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Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
What UnsexesIHe

It doesn't unsex her to toll in factory, Minding. the loom from the dawn till night; ts To deal with a schoolful of children re fractory
 Doesn't uusex her in anyone's sight; Work in a store-where her back aches in-
 humanly-
 Doesn't unsex her at all you will note, But think how exceedingly rough and un-
 womanly Woman would be if she happened to
 vote! To sweat in a laundry that's torrid aud
 torrider
 Doesn't subtract from her womanly charm; And scrubbing the flags in an echoing corridor
 Doesn't unsex her-so where is the harm It doesn't unsex her to nurse us with
 bravery,
 Loosing deaths hand from it's grip on the throat; But. hal how the voices grow quivery, quavery,
 vote!'' She's feminine still when she juGgles the crockery,
 Bringing you blithely the order you give; Toil in sweatshop where life is mockery Just for the pittance { Il which she can live That doesn't seem to unsex her a particle Labor is noble"-so somebody wrote But ballots are known as dangerous article,
 Woman's unsexed if you give her the vote.
 -Berton Braley, in Golfers.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
Those September Raspberries.

A well-known critic-generally not carping one-sends us the following
 ''In the northwest corner of
 your front page this week you
 make two astonishing statements
 First, that somebody brought
 you enough raspberries to make
 pie, and, second, that you were
 comforted with an apple as tempt
 ing as any Eve put in her pocket.
 'I wish, to inquire, First,
 whether you are barbarian enough
 to spoil good raspberries by cook
 ing them in pie? And, second,
 which pocket ?"
 AS to the first inquiry-No; there were not enough, finally, for a pie only just little berry-dish full. As a certain well-known local fisherman said about his first trout catch, of the last season: "There wasn't enough for family breakfast-only just enough for me; not even enough to give my wife taste. " .4. Inquiry No. 2-Any critic, not in. clined to be a carper, would have recognized mere figure of speech. Ot course shopping bag" was meant.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
Treating a Corn.

Whether corn is treated at home or by chiropodist, the treatment is the same. It consists of applying to the surface an acid (the most commonly used being alicyclic) mixed with collo- dion and ether. The either evaporates, leaving a layer of collodion to hold tie acid while this does its work. After applying this regularly for four or five days the foot is soaked in hot water, when the corn can be picked out in one piece, leaving hole, which quickly fills up. Some chiropodists eat the corn out by repeated applications of nitric acid, picking away the parts of the cornfdestroyed at each treatment. Everytime you cut corn yourself you run the risk of blood poisoning. New York World.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

instance, three months after the money was voted bridge might go to pieces, or a whole strip of road might cave i'll. But an estimate could be published that would cover the situation and also provide for contingencies.
 "The facts, the needs of the town, the probable expenditures can be, or will be, brought out at town meeting :? Yes, in a way. But how about the vast majority of taxpayers who will not attend the town meeting and the adjourned meeting, either because cir cumstances prevent or because of lack have no right to information, no right to cavil? Possibly. But certain 1t is that the present system of informing voters as to town needs is not calcu- lated to stir up interest in town affairs.
 eff the Selectmen cannot find time to make up budget would not it be possible to organize an informal board of estimate which could take this work off the Selectmen's shoulders. Say the laws make no provision for such a board-well, the laws do not forbid it, duu Wb IulSuG us W51l SCu dAOuhu GIlC law occasionally for good purpose as see all the getting around it done for other purposes. If such board could make up budget, then the Selectmen could go over it, change it i'll accord ance with their practical knowledge, and then submit it to the taxpayers. It is reasonable to assume that there are plenty of men who would serve without any thought of remuneration on srch board of estimate.''
 The budget offered by MT. Reed, at the town business meeting, Monday afternoon, approaches the idea advanced above. MT. Reed would have given added value to it if he had had it printed three weeks before the meeting. that the voters might have had opportunity to study it and thoroughly inform themselves of it's provisions i'll advance. However, it served, as it was, to give enlightenment at the meet ing, as to where the appropriations will be expended, and to what specific bene- fits they will apply, and it is to be hoped such budget will be printed in the next annual town report, for the year ensuing, and given general distri- button in advance of the meeting.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Nineteen intelligent freemen dis
 franchised themselves and threw their votes away because they cast their ballots improperly. Yet it won't do for the rest of us to assume an air of insolent superiority, in view of the fact that number of voters who looked as if they ought to know better, were sent back repeatedly into the booths before they succeeded finally in folding their tickets in accordance with the exactions of the beautiful Australian ballot law.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
What the Other Fellows Say

