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_, Your Dollar = more now—in fact one dollar work of two in our Strav partment, When it comes to bu suits a Dollar now has power that $1.50 had a m Bathing Suits, Auto annel Trousers. IS than good will do the v Hat De- iying men’s the buying onth ago. Coats and NEW BRITAIN, CONN HUGHES’ BOLT CLARK TELLS (Continued from Fir. to make ony more tha make a national issue of: the Ephesin Dome? or Billie Patterson? or who v in the iron mask? “Lord Bacon, )‘ ing orator of Durand I who po: a national who SHOT, MAINE t Page.) issue can fired struck vas the man an he who ssessed the most exquisite intellect ever housed in a human skull—the fathe ductive Philosophy—warns general rule a warning writers and duducting few instanc plies all cluding the “He d a general against democratic dipl pointments but fails to epecifications for the prao the indictment. “Undiluted (He says that he is luted Americanism.” God be praised! that respect. The vast n American people—men an zre busy work at Germans denaminate ‘the Butter Sciences’ to make sneeches vaunting their Antericanism’ can citizen—and after all American citizen strength and the glory of t as patriotic as Cha Hughes, Woodrow Wilson er big wig in the land. one American citizen, natur in one wquld fail preme test come. “Perhaps President V made some mistakes. Pe democratic congress has It to say that ther a congress t make mistakes and be—simply because we are Any astronomer with an s can find spots on nevertheless and notwiths continues to light a tify the earth. “Judge Hughes with his for spots on the aaministration and | the but the people 1ave the most unbounc that has blessed the stapher Columbus a and and chro that we vs a Ameri in fa So too ng nat hur is safe president or hunting we T ity Ameri sncient publicans snee eminent Judge constitutes There there at notwiths possess r of the In- us against from too which ap- peakers, in- Hughes. indictment omatic ap- give us the f to ku\h«lnl sm." avor of * are we 4\11. He is not peculiar in of the d women- what the | Bread and elaborate ‘undiluted 1ass but the average Ameri- the average the he republic rles Evans or any oth- is not ive-born or | ndred who the country should the su- Wilson has srhaps the made some. | e never was | hat did not never will e all human, »quate tel- he sun; but tanding, the | 1 warm and telescope is democr: H(“ democratic | realize that ded prosper- land since discovered anding the of the no power re- of constructive statesmanship, we have and one-half statute three the e rer In upon elructi wubli ch hooks 1 legislat ans did in twenty should have been s ago. They are li ‘let well enough the democ of the thi edi clude to to cor “Actior Eere done and some on which we tic Tariff place It contains from the old trosity, a feature that tariff as bhad bill, whic not. That Democr hax t “We pe gre : hest ever ma Pa 11 W il T Smoot nges o new best it the n tariff ally i income tax The led since men invented a » graduated income tax able exemptions. In th treech T ever made in tt lhe subject of the tariff [ was in favor of a stiff g come tax, and lon ins on it 3 ic no politic the country peal the income t they have consume. Tt from the abund kas blessed rest and justest and so 1 slia T an 0l on tax and rty pr It not wit some of us, the wants of the poor. T a lJaw to change it, remo. f gt it—but ta repeal it i>an experiment amon ie English have had +he Napoleonic wars years, Then they went again, and have reduced wnee ny except cars placed more con- ion than the vears—laws | pacsed four k(¥ to con- alone!” and 1ts in power. than ngs we have words. stand: Bill, at tariff bil on the statute ellent | ex vne-Aldrich- it contains 14 make it even if the the last h most new fe re- em- ature tax tax system is with T very house statod aduated the world s down the is ever going ition to ro- taxes men on ever lev- first on that in- e I on what they | raises necessary revenue which God ind not from hey may pass del it, to per- never! Tt is g legislators. it ever h since two back to it it to almost or |1 | posterity an exact science. In Germany they derive a large revenue from an in- come tax; it is a feature of the fiscal system of every civilized countr; and I predict that it will be a permanent end prominent feature of our fiscal system so long as time lasts. “In England they have a budget, I do not know whether we are ever going to have one or not. A budget simply an account stated—which any good business man or bookkeeper an