New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1915, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERAL BRITAIN PUBLISHING TOUMPANY. Proprietors HERALD| i » (Sundayv excepted) at 4:15 p. m. fald Building. 67 Church St ! every part of the nation will the Post Office at New Britain ond Class Mafl Matter. by carriors to any part of the city nts & Week, 65 Cents a Month. ns for paper to be sent by mall ble In advance, 60 Cents a i Month, 3700 a year. profitable advertising medlum In -Circulation books and press | P always open to advertisers. 1 Wwill be fourd on sale at Hota- s-Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ow, York City; Board Walk. tie City and Hartford depot. ISHMENT FIT THE CRIME. the past year there have many violations of American y by men of un-American i-American principles that pople in this land have won- the lethargy of the United p not doing something to put o these activities. But, after 1 search of the statute books rney General and other high es of the Department of Jus- d they were powerless in the all these outrages. There | laws upon the books to put iminals in jails or what laws | ailable proved inadequate. | Attorney General has asked ty-fourth Congress' of the | States to formulate and pass | vs which will protect the United hgainst neutrality violations | have marked the progress of Jropean war and the Mexican | ons. The Attorney General s these requests in his annual to Congress g the past thirteen or fourteen there have been imposed upon tion conditions that even the of the Constitution never d, and they were supposed 1o evined almost everything. We | en certain elements of our own ip align themselves with out- terests, whether -for money or of an over-the-sea loyaliy lain dormant through the ‘Whatever the cause, the effect en thjs,—America has been to her foundations. Suspicion en placed on every good man e action of the very few bad And now something must be Ostensibly it is the prime duty or any other Congress to enact aws as will be for the ultimate and benefit of the nation. Man- it , is the duty of the sixty- congress to strengthen the of the federal officials against urreptitious workings of the es of this nation. And to do he laws that Attorney General ry has asked for must be put e statute books. must have a rigid law making ecifically a crime against the d States to place bombs or other sives on board ships sailing from merican port to any other port e world. And the penalty that necessarily go with this should so fixed that any one man guilty can be put up as a hg example to the rest of his ious fellows. A term of life isonment . would be too lenient, pugh death would be con- ply too good. - At any rate, make [penalty fit the ‘¢rime.. Following other suggestion of the Attorney pral, Congress should make it a pe for any officer, sailor, guest, or on of any kind to escape or at- pt to escape from an interned ship, battle cruiser, or sea-scout, hatever they might term such a p of a belligerent nation. In any t, as the Attorney General re- ks, “‘authority should bhe given to ¢’ Government. Department to ar- - and return. any such person :placs‘ of internment.” Naturally 56 powers should be-vested in the artment of Justice over which | Attorney .General has the honor ruling. These features in the re- of Attorney General Gregory p_manifestly so important that Con- should lose no time in attend- to them. We have seen gnough lessness within the past s without taking any more | ces. There has been a let-up in | e atrocities for the time being, — | d further plotting should be nipped the bud. to | four | | | THE REBEL YELL. | Down in Austin, Texas, they have a rtain reverence for the man from | onnecticut, for it was old Moses Aus- n, born over in Durham, in this state, | ho first bethought the idea of Amer- | an families settling in the section | hich now bears his name. It s son Stephen who carried out the | roject. That is the connection he- ween Connecticut and Texas, a sort f bond between the North and South ow it so happens that in this samne pustin there met yesterday.in grand onvention the Texas Givision of the Daughters of the Confederacy. And ese women, dmong’ whom there *in their hands. was ts of the Connecticut pioneer, £ he old ‘“‘rebel yell” of | recordea ever have occasion, can some. day forth to defend their country, spurred | on by the snappy screeching sen: tional “rebel yell.” | that"these men who ventured there,— ere probably some of the descen- | D. SATURRAY, DECEMBER 11, 1915, LOG OF THE OSCAR II Dec, 10, 1915. vidently that write the Confederacy preserved for jos- terity. They will have the famous yell on phonograph records, placed there by a group of Confed- erate veterans. Men and women Another note to Austria, the believes makes might. president in rejoice rell” It has been pronounced enough hot air being wasted hip to put the coal trust out it could be utilized. tell