New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1916, Page 6

x < Herald. in .00 a year o1 e oo profitabl ess O rial Roc who deplore h men as George W. M. each other in the race atorial toga. It was a good fi and t, a worthy campaign, tor Klett is returned to complete by a majority that while it not be great a denotes the closeness of ontes of prestige in defeat. In fact he s by the very nature of the fight. the ered in a local election, and ex- Work as like, His opponent loses noth- voting was heaviest ever tor Landers received more votes time than he did when he ed in 1912. He has worked im- furable good for his party in the and state. was he two successful Republicans who | represent this district in the flature, E. F. Hall and Richard rt, L in their power to foster and fur- the interests of New Britain. e has seldom been two more pop- candidates than these gentlemen | had as opponents, B. O. Kil- ne and also well n in the community. In fact, it | er the fate of New Britain to pit | st each other men who are good bnal friends and who have friends oth parties. For this reason the ical fights are waged on a friend- | hsis rather than on a strict ques- of policies which should be the mining factor in any election. nator Klett will probably be made Oscar Kraus, of the judliciary committee | In rman is return to the legislature. | | be enabled to | | he will care of the of His record as an inde- able worker will stand him in stead for the two years ahead many new laws will be written | e statute books. That he and his compatriots in the lower house achieve remarkable records for kood of the state and the town is | hope of all parties, position good interests Eritain. OUT WEST. an attempt to revive sectionalism jhe campaign which has had such lectacular close it was freely hinted intimated that the Solid South [d stoically and alone for Wood- Wilson and his Democratic As a complete vindication of theory Charles Evans Hughes formally and very promptly ted the twenty-ninth President of United States after the New Eng- electorate had cast its votes and ke with the pluralities from Illi- and Indiana were seen to be in majority. The Solid South and hocracy had been swept off the tical map. n that memorable morning of linesday, November 8, the old time tionaries who held there two sections of the country, the h and the uth, and who tried bpen again the wounds of fifty ago, were administered tment of 1916. Ined, they saw progressivism that belongs to a some of the age. the Wes rked the rising sun. ith did not count, The West was in com- the North had its grip. jnd of the situation, and éther Woodrow Wilson is ted or defeated, the margin will Eo close cither way as to offer com- e vindication that he and his party The West 1 parcel of the na- the North, the is today. re- not national. much part ¢ as the E or th. t has been contended all along by think Jast, of the day Inding on the threshold of a new era. | [l bigotries, old prejudices, are dy- they are hard, but 12 are dyir of ues of We new aspirations. es 6. pes, in a New not the w people, with new W America. The h are h t i the Old North, P not the things that appeal to the of the West, the broad West, West, West. blood went Greely advised the e are liv- conven- , whi 0Old South ople the glorious of the great € new nation est when Horace ung men of the d grow up with the country. The ' were in the hands of men d“‘—'”"eimlfifl‘lin cdaims, @ crossing of | West will not be relishec | their | these exultants will welcome the W. the | | and women see great things in this Landers were | as his admirers | may be expected to do every- | were | the | There eyes were [ ever it was the minority light | They heard the message | returns of yest tirmly that the gr has grown to full size the most and tod.ay mhood >n and wo No part they a m Easi, irom the ., who controi and do th They 10 went there when were the wise men the country was cd it to its prese tions. This bility shifting to the of political responsi- of the old- broad shoulde! the by ill It not there timers of the Kast. be 1o liking. But are younger men and women of the East who are _ | growing up to take the places soon to be vacated by the reactionaries into the ive Americans. eat family of progres Forward-looking men hifting of power, and, if Wilson know that the past three and a half years of progressive 1 is re-elected Even Evans lation will not be thrown away. if Wilson defeated Charles Hughes cannot delivered in the is Milwaukee, to “wipe off books every achievment of the Democratic Party,” because a Demo- cratic Senate and a Democratic House | of Representatives will take care of Before