New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1916, Page 8

DOWN WITH THE “PORKERS' BRITAIN HERALD G COMPANY, T0 » After being reported ‘mk to the House the annual river appropriation bill shows and that to HERALD PUBLISHI harbor Proprietors it has the and shattered of some eighty been shorn ex- jed daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m. at Herald Building, 67 Church St tent millions dol- w lars, a very substantial cut which tells what united opposition can do to any red at the Post Britaln as Second Cluss Office Mail at New Matter gnominious attempt to rob the na-, 5, But fight As soon equor. of that should not jivered by carrfer 10 any part of the city 16 Cents a Week. 65 Cents a Month riptions for paper to be sent by mall Payabla in advance. 80 Cents a Month $7.00 3 year, end the the pork barrel, against the news- | papers and the people throughout the | country let down their opposition } 11 the political grabbers will be | | right back at the trough a feed- ing like pigs from the people’s sav ings. This year there will be almost forty the X in lonly profitable advertising medium pork fhe city Circulation books and press room always open to advertisers. in ain, i L Herald will ba found on sale at Hota- ling’'s News Staund. 42nd St. and Broad- way, New Tork City; Board Walk, Atlantic City, and Hartford depot. millions of dollars spent in interest of pork through this one bill | alone, which means that little creeks, and streams that are unknown of the particular county in which they hold forth will be dredged n TELEPHONE CALLS. rive; Office 2 T Rooms. .... ine: . torial : [ el | P AT ANY LOSS OF COST BUT THE | HONOR. deepened for no purpose at all to give some few contractors jobs, | and but while the great harbors and rivers of | go more £ was something like the death of jtle Nell, this of volt | Pork . e matter of jealousy igress. ‘‘After life’s fitful fever she | th { than feps So a If the great con- | & ey ¥ B tien. | ports of the country receive an apprc Y ver | ce; the country practically neglected. | end the re in is a 1 i anything else. well it is with the | fitful and is After to strife's o | priation suitably large enough to war- YKC {ant the necessary improvements, “5 | some Congressman from inland imme- s v 5 | diately starts a fuss and furor and | m, ime, th rights 't the rights of the |y 0 gickering for an appropriation | BB must, be upheld at-any cost, |, "ol Gl or Jones' River, or |83 when the h -respect % g ; } opor and self-respect | o0 oiher equally as obscure stream the nation are involved there shall | the Inter g fos {at Jumping Off Place. no quitters. There are three salient | ftures which ests of the nation all had with jieti: begin settle down bu to realize that the vhole is against the revolters at this nation | In this must be | wi to do the G | brousht to a halt soomer or later. : LA | The work of the past six months has sl effect. Pitiless pub- ot Telegrams and of letters from o had wonderful licity has had a tendency to hold the brigade check, and reckless charge on took fris the Con- Presi- country, warning to behind of defe pssmen and t in bulation. or gt sléctions 2 Presii ter to ghtful Senator Stone, which prom- § to go down in history as one of of the the : pork barrel in o this his hour trial and t at the there has been trenches no else suffer such as Let the treasury Kable | PlRCE in other remarkable | oo g0 on; let pork and its followers | c adfor . o : ield e downed. ‘ ea | e the good in years i fent Wilson's | the somewhat timorous | most patriotic documents TIME TO AWAKEN. atury, and, last but The $clf-injection ngs Br Bnticd and jace-at-any The final reason {of the calming of Indition e great .grape-juicer, aw. With his halo around his head | d his dove of peace softly cooing in like least, William an, the dissatisfied, dis- discredited apostle of | into the situation. 2 From the esteemed Milwaukee Sen- comes the assertion that ‘M. Wilson will, we admit, be a hard man to beat if he | keeping the country of | | tinel | succeeds in honorably | Nin A out of this mad- house of a war in Furope. That will be his big triumph in 1916.” urely it will be a big triumph for Wilson in 1916 or any other President fn 1917, or as long as the war lasts. If Wilson fails to keep the c the “butting in"” of Bryan, was the last | | Jo 5 ear Jiet in leat atteruipt to sink the ship of state, the Commoner came a ; untry out | sp the night and made- his last e of war it will be because his own po- ltical party has brought about a state of chaos, has the powers abroad to understand that | what Wilson does the United States would sanction. With | the disloyalty men the | national Congress it is no wonder that sis same craft he had abandoned car- ca But they caught jm boring away in the dark, saw him ; internal given rin the