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% Proprietars. 1B g T PNew Britam ertis g m S Circulation bugks afd pre F00m always: open (to isgrs. L . P & % MEmbut of the Assogiated Tfess. ed Pr entitled s s excluab 19 theldse for Tepublifation “of all news Crdit ‘ @djfo it or noafotherwise credited | B fn this T baper agt won . owcal news [ published nepatn M | g‘gll‘ljr&ml, in last eve- £ ha AL wfuctiivers to organize ith® capital of one.nil whi¢h will be loaned on | ga,‘&es to the prospective should meet with roval to all of the citizens | ritains™hould this orzani- | L under way at once, and & every indication that it will, | fic will'meet with a great d heen evolved | the “The opportunity to bor- | the full athount fiey neces- e s WJon s’ a six per cent. rate fiest, giortiues. Higher B%uised ‘gs bbhuses, are usually | eSkEa on the risky second mortgage. f /The effect on the rent snnau_gni gay readily be imagined.' If is Bossible thgtetwo hundred D%?‘h&@w,fg} “to) buftd’ o’ Mome ety e’ .o o cordingly, thers rates, ¥ e Town, and aet ¢ #bE two hundred -rents velleved [Bfd; two hundrea more families who BVill.mat have to hunt one. The.g jlehsily take care of this !%v, _ rents - without' leprdciaking 5 fieoperty’ nor decreasing S0 $EN s Oxdepting in places Ctie© m}@:k‘hfinfirmyy high. profitedMBe ~landlord witl find e i3 jn trouble. . He will pot be aleeflect hic T h vafd by a bk 05 e 0 F L ana o hterdst Qi B el el motigaeg ¥ill b glad to | i \ Jace, o a - month, tif his Uit Whousand dolla s to . htg M tHig bul we are e, ajl Yestimite s homes, en, T hsurance ugui\lsl‘ g tor {he man \\'h«)! feighkarhood for | e offered plan. If oifi on’ his home so puiumily here is in the e fily houges. e Lt they < 2 ’h‘r held fos gee hetter New il = R 3 e b& & VETO, T | %&.‘::fi of Dayd | 2 ucsgeded in | WG A N ; »Attermapts b #hc farmers™ bi “uhead 307507 ent that There are pthence { eition | has prohibited by os 5 FEs™ argltment on the questiof House, but no extremély Inpon tgbis. NAVE. beén brought. out. England Jk afmitledly desiroud tainingranyili of an hour Tight' ) Fegetting thg ok, Pogsibly | Wy e cannof under- stand’ the argument of the fdrmer aghic:t it. ¥ 4 President matter ddspite the interest in other matters of legislation. Wilsc again s action the o0 is inxiqusly awaited, BELA KUYN. oUT. Kun, Bela Boviet of the government, despité his seem- his leader ing confidence in himself’any his forced from power, re- tainers, has been it is reported from Copenhagen, and it has been formed the trade unions. Amertean, ptain the U. 8. Food 1y responsible Socialist government workers that among in Tt is said an « Thomas C. Gregory, of Administration, for his retirement. Food was the cause of the downfall of the Sovieis in Hungary it the not of as is able . to be elsewhere in world. and fanatics foodstufts e future bringing the Theorists are all welfare sup- pliers of and the availed bread to the The disor- intentionally created, cut the rloiers, they look to us to promises - for nothing mouths i of hungry. ganization, off ‘essentials and were only that, now re- trieve the error oi their ways! The fact ing us that we may have faith in the new governgiept. U. S. officials would furnish e people their needs unless It was, established that a peaceful re- e brought Jdiaer sore spot an the globe: sumably leen WHEAT TQ.BE REDU Hjashington, we dref told, »ting a wholesafe redudgi of wheat . credterofiy #osts of foods! nedesSIMBs gibd Sond. Plans tatiy on the face of i that supplies are now be- rushed to central points assures not vas to be about. removed. price in are ten- re, but ‘thé scheme looks feasible The billion b, for’ G against appropriated Congre: the United Corporation will for this purpose if %he plans mature: Aso-there are a ' Billion bushels States in to protect it los be used prospect,” the redt-tlon to one dollar a It appears that w ol in Nt brtish amount for the crop. ha a solution of our " Wheat “upplies. diffienlty. is the basis of m:Ay. ol ou Its greatest use to mankind fsfor the' manufacture of flour and white bread, but there are m other 'places