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at ‘ Church, Office _at New Britain Mail, Matter. & Dart of the city 5 Conte & Month. sent by mi ou on sale at Hota- i¥nd 8t;, and Broad- Oity; ‘Board Walk, ‘&nd ‘Hartford depot. AND GERMANY. fow at variance and Great Britaim. X the °inalienable dited States, rights held al law, property ‘rights, In explainin, detl‘these powers has ustify itself by drag- s perpeétrated agaiast by its enemy. In hey undertaken to .the buffer. Explana- { ‘are not satisfactory Germany has this, | The same ien With Great Brit- | are ' to thrash out these . and readjust tiae £ of things, There must murder in'thig city. 'Before his exe- | n dealing Germany. In the ireat Britain, made | filr Edward = Grey own civil whr and court decisions States. He aiso " argument told Germany that | n does 1s a matter | , and Great Brit- The mere hese nations. re: ts only goes to ity of fagrant Ehey, cog- empt to Jjus- several ‘wilful murder en~ 3 ent. 'There s larity between de- with contraband. nt men, women odern warfare, st itself to a rev- e, certain prin. 1 law, former- ‘fi}f ations, must itend tpat‘ule A —wheneyer nches on inalien- Warfare must he ‘the demands of W ‘comes with prac- g} m ent in defend- jure of our ships t éugo, to neu- lockdde of Gers ‘nor less than a ld form, we ire ‘meet the peculiar ‘'om present day "rom. their very s of Great Brit- answer as was lity we must f,fiua.t Brit-, We er of tnen. elr . quari otecting our n it her ' of them sees “these rights they- must task. It must be 1d- [ the three notes from have made a masterly e the burden of proot of Uncle Sam, ani the " legal powers of Lansing combined donvicted as an double murder . at g . with | VE mainly clrcqmstanr.ml 1 and Montvid strove hard to have his partner in crime, Peter Krakas, shoul- der the full responsibility and thus save his own neck, it was apparent 10 [ all tamlliar with the detalls of the crime that it was impossible for ©one man to have successfully perpetrated the double murder and escape. Fath- er Zebris and his housekeeper, Miss Eva Gilmanaitis, were strong and able bodied and had they had a chance were capable of sturdily do- fending their lives. That they did 1e- sist and were overpowered after a violent struggle was apparent when thelr Bodies were discovered the iol- lowing morning. As will be recalled, ' the crime | proved baffling and for a month (ne police and state autaorities dispaired of 'its solution; but in the end ' the | criminals by turther. excesses, 'as 'is | commonly the case, exposed them- ! selves to arrest and c‘ém’r\e‘t‘qn‘. They | turned up in Wumlnn__op, Deélaware, | whither they had gone to dispose of é watches and other stolen articles, and’ | 'the police of that city arrested lLolh after a chase which tesulted in the killing ‘of one policeman and ' the wounding of several others. . Krakas, ’the more desperate of the pair, was convicted and hanged in the New- | castle county = workhouse for the| ! murder of Officer Tiefney and Mont- {vid was extrcdited for the double cution, ‘Krakas confessed. to many | crimes, but refused to divulge muci concerning’ the murder of the priest, ! 'and his housekeeper. He apparenily Strove to save his younger accom- i plice. Montvid also sought to save | his neck by thrusting the blame pa { Krakas. He pointed to his youth, the | fact that he was a victim of bad com- panions and the use of morpaine i) prove that he had been led astray and forced into crime for an occupa- tion. ( His appearance was somewhat in his favor jand those who saw him afterwards in court would never have regarded him as a desperate criminal under other circumstances. whatever cause, criminal he was and convicted murderer he is. The penal- ty ‘thoiatate claims is severe and must be exacted. Montvid must | meet death. by the hangman and most pso- ple will feel that in this instance at least the law will do but justice. TRIBUTE, 4 Tfie glor& 'that \\ia.s Greece, and the grandeut ‘that was Rome, | pfis now been translatéd, “The glory that i3 Germany and the grandeur that is ‘America,” by the principle speaker it the “German Day'’ celebration in San But from | American citizens may be inclined to be bitter against one side or another in that gigantic struggle, it would be well for all to glance back over the pages of history and note with what loyalty the Germans of old served the land of their adoption. The younger generations can find no better exem- plification of character. No matter from what land we come, if we have taken out our mnaturalization papeis, We are now Americans and our loyal- | ty must be directed in’the interest ot { this country. When showdown | ¢omes, the most loval of our citizens Will be those who left behind them the dust of the Fatherland and sought a new life under the Stars and Stripes of America. a FACTS AND FANCIES. “I have been in public life for forty years, and during all that time the government of the state of New York has been about as representative and responsible as the government of Venezuela. Now the time has come { when invisible government should give way.” These are not the words of some “‘impractical reformer.”” No one ' this is but the bellowing of the Bull | Moose. The words were spoken in'ithe iconstltutionnl convention by a man whose conservatism has never been questioned~-one Elihu Root—New York Globe. | This being president is no cinch. They are shooting them freely in Haiti, and when one escapes from Mexico he is not allowed to go back, and if he were theré is no telling what might happen. 