understand at a glance. They bring In a budget, and if they need mere money all they have to do is to slp up the income tax a little, If they have more money than they need, all they da is to scale down the income tax a little. It is easy to ar- range, cither to increase the income tax or to diminish the income tax. l is Our Currency System. “We had for more than a half of a century a financial system of shreds 1d patches, with a currency system almost wholly devaid of elasticit one of the most necessary and val- uwble features of any correct currency sistem. The one we had was a standing invitation and temptation to panic makers. Whenever it suited their convenience they created panics, and things went to smash, producing stupendous loss and widespread suffer- ing. “It is a wonder we got along with it as well as we did. For a genera- tion our Republican friends had been tinkering it—always promising, but rever achieving currency reform, “The Democrats, with the assistance patriotic Progressives and a pat- riotic contingent of Republicans, placed on the statute book the na- tienal reserve bank act, which is now praised by all business men, big and little, which provides for elasticity and provides an abundant supply of currency, and which it is believed will render panics impossible in the fu- tare, a consummation devoutly to be wished. “It cnables farmers to borrow money on farm lands—the best se- curity in the world—tends to prevent the draining of all the money inta a few great cities, retaining it so far as possible, in the communities where it belongs, Does any sane man believe that we would have escaped a most de- tructive panic during the overseas war if we had not enacted the reserve Fank law? “We passed an anti-trus® law which tends to promote a legitimate busi- ness and to crush illegitimate busi- ness. Under the old anti-trust law the then existing trusts flourished like a tree planted by the rivers of water and new trusts sprang up as suddenly and as numerously as mushrooms in a damp cellar. “Under the new law trusts are being dissolved and are rearranging their business on a legitiinate basis. “We passed a bill to open up our amazingly rich Alaskan empire for the benefit of all our people and 1o prevent that marvelous sterehouse of wealth from being exploited by the few for the benefit and belkoof of the few. “The policy of looking up Alaska was preposterous; the policy of throw- ing it wide open to exploiters and | ooters was criminawi. We have chosen the better part by authorizing the building of railroads into Alaska to open it up for homez for our children and our children’s children. “When I was a child my father used to put me to sleep by singing a song the refrain of which was “Un:le Sam is rich enough to give us all a ” He was then, but he is not farm. now. So we are looking out for of T 1 1 ¢ “Very little land worth entering now belongs to him outside of Alaska, which bids fair to be not cnly a great mining region, but also a great agri- cultural and grazing secticn. “The democratic policy seeks to utilize in perpetuity the vast wealth of that marvelous territory for the | benefit of the American people. “The Trades Commission law so far as our country concerned, a new venture in legisiaticn, intended to regulate trade so tha® it will ve fair trade—fair to all, big and little. Of course, being of recent date, -we have not had time to set the machin- ery under it to working at best, but much good is expected from its operation. Rural Credits Bill, will un- is, its rural credits bi. doubtedly prove a great blessing to the farmers. The most valuable features of it are the lon: term which the loans run, the plan for amorti- zation, the low rat. of interest. These will give a permanency never known before on this side of the At- lantic to agricultural pursuits, and will it is hoped, induce more people to own their own homes, a great de- sideratum. The rural credits bill, taken in connection with the reserve bank bill, ought to give great im- petus to the oldest of human occupa- tions, that of tilling the soil. In America the rural crediis scheme is new, but in Europe it is old, having been started by Frederick the at the close of the Seven Years' a century and a half The rural credits bank, or landschaft, which he started is still doing busincs “The bad wagon roads of America are sad commenta sense, for, stated in briefest stitute wicked casily “The and a a cn our termes, they and wantun waste. We lead the world in railroads, out we are badly behind Eurcpe in wagon