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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07
Find Cure for Leprosx.

Filipino doctors think they may
have discovered a cure for leprosy In
the administration of an oil called
chaulmoogra. Experiments carried
on at the San Lazaro hospital by the
Philippines bureau of health resulted
In the discharge as cured OF two pa
tisnts. In both cases, according to the
report OF the director OF the bureau,
after the administration of chaul-
moogra oil for some time. all treat
ment was discontinued for the period
of one year, the final microscopical ex-
animation showing negative results.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

was shut out. After they were SEN
fenced 1t was discovered that they
were husband and wife. The female
prisoner appealed from conviction.
and not only did she fail to raise the
point of marital coercion. but she in
sisted that she didn't know the CO.
defendant In spite of this the court
of criminal appeals felt bound to
quash her conviction on the ground
of the woman's Relationship with Rus
sell, probably for the reason that the
woman was undefended and was un-
aware OF her legal rights.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07
Just ACTING Natural,

We were playing bridge the other
night (confesses a correspondent and
played a game that was Just a little
rottener than my ordinary game. II
such a thing might be conceived to
be possible. When he held the post
mortem ! was impelled to remark:
I'm afraid l made a fool of myself
In that hand"
My partner, with an evident wish to
console me, FASTENED TO answer:
"oh, don't see how you could have
done anything elsei"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07
Bacteria In Public Baths.

Electrolyzed sea water. poured into
swimming pools in small quantities,
has proved TO be an effective sterilizer
to be used in the fight against noxious
bacteria. Its sterilizing action is SO
great. as experiment has shown, that
thirty gallons will keep the water in
an S. 00-gallon tank clear and free
from bacterial organisms for several
days. And the ~electrolyzed sea water
costs only about $40 per 1000 gallons.
The need OF such a sterilizer is shown
by the fact that in a freshrwater pond
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

u~ndefended, and when the case
against them was presented there was
no suggestion that they were con
nected with each other. but It was pre-
sumed that they were accidentally In
the shop at the same time. After
both had been found guilty a detec-
tive said he believed there was some
relationship between them. but Rus
sell objected to this evidence and 1t
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07
Novel Point of the Law

A unique case involving the old pre-
sumption Of marital coercion" in
,riminal cases is reported by the Lon
lon Law Journal in Rex. vs.. Mary
mn Green, in which 1t appeared that
he prisoner and a man named Rus
ell were jointly indicted for stealing
wo suits OF clothes from a pawn
brokers' shop. The prisoners were
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07
Paw Knows Everything.

Willie-Paw, do you know all about
a brass band?
Paw-Yes, my son. Why do you
ask?
Wime-Well, If a horn player gets
sick does his substitute?
Paw-You 90 TO bed, Willie.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

Major Robert X. Motion, command
ant of Hampton Institute for over
twenty years, is, next to Booker T.
Washington, the most distinguished
graduate of Hampton.
He is president of the Negro Or
ganizatioH Society of Virginia, and
secretary of the Jeanes Fund Board.
Major Motion has travelled all over
the country with Booker 7. Washing
ton, and is credited with exerting a
tremendous influence in bringing
white and colored people into more
helpful relations.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

New York's first elevated railroad
was built in Greenwich street in 1857
and was operated by a cable which ran
underground and over the structure
upon spider wheels.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

of 100, 900 gallons, used by $50 bath
ers. the bacteria have been known to
increase from 500 to $4,000 e cubic
centimeter (about lie cubic inch) ! n
n day.-Popular Mechanics.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

Among the many definitions of gen.
ius, that of Thomas A. Edison has
the virtue of brevity, not to say wit:
Genius is two per cent. inspiration
and SO per cent. perspiration."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

Guadalupe is growing a new kind
OF coffee, introduced from the Congo
country. This is known as coffee
~robusta.' and 1t IA discovered in
1898.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

More than 5000 cases of typhoid
fever were reported in New York city
in the month Of September.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

Wooden pals are being displaced by
steel receptacles, says the American
Machinist. For the paint trade alone
one plant turns out every year 4,OOO,-
900 steel pals to hold white lead.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