1In either case®it is a good deal bétter to be right—and allve— than be president.—Rochester Times. No one will beliéve for a moment that the administration will be “sat- isfled” if no further outrages are'com- mitted by submarinés. If that were true the condemnation bf 'a people who have not forgotten the Lusitania would be immediate and overwhelming.— Philadelphia Ledger. The British government will be ‘*‘committeed” to death unless & halt is called. Already there are eighty- seven committees dealing with various ‘phases of the war work, while no ree- ord has heen”published of the large numhers of departmental committees. ~—Buffalo Commercial. i Carranza wishes to be recognized, but the president can hardly tell him from Huerta.—Philadelphla Reédord. RS E A rather general aversion to capital punishment, deliberately inflicted by public authority, has something to do Wwith the sentiment developed in par- ticular cases where there is money enough to employ skillful lawyers, get | the attention of the public to the de- tails of a trial and work upon the sym- pathies of a jury, which finally results An acquittal. on the plea of insanity. But in such cases is it insanity in any proper sense of the term . that is proved, or is it only a lack of balance in the constitutional make-up and the mental faculties of the person who has perpetrated the criminal act? Is not Francisco. Dr. C, J. Hexamer at the Pan-American Exposition, today paid | a beautiful tribute to those citizens of the United States who are of Germun extraction. ¥ i There is ho gainsaying ‘the fact that our men and women who have forsak- en the Fatherland and taken up their residence in these United Statés are among the noblest in the land. Since the foundation of the Union the influ- ence of these people has been might- fly felt. They have fought with us| for freedom,—political freedom, and religious freedom,—they have helpea | to plant Inlour land the seed of edu- cation, culture and’ good citizenship. The character of these people is un- impeachable, They are of the stur- dy type, the methodic pluggers, who, by dint of perseverence and will pow- er, accomplish what they set out to do without the flourish of trumpet or the sounding of cymbals. i We have only to look to Pennsyl- vania to see what German influence means. Some of the greatest cities in our land have been built up by the Germans. They have brought witn | and for A asset, their powers of saving omébuilding have set the way hers to follow, : It has often' been said that the best type of American c¢hildren are tne off- spring from marriage of German and Irish people. Students have pointed out the complete balance obtained by such a union. The German, steady, systematic, disciplined, saving, ‘and in- clined to favor one locality with his endeavor; the Irish, impetuous, ner- vous, extravegdnt, and, in many cases, ht-hearted and care free, a rover | of the land. When these two oppo- ‘| sites attract, as they often do, the re- sult is a ‘perfect blending; a harmony that is wondertal, We join Dr. Hexamer in his tribute o the people of our land in whose veins German blood flows. America ‘has adopted them as its citizens and y ve proven themselves worthy. ré moruments in many, cities y which stand in, silent AR bute to the work to this country them the highest type of manhood. | ! Their integrity is the@r one greatest | in there were = but .the act simply one of excited passion which is' not controlled because the ‘perpetrator has not a sufficient motive for controlling it? Few personz have a 'very exact or complete balance of mentai faculties and moral impulses. There is every conceivable variation in kind and degree from what may be regarded as . the normal standard.’ There are few human characters that are even approximately perfect. There are all manner of faults, defects and ‘weaknesses of character, and their ef- feét appears, not only in personal be- havior and in social and business life, but' in political life and on'the vast stage of “inter-relation’ of ' nations.— New York Journal of Commerce, In an' address before the Interna- tional Steel .congress held in Brussels shortly before the war E. H. Gary, | head of the United States Steel cor- poration, said that the group of men there assembled, representing the great interests of the leading nations of the world, could settle fairly and completely the causes of international | friction and so prevent the war that { had threatened Europe for many years. Is it not time for the able and practical men whose ability and léad- | ership command general confidence to | adopt the suggestion of his holiness | the Pope, and save the nations of | Europe from useless and incredible { suffering and loss?