New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1917, Page 6

)ll‘l"--q Gyuren gt the local news strong and o sound and i not the rock, , and tempest’s if false hgnu on the Dor fear to breast the i hoarts, our hopes, are all Y W. LONGFELLOW. S S GOVERNMENT _CONTROL. moon tomorrow all the railroads ds country will come under the plute cqntrol of the United Stateg nment. “This by proclamation President. Willlam G. McAdoo, tary of the Treasury, is appointed designated ~DirectorrGeneral of d He will work in co-opera-, with the present boards of direc- these men being subordinated to } directions. \ ntially a war measure, having , authorized by Congress in ‘the jarations of war with Germany and ’ ' Dual Monarchy, the government nt D of the railroads will prove a ' to every person Interested in b weltare of the country. Every t’n can'be given has been that all interests will be pro- " 80 /long as the- lovornnmnt m-e possessions. The stock- _need have na fear of losses. mh-ry as ‘the early actions New York Stock Exchange show, . greater confidence 1is ln, the goverament thu\ in the b ownership plan. ‘the financial (wength of the Btates iy in this one act placed the raiiroads ‘of the country. nan now be run’ on a united There will' be curtailment of ragan the while there will be ng up ‘of deteriorated properties. of the high salaries now paid esidents are cut down to a reas- ible level, there will be but little int; and that from those direct- ed. All in all, the nation has approved the President’s +that +PHE ROAD TO BERLIN. m prove clearly something must soon be done in of bfln;lns about a working ment b.twun the Town of Ber- llfl the City of New Britain in master of fire protection. Not p-ago the fire commissioners here ended that a fee of fifty dol- ‘be paid every time the New Bri- fire department is called upon do active service in the neighbor- town; that Berlin township bulder the responsibilities for all alarms calling our apparatus; it such calls be put in only when pessary, and that the Selectmen re- specify when such service shall rendered. The letter written by j ‘officials here to the authorities Tlin was never even granted the of a reply. night there was a dangérous . costly firé in the town limits of 3, Our fire department was d after one building was burned ground and another.was on a P way of being destroyed. = The . to save the Yace of one Select- , 'was sent in a réund about way. r than shoulder the responsibil- this service, the official in ques- falled to telephone fire head- here. Instead, someone in in called Hartford. In turn a hone message was sent to Mayor ey. He, in his turn, called rters. A call from there’ was | chemical engine company No. it hed first been ascertained action was absolutely necessary. @ then on no time was lost. Over ¥ roads tq Berlin . Assistant Noble led 'his band of fire and they arrived on the EZ, s .scene in time to save ‘bulldings sur- | »enx- to close the schools until- the rounding the conflagration. Without wihing to prophesy dis- aster, there may come & day when Berlin and its officlals will regret the failure to answer the letter of New Britain's fire commissioners. We | bave pointed out the danger before. Last ‘night was but another proof of the folly of delay. The Town of Berlin is without fire fighting facili- ties of \any kind, It is a goodly dis- tance from New Britain in case of emergency. It has no water supply worth considering. By the time our engines arrive there the only thing to do is to attempt to save bulldings adjacent to any fire. This fight muEt be made with chemicals. Last night almost every gallon of chemicals car- ried by the engine sent was used in the fight. Had the wind shifted the Adirection ‘of the flames, had, they got- ten beyond control, an entire section of Berlin might have been wiped out. These are the facts in the case. And, as such, /they demand the attention of ‘every resident in the Town of Ber- ln. The City of New Britain will not, of course, ever refuse aid to Ber- lin when a call for help is sent to the fire department here; but this city has a right to demand that some con- sideration be given its request for the fixing of responmsibility in the event of accident to our men or machinery. Last night we sent ten thousand dol- lars’ worth of fire fighting apparatus and seven men over roads where death and destruction lurked at every corner. The officials in the Town of Berlin have been lax, if nothing else. They refuse to fix the roads over