New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1915, Page 6

ER 4, 1015 g 2 | patriotic observance of Lafayette's | xcepted) at | 67 - Chu éw Britain tter. ¥ Part of the city jerfts o Month. e sent by mail 60 Cents a 0 a year. fertising medium 1n fon books and press to advertisers. found on sale at Hota- 42nd St. and Broad- City; Board Walk, and Hartford depot. BPHONE CALLS. . 5 most sanguine must can be no hope for a fhation of the European the peace movements all the wild rantings ipacifists it is a safe ling will come of the Fmination of hostilities. rice, while a” fair slogan froups in America has Finto the minds of those flons of Europe. With ‘ardinal Gibbons to the the peace propoganda sceived an added impetus 1 e dignity of the church the uppermost desire f ‘the laity. But withal . Wilson has wisely and jought declined to make ances te the foreign ssubject. It was but . the Pope, through ibbons, should turn to ;. but impossible for the ‘In his message to ying the methods of submarine warfare on aptly inserted a ing the good offices of n bringing about peace arring nations. He fol- 5 same offer to Great complaining about the chantmen carrying in- to neutral nations. To al ‘advances would be _{:h as only one nation much as entertained a | peace and that nation is | The President when he i both sides will be in a fion to do something. To t a plan of mediation now riginal advances would be | the warring diplomats of another, and would do than good. It would be command rather than a and scorned. , the head of the church war. brought to a speedy f highest humane impulses fi in his endeavor to bring | He is in close touch with Ingary, . closer than with | her belligerents, and he have made the move he not with some insight to of that country and her prter. There can be no | Austria Hungary would ures of peace; so would ‘All along we have heard ‘of this coming from the _\'Berun. But the reason nts peace is because Ger- B victor at the present time, mer is always willing to ame. Not so with the it in athletics, gambling, jlomacy. While there is life ope, and the man on the willing to stake his all that he will come out aner in the end. This is of Great Britain and her are willing to hang on straw is gone. And they # ahead, if they are given gomplish their ends. Their e voiced this sentiment. jght to the last ditch” has out time and time again by ds of England, France and lth this attitude the talk of )ave no real value. The any realize that the Teu- are now at the zenith of They have never been han they are today. The in the eastern theater has & But at the same time lare of the belief that Ger- not be so strong around ime, or later in the winter. and ‘money and the g up their fighting arms are willing to let the b ng down go’ on and many and they can get ‘erms somewhere near ‘e will be an equal dis- bt the spoils or there will be ation at all. DUAL OBERVANCE. " is Lahor Day. It is also ersary of the birth of Gen- Pétte that great soldier who uch gallant aid in securing United States the liberty we g ‘today. The suggestion in conjunction *_‘pr the liberty of ‘also one of her triumphs has been¥ no mercy, to condemn a faithful ser. birthday. No good American, no man who reveres the traditions of Ameri- can history, who glories in the land of the free and the home of thc‘ brave can but rejoice in such an ob- servance. It is true that the jdea has | been advanced at a somewhat late hour. The call should ave gone | forth long ago. The best thing to be ! hored now is that the thought of, Gereral Lafayette and his wonderful sacrifices for American liberty will be } There is prob- alive on Labor Day. ably no grander character in history than this same Lafayette who, with- out hope of reward, financed an expe- dition to America to aid the Colonials in their struggle against England. He was convinced of the worthiness of the cause and willing to sacrifice his ail for the outcome. France would never have rallied to the ald had it not been for the example set by her valiant son. It is therefore fitting that the lovers of liberty and of gener- ous souls should let their thoughts| dwell on the career of General La- fayvette, statesman, patriot, hero, phil anthropist. His first thought was for struggling humanity. He loved lib- | erty,above all things. He manifested that when he came to the aid of Am- erica. It is but just we should pay him this small tribute to remember | him on September 6, his birthday. HEADS UP. Whoever designed and executed the | placing of those two signs on West Muin Street,—those artistic placards, | interded to warn drivers of motor | cars against parking their machines | in front of the City Hall,—whoever had them suspended, we contend, is, or was, an optimist. An optimist be- cause he