where a ‘raluction in the price from the praseut 3 grower will be fel guar- of antee 26 per Dushéd: tos Y aranteed The '8 farmer, assumed, will get This.g price through governntent mone; the consumer will gain in a reduction a live The dol the ciably. of bushel. Grain situation a enters into stock t appr whole n e marke decrease will should be affected in the a. wiheal price. {\;"“fi, feed cheaper d-—let "When i Thus = we have for live stock. and animals, cheaper us the hope—cheaper ring of high 5, broken in.any one object, | no that fiol come down in competition. it reascn everything the authoritie ubles, surprising 2, that may. Prompt action v T 4 whicl ot vid sane Jegisia- that the hands will ;be @il 8t us. {1 assurs us ¢ into private Speedla tion Sled with arela’ i AMND FANCIES. icain imitaling Washing- “wntey ds' hardly in a to lectiri; s neighbors on Lew otder.—Smfuzifslda Republican. ith Yomit 1 g Palimore is fom the son is that Bolshet for unusually free pest. The re years Baltimore linance the erec- cont 'ns no man ¢ tion, of sa dwelling hathroom.—Topeka ¥ ("mofib&v feovepant Would it _contatned a At aprofiteens b Jou the league of be more provision and d instead of the ex ‘apital, nations popular ii going afte nding th -kaiser's. Last year we Were compelled to MEzord our string bean crops as o« g it L1Nis year We are quite peful of getling our seed back and naybe a fow-Strings.—Grand Rapids | quiry inte the cat i\ congreséfen intend t have a réal high-Mfe yacation. They knocked “the tax' on; ice cream and soft the .other day in preparation ancHester Union. “4 Liovd George is reported to have another h-lmb:chcme ready. He may cotnt on' the Binn Feiners and Carson- ites* being Teady to oppose it.—To- ronto Globe. i Just whengthe world has abput %11 ihe trouble § can stagger under, Cole L. Blease bobs up again and wants to go to congresgf Can't South Carolina send him anywhere clse?—New York World. % 4 . N . Better Hrry up and get ¢ thing to going,“So'that Liberia can have the Budapest, tuffs dna | dollars } of | thet po- | To- | | | s 45 THE BEST | courdy | iy i i i THE COUNTRN- oo han! T Muc u n jqwttqm b8 HeoRI%‘H s Is Teo H FoR ME ] y L SEE Where /) s 1s No | AL NiCHY | sSessionl. | Yery mandat ¥, Washington and Chi- cago,~—Mangcilesior Union. 5 The sadd/ lum situation post-bel- i sugar = shortage when the akin's of biackberry cob- bler make v briar resemble i a weeping »¥illow’ jemmed with jet.— Louisvilje Courjar-Journal. % W n se of the eve W mere wind on #le first page of twige" in sone 'week, —New York W, storms the the can get newspapers A war is over. It is shid that there s BGO, 0008 <L evory dagh.’ s tus’ friends, fhs i pyueifiugd” and @ it dry, what Wil RS eldisties of noyt yeay reveal? i/ Herald. i 6, A1l that be: dble to-offer the leaguc of nad netions.—Newy York Ivening ‘Pa the sedh ituse republicans iz No safe and sané artist could paint a picture of the league of nations, but it offers a fine chance for the fu- urist.— Rochester Post-Expres have it in their ot sHgtage, aly Beipde waypd i, by U g o185 5FHz0 P T power to next winter M. e Bre 1 | | | | i | | 1 ! | | |7 Xfierwar, Ty o' ger e higlfer still - *NgZ blance to a Hif Republican. e Gijrnia . which W hey heaH no ' fice hit.—Spri s Bi- 3 Yo nave thiegclbthis Fhantung #uits o kudseep cool. Fost, Rather st Speople advertiy something tha ¢ New Yor e Hzistas. and | §¥isam auvthing \NER s group Cof ' into ' range. ) Th2 only L Villistas seqm ¢ Jike harmony United States —Washington COMMUNICAR:D Edito.,: of The H Dear Sir I presidant of the Gro- cers’ ana Butchers’ ciation of our city, T am constrained to. write a wWord in defense of the trujh with regard to the much d:plored skortage of sugar. Investigation reveals the fact that sworld’s sugar crop bas never heen better, There seems, to be .no good reason for the pres@nt shortage of sugar, and yet rctailers are unable to Buy enough (o supply the dems their patrons The ity of that the outraged consumer is disposed to blame his equally outraged and helpless zrocer, for the prefent sugs uation. The public should know that the lo- cal