New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1928, Page 3

the prosccuting attorney. 1t the | prisoner is found guilty, it is *1 told {he would come to a bad end.” A Nfl [;“MEI]Y SH“w man's standing is injured strongly — ‘ n Oticials in Rude Surrousdings TR Usually Smart Business Men ‘BRIAEE[?R?A% IE'Y' ARM All Beauty of Old World Is Found There 1 Many interesting and amusing in- cidents occur during of court in a emall town or village, even more so than in a city court. A city court is meodern in cvery way, The judge sita up on his high stand shere everybody can see him and the court room is fitted out in faultless session style with new furniture and modern __Washington, L. C.. May 26— desks, Evervthing in a city court “Bruges. Belgium, which has just room udds to the fegal atmosphere ClOsed its annual rcligious testival, | of the place and spectators and pri- Tetains its picturesque qualities al- | though it commerce has yiclded much of its of a few coenturics to soners are generally impressed when they enter the room. Solemn police- men stand around the court room bullctin from the { and visitors are careful uboul their . C.. headquarters of condnot. the National Geographic society. “In the centuries wealthie fourteenth and fifteenth Bruges was one of the and busicst cities in Eu- A town court is generally held in & room in the town hall that is used . for many purposes and there ie lit- tle or nothing in its appearance to impress those present duri ses- sion. The judge sits in the front o the room behind an _erdinary table and in many cases he is forced to take down the testimony and p form other clerical dutics that are taken care of in a city court by a clerk. Loose chairs are placed in the room in row and the prisoners sit in the first row. In important cases it does not take long to fill the room mercial District Deserted ‘anals which were once crowded with shipping now arc clogged with it, moss and lily pade. and in some arts white swans fearlessly swi about. Bordering quays are bare and eilent. Many of the gabled dwellings | and warchouses facing the quays, long the meeting places of boistcrous #ea rovers, arc unoccupicd, “During its busiest cra, boasted headquarte Bruges v would-he witnesses are | * merchants 1t disappointed. Incidentally many | from 17 countrie: abrics were veople in a small town gather much | shipped from Italy and the East, enjoyment. by attending a session of j furs from Russia and Bulgaria, the court, especially when one of the i metals from Poland and Hungary. residents 48 the defendant. In place Wool, cheese and coal from the of the ucatly uniformed policemen, | British Isles, fruits from Granada the civilian clothed present to guard the However justice is n town court room just fand Egypt. and Arabian spices and Rhienish wine were marketed there, “The tapestry manufactures of Rruges were world famous, Tn 1430 constahle prison ted out in a efficiently are Ps ina c court, and. contrary to ! Duke Philip the Good founded the | the general opinion, these appraring | Order of the Golden Fleece, one of before the court are given a fair the most exclusive knightly orders, ehance to tell their eide of the story. in tribute to the wool-weavers of NMany people have the idea that if they are arrested for breaking an automobile law while passing throuh a sruall town their e is absolute- Iy lost. The judze will listen to their mory. but according to modern nivthology. he will disregard it and will fine them to the highest extent allowed by the law. Many even claim . that before the case what sentence Flanders Once Spanned With Garlands “By. the end; of the fifteenth cen- ¢ the rivers and canals silted up, trade routes changed, and the mer- chants forsook Bruges for Antwerp, leaving a city of Old World charm for travelers to enjoy. In the door- ways of medicval houscs old women sit for hours in their pleturesque costumes, making lace, They look as | though they had stepped out of a 1 judge in a sinall court knows is breught to court he will impose. This leads to many Interesting and amus- canvas of Jan Van i or Hans ing cases Memline, famous Bruges — artists, Defendants from a large city, Some of the brick facades of thc Fometimes appear before the judge medieval homes arc hung with larg: and with an “I'll show this hick i%on rings, which, in the days when where to get off” 100k on their faces, Bruges was famed for its fi vroceed to explain to his honor 'used to hang ropes of tlowers (rom where the local constable was wrong ' ilis charges, Their voices ring out precise manner | sit wall to wall. “In the streets, huge thick-legged “lemish draft horses draw to market clumey two-wheeled carts filled with 1green vegetables from near-by farms. And now and then one sees [l fn « confident and and when they are through, the down with a emile at the loca guurdian of the law. In three out of “ four cases these “loud” speakers are 'a dog-drawn milk