—New York Even- ing Mail. This is the season of the year when it is customary to publish warnings against picking and eating poisonous mushrooms. Those who make the mistake of eating toadstools are liable to find it out very soon, but too late. The toadstool has a way of getting into the system, and once there its influ- ence is very difficult to eradicate. There have been fatalities due to that blunder. Those gifted in mushroom lore say it is very easy to distinguish the edible from the poisonous, but those who are not very sure of their education along this line will be con- sulting safety first to leave them alone. —Utica Press. ) The 'Law Abiding Submn#ines, (Meriden Recoura.) The brief comment in this country upon the sinking by a German sub- marine of the Iberian, with several Americans on board, shows that the press of the United States 18 not dis- pcsed to indulge in carping critism. It is admitted that submarine had the 1ight to challenge, to search and seize. When these formulities are ob- served there is nothing more to be sald. The submarine is well within its rights and if the vessel challenged attempts, like the Iberian, to “get away, destruction is permissible, Buch examples as th:s justify the; l'con&e‘ntflon made by the United States ‘that it is possiblé for the. submarine thirteen states in the Union. time when men'’s souls are ! by what is going on abroad, At th to‘conduet its warfare humanely and according to usages formally sanc- § h;wmgqm law. can discount them with the reply that | Beacon lights of prophecy, by Albert ., Cornelius Knudson. An {nterpretation of Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Deu- tero-Isaigh, Cuatious and sober in its criticisms and yet accepts the essen- tials of the modern viewpoint. Help- ful for the untrained student, for lv;'}:um it is intended.”—A. L. A. Book- st. v .. Bit o’ love, a play, by John Gals- worthy, .. Care of the teeth, by C. A. Brackett. DR . Electric traction and trangnission en- gineering, by Samuel Sheldon and Erich Hausmann. e Hssay on the civilization of India, China and Japan, by G. L. Dick- inson. “An acute analysis of the present temper of each of the three countries.” —Sprinifield Republican. “ e Fear and conventionality, by Mrs. Elsie Worthington (Clews) Par- sons. 4 ‘“Contains’ much information, re- garding the sources and significance of familiar habits and customs, which the author has gathered in her ex- tensive researches in thropology. The fundamental reaso® for all our conventions, she ‘maintains, lies in fear—fear of change, of the unknown, of anything alien or of doubtful out- come.'—A. L. A. Booklist. ¢ Icknield way, by Edward Thomas. “An account of a ten days' tramp over one of England’s oldest highways through East Anglia and along the Chilterns to the Downs and Wesséx. The suthor has an acute and culti- vated mind and an attractive style.” ——Athenaeum. 1 . Plant-breeding, by Bailey. 3 ‘A revision’of this standard work, rewritten and with néw material add- ! ed.” Though the book retains some- thing of the ‘point of view of the.for- mer editions, it diverges more than the othsru from the viewpoint of Dar- win because of the findings of new investigations,''-——A. ‘L. A.. Booklist. a0 Practical book of outdpor rose grow- ing- for the home garden, by George Clifford Thomas. “A very useful hook for rose grow- ers and those starting hew rose gar- dens. Containg full directions for planting and cultivation, pruning and winter protection, and also a long list "of roses with their characteristics. Written in plain terms, easily under- stood’ by the amateur’—A. L. A. Booklist. Liberty Hyde A Rare Offer, (New Haven Journal Courier.) There are one or two considerations which. should not be overiooked in the proposal of the Hon. John Jay Me- | Devitt, of Pennsylvania, to present to | the city of New Haven, the statue of | himself which his native city has failed | to accept. This is to s full con- | sideration should be given two phases | cf his offer before it is politely de- clined, ! The offer of ten thousand dollars does not move us. It is munificent arid all that sort of thing, but it is uninteresting. In deallng with a man of Mr. McDevitt's dignity, the thought of dollars cannot be tolerated. If we | move to accept the statue, it will be | a simple matter to raise money, if needed. We are inclined to guarantee that ourselves, so great is our con- tempt for money. But when Mr. Mec- : Devitt tells us, through Mayor Rice, | that should the city accept his offer | he will be present as tne dedication | of the statue '‘and see that the event | is properly carried out with glamor | and eclat” we are prepared to open more -serious negotiations. We have | bad all sorts of celebrations in New Haven, but we recall none that could | he distinctly said to have turned upon Loth glamor and elcat, We already have one memorial upun the Green, Lut we have never heard man, in his wildest moment of ecstacy, associate it with glamor and eclat. A further pledge