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Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
What the Other Fellows Say

Will New Haven get a new passenger station? Not in years, says President Hustis. Will Hartford get one now that the old station has been damaged by fire Not much. Orders to patch it up and make it do have gone forth. In the meantime Pittsfeld will open its new depot inside of six months. Pitts6eld Eagle.
 The editors and reporters on this paper have received positive instructions from a number of thin skinned people to never again print their names in this paper. This we have promised to do. Inasmuch as these same t p will some time be summoned to shuttle off this mortal coil we trust that their relatives will not take offense if their obituaries fail to appear in these columns for we dislike to offend people alive or dead.-Shore Line Times.
 New York has had to suffer for many things, but to find that thief has been using one of her jails as a base for safe cracking operations-weI that is even a little beyond the limit.-Hartford Post
 "Billy" Sundays first evangelistic meeting in New York last night was marked by battle between the police and thousands who stormed Carnegie Hall in vain attempt to get seats. New York evidently wants to "get religion" if it must fight to get it.-Bridgeport Standard.
 It seems to be easier to arrest MT. Mellen than it is to get his trial under way.-New Haven Journal Courier.
 If it is permissible we would like to ask if President Wilson and Secretary Bryan would still watchtully wait if there was an organized massacre of American citizens in Mexico instead of these. individual killings throughout the length and breadth of the country?- Ansonia Sentinel.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
Uncanny Science.

A young American. John Hays Hammond, jr., has recently been doing things down on the east coast of Mas sachusetts that would have been his death warrant in the days of the Salem witches. From a hilltop overlooking Gloucester harbor he was directing daily, by means of invisible waves, the maneuvering of sinister-looking craft of high speed which may soon develop into very formidable instrument for coast defense. Mark you. no one is on board the boat performs all of its amaz- ing evoIutions guided by curious con- bination of vibrations having their source in an apparatus at MT. Hammond s hand, far up the bluff l This sounds uncanny, doesn't it? But it is one of the developments of a new branch of knowledge, the science of telautomatics, or the management from afsr of mechan. ical operations. Telautomatics is going to do a large variety of astonishing things for us before long, and all of us should know something about this new wizardry.-St. Nicholas Magazine.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
When a Ship Breaks In Two.

Break.in-twos of the hulls of vessels, while they have occurred before, have been rare enough so that the recent disaster to the new oil-tank steamer Oklahoma is of especial interest to vessel designers. According to the story told by one of the surviving members of the crew, the break .in-two occurred "when the vessel was picked up at either end by giant waves. While she hung thus suspended, third great comber washed high over herside, and settled with deafening crash on her deok."
 What most probably happened is that the break-in-two occurred when the yes. sel amidships was raised high on the , top of a wave while the stern and bow were In the trough on either side. This would place the vessels bottom in com. precision and the top deck and sides of the hull in tension. A ships hull is weakest to resist a bending stress under these conditions, since its bottom plat. ing IS heavier than its deck plating and the latter is cut away for hatch openings. The stresses were a maximum. also, be- cause the vessel was not loaded. Under these conditions, the principal weight in the hull is that of the engines and boilers in the after-end, and the ballast in the tanks at the bow to keep the vessel on an even keel. With the load thus con- oentrated at the two ends of the hull and the central portion empty. the bend. ing of the hull. produced by wave lift. ing the vessel a midships would be q maximum.
 Similar cases of hull failures on the Great Lakes, a dozen years of more ago. resulted Tn an increase in the required thickness of the hulls of lake vessels. The wreck of the Oklahoma will proba. bly, have a distinct influence on the design of ocean tank vessels. s.-Engineer- Ing News.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
THURSDAY. MARCH 19, 1914
J. HENRY WAS THERE.

The appearance in New Haven one day last week, of J. Henry Roraback, of Canaan, created furry and nearly up. set the equilibrium of that usually well. balanced city. Witness the following, from the New Haven Union:
 Welcome to our city. MT. J. Henry Roraback, chairman of the Republican state central committee, who was a visitor here this week. What is up, that he should come to New Haven? will be the first question to be asked by the Progressives for instance, not to say any, thing about the wonderment of other political gentlemen. The one definite announcement with reference to this early spring trip of the Republican leader to this center of political activity was to the effect that politics was not discussed. That is consoling and 1t shows furthermore that it is the closed season for discussion of the political game" -
 Being the closed season for politics, the Canaan visitor must surely have been on some other mischief bent, for it is inconceivable that he travelled all the way for the simple purpose of setting hls watch by the City Hall clock.
 We note, in an obscure corner ot the esteemed Union, in the smallest type, an item to the effect that .'the city $ saw-mill is now doing good work. " Everybody knows that J. Henry can give them all cards and spades when it comes to saving wood. Is it possible that his mysterious appearance in New Haven had any connection with the overhauling of the municipal saw-mill Is it?
 If not, possibly some of the perspica- cious wise guys may have put two and two together on reading in that same identical issue of the Union the signifi- cant fact that on the very day that J. Henry was discovered in New Haven, the discovery also was made that three telephone pay stations there were robbed of the cash that was in them, and even the telephones had been disconnected and stolen, evidently by some one famil- far with the manipulation of wires.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
A Little More: A Little Less.

