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DAILY HERALD, | BRITAIN HERALD LD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proprietors. hily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p erald Building, 67 Church St m., at the Post Ofce at New Britaln econd Class Mail Matter. by carric: to any part of the clty 5 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. fons for paper to be sent by mall, @bl in advance, 60 Cents a Month, a Year. profitable advertising medium In eity. Clrculation books and press always open to ‘advertisers. lala win New New c Cit: be found on sale at Hota- Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Walk, at- and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONT CaLLS Ofmce ... Rooms JR COUNTRY: IN 'OURSE WITH ONS MAY SHE N THE RIGHT; BUT OUR TRY RIGHT OR WRONG. —STEPHEN DECATUR HER I FOREIGN ALWAYS HE WAY OUT. es from Ber- to received the today that hopes effect Ambassador that the the s of the United States Govern- | i the t everythinz will the he t the [Von pdor, is of the opinion that his has high Im- fovernment will meet just submarine controversy all Washington come out end. From news that it unofficially that German German embassy Bernstorff, the ent will do all in its power to r government's demands and s will about that operatinz alled ‘“war zone” around Ens- pcotland Wales to live up to the same rules | lations that cover their opera- the Mediterranean Sea. 4 be brought submarines by a in he and will 1 be remembered that on the day of Government sent to this gov- which de- the rules for submarine war- | the Mediterranean. The feature of this missive was as January this year the a communicaton joan submarines in the Mediter- fhad from the beginning orders luct cruiser 'merchant warfare asainst | vessels only ia e with general principles of in- nal law, and, in particular, bs of reprisal, as applied to the the British be excluded. he around Isles, nan submarines are, therefore, ed to destroy enemy merchant in the Mediterranean—that is er as well as freight ships as ey do not try to escape or offer ce—only after pa ave the Imperial to rementioned engers and been accorde’l safety Government to the principle embodied in rules and regula- ere of ould be brought to a pleasant would to be further seem no trouble. Every- the United States Government g h: tection asked nothing more than of non-combatant of e understanding pas- these vessels, that no and crews such as described in the aforegoing ye ruthlessly destroyed without ing and then passengers to places of s all well warning remov- ety in accord with the prin- f humanity as as inter- 1 law. Innocent merchant ves- | token would be the the same not The close | ly sent to bottom States the rermany the arine government, as of final demands will made | show. has not or complete abandonment warfare, but has merely that what and nal we consider ‘‘the of Ger- indisputable rules in- | law” be obeyed present methods of submarine the Isles are P in war zone around the admittedly in viola- if to operation those rules and she should ce her intention abide by les governing the of bines in the Mediterrnean there of dis- amicable settlement Thus Jle controversy. be an ms would end a GOOD-BY DOBBIN. and anon there have been de- nent the relative merits of city 1 small town existence, whether the metropolis, interesting better in the to rear a bhoy vil- The been in larg bt ettled jng that is ind has both w But there is the boy the in 10 tha Bie oit which young the and ter who pen raised small ot know; that is, the thrill thay | Serve ith the clanging and screeching | fire engines down the asphait when horses are tugg There the ing raining at the harness. er excitement in the scene pre- by the big, shiny, red-painted, plated fire engine dashing along handsome every to get e on time. That was in the city the old day. Now the horses ell behind three big straining muscle | den to its shall | | passage, | that | Stephen town { 8 = are / to_the motor apparatus, and in' the got far” distant future it will be one of the sights/pf a lifetime to see in anwig eity ~ the horses dragging along{ie firg“éngines. The motor cars can sail through the streets like lightning, ~k')ut the red streak they leave behind will hold the fascination of the old horse- rapidly giving wa never drawn apparatus. This year has witnessed in some 315 | cities throughout the United State disappearance of 1,190 horse-dr fire apparatus from the During the records were kept, it fire 1915, depart- ments vear where was seen that in these 315 cities there were 7,059 hors fire-fighting Thi that cities, in which are included ic- 315, there only="5,869 horse-drawn vehicles This is great and if continued jfor four years at the same rate the total <ol our In some of the northern cities where -drawn year figures show in, inal are s 1nss or five will soon mean of the partments. disappear- ance ho m fire de- the horse must be always held in read- | ines at least during the not be such lay- 1t is rather dif- months, there wi a ing off of his services. ficult to get a motor-drawn vehicle through the snow with the same ease in which the horse carries his bur- Yet same trouble is not experienced in the from the advance destination withal the southern cities, and sheets of some of, the apparatus. | 670 winter | | | | big * business | houses it is seen that the pendihg pur- | of will soon the the fire horse. chases motor apparatus