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

[} b Post O at New Britain d *Class Malli Matter. rriers to any part of the city b & Weelt, 65 Cents a Month. or 8 to be sent by mall in ice, 60 Cents a onthi $7.00 a year. 6 advertising medium lation books and press open to advertisers. in 1 be found on sale at Hota- and, 42nd St. and Broad- F York City; Board Walk, City and Hartford depot. IBLEPHONE CALLS. ce AND THE MATL MAN. . Delancy al' of mothers and fa- censorship of letters gh the general delivery 3 There in will have the he postaffice. are mantic youths New 30" would on ithout the knowledge of ts and which, in the -long rave detrimental to their £, by keeping vigil on the ughters of New Britain their mail under fictitious je postoffice the postmaster e - disaster he is to be his work. But it is not oung boys and girls at order is'aimed. There are e who receive their letters office because they are ap- “having them brought by the letter carriers. | reasarts men were put to ¢ g mail was to do away long line of persons that 1e general delivery win- Jew Britain was a town. jwated into the ranks of is no further need of this method of delivering mail tain. In some cases, of e is good reason for re- 1 at the general delivery is happens when people w Britain without estab- ¥ - definite address here, have no permanent present swhen they cannot afford ‘box. But the sons and lof parents who have estab- ciles haveno reason what- rder their mail saddressed Pelivery.” The postmaster proper thing if he has such t to the home address of hg people. It is a mighty jais - invPoBed - upon himeself; o be~hoped he does not efforts, , | master, not content with yreak up illégal carrespond- i1, has also set down his promiscuous use of the lobby as a trysting place. ere we do not quite agree inent dispensor of malls. oes not mean to break up mt pastime of youth, the ' the old postoffice. Since bmorable the boys and girls _gaing there to meet acci- pder the pretense of read- erous bulletins pasted on ‘ot the old time postoffice | lads and lassies of other cquaintance ripened into | cltmaxed by life partner- hy a good man met his fate by of the old time postoffice. can be no harm if the boys lhave a hankering to loiter } cherished temple provid- jse, they keep their distance eneral delivery window. 4t boots it if the postmaster { the gallant swain from his joor. Is not the old wal- 8 the corner a good enough nd? How many young ave pinned their fate on free just outside his win- gtics will never know. It fthe meeting ‘place for the k of New Britain ever since fice has been on its present ‘any moonlizht night ‘young man walk up under of that tree, take from his mall bit of paper and pin [frunk of the old sentinel. vill walk Sure -enough, Will prance along a ‘stand under the tree, look and, with some misglv- down the pinned docu- gtéing a little chuckle 11 gaily trip across the meet her Lothario. Hand ey then will meander down walk to the glitter of the to, and in a few moments gallant is purchasing tickets povics.” Surely there is no 11 this and Postmaster De- 14 be the last man on earth ensorship on innocent love thig kind. He has not yet he sunset of life, P carry corres- one across the street in a few dainty ot nor is his d to the dawn of love. As | their midsts. RAH! RAH! Now cames the college bred police-, man. The city \of Berkeley, Cali- fornia; has requested all the members of itgjpolice department to attend a special series of ledtures at the Uni- versity of California this $all and winter. The subject to be treated by the professors for the benefit of thc policemen will be the relation of men- tal disease to criminology. The course of study will not be pursued with the idea of granting degrees to Rather Is it for the of acquainting them with may use better the policemen. purpose sociology so that they judgment in the handling of prisoners. It is a novel idea, this educational development of the policeman. Per- haps other cities in the country will follow the example set by Berkeley,— cities which have universities in The palicemen in New Haven and Cambridge should fare well if the new order is instituted at those seats of learning. And New Britain make arrange- ments to have a few of its select offi- cers attend some of the at Yale. We have a picture the policemen the class room, their helmets thrown carelessly under the one-armed chairs, taking notes, sleep- ing, or making sketches of the pro- It will be sgreat sport for the guardians of the peace. The college boys will welcome the inno- be some could easily lectures of in fessor. vation because there should good material for the foot ball teams when the blue-coats matriculate. The proper injection of brawn and muscle into the brain ‘factories of our land will do