Napoleon III. strictly limited preach
ers before him to a quarter of an
hour, and If they exceeded lit an Off
Ger Of the imperial household stepped
to the pulpit and stopped the dis.
course.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

What a girl likes about an engage
ment ring is that it doesn't back up
her blushing denials.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

Race prejudice and it's eradication
were the topics discussed at the Sec
ond of the seasons Saturday lunch
cons of the Republican club at New
York. Discrimination against the
Jews, Japanese, Chinese and negro
was taken up respectively by the Rev.
DR.. Samuel Schulman, Rabbi of Tenn
pie Bethel; DR.. Toyckichi Syvenaga,
professor of history in the University
of Chicago; Prof. H. C. Mel, secretary
of the China Society of America, and
Butler r, Wilson of Boston.
Speaking in behalf of the negro, Mr..
Wilson said that appeals to the
church, society and the agents of the
constitution had alike failed to ameli-
crate conditions, and that the govern
ment had bowed down to race preju-
dice. In the south, the speaker said,
race prejudice was u~nreasoning and
fixed, while in the north it was emo
tional hysteria.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

Farm segregation, as the newest
and most pressing development of the
Negro problem in the south. was the
main topic of the public conference at
the annual meeting of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People held in New York re-
Gently. TIE speaker who told of the
movement, to curtail the land holdings
Of Negroes was DR.. w. e. B. Dubois,
director Of publicity and research for
the association and the first to spread
the facts of the situation in the north.
He attacked the position of Clarence
Poe, editor Of the Progressive Farmer,
as one of the chief supporters of the
idea Of farm segregation, and review
ed the progress in agriculture and
property in land on the part of the
Negro. which has led to the plan to
limit his activities.
DR.. Dubois began his talk on farm
segregation by reviewing the solution
Of the Negro problem suggested TWEEN
ty-fve years ago: Take the Negro
out of politics. Train him for work,
particularly for farm work. The re-
suit will be the disappearance of the
Negro problem" He went on to give
statistics to show that the Negro has
submitted to practical disfranchise-
ment throughout a large part of the
south, and to complete social discrim-
ination against him, to gain the
chance for education and independent
support. The results have been, DR..
Dubois asserted, that the Negro
schools have been neglected, that q
large proportion of the Negro chill
dren are not in school, and that there
has been quiet but determined opposi-
ton to the ucces of the higher
schools for Negroes, while in the in
dustrial and agricultural field the
Negro has had to contend against ire
mendous odds.
Instead of welcoming the fact that
despite odds the Negro has developed
his abilities and acquired farm prop.
erty, as the working out of the solu.
ton suggested a quarter of a cen.
fury ago, DR.. Dubois said, the ad.
vancement of the race has aroused
alarm. So long as the Negro accept.
ed education as training to work for
the white man there was no trouble,
he said, but when he began to work
for himself, objections at once sug-
gested themselves. The result is the
proposition of Clarence Poe, as editor
of the Progressive Farmer, that when
the greater part of the acreage Of a
section is owned by one race the
voters may say that no land within
this section shall be sold to a member
of another race, provided the vote is
reviewed and approved by a judge or
a county commission. This plan, DIR.
Dubois asserted, is based on the the.
ory OF race segregation, which has re-
suited in degradation and failure in
the case of the Indians. and which is
now aimed at a far larger class, the
Negroes.
Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette told the
good qualities of the Negroes az citi-
zens as she had observed them, their
ambition, their willingness to work,
their love of home and their natural
cheerfulness. In closing she urged
that the checking of the activity of
the race meant danger to the nation.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

The Yorkshire (England) village of
Kettlewell, which vas only recently
furnished with electric light, is yet
without telephones.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

