New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1915, Page 6

Britain rt of the city nts a Month. 6 sent by mail 60 Cents a year. fvertising medium in flon books and press Pen to advertisers. $8 found on sale at Hota- 42nd St. and Broad- City; Board Wallk, nd Hartford depot. NE, CALLS. OF ABSENCE.» 5 pl’nba, the discred- i from ' Austria-Hun- Bffort to leave this ‘dignity and grace been accorded him le the one fatal mis- r, has asked his gov- fant him a “leave of submit a personal out the only piece Ambassador has been amongst us. ‘on the face of dor .the purpose If a martyr to a " set fhimself up e living in this ffreedom of the But Dr. Dumba ot. his/ mark. No es, nc matter what o matter in which onsider his recall, Iplomat, a man not Intry. And the vast ;'fieople will rejoice her it be by direct e of absence,” the 0 be indefinite. Even Amabssador was to ion, his fellow coun- ing in the fac- 0 y,! have shown p¥al dfi his methods. In ;tg the newspapers, in ipted at public meetings, g !Czechs, and other cis Joseph, have re- ings: of Dr. Dumba. ne of him. They have i sympathy with his in- 7ith their work. His ve been ‘a failure had n the support of the of his countrymen. In ice, the very persons whom j tried to get at, whom he yence against the manu- the United -States, are y loft the dual monarchy ¥ were oppressed, because no political, or economic ey came here primarily emselves, to build up homes | never realize under the neis Joseph, or any mon- ld having made that step, gh as yet they have not their naturalization'papers, Gff the yoke that laid heav- jr shoulders and for which lhave 1ittle thought of put- The Ambassador excused Secretary Lansing by say- hatever he did against industry was no more nor to warn his countrymen d happen if they returned . country after having ons of war for the Allfes. bagsador at that time hout his host. As yet . no grand rush of these ‘to the shores of Austria- “There has been no stam- getting away. And the se men take it for grant- of them is contemplat- jove, either now or after rought to end. 8o the really s practically with- © stand on when he makes sertion As a contradic- nt, -however, the Am- to Baron Burian, in olds plans for a tie-up ehem plants and others in ‘est, will always stand as . He has told two differ- ne to Secretary Lansing jef to the Baron. One & falsehood. Because { such a man it is time jake the dust of this feet, He has worn lecome. There are a fow “the same class with Dr, o' should take due notice s happened and amend 3 apcordingly, otherwise be a Whdlesale leave tak- preign parts in the not far now The govern~ 0 univer- United | connected direedy with the States Government tend te everthrew | conauer the five States named in the | day and preparing for prespectus wouid be a big job, but | night. te eliminate or eradicate Loulsiana | "rible times the Engzlish see ahead and, as the lord high chancellor puts it, “We are fighting for our lives.” There is only one hope for the Ens- lish that conscription will not be the order of the day and that is that the enlistments of the next month or so reach a higher average than they have | in the past. At best the time is | not far off when the voluntary system | must be abandoned. England is to- | day facing its greatest crisis, and the | ruling spirits of the nation are aware something stringent must be done and this as soon as possible. Every man available must be rushed to the Con- tinent to help struggling France and | weakening Russia. Some protection | must be given the people at home and a goodly sized garrison must be maintained in case of any emergen- cy. There is, of course, only the re- motest possibility that Germany will try to cross the channel and land her armies on England's shores. But nothing so far has seemed impossible in this war and Great Britain is tak- | ing no chances. The Allies realize they must get more action during the oncoming win- ter than they did in the one past. | 1f possible they must end the war be- fore the snow falls. It would not be | surprising if the Allies even attempted to enter and wage war on German soil. The offensive power of Ger- many must be smashed beyond recosg- | nition if the Allies are to conquor, unless the war is to go into its third winter. Military men point out that conscription at this time, even the thought of it, is not a weakening on the part of Great Britain. = They say that because of England’s compara- tive standing with the nations with whom she is fighting, all of whom have a different military system, con- scription