of Mr. McDevitt's should not_ be treatea lightly. He writes to Mayor Rice to this effeet: ; “I will come to your town on my venture in a special train, and will at the time come seeking a wife. There- fore, should it happen that I find my ideal, T will hang up my hat and settle in your midst.”” So graclous a Pledge as this, though somewhat dis- turbing, we should say, to the interior regions of the mayor, must be con= sidered as carefully a note to a belligerent nation. Snouid there be uny doubt as to the future of the statue,’ having once been placed on the Green, { discriminating students of Yale Uni- | versity, A task like that would appeal | to them with tremendous enthusiam. | “Faked” Passports. (Waterbury Demorat.) [} Here is a bit of testimony from the confession of' Robest Rosenthai, the German spy recently arrested and brought to trial in England: “I was doubtful about coming to England again, but Captain von Preiger said: If you have any fear about traveling on a pagsport under your own name I can give you another passport.’ He then opened ‘a safe in his office and took out a bundle of American pass- port blanks printed in the proper form on the correct parchment. He showed me forged ‘dies with which the seal of the United States could be reproduced. I can fit you out,’ ho said, “with a passport that will pass inspection.’ " If this statement is to be trysted, the alleged forging of pacsports by the German secret ser- vice is a fact and has assumed alarm- | ing - proportions. 'There have been many rumors and some apparently | authentic cases, of passport falstfica- tons for.the furtherance of the aims of the German espionage system , in | out it might safely be left to the |. COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK Principles of judicial .proof as given by logic, psychology and: general experience and illustrated in ju- dicial trials, compiled by J. H. Wigmore.’ . Valencia and Murcia, a glance African Spain, by A. F. Calvert. “Full of interesting bits of history.” —N..¥. Times. “How genuinely illustrative the pic- tures and how realy descriptive the te’“-"—Outlook. . at .. Who built the Panama Canal? by W. L. Pepperman. “Another book on the canal, but from quite a new angle. Written' by one well informed, the chief of office of administration of the Second Isth mian Commission, and, of course, partisan.”—A. L. A. Booklist. PWila bird guests, by E. H. Baynes. Yin . % Fictlon. Mountain blood, by Joseph Herges- heimer. ““A remarkable book, to! & best seller, too true to —Living Age. great to be e popular.” ‘ . oo Shorty McCabe on the job, by Bewell Ford. “Several stories about Shorty's ex- periences as an administrator of strange bequests. Slangy repartee and wholesome philosophy are the ditinc- tive traits of Shorty’s monologs.” . s Splendid chance, by M. H. Bradley. “A war novel. The heroine is an American art student in Parfs” “A very tender, wise and beautifully written story.”—D! e Taming of Zenas Henry, by 8. W. Bas- sett. A Cape Cod story. “It is like breathing the breath of the open sea to read this wholly de- lightful story.”-—Boston Transcript. “The book is a treat—breezy and humorous with jthe kindness that laughs with but never at, folk."—In- dependent, e Tess Harcourt, by Rosamond Napier. “A musical novel for which the ,hlbelungen ring serves as a back- ground. The author’'s style i§ good and the dialogue crisp and vivid.”"—N. Y. Times. 3 ¥ . They who question, Anonymous. ‘“How to account for the. presence of evil in the world is the question the book tries to answer. It is a superb and relentless story.”—Boston Tran- script. “It is the work of a seasoned mind and a practiced hand.’—Review of Reviews. . : eSS SRS hostile countries, and even attaches of the German embassy at Washing- ton have been involved ' in the charges. But there has been nothing so definite as this, For the sake of Germany’s honor and the ebbing friendship of the two countries, it is to be hoped that such aceusations may be disaproved. It is a serious thing to forge passports, especially when their use compromises the good faith of a neutral nation and places under suspicion all = genuine pass- ports carried by its opvn citizens. Summer Dress For Men, (Philadelphia Public Leader.) “The chief horror of the city sum- mer is the linen collar. The banker or broker or lawyer would as soon ap- pear without his trousers as with- two inches of well-starched linen close about his neck, He should come to his office in a high neck soft shirt, such as is permitted in summer resorts, He clings to the starched col- lar for the same reason that ' he wears two buttons on the back of his morning coat, But in spite of thelr linen bravery the gentlemen are not beautiful.” The Ledger misjudges. The average man wears a linen collar in town on a kot day not to lpok “beautiful” but to look respectable. And he looks cooler in it and is cooler is In than in any- thing except no collar ar all, or per- | haps the loose low collar of an outing shirt. Tt is not the linen collar that is the plague of the American man’s life during the heated term but