which New Britain’s fire fighting ap- paratus must go to their fires; they refuse to answer a letter requesting the payment of a nominal fee for this service; they refuse to place the re- sponsibility for alarms sent from their province; and they refuse to fur- nish water ‘'when fires are fought by New Britain’s fire department. The least they might do is purchase a sec- ond-hand chemical engine somewhere and fight incipient fires, thus prevent- ing an epidemic of calls in _.this direc- tion. &7 SAVING AND LOSING. ~ i 4 | t warmer weather and make a complete wise be used. Even an expert janitor, in trying to keep heat at 60 degrees, | will lét most of the boiler's energy gc up the chimney. The ten extra i degrees which would properly heat any school building in the city are probably lost in just this way. So, what is saved in the school building is lost in thin air. It is poor economy, } at best. ‘““General Pershing is in urgent need {'of brick-layers in France.”—News- paper headline. Must be gotting ready to pave the way to Berlin. FACTS AND FANCIES. Why not red. tapeless days?—New York” Sun. Germany seeks only a Bolshevik- tory.2-New York Sun. The under boy in the fight is sometimes very eloquent in posals of peace—wholly for the gen- eral good, of course.—Hartford Times. pid s is to continue another win- | ter, We ~shall have a supplement emergency farming with emergency wood-chopping.—Hartford Times. The almanac makers should have been far-sighfed enough to put into their December pages: ‘“About this time look out for ‘peace suggestion’ from Germany\’—Springfileld Re- publican. There is said to be no gasoline lack, but a saving is urged. This is the time when it is not necessary to inform the tourist to be saving as the elements have settled that prop- osition for the past month.—Middle- town Press. A German leader says that 99 per cent. of the German people want peace. ‘So they let the 1 per cent. control the situation, and then vehe- | mently deny that they are not a tree’ nation.—Baltimore American. As the Cows Come Home. ' ‘With klingle, klangle, klingle Far down the dusky dingle, The cows are coming home; Now sweet and clear, and faint and low, | The airy tinklings come and go, Like chimings from a far-off tower Or patterings of an April shower ' In order to save fuel, some janitors in charge of public school buildings heve been ordered to keep the tem- perature of class-rooms as near possible to 60 degrees, Fahrenheit. This is but twenty-eight degrees above the freezing point. Frequently, we are told, the thermometer registers even lower than the appointed warmth and teachers and children alike uffer from-intense cold. When such con- (dmons come to pass the knack of learning and the art of teaching walk hand in hand through the class-room door. When a teacher loses all | in- clination to impart knowledge, it be- comes difficult for any but a scholar of genius to manifest continued in- ferest in studies. Thus does the' saving of coal result in the losing of time, %0 far as school children are corcerned. = When the Federal Fuel Adminis- trator suggested that all public build- ings become active units in ‘the sav- ing of coal; that thelr rooms and cor- ridors be heated only to that point which permit of comfort to those clad in street wear; that the furnaces be kept burning at a'low ebb; he evidently. did not consider or did not mean to mention public schools. What might be practiced in office buildings or theaters or other large places of assembly when coal saving is the question cannot be reasonably im- pesed on class-rooms’ where young children are asked to sit for an en- tire day on hardwood benches . the while knowledge is pounded in their heads. There must be comfort for these folk even if persons’ in places of amusement are forted to remain with their wraps on while highly paid artists cavort on the boards. There is that difference between the school and the theater. s All the fuel saved in the city of New Britain by keeping the fires at the public sghools burning at a half draught would not fill one good-sized freight gondola. Or, if it did, the sav- ing would be as nothing to the loss which must be recorded among the pupils who derive but half-way bene- fits because of chilled class-rooms. It ic a recognized fact among pedagogists that the best work of pupils is per- formed tunder favorable conditions. Conditions must be conducive to study. And this without encroaching on the territory of luxury. The public school