is the only thing that can help her in the great fight. = The United States in the Civil War was forced to draft additional troops. If conscription, is put in force in Eng- land within the next two or three weeks the men thus secured for the army will necessarily have to go through a period of probationary training. THE FAIR AT BERLIN. This is Governor’s Day at the Ber- lin- Fair. Governor Holcomb and members of his staff will help make the occasion a real holiday. It is probable that one of the- biggest crowds; in the jistory -of -fairs in Connecticut will be in attendance. FACTS AND FANCIES. Because a flock of geese flew south yesterday some persons believe cooler weather is near. But maybe the geese were just geese.—Paterson Call. . Here is the latest nickel classic, “De jitneybus non est disputandum.” meaning, automobiles.””—Holyoke Telegram. T. R. is in the wilds of Canada, but events are so big and make so much noise that he is able to learn all about them merely by keeping his ear close to the ground—Berkshire Eagle. The root of George W- Pg_rkm's deep distrust of George W. Wicker- sham as a constitutional statesman is that Mr, Wickersham started the gov- erngent suits against the steel and harvester trusts.—Springfield Repub- lican. Miss Davis, correction commissioner has been able by a scientific dietary, to save the city $66,500 a year on prisoners’ food and at the same time fo make it better. Yet some say wo- men’s place is in the home—exclus- ively.—New York Tribune. What answer do the “woman’s place is in the home” people make to the tale of the Weymouth girl who, out of money and out of a job, shot herself dead in a lodging house in springfield. The answer will begin, Goubtless, “she should have.—" but ne human being can finish it adequ- { ately.—Boston Globe. From a state of experimentation &till acute, with inventors still figure- | ing on essential points, into a state of trade showing $500,000,000 in sales in a single year and more than 2,000,- 000 cars in use—such as American automobile history in brief for a period of two decades. The only thing that does not improve is the record of disasters' due to carlessness and speedmadness.—New York World. The Pennsylvania railroad in order to escape liability for a $1,000 fine for showing favoritism to passengers stes a passenger for a rebate of thir- ty-four cents. This law if it works both ways will call for innumerable suits by passengers to recover tips from Bullman porters. Much of the favoritism shown by passengers to these porters is open and brazen.— Brooklyn Eagle. Bud Fisher’s Find. (New Haven Union.) Those far-faraed ‘‘movie” actresses have nothing on the father of Mutt and Jeff when it comes to salary. Neither have th> railroad presidents. Litigation in New York over the rights of certain newspapers to use the work of “Bud” Fisher, the car- toonist, has brought out the fact that the creator of Mutt and Jeff has re- ceived $50,000 a year for his pie- tures telling the story of the adven- tures of. those distinguighed citizens. The weather conditions are ideal for a‘day in the-open, and the vast ma- jority of New Britain’s population will see the show either today or tonight. Although staged in Berlin this Is really New Britain’s fair and New Britain people have come to regard it in such light. It is with this feel- ing of possession that they approach the sacred precincts wherein are kept all those things so dear to the heart of the man, the woman, and ‘the child. Far everybody can find enjoy- ment at the fair. It {s the one great meeting place, the common ground upon which stand all the people, the good, bad and indifferent, the short and the tall, the brunettes and the blondes, all. Father, mother, sister, brather, there is something to bring joy to the heart of each at the fair. And this year's fair at Beriin been pronounced one of the biggest and best ever held. Yesterday cattle day, and some of tho finest stock in New England was put on exhibition. Cattlemen from all over the state were present, At night the crowds made merry on the midway, Pyrotechnic displays were an added feature, As tomorrow is the clos- ing day of the fair it is expected those who have nat already taken advantage of the exposition will do so and that a great gathering will wend its way Berlinward, has was STEADY AS THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR, President Wilson where once he wag the recipient of nothing' but malignant abuse at the hands of edi-~ | torial writers .cross the sea is now coming in for