New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1917, Page 11

g ! RESIDENT FOR THIRTY- g HIGHLY ENDORSES s MR. CHARLES B. HOTCHKISS, OF 8 TELLS JUST WHAT LAX MR. CHARLES That many druggists are selling all kinds of pills, tablets and liquid prep- arations when a customer calls for ... greatest sts that LAX-A-TONE -, his had for a long time. It shows that " the demand is so great that these same druggists are'selling anything that they +have for Heérbal LAX-A-TONE. Now, ¢ ‘when you'ask for LAX-A-TONE, say “Herbal LAX-A-TONE,” and see that it says “M. J. KRAUS, HERBAL LAX- TONE,” if the druggist attempts to sell you anything else in its place and i makes the claim that it is Herbal LAX-A-TONE. Just refuse it and at the same time consider whether you want that druggist to put up a pre- scription for you. For you can put it right down as a fact that that same S ‘druggist will substitute something ! else in place of your prescription. If R “inivou have been.fooled in this way, just #.° bring your empty bottle around to Mr. § Martin, of the Herbal LAX-A-TONE , Co., at the Economy New England Drug Co., and he will show you the difterence between the real Herbal LAX-A-TONE and the substitution that they have been giving you. The ‘Herbal LAX-A-TONE is one of the ! , FIVE YEARS THE GREAT HERBAL TONIC——“HERBAL ' LAX-A-TONE” 1 CHURCH STREET .THIS CITY, -A-TONE DID FOR HIM. B. HOTCHKISS, genuine Herbal LAX-A-TONE can be had only at the Economy New Eng- land Drug Co., 366 Main street. It is liquid and plainly states on the bottle, “M, J. Krause, Herbal LAX-A-TONE.” Mr. Hotchkiss is a well and favor- ably known bartender, of this city, and has lived here for 35 years and is a man of unquestionable integrity. Mr. Hotchkiss says: ‘am a member of Local Bartend- ers’ Union, No. 166, and have been in New Britain many years, and during that time I have been a great sufferer from stomach trouble with gas and bloat. . I have tried in many ways to get relief, but it seemed that I could find none until I tried Herbal LAX-A- ,TONE, and since I have taken this wonderful remedy I am a well man, {and I do not hesitate to endorse it to anyone. I consider it a great remedy.” Mr. J. R. Martin, the LAX-A-TONE MAN,” is at the [Eoonomy New Eng- 1and Drug Co., 365 Main street, where he is introducing this remedy to the New BEritain public.. He will remain until 10 o'clock Saturday evenings for those unable to see him during the week. l Not expensive " Bulldings of every bud in every clime ‘@ve reofod with RU-BER-OID Reaf> dug ar! RU-BER-OID Shinalar THE W. R BRIT, Pronounc “Every leak in a roof adds to its cost. That’s why it pays to get the best in the beginni Count the long life of RU-BER-OID—its freedom from repairs—and you'll see it is the cheapest roof you can buy. Real RU-BER-OIDwill not crack, warp, run, rot or rust. For your protection every roll of the genuine has the “Ru-ber-oid Man” on the wrap- per. Look for him when you buy. Let us tell you what it will cost you to roof with RU-BER-OID. L. DAMON CO. and u-o-e'!uu_alh-w ed “RU RUBY U-BER-0I0 COSTS MORE - WEARS LONGE AINT ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING First Class Work at Reasonable Prices Eastern Weekly Publ. Co. 53 CHURCH ST. New Britain, Conn. GLEARING HOUSE FOR ALL EUROPE’S WOES Spain Appealed to by Sorrowing Mothers and Wives Madrid, Spain, April 27.—A cable despatch has come from America ad- dressed to the King of Spain. It was delivered at the Royal palace to the king’s personal secretary, Senor Don Emilio--Maria de Torres, minister plenipotentiary, who after reading ft, passed it to the repregentative of The Associated Press who chanced to be present. The cablegram said: listed as aviator in British Royal Flying Squadron. He was last seen flylng over English channel.on De- cember 4, last.. Since then nothing known of him and he is officlally re- ported as missing. An agonized mother'and father appeal to your ma- Jesty to obtain information and re- Heve their terrible suspense.” Senor de Torres at once set in mo- tion the machinery of investigation through the Spanish embassy at Ber- Un. This was a typical case, one among more than 200,000, which are being investigated under the personal “Our son en- rection of King Alfonso, and which | constitute one of the most stupendous humanitarian works created by the war. Judged by results alone the vastness of the work is apparent; 200,000 cases traced, of which 150,000 are disposed of and 50,000 still under investiga- tion. A great number of soldiers, re- ported “missing,” have been located alive and in prison camps and thus the agony of suspcense has been re- moved from thousands of homes. In a much larger number of cases, un- fortunately, the inquiry has estab- lished the death of the missing sol- dier, while in a still greater number of cases no trace of the missing has been found. Besides this, 30,000 civilians in the invaded sections of Belgium and France have been located for their families, 5,000 seriously wcunded have been granted, of which nearly twenty were death sentences, mostly of women accused of being spies. Tt is probable Edith Cavell, the famous English nurse executed at Brussels, would have been saved had there been time to carry out the king's ef- forts. Pleas From the Afflictod. It is not only a vast work, but it probably deals with ‘more individual tragedies and more human emotigns than any branch of activity .created by the war. Pouring in here to the palace, by. cable, telégraph and let- ter, are the pleas of mothers for lost sons, wives for lost husbands., and children for lost fathers and brother Each tells a story of terrible s pense. Most of the appeals are from poor people who write with touching simplicity and with doubt as to how they should address a king. But the simplicity of the appeals has only stimulated the earnestness of the king’s efforts.