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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-08-15

Only eiEhteen minutes ot travel
from this poitit on the electric train
Y required 70 Esssh TIE end os ne
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09


 A. strange feature of the case Is that the husband of the dead woman did not know that she was sick and the doctor himself says that he did not know his patient. Under those conditions it seems peculiar that the doctors wife should want to take her life. It is possible from the infor- nation at present obtainable that the bullet was intended for another and that due to nervousness on the part of the one who fired the shot or an unexpected move on the part of the victim the bullet went wide of it's mark and struck one for whom it was not intended. It surely is a mystery, but there is sufficient evil dence to suspect the woman now in custody. She is by no means with out a defense, but it. is the mystery that surrounds the case that is bound to make it interesting in its develop ment.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
Making Tramps Work.
(Omaha Bee.)

Those Nebraska farmers in the vicinity of Wood River must be a hardened and heartless lot. Reports say they are impressing into the work of the harvest field certain of the globe-trotting gentry, who happen to pursue the even tenor of their way through that county. The tourists are not consulted, we take it, but simply seized against their wish and thrust into service. At last we have literal fulfillment of a biblical injunction to go out and compel men to come in only this is not exactly feast Yet, why should they object? These gen. tlemen are paid $3.50 a day for their compulsory occupation. That means more feasting for them, no doubt, than they have enjoyed for long time.
 In the language of the street, we are for the Wood River farmers, and for them strong" Their scheme Is good one with a double end-it gives them. the needed help in the harvest field and may result in nnak- ing their neighborhood summed by the genus hobo in the future. Or. again, it may possibly result n con- verting some of these worthies into valuable producing members of the community
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
Connecticut's WOcful Waste. Bridgeport TelegramD

If all the water power of Connecti- cut should be developed to its fullest extent, the state would probably be supplied with a continuous output Of power capable of taking care Of its fullest wants for centuries to come, without the burning of a ton of coal or other fuel.
 The rivers and streams of the state, developing this power, rightfully be- long to the people; but stupid and indifferent policy on the part of the commonwealth has permitted practic- ally every important water power potentiality to fall into the hands of private spectators.
 One by one the states streams are being exploited for hydro-electric power production. The power thus derived is to belong in perpetuity, to private individuals and corporations, who are to have the privilege of selling it back at eXorbitant prices to the people who rightfully own it.
 Connecticuts industrial supremacy, and the industrial supremacy of Bridgeport as the leading manufac- turing city of the state, cannot be maintained for long unless the fuel problem is solved.
 State ownership of water power,
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
Reckless Shooting.
Springfield Republican,

(Springheld RepuD1can.)
 Reckless shooting by policemen has come to be scandal in American cities. In Chicago last week patrol man saw a man trying to hide, he thought in a dark vacant lot, and when he refused to halt shot with fatal results. The victim proved to be no desperate ruffian, no burglar with a kit of tools planning a robbery, but a quite harmless character who had led a wandering life but had paid his way quite honestly, after working in restaurants. If felon resists arrest an officer is Justified in using what ever force may be necessary, even if 1t results in. the death of the offender; in the case of mere m1sdemeanor he has no such right, and In the case re- ferred to it does not seem clear that even misdemeanor had been com mitted Of course, it may be said that the fugitive should have halted when called upon by policeman. But it is by no means certain that he knew it was a policeman who was calling to him; even if he did, the law does not warrant the infliction of the death penalty for running from policeman. To carry arms Is a great temptation; no man who cannot resist it has any proper place on a police force.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all s1dee of. timely
 questions as discussed in cx. changes thnt como to Heraj1 Oflce. %
Remembers Jackson's Days.

Remembers Jackson's Days. (Allentown, Pa, Dispatch in Philadel-
 phia Record.)
 Grandson of revolutionary sol dier, and still in the best of health, Reuben F. Leiby, the oldest living native of Lehigh county, on the Fourth of July celebrated his tooth birthday anniversary with family re- union. held at his own request at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Nathan Shoffer, at Snyder's. Born in Lynn township, he is the son of the late Frederick Leiby and in turn was a farmer. tanner, teacher, drover. hotel keeper, surveyor and justice of the peace.
 He wildly remembers the days of Andrew Jackson; but the first presi- dent of the United States for whom he could vote was Martin Van Buren. He comes of long lived and sturdy an cestry, and is still a great walker having formed the habit when a youth, before the days of such easy transportation as railroads and auto m obiles.
 The first visit he ever made to Philadelphia he walked from Jack sonville, Lehigh county, a distance of seventy-six miles. At the age of 23 ne walked to Ohio to visiit an uncle, the tramp taking twelve days. < When he was a teacher, before the days of common schools, he received forty cents a month tuition from each pupil, some of whom were married men and women, eager to learn to read and write. During vacation he made beehives.
 This remarkable centenarian is in extraordinary physical corfdition He has all his faculties, can read without glasses, takes an occasional tipple, spins yarnss covers consider able distance in walking and is pas- sionately fond of his pipe.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
ARRESTED FOR MURDER.