roads. We consider the Komans of 2,000 years ago old fogics, and yet they were ahead of us, much ahead, in the matter of country roads. The | Appian Way is the most famous high- | way in the world, and the rock roads which they constructed the Pyrences still travelta by the children men. The Shackleford good roads bill is a long step in the direction of giving us system of wagon roads which will he of perma- nent and vast utility to »'l our peo- ple, particularly to farmers, reducing the cost of transporting focd products to market, thereby reducing the high cost of living and increasing the joy of living. “After many years aglt {or elected United States senators by popular vote, we secured a constitu- llmnal amendment authorlzing it and con- acros; of tion in fav- sufficient seriousness; the vigorous initiative which Wilson showed in aiming for a scttle- ately roads at able to NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGU (Special to the He; New York, August 19.—Quite a re- vival developed in stock exchange, market being more active and stronger than for many weeks. Directly and indirectly the war again proved the chief stimul The resumption of war orders decisively affected the mu- nition group, ang the general market stiffened under the success of a new British loan; while railroad shares were visibly affected by belief that there would be no strike. The con- sumption of ammunition in the present cruel war staggers Imaginations but Great Britain now scems able to sup- ply her own wants, both as to shells and guns, and intimates that she will soon be ready to assist her allies in this respect. Nevertheless, both shells and gun are being consumed upon a stupendous schale, and bigger repeat orders are coming to American manu- facturers than ever anticipated; all of which does not portend an early end of the war. Such orders are being placed with greater discrimination than in the earlier stages of the strug- gle, and are going chiefly to large and responsible concerns whose prod ucts have best stood actual test. While new orders are being placed upon a better business basis, and are not en- cumbered by such extravagant com- missions to promoters as marked early contracts, there is still a handsome profit to concerns which obtain these orders and which, ncedless to say, mean continued activity and prosper- ity for the American stecl indust into 1917. Some munition concerns are being dismantled of their war ma- chinery; usually those whose pgofits were below expectations or those whose output had not proved satis- factory. The evident prolongation of the war means a continuance of big cxports, further imports of gold or se- curities, also additional big credits to the allies; all of which we can readily handle, thus pointing to continued | prosperity. As already intimated in these advices, when the war ends our steel plants will be occupied for some time in satisfying reconstruction de- mands of Europe, where railroads, in- dustrial plants, cte., will have to be immediately restored, particularly in France and Belgium. On this account alone, many millions of steel products will be sold to Europe when peace is declared. At this writing, 1t is impossible to anticipate the result of the great con- trove between the railroads and their employes. The consequences to both sides of a nationwide paralysis of traffic are so grave and momentous that a strike is regarded as almost im- ssible, because neither side really to deliberately face the conse- | quences of an aroused public indigna- tion. Prhaps the threatening attitude of the unions has not been taken with but in any event President to a1d.) nent had a quieting effect, ana was mdoubtedly a prime factor in saving he country from serious trouble. The 1ifficulty will probably be adjusted by ~oncessions on hoth sides. rtun- the demands come upon the rail- | time when they are fairly meet them, if present volume of traffic Is maintained; but the cris reveals the fac more strikingly than a { financial { from profit- } exports ahead, forts of the large financial interests who as underwriters have such a prac- tical incentive to make it succes The efforts of such interests under these circumstances are very apt to be encouraging and promote a favorable speculative and investment atm phere in the general market for curitic The remainder of collateral in the new consist in round numbers of $100,000,- 000 of Canadian government and Ca- nadian railway bonds, and an addition- al $100,000,000 will take the form of bonds, and other