have depot There’ “rebel on this to know that, for the is a classic. one of the greatest invigorators ever put on the market. The in blue and the boys in gray know. And down in Gettysburg in 1913 when the North South met in re-union after fifty years the rebel yell came into its own. The “Johnnie Rebs” went wild with the joy of it. Their blue-coated brothers from the North did likewisc and between them they voted it the greatest yell that ever reverberated the hills. Compared with the vells given at college athletic tests the ‘rebel yell” stands out head and shoulders over them all. And there is no one on earth who can give the yell like the old Con- federate veteran. It will probably die out with the men who wore the gray. At the opening of Congress last Mon- day when the cheering began the rebel vell was heard over and above all. But that was its last faint flicker it probably emitted from the whiskers of “Texas Cyclone” Davis, or some other distinguished Southern states- man. ‘When the old fellows go the vell will probably go with them. So We say it is a good thing to make an attempt to preserve it for the future generations of the nation. Used in a time of battle it is even better than the sustaining qualities of bread. It lifts men from the morbid mundane sphere and turns them at once into | beings from another world. They fight better under its influence and Wwhile it has all along been associated with the South it can now be infused into the people of the North so' that these two united sections, if of husines Someth me Franz Joseph ng seems to boys ; a1 a when g to brass at banad the railroad we arrive. The well known peace dove must look like a Than ving turkey on the last Friday of November, Paraphrasing Marse Watterson: The Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs, to The Hague with them. This from the cook: “Too bad Ford and bring Von remnant armies of the and oyer dian’t a while Papen and Boy-Ed with him, Wwould ensure safe conduct, as no onc would ever think of attacking a ship- load of insane. wait con- Understand Wilson shook hands Teddy ill go to Canada after all to get his thoughts off his chest. the Kaiser and I He wants “‘a place in the I want a place not only the but also Times, Tribune, Herald, American and a few others. If the Oscar will be In one respect are much alike. o and sun, in Sun, in is submarined there one congolation—Davy Jones will have as his guests representative journalis ome of our And the little Fords go rambling, ete - o COMMUNICATED. The First Principal of the State Nor- mal School in New Britain. the Editor of the Herald, Please inform me through the as the ormol To Sir: columns of the Herald who they first principal of the State School in New Britain. = READER. Henry Barnard who was state superintendent of schools in the early fifties was nominally the first prin- cipal of the State Normal School, al- though he never taught here. The fing | 8ctive principal was Rev. P. D. P. = BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIE American business men will much food for thought in the Presi. | Stone who was associated with the dent’s speech delivered at Columbus | S¢hool during the years 1850-52.—Ed. last Commerce. re-reading, and then reading a because it is studded with economical : night before the Chamber of It is well worth readin, FACTS AND FANCIE gain; % The British are said to be enlisting z faster than at uny other period of the | Prince . war. John Bull must be either mad or every business | scared.—BRBuffalo Enquirer. It breathes a spirit of | obtimism for the business of this| Now that the Panama-Pacific expo- country in years to come, when the | Sition is officially at an end the seis war in Europe shall have endeq, | P:05Taphs out on the Pacific coast will 2 i resume business at the old stand.— when the United States may be, and | Philadelphia Ledger. facts which every merchant should well consider, man know. | probably will be, called upon to lend | the greatest assistance in the work | The wireless relates how some of of reconstruction that must go on in | the Ford peace party mistook the Burope. In this work, as Presiqent | BUIS for doves following the ship. Wilson wisely forecasts, the amr | SPeaking of gulls—but why become i} Ppor- | personal ?—Buffalo Commercial. tunity of America is going to be un. | paralleled. If Villa thinks of making war as a will be given a chance they never be. | Pandit on United States horder towns | he is indeed, crazy. He'll hit up against forofenioved fCanafiwhenfithoRtin el i o v o h el o e DIARE comes our American business men | subsequent proceedings will intrest must be there to meet it. In order | BiMm no more—Brook le. to do this the work of preparation | must be started now. Now, above all | A trifle like $500,000,000, which the times. That the President of the | BEan el ety St oRceon Bthe United States calls attention to this | or $5 apiece from evers acn p:l{l)mt:: particular thought at this time argues and child in the United States, | All in well for the business situation in this f¢vor will begin payving at once and country. It shows he is with the mea | #V0id the rush.