must have been of the be- lief or he is of the belief that the in- habitants of mother earth are going | along with their heads up in the air, with their eyes ever cast on the glor- ious blue canopy of heaven with their | necks stretched as if lodking for Zep- pelin raids. We trust his optimism will never fade, the optimism of this | man who would hitch his signs to the‘ stars. And we are not pessimistic | when we say he is wrong. Either he | does not know life or he is a dweller | on the top floor of some sky-scraper, or he carries a telescope with him, or he is head and shoulders over any—l body in New Britain, or he is a very hminded gentleman, or he is an“ astronomer, or a dreamer, or a com- | muter to the etherial regions. Ho | must be one of these or he would never have hung his shingles so high. Either that or he emulates Jules Verne and looks further into the !'\1-‘! ture than anyone around these re- | gions. He knows that instead of au- tomobiles being parked in front of the City Hall, eventually aeroplanes | might be the offending vehicles. For, | as sure as the sun shines those signs | were placed only to be read by avia- | tors. ! CITY PLAN COMMISSION. ‘Where, oh where, has Mayor Quig- | ley’s city plan commission gone? Has ! it fallen a victim to the U-3? Or has it withered and blown away like a dandelion in the fall? The commission has been appoint- ed but so far it has failed to meet. Not a single street has been straight- ened. The city has been beautified | not at all. The commission has failed | to organize and it has been forgotten | by the average citizen. It exists in | the charter only. g It might be pertinent to ask wheth- er the commission intends to meet | and if it intends to make New Britain the city beautiful. Some explanation | is due the tax payers. | Maybe it is like Longfellow’s | Waterfowl “lone wandering but not | lost” as it wends its way mid falling | dew while glow the political heavens | with the last steps of Day. And when | Spring comes, may we expect it back | | Antonio Express. | the Brass city is managing to | ernment was wrong in hridegroom and ushers appearing in | epaulets.—Fort Riley Notes in Kan- sas City Journal. reported by probabl | “Cholera in Germany Spain.” Confirmation will come from the Fiji Islands.—) Iivening Post. Dr. Bobo has left Hayti for Cuba. It is easy names like Bobo and Kov- no that disappear soonest from the news. “Eat a lemon a day' is the latest| modification of the “Buy a bale” idea. If yYou hand a lemon a day to some body, the growers will be almost as| well satisfied.—Brooklyn Eagle. Acvording to John Sharp Williams it costs $6 every time a senator is. bathed in the palatial senate bath-| room. But it must be done at times, no matter what it costs—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Georgle and Victor and Teddy, Vic- tor and Georgie and Ted—all that is left of the hapless Bull Moose; its stomach, its tail and its head.—San Between old home celebrations, the dedication of a city hall and politics keep tolerably busy and even to generate a few heat calorics under the collar.— | Ansonia Sentinel. Speaking of the good old times, the . Raleigh News and Observer tells of a century-old Tar Heel newspaper which has market quotations of $23 a barrel for flour, 16 cents a pound for nails, 35 cents a pound for sugar and 75 cents a gallon for whiskey—Boston Globe. New London is suggested as a sub- marine base. It has been known as a base of submarine politics for some time, not kndwing what was going-to come to the surface or what was lia- ble to happen when sighted.—Middle- town Penny Press. “How would you like to be shot at sunrise?” ask a syndicate writer, we know of none who would, but if we can judge by appearances there are many who don’t mind being half shot | at sunset.—Houston Pcst. A New York papenr takes a column to describe the horrors that would follow from a women strike. But any busy man who has come home to find the cook on a walkout knows that words can’'t describe it.—Bing- hamton Press. Telephone girls in Chicago have forned a sharpshoooters’ club. If it | will improve their eyesight in giving the right numbers the movement | should become general—Buffalo Com- | mercial. ) Germany is said to be offering to pay 16 cents a pound for bale cotton | “drlivered in a German port.” The offer is safe. Our dealers would like the money, but such a delivery is a | nearly imposible condition, as any man with half an eye can see—Brook- | Iyn Eagle. In making provision for a state | budget the Constitutional Convention | took a step in the direction of im proved state finances that ought to commend itself to all citizens in any degree. familiar with present legisla tive methods of putting together the state’s big financial measures.