The President went from Washing. ton to Princeton to vote in the primary, but the ordinary mans time is so valu- able that he can't afford to step around the corner to perform this duty Meriden Journal.
 Evidently Gen. Villa intends to keer his place in the spotlight, even if he has to fight for it.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 Wars may come and wars may go but the American craze for bridge whist seems bound to go on forever.-Water- bury Republican.
 Although the Lenox school board has decided not to close its schools one day for the Great Harrington fair, the agi. tation shows just how deep the cattle show spirit runs in South Berkshire.- Pittsfield Eagle. ..s... ..-. .. < sr
 One after another the old romances of youth are shattered by unfeeling advance of science. Now we are told that wireless station has been placed on Juan Fernandez-Robinson Crusoe's $ Island. Think of Crusoe sending daily fairy tales to the New York Journal ! When Shackleton establishes a life say ing station and a Baltimore lunch at the South Pole the writers of fiction will have no secure field left except that of war.-Bristol Press.
 New Haven still remains famous for providing from day to day any kind of weather that the most fastidious desires. New Haven Journal Courier.
 Even if it seems too unfair to the property owners affected to extend the fire limits of the city as much as safety really requires, fireproof roofing should be insisted upon over the greater part of the built-up area of the city, Bridgeport Standard.
 It is now up to MT. Spellacy of Hart ford, to eat crow and vote for Governor Baldwin for senator or split his party ticket and vote for Senator Brandegee. Shore Line Times.
 The formal list of big taxpayers of Massachusetts shows that the "New Haven" road pays this year $63, 232 as against $416, 3S8 year ago. As The Courant has said before, those public spirited patriots who have been ham, mering the stock now can see what the state has gained by their performances. -Hartford Courant.
 eff Przemysl should fall"-we hope they will set it up again in new form. American.
 "The real man rises above his handi- cap."
 "I rise before mine."
 Before ?''
 UYes she makes me get nn and nat
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
NORTH CANAAN HAS

A population Jf 2,1n, Census of 1910) Two railroaas. ... National and Savings Banks. Trolley railroad extending through the Berkshires to Pittsfield and beyond. Up-to-date High School and frst-class school system.
 Five churches.
 First-class hotel. IT.. Fire department. including chemical en- zine. Ten miles of State Roads. ... Electric light and power plant, Complete Sewer System.
 Never-failing water supply and the best water in the state.
 Wide-awale Business Mems Association. Extensive lime and iron industries. Fraternal and benefit societies. Brass band. ..# Up-to-date department stores. Pure air and wholesome climate.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Eight majority for License, as the late MT. Mercutio observed, ''is not so deep as we'll, nor so wide as church. door; but 'tis enough, twill serve. !" So let's accept the inevitable; cheer up and laugh, so: "Ha, ha," also "Ho, ho,' like that; and bury the hatchet in some place where we can dig it up readily, for we've got to go through it, all over again, next month.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Says the Bridgeport Standard |" After-dinner speakers, as a rule, should not be held to mean all they say" It adds that the "expectant hush" that greets the talker, when the listeners are full of good things, "impels even a careful talker to paint his whites winter and his blacks blacker," etc. This may be meant as a sly admonition to Hon. Thaddeus B..
 Beecher, of Bridgeport, who is to speak at the annual banquet of the Bald Head Club of America, in Winsted, Oct. 29.
 Whether or not the redoubtable "Thad" would ever attempt to paint a white whiter than white, or black blacker than black, we don't know. But at the forthcoming banquet he is licensed to present the bald facts, be they white or black. The "Nobles" and other high-up timers among the guests will furnish the "expectant hush," and another "high-up," Judge Addington,
 of the Albany County Court, who is on the speakers list with him, is en- powered to over-rule him if he white washes anything that needs blacking.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Taking into consideration one thing and another, as they are and as they ain't, at home and abroad, we rise once more to reiterate the interrogatory,
 Why should the spirit of mortal be proud
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
I've sailed on the bay, I've swum in the sea,

