New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1915, Page 6

pted) at 4:15 p. m. 87 Chul:ph 8t f Omce at New Britain Mail ,l-l.llel‘. f to any part of the city li 65 Cents a Month. iper to be sent by mail dvance. 60 Cents '$7.00 "a year. ! (s advertising medium In ition books and press | open: to advertisers. found on sale at Hota- L 42nd St, and Broad- City; Board Walk, and Hartford depot. | ADAM AND EVE, other, of our cherished pust go by the boards. live are vindicated. Eve the apple to Adam in the radise, Adam did not forbidden fruit from the nor did he bring the ‘upon the human family. “Noah who accomplished . Noah it was who first ‘the laws ‘and plung:d )m the roseate garden of his veil of tears. dam. Poor, ‘Wretched Noah, Poor, gossiped- nd more, we learn from tten’ before” the days of nd " whic! now reposes, duly, translated, in the Museum,; - Pennsylvania. otogist have compar- t with every other known torical document and authentic. ~ Further, they it up with the Book d label the narrative pather faulty . in spots, peasure, a clever piece of Our own Bible was one thousand yvears after n.theology was put there can be no doubt ginality and the authen- ‘Adam and Eve Stofy us the University Museuin oa ot the gentleman whon historians mistook JEnki. He was a water ith his consort, Ninelia, an our Eve, ruled over IDilmun, which has been sly referred to as Par- was out on the east abian’ gulf. Tor r it from a translation ere was a goddess by Nintu who created I'niki lana then later took one "of 'his left hand, prob- ding finger, and formed m, Ninella. That puts [ touches to the story of her, learn that a of men and wome:n Dilmun. Things went h a wonderful rate that, Sent day fashion, ths )glected. The men re-! and the women spent e adorning themselves mage of birds. The gods ded to destroy th~se fintu, figuring that jed these beings she M | rest in them, set out to ations from the fury of ds. She could not save few she could manaze a large boat, presum- : , in charge of a , which is equivalent fian Nuuh, or Noah, ihe i Tagtug giving the iden ug saved the lives »f is craft, and, as a re- by Nintu and intro- of the gods. He w; gardener in the ga , which carried wirn of the place. Only ' was placed upon him. . eat of the fruit of tae . But Tagtug disobf‘)'ed; It, all his descendans ‘with bodily ills and the | ir lives cut from 50,000} erage of 100, That is fall dying so young this we maa s | | m many years to vindi- | dam and Mother BEve, looks of this noble work a it would seem that been cleared. Tagtug, the fellow whom we ffhere is one thing which ared up, however, and bout this Adam’s ap- men are displaying [Byronic _and sportshirt ummer? The new ver- ug got &runk from che assia tree. The old ver- e apple sticking = in seems 10 have a shade L story after all. What- from the cassia tres gad. As/to Eve not tak- ffair, ‘we have our | thing which tells us all that the | mospheric moisture. | loss, TAKE A VACATION. Some few days ago there was an in- terview given out by a prominent New ! York merchant to the'effect that ho | had not taken a vacation in forty-, five years.. “Just could not leave my | busipess." was his explanation for his | consistency ‘at*work. ‘Back of it a'l! was the old and mistaken that | the business could not get along wiih- out him. think the same thing. As if 'to smash once and for all that | bump of self-importance that lurks| .in the manly bosom, the little sumc-“ old idea There are many men whe world will stop revolving when we | cease to be ambng tnose present, up stands one Henry Ford, emplover of | men, and gives his entire force two Weeks vacation, During those weeks not a shaft will be turned in the Ford = factorles where thousands daily toil. There is the first master stroke ever dealt to the old assumption that no man can get his work. Henry Foid has proven it can be done. | There is characteristic American language used when this man Ford tells of how the “two weeks’ tion-idea” was put into execution. He | says:—'Everybody wanted a vaca-| tion and they came to me asking for | one. 1 said, ‘All right, we'll have a vacation at once and get rid of it. So we have shut down for two weeks.” And the men get their vacation two | | away fro vaca- | South throughout the world, a fact which proves that the late P. T, Barnum’s estimate was a conservative one.— Ttica Press. The New Hampshire tollgate keepcr who saw his first president the other ¢ay missed something, He should bave seen the one we haa just before the one we had before this one.— Rochester Union Adversser. How to keep cool: raents, don’t attempl William Jennings Brya food as possible and don't try low the thermometer—ic may of order, anyway.