New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1916, Page 6

NEW. BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1916. BRITAIN HERALD RALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, Proorietor daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herall Building. 67 Church St. d_at the Post Office at New Britaln Second Class Mail Matter. ed by carrfec to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week. 65 Cents a Month. iptions for paper to be sent by mall, yable in advance, 60 Cents a Month, a Year. Iy profitabla advertising medium In city. Circulazion books and press pm always open to advertisers. d_will be found on sale at Hota- &'s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- vy, New York City; Board Walk, at- tic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONII CaLLS. Office . al Rooms THE PASSING PAGEANT. ing aside from the terrible ge taking place on the of Europe, the Northern States Unicn today to the ry of those valiant soldiers who the blue in our own Civil war p admirably defended the prin- upon which was built the New e, In national cemeteries Ehout the land will be held rial exercises commemorating turn eat deeds achieved during the ng that racked this y from one end to the other. gh the streets of the great of the nation will march the lemaining vestige of that vast of the Republic whose banners flung madly to the breezes, forth by stalwart arms and now float in peace and pur over the heads of feeble s awaiting the final march to ng place beside their brothers hill. ; fitting that the nation should pn this one day and turn its mind houghts of deeds well done, of a. jign that meant the preservation Union. In North and in South ere is the feeling that things put as they should have ended, though the bitterness of 5 was once prevalent in this jere is today a noticeable de- of that feeling which stood as ks of a terrible canflict, when fought against brother. If s in blue were triumphant ever 's in gray there is all the more 0 go around. Both sides well, both -earned victories, final outcome is the cement- jbonds that should never have ‘oken, but which once severed intense pain, her nation on the face of the vears battle- | The packers are complaining because they are getting less than three dol- lars for every animal slaughtered, and in some cases these men depend solely on the sale of hides, discount- | ing the eatable carcass. Thus it is that the retail butcher in New Britain must pay the neighbor- hood of fifteen cents and sametimes more, taking into consideration all classes and striking a general aver- I age, for every pound of meat he pur- chases. The old timers aver that the con- dition prevalent today in the meat market is something that has never been seen before. The bones, the fat, i and some of the cuts that were once looked upon as useless have taken on value that was never known. Where the butcher of a by-gone day wont to “throw in” a few odds and ends with the purchases of steaks and chops, these things are naw looked upon as delicacies and, as such, bring exorbitant prices. Even the hitherto cheap ‘soup bone’ is fast approach- irg the stage where it will be worth its weight in gold. And with all this the butchers are hard pressed. Even with the great prices they must re- ceive for their wares, there s com- vlaint amongst them, and many are thinking of closing their doors and retiring to less strenuous and ardu- ous businesses, to work that will re- quire less mathematical figuring and skimping on ‘“‘cuts” in order that a profit might be realized at the end of the year. This is the condition that makes it possible for a restaurateur to raise the prices of food-stuffs and not lose all trade. The whole complaint, as are many ather things, is blamed on the war. Armies must be fed, or there will be no fighting. And be- cause of this the nations now engaged in a death struggle have agents in this country buying up all available Lkeef for the boys in the trenches. Because of this the men, women, and children in this land must pay high or do without. The housewife, the butcher, the packer, almost every- tedy but the original producer is complaining. In this last instance the cattle raisers are fussing because there are not enough available cars to get their goods to the American mar- kets, or to the wharves where ships are waiting to carry such wares abroad. With all the talk of peace in the air hopeful consumers might look forward to the end of hostilities as a bznishing of the high prices an beef; but no! Be not misled. There is in was original price paid to the producers. | Commerce Commission as its chief ccunsel Governor Folk attached to the State Department in an impor- tant legal role. There it was that the friendship between the Secretary of State and the Governor of Missouri ripened. if there is the least possibility of Willlam Jen- nings Bryan causing any trouble in the ranks of the democratic party this year, the leaders might allow him to dictate terms to this effect, that he was former Now have the naming of who shall run as | vice president on the ticket with Wil- son. In that event, R. Marshall may be asked to step down Thomas | and advised to accept the opportunity he has of running for United States with Mr. senator in his awn state, chances of winning. 