New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1916, Page 6

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TELEPHONE CALLS. wer ...928 s a2 PRK FOR THE SSORS. vying some ASST a nineteen mill tisfaction of the tax will di amonz taxpa city who feel e bearing burden dis h of New Britain it is absolutely fsary that fnt conditions that ore evenly uted the tax by raised. demand that the | provided with a better police fire with a | jnent, ties. and mony i for in the ecarlier life of the | It all mean: And me of the confributing causes of higher taxaticn often over- d'by the men who have our gov- ent in their hands et | more modern de- with augmented =chool other thi not an advance. is They for: as rants should | With the | | dency, | He NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1916. | these who have not thrived on its lead the American chagse, unless they unawares, which is hardly This not war, in the | sense that we are fighting the govern- | ment although it might 1y lead to such a condition. Un- | der the plea that there is an invasion elimate, he will soldiers | take | probable A merry him of Mexico, | of Mexico for conquest, Villa might | | the banner, | rally various factions under his Then there will be war., and | we shall see why it not a zood | thing to intervene in Mexico long ago be conaucred for in a vears the | accomplish | then a terrible Mexico could not | day. It | present | would take small to E task, and 11055 of men. It iz well this is but a | punitive expedition with its object punish one man and not a combined army ch a at to | | people. :D. A LINCOLN. tatement West Indie does | not wish the nomination for the Pre: will WA? Theodore Roosevelt in a issued fromi Trinidad, British emphatically he states he permit fac- | tional fight to be made in his behalf. | further and that it nor any goes says | a Tennessee newspaperman, would be a mistake to nominate him h heroic.” | unless the country omething of the “This of those s in its mood is one are times, comments the gallant “which come only at long intervals in | history. the takert determines the basic of the life of the generations that follows. Such | times were those from 1776 to 1789, a nation’s when action | rough-rider, | the by court ¢ should like for once to hear somebody bid them stand, with the rance that their government will stand with them. Instead of warning our own people to exercise their rights at their peril, 1T would like to issue a warning to other people to interfere with these ts at their peril.” » men of Senator the So long as there a Sutherland’s calibre United tates Senate in the people need of the the never and f the O'Gorman’ ar the uprisings Gore and other weak- lings who would take American rights, away The Washington heiress who eloped with Connecticut instead of buyinz a foreign title, did very well, according to the Memphis vews Scimitar. It adds, however, she done better a newspaperman, could have by marryin Be that as it may, Connecticut newspapermen are ever ready to show heiresses how | to improve themselves and fortunes. COMMUNICATED THE GAS ME R CASE. Patrick F. Smith Says He Paid No Fine and Mr. Alcorn Sads He Did. New PBritain. Conn March 10, 1916. ditor Herald: Dear Sir—Will statement (March 10) 1 settled my vou kindly correct in last evening’ Herald, wherein you say appeal to the high cou payment of the fine. before said opened Thursday morning? That statement is not true! se was settled bv a nolle beng My en- Steam From The Political Pot the political beginning to Already Britain pot in New is simmer for the spring campaign and ‘ere more days it will be boiling merrily. Those who are interesting themselves [ in local politics are speculating as to who will be the next mayor. Whether | or not George A. Quigley will be able | to come back with a re-election is a { much mooted question. . The advent | of O. F. Curtls into the mayoralty race | has also put a different aspeet on the question, although Howard Steele's refusal to run his simplified matters { €ome what. And then there is the dem- | ocratic side of it. Will Ernest W. | Pelton be the democratic nominee and 'if he i= what will be his relative strength at the pollss A canvass of | public opinion in New Britain gives | the present mayor a decided advantaze over any of his opponents If for no | other rcason than that the republi- can machine does not favor him, he is popular for he is regarded by the masses as somewhat of a martyr. The { erowd always seems to fayor what ap- pears to be the under dog. It is pub- !lic bellef that Republican Chairman | B. C. Goodwin's statement that he | opposed to Quigley in favor of Cur- tis has certainly strengthened the for- | mer more than it has injured him Opinion Is heard on the street to the cffect that Quigley is opposed by the | machine, therefere he is not a ma- many chine man, is not dominated by man- | ufacturing interests and is a people’s man. However, Quigley is certainly a » man, but he runs his own | machine and it is the well known Africa, Nearly Four Times Larger Than U. . March 11.