the polls opened on last Tuesday morning there sreat speculation as to the whereabouts of the Progressives of 1912, whether they had gone back to the Republican party. The answer came yesterday. They are out West. It is a good thing for the nation the Progressives are out West. It will before the effects of the blow they administered pass away, but when the shock is absorbed the East will be bigger and better for what has happened. The truth of the matter is, we have been living within ourselves too much in this part of the country. readily those achievements. was be some time ‘We cannot agree that there are other places to be con- sidered. Local pride has bounded just one or two too high on the ladder The great commercial spirit we harbor has made rungs of contentedness. money the god, and money the pur- chasing d to buy Out West the purpose of the market, not It will be a good thing if the new progressiveness of the West shakes the staid old East off its foundation of ultra conservatism and teaches the doctrine that there are other things to live for be- sides money. power is supp everything, even vote the round-up is for corralling beef for voters for the polls. There are ideals far more precious than gold and one of them is good government nét of the reactionary Kkind. IN CONNECTICUT. In the fever heat of the moment when the thoughts of all men of all parties are directed to the from the national elections, the local returns happenings are very likely to go by the board neglected for the time. Un- til the remaining few votes in the few remaining states to be heard from definitely decide who shall be the next President of the United States our and | carry out his threat | NEW BRITAKN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1916. :h t to prove it With the hands of the advice protection, od commission of protection. Lot in the competent with ot the men and and aid ion kept ad- d be neither tarifi should that too just too h 50 it wiii be can be thing a just tariff, a fair tariff. And it xen out of nor low, and this There must he such a will he found when it is tz politics, as Wilson intends to do. “CHARLIE” BOOTH. If every man and woman in New | Britain dld not know “Charlie” Bodth, Ains the logal news- | every eye that | paper columns must | other have the type “Charlie” Booth set. For fofty-four | years he directed his hands'towarti at some, time or read For thirty-eight years he worked on the Herald. that stretched out of the past and united the founders of this paper with those who carry on the work And “Charlie” Booth old ‘‘case” where forlorn look today. the “bank’” now. The he worked has is dead. a The old type on the familiar touch of those patient fingers, long for the glance of those silently smiling sparkling blue eyes. Frien.is are ever leaving the old fashioned type cases, ana “Charlie” was an old- time printer. He naver ran a linotype. He always “set ’em by hand.” And if the “ad. alley” and the other places where ‘“Charlie” Booth gath- cred his type for so inany years are sad today no less are the boys along the row of linotypes. The merry chattering machines that have marked the great steps forward in the pro- cess of printing and type setting are dull and lithless in their work today. They sigh for the passing of “Charlie” Rooth, knowing that all the other “Charlic” Booths who worked up as piinters’ devils and remained at the old task of setting type by hand will soon give way to their industry. With the feeling of loss that permeates the entire composing room there is also a kindred sympathy in the editorial sanctum where “Charlie” Booth al- ways entered every day. This time without calling for it, “Charlie” Booth is given an “O. K.” proof. will mis= wiil FACTS AND FANCIES. America's naval ient in at least should be about ten Chicago New program is defi- one respect—it years older.— Some day and somechow, the avenging .spirit of Rio Grande cowboys will get within range of Pancho Villa, and no human agenc: will prevent a funeral.—Paterson Call. perhaps, Well, fellow countrymen, what are we going to do about the Monroe Doctrine It has bobbed up again with bells on—New York Sun The St Clair county Democrat urges s readers to patronize home indus- try and buy a certain brand of soup made in Cincinnati, bcause some lime made in Osceola is used in the man- ufacture of the soup.