'Or, Mar- shall, seeing;that he is not enthusias- | wanted, may do this of his cwn accord, for the sake of harmony. Thus it may be that the Democratic ticket will De changed to suit the | If such is the case, | order of things. there could be no better man than take the | Joseph W. Falk ‘namead to place of Mr. Marshall. Govergor of Missouri lawyer, well versed in events of theyday, and political timber. Because present positian he has been is- a the a man of big of some- what shunted from the limelight; but he is a good man for a’ that, and a’ that. There are more than ten thausand men now ecnrolled for the Plattsburg training camps, all of which goes to show that the spirit of 76 never dies. As the summer gets into its younger element in the way of pre- paring for defense. FACTS AND FANCIES. Criticising congress for its foozling do much good, but it's possible to try the of the army bill isn’t likely to remedy of a new congress.—Boston Journal. New Yorkers must be pretty satisfled by this time that privac in telephone conversations is a th that has not yet been Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Britain has also undertaken save daylight by juggling the an hour. Free your attempts.—Burlington Press. At that, if one must be an ego- maniac, it is safer to exercise his iciosyncracies in the direction of the rresidential than the electric chair.— great The former trained current his full glride we may expect much from the well achieved.— to clocks It is hard to cheat vourself when you are reminded every hour of | | | | | | | An Echo From the New Britain of Colonial Days (By James Shepard.) The present day talk of oppression, trusts, and the high cost of living, sounds like an echo from the legis- lative cry of our infant state in the year 1776. At least two separate acts for regulating the prices of varlous | commodities were enacted by our Colonial Legislature and others by the state. The first of these, by the state, was passed in November, 1776 and wasentitled, “An act to prevent monopolies and gppression by exces- sive and unredsonable prices for | many of the necessities and conven- | iences of life.” The preamble to this act was as follows: ““Whereas the rapid and exorbitant | rise upon the necessities and con- viences of life in this day of public calamity and distress is chiefly oc- oned by monopolizers, the great pest of society, who prefer their own | private gain to the interest and safety | of their country, and which if not | prevented, threatens the ruin and destruction, of the state.” This law provided that the price | of *“labor in the farming way in the summer season shall not exceed thres | shillings, (fifty cents,) per diem.” i’l‘hc prices for “merchandise and | tradesmen, according to the usages and customs practiced in the differ- | ent parts of the state compared with | farm labors.” | Prices were stated for wheat, rye, I corn, wool, sugar, salt, West India and New FEngland Rum and various other articles. The price of pork was | fixed at “three pence three farthings per pound.” Grass fed beef of the best quality at “twenty-four shillings per hundred.”” These were Yankee | shillings, six of which made one dol- lar. Cheese was rated at six pence, | (eight and one-third cents,) por | pound. Good “Fall Butter” ten pence | per pound, etc., with a proviso that articles not enumerated in the law were to be ‘“‘at a reasonable accustom- ed proportion to the above mentioned articles.” A new regulating act was passed in December, 1776 which raised the price of farm labor six and one-quar- | ter cents per day. The price of New | England Rum, was fixed at four shil- | lings and six pence by the single | gallon and West India Rum at seven | shillings eight pence. The only pen- | alty provided was a fine or forfeiture of the amount received in the tran- | saction. The prior act of Nov. 1778 and the two colonial regulating acts, | (which had been continued in force | up to this time,) were repealed. The | new law was altered ‘“‘somewhat in | May 1777 and in the following August } both laws were repealed without sub- | stitution. Hence, there was no law | for regulating prices from the middle l'or August 1777, to February, 1778, i | | \ convicted before Isaac Lee, Jr., Esqr., and sentenced to pay a fine of forty shillings and cost and your memorial- ist further says that brandy being stat- ed at twelve shillings which was to be nearly the price of metheglin he thought he might venture to sell it at the price of eight shillings and it ap- pears that the court trial rather gave sentence from respect of law than from the heniousness of the crime. Though your memorialist acknowl- edges the law to be good and at the present time of oppression and ex- tortion x x x Your Memorialist begs leave fur- ther to say that this is the first and the only time he was guilty, break- ing either this or the former regulat- ing act and means to