Well. we are in for another mur- Ier mystery in the arrest of Mrs. Car kan for the shooting of Mrs. Louise kaiIev at Freeport, N. Y., who had Alled upon the formers husband for hedical treatment and was killed as
 he had turned to leave the office. here never appeared to be any Ioubt
 \ the minds at least of the readers |f newspapers that suspicion strongly |o;nted to the doctors wife. Susp1- kon pointed in her direction from the En,e 1t was discovered that she had a |icfagraph placed in her home so
 hat she might learn all that was said |etween her husband and his women Iatients, suggesting that she :. was hsanely. jealous and when the case thoroughly sifted. as it will be, 1t Eiu in all probability be found that las at the bottom of the murder.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
"Tango Foot" Explained. Providence Journal.)

Various persons have been learn ing of late that there are diversional as well as vocational maladies and that while with due discretion it is quite possible to avoid "housemaid' s knee,' miners elbow and writer s cramp," it may be the easiest thing in the world, if one attempts to keep pace with modern social require ments, to achieve the tango foot"
 New cases of this ultra-modern pedal disorder are continually being reported, and as these things become fashionable, just as few years ago every common head cold' was sub limated by the victim into a case of the grip it is altogether probable that thousands of corns, bunions, stone bruises, fallen arches, ankle sprains and enlarged and rheumatic toe-joints will be reported proudly as tango foot" To such harmless and self-gratifying euphemisms is man. kind led by human vanity and the craving for thoroughly 'up-to-date" processes. Nevertheless, in spite of all the inevitable perversions, exaggera- tions and amiable exaltations, there is a genuine and very definite pedal condition known as the tango foot" and it Is we'll that everybody should be apprised of its exact nature.
 It is, of course, produced by the conditions of modern dancing, not only the tango, but the. maxixe and the hesitation waltz and possibly in a moderate degree the one-step. But such a thing, naturally, cannot be regarded with complete respect unless it is equipped with an imposing de- scriptive vocabulary. Fortunately the Scientific American enlightens the world as to the exact nature of tango foot" The awed dancer is hereby informed that his or her terpsichorean activities are quite likely to result in a constant strain on the tibialis an- ticus, the extensor proprius hallucis and the extensor longus digitorum, which produces a tenosynoyitis in this muscle group, with particularly dis astrous effects upon the tibialis anticus.
 This seems portentous enough to frighten even the most stubborn of the tango-maniacs, and yet its effect as a deterrent may be doubted. In spite of this gorgeous array of excel lent words the popular cry for some time to come will probably be "On with the dance!'
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
ROOSEVELT STILL UNDECIDED.

Theodore Roosevelt heard it all from two angles yesterday, from those who want to have him run for gover- nor of New York and those who are opposed to his becoming a candidate, and as result he says he has not states that he finds that there has been a great deal of corruption at Albany and he apparently is trying to believe that he is the only one to bring about reform and as he says himself to return the government to the people. The colonel is a very foxy politician. He knows that he would stand a good chance of being nominated for the presidency in 1910 if he were elected governor of New York this year, but that if he should run and be defeated that he would have no more chance of going to Washington again than the Boston ball team has of winning the national league championship.
 The New York Tribune says that the only asset the progressive party has left is the colonel, and that if he runs it will simply serve to turn the state over to Tammany Hall. The progress sives. fully realize the importance of the coloners being candidate, for un- less he runs the party will be badly beaten in New York and the prospect of attracting attention in 1916 would be slim indeed. Their great game now apparently is to obtain as large vote as possible this year with the hope that the republicans will be frightened into reconciliation and that thelr terms will be the colone1 or nothing, and they expect that It will be the colonel. The latter says the repub- licans must get rid of Barnes and that the democrats must get rid of Mur- phy. The Tribune says the republi- cans will take care of MT. Barnes be- fore the campaign opens, while the democrats are inclined to tell the colonel to go and pound sand. The quarrel is not one for the democrat to mix into They have had troubles enough of their own in years past and there are some features of them left over, but there is no evidence that they will take any advice from MT Roosevelt.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
The Gun-Carrying Habit. (BOstOn Herald.1