—Cass County (Mo.) Leader. own circle must await analysis. Not that we are not interested in these things, but this new era in the na- tional political life is more absorbing. All eyes are turned to the west. The returns from the various towns in Connecticut breathe a new era, just as much as do the re- turns from those states west of the Mississippi. Although the seven elec- and cities thrown in the balance on the side of Woodrow Wilson, they came so close to it that there was very grave un- certainty until the final counts were For the past twenty years the Democratic party in this state has been the minority party and when- party its minority by figures ranging from thirty to sixty thousand votes. This year that lead made. was recorded was cut It was the Willing | st the Wiry West, the Wilson West, | mark. reversed the form sheets and | plexion of things in the years to come. | The Solid | The old bugaboo | Free Trade is partly dispelled, there is no such thing | o | will be as is just | ! ehance. down away under the ten thousand about Democratic and that voters are beginning to learn as a Free ade party in this country, that they safe under Democratic Rule | as they are under Republican rule, it ! they the Democrats a only give toral votes of Connecticut were no'.| This is proof of a new com- | Old Man Peabody has been and is vet attending a sick cow, swelled about the head, neck and under bells sore throat and cough. She does seem to lose any, but rather gains, but not an even distribution being mostly underneath, but as long as there is life there is hope—Valley Falls Vindicator. On the day when it was reported that Senora Carranza had fled to the United States in anticipation of the overthrow of her husbana’s ment, she was merely putting in the !ed two fashionable dressmakers, at- tended four picture shows, ate cheon at a fashionable hotel, numerous purchases at the depart. ment stores and accepted an invita.. tion to dinner.—St. Paul Pioneer Ex. press. Along the Dannbe. (Springfield Republican.) Premier Radoslavoff of Bulgaria must have had a bad enough time whenh Rumania declared war to ex- cuse him for exulting a little now in its present reverses, but he is rather premature in saying that it has fallen into German hands.” The sig- nificant part of his interview, how- ever, lies in his declaration that Rus- | sia Will be allowed no time to recuper- ate auring the winter. Just here, in- | | c¢eed, lies the chief modification of the strategic situation which the entry of Fumania has caused, and it is not wholly to the advantage of the alli it may be serlously to their disadvan- tage. that we are | The | ciated | country to go there | In a city that is claimed by the Re- | publicans as a stronghold that turns | out anywhere from fifteen to eighteen hundr in local Democrats may be proud of | their efforts in rolling that majority own to less than five hundred. has to majority well be section, day when a Democrat ashamed of his party in this this state, in this city has happily | passed. The record of achievement | during the Wilson administration | clearly vindicates the party of Thomas | Jefferson. If the leader is returned | this year the mext four years | mark in the | And the industry of New Britain, the | industry of New England will be just ! the re government in I ! i will a new era body politic. as safe as if elections, | The | were about over, but the allies cannot afford to let up there, even though (i winter makes campaigning more diffi- | If the war | in general settles down to such dreary | winter, | ! | , cult and less productive. iractivity as prevailed last ihe German general staff will be left the attack on the route thrown action. The is mild, and free to prosecute southern Russia b; !open by Rumania’ mate along the Danube ! mountains har the way will offer no serious ob. | massive blow in this direction. man hopes now rest mainl possibility of eliminating Rus | winter neglected. will not be Bulgarian premier’s words should be @ prod to the allies if they need one. Tt may or may that with the help monitors of a | banube Af the | foreed. { but it proved merely the manutacturers of the | | 1n0re | point where the crossing w: | ana | tant factor, | battles i making so many | for use in the colonie: I Danube. that the enlightenment of the community., { have now He was the lon# link govern- | time at San Antonio, where she visit. | lun- | made | unless they make unremitting efforts Some British military experts write | as though the campaign in the west | into Rumania has been The Rumaniang themselves cftected a crossing some weeks ago, a futile raid. No ding party would 1 clearer objective and might do damage; whether the attack is than that cannot be - known w.ithout further details, including the made the strength of the force. From the outset it was plain that control of the Danube was likely to be an impor- and that river mnaval might be fought on a scale