the heavy Woolen clothes that custom condemns him to wear. What we need in torrid Wweather is the white duck or thin linens of the tropics, But unfortunate- ly the immediate objection to this, from the point of view or the unopu- ient citizens, is that a neat man would require a number of suits where now he can make one serve, and this would involve a much greater outlay and a heavy laundry bill. But for this com- mon sense in such matter would eventually rule. Steel Cars. (Bridgeport Standard) The steel car, which has brought to ‘the travelling public almost the elimination of the danger of being burned alive in a wreck, has brought some minor evils of its own of which complaint is now and then heard. The steel cars are noisier and ride harder and the noises and slight ner- vous shocks are said to be produn- tive of neurasthenia. There may be some foundation ‘o this clatm although the persons thus affected must be peculiarly susceptiblo and hardly up to the average in phy- sical tone. There are people who have never been able to ride fifty miles in a .railroad car under any known conditions, however favorable, without suffering more or less from ‘nerves’” or from something analo- gous to sea-sickness, but to the aver- age passenger on the railway trains of the country it is preferable to risk the nerve trouble than death by burning in a wooden car. It is quite probable that in the fu- ture some shock and noise absorber will be invented that will minmiize the troubles complained of without diminishing the fireproof quality of the cars. WHAT OTHERS 3AY | — Views oun all sides of timely questions as discussed in- ex- changes that come (o Herald offico. What History Has Taught. (San Francisco Chronicle.) Judicial ¢alm was not to be expect- ed of the colonel when addressing himself to the subject of war. On such a topic it {s the soldier who speaks and it is natural that he should the recruiting officer. . Believing that ing less prepared than the strongest possible foe, he is compelled to ap- peal as much to the emotions as to th9 intelleet of the hearers, and if passion was more conspicuous than logic in . his oration the defect was in the cause rather than in the ad- vocate. Whatever else history may have taught the speaker it has not taught him the simple lesson that every war is a confession of the failure of the superstition that military preparation makes for peace. The natlons of the earth have been trying out that the- ory for many thousands of years and today the world is witnessing the bloodiest of all strite among powers better prepared than were ever the Ppeoples of any previous period. If all that makes America the mag- net of the enterprising spirits of the world, her social, political and civic liberties, her freedom, palitical op- pressive war debts and debts for war Preparation, her absence of compul- sory military service, her greater wealth poducing due to having so many men in factories and so few Boldiers in unifarms, if all these things are to be sacrificed on the altar of European militarism, then let critical pretense of merely preparing in order to promote peace. It is with nations as it is avith individuals, the weapons of defense become to readily the weapons of of- fense. . There is a.deadly parallel be- tween the ready revolver in the pock- et of the citizen and the ready army and 'navy under the control of the na- tional leaders. America is the land of the ready revolver and accordingly it is the land with the highest percentage of homi- cides. Citizens of Europe, when not on military duty, do not carry weap- ons to the same extent as in this country, and individual life is conse- quently safer. Europe is. the' land of the ready army and navy and accordingly it is the dand where ‘history is written in blood. America has not such armies and navies and it lives in compara- tive peace. Our history is written more in new political and social in- stitutions more in commercial manu- facturing and financial progress than in warfare. AN The ready' revolver means retail bloodshed, the ready army means bloodshed on the wholesale or Buro- pean plan, America is rich enough to have the best army and if we had them it would not be the same America. It weuld not be the sweet land of lib- erty, but the land of compulsory mili- tary service and of a load of debt pro- portionately and absolutely the heavi- est In the world, Don’t Walk The Tracks. (Indianapolis News.) It is a familiar plea which the Pennsylvania railroad makes in a re- cent bulletin on ‘‘the most needless waste of human life in America.” The other day a father and son were walking along one of the tracks lead- ing into an Indiana city. The father stepped to one side as a train ap- proached, but the hoy did not. The fatality was classed as an “accident.” Fatalities ta trespassers, the Pehnsyl- vania's bulletin remarks, while class- ed as ‘railroad accidents” are acci- dents “for which the public alone is responsible. When you tres- pass on a raflroad you are breaking a law made for your own protection.” The law of trespass should reasonably cover