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New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
Metropolitan Provfncfalfty. (Meriden Journal)

Brooklyn, M. Y, a city of 2,OOO,- 900 people, seems to take the prize for provincipality. One morning last week two elderly sisters aged re- spectively 69 and 75, started out for a walk. In the course of their stroll they crossed a big bridge. They found themselves in the midst of 1ostling crowds in a region of appall- ingly high buildings. They were overwhelmed. They wandered around for hours in the rain, hopelessly lost At last, thoroughly exhausted and chilled to the bone, they were res- cued by a policeman and sent home Those women had lived in Brooklyn all their lives, and had never been In New York-just across the river. The case isn't the first of the sort reported from that strange, sprawling city on the western shore of Long Island, known on Broadway as "the bedroom of New York" A woman ticket agent in one of the Brighton "L' stations was heard by visitor not long ago remarking that she hadn't been to New York for fourteen years,' though any of the trains she sold tickets ior would have carried her there in thirty minutes for five cents. A Brooklyn theater manager who retired year ago and took his life in his hands by going over to Manhattan confessed that he hadn't crossed the river Tor twenty-five years. In the west, where a man or woman thinks notnlng or going 800 miles for friendly call or a little outing such provinclally IS incredible.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
OUR SUBMARINES.

While much has been said . and written anent the wonderful achieve ments accomplished by submarines of foreign nations, 1t is a very rare oc- curence when even honorab ble mention is extended the undersea boats be- longing to the United States. This may be because of reticence on the part of the Navy Department in giving out information or an overdeveloped propensity on the part of Americans to worship boats belonging to other nations. That our own craft are cap able of doing some things worthy of note, however, Is evidenced by the despatch from Honolulu today which sets forth the record made by four United States submarines, the K-3, K-4, KY, and K-8, which left San Francisco October 8, for Pearl Harbor and arrived at their destination last night after having travelled 2,1OO miles under their own power. This is record at least worthy of note
 The submarines were escorted on their Journey by the United States cruiser Maryland, the collier Nan shan, the tug Iroquois, and the tor pedo boat destroyer Lawrence. This is the first time United State subma- rines have undertaken such long voyage. And yet, there Is every req son why the submarines of the United States navy should be the best in the world. It was in this country that the submarine was invented 1t was in this country that 1t was brought to its present state of perfection. In our own state of Connecticut we harbor the man who is regarded as the pio- neer in modern submarine construc- tion, Simon Lake. Strange as it may seem, the United States Is said to have possessed a submarine in its Navy of 1777. It was invented by David Bushnell of Saybrook, Connect icut, and is described by historians as a turtle shaped affair, carrying 15O pounds of powder with mechanism to fire same when in contact with a ships bottom Thus, having made the start in submarine invention and construction there is no reason why the United States should not lead the world in maintaining and improving its work along these lines. America has been prone to let others take up where she left off. In the future there should be no laying off.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
HELP WANTED.

#ently have we waited for start
 ews from Meriden. Eagerly i've scanned the bulletin board Lrch of information from the
 City. And sorely have we
 Disappointed For, we had Sht that having appointed a Ter of the fair sex to the police
 there the town, would turn out &sse and have itself arrested,- $, the male portion of the city.
 been just a little more than
 onth since Miss Josephine Win
 on the distinction of being the lady police officer of Meriden. "a of there being great influx Me prisoners to the bar of jus
 things seems to have. quieted < since Miss Winner took over Eduous duties of policing. Per she has benign influence over Inhabitants which does not neces-
 have to be exercised by the too Int swinging of club.
 lehow or other we are jealous Sriden and its, woman policeman. kould like to have a lady offi- oo. Chicago has a number on rce, many of the western cities Followed the lead of the windy Ind now our next door neighbor,
 speak,, has falien into line. fore, we submit again that New should not be left in the
 Chief Rawlings should have d with the powers that be and see can persuade or entice some fair | damsel to don uniform and
 and go forth on Main street early afternoons and scatter
 of the ,1istless. lifeless young who .hobnob thereabout, enjoying baths on the ridge surrounding sGreen," and physically support bne of the commercial buildings kurround the Center. There is ne of these young fellows who ! not enjoy being arrested by a liful purveyor of the baton. And, hdy officer can keep New Britain Aiet as,Meriden has become since ring it's touch of femininty to |orce; then let us have one. too, y Ffa<lmsE Y. ..s..
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
Church Unity.
(New Haven Union.)


