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New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
HUNGER STRIKE ENDED.

A hunger strike is not as popular in this country as it is in England. Over there woman throws bomb, is ar- rested and sent to jail. She refuses tc eat, also objects to being forcibly fed, and when she becomes weak she is released under the cat and mouse act and when she gets out she re- sumes her bomb throwing. Miss Becky Edelson is a sympathizer with the I. w. w., was arrested for being impli~ recently and when placed in confine- ment she announced her intention of engaging in a hunger strike, but after day or two she began to eat some candy which had been placed where she could reach it, and she found that 1t tasted so good that when the jail officials brought around her dinner she ate that too. and the hunger. strike came to an end.
 The young woman gave evidence of still having some sense left when she decided to eat. The warden realized
 
 her weakness and tempted her with the candy and the rest was easy. It would be interesting to know what would have been the result if she per- sisted in her original refusal to eat. There is no doubt but that she would be compelled to remain in prison. There is no cat and mouse act here and she would be forcibly fed or she would have died in prison. If the same methods were employed in Eng land the results would probably be different. The militants would either. be compelled to obey the law or they would spend the greater part of their time behind the bars, even if some of them died there
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
Choosing a Barber.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.'

Where is the man who, in the proud flush of manhood, can stalk non- chalantly into a barber shop and, with seven gog-eyed barbers standing sen- t1nel behind as many chairs, choose his fate without conscious qualms and misgivings? The choice of a barber is a serious thing And for a timid man, one of the crises of life is pre- sented when he enters a barber shop. It is not really the hazard of expense that frightens him. He may be a husband and father and accustomed to deliver without question. It is not even the dubious joy of having ones face mauled over by an alien hand, although rarely does man go through more personal wrecking and recon struction in the glorious cause of cleanliness, which, we are solemnly assured. is next to godliness The pastoral barbers who fix overs the spiritual side make it much easier, and they don't hunt in couveys, either. No, the thing that brings the blush to the cheek and sets the heart beat ing in quick time is the solemn array of seven solemn barbers, each stand ing gloomily behind a solemn chair, with all the deadly weapons in the background, and never a word said
 nothing but the mute appeal, the haggard atmosphere of despair and retribution. A brave man, indeed, he who, without wincing, can single out his chosen artist and ignore the gloomy six. The victim loses sight of the fact that he is going to pay for favors received. He knows that the barber shop is the nearest to the judgment seat that he ever gets while on earth. He feels that whatver he does is going to be recorded against him and that some day some rejected barber will meet him face to face and take his revenge without compunc- ton; that his family will be taught to hate you and his children will point you out to other children as the bad man of bogiedom, with whom as- sociation means pestilence. It. is all on the side of the barber.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
Money for Saint Bernard's.
Chicago Record-Herald.)


 It was of the ''pious'' monks of St. adjective needs changing; the new word is .impecunious." The cele- brated monastery, having rather over- done it's hospitality, finds itself in fi- nancial difficulties. For generations travellers have been accepting it's en- tertainment by the dollars worth and dropping acknowledgements by the nickePs worth into the box at the gate This cumulative shortage, talk en with the increased cost of every thing and the static rentals on which the monks largely subsist, accounts for the abbot's reluctant considera- ton of a plan to charge the rich traveller for what he gets.
 If the monastery were in England instead of among the Alps the solu- ton would be simple. The Ameri- cans would be worked. Placards headed with quotations from Excel sior'' would be posted in the more lively and expensive hotels and sub- scriptiQn papers would be circulated among the Yankee guests. The press would issue call. Select committees of titled persons would get busy. American millionaires would be ca joled. The historic refuge would be saved
 But St. Bernard's hospice still re- mains among the Alpine snows. The best that we can do is to ask all Americans who happen that way next summer to pay fair price for what they get They will probably do so anyhow. We incline to blame St. Bernard's deficit on the thrifty Brit ish and the still thriftier Swiss.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
The Mule.
New York World, ]

