New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1916, Page 8

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1916. E———-—-A—-_———"q-—-_-—_—_—_—————-——d\__—__w‘ W BRIAIN HERALD HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANT. Proprietors. ssued dafly (Sunday excepted) at 4:16 p. m. &t Herald Bullding. 67 Church St [lontered at the Post OMoe at Mew Britain as Becond Clsvs Mall Matter. Delivered by carriors to any part of tne city for 15 Cents e Week, 65 Cents a Month. ubscriptions for paper to be sent by mail payable In advance, 60 Cents & Month, #700 a yoar [¥8e only profitable advertising medium 1@ the oity. Circulation books and press room always onen to advertisers. fihe Herald will ve founa on sate at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, New York City; Board Walk Atlaatic Clty and Hirtford depot. TELEPH! uatpess Office .... 7 51al. Rooms ONE CALLS. [PHIZ. PRESIDENT'S TRIBUTE TO THE AMERICAN FLAG. Who will doubt that President Wil- fon has spent “every thought and en- rgy that has been vouchsafed” him n order to keep this country out of frar, when he himself tells his fellow itizens of sleepless illed with anxiety? nights and And then pfter reading the subjoined sentences, vill raise his voice Woodrow Wils rue American and declare that n is not a patriot, a who nd his flag above all earthly things? “As I look at that flag,” said the chief magistrate in Des Moines, Ia., last night, “I seem to see many characters upon it which are not visible to the phy. cal eye. There seem to move ghostly visions of devoted men who, looking to that flag, thought only of liberty, of the rights of mankind, of the mission of Amer- iea to show the way to the world for the realization of those rights. And every grave of every brave man in the country would seem to have upon it the colors of the flag, if he were a true American— would seem to have on it that stain of red, which means the true pulse of blood; that patch of pure white which means the peace of the soul. And then there Seems to rise over the graves of those men and to hallow their memories that blue space of the sky in which swim those stars which exemplify for us the glor- ious galaxy of the states of the Union, which stand together to vindicate the rights of mankind.” And then, after having read the oregoing, where is the man - who ould not, at the President’s call, go @ place his life on the country’s | ftar, ready to sacrifice all fof the | eater honor and glory of the na- | If there lives the United | a man he is not a true n? in ates such merican. Other men have gone before who illingly gave their lives for the Stars hd. Stripes of America, other mei | ill come after ready to emulate such | triotic “And a| SNt when it has seemed impossible” | example. many P the President “to sleep because ¢ e apparently inextricable difficulties | o which our international relations | bre drifting,” he aid to him- | it, Lep the country out of war and a realizing he is daily charged 1o so | days | who, loves his country | | | Hampton There tion as, for instance, is the Appam a | troversy is likely to ensue. robins will come again and the little boys and girls will put on their merry colored raiment and romp and play on the greensward, and everything will be lovely and everybody will be happy. Oh, it will be wonderful; and all be- catise the groundhog did not see his shadow today. So vou see how much we have to be thankful for in this sombre and staid old wintry weather. It is a happy Candlemas, snow or no snow, that does not let the groundhog see his shadow. A WORD OF WARNING. Henry D. Estabrook of Nebraska, who says he is a candidate for the re- publican nomination for president, is skating on thin ice, if the report of his speech in Hartford Monday night, as | printed in the press, is correct. Mr. istabrook is reported as having made the statement that “the nine judges who constitute the supreme court are chosen for their pre-eminent abilities -—sometimes.” Mr. Estabrook’s mean- ing is obvious, nothing less than a slur at the selection by President Wilson of Louis D. Brandcis. We do not know whether this sort of stuff “goes’” in Nebraska but sonie- one should remind Mr. Estabrook that it Connecticut. © The Nut- meg state will not be deccived by the veiled 't who says he is a candidate for president. Com- ing from a man who would be the suc- doesn’t in insinnations one cessor of the present occupant of the White House. the statement is strange- ly unbecoming and indelicate. With the cxception of people of Connecticut are with ident Wilkon heart and soui in present trecble, maintaining equilibrium of forts made by dates for the presidency to cast insin- other mat kindly. few, the Proa- a his the any ef- candi- a