—Springfield Avoid . argu- understand as little to fol- be out Union. eat six but The sun is disturbed by a spot times the diameter of the earth, the sun spot will be rorzotten long before the world recov from the Fiuropean war spot now in an acute ctate of inflammation.—Binghamton Fress. Colonel Roosevelt has no harsh words for progressive leaders who have stated their purpose of abandon- ing the party, but the Colonel says he will not follow their esample. 1t ccems as if the Colonel will have to nominate and vote for'himself to save the party.—Wilkesbarre Record; ar ago the plan of settling the can question through combined action of the United States and the Scuth American powers would have succeeded. But the United States would not agree to the plan which the Americans proposed., It may nave difficulty in enlisting their sup- pert now on any plan of its own.— Buftfalo Express. with pay. What is moye to the point, they are not taking this, \’acallon’ now because there is a dearta of| work. Oa the contrary, this is the | busiest season these men have eve seen. They are taking vacations now merely to get them out of the way. At the same time they are expioding the theory that man must be harnessed | to his work. : | Modern business is a wonderful | thing. And Anterica is the birthplace of nearly all modern business ideas. Efficiency is the watchword in the business world. As soon as business men realize that the highest efliciency is reached only when men are labor- ing under the proper conditions, when their hours of relaxation are in just | proportion to their hours of labor, then will the best efforts be made by | those who must earn their living by | the sweat of their brow. who he or | | | | Svery man, : no matter what does, ought to have a two weeks’ va- | is, ne cation out of down for two weeks” is a good motto. If employers are not in a position to give the two weeks vacation with | pay, independ- | ent enough to take the time off with- | out- pay. A little extra saving iiurmg‘ the working weeks will more® than | make up for this, and it is worth the while. "Two weeks in the mountains, or at the beach, or on the farm will put back in the human body all the vigor of youth. It makes a, man bhet- ter to get out in God's open air and breathe the spirit of freedom. After the play is over work seems all the | more better because pleasant memor- les of vacation time are carried back | to brighten the toil of the day. Fi- nally, no man is so important that ne | cannot leave his work for this short | length of time. every fifty-two. | employees should be WANTED ! with the of the countr; New Britain in common rest of this is suffering from an overdose of at- Nature is boun- | tiful and in her dispensations consults‘; neither the likes or dislikes of man- | kind. It seems in this instance that | we are willed to have rain and then | Humanity grumbles and seemingly without justice. Ex- cessive moisture breeds pests and pes- | The farmer and sardner | section more rain. not simism. have a plaint. Weeds grow to excess and crops threaten to rot in and on | the ground. The big tobacco inter- | ests of the state are fearful of heavy for the weed “vellows,” is showing evident { signs of the a direct re- | sult of continued wet weather and too little Fruit growers have | little less to fear from the same cause. | Much moisture results in tao rapid growth and in consequence the fruit tends to split and burst on the trees | and in the case of soft fruits, like peaches and plums, decay on the trees also sets in. Moist, sticky weather‘; likewise proves disastrous to the pro- | prietors of shore and resorts. | Their patrons, finding activities tailed to the meager pleasure of ver- { anda and indoor life, find plenty o7 time to complain, Mosquitoes form a common topic of commiseration. Tais | summer pest multiplies beyond com- | putation and the city dweller is no | stranger to it these humid days. A | | week or/so of sunshine with dry clear weather would be appreciated by all hereabouts, but man proposes and God disposes. sunshine. lake cur- FACTS AND FANCIES. Pity the poor cost of living! It will inevitably go up.as the demands for shorter hours of labor are concerned. The public’ always pays ine piper in the end.—Philadelphia’ Ledger. | anti-opium i ain. “Shut ! ~ some aid by the | lcoked the twenty | chorus girl at $18 a week. | badge of disease The final triumph of another greai reform, the near end of the opium traffic, is marked in the closing out of three anti-opium societies and two periodicals in Great Bric- The societies and periodicals have ceased or changed their pur. ‘pose. In the same way the abolitio of slavery brought about the suspen- sion or transformation of anti-slavery societies and periodicals.