tempest. is not what ping to punch a hole in the side of and his efforts were nipped If Bryan lives after t haul down the Stars and ol the American the to the controlling interests | e craft i of some in the bud is time to Germany and England look upon the United States as a house divided against itself. And unless Americans make up their minds to stand behind their President the house will fall and whether ripes from the dome of the capi uttle all the ships in vy, disband the army and turn tion over the Chautauqua But there jition selling out circuit. ; e te | Te il car o s ar of this |y snerably or dizhonorabl half an be plunged in war, need be no or sacrificing any with eye should discern that these Any be able to abroad that % ltooth and mnail would be willing to stand behind their President during s the in the war. With the is | one i pights for a cowardly i the peace-at-any- of states of the union are willin nations the pice so long as reople . 23 are fighting cach other hrious do anything States exception of nation among them in sympathy with form of And the minded these ot these European tricksters who all the s controversies with foreign powers: United is lette 0 Senator Stone the e “cidisto Benat ¥ France there is not a ident has summed up all the great fleals of the American people, all the this Zovernment little | | | our | which has made all otion with which true Americans look e of country ; | e, | marrow fools on ation united . fervor and de- | e the firv G | shores are = into the hands play p the flag that bas never seen defeat. while are laughing up their sleeves.— Announeing that he will not consent of the of that the honor and Jaughing at the easy going Americans, b any abridzment ights nel some of whom are willing to support foreign their peace | g i wake up merican citizens el fhe nd @ loss of honor. vreference to It to Wilson might not he elect- nt | any monarch in spect of the nation are involved, TWe t but | at e y | ca To forbid our peo- | might fle to exercise their rights for fear we | | | | J own President, is time President shall ays: cov jreserve it at any cos 3 g A ¥ 1916, —some foreizn get the job. n jght be called upon to vindicate | im would be deep humiliation It would A FORMIDABLE MAN, Bdced. be an implicit, ail | Pt an explicit. acquiescence in the | o igic #lation of the richts {the ground and in dircet touch with Werywhere and of whatever nation | inose mysterious subterrancin politi- pr allegiance. It would be a deliber- | ¢y conduits can hear the rumblings fe abdication of our hitherto proud foot Josition as spoke e he turmoil of At he right. - 1t soundings there -has come to his government bverything that ng this terrible eaningless and Written like a atriot. Whateve# dislikes we might-hold against ans who have their e to of mankind | of gubernatorial possibilities, can amidst amid a smamn. even the throbbing a thumping of for-the law and |55, 00ching state c in the first the surface the Democrats mpaign. th would make evervthing | has has struggle futile.” man; attempted achieved dur- of and | hint of a strong drive it jby the and the selection nations would make Thus the ex-mayor fof a candidate who a formidable showing. name M. of has been linked with the w like g D spoken | of George Lander other Wood- aying the personal or New Britain, Without venturing M or another what Mr. Landers will | ' i ol 5 do.—he has not yet declared him- |y self,—it presume that the | in the T I in at . situation. one way row Wilson, there ds no gain: fact that e is.an American first all the zen of this e declaration ppholding of the backing up, of its principles? ha§ said the last hag shown the way and time, and what true citi- is safe to cord for honor nation will not ac in i the could search entire aif- than Democracy high getting he has made e and low, and find the and He | nation's better And in this ficulty in a man George M. Landers New Britain hould feel highly honored. | s the mayor of our city, Mr. Landers | " things which word in patriotism, ind the nation as 3 man should stand ready to support hirfh in his task of hone accomplished many preserving the'l gang today to his glory. As an en- | thusiastic citizen a diligent and indefatigable worter he all m in lic zountry’s - and self-respect - he has no equal. As the Common council has attributes, the poise and bearing | statesment. If [ |s mlore widely known as the producer the state off La Follette Some cheese! But |put his party @ho shall sy thdt “Battle Bob” is ln must be'this favorite son of New /pot ‘& whole train-load in himself? lNew Britain and, no doubt, his hoine 365 train the stiil “Wisconsin is making Joads « Loufsville cheese every year,” say “but < of & i1 Courier-Journal, there is any Demo- 1« }('ru\ in who could hope to once aguain in power cv realizes even | buildings in ¢ by his enemi as an peace term (IElis the the way ! that against settle the Carolina than wn would ace. George Landers has big sibilitics. I'oor little Peru. Because ar it is now too poor Lo inister at Washington stin 1l arrogant PACTS AND Mexicar News. FPANCIES ‘Mexico for the 1em right.