much toward building up a greater educational system advocating a sound mind in a sound body. The University of California and the city of Berkeley are jointly to be con- gratulated on this latest step forward in the educational world. We of the East will await the commencement exercises of next June to learn of the success or faflure of the venture be- fore sending our traffic squads and patrolmen to tread the classic paths that lead to the lecture halls. BRIGHTER DAYS AHEAD. of fate if the the Arabic to brought about It is a strange turn submarine which sent the bottom and nearly a break between this country and Germany has met a llke fate. The German Admiralty is of the belief that the British navy . has succeeded in doing away with this undersea craft. In such an event there can be no eX- planation in detail of the Arabic case by Germany no punishment of - the commander of the submarine. All other German boats on the west coast of England at the time of the tragedy have returned to their base. The British have hinted at sinking a boat which might have been the destroyer of the Arabic, thus adding credence to the German statement. To all fair Americans the present status of the Arabic case must be satisfactory. The German ambassador strengthens the bends between this country and Ger- many when he notifies our secretary of state that his government has ac- cepted the principle that passenger liners should be warned before attack by submarines, the only bone of con- tention. can be no chance of friction between the two nations. The written word of Ambassador Van Bernstorff on this policy will seal the friendship that was near the breaking point. It is encouraging %o note the friend- ly attitude of Berlin newspapers on the Wilson attitude. These papers, once bitter in their denunciation of things American, completely gwung around and now see that the “Tnited States but contended for its rights, nothing more or less than Germany would have demanded had Germany been the neutral and the United States a belligerent in the present war, occupying juxtapositions. The German papers now look for a satisfactory compromise. If the safe and sane attitude can be assumed by all in this country, German sympa- thizers, English sympathizers, French This grievance removed there have no fear of trouble. they never follows ! day who would wish hroken. And they severed while Germany will course she has 1n her international relations. whole unfortunate occurrence been more of a anything clse, Like any were engaged in the the emotions awakened. country, if it goes to cement t Romeos and f"‘f“.‘ office lobhy well, ‘not ring ‘topight .. Joliets cur- L were 1 sacrificed on the AN o svmpathizers, all, then there need be For many years rriendly relations have existed between | America and Germany and there is no man of sound sense in the nation to- were be the promised to adhere to Viewed | iv the light of present day events the has misunderstanding than | ‘other episode In the life of man, all who controversy, cfticial or non-official, will come out of the whole affair better off because of If the dis- ruption makes for the future a united the heterogeneous mass of our citizenry into one patriotic people, obliteraflngl the lines of racial hatred, then it ‘were well it all happened and the lives that Lusitania and | the Arabic have not been in vain, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1915. COMMUNICATED. Editor Herald: Dear Sir—Under the head of | “Communicated” in your paper of August 27 you publish a letter signed T. M. Gilmore, but not carrying any indication of the residence of the the writer, which I think deserves a little further notice from your read- ers, inasmuch as it is, in much the same form, appearing in-other papers, in some cases followed by the word (advertisement). . When we realize that T. M. Gil- | more is a leading distiller of Louis- | ville, Ky., the head of “The Model | License League,” a distillers’ organi- | zation, and one of the publicity com- mittee which was granted a very large sum for its advertising work this year at the recent convention, we will pos- sibly get a little light on the standing of the writer. Some of his arguments are, to say the least, curious; for instance: “Why not pass officially on the moral fitness of—women to adopt certain styles of dress.”” What has happened times without number when one sex has “adopted” the style of dress worn by the other? The police very quickly “ipass officially” on it. Then, too, what about “sitting in judgment on the fit- ness of his neighbors to select articles of diet.” What would be the result of your neighbor grocer's attempt to sell unfit “articles of diet.”” Your health department would “sit in judg- ment” and sit hard and suddenly, wouldn’t