almost total obliteration And with the old horse mean of will go the joy of hoyvhood in the city. | No will the y have a run along more rungsters chance to with the old fire engine belching smoke from its black chimney. The motor apparatus will be too fast for the fleetest of the kids, and Dobbin will doing other work, not so attractive. Another poor old be friend departs. HALL NOT PA AGAIN. WwWE THIS WAY When shadows over the earth we When the brilgent rays of the sun appear we forget all about the shadows. Thus it is that joy removes all sorrow, that old age, that laughter has no time for tears. There the miss the:sunshine. creep vouth never dwells on must be, however, a balancing of these the other, a sordid, the against would extremes, one life affair. unless become sorry We would never appre- ciate the sunshine without the shad- ows. Joy would cease to he some- worth while Laughter What were we never were SOrrow the relief know of The ad- thing never known. is but cald. going up, law for t would we down? of contrasts is the one great juster of human And ing all this we should, on our journey the nature. know- thron life, bask in sunshine so dispense joy to the for the bring up often as it appears sorrowful, create laughter tearful ones, and help to those who are down. has asked A correspondent the au- thorship of a famous quotation, one that woman would of practicc man 1 10 to every the memorize and 1t “1 shall pass through this world but well at this season veai is this:— once good that 1 can do, there- fore, to any hunan being, iet me do iv now, Let it, for L or any kindness tkat”I can show me nov defer nor neglect not this way again.” There the Dess much of that generally has been dispute over authorship beautiful but it from Grellet, in t Civil conceded of who it is the brilliant mind a missionary country shortly be- War in flourished the who visited New towns, New Stephen Grellet had a sorrowful life in fore and and preached many Ingland probably in Britain its early stages and knew the ups and downs of human nature. For every ray of sunshine, he ed under the shadows, was born in of cloudy noble family. where he de Grellet France, a Itienne de His was kncwn as Mabillier wealthy Louis XVI, tion family fathe was very and friend and counsellor Revolu- of the ceased but during the and Mabillier of the lands of properties de were | | ; | | | | | | f | blow | the and Stephen was imprisoned ard sen- | tenced to be shot. After the execu- tion of the to Demierara and ir he King, he made his escape 1795 came to New the S of once apon He age of eighty- juined at York., where ety T'riends, proceeding v mistnary. ied in ington, 2 at the two. His exemplification shall he entire later life of pass this was an o and, bis doectrine, not way again,” by which he the simple else cd these did nothing remembe: and altruism of as his everlasting epitath. be weet lines should Henry ohject 1o IFord now says he would not m of 250,000, Sl which army say, which is the same number advocat bill miking so much fus But Henry Ford prabably refe army of chauffeurs by the Chamberiain e the pacifists are 's Lo an Personal Question: “Is your Bonnet on straight?” a | petition State of Connecticut By His Excellency MARCUS H. HOLCOMB Governor A PROCLAMATION It is a fair world in which our lines have been cast and few parts of it aré fairer than this little state If it lacks the grandeur ' mountains or the limit- prairies, yet mingling of of ours. of othe less expanse of others here is a wonderful wooded hills, green meadows and well-watered valleys. And if the wild life about them has not the brilliant colorings of tropic lands, yet our birds are beautiful and their songs are sweet. Me are apt to forget how much an under- standing of these things can add to the richness of our lives and what a duty we owe to those who follow us to preserve for them the benefits we may so freely enjoy. It takes -but a moment to fell a tree, it takes years to replace it; a care- [zless stone or shot may kill a nest- Fing bird, and with her die the gen- crations of her kinds whom her care- might-assure te¢ the coming years. To emphasize these things the legislature has required that day be set apart each year for their consideration, and in obedience to its mandate, I do now designate Friday, April the twenty-cighth, as Arbor and Bird Day requesting that it be so observed in the schools and elsewhere as to awaken us to a sreater apprecia- tion of nature’s workings and nature's God. Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lerd one thou- sand, nine hundred and sixteen, and of the independence of the* United States the one hundred and fortieth. . M. H. HOLCOMB. By His Excellency’ CHAS. D. Command: BURNE Secretary. FACTS AND FANCIES. time into . It's about Lation tg. get T'mc{ . for W other Louis some St. Under the circumstances our op- | ponents of preparedness will perhaps fild it not inconsistent to thank God for the British navy—Hartford Times. Reports from Nebr: A, are that n is trying to split the dem- party in the state-wide open. betting on him—Houston The Americans who are raising $300,000 to be given to Queen Mary the Czarind and President Poincare | olght not to play favorites. Why not hand a little to the Queen of Italy, and pass the hat for King Peter ?