—Chattanooga that there are worse than heing called a ogothete.—Boston Advertiser. Mr. Bryan's protracted ow.—Albany Journal. destroy the hwda, but recruiting merican They can they ose up the hiladelphia North of maintain help see that he got the pos- | the 5 it is hetter to he poor and proud than rich | Serves things Byzantine silence | causes one to wonder what he's up t© parliament can't stations Brandeis will appreciate his friends One reason why the Colonel that he obejcts to ex-president. ine. feels flattered Germany at the all the more after the attack upon him Fitcaburg Sentinel is 50 bitterly opposed to the use of hyphens bheing referrved to ~Minneapolis Tri- de- and for preparedness in this country. a compliment.- The republican state convention has | goeble-minded come and gzone and the alr is reeking Each faction extermination New York Roosevelt popularized “muckraker” and now popular the Louisville Courier-Journal. nce Root’s specch, Mr. th harmony. is and the her faction Colonel is of World But we can assure her it is not meant New York Tribune. | for the | the failing role of mucksling- Wilson The barbers are offering five hair- as a mark But who all at ts for one dollar, ect for Dollar da) rth wants five haircuts Syracuse Post-Standard. the The assertion that € no ng Wisconsin. the man whaose troubles urnal. in Russ eaking German And in Gerr is impossible A are signs strietly Posted is n. Ny n n. Baltimore Charge of the “Lim Burnett, Aslvertiser.) Half an inch, half an inch, Half an inch shorter— Whether the skirts are for Mother or daughter. Briefer the dresses grow, IPuller the riple now, of v on once? republicans ue but the tariff recalls Ben | King's poem complaining that “there’s nothing to wear but clothes and noth- ing to eat but food.”—Milwaukee Eve- | Only two kinds of people in the world, bigger than he and the man bigger than his troubles.—Minneapolis | are who that forbhid- speaking Rus- Ameri- b” Brigade. in the Montgomery | While whisking glimpses show, More than they oughter. Forward the dress parade, Is there a man dismayed? No—from the sight displayed None could he sundered, There's not to make remarlk; Clergyman, clubman, clerk, Gaping from noon till dark At the Four Hundred Short skirts to right of them— Shorter to left of them Shortest in front of them, Mlaunted and flirted— In hose of stripe and plaid Hued most exceeding glad Sporting in spats run Come the short-skirted mad, Iftashed all their ankles there, Ilashed they turned in What will not women dare? (Though the exhibits show Some of them blundered.) All sorts and shapes ol pogs, Broomsticks, piano legs, Here and there fairy shapes Just built to walk on cggs, Come by the hundred as When can their glory O-——the wild show they All the world wondercd Grande dame Shop girl and Four Hundred Any old hundred made, Bowory demoiselle, Belle ' m—oh, Brishbane on Fempo News e, (Charleston At and 1w Brisbane, who ¢ New York Ivening e of the best known world, told the lowa last week bound to be a failur to keep men from was to put them to as Journa newspaper that and hiskey cer. “The r. Brisbane do bul what you can keep alcohol away cannot. When a baby W throw it enacting to throw time. 1 going when we the what world,” vou do. in not question from are n ou you to 1k upstair: up prohibition ot 1 25 steps as a you the o up believe that this on to prohibition again reach will, wil to traverse The views of Mr, Brisbane interesting for the paper for months past conducting powerful whiskey. In our contention is entirely of @ measure Tk rg bill. for example, lc of and light winc gid restrictions would do liquor question all the laws for the are e peos 25 a y s W have n (sis, as we we hole circuit ore reason his en @ sound LEEUEC the beer in that ver be devised ot state-wide prohibition. editor 1 Journalists men teach- you starter., are allowing under, more South alr— well, Courier.) of is in people | prohibition tl drinking drinking said ought Can do try- steps coun- and whiskey the the that he has | crusade judgment The From- the to can enforcement NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1016. New England Stock. (Worcester Telegram.) The old New stock responsible for England is | | | more sub-normal and l and’ other types alnormal children proportionately that have ol mental defectives races one of the our shores.” not he welgomt opinion, but it is either a | is Da%kd on what appears to {to Dr. Walter M. Fernald, superin- | tendent of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded at Waverley. Iieaders may Incline to the opinion |that the superintendent is so much | surrounded by the foeble-minded | that he draws ‘wrong conclusions. That is probable, but not necessarily valuable as a conclusion. It is rather to be thought that the doctor would | lay the blame on the imported people because he would have the care of more of their offspring at his insti- | tution, the forcigners being less able {than the natives to take care of their own weaklings Dr. Fernald excuses the old England stock somewhat b3 | ting that the best of it went |scme vears ago ana later the then remaining here eloped to the | [ Northwest, and eloped is Tight, for the superintendent says the best fe- i males followed the brawny men. But | perhaps the worst thinning out of the jlest stock, as the doctor explains, is the moving of stronger to citiess {leaving the country districts to. the isccond and third best and the worst of descendents of the old stock. City {reople make take comfort in that, but it is at the expense of the rural districts. Massachusetts reports and lectures have taken so much ac- count of the increasing numbers of that the outside readers may come to the conclusion that the old Commonwealth has gone |fo the bad entirely, is going rapidly | or will be saved only by the infusion | | of foreign blood, the jatter heing now cdelayed or handicapped by the | Buropean war. But Massachusetts is not sinking down into a lower level. It has corralled its feeble-minded and other incompetents so generally that they are too easily’ counted and used for deductions. But that is no evidence that it has been Jost. It still has the people to supply a dozen new states ; or scctlons with hardy stock for ploneers. Tt is also making new con- ditions here which keep the old com- monwealth still ahead of the new states, however much they grow and crow. That is of more importance than the enumeration of distress | about the feeble or incapable people. | More activity is the cure for the slowness of life in which the feehle- minded are developed. That is why | the foreigncrs seem to have smarter |children. They are workers from | necessit They dig. Nobody ever ydigs without turning up something. | Later on they will not dig much | and they will count more feehle- | minded among them. Those who | have gonc away from here have dug harder, and therefore raised better i children. That is the cure for the weaknesses of race which seem so apparent. than any come to That nev fach or bé facts i | ! New admit- West Dbest American Passports Still Good. (Waterbury Republican.) Those who think that Uncle Sam is putting his strength in the leg with which he kicks the Teutonio alliance over its ways of warring are that the news announcement yesterday Britain had heen forced its attitude towards This comes of H. J. Backer had becn held the British all reminded reports car- the Great down in passports. the Telease Orleans who for two months by authorities became of some unex- plained desire on thelr part The United States represented that | ried that to back American about by of New Packer must not be held because he | !had a valid passport and negotiations were well under way, with some prospect of Backer's release, when it was found that he had been re- moved from Gibraltar, where he was | taken to London. Then the question had to be reopened, which explains the length of the controvers: As a | result, however, the British authori {ties have asreed to recognize a valid | American passport as sufficient proof | lof American citizenship and not to | {insist on the presentation by natura- {1.zed Americans of citizenship papers. | It is an important point on which | the British have vielded and it |y ardly possible that there will he {further incidents similar (o the | Backer case. Gentlemen’s Clothes, Democrat) to (Waterbury 0 man who assumes to be a gen- tleman think of having than should le: fourteen suits of clothes and This straight from the highest sartorial ay- thority in the United States, the' Na- | tional” Association of Merchant Tailors of America, in eonvention at St. Louis, Gentlemen peaders will therefore gov- crn Ives accordingly. Th I'minimum wardrobe involves an penditure of $2.060. ‘gentlemer 1l think of spending a cent less than that for his outfit. Here are some of the essentials: A light pearl gray Tux- cdo for warm weather; a blanket coat to be thrown over the shoulders of the gentleman golfer—which is an absurd Phrase all golfers gentlemen which only ‘¢ morning | viding suit and an afternoon riding frock, and a top coat iined with Per | sian lamb or mink skin costing $300. | The estimate allows for only three | Tounge a number that | miay not—strike most citizens as | wlously insufficient, This budget malkes i no allowance for shoes and haberdash- ery. Tt sumed course, that a | gentlemen il