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The Springdale news., 1915-10-15
For Indigestion

Never take pepsin and prepara- tions containing pepsin or other di- gesti4e ferments for indigestion, as the more you take the more you will have to take What is needed is q tonic like Chamberlain's Tablets that will enable the stomach to per form its functions naturally. Ob everywhere
The Springdale news., 1915-10-15

ssFhe latest fad in Paris is for women to lead pet animals to match their furs The pet skunk will prove just too cunning for anything to look at. but don't iostle him .e
The Springdale news., 1915-10-15

valuable dressing for flesh wounds, burns, scalds. old sores. rash. ehafed skin. is BILLIARDS SNOW llNiMENT, 1t is both healing and anttseptie. Price 25e, 50c and 5 % per bottle. Sold by W. G. Own bey.
The Springdale news., 1915-10-15

Think of having a cold storage for leaves; but Italy says her silk worms must be fed.
The Springdale news., 1915-10-15

Hard to get a strait tip from the
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
The Atlantic Inner Waterway.
Bridgeport Standard.)

The matter of national prepared fore thepeople, brings with it as among the measures that should be aoopted in any reasonably complete scheme of preparation, the subject of the Atlantic deeper waterways, which in coast defence would give the United States an inside line to communica- ticn extending from Boston to Florida that would be of great advantage to any American fleet charged with the duty of patrolling the coast. Con- meeting up the existing waterways and deepening some that need it, would enable a fleet to make it's way out of reach of an enemy to any poin5 On the coast that needed defending at any time and would give, in a much larger measure, the protection which the Kiel canal has afforded the Ger man navy since the European war began.
 The chain of inner channels would increase the efficiency of the Ameri- can navy on the Atlantic coast very greatly and would afford communica- tion for ships of commerce which in time of war would be cut off from the use of the outside routes. For very many purposes the advantages Of this inner route would be very great at is would not only be safe from the attacks of foreign foe. but would be also protected from storms and, therefore, doubly safe. Secre- tary of War Garrison and Secretary of the Navy Daniels are both in favor Of improving this inner way to make it available, not only in war, but also in peace, for the facilitation of our Coastwise commerce.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02

Washington, D. c. Dec. With the coming of the relief armies landed by the Allies for the succor of the hard pressed Servians, the tradesmen of the Greek port Saloniki say the re- ports from the Near East, have flour ished as seldom before, and Dunmeh Jew and Greek are said to have found this stage of the world-war 8 special W1ndfall for themselves. Wealth is very uuevenly distributed in this lit tie port, where Greek, Jew and Bulgar nave been held to poverty through years of Turkish administration. There IS, however, one very rich clique in Saloniki, which is described in the Following war primer just issued by the National Geographic Society.
 First among Salonikrs citizens of wealth, who are now enjoying the op- portun1ty of purveying in wholesale quantities to French and British sold iers' are the Dunmehs, sect, or rather comm mun1ty peculiar to the city. iiey are Jews, who, the stranger is told, have been converted to Moham- mechanism. Just how successful their conversion really was no one knows, but there is an interesting legend which embodies the traditions of their
 
 centuries ago a certain Jew of Salon iki, Sabatia Sevi by name became convinced that he was the Savior prophesied for his race He declared himself to his people in Saloniki as their long-awaited redeemer. and soon won a strong and enthusiastic following. The Turkish Sultan. un- willing that redeemers should flourish under the crescent, or that a danger ous fanatic power the more should develope under his sway, had Sabatai Sevi arrested and brought before him at Constantinople. The story of the reformer found no favor at the palace, and he was given the alternative of death or conversion to Mohammed- anism with his entihe flock. The leg end concludes that he, and his chose the Koran in preference to death.
 This formal conversion to Moham- mechanism has been the greatest com- mercial asset of the Dunmehs through many generations of successful trade at Saloniki. With all the business keeness of the Jew, they combined all of the privileges of the ruling Ottoman and were thus among the most able traders within the Ottoman Empire. It has been said that they professed Mohammedanism merely for safety, and that they had continued their religion in secret. Tn any case, they are n4t fanatics, although through the yearSof Turkish rule of Saloniki they were accepted by the ruling race as co-religionists.
 "The richest people in Saloniki, they have jealousy guarded what ever their secrets may be, and, in Turkish garb, they have gone their way through centuries quietly and in dustriously amassing fortunes They have not married outside their own sect, nor sought beyond their fold for other forms of social relationships. Their community keeps itself, with it's education, it's own social life. and US own success. For many years, these people throve by sub-letting
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
UP, MEN, AND AT FEM.

