New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 7, 1917, Page 2

Britain Herald. HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. @afly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., St Herald Butidmg, ¢7 Church St. bt #t the Post Office at New Britain @8 Second Class Mall Matter. 4 by carrier to any 15 cents a week, 65 ci ptions for paper to be in advance, ar. of the eity & month. nt by mail, 60 cents a month, o e only profitable advertising medium in the city. Circulation books and press m always open to advertlsers. “Herald will be found on sale at Hota- ling's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- ‘way. New York City; Board Walk, At- ntia City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONH CALLS. Office The Associated Press is exclu- ly entitled to the use for re- blication of all news credited 0 it or not otherwise credited in paper and also the local news Hshed herein. come from California, New Mexico and Maine, far oft island Philippines * We wrested from old Spal rgm Texas, Georgia, Oregon, - Wirginta, Washington, B8t since we put the khakl on '¥’re Yankees every one. @ated lettors Punk, N. Y., Or Last Hope, Idaho, Hastings on the Hudson but fow short weeks ago. sinoe we heard the call to | And gradbed a sword and gun, weite 1t U. S, A. because {%a're Yuankess every one. —MINNA IRVING. TO BASEBATD FANS. i the excitement attendant upon [k world’'s series baseball fans are % &pt to forget the national and itional affairs of greater mo- ‘We therefore, in the midst of ithe joys of baseballdom, call at- to the blanks appearing in her part of the paper, blanks i which should be written the lnes of those called to the colors. gre is hardly a boy er a man now tho national army, the regular , the navy or the national guard fo is not a baseball fan extraordin- i, His case then should interest fellow fans who are so fortunate ¥ may remain at home today and lch' the returns of the greatest of out-door sports. WAfter having the resulty of the first game clip the coupon and send in a name. i honor roll in this way may be ipleted In a very short time. i NG A QUESTION' OF IN- TO LIBERTY BOND HOLDERS. has been some question purchasers of the First bonds as to whether or not will continue to enjoy the full course, have the advantages of both without the disadvantages of either. In other words, the present holder of a three and a half per cent. bond exempt from all taxa- tion would have the privilege of converting it into a four per cent. He would have to determine that for himself. He¢ has that option. Some of them undoubtedly would convert and others would not. I think all the small holders of these bonds would convert them into the four per cent. bonds, because the tax = exemption s worth nothing to them. . This is to the point. Also, it car- ries a plece of advice to the small investor in these bonds. Convert the first into those of later issue that carry higher rates of interest. The tax exemption privilege means noth- ing to the man of moderate income. Going further into the situation, Rep- resentative Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, who fathered the Federal income tax legislation, on this same oceasion drew further enlightenment from the Becretary of the Treasury. The ques- tions propounded by Mr. Hull and the answers of Mr, MoAdoo give fur- ther evidence of the Government's in- tention to withhold the full exemption privileges in the case of converted three and a half per cent. bonds of the first issue: The interrogations and answers are here set forth: “Mr. Hull—Mr. Secretary, I notice a difference of opinion of the finan- clal publications as to whether these three and a half per cent bond hold- ers can be required to comvert on the tax basis. “‘Secretary McAdoo—We cannot re- quire them. “Mr. Hull—I mean it they desire to convert, whether the government can require them to be subjected to the supertax. *“Secretary McAdoo—They do not have to take it. They are merel; siven the option. i “Mr. Hull—I understand that per- fectly, but the point I was bringing up, just for information, I have not Tead the terms of your proposal; they say they have the right to convert and get the benefit of the four per cent interest, or the higher interest rate, without subjecting themselves to the supertax under this proposal. “‘Secretary McAdoo—No; they have not. The holder of a three and a half per cent bond, if this bill passes, has the option of converting it into a four per cent bond with a more limited form of exemption or of keeping his three and a half per cent bond with the full exemption.” , This last answer is clear cut and to the point. It should remove any shadow of a doubt. Any man holding a First Idberty bond will now know the outcome if he should con- vert it into a bond paying four per cent, or, later, into a Liberty Bond paying even a higher rate of inter- est, should these be issued. To gain the higher interest:the holder of a bond thust sacrifice the tax exemption privilege. That is all there is to it. EAST OF YPRES. Haig's