I've sailed on the bay, g I've swum in the sea, I've rolled in the hay,
 I've climbed the old tree. I've waded the brook,
 I've sampled the pies, Made by the old cook
 I've watched the sun rise. I've tramped on the shore
 Till felt my joints crack. Now vacation is o'er,
 Gosh, it's tough to be back J. F. in New York Evening Sun,
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Said Secretary of State Phillips the other day: "There are too many intox- icated chauffeurs operating cars in Connecticut and the majority of them are from Hartford county. intend to put a stop to it." More power to your elbow, MT. Secretary!
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Look aloft! Seven balloons start from Pittsfeld, today, on a great race, under the auspices of the Aero Club of America. They may come this way.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Congress has agreed to adjourn Octo. Der 15, to enable the bald-headed members to go home in time to get ready for the banquet, at the Winchester, three weeks from tonight.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Only six women voted, at the annual town meeting, out of registration of 30. Whats the matter, girls? Getting cold feet?
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

A consoling item, culled from the retrospect, by the Woodbury Reporter: Fifty years ago in August, 1864, wheat sold at $2.30 and corn at $1. 50 per bushel. It was war time and our fathers knew what the high cost of liy- ing meant" .....
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Some of those chicken-fanciers in Falls Village are boasting about A. months old bullets that are already laying hens eggs as big as hailstones.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM

The News should appeal with special force to the saSacions business man.
 It has an extensive circulation in Western Connecticut and especially throughout Litch' t1Id County and Southern Be-1shire.
 N has competent staff of wde-awake cor respondents in the various towns to report the oeal doings each week. and goes into the homes .Fd is perused by the entire families of the thrifty, Intelligent reading class of people whom kh6 long headed advertiser most desires to reach.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Briggs" Hard work to find out much about this war, isn't it ?''
 Griggs-"Very. Why, we couldn't know much less about it if we were both official war correspondents. "-- Life.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

If General VanKluck's poor old "right wing'' has been turned" as many times as the Allies claim, it must look like corkscrew.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

The amount of scratching last Mon- day would seem to indicate return of the seven-years itch.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

No question about Winsted being "dry." She voted in favor of license by 435 majority.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Subscribers are requested to notify the pub- ilzoAe~ promptly of any failure to receive papers rSk nlarly, changes of residence etc.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

"Bryan Mahan won't accept" says the Courant. Bryan Mahan accepts, " says Bryan Mahan. To the man up a tree, this looks like a question of veracity.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Think of it! Thanksgiving is only seven weeks away; and the Waterbury Republican gives gratuitous boost to the flight of time by reminding us that there are only about seventy days left in which to do our Christmas shopping Verify, as a champion fugitter Tempus is still ill the ring.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Seventeen persons were killed by automobiles in Connecticut, during September And Connecticut is not at war.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

Verify "politics make strange bed feathers" as the strange bed-fellow said. ..... ..... ....
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
THE EWS' AGENTS

Extra copies of The News are on sale at tn aGnce of publication and at
 Dempsey's Drug Store, Canaan, Post Office, East Canaan.
 D. H. Oakes Store, Lakevllle, Post Office, Falls Village, George T. Johnson's Store, Norfolk Scutt 6 Rood, Ashley Falls. A. l.. Dickinson, Salisbury. J. W. Morgan, Great Harrington. Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
WHY NEED WE FEAR?
BY EMMA RoDEMEYER WATT.