If things keep going on as they have been in the past week or so it will not be surprising to see a small battle, if not war, sta ged in our own United States, and the fighting will take place between the so-called paci- fists the peace-at-any-pric people. and the warriors bold, or those who ad- vocate Preparedness. Henry Ford and William Jennings Bryan would be naturally selected to lead the paci- fists and patrons, as Colonel Roose- welt calls them, while the Colonel him. self would mount a charger and get out ahead of the iron men, There would be women in this war, too. Jane Addams. of course, would be se- lected to take care of the hospital end, while on the opposite side Dr. Mary Walker might find a place. President Wilson and former President Taft would probably be drawn into the fray if it lasted long enough We suggest that this battle, if it must be staged, be put on in the Yale bowl for the benefit of European war sufferers.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK
Womans work in municipalities by
 Mrs

. Woman's work in municipalities, by Mrs. M. R. Beard. Tn grappling with the problems 1 of education, public health, the recre- ! ation, the assimilation of races, hous- 1 ing, social service, corrections, pub 1 lie safety, civic improvement, gov ernment and administration, the au- thor records woman's achievements, as represented in urban communities l in various parts of the United States. not alone the large cities. Suggestive and inspiring to individuals and clubs. "A. L. A. Booklist. Fiction. Bent tW1g. by Mrs. D. F. Fisher.
 "An interesting and thoughtful novel, vivid portrayal of an uncon- ventional professors family in Il middle west university The contrast between their unassurning simplicity ! and fineness and the more spectacular standards of the social leaders of the town makes a test for proving the character of Sylvia The other characters are true to type, the mother is positive inspiration. "-- A. l.. A. Booklist. Crevlce, by w. J. Burns and Isabel Ostrander. A detective story. Janice Day and The Testing of Janice Day, by H. B. Long,
 
 Man from Bitter Roots by Caroline
 Lockhart.
 Steppe. and other stories. bv Anton
 Tchekhov.
 These twain, by Arnold Bennett.
 This volume completes the story of the "Clayhanger'' and 'FIilda Less ways.'' ''
 under the tricolour, by Pierre Mille
 The author of these stories has done for the French colonial sol dler what Kipling did for the Eng fish Tommy in India.
 There are tales of mystery, tra- gedy, humor, all equally we'll told, and all original and entertaining.''- Boston Transcript.
 Up the road with Sallie, by F. R.
 Sterrett
 "A very slight but amusing story" A. L. A. Booklist.
 Why not?, by Margaret Widdemer.
 "ROsamond had never had her own way, so when her grand uncle left her three thousand dollars she de- cided to use it to make some things she wished come true. Why not?" A house in the woods somewhere, a Livonian bloodhound, knightly 1ov- CT, some one to look up to her. Of course it all came true in one way or another'-A. l.. A. BookIist.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02

