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Our Services Guaranteed Full line of Auto Goggles and Sun | Glasses THE BATTLE FOR HEALTH | Best Tonic To Gain Fighting Strength | is Father John’s Medicine. | In the struggle for health and re- newed strength Father John’s Medi- | cine is the best tonic and body build: for those who are weak and run down |} because it is pure and wholesale nou Jshing food which makes new flesh and strength without using alcohol | declared that | strike was nothing but NoAlcohal or Dangerous Drugs | DASH OF BUSINESS | ‘Don’t write: | Duncan Naylor, | read before Judge Charles C. | ; that I will ever let a woman make 2 | much I love you. g0 on | cent., | vegetables, | follow | former | week, IN GLASS OF LOVE, Lake George Man Knew How to Mix a Cupid Cocktail May 17—Seabury of Lake George, N. Y. ap- parently never heard that diologue between two actors on a New York stage which runs thus: First Actor—Here's a fine motto: ‘Do right and fear no man;’ Second Actor—Here’s a better: and fear no woman!’ Brewer wrote—to Mrs. Sarah now his fervid Putnam, Brewer, D. Mr. one of love letter were Thomp- son in the Probate Cout, where her daughter is trying to have her will set aside on the ground of undue influence by Mr. Brewer. Mr who died at Spring- field, Conn., Feb. 19, last, left an es- tate of $101,000. Four-fifths of the income from this she devised of Mr. Brewer. Her daughter, Miss Mary G. Naylor, should get the other one- fifth, she said, and upon Mr. Brewer's death should at it all. Mrs. Naylor lives abroad. Her attorneys are Jos- eph H. Choate, Jr., and Ernest T. Sherman of New York. Used Morphine and Whiskey. Dr. Esther L. Stevenson, sistant at Dr. Given’s sanitarium at Stamford, testified that Mrs. Naylor, a patient there in December, 1914, was addicted to the wuse of mor- phine and had one and a half ounces of whiskey before meals and at bedtime. “She told me many times how men had tried to strike up affairs with her since she was a widow,” testificd Dr. Stevenson. ‘‘She spoke frequent- ly of a man from Lake George, who said he remembered her as a ‘“‘golden- haired companion’ of his youth. It was really her sister he remembered, but she said she didn’t want to dis- appoint him, so she had her hair made golden with peroxide of hydro- gen.” Further testimony developed the fact that Mr. Brewer went to Reno to get a divorce from a wife, who, he said, had deserted him seventeen years before, and while at Reno he wrote Mrs. Brewer the fifty-one let- They were a queer melange of id sentiment and cold business. first -as- Mingled Love and Law. In one he d “undying love,” and then “Please send me the power attorney yvou con- ferred upon In another expres: asked, of me.” he wrote “Remember, T am not scolding at you, for Cupid is sitting on top of my pen.’ In still another he wrote: “This is the last time in my life sucker of me letter go But I wouldn't let t without telling you how You must remem- that business is busi- | ber, ness.” Five wills of Mrs. Naylor were pre- sented in court today. The first, sec- ond and third spoke lovingly of her daughter and did not mention Brew- er. The fourth and fifth gave most of the income to him. The case will today. however, COST OF LIVING T0 TAKE NEW SPRING; Strike on New York Pier Causes Embargo on Freight York, on fr Ci t to this port which will (]l\(‘l!r thousands of tons of freight to the transcontinental railroads, with consequent increase in rates to hipper of from about 7 to 45 per has been declared by the Southern Pacific Railroad company Since much of this freight consists of dried fruits, canned goods, and dried the inc d cost of ship- ultimately fajl on such commodities wdmitted, an inc the already high cost of 1 the company's decree. Whatever the result of their however, the Iroad official - nounced yesterday that the embargo would be enforced until the last one of the 1,350 coopers, checke 1 longshoremen who quit the piers of the Morgan line here on Tusday | taoin shmrdlu emfwyp vbgkaj e morning of last week had returned to his work or his place had been sat- isfacto: filled. According to these Ticials, ‘their men had no desire to strike, but were forced to quit work through fear of Paul Kelly, the gang leader, and the strong- arm men who are with him in the Longshoremen’s Union. Kelly is president of the union, according to the information of the | railroad men. Whatever his post, he is said to control the union complete- and to direct its councils. Certain- ly he appeared as spokesman for the union in the brief negotiations which | preceded the strike declaration last | and rhen who had worked for the Morgan line for twenty years and who quit their posts almost in tears, Kelly had threatencd beating and even more if they did not accept New May ght 17—An the embargo marine from Pacific the | | ment consumer of and, it was must Ha her ease g may action an | | | | | 1 them with serious harm his leadership. Officials of the Southern which controls the Morgan line, de- clared their