If such a phrase as Safety First
 is to have any comprehensive mean
 ing and do it's complete work it must
 be extended to the habit of carrying guns. Hardly a day passes without bringing the news of some shooting
 affray in which revolvers are used some accident in which bull let finds it's human mark, some case of manslaughter in which trigger is pulled with deliberately murderous intent. The Carman shooting is only ore instance of kind that occurs and recurs far too frequently. Two days ago a man was shot down by "un- known .assailants" at North Attleboro, and is not expected to live. Yester- day a Cambridge stenographer was wounded with a bullet also fired by unknown assailants." What do these and scores of similar attacks mean if not that there is a class of men who carry guns habitually and are ready to use them on occasion with deadly effect?
 Now this community is not organ ized on a fighting basis; it is under peace conditions. Except for very special reasons, of which the law takes cognizance, the carrying of con- C0aLeQ weapons, guns lHcluueu, lS strictly prohibited. No such pro-
 hibition ought really to be needed. Indiscriminate gun-carrying is con- Structive war on the community. The civilian who walks our streets and haunts our street corners with a re- volver in his pocket is an enemy of the people, and has no proper place in our republic. How he is to be dealt
 with is a difficult question, since the discovery that he does what is dan- gerous as well as illegal is usually made after he has shot somebody. In the commendable eagerness shown to catch the man who fired the bullet, little attention is given to finding out how he came to be armed with a deadly weapon. If we are to have any more Safety First proclamations, they should explicitly attack the habit of gun-carrying- Begin at the be-
 ginning. Parents who arm their chill
 dren with air guns for the shooting of
 birds especially need admonition. If
 the lure of deadly weapons and the
 desire to kill something are to be
 extirpated, it must be combated first
 in the home.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
Decadent Aristocracy.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer }

.1
 The cobwebs of tradition still hang thickly across the escutcheons of blue-blooded families. The bogey of commercialism casts oaIeful shadow on crest and, title. That shocking canteen scandal in England in which men of high rank were implicated and nine British army officers and nine civilians were officially smeared with the mire of bribery, was not permitted to pass unnoticed in the house of lords. noble member whose distin- guished name had been dragged in the canteen dirt arose the other day and pronounced the charge against him d foul lie. He emphatically and loudly denied that he had offered a money temptation to Yorkshire lieutenant colonel, and he deeply resented the words of the justice who said in refer ence to a communication offered in evidence: 'The letter shows sad de- cadence from the traditions of a great family. I myself if I belonged to such a family, would starve rather than get my living by cadging for orders for beer" The noble lord in- dignantly repudiated the pernicious theory that the possession of an il- lustrious ancestry debarred man from earning an honest living in trade or otherwise. This brought to his feet a baron who stoutly defended the words of the justice and incidentally took this swing at our old friend Sir Thomas Lipton: eff I were chairman of a company which had been engaged in proceedings of that kind, should be inclined to seek temporary se- clusion rather than be continually ad- vertising myself in every way
 Some sympathy can be felt for these defenders of the blood, these uphold CTS of an unsullied aristocracy. To them trade is taint, and barter a blemish.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
FAIRGROUNDS DOING WE'LL.

The playgrounds are again proving their popularity, for the report of the first week shows the attendance to have been 1O,656, which is an increase of thousand over the first week last year. This is, or ought to be, of great interest to parents first and to the community in the next place. The re- port means that there were just so many children kept off the streets during last week, kept from the dan gers that are to be found on every thoroughfare at all seasons of the year, but particularly during the warm weather when children play in the open and use the most convenient places for this purpose. The streets have been gen. orally selected, but since the play grounds were established the latter furnish an exceptionally attractive place because they are fitted up with all the paraphernalia necessary to en- able children to indulge in those games so dear to the heart of chill dren. This is their time for play, it comes but once and they should be permitted to enjoy it to the fullest extent.
 The street has become So danger ous that it can be no longer utilized as a playground, and in providing a substitute the city has done one of those admirable things which cannot be estimated in value. The expense Is not heavy, but the time is coming when it will be increased for the req son that the playgrounds will increase in number, necessitating more in- structors and adding to the general expense. The movement is we'll worth all it costs and all it ever will cost. With the playgrounds in operation parents will know where their cflil- dren are, the little ones will learn how to play right, how to get the most ou, of their games and to develop their little bodies and enable them to grow up strong and healthy. A movement with such an object and which does so much for the children is worth all it costs and there is no regret as to the bills.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
RetIibutive Justice.
(BOston Post.)

Those who rule by the sword must expect the chance of perishing by the sword; the New York anarchists who were killed by their own bomb might have felt-had they any brief con- sciousness before their deaths-that there is such a thing as retributive justice. That their instruments of terror were made for slaughter and destruction somewhere is self evident. Fate turned their weapons upon themselves. The most dreadful thing about it was that innocent vic- tims had to suffer.
 The treachery of the internal ma- chine that sent would-be murderers to their doom is likely to do good public service in unearthing the den of infamous plotting against life and property. From this starting point other criminals of the sort may be trailed and hunted down. Society owes it to itself to act with energy in such cases. ~
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK
LITERATURE.

