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Skirts will continue wide, and very short. to be very Afternoon and dance frocks Ktill mostly of taffeta. are * There are many pin among the new designs. seal bags The rippled shoulder cape will be worn this winter. of fur 4 < with braid, Velvet or fur. rp sy Pl A great deal of Hercules braid i used on tajlored costumes, is There is a slight- inclination abolish the long-loved belt. i to £ ., Panier or polonaise drapery Is seen on the evening dresses, Close-fitting turbans are trimmed very high with ostrich plumes. The higher vyour collar the - smarter will be your appearance. Bilk sweaters lined with wook promised much favor for the fall. are | Resinol Soap clears bad complexions Pimples and blackheads dis- appear, red, rough, blotchy com- plexions usually become clean, clear and velvety, and hair health and beauty are aided by the reg- ular use of Resinol Soap. Itdoes jts work easily, quickly and at little cost even when other methods fail. Resinol Soap contains the soothing, heal- ing Resinol medication which doctors pre- seribe for skin troubles. Sold byall druggists and dealers in toiiet goods, The winter suit may be trimmed | A great deal of Jet evening gowns, especially gowns black tulle. is used on of Baby boys have white dresses made with pleats like those in their father's shirts. are in It is said that the redingotes the only long coats to be worn Paris this year. Gray angora wool, used in a solid embroidery, is charming on dark blue winter garments, The prcity fashion of the black velvet basque worn with the taffeta skirt has returned. If you do not care to have your skirt flare, you may gain the fashion- able width by pleats. Sleeves of coats and bodices are long and elashed, puffed and other- wise made very decorative. There are new crepe de chine blouses made tailored style with tucks, hemstitching and crochet buttons. Sleeves sheuld be mutton-leg, dolman, or bishop, and the dropped shoulder scam will be much in favor. Gowns of faille are apt to have broad Louis XIII collars of velvet, with flaring turnback cuffs to match. Try to Have This Beautiful Hair Will Help You Shampoos with Cuticura Soap preceded by light applications of Cuticura Ointment do much to promote hair-growing conditions. Cuticura Soap and Olntment sold here. Liberal sample of cach malled free, with 32-p. book. Address post-card “Cuticura,” Dept. 18F, Boston, GHOU TZU-CHI TAKES INTEREST IN TREES Chinese Agricultural Minister Institutes Arbor Day (Correspondence of the Assoclated Press.) Peking, August 30.—China has a J. Sterling Morton in Chou Tau-Chi, the minister of agriculture and com- rierce. For years Mr. Chou has been deeply interested in afforestation, and in the furtherance of his plans he has created a Chinese Arbor day when all farmers are especially urged to plant and cultivate trees in honor of their ancestors. The day selected is a festival which the Chinese have cclebrated for over 2,500 vears. It is called the Spring festival. This vear it fell on April 6, but the date changes yearly, as the occasion is fixed by the lunar calen- dar. Formerly it has been the practice c¢f Chinese to observe this day by burning paper boais, paper horses and carts which are supposed to assist their ancestors in escaping evil spirits. Its celebration has been general in rural communities, but cities have not been constant in ob- serving this and other festivals de- signed to do honor to ancestors. Mr. Chou hopes to have the old Chinese festival perpetuated in a more practical way, and his plan to com- bine the new idea borrowed from America with the ancient feast is typical of the present government’s plan to build a new China on the best of the old traditions and not make an effort to uproot cntirely customs which have endired for many cen- turies. © Origin of Festival, The Spring Festival is somewhat legendary in its origin, but is sup- posed to date back to 654 B. C. Prince Tsin had a dcvoted supporter, Kiai Che-Tui, who followed the prince into exile in northern China and lived with him there for eighteen years. When Prince Tsin was able to leave exile and again gained the favor of the court retried to reward Kiai Che-Tui for his faithfulness. But Kiai was unwilling to have his devotion to his friend rewarded and escaped with his mother into the mountains, where they lived for several years regardless of Tsin’s efforts to entice him out into the world. Finally Tsin had the forests in the mountain fired to compel Kiai to leave his hiding place. The unfor- tunate recluse and his mother were both burned. Great clouds of smoke engulfed the mountain for a single day. The following day was one of unusual brightness, and this bril- liancy inspired the Spring festival. The Chinese celebrate the day by eating brilllantly dyed eggs and decorate the doors of their homes with willow branches. Originally this was a perlod of fasting. As first the celebrants would eat no hot food for o period of thirty days, but this was found to affect the health of the public so seriously that an imperial edict was issued centuries ago for- bidding this feaature. The Unversity of Nanking, an in- stitution maintained by Americans, has a department of agriculture and forestry which has attracted wide at- tention in China and has donme much to inspire the movement for affores- tution. Professor Joseph Bailie, an American, is at the head of this de- partment and has impressed the gov- ernment so favorably by his work in tree planting on Purple mountain, near Nanking, that the secretary of agriculture and commerce has dis- banded the college of agriculture es- tablished by the government in Pe- king and sent twenty-four of the most promising students to work under Professor Bailie. Students of Forestry. Practically all the provinces are now sending students to study forestry at Nanking, and the