collars, hat | shirts, suspenders, socks, ete. P | cisely how many hundred dollars are | needea for such items miy d haberdashers hold their con- vention. We hope they'll be easicr on however, than the tailors have Ifor the average American’s in- come is only about $600 a year, and we'd hate to have to admit that the average American isn’'t a gentleman. ten | L | | | | ‘ overconts information comes thems W for are sts § a suits may is of wear be reveale when the been. | of Dover by more than a mile of piers. i The | with mil | fca | old | New Dover is the Business End of B ritish Empiregj Washington, D, C., Febi 26 “Dover where German scaplanes have lately heen he called the ‘business end’ of the Brit- | ish empire toward the’continent; for when England wars in Burope her tréops set out from Dover's harbor, whence they have gone to Germany, I’rance; Holland; TItaly, Spain, and Belgium in centuries past, and whence they are legving today in an undimin- ishing stream for scores of battle- lds distributed clean across the | continent from the open ocean to the Black sea,” begins a primer on war geography ujst Issucd by the National geography just issued by the National “The city occupics a narrow brealk in the famous channel chalk cliffs, and its harbor is formed by a grand enclosure of the waters of the Straits owering high explosives; might | chalk cliffs are honey-combed ary works, nidden guns and and galleries through the rock. The fortification of this point, where England and continental Eu- rope approach nearest to one another has been done as thoroughly as mili- tary ingenuity can devise. Besides the works built into the cliffs, the har- bor is guarded by a modern redoubt, Tort Burgoyne, and other fortifica- tion-circuits. Jt has always been a fa- vorite worry - with Englishmen to dream of invasion via the straits and Dover. “So keenly hatteries have Englishmen felt of have sa- about the subject since the day the Northmen pirates, that fhey several® times refused to consider riously a projfct for linking Dover w Calais by fulcs under the Channel to France, lest an insidious enemy some day marcn across unexpected into thelr country under their protecting sea. One company formed for -the construction of such a dry-land way between Europe and Kngland did manage to get some lengthy reports made to parliament, in which the sug- gestions were advanced that provision must be made, with the construction of any such ‘tubes, for their flooding from Dover in case of an outbreak of hostilities between Britannia and any European power. The idea, however, was dropped as a dangerous one. “Roman shipping visited Dover's port, and, probably, the Phoenicians before Roman times traded there. The harbor was fortified in the 4th cen- tury. and the original defenses have been kept-to-date ever since. The Battle of Dover was fought off the harbor of the fown August 21, 1217 Fustace the Monk, adventurer-pirate and soldier of fortune. in command of a great French flotilla to aid the English barons against their king, was severely beaten in this sea-fight by the much smaller Dover fleet. The Battle of Dover ranks as high in the annals British victories on the sea against odds as that engagement in which the Armada was driven off.” i A Boom in Bibles. | (Cleveland Plain Dealer. Europe heing torn in pieces by war, America makes money by selling goods, including foodstuffs and— Dibles. That there would be a boom | in this last mentioned trade was un- foreseen, and the bitterest saturist can hardly make a lampoon of the fact, now that it has eventuated. i One of the largest Bible houses in | the world has its offices in New York | City, and it is announced from those offices that the war has affected | Bible printing to an estraordinary de- | gree. It is the regular trade that is affected—not the part that might De | influenced by the sporadic activities of missionary societies. America s | selling 50 per cent. more Bibles than | she normally does—and she is sell- | ing them to Bngland, Scotland, { France, Russia, Belgium and Serbia. When all other business is bad, say the Bible publishers, the Bible | husiness is good. The less bread peo- ple can buy the more Bibles they de- mand. England 1is able to purchase as many Bibles as ever before, but her rcilities for making them have been interfered with by the war. So Amer- | must now supply all the Bibles demanded by the British Isles. The increase in export is also noted to | South Africa and Australia. Let one moralize upon this all wishes; but meanwhile let no one fail | to note that the demand for Bibles in our own country has experienced a big increase, also. This is said to| he due in no small measure to the activities of the Gideons— a religlous society of commercial travelers, which has bought 50,000 Bibles a year for the last six years from