New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1918, Page 8

and here that we haveTever undertel ™ a mation optimism should be throughout the republic the guid- ing spirit of the nation. —ROBERT LANSING. ASININE? comments upon Dr. that manufactur- ers continue the pay of those men temporarily thrown out of employ- ment we find a liberal scattering of the adjective a This the favorite appellative the gen- juses who admin- Istrator. Seeking amount of coal would the shutting down of this city for the five day period, re- those high in From an In all Gar- fleld’s suggestion inine. is among condemn the fuel what by all factories in determine just be saved to porters interviewed the chancels of industry. expert at one of the biggest concerns | the city the assertion about twenty-five per cent. of ordinary use of coal would be saved. This means, if it means any- thing, that seventy-five per the coal burned in that great plant is used for heating purposes, and the twenty-fivé per cent, which will be is used for operating. Asinmine good word. Or, a bad word; depending upongthe man- ner of its use. In the ovent’nn afore- mentioned statement is tr.s, and we | every to it was responsible then save only twenty- in came that the cent. of saved, s a it is have reason know made by the concern that can five per cent. of its coal when com- needs authority, pletely shut down a new man- | ngement. “A GREAT GERMAN VICTORY.” “Ft is a great German victory,” said President Smith of Landers, & Clark, in commenting upon the fuel order promulgated Wednesday night. If it were “a great German victory” President Smith and his entire outfit 'would be chained to their machines, Frary just as the Huns chain their own sol- | diers to machine guns. If it were “a great German victory” President Smith and all those work- ing him subjected to psolute slavery, just as the people of Belgit o new lords If it were President Smith and every man and woman in this great manufacturing | plant would be made to kneel before | the brandishments the sword and the mailed fist, just as the and Flan- instru- | for would be ar before their | were driv and masters 'a great German victory"” of shining | men-.and women of France tell before ments, Ifit same ders the same were ‘‘z great German victo that fine: in plant now turns out lsome of the goods made for life into peoplé in the peaceful marts of lwould be converted over night factory for making instruments of orture and death If it were “‘a great German victory” [President Smith and every one on his ayroll not only lose the of salaries and rages vould bhe r f the silverw in their own homes, ust as happened when the Germans facked and ¢ hnd eities of No! It is not ory.”” It is can victory. I by d defenseless towns Europe “a great German vic- however, a great Amer- the very cessa- ion of industry in this country our oys in France o supplies they get. There will have a chance to | ket might not other- | prise are hundreds time—even | explain the workings of the {1y lere set down an editorial urticle from the Portland Oregonian of J 8. It is enlightening Tt is ible to have too much of a good of a mild January. However pleasant it may be to sit in one’s mid- winter, or to go without an overcoat, or to that the furnace eating up high-priced fuel, it tinctly disturbing to see the trees be- of life and the bees inu- ar Pos thing in the form shirtsleeves in know is dis- gin to show sig on the wing and the trilliums in shel- tered nooks poking their heads out of the moss. “For it is more than probable that we shall have a spell of real cold be- fore it will make trouble for every trusting plant real spring comes, and that ventured out too soon prematurely in full bloom delight tiful can who is last to all delicately colored spring flower. we hope that Nature will do her best in 1918 to increase our stores of prov- ender of every kind “Normal winter weather in hard winter—is i next a than a false alarm ter to be spring. sure of eating than to enjoy the evanescent of balmy days ahead of time.’ These are strange thing the scientists can ount for them Probably the weather, like other workings of Nature, moves in If there is someone old enough to re- | To seek until we find reality: | member when the North was warm in January and cold in July there may be The reverse of force in the hitherto Sunny South. it These forthcoming a good explanation this condition is the northwes is warm. are the only re Fuel manufacturing interests in mote parts of the West to save coal. The less than half of normal, crop of 1913 as a basi son. There was 000,000 bushels, or 5 a 3 per cent, of normal. The sugar beet showed a deficit of 67.9 per cent. meat herds in the early fall showec a shortage of 10,800,000 animals. Now is the time for all good eate { to come to the aid of the country,— | the success of the submarines and so this by putting on the brakes. FACTS AND FANCIES. are born ood fortune there are Some tumble of whom have into lucky, many, best they car ir.—Springfielc to mg as ites to < can ever, sople, He ause er g tion on ind never dispute.