victory east of Ypres is the greatest British achievement since the beginning of the war. The four or five thousand German prisoners taken within the first twenty four hours of the assault are as nothing compared with the list of dead and wounded. Since the battle of the Somme there has been no such ac- tivity as this on the part of either side. It is wrong to mistake this ac- tion as the beginning of the end, for the Germans are not done as yet. Sgtemption privilege in the event are converted into bonds of a issue bearing higher interest. i this the oecasion of the second Wrty Loan inquirers want to know ‘wrill be the outcome if they the bonds of the First loan these new bonds. for an answer to this the New York Sun took the it up with assistant Secretary of Preasury Crosby and finds that emsmption privilege of Liberty s lost by comversion. The fssve was free from tax of any “Those bonds bear three and a £ per oent. interest. The Second Loan s not free from taxa- the bomds of which will yield ewners four per cent. interest. gh this information has not dispensed in the usual channels publication, the Secretary of the ury voiced the decision of the [lvernment five weeks ago at a Ing before the Ways and Means nittee of the House of Represen- . His testimony at that time d the question many are now . His answer is to the point. he sald to the committee: The Secretary of the Treasury, i pursuance of the authority ponferred upon him to prescribe the terms and conditions of con- fversion, announced, in offering the ! series of Liberty bonds for ubscription, that if a subsequent es of bonds should be issued it & higher rate the Liberty bonds fwould be convertible into bonds 4 ring the higher rate and sub- ntially identical with the bonds of the new series (except to maturity of principal and of terest and terms of redemption, ch makes it possible to avoid ving all the bonds mature on ne date as a result of the exer- of the privilege of conver- ! I | [ e on.) . The holders of the present berty bonds, therefore, may their bonds or may convert pn into the new bonds, as they OF but they cannot, of They have many more men they can lead to the slaughter, they have many suns with which to pound the allied lines; but this they have not,—they have not the morale with which they started out. They are doomed to in- evitable defeat and each day draws nearer the end. It may be in & year, it may be in two years, it may be even longer; but it is on .the way. German arms cannot stand up for- ever against such assaults as the one now being made east of Ypres. COAL PRICES AGAIN. Numerous correspondents follow- ing with interest the coal situation in this city have propounded these questions: What is the real price of coal in New Britain at this time? Is it eleven dollars a ton or ten dollars and a half a ton? Have the dealers one price to give out over the tele- phone and another to insert on their bills? Instances have been cited. even as late as today, where purchasers of coal have asked the price over the 'phone, received the answer it was selling at $10.50 a ton and then, upon receipt of the bill, found the price to be $11.00. From this it would seem as If there is really two prices for coal in New Britain. One a telephonic price, the other the actual price. We know this: A man who pays spot cash for his coal receives it at the present rate of $10.50 a ton. He who delays payment, who purchases on a credit basis, must pay $11.00 a ton. There the situation stands. Eleven dollars a ton is the accommodation price. As the dealers explain, If a man wants to be accommodated to the extent that his payments are de- ferred he must stand the extra tax of fifty cents on each ton of coal. Spot cash makes for cheaper coal, even though the coal here is not as cheap as in other cities. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, .. FAOTS AND FAN( Got your second Liberty bond yet?—Erie, Pa., Times. hed It is nothing new for infantry to indulge in bawl games.—Nashville Banner, If there was ever virtue in hocking a wateh, it would be to get the pur- chase money for a Liberty bond.— New London ?ay. From the length of the express trans running east through here, Camp Devens must be getting well stocked up.—New London Day. Gen. Byng, retiring from the com- mand of - the Canadians in France, should be succeeded by Gen. Bang, to eomport with the fighting spirit of those troops.—Concord Monitor. ‘When one of those Zeppelins that tackled London was ‘“brought to the earth in flames in the neighborhood of Potter’s bar”, Potter’s bar must have done a great little business among the innocent bystanders.— Paterson, N. J., Call It appears that there are so many @Qerman spies and agents in New York city that they would reach from Sandy Hook to the Kiel canal if lald end to end on the bottom of the ocean. Our platform is: Lay them that way!—Don Marquis in N. Y. Evening Sun. The kaiser’s complaint that the officers of the French army, “instead of being nobles,. come from no one knows where,” is a serious matter, which ought to be looked into. ‘When German armies, led by Prus- sian nobles, are whipped by troops fighting under unaristocratic French officers it is a clear case of adding insult to injury.