it? After all the thing T specially wish to call attention to is: that Gilmore, who makes his money from booze, is ashamed to tell his business, and even shies at dating his ‘‘communi- cation” from Louisville because of its notoriety as a whiskey center. His great worry about ‘“the church in ac- tion” is well founded, for not only is the church in all its branches wide awake, but every factory and mill and shop is coming to be a center of in- formation and interest. “Safety first” and “Efficiency,” the two great slogans of the business world today, can never be attained while the “personal liberty” to get drunk, smash machinery, endanger other lives, and become a nuisance generally is allowed. Come into the open Tom with your plate matter in the shape of ‘‘com- munications” and your fool argu- ments. You told your associates at the national convention that the sa- loon as at present operated was a dis- grace to civilization, and we agreed with you. Don’t defend it in the hope that you can make the “corkscrew” take the place of the liberty bell in- stead of the “thumbscrew’” at which you shudder so terribly. H. H. SPOONER, Sec’y the Connecticut Temperance Union. Kensington, Conn., Aug. 28, 1915. Inadvertently the title on the letter of August 27, referred to in the above communication, was dropped in this ofice.—Ed. FACOTS AND FANCIES. Apparently, the United tSates can- not manage to do anything that will please General Carranza.—Chicago News. It’s certainly a tight battle over at the Dardanelles, but then just look at the National league.—Philadelphia Ledger. Most of us are willing to follow President Wilson in the present crisi He needs support and not criticism.— Bridgeport Post. The prohibitionists did not capture Kentucky, but they did a wonderful thing neverthele They tried to. —Florida Times-Union. If some of the yellaw journals didn’t issue an edition every hour there would probably be less jrritation over the controversy between this country and German; Rachester Herald. Nations apprehensive of food sup- ply failure will doubtless make a note of the statement that the Filipinos eat 3,000 tons of grasshoppers a year, —Buffalo Enquirer. Of course there will be no strike of the working women of New York state, but they have been clever enough to discuss the effect of such a demonstration, and this has set some people to thinking.—New Ha- ven Union. The United States must prepare to furnish South America and the Orient with cotton goods for a term of vears. No doubt England financiers will help in samething like valorization. No doubt American financiers will do the same. But action by the government is a wholly different thing, an ex- ceedingly risky experiment for the [ present, and franght with the grav- est possible consequences as a pre- cedent in practical socialism.—Brook- Iyn (N. Y.) Eagle. Where Justice Ts Due. ( New Haven We have frequently expressed our- selves in sympathy with the earnest and intelligent determination of War- den Thomas Mott Osborne, of Sing Sing prison, to place that institution | on a humane basis. In his desire to | do so he is only to be criticised for | ignoring institutions where the con- | aitions for which he is contending have been achieved. In an address before a fashionable | audience at Newport on Sunday Mr. Oshorne told of his work and the dif- ! ficulties attending it. In the course | of his address, in addition to descrih- ing the conditions which prevail in his prison, he declared that the dis- charged prisoner enjoyed a sweet re- venge upon society for the cruel man- ner in which he was treated while an inmate of that institution. He said: “These men have their sweet re- venge on the society that tortures them in prisons When these men leave prison, they spread broadcast the -germs of tuberculosis and other ! diseases contracted in prison. We can't escape it. They infect the 1s.t,mespbA!'Q the. trolley and railroad Journal-Courier.) cars ,the ferry boats and the streets. If they ruin their health they, in turn, ruin ours. They have a hor- rible revenge.” We have no right to question the aceuracy of this statement as it re- lates to the prisons of New York, and to Sing Sing prison in particular. We have every right to question it as it relates to the state prison at Weth- ersfield in this state, with which Mr. Osborne is familiar. The conditions Wwhich he describes as existing in New York do not exist in Connecti- cut. A prison which records but one death out of a population of nearly six hundred and fifty inmates in four- teen months offers no such danger to the public as he describes. — And yet one is at liberty to conclude from Mr. Osborne's addresses that the evils he complains of a a part of the general prison condition in this coun- try. He. should at