has, up ‘to this, been alive wants of pupils. standard. Rather than keep the tem- | perature of class-rooms at 60 or even 65 desrees Fahrenheit it were better to dismiss the classes. for ‘the Winter. system of open-air class-rooms. differenice .betweem working indoors and out of doors even when the tem- perature is the same for both places. The coal shortage in New Britain as | And old-time friends, to the | Only in this mater- | of the fact that Artemus Ward was a ia: want has it fallen below the new } ither that, or inaugurate a general | Bx- | perience has proven. that: there is a ! That make the daisies grow; Ko-ling, ko-lang, ko-lingle-lingle; Far down the edark’'ning dingle, The cows come slowly home; and twilight plays, And starry nights and sunny days, Come trooping up the misty ways, ‘When the cows come home. With a tingle, tangle, tingle, Through fern and periwinkle, | The cows are coming home; A-loitering in the checkered stream, Where the sun-rays glance and gleam, Clarine, Peach-bloom, and FPhoebe Phyllis, Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies, To-link, to-lank, to-Hmkle-linkle, . O’er banks with buttercups a-twinkle;, The cows come slowly home; And up through Memory’s deep ravine Come the brook’s old song and its old-time sheen, And the crescent of the silver.queen, ‘When the cows come home. With klingle, klangle, klingle, With “loo-00,” and ‘*mo0-90,” jingle, The cows are coming home ; And over there on Meali. hill, Sounds the plaintive cry of the whip- poor-will ! And the dew-drops lie on the tangled vines, N And over the poplars Venus shines, And over the silent mill, Ko-ling, ko-lang, ko-lingle-lingle, With a ting-a-ling, and jingle, The cows come slowly home. Let down the bars; let in the train Of long-gone songs, and flowers, and and rain ~ ' For dear old times come back again, ‘When the' cows come home. —ALICE E. MITCHELL. COMMUNICATED. ARNOLD ONCE A PATRIOT. But Bad Company Proved His Un- d doing, Says Assailant of O F. Curtis. ‘To the Editor, of-the Herald: In your issie of the 24th inst, Mr. Curtis takes decided exceptiong to' my criticism of the council, and himself in particular, which appeared in a former issue of yaur paper. His let- ter is somewhat garbled and inclined to a misinterpretation of mine. To start with, he claims that I show my ignorance and inability to size up the real issue in question. I will say in regard to that that I feel as did our martyred president, Abraham Lincoln, when told that Secretary Seward sald that he was a fool. Per- haps I am, yvet we'll see this. Mr. Lincoln's reply was, “Perhaps I am,” yet his profile may be seen-on treas- ury notes of Uncle Sam, as well as on some of his subsidiary coms. He also asks to know if I was aware “Copper Head” during the period of the Civil War. In reply to that qués- | tion, I nmever had cause to think Mr. Ward had a head made of ivory, and, while Mr. Ward was wittingly doing his best to help the cause of the Union by getting all His wife's relations to enlist, there were some who were not cdiled “Copper Heads” who wers do- ing their best to keep their wives’ re- | Jations at home. Now, as regards go- ing back eighteen years.to the record of Councilmen Patrick and Tourter lotte, will Mr. Curtis please tell us why he did not curb their tongues, as the’ records show {hat he was then i3 not such as to warrant an actual curtailment of heat in public schools. Were that the condition it would be | dcting as an alderman? Ang, as re- gards their public eXpressions, it is not necessary for me % go beyond suving of the fuel which might other- | pro- | the present counecil to find someof the same type of men. In Tegard to my objections to an investigation of slackness or the waste of money by our public officials, 1 would say that I think they should be investigated thoroighly—but I da object to making a farce of things, as is being done at present. And lef me ask the alderman if the ice-house was not a bequest to the present adminis- tration, and did he vote against the appropriation for the same? If not, why not? He claims it was an im- practical scheme. Now, did he vote against the appropriation for the potato-raising? If not, why not? It was an impractical scheme. Did he vote against the appropriation for the Town Fai barn? If not, why not? This is other of his impractical schemes. In regard to the writer's attempts to work on the imagination of the members of the council of German birth or parentage, it is a dream, as I did not