New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1917, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1917. * JAPANESE HAVE FAITH IN SNAKES 1917 Is Known As Year of the Serpent 2 Tokio, Feb. 2.—The year 1917 in ancient Japanese tradition is known as the year of the Serpent, believed by the same tradition to Wwith good luck and fortune. The 1 outgoing year, known as the year of the Dragon, fulfilled its traditional eypectation that it would be accom- panied by progressiveness and de- velopment for the Empire of Japan, Among Japanese the serpent is al- ways regarded as the emblem of good fortune and on that account is revered instead of being killed by the great masses of the people. The popular Japanese word “mi” meaning serpent also signifies “fruitful” because its pronunciation corresponds to the sound of the Japanese word for fruit. Thus the year of the Serpent is fruit- ful, rich and prosperous. 3 The goddess Benten, one of the Seven popular gods and goddesses of fortune, is traditionally beliéved to be the patron of the Serpent, and at every shrine dedicated to the popular goddess of fortune are kept a number of the reptiles sacred to the deity. They are treated with reverence and something of awe as the messengers of the goddess. No farmer will de- stroy a serpent, but will rather keep it and feed it. Many stories are told of families having amassed wealth through having kept and fed the creature in their household as a otreasure or sacred thing. The last year of the Serpent fell in 1905 when the Japanese army scored a great victory over the Russians in the memorable Manchurian campaign, Also the country witnessed a prosper- ous and happy yvear with unprece- dented activity and prosperity in com- ‘ mercial and industrial circles conse- quent upon the conclusion of peace with Russia. AT LAST A CHANCE. London, Feb. 2.—Speakers at a suffrage meeting here were of the opinion that women will have to pro- Ppose after the war because many men Wwill hesitate to come forward owing to their being cripples. IT°’S YOUR LIVER! YOUR'RE BILIOUS, HEADACHY, SICK! Don’t stay constipated with breath bad, stomach sour or a cold, be associated ; LIGHT AUTOS BEST IN WAR Able to Scale Steeps Where Once Only Mules Could Travel to Bring Wounded Back to Hospitals. Parls, Feb. 2.—The advantages of the light small automobiles for ser- vice at the front is the one discovery which the American Ambulance Field Service has contributed to the war, It is now nearly two years since the Field Service first sent a section of its light cars into the mountainous region of Alsace, showlng the possibility of car- | rying wounded by automobile up and down the mountains in regions where up to that time the wounded had only been carried on mule-back or in horse-drawn cars. Since that time there has Ambulance sections in this region un- til a fortnight ago when the last sec- tion was transferred elsewhere. With- always | been one or another of the American | in a week after its departure, the Gen- | eral in command of that region sent word that no other cars could do the work which had so long been en- trusted to the Ficld Service cars and asked that another detachment of the i J | | | | light American cars be sent at once to help in this work. The Field Service has therefore just sent a new detach-. ment to the Vosges under the charge of Louis Hall of Ann Arbor, Michigan, the brother of the ambulance driver who was killed in that region Christ- mas 1915. The Army of the Orient has also asked for another of the American Ambulance sections, and section 10, a newly organized section of thirty am- bulances with American drivers, is now in the way to the Balkans. DEFICIT IN FI CES. ing From War. Municipal finances’ of Paris for 1917 will again show a deficit, accord- ing to the forecast of the budget com- mittee. The deficit is estimated at 111,641,470 francs and is due to.in- creased charges and decreased re- ceipte both resulting from the war. The deficit for 1916, not yet definitely known, was estimated by M. Delan- ney, Prefect of the Seine, at 143,000,- 000 francs. Mr. Dausset, head of the | budzet committee puts it at nearer | 300,000,000. The war cost Paris 134,445,948 francs in 1914 and 156,- 835,297 francs in 1915, about equally divided between reduced receipts from city taxes on food and other products and increased expenditures for war relief. Indemnitles to city employes on ac- | | | I | Of Paris to Increased Charges Result- J | | count of the high cost of living add | 8,370,000 francs to the budget of! 1917. All the deficits since the be- ginning of the war have been provid- ed for by the sale of one vear mu- nicipal