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New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
Defying the Doctor.
(Brockton Times.)

:@-~ There is always the question whether the person who defies his physicians advice is brave or fool hardy. The line between bravery and folly is so fine, sometimes, that the physician himself might be puzzled-if physicians think on such topics at all President Wilson, in his recent illness, presented a case in point. the case of a man who has inn portant duties to perform, and let's his conscience rather than his phy- sician rule his conduct The presi- dent may be either stubborn or ex- ceedingly faithful, according to the point of view; or he may have matched a philosophy of his own, as many philosophers have done, which drives the mind to predOminance over bodily ills. In any event, his example is not recommended for the emulation of all men. If there is still tendency, gained from reading the splendid satires of ancient wise acres, to set physicians diagnoses at naught 1t should be remembered the medical men of the twentieth cen- tury are much better equipped than their forbears of old Rome or six teenth century Europe; and that the proportion of wise physicians is greater than that of wise patients There is belief, often justified, that the man who acts as his own lawyer defends a fool. In many instances he is first cousin to the man who acts as his own medical adviser.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed In ex- changes that come to Herald office.
Mid Summer Warning. (Detroit Free Press

In the heated term many persons are prone to drink large quantities of iced wated and iced beverages of var ious ingredients and compositions. Dangers turk in the practice which competent authorities, but never more plainly than by Dr. Franklin c. Wells, of New York, who the other day said:
 Cool water should take the place of ice water. Ice water, taken in quantities as it is usually taken on a hot day, may produce a very severe acute indigestion. Taken steadily it will produce ice water dyspepsia, a form of chronic indigestion.
 For those who must be active o1 subject to exposure on a hot day, there is no better beverage than oat- meal water. It is palatable, demul- cent and nutritious and can be taken ad libitum. It is made by stirring oatmeal in water and letting it set tie. This is the beverage given sol diers during their maneuvers. But ter milk and old-fashioned lemonade are refreshing and healthful.''
 Undoubtedly many case of chronic ill-health might be traced to the in- temperate use of too-cold drinks on hot days in midsummer. The item ized warning of pr. Wells should pre- vent many a person from doing in- jury beyond repair by the ablest, most faithful of family physicians.
 Be temperate in the use of water. Swear off on iced water.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
A Rainy Day Business.
(New York Sun.

On rainy days there are now to be found at many uptown elevated and subway stations boys waiting with umbrellas on the chance that they can rent them. The days best for this business are those on which rain has come unexpectedly. When this business was originally started, which was only a very few years ago, the first boys to engage in it let their pa irons fix the prices. When they got to the house a woman customer would give the boy a nickel or dime, or maybe more, according to the distance. If the feathers on her hat were particularly valuable and the distance great she might give him a quarter.
 Now with so many of them out with umbrellas the renting of them has come to be a more cold-blooded business proposition and you bargain for one or discover that the boy has a fixed price. A Washington Heights woman on a recent rainy day found four boys with umbrellas lined up at the subway exit. droning 'Umbrel- las, umbrellas
 of the first boy she came to, and "How far?" he asked her, and then he said, "25 cents,'' which she thought was too much. The other boys heard all this and none offered an umbrella for less; in fact, one of the boys said under his breath, Let her choke"
 Here, you see, was sort of youth full umbrella trust, or at least combi- nation, and they let tins woman go away without an umbrella rather than cut the price. The woman had it in mind to say to them that it would be more profitable to them to do a lot of business at a low price
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
The Purple Gl.ackle.
(Chicago Evening Post.)

Today in loose f1ocks foraeine through the country go our crow blackbirds, unmindful of the evil eve which every farmer turns upon them The crow blackbird is not the crow. for it must be known that while the crow is black bird, it is not a black bird. Moreover, the crow blackbird ought not to be so called, for his plumage is bronze and Tyrian purple. Most bird students call him the pur- pie grackle.
 Our crow blackbird is rascal, but most appealingly interesting in his rascality. He will rob a robins nest of it's young or it's eggs and the sight moves you to wrath if not to mur- der. But when you see the marauder moving lordly across the lawn, with the sun full on his feathers, you for give him because he is so internally handsome. The crow blackbird is no hopper; he stalks and holds his head high He is worse than saucy; he is devilish. But we would miss him sorely if man could work his will and kill him and the last of his brothers and his sisters.
 No sta te in the Union so far as we know protects by law the crow black bird, and yet his tribe shows no de- crease. He is quick to learn the fire arm ordinances, and where no man may shoot he goes with his wife to begin his housekeeping. The fox and the crow are no more wary or cun- ming than the crow blackb bird. He is high in the scale of intelligence. He is the enemy of man, but in this ca SC it is easy to abide by the injunction to love our enemy.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
BILLY ANNOUNCES HIS CANDI-
 DACY.
DACY.