nation, and self-appointed uations on his motives in ters will not be received Politically, the majority of Connecti- cut citizens do not agree with Wood- row Wilson but Mr. Estabrook should e informed that we do not allow our polities to interfere with our pa- triotism. His was an unfortunate remark, sadly lacking in humor. Washington ous problem to solve in determinin, the status of the British steamer Appam which made its appgarance in Roads yesterday now has another seri- flying a | German under commard of a German captain and prize crew. ques- ensign and are many angles to the 3 ‘\ prize or a German auxiliary cruiser? What must be done with the pr crew and the Germans who were pris- oners-on this ship when she was un- | der British control? Were any ol | the captured non-combatant passen- B really in the British forces? There in which your Uncle Sam as the result of this latest sensation of the sea, and con- enlisted is a pretty mess finds himsouf a diplomatic uphbold its honor: “I wonder if the Bople of the United States fully | ow what that | R And then mandate means to | because he knew sleep has that boy, in America wh.. visited | there is | bt a or ould not ining the dignity and ited States. There is not a villaze, hamlet that would forsake him in hoa crisi The President knows i#s, and it is the one plea man, a stand behind him in main- honor of the nt thought | at arises brilliantly above all others But how to do u?"l‘ e Presidents And that is tl: | It is but another case of | being willing and the flesh | are they going asks. estion spirit . d the unteers means ust be trained nation hierein lies the keynote of prepared- | That, coupled with flag as our President sees it, means s safeguarding of the nation. ¢ i | SUNSHINE, NO SHADOW, SORROW. the groundhog is securely en- 2 Modern war has revolution- | of | Armies | of sacrificed. i world. The mustering nothing. the if manhood is not to be w love for | NO Our little friend ying home today mched in the bosom of his family. FACTS AND FANCII | thering the interests ishment with them. We were amazed when it was deliberately proposed to abandon them, but that may now be lost in the generous response which has been made to their needs. THE COURANT'S COWARDLY ACT. Hartfor TPodst Joins New Britain Herald in Denouncing Despicable Politics. In its leading the Hartford Post Joined opinion: “No falr-minded citizen can have anything but contempt and indigna- tion for the style of campaigning to which the Hartford Courant is re- sorting in an effort to create, for rurely political purposes, sentiment against the President of the United States. Tt is bad enough when so- called hyphenated citizens start political backfires on the trail of the President, but when those who boast of their Americanism and patriotism resort to tactica that would be more fitting for actual enemies of the gov- ernment it is time for decent citizens to call a halt i known German-Ame to the Wilson weekly known the voice of t land is a propa simple t ex editorial offered vesterday the sub- so-called unfriendly administration. The the Fatherland is vote. The Father- anda organ pure and ts for the purpose of presenfing the German side of the war. It was devised originally —to foster sentiment favorahle to Ger many and on the ground that as d rcet communication with ~Germany had been cut off some such step was As such it attracted some After a few weeks, how- editors of the Fatherland the tameness of presenting German arguments and resorted to a campaign of bitter assault against cverything and evervbody not actively pro-German. The Fatherland toda: &s a result, is without influence ex- cept in its own circle and without standing. “But the next number of the therland is to have an editorial ~vhich will state that the President of the United States has manufactured a war scare with Germany over the Lusitania incident in order that he may use it as a club to force his preparedness and defense bills through congress. The editorial uses such terms as ‘attempts to hypnotize the people into the support of the de- fense bills by giving out statements known to be false,” ‘relations with Germany are far from critical unless the administration should choose de- liberately to make them so': ‘the at- tempt is nothing short of criminal’ and ‘Germany justly refused to settle e Lusitania matter until the good faith of the United States was es- tablished.’ ummed up, the Fatherland ed the Wilson administration falsification, of criminal g of acting in bad faith with Germany. And the Hartford Courant sei greedily on this diatribe and ‘plays it’ vpon its first page under a double umn heading, labeled as a special <patch from New York. Tt is bad enough for a - the express that vote the is is an necessary. ention. cver, the tired of a ac- of and paper that purpose of fur- of Ger any to be allowed to circulate in coun- iry statements so subver: to interests of the United Stat but it is Incomparably worse for sup- posedly American newspaper, theo- retically acting in the interests of America, to make use of them for the plain, evident and sole purpose of trying to discredit President Wilson for the simple reason that he pens to be of the opposite political a “The central Lloyd-George, “have lost their of victor: Incidentally erals have thrown away of chances.—Springficld decla chance | British gen- | any numic Republican 5 D may he comi will be dignificd “Dear S unless he | Then democracy will be than a tradition.— B vhe Sir noi even AvSia St hardly more ooklyn Bagle Certainly the war would been a failure for this count States steel common hadn’t to begin paying dividends. Eagle. have it Unites heen Broc able Iyn In all this pother over preparedne s and discussion about what the war going to do next, the peace-loving citi- n will take comfort in the ‘fact that the Wisconsin law providing for full- length bed sheets is working well.- Pittsburg Despatch. of Americans but the The majcrity are favor of preparedne our military chicis get the compulsory nonsense out of the hcads the better it will be for the main thing they are urging.—Galveston News The Irish emigration figures for las vear are only 8000 which is less than twenty-five per cent. of the usual nation being that the men are fighting in the ranks or work- ing in ammunition factori p will not even venture out of doors, | is getting too deep oversho ause the snow him erefore h d, according does and he has no will not see his shadow if his to rural tradition, not come out and see low there will be an early sprin: Iyway, if little ot come Mister of his he see his shadow sun Ground- | out terrestrial se, how could en there heavens? d day for glad it is is no Br the shining it from r-r-r, it is a cold, | groundhog, and we because if he ever came Zlorious sunshiny to bway and found this & v he would his the while retreat jort for six weeks, ends of the outer strata were hav- p all sorts of disagreeable weathe of must it matter weeks that he gind his family fireside, and then e snow come is only a a couple or hang fen the present storm ed away he will of ng. And with him will come tre hine and the flowers. And the out his | -, | homes and bank savings. has | Globe. Required by the specifications to do 20.5 knots an hour, the new battleship | Oklahoma ran twenty-two knots for | three hour in her trial trip off the ! New England ccast. Naval construc- tion that yields more than w in the | contract cannot be too severely con- pessimists.—New demned by naval York World. | A Deserved (New Haven Journal-Courier.) Members of union labor did a fine thing Thursday wnen they gave up a part of their daily wage toward meet- ing the court fine imposed upon the | Danbury hatters. Had they ignored the plain obligation which was theirs, they would have been shamed by the | spectacle of these hatters losing their These men | were the soldiers in a commor. cause i and gave battlc under the counsel and direction of their constituted leaders They were fighting not more for them- selves than for the cause of union labor, and, when it was found that they were guilty of unlawful acts it became at once the duty of their fel- lows everywhere to share their pun.‘ in | E | | i i | i Boston | | | faith and that an election is ap- proaching. “For shame!" BOYLA REJOICING IN Stock of Castor Oil Bean is Getting Low, and Supply is Cut Off. (San Fr youthful feller he ameliorated The castor ancisco Chronicle.) of friend,” Those days needs trouble, hen a a are. out to in: in one vital nee. bean is getting arce. stor oil is made from the castor which has its main habitat somewhere in the purlieus of Bom- bay. Yates & Co., who have agreed to supply the municipal departments with pur tor oil during the pres- ent fiscal year at $1.14 a gallon, no- tified the board of supervisors of their inability to fill requisitions and asked to be released from their contract, The firm stated that the threo principal producers could not furnish it on account of the war and that each had markets, but had been un- able to obtain them. And here and there might be heard childish treble: “Oh, Skin-nay! couldn’t get any bean, in Skin-nay! more castor Ma oll.” War (New York the itor ds Feb, 1, Evening Telegram, ) To of the Evening Tele- gram The following Bible referring to be of inte to ers Thirteenth chapter of eighteenth versc tations from the e present war may many of read- st your Revelations, —“llere i: wisdom, Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man; and