refer to the birth or parent- age of anyone in the council in my letter; but I would ask the alderman to look back to thée last mayoralty election and explain whether he was working on the fears of the pro-Ger- man voters at that time, when he sent broad¢ast to them circulars denounc- ing our mayor for informing the man- ufacturers that someone had informed him of a plot to blow up some of their | plants and asking the citizens of Ger- man. birth and parentage if they wanted that kind of a man for mayor. Now, in regard to Mr Cur.tis looking after the expenditures of the - city, why does he not go at it right—not at the bookkeeper, but at the men who have charge of the jobs? His argu- ments on the farm committee led us to believe there was something wrong in the boakkeeping, But H. L. Curtis, over his own signature, says the book- keeping was perfect. The alderman in the council, even from what we get from an editorial in the Herald of the 21st inst., claimed there was twenty- five hundred dollars unaccounted for, and, pounding the desk with his fist, said he could prove it. Yet, on Sat- urday, the 22d, he says he had just had placed in his hands a supple- mentary account which practically brings their figures together. He plso says he met Mr. Riley for the time and was much im- pressed by his sincerity and fairness. I would ask the alderman if he did not find Mr. Riley an aggressive man as well? Now,as he claims/that the person doing a criminal act does so knowing that he takes the risk of losing his life or liberty, vet the one ‘who brings about the same results un- knowingly is just as dangerous. Does this rule not apply as well to one who, by imputation or lack of investigation, assails the character or motives of others? Now, as to my Americanism, I know no flag but' the Stars and Stripes, and hope never-to be com- pelled to bow to any other, and would say {that Benedict Arnold was once a good American patriot, but a selfish ambition and bad company proved his undoing. BOB. 27 Maple Street, City. . CROSS LIKE CHOPIN. How Former Lyceum Player Is Trying To Look Part in Mrs. Fiske’s Play. To the Editor of the Herald: Alfred Cross is gaining and losing in weight. He in playing another role besides that of Chopin with Mrs. Fiske in “Madame Sand”, in New York. Off the stage, at the present time, he is concentrating all his ener- ®is in a brilliant offensive upon those two well known salients—there is no camouflage about it either—a double chin and am increasing waistline. It is a good fight and indications are that he will win and that a. more real- istic Chopin, ' failing in health, will present himself on the boards of the Criterion theater.: Mr. Cross is just as conscientious \about making- himself fit'for his part as that splendid gentleman from Oyster Bay who, some months ago, spent a little time on Jack Coopers’ Health Farm, in Stamford. When the gentlemen from Oyster Bay arrived at the Farm, New York newspapers printed the story with the proper sense of news values. But it remained for a New York World headline writ- er, perhaps divinely inspired, to set h the news with this brilliant cap- tio? “T. R. Wishes to See Less of HimseH.” “To see less of himself,” so that he can play the tuberculosis-stricken Chopin is just what Mr. Cross is try- ing to do. That skilful and informa- tive dramatic reviewer of the New | York “Evening Sun”, The Playgoer, y tells, in the clipping appended, the trials of Mr. Cross. The Playgoer calls his tale, * 'Lookmg the Part of Chop- Lin.” ”Madv.me Sand” has been in New York more than a month now and it is safe.to assume that it is a success. Mrs. 'Fiske, it is already observed, has addeéd snother portrait to her famous gallery. As George Sand she has again distinguisited herself because—the se- cret i» once more pointed out—she is not merely the actress, she is the character. ‘When the merits of the play were previously considered the suggestion was made that it would be interesting to watch the progres of Mr. Cross. Af- ter a month’s playing it can be said here that he is going forward; and if he succeeds in his present extra offensive, his second role, Broadway will not forget him. / | Followers of the stage, at any rate, those of Mr. Cross, must catch the significance of his attempt to fit him- self properly for Chopin. There is no more stock star, the leading man who weekly played to the front of the stage. There is not the actor recit- ing lines and rehegrsing others for a subsequent week; nor