—Buf- falo News. The New York World calls upon | Sernator Root to write the new consti- tution of New York, as one man qualified to deliver the convention from the hands of bickering and bar- gaining politicians. 'Next the World will be asking Senator Penrose to re- vise the tariff.—Wilkesbarre Record. The Friends of—What? There is in New York a called the Friends of Peace, which bombards newspapers from day to day with resolutions of various kinds. This society, despite its pacific name, seems more concerned in upholding what Germany does than in working for peace. For instance, it has all along maintained, both by direct say- so and by implication that our gov- asking Ger- many to stop killing innocent neutrals 2nd helpless noncombatants on the seas, and what our government should have done, was to tell innocent neutrals and helpless noncombatants to keep off the high seas. The Friends of Peace are supposed- 1y Americans. While the government of this country was engaged in its society from its hibernating place? Truly this is no light affair, city planning. | Every city in the nation is vitally in- | terested and New Britain should not | be in the list of the lost. AN APPEAL. To the Editor of the Herald, Sir:—I saw by the newspapers of the 27th, that Prince, one cf the flre‘ difficult and delicate negotiations with Germany, the society was engaged in a propoganda oppos~d to the govern- ment's claims. The climax was most interesting. Too late to he recalled, the Friends put into the mail a set of resolutions concerning the submarine Guestion, and at the same time, un- known to the dear Friends, the Ger- man government was speaking in its own behalf. Let the following tell the story: By the Friends of Peace. department horses, had been sold to a junk dealer. Have those in authority vant of the city of New Britain to such | a fate, doubly hard after having the | petting and care the firemen give | their horses? Much more merciful to | have killed at once than to be slowly starved, and abused, until death re- lieves their sufferings. FROM A LOVER OF HORSES. Oak Bluffs, Sept, 3. FACTS AND FANCIES. | Studying the geography of Europel just now is a waste of time.—Ansonia Sentinel. A sight for the gods. Admiral Von Tirpitz eating corn off the cob.—Pat- erson, N. J. Call. Forsyth County, Georgia, refuses to allow negroes within her borders. Luc negroes.—Rochester Union. | structions concerning our answer to (American?) “English munitions vessels, en- gaged in the traffic of war materials, have been frequently sunk by German submarines. “Whereas, a war zone has been de- clared and it has been declared dan- gerous to travel on vessels, especially English vessels carrying contraband in the war zone. “Resolved—That this committee of the Friends of Peace do hereby de- plore the conduct of wealthy Ameri- cans who so wilfully jeopardize the safety of the nation by traveling on British munitions ships.” By Count Von Bernstorff, German Ambassador. (To Secretary Lansing.) “With reference to our conversa- tion, I beg to inform you that my in- your last Lusitania note contain the following passage: “Liners will not be sunk by submarines without warning our and | the American position. ! these | embassy was notifying It was a military wedding, the | without safety of the lives of non- combatants, provided that the unersl dc not try to escape or offer resistance. “I have no objection to your mak- ing any use you please of the above information. “J. BERNSTORFF.” In what an interesting light this parallel places the Friends of Peace! While Germany was preparing to recognize the justice of our demands. While Germany was acceding to the American position as expressed by President Wilson, the Friends of peace were attempting to undermine And while Americans for their German govern- Tecog- tthe self-styled trying to build up a case many at the expense of Zovernment, the Imiperial our ment that Germany herself nized the right and justice American demands. Ger- of A Refined Cannibal, (Boston Transcript.) To the parti-colored British forces at Gallipoli now has been added a contingent of Maoris from Polynesia. | From their trenches, a hundred vards away the perplexed Turkish Moslems eaw these troops line up, stick out their tongues, and to a rhythmical slapping of thighs and breasts and a throaty, corcerted “a-a-ah” begin the terrible Maori haka—the war dance of the eaters of “long pig,~ the ap- Petizer carouse of the cannibals! But —and here is another explanation of why people governed by Britain fight for her——the dance was in jest, merely a reminiscent folkfest; for the cannibal Maoris have been corrected of their weird habits, speak English, use breakfast foods and tinned bis- cuits, smake capstan, drink tea tand barley