least be fair enough to admit that what he is try- ing to do in the state of New York is to emulate the example of Connec- ticut, where practically all of the experiments he is attempting to prove have been proved months ago. More grease to his elbow say we, and also more frankness to his speech. Ren- der unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. A New Horror of War, (Bridgeport Telegram.) Despatches from Petrograd report a new scientific horror devised by the industrious Germans for use in war- fare. In this case it is a form of shrapnel combined with fire bomb, so i{hat the splinters of steel burn as well as maim, oftentimes causing fatalities from wounds, that with ordinary shrapnel, would be curable. We suppose that new atrocity charg- es will be launched against Germany on this score, and yet, when one looks at the whole proposition from a his- torical standpoint, how ridiculous is any attempt to define what is the pro- per way to kill'a man in warfare, and what the improper way. In the good old days a man of war ventured forth clad literally from head to foot in armor, hence the term “cap-a-pie,” to describe such arma- ment. The human dreadnought, too weighty to fend for himself, « was hoisted on board backed ndg and launched into action by his faithful retainers. Armed with a lance he gal- loped cumbersomely against an op- posing dreadnought. When the shock of collision was over, one or both of them would be flat and gasping in the read, llke a turtle turned upon its back. That was civilized warfare, and it was carried on with a high de- zree of gentility and many pretty courtesies. At that time the most inventive military genius, the German of his day and generation, was Edward III, of England, who came to the startling conclusion that a good cloth-yard shaft, tipped with an arrow head and launched by an ordinary yeoman was a better weapon than the lance of the gentry—better because it could be fired from a distance and because veoman were plentiful and gentry were scarce. Putting his theory into practice he swept the “flower of Ku- repe” into the dust-heap on the hat- tlefield of Crecy, and we suppose that the “atrocity” cry was never so loud- 1y dinned throughout the world as then. What a wagging of heads and tkrusting of tongues into cheeks there must have been, especially on the part of those who happened to be the targets for the arrows of Edward IIT and the Black Prince. But arrows came to be adopted as weapons of war, and lances fell into disuse. The arrow ceased to be an atrocity and was established as ortho- dox practice. Next came the use of gunpowder, and again the atrocity ery. Then gunpowder was standard- ized. So on, to the present day. Every new invention for the killing of men bas been hailed as an atrocity and adopted finally as standard practice. So we may look upon the German “atrocities’—the use of poison gas and fire bombs—as military practice in the making, and nothing more. The school that attempts to deal with war as though it were a garden party or a five o’clock tea, and to behedged with rules and regylations, is still with us. But war, in essence heing the absence of all rules, cannot be bound by rules. And man killing, being cssentially a process of extin- guishing life by fair means or foul, cannot he limited, like Marquis of Queensbury boxing rules, to a blow zbove the belt. Like the traditional ricture of a forehead, attended by a pretty Red Cross nurse, so the picture of warfare as a sort of pleasant game played by honorable gentlemen must be expugned from the public mind. The sooner we look upon warfare as it is, a dirty, murderous butchery, foul with the violation of all rules, the sooner we shall have done with it. ¥alse Convictions. ¢New Haven Union.) Two men convicted of robhery on circumstantial evidence by a Brook- lyn jury and sentenced to serve 20 vears in prison have been set free be- cause the real criminals were caught later and confessed. That raises®the old question as to how many men are convicted of crimes of which they are innocent and serve long terms in our penal institutions. That some are falsely convicted we know. The per- centage never can be ascertained. Tt was the merest chance which saved these innocent men from what virtu- ally amounted to life imprisonment. Circumstantial evidence, when coupled with ambitious police officers and prosecutors in certain to result in some “mistakes.” , A Drunk Fined $1.000,000, (New York World.) Interest attaches rather to the prin- ciple than to the fact as regards the sentence of a $1,000,000 fine and 99 yvears in jail imposed by a police judge in Oklahoma upon a woman prisoner. o UL R S = the judge, "‘because 1 did not want her ever to be at large again.” It appears that the woman had incurred