his share of glory: The leading editorial in the Germania, a Berlin newspaper, recently held hfm up as one of the greatest statesmen. This paper, of the beliof that London diplomats have insistent in their plan to cause heen a break between. Washington and Ber- | 1in, rejoice at the frustration of any such scheme by President Wilson, “The President’s cool, ment 18 now justified” remarks the Germania, - We hasten to add that it was justified all along, that cool, seif contginment, that well balanee, that equilibrium se characteristic of Woodrow Wilson, And nothing that the Germania can ever set forth on its pages will disturb the cool deliboration of the President of the United States aor will any of the raniings or ravings of aRyong not lving | | been found propcesing an uprising of self contain-~ | He has recently made a new agree- ment under which, in addition to the $50,000 he is to have a pércentage of the receipts from the sales of his work, through a newspaper syndi- cate. The Oldest Living Thing. (Waterbury Republican.) The oldest of the big trees of Cali- fornia has just celebrated what is ap- proximately its 8,150th birthday. It was a sturdy young tree when Phar- aoh and his army were drowned in tho Red sea and when the Greeks were building thelr wooden hozas outside the walls of Troy. It has lived through every significant event in the world’s history. Generation afier generation has fust and fretted and fought its way through life and while the longest lived in each gencration has been drawing TMis breath the only differ- ence time has made to this tree has It is the oldest thing alive. Another Record Swim. (New Haven Unfon.) It was Annette Kellerman who first performed tic feat of swimming to Boston Light from Charles River bridge, u task which for generations had baffled the most powerful men. It wae an eighteen year old lad. Robert Dowling, who first Jswam around Manhattan Island, acCom- plishing the feat Sunday after hun- dreds of experts of great expericnce and power had fafled. Such is perse- verance. He made the 35 miles in 13 hours and 45 minutes, i'ernaps one recason for these two remarkablce accomplishments and other similar record breaking swims of recent years is that more head- work i being put into the sport, in the matter of conserving energy, pre- venting lost motion and minimizing with sclentifie precision the retarding effect of currents and tides, taller. The Republic of Texas. (From the Dallag Evening Journal.) | At Mercedes, Texas, circulars have Mexicans, to seize the States of Cali- fornia, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Mississippi and to | as, There are some of our own people who yet regret that Texas ever sur- rendered her autonomy to become a | mere State in the Union, and who he- | ieve that Texas would have been | better off had she remained a Repub- lic, Perhaps this new dream of Ewm- pire would appeal to these Texans were it founded cr a feasible scheme, But there are defects in the pros- pectus whieh indicate that the pro- than they knew of geography. How, for instance, can they weld the five ! States aforementioned into an in- | givisible Republic without also utili- | zing the Siate United this master of equilibristics, Woeed- lies between Texas and Mississipi. To There is no disputing about | been to make it a little broader and, weld these into the Rebpublic of Tex- | moters care more for mere conquest | of Lousiania, which | lField book of American trees and | 24 shrubs, by F. S. Mathews. ‘A concise description of the-char- | acter and color of species common | throughout the United States, to- getper With seventy maps showing their general qistribution. A com- pamop volume to his ‘Field book of Amerlcan wild flowers,’ and like it, Is arranged so that a page of descrip- tion faces a page of illustrations.’— | A. L. A. Booklist. . w | Friendly Russia; with an introduction by“H. G. Wells, by Denis Garstin. * “The writer, who was in Russia | Some time before the war, and at its outbreak, gives a series of entertain- ing impresssionistic sketches of town and country life and the opening scenes of the war; light for the most part, but written with the serious pur- pose of dispelling the illusion of gloomy Russia.’ He shows a simple, warm-hearted people, rallying with fine patriotism to what is to them a ‘holy war’.”—A. L. A. Booklist. 