—Springfield Union. German Chemists Dethroned. (Philadelphid Bulletin.) Following the meeting of the Chemical society in Boston, a great exhibition of what the science has done is being conducted in New York | DOING HIS BIT | PR v S WILLIAM CHAPMAN. The above photograph is of Willlam Chapman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam E. Chapman of 28 Winthrop street. Chapman, who is 28 years of age, enlisted in July as a first lieu- tenant in the Medical Reserve Corps. At present he is stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison and expects to leave for France soon. Chapman is a graduate of New Britain High school, graduating with the class of '09 and of Yale Sheffleld Scientific school. He received an M. A. and M. D. from Columbia last spring. He was married last June in Brooklyn. ~ COMMUNICATED. SUCCESS OF MILK STATION. which has aroused unusual interest. Some of the leading chemists of the country have been giving out daily statements as to some phase of their daily industry which show that Ger- many has lost her leadership in chem- istry and never can wholly regain it. Times have changed since Andrew Carnegie was hooted at by his rivals for importing a German chemist to analyze iron ore. It resulted in a saving of a great many thousands at the cost of $1,600 a year. The joke was on the other fellows. Now al- most any manufacturing establish- ment maintains a chemical labora- tory. There are now more than ten thousand chemists of such distinction as to gain admittance to the National soctety. It was American chemistry which made it possible for our muni- tion plants to supply the Allies at a time when Germany supposed she had them by the throat. It is Amer- ican chemistry which is now backing up the nation in all its plants for war. Two years ago the Deutschland came over with a cargo of dyes to sell at fabulous prices. At last accounts the cargo was unsold, for American ingenuity had devised dyestuffs that made us independent in that line. It seems as if there must,be some evil spirit conducting the affairs of Ger- many when it continues deliberately not only to violate the laws of God and man, but to increase the number of her enemies and destroy her chances for resuming world trade. This is all the more remarkable be- cause in a short time Germany would have had much more than her al- ready out-of-proportion share of the world’s commerce. Malocclusion. “If we could achieve the preven- tlon of this most terrible blight upon childhood, malocclusion, it would stamp us as deserving the most glori- ous commendation and would make our professional standing more laud- able in the sight of man and God.” . This statement was made In per- fect serfousness by Dr. E. A. R. Torsch of Louisville, Ky., before a convention of dentists, and is printed in a discussion of malocclusion in the Journal of the National Dental asso- clation. To call the imperfect closing of teeth upon each other the “most ter- rible blight upon childhood!’ seems to the layman to be putting it rather strongly. Yet dentists and most physiclans are now agreed that badly closing teeth are responsible for 4n- numerable digestive troubles, infec- tions and malformations of the jaw. Too much stress cannot be Taid upon the necessity for taking chil- dren to the dentist early and often. A child’'s teeth, experts say, should be examined twice a year from the time the child is three years old. The first teeth, instead of being of no con- sequence, are of the highest impor- tance. If they are crowded, crooked or decayed, the permanent teeth will almost invariably b so also. If any straightening and adjusting is to be done it must be done in the very early vears. Teeth are the gateway through which all food must pass. Dirty teeth are as little to be tolerated as dirty dishes. Decayed teeth are cen- ters of infection—gathering and breeding places for all the germs that are. Badly closing teeth are like ma- chinery out of repair—they do not grind food properly. They are slack- ers, throwing their work upon the stomach which is not prepared for it. A family dentist should be as much of a necessity as a family doctor. Choose a competent, well-recommend- ed man. See that the family go to him regularly and abide by his de- cisions. Good-looking, cheerful chil- dren will be the result. One of the Purposes. New Britain Organization Performing ‘Wonderful Work Among Babies. To the Editor of Herald: I feel that the citizens of New Brit- ain should have information as to what the Infant Welfare and Milk Station Association of New Britain hag done for its babies since last May. The station has been a very busy place although the work has gone on quietly and little said concerning it. ‘We carried over from January to the first of May 108 bables and since then to the present time the nurses have had on an average of 215 under care, but at times