art, gainted guilly and walk out of the court green, rumbling over the ¢ with an injured look on their faccs | cobbles, arter the judge has passed sentence. | They are the ones who tell their friends to be carcful while traveling through euch-and-such a town bhe. ! vause you haven't a chance if you are canght. for th City Occupics Island “Grand Place, the city square, the busicst place in Bruges on urdays when the market is read | business shortly after dawn. City and constables and | yural costumes run the gamut of judge are just dying to swell the!color and style, with broad flowing | treasury of the town.” This is a mis- | skirts and small lace caps dominat- taken idea. Money realized by fines ing. Although vegetables abound on from violators of motor vehicle laws ' the well ordered stands, there are « turned over partly or entirely to |also copper and brass vessels, old © state motor vehicle department. | clothes, used furnitures and soiled 11 a case where the town turns over hooks, the entire sum, the state repays the ! he B fown by taking care of the state'famous landmarks. fry Tower, one of Bruges’ rises 375 fect | highways in _:ht community and over the square. During the hectic e ©pitfz them in good condition. | struggles of the Flemish people with & Another type that appears before | the Spaniards, the French., and & <mall town court is the contrite prisoner. Figuring the judge and the 126t of the court to be slow-witted and easy to impress, he tell them in & karrowful voice that it is his first offense or that he was so used to traveling at such-and.euch a speed through-this-and-that town or this- and-the other highway that he didn't ize that he was traveling so fast or breaking any law. This argument Jfalls flat because speed limit signs are posted in prominent places and the accused is often one of those persons who figured that all con- atables do is to sit by the stove in a store and tell storics. Constables of today have cars, tor ¢ most part, and arc alert for drivers that use the roads for a spcedway. A driver will obey traffic laws in a city to the utttermost be- cause he knows, or thinks, that a policeman is watching him. The mir ute he hits the small town, no im- pressive blue uniformed official &reets him and he proceeds to scare the “hicks” as he caroms along the | . main street.If he stopped to inquire, | he would. in many cases, find outs, that the so-called hicks were men who conducted large business places in the cities and enjoyed important standing in the community, Cases involving local people cause much intcrest among the townpeo- | ple. They flock to the court and | drink in every word of testimony uttered by the defense lawyer and neighboring towns, the bells in the Belfry tower called the hurghers to arms. In a room near the top there are numerous rods, pulleys and ropes | which are connected with one of the nest carilions in Europe. It has 47 bells. “Through « small window in the shaft, Bruges rescmbles a veritable Lcheckerboard of rcd gables, pierced Dhere and there by spires, towers and pinnacles. The narrow strects and |from this lofty perch the traveler | ccs‘[ruges as an inland island, for it is completely surrounded by natural streame and man-made canals. Bruges (Bridges) was named by the Dutch for the many bridges spanning its waterways, “The cathedral and Notre Dame. both medieval buildinge are excellent cxamples of pointed Gothic architec- ture. Both of them arc art galleries | With many paintings and splendid xhibits of brass and copper veskels trinkets, and carvings in alabas- gae Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. | It Kills the germs. L & M SEMI-PASTE PAINT the Pure White Lead and Pare White Zinc Paint simply requiringthreequarts JRbUAIRATION, of Linseed Oil to be stirred into each gallon to thereby make 13/4 gallons BEST—PURE—PAINT Ready for use ih $2.80 P oiow Promremcir Proved by 54 yoars of utmest setis/actory wse without repeinting for 10 to 12 and serfase for 10 to -gm,fl“m FOR SALE BY NEW BRITAIN. PLAINVILLE BRISTOL. GRANBY. SOUTHINGTON. JOHN BOYLE CO., PLAINVILLE LUMBER & COAL €O, BRISTOL HDWE. 00., INC., 1OOMIS BROS. CO., INC, ¥. FERRUCCI, canals wind in every dircction and -until ? Gl " . 3 i ox o o NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928. 3 . R T AP 7 P T S . J t pust. ' afraid | Lers, ell, she hud teared it ! :nce i fool does net harm other hor iears confirmed had | : of humat physigua. Their teeth, | pennitess to go i felt dully that it did e in e able condi- ito work. That may shock my ter; it would only hasten | Tfl [IVE IN AFRIEA Collomb pot it “as fends but it is better than ace | search tor work. After all | { cepting help until T am loaded with [they wouldn't have helped muh | ever entertained an |obligations which 1 may never be|toward paying Dean his $160,6u0, | S—— 10 again in the wilds HiS S HAPPLENED ey af steril able to discharge. { It wouldn't have helped much to! : | Mr. Collombh declared he ‘""rm:. 