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New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
Senator Stone RecOnSiders.
(NeW York Sum-

There will be little satisfaction for Colonel Roosevelt in the decision of the foreign relations committee of the senate to hear him present his case against ratification of the treaty with Colombia, because it is evident that the committee has no intention of listening to him at this session of con- gress, and perhaps not at all. He is to be heard when the committee takes up the treaty for consideration, but it is in mood to do anything of the kind. In fact, Colombia just now is subject the democratic. ma- jority does not like to dwell upon. As for the administration, it has troubles enough without trying to force upon the senate the question of paying S25, 100000 to Colombia with an apol- ogy for the nisbehavior of the United States in it's relations with that coun- try in the past.
 It was "Gumahoe' Bill who object ed to Colonel Roosevelt's presence before the foreign relations commit tee "to put the administration in a hole" Public sentiment emphatic ally condemned his intimation that
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
Got His Postage Back.
Washington Post. )

The problem of how to ship what ordinarily would be termed freight" weighing several hundred pounds, free of cost by parcel post has been solved by a West Virginia postmas- ter.
 There is a merchant in one of the small towns of the state who sells everything from pickles and postage stamps to crepe de chine and mus lin," said E. B. Petty of Charleston, at the Raleigh. This merchant hap pens also to be the postmaster. The other day he shipped four barrels of flour from his store to a grocer at Berkeley Springs by parcel post with out 1t costing him cent, although the parcel post charges, according to the schedule, should have been $11.- 69
 This merchant is fourth-class postmaster, and the salary he receives is dependent upon the face value of the stamps canceled through his of- flee. He wanted to ship some flour to a customer, and bought himself enough stamps to pay the parcel post charges, putting the four barrels into thirty-two sacks, on which he paid $11.69 postage. The flour was car ried by a railroad company eighteen miles, and when unloaded was hauled by a perspiring rural carrier to it's destination.
 Tn the shipment the postmaster made what is perhaps a new record for fourth class post-office. He wanted to test the new parcel post service, and did not take heed, per haps, of the great cost of the ship ment. Had he sent it by freight it would have cost just $2.25 or more
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
What Would "GrOver" Say?
 (BOSton Herald)

Ships of the new Cape Cod canal, for the long centuries of the future, will pass directly by, and very near, the point of land on which now stands the front porch of the summer home of Grover Cleveland twice president of the United States. It is as if a trans-continental railroad, destined to convey hundreds of thousands of passengers, were to cut the lawn of the Hermitage or to tunnel under Monticello. This modest cottage at Buzzard's Bay ought in some way be marked, beyond possibility of it's popular mistaking. Otherwise, the error of a passenger on the Rose Standish, to whom it was pointed out yesterday, will be many times repeat ed. Gray Gables; let me see, Flaw thorne, was our greatest American novelist, don't you think?"
 The Clevelands were first attracted to the New England coast in visiting their friend Richard Watson Glider, then living in Marion. About the time of the birth of their first child, they bought the place on the other side of the bay known as Tudor Haven, giv- ing it the name by which it has since been known. So intimate were little Ruth Cleveland's lifelong associations with this place that, on her death, her parents never felt like going back to 1t, and so turned their vacation steps toward the Granite Hills.
 But it was at Gray Gables that MT. Cleveland heard the news of his third nomination for the presidency. From there he conducted the ensuing cam paign. To that summer home he was taken from MT. Benedict's yacht which went through the canal yester- day-to convalesce from a surgical operation, much more serious than the country has ever realized because of it's happily fortunate eventuation. In fine, Gray Gables was a turn-stiIe in the politics of the nation just two decades ago. Times change, and politics change with them. But in some way, this spot, now that accident has brought it to front lot on one of the worlds great highways. should be distinctly noted on the great guide board.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
Usual Dearth of Young Men.

