New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1919, Page 6

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1915, : Herald. COMPAX Britai ritain HERALD PUI’H-,T.TM‘. ;- Proprietors. -y i@ daily (Sunday oxcepted) at 4 P. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St 15 18800 a Year $2.00 Three Months. 75¢ a Month Office at Mail Intered at the as Second Post Cla w Britain | Matter. | NE CALLS TELEPHO) Business Office ditorial Rooms a 9 Member of the Associated Press. | 'he Associated Press is exclusively entitled in paper and also local news published herein. Be only profitable VERSAILLES OR BERLIN. To sign or not to sign, that is he question. not To sign in Versailles or in Berlin, hat is the question. Premier Lloyvd George of England, tanding firmly on the ground that the Nied have Tikes resolutely gandists in nd knocks ers. armies been victorious, | i at the enemy prop- blunt English their barriers language into splin- Speaking before the Welsh division it Amiens yesterday, the Premier i : We y to the Germans: “Gen- tlemen, you must sign. If you don't do so-at Versailles, you shall do so in Berlin. We are not go- ing to give way.” There is no bluff about that. Ameri- an and Allied armies are on tip toe vaiting to advance. They are trained | o the minute, anxious to start, armed no army has before been med. Germany's navy is non-exist- mt, the greatest part of it in the cus- y of the victors. The blockade can be tightened at a moment's notice. | ermany can be crushed if Germany 1ls it. All the talk, all the circumlocution, 1l the notes—wasted, as if the words had never been spoken written. ermany knows the lerms. They are ot light; they are not harsh; they are ust. Did Germany expect to escape? Pid Germany expect to be the single bxception to the law of compensation? ain hope. At Versailles, or Berlin. ever or PLYMOUTH. Once more the Plymouth becomes a significant name. t was at Plymouth, Massachusetts, hat a sturdy band of Englishmen ded and established a government in world's history s firm as the rock on which they put oot. It was at Plymouth, England, hat equally as daring adventurers ar- | ived today. Headed west for the then nknown Plymouth, the Englishmen jared the unknown terrors of the wa- er. Headed east for Plymouth, the | hmericans dared the unknown perils f the air. Both conquered, a charac- eristic of the English speaking race. There is a deep message in the land- e at Piymouth. It that the peoples who usc the common tonsue re welded together by bonds that hiust never be sundered; "England's uture is our future; England's down- all the beginning of the end for all ho speak the language. Together, fngland and America, the leaders of ivilization, can rule the world, not pith the sword but with wisdom and ustice. is this, AN ENERGETIC RAILROADER. The Railroad Administration me of its most’ vigorous farough the retirement of Alfred H. Bmith as regional director of Eastern erritory. Mr. Smith returns to the ew York Central he was drafted when the railroad sit- ation in the United States became al- jost hopelessly tangled. When Mr. Smith entered ipn’s service in those dark pras predicted that prould be seen. It was. y-four hours he had ordered fireds of locomotives out to clear the ongestion on the Pennsylvania lines. Rails leading to eastern ports that jvere choked to overflowing soon be- an to function again. Red tape was lashed right and left and with tvpi- al disregard for moth eaten policies, loses workers lines from which the days na- it improvement Within twen- an hun- r. Smith was soon able to send out he word ‘“The line is clear.” { have amity | and adds to his own strength. IT WILL BE DONE. Memorial Day was peculiarly appropriate for President Wilson to explain again our purpose entering Speaking the story an occasion in the in France yesterday, he fold war. anew, that we did not figsht With hope of gzain, we did not fight to Whip an honest people. We fought for right and the right is vet to be gained. If the more than fifty thousand Ameri- cans who sleep in France did not die in vain, their work must be carried on. if it must more war, possibly be We among nations, and zood- There must be no can avoided. will. President Wilson’s thrilling call to arms on this point was: These men did not come across the sea merely to defeat Germany and her associated powers in the war. They came to defeat for- ever the things for which the Cen- tral Powers stood, the sort of power they meant to assert in the world, the arrogant, selfish dom- ination which they meant . to establish; and they came, mor over, to see to it that there should never he a war like this again. It is for us, particularly for us who are civilized, to use our proper weapons of counsel and agree- ment to see to it that there never is such a war again. 