A room in a school in Los Angeles
has been modelled after the principal
room in a Roman house, in the belief
that the pupils will learn Latin more
rapidly in appropriate surroundings.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

bNEA am NHS NNANE DENAN '@A NoO o
clasps, represented Mrs. Lincoln's ideas of mag
nifcence and not his own notion of solid comfort
He would be in his shirt sleeves, and If loud
knocking at the front door disturbed his elegant
leisure he would go to the door just as he was
and promise to "trot the women folks out without
delay. Mrs. Lincoln never forgave him for help
ing himself to butter at the table with his own
knife.
Lincoln's favorite outer garb as he sailed forth
in winter for his office was an ancient gray shawl;
he took particular pains never to have his hat
brushed or his shoes BACKED; his carpet bag
threatened at the seams to disgorge its burthen of
legal line his green cotton umbrella had
no handle to speak of, and inside was the legend,
"a. Lincoln" the letters cut out of white muslin
and sewed to the faded cloth. Altogether he
looked like the advance agent of a Denman
homps show. In 1856 a pair Of spectacles
cost him thirty-seven and one-half cents.
The Office was in character with the notorious
indifference to appearances of the senior partner
of the firm. Once a young law student attempted
to blaze a trail through the accumulated rubbish,
and found that som seeds given by a congress
man had taken root and sprouted in the dirt.
The mailbox was Lincoln's old plug hat, as was
formerly the case when he was postmaster at
New Salem. He also used the hat as a repository
for legal papers Of Importance. Miscellaneous
transactions were confided to the safekeeping Of
a mammoth envelope, on which Lincoln had
scrawled, when you can't find IT anywhere else,
look into this"
when Lincoln went into court tnere was none
of the see-the-conquering-hero swagger about him.
He would say, We'll, here l am, amt you glad to
see me?" and If in the course of the argument it
was necessary for him to concede a point to the
other side he would remark, II reckon 1t would be
fair to let in that" and when overruled by the
court would laugh and say, well. l reckon l must
be wrong"
When a lawyer asked him If an attachment had
the force Of a summons his confession Of ignor-
ance was cheerfully frank, "Damfno." On a long
palavering letter requesting his legal service he
wrote laconically, Count mt in. A. Lincoln"
The accounts of the firm never bothered him
he left all that to Herndon. He never disfgured
the account book himself with a reckoning. When
anybody gave him money for legal services he
would divide with Herndon, If the latter was in
the office. and when Herndon was not there he
would wrap the money up in a piece of paper,
mark 1t in pencil, Case of Smith VS.. Jones'
Herndon's half" and leave it in a drawer of his
partners desk.
When they made him president and he was Just
about to take the train for Washington he went
to the old office for the last time and found Hern-
don there.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-02-07

lief when the time came to put OF
hat and leave the office.
Lincoln generally got to the
office in the morning at 9 o'clock,
and when it was later, Herndon,
his partner, knew there had
been trouble at home, for Lin
coin then had no cheerful norm
ing greeting, only a grunt, as he
fell wolishly upon the morn
ing's mail. He might have
lunched, easily enough, at home,
but he preferred crackers and
cheese at the office, and often
stayed there until after dark.
Sometimes he would knock
off" in the late afternoon and
clean out the stable and saw
wood, feed the horse and milk
the COW. He had a passion for
chores of his boyhood days
on his fathers pitiful acres. He
was his own hired man until and
even after his election as presi-
dent. At midnight a neighbor
saw him once chopping wood for
his supper when his wife was
away.
In the evening, having no
club, Lincoln would ordinarily
go to the grocery store and
spellbind the cracker box
habitues with some more of his
everlasting anecdotes-only two
of which, he insisted, ere his
own invention. If a minstrel
show came to town he was sure
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
City Mems

