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New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
RED MEN DELEGATES
 MEET AT BRISTOL
Reports Of Officers sh;w TrbsS
 to Be 'fIOu. .Sh ng.

Bristol, Conn, May 6.--Increases in numerical and financial strength were reported at the twentyteighth annual great council of the Red Men of Con- necticut in session here today. Great Sachem F. A. Wells, who presided. stated that most of the tribes were in "fourishing condition but that there were some weak tribes which were in need of immediate assistance. One new tribe was instituted during the year, Menunketesuck No. 59, at Essex and one, Tatoram, No. 2S, of Stonington surrendered it's charter.
 Fetal Membership 6,22O. records, William Saunders, pointed out that the total membership of the forty tribes in the state was now S. 22O, a gain of 2O3 for the year, which the report describes, in view of bus mess conditions for some time past, as "a fairly good increase" Total receipts of the tribes were $66,271.26, and expenditures $57,74377, approxi- mately one-third of which was for charitable purposes.
 The report of o. $. Culver, great keeper of wampum, showed that the receipts for the general fund of the great council were $5,205.50, expen- ditures $3,559.88, leaving a balance of $1,645.62. Receipts for the orphans fund were $3,674.S, disbursements $624 and balance $3,O5O.5S.
 Many Delegates Present.
 Upwards of 300 were in attendance at the session and before proceeding to business the delegates listened to an address of welcome by Mayor James Cray.
 Election of officers was to take place during the afternoon, and it was expected that George Fairchild of Stratford would be chosen great sachem.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
Ex-JUDGE sUCCUMBs.

New Haven, Conn.,, May 6.-Rich- ard IT. Tyner,. former judge of the New Haven city court, died at his home here today after a long illness.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06

Boston, May 6.-Yes,erday Richard Olney sent letter to President Will son declining the proposed appoint ment as governor of the federal re- serve board. Mir. Olney, who is sev- enty-eight years old, is unwilling at ms advanced age to undertake new responsibilities. MT. Olney was first attorney general of tine United States and later secretary of state in the second Cleveland administration. In the recent fight in the house over the administration measure to repeal the free tolls clause in the Panama canal act Olney was a tower of strength to the president, coming forward at the last stage of the debate with a letter emphatically stating that the United States in negotiating the Hay Pauncefote treaty never assumed that it could exempt it's coastwise ves- sells from tolls.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06

Brigadier General Frederick Funs- ton in charge of the American sol- diers at Vera Cruz faces the most inn portant moment of his military ca- reer in case war with, Mexico is de- c1ared. Upon him will devolve the critical task of making the first off, fensive move against the Mexican federals who are massed at three strategic points between Vera Cruz and Mexico City. Funston is a fight CT as his Philippine record shows. Small in stature he is a bundle of energy. He is regarded as the right man for the place in the Vera Cruz situation.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
GEN. SICKLES TO REST
 WITH OTHER HEROES
Burial of Gettysburg Commander to Take Place in Arlington Nationai
 Cemetery.

New York May 6.-General Dan iel E. Sickles will be buried in Ar lington National cemetery, Virginia, following a high mass bby Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, in St. Patricks Cathedral, Friday morning. telc- gram last night from the secretary of war said the body would be met by a military escort, a firing party and chaplain.
 Arrangements are being made to send a detachment of soldiers from Governors Island Friday morning, as a military escort. The pallbearers will be selected today. -..
 Mir. and Mrs. Alfred Molyneaux Sickles. of Jersey City, said yester- day that they would attend the mass Friday, but would not visit the Sickles home to see the remains. Alfred Sickles asserts he is the son of Gen. eral Sickles by his first marriage, but was abandoned when a child fifty-six years ago and cared for by MT. and Mrs. Henry Molyneaux. who brought him up.
 While she was visiting General Sickles April 23, Mrs Sickles said yesterday, he revealed to her the whole mystery of his life. She re- fused to divulge the story, however, saying it would be told only under oath. MT. Hayes, who was the gen. erals counsel and friend for years, said the general denied the claim of Alfred Sickles
 The board of aldermen passed a resolution in memory of General Sickles yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
NIXON FOUND GUILTY
 OF ASSAULT CHARGE
'Shlpbuldtr's Son Fined $20O and
 Costs for MurderOuS tCt.