more. Amongst that number have been many very sick babies and they were cared for from one day to three weeks at the statlon in an especial room fitted out for that purpose. So with watchful care there, and at the homes under the supervision of the nurses, Wwe have lost but one and that little one wag brought in in a most critical con- dition. Food for 50 bables a day of a speeial formula have been prepared at the station, for this year the babies seem more frail than usual and espe- clal attention has had to be given to the diet. Many mothers have called simply for advice and they come to depend more and more upon help given them by Miss O’Dell and 50 calls a day at the station by them have been an average number. Thirty bables a week were weighed. Saturday afternoons little mothers’ classes were held, 24 attending and given instruction in bathing baby, clothing baby, preparing baby’s food, selecting baby’'s food, making baby’s bed, first aid to sick baby and they also visited a modern dairy. These lessons can not fail but be of great benefit to the little girls who have to care for their baby brother or sis- ter, and we hope to continue them through the winter, as there will be present time, for mothers come to the station daily whose husbands have been drafted, so they will have to work out or enter the factory and the baby will have to be left without its mother's care. The question is so often asked, how is this work carried on, and how are the finances raised.” It is by volun- tary contributions entirely with the exception of $250 given by the city the past summer, and to continue the work we need money, for, perhaps due to the Red Cross and contribu- tions for abroad, our contributions have fallen off. The work has grown so rapidly that two nurses have to be employed and their whole time is given in keeping In constant. touch with our babies and all mothers wish- ing assistance or advice they are ready to help, for all this work ‘is educational and preventative. Infant Welfare work is uppermost in the minds of England at the pres- ent day, for, although engulfed in war, she does not fail to realize the work among her babies must be car- ried on and also poor France is doing all she can to save her own and from our own country physicians and nurses are going there especially to study Infant Welfare conditions and to alleviate the suffering amongst them. The question arises are we in this country paying sufficient atten- tion to the necessity of Infant Weifare work and are we doing all we should in New Britain? Of course, with but one station, we can not reach all we should but they are brought from different sections of the city, showing the necessity for it, so let us not for- get our bables and, although there are those who feel they can not give much to support it, give your Ilittle, for every little helps, and contribu- tions can be left with Miss O'Dell at the Milk Station, corner Center and East Main streets, or Miss Whittlesey, 279 West Main street. Our babies will be the future citizens of New Britain, if they are cared for and (Buffalo Enquirer.) Lord Northcliffe said something when he declared the United States is in the war to make the world safe for the United States. properly fed now it will help them to be healthier and stronger and, in- stead of a burden to our city, be a help. ‘ MRS. IRA E. HICKS. | immediately fillled by a relative of a a greater necessity for them at the | | from the Humphrey House, issued on 1 1852, °| pickerel, The threatened upheaval and clean- out in the health department, while more general and far reaching, was no more surprising to the public than a similar action in another department | several months ago when an employe, who had served with sufficient efficlen- cy to retain the same position for near- ly ten years, was asked to resign. The fact that this position, & $900 job, was high officlal might be, assumed as go- ing hand in hand with the reported stories that the present health board agitation is due to jealousy and a de- sire to put in friends. s Compare New Britain’s Thursday quota to the National Army with that of Hartford. New Britain sent 208 men while the Capital City. sent but 176, explaining that due to a delay in certifying selection and to the large number of colored men enrolled the number had to be cut down. It does look as though there might be the proverbial colored man in the wood- bile. Also, Meriden sent only 43 men, Middletown a dozen and Willimantio 54. It does appear as though the Hardware City has been getting it rubbed in right along. s The State Council of Defense hgs asked that the names of local men in the service be posted on their bulletin board in Central park. It would take a larger board than that to contain the names of the hundreds of New Britain men who have rallied to the colors. Fair estimates show that ful- ly 1,200 local boys from 16 to 60 are in various branches of the service. Their names should be inscribed on a roll of honor to be hung in City hall, but their names must be first se- cured. The