—Rochester Times. The _ four per cent, increase 'n rates granted the express companies by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion may do much good to a dese: ing industry and not inflict a hard- ship upon the shipper. A long road will have to be traveled before the ¢ order of things is restored in expre:s monopoly. We doubt if the journ can ever be made: Public opinion has erected too many barriers for that. That being the case, safeguard- ing the interests of the shipper must not be permitted to do an injustice to the carrier—Syracuse Jdurnal. Of course the San Franci expo- sition is not as large as the exposition held in Chicago in 1893 or the one held in St. Lo a few years later, but considering its distance from the center of population of the United States, the hard times and the inabil- ity of the large foreign nations to par- ticipate in the exhibits, it is an ex- ample of pluck and perseverance that has no equal in its line. One must consider that only nine vears ago (he business portion of San Francisco w completely ruined by fire and earta- quake and that since then the ruined portion of the city has been restored better by far than before the disaster, and also that in addition the city with ate created an in- ternational exposition that is well worthy to be called such. Indeed the general architecture and scheme of the San Francisco show are ahead of any of its predecessors.—Berkshire Eagle. Stage Dream on Park Bench. (New York Worl.) girl. who scarcely ars she claimed, walked into the W Forty-seventh street station and appeaied to Lieuten- ant Clarkin for assistance. She told the officer her name was Emma Role and that she lived with her father in Buffalo. For years she said she had nursed the ambition to Lecome a famous actress. A few days ago it seemed as if her dream were about to come true, for she received a telegram from a Broadway theatrical firm offering her employment as a Last Sat- in New York and who had, she He looked her 100 many girls you." Her She had She spent the she said, sleeping on During this time she An attractive urday she arrived went to the manager said, offered her a job. over and said: “I hav now., Can’'t employ money was all gone. {riends, no place to go. next two nights, park benches. had no food. The Eugenic Woman. (Boston Post.) Dr. A. J. Read the Normal School of Physical Education at Fat- tle Creek, Mich,, has it all settled to the perfect, the eugenic woman ol the future. the International Conference in Betterment at the Panama fair other day. “The ideal woman of the ecugenic age,” said Professor Read, “will De plump and well rounded, but not fai. Her complexion will be ruddy or brown, not pale, as that of present of as He told his discovery ‘o Race the rather than of health.” But is the present day woman pale? We doubt it. Never were gir letic and bronzed. And isn't plump and well rounded—at least, a good many of her? There is said to be considerable of a sale for flesh re- ducers. And the same may be said of flesh builders. There are all kinds of women, always nave been and probably alw will be. The “ideal woman of the eugenic age” will be 6f varying types so leng she A statistical note states that there | are sixty-seven births every minute as nature has anything to say about the matter. B : | now, no | day women, because the pale skin is a | s0 ath- | WHAT OTHZRS 3AY | Views on all sides of timely questions es discussed in ex- changes that come (o Herald affice, Safety Valves. * (Bridgeport Post.) Except in times of war the wiser policy is nov to interfere with free speech. In the days of peace in Eu- rope a stranger might wander into i Hyde park in London and hear about "thing in the talk line, from near to the most exacting versation. The King and the Lords could be damned as often as desired d not a “bobby" would interfere, 0 long as order prevailed. That the part of wisdom. Much the same rule has been ap- plied in the Public Common at Bos- ton. hear almost any sort of doctrine ex- Pounded. This policy is along the line of maintaining free speech as law provides. These observations are in 15 certain speakers plant. This interference was ordered by Mayor Wilson. In our judgment it was an unwise procedure, entirely uncalled for in any way. The right of free specch is sacred unless there is a deliberate effort to incite to riot. There is no evidence that the speaking had any such pur- pose, \ So far in thes workmen in Bridgeport labor troubles the have kept this city so free from the unfor- tunate troubles of other communities. Their conduct in the most recent attempt of outsiders to disturb the orderly course of evendi; is further evidence of their