water, play cricket, and the full-blooded native leader of the dance was an Oxonian. M. A, L. L. D. In the New Sing Sing. (New Haven Register.) They didn’t oust Thomas Mott Os- borne from the charge of Sing Sing prison. He had a needed vacation of two weeks instead. The reception he received from the inmates on his re- turn goes far to tell why putting him out would be something even political trickery wouldn't dare. A band met him at the station. The horses which drew him wore plumes. The prison was decorated. There were flowers on his desk. There were cheers from hundreds of throats. There were tears of genuine love in hundreds of eyes. Now the cause of all this is not the popularity of the man who has given the nmates an easy time. It is not as some would have it, the froth of foolish sentimentalism run wild There was nothing of selfishness in the wel- cceme to the warden. It was the out- ward expression of the spirit he has put into these men, Why do they love him? It is because he has found the man in them, and appealed to it. Sing Sing is revolutionized. Now if this were some small and in- conspicious prison, the instance of it n.ight perhaps he neglected. But it is the most conspicuous, in a way the toughest prison in the country. The wender that has been accomplished at Sing Sing is the greater for the prominence of the place among pris- cns. And if anyone has scoffing to say about new brooms that sweeps clean, and fads whose glamour hasn't worn off, and the self- hypnotism of a new idea let him travel westward. He will find a trail of just prison reform from Sing Sing to the ' Pacific, where in a_ large measure the thing began. No, ‘this is not a limited wonder that has been wrought. It is only a beginning. For man in his blind- ness has found at last the secret of curing what long in his ignorance he has, for lack of a better name, called crime. A Victory of Peace. (New York Evening Post.) Were the public and our city offi- cials {ruly alive to the significance of the tremendous moral victory won by the president of the United States yes- terday, flags would be flying from every building and bells would be pealing from every church tower in this city today. Because it is a vic- tory of peace, and for peace, and not one purchased at the cost of thousands of human lives on a bloody battle- field, these external signs of thank- fuinces and of glorification are lack- ing. Within the hearts of all Ameri- cans who have understood the mean- ing of what has been going on and the grgty of the crisis through which the republic 'has passed, there is, however, a devout thankfulness and a profound gratitude to President Wilson which needs no outward ex- pression to render it complete. They know that it has been given to the president to achieve a moral victory for his country and for all humanity which forever insures him a foremost place in the pages of American his- tory, and has mightily enhanced the power and prestige of the United States. Without mobilizing a regi- ment or assembling a fleet, by sheer dogged, unswerving persistence in ad- | vocating the right, he has compelled the surrender of the proudest, the most arrogant the best armed of na- tions, and he has done it in completest sclf-abnegation, but in fullest, most patriotic devotion to American ideals. Hard to Reconcile. (Ansonia Sentinel.) ‘We are officially informed by Ger- many that of the Russian army of 1,400,000 men which was opposing the German and Austrian armies in the east 1,100,00 are prisoners and 300,- 600 killed or wounded. The annihila- tion of the Slav being complete it is hard to see whom the Teutons are fighting now. Thay seem to be meet= ing with stubborn resistance from an army that has been entirely captured or wiped out. Somewhere or other the figures are wrong. Either the Russians had more men than the Ger- mans figure or their losses are less i1han the official statistics allow. Pre- sumably the truth lies between the two extremes. An interesting addenda might be afforded of the German ofiicials would give the Austrian and German losses for the same pericd, were | own | anything | WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald office. Looking Back Over 40 Years. (Springfield Republican.) The most striking speech so far de- livered in the New York constitu- tional convention was that of Elihu Root on Monday, in which he advo- | cated the short ballot as at least a first step roward the elimination of | the long existing system of “bossism’ and “invisible government” or the rule which, to the speaker's knowl- edge, had dominated the Empire state for 40 years. Mr. Root understood Wwhat he was talking about, for he was an organization man in the days of machine triumph. Under that order of things there was a boss