school which grew out of the efforts of a few missionaries to point the way in the conservation of natural resources promises to become a vital influence in the movement to restore trees to the cut-over lands of China. Because of the extreme poverty of the Chinese and the severity of the winter in the northern sections, all trees are seized upon for fuel by the poverty stricken. Even the roots are brubbed out. Many Chinese are com- pelled to burn dry grass to keep from freezing in extreme weather. The re- sult is bare hillsides which heavy rains rob of all fertile soil. Similar conditions exist also in many of the lowlands. Chinese rivers have be- come subject to terrible floods since the devastation of forests in the hills and mountains. Lands which were once fertile have been robbed of their top soil by high waters and it has been deposited in river beds or on ground so near the level if the river that it can seldom produce a crop because of the floods. Need of Trees, Engineers who have made surveys of the Chinese rivers for the gov- ernment in an effort to devise sys- tems of flood control hold out little hope until trees are restored in the hills to retain the water which now dashes off the bare lands into the streams with such speed that the channels are inadequate to care for it. Mr. Chou was educated in America and has traveled widely in Europe studying conservation problems. He i¢ thoroughly familiar with the differ- ent problems China faces in her efforts to make crops certain and avoid the famine and pestilence which sweeps over the valleys in the trail of ruinous floods. The Chinese government lacks the money neces- sary to carry on afforestation in a large way, but the progressive minis- ter of agriculture is endeavoring to get the farmers of the republic all | interested in tree planting and ! through their co-operation hopes to | simplify the problems of the en- gineers, MOTOR CARS Kingsley & 245 BURRITT STREET, Agents for New Britain and .Vicinity Sahirhacher TOOLS OF COMBAT IMPORTANT A5 MEN French Statesman Tells 0I' De- velopment of Modern Warfare (Cor. of The Associated Press.) Paris, Aug. 23.—Senator Charles Humbert, one of the leading mem- bers of the senate committee on mili- tary affairs, has written for The As- rociated Press the subjoined article on the relation of industry to the war. Senator Humbert has been conduct- ing the successful campaign for the high pressure production by the whole industrial resources of France of the shells and guns which he and his col- leagues consider essential to victory. He is the new proprietor of Le Journal with a circulation’ of about c¢ne million, Senator Humbert writes*® a “The important part played by in- dustry in the present war is due, not only to the power and the perfection of firearms, but even more to the im- mense r.umber of men in line. These millions of combatants would be nothing more than a mob predestined, to massacre without the tools of com- bat which must incessantly be sup- plied and renewed, and which, for tneir manufacture in sufficient quan- tities ,require the mobilization of numerous factories provided with the means of turning out the most modern instruments of war. Predicted Character of Hostilities. “Long before the war it could be seen what character the hostilities would take on. Personally, I pre- dicted it. The Germans, especially, were very well aware of it, and it is orly necessary to think for a moment of the formidable preparations they had made to realize that they could put at the service of their warlike in- tentions a military machinery ready to its last detail. The work they have done of recent years to renew their artillery and to supply their armies with heavy, long range guns, sufficiently wieldy to be able to fol- low the movements of their troops, was most significant. I regret very deeply that my own country, in spite of oft repeated warnings, did not fol- low their example. As yet, it ought to have been pretty evident that in this century of scientific progress, of machinery to the limit, supplies would play in war a part as important as they play in the economic life of every day. “But the actual experience of war has gone far bevond any foresight for it. 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Every troop which attempts to ad- vance in the open against a well armed enemy awaiting the attack, is “doomed fatally to disaster; in an in- stant the fire of a machine gun mows Gown the ranks like a blade of steel mowig down grain; and the volleys of artillery methodically annihilates them, letting nothing escape. Reason for Fortifications. “That is the reason for the neces- sity for seeking protection, as much as may be, against these storms of steel and explosives; it is the reason for the enormous development of field fortifications, trenches, underground chambers, redoubts, concealed shelters and 8o on. The old fortifications of other times, fixed, standing out, marked in advance for the fire of the enemy’s artillery, cannot hold out against the projectiles of giant can- non. But the plain ditch, scarcely & yard or two wide, easily dug, com- pleted with invisible arrangements, the approach to which is made im- practicable by means of barbed- wire entanglements—that constitutes an obstacle almost impossible to be taken. Infantry, hoping to take it at a charge, will leave before such an obstacle every man, though they be innumerable—for one machine gun, give it time and sufficient to feed it, will mow down a thousand men as easily as a hundred, and ten thou- sand, if necessary, as easily as a thousand. ““But, on the other, this thread-like obstacle, dug in the ground, furnishes only a very reduced target for artil- lery fire. To hit it, it is not enough simply to spend projectiles—they have got to be wasted to demolish the ter- rain under a veritable hell of devas- GREATER $30.00 AXMINSTER | RUGs §21.00 Strictly high grade in every way. 