New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1915, Page 6

Sxcepted) 4:18 p. m. Coaren B¢ or intention to S AND ACCIDENTS. and jitneys small, ald cks and touring cars, car- ~ passengers up and down | last evening to the peril mobilist using thé street the - jitney passengers Many a nickel ; was the purvevors of auto- Asportation and many a ‘many a human life was ” esale sys- I FACTS AND FANCIES. When_ the census man sits in your parlor and .asks you if you're an in- mate of an asylum, don’t get peeved. He can’t help it.—Poughkeepsie Aagle—!\'e\ws; The presjdent might have added that we are'also tired of the Mexicans killing American citizens and destroy- ing their property.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. ! £ “Does Germany seek war?”’ asks belligerent exchange. Don’t apply to us for information. Thus far Ger- many has not had to advertise when | seeking war.—Boston Journal. i the front says engaged stead- | underground | Germany.— | Neutral riews from that the French are ily in blowing up the new boundary line of Syracuse Pdst-Standard. 1 3 Senator Willlam Alden Smith seems | confident that he can be elected pres- ident. Progpably he counts on every. body of the family name rallving to his suport.—Wilkesharre Record. New YorH heiress has promised to be good for a million dollars. Most of us have to be good for nothing— and some are—Bridgeport Tele- gram. Once more ,the Thaw case. The latest development is the movement to block a sanity test. However, pub- lic interest 'in the matter no longer warrants large space and big head- Hnes. There is too much news of real importé'nce.—'rruy Times. £ Fortunatelit is that the victory of the Steel corporation comes just at the time when it is most needed for the encouragement of American en- terprise confronting opportunities un paralled in ‘the history of our indus- trial development!—New York Sun, This year’s graduating class at West Point is 162, the largest in the his- tary of the academy. It is not large enough to contain any threat of mili- tarism, but it will do for the present. ‘m in the college. a whol em for discovering to the students the matter that is to be contained in the tests. It is predicted that the in- vestigation will later involve 5 67 many more students and possi- Ofce at New Britain | PIy & teacher two. The ass Mail Matter. Naval board’s get e any part of the city [ at the bottom of the matter with all T 85 Cents & Month. | possible aispatch should be warmly vance. 60 Cents & applauded by the public at large and $7.00 & year. it is sincerely hoped that the efforts o advertising meatum 1B | i) meet with success. * jation books and press open to advertisers. There is probably among all classes gl '““ at Hota- | OF chool-boys a wish to acquire all Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- | possible infomation in regard to the AEIRGTR L ana | cxaminations. This probably comes as much from a desire to ‘‘put one over” on an instructor in authority as the ambition to graduate. Teachers are regarded by the school boy a legiti- mate prey to be fooled as much as possible and it is a smart thing to do to get advance ‘dope.” Few boys think of the.question of honor that is involved. Of course many are in- spired to crib with the hope of pass- ing with good marks, thinking that a high mark is far better than an honor- able 'low one.. The discovery of a ‘“system” at: the B mhare W United States school is howevér a much more alarming finding than the t..one. accldent, and that b kbt et ve serfous. Why there another college. ore s a reason for spec- The point of honor and obedience to iBut little attention was authority at the naval school in much fic laws by the heay- | Tiore important than anything else. 4 Speed seems to be The fact that a future guardian of the ' attribute of a jitney and | Welfare of the country is discovered to was ‘obsessed with the be a scoundrel leads to the belief that must get there and do the}"e may be more scoundrels yet The consequence was that | Undisoovered. A boy who would re- in trafic was imme- | 80ort to underhead methods to obtain ged with a jitney at a|the post of importance is certainly t to everyone concerned. ' | No. one to trust in that post. It is, accident, which is New | of course, far worse if it is found that " jitney trouble, was pot | the instructors are selling of glving s . serious. The jitney, | information to the students. When a unoccupied,” was proceed- | man has debased himself once in | Arch street in the car the manner described he may do so ‘wrolley coming up met the | again. He has proved that he is un- d before the driver could | able to stand with honorable men in heels entirely free of the | a position of honor. It is fitting that vehicles collided. His front | every man proven to have taken ad- re out of the tracks, but| vantage ‘of his superiors should im- wheels were not and & slde’| megiately be read out of the oy wrecked one side of the was the result. There Isaac