ability to deal with the situation. With such evidence of self-control there was no excuse for interference with free speech. even had such in- terference been lawful. In our judg- ment the authorities have gone be- yond the law. Free speech is a con- stitutional right when accompanied by peaceful aswociations. It is safety valve of a democracy. never good safety valves. It is The Mexican Qutlook, (Ansonia Sentinel.) Evidence js at hand to indicate that the South American repiblics are not only sure cf the disinterestednes: of the United States in its new plans for the pacification of Mexico but that the request for the replacement of the watchful waitinx of flabby Bryan- ism by a stronger and more resolute plan of action came from their repre- sentatives. They not only acquiesce in action by the United States but they wish for it and are ready to back it with their moral and practical sup- pert. This simplifies greatly the prob- lem that the United States faces in Mexico. The chief reason for lack of action in the past wrs the fear that dras’'ic treatment of this plague-spot in the peaceful Ame-ican continent might be construed by the republics of South America an evidence ol imperialistic plans on the part of the Unitéd States ey are convinced the civi 1 world, that, if Wwe intervene in Mexico, we do so with no thought of self interest but solely for the benefit of the Mexican people, now given over as helpless prey to a job lot of second cla bandits. Most of the Mexican leaders them- selves have seen the light and realize their career of destruction is passing. They are most of them ready to ac- cept the fair offer of the United States for co-aperation by them in the establishment of peace and a stable government in Mexico and the help of the United States in unstinted measure to the government so formed The anly dissentent is Carranza. He has denounced the plan before it has even been presented to him, taking time by the forelock to prove that he is the only simon pure irreconcil- able. It is to be presumed that lit- tle time will he wasted in with & man who has made mind not to be convinced. One last appeal will he made to him to in the movement for peace. take it or leave it as he wishes. up his He can If nored in the settiement of the future of Mexico. If he interferes he will !'P removed from th way, by force, if necessary That is the only wa) ©of dealing with Carranza. President Wilson knews it now and sa do the representatives of South America. He can join in the taken to give Mexico peace in the fu- ture he can ¥ outside see hed without his help and vigorous opposition or Hyphenated (Waterbury A Berlin weekly “patriotic devot comments on the m to the fatherland” of German citizens of United says it is reproach and will remain forever ever one of the greatest recollections of these times.” This tries the tience of the Springfield Tt cannot see how any American citi- zen can be patriotically devoted to devotion one's own country. it asks the following pertinent tions: Is it the German idca that Amer- jican citizens can have two countries to which they may he “patriotically” devated? It is sometimes borne in upon one that not only Germans but Frenchmen, Englishmen and other | Europeans still fail to conceive of this country as anything but a collection of European colonies, or a huge out- post of European civilization divided into compartments corresponding to the Europcan nationalities. The Berlin publication referred ta speaks of German-Americans and Anglo- Americans as if the entire population were divided into those two classes. Has it never heard of Americans? Does it not know that the United States is nmearly a century older than the German empire and that our and to | States is taking in more immigrants | The elements do not dissolve | amalgamate well | harden ana con- | On a Sunday afterncon one can | education, just issued. the | government was contending for the freedom of the seas when Prussia had been reduced by Napoleon to a mere patch on the map of Europe? It wauld appear that the United than it can perfectly assimilate. The | melting pot is not quite up to the requirements of a situation like this. and in times which intensify their original auality, But one in a way offsets an- other and no permanent harm can be done. ' But there isn’'t enough of a one element to make it strong to r¢ sist ultimate absorption into the gen- | cral mass. In the end most will be | turned out good Americans and none | the worse for having an affection for | the land from which they sprung. | Progress in College Bducation. | There were 216,493 students in col- leges, universities, and technological | &chools in 1914, according to the an- nual report of