railroad rights-of-way. But it is rarely enforced. The public a-foot feels less hesitation about entering a strip of strack property than it does about entering farm grounds. The remoteness of railway authority is perhaps one explanation. “It is true,” the bulletin continues “that more people are killed every year trespassing on railroad tracks in the United States than the total num- ber who lost their lives in the Johns- town flood, the San Francisco, earth- quake and fire, the Salem, Baltimore and Jacksonville fires and the sinking of the Titanic and Lusitania.” Pos- | sibly an average of 5,000 people meet death every year while trespasging on railway property. This js 'a condi- tion which could be corrected. What is needed is, first of all, education and this the railroads have undertaken. Using newspapers as a medium they are trying to make it clear to all the people that privacy in railroad prop- erty is not the result of autocracy, but is requisite to public safety. A Sweeping Play, (Ansonia Sentinel,) It is becoming more and more evi- dent as the days pass that the Ger- man campaign in Poland aims less at the capture of Warsaw, desirable as that city ls, than at the envelopment of the Russian armies and their final elimination from the campaign for the present year. This cannot be accom- plished by the capture of Warsaw alone. It means pursuit of the re- treating armies and breaking of the new line of defense selected by Grand Duke Nicholas along the river Bug. It is for this purpose that the armies under the command of General Von Mackensen are pressing on toward Brest Livolsk, the Russian fortress guarding the southern flank of this line, while four other armijes are fight- ing their way to close in on the re- treating Russian armies before they can occupy the new line of defense. Tt is a stupendous task that was original- there s a national danger in our be- i it be done honestly as part of a world | power policy and not under the hypo- | e o X < 'McMILLAN’S | NEW BRITAIN’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE" RAINCOATS AND 'UMBRELLAS | A Safe Investment When you buy one of these special ‘Women’s Raincoats that we now have on Sale. Women’s Raincoats | Four unusual values at $8.98, $5.00% | $7.98, $0.98 each. Value §6 to §12.50, | Children’s Raincoats At $1.98 and $2.08 Each Children’s Rain Capes At 81.98 Each Children’s Umbrellas At 49c, 75c, 98¢ Each Men’s Umbrellas At 59c, 98c and $1.49 Each . 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McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET b 4 < yet to predict fts "~ slitcome. nowhere &re the Germanio: m being checked and it is quite - the possibilities that they will accom- plish at Jeast a part of the purpose and so weaken Russian strength ' in this campaign as to keep her on weak defensive for the remainder the year. /- This will enable the combined Ger- man and Austrian armies, except a sufficient force to hold Russia In check, to be hurled.on the allies in the west and Italy and Servia in the south. Than will came the real crisis of the war for, iIf the allled lines in the west hold against ich an aug- mented mass of foes, they can hever be broken. A A Weakening Grip, (Norwich Bulletin,) Tais war has done more to intensify and spread democratic ideas - than anything that has happened in (he history of the nations. R The autocratic jealousies and sel- fish interests of the few have with in« adequate cause set 20,000,000 war- viors at each other, presenting to the of the world a tragedy so imense and horros 's0 shocking that the 600,000« 000 people they represent have been awakened to thoughts of larger i< berty and less autocratic dominion. What end has n served by the millions slain and maimed, and \the rendering of over 50,000 Baltfimghu- dren motherlegs and fatherless, the doubling of national debts and the .1« creasing of the burdens upon the poo- ple for a century to come. All wars are cruel, but few wars are like this one, really indefensible. This war, 18 not only changing the map of Europe, it is chlllrl the thoughts of the people and Is . liks*ly to change the character of * futurs governments. How common men as heroes are looming above Ki ‘Mcn in all nations must get nearer to er; they must everywhere stand m courageously for right and justice. Tyranny is losing its gelp add, democracy is coming to its own plag After this war there will be a he' and better era-—humanity is lkely find itself In a mew world worthy it. KAISER DELIVERS BATON. Berlin, Aug. §, by wireless to Say- ville, L. I, Emperor Willlam per- sonally dellvered a Prussian flold marsh baton to Archduke Freder- ick of, Austria, the commander i chief of the Austro-Hungarian foress in the cast. The ‘presentation took place at a little Galiclan town serv- ing as the Austrian headquarters, which was richly decorated = Wwith flags. in spite of a pouring rain, corcially greeted the Ger Emperor; who briefly addressed ‘Archduke. - Value 1ge = Large size in cretonne d&:‘n&‘tl & A ] 2 \ Iy undertaken and it fs a bit too early . t 2% 3 " N’ Fi The inhabitants of the placs