In brief interview with a repre-
 ntative of the Meriden Journal yes-
 rday Congressman Reilly said that
 would be a candidate for re-elec-
 bn as a representative in congress,
 Id he also said that the belief is
 eneral in Washington that business
 Ill pick up this fall.
 No one seriously thought that Con-
 ressnan Reilly was candidate Tor ther United States senator or gov Thor, notwithstanding the fact that Is name has been repeatedly asso- ated with these two offices. He has ade a good member of congress and though serving only his second term Ie stands we'll up among the leaders. [e has always had an aptitude for klblic life and in dealing with national nestions he has shown courage, ab1l- N and shrewdness of judgment. The ttuation has been so uncertain III he democratic party in Connecticut E r6garQS canClQ2I0S IIdt III tAAO oAS 1ssion MT. Reilly's nan,e was used, lot with his consent and probably [ithout his knowledge, and 1t was bnetirnes thought it was done by bmeone with the hope that he might Is induced to seek some of those laces and vacate the one he holds, hereby leaving easy sailing for some- ne else. But Tom Reilly knows the ame of politics himself; he was not aught by any soft talk and his con tituents think the more of him. lie ill not only be renominated for con- ress. but he will make campaign hat will make his opponent sit up nd take notice He is good talker nd what is better still he knows what e is talking about. That is the Kind f a combination that people like to sten to.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
Republicans Want House.

Washington Letter to Brooklyn
 Eagle.)
 The national republican congress sional ommittee, which has been at work in a preliminary way for sev- eral months. looks upon the political outlook through rose-colored glasses It will require the winning of seven ty-four seats now held by democrats to Wrest control from them, but the republican managers are producing figures to show that it is by no means wild dream to expect such change and they are actually figuring that they will do it.
 The investigating business was worked to the fullest limit by the democrats when they gained con- trol of the house in the sixty-second congress, during the last two years of President Taft Every one of the standing committees on expenditures in the various government depart ments was galvanized into life, after years of somnolence
 Each committee went to work on its particular, department, investiga- ting anything and everything that promised campaign material. In ad- dition, there were two or three spe- clal committees at work, making things uncomfortable for the repub- lican heads of departments
 So far as actual scandals went, the results of the democratic investiga- tions were meager. But they relied upon the cumulative effects upon the public mind of the wholesome in- quiry, the very idea of an investiga- tion being calculated to inspire the suspicion that there was something wrong somewhere.
 This is exactly what the republi- cans propose to do, if they can se- cure control of the committees by winning the house.
 They will put every executive, from partmerit, on the grill, and will take particular care that the results shall be. published broadcast They will delve into democratic appointments and democratic patronage, as we'll as policies, and will make great noise over democratic extravagance all along the line. The latter will be one of their chief features, and the easiest, because government appro- priations have increased by leaps every year.
 The republican congressional man. agers while not in possession of ple- thoric funds, claim they. have enough to cover the country this fall in an effective manner, and they predict that the job of winning the house will be carried through to success, despite the apparently Herculean nature of the task.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
FIsHER-COMsrOCK DEBATE.

Ex-Mayor Fisher of Middletown, democratic candidate for governor, challenges ex-Chairman Comstock of Montville, democratic candidate for governor, to public debate. That seems hardly fair to us, as we all know the Middletown ex-professor' s ability to talk. while our friend Com stock is known to be deep thinker. Bridgeport Telegram.
 It would be an interesting debate, for while Prof. Fisher would be talk ing MT. Comstock would be thinking, and when his turn came he would have a whole mess of stuff with which to get back at him. It might be pos sible, however, that MT. Comstock would not make any reply, but would consent to leave the whole thing to the people. Politics is a game in which all can play, but it does not seem as if there is any reason for any undue excitement over these two gen. t1emen, because it does not seem pos sible that either will be nominated for governor, not on account of any lack of ability, but because of the uncertainty of their leadership and the great probability of neither being able to win at the polls. Because one or both stand for certain things will not make them strong candidates and their platforms, no matter how they are built, will not prove that they should be nominated Still that has nothing to do with the debate. The gentlemen are entertaining and if the people have the time to listen they would probably be the better for hearing the discussion. The candi- dates should visit every town and if possible they should have little music as preliminary to the talks. It would help to put the audience into good humor and it would give it an opportunity to decide which it preferred. If it declared for the music a vote could be taken as to whether it was instrumental or chin they wanted.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
JERSEY WANTS IMMI-
 GRANTS.
NEW
MIMI.