'The nation that should now fling out of this common concord of counsel would betray the human race. So it is our duty to take and maintain the safeguards which will see to it that the mothers of America and the mothers of France and Ttaly and Belgium and all other suffering nations should never be called upon for this sacrifice again. This can be done. Tt must be done. And it will be done. THE MEXICAN BANQUO. The dead Villa returns from his de: ert grave to haunt the dyving Carranza. Like a ghost of some particularly dis- be forced Carranza his elbow. his a tressing dream, he cannot While at the writes, Villa While he sleeps, Villa stands bedside. And when he sends band to grapple with the bandit, Villa mind. stands from by out strips them of their guns and muni- tions, welcomes them into his army Hesitation, fear, suspicion and inde- cision, these have been the worst ene- mies of the president of the republic us. A vear ago he was warncd the United States to prepare against a spring campaign by Villa. But not stir. He was informed that then plotting his to the south of by he did | old rival was even | overthrow. There Today he finds the his gates and he his ad- his Wwas no response. enemy beating at may be powerless to block vance. Of course the United States will appealed to if Villa obtains the upper hand and presses for a decision. Then Carranza will find it convenient to forget his repudiation of the Monroe Doctrine. Then he will have a lapse of memory concerning the anti-Ame can plotting he permitted to be ca ried out by his friends the Germans. It will be time for him to forget these things because without the moral, and perhaps military support of the TUnited States, Carranza may join that numerous class of Mexicans who place before their titles. be G CHEER UP. This is the day for the light hearted The gloom dispellers who may found standing on the curbstone or seated in the high places of the land are all too numerous. Depression is their spe- ciality. They may not realize that their fault finding and bickering are enervating. The curbstone sources of gloom may be discredited at the start. | Their influence is nil. But the men in the high places, they are the ones to whom the nation looks for guid- ance; their influence great; the damage they can cause is great. They | are fountainheads from flow man and his presence is needed. be is whom that mysterious wave which may be called a psychological current, for want of a better name. As they speak, so the people think. If they shout disaster, the people await the worst. If, on the other hand. they smile and use words of encouragement, the peo- ple grow and the country and its busi- ness expand. He who the happi- ness of an individual contributes like- the courage of the nation. contributes to wise to Among the accomplishments credit- d to this hustling. railroader are the amous “‘ten commandments” of that railroads to release ime, which ordered all gnore priorities, PO0 carloads of necessities cross the country, to cut to the 50,- strung passenger ervice to minimum' so that freight night be moved and to reduce llowance for loading, hauling hinloading. He also operated solid upply trains which with pcean transports, making French ports e real terminals of the railroads job and he dis- harged his duties with an order and fispatch and commonsense that howed a man was at the helm. The New York Herald considers the leage of Mr. $mith an indication that a time and connected is was a man's Cheer up. One New Rritain concern has de- cided to set the pace in the construc tion of As rs in the field they should receive encourage- ment, New FBritain needs homes for its workingmen and those who erect them are doing a great service to the community. It is to be hoped that business men follow the lead now and contribute their share toward our progress. homes. pionee. other set Now if Homer Cummings would ad- mit that Senator Lodge is a pure pa- triot and Will Hays would eoncede that President Wilson is the greatest man that lived what world it would be to live in, ever a lovely | armies advance. FACTS AND FANCIES. were ank the loh- Thirteen thousand live lobste in the hold of a fishing boat that off the coast of Massachusetts other day. Let's hope that the sters were able to escape or else that the craft can be salvaged. It is im- possible to regard with equanimity so profitless a crustacean ~mortality. —Providence Journal. If Germany fails to sign, three days will be given her in which to pack her suitcase and bury the silver, before the American, French and British Boston Transcript. A report of the government-owned railroads in China shows that they are earning a profit. The Chinese ar plainly a thousand years behind times.