(S. S. in New York Evening Post.)
 The number of young men this summer is below the ordinary level. A fair estimate of the crop would be 2.3 per cent. as against an average of 45 per cent. for the preceding ten years; this not only in spite of but because of the heavy rains. Where the young men appear they are inn mediately taken up. At the hotel last week two young men came in late for breakfast. At 12:15 they were carry ing sand cushions and wraps for two extremely attractive school-teachers from Brooklyn. I don't know whether the scarcity of young men is due to the prevailing economic de- pression or whether it is merely an aggravation of the familiar phenome- non bewailed by young women at the shore that young men this year go to the mountains, and by young wom en in the mountains that young men go to the shore. This does not ex- plain everything, as it would appar- ,ently leave the young men in con- dition like Mohammed's coffin, sus- pended between the mountains and the sea.
 One result of the scarcity of young men is a corresponding increase in the haNteur of the life guards. Where as in ordinary years one of these semi nude Apollos will pose an average of ten minutes with folded arms and corrugated brows bent upon the sea, this year by actual timing they will pose twenty minutes at a stretch
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03

than $9 less than he had to pay the government.
 But after the thing was over the postmaster discovered that having sold himself nearly SIP worth of stamps he had raised the revenues of his office to such an extent that he would receive from the government more in the way of additional salary than 1t cost him for his shipment of flour In other words, by his own act he had elevated his office to the third class, and automatically raised his sal ary"
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
SALEM'S NEW PLAN.

c.1om Mass. has decided not to h,.ve any more large wooden tene- |r,ent houses in that city, even pro- |hihiting all over two stories because |of the fire risk involved The opln- lon is being held that there Is no heed of large wooden buildings in |order to provide accommodations for |tbe people because in the outskirts |there is sufi4Sient land for all necessary two farAEy houses. Tho policy seems |to be to encourage people to build
 houses on the outlying districts where Etl,are can be small garden with each building which will permit or beautl-
 ful surroundings instead of the large
 blocks in the center with all the in
 cident unpleasantness for families.
 This is I new idea and it seems as
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
AIRSHIPS IN WAR.

Speculationt has often been indulged lime of war; now the question is to Ee demonstrated and so far there has been sufficient evidence given to war fant the assumption that it is capable pf causing awful destruction. An in the hands of skilful operator can do great deal of
 damage with bombs. The operator however, needs to have an assistant |Nho can handle the weapons of war while he guides the machine. The operator must ever be at the mercy him off before he reaches the point where he can drop his bombs and if lie does care must necessarily be taken hs to the probable landing place of he machine for when it descends there is apt to be an explosion when (. strikes the ground. If these ma ehines can be used at night they can ho more damage with less probability bf capture, although the click of the motor can be heard quite a distance bnd that would be sufficient warning for the enemy to prepare for the visit,
 Bombs dropped with rapidity into \ camp occupied by soldiers would eause a heavy loss of life and in rav to mangle bodies in terrible
 yet that is what war means ;n these times and that is what a nation declares for when it enters mon hostile campaign against an- other country.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
Government Owned Baseball.
Providence Journal.)