- or the Y Post. fe any —FHart ford It will be well not to let the chil- dren go barefooted for several week vet, even though they clamor peevi Jew London Day. Those showing of sprinz gowns right. and the b near, but we al tha read ccal denote is not The sight of a peach orchard or an almond tree bring only to the lover of the beau- sense of the food vaiue of fruit. The ultimate pur- pose of Nature is the harvest, not the And winter- better is bet- winter pleasure and only| cycles. in In | ns now before us which Ad- ministrator's order in this direction— | aside from the scant scattering of some re- Where the people da not burn coal they do not | have 917 wheat crop in France was using the s for compari- shortage of 176, The potato crop was only within one-third crop The some and others, simply one sitting window plaeards of the first | ference between a dog and a man. ther condlLiunsi back for ten year HIS BIT | ) JOIT Having TONE VANCE seen his only brother don \uniform shortly after the declara- on of war, Johnstone Vance, son of T Robert J. Vance of 159 Maple reet, decided that both branches of he service should be represented. So e closed his desk in The Herald of- e, turned over the managing editor- ip to another, and enlisted in the ited States Naval Reserve. Begin- ng as a blue-jacket, he soon found berth as ensign and now wears the Mr. Vance is bw at 2 in New York d expects soon to enjoy a crui he purpose of which shal be to rid he Atlantic ocean of under-sea boats earing the insignia of the Kaiser. are otherwise. Nevertheless, cheer up and hope for spring the same as heretofore.—Middletown Penny Press. This spell reminds one of the story of the lunatic who was asked why he was torturing himself by banging his head against the wall. “It feels so good when I stop,” he said.— Springfield Daily News. It doesn’t matter to a lot of people who runs the railroads since the passes have been cut off.—Bridgeport Telegram. Dorcheste M girls organize Helping Hand club ta make w: watch bracelets from their own locks to present to ‘‘deserving marines.” ‘Whaddaya mean, ‘‘deserving”?—Pat- terson Press-Guardian. Lost—One Chicago blizzard, Find- may keep.—Springfield Republi- ers can. Some of the farmer's contempt of town men is inspired by the fact that most town men shave every day.— Capper's Weekly. They have heartless school super- intendents in Chicago. After announc- ing a recess of a week to save coal, | the “supers” order the boys to report | as usual with snow shovels—a condi- | tion which will undoubtedly add one | to the series of “When a feller needs ! a friend.”—New HaVen Register. i The Gain. | (Everybody’s Magazine). | What can be worth this cost of gold | and tears, | These lands laid desolate with fire and blood, { This ruin past the mending of our vears, generations bud? { These blighted in the To know ourselves, our Lord; In our own hearts to feel the search- ; ing sword That Kkills the be. .| O God! give us to know The holy heart of suffering, and kneel To give Thee solemn thanks that we can feel little of the borne for Thy sake the thorns haveworn! We dare not say—"Be ours gium's heart; Ours as the heart | only pray, Help us to do our part, And to the children of a brighter day an enduring peace that shall not stray From Thy dear law of Love, whate'er befall that were worth it all. our brothers, and false, however dear it A pain that these have Who crown of as Bel- of France!” We Give God, “Trickery Diploma 1 (Schnectady Gazette) The talk by the Central empires about terms for ending the war does not square very well with the boa: about the victories of their armies, {on. | Germany started out to win by l'arms. Were it still confident that it could do so, there would be no idea | of secking terms. Germany would let | its opponents ask it for them. But its leaders realize W | | they cannot win by military mea || cannot be long before the G people realize now the ernment devoting its e winning tricky diplom heen so poor th its work Rus: en throu that It rman 20 es to and o by hav h its the " | schemes. \ Tiansas Dog Story With a Moral. (Horton Headlight) A Horton dog accompanied the fam- ily to church last Sunday and panted and made so much noise the congre gation had difficulty hearing the se ices. The sexton kicked the dog out | several times, but he always came | back. Which illustrates one great dif- jtd come s, of church wouldn't man out mad he 1' you kicked a t wo be so THE Mchillan Store (Incorporated.) “Always Reliable.” Specia ? U Dreses $13% Vaiues Specia for $12.