—New York World. Bhcless andlingtholrazterins fof cnol N S T NSNS nation, that he means to the | everybody clse is too bad to * associate track for them, that he will fight their | with is going to he surprised when he battles and lend a helping hand in the | dies and discovers that a whole flock struggle. Knowing that, there should | °F Shmpohnecrle g cheved 1iobacs be a boom in the future overshadow- | witn weimas. aa aE Hediont ing all waves of prosperity that ever | Democrat. rolled over this land. Optimism in | business is the one grand thing that i In view of the many opinions hand- makes for success. With gloomy ed out as to how the United States thoughts no man can be successful, | Will fare in a busincss way after the and with the bit of cheery philosophy \\‘urtinf}j‘\lr;‘ix.\e is n‘ndml‘ the state- dealt out last night in Columbus thers | competiion l-',f,'::l't,;\,l:“l‘.“'(,fi,::}‘{' n(l'fl should come a change for the better. | not be feared for a long time is inter- We are on the right road now. Sales- Our wonderful resource: e that halos.—Waterbury esting. If Americans take wise ad- | men from all over the states are op- | ‘2N"tage of the opportunities present- | ed to them, there should be not only f 5 | o reason to fear foreign competi- boys who get in touch with things. | tion in the immediate future, but as. They know. There is more buying of | Surance that such competition, when Ametican goods today than ever be. | It does come, will find the industries e : of this country better ready to meet fore in history and more American | it than ever before.—Pittsburg De- goods are finding an outlet in the over seas trade. As the President puts it, we are fast shaking off our provincial- | ism. We are coming out of the shell, so to speak, are ready to exploit our | Ie" 5 every element save tae the most rad- resources not only for the benefit of | {ca) ‘German Jingoes. Both men are ourselves but for the entire world. | popular in Washington diplomatic And now is the chance, or soon will | Circles, and it is to be regretted that come the chance, to make America they figure so ignobly after their long the one greatest nation on the globe. | terms of creditabie service. If it has | the effect, however, of impressing the And the business men have this future | It is up to them. timistic of the future. They are the The state department’s request that Captain Boy-Ed and Captain Von Pa- be recalled is gratifying to overseas powers—not alone - Germany but all the nations now at war—that we are able to direct our open poli- cies and insist upor doing so, it will have beer very much worth while.— Virginia has, for the time being, s Buffalo News. lost bonanza,—Hopewell. The town that grew in a night has been | completely destroyed by fire. The long rows of flimsy, wooden struc- tures that the prospectors,—they were its It is said that Mr. son for rettiring from States senate was that devote the rest of his life to large plans pertaining to international ar- bitration. These plans, his suppor‘- But | ers assert. have heen knocked sky { high by the Kuropean r, but the settlement of that conflict will inevit- i ably craw the vresident of the United States into he Jlarger problems of foreign relatififis. t’};hey think Mr. Root would e at kind of a job rean war ends. It has no place in the and that is why they want him to’be | ordinary scheme of American com- a candidate for the White House.— l niunities, 3 4 Amsterdam Recorder, Root’s real rea- the United e wished to called homes, have disappeared. Hopewell will be rebuilt and its name could dppropriately be ' changed to “Hopeforthebest,” ’cause Hdpewell must again tumble when the Euro- That | with 7,000 people at Columbus. Maybe | the World, | ) | concludes as follows: / | same time, he's doing | playerouna [ to him | srammatical rebel who = WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. Cuwilization With France Gone, Like a Soulless Man 7 1 Washington, D. C. Dec. 11.—“When | we reckon tae debt that civilization owes to France we very soon discover that civilization, witHthat rémarkable | country left out, would be like a man without a soul,” begins a bulletin, is- sued today by the National Geogra- : | Phic society, in which is sketchéd the et : 3 tness of the world's debt to Grammar not orly does not -teachy Sred 4 ; | correct speech, but often is a , hin- France. “She has gravitated from one | drance to it. When a man is think-| extreme to another,” the statement ing of syntax and trying to talk at the CORtinues, “from intense religious to " much, conviction to free thinking and back, Thero is a collision that is fatal to LTOM Brave to gay and gay to grave, efther the syntax or (ho thought” It's [T suffering and sorrow to rejolcing | St corvation that 2nd happiness—until she has become | iatter SBmon observation Hhat thelpendulunt of hiinian progress, all the pupil who parses and diagrams : e & the while driving onward the wheels with th. test ility e 8 & SR S madlli ) I Un Ge iiaton, ! school room is as likely as he one W Tty o OE ml‘:}f:!