and dis- | tributer of patronage who could make | and unmake men and control the ac- tion of Legislatures. ~Mr. Root made the distinction that bosses rule by pa- tronage, while elective officials seek tv appoint men to office who will make g00d records. The law of self-pres- ervation applies there as elsewhere. Mr. Root named the men who stood for a type of politics that is rapidly passing snd indeed has come near to the vanishing point because the power of public opinion has been so heartily brought to bear upon it. He speci- fled Messrs. Fenton, Conkling, Arthur, Cornel] and Platt on the republican side, and David B. Hill, whose phrase, “I am a 'democrat,” meant party first, and all the political trading that was necessary to take care of his follow- ers. Mr. Root’s history was right and his leadership in a new period does him credit. The short ballot which Mr. Root advocated would include only the gov- ernor, lieutenant-governor, controller and attorney-general The original plan as presented to the convention provided that the people should vote only for the governor and lieutenant- governor, but there was a compro- mise by which the controller and at- torney-general were retained as elec- tive officers. The aim of the short ballot is to concentrate responsibility and to make it less easy for what is called the “invisible government” to put forward candidates about whose character and qualifications the aver- age citizen can know little. Other department heads hitherto elected would be appointed by the governor, whose respansibility to the people would be made direct. The many existing state departments would be reorganized into a dozen or 15 with heads directly accountable to the gov- ernor. In this way responsibility would be fixed and governors could be looked to for results. These rad- ical changes have been indorsed by the constitutional. convention sitting in Albany. Mr. Root holds that a great vance in the efficiency of the govern- ment of New York state will be made possible. The tendency of the time is toward placing responsibility in i fewer hands. Those who have been | | | familiar with political conditions dur- ' ested in this development at Albany. The fight on the spoils system which was led by George William Curtis and others has gathered a momentum which has swept aside the Fentons, Conklins, Platts and Hills, and has in increasing measure returned control ! of their affairs to the people. Mug- wumps have been known under va- rious names, but the fight for honest i government which the: began has | gane forward year by vear until the power of patronage in the hands of hosses large and small has become less than ever before in our national his- tory. Nor should it be forgotten that .independent newspapers have had their large share in making democ- racy in the braad sense more efficient in the affairs of government, state and nation. i i ing the past forty vears will be inter- | I | The Assassin a Suicide. (Waterbury American.) From the report just made public in Washington, as to the defects of the F type of submarine, No. 4, one of which has just been raised from the botton of Honolulu harbor, it is a wonder that the machine had to wait until it was on the bottom oe- fore it could Kkill its crew. The evi- dence showed that they were liable to die inside of her at any time, yet the report concludes with the statement: “The officers and men were diligent snd alert and no reluctance was shown by them in operating the F-4, even though they were well aware of the existing defects.” This deadly evidence comes along just at the time when Mr. Edison is said to have invented an engine which | will obviate some of the worst of the | perils of undersea navigation, especi- ally the peril of being asphyxiated by chiorine gas. The report is coinci- dent, too with the frank statement of Captain Persius, the German naval expert, as to the relative failure of the submarine warfare. He com- ! plains that the exaggeration of the rewspapers was responsible for the talse hopes and final disappointment of the German people when they realize that “the result of the activi- {ies of our submarines in warfare on commerce is Tegarded in wide circles —let us say—as very modest.” Evidently this grim instrument of assassin warfare is still as great a danger to those who are operating it as to those against whom it is being L-neral(‘@ The “Friends of Peace.” (New York Morning Telegraph.) { It would not hurt the cause they advocate if the organization known as the Friends of Peace would speak only what they know to be the truth and nothing but the truth. The Morn- ing Telegraph has received a com- munication from one Rutledge Ruth- erford, announcing that a national peace convention will be held in Chi- cago on September 