the player who today assumes this makeup and next ‘week ‘something else. The scene has changed from the Lyceum to Times Square. It is the same performénce every night, plus two matines, and with each attempt a better acted play and.a more careful player. Here is art, here is devotion to the highest ideals of the stage. And when Mr. Cross—The Playgoer says “he is proud” to play Chopin—begins com- promising with Nature to adhere to MERLE P. FRENCH. It is possible that New Britain can beast of having one of the youngest representatives in the United ' States navy. Merle P. French, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. French of 610. West Main street, was 13' days under being 16 years of age when he .en- listed on February 13, 1917. ‘The ““13’s” do not seem to have bothered him in the least as his record will show. He is on board the battleship Arizona and. is stationed in one of the turrets from which the 14-inch guns hurl their pills of death at the enemy. Thus far he has won $26 in prizes to!‘ accuracy anl marksman- ship. the highest principles of the theater, he deserves the highest mention and the best attention. Watch him. Any player who has an opportunity to be cast with Mrs. Fiske can be happy. The Playgoer says that he has im- pressed the actress—that will suffice for his success. The Playgoer's story: ‘“When a perfectly healthy actor at- tempts to play successfully a part which requires the appearance and characteristics of an invalid his trou- bles begin, according to Alfred Cross, who portrays the role. of Chopin in “Madame Sand” at the Criterion The- ater. Those familiar with the biogra- phies of Chopn know that at the time of his meeting with the fascinating George Sand the great composer was a victim of the malady which eventu- ally caused his death; therefore in ar- der to present the character faithfully it was essential .that the actor who played the part should convey the idea of failing health. ‘ “During the rehearsals of the play Mr. Cross impressed Mrs. Fiske and the author, Philip Moeller, as being very well suited in appearance to the character, and all were confident that with the aid of skilful makeup the ideal stage Chopin would be realized. ‘When the first performance of the play was given out of town Cross de- picted the required symptoms of ill- ness.so well that the reviewers made special mention of the fact, which.nat- urally was pleasing to the actor and all concerned. ‘“However, after a couple of weeks Cross discovered that he was taking on flesh with a rapidity which threat- ened to end all chance of his-appear- ing in the part on Broadway. The faint contour of a double chin defied the art of making up and an increas- ing waistline caused growing anxiety. To make matters worse the keen eyes of Mrs. Fiske noted the diminishing look of illness in the face and form of Chopin. Something had to be done to preserve the fidelity of the charac- ter and without delay. “In desperation Cross rushed off to a physical culture institute, where he was presented to a husky individual who solemnly guaranteed to reduce the actor’s weight five pounds in a week. Overjoyed at the / prospect, Cross arose each morning at 8 o’clock and bundled in sweaters, raced around an indoor track until on the verge of collapse. Then he was stretched on a table and his body vigorously kneaded and pounded by the heavy handed in- structor, who appeared to take spe- cial delight in his work. This was fol- lowed by a steaming process and a final cold plunge, the.net result being an appetite that would do credit to a longshoreman, . with . the difference that Cross was, restricted-to the small- est quantity of food. “At the end.of-the.week the actor found tlrat despite the exercising and self-depial ‘he' had gained several pounds,; ‘the only yisible loss belng the conslderable sum he had‘pa¥d-in advance for the course. “Heartily discouraged and with faith gone Cross proceeded to eat his first regular meal in a week. In a quandary andwith indignation in his soul he returned to the physical cul- ture expert and demanded to know why he had not lost in weight. The expert informed him that his was a “tough case” and also explained that frequently a person who seeks to re- duce will gain flesh at first. With this slight ray of hope Crose persevered and by the time the play opened at the Criterion had succeded in tak- ing oft several pounds. “The fight ‘1s still on, however, and those who witness his excellent work FACTS Are you