New Haven, Conn, May 6.-Stan- hope w. Nixon, son of Lewis Nixon, the New York shipbuilder. was found guilty yesterday of beating Edward Everit on the head with a heavy iron bolt last October and was, fined $2oO and costs. Notice or appeal was given.
 Judge O'Meara said that but for the shameful conditions that allow lead- ing hotels and cafes to serve intox- icants to Yale undergraduates until they are completely befuddled, he would have sent Nixon to jail It is expected that Everit will sue for dam ages.
 Admits Being Intoxicated. Young Nixon admitted on the stand that on the night of the assault he was so drunk that he knew nothing of what happened. He denied that
 his statement to the police was in any sense confession. He had simply said he could not deny the assault. because he could not recol- |lect anything after leaving the Hotel Taft.
 Both MT. and Mrs. Lewis Nixon were in court and they were deeply affected during their sons testimony and at the result. Throughout tine hearing the city court was crowded with Yale students. Was Returning Home. Everit, who is chief engineer for the local telephone company, was re- turning from New York and on his way to his home on Whitney avenue, about 2 a. m. he was struck from be-
 hind. For some time he was in hospital
 near death. The bolt with which he
 was hit, or one similar to it, was found
 by the police in Nixon's rooms at the
 college.
 Upon the young mans arrest a
 month ago his father withdrew him
 from Yale.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
RECOGNIZED JOHNSON.

French Boxing Federation Accepted
 His Claim to Heavyweight Title.
 Paris. May 6.-The French boxing federation, the principal authority in ring contests in France, which for a time refused to recognize Jack John son as the heavyweight champion boxer of the world, today accepted his claim to the title.
 The general management of the fight between Johnson and Frank Moran of Pittsburg, which will take place on June 27, has been assumed by Theodore Vienne of the boxing federation.
 The plans for the Velodrome d'Hiver, where the bout will be held, provide 26,000 seats and standing room for 1000.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
MAYOR OF BALTIMORE
 APPEALS TO BALDWIN
Governor Urged to Request Connecti-
 cut Residents to Observe tooth

cut heSlOcHtS UO oUScTVc IVUCH
 Birthday of Stars and Stripes.
 Hartford, Conn, May 6.-Mayor James H. Preston of Baltimore, has written Governor Baldwin calling the latter's attention to the celebration which that city will have in Septem- Der in recognition of the tooth anni- versary of the birth of the Star Spangled Banner and the achieve ment of American independence, and suggesting cooperation on the part of Connecticut and other states of the union He says there will be millions of people who cannot attend the cen- tennial and Tt is only proper there fore that some steps should be taken to make them feel that they have part in the great national celebration. It seems to me that no better method could be adopted than to have the Stars and Stripes flying over every public building" etc.
 ITO you, the chief executive of your state, I appeal for cooperation and feel sure that the general use of the American flag during centennial week will not only aid the cause of patriot ism, but present the world a striking picture of strength, purity and loyalty of which the 'Heaven-born banner is the emblem.
 Governor Baldwin said that while he did not feel disposed to issue a proclamation calling for a general dis play of the flag during the week in d!cated, he strongly advocated the position of Mayor Preston and will write him to that effect.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
TWO AUTOS DESTROYED.

Stamford. Conn.,, May 6.-Two auto- mobiles belonging to the Lockwood and Palmer company, hardware dealers. were destroyed in fire in their garage today. The fire is be- lieved to have started from defective electric light wiring. The loss is about $2,OO0: covered by insurance. For a time a large public garage was endangered
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
ALL NIGHT SESSION.

Providence. R. l., May 6.-The legislature was prorogued today after an all night session. Among the measures passed on the closing day was an act authorizing the lease by the Central Vermont Railway com Eany of the property of the Southern New England Railway company. Both roads are subsidiaries of the Grand Trunk Railway
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
G S5H fBE5E5{ E5FyE ESA YA g5z sKz

was to send re-enforcements to the marines who guarded the city water works and other points on the out skirts of the place. One of these pictures shows some of his soldiers in freight cars ready for transporta- tion to their posts. The other thing
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06

General Funston did was to perfect the United States food depots for the benefit of the half starved natives. In the second picture in this illustration is shown a group of women and chil- dren at the door of a military food station waiting for food.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
KILLED BY FALL.
Mrs. Etcl,agcray, Wife of Mexican
 Minister ImpaIed on Picket Pence.