his num- ber is six hundred three s« and six,” which equals €66 Six, being the key number, is added to tho aliie of each of the following let K—11 (11th It A 1 T R ore numerics rs: ter in alphabet &6—116 6 16 06 196 56 186 The number of the beast ...666 Thirteenth chapter of Revelations, fifth verse ““And there was given un- to him a mouth specking great things and blasphemics; and power was giv- en unto him to continue forty and two months,” which gives the duration of the war as three and a half years, i. e., ending February 1, 1918. B 5 18 I. M. RIGHT. the | hap- | WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office. “Richest Village On Earth.” (Springfield Republican.) A town which casts 1011 votes and carries 855 men on its payroll has been discovered in Hibbing, Minn., the “richest village on earth,” and the most prodigal. Exclusive of school costs, Hibbing spent $1,155,706 in 1914, representing most of the tax in- come on an assessed valuation greater than that of New Mexico, or approxi- mately $85,000,000. Iron ore is the answer. The United States steel cor- poration is the victim. Northern Minnesota produces approximately three-fifths of all the iron mined in the United States and Hibbing is at the very backbone of the Mesabi range, the richest deposit of iron ore in America. By virtue of this the town has become the scandalous clas- sic of all horrible examples in ram- pant taxation and unsupervised ex- | penditure. It hoasts more street lights for its 12,000 people than does Cin- cinnati, O., for its 363,000 and has spent in a single vear more money than the state of Delaware. Salaries of municipal grave diggers come to an annual $6350 and garbage collec- tion accounts for $130 a day of these very public funds. The only com- parable example that comes to mind is the nation of Chili, which for years has been financed almost entirely by the huge rents from nitrate fields and high export duties on that valuable product. But even there a much lar- ger percentage of the wealth must find its way to really necessary and beneficial public works than in Hib- bing. Mr. Schiff on the Tariff. (Bridgeport Farmer.) Jacob H. Schiff is among the pros- perous, prominent and wise republi- cans who perceive that the tariff has become a fetish in America, that it has been given a place out of all pro- portion to its importance, and that the time has come when American political discussion must take into account the real facts of national life, the things that count. In a recent address Mr. sald:— Standing here on holy ground, I say without fear or favor, it you renew in the next presiden- tial campaign the tariff agitation of the past, if you threaten the country and show it you want a renewal of special privilege and high protection, the people will have none of it. The people have learned; the workmen and the farmers have learned, and they cannot be misled any longer. T do not that because I love the republican yarty less, but because I love it more. The language is recommended to the attention of Senator McLean, who, iby way of criticism of the efforts of President Wilson, was not too mod- ern to say, in substance, that “for- n goods are more 1gerous than foreign foes,”” mnor to condemn the president because he speaks to the people of our relations with IBurope, instead of our relations to a high pro- tective tariff. If a time cver Schiff republican has been when na- tional affairs ought to be treated in a spirit of understanding and com- mon sense, it is now. If there ever was a time when barriers should not be put up against foreign trade, it is this time. The trouble in we get too many America is not that foreign goods, but do not get enough; not cnough dyes, not enough rubber, mnot enough of many other commodities. merica’s difficulty for years (o come will be high prices created here, by a scarcity of commodities, which scarcity will be occasioned by the enormous European market. If in- telligent men found a real source of worry in the trade situation which they do not—except the worry at- tendant upon producing goods fast enough—it would be as to the best way of limiting shipments to Burope. A country may, under certain cir. cumstances, send out more goods 1 it can get pald for and more than can spare. Certainly this European trade can- he successfully carried on, for Jong, unless Europe has something to send in return. She can send her gold, and she can return the Amer- fcan securities owned by her people. Gold and securities will soon be gone, The resort must then be to an ex- change of goods, without which no trade, and especially no internation- al trade, can long endure. not Union.) conoclastic history of Most of our his- torles are written to find large sales. They strive