should be wholly aban- doned, to all intents and purposes, as a practice necessarily inseperable at best from wrong to neutrals and injury to non-combatants. /Indubitably Berlin, well advised that this nation does not follow Mr. Wilson to those conclustons, will submit its reply accordingly. But it is no.less certain that Beflin now un- derstands perfectly that American gentiment will suffer no more delib- erate disregard of our Flag, destruc- tion of our property and slaughter ot our people. “On that issue there is abundant in- dication in the last _twenty-four hours, that Berlin is going to meet ‘Waghington The frank = confession, already semi- cfficially given to the pubdlic, about the establishes ‘made unmistakable in Mr, that fact clearly and strongly. Germany, if she wil live up to it is unmistakably for peace With the United States. | tween the two governments, and that is whether Germany has abandoned the traditional rule of the seas as applied to merchant vessels batants and sailing unarmed. There can be no disposition on the part of this government to discuss extraneous matters such as haye been raised by the German government for the ob- vious purpose of extending the parley. This government did not declare in its note on the Lusitania the lawful; character of that merchantman with- out having ascertained it before a line was written. It knew what it was talking about, and so it went straight at the inquiry as to Germany's attl- tude towards the rules of the sea. That is all that interests this govern~ ment now. It wants to know if Amer- ican lives and American property are safe on ships of the non-belligerent class, unarmed and plying a lawful trade? When that question is answer- ed it will be possible to arrive at an opinion as to what steps, if any, are to be taken. It is of trifing conse- quence whether the Cunard line took to heart all of the heartbreaking les- sons of the Titanic. What this gov- ernment wants to know is, what are Germany’s views to American rights on the high seas under the conditions specifically stated. (New York World.) The German note X meet the issue. It is worse than eva- sive. Itis insincere, even pettifoggnsg. Regret will be felt everfywhere in the United States that the affairs of a great people believed to be friendly have fallen into the) hands of men capable of such desperate trifling. does not (New York Tribune.) Germany’s ‘answer to - our govern- ment’s protest against the slaughter of its citizens, peacefully and lawfully going about-their business on the high seas, will not satisfy American opinion. Courteous on the surface as Herr Von Jagow's communication is, it does not strike the note which the people of this country hoped that it would strike. (New York Press.) Berlin’s answer to President Wil- son’s note is friendly, gracious, and —nnsatisfactory. XXX The point as Wilson’s note is that the Von Tripitz admiralty must stop slaughtering American cit- izens, whether in the case of a Guif- light or a Lusitania, whether by pairs or by scores. The Berlin foreign office speaks of a probable misapprehen- sion on the part of our government as to the real character of the Lusitania. There is none; there could be none. Boston Post. Germany takes care to state - that she does not giver her final answer as to the Lusitania, leaving the door open for further discussion. Mexico. (New Haven Register.) The appeal from the head of the ‘American Red Cross for aid for the suffering in Mexico is inevitably con- nected with an inquiry as to whatj really are the conditions and pros- pects in that disturbed country. There are few philanthropists on this side of the line so abandoned)to their sym- pathies as to send either stpplies or money down into that disorderly coun. try unless they can have some rea- sonable degree of assurance that they will not be gobbled up by bandits, That choas resigns there we may have no doubt, but our common sense will tell us that there is no use in dump- ing relief into the waste of chaos. It comes back to the president. He sponsors the appeal for help in Mex- fco. Does that mean that he is go- ing to do something toward estab- lishing there a stable government that shall not only give an effectual basis for the distribution of relief, hut shall move to end the needless distress? | Will he recognize one of the factions as a government? . Will he inter- vene? ‘What will he do? The exigency of the time these questions difficult makes ones. It fairly and graclously. | Profits not to repeat now that had the Huerta control been recognized, or even let alone, there would have been a stable government in Mexico at present, and probably no need for such an appeal. What has been has been, and we face the condition. For it, thraugh our government, we are in a /way responsible, Many Americans, plying | their lawfu] trade, carrying non-com- ! | all that was to be expected. Chicago Illinois Staats Zeitung. The German government goes far- ther in its answer than our govern- ment in Washington ¢ould have ex- pected. Despite the fact that the i American government cannot assert positively that the Gulflight was tae vietim of a German torpedo and that | | such proof might well be demanded | under international law, Germany : agreed not to demand proof and of- ! fered compensation for the loss of the Guiflight. This, fact alone ought to { open the eves, ‘of American_citizens of our government and of the Anglo- American press to