N. Willlams, on trial for the engers in the machine. | 140 of County Commissioner H. d been the story wouldl g Gegq trieq suicide In his cell in m“::/:ru Ll whion | Litehfleld last evening. He did not B he ascvten. i [ 1 et Buenoss e ik ioraay oo, % fon that the trolley wa‘} Speaking of the versatility of the a pretty good speed 18 Prob- ¢ oo tner man this is & large day. The motorman had to; Blanty or' westhet wa ate haviigii s glight hill where the smash | Pluvius and Mars seem to be having and was probably speeding | ;... o)) their own way in the coun. (The driver did not be-| ., o Py e car tracks, however, An- which is te be -deplored Let's hope Mercury gets busy with that attentive little street|an injunction. He’'s the one that re busily engaged in slosh- | would naturally carry it isn’t he? avements and making au- raffic at any speed highly| Suppose Neptune shpuld get pass- At a time when traffic|ing notice. The German submarine 'j:‘ vy as it was last night the |is fast supplanting him in the mas. eleaners should be called off.|tery of the seas. tney accident and jitney reg- will, within a few weeks, be Moose carnival on at Rentschler’s. ture of the city traffic prob. | Pretty clean aggregation of shows he drivers are not, as a rule, | present. “Visions Dee Art” (get that . They would not be-jit- | DEE) is one of the chief attractions. ers if they were. Let us‘jAn unappreciative patron last even- m every chance to make good | ing got reprimanded thus “That pin- in visit them with restrictions | head down front will please keep his 311 give no chance for trouble | mouth shut. Pinheads never could do not avert accidents by their | appreciate art.” rethought. Traut & Hine have jumped into 3 | the limelight with a big wag order. D MANGINTI SENTENCED. | Newspapers all over the coufitry are je interest of many. local people | now recording enormous orders for today centered on - the criminal | plants in their district. Bridgeport sitting in Hartfgrd, as Dr. has one which will keep the Amer- | ©. Mangin was tried for per- |jean and British Manufacturing com- an illegal operation on Miss | pany working twenty-four hours a day nnahan before that bodY:(until July 15, 1916. ided guilty and was sentenced | e ' j~days in jail and fined $500 | Let's see, weren't they betting at e understanding < that he | Llovd’s that the war would be over tinue his practice.in Hartford | by August first? Evidently the Brit- ish government has a little more in- formation on the subject than the in- surance people. Shannahan case, at the time of | e furnished oneof the | of the state. The fact that | 8. .more than passingly | m{'fl s from her was well ny it cities in- interest. The story of in a lonely out-of-the-way mystery surrounding e admirer, who was reputed , called upon her read like a | Since her death however | " interest had ' been gradually ease was easily settled in Hart- ‘Mangini evidently realized flhgfiul for acquittal were and pleaded gullty with the at he would stop practising re and took his fine and Over seven hundred reservists in New Britain ready to answer Italian call ta arms. They are keeping pretty quiet too, which is a good indication of their value as future citizens. el e Committee is ‘busy collecting for a display of fireworks on-July Fourth. Money should come easier this year than before. The day’s list of submarine victims is not as large as was yesterday's. However, the Menapler, Belgian steamer, and the Trudvang and the Superb, Norwegian traders, were re- ported sunk by submarines before neon - tday. Now it is nmot uncommon to note that different newspapers of the coun- try have adopted the slogan “Inde- pendent Republcon” just the same as so many publications a decade or more ago after democracy became entangled adopted the title “Independent Dem- Ty on the actlons of several stu- | ;o 5410~ But if you reflect you must at the United ‘Stafes Navalfadmit that It is a great announcement my at Annapolis who were sus- | for any newspaper ever sailing under ‘cribbing” in the examina- | the republican doctrine to make that now that an in-| republcan started, that there | Penny Press. adignant protests and expressions pinion have arisen throughout the n —New Haveyn Journal Courier. something must be done in Mexico to Really, the Pest preparation for wa:- or to maintgin the peace is plenty of trained officqrs and plenty of guns and ammunltiun.'—\vatertown Times. The fact that the Connecticut com- pany ran behind over $30,000 in April is quite as uch the concern of the general pubjic as it is of that cor- poratian. t is of the largest gen- eral importance that the public trol- ley service should be both adequate and prosperous. Think it over. The presléent realizes at last that bring order lout of ‘chaos. It has been an expensive thing for the United Stated to have a president who dld not fordsee this, and who let nearly three! years elapse while the prestige of the country was dimmed and “her reputation fell in foreign| cha,ncellories.,—Pgihdelphia Star. Just what amount of havoc the raiding Zeppelins have wrought in | London is npt revealed. But it must | be comparatively small, in spite nli the terror which attacks of such u sort are supbosed to incite. No con- ceivable military advantage can fol- low, of courfse. Even if a great city should be destroyed from the -air, it would nat bring victory for the de- stroyer one Hay nearer.