to please. They picture the Revolution as comfortable folks would like to have .it remembered. They paint many of our national fig- ure heads as spotless heroes, almost super-humans. Some they make ideal supermen. They deal ligitly with very many of our great evils and glide comfort- ably over some of OUr gross errors, in- justices, and corruptions. They do not paint a true picture. Of course a history that did not do these things would be an uncomfortable book for smug people and would not appeal to the masses. It would not be a good magazine premium. Tt would not be a “best seller” by any means. However it would do lots of good if judiciously edited and care- fully compiled. There is plenty of authentic data. For a starter, the prospective author might with profit re-read his “American Revolution” by Lecky. Professor Edward Channing of the department of history at Harvard told his students the other day that “Americans are and always have been the most unpatriotic people on the face of the globe.” That sounds hargh and will be apt to start an agi- tation in the cerebrum of some people {but upon impartial investigation the (New Haven : not the United Ste Seaborne Traffic Plays Game of Hide-and-Seek shington, D. C. Feb. 2— borne traffic for Germany and Swe- den has played a difficult game of hide-and-go-seek for a year with the blockading cruisers of the entente al- lles In the waters of the Kattegat, | the waterway between the North sea | and the Baltic sea whose importance has been greatly enhanced by the | war,” begins a description of this | route just prepared by the National Geographic society. “The narrows of the Kattegat, moreover, form an excellent ground for the dodging of friend and foe for thousands of fs- lands, some barren, some fir-clad, some cultivated, break the surface of the strait into a horizon almost as uncertain as that of a hilly landscape. “Kattegat lies north and south, between Sweden and Denmark. It connects north in a sharp elbow with Skagerrack and south with the Baltic s through the sound, the Great Belt and the Little Belt. Th length of the narrows is 150 mil and its extreme width is about 30 miles. This channel, Lefore the war of lesser importance for German trade, has become the chief seaway | ea.- their and for all boats seeking to bring cargoes to the Central Powers unload at a northern port. Over the narrows waters of the sound, the railways of Sweden connect with those of Germany by way of Den- mark. The Swedish railways, also, connect With those of the German system over the narrows, western arm of the Bultic, by way of Trelleberg- Ruegen “On the water of the Kattegat and Skagerrack, the Norsemen got their training. Here, they learned to have a friendly feeling for the sudden gale, madly broken seas, and dau- gerous rocks. Storm winds frequently <h over these waters, and, together, with the numerous islands and shoals, spice navigation with a generous pinch of danger. The climates of the islands in the Kattegat is very healthy, and many sea-baths have been developed among them. The and natives are mostly fishermen, nd some of them boast descent from king kings. The cod, herring, lob- and oyster fisheries in these wa- v ster | ters are important. The eastern shore are steep and rocky, while the west are mostly low.;” those on e, ———————_——_———— student will find not a little evidence to support such an a rtion. The professor continued to instruct the young men as follows “It was only by accident that we won the Revolutionary war, and we could not hope for this again. Fortu- nate was it for us that the English government was then in the hands of the stupidest cfficials that England has ever had.” g Also he picked out some of the glaring faults or frailties of our na- tional heroes. Not a bad thing to do, by the way. It lends interest to the study of history by making the per-! sonages scem human. Young men are not particularly interested, usual- ly, in demigods. A good many teach- ers of history in our colleges are striv ing to do this very thing, to teach his- tory, not pleasing mythology. But why not a history text that would paint the shades and shadows as well as the high lights? Shall. We Buy Good Will? (Waterbury Republican.) Hamilton Holt of The Independent tentatively suggests taxing ourselves to raise $1,000,000,000 dollars to lend to the belligerents to help repair their damages after the war. This as a substitute for present preparedness plans. He points out that the return of ten millions of unjust Boxer indem- nity to China some years ago made the United States the best beloved na- tion on earth in the hearts of that people. Mr. Holt says frankly that all BEu- rope hates us. 1In the circumstances then, will not his proposed offer he