—"The practical termination of Washington, D. German rule in Africa serves th the the greatest region to emphasize continent colonial again dark of the fact is ex- ploitation in. the world 11,262,000 clusive of its islands from this that it i as large as the United States. a population of 127,000,000 nd vet there are only two small countries in the entire country that are independent—Liberia and Abys- sinia. Liberia has an area about size of and a population equal to city of Philadelp The area of Africa is square miles, ex 1t will be seen nearly four times It has Virginia that of A byssinia’ twice great as that of France or Germany and its population equals that of Pennsylvania. England controls Africa larger than United States including Alaska. The African population under Englizh dominion is one-half as great as en- tire population of the United States. France, at the outset of the war had an African territory equal in area to That of the United States and all her possessions and Mexico. The pop- ulation of French African territories equals that of Brazil. “Portuguese holdings in Africa are as large as Mexico, with a population about half dense. Belgian hold- ings are one.third, and those of ltaly one-fifth, as large as the territory of the area is a a A territory in little more than | that of the entire | of | world. The statement which contains } them then proceeds: ““The ‘manner in which the nations of BEurope have apportfoned the sec- ond 'largest continent of the world | among themselves forms one of the most unigue chapters in the history of politicdl geography. “Before 1880 Africa was allowed:to drift along almost undisturbed by the ! politics of the outside worid. It is' true that scientific and commercial activities from Europe had invaded the continent, but there had never been any opportionment of territory having the sanction of international reements. “In 1884 King Leopold of Beigium ‘eeded in having a conference led to determine the status of the | Congo territory ‘held in trust for civilization’ by the African Interna- tional association. The result of this conference was the setting up of the Congo Free State, with the King of | Belgium at head. In addition thereto the conference defined the gen- eral sphere of influence or the powers ag i suc its 90, following out the plane of the conference, Great Britain n gotiated a treaty. signed in Berlin, which gave her Uganda and thus thwarted a dream the Germans had long held of a through railroad across | Africa entirely on German soil. the other hand by gaining possession of the territory in southest Afri to the Belgian Congo. Germany as effec- tually prevented the construction of On | | Pric w Colc de ch ions. » Stri shades A v in sof: WASHABLE CAPE GLOVLS FOR WOMEN ivory shades at $1.1 rl white at $1.29 pair h three row emb. bacls Pea Wit Wa $1.50 as fa and 1 ing an know: SILK splendid New Shown in the new 'McMILLAN NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIES?Y BIG STORE “ADWAYS RELIABLE"™ The New Spring Suits Priced $12.98 to $27.50 Kach. TAFFETA $0.98 1o DRESSES ved $20.00 Fach. OMEN'S SILK Uriced $3.98 0 8$7.98. Value $5.98 to yred silk and wool poplins ines, silk and serge c DRESSIIS crepe mbinar- LK TAFIETA BLOUSES Vriced 98 Eac and changeabie assortment pes LINGERIE BLOUSE Prices 97c to $2.98 Each ariety of new styles are t, washable fabrics. shown palr, “MEYERS MAKLE" shable Cape Gloves for women, pair, with fancy emb. backs Spring shades such wn, smoke, pearl, ivory, biscuit ight tans We know tuc wash- nd wearing qualities of these well n makes and recommend themn continental United States. “Tt is an interesting fact that Great ain’s holdings in Africa are almost actly equal to those in North America. They are thirty-five times as large as the United Kingdom it- tered by the state’s attorney you can verify this by an inquir: %0 long Immiz dare fght into the city a Cape-to-Cairo railway under British control- “A month later the English and ¥rench signed an agreenfent recogniz- ing a British protectorate over Zan- zibar and Pemba, a French protec- nd | oad roller. He made a boast that he 1858 to 1865, in the days of Lincoln.” | Mr. Alcorn, state’ A of | would be mayor. He has rid- tollow | 187 e : T alcom, Jetatels attorpey, ‘of (MT.