 Wherever efficiency is to be gained by cooperation the churches should be on the watch for that fact. It was announced in the New York Times re- gently that the religious workers Catholics. Protestants and Jews, of Teachers college at Columbia univer- sity have joined in a cooperative union to arrange all religious activities on basis of mutual helpfulness. A common secretary will arrange for all services, avoid conflicts in dates, at- tend to advertising and notices and the correspondence where desirable. Social activities will be carried on in common as much as possible.
 As there are 1,846 students in the Teachers college this year and many of them are interested in settlement and church work. 1t is proposed that Catholic. Jew and Protestant shall labor in common in devising means for making religious instruction more efficient.
 The Catholic club is to look after students of its faith. and the same course is to be pursued by the Jews, while the Christian associations are to keep up non-sectarian character. Here is a plan of church unity real ised in a practical way.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

the three jockey clubs In the state ana already Prof. J. J. Hooper, who Is the head of the department of an imal husbandry of Kentucky state university, has secured two noted stall lions for the bureau. 1t is his plan to take these stallions, and other, too, if they can be purchased; out into the rural districts and to educate the pub lie by means of lectures and pictures 1n the ways of crossing. blood, strains Ill the best manner to procure ample returns for their expenditures.
 The ordinary mares on Kentucky farms usually boast saddle, pacing or tr rotting blood. Their offsprings are not worthy of the tanbark or the track. For this reason these mares are generally crossed with the com- mon stallion and the offspring is no better than either the dam or the sire. By crossing with the thorough bred those who have fostered this plan believe that the progeny will possess more durability, more strength and more gameness. The real cavalry type may be secured by this step, and 1t is planned to charge only a nominal fee for the service of these stallions of the bureau. In fact they will be placed on the same finan- clal scale as the so-called plug" stallion.
 For many decades Kentucky has been famous for the horses which have taken the measure of the kings and queens of the show ring and the turf, and now the racing commission plans to procure the real cavalry type as a service to this country in promoting preparedness in case of eventualities and to add further fame to the Blue Grass States.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
STARTING ON THE CALIFORNIA.
Broollyn's Pride in Our Coming
 Largest Battleship.
(BroOklyn Fagle.)


 Secretary of the Navy Daniels will be at the Brooklyn navy yard on Thursday to superintend the laying of the keel of the California. This vessel is expected to be the largest battleship in the world. It will be unless the secret plan of some other government includes construction on a scale not guessed by Washington.
 She is to burn only oil as fuel, and use dynamos to give the electric power to propell her. In the same way every bit of power on board will be electri- cal, easily and instantly under control. She will have a displacement of 32.000 tons, a length of 500 feet over all a beam of 97 feet four inches, and will carry 12 14-inch guns in four turrets. Her draught will be 30 feet.
 But the speed of the California. will be only 21 knots, at least four kftots less than that of a battleship cruiser such as other powers are building. This calls attention to the greatest need of our navy. Perhaps the Brooklyn yarG nay have a chance to do something to supply that need sooner or later. Tn the meantime it will try to surpass itself, in the ex- cellence of the work and the prompt ness of construction displayed on the California,
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
Not Good Sports.
(New Haven Register. )

When a German U-boat sinks an enemy vessel, it is a glorious achieve ment for the Fatherland. Even if that enemy vessel was unarmed, the Ger man chorus of approval is full vol ume. That, assumes the nation that is fighting all the world, is in ac- cordance with the rules of the game.
 But when some British force, in its own defense, puts a U-boat out Of business, what then? The tune Is different. These are the words the Hamburger Nachrichten sets to it: "U-27 and U-29 have been sunk by British crime and are the victims of foul play. Where is U-27 A dark deed, in truth! The rules of the game differ so according to who Is play ing 1t.
 What a saving thing sense of humor is. The British have it; 1t flourishes even in their diversity. London comes back at the German U- boat whine with this:
 Oh where and oh where Is my little
 U-boat?
 Oh where and oh where can he be :? Is he under the water or is he ahoat?
 Oh where and oh where is he? My U-boat he looked with his perl
 scope round
 To see if the foeman was armed And whenever a victim defenseless he
 found
 He knew that he could not be
 harmed.
 Without any warning he sank with
 delight
 Any liner that came in his way, But these criminal English, regardless
 of right,
 Have sunk him in turn by foul play
 Heartless? Perhaps. But at least it displays a sense of the pre- portion of things. The British have their faults, but they take their losses stoically. They realize that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," as we put it in Amer ica Their opponents sometimes lead us to suspect that they are not good sports.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
BOOKS AND THE MAN.

ere was an old college professor,
 dead, who insisted upon his
 nts presenting to him once a
 an outline of some good book
 had read Tn this way he man.
 to supervise a good influence #their reading. He saw that they
 he familiar with the standard
 thing if some of the teachers. # #lctors, and professors. of tho
 mt day adopted some such
 cd, for the boys, and girls who
 growing up in this century arc
 losing a knowledge of the great
 of the world, if, indeed, they
 knew of such things. The pres- zday youngsters have so many 6 IS. to occupy their attention, it #deed a rarety when one is found # possesses even the faintest idea Enc old masters of literature.
 spapers, magazines, moving pie
 automobiles, theaters, aviation ests, circuses, sports and every imaginable to take the attention he young mind away from the serious things in life are crowd h upon the stage of 1915. The pass
 show with all it's kaleidoscopic por has secured the attention of human race as a whole and in of the quite old library with mellow lamp light and easy, soft &ioned chairs, the people of today Hooking for the excitement of the aic mart, the brilliancy of the powered incandescent, the rol- Ing, giddy swirl of the broad kway. ss. , is sad but true, there is no at- pt made by most people of the Bent day tc discern between the hnd the unfit, the good and the the high. and the low, the pure the impure, the lovely and the Eesque. We are growing more and Ee towards indifference in all sgs. We read and speak of things he moment, we listen only to cur topics. It will not be long, at
 rate, before Shakespeare. the Fionary and the Bible can be |rthed tn cotton cartons and car | to the attic to be kept as relics 9 by-gone day. We are going so ~ only those things which flicker us on the screen, or which hold attention by screaming headlines,
 gain a moment of our time. We
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
Literary Output.
(New Haven Union.)