belief yesterday that the an attempt by company for wages and to cement his hold upon the Longshoremen's union by a display of strength dire Pacific Kelly to hold preposterous up the | the text | steamship | Hampton ! the note to be dey | under | This is MAY 17, 1616. Buy a Magee Range for the Wonderful Magee Oven Don’t you want an Oven that is heated on five sides including the back of the oven instead of three or four sides? This is a Magee feature which heats evenly—every part of the wonderful Magee Oven Heating on five sides of the oven requires less fuel APPAM NOT A PRIZE, LANSING DECLARES Prussian-American Treaty of 1799 Is Not Thought Applicable | May late yesterday Washington, 17—Secreta Lansing made of his note of March st to Count Von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, in which the latter was informed of the decision of this gov- ernment ‘in the case of the British Appam, which was ¢ sea by the German ider, Moew: and sent intn | Roads prize under command of a German lieutenant. Until yesterday the note had heen regarded as a confidential document by the state department. Even the character of its decision in the Avp- pam cas was never officially dis- closed by the administration. The note would have heen kept secret longer except for the fact that it has been introduced in evidence he- fore Judge Waddill in the tured at merce T as a the the state objection The rman to ports in | only n | E | s n | wa an ! pro publication of the note was out department no longer ) tention of the Ge empbassy that a distinet surprise. for applicable, and that it would not prizes brought into Amer tination or indefinite asylum” hy i | ment has decided, the Appam is not | | in unecscorted to be de- privilezes usually granted by marvi- | port is removed-—stress the | British owners of the vessel in an | try—perhaps until the supreme court | district court at Norfolk, courtesy to the court to its publication the Prussian-American treaty been generally believed in W der the Appam to leave o by vessels of war and that even bringing priz into Ameri entitled to remain in American wate oil of war in an Amer. time nations to prizes of war. nd | repairs, or need of provisions effort to obtain custody of the ship —decide. whether the United States | ed against non-union piers. proceedings are pending. The since court has permitted note closes that the bf 1799 the Appam should De e l tn that the te department h‘ \ waters. Secretary Lansing a such cases the ‘port of refuge could ports. under the treaty, hecause she ate department rules that she should leave as soon as the Iowever, in view of the libel the state devartment will take no | at Norfolk has properly taken ju ,\—l department’s purpose in withholding introduced in evidenct ment refuses to accept the con- titled to asylum in an Americs cluded to regard the old treaty the old treaty is applicable not he made a port of “uitimate des- But in any event. the state depart- ! not brought in by a ship of war, but | that the Appam can only enjoy the | cause of her entry into ceedings instituted at Norfolk by action until the courts of this conn- dictlon of the case. com- | & | ot raom { Courts building former Our Simple Damper places the fire under perfect control at all times s J A, ANDREWS & CO. 132 MAIN STREET Leonard & Herrmann Co. TRADE MARK Have you scen them? fore you buy your new wash skirts. Wash Skirts If not, make it a point to see them be- It’s worth your while. Yes, Madam, you now can buy a Wash Skirt in just your size— no more need to buy one or two sizes larger than you require and keep laundering it till it shrinks and becomes your size. We are exclusive Agents in Skirts. ' Our showing consis the newest and most fascinating of a wonderful line in this city for these NEYRSRINK effects made of white P. K.—gabardine—fancy corded and novelty weave materials —aiso the genuine Palm Beach cloth in natural color and neat stripes and the much wanted new awning stripe effects in assorted color PRICES ARE FROM $1.98 TO $4.98. See Window Display. TheNew Misses’ & Ladies’ Apparel Shop 165 MAIN STREET. ROFRAND ANSWERED. CALL OF THE HEART Alleged Murderer Goulrl Not Re- main Away From Family New —Former Deputy chael A. York, May 13 Street Cleaning Commis Rofrano, of hiding to face ioner who suddenly charge that a five chil- crept out a murder, declared yesterday for his home and impossible for A before Judge yearning dren made it him v in exile any longer. soon as ne had been arraigned PDelehanty Sy charge murder in the he begged District Attorney for permission to see his fami in the Tomb: he said, but in some in the district :lt!nrnf',_\ s office, which his children could not away a on of their father behind prison bars, The reunion took place in the office the fourth floar of the Criminal - occupied hy Assistant Distriet Attorney Brothers. Two detectives looked on as Rofrana received his family, wife, mother, and five daughters, ranging from 3 to 14 vears. Ior the first time since his reappearance Rofrano showed