| yen rough. shod! over! all' /who op- | There you have it. Look them all | Maltbie, assistant state’s attorney, or | T60 FOSEN Sl AL S0 G oy ) is way and that way, | Mr. P. T. O’'Brien, of Meriden, who iF it ks Homrs Squint this way and a Rtediase STl e e While yo it i1 the t of beguiling the public was {in the days of Washington, and from to our patrons. and to live fit, countries. of left lives as they to stoms of other the American see WOME FIBRE SILK Priced 30¢ Pair. here in Joffre blue, e HOSF to indard e Shown LS navy, tifth those who do conform must bear city's burden. | to neven share of th years ago. accoriing | e d States cen: there were in 18,015 immi- | that no bty of New Britain There are more than iHow [ are naturalized citi- jpber here now many mows exaotly than een | t. of thes This means they are not thor- little of | Ac- | Americanized, have but American of ly ption ican of ideal; methods Jiving. ! West and down, and back- wards, sideways in the country | 1t He | up and not a man is capable of handling demands a Washington, a Lincoln. No! He is in the Brit far from the maddening the job. is not here Indie: rowd. Boy, Page Col. Roosevelt! PAN-AMERICANISM. J Tt is high time the United States | { realized the zolden opportunity that | commercial activities in American republics to the south. awai its tho: | article news | tend Attorne, was no doubt written as 2 item of but small value ‘o vou. et does me an injustice and T to your sense of fairness whe | 1 ask you to publish this in the issuc of the Tlerald for turday, March 11 i conspicuous a place as the ori- ginal item. FFor T the courtes thank you Respectfully yours, PATRICK F. SMITH. 175 Main Street, Cit is informed by S M. Alcorn that The Herald Hugh 5 a5 1 lingly they are housed on a basis | That a delegation representing both | nolle was entered in the case of the ‘malkes for an uneven balance in | taxation. The people are crowded together in sometimes eight and ten | and these tene- vast majority of | jments, flies in one block, are assessed for probably mot | in the awakening. | mercial interests of the nation are a tw as much as the more comfortable home: than ffer and fhe city. flucer of money to its ewner, and | ce renters oscape a. fair per capita | Adoo, the | Treasury Peters In this e of taxation. way those people who b modes of living demand better | federal reserve bank, John H. Fahey | wpore around the W police super- | formerly president of the Chamber of | Brooklyn Eagle. lars anitary inspection. | adjustment of | protection, n. and rizid ere should be a re: properts The as should place er rating on property used for the | The ! are ass ECELOTS a ging of these immigrants. ple who own these houses in | liness,—they are making money i ideals and customs from gaining dway foreigners, and ¢ are not taxed as high as the man the the home that | s beauty The day is ! inz when the city must put a stop < thic i leveriastingly with these small home to the city business of allowing #trangers their ancient | to- | hold to of tenement thods of living. hovering er in crowded hous | comts the taxation ir state jen that day Britain wili re cach and every bear cost of the upkeep | then ; remain at citiz a n will get | jehance to aqually with the | her citizens T #he city. And he on a fairer the taxation | asis { AP TER VILLA, Mifs punitive expedition sent into NOT MEXICO. eo after the handit Villa will be palkening to the American peopie. iwakening those who have hecaus: ;n wont to criticise the American vernment for not invading that ter- | ory long ago will see that the send- | of American troops over the hor- ¥ is no child's play, even when they sent with the single object of stop- forays. Those this dc are brave of heart and strong of pose. The American army so far b it goes is But who on zo organiza- wonderful that a only the Congress a days ago wanted to sacrifice the hte of American people has done Jothing to make for a biazger and bet- Br army, to it the ds and equipment. The elks in Mexico then should be a les- who Dby their inst any- give necessary next few n Lo those pacifists pntings and ravi piing that Jeads to jatiop's force. jgrder patrol these days bur south Is overrun with revolution ve has heen made it s ave a augmenting the To keep nee y evil republic to ,militaiy a seems @ when the vet not one m to the nd o add to e necessary for bettering if. Because Villa the hills and mountaing of his native mAl, because he can weather ihe dships of that country better than arms even gite means it= General knows Yet the tenement is a ‘ are on their way to Argentina. are: because of | Kains governor of the San ¥ { politics i ! began life in | by his diligence and perseverence ros | to the topmost pinnacle of fame. the executive and the legislative branches of this government has been sent to attend the meeting of the pan- American international high commis- sion at Buenos Ayres is the first step Banking and com- ! represented in thig group of men who tary of the Treasury Me- Secretary of the | Sec Assistant ancisco i Commerce of the U‘nited States, and Untermeyer of New York. | Samuel ‘7 | | State vs Patrick F. ! Mr Smith paid | court are They | —after you | Star. """ | new locomotives. s ssments in New Brit- | The presence of these representative | prove to be wreckless expenditure.