an investigation extending over a year
 and which took in every part of tie | south. Taking the highest of the | time price states, Arkansas, investdga-
 tors found that the average cash | price for corn is S6 cents a bushel. and the average time price is $1.1O: for flour, the cash buyer pays S1.3O a sack, the time price buyer pays $1.70; cash price for cornmeal is 93 cents a bushel, time price is S1.22; the time price for lard is three cezts a pound more than the cash price. sugar costs threecents a pound more: and molasses cost IA cents more a gallon.
 These products were selected be- cause they make up most of what southern agricultural people buy for food for themseles and their anil mals. e.
 The Texas figures are little better.
 No one unacquainted with the tables of the south among the poorer classes one realize how much increas- ed prices on cornmeal and nnolasses means. That is their chief staff of life. They eat it morning, noon and night.
 The time pricer seldom loses, fcr his customers are too poor to move ex- cepting to the graveyard, and then he drives the widow and children into the field to pay the old bill along with the bill for their food that year There are some bad crop years, of course, and often a portion of the time price bill has to go on to the next years bill, which means that the customer is bound all the tighter in his slavery.
 Remedies have been suggested. Among them are more liberal credits. personal and land, to the small farmers; abolishing the crop lien; abolishing landlordism; encouraging thrift, and educating the people.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
Two Views From the Trenches.
 (BridgepOrt Farmer.l

The news of yesterday gave two views of war, the first by an American football player, Florence J. Price, who is serving in the French trenches. the other from Carl Schultz, a private who deserted from the German ranks and came to this country as stowa- way. The former says, Life is safer here in this trench, than in England" ,"
 The other said My father and brother were both killed in the trenches. l don't want to be sent back"
 Is the difference between these views to be attributed to the different spirits of the men who utter them. CT to difference in the service they have seen? Probably to both. War IS certainly more terrible than the ex- perience of MT. Price would indicate
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
A HAPPY THOUGHT.

le John Wanamaker, who deS-
 himself as a shop-keeper, was
 engaged in telling an audience
 Ehy he could not make that
 long journey on Henry Ford's
 sed peace mission, the great
 Helphian cast upon the ears of uditors the following happy ht:-"We have a right to be
 of our French, our English. Belgian, and our German blood; Ive must remember that first, hnd all the time we are Ameri- As Americans we are neutral t we are to be neutral we should b keep so.' It would be well very man on American soil to that idea and paste it in his
 We must never forget we are jeans, however proud we may our foreign ancestral blood. at this particular time it is q good place in which to dwell. America. Further, it is good for oul to think upon the fact that re Americans, that we are not oiled in the terrible ravages of that we are at peace with the l, that we are neutral. Surely s a happy thought, and one we'll l while dwelling upon.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
Popular Songs.

J.Fred Helf, author of Everybody Works but Father and more than a hundred other popular songs, has Jlst died at Liberty, N. Y. Nearly everybody in the United States has teen familiar with a number Of his compositions. Yet probably not one person in 10000 ever heard of his name. It is an anonymous and evan escent kind of fame.
 The contagion of popular songs of this type is something marvellous Enterprising publishers distribute them to every music store in the land, and within week all the pie ture theaters, minstrel and burlesoue sl ows are trying them out. Tn an. other week they have been heard bv many millions of people, and their in tectious melodies are heard on every street.
 Unfortunately these transient con-
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02

The gentleman stretched himself out cooked his ears waiting for the usual rapid-fre of converse. But, alas! The barber said not word, he merely
 kept on shaving. The old gentle man was amazed. Had he suddenly gone deaf? No, he could hear other i barbers at other chairs talking and
 shaving their clients to death; but
 his own barber said not word, he merely kept on shaving. Surely then this barber was deaf, thought the man in the chair But, the artistry of harbery completed, when the old
 gentleman started to sally forth from
 the shop he heard the very musical
 voice of the barber at chair number
 six wishing him a very pleasant jour-
 ley. The barber had said, as is the
 custom, Gail Again!', ',--the only
 words he uttered. And the old gentle
 man, much bewildered, hailed a pass
 ing hansom cab, drove immediately home, and made out his will. He be- qucathed the sum of fifteen thousand
 dollars to the barber at chair number six at the Astor Hotel barber shop.
 having previously learned the name of the master of the razor And he gave this sum because he had gotten that much joy out of a silent shave.
 Because barbers, like followers of ether professions, are given to much ambling about the country, the keeper of chair number six waited eight years before he got the reward of his silence. But he got it, and today he IS the proudest barber in the world. lie has shown that to be great in any walk of life a man has to do some tli1ng out of the ordinary And he aid. He wa barber and he didn't 1 talk,-he simply kept on shaving.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
Time Price System.
(New Haven Times-Leader.