William w. T. Squires. of Lilac street, has returned from a week 5 stay at Atlantic City.
 Miss Jennie Whitbeck. the trained nurse. has returned from a vacation spent at her home in Litchtield.
 The Calabash club had a shore din- ner at Morris Cove yesterday. family outing at Lake Compounce yesterday.
 Miss Charlotte Bertram has re- turned from vacation on the Mass achusetts coast.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Illingworth are spending their vacation in West Ha- ven.
 The Misses c. Becker, A Grammitt, k. Nailbauer, N Surke. c. R. c. Pup pell and E. DeJune, have returned from vacation at Short Beach.
 Mir. and Mrs. A. c. Kempton and family have returned from a short vacation at East River.
 The Holy Family Circle of St. Mary's church will hold their annual outing Thursday at Lake Compounce They will leave the center on spe- cial car at 11:3O.
 Godfrey Carlson went yesterday 10 Walnut Beach for a two weeks vaca ton.
 Dr. John E. Lee and wife of Brook lyn are visiting local relatives. They will sail soon for Europe.
 Miss Leila Burns has returned home from Pittsburg. She plans to go to the shore soon.
 Mrs. Gertrude Bowen, clerk in the office of the board of health. report ed for duty this morning after an ab- sence caused by illness.
 Mrs. Wesley Hull of Maple street entertained her sister. Mrs. Joseph Greer. John Greer and Bruce Beach of Bridgewater Conn.,. and Mrs. Ar thur Pebbles and son of Philadelphia, Penn. They came by auto.
 Mrs. M T. Crean and Mrs. John B. Foyer went yesterday to the National convention of the A. O. H. at Nor folk Viginia. State Vice President John F. Leeney of this city is also present there.
 Deputy City Clerk Harry liar greaves resumed his duties this morn ing at City Hall. after weeks ab- sence with the militia at Mantle Clerk Hargreaves Is regimental ser geant major of the First regiment.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20

ferences. It is believed an investi- gation will not only give time for the subsistence of passion and the restora- tion of calm and deliberate Judgment. but that it will also be useful in sep arating questions of fact and questions of honor.
 Section Four Omitted.
 Section of the treaties signed with Salvador Guatemala. Panama, Hon. duras and Nicaragua, MT. Bryan stated. had been omitted from all the other treaties except that with Persia The section provided that pending investigation and report of the investigation commission. the high contracting parties agree not to in- crease their military or naval pro- gram unless danger from third power shall compel such increase, in which case the party feeling itself menaced shall confidentially commun icate the fact in writing to the other contracting party, whereupon the lat ter shall also be released from its obligations to maintain its military and naval status quo"
 The great powers, 1t Is known, would not agree to such stipulation. Members of the foreign relations com mittee have not determined whether they will press the conventions for ratification at this session, but 1t is evident that the administration in- tends to press them as much as pos Sib1e.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
HEAVY PAPER MORTALITY.
Application of Militia Laws Causes Decrease of Ornamental Officers.

Washington, July 20.-Application of the new militia laws to the na- tional guard has caused heavy pa per mortality among the highly orna- mental officers The requirement that the militia conform in organization to regular army standards has been met by all of the states except South car olina, with the startling result that there have already been dropped three major generals, thirty brigadier generals, more than one hunoreo colonels and corresponding number of officers of less rank.
 As a result of these changes there has been a great improvement in the physical fitness of the enlisted force of the militia and progress in the instruction of officers who are now really availing themselves of the L,ndlv criticisms of the inspection of ficers of the United States army work ing among them.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
MAKES URGENT PLEA
 FOR PEACE FACTS
Wilson Urges Senate to Ratify Treaties With Foreign Nations.

Washington, July 20.-President Wilson, through Secretary Bryan. has notified the senate foreign relations committee he wishes to pressfor rati- fioation before adjournment of this session of congress the new peace treaties signed with twenty foreign powers.
 The presidents plan was communi- cated in a statement to members of the committee by Secretary Bryan. setting forth the following analysis of the general purposes of the treaties:
 Purpose of Treaties.
 That investigations shall be re- sorted to in all cases where the ordi- nary resources of diplomacy fail.
 That the contracting parties re- serve the right to act independently or the subject matter after the sub- mission of their report.
 That there shall be no appeal to force until the investigation Is com- pleted.
 That the commission Gin each easel be composed of five members, one chosen from each country from among it's own citizens. one chosen by each country from another country, and the fifth to be chosen by agree nnent of the two countries from some third country. In a few cases pro- vision is made for the appointment of the fifth member by the four me.n- bers or some neutral power of tribu nal in case the two countries cannot agree"
 Certain Exceptions Exist
 Discussing the proposed treaties, Secretary Bryan said:
 s "In most of our treaties there are certain exceptions and in most of these treaties the exceptions are: The vital interests, the independence and honor of the two countries and the interests of third parties. It is evil dent that these arbitration treaties do not prevent recourse to hostilities with regard to the causes included in the exception clause. 1t is the intention that the treaties now being exchanged shall close this gap and leave no cause for a declaration of war and the beginning of hostilities. until there has been an investigation of the diff
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
Advertised Letters.