a single firm. Mecanwhile we are selling fewer Bibles in Germany than ever before; ! but this isn't Germany's fault, of course. The British blockade appears to be effective even in keeping spir- jtual pabulum fromi the Central | Powers. he | 1 Berkshire a Reservation, | (Bridgeport Standard) | the western end of Massachu- | in the northern part of Berlk- | lie the Hoosac moun- | separating the valley of the | river from that of the | Over this range lay the | trail, once traveled by but now converted into and pleasant highw. the tourists who annually exploi Berkshires. Over this trail, as been said, the Indians in the old ; kept up a connection between | fertile valley of the Mohawk in | York state and the equally fer- tile and attractive lands in ('onne(‘tl-" For At setts shire tains Deerfleld Housatonic. Mohawk Indians attractive county, the an for the las | days the cut. F That was York the long hefore New or Connecticut were known as designations of special territory, bu! the old trail is still traveled and is is now, proposed that the state of Mas achusetts shall take the new road with a generous portion of the land on hoth sides of it and convert it into a reservation for the benefit of the state in general and the lovers of (he picturesque and historically {ractive in particular. The road lies | in six fowns and to acquire enough | of the land on both sides to keep it forest reservation and pre- beauty will cost only about | 1 | always a serve its $120,000 This the would small sumn length of comparatively the reserva- about 13 miles with a from a quarter of a mile to two miles. Such a reservation. taken good care would become famous in time even beyond its present repu- | tation of romantic beauty, and the | general character of that part of the | which is wild and picturesque, greatly enhanced. This sec- tion is closely allied “Connecticut | and the Housatonic railroad and river | have been the artéries of communic: tion for many year Insulting of Women. Post.) total be is and tion width of a state, is wonld he to (Bridgeport suffering from an epi- 1t the police, e eport s demic of rowdyism cept in isolated cannot be ex- pected o prevent. The recent in- ! crease in the number of insults offered matter, one that harm. possi- if the practice wo- does not | cease. Already some of the more intrepid women are considering pistol practice and the carying of | women ‘s serious will result in bly of a serious naturé, of men accosting unescorted street a physical a he men on | more mature years, { them an ‘‘automat.” Some are using big brother for a bodyguard, at a slight distance away, hoping to obtain prompt justice for some “fresh’” youth who has attempted to force his ate tentions on them. This obnoxious practice is not con. fined to the so-called lower strata, to foreigners, nor to apparent degener- ates. Many of the offenders are well dressed, are employed daily and ap- pear to be gentlemen. They do not confine their remarks to giddy girls, whose attire and actions would lead men to believe they are careless in their acquaintanceships. Women of quietly dressed and going about their business, have been insulted. One or two of Ama- zonian proportions and quick temper have resented attempts at familiarity | with their ‘“strong right arm,” much and pain of the would- be masher. Others of gentle birth and retiring disposition have been humiliated that anyone should think so lowly of them Wherever po: to the chag ible these insulters of women should be brought up with a short turn. False delicacy should not prevent women from appearing in court against those who have offered indignity. Judges should not deal too harshly with men who have resented such actions by administer- ing swift and suflicient corporal pun- ishment. Bridgeport must be made safe for woman at all hours. News comers must be made to understand that not all women are of the class with which they have been accus- tomed to associate Has the suppression of the red light district any bearing on this prob lem? T'rankly, we think not. Yet i is being urged as an excuse by those who disagree with the action of the administration. Tt should be possi- ble to suppress vice, and at the same time suppress those whose lack of self-control is their boast rather than their shame. Pensions in Civil FLife. This country being first af all a land of apportunity. the American habit has been to change employment and em- ployver from time to time as seemed advantageous. We developed and boomed Mfeinsurance of ajl sorts to make some future provision for these transient workers, but pensions were regarded military-political sub- ject, and so neglected by the insurance experts. The zrowth of large corpora- tior especially railroads, has how- ever. creatpd permanent occupations with lifelong employment for certain individuals. Tt has