retailer would be only too glad to supply his patrons with (he sugar needed, especially at this scason, for canning purposes, were it possible for us to procure the amount nceded Tnstead of blaming the local dealer for the hardship imposed upon the public by reason of the present un- justifiable shortage, why does not the consumer, everywhere, arouse public sentiment to demand an official in- e of the present de- plorable stultification the sugar mariket? I want to ass public that il it possible for me o provide sugir for my own trade, I should surely do so; for, daily, T am suffering the 1085 of such fruits season as 1 should naturally sell in abundance, were [ able to sell, with the fruit, the sugarnecessary for can- ning. I have been. obliged to throw into {he refuse cam, the finest red cur- rants; someotimes 2 half crate at a time, ‘simply~ becaugs my ipatrons would ot buy fruit, iffould not pra- vide thi sugzar, necessaly to prescrve it. g of the New Britain of the <1hS e The theatfretaiter is Heljless pegple $hould call’ Toudly est!government, invastigatiol sugar sn\xqtion‘, : s A : Yous truly,’ _COWLISHA! s 3 g*:;;x 25 (Froni the ¥ | i rald of that Date) ! 1894.% i start Angust 2, i Island Empions will for Block tomoure fri fantl M start ftomorraw Asbury Pari William [ from Cotty spending £ Cha arsoms will. start day for. Martha’s Vineyard, ghe will ‘enjoy an outing. for E. a M. Wightman 10 days' trip to, | | | | | } H {1 Har alcity ayhore his ) vacation® returned ¥ has been . onF Jiri- where Par ons i iac as Corbiny’ office during Fdevard, Johnson. clers ‘1 the ‘post i home wlerl 52 208 Y X bf- his by ill- s fTart, W wright ARNisit with Lillian Hart and have returned friends in New Sevpial families I'sor“sh@nem’s He werbyJohn - B. Eddy and: Geor their families National Happen: | Chicago’s bluze——the ifire to fight in year: 060,000 worth of “propoiis half a SR left this afternoon d, among whom Tajeott, James . > L. Damon avith L worst $ destroyed mile_con= ! pee. of Materbury, who L cpirespondent the By2c, case, W married e L nuh(":!n }n\»'»\\i(' M. Driggs the ed w.e}»-m- George F. Driggs, ssiStant®yistice A. C. Bill of the | pelice courty ¥ 30,000 Chincg® hiyve crossed Corean frontier—Jupanese ithdrawh from Seoul—Russidn” worships ofi for seat 1,500 ‘Tapamese wero killed Yasham 4 General J¥meswlengstreet] to ceive pension. of $50 a month. Debs says he is o throughl ' with strikes as organized sdciety is opposed ta them. —over in A at o A ROSE GARDEN, A hundred heart, We ghall not éare at all; It will not matter ghen a The haney or H\ng:m. The summer days thai known W1l all forgotten be and flown; The garden will be overgrown the roses fall. years from now, dear whit, we have | | | | Vhere now i i A hundred heart W all not mind the puin; The throbhing crimson tide of life Wil not have left a stain The songs we'sing together, The dr we dream Will mean no niore tear Amid the summer rain. years from now, dear a dear, together here, than means | 1 a A Mundred heart # The grief “Wwill all be over The sca of carc will surge in vain, Upon a careless shore. These glasses we' turn down today Fere at the parting of the way, We shall be wineless then as th. And will not mihd it more years bm now, dear Yo A Hhundred from heart, We shall not kuow nor care, What ¢ame of ail life's bitterness Qr,.followed love's despair. Then fill the glasses up' b Afid kiss, me g through 'vhe 1 rdin; 1 We'll brildiaiy Gasties more in &pain,, b nd dream ong more dream theve.] ‘"Vfilm Bepnett in - the © Chap-Book - ,,Y‘}]sos.