bonds the first igsue at 5% per cent. and the second at 6 per cent. MAKING OF IRON MONEY. | fe! Idven your liver and bowels tonight and e w fPel e i o + Enjoy 1 » Ak Tonight sure! Remove the liver and bowel poison which is keeping your ‘head dizzy, your tongue coated, breath offensive and stomach sour. Don’t stay bilious, sick, headachy, consti- pated and full of cold. Why don't you get a box of Cascarets from the ; drug store now Eat one or two to- night and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever ex- perienced. You will wake up feeling fit and fine. Cascarets never gripe or bother you all the next day like calomel, salts, and pills. They act gently but thoroughly, Mothers should give cross, sick, bilious or feverish children a whole Cascaret any time. They are harmless and children love them. Linonine - IS WHAT YOU WANT FOR That Cold Linonine has an enviable reputation as a preventative for the serious ailments that frequently follow la grippe and colds. Even bronchial London, Feb, 2.—The manner in which. iron money is made in Austria ig- thys described in the annual bul-, Toh Brulsk Br Mawben samuel Moin tague and Co.: “The problem of pro- tecting the pieces from rust has been solved by super-imposing a slight lay- er of zinc. The discs of metal, to- gether with some zinc' powder, are placed in a vessel,'and heated for-a certain time at a temperature some- what below that of the melting point of zinc, whereupon a surface |is formed upon the discs, which not only preserves the pleces from rust, but algo enables the dle to be impressed without cracking the surface of the metal. This zinc-plated iron money hardly differs either in aspect of weight from that formed of nickel.” TO SAIL IN FLOTILLAS. The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. In view of the great dangers from mines and collisions with belligerent warships, the fishermen of Ymuiden have resolved to henceforward sail in flotillas of a dozen steam trawlers, such of which flotillas will be under the command of an *“admiral” chosen from among the respective skippers. The local fleet of 146 ships has been divided into three classes for this pur- pose, in accordance with their speed. The convoy system is already in vogue | in Britain, where a large number of | fishing craft put to sea and return in company. 2 ————————————— A SPOONFUL OF SALTS RELIEVES ACHING KIDNEYS too much meat, clogs Kidneys, says noted authority. We eat ‘which | If back hurts or Bladder bothers, stop all meat for a while. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, says a well-known overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and relieve your bowels; removing all the body’s urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weatker is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. Either consult a good, reliable phy- sician at once or get from ycur phar- macist about four ounces of Jad Salts; cdughs yield to its great healing properties. All druggists, 50c, $1.00. take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts i3 made from the acld of grapes and lemon juice, com- bined with lithia, and hes been used for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize i sl authority. Meat forms uric acid which | % | the Mexican Geographical society aid- | clog you must relieve them, like you | SRR JOHN JACOB AS‘I’OP: the $75.27 g DAY CHILD John Jacob Astor. four years old, has been living at the rate of $75.27 a day. That is what it cost fhis | mother, Mrs. William K. Dick, Who was Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor. widow of Colonel John Jacob Astor, to keep him clothed, fed and sup- plied with toys, according to the first | general accounting of her guardian- hip, which she has tiled in the sur- : rogate’s court in New York city. The accounting extended from Nov. ‘12, 1912, to Dec. 31, 1915. Tn this time the total cost of keeping the child was $86,034.21. His mother reccived from the estate $60,360.07 for his maintenance. The boy was born Aug. 14, 1912, four months af- ter his father had lost his life in the Titanle di er, after placing his young wife in a lifeboat. . Toys form an interesting part of the account. For Christmas, 1913, BOON FOR FAIR SEX ‘Wash Less and Save Linen is Advice of National Economists—Urge Soft Collars For Men. London, Feb. 2.