It was "helping hand" message which Mrs. Emma Rodemeyer Wait brought to Pittsfeld missionary society last week, says the Pittsfeid Eagle-a message which finds an echo in these simple yet stimulating lines: A little more giving little less greed A little more bearing other peoples load, A little more Godspeeds on the dusty
 road A little more rose and,a little less thorn, To sweeten the air for the sick and tor
 lorn; A little more song and little less glum, And coins of gold for the uplift of the A little less kicking the man that is down, little more smile and little less frown A litt,e more golden rule in the marts of
 trade, A little more sunshine and a little less
 shade. A little more respect for fathers and
 mothers, A little less stepping on the toes of others A little less knocking and a little more
 cheer For the struggling hero that's left in the
 rear; A little more of love and little less of
 hate, A little more of neigh5orly chat at the
 gate; A little more of the helping hand by you
 and me, A little less of this graveyard sentiment
 tality; A little more flowers in the pathway of
 life A little less on cofins at the end of the
 strife.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
Just a Little.

lust kind word here and there, Just kind deed now and then, Just glad "Hello, swear,
 Glad to see you once againp' Just handclasp, just smile, Go to make your life worth while. Just little bit of cheer,
 Just little bit of grit, Just helping hand down here When fellows apt to quit; Nothing much to do. They're not! But they often mean lot! Just smile, and just song, Just little bit of praise Often help chap along
 When he's treading troubled ways. Things that you will never miss Surely you can do just this.
 Detroit Free Press
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
Letters From the People
Eva sive John.
,o the Editor of The News:


 Your suggestion, as chronicled at the Winsted Business Mems Association, to look into the divorce epidemic which seems to prevail around Winsetd, has been carefully considered.
 Maybe it's all right for young and inexperienced man like youself to make such suggestions. but the majority of us. in this Association. are staid, sedate, seasoned and domesticated married men. who can hardly be expected to butt in for the purpose of either decreasing or increasing the available supply of charm ing grass widows.
 P. S.-By the way. understand there are various articles of wearing apparel missing from Public Utilities Commits sioner Higgins's home at Harford, sinca the state banquet. John B. Adams,
 President Winsted B. M. A.
 Winsted, March Is.
 Wearing apparel comes under the head of private utilities, and is not to be dragged in for discussion here. The question is, Has the Winsted B. M. A. acted upon the suggestion referred to Or has it hasn't? President Adams evades the lssue.-Ed.1
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

White, of the Harvard Medical School, verges closely upon high treason. He knows not the hallowed sanctity of that with which he is airily triflng. It re- mains the duty of President John Rode meyer, benedict though he be, to don his armor and go forth to battle against the iconoclast who ventures to predict that a bald head is merely sign of lack of hair handed down from another genera tion. Perish the thought l- Anson1a Sentinel.
 No use donning the armor. It ought not to be necessary to remind the es- teemed Sentinel that ever since fhe Bald Head Club of America achieved world wide distinction, scientists, professors and learned sharps galore, choking with a consuming thirst for even transitory fame, have wriggled into public notice by advocating all sorts of hifalutin theo- ries concerning balditude," not with any idea of proving anything, but for the manifest purpose of drawing the fire of the B. H. o. of A. and getting little attention from that organization.
 Since the club was org Lnized the bald head has received more scientific theo. retical analysis from the wise and long, haired gentry than during the whole century preceding. This latest claimant brings no new theory. Others have claimed that badness is hereditary, just as it has been claimed that bald ness IS an acquired trademark; that it is the penalty of sin, the reward of virtue, result of organic discombobola- tion, a symptom of mental obliquity, an index of genus, a sign of moral crook edness, proof of infexible righteous ness, and so forth.
 The B. H. O. declines to be put upon the defensive. Its chief executive. MT. R. J. Orr, has issued strict orders pro- hibiting any serious refutation of these various theories, and points with pride to the distinguished and widely spread ing mem uership.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

"Hear about Blowitt's latest folly He's paid 5000 for 8 Turkish rug"
 "Oan you beat it I"
 "Why-er-I suppose so i; though I should do it rather gently. ."-Boston Transcript.
 "That hypnotist has wonderful power. He can make person feel hot or cold, happy or morose, at will"
 "That's nothing: a janitor can do that."- Boston Tranicript.
 Edltor-"You must remember that poetry is a gift" nowadays. ."-The Idler.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
'' BAL DITUD E.