5 and 6 | A peace convention is all very well tand can do no harm and may result lin good. It is to Mr. Rutherford | statments made in addition to the ad- | 1 !annmmcemenl of the convention that we take exception, He says: “Leaders of the (peace) movement assert that same subtle {nfluences Wwhich drag- ged the Ttalian nation into war against the people’'s will are at work in America and along identical line: Nothing more ridiculous could have been written. TItaly did not engage in the war against the people’s wili, but absolutely by command of the people. There was no “subtle in- fluence” at work at all, any more than there is in this country. Italy went into the fight to secure a pieca of Austrian territory and because of centuries-long hatred of Austria. No one who possesses ordinary common sense will say that the United States hates Austria, or cares a rap about Austria one way or the other, an% no one can imagine that the United States could by any possibility wish to seize an Austrian province Mr. Rutherford says: “With sor- row we have noticed in a certain class of metropolitan newspapers in this country a disposition to malign and vilify every person whose voice is raised in the cause of peace.”” Talke Mr. Rutherford himself. His volce is is ‘raised in the cause of peace.” Who ever heard of him or saw his name in print? What does he do? As far as we are concerned, this gentle- man is entirely unknown. Until his he never had been heard of- On the stationery used by Mr. Rutherford appear the names of persons who ars designated as ‘“Honorable vice-chair- men of the peace convention com- mittee.” Among these names ar Patrick O’Donnell, Hugh O'Neill, Daniel O’Connell, Thomas O’'Brien, Mary McWhorter, Frank Ryan and J. P. O'Mahoney. Has anybody been maligning or vilifying these Ameri- cans? We do not recall having seen their names in print. They are gcod citizens and engaged in a worthv cause, and Mr- Rutherford errs great- ly when he says harsh things havea been sald about them. Nobody has mentioned them. Waking Up. (Bridgenort Standard.) We do not know what awakening irfluence has been brought to bear upon those in authority in these United State: that they at last seem to be conscious that there is a press- ing need of doing something in ths way of putting this country in a state of proper defense. We do not ex- pect to carry on war in Europe or in Africa or even in the Philippina Islands, but we would like to feel that if the nation with the biggest guns and the swiftest and most powerful ships started out to make an attack upon us, we could say, “come on” and feel fairly sure that the outcome would be to their dis- comfiture We are to have a new style of coast defense guns, 16 inches bore | and throwing a projectile weighing 2,200 pounds or 600 pounds more than the 14-inch guns at present in use. There will be no battleships of fcreign nations crossing the ocean to invest our shores that will be more heavily armed and if our gunners are trained to hit a battleship ten miles off with one of these tremendous mis- miles, two or three shots would set- tle anything afloat. Gunnery with big guns is now a fairly exact science and what the big guns cannot cover in defending a stretch of coast, the submarines ought easMily to accom- plish- With both there would be the possibility* of a powerful defense. The Unchanging. (New Haven Register.) One pauses in the midst of Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz’'s fascinating dream of the electrical age that s to be, as he tells it in the Ladiss’ Home Journal, to wonder. The won- der is not whether the chief things he dreams can ever come true, so much as it is a doubt as to the fulfillment of a comparatively minor prediction. In the electrical age, says the mas- ter of electricity, we shall not trouble to congregate in grand opera houses land concert halls to hear the highest music thé art of the world can give. Still less shall we need to travel to foreign lands for it. With the devel- opment of the telephone we shall have it radiated to our homes from central points, over the land and across the ocean. As for popular en- tertainment, that also will be fur- nished in the home, the motion pic- ture and the rtalking machine being perfectly synchronized Is the age of electricity, then, to restore the home to its ideal posi- tion? It may indeed help in that di- rection. It may, we may well be- lieve, greatly facilitate the hearing of high class music at greater con- venience and at reduced cost But it to dissolve the public amuse- ment assembly., as the prediction would seem to be If Dr. Steinmelz really thinks that, he has failed to take into the reckoning as unchang- ing characteristic of human nature For it is not true that men and women attend