cqualled only in our eivil war. At this point the allies may have dulled a little; when England was light-draft monitors and on the Bel- &ian coast some might have been made and sent in sections to Russia, te be assembled there and sent to the If the Austrian gunboats Lave the upper hand it will make the defense of the Danube line much more | difficult for Rumania. In the Dobrudja, on the other hand, the Rumanian and Russian forces gaincd a little ground, but this dead-end at the mouth of the anube is of no great importance: the strength of the Bulgarians lles in the German heavy guns, which pre- sumably have not been sent on so far to the north. dcubt a Teutonic have more the muscles of his throat, ‘‘you see it’s this way: Them hawgs don’t get none to fat a livin' down in that piece of bresh, nohow. They ain’t sech a right smart o’ butternuts and | acorns there but what they . have to hunt tolerable stiddy to keep fed up at all, So I've been in the habit every couple of days of totin’ a mess of cawn down there an’ chuckin’ it over the fence to them. An’ when- ever I did I allus used to call ’em and come a-running’ to git the It got to be a regular part o’ them ha business to listen for me to shout. “Well here about three weeks ago I got a neisery in my throat and it done | sort o’ pahlyzed me vocal cords and I couldn’t hroller loud enough to make them haw, hear. So when I chucked 'em their cawn I rapped on a fence rail with a stick and after a while the hawgs got to recognize the | souna an’' it was all right. Every- | thing was goin’ along smooth with them hawgs until day before yister- day, when a hull passel o' them pesky | red’ headed woodpeckers done come | along from up nawth and settled in that there fawrest. An’ they've done drove them poor hawgs plum crazy.” Work Recognized. (Hartford Times.) Tn the Fall. (By Ethel Lynn Beers. Away to the mountain, away to fountain; Hie off to the hill-circled glen; Go bathe in the billow, clasp waves for a pillow; The summer is on us again! Hearts loving and tender communion surrender ‘When the woods breathe their jubl- lant call; From the ies come hither, spring-flowers wither; the ere ‘We shall all meet again in the fall. out in the bowers, Gay pictures not hung on a nail; Soft couches of clover in meadows all over Bestudded with daisies so pale. There are mirrors not gilded, but in the green builded, polished by breathings June; And arches so solemn, and column Make twilight beneath noon. Just of them All softened and shaded vine-braided, Leaf-curtains gold shot with sun, the moon's glowing splendor, when evening grows tender, The emerald hue fades to dun; Then lamps, angel-lighted, grims benighted, Are hung from the night's bending arch; And for lullaby song, all the summer night long by the In God grant that the portal to glory immortal May lie through the old homestead door, Where faces that love us may circle above us, : To bid us good-by nevermore! beside us Shall gather—his hand doeth -all; And there, loving stronger, we'll ‘wait for them longer, If we fail to meet here fall.” “in * the ARKANSAS RAZOR-BACKS. (By the Commentator in The New London Day). A Northerner, for some inscrutable reason, was driving along one of the rutty wagon trac that meander among the tupelos, svcamores and cottonwoods and the alternating clearings of eastern Arkansaw,.when his attention was attracted to the puzzling antics of a drove of those agile creatures which, in that part of the world, pass for hogs which particular bunch seemed to be more or le: at home in a snake- fenced pieec of Wwoodland. After watchin gthe razor backs for a full quarter of an hour without finding out what was doing the stranger clucked to his horse and drove on. A furlong further along the road he came upon a discouraged looking habitation Wwith feet of extremely narrow. Arkansan loitering native: “How d've do?” In the aspirated. whisper of who has lost the power of normal speech the native breathed, “Howdy, stranger.’ Live here “Reckon I do, stranger.” “This all your land, running through that piece of woods there?” “Reckon it be.” “Those your hogs as 1 came along “Reckon so, stranger.” “Well perhaps you can tell me what they were up to. Never saw a bunch of razorbacks going through bac back that I saw there cli- no winter acles to a | Ger- on the sia, and the opportunity offered by the coming : ] The | Were chasing or running away from. | kept on doing that, not prove important as the | one, stretching his neck and fingering that kind of a performance before. hen I first caught sight of them they were standing still in a huddle, all headed the same way, with their ears cocked up. listening. All of a sudden they started off as if the devil had given them a kick and tore along like the dickens for maybe fifty yards. Then, all together, they brought up all astanding, cocked their eyves in an- other direction and in a second bolted off again at an angle. They tarting and stop- ping and stampeding in a new direc- tion and never seeming to get any- where or find out what it was the matter with them, any. “Well, stranger,” gasped the husky There are carpets of flowers spread | where shadow | curtains | for pil- | The cricket shall chirp in the larch. | But if ’tis denied us that loved ones | How a Flock of Pesky Red Headed | Woodpeckers ¥Fooled “Them Hawgs.” | and | about. | Pulling up the northerner saluted the | one | more | Though defeated in the New Britain | @istrict, Senator George M. Landers is | entitled to the thanks of all the demo- | crats of Hartford county in helping | to place the county in the democratic column. The great campaign waged | by the former senator in the Hard- | ware city cut the republican majori- | ties to one-half, and made the elec- tion of Mr. Lonergan certain. Now, Then. (Boston Post). The great quadrennial affair at the polls over. A large number of people are pleased and a large num- ber are displeased. But all of them as well now agree to put po- al differences aside for a while and attend to the usual business of being just human beings. The big football games are coming on. Thanksgiving savors are almost in the air. The Christmas shopping is to be attended to, and the sooner the better. The whole range of ordi- nary tas and duties and pleasures s to be entered into with more zest and better satisfaction because the | heat of the campaign has gone. Again comes the lesson of the mar- vellous power and restraint of the American body politic. In a single | day a President is chosen, and there | is no turmoil or trouble over it. The | sovereign people speak, and - their Vo is omnipotent. What a moral { and political lesson to the rest of the | world. Now let us all get busy, proceed | to our respective businesses, and be | glad that we are American citizens. AERIAL FLEETS IN ACTION | v | Entente Aviators Drop Bombs on Eight Towns in Istria and Austrian Airmen Raid Two Towns in Izonzo. Berlin, Nov. 9.—By wireless to Say- ville—The towns of Rovigno, Paren- | zo, Cittanuova and umago, in Istrla, | below Triest, weré attacked ‘on Tues- day by entente airships, thé Austro- Hungarian admiralty One of -the airships was shot down. Vermegliano and- Monfalcone, on-the lower Izonzo front, were raided by Austrian aircratf. “On the afternoon of November 7 hostile aviators dropped bombs on the towns of Rovigno, Parenzo and Cittanuova,” the statement says. “Not the slightest damage was done and. no cne was hurt. Our airships went up to pursue the attackers. One of our cviators, Lieutenant Drecklic, shot | down a hostile airship, which - de- ccended in the vieinity of hostile tor- pedo hoats on the high seas. The tor- pedo boats, bombed by our airplanes, 1etired towards the enemy’s coast. “On the evening of the same day one hostile airplane dropped hombs near Umago, also without success. “During the evening our seaplanes | cropped bombs very successfully on | military objects at Vermegliano and | Monfalcone, and returned undam- aged.” JOCKEY MAHER DEAD. Famous Rider Had Been Off the Turf Three Years. London, Nov. 9.—Danny Maher, the American jockey, died at a nursing home in London early today after a lingering illness, which caused his re- tirement from the turf three years ago. Danny Maher had the greatest rec- ord of any jockey on the English or American turf of recent years. He was a star performer on English race courses for nine years prior to his retirement. In this time he rode to victory three.derbys, his mounts being Rock Sand, Cicero and Spear- mint. He also captured the Oaks in 1906 with Keystone II, the Doncaster St. Leger in 1903 with Rock Sand and the same classic race of 1909 with Bagardo. He was reputed to be worth a large fortune as the result of his turf victories. PRINCE REPORTED DEAD. Bavarian Nobleman Said to Have Suc- cumbed to Wounds. Berlin, via London, Nov. 9—Prince Henry of Bavaria, nephew of King Louis, is reported from Munich to have died from wounds received on a reconnoitering trip on November 7. Prince Henry was thirty-two years {'01a, and a major in the Bavarian guards. He was reported to have been wounded on the battlefield last June. The prince was unmarried. RATLROAD PLANS APPROVED, Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 9.—The proposed reorganization plan of the Missouri Pacifis and the St. Louis | Iron Mountain and Southern railways announces.’ At mother’s knee, a compilation of prayers appropriate for children, by Ozora S. Davis. T Chicago poems. by Carl Sandburg. “There is a wide divergence of opinion about these poems, which do glve a vivid plcture of the crudity and power of Chicago, while they offend many lovers of poetry as it was.”—A. L. A. Booklist. . « o Confessional, and other American plays, by Percival Wilde- “They are good reading plays, of one act, each one of which deals, with a subject of present-day interest.” —A. L. A. Booklist. § .. Hobson’s choice, house. “A_ humorous folk play, in which “the curtain is raised not merely on the interlor of a little Salford shoe shop but on an epitome of Lancashire life.”—A. L. A. Booklist. e Irish crators, by C. G. Bowers “Interesting personality studies and glowing appreciations of the work of each in the Irish cause, the whole forming “a continuous though very incomplete ‘history of Ireland's fight for freedom.’’—Dial. P Mid-week service, by Halford E. Luc- cock and Warren F. Cook. o oe My lady’s dress, a play in three acts, by Edward Knoblauch. ‘A unique highly imaginative play built around the history of the mak- ing of a woman's beautiful gown.” He has been successful on the stage.” —A. L. A. Booklist. .. Remarkable history of the Hudson's Bay company including that of *he French traders of northwest- ern Canada and of the North- west XY and Astor Fur compan- ies, by G. Bryce. e Sheaf, by Johu Galsworthy. A collection of essays. PR Youth, by Max Halbe. “A translation of a well known and widely produced German play.” —A. L. A, Bocklist. . Home and Health- A-B-C of housekeeping, by C. T. Her- rick. by Harold Brig- . oo ~COOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED ‘IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK Home care of sick children, by H. L. Coolidge. ... Low cost cooking, by F. Nesbitt. “An excellent cook book. The foods are low in cost but permit good var- fety.”"—A. L. A. Booklist. ... Milk and its hygienic relations, by-J. E. Lane-Claypon. siieis Nursing problems and obligations, by 8. BE. Parsons. “Talks given at the Massachusetts General hospital by the superinten- dent of the training school.” Emperor of Portugallia, by Selma La- gerlof. “The Bmperor of Portugalia is the story of a father's love—a Swedish ‘Pere Goriot. By some Swedish cri® tics this is considered Miss Lagerlof’s best novel.”—Publisher’s notice. L) Jaunty in charge, by Mrs. Geo. Wemw V8s. “Jaunty, a remarkable butler—a sort of ‘confidential butler'—played governess to two motherless girls, and the story of his quaint stewardship iz here told with tender humor.” “She has mede a book which can best be characterized as lovable—so full is it of tender whimsies, of quaint simpifcity, of human nature at {ts | best.”—N. Y. Times. v opard woman, by E. E. White. “A story of mystery and adventure in Africa” ... | Mary *Gusta, by Joseph C. Lincoln. . | Mr. Britling sees it through, by H. G. Wells. “Mr. Wells takes for his central figure an essayist and philosopher of advanced tendencles. He describes his reactions to the war. . . He tells his story with such art and with himself to be actually a part of the little group described, N. Y. Times. « .. | oblomov, by I. A. Goncharov. “A study in futility The last mem-« ber of a Russian country family lacks will power to ever carry out the aspirations which rise unbidden from time to time because of the traditions to which he has been born. ‘In Oblo- mov, Goncharov created a type which ™ Elementary embroidery, by Mrs. M. S. Antrobus. “Clear, full directions, supplement- ed by many diagrams.”—A. L. A. Booklist. . Headaches, how to prevent them, by ‘W. H. Riley. | has become iinmortal, and Oblomov { has passed into the Russian Tongue.' | Maurice Baring.”—A. L. A. Booklist, | .. » Romance of a Christmas card, by K. D. Wiggin. PR Skinner’s dress suit, by H. I. Dodge. The Emerald 1sle ‘Washington, D. C., Nov. 9.—The historical and political importance of Ireland has created in the minds of many Americans an exaggerated idea of the island’s physical proportions and the density of its population, two vital factors in England’'s task of suppressing the rebellion which has had its inception in the capital and largest city Dublin. Today's War geo- graphy bulletin, issued by the Na- tional Geographic society from its headquarters in Washington, give the following information on the subjeot: “The whole of Ireland, recently un- der martial law, embraces an area slightly less than the state of Maine, but with a population almost six times as dense. In comparison with the governing country, it is three- fifths as