Announcement of the despatch of mules to Mexico does not impress the imagination like a despatch of war ships One Dreadnought carries more of pomp and circumstance than does any number of mules; yet in Mexico is the mule the more important war maker of the two.
 If the campaign opens widely and our troops leave the cities by the sea to enter upon the misunderstanding marches towards Mexico, it will be the mule that will carry the munitions and the howitzers and the baggage. He will tread with safety the narrow trails along the side of precipices he will drag the heavy guns up the steep heights, he will share in the battles, and then he will haul the wounded to the hospitals.
 Along all the frontiers of the world, wherever there is war there is a demand for the mule. Compared with him the much-vaunted war-horse is a vanishing figment of the past His strength. his sureness of foot, his wart- ress of eye, his ability to endure hard ship and hard work on little food and with little care, have made him 1n- valuable as a campaigner, whether in deserts or mountains.
 The mule has seen the camel and the elephant disappear from armies. IIc may see the horse vanish He has seen the motor cycle and the motor car come in. He may see the aero- planes numbered by thousands. But it is not likely he will ever see him. self superseded in his own line Of work. There may be mules without war; but probably never war with out mules,
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
Are Grandmothers a Nuisance?
(syracuse Post-standard.)


 The professor of pediatrics at Har- ward is right. The opposition and in- terference of grandmothers is a great obstacle to the correct bringing up of children, according to scientific text book ideas. It is a strange fact which many absolutely correct parents have observed as often as Prof. Morse has, that grandmothers' who have brought up their own children sensibly will defy modern science and progress when they have grandchildren. They are willing" says Prof. Morse, bitterly in his new book, 'tto give them any thing and everything to eat, and will in fact go out of their way to do so.'' He explains this on the ground that grandmothers don't have to care for the children when they are sick. Tn this inference he is mistaken. Grand mothers, whatever else they may be, are not selfish creatures. They do not, as class, fill their children's stomachs with chocolate creams and fruit cake as practical jokes upon the children's parents.
 The truth about indulgent grand mother is that she practiced what Spartan severity her nature was cap- able of when her children were babie
 
 she spanked them when they started anything like anarchy; she made them go to bed when they wanted to stay up and got them up when they wanted to stay a-bed; she sent them to school and to church when she sympathized with their desire to spend the time frisking about in the open. All this was difficult She did it because it was her duty. Now that she has grandchildren she thinks that she is entitled to some of the enjoyments of motherhood with fewer of it's penal- ties. She is quite right in this. Grandmothers may need watching; but if the pediatrics professor at Har- ward thinks the world will consent to a quarantine of children against grandsn others he is mistaken. More over, there are professors of child rearing here and there who could take lessons from grandmothers who nev6x heard the word pediatrics.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
TRoUBIE IN COLORADO.

The industrial trouble in Colorado |n which so many lives have been lost. ought not to be possible in this bountry and 1t would not be if the |natter was handled properly. It is Inc most natural thing in the world hat men should seek better wages Ind shorter hours of labor, that is the tendency of the times. and such trife as is now on in Colorado. It not always possible to grant all he. demands that are sometimes made but there is absolutely nothing to be gained by striking. The presi- 4ent of the United States has re-
 uested John D. Rockefeller to as- list him in settling the mining trou- Ple anda he replied that he has turned yer all his interests in the property question to his son and he refuses 0 do anything, in fact he says there nothing to arbitrate. In the mean lime the disturbance goes on, armed ,uards are fighting the strikers and killed.
 There is only one explanation of his trouble and that is that the right methods have not been employed to bring both sides together, settle their differences and have work resumed
 t will be settled sometime and when In inventory is taken of the loss and tamage it will be found that the miners have been the heaviest losers Ind that it will take a long time for [hem to recoup their losses. At present an effort is being made to batch up our troubles with Mexico Ind the loss of life in that dispute has not been nearly as large as it has been in Colorado where the troubles kontinue with no immediate pros- bects of settlement. That is sad
 o1nmentary on our methods of do- Ing business in this country
 The trouble in Colorado should be brought to an end at once, the causes bf the dispute taken up by some level headed people and settled The longer the present strife is continued
 he more bitter will be the feeling be-
 tween the parties concerned and the longer will it take to restore the good Feeling which should always exist be- tween employer and employe and which in this case should never have been disturbed.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely
 questions as discussed in ex-
 changes thnt come to Herald office.
Socialists and Progressives.
(H. J. Whigham in the Metropolitan