—Philadelphia Ledger, The comp{ete victory of the United States Steel :.Corporation in the digsol- ution suit dbcided yesterday at Tren- ton will be';recelved by the country with unmixed satisfaction. What the public wanis most is some assur- ance that injdustry and transportation can be resymed at full speed and without repressive interference. The anti-trust law has fully proved its worth as a porrective measure. It is now time tp emphasize the security which it gites to industrial enter- prises whiclf have no quarrel with its regulative provisions and have wil- lingly abandoned the mistaken morn- opolistic or, near-monopolistic meth- ods of the ‘:ast.—New York Tribune. Judq’« ‘Wolf’s Decision. (New Havéen Unton.) It was Jespecially fortunate .for BEditor William J. Pape of the Water- bury RepuBlican that Judge Isaac ‘Wolf presided in the district court to hear the cage in which Senator James A. Peasley brought suit against the editor for glleged criminal libel. No jurist, on the Connecticut bench is better informed on newspaper busi- ness generally and the ' libel < laws. Judge Wolf; graduated from the com- posing room, having ’’come off the irame’ of the old school His explanation of the rights of news- papers to Criticise the pubdlic acts of public officlals was plain and con- vineing, an. outspoken statement of cxact conditions. The libel, law protects private in- dividuals td quite an extent, but on the contrary it recognizes the liberty of press to'lcriticise in gvoa faith the public acts jof public offictals. ‘The Waterbury ‘Republican was right in this case. One or the pur- pcses, apparently, for which Senator Peasley went to the legistature was to get a job in the Waterbury court. 'This all too common practice of law- vers golng to the legisiature to get court places is a mighty vicious: evil. In the future suspicion that lawyers are running for the legislature with the anticipption of landing plums for themselves, ought to lead to their defeaf. Lawyers wanting places in the courts should refrain from run- ning for the legislature. But of more wide reacning impor- tence is Judge Wolf’s decision that newspapers are justified and may le- gally criticise public officials as to their public acts, if such criticism is honest, wthout fear of interference frem the courts. Judge Wolf's deci- printer. | court | WHAT OTHZIRS 3AY Views oun all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come io Herald offico. (New York Sun.) To a French writer who has been making a somewhat Boswellian close range study of General Joffre we are indebted for the stout old warrior's views on the efiiciency of mental | strain and anxiety as a rapid hair bleacher, a subject which of late has received same attention here at home. ! It was while Geheral Joffre and ' his military family were breakfasting recently that the topic came up. One case after another was cited of officers whose hair and mustaches in the few short months of the war's duration had turned from a fine jet black to a dead white. It was not until after a unanimous verdict of mental excita- tion as the direct cause of the change | that General Joffre took part in the discussion. He said in his grave, quiet way: ““Ah, mental strain no doubt; but there is also to be considered that in times of war officers are possibly less abundantly supplied with certain toilet accessories than in times of peace.” Undoubtedly a sagacious observa- tion. It not only gives a new direc- tion to the hair bleaching controversy, but it also throws an interesting side- light on the distinguished soldier’s | mental makeup. The French writer says the general has ““what our friends the English call a sense of humor.” It looks like it. Moreover, other in- timate details concerning General | Joffre tend to sustain the theory. A hearty, hale, most wholesomely sane | man, well around the corner of the | sixties, he imitates none of the tradi- | tional habits of great commanders. | He does not dictate three or four tele- grams and letters’at once. He takes | more than three hours a day sleep. He does not eat in a state of trance. Quite the contrary. He is a good | feeder and a good sleeper. Regular | meals and seven straight hours of sleep from 9 at night until 4 in the morning are his routine. But in all the remaining seventeen hours of the | twenty-four the entire French army knows that “the old man” is awake. As to the final result, not the re- motest shadow of doubt for a moment crosses his mind. He is as certain of victory as he is of his existence. To every man in the French army he has imparted