—Binghamton Press. a It is the man who has a jobh who is offered a better one. The fact that a man is out of work too often is regarded as prima facie evidence that he deserves to be—Topeka (Kan.) “apital. The report of the comptroller currency would seem to indicate this country now has nearly all the money in the world-and a prospect of getting the rest of Indi#rfupolis News. of that ot fair it-— The Nag the recruiting McClain in his stated that out [ came is the hest advertising for offices. Adjt. Gen. last annual report 167,497 applicant the recruiting saw the flag. of into heeause they News. sti- tion Mil- waukee New when or school London is a thrifty city, and it comes to a question of money sanitation the money wins. The head has just ordered hacic the old slates and sponges bhecanse are cheaver than pencils and Meriden Journal they paper. The Coionel Blasphemes, (New York Timec From (ime to time it innounced that the fight Wilson is to be waged only, only, the tariff. Such be an appeal to the not to the soul of the ion. By all means pro- vide the thin=s of the body, but only on condition that we treat the body as the servant of the soul. M. ovelt, impetuous 1y charging asainst a suspected “‘hoom Senator Harding Ohio, who the horn on the battlements of citadel of protection. Mr. Roose- | vell tries, vainly, to mitigate his mentable sin against the true repub- lican faith. He believes heartily in protection, but never he shown any real fervor for it. He confessed the other in a magazine article that questions of the tariff and cu rency didn't interest him much. They and he is a high moral intuitionist. require a knowledge of the subject, He wants something moral or senti- mental over which his boundiess res- ervoirs indignation can discharge themselves. But the tariff, the republican viewpoint, is such a ques- tion, the question of questions, vital, permanent. And now there isn't a tear in his iachrymal ducts about the com- of the pauper labor of Eu- rope and the people’s dinner pail. The immortal protective taviff, the Jadiwmn of the nation’s welfare, an the helly This is hands on the ark of pro- national salvation. The Why, a portective tar- iff i< the heart and liver. the hody and the of republican doctrine and national prosperity. It is more than a law. 1t is a moral and religious prin- ciple, essential, basic, indispensable, holy. What is incalculably more im- portant to the Colonel, it is the sinews of war, the tor of statesmen, the pinions of mood The tariff to the belly! | Where is the American Protective | Tarifr 1eague, where Home Mar- club, in this dread and blasphem- has recently 1inst or been Mr. almost appeal helly, American n: is on an would and So Roos of of has vear e a from pal cappeal ing profanc tection and helly, quothe U oto lay- soul v aceelers the heroic an appeal is the ket | $8.00 each. | Whi | ous hour? McMILLAN’S NEW BRITAIN'S BUSIE#? 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D, McMiL 199-201-203 MAIN not STREF The The clevator P cked with Romance of the etropolis. waited, business men and clerks And bankers and stenographers and men and agents. The starter snapped hal; The doors began to close, When a cherubic-faced boy slipped in and door. sale: faced the He turned and looked over, With a child-like, questioning, proachful stare, politely doffed cap and held breast. ns numbered his his it aguinst Then The women smiled While painful hiushes Swept over the the ascending one by one, every man in stood sheepishly faces of car. the men in And Until the elevator bare-headed. Just then strange The little alanced into shouted " The twenty-thoid, And replaced his a rakish angle, thing happened. messenger hoy, cap, having his “Stop will yer cap on his he: whistling, ud at All he had done Was to consult The address on the telegram. —J. L. 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Burmese, ana | tral American. 1 important bevera from m | plies its v D. res ke shores the Villa April himsel of the petrated too-free wational Mexic by 1 lulgence ks, pul- inc drin pect ublie, s cd States ha roduetng the 1abit, but t unst the co this ong befc no th uered of Me ties of own army joined 1 of the the wnd mescal e or ‘century same utilitar a aborigines as the the bamboc banana to t ldition to this pla starch roots across 24 f is Al- aid total abstainer from intoxicat- an hor- men National Geographic society of on, in a primer issued today beverage: tliar to “The erlonisls who settled the cast ve been Amer Indian to ‘firc-water’ in exchange similar ¢ Iuro- pulque The in- unigue re Cor- the Montezumas re pro- plant,’ an im- date b to the he Cen- the two nt sup- food; | | from its fibrous leaves cloth is woven | and ces rope is n obtai which thetr leaves iper on ome of huge o roofing still supply fuel, |.sharp-spined pla penetrable defens: of wild animals ¢ ive barricade “Mescal and many believe, same drink. the leaves plant, and | taining from a tl | alcohol as the whiskey. Pulque, m W for ad aga b aif is a from agav obtained or is maguey, tained a be which might aid of a long ree. the stopper for the 1 tainer strapped t course of guey will then wither pulque is is called vield te and agua wde; A Mescal and ro sort from its sort of have heen ost valued w hen dried fu obe huts; and rows it afforded ¢ against the s well an inst hostile t urque ferent p are names is asted of roots Ar othe average on the heart it the ve, when compared w a gourd h or ced. When t 0 his back. four or five months the n gallons of dies. When miel (honey its distillea brandy, rird to half as the papyrus ulp preserved ritin rnished stems