pay a strict regard to the laws of this state and the authority of the same. But when your memorialist reflects on the disability he Is now under, a sort of politigal death or disfranchise- ment which must render him incap- able either to provide for or save him- self from * * * or to serve the public in this time of calamity which he al- ways has and still wishes to do, he can't but in the most humble manner pray this honorable assembly to take vour memorialist district case into vour wise consideration and grant that he may be restored to his former freedom which will lay lasting ob- ligation of gratitude or in some other way grant relief as your memorialist shall or is duly bound (to) ever pray. Dated at Farmington this 11th day of May 1778. SAMUEL SMITH. On the reverse side of the petition was the following testimonial: “We the subscribers, inhabitants of the society of New Britain in Farm- ington would inform that the Within Samuel Smith has appeared friendly to this and the United States and we always esteemed him to be well af- fected to the laws of this state and we never knew and believe that this is the first he was ever prosecuted and believe that if the within mem- orial should be granted it would not prescribe the law, etc. TIMOTHY MARELS (Merrils) ZEBULO GOODRICH. BENJAMIN ADKINS, THOMAS ST ELIJAH FRANCIS, TLEE, IR ABEL CLARK, ELIJAH HINSDALE, LOT STANLEY, MILES ANDREW, LEVI ANDREWS, RODERICK CADWELL, TIMOTHY STANLEY, STEPHEN HOTCHKIS. ELNATHAN SMITH, GILES HOOKER, ileges and immunities which he would have enjoyed had he not been gullty of a violation of said act, viction notwithstanding.” i AN EASTERN SHORE BREAKFAST Contemplation of It May Move the Reader to Start for Mar (Louisville Courier Journal.) It is as pleasing as the song of a bird, the rippling of a breok or the laughter of children to hear a satis- fied patron cHant the virtues of a public eating place. The kicker we have always with us. He invariably is overcharged, badly fed, insulted by the waijter,. robbed by the boy who (Ekfs his hat, and flnz\lh! turned into the street feeling that gold will not buy, good food or courteous treatment. He has looked in the wrong place for entertainment. The place to find abundance of excellent fare and wait- ers who take Lord Chesterfield as a model, rather than Jesse James, 1s the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The fact is revealed by a man who has traveled for 30 years in the South and enriches, with an “appreciation,” the columns of the Baltimore Sun. The Sun’s correspondent writes from Savannah, a city which deceives the newly arrived traveler by the breadth of its streets, the quaintness of its domestic architecture, the peace of its plazas, the plentitude of its water-oaks festooned with Spanish moss, and then leads him up to a “first-class hotel,” like those of New York or Chicago where his mouth is watering for characteristic southern dishes, cooking and service. The Sun's contributor deposes as follows:— I am on my way now to the good old shore, and the time cannot fly quick enough for me. I can almost taste the good things that are in store for me. I had occasion to spend a few days on the Eastern shore in May. The first town I struck was Crisfield. : took breakfast at a hotel there, and this is the meal I got for 50 cents: Strawberries and cream, two soft crabs, one boiled trout, two poached eggs, one glass of milk and one cup of coffee. That meal would have cost me down here just $2. I then went over to Pocomoke and I will say without fear of con- tradiction that they serve the best food and the best-cooked that you will find anywhere in this county. They will serve you with the best that comes out of the waters of the Chesapeake and the best that grows on the farms of the Eastern shore. I ate two meals there, and T am almo: ashamed to tell you all I did eat, I have not space enough to go into detail of what I put away. And mind vou, Mr. Editor, only 50 cents per meal. Gllded and blase Americans visit Paris, Nice, Mentone, Monte Carlo, Naples, in quest of good catering. A commercial traveler ‘‘strikes” Cris- fleld and Pocomoke City, not by de- sign, and in search of good hotels, City, And his con- | | Savoy, Claridge’s i brine and showing in a sm i longed.” not thought ot the price of a | sauare mea Talk not of the Ritz-Cariton, the the Cafe de Parls, Bertilini’s when Crisfield and Poco- moke City are on the map! rrow no more about the shattered glories of Ostend! The eastern shore of Mary- land, where hotel keepers drag Ches- apeake i for the delicacies of the comb the countryside for the tid-bits of a generous soil in the gourmet’s and the gourmand’s, par- adise. And a half-doilar is the Se- same which opens the dining room doors and brings the waiter toc the table with every tooth in his head le of welcome! President Wilson’s Achievement. (Waterbury Democrat. ) Nearly all the nations of Europo have been drawn into the vortex of war. Even several nations, remote from the scene of the original con- flict, nations which have not been abls to participate actively on the western front or the eastern