precisely this same confidence. And as it is in the army so it is in the entire nation. “General Joffre knows we are going to win, therefore we know we are going to win.” This is the beginning and the | end of the French war creed. Playing Into Japan’s Hands. (New York Herald.) Score one for the democratic-La Follette alliance for the upbuilding of the American merchant marine! i Despatches from Japan tell of sur- prise created there by announcement that the Pacific Mail Steamship com- pany’s offices have received instruc- | tions to book in advanceé no freight to the United States beyond one voy- age. There is no mystery in this pro- ceeding and it should create no sur- prise. Months ago officials of the Pacific Mail announced that all steam- ings after November 2, 1915, had | been cancelled and that no contracts | would be made after July 31. The | reason is that the so-called “seaman’s” | law, enacted by a democratic con- | gress as the result of a political deal between democratic leaders and: Sen- ator La Follette, places upon ship- ping burdens which American own- ers cannot meet. It is this precious piece of legisla- tion.that has driven out of business the Pacific Mail Steamship company, the only company flying the American flag in the trans-pacific trade. En- acted ostensibly in the interests of | American seamen, it benefits only the | seamen of Japan—for the enforced | withdrawal of the Pacific Mail com- | pany gives an absolute monopoly of | transportation between Asiatic and American ports to the heavily sub- sidized merchant marine of Japan. | Manuel Vasquez Tagle. (New York Times.)) The sudden introduction of Mr. Manuel Vasquez Tagle as a possible pacificator of Mexico lends piquancy to a depressing situation. Mr. Tagle is suggested by one of Villa's repre~ sentatives in this country. It secems that he held a portolio in Mr. Ma- dero’s Cabinet and at a critical mo- ment refused to’shake hands witn | General Huerta. We could honestly commend him for that evidence of | good taste, but would Carranza ac-! cept him? Carranza's plan is to ac-! cept nobody, to heed no advice, tol snap his fingers at all foreign inter- | ference, and to continue his cheerful | and. comparatively safe existence in the Vera Cruz lighthouse while he | claims to govern all Mexico. Tt is likely that Mr. Tagle’s chance of becoming provisional ruler of Mex- jco is as good as Mr. Iturbide's. No | man who has yet been mentioned has the inherent power to restore order or the backing that might serve as a substitute for active force. There are Mexicans of extraordinary ability and statesmanlike gifts, but a thorough re- awakening of the people to a deter- mined resistance of terrorism is what is needed. | Showing Up Hartford. (Hartford Courant.) Most of us know something about Hartford’s industries and social enter- prises, but few of us really know much about any of these things that are not brought direetly to our atten- tion by our daily business and social associations.. We ought to know more about ourselves, and we ought to be able to show visitors in a convenient manner how we occupy ourselves, what we are doing for our own pleas- ure and enlightenment and what our relation is to the rest of the world. This, we believe, is the most important purpose the Hartford Chamber of sion his strengthened the position of the papers materially and his action it is now remlly independent from a | ip excusing the jury without letting |in the Hartford Life building an ex- standpaint.—Middletown | them consider the facts is worth more | hibit of the industrial and civic ac- than local or possing -comment. Commerce had in mind when it un- dertook to assemble in tis large hall tivities of Hartford. The circular is- | state in meeting their responsibilities | to the public. | paigns. ' political work. | a human being, | publican” has never been considered | by | mit a wrong without | of citizens_disposed to public action | | or protest from motives based on for- | transportation. sued by'the chamber says that the exhibit is “for the purpose of show- ing and exploiting the financial, com- merical and industrial resources of Hartford and vicinity,” and the work is so far advanced that an exceeding- 1y interesting and representative show- ing is sure to be made. It is gratifying to learn that the exhibit will be more than “financial, commercial and industrial,” for it will present Hartford's civic advantages, as well as our financial and industrial importance, Our hools, our parks and our history, of which every citi- zen of Hartford is proud, will have their place in tHe hall of exhibits. When this instructive exhibit is fully set up it will be an excellent thing for all of us to visit it and see our- selves, and it will also be a fine show place to which to conduct all our visitors. It is a splendid idea, and the success of the idea is now as- sured. Newspaper Criticism in Polities. (Hartford Courant.) The decision of Judge Wolfe that it was not worth the while even