garrulous, loquacious, ver-: bose, or for any other reason fond of wagging your chin? Are’ you argu- mentative or disputatious, or just plain stubborn? . . . You are? Would you like some good live ammunition? ‘Try Double-Bottoms. Love, marriage, divorce courts, suffrage, and the H. C. L. are pretty good’ fertilizers of conversation. But taking it by and large I wager that on the subject of double bottoms the tongue-tiedest High School Philo- mathic could spout like a Yellowstone geyser. Double bottoms are. Double bottoms aren’t. Double bottoms will and won't, may have 'been, and occa- sionally cannot be. Whatever about them seems right there are always plenty of experts to prove that it is wrong. And now that war and the submarine are with us, every third man in the country has invented a new kind of double bottom proof against torpedoes. \ All big ships have two bottoms, two layers of plating, an inner and an outer’ skin. Hundreds of steel partitions or bulkheads brace the two skins apart forming a perfect, honeycomb of water-tight . compart- ments from four to ten‘feet deep and often thirty feet or more square. 'These compartments or rooms are known as double bottoms. Their use,’ size, shape, disposition, and struc- ture, have been the greatest causes of debate the marine world has. ever met. Access is through small manholes closed by heavily bolted doors. Strips of rubber, called gaskets, fit. under the door edges . making water-tight Joints. If torpedo, rock, or anotherp ship puncture the outer skin the few connecting double bottoms flood in- stantly. “A thousand other of the light cells stay tight and dry and buoyant. They float the ship. A frac- tion of their number can keep her up. Pipe connections lead to all double ‘bottoms for draining, or flooding, or filling with air. If the leak is small heavy bilge pumps can be switched in and the water expelled at once. Some- times, as after the explosion of a sub- marine mine, there may be a great number of controllable leaks, enough as a whole to sink the ship. In such acase the pumps may save ‘her. Flooding of double bottoms is often resorted to in battle. A lucky shot may penetrate one side below the T each night as Chopin have little idea of the strenuous efforts which are necessary in order that he may “look” the part. ““Cross says it is a good role and one ‘which he is proud to play, and is de- lighted ‘with his success, but. he thinks some reward is due him as & compensation for the sacrifices he is compelled ‘to mhke."” . —WILLIAM' C. KRANOWITZ, New Britain, Conn., December 15, 1917. A GEORGIA LULLABY. Dear Editor: THis is my latest poem. it to you. énno you'll like i X I dedlea.u Yolgs very truly, ENRY W]LLIS MITCHELL. Come you lil ressis baby Mamy’'s gwan wash yo' face, Den gibs yo' pone an’ lasses An’ put yo’ in yo’ ressin place; ‘War Angels’ll watch yo’ all de wile An’ mamy’ll sob an’ see yo’' smile. Come, fo’ I calls de goblins Wot'll kerry yi' er way, Den yo’ mamy sho go crazy An’ what'll you den say? Quit yo' foolin an’ fussin chile Mamy’s gwan watch yo’ all de wile. Doan yo' see de haeds o' cotton Nodden in de breeze? Doan yo’ haeh de banjo wangin Sounin’ fro’ de trees? Time fo’ lil kinkey haed Dun be kovered up in baed.. CHORUS: Hush -z~ bye, hush a bye, Now she’s gwan to sleep Pess my lil sleepin’ lady, Wot mammy wants t' keep. et T ED PAGE ot Much to The landlady bustled up to her new lodger as he came down to breakfast “Good morning, sir,” she wheezed. “Good morning,” said the lodger. “I hope you've had a good night’s rest,” said the landlady. “No,” said the mild-mannered lit- tle man. “Your cat kepf me awake.” “Oh,” sald the landlady, tossing her head. “I suppose you're going to ask me to have the poor thing killed.” “No, no, not exactly,” said tha gen- tle lodger. “But would you' very much mind having it tuned?"—Ex- change. “Pifty-nfey.” The hours were fiylng by and still Algy, the bore, remained with her. “Do you like music?” she inquired listlessly. “Yes,” he replted, “I am always car- ried away by music.” She flew to the piano and played sev- eral airs. Then she turned and looked at him. - “You are not gone yet?"” “No,” he answered. “But you told me that music always carried you away?” “Yes,” he retorted, “but I mld mus- ic’—London Tit-Bits. ‘Wanted Help. Willis—Did the efficiency expert. that you had at your office accomplish anything? Gillis—Well, he made some good discoveries, but spoiled them by his recommendations. For instance, he found out that the office boy ‘was wasting considerable time and recom- mended that we engage an assistant to rofl cigarettes.