There hasn't been much said of late about the "back to the farm movem ent,'' but New Jersey has taken up the cry for more men to till it's uncultivated fields, which, it says, amount to more than a million acres. What the state seems to need is immi- grants who have a little money to locate there, purchase farms and en- gage in agriculture. Whether they will hearken to the call is difficult to say. but there is no doubt but that they would make greater progress toward prosperity if they did. It is a foolish policy on the part of these people to gather in the cities, now overcrowded, where there are so many idle people and where it is dif- ficult to obtain employment. Yet that Is what they do and by doing so they simply add to the long list of those struggling for existence.
 There has been much said of the back to the farm movement; our great friend, James J. Hill, says the salvation of the country depends upon it; locating there would mean a good living for many now experiencing a hand to mouth existence, and the added produce would have a tendency to decrease the cost of living. It is stated that there is no place in the country where large markets are so near at hand as in New Jersey. but the great trouble has been to get irn-
 migrants to work the farms. These are not abandoned farms, either, but fields which are simply going to waste because of the lack of men to culti- vate them. People are not likely to go looking for these places; there must be some ope. some organization to direct attention to them; in other words to induce people to locate there. New Jersey is simply neglect ing an opportunity to add to it's wealth and importance; it is really sitting down and crying over what it might do instead of getting out and hustling for the help it needs. It needs to get busy at once.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22

rather than a limited business at a high price, but she didn't, and if she had they might have retorted that the homeward rush of people lasted only a short time and that they had to get out of it all they could While it. lasted.
 This same woman had another ex- perience with an umbrella boy that was quite different. Descending from an elevated train at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street to take there a car up Amsterdam avenue she found a heavy rain falling, and though the distance to the surface car was short she wanted an umbrella.
 How much to an Amsterdam ave- nue car?" she said to an umbrella boy at the foot of the elevated stairs.
 His price was cents-fair and reasonable-and he was straightway engaged.
 The boy held an umbrella over her carefully on this short trip and con- tinued to hold it for the minute or two that they had to stand in the street waiting for the car to come along, as he did also while she was getting aboard. Then the woman discovered that she had nothing less than a dime and she offered that to the boy and wanted him to take it. But he insisted on giving her back 5 cents change-on sticking to his con- tract.
 Here was boy who showed a proper, agreed ble spirit, and doubt less there are more boys just like him; but on the whole it might prob ably with truth be said that the boy umbrella business is now quite differ ent from what it was when first start ed. Then, with the nice boy pro- tecting the nice young lady from the station to her home and trusting to her wholly for his reward there was little touch of romance in it. Now, with so many boys in it and with fixed prices and a tendency to charge all the traffic will bear it has come to be just plain, straight, ordinary business.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22

The physically vigorous girl has a bright face and merry heart. She is personally attractive. People of this type disprove the old claim that col lege women don't marry and rear fam flies. The time would seem ripe to encourage women to engage freely in every kind of athletics. Give them clothes in which they can run. and they even beat the boys on the base ball diamond. A physically vigorous womanhood means the disappearance of much of the disease that depresses the human race.-Norwith Record:
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
NO BASEBALL STRIKE.

The fans are happy today that there
 no baseball strike on as was ex-
 bected yesterday.
 President Johnson of the American
 eague is sorry that the matter was
 settled and Chairman Hermann of the
 national commission says he feels the
 same way about it. President Tener
 was detained on official business in
 Harrisburg and has had no statement
 o make about the matter.
 The relations between the magnates And the players have been somewhat etrained of late and the latter have Formed a fraternity for their own pro-
 lection. Tn this case one Clarence Kraft was drafted by the Brooklyn
 management from Nashville and sent kc Newark where the salary was higher then 1t was in the former Iplace. Nashville wanted Kraft back,
 Brooklyn was going to send him there and Kraft refused to go on ac- eount of the salary He is member bf the Players Fraternity, that organ
 zation took ug the fight for him and was preparing to strike when the pres &dent of the Brooklyn club bought up .all claim Nashville had on Kraft and he will continue to play with Newark. leagues say they are sorry strike |was not inaugurated, they do not |,nean a word of what they say. They |claim they would close all their ball |parks but if they did they would lose |a great deal of money and they object |to that as we'll as do the players. A |strike would also have the result of |riving the Federal league a boost that |would not help the other leagues. There is need of protection for the managers as we'll as the players for it |is the former who have made base Ina II the success it is today. but the |.-reat trouble is that they have be- 9,,,s,e SD arrogant as to be almost ,tr, bearable and if the dispute over Kraft had not been settled and a strike resulted the game itself would suffer and the magnates would se heavy losers in the end. The play CTS, or at least some of them would never be able to obtain as much naoney at any other business. Some ne paid high salary now yet only 9 few have any money. They are spend ers. and on the principle that what is gotten easy goes easy they soon part. with all the money they receive. The Players, Fraternity is likely to make The magnates travel the straight and narrow path so far as treatment of players is concerned. Those who have watched the progress Of the game of late have long been Of the ppiniss as ths clsab o nszs should
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
). MCMILLAN
lse-2Ol-2o3 MAIN STREET.