—Providence Journal. Letter delivery by airship has been pronounced successful. Oncean avia- tor gets going it is difficult for the post office department to interfere with him.—Washington Star. Filling stations, picture shows, gro- cery stores, hanks-—but have you seen an account of the robbery of a news- paper office this spring?—Kansas City Star. tford has fired because the of 11 games. hosses. — Owner Clarkin of F Manager Danny Murphy team only won one out It is hard to please some Sprinzfield Daily News. Our revered composing room, in collusion with our hardly less shiped proofroom, speaks of dent Wilson's 14 joints."—-New Tribune. “Presi- Yor! Many others than the short-sighted are questioning the reason for a ‘‘lux- ury" tax on spectacles or glasses.— Néw Haven Register. In some sections of FEurope the massacre is insisted upon as a nation- al custom.—Washington Star. In the end, of course, Germany will hew to the dotted line.—New York World. DANISH MARY Bk S ‘Twas Danish Mary picked them Out of the air and sea: A shoddy, trudging lollypup A-trapseing slatternly. up The cry rang the south: “The vanished-—where are they?' But Danish Mary shut her mouth And shuffled on her way. north, cry rang Hawker!—Gricve! scud Called kingdoms and called kings; But Danish Mary chewed her cud In drowsy maunderings. “Ho, on flying Now “Lost!" cried and cried East, Till ““Perished!"” like a pall, Turned honfire-light and feast More dark than funeral. West, “Lost!" homing And toward the hollow sky rose pray- er And dirge of steeple-chime: But what should Danish Mary She takes her own sweet time. care? And bawls to Lewis Butt: “Tts me! I've picked 'em up—yvour men.” “What! — Gtieve and Hawker “Sure!” And she oes shambling on again. But lightning engines flash and fight For news that reaps renown, The jackies swarm from bay bight ."And race to run her down. and And win, and bear her prize away— “ While Mary turns to prowl Once more where slips the dumb, salt spray And slaps her on the jowl. PERCY MACKAYE, in the New York Times. In the Lead of Sea, Traders, (Baltimore American.) addition of the eighty-nine the United States took the that By ships { from Germany, this country will come close to taking the lead in sea traffic. England will have to repair the ex- tensive losses- suffered from the Ger- man submarines. This will require years of shjpbuilding. In the mean- time the Uliited States adds the vast German fleet to its own ccnsiderable fleet, built largely during the war, and has a marine that it could not have gained by ten years of hard building enterprise. As an equivalent for retention of the German ships the United States willhave $100.000,000 of its war claims struck off by the Paris Congress. This is a small price to pay for the ships under the circumstance. The remission of even this much makes the task of Germany in money pay- ment to its foes that much easier. and anything that can give easement to the Teutons up to a certain point will facilitate the settlement of the vast indemnity account. These ships have already paid for themselves several times over in the service they rendered in speeding troops across the seas to beat the Germans annd in the service | of transport to get the Americans back home. Germany permanently deprived of its fleet will be too much handicapped ever to hecome a men- ace to any of the allied nations in the matters of overseas commerce. The United States did a good thing for the world .and for itself when it made seizure of the German ships. HUGE CONTRACT CANC ) Washington, D. (., May 31.