obligations of Argen- tina, Chile, Norway, Sweden, Switzer- land, Denmark and Holland. Aside from the similar cl of sccurities contained in the collateral for the more recent $100,000,600 French loan, the distribution of bonds of foreign governments and of bonds represent- ing foreign activities, is a new and fmportant development for American investors. It is, however, merely a be- ginning that means a further active broadening of New York a world market for finance. Other loans are to be raised in our own country by the entente allies. Their the $300,000,000 British issue will as number and volume will be limited only by the dur- ation of the destructive conflict and by the final volume of the supply ailable of American capital. A clear indication of this is contained in the revision of the British chancellor’s mobilization plan. As modified, the English treasury is to on de- posit for a period of five years a new list embracing <ecurities $3,000,000,000 in value, the list composing seventy high-grade tore honds, including among others those that are to con- stitute part of the collateral for the new loan that has just been arranged here. Thus it is obvious that the Brit- ish government has ample collateral readily available to seck additional accommodation in America. Henceforward, financially speaking we must look out and not in, and ac- reccive L custom ourselves to larger transactions than have hitherto heen the rule. To us the $250,000,000 loan appears to he a matter of very considerable impor ance, vet is small compared W ith Great = Britain’s total borrowings which, since the war, have . reached nearly $15,000,000,000. The loan re- cently granted in New York would only pay Britain’s war expenses for about eight days. Instead of thinking in millions, we are obliged to think in billions. Following few shares the recent rapid rise in a some reaction resulting iking may occur, but the and based prosperity, a results in ted to general undertone is good upon general industrial which seems quite adequate to offset poor harvest. The general crop vield, not value, are expc be about ten per cent. below last vear; and vet in spite of this draw- back the railroads are anticipating a car famine owing to the tremendous pressure of industrial traffic. With big active business cast of the Mississippi, easy money every- where and generally sound conditions there i t with stock exehanize bor sitn still ous, and will outcome president’s prevent bus little ex retivity, Tl wrded upon efforts ition much of the railroad srike. depend ever that relations between the rail- roads and the government or public are at present upon a basis of injus- tice. Some readjustments must be made if the railroads are to prosper f and maintain their ability to attret capital for necessary improvements and expansions. Under present con- ditions, railroad owners work for a wage that the government restricts does not protect, nor allow compen- sation for increased costs of operation while railroad labor is free to force it claims upon railroads to a degree that | threatens bankruptey for the corpor- ation and unheard of inconvenience and damage to public interest. One side has responsibilities and restraints Which it cannot escape; the other has neither and iIs disposed to wiela its power recklessly. The formal announcement of a loan 0,000,000 to the United King- dom is an important financial develop- ment from two viewpoints. Of the $300,000,000 of sccurities that are to constitute the collateral for this large transaction, one-third, or approximate- 1y $100,000,000 represents high-grade American honds and investment stocks that have been accumulated by the British treasury in pursuance of its mobilization plan. These securities will now necessarily be removed from probability of sale during the two-year period that the nmew notes will run: they will no longer constitute a threat to the general stock exchange price level. The loan’s second influence, to which reference has already heen made in these advices, contemplates the favoring results to the market that are not unlikely to acerue from the of- of $ | ders must HENRY CLEW The Rise in Steel. August. 19.