front or even use their battleships in the conflfct, have been drawn in, through treaties and agreements or through mistakes of statesmanship. The greatest states- men of the world have realized that in these days of world upheaval there has been a danger far greater than the actual loss of life and property that is now shocking all civilized na- tions. The danger has been that the entire world, instead. of half of it, might become involved; that inter- national law might be wiped out in a day, and that civilization itself might be uprooted, no great nation remain- ing at peace to voice the protest against war-madness. In the German note of May 5, announcing the aban- donment of the submarine methods against which the United States gove ernment protested, the following par- agraph appears: “If the German gov- ernment nevertheless ic resolved to 20 to the utmost limit of concessions, it has been guilded not alone by friendship connecting the two great nations for over one hundred years, but aldo by the thought the great doom which threatens the entire civi- lized world, should the cruel and sanguinary war he extended and pro- All the belligerents, Wity their passion at heat, never- theless have recognized the part that America has played in upholding in- ternational law, protecting the rights of neutrals and non-combatants, and confining the limits of the raging con- flict. Since July, 1914, the people of the United States have lived in peace and prosperity, with the war sur- rounding them, and yet with the con- sclous knowledge that there has been of white {in the White House a man who, while protecting the nation’s honor and up- holding its dignity, nevertheless re- tained for the country its peaceful leverage upon war-ridden Europe. The conduct of President Wilson throughout the European war -has won him not merely the respect oI} Furope, but the commendations of the people of the United States of all shades of political opinion There has been no rashness nor timidity. !The ship of state has been steered hut in the routine of business. with deftness and sureness. The best behold he is feasted like a guest of traditions of American statesmanship Belshazzar, at 50 cents a throw! He have been upheld by Woodrow Wil- goes away ashamed to tell how much son in the most trying time in the he ate, but glad to be the trouba- . world’s history. dour of the landlord, the cook and, | the waiter who collaborated to pro- | vide the spread. American people would better Few of us could consume two soft-| some hard thinking about saving our | shell crabs, strawberries and cream, ' own markets at home before capturing one broiled trout, two poached eggs, : some twopenny markets abroad which one glass of milk and one cup of * will be visible, so far as we are con- coffee for breakfast. But if such a' cerned, just about as long as the breakfast is beyond the bonds of the | gmoke over the battlefields of the old average appetite it must awaken un- world.—New York Press. bounded admiration in a commercial | Sk age whose spirit was reflected when | On a presidential pall at Cornell the waiter yelled throughout the hall | University Bryan received nine votes “we don’t give bread with one fish' in a total of 1, Bryan increasing ball”; in a period when the half-dol- | 1y exhibits the aspect of a man with lar is minted as a waiter's tip and g past.—New York Sun. little likelihood that the prices will | New York Herald. g0 down, even when the war ends. The explanation for this rests on an- other phase of ecanomics,—the grow- ing scarcity of feed for animals. | other than the law of October, 1777 | which required dealers to have a JOHN RICHARDS, | ticense and to sell denouncing con- ELIJAH ' SMITH, | spiracies in vigorous language, as ap- LEVI TODD, | pears from the following preamble JOSEPH SMITH, | to the last mentioned act, viz. EZRA BELDING, | “Whereas all conspiracies and other SAMLL WHAPLES. | acts to enhance the prices of mer- ROBERT WOODRUFF, J chandise or any of the necessities and JOHN CLARK, | conveniences of life bought and sold, DAN CLARK, | are at all times immoral, oppression DAVID LUSK, | to the poor, and pernicious to the ELIJAH GOODRICH, state, and more especially so at the DAVID GOODRICH. | present time, by reason of the inter- The price of metheglin or eggs is ruption of commerce and great de- | not stated in the law and whether mand for many articles occasioned by | the price at which either was sold stood by William H. Taft four years 1hnvwar." was excessive or otherwise could only 2go are not without knowledge. But | _Under the law of February, 1778, | be determined by a comparison of av last the machinery is out in the | {he Price of labor was fixed at seven- | the prices for other articles. The cpen so that all can see it.—Spring- | ty-five per cent. over the price that | amount of the fine imposed «n Mr. field Republican, | prevailed in the year 1774. Pork and | Smith is the same as the amount | beet wtel;edrz_ltetflh utl about double the | which he had received for the metheg- 3 | price stated in the law of 1776. Cheese |1 rom which I infer that the cou The desire of the American public | {\v;\s raised from six pence per pound v’:fisfmerod“:;1?.