—The War department has cancelled or suspended contracts for ordnance, arms, artillery, tanks, tractors, amounting to $2,474.939,600. Con- tracts for these supplies outstanding at the signing of the armistice to- talled $3,572,000.000. More than a 3,572, billion and a half dollars of the sus-| he government is to employ all rea- onable haste to return the railroads fo their private owners, i ugo pensions were accepted by contractors Wwho are turning their plants to peace- time activitiess the | wor- | etc., | SN Army Spending Nearly $7,- 000,000 to Erect “Outpost “Stations” and Barracks E For. Troops to Guard Inter- national Boundary. (By A. . Geldhof.) Washington, D. C., May Sam is huilding a giant the. Mexican border! It's 1,200 miles long, and while its posts are of wood and other build- ing materials, its rails will he Amer- ican soldiers. Assistant Secretary of War Crowell, until recently acting secretary of war, | has given me special authorization to tell for the first time the facts about this big fence, placing all the infor- mation at the army's command at my disposal. The huge barrier isn't the real sense of the word, its purpose is the same “It's a double row of cavalry pa- trol stations. barracks buildings and miscellaneous structures, stretching from Brownsville, Tex., on the Guif of Mexico, to Arivaga, Ariz., on the | cdge of the great desert. At cach of the fifty tions one troop of cavalry bout 100 men—will he on guard all the time, patrolling the border between sta- tions. Some distance back from these pa- trol stations will be another series of twelve posts which will constitute a sort of “second line of defense” against the Mexicans. These posts will he larger and each of them | will serve as a base for four or five of the patrol stations on the bound- ary. The complete system will house 10,000 soidiers. The whole project will cost war department approximately 750.000, according to an estim made by Lieut.-Col. O. P. Chamber lain, of the construction division of the army. The twelve main posts probably will be given the name ““forts,”” hut the war department emphasizes the fact that they will not be forts in reality, but merely army posts, such as Fort Bliss, Fort Ringgold and the other "forts” already on the border. 31.—Uncle fence along fence in though outpost sta- the 68 ite The Regulars. (New York Sun.) According to the statistics prepared by the general staff as of May 10, the seven divisions of the regular army troops engaged in the fighting in France sustained losses as follows: | Battie Wound- Prison- Division Deaths. ed. ers. First 4,204 19.141 151 Second 4,419 20,657 156 Third 3,102 314 Fourthi et 2,557 70 | Fifth .... 1,908 98 Sixth a7 3 Seventh .... 302 20 Totals ...14,619 6,416 812 The total of battle deaths, wounded and prisoners for the whole army in France as given by the same author- ity are: Battle Deaths. Wounded. 48,909 237,135 From these figures it the seven divisions of 16,619 of the 48,909 men killed in action or who died from wounds re- ceived in action, or approximately 34 per cent; 76,416 of the 237,135 | wounded, or approximately 33 per | cent; and that from their ranks came | 812 of the 4,434 Americans captured by the.German armies, or approxi- mately 18 per cent. The number of prisoners the enemy from these seven divisions of regular troops amounted to ap- | proximately nine-tenths of 1 per cent of the number of men lost by them through hattle deaths and wounds. The number of prisoners taken by the enemy fromd the American peditionary forces amounted to ap- | proximately 1.5 per cent of the num- | ber they lost through battle deaths and wounds. Local pride and not unite to record | regulay In their | ana drafted men fou | Not all their office | Pointers or men of | training. Tt would | pare the record of { with the records made by other divi- But their record is worth | amining, and when it has been exam- ined we believe every American, with- drawing nothing from his respect and affection for the army units | fied with his own home. will exclaim, | Thank God for the Regulars! Prisoners. 1,434 appears that regulars lost taken by local interest do and celebrate the ranks volunteers Wt side by side. were West long military he idle to com- their divisions | i sions, Big Threes. Weekly.) designating | enter the no (Pearson's The present craze for all sorts of combinations and prises in terms of numhbers. with adjective “hig” prefixed, by means new. Moltke. so the phrase * the French Metz and is 1871, coined allusion to Strashourg the Rig safety long Big 1 forresses Verdun. “With Three in our possession our | assured,” he said at the Versailles | Peace conference. He got his will | far as the first two were concerned, | but failed as regards the third, luck- ilv for France, and the worid at large. | Today we find the newspapers using the phrase Big Three to designate ago hree in of is 50 sy | career twelve | UNCLE SAM IS BUILDING BARRIER ALONG