what might be termed an accumulated penalty for persistent and troublesome drunkness. The judge is confident that his action is according to s It may be sa. lOkla.homn. is qur newest state. WHAT OTHIERS 3AY Views on.all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come io Herald offico. Courtesy and the Telephone Girl. (Meriden Record.) If the investigation of the telephone Birl's life by the United States com- mission on jnaustrial relations has the effect of reminding the average Chicagoan that he dealing with Just an ordinary human being when he picks up a receiver and tempers his demands accordingly, something of a very definite nature has becn accomplished, in the opinion of the Chicago Tribune. “Of course, the inexplicable delays, interruptions, and surprises are most distressing and most distracting in this age of nerves, but so are they .‘9 the girl operator, who, after all, S at the most sensitive point in the cntire talking system. The operator’s nerves have to endure pleasantly for S0 many hours each day and for six da; a week what the business man is unable to tolerate for a few moments, at the most.” With some individuals the fact that the telephone girl is at a safe dis- tance is sufficient to warrant a lati- tude in their discourtesy and incon- siderateness, that would not be tol- erated face to face. There is as much difference in tel- ephone girls as there is in folks. They are very human like the rest of s, but unlike some of us, they are at the beck and call of all sorts of men and women, people ignorant and boorish as well as the wise and pol- ished who frequently are just as un- reasonable as the former. Like many other kinds of business, the work is not paid for so munifi- ('1.enll)' as to command always the highest brain power and sometimes the operator is lacking in the keen- ness and adaptability which are val- tnable attributes in one holding a po- sition where she is subject to the whims and demands of the general public. Other things heing equal, the aver- age telephone operator is more cout- ‘teous and patient than the majority of subscribers, many of whom ap- parently thing that a telephone is an effective means by which to get rid of all the grouches which have ac- cumulatad. While the individual subscriber is compelled to bear the burden of in- numerable annoyances at home and in business, the telephone girl gets a Bombardment from all sides and not only gets the effect of her own im- mediate mistakes but suffers for the shortcomings of all who have added to the irritation of the subscriber. When a Woman Reaches Fifty- (E. S, Martin in Haperr's.) Being not so young as you were Is not all loss. 1f maturity of years is an ailment, then youth is another. To be fifty vears old is to have made a fs_drly complete recovery from the ailment of youth, and that is no small achievement. It is not everybody that does it- The person who re- members statistics will tell you what proportion of us struggling peopls succumb to youth and its mischances and hardships. It is a large propor- tion. The rapids of the river of life, the rockiest places, the swiflest de- scents, are apt to be up-stream. To have passed them all and got down into the calmer levels of the fifties is a feat that justifies a good many com- fortable thoughts Yes, it is; especially if one is not too much stove in by arduous pre- liminaries and h heen able per- haps to bring down some cargo with him. It is, or used to be, a fashion to sigh for lost youth, and there are people who do sincerely mourn for it. Women especially, who have had full measure of youthful beauty, part with it ,usually, with sighs and re- luctance. Gray hair seldom pleases them; they don’t like wigs; the ‘“‘ravages of time” are real and sad to them, and they repair them with diligence and what skill they may command. Beauty in a woman is a power. To be noticed and admired and courted for it is, no doubt, a very considerable, stimulation and entertainment, not to be indifferently parted with, and not in all cases ofi- set by gains in authority, or the tri- bute of deference that is paid to character, or the tribute of love that comes to unsclfishness and gentle- ness and power of sympathy. What a woman loses by the years in fresh- ness of physical beauty she ought more than to make up in wisdom that comes from living, in the fuller un- derstanding of people and of life, in all the kinds of knowledge, in seif- Possession and increased skill in the arrangement and discharge of the parts of speech. So it does happ with able women who have had chance to develop and who have liv- ed good lives. They are vastly more interesting at fifty than at twenty-two and many of them are lovelier to look at. But beauty comes ready- made, and these maturer attractions