1:.:{‘\\}:“,.‘,.0,. '““ 87 il e s ton onsense! Your father had laccept money from Mr. Gardiner, Pwesu‘m] Has Poor Gha]]ce neve and he did not think he liis fortunc, gocs 1o e with o gil. | MP. Gardiner cuntwed an excla- {You Without placing you under ob- | nothing at all for her from the es- | Ag ts n wld A al =iy Iigod friend, Clariss Dean, and her |mation of pained surprig : islens AT e el sae e A10SL SWIIt Wiid Animals Stock and Curb Exchanges iy “Buy . Miss Brewster sure of t Siid re- de 0 be owing money e —— ke s el T I R B Sl (B fooinl S e Bt R B e e Both Are Closed Again an Tianng, £ Natliaiel Bgas ennal i quickly. “Please | not risk humiliation in finding out [so uncertain as moncy trom that| | COPI effen shudder at ¢ New York, May 26 UP—The New SRR l,‘l W-mx‘v» 3 doirs G o s me.” she bhogged | Who the «. No, I've got to go !source, tion of the expression * change and the New ‘:EE;:PFXO\”M I :M‘l:,\)m\ 1 breathiles “Clurissa Dean and | ahead by myself, Mr. Gardiner. but | Out or e i for Africa’” It brings to their ric Curb matket were clused today e {1 had trouple ana 1 couan't |1 sall not vefuse”vour legal el |a moncnt plate gles Win- | tioughts of wild animals, canfibate, | h Saturday holidoy this yoar ot ol 4 iy t the itz now but PIL|If You will give it to Ul bring | dow and 1 ink what 1t was b osireon o HEE to give member firme a ‘usther ep- lovers' gquarrel which 1s luter have to | cheaper quarters, | the pearls to you Jist Aor_ the ishe had weant to do next e N portunity to ea‘ch un with the cor. ended W I came to vou. | feW pictures and things 1 took from 3 : Yes, | there il bl iase it fop - [gestion of work er v the res mende a ol i ‘v money for me from |home. T want to keep what is hon- . pher who spent eight mor cent serics of big markets. The ;,lh‘p.]»:flm"? el “stite she asked al- | PSUY mine. And please let me hat continent there s greater dan- |commoditien markets Wil remal ried |»osm.nu>v" San Franeisco, illy BROW 55 s0au a5 anu can 1t T have i D, '\‘" 8 |oPen, as usual ' hegs Virginia to mairy him and go | Mr. Gardin ook Uishiedd ve-FAUMBIE . Ghabid fodnt sell. [ ITiaups 1 Mo’ Tak Kbt ull five hour trading scssions witl west, but she refuses to ict him sac- fully, “Not lie told her,|Pose there isn't any money in the e il y tihe stocik exchange rifice his art study. e busn't i for a set- [ ANk : e T w s d curb m oxt woek after - Clarissa becomes jealous of Vir- | tlement 1 can urrdnge a per-] “None that we can touch. Haven't sl f"k;”’l"v‘i} Pock’s experinent with the 8 p. m ginia, and the latter deci to leave | sonal loan for you.” he offered, but i-‘"” ANaRCOUIL 0f your "““1 Sl ey - clos u Lt Dean opposes her departu and | not too *warmly 1 o t what my i 0h- - ..‘ ! o - ‘,___’ ses, he threatens to expose e ros ni til 1 know how 1 can|f 3 | . but befor oty e R Rome. May 26 UP— Italian tari. : 3 Mr. Gardiner went to the door | 1o 10 Africi wiire photo- g are yperimenting with un elec | with her and arged T to recon- | for cducational picturcs were | yic plow, using power from a {sider her dccision to yofuse finan- | R et vlectric transmission line to operat | cial assistane: e ppihroMIately s\en | o qrum carrying cable which dra | “I'm no longer vieh,” she said.| 1| ore pegele iy taond the otliers | the plow aorosy'ths feld; IHN e | “Why should 1 live a lie? And | o e e i Ah¢ lieved plowing costs can be reduces {Lorrowing enough money 10 keep | She 4 eI s L R, If irom tiose when tractors me in lusury would be doing | expected to - TR i or cable-plowing tackle is used. 3 ithat. There's only ene honest | thire " SRUEREL i | thing T can do and that is to find | this bit o y ety ——— ; | “; it h e e 4nd in the animal kingdom live £y work and ny own living S Mr. Collomb declares that a per- Thmlm"m g; [ wen ‘l admire your courd IR A Kt son from the ontside world daes not 1ho 1 t quixotic, £ 4 ¥ ¢ have to fear a caunibal unlese he ., " e i i ] 2 : y sweets con- £ i his worldly judgment, “But 1hope| Wil b treats him cunnibal dos not seipation quickly. §§ | yon will have early ma ¢ | tahe @ room in s wish to be noticed. Once he is| fyon still intend to uarry your | She hadn't crouscd he will stop at nothing. Re- (_\uv)h: artist.” | this time s killing be will devour his vie [ The last word slipped off abrupt- [ not far tim, Mr. Collomb learned, |y in his amazement at Virginia's | clearinz " a Whenever there is any communi- | {behavior. She had turned and for|vay she bought a paper ation to necessary to ]1 second or two she swayed as it ] From the [tz she t As a whole 3 fabout to fall. Mr. Gardiner veached | several hotels that w r cooperative | forth to support her but she moved | fised in the paper and n {on throuzh the open way and L orandum of their rates, reatest encry |then, sceming to guther strength | py the ime she had finished | the white man has fn the jungles, from hcer force of will. — she )y oking shie had decided