A Missouri college professor has jumped all the minor radical theories and gone directly to the heart of i a question that is of paramount inn
 portance in the eyes of millions of his fellow citizens. He wants the United States government to take over and i control organized baseball Not only i is this his earnest desire, but he seems
 to be convinced that within the next 1 twenty-five years the great national
 game will be operated under govern ment ownership.
 It may be considered that the base l ball magnates have brought this upon i themselves for already there has been
 some desultory talk of prosecuting 1 the big leagues as monopolies in re-
 straint of trade, oppressive to the art
 ists who play the game, and conduc 1 i've to inflated prices for the specta l tors. Things have steadily been go-, l ing from bad to worse until at last 1 the urgent need of governmental reg ulation has impressed even the de- tached, scholastic conscience of the universities. Public ownership of tel ephones, telegraphs, railroads and
 grocery stores is all very well; we may come to these things in good time and in due order, but at present they are mparatively of trif1ing importance. We are confronted by the persistent report that baseball is going to the dogs, and the need of federal inter- vention is apparent Of course, it is understood that Federal" is here used by no means in it's restricted sense.
 The national game by rights ought fo ir, ho Ma Game, and under the direct supervi- sion of 8 national commission. Con- gress may we'll drop some of the more trivial matters now engaging it's at tention and begin to frame the legis- lation necessary to the realization of this great object. The players ought to be placed on the Civil Service list, with graded salaries that in no i'm stance would be permitted to exceed the salary of the chief justice. In time, tennis golf, bowling and yacht racing might be added to the list of officially supervised sports, and even- tually it would become necessary to have secretary of sports and pas times, who would be recognized member of the cabinet. In the pres ent administration his appropriate seat would be right between the sec- retary of state and the secretary of the navy.
 The professor who has evolved this beautiful theory of the govern ment ownership of baseball is named Wrench, which may have had some influence on his mental processes. He is evidently profound thinker on baseball questions, but it is to be feared that he is quite a few years in advance of the times.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
Abolish Front Seats.
(HartfOrd PnSt.l

It is reported, on what seems to be
 good authority, that the public util-
 ities commission will soon issue an
 order eliminating the outside front seats from trolley cars and also in
 sisting that the ends of the cars be strengthened. This proposed order is the outcome of the wreck at West
 port last week in which four were killed. All of those who lost their lives were on the front seat. The metal dash, the iron rods that sup ported it and the heavy controller were forced over upon them and their lives were crushed out. No one who was inside the car was fatally in
 jured. Of course an order to elim
 mate the front seats would mean great expense to the Connecticut company but an order prohibiting the use of the front seat by passen- gers would produce the same effect and the order doing away with the seat itself might be applied only to new cars thus in time eliminating them altogether. There is a standing order that no one shall be allowed to ride in the front vestibules of closed cars and these cars are a great deal stronger than the open cars. Of course this order is violated often but the person who does so, does it at his own risk. In connection with the report that the utilities commission will issue such a ruling is another to the effect that Coroner Phelan will recommend such action in his verdict after the inquest is completed. It would seem that this plan is good safety first' precaution. The front seat of a car, is, of course, an enjoyable place to ride but there's air enough in almost any part of an open car and one can see the country almost as well as on the front seat. Several of the cars used on the Hart ford lines have no outside front seat and there's no complaint from the passengers. It will be a mighty good thing if the utilities commission de- cides to order all front seats elim- mated on new cars and prohibits the use of them, on cars so equipped, by passengers. Anything that tends to the protection of passengers on pub lie vehicles is good and any official or board that makes and enforces orders that protect the public and lessen the danger of serious or fatal accidents is to be commended.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
In Praise of Wall Street.
(New York Sum-

Ever since the dark cloud of a gen eral war spread so swiftly over the European sky there has been demon strated upon the New York stock ex- change, not forgetting it's auxiliary, the consolidated stock exchange, just what the real Wall street is, the measure at any time of the solidity and stability which the American people have developed in their econ- omic life. It concentrates American resources of wealth, enterprise and ca pacity in the largest and most ser viceable aggregate and renders them available for the uses of trade and money markets.
 Directly under the shadow of the war cloud financial Europe at the be- ginning of the present week proceeded to go out of business. Half its stock exchanges were closed after d series of violent panics, and on the rest utter demoralization was indicated by a practical cessation of dealings. In the European money markets both rates and nsactions alike have been reported as only nominal and no gauge of the real situation. The financial disruption abroad communi- cated itself to other parts of the world and evoked a similar response of paralysis and prostration, the prin- cipal stock exchanges in Canada, for example, having closed their doors.
 In all this time Wall street has main- tained the only money market from which gold could be withdrawn in quantity for foreign needs as well as domestic, and the only market in which securities could be converted ill quantity into the equivalents of cash or credit. Only in Wall street this week has there been market in which much business in stocks could be done, and the frenzy to sell securl- ties excited by European develop ments subjected the American market to an extraordinary test.
 The day in which the test has been endured is evidence of the substantial realities of American finance stripped of all the unrealities with which it has been obscured in the public mind. Let it be noted also that Wall street has cone it's work this week without any of that statutory transformation of machinery and conditions which has been the goal of so much reforma- tory zeal.
 Wall street at all times is the Country's vote of confidence in itself or the lack of it. It is a locality only in name. Actually it is what the United States thinks of itself in the te rms of finance, and Wall street has in the last few days been d strong vote Of confidence in the commercial and industrial position and destiny of the American people.
 Experim mental crusaders will do we'll to remember how satisfactorily the cid apparatus of American finance has been working lately under the most adverse influences. It's operation has testified to the wholesomeness of the institution known under the name of Wall street and to the predominant in- tegrity of purpose and able honesty
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
The Missouri Mule.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.)