the moral strengtn of the Germans position and ought to | prove that in no way is it the intention of the German admirally to destroy neutra] especially American shipping. Boston Globe. There is certainly nothing in the German reply leading to the supposi- tion that it is the deliberate intention of the German government to pro- voke the United States to war. A dig- nifled reproach has been met, if with caution, certainly with dignity. Let it be ours to receive the reply in the same spirit. (New \Ol‘k Times.) The German reply is not responsive to our demand. It does not pro- mote that “‘clear and full understand- ing” as to a grave situation which President Wilson in his note declar- ed to be desirable. XXX The man- ner in which Berlin receives our resentations in regard to the sinking of the Lusitania cannot fail to create a most disagreeable impression in this country, which the note’'s outward form of courtesy will not remove. (New York Herald.) Germany has ignored the real is- sue presented by the American note of May 13. As was clearly set forth in that historic document, the atti- tude of the United States is not based upon any one of the series of events cited, but upon the principle in- volved in the method of warfare in which they were incidents. The United States stands, today the champion of neutral rights and noncombtatant hu- manity. ' Germany must respect- the rights of noncombatants traveling upon the high seas. : (New Yorker Herold.) The reply of the German govern- ment shows conclusively that Germany is most anxious to live at peace with America. That she desires to be shown where she is in the wrong is but natural, but we thing fair minded men will concede that with the ves- sel being carried on the navy list as an auxiliary ecruiser the presumption is strong that German submarine of- ficers thought her armed and ready to offer resistance. | @espite all the calls on their benevo- lence, would gladly give. But what will the president do to insure the effectiveness of their gifts? What can he do? Spare Our Cit}'s Scenic Splendors. (Bridgeport Telegram.) Why see America first? See Bridgeport first! Hitting the over- land trail along Mafn street, one crosses the Great Divide (North ave- nue), and Nature unfolds a pano- rama of unrivalled grandeur. Ahead are the Pyrenees. Beyond them rise the Alps, the Himalayas, the Rockies, the Berkshires, the Carpathians and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Attaining the summit of Mt. Blanc (opposite St. Vincent's), one rolls down the awful glacier and fetches up with a resounding crash in the Sacramento valley. Ahead tower Mr. Washington, Mt. Shasta, and Lassan Peak, while in the dim distance may ! be perceived Mt. Popocatapetl, fall- {ing away in sharply terraced ridges to El Capitan and the Grand Canyon | of the Colorado (opposite Terry place.) It may be said “without fear of suc- cessful contradiction’ 'that a trip along this route leaves an impression that never will be effaced. No wonder then that our road makers are loath to interfere where Nature has dealt with so lavish 2 hand. No wonder that they leave untouched those awesome contours, while the madly-traveled side allevs of Bridgeport are levelled and rolled and paved. rep- | | dition to those of doubiful value that the German point of view, inasmuch as the colonies were not attractive in the least to the surplus population of the fatherland. German Southwest Africa is mainly a desert and is fa- | tally lacking in large rivers flowing inte the Atlantic; it will round out the Unicn of South Africa territorial- ly and its acquisition will remove a dreaded colonial power from that end of the continent, but the Britith em- pire ‘cannot be greatly enriched by a conquest £0 poor in natural resources and so repelient to homeseekers of | the white race. To compare the loss of Germany's colonial empire with the loss of Can- ada to France in the 18th century would be absurd; and this is probab- ly a fair statement even {f the loss | of Germany’s tropical possessions in central Africa be conceded. , That part of the dark continent must al- ways be a black man's country; in fact, the blacks today hopelessly out- number the whites in British South Africa, for British supremacy has resulted in an enormous natural in- crease of the black population owing to the cessation of the old interrtiba) wars. If German East Africa be- comes British or stays German, the 10,000,000, native blacks now living there will multiply and the govein- ing class of whites will always be small in numbers. The tropies may be made fit for whites to live in and rear their children, but the African Negroes do not disappear in contact with the white man’s civilization, a fact sufficiently demonstrated in South Africa under Boer anl British rule as well as in the United States of America under slavery and free- dom. The ultimate colonial significance of the world war, according to the present outlook, does mnot compare with that of the Seven-Years' war of the 18th century nor with that of the Napoleonic struggle. The destiny of North America, of India and of Latin America was determined by those for- mer European conflicts over the “balance of power.” Even the Russo- Japanese war a decade ago had more effect on the colonal imperialism of the western nations than the present war seems likely to have, for the check to the Russian advance in Manchuria and Korea saved the whole Orient from