1 (NeW Haven IlmeS-L6aQ6r.) 1 A leading southern farm journal ] has just published the results of it's l investigations of time prices in the l south. It has found out that the i time price" system is creating an- other race of slaves in the southern states, and these slaves are white as well as black.
 The poor people living in the rural districts from North Carolina to Texas and from Tennessee to Florida are clutched tightly in a system which not only keeps them living in direst poverty but binds them to their local ities as effectively as old-time slavery held the colored bondman.
 They have to pay 54 per cent. to 90 per cent. interest in the food they eat!
 The time pricer is storekeeper who takes a crop lien for the pay ment of bills due him. He is pro- tected from losses as long as he does not allow a greater credit than his customers crops may amount to.
 He frequently makes strong efforts to persuade his customers to get deeper into debt. If he can get a customer to the point where his crop is taken up entirely by the landlord and the time price bill it means that the customer must begin buying on the time price plan right after his crops are in, or in other words con- tinue it from year to year
 Time prices in the south are in a way what charge accounts are in the north, excepting that time prices are used a means of gouging the last red cent out of the poor, white and tlack alike, while in the north the lawful profit.
 The southern farmers that is the little centers, usually exist upon most rleager incomes. Most of them never have any money, their crops being just about big enough to pay the rent and the bill at the time price store. A few manage to keep away from the t.me price store until spring; fewer still have cash enough to get them part way through the summer
 Thousands of families ar held m for 70 per, cent. interest on every m outhful of food they eat That is seven times the legal rate of interest allowed in any southern state.
 The lowest time price interest rata in the south if that of Virginia 6a per cent; the highest in Arkansos 9G per cent.
 These figures were obtained after
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
"T'he Vardar River Valley"

The Vardar river valley, where the Bulgarians and French have been ad-blocked now in a desperate cliff-and-canyon struggle of weeks. presents battle-ground almost as un- favorable as that along which the Austrians and Italians are contend ing" says a war primer given out to- day by the National Geographic So- ciety Below Uskup this valley is formed by the attenuation of wild gorges and small, mountain-ribbed plateau. It is dominated by one bare rocky peak or mountain shoulder aft CT another, and along it's entire course is protected by countless natural strongholds. Here cutting deep grooves through the cliffs and there emerging for @ brief course on a plain whose bowl may be dominated by mountain placed artillery on every hand, the problem of forcing their way down the Vardars course is, likely, the most severe physical prob lem confronting the Bulgarians.
 'The Vardar rises in two branches near the Albanian boundary, which flow north and unite just before the river reaches Uskup. Here it swoops east and southeast through its chaos of hills and crags toward the south eastern corner of Servia and the Gre- clan frontier. It empties into the Gulf of Saloniki 12 miles southwest of Saloniki port. From Uskup on, 1t is Macedonian river.
 The French hold this valley from point some miles below Koprili. The
 roads along this old section of the Valley which forms the second most i noted Balkan route, that of Nish- Saloniki, are very bad. The railway
 parallels the rivers course, and. since its building, has carried most all of ] the Servian traffic that has flowed toward the Aegean Sea. This rail- way is noted as being one of the slowest in the Balkans. The Mace donian peasant pays for his travel by 1 the hour, and, in order to give him
 his moneys worth, the Uskup-SaIon- iki railroad hardly out-distances the
 OK team, and the hours and the price of the cart and the train bear a strong relationship to one another. There is much picturesque beauty in this valleys scenery, though it's hills and mountains are in great part
 bare rocky masses lacking in the
 green background of northern and
 central Servian forests. Some of the
 way is as savage as are the paths through the broken Dolomites. and here the rocks are harder than the crumbling Dolomite masses. The rivers course stretches about 200 miles, passing near the Bulgarian border near the stronghold at Strum- itza, crossing the Greecian frontier near Karasuli, and some score of miles below breaking into the fertile, open gulf plain between the Sa1oniki mountains and those of northern Greece"
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
Too Much Truth.
(New London Day.)