(H. J. Whigham in the Metropolltan)
 Not half the people who voted for Roosevelt in 1912 were real progress sives. Many, were attracted by ms personality, and far more were 1nstl- gated to revolt by the gross mlsman- agement of their own party leaders Thousands and hundreds of thous- ands of these will go back, no doubt, to the old republican party. e The real progressives, hoewver, will not go back. The people who are really look ing for social justice can never go back. But they will not be strong enough in numbers to make great showing at the polls next November unless, indeed, Colonel Roosevelt re- turns with a tremendous new lease of life and makes a whirlwind campaign. For our own part we should rather see the new progressive party rely on its own inherent aims than on Colonel Roosevelt's personality, though that may be useful for the time being. And if the progressive party is sufficiently purged of the old leaven of capital ism and is really intent on a genuine program of reform, we should like to see an understanding, if not an alli- ance. between the socialist party and the new progressive party at the polls. In other words, where a good progressive is running in a district with a fair chance of winning, he should get the support of the socialist vote, and where a good socialist has a fair chance of winning he should get the progressive support. Such suggestion will, we know, bring /cries of horror from most of the orthodox socialists. But we shall not take these cries too seriously. What We propose is not new. It is freely adopted in Europe, and no one can pretend that the result has not been greater progress in carrying out socialistic measures. It is, in fact, the only sensible way for the two parties to act if they believe in po- litica1 progress at all. There is not much difference between the views of the intelligent progressives and the intelligent socialists. The main stumbling block in the way of any sort of alliance is the strong feeling that most socialists have against Colonel Roosevelt. But the person ality of one man should not be al- lowed to interfere with the welfare not alone of two political parties but of the whole people. And We are very certain that the time has come for more intelligent political action on the part of the socialist forces. In no other country in the world does the socialist party insist so strongly on orthodoxy and isolation and in no other country is the political organi- zation of socialism so futile in ob- taining results.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
COMMUNICATED
(By F. B. Mitchell.)

Dear Ish K. Bibble:-Only praise Should greet your last and best ef-
 fusion. I'm beaten fifty thousand ways
 And so retire with some confusion. My words, in spite of me, assume
 Fortuitous concatenation:/ Whereat, I'm plunged in deepest
 gloom
 And vacuous obtenebration. Though not a wit--for something sad My lightest fancy always snothers- Believe me, I am very glad To be the cause of wit in others. I will not say, You bite file,"
 For that were supererogation, But, ere you answer, wait awhile
 And practice comperendination.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
UNITY REBEKAH MEETING.

There was large attendance at last nights meeting of Unity Re- bekah lodge, No. 54, I. o. o. F., held in Odd Fellows hall. The reports of delegates were received and after the meeting the Phoenix Minstrels gave a performance. Maid to Or der," farce, was staged and made a big hit. Several of the latest song hits were rendered by chorus in costume. All who attended had most enjoyable evening.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
NEW PRESIDENT FOR Y. NJ, c. A.

E. M. wightman, sales manager Of the North & Judd company was elected president of the association last night to succeed Charles J. Par ker who declined a reelection. Other officers chosen were as follows: First vice. president, Frederick c. Platt; second vice-president, Robert N. Peck; treasurer, H. B. Humason; sec retary, E. J. Skinner; auditor, George s. Talcott; assistant treasurer, Charles E. wetmore. F. G., Platt was chosen chairman of the finance committed. A whirlwind campaign will be con- ducted for the next two weeks to raise funds for next years budget.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
FACTS AND RANCHES.