\»nnin; per dozen f:xt' for ridding the country of po al | to nine pence. New England rum was | eggs was not excessive, while the sale tariff-adjustments Is a leading fact of | raised from four shillings, six pence |of metheglin at eight shillings per the time. That wish and necessity, e to twelve shillings per gallon. Prices | gallon was unreasonable and conse- as ever witnessed such scenes take place today throughout d, the Garden Spot of the prid. Here, after some fifty- are marching through the veterans of the war between es. These old men of today ere boys when the conflict young. lads, youths, arts full to overflowing with of living. Now they come with rs bent under the weight of vith eyes bedimmed by the pt with hair by the snows ve passed from the spring of through the summer, down lautumn. The way is short, ney’s end is near. When the of the long evening gather hemn and they lie down to take The Colonel’s forces have started their big drive against the justice's forces, and now it is to be seen wheth- er a rough rider suit is more service- able than the austere robe of the bench.—Utica Observer. The April imports $217,800,000! - do PRESENTING GOVERNOR FOLK. Sometime ago the story was rife in political circles that Vice President Marshall might not be named on the same ticket this year with President Wilsan, that there was a movement on foot in the Democratic party to force Mr. Marshall to the background and bring to the fore George Ade, the humorist, is con- vinced that the friends of Roosevelt are to start a stampede that will end in the capture of the republican nomination. The plan is a somewhat open secret, of which the friends who merry passing days, of many winters. some other prominent man, someone strong enough to carry with him a raft of votes. The sequel to this story has fresh out just made its appearance, of Washington. The name sug- gested in the place of Thomas R. An Egyptian City So Long Bt there will be gri¢f at their cause by their stay they made Jra possible. young boys of the city stand ong the sidelines and watch ning ranks of the veterans tately array, let them ponder r the blessings that have been d upon this generation, made to great extent by the sacri- these gallant old warriors of days. Let the heart-throhs ouths of today go out in sy p the youths of '61, spurring ong on their march, making h easier for the love and ad- showered upon them. In a ile they will be no longer with Memorial Day will be cele- or the most part by a scat- flowers and placing of flags P white marble head-stones. the passing pageant that pall forth all the patriotism the heart of Young America. ks the old men. BEEF was much in certain circles yesterday e of the prominent restaura- Britain raised the comestibles, adding par- to the price of the staple As this provender ‘the greater part made up of he explanation is simple. it coming to be looked upon kury. Latest from iwhere the great packing hold, forth tend to show that her' prices on foodstuffs may d for in the very near future ation is' simmered down to ve kattle coming into the bity is Dbringing as much as d un.dmurn per hundred- n increase of almost fifty per e GOING TUP, wonderment ex- New meal. reports _ years. . This "’.,‘h"l Marshall is that of Joseph W. Folk, former Governor of Missouri, and prominent as the man who conducted the Interstate Commis- sion’s investigation the per- old “New Commerce inta nicious activities of the Haven" road. From this it is seen that there is likely to be some disquietude at the Democratic national convention, whereas everything had been slated for peace and tranquility. There is no gainsaying the fact that Mr. Mar- shall wants a re-nomination. He likes Washington, and he likes the duties that have been vested in him. He is a congenial soul, with a taste for those things that hold forth in the precincts of the natianal capital. Also he loves to sit serenely in his rlace in the Senate and direct, or watch, the activities of that sedate body of legislators. So it is but patural that he would want to re- turn to power in the event that his party is victorious at the polls. His friends, toe, want this honor con- ferred upon him and they have made it known that unless Mr. Marshall receives the nomination there will be trouble ahead for those who oppose him. Because two United States Senators are to be elected in diana this year, the native state of the Vice President, the argument is advanced that the name of Marshall will go a long way in carrying that state and the two senators with it. On the other hand, there are those who contend that Joseph W. Folk can garner more votes than Thomas R. Marshall ever knew existed. William Jennings Bryan is behind | the movement that is bringing Gove nor Folk ta the front. At least, thi is the way the runs, And it may be so, for Mr. Bryan and Mr. Folk have ever been good friends. stor Before going over to the Interstate In- | pressed in so many ways, and in such volume, that its existence and its urgency are alike unmistakable should meet response in the form of the requisite legislation, by the con- gress now In session.