—Puck. the first morning. ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY BY LIBUT. FITZHUGH GRYEN, U. 8. N. ! water Ifne. Water pours in and l1' the great warship a steep list or Hit to that side. She may heel so ar that guns cannot be brought to on the enemy. By flooding corre= sponding double bottoms on the op- | posite side the vessel is balanced back on an even keel, and despite her great load of water, still floats and fights. ., Alr is used when the ship has grounded and sunk.’ By pumping heavy air pressure into the fioodzl compartments water is forced {3 and the ship floated up and oft. s A table case was that of fl)‘ Ymk:&fihe was of several thou- sand tons displacement. She lay ”l the bottom off - Nantucket al submerged. A famous wrecker charge one sunny afternoom, smilk patronizingly at the engineers W jeered his blans, and proceeded salvage the wreck without a hi His scheme was mostly air. The only kind of air scheme. that works, Few others parts of a battleship more difficult to care for. One leal rivet or armor bolt can streak double bottom with rust and like corrosion. Paint must be chip; and scraped, re§-leaded and renew Since ventilatiofl is nearly impossil the fumes are suffocating. Painte musgt do the job in agonizing stag: Gas-masks will be used some dgy. Once on a French man-of-war w! double-bottoms were being overhanl the ship’s cat went exploring. 8o one saw her enter a manhole. Sea failed. According to regulations plates were bolted on for the nighi ‘The poor cat was locked in. Onme § the saflors had dozed off in & corn | The cat's cries waked him. ° | groped and found her. | Next day’the ship got sealed ord to sea. Bottoms are never op underway. ,The imprisoned man bé | his knuckles raw on the steel pl The cat's pitiful walls joined | shouts and echoed throukh the black spaces.’ Their steel tomb mut< 1‘ fled all sound. Ten days later both were foun though the findérs didn’t know The cat was inside the sailor. Heg. skin was in his pocket. Years laty he confessed that had his shipmal known he’d eaten their mascot, to save his own life, they would M killed him. Which may be the reason why d cat keeps out of ‘the dauble-bo! e Thé New Britain Institute wud books to send to the soldiers. The . million-dollar fund, whiof oversubscribed, will ‘supply buifld attendance and the needed refe and technical works. The hope that most of ‘the fiction lighter books will be given the 'public libraries in every. munity sufficlently civilised to sup; ome. * ' Probably the best way to send- rent numbers of perodicals at p: is to put 'a ong¢-cent stamp near official notice and mail at the. jk office 88 soon as you have read % or to send them direct to your ticular soldier.” Nearly all the camp lbrary (mnfi /|ings are nearing completjon, Thi; 3 ce, business mechanies, and a little Mterature fiction. ,_ Books are read and the men do n them. s ‘We must remember, too, that bo wear out, and that their mortall rate will be higher in a.camp of you men than, even in & public I high as that is. 8 New Britain people subscril $2,750 to the Soldiers’ Book fund have given about 800 volumes throu; the library. We have done well, but we I‘Bnl’?' “‘earry .on.” Moreover, ‘‘doing wel has quite gone out of:fashion; it must_ be doing our utmost. Democracy. (Pawtucket Times) ‘War Secretary Baker said, at a lun- cheon: s “Ours will be the most democrat army in the mld, for ours is t most democratic country. “A millionaire, as ke climbed into his limousine, smarled' at a newsboy: . 0, 1 don’t want any paper! Get *‘ ‘Well, keep your shirt on, boss’ the newsboy answered. ‘“The only dif- ference between you and me.is that you’re makin’ your . second million, whfle I'm still workin’ on my first.’ Trimming. Hats. “I am thinking of having my hat trimmed, dearie. What do think about #?”, “Aw :hux,—-honsy—don’t trim your @ old hat—trim your husband.”—Flori- da Times-Union. A Nerrow Escape. (Boston Transcript) Doctgr—You . are slightly m my dear lady. You should look yon and marry again. e ‘Widow—Oh, doctor, ts—in &h a PPOPDBI[’ Doctor—Allow me madam, that a doctor cine—but he doesn’t take it. His Ne* (Boston Trameeript) “Being a pooT YOURE .man, you ne.d a thrifty, economical wife.” “Not at all. What I need is a richi and liberal ' wife. old: _you d- Oanine. (Loullvul- Courier-Journal) “Does dog ever growi?” “No. y knows Ihl-'. g has him. outciay i 2 g i