to carry through the trial of Editor Pape of the “Waterbury Republican,” as reported yesterday morning, Wwill | strengthen the newspapers of the There are limits, and should be, on the language that news- papers may use in political cam- We questioned if the ‘“Water- bury Republican” had not come | might near to crossing the line when it referred to Mr. Peasley as ‘‘Pusley,” but that seems to have been reckoned a trivial, perhaps humorous, detail, and, for the rest, the paper carried on an open opposition to the gentle- man, which, however disagreeable to him, was in the line of newspaper The court now once again gives its sanction to that kind of campaigning and criticism. Sometimes the editor, who is often enjoys such criticism, and sometimes he makes it, imperson- ally to be sure m both cases, as a | duty and far from an agreeable one. On the whole, we believe the public prefer a newspaper which has posi- tive views to one that seeks always the middle course and avoids com- mitting itself. The ‘“Waterbury Re- evasive. It is outspoken and opin- ionated and we imagine this decision will not discourage its continuance along that line. We certainly hope not. Motoring for the Masses. (Bridgeport Standard.) The former aristocracy of the auto- mobile is on the wane. The most ex- clusive car in the garage of the wealthy cannot, escape the conse- quences of the jitney's assumption of the privileges lately enjoyed by the favored classes among these modern , more- over. No guessing, no padding ot the value. For if the value exceeas $100, you must pay a special fee to the railroad for its assumption of ex- tra responsibility. All this you have known for nearly a week, perhaps, but you won't fully realize it until you come to the actual point of shipping a trunk. Then, when you have rushed to the train with only two minutes to spare in which to check your trunk, you will suddenly face the awful problem—for much are those paja- How much ought I to What is there instance, how mas worth? value that dress suit? in the trunk anyway? Then, when you have totaled the whole in your head, and found it amounts to about $139, you will have to go over it all again. By that time, probably, the train hag gone. So when you pack, make your esti- mate at your leisure. And if you are in a hurry, “travel in a suit case” —and take it on the train with you. The railroads didn’t inspire the pass- age of this law, but the only gain they can win under it is that the peo- ple will come earlier to the trains, and the checking of suit cases and va- lises will be greatly reduced. . Inci- dentally, the express corapanies will win in the shipment of very valuable baggage. “It's an i1l wind that blows nobody good.” Vanderlip and Bryan. (Springfield Republican.) As a diplomatist Banker Vander- lip might achieve very high rank. In his National City bank circular for June he presents a gorgeous bouquet to Secretary Bryan and graciously ccmpliments Secretary McAdoe, who iz popularly credited with being the banker’s unrelenting enemy. May not the recent pan-American financial conference prove to have been the cccasion of an Informal treaty of peace between the present adminis- tration and the largest and most powerful national bank in the United States? How can Secretary McAdoo resist the blandishment of the state- ment by Mr. Vanderlip that he is “en- titled to undrudging credit ‘for the idea of holding the conference at ‘this time.” As for Secretary Bryan, in a time when he is hounded more vexatiously than usual by the dogs of the press, there should be sweet balm tor his sores and wounds in the bank- er's high praise of his idea for the exchange of credit between the United Elates government and Latin-Ameri- can governments. In saying that this proposal of Mr. Bryan is “not only a ‘daring but a brilliant conception,” and as well as the embodiment of “the most ‘astute and enlightened statemenship,” the National 'City bank circular makes Wall street gasp end its organs in the metropolitan vehicles. press fall out of bed. The most amusing aspect of the affair is that The jitney has not.invaded the east in sufficient numbers yet to bring to bear the full force of its democratic overthrow of the private car's com- placent faith in its own social altitude. But one can foresee what may come the state of affairs in the west. There the plebeian jitney is so like its exclusive neighbor in the city street that drivers of private cars are continually obliged to explain that their machines are not obtained for the public’s nickel. Many cars have been so frequently held up by would- be passengers that they have been obliged to sacrifice their dignity by adopting the inglorious motto, “Not a Jitney,” placed conspicuously on the windshield. What will be the outcome? Must the horse and carriage come back to distinguish the high-browed traveler on the highway? Or is the order of things to be reversed, the trolley be- coming the vehicle of the well-to-do, while the poor man speeds merrily