— his appeal and the lower withdrew the fine Mr. Alcorn to inspection imposed by da. the records open [Ed The supreme bench is a quiet place get there.—Washington It begins to look as if somebody else Paul N. Warburg of | had the colonel’s big stick.—Newark swith the small home must sup- | the federal reserve board, Archibald | New an 1 boat There is ruizing st Indie The New Haven has purchased fifty Let us hope it will men in South America will attest at | Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. least to ther desire of the United | States to bring about better relations, | and between | economically socially, the peoples of the two Americas. orth America be ! ther in their deal- that brouszht with the end South and closer tog i ommercial problems When to an European the fruits of this labor will be seen. HENRY GASSAWAY DAVIS, The man of Former nd old American dead Henry Gassaway Davis, always known | gentleman of | out his | that Senater | old-fashioned rounded a lfe three as “the the Senate,” today ex- His | in- | example | He | spiration to every | an humble station and | remarkable career, tended eover ninety years of American boy. shoul!d be a source He and ended | farm hand | There was started out a a capitalist. not a bet- a a the « than | Senator He was the vestige of the old Jeffe the days when democ- | ter lov man in untry | old Davis. remaining aa held { In busine sonion ! racy sway, when men grew tall. | soctal life, st Virgin name will in politics, in grand of We | cut a mighty swath, H i go down on the roll with those of the I the old man | great Americans. i i i et A SENATOR UNAK | AlD. Senator Sutherland of Utah must { know American sentiment pretty well. In | the junior Senator from the Mormon a speech on submarine warfare | state gave utterance Lo some courage- ious remarks. Commenting on the theory of Germany that a new engine of destruction automatically modifies international law, the Senator said:— | “My own view of the maiter is that | the new weapon must to the law and not that the to the new weapon.” like the logical view of the yield law must Which sounds situation. vield Coupling the proposition of forbidding our citizens to enter Mexico and keep- ing them off the high seas the Senator i ers t! | is 1t | w of their rents, are keeping Ameri- | is to the advantage of all concerned | ican. war is brought | something awful | Bryan.—Houston Post. | tur | joke.—Brooklyn | shoulder struck the sen- timent when he sai “Instead of forever telling our citizens to runm, I keynote of American With Germany teaching her prison- he German language she perhaps hatching a plot to kulturize the 1d, win or lose.—Baltimore As much as we suffer from ir we haven't for several a moment’s sleep for fear might happen that to should erect large seme of lher litorals bear in box-car lette rushing.”—Birmingham Greece rds on ing the word “Quit Your Agze-Herald A grim and grewsome item: It is reported that an American firm has received an order from the French government for $15,000,000 worth of artificial limbs.—-Buffalo Courier. An children abolish all the Leader. even 1o the simpler way of teaching sell goods might be to hools and get jobs for girls.—Ceveland The man who leaves $700,000 to found a hospital for dys s is fo: to have h ction ‘an- nounced at a banguet. worth all of that to endow a fresh after-dinner of organized at promote the Will they dd to the ation? May many cities St. Louis yesterday to cause of national defense. arms or merely gencral preparedness conver Buffalo Commercial. Associate Justice Hughes' letter to Henry A, Wise Wood leaves matters where they were before It also leavgs Governor Whitman Hughes delegate where he was fore, a member of a Root delegation. —New York World J. Hill and the Flag, (Bridgeport Some few J. Hill made a speech in which he that the flag of United Stat may fade, because lack of dye-stuffs in this country. After noting Mr. Hill's vote against the president in congress, we suggest to him that there is a won than fading that may befall fla Battle flags, fade. but they more honored, faded, than when their brightest hues. it one thing fade, and another hauled down. And that is what Mr. Hill voted, in congress, to do. We hope for his sake, as well as for the honor of his distriet, that if occasjon arises he will not do so again. Telegram.) B complained ot i to have thing to the have flag it Smith, and that | ! In the : Amer- | | Quigley | that | taxes the voters are apt to yelp sign. | | While the al be- | weeks ago Congressman | he | “hown his statements at the ward republican rally. Playing to the grandstand, Quigley told his audience he would not ask them to vote for him at the primary as his opponent was mot present and he did not want {o take an unfair advantage. That appealed to the people, but whether ! or not Quigley's motive for keeping | from tooting his own horn was as meritorioyy as it would seem is a question ‘4r the fact remains that a large number of “Vote for Quigle cards were distributed about the hall, setting forth why the mayor should | be re-elected. O. F. Curtis had no cards circulated at that meeting. May- or Quigley evidentally did not let his feeling for fair play; as he termed it, interfere with his handing out litera- ture boosting himself. Tn O. F. Cur- | tis. Quigley has a foe worthy of his mettle. Curtls has the record of be- ing an astute politiclan and his rec- ord shows that he has never been de- feated in a caucus. Whether he can win vietory at the primaries is a ques tion. But he is acknowledged to be 1 one of the greatest the city has ever had. That Quigley’'s popularity is not as great as it might be is shown by statements from the Swedish voters The informed the a large majority of the vot ers are flocking to the August Bergstrom and Otto Bengston, heth deposed by the mayor, and are planning to “get Quigley At pr ent it is much too early to predict the vote, but it seems safe that Quigley's following in the third ward will be small, whereas Curtis’ will be large. ceond ward Quigley will nat- stromg and the fifth ward- to favar him. The rest of uncertain and Curtis and will have a merry fight for success at the primarie One thing will hurt Quigley the almost certainty of a nineteen mill tax rate When a person’s pocket is hit hie yeil TWhen an administration boc the writer is today Swed standards urally be ers seem the ecity 1 mayaralty race is crear- | ing the most enthusiasm, the cont ! for the republicam registra oftice { will also be an interesting one. The veteran William Scheuy will tiv and supplant the youthful William Zeigler and a newcomer, John [Hallin win algo enter the lists, it is said, to try to wrest the laure from these two, Many think, however, that when Schieuy lost out at the caucus two Years ago he was beaten forever Zeigler has handled the office in good shape. His work has been satisfactory and public opinion as d the street shows him to . good advantage over the veteran Scheuy at present. Mr. Hallin'c strength is an unknown quantity, but it is believed { that the strong Swedish vote will go | for him. while Mr, Zeigler sure of the German vote H The 19.6 mill | for next vear i | ry among the taxpay vears past the taxes jump. This mills and an increase pleasing to say fthe I rease ig declared mecessary howeve use of the increased hudget streets, better lights, more police- men, a motorized fire department, in- | creased education facilities and many other necessary things, to say nothy 15 of the many salary hoosts that { made the cily’s expenses much g j er than heretofore Thus 1musl be raised and a higher [is the only answer ! biEE { “The W | (New Certain tax rate as predicted no little wor For severa] been on the we L7 will not . This vin- Lusis e h they ve haye at- money tax rue sconsin York senators in Idea.” Tim ) congre, illystrious mem- that | bers of that stood with | United States tabling the Gore resolution were good cnough to utter on Monday their pertubation at an editorial article in the Tinic which said that the German 1l ouzht to he hauled down from {h | Capitol and the American flag run lup in its stead. If on Monday (hese scnators, whose unaffected zeal to scurry exposed to public scorn s natural, thought the phrase of (he Times was too strong what was their opinion yesterday? They see the evi- Fourteen Germany against in the vote on My, | | National self, and have a population larre enough to replace that of the Unitad. Kingdom with enough to populate a new London to spare. “The African holdings of France are twenty-two times as large in arca as the home country itself, while the population nearly two-thirds great. Relgian holdings are eighty than twice as great. Ttaly controls 593,000 square miles of -African ter- ritory, which is five times as much asg her European urea, Those figures were prepared by the National Geographic soclety, whose headquarters are in Washington, and which now has the largest member- ship of any scientific institution in the 28 | two times as great in area as Belgium ! herselt, while the population is more | torate over Madagascar, and a French sphere of influence from Algeria southward to a point between the ]mwn of Say and Lake