the commissioner of This is an ia- | So Far 8o Gooud. (New London Telegraph.) Roosevelt’s return to the east has | heen seized upon as an occasion for speculation regarding his plans, those of progressives generally, with reference the next national cam- paign. Best is, judging hy little the colonel has to announce, and by what other of the Moose contingent | are saving and doing. plans are largely | tentative. | There 1s a good deal of watchful | waiting. It seems probable that Mr. Roose- 1t hopes to preserve an appearance of formidable front for the progressive organization, while Brother Hiram Johnson undertakes to get control of the republican national convention de- legates from California and other western states and attempt to zet the : straight republican for M 8.30 A M president, ornlng at » » This undertaking has a chance to ! In this sale 'vou will find dainty succeed, so far ag winning some west- dresses of allover and embroidered ern delegates is concerned. In the voile and crepe flouncinge, l:ce and NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIES’ BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” BIG SALE Women'’s Lingerie DRESSES AT $1.98 EACH Values Up to $9.98° On Sale Wednesday to guesg o nomination crease of 14,262 over 1913. The buc- j eau’s list, for 1914 includes 567 insti- order in | View of the police interference with | near the Locomobile | and there is no excuse for interfering | | has dis- | played the same good sense that has | "as for endowment. industral | { more than ! excess of a miilion dollars apiece, and | the | policy to interefere with | -tion gained momentum that their chance of long continuing ! ; Wwoman wrote to her lover that unless arguing | join | he does nat accept then he will be ig- ! | are exercis steps that are to he | { wooden i fiexibility, the | above | ! preference to burning to death. pa- ! Republican. | ques- | tutions, a decrease of twenty-nine over the preceding year. municipalities control ninety-three of the colleges; private corporatioas control 474. Men still outnumber women in higher education; there. were 139,373 men in 1914 and 77,120 | women, as sared with 128,644 men and women in 1913. De- | spite rising standards of admission | and graduation, college enrollment more than tripled since 1890. | the year totaled | which $18,4 856 Benefactions to colleges and universities totaled $26,- 670,017, something over $2,000,00 in the year previous. Six received benefactions tn comj Receipts during $120,57 of stitutions i forty-five universities, colleges. and technological schools reported gitts amounting to more than $100,000. In the past seven vears the largest in- crease in income has come throug state and municipal appropriations, and the smallest from tuition and other fees. State and municipal ap- propriations grew from $9,649.549 in 1908 to $23, 400,540 in 1914, while fees for tuition and other educationa services increased from $15,390,847 to $22,504,529. The dominant note of the vear in ‘nigher education, according to the report, was concentration, both in in- ternal organization and in relation i> state authority. The movement in the direction of authoritative classifica- during the vear, chiefly through the activities of several voluntary association. The junior-college movement has reachcd the point where several states—not- ably Wisconsin, Missouri, Virginin, and Idaho—have gone on record as definitely in the educational system of the state. The Municipal University of Akron, Ohio, was added to the list of city universities, and the new ‘Association of Urban Universities,” established in the fall of 1914, lends emphasis to this municipal-university development, Degrees conferred by colleges and universities included 26,533 baccal- aureate, 5,248 graduate, and 749 hon- orary. The degree of doctor of phil- ophy was conferred as the result «f examination by forty-six institutions on 446 men and seventy-three wom- en. Trading Thoughts, (New Haven Journal-Ccurier) We have frequently all probability one of the difficulties the German government in standing theirs, grows out of the task | of making one language express ac- | curately the meaning of another of | different origin. An illustration is | at hand. A patriotic young English | under- | | from the beginning. he was in the service by a certain date “T shall cut you dead.”” This translated into German made her de- | claration this: “I shall hack vou to death.” Still another illustration can be given dating back to the days of peace. A German woman was re- tained to translate one of Bsrnnrd' Shaw's plays into her language. The line: “I draw the line at that.”” was | vsed to express the liimt of patience. | In the German