- . ylxow Lilliputian seems _that jifems | } baimed. beef” affair of Spanighcsvary 4 dffvs algngside these Brob @gi,an #andals which now ¢ loom—Datroit vee Presges’ £ i3 years now, dear rpseleas ; i the L Engincer, hbowevers has adyiged e, bullet 2o not’ involve Higher (New Railway Wages? York Times.) is not money to give all things they want to cessive abundance of wage procure corresponding service. the railway is pfoper to use figures, applic: to them in particular, upon a sub of universal application. railways alone there has been increase of 110,415 employes Federal operation. The larger ber have less work to do, shorter hours to do it. ence in wages paid .is an month of $77,760,601. eplargement of working the ingrease of £ thir less than a billion a year, the_railways are working at of perhap: the first operation The railw There world enough in all will workers buy, nor n The di one the and costs o = de sixteen months of, pu y men say rightly “a us are to blame, because we exerting every effort to get moncy for ourselves” If any wishes to exempt himsell from blame imputed by the railway spokesman, let him speak up, there no case publicly known. Lee further says, “Every day p teers are taking double from workingmen that is given Would they spend less if they paid moré? . Profitecrs should called to aceount, but the wor use the increases they have rece in unaccustomed and unnecessary dulgences their case is weake IZverybody is feeling the pinch, haring the blame for it, who reducing the cost of living as possible by individual action. millionaires "are doing no workers. In cvery industry, every land, there is clear proof the wage earners are living lavishly and the rich more frug: The tuxés have compelled the to do this. Those who are not rich have been tax exempt in siderable degree,” and it would wholesome if hey felt more equit the t burden wnich wages put upon all. In the cnacted taxe$ the lavish spen of those overpaid beyond their perience lays a supertax- upon the of living of everyhddy The raisinz of the influentially just reason for getting Nations treaty out subjects of such not antagonize cannot both from either Mr. Lee headed fa wage questio: now is an ad the League of the way. importance cach, other, for get adequate congress or says that the the wrong way. the directfon acceptgble. Tt would patriotic in peace than servants should on the treasury merits, and considera the pu country reversing would no in war allow to be be public drafts the t on omic ons. They can sure that no ofe wishes to underpay them. model should way what The government should employer and public serx be model workers. In this country can be long it Jong has been—the hapr and the most fortunate of all. ( in that way it be a source stccor for others. suffering ably, “and thercfore having uneconomic action I st can exc or lacking BULLE Dublin, Aug. just Teveiled, tHat which’ took iplac DUMIn mination i the in the streets b¥ ‘wight of mine bullets. A proposal £as been made that sgamage shoulld be repaired. The Pifnent, are "3$ispecially draw: s Tture will have.a Ofical intere ppration hagded! allowance Since | nen raise the question In Class 1. under | and wvork increase for | Taking some- | iess than a half billion for more men'’s them." were more than more | increased addition should attention His help in | settled according to econ- kept unspeak- here. shooting sfer week-in 1918, the great O'oniicll mopument was penetrated invisible Hshall remain: as it s A OUGHLESS N 5 ,. Being the Random Reflections s . pllectiopges: “HANK LONG” ? i ON THE LIQUQR QUESTION ¥ » (Contsibuted.) As 1.have been $flirs and been sober now I believe. I may offidg Auid yvour valuaple pap ro and con, ‘Toncerning” this “‘bong, dryness’ with Which some of fus beltevé the nation's cutsed, and which sooner or later is sure tq land us all in hell if we be- lieve what Some say. It is a question in nry mind if, when they foék away our rites drinkers, they took anything of vital importance that would help man to build charatter and manhood. Yet it is an undeniable fact that li- quor is in many, cases a moral as well as a social berf@factor in that it helps many. to better positions jn life and society, Lo say nothing of providing an casy way of obtaiMling rest#of three, six or nine months, for,thosdfwho dre so foolish to prosccute-the ‘“‘hobdze ) game’ to strenuously. ¥ think in the past we drunkards overstepped many times our privileges, held out to us by a free and loving nation. and when she | saw we were Jikely to over-crowd ‘the | asylums and jails, thereby causing her” mere and more cxpense yemr aftér vear, why she 1 to do some- thing, with'the