upon the LNt they are even a greater encmy |steadicd herself and turncd 10| gno she would go to. of the colored mative. The lives of smile reassuringly at hun. To Virginia, when sl was heng Wany white people re saved when MRS. SHAY'S CHILD I “I'N bring the pearls in soon TR 9 o A e A itive crosses the path of one of Watch these symptoms for worms : she called back from the QuUIer | goiocot Lo of tha the vicious amimals as he is about Sour stomach, cramps, heavy, dull loor and then closed it quictly Le-| . oa in hotels. To have come to | 10 Attack the Caucasian eyes, bad breath, fever, biliovensss. lind he this! Asked which animal he tlouzit itching nostrile. . .all s of eon- ! There was an When the bellhoy was gane <ho ' 4as the white man's worst cnemy, | stipation and worms cam be i her head and 1 promptly locked the door. As <he M Collomb expressed the opinion driven off by vator seemed 1o D framayneen s s s o he tiger was the worst animal I her feet and lewve 1 uspended | o iag iy voices coming from a con- | e party had to deal with. The lion {in air as she was carricd swiftly | o pin e oo E : _l,m; itself i,,‘”‘f ;]}3. e to the strect level. Other passen-| - oo e hen! Gimme {hat hod of approach is differcnt o gers looked at her quecrly and she || o e vou ailar T but the tiger is ever en the alert The Teue Fami tive | was aware of it but did net care. | oG et and will spring on his prey without end Worm | 18 50 little to care about warning v | the menace that stood in | T Another problem of the party was MY little girl became ssriouely i1l b pd ags ol itomobile is being credit'd g ghain cnough tood. They experi. DY eating too many sweets. I ueed | e AR uch of the rapid growth in | e or pon aonE 1006, sy exp your Elizir with most beneficial re- 1t alone absorhed fer | N g i 8 enced for days at a time, the fneon. ¥ sl 4 |Other thoughts only nagged dis vjv""l““_‘_: Grevco, \Qulgasia, Rumania yonisnco o having less than chous: nirlhn.mtm g |azrecably ata tired mind rm;l(vf: live ot s T e Mre. Shay, Cambridgs ‘-). 1 Her only really valuable posses ~ = nd other food which cannot he et cons, the pearls she doved wers | REAMD WERALD CLASSIPIED ADS on by the white man. However, the Family Siae §1.0; ethers ¢dc. ohe. e e As she turned the key her e & connecting room. 's were assailed by volces coming from ct that her father had cheated i qay it back.” Viezinia refused | cut of $10u,000, Iteck Vir- tirmk. "1 have two strings of | ginia promiise n the money to pearls; 1 can raise money on ¢ him in year of marey him | then i if she fails. Then she slips out of Gurdiner instuntly became very his house. Khe pawns a valuable grie “I'm afraid vou are going ring for $125 and realizes 1hat I disappointed there, my dear,” must find a cheap place 1o live o sympathized. “These pearls are once, npaid for. T had intended advis- | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ing you fo reiurn them to settle | CHAPTER X\VIT the claim is 1m0 possibility | Virginia knew in a flash an- | that the can pay for them.” guished comprehension that she A little eryof distress, dke the could not tell Nathanicl of her har- dving wail of a cherished hope, | gain with Frederick Dean, She conld | cseqy from Virginia lips and not rob him of his peace of mind-— | hrought real pang of sorrow for destroy +his power to create or go her into Gurdiner's deliberately on with his work. In all likelihood | hardencd Leart $100,000 was as beyond his “But they'rs ail 1 have,” she de- reach as hers, and if he were told elared hystevically | that lack of it would spell unutter “You mnst w me to take care | able heartbreak for both of them of your affairs” 1o said decisively, | he would be ag unhappy and “Por surely you realize that Rich- desperate as she., rd Brewster's daughter cannot be And before morning Virginia permitted to flounder around as knew to the fullest just how un- though she hadn't a friend in the happy. how desperate her sitnation worid Tint you Jdo not prefer was. More surcly than ever she fo 3o to any of your friends s realized that she must her | oxp you fo come to Mrs fight alone. She might fall be- Gardiner will be very happy to neath the Juggernaut of defeat, hut | have you, T am sur her last hope was dead s Virginia heard Lim through with- | would spare Nathaniel the crushing out a word. Even when Te had | knowledge of what riight come. | finished she did not speak at one She arose in the.morning &tecled and he looked st ler inguiringly. With thia resolve. And the fear of Xhe saw an ~spression of doubt re- | defeat helped her, too: it drove her p his ranee, and she k on to battle against hopelss odds. | that What e saw in her own face | Ry telephone she 1 was responsible for it I pointment with Mr. t ) to smile, but her fea- | office and when the time can = well have been was th waiting impatiently in her heart felt as set, | the ante-room. 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