it read: ‘I draw the | curtain at that,”” which conveyed an entirely different meaning. Because there is this difficulty, bath nations | ng creditable patience. Knocking The Steel Car. (New York Commercial.) Some people are never d. Having forced the railroads. the sub- way lines and some of the surface trolley lines to substitute steel for ca against the because they and ride arder.” For | beauty and general ocm- fort, nothing can beat wood, but wood will “urn. A distinguished neurolo- | gist says that that nois nd slight | nervous shocks caused by steel cars | have hecome prolific causes of neu- | rasthenia and insanity. Still, mosfi of us will chance frayed nerves ini | satis protests are made steel cars are noiser Competition Killed, (New Haven Union.) 1 North Americans | the Argentine for prices soar dis- | No more may turn hopefully to relief when beef gracefully. The largest packing plant in (he‘ world opened in the early part | of Jul is located at La Plata, Ar- | gentina. A Buenos Ayres magazine | appropriately calls it “El ' Dread- | naught de los Krigorifico: ! This gizantic packing house, con- ing of 17 steel and concrete build- | gs, is owned in Chicago. The United States has a very real interest in ] There will be little competition in the future betwecen Chicago and La | Plata. | 14 | According to a Torrington corre- * spondent one of the contestants at the Fifers' and Drumers’ (‘nn\‘ention‘ in that town ‘entertained in superior style on the bass drum.” Our idea | of something not to rave about is a bass drum solo. | everybody realizes that ! medijate future of things, and not pres- recognizing junior colleges | convention it would quickly become cmbroidery trimmed white and colored4 apparent that Brother Johnson, al- dresses that are this seasons smartest though a very fine man would not be | creations. Take our word it that acceptable to the party as a whole. | these are the greatest values in fine About that time or sooner, if judsed | Lingerie dresses we have ever offered cenvenient, just as Senator La Follette | and be sure and be at this Sale, Wed« was obviated suddenly sume years ago, | needay morning. so Hiram Johnson would be obviated, | See Sal, Dresses displayed in our and having hitched his stalking horse | Big Show Window until time of Bale. to chew the oats of disappointment | under the shade of some fragrant | allanthus, the commander of com- | manders would proceed to close tom- } bat on foot. | | | for 500 YARDS MOIRE RIBBONS, Wednesday morning at 10c yard, colors, White, Pink, Light Blue and Plans have probably not developed | Cardinal. further than as above outlined—and éven those, as we say, are tentative. | A tremendous number of things can Stamped to embroider. Wednes- happen between now and then, and | day morning at 19¢ each, it 1 the im- | CHILDREN'’S DRESSES, JEWELRY SALE, Wednesday morning, 9c each, for . . values to 25c. 4 Many bits of Dainty Jewelry in this Sale, ent engineering of them which is to | determine where Moose tracks are to be impressed in the =ofl of political endeavor. This is also equally true of | the Elephant and the Donkey. | Theodore Roosevelt says that he will enroll this fall as a progfessive, WOMEN'S SAMPLE VESTS, | and not as a republican. © At 123%ec each, values 19¢ to 26e. Rainfall in July. (Providence Journal.) Records of the July rainfall kept at ten government stationd show consid- erable variation precipitation | throughout New England. Portlaad had 10.84 inches; Boston, 8.85 inches; Providence, 6:35 inches, and Block Island, 1:59 inches. The most south- erly part of Rhode Island thus has | the distinction between the extremes | | of Portland and Block Island. The rainfall of July, however, is not record-breaking and Block Is- land was not always so dry. In July 1897, Hartford had a total of 15.85 | inches, and in July, 1895, Block Is- | land reported 8.57 inches. But the record for wetness on Block Island was made in June, 1881, when the to- ta]l was nearly 13 inche: Providence in September, 1907, had 8.66 inches of | rain. These figures contradict a| popular supposition that the rains of ast month were without precedent. July, 1915, however, was sufficientiy remarkable for it§ downpour. WOMEN’'S SAMPLE UNION | 50c values to $1.00. ! - WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN’S SAM. PLE UNION SUITS, value 39¢ to b0c. SUITS in LARGE TURKISH TOWELS, Wednesday morning at 9c each. COTTON BLANKETS, 3 For Cots and Cribs. Bize 46x74. Wednesday morning at 58¢ pair. WOMEN’S 5¢ HANDKERCHIEFS. | Wednesday morning 6 for 19c. D. McMILLAN 199-201-20%8 MAIN STR KAISER MAKES PEACE 3 OFFER TO RUSSIA [ Prenatal Influence, (New London Day.) A three year old bull moose is magnificent