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Consumption of Munitions. “That is why the consumption of munitions, and especially artillery munitions has exceeded anything that was ever conceived in time of peace. And the farther it goes, as the forti- fications of the battleflelds daily be- come more complete and more dif- ficult to reach, the use of projectiles must be more widely foreseen. ‘“Moreover, this intensive firing it- self wears out the guns, made only to fire some thousands of rounds, and there is therefore the necessity of re- placing them unceasingly. From this it is easy to see the enormous effort which must be required of the fac- tories to keep on supplying guns and munitions. The group of belligerents who will win this war is that which, thanks to its industry, will have been able to push the production of fire- arms, projectiles and explosives to the highest point and maintain it there. 50,000 Killed for Calais. “I have heard that a German of- ficer, speaking to one of your com- patriots, boasted that the troops of the kaiser would take Calais when- ever they willed—by ‘paying the price,’ which he set at 50,000 killed. This boast is silly. Simply spending men will not give results. The Ger- mans can pay our terrible three-inch guns a bloody price of fifty or five hundred thousand men if they please, without getting anywhere. But the day when, duly provisioned for that purpose, we scatter along their lines the tempests of iron and fire that we are preparing for them, they will have have to abandon their burrows, and our infantry will occupy the ground gained, their guns on their shoulders, without losing a man. “I have confidence in the final vic- tory—a victory perhaps less distant than is believed—of France and her allies. The advantage which the Ger- man heavy artillery had over us can only be temporary. The industrial strength of the people leagued to- gether for the defence of right far surpasses that of the enemies of hu- manity; and the freedom of the seas permits us to profit of the labors of that great America whose sympathies, as we know, go out to the cause of the independence of peoples. “France, in any case, has had, for centuries, the genius of artillery; once more she has given a proof of this in her marvelous three-inch guns, which no German cannon anywhere near approaches in perfection. When she shall have completed her arma- ments in heavy artillery, we shall show that we fear Germany in no field, and that her pretended superior- ity is merely presumptuous, ““(Signed) “CHARLES HUMBERT, “Senator of the Meuse. FOOTBALL PRACTICE, The Tribune Football team will hold their first tryout of the season, Thursday, Sept. 9. All last year's men and new candidates are urged to be cn hand at the corner of Columbia and Linwood streets about 7:30 o'clock. A good coaching staff will be secured and when the first game s played the Tribunes Wwill be repre- sented by a good fast team. Norwegian Politics (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Christiana, August 27.—Unusual importance may be attached to the forthcoming elections of members of parliament for which the different parties have already adopted thelr platforms. The Storthing, as the entire Norwegian legislative body is called, is elected every third year, di- rect by the people, with women now entitled to vote under the same con- ditions as men. The election will take place this fall. In common with a number of other countries, an issue in Norwegian poli- tics this year'is the question of na- tional defense. The war crisis a vear ago found the country very poorly prepared to meet any emer- gency. The army and navy were by no means up to the standard required by the military experts, and the peo- ple have but lately realized how large- ly the country is dependent upon for- eign countries for food supplies. The latter circumstance is due to the fact that in the last two or three decades farming has diminished, the young | people of the rural districts having passed more and more freely into the industrial work in the cities. Farmers Need Help. Consequently it has been increasing- ly difficult for the farmers to get help, and the situation has made competition with foreign products al- most out of the question. flour and sugar, for in has been dependent on from the United States, Germany. The war a great curtailment in tions, and has impressed glans that something mi to make their country m porting. The Conservative and in their platforms for election, have made their: mands, therefaore, for the ing of the national def: full extent that the counts omically bear, and for duty on imports of grain o that Norwegian farm able to regain their lost . competition with foreign No Need Of Better D The party that is at power, however, asserts no need of strengthening of the country at present. to the fact that the gowvi been able to conduct th safely through a situation thing was ablaze around § as the protection of the concerned, they propose & that the government pay a stated price for grain a state monopoly in this trade. The National Committee ty Iin power has recom aperation with the Sociall than concede the demand the armament advotates, icalists in Norway still adl doctrine that the internat| istic fraternity is able to between natons, and i creasing means of defenss, would have Norway keep navy at all. The Socli last election numbered all the voters. Since them has gained considerably, (3 impossible that in combi non-armament sympath: get cantrol of the next Mo b b Y s fontel the summueer. e us use everywhers. - These are the materials that give the best service at the most moderate cost. -teed Roofing is guaranteed 5, 10, or years according to whether the thickness is 1, 2, or 3-ply respectively. 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