—The question the nation washing too much in war time?” is emblazoned over one of the booths of the National Economy Exhi- bition here, under the patronage of the Duke of\Connaught. The booth aims to impress on the British house- that every possible saving in laundry work is a step toward winning the war. ‘“Men should wear soft col- ~" it is urged, “and women might wear darker and more serviceable rlothes in place of the delicate crepe de chine blouses which only retain their freshness for a day or two.” The reasons for economy in laundry work are two-fold, according to the vromoters of the exhibition. First, “is which might be more usefully em- ployed. Second, washing involves the expenditure of money, fuel, time and soap—all of the highest bhrportance in war time. “The society woman is the worst of- fender in the matter of laundry bills,” s the exhibition's -~ appeal. “Her maids wear unnecessary aprons and frocks in the morning. A good overall in a dark color is the proper thing. Thousands of women waste the na- tion's time, money, fuel and labor in dren.” ANNIVERSARY OF DISCOVERY. Mexico City, Feb. 2.—The four hun- dredth anniversary of the discovery ! of Mexico by Francisco Hernandez de | Cordoba will be celebrated elaborately here March 1, under the auspices of | ed by the local Spanish colony. That Hernando Cortes was the first to touch Mexican soil when he landed April 21, 1519, has been accepted by | many, but investigations of the so- ciety have shown, it is claimed. that de Cordoba, bearing a commission the peninsula of Yucatan in 1517 and’ took possession of that territory in the name of the king of Spain. The expedition apparently was not a suc- cess and returned to its base. The exact date of de Cordoba’s debarka- ton is not known certainly but ac- cording to the chronicles of the his- torian Bernal Diaz del Castillo, it probably wag March 1, 1617. PAYMENT OF PENSIONS. Mexico City, Feb. 2.-—An order has been issued by the department of the treasury re-establishing payment of the pensions to soldiers of the former acids in the urine so it no longer ir- ritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injure and makes a delightful, effer- vescent lithia-water drink. army the pensions they receive the government prior to Februar 1913, the date on which Huerta s the government. The pensions be paid half in coin and half in honds of the national debt. Little —]ohri Jacob Astor Needs $75. laundry work calls for valuable labor | i caps in the afternoon, and starched | starched frilly clothes for their chil-; from the governor of Cuba, landed on . 27 Every Day lwhen the boy was a litite more than {a year old, his mother bought for :him a speaking book, fifteen disks for a music box, three ‘“roly polies’” and two boxes of horns and balls. In the | following June he received a go-cart costing $30, and when he and his mother were about to go to the sea- side the boy was equipped with a pail, a sprinkler, a sand scoop, a sand sieve, a book on Animal land, a fMother Goose, a toy donkey and a toy railway. At the next Christmas the young- ster received a menagerie consisting of ‘he following toy animals; A cam- jel, $30; a lion, $15; a goose, 3.50; a I bear, $3.76; a donkey $6; a lamb, 1 §1.50, and a duck, $2. In August, {1915 the boy was given five “rollo- moMhiles” $1 three bears on wheels, $12; five hoope, $10; a see-saw, $5; a soap bubble blower, $1; a masgic fishpond and athletic slides, $20. _—_—mm ART VALUES SOARING. London, Feb. 2.—The huge amount of money seems to be available for the purchase of works of art in Eng- |land at the present time, is attract- | ing the attention of treasury officials. Competition for works of first, second- ary, and minor masters is keen with values soaring in price. A large pro- portion of the purchases are known to have been on behalf of America but in expert quarters it is believed that quite a proportion of the buying is being done on-German account. | Belief is expressed that from funds remaining in neutral lands, and even in this country, Germans are anx- | ious to make an investment in workk of art which can remain here for realization after the war. FIRST WOMAN PROFESSOR. The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 2. The appointment of Holland's first woman professor is just announced in the official Gazette. Dr. Zohanna | Westerdyk, the 33-year-old daughter of an Amsterdam physician, becomes | extraordinary professor of plant pa- thology at the University of Utrecht. { She is not unknown in America, for it was only in 1914 that she traveled across the United States with some fellow phytopathologists, lecturing at | different American universities on the | subject of plant diseases in Java and Holland. heumatism attacks the | ““outside’’ man. Pains and | aches stiffen his joints and | muscles and reduces his efficiency. | At the first twinge get Sloan’s ‘mement, easy to apply, it pene- | trates aithout rubbing and soothes | the soreness. After that long drive or tedious wait in the cold rain apply Sloan’s Liniment to those stiff fingers; aching wrists and arms. For gout, neuralgia, toothache, bruises, sprains, cold feet, it is promptly effective. 