4 e Getting a wrong start, by Emerson Hough. “A frank confession. The author, a failure until over forty, then a suc- cessful writer of a ‘best seller’ and many special articles, believes that heredity and chance have been the determining factors in his own life, but that with good physical health as an asset, one will come out all right by remaining square, simple, and sin- cere, and by perservering.”—A. L. A. Booklist. LI Manual of weeds, by A. E. Georgia. “A description of the habits of growth and distribution and the means of control, of all the most trouble- some plants in the United States and Canada which are listed under both botanical and common names, also a list of plants distinctly poisonous or mechanically harmful to animal life.” —A. L. A. Booklist. Poems, by Maurice Maeterlinck. ‘“Some of the author's early sym- bolic poems rendered into English. ‘Will be enjoyed and appreciated by those who have already an acquaint- ance with 'Maeterlinck’s symbolic imagery.”—A. L. A. Booklist. .. Vanishing roads and other essays, by Richard Le Gallienne. “A volume of most agreeable read- ing.”—Nation. . s Of Interest to Educators. Civic biology, presented in problems, by G. W. Hunter. . s Democracy’s high school, by W. D. Lewis. Contents: A social view of the high school—The high school and the boy— The high school and the girl—The high school and the college—The ad- ministration of the course of study.— Outline. “Suggestive to all who feel that high schools should not be merely preparatory schools, but should meet the needs of those who never go to college.”—A. L. A. Booklist. .. Figure drawing, by R. G. Hatton. “From the standpoint of artistic anatomy one of the most complete books of its kind. = Contains full de- scription and explanation of the | muscles and part of the body with reference to drawing and modeling. The information is very definite and clear in detail and the presentation, interesting.”—A. L. A, Booklist, . e Furniture design for schools shops, by F. D. Crawshaw. ‘‘Designed as a text book for teach- ers of manual training classes, but useful also to the practical workman."” —A. L. A. Booklist. LY and Index to kindergarten songs, includ- ing singing games and folk song, by W. C. Quigley. For reference. s e Literature for children, Lowe, “Eminently sensible advice ana comments on children's reading. Author dares to take a stand for a few books really read and even chooses the books, While individual choice of books might vary, the ideas and way of stating them make the book well worth while.”—A, L. A, Booklist, “ . Montessor{ children, by C. 8. Baliley. “It is the most intelligent appre- | elation of Dr. Montessori's work yet published in this country.”—Nation. ... 2 Profitable vocations for boys, W, Weaver, “General the best known occupations with help- ful, suggestive advice on how to choose a vocation, how to flnd an ! opening, how to get ahead, Present- | ed in a form suitable for the boy him- | self or for-the teacher in the role of vocational counselor,”—A, L, A. ‘Booklist, by Orton by E. | Psychology in the schoolroom, by BE. | . G. Dexter and A. H. Garlick, “« s Psychology and parenthood, by H. A. Bruce. i “A practical, non-technical popular presentation of the recent dis- | coveries in the realm of psychology.”—DPublisher's note, “Illuminating and very readable book.”—N. Y, Times, | . x e | School of temerrow, | Evelyn Dewey, by John and | ‘‘Probably the most important so- | | | cial book of the year,''—Independerit., e | Stray thoughts on character, by Luey Soulsby, i LRy Street-land; its little peeple and its big problems, by Philip Davis. “The author came from Russia at fourteen, worked in a sweat-shop, joined Huil House classes, working by college at He has graduated frem Har- vard and has also a bacheller’s degree row Wilson! Steudy as tf‘e_ Bsf:if 9! in addition weuld be an uadertaking in law. He is now head werk at the Gibraitary < wf the lmpessibis soTi Civic Bervie House, Bosten,” COOD ARRAY OF NEW- IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK information on most of ' and | child | { having BOOKS NAMED Teaching of handwriting, by F. Freeman. N. . x s Fiction, Auction mart, by Sydney Tremayne. “The story is well told and has good characterization.”—Athenacum. “The book contains some clever writing, a sense of character and a touch of philosophy. . Y. Times. . Eight o'clock and other studies, by St. John Ervine. “This is a collection of impressions of varied ilves embodied in the briefest possible form. Seventeen of them fill the little volume of scarcely more | than one hundred pages, the first be- | ing in dramatic dialogue, the others | condensed into what Mr. Ervine calls | ‘studies,’ but which may as well be | called, and with equal truth, short | stories.” “This slender volume contains in | miniature the substance of many | large and imposing books; it is at once artistic, thoughtful, and signifi- cant.”