Herald is trying hard to obtain such a list. Help out by send- ing in the name of any soldier, sailor or marine that you know who has not already been registered. .o Warm rooms will be a luxury this ‘Winter at the rate coal sells for in New Britain at present. The public has & right to feel dissatisfied with the prices asked in view of those asked in smal- ler towns about the state. e ) Thomas W, O'Connor, trustee of the old 8. W. Ryder homestead in Plain- ville, once a well known hostelry in the old halcyon days of horse racing at the famous Ryder's trotting park there, in going over the house found a number of old and interesting docu- ments giving a glimpse into the years of long ago. The oldest paper found, vellow with age, is a regimental or- der dated at Hartford on October §, 1818, just 99 years ago today. It is an order to the Second Regiment Light Artillery and is signed by Adju- tant Danlel Colt. This order informs all members of the first and second regiments of light artillery that the uniform, which each man had to fur- nish himself, must consist of a.jack leather cap, ornamented with a white feather in front and trimmed with a yellow cord and band. A plain blue coat, half long, single breasted, blue pantaloons trimmed with gilt cord on the outside seam. a white vest and yellow sword belt are also ordered. Other articles of raiment are speci- fled as just as 0dd in contrast to the business like uniform of the soldier of 1917. Another interesting old pa- per is the commiselon as captain of the eleventh company of the second regiment of light artillery granted to Alvin Squire by Oliver Wolcott, com- mander-in-chief of the state, on April 27, 1819. Still another old document is a statement sent to ‘Alvin Squire, constable and tax collector of Bark- hamsted by State Treasurer Isaac Spencer on June 13, 1821, advising him to collect a tax of one cent on the dollar.The collector is informed in this notice that if he collects his taxes within twenty days after theyv are due he will be allowed 3% per cent. for salary; otherwise he gets nothing. Of especial interest to New Britain people, however, is an old menu card the occasion of the opening ball of the seventy-seventh anniversary of! the battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, In the old days when New Britain was but a little country ham- let, the Humphrey House, located on the site of the Park hotel. was its principal hostelry and it .was here that all the gala events of the early years of the town took place. The bill of fare at this banquet held sixty-five years ago contained such edibles as boiled salmon and trout, ham garnish, neats tongues garnish, chickens with oyster sauce, turkey with oyster sauce, leg- of mutton With caper sauce, and leg .of lamb. For side dishes the diners could select from chicken pies, plgs’ feet spiced, baked macaroni, fried oysters, oyster pies,' stewed oysters, oyster patties and es- calloped oysters. The more substan- tial part of the menu consisted of sir- loin beef, turkeys with cranberry sauce, pigs, spareribs of pork, chick- | ens, goose with cranberry sauce, leg of mutton with currant jelly and leg of lamb, while as vegetables the pa- tron could select potatoes, turnips, peas and pickled beets. It was the pastry and dessert, however, that of- fered the widest variety, for included were the following dishes: Sponge cake, loaf cake. pound cake, cake trifles, delieate cake, lady cake, raisin cake, clove cake, currant cake, jum- ble cake, westron flats, apese, sugar snaps, gold cake, charlotte russe, blanc mange, boiled custards, madeira jelly, port jelly, lemon Jjelly, calves feet jellv, apple Jjelly, spice apples, puff custards, floating lIslands, whip syllabub, apple snow, English wal- nuts, almonds, raisins, apples, oranges and ice cream. This banquet menu differed but slightly from the regular courses served at the old Humphrey House and the following extracts from a daily bill of fare show that those were the days of peace and prosperity, when foodstuffs were not at a pre- mium and the hotels and restaurants were not charging an extra nickle for cents per pound; corn, 60 cents per chicken, quail, partridge, venison, beet steak, ham, tongue, smoked tongue, pigs’ feet, chicken pies, fried oysters, oyster piers, raw and stewed oysters, potatoes, beets, squash, tur: nips and tomatoes, pickled oysters, pickled peppers, pickled tomatoes, pickled clams, pickled onions, celery, cranberry sauce. Preserves: Quince, peach, pear, grapes, crab apple, pine- apples, citrons, strawberry. Pastry: ! Mipge pie, cranberry ple, pineapple pie, apple pie, custard pudding, lemon ple, whortleberry ple, cocoanut pie, brandy cheese, tapioca pudding, rola pola, squash’pie, custard pie, rice pudding, sponge cake, clove cake, hickory cake, cocoanut jumbles, deli- cate cake, black cake, loaf cake and Jelly cake. Compare the above gener- ous offerings and many varieties to the small offerings and few varieties offered in any of our local hotels or restaurants today. No wonder those of another generation