 tbe farm and in road d-ma king"
 Mir. Osborne vividly pictured the daily life of the prisoner and a dreary night he spent in the punishment cell. denouncing the whole prison system as the worst form of slavery. He also told of the Welfare league, which has been organized by the pri- soners of Auburn prison, through which they have assumed respon- sibility for a part of their own dis oipline.
 There is no doubt we have the right end of things in the Welfare league" concluded MT. Osborne. The secret is that the men feel the re- sponsibility themselves. The men must work out their own salvation.'
 Raps County Jail.
 Tn the discussion which followed it was brought out that at the New Haven jail the contractors are only paying the state from 9 to 10 cents a day for the labor of man; also that no means is provided for carry ing off the dust and the mems faces are yellow from it-this in spite Of the strict laws for free factories which give the health officers the right to close down shops not prop erly equipped for removing dust.
 At the close of the meeting un- animous endorsement was given to a resolution which recommended the "state use" system of labor instead of the contract system in penal in- stitutions; the establishing of indus trial training for, the prisoners. and the centralization of the control over all such institutions.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22

have their wings clipped. The first Ebbets of Brooklyn settled with Nashville for Kraft and although the magnstes of the big. leagues say that beforehand what was going to be done and were agreeable to-it.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22

Of course it is quite right for the police of New Haven to arrest per- sons in that city for violation of the law but it is not regarded as according to Hoyle for these same prisoners to be thrown into an unsanitary building dangerous to health before they have been convicted of any misdemeanor. Any one, even person under arrest
 is entitled to protection from disease and a decent surrounding during his incarceration by the city.-Ansonia Seminal ~
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22

A man in Claremont, N H., has re- gently been arrested because in a, pub- lie place he made loud exc1amations and outcries, and did then and there draw together other persons and then and there during all said time did make great and offensive howlings, yells, groanings and meanings during the hours for rest and sleep, to the common nuisance of all the people. ;" The report doesn't say so, but it may be presumed the aforesaid offender was sunburned summer boarder.- Brockton Times.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Baseball has been introduced as a part of the self-government policy for the prisoners at Sing Sing. The game has been beautifully played in other prisons and serves as d healthful and innocent relaxation for the inmates. The most serious problem is likely to be the selection of umpires for the contest.-Bridgeport Standard.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
Rug Sale at 98c each Va1ues I'D to S15O

Real Big Bargains in small sized Rugs More than two hundred to choose from. Crex Rugs, Rag Rugs, Tapestry Rugs, Velvet Rugs and Ak minister Rugs.
 Big Clearance on Drapery Ma terials. Lace, Scrims and Net Cur tains.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
Sale of Linoleums at 44c
 Snuare Yard.

This is a most unusual offering in Linoleums, as we offer this special. purchase of Fine Linoleums, direct from the mill. That means all new goods, very newest designs, and at a saving you should not overlook.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
Steamer Trunks

at $i.75, $5.75, $6,95, $7.5O, $S.95, value $6.50 to $12.50.
 Regulation Strong Trunks
 30, 32, 34, 3e-inch sizes $4.75 to $9.95 each, value ss.50 to $14.4s. P. & s. Guaranteed Trunks at $9.95, $1O.75, $11.95, $12.4S each, value $12.50 to $18.00.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
Strong Fibre Cases

That look like leather case, strong and durable. Sizes IA to 24- inch, at S5c, 95c, Sf.25, $f.49, $f.69, $2.OO, value 98c to $2.9S.
 Full Size Sheepskin Cases, s3.75 values, at $2.9S.
 All Leather Cases, straps all around, $4.50 values, at $3.4S.
 Solid Cowhide Cases, $5.4S, s6.5b, $8.50 values, at $4.75, $5.4S and $6.75 each.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
Straw and Japanese. Mating
 Cases

13 to 16-inch, at 49c, 69c, 75c, 9Sc. 24-inch Cases, at 9Sc, $1.4s, $1.69, SIPS. value $2.00.