slipper of agthor- itv. . I think, it has been our faylt largely. in that we did nof take a tdm- ble before. Tt is all right to sing sotto | pii voce “The Old Oaken Bucket” and like | i1 own' salgofe, songs when We congregate in the sa- | determin®d jteldyis loon, but when it comes to murdering | Individual " aad our wives and fagilies with this same | drunk, bucket because of that happy feellng | thing superinduced by an inflamed larnyx | ¢ard by and brain, why, to say the least, the | €acl timegges saloon in the abstract should be com- 3 pelled to wear Maxim silenc In ! many cases in my wanderings freight cars and I have| found that the the wetter he s why | drunkards cry so readily: but I mudt admif I myself have oftimes been moved to tears because of their tears, | for to my mind I know of no sadder | sight than/that of a great red faced ! man in thé throes of intoxication, with | a pair of shoes dangling from an in- | ert arm, while with the other hand he fishes for a “nose-wiper” and another | ten cent piece for his last drink be- fore crawling into the bosom of ‘his family. Mind you, I am not speakirg disparagingly of the saloon quenter, or the saloon man, whom the poor wretch is trying ‘to help along ! so that his wife'may appear in society, or that the last instaliment on the wringer or sewing machine may be paid! Not at all, for of all people the | saloon man is a hard working cuss, and always has heen trving to enlarge | his :store of funny storics, learning so that he may be able 1o wéigh out jus the size drink to drop a customer at his own gate, as well & repleting ablic | menlory as to who was tie presidentd {in 1492, I say, all this is, more of less 11 of | wearin;© and should, b& tal-eni in con- are | sideratin when one begins computin the interest on the money he (the sa- loon keeper) may have invested in a shebang where first class murderers and pickpockets and horse thieves and skalliwags of every texture are turn- ed out. I do not think that there is any argument as to Why the church should go and the saloon stay Some argue that the saloon stay, becausc it is an alder tion than the rattlesnake, which is I believe wrong. Some said that. the Indian should have been unmolestd because by right of preoccupancy, yet the rattlesnake was here first, and up | to date I have ncver heard of a fond | father tearing around through the woods before he could be induced to o home, in quest of a rattlet to teke to his baby boy, yet on the other hand, I know of manys who filled up their bellies with a’ whole nest full just to see how they'd act when they ar rived home. And, yet, in spite of al! ally, | 1 have said derogatory to the use and rich | abuse 'of whiskey, it has its use in <o | pharmacopoia of life's ills, as doc- con. | 1ors can attest if they will. who use it; be | then again, brandied peaches are not 7| worth a damn without it. Again, I ably | jave seen cases of suspended anima- tion where the life seemf nung forces, like a wasp's head to its body-+no | nationalizati more cutic between—and a little | is going “red liquor” was given so t the | ebb patient’s life was not only. saved, hut, at last was saved only to be last in drunkard’s grave. Now the question that naturally arises is, would it have been best in this case to retain the whiskey for one’s own purposes of moderation thereby allowing that ane soul to go out into the great unknown, sive the drink that another man niight survive to first cause the state expense and perhaps murder a grand- mother or, chop twenty cords ot wood (?) only at last to nearly fill a drunkard’stgrave, for no drunkard® 1 care not how drunk he Is, entirely fills a whole grave cight might six or witheut wooden overcoats. It is ques a writer for forty two weeks, e thought just ! Another rgumer ing the saloon -from, will soon find ethe ing themselves. 