{:ne the . W?ot:;r we take her for her ideals Tl e ; Eovernment, for her literature, for that the gzrammatical rules I acience/or for herjintensely, .hu- have any application to his ordinary | Tanistic and democratic qualities. speech. Or if it does, he rofuses to France tells us of leadership, of dar- g ing to venture like a general born to | make the effort to specak correctly. i Peipieitee nany ak soon command, of the establiament of the Suaselin thelwiay thall Cr oivelior) herllideas andliner. 1aaals natural to them. The child whose parents speak good Enelich snoaks‘th‘:f’"gf’_““t the world. good English himself. The child who | . Reviewing these phases of her life is accustomed to bad English at home | And the history and services to hu- and among his playmates may arrive | Manity in their order, one naturally at a fairly correct manner of speech | Starts with those wonderful times in the course of years, through a grad- | Mmen call “The Revolution,' for there ual dropping of his errors. But that the modern Fran_ce was born. Of the | reform is chiefly a matter of uncon. | fall of the eBastile, the great English sclous or half-conscious imitation, It | Statesman, Fox, declared: ‘How much | is this the greatest event that ever | happened in the world and how much | the best!’ “All Europe hung with utmost anx- jety upon the course of events of the French revolution, for the people everywhere knew that the cause the French republicans was their own. The republic was proclaimed on Sep- tember 21, 1792, and all titles of no- bility were abolished. Every trapping and every custom that savored of monarchy disappeared. Every one, rich and poor, high and low, distin- guished and unknown, was ad- dressed as citizen. The king became ‘Citizen Capet’ and the bootblack in the street became ‘citizen bootblack.’ ‘Napoleon's career sounds more like a tale of romance out of tae east than a true story out of the west. So transcendental was his gen- uine that a clever curate writing a < R skit on skepticism, declared that the nishing ammunition for some one who | o 20 B ERE C CC e nee no isn’t neutral. Yesterday the New | Vork Call, the organ of socialism, was | pleased to be most hilarious about| with more consideration by the United some of the passages in President Wil- | States government than they d:serve. son’s message. The socialists saw in | They have grossly abused the ~onfi- his words some most desirable quota- | dence of this government and have tions from their propanganda. After | done much to.arouse public fecling at pointing out a few of these The Call| a time when the governments of Ger- many and the United States were do ions of instead “Useless” Grammar. (Waterbury Democrat.) According to a speaker who ad- dressed the National Council of Teachers of English in Chicago re- grammar is an almost useless and the time given to it,in the public sche s almost wholly wa: is our environment that forms our speech. Only the very exceptional | child, who is a precocious prig instead of an ordinary human being, reforms his speech hy rule teken out of a book. The personal example of teachers has far more to do with shap- ing the speech of their pupils than the book of grammar they tes And the ocked the i teachers at Chicago was prob- saying that reading aloud does infinitely more good than formal instruction in grammar. A certain amount of grammatical in- struction must be given, no doubt. But educators seem to overdo it, and ex- pect impossibilities of it. B ably right in The Socialists and Preparedness. (Waterbury Republican.) One never can tell when he is fur- “We have praised the president for | ing their best to compose qu his frankness on more than one point | profound importance. Thus, | But the gem remains to be quoted— | of advancing the cause of Germany, and this time, we suspect, the frank- | these superserviceable subordinates is careless, rather than interna- | have done her poor service, to say Discussing the project for the | nothing of rendering themselves ob- continental army, he say { noxious to Americans. “‘It would depend upon the patri-| It is hinted that there are other at- otic feeling of the younger men of taches and consular officers in the the country whether they responded | United States whose conduct is under to such a call to service or not. Tt! scrutiny. If it should appear that would depend upon the patriotic spirit | they have abused the confidence of of the emplovers of the country this gevernment and used their of- whether they made it possible for