If a man must drink when out with an automobile he ought to have 8 good safe sober chauffeur to pilot his car. Any man who tries to handle a car with alcohol affecting his eye sight and control is an enemy to so- ciety, no matter how good a fellow he may be outside his autom obile.- Waterbury American
 The senate of 1913 had reunion at Hartford the other day and most of the members were present. The nbsentees included Senators Perry, Hooker, McDonough, Newman of Bridgeport and Shanley. Very few of the senators expect to be back again next winter The majority members realize that things will be much different than in 1912, unless there is big change in existing poli- tical conditions between now and ovember.-Bridgepor Post.
 Requiring a high school boy to clear fourteen feet in the broad jump in his third year, and fifteen feet in his fourth, is a strange bit of edu- cational uplift At least six high schools in the neighborhood of Bos- 
 form of compulsory athletics will last as long as parents, submit to such waste of time and Brock ton Times.
 When the beautiful daughter of Secretary McAdoo of the treasury, quit munching chocolates in the sem ate gallery, the night the Mexican n9S nd har daddys coat tail, so that he would turn around, good many people smiled pleasantly at the incident. When Bryan left the senate because Senator Fall was f1aying him, most people were wondering how the sec- retary relished hearing such things in a place where he could not talk back. These are mere incidents in the lives of American roy alty.''- Waterbury Democrat.
 When that inveterate old banterer Mark Twain, reached his seventieth birthday he celebrated it in a char acteristic manner. He dweltr upon having docked at Pier 70 and then proceeded to reminisce. During the week that had passed Chauncey M Depew has docked at Pier so just four piers above that used by the Rev. pr. Joseph H. Twichel1 who swings easily at Pier 76. These two distinguished sons of Yale college are known wherever men want to know congenial souls, but they are partic- ularly well known and beloved by Yale men of an earlier generation New Haven Journal-Courier.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
). MCMILLAN
H. E. HORTON NEW sUP'T.
Methodist Church Sunday School Holds Adjourned Meeting.
lss.2Ol-2o3 MAIN STREET.

Howard E. Horton, one of the most prominent young men at the Meth odist church, was last night elected as superintendent of the Sunday school to succeed Retiring Superin- tendent Doolittle. H. c. Doolittle was elected assistant superintendent tc- gether with E. E. Agard. Mrs. Harry E. Reynolds is the new primary de- partment teacher.
 There are now twenty-eight new members in the home department ac- cording to a report made by Mrs. c. J. Symonds. The superintendent and assistant superintendents of the Sunday school will arrange for the annual observance of Childrens day.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28
INJURIES PROVE FATAD.
Edward c. Norton of Meriden Suc- cumbs From Effects of Derrick Crash.

Meriden, Conn.,, April 28.-Edward G. Norton, foreman employed by a local construction company, died at the hospital today of a fractured skull and other injuries. A derrick fell on him yesterday while he was at work on 'an addition to the First Con- gregational church.
 He was thirty-five years old and leaves a wife and child.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28

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 at Herald Building, 67 Church St.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
 4roprietorD.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28

Entered at the Post Ofice at New Britain
 as Second Glass Mali Matter.
New Britain herald., 1914-04-28

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The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-12-12
SMALL TOWNS SHOW DECLINE
While the Country Increases In Popu-
lation Small Places Have Lost
Many Residents.