taken as an effort to buy peace dhd good will? Can it be done? And how is such a fund to be allotted be- tween such nations are willing to accept it? Germany, for instance, has no physical war damage to date— at least none that can be repaired by a loan.' If no portion of the war dam- age loan fund were allotted to Ger- many, would not the entire loan be- come unneutral during the period of exhaustion and recuperation that will be called peace? Mr. Holt does not oppose prepared- ness completely. In fac he recog- nizes the fact that it may be forced upon us. He depreciates a policy of “safety first” at a time when Europe | is slowly bleeding to death and we are prospering because of her agony. But | if peace brings an era of renewed pil- | ing up of armaments at any cost, he recognizes that we must at last enter the grim race. Is it not possible that the United States by making evident its willing- ness, if necessary, to plunge on war | preparations in advance of the event, | will discourage any such race. This will be the only country in the world, at the end of this war, that will be able to pay a rich indemnity and if we are hated as mich as Mr. Holt , it will be easy to find a cause for a quarrel with us. If we are even half way prepared when peace comes, there may be no quarrel. Foreign nations have a tremendous respect for the U. S. treasury if it has a chance to get working. Any general staff will concede that a successful invasion of the United States must be a quick raid that catches us unprepared. The present modest praposals for preparedness will give us a navy small In view of our coast line and a regular army about the size of Bel- ium's or Serbia’s before the war. Can this be overdoing it? as The “Avenging Hand.” (Washington Post.) “Doc” Waterbury, man of parts quarters was apprehended in New York ¢ he breathed the first sigh of relief for ten years. “I'm glad of it,” said “Doc,” as he pleaded guilty. “Every time I step from a railroad train or walked up the gang plank of a steamship I fully expected to walk into the armg of a detective. Can you imagine what that means if kept up for ten years?" We can. This confession includes the high, the middle and the low. The most profound of the uninspired r flectors on that mixed condition which constitutes a human being had a few words to say of the conscience that makes cowards of us all. Holy Writ adds that the wicked flee where no man pursueth. Given the accepted idea, one is able to violate a code that prevails elsewhere. It were use- less to talk of the tender consclence of a moonshiner when raided by a revenue agent or appeal to the senti- ments of a tried and true follower of the only prophet when the fate of a dog of an infidel weighs in the bal- ance. We understand both. But we know as well that on an accepted point of conscience either is as vul- When confidence known a in many { unless nerable as the little blue-eyed Sunday school teacher who interpreted Eze- kiel's mysterfous vision of wheels within wheels as meaning “We must be good and love the Lord, be good and love the Lord!" This conscience is a terrible thing. Mark Twain, who never scoffed at the true, had his word against the artifi- cial. The advice of that sage was to spank a recaleltrant conscience. The trouble is that it can't be done. Mistaken early training has wrought the undoing of more than one prom- ising “crook.” There is a feeling that “Doc” Waterbury was afflicted with pious parents. Either that or he suffered from a too vivid imagination. The old man . in Emerson's tale told the child, “In the dark you'll never find anything worse than yourself.” Poe's story of “The Telltale Heart” covers the same understandable ground. Men think to escape. But the blood of an innocent Abel always cries from the ground. The sole re- lief is found in the kindred truth that for a Cain, though doomed to wan- der on the face of the earth, there is a mark placed upon his brow that he shall not be hurt beyond his en- durance. DEMOLISHES DEMIJOHN. Mayor Got Blow'on Head ¥or Fail- ing to Reward Singer. (New York Herald.) The question now arises, Is it polite to break a demijohn on the head of a New Jersey mayor? Mayor Westbrock of Midland, N. J., and some friends were seated in a closed automobile on board the ferry- boat when Harry Kimberly, an un- speakable tenor, who lives and prac- tices at the Gotham Hotel, on the Bowery, burst into song. He sang “‘Oh, Dry Those Tears” in his wet- test style and followed up this mad- ding melody with “My Heart's To- night in Dixie.” Those present real- ized that nothing but the presence of his voice in Europe would do them any good, but inasmuch as he was ac- companied by two young men who looked as if they might hit anything once