Members of the Bald-H Club of America are informed now by high au. thority that the glistening glory of their crowns IS not 8 personal attribute of su- perior pulchritude, but that the hairless dome of thought is hereditary and not sn asset of the individual. In thus chal. longing the hitherto undisputed claim of the members of the club that their premature balditude was the result or . forcing process upon defenseless half by bulging cerebellums, Or. Charles J..
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
Shopping.
A lady ambles to a store


 To buy a spool of thread, And first she looks at hats galore. Then carving knives and bread. From there she travels to the aisle Where davenports are kept, And then she fingers for a while Around the ribbon dept. She looks at frying pans and lace, Inspects the latest books. She prices lotions for the face And linen goods and hooks. And when she's canvassed all the joints And clerks are nearly dead, The brings the matter to point And buys her spool of thread.
 Louisville Coarier- Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

Johnny DeSaulles, the former Yale football captain, just appointed United States minister to Uruguay, never had the honor of being Canaanite, but his brother Charlie once attended school bere-and that's worth something to the family
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

''Is he member of your local cavalry troop"
 ' "Oh, no; he's just naturally conoeit- ed."-Buffalo Express.
 Have astormy trip over?" 'r-
 Yep. Didn't eat a singie breakfast. Nothing but coffee aud rolls"
 "Did the steward furnish the roll?"
 "No. the ship. Plain Dealer.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

At a special town meeting Saturday, Winsted refused to declare itself fool. by voting not to rescind it's own action at former town meeting when it authorized re-valuation of the taxable property of the town.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

Manlfestly wisdom should dictate that the public gutters and sluice- ways be put into condition to take care of the freshets before the freshets begin to flood the streets. But manifestly wisdom doesn' t do anything of the kind. i. -.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
The Waters of West Main. tho Editor Of The NnUUc.

Let others write of hlm who braved
 The flood of Johnstown lanes, But will write of him who swam
 The waters of West Main.
 Resident of West Main.
 The situation on West Main street during the flood season, is rather tough on the Pilgrims and Methodists who live on that thoroughfare, that's fact; but we Baptlsts don't mind it much.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

The average business or professional man perhaps belives that the public schools no longer drill into pupils the stern, character-building stuff that he got as lad. The feeling is natural. But it leads at times to generallties which show nothing else quite so much as that the critic has forgotten his own boyhood.- Torrington Register.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

Page as Am mbassador recalls to the mind of Editor Chapin, of the Waterbury American, the limerick .Me There was young lady in Lynn, Who was so terribly thin,
 That when she essayed
 To drink lemonade She slipped through the straw and fell
 in
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
The Squaw.

He trade me off for saddle.cloth
 An tell me, Fade ''-"Vamoose p Am all he leav' for t'ink heem of,
 Is leetle, damn papoose. Last squaw- man, I don lak heem ugh
 Qn dry arroyo's bed. He lie all bleed, in willow brush }
 kill Maybe soon dead. -Harper's Weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

After the last snow storm in New Haven there was paid into the police court $198 in fines collected from those who did not keep thelr walks clear of snow. Now just s'pos1ng. for instance.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

The astronomers tell us the moon is a dead planet; yet when the eclipse was on, Wednesday night, during the three hours the moon was in darkness it travelled through 4, ,165 miles of shadow. That's going some-for dead one.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

A Rhode Island legislator has intro duced resolution making it misde- meanor to use profane or improper language, with penalty of $20 fine or 10 days in jail. Oh, Fudge
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
ROYAL SERVICE.
BY EMMA RoDEMEYER WAIT.

In the simple round of duties
 That the passing hours bring, We can find life's truest comfort,
 And the sweetest song can sing. In the simple round of duties,
 Though no other eye may see, Faithfulness is royal service
 Its reward is victory.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

There are times when we must all bow to the inevitable, but we never make bosom friend of him. New York Times.
 "He seems to be always chasing rainbows."
 "Yes that appears to be his method of providing Tor a rainy day. ."-Judge.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

Who and what are most responsible for the l. W. w.? That responsibility rests, declares ex-President Taft, on the snug cynicism of the selfish lives led by the indifferent and idle rich--a true diagnosis. Waterbury American.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS

AR. EATEN, optlcian of rorrlng gton, 5oun will be at The Garfield" hotel the first Mon day and Tuesday afternoons Of each month If unable to call seuI postal Consuitatlon free TO RENT-Rooms in Garfield Building. light and heat. W. A. Wright.
 DETECTIVES - If you require efficient and thorough detective service .n any matter, at q nominal rate, consult A. e, Brown, 45O Asylum street, Charter 1l22, Hartford, Conn.
 =-a===z= acknowledgements and optican will be at Mrs. M. A. Halls kalls Village, March 2o, 20. FOR RENT House, with or without two acres of land, stunted iu the village of Canaan. Possession given immediately. N. s. Peases Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

Get Together. Pull Together. If united effort cannot always make town boom, it can at least keep it from com plete stagnation.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

The missing Dorothy Arnold has been found. in Los Angeles, California. but unfortunately she is not the missing Dorothy Arnold.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM

The News should appeal with special force to the sagacious business man.
 It has an extensive circulation in Western Connecticut, and especially throughout Litch- field County and Southern Be-.zshire.
 It has competent staff of wide-awake cor respondents in the various towns to report the local doings each week. and goes into the homes ani is perused by the entire families of the thrifty, intelligent, reading class of people whom the long headed advertiser most desires to reach.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

The intelligence comes from Brazil that Col. Roosevelt's party escaped at- tack from savages. However, it's the savages that are to be congratulated.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

"What shall we do with our ex-Presi- dents?" asks the Norwich Record. We'll, for one thing, the recruiting stations of the ''army of the unemployed'' are still 0pan
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

In the light of recent events "good roads, appears to bea misnomer .-Ohat- ham Courier.
 It is that way in Chatham. too?
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
THE NEWS AGENTS

Extra copies of The News are on sale at th' ofice of publication and at fi Dempsey's Drug Store, Canaan, Post Office, East Canaan.
 D. H. Oakes' Store, Lakeville,
 Post Office. Falls Village, George T. Johnson's Store, Norfolk, Scutt & Rood Ashley Falls.
 A. l.. Dickinson, Salisbury J. W. Morgan, Great Harrington, Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

Lee, Mass, goes in favor of license by one majority. And in the dry towns surrounding, all roads run Lee ward.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

We rise to inquire if anybody can tell just what all the ruction in Mexico is about?
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

The government has not yet ordered ths New Haven road to pull up it's rails.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

Subscribers are requested to notify the pub- fisher promptly of any failure to receive papers regularly, changes of residence etc.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

"Does your father object to kissing?" "I don't know. Shall tell him that you would like to kiss him P'-Houston Post.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
NORTH CANAAN HAS

A population of 2,1n, (census of 1910.) Two railroads.
 National and Savings Banks. Trolley railroad extending through the Berkshires to Pittsfield and beyond. Up-to-date High School and flrst-class school system.
 Five churches.
 First-class hotel.
 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-awake 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., 1914-03-19
WANTED

WANTED Farm to buy or rent, any size and location. Also undeveloped land. Also road house and hotels. Write Brionue, a Duane St, New York.
 WANTED-Local representative in Canaan and vicinity to write accident and health insurance. men applying for this position. Address, A. D. D., Box 6I7 Meriden, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

FOR SALE-40 tons stock and good horse hay, thirteen to seventeen dollars per ton at barn, one mile north of Canaan Valley, Conn. Baled horse hay nineteen dollars per ton. A. E. Benton, Canaan, Conn, R. +. D.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

WE HAVE Coe Mortim sr's and Buffalo Fertilz- CTS iu stock Why not buy now M. C. Dean & Sons.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

FOR SALE-Place owned by Moses Fish on Bell den street road to Falls Village. h5 acres land, good house and barn. Will ell stock and tools. Easy terms. Enquire of o. W. Hall, Real Es- tate, Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

FOR SALE-Two bedroom suites, some bed steads, rockers and other chairs, pans and . number of other useful articles. Mrs. Abel Stevens, Canaan Valley.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

FOR SALE-The Daniel Corners place, near Canaan Valley, consisting of l55 acres. Good house and barns. running water to both. Keep 25 head of cattle. Best bargain yet. Inquire of Geo. w. Hall, Real Estate. Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

FARM FOR SALE-The Madam Kinline place near Southfield, Mass. Large house and barn, 80 acrss land. Enquire of c. w. Hall, Real Es- tate, Canaan. Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
Cent-a-Word Advertisements
 Minimum Charge 25 Cents
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-At Falls Village, house and one acre of ground, some fruit. tn good repair, beautiful scenery, ten minutes walk from new power house. Address Mrs O. A. Seymour, 3a0 Lenox Road. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

5000 pounds, the other 2.6o0 pounds. Age be- tween five and six years. Frank Roster, East Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19

FOR SALE-A good upright Schencke Piano, Cabinet Grande. Also good No. Underwood Typewriter. Win sell cheap for sash or will trade for young stock. Address, M l.. Blod- gett, Falls Village, Conn.
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