2}? with red rum afi it will made ises out of potato parip | To this argument I he'll at least be obliged fivst the pptatoes, so while,Jigt,ar C is tingering over the still (keep silitl Mary or Jane will have some’ sfjow 0f a dinner with the rest of the'potato, But for myself, concerning the A% booze question, let 1y, T am ‘a times dry. Yet, so lop neur beer' is no nearcér water it i will sprinkle a littlc in my drinking water and let "er zo at thal via bumpers, LY dryer a fellow This is on inside be cah only &y the the e ;-) it able | hject me s than it is, a aloes el \ ani | , 5% um- old, Booziy, has Mces Oh, I'm so glad buriec Though iny to m: But one floating' kidnéy, andga K that's digjointed; a scar ‘g\ my e, last morf s glad planted, he rot Nation’s o now 1 family And fali t knee. . s will“he's 161t nohing [ e A 9 frer- | | oree i And hile | ficit H Yes, I old Booz May in his eer coll tree; to m forced sit ‘with miy, | oné | the my kid as he sits ¥ Let me confribute a dollar 'r‘vvr stone "o this old cus eye, carve 1 am 1 | { for Mr. rofi- the with th’ redf waters So ¢ these werdf on the have, gpoken Bd a ib i3 i i | | | should | institu- | s 1 be kers ived in- ned. and not r as The gland$ © Siensiithat Rt vef#oion ; continves Bt alyzed,” “the onlyisifegt nard w is consisten{ &nd M g by every mgmber 01 (he” commur Ml Hinc d | | | in | tha that | in The: 1 er bringing to the fPOntFgeonoHiic Lok ditions that m ) country, brifg face with a ce altogegher revolv: great % I not desirable.™ The cilsis truggle betweon (wo gl atignalizagion and W hilc production . X & Nationalization' 6¢ the fines government owne this dogtrine miay foretell. Back of inevitable of foreign markets. the but cost. sbout n ggle ww sy o ding Yy ex- cost | nreane ¥ how L extend,.no ond cals tf€ struggle. is the, foreignitrade a8 This . might .Hd, ta'y temporary advantage of Amexjch advantage obtained at ‘,‘:!"\’Al If England’s | inddsteial “Sys/8 tem and econpmic powed disimtegrat a greater burden wjll he = shiffed Amcri¢a, niready burdéned with world-production, and a nip: and n so 1ded of Two | | i loss they : a or blic. is !I‘A‘ be less that heir duced high prices There is one solution in' Ensifnd ae in America, andfthatis Seono; X cation and politighl ¥imon againket tadical socialism, Government Wit ship is not wanteddn gEngland nowy the United States \We fave " hady enough of it here—so, hae 1nzjope but it may Yquire & political reuda justment in. both countries. to ‘stong the: tide. Tor theseffeasons Ameri cans view Hngland's: present . crisis with no littlg anxiety andi.tfist that, the war agaihst radical sociBlism angs Bolshevism ythreatenitig: the sheart - of the British empire will be as suc- cessful as the war dguindt Gegmany FHEPMINTS PETROLEUM J\l:(.h Mexico, @ity Aug. 2.—The: g ment of thE Avgentine Repull arranged for! continn e petrolepm to, that c% co, the first ¢ontras livery. of “308000 “1&H which: is' to m;;} i t a tion worth the scientist's thought. b8 Another argument used some why the saloon should stay is on the ground that it will interfere with rev- cnue—that there will be a higher rate of taxation. -But, on the other hand, mare will be sober than have been in the past, and being keener witted, will just naturally kick at the | tax which they will be compelled to pay as against the taxes they paid in the past. Again in this argument 1 find much fault. for how in the name of great Caesar's Ghost can taxes be| any higher? How can anything bé} higherunless it's New Britain's smok stacks and wages? It has been esti- mated that it costs ‘the saloon about $123.66 for each fiyst class drunk. it educates and then tarns out, to then l»p turned over to the government to complete his education in prison, almshouse or insane asylum, at an added cost of $893.56 per year. Thus We see that the cost of making a first class drunk is something like $1.- 9 The profit to the saloon is about $893—that is if whiskey is made on the premises, and I understand prett$ mighty stuff has been madewith a little fusaloil and logwood at about 25 cents perybarrel. So we see, that it would ‘be far better for the gov- ernment Y;lnake its own whigkey, run is e a | ants that a EY iest nly of uses has of MORE WAR SECK ) Lontiaf Aug: 2---Th# ;’ mivalty haghrevealted tHal o the city that any > n to twenty il pierce.a: {0 wus \g Tl Zeeb: AC- ded i iy ¥