Chad. Still | ¥ingland and Portugal came to an tagreement defining the delimitations of their respective territories, “In later years came the Boer War, and thereafter another general scram- ble for influence in Africa, in which Great Britain secured control over the Orange Free State and the Trans- | vaal, Belgium formally annexed Con- | pearl, |oEM r Wi crepe N | B0 Free State, Italy seized Tripoli and France finally extended a protector- | i ate over Morocco. | Germany’s holdings in Africa at the | outbreak of the war' amounted | nearly a million square miles, ra population of about 13,000,000." only a link in a long chaln, German conspiracy at work in congress, as through the country, to bedevil our sovernment. It will not he out of place to speak a word of caution about the list of sena- tors and representatives to whom the head German lobbylst says he de- voted his missionary work. It 18 part of his profession to magnify his hievements, and a rich percentage doubt is to he allowed for; at el t he was a mighty good guesser. In his collection of | palpable hi Tt is not the boast of a lobbyist, is the documented revelation of organized plan to influence and trol congress for the benefit of it an coni- by congr | the senators so grieved by the Time | remarks about two I Certain senators and representatives find themselves In the worst company. | The American people have been tient, sometimes of things intolerabic {since the war began. Because | have been wrought by the foreign land the disloyal citizen. Now their government is to be turned over (o the foreigner and the disloyal citizen. And not merely is the congress be bullied into hecoming an Imper- ial German Parliament us the result of these alien efforts, not merely i- { the executive to be impeded and as- ailed because he is American; only is a Federal District threatened with impeachment : cause he had the hardihood to bring German plotters to book; the Kai- ser's trusty henchmen and lackeys in the United States are to that the mext administration is man. Professor Leo Stern of Mil- wiukee describes the new “Wisconsi idea. Mr Wilson sure to be 1 nominated. The German hope dies {in the Republican convention. To get “pro-American”—he means a pro- rman candidate: 1t is necessary a 1w delegatior to the Natic I Convention-—a quarter third shall consist of approved, tinguiched German-Americans, With thi din view view with the chairman publican state commitiee i I personaily have done th of twenty-six delegate convention ten. L believe that entations hould be secured other state, and if in major- the states this number eould sured only such candidate would be nominated As represents the neutral-American situation desired by Ger- is portion of kT to ik an of the necessary. inter- e here, a ith been il out to we have conceded equal repre ir every ity of a he Richard mou Lou who incidentally sug ing of 1 non-German cou thinks thit would he<tabooed by “‘the: pro-Eng- lish.” The Germans -are to he into power at Washington by hiding the Germanizm of the niovemet they initiate and control. : Have (he Germans fen national publican delegates i Wisconsih? The futility of the German plotters here is curiously illustrated with which their’ secrets print and their want of humor proportion is clear. But in the of Sterns and rtholdt’s let the nmmes of for ates and delegates large (o national conventions will bear What do Amecricans of Hon rtholdt, the o-Amcrican,’ sts the start- demovrats, of German names over by the into and It get both watching. names he made a foreign power that should be ponder- . and in particular by they - |any features to | make sure | Republican | put | America think of the German scheme to run their government, dictate its law proscribe its president, pick ‘out and elect, if they can, sucCcessor him who will heel in step at Germany’s commands? a ‘0 LOVE'S LABOR LOST. Sending a Newspaper Man | Register Prospectus, (The Commentator in New Day.) | Imagine the pleased, »,(h-kled surprige, of your Uncle Com- mentator at receiving yesterday. letter from the Miippertygibbert Cash Register Co., 'lmpnrtant fact that Mr. C. D. K. 1 been appointed the company’s repre- sentative in this vicinity, with head- quarters in a certain Connecticut city and going on to say that Mr. K. “has requested us to write to you and ask your Flippertygibbert cash register is in good working order. Are there about it which need at- which you do not under- a Cash not to sy s £ I tention | stana 2 B Like most folks whose names are n the directory, I have now and then received notification that I had selected one of those who were lto be especially favored with an op portunity to invest some of my un- employed wealth in the development of the Blue Sky gold mine, But the cmotions elicited by