—Buffalo Times. American public opinion thould make it clear to Mr. Hay and the nar- row economists and pork-barrel ex- perts leagued with him in the house of representatives that the blunder committed in the house on Monday by the 221 members who rejected the senate measure must be reme- died before the adjournment of con- gress. It w!li cost much money to adopt the senate plan to raise the peace strength of the army to 250000 men; but it will cost more, much more, to enter upon war with the miserably inadequate army which the house proposes to establish.—Brook- lyn Eagle. It is welcome news that Scnator Harding of Ohio may be permanent as well as temporary chairman of the republican national convention. That would cut one long speech. The ple who prophesy a protracted con- vention evidently don’t remember that since 1888 republican nomina- tions have been made on the first bal- lot. There were only eight ballots taken in 1888, though the convention lasted for eleven days, adjournment being taken for the week-end. The committee on arrangements does not expect that this convention will last more than five days.—Buffalo Ex- press. Japanese Propaganda in America. Many of the officials who pressed the recent Japanese demands on China continue in office; there is an aggressive army party; and the people are being cultivated in the idea of Japan’s right of domination in the Far East. Meanwhile Japanese agents in this country and Americans who are partisans of the Japanese are seeking to persuade the people | of the United States that their policy is a Monroe Doctrine. The applica- tion of the phrase, though false, has the effect desired by the Japanese and is therefore being worked sys- tematically—The June World's Work. | pase | of peo- | | fortunately and sensorily, | for goods and labor mentioned in the | law were to be ‘“ascertained by the authority and selectmen in the pective towns” who were to pre- a list of some with prices and to file sald lists with the town clerk their respective towns. The act also provided that importers shculd not sell for more than one dollar in { Continental money, what cost them one shilling sterling. The law further provided that no | person could commence or maintain | @ suit at law until they should “swear by the ever living God” that they had not ‘wittingly or willingly” violated the said act. Venders of imported 800ds, on trial under this act, were to . “be adjudgeq guilty thereof” unless ! they could show by invoice or other | Wise that they were not guilty. The | penalty for a breach of the law was a fine or forfeiture equal to the amount received in the unlawful sale or trans- action. “every person convicted of the breach | of this act shall thenceforth pe in- capable of bearing any office, civil or | military in this state, or of prosccut- | ing or maintaining any suit at law or | of taking out any executions.” It was | ordered that six hundred copies of this | act should be printed for general dis- tribution. Referring now more particularly to New Britain, Samuel Smith of Stan- ley Quarter was convicted of selling certain farm products at an uniaw- ful price and thereby forfeited, or supposed that he had forefited cer tain rights, as appears by the follow- ing petition or memorial, copied from Volume X, 319a-3196, Revolutionary war manuscripts at the state library, viz: “To the Honl, the general assem- Iy of the state of Connecticut to be holden at Hartford on the second Tuesday of May, 1778. The memorial of Samuel Smith of Farmington in Hartford ceunty hum- bly sheweth that some time in Au- gust last your memorialist was un- and asks liberty to say undesignedly guilty of breaking the regulating act, etc., by selling five gallons of metheglin at the price of eight shillings the gal- civil lon and four dozen of hens eggs at the price of one shilling the dozen for which cause your memorialist was | | and water, fermented by the | quantity. With the further proviso that | fin quently a violation of the law. T will remember when it was not uncemmon to make and use metheglin but is hardly known at the present fime. T do not remember a single instance of its manufacture or use within the last forty vears. Tt isa very mild and pleasant drink, composed honey Adition veast. Tt is intoxicating taken in a constderable It is unfortunate that Mr. Smith did not state more precisely the date when his sale was made, or given any statement as to the date of his conviction. If the sale was madec in the latter half of August, 1777, he could not have been legally convicted, as there was then no law of any kind for regulating the prices of zoods. TIf the sale was before the repeal of the law in August, 1777, he should have been tried under the law of December 1776, which had no clause relating to forfeiture of rights. He certainly could not have been legally eonvicted under a law passed in 1778 any act committed in 177. In those davs the courts were not very strict as to legalities, if they believed that a son ought