Minister, Impaled on Picket Fence. \
 New York, May 6.-Mrs. Louise Etchageray, wife of Louis Etchageray, Mexican minister to Costa Rica, fell from a window on the fifth floor of an apartment house in One Hundred and Twenty-first street today and was inn paled on a picket fence in front of the building. She was hurried to a hos pital, where she died. Her husband is now in Costa Rica.
 Mrs. Etchageray was a German by birth, and was 29 years old.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
TAP SHOWING POSITION OF ITExlCAn TROOPS 6,
 O. O. e. O. NEAR NeeA cRUz

dicated. He is reported to have split his forces into three camps and to be holding strategic points on the two railroad lines from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. The number of his forces and their distance from Vera Cruz are indicated on the map.
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06
KERMIT TO WED JUNE ii.
Ceremony for Roosevelt Wedding te
 Take Place in Madrid.

Richmond, Va, May 6.-The mar riage of Miss Belle Willard to Kermit Roosevelt will take place in Madrid June II, according to definite an- nouncement contained in a cable dis patch from Ambassador Willard to friend
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06

This map shows the territory around Vera Cruz which may be the scene of the first fighting of the Mex ican war if the peace negotiations fail. The location of the Mexican federals under General Maas is in-
New Britain herald., 1914-05-06

When Brigadier General Frederick Funston arrived at Vera Cruz with. the Fifth brigade of United States regu- lars the first thing he did after as- suming military command of the city
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
Dawn of the New Day.

There is nothing more wonderful
than the noiseless way a new day is
slipped into place with each rising
sun, a new day with it's attendants Of
special duties and fresh outlooks, diff
ferent from all yesterdays, carrying
with it unexpected opportunities, full
fillments or losses. It's hours, wheth-
er flying or dragging, are unmarked
by ticking of clocks; there is nothing
in its silence to give hint of what
the next hour holds, or to remind one
of the passage of time, or the brevity
of life. A day is a slow, leisurely pro-
cession of events that, one by one,
salute our consciousness as they pass.
No one sees the figures as they greet
another. Each one is surrounded by
a silent world of his own, full of mys-
terry and wonder, created out of the
invisible substance of yesterdays
From "A Kingdom of Two" by Helen
r. Albee.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
Emlnratlon From Scotland.

The tide of emigration continues un-
abated. Thousands every week con-
tinue to leave London, Liverpool and
Glasgow for Canada and Australia,
There is every indication that the year
1913 will beat every record in the re-
cent history of emigration, and that
before the end of the year 100000 will
have left these shores. And what is
even more ominous than the quantity
of the emigration is it's quality. 1t is
the young men, the enterprising and
the energetic that are leaving. 1t is
the old men, the women and children
that are left behind. Some of the most
beautiful districts of Scotland are be-
ing depleted. Whole cities, like the
old country town of Jedburgh, are left
desolate, and houses are crumbling
even in the main streets.-London Ev-
eryman.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
SMOKE COST is IN MILLIONS
Figures Show Wastefulness Which Is
Characteristic of the Amer
ican Nation.

Experts figure that Pittsburgh's
yearly SCOT emissions would make a
pile 100 feet in diameter and 600 feet
high or larger than the Washington
monument. The money waste and
damage are estimated at $12,000,O00
yearly.
Sample tests made some time ago
in Chicago of the cost of the smoke
nuisance in that city showed that the
smudge bill exceeded the tax bill,
which was about $40,000,0O0 a year,
and the cost of smoke in other cities
is fully as great in proportion to the
size of the city.
This includes only the injury to
property. Doctors will tell you that
is the least damage. They will point
out how the smoke gets into the
throat and lungs and Injuries the
health, causing chronic ailments
which diminish the happiness and
shorten the life of those who are not
responsible for the smoke evil.
The old saying is, Much smoke,
much business s'-and we need the
business. But the progressive engi-
neer of today will tell you that most
smoke can be avoided. 1t indicates
incomplete combustion, which means
waste of coal, extra expense in labor
and equipment, damage to property,
sickness and loss of life.-Power.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
RAT DESERVES NO MERCY
Has Been Estimated That Its Presence
Costs This Country Sum of $167r
100000 a Year.