past on rubber tires? Or is thé pass- ing of the aristocracy of the automo- bile to promote the interests of the builders of aerial craft?. The Hyphen and the Law. (South Norwalk Sentinel. ‘While the much reprobated hyphen is fast disappearing of its own ac- cord under the compulsion of a new, broader patriotism, it's interesting to note that it is also declared to have no standing in law. A ruling to that effect has just been made by Justice Witaker of New York. The case concerned a moving picture play which, it was contended, would be offensive to German- Americans. The judge, while deplor- ing any such tendency in the produc- tion, declared that he could take no cognizance of the matter, because the American law recognizes no national distinctions based on the origin of of citizens. “The court,” he said, “‘cannot give Jjudicial sanction to the grouping of American citizens in different classes, and shape or color its decision there- with. America includes all classes of naturalized citizens, irrespective of their place of birth. What has lately come to be known as hyphenated citi- izenship has no standing, and cannot be recognized by the court or any branch of the government. The plain- tiff should not, therefore, be inter- fered with because of the super-sen- sitiveness of alien residents.” It goes without saying that no race ought to be misrepresented in any American play. In a way, the decision seems unjust without possibility of re- possibility of reparation. And yet it ought to hasten the day when there will be no groups eign sympathy or prejudice, no mat- ter what the occasion may be. The Contents of That Trunk. (New Haven Register.) Naturally. you'll travel more or less this summer, and you may think it necessary to take a trunk. If you do, it will be necessary for you to do something more than pack it. When vou present it at the station for checking the baggage master will of- fer you a blank to be filled and signed before he will ‘accept it for And that blank, you will discover, requires that you myst declare over your signature the value | in dollars contained in the trunk or other baggage carrier which you ex- pect the railroad to carry—if it is to cross the line into another state. You Banker Vanderlip is perfectly serious and sincere. One paper over in New- ark, N, J., has tried to explain.the sudden Vanderlippian enthusiasm for Bryan finance by hinting that the new South_American branches off the Na- tional City bank would profit enor- mously in the purchase and sale of the government securities issued in accordance with Mr. Bryan's credit exchange scheme: but why ascribe mean or selfish motives? Boy Scouts Well Manned. (Waterbury American.) New Haven is to have permanent headquarters for its Boy Seout work. A campaign to raise $5,000 is in pro- gress -there. Hartford already has such headquarters, with a paid official in charge. The scout activities in Wa- terbury are supervised by several alert young men who give a generous share of time to the work and neither ask nor expect any pay. What they have done for the benefit of the boys they have done not only enthusiasti: ally but efiiciently. It has been a labor of love with them, but the nealthy condition of the organization lccally shows that their work has been well done, With the Boy Scout movement in- creasing in“popularity and strength, and with a new troop being added to the list every month or so, the work in Waterbury may soon cemand more ottention than can be given by kindly disposed volunteers. Sooner or later someone who can devote his entire time to looking after the details of scout organization and management must be secured, but even when this step has to be taken there should be 1o thought of allowing the present heads of the local Boy ‘Scout body to retire. Commissioner White, Deputy Commissioner Northrup, and the others, should be retained in active service if possible. True, they are only volunteers, but it is doubtful if any of the “regulars” among the di- rectors of Boy Scout affairs could give them many pointers. The Boy Scouts of America move- ment is about the best thing that ever happened for the growing boy and Waterbury is fortunate to have such a large and flourishing branch of the crganization. o iheiaan P G Pflrpog;r?trl Tgnores - el (Stamford Advocate. The propagandists huve all sorts of eloquent arguments, but a certain pe- culiar color runs through them all-— absolute indifference to accuracy of slatement. Here is one self-satisfled reasoner writing in the Sun that “The man who wrecked Rheims cathedral sat in the tower working the ¢lock for the benefit of French artillerists,” 1t looks at first sight like a good strong point, fully as good as that conclusive dlctum of the fate of the Lusitania victims. It was their own fault, why didn’t they’ etc. To be sure there is no clock in the Rheims tower, and therefore the clear cut way the sub- ject is disposed of is In reality an abominable lie. But should a little . DD1E He Is a