have to be earned, and not all woni- en earn them. The Battles of the Future. (Washington Post.) Lord Northcliffe in a recent statc- ment admitted frankly that the pres- ent European war had not yet pro- duoed a Lincoln, Grant, Lee or Jac son. He lald particular stress upon the fact that the Civil war had pro- duced more than one military genius and that the Furopean war in thix respect as yet had been barren. Curiously enough, the two gene who are receiving the greatest praise on the side of the Allies are noted for their masterly retreats. It was for this that Joffre received great praise, and so it is now that Grand Duke Nicholas, extricating the Rus- sian forces in their backward move- ment, is acclaimed Joffre without a doubt saved P: from investment. The Grand Duk strategy saved tha Russian forces from annihilation. Both these gene als at previous times were successful in attacking, but they | have been bound hand and feot by the lack of ammunition. On the side of the Germans the generals who have obtained greatest fame are Von Hindenburg, Von Kluck,” Von Mackensen and Von Bu- loew. _Fach in his turn. has been amazingly successful, but each has been backed by an army superior to that of the enemy, and it remains 10 be seen whether any one of them will ake rank with Grant or lee The evidence indicates that the wars of today and tomorrow will not be won by fndividual strategic —ac- complishment. Munitions and pre- paredness are the greatest captains. The battles that America will fight i the future are being won or lost teday—in the American arsenals and munition factories, in the limita- tions upon the standing army, in the nature of the coast defenses and in the manner in which congress pro- vides for a greater navy. Gov. Long and the Senate. (Providence Journal.) Gov. Long, as he was usually call- ed, having served his state as chief executive for three years, might have filled a large place in national affairs, apart from that brilliant term as o cabinet officer, except for a Massa- chusetts custom. He was congress- man from his district for six years, but failed of clection to the senate on the two occasions when his name was presented to the legislature; and this was because of a settled disin- clination to supplant a senator who W serving faithfully and with dis- tinction. Tt has been remarked that the strength of New England, in both branches of congress, has been large- Iy due to the practice of repeatediy returning deserving representatives, and Gov. Long's state has exemplified this conspicuously. Massachusetts may be said to he often embarrassed by a surplies of statesmen of na*ional qualifications. The late enator Hoar, in his au- tobiography, attributed his long per- fod of continuous &ervice to the “moderation and kindness of the eminent gentlemen who might have been most formidable competitors, if they had thought fit.” Gov. Long is expressly mentioned in this con- nection. On the successful conclusion of one of his contests, Senator Hoar was constrained to believe that the governor had “hardly assumed the attitude of a candidate,” and, at the time of the most severe test of th: devotion of his constituency when he had come out in opposition to the Philippines policy, he felt sure that if “Gov. Long, of whose brilliant ad- ministration of the navy the people of the commonwealth were so proud, had pressed his candidacy, as has been the custom in like cases in other states, it is not unlikely that he would have been elected.” The Running Board Law, (Bridgeport Telegram.) A man riding on the running board of a street car, says the New Haven Register, “lost his leg when caught between the cars.” It is against the law to ride on' the running board and as a consequence of this accident the RRegister concludes that ““the traveling public will be ordered to stand in be- tween the seats of the cars to the in- convenience of people already inside.” If a law can be passed prohibiting the riding by passengers on the run- ning board of a car, so one might be passed requiring everyone to sit in a car and prohibiting the getting upon a car that had no empty seats, The thing is done sometimes and the pas- senger who cannot find a seat must wait. Pcople adjust themselves to such rules after a time and no one is inconvenienced or put in special peril of life or limb. The World's Charity. (Grand Rapids, Mich., News,) The most beautiful thing that has | come out of the war in Europe is the charity which its destruction and sufferings have prompted in the minds of the people of the earth. Al- most at the beginning of the con- flict three peoples, the Serbs, the Belgians and the Poles, were brought to the doors of poverty, begging for bread and for relief from disease. The attention of the world was first called