THE MEXICAN BORDER \A\PIZONA TUCSON | 7 HL,I’A c;«u‘(‘fk"fi r_cfim D0UGLASS e 'g e FT HANCOCK Os/ERRA BLANCA SAN CROELRO 3 svowto *Y WETCLARK 1\BEAGLE PASS Map shows points at which army posts are Mexican Border. being built by In explaining this project, Assistant Secretary of War Crowell declared it is primarily for defense against the| work will he drawn largely from elements, and not against the Mexi-{ large unused stocks held hy the cans. It is admitted, however, that| department when the armistice the patrol stations are for the purpose | sisned. At et of guarding the border azainst iny 16 million feet of unused lumber; a sions by Mexican bandits and cattle | Camp Bragg 20 million feet. thieves. 1If any real trouble with! The border has been split up into 1 Mexico' should develop in the future— | patrol districts. These are well. the posts are there. That seems | follows to be the attitude of the war debs | Texas—RBrownsville, n.ent. | Laredo, Tagle There are at present ahout 10,000 ! Rio, Big Bend, Sierra soldiers an the border—all cavalry | Columbus. Doublas, Tenth Cav. Dis with the exception of the 25th infan-| One of the main posts will be erec try at Camp Stephen G. Little. These! ed in each of these districts, followin men have been out of luck during the | the line of the Southern Pacific rai war with Germany Not only were | road. they denied the privilege of going to| Fach post will be the hase for the front and getting a crack at the| to six of the patrol sfations. Gern but they have been living in | troop af cavalry will he constantly o tents for about seven years with few comforts and many hardships. Majar Gen. Cabell, commander | atso, but this i not vet authorized ! The lumber for the constructior | wa wa Camyp named - Rlo Fort Clark, Blanca F1 Pasc Pass. from 60 to 150 miles from the mai of | posts, and each troop will be relieve the southern department of the army, | and return to its base once a month has spent almost his entire militacy | Tere is a list on the border. He is typical of [ at which construction most of the other officers. and authorized Since the armistice was signed Texas: n Renito, Mercedes, Mc these soldi>rs have been making their| Allen, Sam Fordyce. La Grulla, F complaints heard., with the result that! Ringgold, Roma, Alpine, Marfa, Sant the war department decided to do} Helena, Lajitos, Glenn Springs, something far them. Ruidosa, Presidio, Cverett The forces on the border are not to i Hoolland's Ranch, Hester's Ranch, F he enlarged now-—but when these bar-| Hancock, Ysleta Fabens, Culberso racks are completed it will be an easy | Ranch, International Bridge matter to accommodate twice or three ew Mexico—Columbus, times the number of men now there, | Lochiel if necessary Arizona—Huachuca, The buildings in the main will be| Arivaga. small structures one story in height, The desert some wooden, some brick and some| and Yuma, adobe, horder, will Two border left built at defenses. two regiments of cavalry. These will If the Mexicans ever try to he brick structures. 50-bed hospi- | through Uncle Sam’s big fence, tal is proposed to be built at Fort Bliss | take an army of them to do it! of barracks Hachita Naco. Nogale; tes between Ariz. on the Califor Le the only part of unguarded by this line W large cantonments are being Fort Bliss, Bl Paso. to house brea it wi ex—! ex- | Hundreds of Employes Are Now Re- identi- | i the WILSON HAS VISITORS three individuals—Clemenceau, Wil- son and Lloyd George: and three af- filiated trade unions—those represent- ing the railwaymen, miners and trans- port workers. He Has Talk With Senator and Others, Paris, May Rhode Islan: 'HAT TO DO WITH GOLD FROM GERMAN 31.-—While awaiting th convening of the plenary session the peace conference set for 3 o'cloc this afternnon for the reading of th peace treatr to be presented to tria, President Wilson filled a Y| Economic Experts Studying Disposis numbe tion to Be Made of Payments I 5se bist callore wes TF loliSenats Peter Gerry of Rhode Island The council of four held no meetin —Ecanomic experts | this morning, this fact giving th delegations at the | president freedom tn receive his sev peace conference are making a close | eral isitors. Meanwhile the Jugo study of the disposition to be made | Slav delegation to the peace confer of gold which the Germans are pay- | ence conferred at length with the en ing for foad supplies. This gold is| tire peace delegation except Presiden being shipped into Belgium and stored | Wilson. The conference was