speak of the sood old days. e October generally vies with June for weddings, but the selective ser- vice act has given the springtime a great handicap this year. e “We drill from 7 till 12 and from 1 to 6 we dig ditches. And I thought I worked hard back in New Britain,” writes one of the boys from Ayer. All of which goes to convince us that we never know when we're well off. .. In connection with the round-up of stray dogs why would it not be a good idea to gather in some of the worth- less cats that infest the city and oft- times make the hights miserable for those who wish to sleep peacefully? There are more of them than there are canines, possibly because a home- less cat can find forage much easier than a tramp dog. As a target for gas bombs they would be on a par with doggles. LI How many people looked carefully at the soldiers’ monument lately? Have they noticed the untidy appear- ance of the once green turf that should be between the abutment and the fountain? Mud and muck, with more or less refuse scattered about, make it unpleasant to look upon. LAY Two little white boys with a little colored companion were wading in the.| Shuttle Meadow canal last Saturday when a woman, driving along the roadway, remarked upon it. “Aw, it's all right, I ain’t usin’ no soap”, the little colored lad replied. .. New Britain already has several fe- male gate tenders, but as yet the pub- lic has not been treated to the sight of an “Elevator Girl.” How Long Will They Last? (New York Evening Sun.) With the current of the war set- ting deeper and stronger against Ger- many, the impréssion is gaining in some quarters that the end of resist- ance is near. The end may be in sight, it may be admitted, but it has not yet approached within measuring distance. Many signs show that the end |is in sight. German attacks in France grow less and less vigorous. The fire of the German artillery glves less trouble than last spring. The at- tacks of the British and of the French score the line more deeply and progress more readily than even in July. While our allies, awaiting our arrival next spring, avoid exert- ing their full power in order to save it for next year, their deliberation does not enable the Germans to re- gain strength. The prisoners of the French and British show an increas- ing proportion of immature youths as the fighting goes on. The Ger- man staff has lately abandoned the system of front ' trenches, which stood it In good stead, for a system of machine gun ambushes, which en- able the defenders to protect a given front with comparatively few men and without employing an infantry firing line. In other words the methods of the British and French have already worn down the Germans to a point where they find difficulty in main- taining their front in Frace. The continuation of the same methods, intensified by the aid of American arms, is sure to put the Germans on the Tun in a moderate time. Mora than half the needful effort, indeed, has probably been made. There is no telling in advance at which blow of the axe the tree will plunge .over. It is equally useless to attempt to predict the moment or the blow that will send the Germans lurching back out of their tracks. Perhaps they will yield gradually, falling ever back to new lines, ever more thinly defended, or perhaps they may hold stiffly to their pres- ent situation until they suddenly break and are forced into flight. The time is uncertain; not the result, which approaches and is unconceal- able. We hope that the plans of the United States army organization comprize a strong force of cavalry, indispensable for the coming work of pursuit. The Children of the Working Woman. Perhaps the greatest lesson these studies among foreign mothers teach us is the effect of hard work upon in- fant mortality. The extent to which prospective mothers increase the fam- ily revenue apparently regulates the extent to which their babies die. These women add a few dollars a week to their husband's earnings, but they pay a dreadful penalty in the loss of their children. Among From the Herald years ago: October 1—A. J. Sloper gave a bar- becue at his ten acre lot on Shuttle Meadow road yesterday. The Burritt Savings Bank is one year old today and its assets are $62,924.42. George Parker began work as a letter carrier this morning. October 2—Annual town election to- day. Work on the Shuttle Meadow dam 1s almost completed. October 3—Loren F. Judd was out rding yesterday. Harry Parsons has resigned his position at the Vulcan Iron Works. The police made fifty ar- rests last month. October 4—The democrats are ju- bilant, yesterday Bassett, Morton, Mc- Cabe, Andrews and the whole ticket was elected. About 250 Swedes gath- ered in Herald hall last night to get acquainted with how to United States citizens. W. W. Hanna has resigned the managebship of the New Britain Opera House. October 5—A tally-ho coaching par- ty from Hartford took supper at the Russwin last night and had a Jolly time. Two butchers engaged in a fistic contest on Park street this fore- noon and one of the