There are occasions upon which # is unwise to tell too much truth. The present, when the majority of the people in this country are being grad- ually converted to some sort of reaI- ization of the necessity for prepared ness, is one of those times. It is well to show the people of the scouptry some of the proofs of our danger; it is not well to show them all. Be- cause if the light let in upon the situa- ton be too strong it will merely blind them and they will see nothing at all.
 Henry Reuterdahl, the artist, who is an expert on navy affairs-admit- tedly so-has an article in the Metro politan magazine which is, in our opinion, of doubtful expediency. 1t IS the most drastic criticism or the national attitude toward defence that we have ever seen. It is also, unfor- tunately, true in all its essentials. But its effect on the majority of those who read it, will be to creat incredu- ! lous disbelief.
 Advocates of preparedness would do well to limit the truths they tell to the capacity of the, public to receive them. Otherwise they might, perhaps, better keep still There is enough of skepticism without making skep tics out of those who are already half converted.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02

Thaddeus Stevens, the great Com moner from Vermont, is the man de- picted by the radical Stoneman. Just before the outbreak of the war be- tween the states Stevens went with the mass of the Northern Whig party over into the ranks of the new Republican party, serving as a member in the House of Representatives His drastic methods proposed for conducting the war won him many enemies. He ad- vocated the wholesale confiscation of lands in the seeding states, the emancipation and enfranchisement and social equality of the negroes His views were so radical that even members of the war party disagreed with him. Stevens lived long enough after the Civil War to take a leading part in the unsuccessful impeachment of President Johnson. He also wit messed the admission of the first in stallment of reconstructed states. He was born in 1792, died in 1S6S.- (Ed.)
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02
D THE BARBER KEPT ON
 SHAyING."

hose who make barbery their
 work have been, for one reason
 another, chara cterized as men of
 ds and not of deeds although
 hap while they are talking on
 are usually shaving off. Led to
 bat in any tonsorial parlor by the Factiveness of red and white Tally striped pole, it is seldom that
 person of the male sex gets out
 the chair without having had
 ious quantities of jargon and dia- De poured into his unprotected ears the master of the lather and brush h because of the adept manner in ich most barbers stuff bubbly soap their customers mouths, thus pre- hting any questions or answers emit g from the patient, the conversa- in barber shop is usually rather e-sided. This is one of the reasons Fn shave at home, so 'tis said. But now for every rule there must an exception. And so it is even [th barbers. There has been dis Wered one of the craft who is not. nature or accomplishment, a talka- Fe man. He has been unearthed in punt Holly, N. J. After strenuous forts on the part of a New York W firm, involving an eight months UT Of the nation, looking into every ,ok, ,crannie,s Turkish bath, and bar T shop, the great and only silent .rber has been ferreted out. And hen found he was promptly handed check for the munificent sum of steen thousand dollars,-a reward IT his curtailment of the powers of 'eech.
 Here is how it all happened. Ten !. twelve years ago this particular arber was working at chair number x in the Astor House barber shop New York. One day a gentleman very dignified mien came in the iop and ensconsed himself in the hair presided over by this barber.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02

While the Herald appreciates let concerned it can never publish any of these letters unless the name and the address of the writer are known There are in this office some five or six communications, any one of which would make good reading; but we cannot let them see cold print unless We know more of the senders. When requested, the name of any letter. writer will be held confidentially.- Ed.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-02

positions take the place of the fine cid songs that everyone used to know. The crowd that used to get to- gether on doorsteps and sing "Suwa- nee River and Ben Bolt" have long ago lost their voices. The young folks know not the words and scarce ly the airs of these classics. Nothing that is more than three months old is up to their pace, and the mark ct for the songs of this type seems il- limitable. It must be admitted that they have a very catchy snap.