European domihation. Japan's capture of Kiauchau is hard- ly more than the ' logical sequel to the capture of Port Arthur, But the colonial significance of the present struggle in Europe might easily be as momentous as that of the former European conflicts re- fered to if the Teutonic powers and Turkey should somehow manage to score a decisive victory, embracing the virtual destruction of the British fleet. Improbable as such a solution of the war now seems, it is only such a solution that could change radically and fundamentally the map of the colonial world. There wou!d then be developments in overseas imperiailsm that would stagger the imagination. Not ‘only would Germany take the immense French empire in Nortn Africa, but Egypt, the Suez route to India and India itself would ultimate- ly be lost to Great Britain. For the Teutonic allies would not only dom- inate the Balkan peninsula, but Asia Minor far to the east would be bpened to German commercial exploitation and India would soon be the great prize of German imperialism, the most ambitious since the days of the Roman Caesars. A Germany that had been able to humble Great Brit- ain on land and sea would reopen col- onial and military questions that had presumably been settled for genera- tions, and neither the Orient nor La- tin America could cscape the consge- quences. of such a tremendous re- versal of colonial tendencies since Wolfe conquered Canada and Clive established British power in Hindus- tan. Germany's ‘‘next successful war,” which Treitschke evidently had n mind, must be overwhemingly suces- ful on both sea and land to bring to her new colenies worth having in ad- were already held, There is no pres- ent sign that such a result will make memorable the war now raging. Ants and Men, (South Norwalk Sentinel.) Ants are civilized—Ilike men. If any. body doubts it, let them read this ac. count for an ant war, as observeq and described by H. Hanhart, 2 Swiss rat. ted Bwisses, figured and dotted voiles 12 1-2c to 39c yard. WHITE GOODS FOR SUITINGS Gaberdine, vpongee, new cloth, ri quet cloth, Hesper cloth, Oxford beach suitings, 15¢ to 39c yard, WHITE MIDDY BLOUSE MATERIALS . Galatea, racquet cloth, soisettes poplins, 16¢ to 29c yard. Bl WHITE LINENS 26¢ to 69c yard. . SALE OF HAMBURG FLOUNCINGE ) 39c, 59¢, 69¢c, The to $1.25 yard Walue” 59¢ to $2.00. 18 to 45 Inches wide in embr da organdies, yoiles, batiste and, sheer materials. Ll . NEW CORDUROY COATS ' $5.98 each, Corduroy Tams to match at 98¢ each, colors, white, coral and Copenhagen blue. 4 0. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN lfll‘q battle order made up of squ marching with the greatest The Yellows advanced column fron: forming: a line thtee or four yard long flanked by other curps in squares made up from 20-60 soldiers each. The Reds more numerous, had a much longer front, with two or thu lines of fighters. The Yellows left detachments sear their anthills to defena them agalpst ar unforseen assault. The great line was flanked on the right by a compact corps of several hundred soldiers a similar corps of more than 1,000 way on the left wing. The two - flanking corps took no part in the principal ac. tion: that on the right wing helped to form a reserve army, while thaf marching as a column on ‘the left maneuvered in such a way as to tury the flank of the enemy, marched o the Reds' anthill and took it by seult, 4 The two armies attacked eachwoth and fought for a long time withobt, Lreaking thelr yanks, The battle ra | fiercely, the adversaries biting th other without merc: legs and arms were torn off, or hung by reds. ally disorder arose at several pol end the fighting continued botv% detached groups. After a bloody sttu I&dl ile of sthree or four hours, the were put to flight, abandoning 't anthills and their dead und disabled soidiers, and ‘seeking refuge at a dige tance with the remnant of their forres It is perfectly obvious rrom this ag- count, that the Yellow Ants wer fighting for their “place In the gun, end the Red ants were fighting in des fense of Red Ant culture. The ants to war for such objects because, b ing the most highly civilized spec! of insect creation, they xnow that th pr per way to secure life, liberty an: happiness 18 to squirt rormic acid in to each other' eyes and bite eac Qz er in two. Undoubtedly the military hero fs & highly esteemed among ants Af cmong men, and the insect M t who insist that there fs vlenty ol 100m on earth for all the ants and their anthills are sneered at as ho mollycoddies and traftors. v ™ Count Okuma’s statement that J pan means to make the most of hel geographical and political advantagi to obtain a large share of the Chil nese trade may .not please British a: American exporters, but if the con ditions were reverged they would “ex ploit” China commercially with (hg approval of their governments 53 long as Japan, which is takinggtithd by the forelock, does not plan a nopoly, closing the door by stealth’ it, were, the Western Powers can terpose no -objection’ to Japatiess el terprise.—New York Sun. New York is rejoicing hecuuse Brooklyn bridge has passed jta #h vralist. The belligerents were the well known ant nations, Formica Fusca and Formica Rufe, of in plane Eng- lish the Yellows and Reds. The hostile armies approached in tieth birthday without falling /oW in fuifillment of old engineerin phecies. There's nothing like a osophical disposition, for a man city,—South Norwalk Sentinel, ’ ano