—N. Y. Times. | . | Nicky Nan, Reservist, by Sir A. Quil- | ler-Couch. | “A novel which deals with the early days of the war in 1914. ‘Nicky Nan,’ the old salt, whose find of golden guineas forms the main idea of this story, is a thoroughly sound example of an old Cornish fisherman. He is | intensely alive. 8o, too, is Miss Pol- sue, that pryer into the secrets of others, that thorn in the good Vicar's | flesh, so characteristic of village life.’ —(8at. R.) | “‘Q’ has a rare and delightful ap- preciation of the brand of humor peculiar to the Cornish fisherfolk, which is developed with an apparent unconsciousness designed for the un- doing of an unpopular ‘foreigner’ from another country.’—Athenaeum. . ‘Where angels fear to tread, and other tales of the sea, by Morgan Rob- ertson. . Young man's year, by Anthony Hope. “From Terror To Triumph.” (Meriden Record.) Lloyd George, the big little man, dares to tell Great Britain and the whole world the truth, When necessity points the way, he fcllows with unerring accuracy. He tells the truth though the telling hurts him as well as those at whom the darts are hurled. Simply, force- fully, directly, come the facts. They Gc not make pleasant reading but they are tremendously convincing. Reading one of Lloyd George's ad- dresses is always illuminating. He racks so much common sense and lcgic into every sentence that even a short speech gives one a sense of completeness, In his address to the British peo- ple, “From Terror to Triumph,” he sounds the depths of pessimism and scales the heights of optimism. With broad strokes he paints the picture and light and shadow are impres- sive. The condition of Russia is vividly described by the reference to the fut- ility of depending further on this arm for support. He also gives the Bri- tions distinctly to understand that France has done so much that no more should be expected, and that on Great Britain's shoulders must rest the burden in the immediate future. The appeal to labor is sharp and decisive. No time is spent in eulogiz- ing or condemning. Facts are trot- ted out for inspection and they are imposing and vital. If labor will temporarily forego the nice distinc- tions which are made in times of peace, and bend all energles toward keeping the output of munitions above par, the victory can be bought, though clearly. If, on the other| hand, the bickerings continue and labor leaders permit questions and quibblings, the country might as well consign itself to the though of de- feat. A Mixture. (Bridgeport Standard.) The convention of the Fricnds of Peace at Chicago had a curious com- position, There were some really carnest and enthusiastic peace men, who were for peace with honor but would not lie down to be walked on | by any other natlon, And yet even these could not see through the thin disguize of such o man as Henry Weis- mann, who said: ‘To make Ameri- cans belleve in us we must give the lic to those slanderers who would have us appear at the agents of the German Empire; we must be moder- ate!” i len off. | merchant mar Mr, Weismann would doubtless be | delighted to do the Kaiser's work and tc be a full and accepted agent of | Germany, but he knows enough to understand that the open and honest | | avowal of that position would render | Lim powerless to effect anything save among those of the same sort. He should join a society of which the | Austrian ambassador should be presi- dent. Touring New England. (Meriden Journal.) Although the throughout the Wweather reports | United States show an abnormal rainfali—in many in- stances the increase being more than 300 per cent—automobile touring has Increased, over any previous year, for all sections of the country. The east continues to show the lion’s share | of cars from other sections, with New England maintaining its position in | cars displaying the license plate of nearly every state in the Union. Let any interested citizen stand for a while at the corner of Colony and | Main streets and he will soon find | that there arc s great many out of the state cars nassing through hers | every day, Touring New ©ngland is ene of the | pleasantest of all fall pastimes, It ig fine for the stranger and good for us, WHAT OTHERS SAY all sides of timely ussed in ex- 10 Views ou questions as dis changes that come Herald Office. Yesterday and Today. (Washington Star.) In