to be punished. Mr. Smith in his petition, attempts to justify his price for metheglin by the stated price for brandy in the law of 1773, hut it should be noted that he rould not have so justified himself by the prices stated in any former law. Tt should also be noted that there is no direct reference to the right to vote, either Mr. Smith's petition or in that clause of the law which relates to dis- abilities. A careful study of the p. tition shows conclusively that it w based entirely on the law of 1778, It is possible that Mr. Smith was tried and convicted in 1777, and, on learn- ing of the disabilities for conviction in the new law. pposed that the were applicable to his case and so pre- pared and presented his memorial: but it is more probable that he was not tried until after the passage of the act of February 1778 under which he was illegally convicted. A conviction under the law worked a forfeiture of certain rights, whether the conviction was legal or not. In any event it was a small crime for so great a pen- alty and the legislature very properly granted his petition and ordered “that he be restored to all the liberties, priv- little when of a only for per- it Forgotten, Now Remembered Washington, D. C,, May 30.—EIl Ar- ish, one of the world's forgotten places until the English bombarded it a few - days ago, by the National from its Washington which says: “With its large square fort and bat- tlemented walls, I Arish much more formidable and imposing appearance, viewed from the Medi- terranean to the north and from the Desert et-Tih to the south, than its importance has warranted in vears. Formerly a populous halting for the numerous caravans fol- ort desert route” from Egypt to Syria, its trade has waned materially since the completion of modern railway connections with Jaf- fa, Port Said, and Alexandria. The town clings to the banks of the Wa- Geographic society headquarters, dai-el-Arish, a stream which becomes | torrent after every rain. It hundred miles south- slightly a small is more than a west of Jerusalem and a horter al, which lies to the west. “The recent hostilities in this area revive a host of historical associations dating as far back as the time of the | | six to one. Pharaohs when this town was a place of exile for political prisoner: its ancient name being Rhinokolu Its present name is supposed to derived from the custom which ob- tained here of ‘cutting off the noses’ of malefactors whose death sentence had been commuted. “Some thirty miles to El Arish, on the Egyptian-Sy boundary, lies ancient Rhaphia, now called Er-Rafa, where Josephus tells us that the Roman conqueror made his first stop on his march against Jerusalem. Here also Sargon overwhelmed the Egyptians in the eighth century before the Christian era, and five hundred years later there was fought on the same the famous battle between Ptolemy Philopator and Antiochus, when the charging elephants of both armies the east of played such a spectacular role. Of these great beasts, which had been in- is the subject of a | | war geography bulletin, issued today presents a | | credit for the city's recent | | also distance from the Suez can- be | ian | Titus | sands | troduced into Syrian and Greek war- fare after Alexander’s conquests in India, much was expected. The battlo opened with a trumpeting dash of tho opposing armoured mountains of flesh, Ptolemy’s forces commandin seventy-three of the terror-inspiring charges while Antiochus sent into the fray 102, With the first onslaught practically all of Ptolemy’s elephants were captured, yet he won the day. “El Arish fell before Napoleon's Egyptian army in September, 1798, the fall being given to France’s great general, Klieber, commander of the vanguard which seized Jaffa and Gaza. It was during this campaign that Napoleon committed the great atrocity at Jaf- 4a, shooting those prisoners whom ha could neither guard nor feed, yet whom he feared to release. After Napoleon’s departure Kleber con- cluded a convention at FEl Arish with the English admiral Sir Wm. Sidney 8Smith, whereby the French were to be allowed to capitulate and were to receive safe transport back to France. This agreement was revoked by Lord Keith, however. Whereupon Kleber with 10,000 men marched to Helipolls and administered a crushing defeat to the Turks who outnumbered him Had not a frantic assas- sinated the great French tactician, on the day that Napoleon won the bat- tle of Marengo, the fate of French arms in Egypt might have been difii- cult. “The Admiral Smith whose agree- ment with Kleber was disallowed was the same British officer who had caused the signal defeat of Napol- eon before the walls of Acre, a relief work for which a grateful parliament voted him an annuity of a thousand vounds. “In the center of the town of El Arish is a granite wall with an in- scription in hieroglyphics, perpetuat- ing a curious legend about the Egyp- tian god Shu. A short ince heyond the walls the traveler is shown the ruins of the building in which Bald- win I, one of the Crusader kings of Jerusalem, died in 1118, after an un- successful attack on Egypt.”