—That the present mar- ket movement was accurately fore- shadowed will he seen by reference to my ‘“Weekly Financial Review” under the date of August 5. After reviewing the extraordinary earnings of the in dustrial companies, it zocs on to say: “The stock market still refuses to respond to the stimulus of these phe- nomenal profits. Inspite of danger spots, the outlook is encouraging. In ordinary times such conditions as now exist would be accompanied by wide- spread and active speculation, if not a boom surpassing all records. The sit- uation, therefore, is encouraging in spite of perplexit Steel shares are strengthened by the fact that further big munition orders are coming or have come this way indicating vigomous | prosecution of the war by the allfe When the war ends it practically | certain that big foreign orders will he received from abroad for railroad | equipment, industrial plants and other reconstruction requirements which Furope cannot mect. It has been es- timated by high authority that $5.- 000,000,000 will he required to replace the necessary plants and property thus far destroyed in Belgium and France, and that a goodly portion of such or- come to the United States. If this supposition proves true our ex- port trade, especially of steel products, will continue active after the war, with a consecuent stimulus upon many otler industries.” is . C. passed laws to put the spmendment into effect. Not one of the dire evils predicted touching that plan has been fulfilled. No man ever possessed in- genuity enough to produce a valid ar- gument against it. The new plan fs working well. “What is known as th: Kucker cor: rupt practice act will o far to lift our politics to a higher plane, into a purer atmosphere. That it is perfect no man claims, but it will he amended and improved until the corrupt use of money in polities is reduced to the minimum. On the purity of politics depends the perpetuity of the repub- lic, “We have passed grain grading and cotton future bills to prevent swin- dles upon the public and to aid trade those “Wo rared and nawer bill necessary commodities. carefully in pre ater have passed a thoroughly discussed v which will put an end to| the attempted monopoly of water! power sites and the charging of e orbitant charges for power., | “We passed and amended better bills for the government of Porto Rico and the Philippines, giving more of self-government to the peoples of those islands. | “The House has passed the Alexan-| der ship bill, intended to resuscitate | ‘lh(‘ American merchant marine, which l other two awaiting the action of the !t T 19, 1916. all wise and patriotic Amercans fa- | vor. It is to be hoped that it will | pass the Senate at an early day and | that once more our flag will float over every seca and in every harbor of the world. That bill will enable us prevent exorbitant charges for | ocean freight. | “The House has passed a good, con- | servative ‘overflow prevention bill,’ | hich we hope will prove valuable in preventing the appalling loss of lifo and property caused by the great fioods. That bill is now the calen- dar of the Senate “We have passed fense our country opinion on such bills for de- by land and sea demands, I | | as public | Congresses’ “The last three ing the present one, have done to improve the conditions under vage earners live and their being than all congresses put togethe “David J. Lewls, the able chairman of the labor committee in the House, 1o the next Senator from Maryvland, student, philosopher, and worker, tecently in an analytical speech in the House enumerated fifteen important | statutes touching lajor which have 12ssed the House in the last six years thirteen of which laws, the | e Records, Con includ- more which | and have preceding ressos, move the a are now ! morning TFORD onfl’;ma ([o 114116 ASYLUM ST. HARTFOMD. iAR Plush and Fur OAT SALE We will positively guaran- tee you a saving of from $5.00 to $25.00 on every Coat or- dered or bought tlll\ week, as compared to prices this fail. 2 i a No extra charge for Coats made to measurement. A deposit will hold your Coat till you want it. Senate, in his of hu- these condi- We laws Lvery man with brain bead and love of country and manity in his heart rejoices in laws intended to improve the tion of the laborers of the land. have passed many other good which I have not mentianed. “The chances are the voters of America will act the sage dictum cf Abraham Lincoln, that ‘it un- wise to swap while ecrossing a stream,” and the democrats in power, “The people scem to have confidence in th pilot of the state, Woodrow Wilson, and likely to drop him overboard ceean while the storm w ters into fury. “He aid Lou: did senate did ‘duty’ is the vernacular. We well of the republic Thomas Campbell said 1 wateh the wheels of plan, read the future from man.” “Favir on > is horses continue absoluto ship of are nat in mid- ps