conve tion with a representa- tive of ihe Star, former Senator Burton, on the eve of leaving Wash- ington for his home in Ohio, said: No man should be deterred by any date now appears all that volume of opinion us to national defense held before the war befell the world. | | All | conditions have changed and will con- | tinue to change. confronts us. “A new condition confronts us,” generally. The national defense is not the only question which our leg- lators should consider less with re- gard to their previous votes and de- liverances than with due degard to what the new tiines demand. Take the tari The war duced a situation unlike cver known before running blind. Our imports have fe Our exports, abnormally large in a few lines, will {latten ou* soon as the war ceases v in- dustries are necessary, and sheuld new has pro- y we have condition | McMILLAN’S | NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST ¥ BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIAPLE” SPECIAL SALE CUT GLASS- For This Week Price Y9 Valucs Up To $2.00 Bigger and better assortment now | }TBF. NEW DRAPERY MATERIALS | | be established, but, according to con- | fessions of low tariff men themselves, in order to thrive must have a liberal measure of protection. How out of talk about free trade and the coun- try’s salvation! Take the qu How piuch we need one is confes:zcd by the president’s de- sire to put the government into the sca-carrying business. He is a dem- ocrat and an opponent of subsidie and yet turns to state socialism as means of meeting the emergency, Hia proposition has divided his part if urged is likely to fail the second time in congress. Take the question of government assistance to the farmers. When that was proposed by the populists it was laughed at by both democrats and republicans. Now the cotton plant- ers, the tobacco planters and the corn planters are demanding it and they have champions in both of the old parties. Populism is dead, but its spirit begins to rule us from its urn. Take the old Jeffersonian maxim that the best government is that which governs least. The party of Jefferson, still quoting him and con- juring with his name, is now invok- ing centralization to the limit. And there are other questions which until recently brought expressions from public men not at all to point today. | This is not to say that the things now advocated are in every case the things that should be adopted. The new state of aftfairs has produced a multitude of suggestions, many of which are recklcss and unwise. But it is true, as Mr, Burton says in the matter of the national defense, that we are today confronted with condi- tions which require dealing with, not with a view of preserving individual consistency, but with the patriotic purpose of ministering to the coun- try’s good in the light of latest devel- opments. How Lightning Serves Man. (Spokane Spokesman-Review.) Seventy-one years ago the telegraph | It came to serve the new | than $10 will now go in the hands ¢f was born. hunger of the modern world for news. In 1844 it transmitted a dozen words | for fewer than 100 miles, and preach- ers called the petty performance a revelation of divine favor to men. In 1913 it sent more than 1,000,000 words about the Titanic disaster from New York across America and perhaps an- other third of a million under the" Atlantic within four hours, and yet | only the newspapers knew of the tre- | mendous feat and they simply spoke of it casually as “extra heavy traffic.” The modern appeatite for the events of the day grows keener every year. The telegraphic slave is annually summoned to more exacting service. But no reader of the daily paper ex- periences amazement at the multiply- ing prodigies in the publi news. He is not even aware of the prodigies’ occurrence. A Japancse tion of ‘aa American | , and the | i q while the ncw noveittss are hore, Our revenues are ! SCRTMS 10c 1o 20¢ yare MARQUISLT: 15¢ to 20¢ yare SCOTCH MADR 19¢, 22¢, 26c¢ yaun NEW CRETON 9¢ to 36c yard RUGS AND ILINOLEUMS CONGOLEUM RUGS The uew sanitary floor ceveriog FLOOR OLLCLOTHS 29¢ and 35¢ sq. yard PRINTED 1INOLEUMS Special 49c, sq. yard INLAID LINOLEUMS 79c, 90c, $1.10, $1.25 sq. yard OUR SPECIAL 40-Inch Chiffon Cloth, 98c yard in the new Fall shades. LACE NETS For Waists and Guimpes Plain Cotton Nets, 25c to $1.00 yard, 36 to 72 inches wide. Oriental Figured Nets, 79¢ to $1.00 yard, 36 inches wide. - Cotton and Silk Shadow Allovers, - 39c to $1.25 yard, 18 to 36 inches wide. GOLD AND SILVER ALLOVERS 98¢ yard, value $1.50 