animal just arrived at the | full of hiz strength and aggressive- | a Czar Turns Down Proposals of Ger- many Made Through King of Den- insisted that in | | asked if she had enjoyed the refresh third birthday of the Bull { Moose party found it far past its prime and well on the path of de: | eline. There must have been some- | thing the matter with the creature If it had been a normal animal at birth it would “:ave been at its lustiest right now. Per- haps the unfortunate weakling is suf- fering from the effects of prenatal influence, Maybe there was too much noise in the neighborhood about.e time it came into existence. Per- haps the roarings of the colonel af feeted its ear drums and so, by-and by, its general health. It certainiy doesn’t seem to be able to hear colonel’s voice right now. | ness Drank Beer for OChurch. (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) Testifying in the Camden police court yesterday in tho case of Emma Kane, of 748 Sycamore street, who was charged with violating the excise law in giving away a bottle of lager | beer with each sandwich or ten cents’ | worth of pigs’ feet, Eleanvor Willlams, 21 years old, of 610 Cherry street, was ments, and she replied: *Yes, I did. I didn't mind drinking ‘the beer, cither, when I was told it was for the benefit of the church.” After other witnesses testified to being served with beer at what they cailed a church party given to raise funds to build an annex to the Wesley African Methodist ©piscopal church, Recorder Stack- house fixed bail at §500, and Mrs. Kane was committed to jail in default TENNIS TOURNAM Seabright, N. J., NT OPENS. Aug. 9.—The [irst of three important tennis tourna- ments in the east to lead up to the national championships at Foras: Hill, L. I., on August 29 begin to day on the courts of the Seabrizit Lawn Tennis and Cricket club R. Norris Willilams 2nd, the tional champion, and Maurice Loughlin are among the entrants Twenty-four of the leading tennis players of the country will partici- pate, including Karl H, Behr and Har- old A, Throckmorton, the eighteen vear old boy whose playing has been na- { one of the features of the tennis sea- son. GIRLS BREA RECORD. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 9.—What was said to be a new world's baseball throwing rccord for a girl was made terday by Miss Ruth McCabe when she threw a ball 209 feet five inches Miss Dorothy Smith of Vassar college is sald to have ecstablished the best | previous record in 1911, with a thro of 204 feet. Miss McCabe is a fou yvear student in high school here. the | Me- | mark Says Bourse Gazette. J London, Aug. 9—Reuter's corre- spandent at Petrograd transmits the fololwing: “The Bourse Gazette learns from an unimpeachable source that the German emperor made an offer of peace to Russia last week through the king of Denmark. The answer | sent to the king stated that the | auestion of peaec negotiations could | not be raised at the present time.” | b Petrograd, via London, Aug: 9, 2:25 | . m.—The report that Germany had made peace proposals to Russia be- came known in official circles here several davs ago and was freely dis. cussed in the lobbies of the duma, ac- cording to the Vechernee Vremya. . “We learn on good authority,” says | the newspaper, “that. Germa | through Denmark proposed to Rus- sia a separate peace, Russia to re- ceive Galicia while Germany would retain the western district of Poland. | A representative of the foreign affice | categorically denied that there was the remotest possibility of any peace negotiations. In the lobbles of the duma the proposal was dismissed-as unworthy of serious consideratio) HAVE FIN Chicago, Aug. 9.—Twenty of the speediest boats in the country have heen entered to compete for the Am- erican championship speed boat raccs | to be held here Aug. 28 to Sept. 4, it wag announced today. Included in the entries is the Dis- turber IV of Chicago, which has made close to sixty miles an hour in trial spins and the Black Demon of Terre Haute, Ind., o mile a minue | craft. Peter Pan VII, flying the flag of the Royal Canadian Yacht club of | Toronto, is expected to be among the starters. | Goop WEATHER FOR OPENER. Grand Rapide, Mic Aug. 9.—A | fast track and favorable weather promised attractive races today at the | opening of the grand circuit harness imn"llng here. | Three events were on | —a 2:14 trot, 2 h.. the program 10 trot and the pase | ing division of the Matron stake. The | Comstock Stake of $3,000 for 12 | pacers has been postponed until Weds nesday. FOG .CAUSES POSTPONMENT. Marblehead, Mass,, 9.-=The start of the New York Yacht club cruise from here to Gloucester was | postponed today, owing to thick g ‘and a steady drizzle. Aug.