\S1CVCldlu lo1ll hColCl.J
 Will the Missouri mule be drafted for service in Europe? Will that pa tient, oft maligned beast of burden commissary department close to the men with capacities, or will the motor take his place? t''
 N Across the veldt of South Africa, when Boer met Briton, the Missouri mule patiently pulled the guns and the supply wagons for each. Buyers hunted the animals out of the pas lures of Missouri and boats waited in southern ports for railway trains rac- ing to get more mules to the front.
 It was the same in the war with Spain, when the Missouri mule was drafted and later distributed over Cuba and Porto Rico, there, beneath the tropical sun, to wear away his days if he escaped the dangers of war.
 Raising mules in Missouri is fine art and is one of the big industries of the state. Whether fate decrees he shall tramp the cotton fields of Georgia, or take service with the armies in lands beyond the sea, the mule assumes his burdens and per- forms his daily duty. If his master be appreciative he may have pleasant days, but mule history is written mostly in sorrow.
 If there be call from the land of the Slav the Missouri mule will go into new and strange lands. His is ever the duty of bearing burdens for man. In war or peace that duty re- mains his portion.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
WAR IS ON.

Whatever doubt that may have ex-
 bted as to what Germany might do as
 result of the Austrian -Hungary-Se
 ian war has been removed and the
 mperor has become the leading mili-
 Rry figure in Europe. He has been
 redfted with being the brainiest man
 mong all the European monarchs,
 ut his actions during the last few
 avs do not bear out this estimate
 tthe man. He appears to be aching
 pr fight, has attacked Germany's old
 nemy, France, without any formal
 declaration of war, apparently with
 Ut any reason whatever, and has
 therefore drawn into the contest
 mother nation that up to day or two | go ahad been trying to keep out of it. There, is no mistaking the fact that the German. emperor Is thorough soldier Ind sthatshe has an immense army be- linda him, but he cannot hope to with |tand ther opposition, of Russia and Trance with, the possibility at this time |f England with her powerful navy hiding it necessary to take action to |revent her rights being imposed upon. Two of her merchant vessels have been hterfered with by German ships on no rounds except that the war feeling so strong that the attacking party feels that something must |e done toAproclaim to the world that Eermany istin the,fight and must be |espected.
 The stage is now set for the great |st war the world has ever known; III the modern implements of war are It hand and it is awful to contem- late the slaughter that is bound to esu1t. The next few days are likely b develop some startling conditions Ind what must strike the average |erson with peculiar emphasis Is that he original cause of all the difficulty, he sAustro-Serviam dispute appears b have ceased, at at.least!it is no longer. he main feature of the war, and there a disposition on the part of the ggressor to mediate. Germany and Russia have come into the arena to do heir fighting for them and it is what hey will do that,is now interesting the rorld. "ss
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03