over th in the Belgian national bank. Realiz-| Adriatic question. — The conferee; ing there would be a general disturb- ] reached no decision, the Juga-Slav ance of world credits if this gold | standing firmly for their claims 1 should be taken to the United States | is understood that they are less economists have advanced a plan to| Posed than the Ttalians at present hold the metal where it is as security | give ground in the controversy. which will be gradually redeemed by President Wilson joined the othe shipments of commodities to various| members of the American delegatio parts of the world. They say this|at the Hotel de Crillon at 12:4 would be built up of credits which| o'clock. The American conferees dis would assist stabilizing world com- | cussed phases of the German peac merce. place the United States in a| terms. as well as the Adriatic an splendid trading position and even- | other pending problems, tually make the gold available for the e Allies, who need it as a basis for their currency. Experts hold this plan will secure | the payment of allied debts to Ameri-] ca and assist in restoring allied coun- tries to normal condltions of emplox- | ment, which the peace missions rec- ognize as absolntely necessary to the resumption of warld com=~rce. Tt is said the payments of zold by Germany | is rapidly reducing the German gold reserve. WINNIPEG STRIKE | IS ABOUT OVER| for Food. Paris, May 29. with the different t DISARMING ALL REBELS. Lack of Ammunition Has Caused th Revolt in Costa Rica to Fail. an J del Sur, May Nicaraguan government nd esting all Costa | tionists crossing the Costa Rica. Lack of said to have caused the failu vebel invasion western from Nicaragua. Many of the wounded not attended for several 0 scarcity of surgeons ppliances 30.—Th sarmin Rican revolu horder from ammunition i e Costa n is ar of rebels days t and surgica a COMMANDER REED HAD o7 The )—One of the pilots of on his arrival here today said of trip from Ponta Delgada “We had a splendid journey machinery worked admirably slight fog we but the went we saw want possible.” CITY ITEMS at Lishon, Associatec Pre May 27 (By turning to Work—Arhitration 1 ' 1 ! | the Is Under Way. May 31.—With conferences under basic industrial dispute of the general strike—the walkout of the trades—and hundreds of employes re- turning to work, gradual settlement of civie and industrial tieup which has been almost complete sinee 15, was beginning today, according to officials. dispatches indicated public service functions theve, although strike asserted workers in Ll trades were still out. i Reports from the min districts | Ontario and British Columbia said @ } Winnipeg, arbitra- tion wayr on was a when left Azores the day when Now soon We set cheer sands of to Iy on. the to up a Portugal motuth we get as sovernment Edmonton sumption of was complete headquartars June record advt. Victor day Sundaggoat 1 home siteS,on Nort onposite to Inspection sale street, souvenirs afternoon.—Advt. Victor records on sale Monday 1. Pierce & Co.—Advt. in ecerve of anley end ¢ Free abor sitnation at Cobalt and Fer- | St nie was acute. though directly latad to the Winnipeg situat or general strikes sther points. g not re- | 1'ne visitors str day as Grande Del four One guard at the latter, which are located | of the patrol stations Indio, Polva Nogales While Waiting for Conference to Meet' of Aus- of engagements to receive individuals. dis- of the | Rica | Follette were owing | A FINE TRIP TO LISBON the N(-4 The There the weather improved as as Morans',— Cats and Birds, (Boston Transeript.) If cats in Massachusetts really kill as many as 700,000 birds in a season, as the state commissioners of fish." their an- to ¢ owners, there and point in their ap- the protection of birds from: each insectivorous bird de- thousands of insects, and of 0 many birds meang of the insect population millions. Never in ihe England was the in- sect pest so burdensome and so mens acing it is now, and any agency which tends to make the pest stil] ¢ zreater constitutes a public danger. The account of the state with the harmliess necessary cat is not, hows . summarily closed by the state. of the commissioners. If cats wild insectivorous, birds, they catch a good many birds that are not insectivorous, or but spar- ingly so. Cats prey heavily, and probably chiefly, far as birds are concerned, on the English sparrow, which does more harm than it does by driving away native hirds; incidentally cats prey on rats, and moles, thereby establishing