combatants took refuge in flight while the other bovine destroyer chased him until he got out of breath. Licutenant Colonel A. L. Thompson had 61 at the state rifle shoot yesterday. October 6—Assistant City Attorney B. F. Gaffney prosecuted in police court this morning. Phenix lodge. I. 0 .0. F., dedicated its new hall in D. C. Judd’s block’ last night. There were 26 deaths in town last month. Judge V. B. Chamberlain will preside and introduce Governor McKinley at the republican rally in the Opera House tonight. of twenty-five become | foreigners those nationalities which Hmit their women’s wark to house- hold duties, such as the English and the Germaps, have the best luck with their babfes. the southern and eastern Europeans-— Slovaks, Poles, and Serbo-Croatians— who regard their women almost as much as their men as family bread- winners, lose their infants to a much greater degree. And, as though in obedience to a hitherto undiscovered law, the races whose women work hardest pay the greatest penalties of this kind. Itallan mothers, it s true, have a higher infant mortality rate than certaln eastern Eluropeans, despite the fact that, in the main, they are not heavy laborers; but these women have poor physiques, and are thus not good natural candidates for maternity. The contrary i8 true af the Polish, the Slovak, and the Serbo- | Croatian women. Their fecundity iy well known; the Polish mother, in- deed, was the greatest encmy that Bismark feared in dealing with his Polish problem, for the ability of the Polish women to produce soldiers he looked upon as a constant military menace to the German Empire. In the mining reglons of western Penn- venia, however, though the Poish and Serbo-Croatian birth rate is high, their infunt death rate I8 lkewise high. Mirz Lathrop’s Investigations rresent one starting paradox—that is, that those foreign bables who, on strictly bialogical grounds, ought to have the lLicst chances of survival, ap- parcntly have the worst.—Burton J. Her drick in Harper's Magazine. Limitations of ‘“Courtesy."” (Drew’s Imprint.) Treating a customer llke a rich uncle, so you may extract his coin, is s e This is the canning season. Evident- ly the health board officials wanted to be right in season when they ar- ranged their little canning party. cee Comment on the high price of pres- ent day foodstuffs is unnecessary for everybody who eats is fully aware of the luxury. However, just look over these figures from a price list in 1897. Eggs, 10 cents per dozen; bacon, 7 bag; chicken, 10 cents per pound. Eggs are now 75 cents a dozen and the corn, which once sold for 60 cents 4 bag, now sells at $4.50. Figuring on this basis it would appear that cggs have advanced seven and one- half times in price, while corn has ad- vanced the same, indicating that eggs are comparatively just as cheap now as they were then. That's the way one dealer argued it for us, but the logic is hard to follow. s e Corn roasts are now passe. Next on the program should come roast chest- nuts and sweet clder parties. From Camp to Oity. (Baltimore American.) The lad in the army training camp, with its good fellowship and lack of care, sometimes finds that the visit back to the city doesn't have half the zest he thought it would. The Complete Styles. (San Antonio Light.) ‘While irench coats are to be the popular fashion for men this year. they will be more appropriate if re- a second helping of butter: Fried turkey, . prairie chicken, inforced with enlistment papers and side arms. not courtesy—that's foresight. Offering a seat to the man enters your office that’s duty. Listening to the grumblings, growl- ings and groanings of a bore with- out remonstrance is not courtesy— that's forbearance. Offering a companion a cigar when you light one yourself is not courtesy —You'd be ill-bred if you didn’t Helping a pretty girl across the street, holding her umbrella, carrying her poodle—none of these is courtesy. The first two are a pleasure, and the last is politeness. Courtesy is doing that which noth- ing under sun makes you do but human kindness. Courtesy springs from the heart; if the mind prompts the action there is a reason; for courtesy has no reason. Courtesy is good-will and good-will is prompted by the heart full of love to be kind. Only the generous man is truly courteous—he gives freely without a thought of receiving anything in re- turn. The generous man has devel- open kindness to such an extent that he considers everyone as good as himself—and treats others not as he should like to be treated (for generos- ity asks nothing) but as he ought to be treated. who is not courtesy— School Attendance Falling Off. (Brooklyn Standard-Union.) The decrease in the registration of public school pupils is probably due to more than one cause. The princi- pal one is doubtless that set forth by the acting superintendent of schools, the decreased immigration since the Furopean war broke out. The popu- Jation of school age has not increased as rapidly as during the previous lyears of high immigration. Those peoples, such as - |