It is not 1915 by long shot but we notice that the automobile department of the secretary of state already has the markers for that year safely st owed in the basement of the capitol Under the circumstances there should be no need next January for any plea for an extension of time for the secur- ing of markers. The distribution should be leisurely instead of a bar gain counter rush at the eleventh hour of the last day of the year, Ansonia Sentinel,
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03

Of the managers of the financial ma chipery
 Had Wall street deserved the abuse which has been heaped upon it it could not have endured so far the or- deal which Europe has forced it to meet Under the ordeal it has excelled the rest of the world, and as it stands revealed today Wall street is an American institution in which the country can take pride
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
Our Famous Criminals.
Montgomery Advertiser. )

0''IShs IAIF VT t11NI'V " Following are few excerpts fir oin petty court dockets in various parts of Alabam
 George Washington - NagrancH, sixty days.
 Andrew Jackson-Drunk, five costs. William J. Bryan-Gaming, ten dollars.
 U. $. Grant-Stealing COW, boand over.
 Hans Wagner-Niolating meat or- dinance. Jim Jeffries-Carrying conceaief weapons.
 Theodore Roosevelt Jones-Disor- derly conduct Abraham Lincoln-Larceny, ten and costs.
 William Taft-SpeedinR.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
WHAT WILD BE THE EFFECT OF
 WAR?

WAR?
 What effect the European war will have on business in this country IS ] a question that many people are ask difficult to answer in detail. The export market is bound to suffer; it cannot be otherwise. The late Presi- dent Mckinley held the opinion that
 the United States was large enough
 to support itself, but that notion. has
 long since been dispelled. The Amer
 ican manufacturer of firearms should
 do well while the war is in progress.
 It is not the only country, however,
 where firearms are made, but the
 European countries now at war are
 not likely to deal largely with those
 concerns doing business within a wide
 radius of the actual seat of war be-
 cause, If for no other reason, there
 may be difficulty experienced. in de-
 l1vering the goods. The war as it is
 now seen is estimated to cost some
 thing over $40,0o0,O0O a day, and if
 continued for any length of time will
 make a total estimate that is bound
 to have a depressing effect upon the
 countries involved for many years af-
 ter hostilities have ceased. Society itself will be disorganized and it will take a long time for the people to regain the sound financial condition they have been enjoying for a great many years. Europe, and particular ly those countries immediately in- volved in the present struggle, will go back half a century as a result of the conflict as it is now anticipated.
 There is much talk of men return ing to the old country to participate in the defense of their own respec- tive land, and if the number should extend into large figures it may have tendency to cause a scarcity of un- skilled labor in this country, and this wages, which always improves busi- ness. Such condition will in the natural course of events raise prices, but even that will have no ser ious depressing effect for the reason that if business is good and wages are high peo- all necessary purchases A war such as is now in contemplation will be far-reaching in It's results and while it will certainly reduce the number of people who must be fed and sup piled with labor with which family support must be provided, it will also goods which must find market i'll order to add to the general pros perity. It takes every country a long time to recover from war; in our own country the South has not yet fully recovered from the war of the rebellion, which ended almost half a century ago. What, then, can be said of conditions in Europe, where the slaughter is likely to be much greater and where the recovery must necessarily occupy a longer period
 These visionary people who thought a day of international peace had ar rived and that all disputed questions would be settled at the Hague, must now realize what an insecure foun- dation they have been building upon when the work of years has been com- p1etely lost sight of, and now when it was supposed it would be of it's great est value, is not even mentioned ex- cept by those who look for sunshine in the midst of a heavy rain storm.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03

The woman who hesitates to praise her husband for fear she'll make him proud and the man who doesn't com pliment his wife for fear he'll make her vain are worthy of one another. but they cannot make a home.--Nor- Wich Bulletin.
New Britain herald., 1914-08-03
FACTS AND RANCHES.

The Massachusetts progressive state organization is in debt for $2O,0OO and 1t mas asked the creditors to settle for hfty cents on a dollar.--Bridgepo Post.