item of credit for themselves in the account. If we exterminate thg cats altogether, we might lose at ong ¢ end of the line more than we gained at the other. eries and game estimate in nual appeal surely justice peal for cats, for vours many the removal an increase by untold history of New as ever, ment catch also a zood and mice an n the The Attitude of Our Boys. Voter.) s o (Oregon Quite a change of opinion is bg+ laboring returned soldiers from France have been working side by | side with them in shops, factories and counting rooms. An incident at g shipyard gate will illustrate the king | of propaganda that is going on. ‘Go in through this gate,” ordered a gatekeeper, calling to an employg & | who was starting to enter another 1-| passageway:. | “Wat tell's matter with vou,” res torted the emplove: “I've been works ing here a whole year now and 1 guess 1 know which gate to go i at “You've been working here a year, have you? Well, I | brag about it if 1 were vou an able-bodied voung fellow. I've heen working ve in France in Uncle Sam’s uniform for $30 a menth. The less you hoast about having been” working a yecar here at shipyard wages the better chance you have te get some standing.” There né room The young fellow went through the , gate indicated by the ex-soldier. i | In this particular shipvard, mere | than 400 now emploved. The < | sentiment doing square day's h high pay received iy | work for growing consequence. coming evident people among since 0, = | a n n h whele wouldn't You're is a ar £ a : was for argument. n 2 are of the as a ‘ A Busy Week, | (Galesburg Democrat.) k| On Monda D. 1. Foster was re: 11{ piling some limbs cut from some jargs | aead peach trees, a forked piece-fell | over, hitting him in its fall, cytting | an ugly gash above his right eys and | barking an ear in bad shape. On Tuesday as Mrs. J. C. Harden wag | standing on a cook stove cleanipg » the stave pipe hole in the chimney a stove lid turned, throwing her baek: wards to the floor, where her head struck a chair. Tt was a closs egl] | ana resulted in a bad shake-up. The same day W. E. Surdam came in een- tact with a young cow in which - he came off second best receiving 3 bad ¢ cut ear and the loss of same cuticles. The same day during the high wipd £. S. Taylor was caught in a hog heyse door and his leg injured so he had ta have the services of .a physician apd it will be some time before he will get entirely over it Foster was leading a young harse te water, it threw its head in some man- | ner. hitting Mr. Foster in the face, - | cutting a very ugly gash above hiy eve d e ) i el t| s 2l t La Follette Holds the Balance. (New York World.) Mr. La Follette exercises the bgle ance of power in a senate which must have his vote if the republicans. keeping Mr. Newberry in his high- priced seats. are to do better than break even with the democrats, and, losing Mr. Newberry, may, by Mr. { La Follette's opposition, find them- selves any day in a minority of one. A few months ago, when, in view of his hostility to the war, a great popular movement, participated in by republicans and democrats alike, was demanding Mr. La Follette's expul- sion from the senate, few of us im- agined that in so short a time he ¢ would become the most courted re- publican in that body. There has been no change in the gentlem from D | Wisconsin. It is the republican mem- 5| bership that has changed In spite of record, Senator La has hecome a valuable party He is enrolled among the elect is indispensable. He is to steer organization which without him he impotent o T mn | = al e e his asset | and the 1| would 10 Years Star.) The Wrights' View 1 Kansas Ago. City From an interview with Orville and Wilbur Wright, by William G. Shep- herd when the Wright brothers re- turned from Furope ten years ago “How high can you go?” *As high to, but there will any need to go higher than At that height no known gun reach you.” How high have you hundred feet. I loon."” “How miles an “How made to go I know of. jas T want never be 1,000 feet. could Three a bal- gone?" passed over fast have gone?” “Forty hour.” fast could machine be 2" “There's no limit that no man, unprotected, could go faster than one hundred ! miles an hour and stick to his ma- chine The rush of air is too great.” “Do you think anybody will ever fly icross the ocean in an airplane?” Hard to tell. Depends on whether anvbody weants to." I “For what purposes will your ma- t [ chines be used?” “Military operations and sport.” vou but On Saturday as Gale «