%8 Several very lot. in New York this week a kind in most of the style: to date, at olegant drc Manufacturer’s Samples, bought one of all Only new, crisp, and up a saving to you, if vou come $6 on each one. Separate Of All-Wool Poplin, Silk; formerly $5.98 and $7.98. ance Sale Prices $3.98 and saving of $2 on each one. Chiidren’s Hats and Bonnets Of Velvet and colors; sale for quick clearance at 19c each. See part of this lot displayed in our showease at the door. Manufacturar’s Saie of Daint Neckwear All new, clean styles at prices much promptly, of about Serge, Corduroy, etc.,, in white formerly $1 In this below regular. Collars, Collar and Cuff Sets, Vestees, Guimpes, etc., of Washable Satin, Georgette Crepe, Cor- duroy, Corduroy and Broadclath; | made special by a New York manu- facturer for this sale to show his ap- preciation of the business We gave him during the past s this lot up to $2.00 son. Values in All at one grand Bargain Sale Price of flg(' each. GLOVES at Sale Prices. SWEATERS at Sale Prices. BLANKETS at Sale HOSIFRY at Sale WARM woman and c Price: man, le at mark- dawn price; This tha order of the United States Fuel Ad- | ministration. store will comply iwith The newspapers will in- form you through their news columns | when we are to be open or closed. T R e CETP T e My | “Tow-Priced” Fish. (Boston Post) The campalign of education now undertaken by the New England Fi Fxchange for the purpose of inducing the people to eat the generally con- sidered inferior and ‘“low-priced” fish such as shark, whiting, squid and her- ring is commendable. But the pat- ural query ises: What will the prices of these fish be after the public gets to care for them? | If there is any analogy between this case and that of the other fish, the minute consumers begin buying shark and squid i quantiti go the pric all the once times of enormous summer, the dinary cod, outr receipts st to the publ idock and mackerel ~ously extortionat Vast quantities went into the new-fangled ast cold stor places, which was the prime reason for the gouge We may expect to sce squid reach 25 or 30 cents a pound, if any- hody gives any sign of wanting any. was steak A Suspicion, (Washington Star) George Washington de- First in war and first in “Why scribed as peace’?” “I dunno,” ghum. T ebody try ing to square th both the pre- paredness people and the pacifists.” replied Senator Sor- aturday at Our} Mid-Winter Saie Silk and Serge § | ahead ‘timacy | hand, | storm, permits Cirrus | clots, | neaped-up banks WISE, SMITH & CO. HARTFORD IG REDUCTIONS on Every Winter Suit and* | Overcoat in Qur Men’s and Boys’ Clothing Department at the inventory Sale. ', it seems inconsistent in these days of advancing prices to reduce good sea-, sonable merchandise, but our policy must prevail, and that is, not to carry goods from one season to another. | s in this | g@& Many other bargains, too small in size to advertise, bu t big in value. HERE ARE THE REDUCTIONS: MEN’S SUITS Formerly $22.50 NOW 817.75 MEN’S SUITS Formerly $30.00 NOW $1975 | $24.75 MEN’S OVERCOATS| MEN’S OVERCOAT Formerly $22.50 Formerly $25.00 NOW NOW $17.75 $19.75 MEN’S OVERCOATS| Men’s Fur-lined Over- Formerly $30.00 coats Formerly $50.00 NOW NOW 424.75 $37.50 Look for the MEN’S SUITS Formerly $18.00 NOW $13.75 MEN’S SUITS Formerly $25.00 NOW signs Reductions on Men’s Sheepskin-Lined Coats $14.75 P 5 $17.75 $19.75 $24.7 ] BY LIEUT. FITZHUGH GREEN, U. ODAY'S TABLOID TALE] Blast T By Joe S. N. Flor de Paradise On his thirty-fifth birthday First I thought I'd write this squib in Latin. But pshaw! what's the use. I can make It just as obscure good low-brow English. What the lubber know about weather? newspaper weather report?—let it v there's rain and showers and cloudbursts coming: Mr. Anyman imply dubs the local weather prophet “that sinful liar” and goes right with his barbecue. To the sailor weather is a science. And though he lash his wheel on a down-east ketch or tickle a ten-ton rudder with a warship’s electric helm clouds to him are more than clou they are the handwriting on the W in does The | of heaven; and they warn him or d perse his fears according to their shape, size and distribution, Now for some Roman punch was the misfortune of ancient clouds also est divisa into three parts. Quorum unum incolunt Cirri —meaning right off the bat we have Cirrus clouds, the highest and most important. They are the little feath- ery cherub wings and the long hair, mares’ tails which float above all others from 2 to 8 miles up in the ky. From them the Weather Man able to mumble “fleecy sky storm is nigh,” making thereby $2 to 36 per week. The great clouds to mariners As Gaul value of the Cirrus lies in their in- with that very fickle and disreputable character the Barometer. When atmospheric pres sure is high, i. e. fair weather is at these clouds are forced up and are broken into thin wisps euch as fleck the sky of a summer afternoon. Low pressure, on the approach of a to fall into later drawn out into lonz feathers by the wind. This is the, characteristic wind or storm sky. ¢ A revolving storm or cyclone may irradiate cloud forms. Occasionally high lines of cirrus point to the cen- ter of the disturbance. Ordinarily, however, people mistake for this the simple convergence of perspective— | parallel Tines of clouds closing in the distance just as railroad rails do. Next—it’s naval all right, the same often | lecture a Blue-jacket gets—come the Cumulus or wool-pack clouds, of vapor aped and white above, flat and threatening below. ‘“They formed by a diurnal ascensional movement,” says the Sigh-an-spits. But being no scientist, I'd put the balloon, ladies and gents, goes