Versatile Poet - AT THE WINDOW, (By Bish K. Ibble.) I used to see her every day, This charming little lass,— The blue eyed tot across the way, With nose against the glass; I'4 wave my hand at her, and she, With emile that showed delight, Would dance and throw a kiss at m& And watch me out of sight. Fach morning when 1 passed Fhe place, I knew that I would gain A welcome from this baby face Against the window pane, Dear little tot with laughing eyes, In simple frock arrayed, You'll never know how much I pris The friendship you have made, What joy to me, when at the elost Of business, I would pass That way again, and seé her noss / Pressed flat against the glass. With smile of recognition which Would melt a heart of stone, This fascinating little witch Would greet me there alone. The dainty kiss that she would blow Off dimpled fingers fair,— = Her little features all aglow Betwixt the curtains there,— My cup of happiness would fill, And soothe my weary brain. Then engerly I'd wait until I passed that way again. Of course I know that 1 was not The only favored one, This charming, roguish blue eyed tof Had others “‘on the run”; it And yet no favorites she played, (She couldn’t if she tried,) We simply loved this little maid, And all were satisfied. Alas, with eager eves one da: I looked for her in vain,— My little friend was not at play Or at ‘the window pane, And then with vision blurred, 1 saw as I passed by, A placard red,—with fearsome word, Which told the reason why. somewhal A week perhaps, or maybe imore, My heart was' filled with dread, Ang then, some ribbon on the door roclaimed that she was dead! Poor little tot with short career, - She did her humble best To fill her little day with cheer, Before she went to rest, Strange are the ways of Death, thal take The baby by the hand,— Strange are the ways of Life, Whié make It hard to understand Just why the Reaper took this p It's far beyond our kem,— Some, when the sun of life has se Have reached four score and ‘te But if we live beyond life’s day, And reach the dusk of night, Where somber shadows cross thé And blot the fading light— When eyes are dim,—we long for slee| That knows no ‘wakening fears, And chide the loitering hours t keep Us breathing on for years. DU ol i W T 1 stood beside her little grave And tears came down like rain; . No more her little hands will wi At me through window pane. 1 wonder if she'll look for me o In Heavenly reglons fair, Perhaps ‘she’'s watching, full of gles Up at the Window there. The Business Situation, (Bridgeport Standard.) In almost every respect the factos that influence business and industri development are exactly what _t were a week ago. There is the sa: hesitaney about making large cong mitments for the future until the uf certainty as to our relations with G many is removed. Unseasonabl weather has continued to check dis] tributive trade in the east, @lthoug! in the west wholesalers and retaile: are beginning to feel the behefit o more nearly normal. conditigns- ' 4 warmth and sunshine. Crop news favorable. War orders and incry dcmestic buying are giving more employment in our factories. mills are busier and the financial credit situation is thoroughly soun The result is that more business being done than was the case a we 2go and that the trend in almost locality is steadily upward. The last few days have furnis cne developm.ent of the utmost e adefice in strengthening confiflel #nd encouraging enterprise. unanimous decision of the fed court in favor of the United Stal Steel Corporation in the suit that h Leen prosecuted for the last five Peal I;y the government is of prime impo a .ce as & factor in the outlook for future. A better showing in matter of failures during May thamw recent months is a gratifying sympto of more healthful economic conditio The knowledge that stocks of e chardise are everywhere veing kept low as possible leads to the belick a very active demand for articles! general use may soon be expected, There is no occasion to regret th the brilliant hopes expressed by m: a few months ago of a wreat ind trial boom are not being realf The situation would not be per nently bettered by a sudaen spurt, 9 lowed by a relapse. 1In the slew § sure rate of improvement that is bef steadily shown and consistently mi tained is to be found almost & gua tee that the gains made can be hel even in the event of unfavorable ing rational developments, . Prudence mands that the country’s busing consideration like that be aflowed to break the force of S0 conclusive a verdict? How's the Automobile, An automobile owned by Joha Barreuther ran over a valuable dog owned by Arthur Bride of Hinsdale avenue last evening. The dog will probably recover.—Winsted Citizen. eliould be prepared to meet unexped ed emergencies and it has to be | membered that the clove of the | will ushér in a situation by no m tree from difficulties and problegis®) General Knockemstiff seems ‘td leading the German instead of Russian forces in Galicia.—Pittsl Dispatch, i