- 1le has organized this extensive system of search here in the palace, alongside the royal apartments, where he can come and 80 frequently to see the work as it progresses and personally direct some inquiry of pressing urgency. A dozen large chambers looking out on ‘the royal courtyard are devoted to the, work, with scores of officials includ- ing some of the titled ‘women of Spain and of the orders of the Assumption and the Sacred Heart, who devote all their time to this humane work Under escort of Senor de Torres an op- portunity was given to see system in operation. Long lines of records contain the thousands of cases, classified and in- dexed, so that any case can be traced ir a moment. Each nationality has a different colored 'card—blue for the English, yellow for the French, green for the Italians, etc. Both sides of the war are represented in these colors, ' Austrians and Hungarians, Bulgarians and Turks, as well as En- tente Allies. Each card records a brief history of the case. Special de- vices protrude above the cards to signal any notadle result. A small black ribbon above a card indicates death. There were many of these \ black badges indicating the sweep of | death. The number of aviators who have never been traced is also very high. The appeals of mothers and chil- firen are arranged alphabetically in huge cases and constitute the most touching feature of the work. Glanc- ing among these appeals one could sec the agony each one had for some stricken home- wrote the king. “1 suffer night and day in not know- ing what has become of my dear boy and 1 would prefer, 1 believe, the cer- tainty of his death and of having a tomb where I could go to pray, rather than to live in this endless and cruel uncertainty, which consumes me by a slow fire. It is horrible, Mon- sleur the King, for the two brothers | of this poor boy have already died on | the field of honor, and if our last son ! Charles is dead we have no more sons. | A weeping mother puts her supreme | hope in Your Majesty.” A wife made this simple appeal: “Seigneur, I appeal to your kindness ! for my husband, missing the 27th | September before Souchez.” i A little girl wrote this letter: “Mon- i sieur, 1 have the honor to ask some ! news of my brother. Wo are all in | agony and my brother is very sick {and cannot be consoled. Wil you give us news. Has Never Scen His Baby. | Another wife wrote: I could only i livea. 1 am the mother of a little { baby girl that the father has never yet luen, and this baby child pleads to One French m(’nl'hex‘K as ! Here is his address.” | “If at least ! know that my husband | BRITAIN HE NEW BRITAIN., CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1917. 7 | HININL. Life’s more cheerful and house- work ' easier in a home where the floors of the pantry and kitchen are agreeably covered with NEPONSET Floor Covering Neglected floors make dull homes. A dingy room can be wonderfully freshened up with Neponset. ' Its ar- tistic color designs are restful to eyes and nerves. * Neponset means. sanitary, easily washed, waterproof and enduring floors. Falling ‘grease won't spread orsoak in. Soresilient to the step that kitchen work ceases to be hard. Lies flat without tacking, and won’t curl Made, too, in special designs suitable for bed-rooms, nursery, bath-room, sewing-room, hallways, living-room and dining-room. 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But the king, to avoid a shock to the family, has adopted the delicate for- mula of first sending notice of a i death to the mayor of a town asking him to adopt suitable means of con- veying the news to the family. The letter in that case reads: “I regret to inform you that, ac- cording to a letter received from the | ambassador of his majesty at Berlin, | despite all the efforts to gather in- formation concerning 5 they have been able to learn only that he is dead, in offering his life glori- ously for his country, “Will you kindly convey this sad news with all the delicacy possible to and at the same time, in the name of the king, express his most. sincere condolence and sympa- thy.” There are some 150,000 of these dead and untracable missing in these palace recors n army greater than Napoleon’s army at Waterloo. To mark the solemnity of these 150,000 cauges, the king has placed above the 1 l i comeg in often to inspect. records a gold framed scroll, a wreath of laurel leaves entwining a cross. Special Investigators Added. The king has attached to the staff of the Spanish embassy at Berlin forty persons who are making these inves- tigations in all parts of Germany. Tt is growing so, that another seventeen will be added soon. The same kind of inquiry Is being made in Austria, Italy and France and other countries. There are two large maps of Ger- many and Austria which the king They tell at a glance, by means of hyero- glyphics, the exact state of each of the ! many ‘prison camps. ' Those in Austria indicated by a star, are almost all good. Many of those in Germany in- diéate, by a hollow square, that the condition is bad. There are many notable names in these records. One of them is Mme. Carton de Wiart, wife of the Belgian member of the ministry. She was de- ported and imprisoned at Berlin, re- fusing to accept any favor because of her husband’s high position. But King Alfonso intervened, and it was through his efforts that she finally was returned to her husband and children after months of imprisonment. One of the outgrowths of the sys- tem is the establishment of something like a bank at the palace, where many thousands of france have been sent from families to civilian and military prisoners. In all the details of thi extensive work King Alfonso takes a personal interest, following up the more urgent cases day by day. and often framing the letters of inquiry and information. While most of-the other rulers of Europe are devoting their enerzies to the work of war- fare, King Alfonso rules over a coun- try ut peace, and which he believes is this extensive work of. relie of the misery which the’ wi ing. destined to remain at peace, and it is his greatest satisfaction that this has brought him the opportunity to direct . 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