Why need we fear the future.
 Or dread what it may bring, When we're granted protection
 Under Gods sheltering wing 1? With our hand held securely
 In His, so kind and dear, Then safe within His keeping,
 Why need we ever fear ?
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
WRITE LETTER ABOUT

Communications on subjects of general inter. sak to The News readers are invited. but no &tsntion will be paid to anonymous letters.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
Can it be that Editor John Rode

Gan it be that Editor John Rode meyer of the Connecticut Western News took his vacation just so he could be interviewed? :? Some stunt.-Pittsfeld Sunday Call.
 Some enterprising stunt on the part of the ministerial substitute, it must be confessed, and fine proof of the real journalistic instinct.
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

"Does mv practicing make you nervous ?" asked the man who is learn ing to play the cornet.
 ''It did when I first heard the neighbors discussing it." replied the sympathetic person. "But now Pm getting so don't care what happens to you. .'-Washington Star
 "So they docked you for staying away from Congress ?" said Farmer Corntossel.
 "Yes," replied the statesman. "And it's all wrong"
 That's what think. After findin' out what you're liable to say or do they ought to pay you extra. Washington Star
Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08

"The real man rises above his handi- cap."
 "I rise before mine.
 Before ?''
 "Yes, she makes me get up and get breakfast. ''-Houston Post.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-01-20

that those who have already their homestead rights in
the United States be extended the privilege of doing
second time in Aaska that since the reindeer industry
Alaska becoming factor in the food problems of the
United States white be given the privilege of engaging
reindeer breeding the basis Lapps Eskmo and
missionaries that the money derived from the sale of hunting
licenses be turned into Alaska game law fund.- where it
rightly belongs instead of into the United States easury
board of education for Alaska be created that the tolls
the telegraph system by the reduced and
that Congress appropriate for the construction
houses and other aids to along the coast of Alaska
and devise method whereby Indians acquire title
land which they have settled Notwithstanding the dis
advantages which the report points out the people of Alaska
it says, generally hopeful and optimistic
ga comprehensive system of railroads. the report SAYS
sis thing indispensable for the development of the country
because its prosperity and further development depend
the solution of the problem of transportation This system
should not only include trunk lines
point points the coast to the great interior country
should also embrace branch lines coaeds and other
mining sections wherever practicable.
Dealing with the necessary aids to navigation Governor
Strong says can immediate survey of all uncharted
Of the Alaska Coast should be made should
in number of places The general Importance of
such aids these northern waters be questioned The
of the territory large and is steadily increasing
especially the southeastern section installation of lights
and buoys to be regarded matter of great
well as human Importance Accidents to shipping of annual
occurrence Notwithstanding the steady increase the number
of lights and buys in the past several years. In the fiscal
ended June 80 1913 there established in these
waters fifteen lights five lights converted from oil
to acetyene burners two beacons esabsed nine
buoys provided in locations and four float lights
installed in Wrangell Straits @ tes.t .as4
After pointing out that the Alaska coal is needed for
Industrial development and domestic use, the report
With practically unlimited quantities of the best quality
bltumnous, semi buminous and anthracite coal within the
territory, for years its people have been compelled
import nearly all the coal needed for domestic fuel and for
industrial purposes from foreign countries largely from
British Columbia and not infrequently from Japan and
Australia. During the past the not altogether
edyng spectacle of foreign ship dschargng foreign coal
for the of the United States government witnessed
Unaaska. However, this is not unfamiliar sight in
Alaska.''
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-01-20
GOVERNOR MAKES GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS

In his annual report Governor Strong declares that the
should not only build railroads in Alaska but also
points out the need of trails the territory He contends
that if it will expend 600 in the construction Of wagon
roads and trails during period of ten years the natural
wealth Of Alaska will increase more than $lO0,O00O00
From economic and industrial standpoint il may also
he pointed ont that the Alaska developed
tremendous ihpefas Yond given u quartz mining
nearly every section Of Alaska Il we'll known that
in Alaska immense deposits Of metalferous
kinds which only be worked proftab if coal and
obtanab at reasonable prices The cost Of both these
products great that development of many Of these
bodies is out Of the question Given cheap fuel supply
smelter would be built and the treated at home with coal
mined and coke manufactured within Alaska; mining would
be stimulated vastly and trade and would be greatly
eXtended prosperous industrial communities would be created
and the population of the territory would increase rapidly
The report is decidedly constructive, and among other
things suggests that the Chugach forest should be
abandoned that much land has been appropriated by the
forestry department in the Aeuan Islands, where there
TIMBER that immediate steps be taken the fishing
of the errtory that the land laws be amended
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-01-20
BANKER SUMMERS WILL
AGAIN BE INDICTED