the im- of an attacks effect- ribes. not, a for the from of the con- much nerican r hand, is the fermented sap of the plant, and of has the at- growth of six or eight years The pulque harvester taps this heart, ith the center of the date palm, and with the e sucks ap from it, using his tongue as a he reed is full he blows it into a pigskin con- In the ma- It iresh sap. sweet, innocuous liquid and water.) to light | ) It soon begins to ferment, however, a | process often hastened by the addition of madre, or old, pulque. “Neither mescal nor pulque is pensive One ¢ zet drink of latter cent, while a 14-gallon brand of imous tequilla be had for 19 pesos ex- a for a of the mescal may ($9.50.) “The Mexicans surround the discov- cry of these maguey beverages with a jegend of royal romance. Long bhe- fore the Montezumas held sway over ‘Tenochtitlan, so the story goes, one of the early emperors took as his bride the heautiful daughter of a vanquish- ed foe. The princess brought with her to Tenochtitlan the =ecret of a re- markable drink of which her lord and master grew inordinately fond. After imbibing freely of it he would become ratifyingly docile and torpid, leaving the princess free to her own devices. Other Aztec wives induced the prin- cess to share with them the secret of this strange and thus the whole race came under the power of pulque “The Aztee cannot be charged with the inventi the nauseous mill pulque, a compound of pulgue and milk with a ‘dash’ of rennet. The rennet, part of a cow's compound stomach, is partially putrified and the odor thus imparted is intersified and complicated by that of the pig-skin in which the liquor is contained. The alibi which defenders of the Aztec can \zainst the charge of being party this olfactory crime is that before the Spaniards reached Mexico there were cattle, horses or donkeys in the country, hence no rennet. “Pulque cannot be shipped out of the country hecause no method of pre- serving it has been discovered, so the output the planta- tion-——it is the most indus- try of the states Pucbla and Tiaxacala— home. Mexico consumes worth pulque annually.” soporific a offe to no extensive important Hidalgo, vast of of Mexico, is consumed at $4,000,000 of The uneasy suspicion current that the United States is somehow ig- noble because Kurope has brought five per cent. of patriotic devotion with ninety-five per cent. of dirt, crime, sorrow, and disaster and wo haven't imitated her—San Francisco Pulletin. appears that the only ray of that penetrated Berlin's gloom publication of President Wil- was a Copperhead edi- from the Chicago a Roosevelt newspaper, which re- printed with much emphasis as though it actually represented re- spectable American opinion.—New York World, is the son's tarial on note rhune, was Connecticut. 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York To those who concern themselves with the intellectual progress of the nation the newsstand, with its display of weekly and monthly periodicals, is a melancholy spectacle. If it be true that magazines are sold by their coi- ored covers we have just p srave concern. Fully half of these the portrait of a wax | cheeks and blue eyes, | Young girl. In some | beside a horse; in others she is alona in her foolishness. A current number of a widely circulated weekly shows her in company with a man, both grinning idiotically. To illumi her face with the slightest of mentaiity would be a tion of the most red magazine art Men moving picture shows have known to fall love with of the films to re practicability | door to sce for her home. girls have (New Herald.) cause | covers contain doll with rod said to he stan cases ghe young canons of who Juent een heroines in- in and of waiti the Soubrettes one an 1less adinirers many offers of marriage, but ever woos the girl on the shows a wish to mcet the the portrait. The face of the girl one would like to marry never appears on a nows- stand. Nor is it possible to find on jany cover a cartoon or a picture niean something or sug above the comprehension adored cou nohody original ot of an i 5 oa kitten, Small Potatocs. (Collicr's Weekly.) Madden, Congressman Illinoi and Frank man from Klor g ap= propriations for improving rivers snde harbor Congressman JMudden come tributed a comparison shicwing (kat, whereas his State $5,618,400.5¢ in Federal taxes, it is getting back only $850,000 in pork; whilo Flavida, entributing only $228,338.85 in tuxcs, is getting $950,000 in pork This kind of argument ilustrates per- fect type of the pork-barrel mind, 1t is exactly what this country mu get from if it is ever going get anywhere in the direction of pre- paredness or any sort of natio in- tegration—of acting as a nation rathep than as a collection of States By Congressman Madden's sort of argue- ment every inland State, like Nebras- ka and Kentucky and Colorado, would be justified in opposing all expendi- ture of money for a navy, because t} money goes k to them. That Madden belongs with the small in Congress is illustrated further contributions to the among which was this And the State of Illinois furnished the men to defend and preservs the Uni while the State of Florida did everything it could to destroy The biggest need of Congress Isn't there anybody in Second Wards of Chicaga enough to legislate for this nation better than Martin Madden does? Martin from Con debatir 2 is e Lwvay is to bac Ir. otae hin ate, le is big men. the Firshy and ) el - [ y o v 4