to Belgium because the fall of that country was so sensation- al. Other countries have need-d help just as badly, but Belgium was in the limelight and the first relief was sent there. The relief has con- tinued ever since the war began, Some idea of the vast work ac- complished there by the Belgian Re- lief Commission of America is given by the recent statement of that body. Early this spring the Commie- sion was importing foodstuffs into Belgium at the rate of © $7,500,000 worth per month. From Belgium the Commission sent men into that part of northern France occupied by the Germans, and 2,500,000 persons were found to be In dire need. There were relieved. Up to July 31 the Commission had imported 500,000 tons of foodstuffs, valued at $70,- 000,0000. The banks and institutions of Belglum have contributed liberally to the work The whole world has been touched by the sufferings of the real war victims, the women asd children of Africa, China ard the Philippines have contributed heavily. If the war has taught nothing else it has taught charity, Will Stick The Job. (Ansonial Sentinel.) the President It wil that sticking to his post be general impression Wilson is wise in at Washington until he has seen the end of the con- troversy with Germany and has ar- ranged a settlement that will give pro- tection to American life and property on the high sea in the future montns of the war. Everyvthing looks now as il, in a short time, thc difference be- tween this govenment and Germany would be settled on a basis satisf tory to us, if a trifle irritating to the extreme military wing of the German veople. likewise l But there is many a split between the cup and the lip, as past diplomatic v McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIES] BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” THE NEW FALL DRAPERY MATERIALS Beautiful new and Figured shown Serims, Marquisettes Madras that will be exclusively at this store. - Hems;it::hed and Novelty Scrims Priced 10c, 12%c, 15c, 17¢ to 39c Yd. Charming Marquisettes In hemistitched and drawn work effects. Priced 15c¢, 22¢, 25c, to o yard. Figured Matldras White and Priced 19c, and 25c¢ yard. FIGURED MADRAS 1 COMBINATIONS In pink, blue and gold yard. ecru. 220 COLOR . priced 25c¢ Extensive Sht;wing of Curtain Fixtures Window Shades of All Kinds Any special size shade made to or- der on short notice. Our shade man is at your service. 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But the cautious citizen, hopeful as he is for the continuance of friendly , relations with the Teu- tonic empire, will prefer to see the last word of the kaiser in black and white vefore he really accepts Germany's¥ submission to our declaration While the issue is at all in doubt the place for the president is at Wash- ington, He knows it and, much as the people wish to see him conserve his health and strength, they know that it is hetter for him to be at the helm just now and in close touch with the capable Lansing. They have much work ahead of them, even if Germany proves to be as pacific in her inten- tions as her ambassador says she is Big Guns for Coast Defense, (Waterbury Democrat.) learn that be strengthen- It to our coast ca with expected is reassuring defenses to 16-inch guns of a new to and more are typo, prove stronger other fortification They are not built, but piang for them have completed and the fortifications ymmended that they ho the l4-inch important de- consists not range mets wels than in the cffective any guns world vet been board has r constructed guns in our fen . Their much in their their greater weight will throw 200 pounds, the 14-inch guns ed to prove effective powerful weapons .of Iy modern warships. In this con- pection it is remarked that even the'® famous British superdrearnnught Queen Elizabeth, with her armament of 15-inch guns, has not succeedled in reducing the Dardanclles forts, and these new guns will be far su- jor to any at the Dardanellcs. They arc expected to outrange all battleship guns; but that s not necessarily important A Dbattleship is at a disadvantage becausc it W very vulnerable, and being in motion, it cannot of its aim. Coast guns merely equal to those of an attacking fleet bui mount= cd on solid foundations and fired ac- cording to a ystem which has pre- viously charted every yard of ths area they cover, are almost certain to win in fair battle. It should be casy for the new guns to repel any enemy at Cape Henry, Sandy Hook, Panama, Colon and other important to replace most valuc longer of projectiles ¥ 4 600 than expects the most carrted Jounds more They against offense because, be sure defensive coast points, thus protect. fng our national ecapit our prinels exchanges between the German foreign | pal sea port cities and the canal.