the | ficial positions for unlawful ends, they vounger men in their employ to re-, cannot be too quickly expelled. No spond under favorable conditions or | matter what their nationality may be, not. 1, for one, do not doubt the pa- | they are marplots whose presence triotic devotion either of our young | here a menace. The necessity of men or of those who give them em- | maintaining relations of strict neu- ployment—those for whose benefit | trality and friendship with all Euro- and_ protection they would in fact en- | pean nations makes it the duty of the 1 United States to put a stop to any machinations, either by foreigners or | Americans, which tend to embarass | the government or stir up public feel- | ing against any foreign country. If | Americans are guilty, they should be | prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned. | Foreigners who, under the protection of diplomatic immunity, conspire against the neutrality of the United States are doubly offensive, because | they abuse the hospitality of the gov- ernment. Their immediate expulsion | is the natural and necessary sequence | of their mischievous actions. “That is worth putting in every socialist’s pocket scrapbook for ready reference. Whatever else he has said cr left unsaid, we may be gratful to President Wilson for giving the weight of his authority to three statements which socialists have long been malk- ing: “First, that it is the wage-workers that have to do the fighting, if there i¢ fighting to be done; that what the emplovers contribute is their gacious permission for workinemen to leave the shop and go to the battlefield; “Second, that the wage-workers are not free agents under the present s tem: that they cannot do what thei feelings dictate unless their employvers ‘make it possible’ for them: and, | “Third, that it wage-workers enlist for military service, thev do it, not for their own benefit, but for the benefit of the master class.” Tt is true that the words quoted by The Call are a part of President Wil- on’s message, but it is also true that his “frankness js careless rather than irtentional,” for he never suspected that such uge would be made of them. The young men who serve the coun- try in the army or the navy are not serving the capltalists, the emplovers of the countrq. especially, whether or not President Wilson saw fit to draw their attention to the value of a strong | ¢or the compulsory attendance of chil- army and navy in times of trouble. | gren at school. Alabama, Florida, The soldler and the saflors have al- | Georgia and Mississippi are the excep- ways been the defenders of the homes | 01" of the country, and whether they | ~ne pest authorities agree that the serve king or republic. it is the home | (4(a] of the crops raised from seed in that is defended by the army, in War. | the United States might be doubled by and the home that is destroved if ;mproved methods of farming. To do the army fails. It is true. perhaps. thjs would add $4,000,000,000 to the that the first shots from the vessels pation's wealth and the resources of of a hostile fleet directed at New York i1 population. city would bring down the towers of great skyscrapers, which are them- selves monuments to the success of | an individval, or a single corporation, | under the “capitalist system,” but the | loss of life in the densley populated | kinds, and beef cattles and shecp. east side, and the socialists would be | connecticut's farming district cannot the first to complain of the lack of | pone to compete with the broai adequate protection of the homes | prairie acres in this kind of agricul- chould svch a catasiraphe occur. Mod- | ture. It is useless to try. Most SEtnG dUReh) llcafarmi Connecticut farmers raise some grain and skilled navies not for the protec- | ¢ thair own use, but it is denptfal tion of property but especially fOf | ypatner this is worth while save for the protection of life; not to defend | 1, henefit of the soil. . the banks but to defend the homes. | "Byt when the West raises apples | and tries to get a corner on the whole | apple market, it is entering into a | field where Connecticut can compete, Odd Items of Interest. (From an Exchange.) With 3,000 telephones, one New York office building holds the world’s record. Philippine cigars are now regularly exported to fort countries. The total exports last year were 155,000,- 000 cigars A three-inch cable made for use in a Cuban mine withstood a pullirg test of 751,600 pounds, which is said to be the record. For sorting fruit as it is picked from a tree there has been invented a tube that separates the small from the large as they slide down it. All but four states now have laws Growing Apples. (Bridgeport Telegram.) The West raises grain of various Undesirable Foreigners, (Washington Post.) The country approves the action of | if it wants to. Secretary Lansing in requesting the ! The soul and climate of certain German ambassador to arrange for the | Western states, nottbly Oregon and immediate departure of Capt. Boy-Ed | Washington, make for apple grow- and Capt. von Papen on account of | ing. The temperament of these their mischievous activities. ( Western farmers makes for good These officials have been trea,ted.lmntkeflnl- They pool their issues | mate the debt that the world owes to | she has borne in heh of | man in human history had been able to accomplish the things attributed to Napoleon. Some one his beautifully said of him that he was ‘an autocrat in the name of detnocracy; a man of war in the interests of peace.’ Among other things, he left to his people the Code Napoleon, which swept away the iniquities of abscolutism, recognized the equality in the eves of the law of noble and peasant, and sent out into the world the invading forces of the ideas of liberty, equality, and frater- nity, for which France suffered 80 much and to which the world owes 80 much- “While it is impossible to overesti- suffering and sorrow alf of the cause of human liberty, her other contribu- tions to civilization have not been less notable. The world, indeed, owes much of its liberty tenets and ten- France for the dencies of the twentieth century to France. The roll of French writers is 'McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'’S BUSIEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLE" Let Us Help You Solve the What Shall Give? with so many to remember, its a problem to think of the right thing for each. Our months of preparation, how- ever, have placed us in a splendid position to answer this question MAKE THIS A PRACTICAL GIFT- GIVING CHRISTMAS. Furs, Warm Coats, Sweaters, Skat- ing caps and Scarfs, Bath Robes, Golf Gloves, Skating Gloves, lined and unlined gloves, Underwear and Hoslery. Hundreds of other prac- tical Gift things for Man, Woman, Gif a long one and their contributions to | and Child. literature are very rich. Morgover, it was her Pasteur who established the germ theory of disease and through whom the wonderful miracles of sav- ing human life that have character- jzed the past third of a century have been wrought. “The normal death rate of civilized countries before the days of Pasteur was about thirty per thousand of the population. Today it is about fifteen per thousand in the more progressive nations. Think what a saving of fif- teen lives a year for every thousand half the earth: It means the averting of 12,000,000 untimely deaths annual- ly. It means more than cases of illnes avoided It means health and happiness in 20,000,000 homes rather than disease and dis- tress. “And we must not forget that radi- um comes to the world through the French labratory, and with it the bud- ding science of radlo-activity. Who can say what the world's debt to | France therefore is going to be? { Those who know most about it tell | us that we stand with referce to ex- { actly where our forefather long ages ago stood when they saw the lightning flash set fire to the dead pine tree, but stood ignorant and helpless to repro- duce the fire.” and advertise their crop. As 12 re- sult, millions of bushels of Western- grown apples are sold all over the country—hundreds of thousands thousands of bushels right where apples grow. It isn’t right—not right for the farmer, not right for the consumer. For Connecticut apples are twice as swod as Western apples. What has Oregon ever produced that compares with a fine, rich, juicy Northern Spy? The mealy Western apples are all packing, color and advertising. Their interior “works” are mealy and not to be compared to the criep, slightly acidulous and tantilizingly delicious Eastern product. But Fastern apple growers here nust 25,000,000 | ywonmEN's AND of pulpy | wake up, none the less, if they would combpete. the best product—the know that they have it. world Tt is not enough to nave BLANKETS AND COMFORTABLES that will keep you warm and would pe most acceptable gift to Mother, Sister or Friend. Cotton Blankets, 69¢ to $1.69 pair. Wool Finished Blankets, $2.25 to $2.98 pair. Wool Blankets, $3.560 to $7.95 pair. Comfortables, $1.26 to $5.50. CHILDREN'S COATS. More than three hundred of them for Saturday's selling at a saving of 33 1-3 per cent. and in some |n-’ of population means when applied to | stances even more. Buy now, priced, $2.98, $3.98, $4.98 to $9.98 each. MISSES COATS. at prices you can afford to pay. SBaturday priced, $5.98, $7.98, $9.9 $12.98 each. WOMEN’S PLUSH COATS. priced $15, $20, $25 each. KENIT SWEATERS ALL GRADES. for Men, Women and Children. Priced 98c to $10.00 pair. KNIT UNDERWEAR. “Carter” Union Suits, Separate Vests, pants and Drawers for Men. Women and Children. “Carter” Infants Vests and Bands. in part wool, All Wool Silk and Wool CHRISTMAS HANDKERCHIEFS See what this store is showing, val- ues will surprise you, double space for displaying our almost endless variety. French Ivory Jewerly novelties, Leather Goods, Umbrellas, Christmas and New Year Cards in a big variety. 