been felt that em- ployees of long service ought to be talken care of by the company, that it was good business to take care of them and so railroads and others began to enter the pension field. The idea hack of it all is that if the workers arc to stand by the company instead of merely fudging through to get their pay, then the company must stand by them. As the public utilities come un- der regulation, pensions are recognized proper element in the inevitable osts which rates must be fixed to cov- The difficulty evervwhere is that shortsighted planning may bring the pension scheme on the rocks just as has happened with varlous fratern life-insurance schemes. This was lustrated recently by 1 Yorlk unhappy experience with pensions for policemen and teachers, A c er. i- ow city's Middle Weekly.) The (Collier's Age. r day when keep There comes a clea one realizes that clothes weather off you, that food is to give vou health that home is sheler and inspiration; that, aside from being clean inoffensive, one's personal appearance does not signify ver much; that the main thing in life is to he going along toward the goal of vour ideals. That isn't getting old, getting sense. From then en Time master, but friend are and not The Dear Things. (Gargoyle.) kind of stuff is the you hear ! on the front porch: “Why. you can just ever, George, how dare you? Now » right home, and don't speak to me again!” George goes far as the steps. “Let me back, please. be good; honest I will.” “If you're going to be good. there isn’t any reason for coming back."” “Oh, vou little angel!” “‘George, dear, I can't breathe,” you ever come T the | McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIEST BIG STORE “AT'WAYS RELIABLE" SILK TAFFETA DRESSES $16.50 to $25.00 Really New . smart models in the Spring Shades, CHILDREN’S COLORED WASH DRESSES 98¢ to $2:98 cach. Come and look over the New Spring Creations. They are prettier thn‘ ever. hown NEW LIN BLOUSE: At $1.98 each. LINGERIE BLOUSES 97¢ to $2-98 each. Of Soft Washable Materials. broidered and lace trimmed. COLORED SILK PETTICOATS. $1.98 to $1.98 Each, New Colors, the two-tond™ changeable silks. 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Edison at sixty-nine finds there are many things he would rather do than sit in a cloud of blue smoke and—since he is deaf—watch the various near-celebrities among the wax works at the speakers' tu- ble rise and go through the motion He has in his time sat under as wile a variety of speechifying as any man and has done his duty nobly by the post-prandial exercise. Now ho thinks himself entitled to a rest— which in his case means downright hard work. As one of those who “fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds’ worth of distance run,” he holds the flying hours wasted that are not spent amid his cells and flla- ments, “playing chess with nature. That is what for all his workjng life he hdd been doing—wringing from his adversary the reluctant con- cession of her secrets. His mind, as Wardsworth wrote of Sir Isaac New- ton, was “voyaged through strange seas of thought alone.” He has found many an isolated area unex- plored, where no brain but his coukd help the wizard of Menlo Park. He has stood for an intense application to the study of many a rebus of sci- ence which is almost unmatched in the history of research. He has tak- en no account of food or sleep or the trivial social microcosm. Tracking shy truth to its liar has utterly ab- sorbed him, and he has had the pow- er of concentration to shut all wii- nor considerations out of his mind. The men who have saved them- selves, and had small shivering fears about their nerves and their phy- sique, are invited to look on the pic ture of this man who into a hale old age is working with all his might be- fore the darkness overtakes him. Cheerful and serene, he preaches doctrine of content in work, life is more telling than his ldison's mind and body are cause he had not abused them. are his loyal servitors, and by his bidding they have served Llesscd our earth. Ledger.) a and his serman, fit bes They doing and PAPE Arrested, Merchant 112 Wanted to Prevent Slipping on Ice. Explains (Racine (Wis.) Dispatch Philadelphia Record.) Albert H. Borden, when became slippery, amazed the town by getting out with his paste and paper from his wallpaper store and plastgr ing the sidewalk near his store with He was ).rmb. the streets bright red wallpaper. 1y under suspicion that he had become insane. In court, however, he could think of no better venting accldents by slipping on his walk than by pasting some antiquated styles of paper until the weather mod- crated. He said that the paper acted better than sand in preventing acefe dents, and agreed to take off e paper as soon as the weather bectine wvarm enoush for him to remove the aid that he way of pre-