the eifects of the nervous strain which he in General sions on a of fil trom arry on to | st degree, | Swann | Not | | had endured during the eight months that he had been evading capture. Tears rushed to his eves as his youngest child threw her arms around his neck and pleaded with him to come home. Both the mother and wife were in hysterics. Finally tofrano, overcome, asked the detec- tives to take him out of the room, which they did, closing the door on his weeping children. i “I Had to See Them.” Then Rafrano broke down | pletely. He turned to the door | separated him from his family and muttered: ‘Those little ones in there. That's why I had to come hack. I couldn’t stand it any longer. I had to them, no matter what Lappened to me.” Martin W. Littletan, | Rofrano, said his client to go to trial as soon possible. He wanted no delay, and it was at Rofrano’s own urgent request | Mr. Littleton made arrangements with the district attorney to put the on the June calendar. Although himself would make no vesterday, Mr. Littleton, him, said the ex-deputy was absolutely certain com- which see for anxious counsel was as ca Rofrano statement speaking for commissioner murder of Tom Mike Gaimari. said, believed a trial free of of any sort must result in- in an acquittal, in the tenant, lawyer politics evitably Foley’s lieu- Rofrano, the ce with the real Mocha and Java flavor that makes you pass your cup the second timeé is worth weight in gold but we only charge cents. National Butter Co., 133 Main its St.—advt. that | cf being exonerated of any complicity { (INOORPO. HART “Come into the garden, Maud,” aprons. Bungalow, alow aprons. Middy and garden aprons. aprons of blue, tan, lavender pink and gray. Belt and pock- ets all bound with whie tape the very smartest thing to wear when gardening, 9S8c. Percale middy aprons, and pockets, 75c Percale aprons, and back, with belts. shades, at 49c. Aprons of good quality per- cale, chambray and gingham; square or round; and neck bound with white. Some trimmed with check material. Button down side, at 69c. Fitted princess aprons with bib, percale and ginghams, 49c. bungalow, bung- belts button side All new sleeves -Allen & o RATEDY FORD The ApronSho All Prices and Styles and Best Possible Values ring and summer s prons will interest e: It every apron imaginable, plainest for mor: the loveliest trim and emby woman include: cies of the very work to with dainty eries. Maid’s aprons, made in prince style, bib or without. Prices $3 and we guarantee the aprons for the money. Afternoon aprons made| sheer lawns and dotted Swil trimmed with dainty laces black ribbons with the Fr maids' cap to match. P $1.25 to $3. One especially dainty dus made of floral dimity with| edging and cap to match. clal at 98c for the set. laces long or si Colored aprons, lower floor. White aprons, second materials arve used wholesome. Ask your CHOCOLATE MOCHA SQUARE! PARKERHOU' ROLLS HOT AT SCOTCH RASPBERRY Try our We have Boston Brown Bread and Baked Beans At the Home of “Aunt Delia’s” Bread only the very hest and Aunt Delia’s Bread is always pure gro cer for it. OUR THURSDAY SPECIAL , rich and most delicious, eac .per do; 3:30 P- M ROLLS; they are nice and tend . per do: fresh every nesday, Friday and Saturday. Street. inducement give pound box of those famous ‘Sam which is 30c. away free of soda or dish of ice cream. store, we remain 30 CHURCH STREET All Makes of STORAGE BATTERIES Recharged and Repaired. Large stock of Tires, new and seconds. Experi- enced men for tire repairing. A. G. HAWKER, 11 Elm Street our Skln stand tfi;s test? The bright lights of an evening gathering show up mercilessly the defects of a poor complexion. But the regular use of Resinol Soap makes it as easy to have a zafur- ally beautiful skin as to coverup a poor one with cosmetics. It lessens the tendency to pimples, redness and roughness, and in a very short time the complexion usually be- comes clear, fresh and velvety. In severe or stubborn cases, Resinol Soap should at first be aided bya little Resinol Oini- ment. All druggists sell them. Men with tender faces find that Resinol Shaving Stick prevents irritation. with a b60c purchase or over, To introduce the quality soda dispensed at our Hoping that we may have the pleasure of serving WE INVITE your inspection of our renovated store at the old stand, During the week of May 30 € 16th to the 20th we will as a s on oset Chocolates, the retail val new founta will also glve away one toy balloon for the children with every you aj ThHe MILLER-HANSON DRUG Q NEW BRITAIN, Of HORSE FRESH CARLOAD OF ( HORSES—JUST ARRIY Pair Bays, Bays, 1 Pair Black 1 Pair Bays, Several good farm chunks, 1,600 1bs., well 6 ready bought 3,100 3,000 1bs. 900 Ibs 1 Pair 2,500 1bs grocery, busl weighing broken from| and { acclimated to go worth the tha that money hor to wor These sold to make | will { room horses must be room for new arriv sold cost, we be | Business wagon heavy| | dump carts, harnesses, etc. | P. H. CONDON & G0. | 30 Laurel St., Bristol, Conn,