A striking warning that the towns
are losing their population more rap
idly than the open country was sound
ed at the twenty-sixth annual conven-
ton In Kansas City Of the Southwest
ern Lumbermen's association, the Sur
yey states. The organization CON-
Prise 1000 retail dealers In Arkansas.
Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Nine states were cited in which
6,956 towns lost population, while the
population of the whole country In
creased 81 per cent. Out OF 277
county seats in these nine states. 217.
or nearly % per cent, lost population.
although they are the political, admin
istrative and business centers OF pop
ulation.
This decline Of the town Is greatest
In the richest and most thickly settled
parts of the nine states. Wisconsin
lost population In BAG towns. Missouri
in $40, Iowa in 564, Indiana In 639,
Michigan in GIT. New York in TAG, ILL
nois in 1888, Ohio in 1,136. Pennsylva-
mia in 1870.
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-12-12

have laid me cold. I used to laugh.
Well, l guess they were right. Court.
landt's got the stiffest kick | ever ran
into. A pile driver. and if he had landed
on my jaw, it would have been dormi
bene as you say when you bid me good
night in dago That's all right now
until tomorrow. / want to talk to
you. Draw up chair There! As
said, I've never caught you in a lie,
but find that you've been living a lie
for two years. You haven't been
square to me. nor to your mother, nor
to the chaps that came around and
made love to you. You probably
didn't look at 1t that way, but there's
the fact. I'm not Paul Pry; but acct
dentally l came across this" taking
the document from his pocket and
handing it to her. Read it. What's
the answer"
Nora's hands trembled.
Takes you long time to read it.
Is it true?"
"Yes."
And went up to the tennis court
with the intention of knocking his
head off; and now I'm wondering why
he didn't knock off mine. Nora, he's
a man; and when you get through with
this, I'm going down to the hotel and
apologize"
you will do nothing of the sort:
not with that eye"
"All right. l was always worried
for fear you'd hook up with some duke
you'd have to support. Now, l want
to know how this chap happens to
be my son-in-law. Make it brief, for
don't want to get tangled up more
than is necessary"
Nora cracked the certificate in her
fingers and stared unseeingly at it
for some time. Il met him first in
Rangoon." she began slowly. without
raising her eyes.
when you went around the world
on your own?"
Eyes. Oh, don't worry. 1 was al
ways able to take care Of myself"
"An Irish idea," answered Harrigan
complacently.
Il loved him. father, with all my
heart and soul. He was not only big
and strong and handsome, but he was
kindly and tender and thoughtful.
Why. never knew that he was rich
until after I had promised to be his
wife. When learned that he was the
Edward Courtlandt who was always
getting into the newspapers, laughed.
There were stories about his esca-
pades. There were innuendoes re-
garding certain women, but l put
them out of my mind as twaddle. All,
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-12-12
Eorehanded Beetles.

Several farmers were sitting around
the fire in the country inn and telling
how the potato pests had got into
their crops. Said one:
Them pests ate my whole crop in
two weeks"
Then another spoke up:
"They ate my crop in two days and
then sat around on the trees and
waited for me to plant more"
Here q commercial traveller for a
seed house broke In:
well, boys" he said. that may be
so. but I'll tell what I saw in our
own warehouse. saw four or five
beetles examining the books about q
week before planting time to see who
had bought seed"
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1914-12-12
HAVE FIGURES OF ATHLETES
American Business Men of Today Far
Better Proportioned Than Those
Of Generation Ago.

1.-THE American man, the American
business man of forty or forty-five, has
got new shape" said tailor. Hes
got lean, straight shape-full chest.
narrow hips. But if you could have
seen him a generation ago!
THE business man of forty expected
to be fat and soft generation ago. He
rather admired, in fact, fat, soft
shape. The richest business men were
fat and soft-and that made a fashion
of it-just as Queen Alexandra's lame
ness made a limp fashionable in Vic
torian times.
What stomachs our fathers had at
forty or forty-five! Feather-bed
stomachs which they balanced by bend
ing backward A big stomach was a
sign of success. sign of gentility. Ii
you were lean. why, you must be a
laborer-perhaps you didn't get
enough to eat.
What is the cause Of the slender,
agile figures of today? Open air and
exercise-that's the cause. Golf is the
cause. Motoring is the cause.
my friend" the tailor impressively
ended, my books show that the mid
dle-aged business man OF today Is
four inches bigger around the chest
than the middle-aged business man Of
1890, and 10 inches smaller around the
stomach"