The following is list of letters re. maining uncalled for at the New 1914: Britain, Conn. post office, July 20, Morris Derehersky. William Mitchell. (3). Morris Jacobson. Franklin Hatch. M. Anderson. c. J. Trumbull. Joe Singzdinis. l.. Stables. Oliver Surrell. Elmer J. Richards. E. Zenouke. Thomas Hooley Wilkinson. Dian Maracek. F, J. B. Malick. J. Holland. Frank Dithiel Clarence Chase. James M. Brown. James Bell. Edward Rutowski. Miss Lillian s. Woodford. Miss Sigrid Carlson. Miss Lillian Brown. Mrs. Hannibal P. Norton. Mrs. Maria Loomis. Mrs. Lidia Dey. Mrs. Linnora Schreger. Ask for advertised letters and rnen- ton date of list.
 IRA E. HICKS. Postmaster.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
BABY AND FATHER INJURED.
Automobile Driven By Westport Wom.
 an Strikes Bridgeport Folks.

AAuSobAAoOAAC DIANCu Dy WCStpUTI vOUl-
 an Strikes Bridgeport Folks.
 Bridgeport, Conn.,. July 2o.-Ed- ward Fahey and his daughter Mar guerite, two years old. who were struck by an automobile yesterday, driven by Mrs. Lillian Evans of Westport were reported to be rest ing fairly comfortably at the hospita: today. Both are conscious> It was thought at first that the childs skull had been fractured. but more thor ough examination has shown that this is not the case, and as the other in- juries are of a less serious nature her chances for recovery are consid- cred good. The condition of the father. however, is less favorable
 Mrs. Evans Is under $3,500 bonds. charged with operating a motor car without a license.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
TO BUILD PUMP HOUSE.

Landers, Frary and Clark are planning to build a new pump house with capacity of 1S0.000 gallons, to be placed near the power plant. On August 1 the forge shop and the ad- ditions to the celluloid and tin shops will be started. One of the oldest of the Landers, Frary and Clark buildings, known as the old cutlery shop" is about to be torn down It is situated near Center street and has been used most recently for electrical goods.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
CUT PRICES ON HETEROGENEOUS

5 SIS Mckee Now 5 700 , $l3.5o Baldwin Now 12.OO $27.5O Apartment Now $2C $22.5O Snow White Now SIS $65.OO Bonn <. Nov 5000
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
GRAND CIRCUIT OPENS.
Four Races on Today's Card at Cleve-
 land Track.

Cleveland O., July 20.-The wea- ther is all that could be desired for the opening of the grand circuit of the 1914 season at the North Randall track today. Four races are on the days card, including the 2:07 trot. Edwards $3,0OO stake for 2:1O pacers, 224 trot and 2:11 trot.
 Much interest centers in the Ed wards stake race. There are IS horses ready to start Nine horses will be scored abreast, making an even two tiers.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
FEDERAIIS REFUSE ATTACK

Cape Haitien, Haiti. July 20.-A strong attack was made by the rebels on this city today. but the assault ing force was eventually repulsed by the government troops. The fighting lasted from to o'clock in the morning and a large number of both forces were killed or wounded. Some rebels were taken prisoners.
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
COLLECTORS DROP OUT.

Five private garbage collectors have been eliminated by the board of health as a new wagon has been fin- ished for Henry Furman, the city contractor. It Is believed that all the private collectors will be eliminated in three weeks when new wagons will be ready for Furman
New Britain herald., 1914-07-20
CONGRESS OF ESPERANTO.
"Pygmation and Galatea" Sung By
 Delegates at Chicago.

: Chicago, July 20.-The seventh an- nual congress of the Esperanto as- sociation of North America opened here today. An unusual feature on the program for the meeting of the advocates of the universal language IS the singing in Esperanto of the opera of "Pygmation and Galatea."
 Six scenes of a version of the opera are to be given in full costume with orchestra accompaniment.