up every afternoon—at least- in the rainy seasons of the year. The name is allied to nimble as applied to the alacrity with which one sceks cover when the Nimbus opens up. Nimbus, or rain-cloud, is the name given black fractured masses of Cumulus. The Nimbus is distinctly unpopular with young ladies, smail boys. and naval sailo: Windjar mers welcome the Nimbus b e it replenishes their Py This cloud the great dome- darx are esh water aviator's is friend— 7 _Elouds Dinnell Swillow was presented with his first high hat. By the time he had worn it three Sun- days he had developed a sol- emn outlook on life, and ong he fourth Sunday he began to save money to keep him in his old age. | For vears he denied him-, f§ | self every luxu He stopped putting pennies in blind men’s | cups and began taking pennies j! sometimes his foe—because he m use it for cover as the infantryma uses brush or timber or fog. Which brings us, not to the giraffe in the next cage, but to the well- | known (by sight if not name) | Stratus clouds. These are no more | | than elevated fog banks, shallow, flat | and thin. Along a coast where the | out instead. He even stopped difference of temperatures between | smoking, and that was the land and water creates a continuous | blowiest blow of all, for he supply of mist Stratus clouds are the | was accustomed to eighteen most common form. Their altitude | cigars a day, and had got so depends on strength and direction of that he actually felt chilly wind and upon the barometric pres- | ithout a cigar. re, and ranges from 2,000 to 4,000 | One day, as he w feet. | on Slabside Boulevard, Then are the hyphenates, | and car-eworn, Cirro - Cumulus, Cumulo - Nimbu; principal and ch are merely combinations of two | cipaliy interest or more simple forms. The last Tutwell Wandix, named are thunder-clouds, which, as | crony. the rain begins, merge gradually into | “Din the watery Nimbus. Dinnell Swillow!” All these forms are recorded hour- Wandix “What do Iy in the battleship’s log. Hven the | I've been doing, Dinn? I've Admiral wa them and studies | been buying some of these their idiosyncrasi For who can tell wonderful dollar and a half when the weather gauge may, as has | Flor de Paradise cigars you | used to be so fond of. Here, happened in eve ar, including the | sent one, determine the fate of a | have one.” And he handed one to Swillow and _ hurried w for his old friend’s pre- maturely aged face annoved him, and he hated bemg an- noved. “A Flor de breathed Swillow, gazing at it, hypnotized. “The perfect smoke! Once again I am go- ing to smoke a Flor de Para- dise! But I must not insult by smoking it on an empty stomach. First I must go to a perfect restaurant snd eat a perfect dinner. Grilled young stuttridges at the King Leon! But I can’t go there wearin my old dress suit, or even hired dress suit. must buy a new dress suit.” And he bought an $80 dress suit and was soon sitting in it behind a fourteen doliar dinner at the King Leon. An hour later, with the dinner in- side him and a magic maze of Flor de Paradise smoke com- pletely hiding him from view, he felt a man again That night he dashed off his immortal pamphlet, ‘‘Spend While You're Young,” which brought him in two million dollars a year, and after that he never saved another cent till the day he died at the green old age of 106. (Copyright 1918 by George Matthew Adams) by walking ragged thinking of inte prin- he into his time there ran nell Swillow, well! Well, exclaimed vou think hen we’'ve re- to farming, we'll be and th -3 louds. | and sweet ‘potatoes, mp in the drought | But becalmed under | the gzathering Cumulus they heave up, | double reef, and speed—for next comes Nimbus The Great Refresher. Jack, what makes a corn- sel, anyway?" one glad unders Corn, you know, and other fruit, lic of a Cirrus sky. we Paradise!" stalk Progress In Palestine. (Springfield Republican) Gen. Allenby’s progr north of Jerusalem, steady if slow and now ex- ed by a mile, shows that the re- cd Turkish army, which a week ago began counte. has been | thrown back on the defensive. Re- sistance, however, scems to be stiffen- nd it is not to b posed that rmy based on Egypt will have an | time in complet the conquc | Palestine, very mile of advance it nearer to the enemy’s hz 1nd puts it te some extent at a disad- vantage, though the army itseif is not the advance given by sea t cally the situation interest of the angular relation the under Gen. Falke the British armies potamia. 1 ing, the e in 2 or ings 1k like atly ened hy be cause of the port. Strat of much we ” id because between hayn Palestine A Gentle Indiana Reminder. | ms"“‘?{{%fi‘?\fl’n;::'é‘{’:'?"‘“““'— (Advt. In the Goshen News-Times) | “I want you to take this If you have had your dress suit at a | back,” said the agitated lady. tailor's within the past six manths, | ‘What for, ma'am?" askeq would vou please examine it real dealer. ] closely to make sure vou have the “The bird swears awfully.” right one and oblize, Address “Dress “That's queer. When Hhe Suit,” care News-Times, 1}19 was swearin’ flne,” parrot the left here |