According to bulletin issued by the
Ohio state board of health, there are
more rats in the United States than
there are people. The incorporated
Society for the Destruction of Vermin
estimates that there is at least one
rat for every man, woman and child
in the British Isles. Similar estimates
have been made for Germany, France
and Denmark
The annual cost of each rat to the
country has been computed at $1.S0 in
Great Britain, $1.20 in Denmark and 81
in France. AS specimens of the dep
relations of rats, DR.. Lantz, in Pub
lie Health Bulletin No. 80, cites the
following:
"An Iowa farmer, writing to an agri-
cultural journal, reported that rats had
destroyed in one winter about 500
bushels of corn of a total of 1000
bushels stored in cribs. Another farm
er reported that rats had robbed him
of an entire summers Matching of 300
or 400 chicks, and still another one at
tributed his loss in grain and poultry
for one season due to rats as sufficient
to pay his taxes for three years"
The upkeep of rat in this country
is about half cent day. Estimating
one rat to each person, $167,O00,000 are
lost annually by the depredations of
this pest.
Rats begin to bear young when three
months old. They will litter about
six times a year and bear from to 12
at litter. This remarkable fecundity,
together with the fact that they are
nocturnal in their habits and live in
hidden holes, accounts for the large
rat population and emphasizes the diff.
ficulty Of destruction on a wholesale
SCALE
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE
Young Wife Scored Heavily When
Hubby Came Forward With the
Stereotyped Comment.

There was worried look on the gro
GERS face as he rushed hatless down
the street and ran up the steps of
Acacia Villa
TIN sorry to say there's been a
slight mistake, Mrs. Grumble," he
painted "You ordered two pounds Of
oatmeal yesterday, and by mistake my
apprentice put up some sawdust that
our grapes came packed I'M"
"Oh!" replied the lady. "Then
reckon my 'usban' must ave got
through about arf pound O. the wood
for breakfus'."
"Y-you don't mean to say that he
ate it," gasped the man in the apron.
Course e did" was the reply.
The lady leaned back on the door
post and for three minutes INDUCED in
q laugh that brought all her neighbors
to the scene.
wal, rnat's right-down funny" she
observed with laugh.
Funny" queried the grocer.
"Yus, funny! Ere we've been mar
ried 13 year come list of April, and
Charles as never paid me a compli-
ment till this mornin' at breakfus'
when blest if e didn't pass is plate
for another go O. that sawdust an told
me it reminded i'm o. the porridge is
mother used to make. ."-Tit-Bits.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
Differing on Grammar.

In Indianapolis tablet is to be
placed on a branch library building in
honor of it's donor. The proposed in
scription contains this sentence: "All
praise to the man who serves his fell
lowmen." Then it was suggested that
the "who" ought to be that, and so a
controversy arose as to which word
was truly grammatical in that connec-
ton. They referred it to two author
tiles, and they disagreed, one saying
who and the other that. Then they
referred it to the Literary Digest for
an expert opinion, and the decision
came in favor of that, on the ground
that the sentence referred to the
donor personally, whereas if the word
who referred to mankind in general
it would be right to use who. There
is still doubt in our mind as to the
reason for the decision, since that is
not as strong as the decision ITSELF
Columbus Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
PLUTARCH ON THE SLIT SKIRT
Garment Is DE- "ibed as Being in
Vogue in / ~ Lycurgus
the Law -.

We must reread Plutarch. We must
classics-and not for antiquity's sake,
either. Thomas Owen of Topeka in.
forms us that we are centuries out in
saying the slit skirt is only 1900 years
old. Speaking of Lycurgus the Law.
giver and his times, Plutarch relates
$50 writes Mr. Owen):
'The skirts of the habit which the
virgins wore were not sewed to the
bottom, but opened at the sides as they
walked, and discovered the thigh, as
Sophocles very plainly write:
Still in the light dress struts Her
mione,
Whose opening folds display the naked
thigh"
This passage of Plutarch is well
worth looking up for more than details
of costume-800 or 900 years before
the Christian era, says writer in Col
lier's Weekly. You. may read there of
the complaint made that women in
those times were too bold, too mascu.
line, to prone to make themselves mis-
tresses of the houses they inhabited;
and even they wanted share in the
affairs of state" Aristophanes satir
lied feminism in comedy that is
now % centuries old-and still acted!
If you have time to do only timely
reading, you would better cut out the
periodicals and read the Greeks. To
them we owe (wrote Wilde) whatever
is modern in our life"-including the
slit skirt.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
Important Court Decision.