the opera merely for the artistic enjcyment of the music. It is not true that they attend the theater solely to study the dram Still less do they throng movies Ju for the sensation of the picturce. There's a magnetism, a physical electricity in the assembling of hu- man beingsc together which the me- chanical electrician often fails to take into account. We get enough of our supplies canned and served in individual portions as it is. There is a limit beyond which imagination may not safely go. is Alaska For Farming. (New Haven Union.) In the popular imagination Alaska is not regarded as a farming area and vet the government has ascertained that there is enouzh fertile land there for the laying out of more than 20,000 farms of 160 acres each. All this land has been thoroughly tested and explored. This astonishes those who have thought of Alasia only as an Arctic waste. The unexplored and untested land will doubtless provide for many thou- sand more farms of high productive possibilities, As a matter of tct, a great part of Alaska possesses no arctic character- remarkable letter came to this office | McMILLAN BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE” NEW FALL SHIRTS FOR MEN 85c each Regular $1.00 value, All sizes in this Sale from 14 to 18- inch nheck band. Shirts made coat style in the latest Fall designs. This is a good time to stock up now. Every Shirt in this Sale has the usual Me- Millan guarantee: A satisfactory pur- chase in every respect or a new Shirt ¢ or your money back if you say so. “Cadet Brand” School Hose 256c PAIR Fine, medium and heavy ribbed fast black for boys and girls. Our Children’s Hose AT 121%c PAIR. The best two pair for a quarter Hose made for boys and girls in white, tan and black. Women’s Hose AT 25¢c AND 50c PAIR. Boot silks, silk lisles in black, white and colors. ' Children’s School Dresses AT 75¢c, 98c AND $1.49 EACH. Pretty plaid ginghams and chame brays. The New Fibre Silk Sweaters AT $5.00 AND $6.00 EACH, Others made with the sash, extra heavy quality, $7.98 and 98 each, in the newest colors. Special Sale of Hand Bags Saturday 98c each. Values to $1.50. D. McMILLAN 199-201-201 MAIN STREET istics. The winters are Iong and severe, but the summers are extremely . warm, and their productiveness Iis greatly increased by the long hours of daylight. The Pacific currents more= over tend to make Alaska a temper- ate land. Grain, hay and vegetables may be produced in' quantities of untold vast- ness in this great territory. All that is needed is easy and cheap communi- cation with the rest of the United® States, and the building of railroads and highways in the territory itself. It is evident from the work of the government experts that we have not dreamed of the real possibilities of Alaska yet and future generations may look to it as the greatest source of American food supply. Tells About Song. In the September Woman's Home Companion Madame Melba, the cele- brated opera singer, writes an article entitled ‘Two Favorite Songs and How I Sing Them.” These two songs which she has sung all over the world are: Tosti’s “Good-bye” and Landon Ronald’s “Down in the For- est.” Following is an extract from what she writes about Tostis “Good- bye:"” “Everywhere in English-speaking countries I have sung it, and audi- ences have understaod and loved it King Edward asked me to sing it; I have sung it to Queen Alexandra, and the Empress Mother of Russia, and to many other exalted ones “In Tosti's ‘Good-bye’ there js noth- ing of the melodramatic or theatri- cal, no straining for great and over- whelming effects. Its charm lies, in- stead, in quite another direction—a strain of genuine feeling laying bare the heart, a song of good-bye to love and happiness, a facing of all the hopeless tomorrows. “In anything sung nothing is mers important than the words and this be- comes truer than ever in songs of the type of Tosti's ‘Good-bye.’ No matter how famillar the words may be to the listener it is mperative that they be uttered as clearly with every rendition as if they had never been heard before. As a fact, only In that way can any song be given vital- ity and pulsing life.” Famous Singer Famous Age and Athletios, (New Haven Union.) There i8 a considerable element of truth in the saying that a man is I.l' young as he feels. Recently Silas Lottridge, whose age is given as 60 captured the tennis championship of the Rutgers summer school. He was pitted against several good players who had youth in their favor and in the finals defeated the Rutgers cols lege champion in thred straight sets, Not long ago John Scott age 56 hung up a new record for the New York to Fhiladelphia walk, bettering the ree. ord of Weston, made in the latter's youthful days. TWENTY-FIVE DOZEN - ON SALE SATURDAY . “