AUTO VEILS 98c to $1.50 Including the new shades of purple, ¢~ wisteria, old rose, smoke. dark gresn. D. McMILLAN 199-201-203 MAIN STREET wear them because he liked to. He wore them because he had to. = He was a poor boy, but was infinitely rich in having a mother who knew how to patch. She not only patched littie Abraham’s breeches, but she cowid patch a dollar bill so it went further most of our modern women. The mother of Abraham Lineols did not live within reach of a depa ment store, neither did sha have the money wherewith she could go aad buy a pair of ready-made ‘evervthings nor hang up the bill on Thomas, #le not only patched the clothes to maka them last three or four sons, but she saved the wood ashes and :nds lye; and with lye and hog grease mad4 ™" soft soap. No electric lights illum- inated that little Kentucky cak had to try out the tallow fros mutton and mold it into candles. these expedients and makeshifts and domestic economies are in the days that have passed. Are'we the betues sen for it? The next generation wiil tell he up at th i"a;ming, bu! ion of the | yg, There are no Jeromis headguartors of Berter tensor prohibits the telegraph from | the men who writes this is the fathes talking, but it hoodwinks him and |y An earthquake breaks the Pa- | pride and sati flings the | job. but he is wiliing to bet 2 talks. cific cable, but the wirel news through the air. Every mo- ment the telegraph is everlastingly on the job. It is estimated that 2,600 papers in the United States daily receive tele- graphic service. At leaast 400 dailies divide betwen them 1,000,000 words ' of telegraphed news In addition te the report furnished by the collecting agencies. An average day sends 1,190,000 words over the wires in the United States, and the cables raise the | daily average (o more than 2,000,000 words. A startling or wide esting occurrence raises thie average by tens of thousands of words. A full third of the total of twenty-four hours may come from a single town, if it is Chicago holding some national nom- inating convention or San in earthquake and flames. The telegraph’s voice rivals light in speed. When Hoxsey, the aviator fell to death at Los Angeles, Cal,, New York knew it before the doomed man had plunged down 1,000 feet, and while men tore madly across the field | twenty lines were sending the terrible | over the Unitéd Etates. More speed! Still more speed!” is the cry. The telegrapher is keyed to superhuman efficiency. He must possess instinctive capacity | for swift sureness. Sometimes the lose of a single second is intolerable. When the contests occur between league champions of baseball for the world’s championship, rivalry enforces a competition where lost seconds mean lost prestige and lost money. newspaper | In Lincoln’s Youth and Now. | (Better Farming.) i Abraham Lincoln wore pants. He did not wear them on the platform in his great debates with Douglas. He did not wear them in | of | job. | things, Francisco | hands gct | Robert | he | really | do | in rea! ‘1 tor ! how, usually | man | was bigger and | Trojan heroes patched | anyhow ? % chiidren, andt he takes a lot of) faction in his parentel Goline to a douzhnut that it is a harder job to raise Aprabam Tincoins in thuse Gays of luxu and ample comforts and $15 ready-made suits for boys of fifteen, than it was when Abraham Linclon worc home-knit socks and horme-spun frocks in the backwouus country. Who takes the bot? ens for Women! Demoerat.) the novelist, a woman's says, “‘ovght to do B - not about them. When does nothing but write, his soft and his character, fle might as well be crocreting™ Louis Stevenson used to wish had the strength to do the advens turous things he made his . fietion v heroes do, but it certainly never oc- curred to him ti “Lrens ure Isiand” a he foin s doing it (Waterbaay Gertrude Athcrion, declares that writing ‘s “Men,” she write a man too. wa than to true big decds ters vho do life Himself more manly create charses the If 80, a here greater than the Crea- iieroes in real life, anys” owe most of thelr hero- writen Does any modern womnan doubt that Homer braver than all ‘ put together. Aeneas was “some hero,” according to the Roman legend. But if ever there was an Aeneas in real life, he 4id far less for Rome and the world than the mild and scholar! rgil wha seng ahout him. What s a “doed,* Isn't a man who wWities a great novel or puem ‘doing something’ just as much as the man who bulldy a bridge or digs a canal or capturey ism to or the presidency. He probably did not | & fortress? \