A decision that will be of assistance
to executors in settling estates COM
prising a large amount of securities,
was handed down the court of ap-
peals of New York in the case of Luke
" Lockwood VS.. U. S. Steel corpora
tion. The court held that a foreign
corporation having an Office in this
state for the transfer and registry of
its corporate stock may be compelled
to make such transfer at it's New
York office on demand of the local
executor of a testator who was resi-
dent ina foreign country at the time
of his death, and the stock was In
the possession of the executor.
The court ruled that the doctrine
that the situs Of personal property
owned by decedent is deemed to
; be either at his domicile or at the
domicile of the corporation does not
stand in the way of such transfer,
since the maintenance of transfer Of
fee here makes this state it's domicile
to that extent.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
WONDROUS CHARM IN WOODS
Traveller Writes of Peculiar Charac.
ter of Romance Noted in Ire
lands "Forests."

Returning to these woods, am
struck once more by, the peculiar
character of their romance, says a
writer in Scribner's Magazine. 1t is
so different from that of German
forest, where the imagination is lured
and lost in the depth of thickets and
baffied by the endless lines of serried
trunks, brooded over by the canopy
of dark, high blush fir boughs, inter-
woven solid.
The poetry of these Irish woods
and not merely from a resemblance
they certainly bear to the Pinetas Of
Italy-is southern, or perhaps Celtic
passed through southern Imagination,
alluring, fascinating, but not quite to
be taken seriously.
Enchantment without end and end
less adventures; in and out, in their
filtered green light among the big
twisted many bushes under the oaks,
and the high grasses and meadow
sweet, and into their open spaces,
marshy and flowered with pale lilac
seabius, where the sunset sky is wide,
and there is the gibbet for wicked
hawks, and where not merely wild
duck rustic up, but a great heraldic
heron; where at dusk it becomes rath-
er frightening among the immense
pale oak trunks.
A wayward in-and-out romance, as
in the pages of book, that one in
dulges in because one chooses mot I'M
der the terrifying necessity of the
German and Alpine forests), in these
Irish woods and alongside this brown,
clear river, which under the great
oak boughs has tortoise7shell fiickers
and transparencies On it and into the
very deepest forest heart, 1 imagine
boats steered by enchantresses, like
those that carried Sir Guyon or Ri
naldo, passing up or down like the
broken off narratives of the poets.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-01-09
SORE THROAT NEEDS CARE
At the First Feeling of Discomfort,
WeII-Known Effective Remedies
Should Be Employed.

An excellent illustration of the old
adage, familiarity breeds contempt, is
found in the tendency of most people
to pay little or no attention to that
very common complaint, sore throat.
AS matter of fact, neglect of sore
throat is lot only extremely unwise,
but may have fatal results. Director
Neff, of the department of health and
charities, points out in his weekly bull
letin the dangerous consequences that
may and very often do follow such
neglect.
Among the deadly diseases of which
sore throat is one of the early symp-
toms are diphtheria, scarlet fever, and
septic sore throats." The mortality
from diphtheria has been greatly re-
duced since the discovery of antitoxin,
but if the application is delayed the
likelihood of cure is materially re-
duced. Doctor Neff points out that
there has not been a single death at
the Philadelphia hospital for contag-
ious diseases where diphtheria anti
toxin was administered on the first day
Of the disease, whereas the ratio of
mortality steadily increased as admin
istration was delayed, until it rose to
nine per cent. where the remedy was
not applied until the fifth day.
A mere glance at the mortality stat
istics of diphtheria, scarlet fever and
septic sore throat shows the import
ance of swift precaution. The sound
advice Of Doctor Neff is that every
person with a sore throat should have
it examined at once by a physician.
Such simple precaution may stop in
time any one of these dread diseases
and may save your life or your child's
life. 1t is also extremely important to
bear in mind that most sore throats
are contagious, wherefore contact
with those thus afflicted should be
avoided.