LITERATURE. American History By American
 Poets. Edited by N. U. Walling-
 ton. ? volumes. Blindness of Virtue. By Cosmo Ham,
 ilton. A play. Initiation Into Literature. By Emile
 Faguet.
 In the Garden of Delight. Compiled
 by John Richardson.
 "A pleasant little prose and verse anthology about gardens and other nature themes.'-A. l.. A. Booklist. Labyrinth. A play in five acts. By
 Paul Hervieu.
 "A narrowing tragedy of great motional power, considered the au- thor's masterpiece, but so French in conception and execution, as to seem, in it's English translation, somewhat theatric and unreal. It deals with the problem of divorce in French society," the traditional attitude of the church toward re-marriage, and the compn- cations arising from the presence of a child. "A. l.. A. Booklist.
  Lady From Oklahoma comedy III
 four acts. By Elizabeth Jordan.
  Literary Lapses. By Stephen Lea
 cock.
 Little Essays in Literature and Life.
 By Richard Burton
 Slight, graceful essays on a va y~iotxy r,f f@r i~ phere of culture and serenity, and a mellowness about them that is remin. iscent of Benson.''-A L. A. Booklis, Lyrics and Dramas. By Stephen Phil
 lips.
 "A collection of over fifty lyrics and three miniature dramas. The work is characteristic and will inter- Booklist.
 Message of the Rose Bush. Mrs. Elise
 Traut. Myths and Legends. Edited by K. B. lover sixty myths and legends, some in verse, compiled from scien- tific reports. They are told in the abrupt style of the Indian, interest ingly illustrated by many Indian drawings. "A. l.. A. Booklist. New Shakespearean Dictionary. By
 R. J. Cunliffe. For reference. Sanctuary. A bird masque. By F. w.
 MacKaye.
 Interesting because of the presen- tation last September at the dedica> tion of the bird sanctuary at Merl- den. New Hampshire and significant because, as its author says, it is 'an illustration of one of the multiform genres of the civic theater's poten- tial art "A. l.. A. Booklist. Short Plays. By M. l.. MacMillan. "Ten amateur plays. Most of them were written to order for college and club women. Their chief value lies in the fact that they are actable ana can be given without elaborate set tings."-A. L. A. Booklist.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
D. MCMILLAN l99-2Ol-2O3 MAIN STREET.

and state development of the same. with the selling of power at cost to consumers, would give this state an enormous advantage over its competi- tors in other and more favored parts of the union. The opportunity has slipped however. The state, and the people of the state. must buy back through coming years at the expense of countless millions. the priceless privileges that have been so freely granted by the legislature to anyone who asked for them
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
Three Pet Groundhogs.
(Harrodsburg, Ky, Herald }

If anyone should see some strange looking varmints wandering in the back yard on the square on which the Herald is located they need not be alarmed. as they are only the three pet groundhogs that belong to the Herald. They are named Wilson, Taft and Teddy, and the latter cer- tainly deserves his name, because if you pitch basket of cabbage leaves to them Teddy is so afraid that the others will get bit more than he that he tries to run them away. He attempted to scare Wilson off yes- terday and got good licking, while Taft stood by philosophically and watched the fur fly. If you see them don't hurt or harm them, or scare them, for they are great pets and will eat out of your hand if you give them something good. They are par ticularly fond of candy.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-09
COMMUNICATED.

When I said farewell to you, Ish, l was feeling somewhat bluish; I had come to the conclusion that
 we'd both gone on the blink, I am glad to say, however, That I've got myself together
 And am spelling reams of paper,
 and a-splashing round in ink. Your act has brought contrition, And you ask for my remission
 Which is freely granted, brother,
 but think you ought to know That anything so canny Only serves to get my Nanny
 And was never even dreamed of by
 old Edgar Allan Poe. That bust is sure past mending So by parcel post I'm sending
 You another one, dear Bibb1e-
 twas the best that could buy; Don't think that you can break it.. And for PLASTER don't mistake it, For the thing is made of iron-get < your hammer out and try. Your nasty deed of passion Handed out in prize fight fashion
 Has aroused the ire and vengeance
 of the poets through and through. You have scored a "solar plexus,'' But your action has so vexed us,
 That 70. Fiddle has come forward
 with a knock or two for you. But tell me, MT. Bibble- Do you think in Dish K. Dibb1e
 You'd discover any gray stuff if
 you smashed him on the floor? He must take me for a dub, Ish, And his latest chunk of rubbish Plainly shows he needs attention
 fully this and then some more." I'm glad you've changed the meter From Poe to something heater;
 "The Raven" was a good bird, and we's plucked him till he's sore But I find that MT. Fiddle Is to me a Chinese riddle,
 For he gets his rhyme and meter just by knocking on his door," It appears to me, dear Bibble, That you merely try to quibble When you say the thing Is easy
 for it's not, by any means: My original contention Precludes all contravention- It IS hard to break dollar-when there's no change in your jeans. -BISH K. BIBLE.