large as England and Wales, with one-ninth the population. The island is one of the very few sections of the civilized world where the pop- ulation has shown a marked decrease during the last century. The first census of the island, taken in 1821, recorded a population almost fifty per cent larger than at the present time, while the census of 1841 showed the higliwater mark of more than eight millions, nearly twice the present pop- ulation of 4,375,000. This. remark- able decrease, due largely to emigra- tlon, began after the famine, brought about by the destructive disease which attacked the potato crops of 1845. This calamity resulted in the withdrawal of more than a million acres from cultivation within two years. Incidentally, the potato, which has played such an important role in the life of Ireland during the last three hundred years, is not indigen- ous to the island, but was one of the Smaller Than Maine ‘ Dublin by means of the Grand and the Royal canals. ‘“Although coal is found in most of the thirty-two counties into which the island is divided, and there is con- siderable iron ore, mining is not an important industry. Gold was being mined in a modest way in County ‘Wicklow at the time of the rebellion of 1798, but the works were destroyed been re-discovered. “Agriculture and stock raising are the chief occupations of the inhabi- tants. At one time the woolen manu- factures of the island were formid- able rivalsiof BEnglish factories, but hostile legislation gave the industry a check from which it has never re- covered. As the Irish have raised linen early became one of the import- ant industries of the country. Irish whiskey is an important article of export and one of the largest brew- erfes in the world is locateq in Dub. lin. The island’s production of beer is three and a half million barrels annually. ¢ “Shipbuilding in the great yards at** Belfast is one of the most widely knewn of Irish activities, and the deep sea and coast fisheries afford a livelihood for many thousands. “Thanks to the temperature influ- ence of the west winds from the At- lantic, the thermometer rarely. reaches freezing point in winter, while the average for a summer day is sixty degrees. “At Torr Head on the north the distance to Scotland (Mull of Cantiri) is only thirteen and a half miles. The Giant’s Causeway, a short distance to the east of this point, is the outerop- ping basaltic formation which in a food gold-mines discovered by the Spaniards In thelr conquest of Peru. The country is directly indebted to Sir Walter Raleigh for her ‘Irish’ potatoes, as it was he who brought them from what is now North Caro- was approved here today by the state public service commission, lina and planted them on his estate near Cork, in 1885. “Treland lies In the western rim of what was once a part of Continental Europe. It has numerous mountains, the highest being the McGilllouddy Reeks (8,414 feet), in the Killarney region, but there is no mountain chain or elevated ‘backbone’ Thers is a more or less well defined central plain, however, the distinguishing feature of which is Its bogs,—the black dog producing the famous peat fuel, differentiated from the brown bogs of the mountains. If the whole island were brought to a mean level it would rise 400 feet above the sea. “The lakes, or loughs, of Ireland are among its most widely appreciat- ed physical characteristics, their sce- nic beauty being the inspiration of poets, painters and musicians. Nor have the Irish rivers been over- looked In appraisals of the island’s beauties The Shannon, which flows for 260 miles from the county of Ca- van, in the northwest, to the Atlan- tic in the southeast, is the longest water course in the Uniteq Kingdom. It is navigated by large steamers for half its length, and is connected with former age joined the two islands.” Pointed Paragraphs. Many a true word has been spoken by mistake. It’s better to stay out than to get| married and fall out. Nearly every business propositiomn looks like a winner on paper. When arrested for vagrancy a beg- gar naturally has a pinched look. Isn't #t queer how marrow minded those people are who disagree with you, A pessimist is a man who never¥ smiles—except when he faces the bar- tender, Try to be different from youry neighbors, and no doubt they'll ap- preciate the effort. A small boy firmly believes that/ every time he earns a reward some other boy gets it. Cupid need not hope to bag certain old bachelors unless he exchanges his bow and arrows for a rapid fire ma- chine gun. § e such 2nthustasm that the reader feels . and the source of the metal has never ™ flax for centuries the manufacture of:%