the wa- democratic ocratic word our the duty; the duty, and sublimest his dut 3 a th word that all its its in we of de- us. submit serve nature’s mazy And the past of and the do duty far, “harged our to trust hirt faithrul ¢ our o and 1 e ) By the Men do than Tk sured they the an writtc shall know them.’ mere by what they We thir we carnest of if continued “Ours © m what upon accomplished we will accomplish power, rest have what in our case is a magnificent, a wonde ful record, which stark idiot can easily defend. Upon that we confidently inquest of the campai JAPAN REBUILDS ANGIENT SHRINE a inybody save and successfully uncqualed record peal to the grand nation in the impending Vi irgins Take Part 1 Ceremonies Hopponese Solem I i on of the A 25.—Solc Press.) nn and (Corr lence ss0. Tokio, Japan, July historic of which virgins took an impressive part held with the reconstruction of the Grand | services ancient Japan in have just been in connecction | Shrine at Ise dedicated to Amaterasu Omikami, the grand ancestress of the Japanese empire, according to dwelt who, tradition, in the heavenly re- gions constructed every and the time has | their replacement. The recent ceremony was that of ving the foundation of the tempor- shrine which will shelter the s vy of the outer temple durin reconstruction of the There were two service: morning another at were conducted i Prince Kun The sacred temples are re- twenty-five years now arrived for 1 ary tu work of building. one in the midnight, and they the presence of the grand prelate of tt many ofiicials and Shinto When the Shinto rites for ¢ land Pri anc- the and priest purifying were concluded ce Taka emperor, the main Shrine and for the spirit of the were pl on the altar. was subsequently removed and the it the four points of the 158, a group of virgins robes with deep performed rit ihs and mowing the sickles. The cere- to the differ- down N personal messen worshipped at food offerings ancestral deity The food buried Kuni, acting ger of the lot compe Then dressed in pure whitc purple “bakama,” of cutting the shr with s at midni on the 5 grass cred was similar with the of mowir mony ht ceremony, the rites and grass of ence the by that shruhs the felling for the sacred porary shrine. There, ficiated. The night replaced be used the v timber—to pillars of tem- \so, a virgin of- spectacle was Represented by 31 West Main St., City Hall Building RICHTER & CO. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK FX CHANGH. E. W. Eddy. Telephone 1540, 20 Colt’s Arms 50 Union Mfg. Co. 50 American Brass 100 Landers, Frary & Clark 100 Niles Bement Pond 100 American Hardware 10 Stanley Rule & Level Co. 20 Scovill Mfg. Co. 50 North & Judd 50 Standard Screw 100 Stanley Works 100 Eagle Lock Co. 100 New Britain Ma- chine 5 Hart & Cooley | | FINANCIAL NEWS WEEK-END MARKET THE USUALTHING Mainly Devoted to Usual Week- End Contract Settlements Wall St.—Today's session was main- Iy devoted to the usual week-end set- tlement of outstanding professional | contracts. Marines and United Fruit were pressed for sale, but increased | strength was shown by allied issues. | Rails were held in check pending def- | inite word from Washington. There | were gains of two to four points in fer- | tiliz and Pullman, but leading in- dustrials, munitions and motors were dull. The closing was irregular. New York Stock Exchange quota- tions furnished by Richter & Co., members of the New York Stock BEx- change. Represented by B. W. Eddy Aug. 19, 1916 High Low -Close 89 »\w,, 8814 16 78 60 59 il 2 Am Beet Alaska Gold Am Ag Chem : Am Car & Fdy Co. Am Can Am Can Am Loco Am Smelting Am Sugar .. Am Tobacco Anaconda Cop A TS Fe Ry ldwin Loco 3 & O Butte Sup Canadian Pac! Central Leather Ches Ohio 161 Sano 06 " % pid 110% 98 % 1103 20 843 10 98% 11014 220 84% 1035 5% v 1103 20 855 Co..104 8614 rior Ch St Crucible Steel Distillers Sec Erie st pfd . Great Nor pfd Gt Nor Ore Cotfs. Tnspiration. s City so Kans G Lacl Steel Lehigh Valley Max Mot com . Mex Petrol Natl L N &% Nor Norf Pac Mail Penn R R : 5 Pressed Steel Car . % 523 2455 03 51 9814 2314 681 130% 251 103 62 10014 65 1035 18% 111 129 1035 1814 111 129 2414 Cons Pach b & West s s Co o A 2454 1037% b1 9814 | % 6814 131 ]!