almost every one contributed | when the hat was passed. When the collectors got to Mayor Westbrock he stated that he had heard no singing and did not care to support any tenor voice financially. The young men in a few well-ar- ranged sentences made it clear that Mr. Westbrock brought forth coins or spices they would pull the ferryboat from under him. No man can rise to be mayor of Midland Park if he can be intimidat- ed; and Mr. Wcstbrock explained that unless the young men vanished di- rectly they were likely to reach Man- hattan on separate stretchers. He slammed the door of the limousine, and took from seven to seventeen puffs of a long, black perfecto. Then the door was opened, the demijohn { crashed upon the derby and pompa- dour, respectively, of his honor and the door, as well as his eye and the incident, seemed closed. Barytone deckhands gathered about the singing assassins and a new Great Push, larger and greater than the old, developed forthwith. Much later the mayor complained before Magistrate Barlow in the West Side court, that life on the ocean wave between here and Jersey has become one of frightfulne. ICE CAKE HIS LIFE PRF Floats in Bay Al Night Blizzard Rages. (St. Paul Dispatch.) Providence saved the life of Nels Isakson, a fisherman, who was car- ried into Green Bay at night on a floating cake of ice. His cries for help were not heard because of a bliz- zard. When he had abandoned hope the wind changed. He was hrought back slowly toward shore, until at daylight he was only a few hundred yards from shore, and a boat put out to rescue him. He was nearly frozen to death IRVER. Man While He's Changeable, (Punch) First Recruit—What of the major, Bill? Second Recruit—He's a changeable kind o' bloke. Last night I to 'im, “Oo goes ther?” an’ sava, “Triend,” an’ toddy 'e ardly knows me. do you think s e “Had Too Much Fair” “We've known the same thing to occur with too much hair: tonic, too much plum pudding, too much mince pie, too much of anything rich and elevating. —Baltimore Sun. 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LEATHER- SILK CREPES AND CHIFFONS, for evening in the wanted shades. wear, 40-INCH CHIFFON CLOTH Special at 98¢ Yard. 36-INCH GEORGETTE CREP] Price $1.50 Yard. Gold and silver laces, silk and metd™s effects, in bandings, edgings, allovery and flouncings. VALENTINES, 1c to 10c Each. See the origindl Tally In a large variety. ROSE O'NEIL Valentines, Cards, Favors and Place Cards, D. McMILLAN 129-201-2003 MAIN STHFET What Do They Mean? (Bristol Press.) Statesmen are given to making ora- cular utterances. “I was born on a farm” sald Governor Holcomb the other night. “I was born on a farm" said Congressman Oakey in congress a day or two ago. Interesting, of course, but what does it mean? Do they imply that by that act farmers are under life-long obligations to them for the distinctions and the favor con- ferred, or do they intend to suggest a certain superiority of acumen which led them early in life to abandon ag- riculture for the far more profitable cultivation of things in fields politi« cal? Wil they kindly explain, BRITISH STEAMER BEACHED. Channel Oraft Prinses Juliana Strikes Mine. Feb. 2.—The steamer Prinses Juliana plying between Lon-. don and Flushing, and one of the larg- est and fastest vessels in the channel service has struck a mine in the North sca and been beached at Felixstowe, Buffolk. The passengers and crew were ros- cued by vessels in the vicinity ang landed at Harwich. The Pringes Jullana recently res- cued the crews of two steamers that had been sunk by two mines off tha Calloper lightship. London, ANOTHER PLOSION, 15,000 Pounds of Explosive in Blast at Du Pont Plant. Pa., Feb —About pounds of powder exploded in Shenandoah, 15,000 the mixing house at the DuPont Pow- der company’s plant at Fernandale, near here yesterday. The building, a one-story structure, was destroyed, but so far as can be ascertained, no one was injured All wires to the plant which is located several miles out in the country from Ferandale were put out of commission by the explosion and details probably will not be known .« until today. The cause of the blast ha determined. s not been NAVY GAME. Feh. The army and navy football game will be played on Franklin Fleld on Saturday, Nov. 25, the date that Yale and Harvard meet in New Haven ording to w report made public here today. It is said that the navy will again insist that this vear's game be played hera under the agreement between the academies, ac LIEUT. REED DEAD. London, Feb. 2, 11:27 a J. S. Reed of the Royal died today as a result of tained Aldershot by new aeroplane on which he was act- ing as observer. Lieut. Browning, the pilot, was injured badly, m.—Lieut “lying Corp injuries sus- at the fall of