129-201-2017 MAIN STRERT and his measurements and weight Wil be taken again on Saturday night. Meanwhile, doctors are trying to find a diet that will keep him from grow=- ing through the roof of the house. AM AN SRICAN ABROAD. pool their interests and advertise, as | their Western brethren do. And they | Gallantry on must learn how to take care of apple orchards—their own agriculturgl col- | how—and how | leges will tell them to pack and market their products Their colleges. or the United Department of Agriculture will them that. iness end, and advertising, ples can wipe the Western produc off the map, for quality, if not quantity; for the price commanded. if not for the total value of ‘he product. tell the packing, and Connecticut Mr. Cannon’s Patriots (New York Times.) The Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, some- time speaker and “czar,” and so long a salient figure of the House, to which he returns, has been painted blacker than chaos and old night. He was the irreconcilable standpatter repub- lican. He was the hunker of hunk- ers, outbourboning the Bourbons. From this uncompromising republican comes this patriotic Amer- fcanism: I didn’t vote for Mr. Wilson in 1912 and I won't vote for him in 1916, but I will not criticize his att- tude in the European matter. not a time for partisanship. It is a time for every one to support the president. The heart of a sound American beats within that though old Dan- ville hide. His words may be com- mended for admonition and reproof to the misguided persons, pretenders, some of them to loftier aims and vir- tues than Mr. Cannon’'s, who seem to regard Mexico and Europe only sources of ‘“campalgn materi against Mr. Wilson. OUTGROWS A SUIT EACH WEEK. Boy is ¢ Inches Tall. New Phenomenal Feet 5 (Moultrie (Ga.) Dispatch Times.) Yorw Doctors are puzzled and parents worried over the phenomenal growth of Harry Connelly, the 14-year-old Colquitt farmer 2 here. son of a miles from longitude now is 6 feet 5 inches, and he weighs 200 pounds. For three months his growth has been so rapid that he has outgrown a suit of clothes every county Harry's for | half of Girl Draws Challenge to Duel. (Indianapolis News.) | | Before Walter Myers opened a law States | office in Indianapolis he made a tour of Europe and was unfortunate A little speed in the bus- | P i | enough to get challenged for a duel by Russian officer at St. Peter: burg, or Petrograd, as it is now. Myers was stopping at a big hogal a | when he was surprised one evening by veteran | peace. a very pretty girl, who stopped him in the lobby with the question “lI beg your pardon, but you an American, aren’t you?” Myers said he was an American and asked if he could be of any ser- vice to the girl “It is rather hold for me to apgeal to you,” said the girl, “but an Ameri- can knows how a woman should be treated and is always ready to help a country woman out of trouble. I am an American and have been in this hotel all alone for several days. Things have come to the point where it is impossible for me to dine in In short, a Russian officer has' been annoying me with his attentigus. He walits for me in the dining room, takes a seat next to my table and tries constantly to thrust his atten- tions on me. Tf you are ready to are It is | dine, it would be a great relicf to me should you me to the dining room Myers said he would be glad to be of service in that way and acoqmé panied the girl. When the dining roor was reached, there sat a big Russian officer resplendent in gold buttons, gold lace and decorations. The Rus- sian paid no attention to Myers but at onee moved his seat to a table next to the one where Myers and the girl were sitting. Myers took the girl to another table and the Russian fol- lowed. They moved their seats again and he followed, Finally Myers spied an alcove and motioning to the girl to go fnto the smaller room, he drew together some heavy curtains in the face of the officer who was still fol- lowing. When Myers finished his meal and entered the hallway, there stood the Russian officer , drawn up as though ready to salute. The Russian scofled, and extending his hand, ceremonl ously presented a card to Myers. The card bore a long Russian name, &n Myers tore it up and went his way, paying no further attention to th Russian. Next evening Myer} related| his experience to a friend at Ul accompany j American Iegation His friend laughed loudly. Myel week. He was a slender boy of normal size when he suddenly started to be- | come a beanstalk. A special bed had to be made for him, so he would not telescope while he slept. Harry will have another suit of clothing soon demanded to know where the cfu [ came in. ha “Why, don't you been challenged to a duel?” friend asked. “That officer gave his card to indicate that he dem ed a duel and you didn’t Know it” know you ’