The treasury department has sent
two agents to appear before the
United States grand jury at Juneau
to demand a re-indictment of Bank
regular banking. Summers was
tried and convicted at Ketchikan,
but the case was reversed by the
court of appeals on a technically.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-01-20
DEMOCRATS KEEP
DOORKEEPERS STANDING

WASH Jan. 19.-Door-
keepers in Congress must stand up
hereafter. They used to have nice
soft cushioned chairs, but Dmocratic
economy or something else hit the
place, and now the doorkeepers
don't have things as soft as they
used to.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-01-20
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Serial O16f0 A..

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
juneau, Alaska. July ~, 1913.
Notice is hereby given that Ocha
Potter of Houghton, Michigan, as
signee of Barnard Needham, Calvin
Deputron and Elijah T. Fudge,
beneficiaries under Section 1906
Revised Statutes of the. United
States, granting additional lands to
soldiers and sailors who served in
the War of the Rebellion, has made
application to make entry of the
lands in U. S. Survey No. sos. stu
ated about fifteen miles above the
mouth of Mccarthy creek, a tribu-
tary of the Kennicott river, in the
Chitina recording precinct. Juneau
Land District, Territory of Alaska,
and more particularly described in
the fields notes and plat of said sur
yey as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. l.. green
stone 16xSx6 ms. set IL in. in
ground. marked S. sos Cor. on
side facing claim, from which Cor
L. S. l.. NJ. No. SOS bears S. $50
chs. dist, said U. S. L. NJ. Is stone
30x20x8 ms. Is ms. in the ground
marked with a cross on top and o..
IS. L. M. sos on side. There are
no natural objects or permanent
monuments other than the one just
established available. Thence from
Cor. No. S. 10 chs. to Cor, No. 2,
thence w. chs. to Cor. No. g
crossing Mccarthy Creek at 0.50
chs. thence N. 10 chs. to Cor. No.
4, thence E. 3 chs 70 Cor. No., / i,
the place of beginning, crossing
Mccarthy creek at $50 chs. con-
tanning five acres.
Any and all persons claiming ad-
versely any portion of the above
described tracts are required to file
with the Register and Receiver of
the U. S. Land Office at Juneau,
Alaska, their adverse claim thereto
under oath during the period of
publication and posting of this
notice, or within thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statute in such
case made and provided.
OCHA POTTER.
1t. is hereby ordered that the
foregoing notice be published for
the statutory period in the Chitina
Leader, a newspaper printed and
published at Chitlna, Alaska.
C. B. WALKER.
Register.
First publication, Jan. 81. 1914.
Last publication, March %, 1914.
The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-01-20

IN THE UNITED STATES COM
MISSIONER COURT, THIRD
JUDICIAL DIVISION, TERRI
TORY OF ALASKA, IN AND FOR
CHITINA PRECINCT.
In the Matter of the Guardianship of
Nels Oscar Sail, a mentally in
competent person, and his estate.
1t is ordered that Friday, January
30th, 1914, at 10 a. m, be appointed
for the hearing of the application of
Charles G. Sail, for letters of guar
dianship of the person of Nels Oscar
Sail, who is alleged to be mentally
incompetent, and of his estate stu
ated in Chitina Precinct, Third Judi
cial Division, Territory of Alaska,
and. it is further ordered that. the
time and place of said hearing be
published in the Chitina Leader. a
paper OF general circulation in said
precinct and territory, for four con-
secutive weeks.
(SeaD PAUL CHERRY,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex-Officio
Probate Judge, Third Judicial
Division, Territory of Alaska in
and for Chitina Precinct.
Date of first publication, Deem
Der %, 1918, aAt.l. ......
Date of last publication, January
13, 1914. .T e.4