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Maastricht, Netherlands, Feb. 2.— A boatload of over 100 Belgians re- «cently ran the German gauntlet on the River Meuse, and after an excit- ing night trip to the accompaniment of machine gun fire landed on Dutch soil at Eysden, which town the fugi- tives entered in a body singing Mar- seillaise. The tug ‘“‘Atlas V" lay moored at Liege and the embarkment of her pas- sengers lasted from half past five to eleven o'clock in the evening, the Bel- glans making their way aboard singly so as to avoid arousing suspicion. She was then filled up, with 101 Belgians, a Russian, a Frenchman, and a wom- an with two children, 8 and 10 years of age respectively. At midnight the e f; WHEN YOU WAKE UP DRINK GLASS Wash the poisons and toxins from system before putting more food Into stomach. Says Inslde-bathing makes any- one look and feel clean, sweet and refreshed. — U ‘Wash yourself on the inside before Lreakfast llke you do on the outside. "This is vastly more important because | the skin pores do not absorb impuri- ties into the blood, causing illness, while the bowel pores do. For every ounce of food and drink taken into the stomach, nearly an ounce of waste material must be car- 1ied out of the body. If this waste material is not eliminated day by day and generates poisons, gases and toxins which are absorbed or sucked into the stream, through the Ilymph duects which should suck only nourishment to sustain the body. A splendid health measure ¢rink, before breakfast each day, a glass of real hot water with a tea- spoonful of limestone phosphate in it, which is a harmless way to wash these poisons, gases and toxins from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels; thus cleansing, sweetening ond freshening the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. A quarter pound of limestone phos- phate costs but very little at the drug store but is sufficlent to make anyone en enthusiast on inside-bathing. Men ard women who are accustomed to wake up with a dull, aching head or have furred tongue, had taste, nasty breath, sallow complexion, others who have bilious attacks, acid stomach or ccnstipation are assured of pro- nounced improvement in both health | ana appearance shortly. { blood | is to OF HOT WATER | moorings were cast off and the boat | having first been allowd to drift quiet- {1y out into the stream, ‘“Full steam ahead’ was soon ordered and she flew | along the river in the darkness. The first shot was fired by a sentry near Vise. Searchlights were turned on the escaping vessel, and machine guns joined in the chorus of rifle | shots from several sides. But all on | board were safe down below except { the sturdy Belgian captain, who | stuck grimly to the wheel while sacks , of coal stacked around him caught ,the bullets. The arch under the new i railway bridge a little farther on had been shut off with beams, but | at the barrier and successfully craf through it, sending splinters flyin all ' ‘directions. A lghtship, f which several soldiers were fi was run down, #ind .the chaing' electric cable on/the frontier snaj at the violent Impact of’the fu; ship. BREAD CARD SYSTEM. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Feb, A universal bread card system is come into operation on IFebruar: next, under which all Hollanders be placed on rations fixed at grams a head per day, with an e: ! the | 100 grams for those engaged in h solid little' tug was headed stx‘s.(ghtlphyslcal labor. We Have the Answer t - This Requirement \ Probably you yourself have noticed the in- creasing number of people who are looking for a car that the whole family can use. We know many a man who would like to have his wife and daughter drive his car, but he is constantly concerned about their safety. When a man has reached this stage, he is headed straight for the Franklin Car. Our advice to him always is to find out what light weight does protect the user. It is the light weight of the Franklin that makes steering so easy and dependable; that makes brakes applications so pesitive; that holds the car to the road; that practically elim- inates punctures and blowouts. Only driving the Franklin can tell you how that strained, watchful feeling disappears. You feel secure yourself. ‘You know that driving is safe for any member of your family. The flexible, light weight of the Franklin makes driving less work and more relaxation. UNIVERSAL AUTO (0. 333 PEARL SI. HARTFORD, CT.