\'( 62 3914 1391 166 166 57% 68% 911 91% 18 MRTe 4 Ray Cons Reading Rep T & So Pac So Ry . So Ry pfd Studebaker . Tenn Cop Texas Oil Third Ave Union Pac United Fruit U S Rub Co U s Steel T S Steel pfd Va Car Chem Westinghouse Western Union Willys Overland illuminated with thousands of flaring torches. The grand prominent of Yoshihito the IEmpire ited by the only upon the cration or accession were Ise occupled place in the court cere- | 18t year when Emperor was consecrated as ruler of Nippon. They are Jomperor and Empress of the conse- | but imperial | are dispatched here every ¢ to the deity. The adoration Half million | ship every | Shrine of a monies 1 of oceasion messengers vear, to pay hom shrines are held in the whole nation there to wor v the Mecca of Nippon orthodox Japanese plans to | pilgrimage there at least once life time. strength of special by a pilgrims g0 ar, Ise is Every malke the national rever- e A STRONG, RULIAB. organized and qualified thr trustworthy service CAPITAL $750,000. M. H. WHAPL] sublime. The surrounding forests | | gated | months | vis- 1) for the shrine at Ise was tra. manifested in 1889 on the ver: Mutsuhito promul-| the constitution Viscount Ars] fnori Mori, former minister to the| United State as stabbed to death by} student hecause of the charge that] visiting the shrine of the Sun| he had lack of re- lifting one of the curtains| walking stick. The deed “sacrilegious and un- pardonable because it menaced thel sacred foundation and divinity of} the Imperial Japanese house.” To this day the assassin’s grave is dec- orated by admiring zecalots. The act attributed to Mori has never been proved. ence gically day that Emperor while Goddess by shown spect with was held to be his i WAR BABIES COST WHOLE LOT MORE All Around Expense of Later Day In« fants Over $100 Above the Days of 1914. (Correspondence the Assoclated Press.) London, Aug. 15.—It is estimated that the all-around expenditure on a| baby born this year is probably from $100 to $125 higher than in 1914, Food alone adds about $15 to year's cost of the war-baby. has gone up four cents a quart it is sald that the average baby con= sumes from 400 to 450 pints a year. Bahy foods are up about ten per cent. Feeding hottles cost a third more, and the methylated spirit for heating the night's feed has advanced from ten cents to cents a pint. Baby cost Everything made 32 per cent. in price; nd wool mixture materi ments are 25 per cent. higher, the ! wholly cotton ones, owing to the rise in raw materials and labor, must be pald for at the rate about fifteen per cent. more Even a baby’s hath costs about one- third more; soap is a third dearer, the bath thermometer is up about 25 per cent. toilet powder—chiefly be- cause of the rise In the price of the boric acid it contains—is 100 per cent dearer. Nearly all more Perambulators _are fourth dearer. What formerly was sold for $15 is now $20 and so on. A cot that could be bought before the war for $5 is now $7.50; the fleecy wool mattress, baby's basket and baby’s high chair are all up propor- tionately. Nurse's wages have advanced §5 or more and her keep is costing at least one-third more—an increase of $50 or vear. 300 VESSELS LOST. spondence of the Asso. Press.) Liverpool, Aug. 14.—The Liverpool Underwriters’ ociation in thelr returns for June, 1916, re- port that 131 British steam and sail- ing vessels and 169 forelgn vessels were posted in the Loss Book during the month of June—a total of 300 compared with 314 in June, 1915, and 362 in June, 1914. These include minor casualties as well as total losses. The tonnage of vessels ac- tually lost in June total 31,998 against 12,770 in June, 1915, and 22,- 081 June 1914. For the six ending June 30, 1916, 286,813 shipping disappeared agalnst in the corresponding period and 193,692 in 1914. HERRING SELLS HIGH. (Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) Netherlands.—Aug. caught by the 725 ships during the 1915 totalled 671,000 tons and brought an average of $20 per ton as compared with §8 for the previous according to u statistical re- published. The war con- particularly the big Ger- man demand were thus responsible for an increase of 150 per cent. A number of ships were damag by floating mines, and nine ships were lost, with the forfeit ¢ One fortunate motor “Catharina,” earned $65,600 ten trips. of the Milk and | | garments more also. of wool has risen all the cotton and gar- of | | | medicines cost much ahout one- more a casualty in tons of ,407 1915 of Scheveningen, 14—The herring Dutch fleet of 725 year season, port just ditions and in s lugge r, Cennecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. LE CORPORATION ough years of efficient, , to act as Conservator, Guardian Executor or Admmlstrator. SURPLUS $750,000 Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Co. HARTFORD, CONN,