epistie of that ikind have not been profound: I have cast the screeds from nie, bitterly reflecting that the had themselves been bit a Dit, | having permitted somebody to sell them an excessively bad list. But to be solicited for an expres- sion of opinion concerning my cash register! Ye gods, but the gssocia- tion is too grotesque not to be funny Ask the Honorahle Du | whether you can sell him jturbine machine for his watch? a blind Belgian emigrant if he pro to buy the Munsey building and talk to the Commentator about cach registers in his buslness “Are therc improvements [ kich could on your re- {gister that would it more val- uable to you, or give vou informa- tion about 11 business which you {do not get?" asks this optimistic letter. Aye—and 1 do mnot own e than 1 1or Lakc or | tmerely | rather i | | rose. any be made malke Of course registor, any mel copyright fon the re (he varieties: | and [ cannot imagine cash register | ipable of doing such sums as would result in my being able to own one. But if I had a cash register there’| arc some things T could wish It to Go which, far as I know, even the inventive genius of Dayton, Ohio, | has not yet succceded in providing for, 1 want a cash r can deposit my the week and lup “no sale” Yea and cash yea own Konomoe or ipes for s0 gister in which T tipend at the end of then proceed to ring and make subtractions ay often as may be necessary for the supply of my simple wants and the payment of my little bills during the { week to follow, and leave a cent— just one solitary cent—in the penny compartment, on the occasion when, late, T have to charge the up with another envelope's ricagre contents. o week { register to | and | correet goose- London | announcing the highly | heen | I Ne Sil 1 of g basec ciple one | golla: § W pany Beme ness les Is: w troy | und | then | Tlipy [ vice of ) tions ing ir | the { have tions | garian peoples as bz sky, pink, black and white middy rresently further i sultingly | Tusion | alone—there may lication King smoke, bronze, Palm Beach, " ERALD GREEN NLCKWEAR FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY riced 25¢ and 50c¢ Tach, ndsor ties, crepe de chine and ties, also inch wide narrow de ‘chine tics for wais IV LEATHER HAND BAGS Priced 49c to $5.00 Each. Purses 10c to 98c Each, GA Priced S TOPR 19¢ MLESH BAGS o $3.50 Each, AT OUR MEN’'S DEPT. color coat shirts, 49¢, 69c, 98¢ cach. w neckwear at 50c each, k sox at 25¢, 50¢ pair. 99-201-203 MAIN STREET. in the world a new and miraculous mathematics defying known rules of figures— out of which you could take two rs for every dollar you put hen the Flippertygibbert com- has evolvel the cash register to that point it talk busi with me. = When has gone no, than lo make the remorse- of fgures eve more apparent ' than already hen the hest it can do is ‘o even the slightly comforting de- that perhaps——tor weelk urove to. beigleves red cents in a ten bill; I shall have nothing to do with rertygibberts or any other for reminding me momentarily e acute and miserable linitas of newspaper salary. ood i on of prin- all in it logic this doliar de Hearst’s Neutra (Hartford Post.) r have there appeared in of the the pub-a ridiculing or abus- the Aus President, or ftal, nor denuncia.- olumns Hearst cartoons Emperor, h and he German iser, the Fren of England there appeared : of the German, Austrian, Hun- n, British, French or TItallan rians and beasts; ner K I)\r‘\e we in any way or form tried to | excite { passio Roads | civilized new | frightful conflict Ask | Presic ter morn} what and ing only t anyon fice covets Adn trality. Hearst t most Presid the U is strl way. And can.” Iy Pati >eggY Paty Pati Are yo The torped the n torped The only kind of a cash register that would do me the slightest bit l and Fress, How the in judiced publication pedo boat angry feelings and unreasoning ns against either or any of the nations struggling in this We have followed first visest let Yorl Wit neutrality om Hea newspaper. noble! How supreme! about the = poisonous ¢ wisted editorial articles president of this cou «piteful Hearst occupies the land, which lent el of (1 ng the very But toon pictu v ag can picture highest of« he so vainly he who the e this wonderful of ixplain however these scurrillou attacks, accompanied rediculous of cartoons, ent Wilson and the nited States, whose ving to preserve it sense ne nd pre b, t upon people welfare he in 2 ueutral of still the New “The Hearst named York Ameri- Stone Blind! om the Yonkers State ence—What did new diamond didn’t Didn’t hlind ? man.) you think of ring? notice it notice .it? ine—1 ence Gee! u stone congressman who asked if tor destroyvers were to catch oes couldn't huve 1 reading w The boats t cutel e APy e por Lingbumtlon only merchantmen. D. MCMILLAN would be on”