 Sometimes it is interesting to look at the literary output from the quan- tative viewpoint. The Publishers Weekly recently gave an approximate estimate because there Is no way to get anything better. The following Is an expert guess, probably fairly ac- curate.
 New fiction imported from abroad totals 300,0o0 volumes annually, New fiction written, published and sold at home amounts to 100000 volumes. To these add reprints" sales of stan dard authors, and the grand total is S,000,000 copies sold. Of non-fiction, 1,00O,000 imported and 3,400,000 American manufactured new books are yearly put on the market; and this does not include educational text books or privately printed or publish ed books which do not find their way to the public through regular chan nels. Nor does it include government al publications.
 The sale of old non-fiction amounts yearly to 10,000,000 copies; and of Bibles not less than 5,000,000 copies are bought. Educational textbooks annually total 37,5o0,00O copies; mis- cellaneous private, local and govern ment publications amount to 3,6s0,0oo new volumes. Subscription books to the number of 12,000,000 are sold; and the sum total of all classes of books manufactured Is approximately SO,000.000 copies per annum.
 This seems like an extraordinary quantity of book reading but there are about 1OO,0O0,OOo people in the United States now, and there are countries with a higher book con- sumption rate. However, these are older peoples, more homogeneous as to race and ancentry, and do not include such a large percentage of those han dicapped by previous residence in lands affording them little education. But in spite of these facts 1t is true that the book consumption of the average citizen Is large.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
Serum Therapy and the StacIxpole
 Case,
Bridgeport Farmer.)


 George F. Stackpole, an aped law yer, is suffering with anthrax. disease of cattle, which is sometimes transmitted to human beings. The disease is somewhat common among wool sorters, and in past centuries has been epidemic, under the name of black bain"
 Men afflicted with. the disease not uncommonly recover, which brings us to the utterly unscientific treatment accorded to the Stackpole case, in newspaper articles, relative to the use of Eickhorn's antharax serum, with the declaration that 1t is believed MT. Stackpole might have recovered, had the serum been given earlier.
 There is no evidence to this point The claim is entirely conjuctural Had he not had the serum, he might have lived or died. Now that the serum is given, he may live, or die.
 There Is some evidence to show that the action of the serum has been positively injurious, for the newspaper stories are in accord in stating that the patients temperature, after the administration of the remedy, violent ly increased.
 A great deal more has been claimed for serum therapy than its results have justified. There have not been enough cases of anthrax in men. in which the serum has been used. to justify any sort of conclusion about it's value. But an inferential con- clusion may be drawn, because most of the serums produced have proved valueless.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
Events Tonight

High class photo-plays and vaude- vile, Foxs theater.
 Vaudeville and motion pictures, Keeney's theater.
 Svea social club meets in Muller's block, Arch street.
 New Britain lodge, l.. O. O. M. meets at Moose club.
 L. D. Penfeld camp. S. of ", meets in c. A. R. hall.
 Stella Rebekah lodge. I. O. o. F., meets in Jr. O. U. A. M. hall.
 Valykria lodge, O. of w., meets at 59 Arch street.
 Admiral Schley lodge, O. D. H. S. meets at 1S7 Arch street.
 Alpha Delta Sigma dance Booths hall
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
). MCMILLAN
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS NOTES.
iss-2oI-2oa MAIN STREET

A meeting of the board of pubtfu works will be held next Tuesday eve ming and a hearing will be given On the proposed building line on colum- bia street on the south side from the east line of Ferdinand Heidecker to Linwood street and on the north side from the east line of George Ingra- hams property to Linwood street A hearing will also be given on the pro~ posed sewer in Short street. The board will take action on the proposal of the Svea Coal and Grain company to rent property with railroad front age on Dwight street to be utilized as a storage ground. Arrangements will be made for holding the annual in- spection of the lighting system next month. The payroll for the week amounted to s612.s9. h
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
McMILLAN'S
 NEW BRITAIN's BUSIEST BIG STORE ALWAYS RELIABLE" WOmen'S and ChiIdren's
 DRESSES Featured Saturday at :
 Our Ready to Wear Dept.

We dare say our selection was new CT so large, the styles are really pleasing and what's more the valuos we offer here for Saturdays selling, are unmatchable. See the pretty dresses for the school girl, for the grown up Miss, the new smart dresses for women, of silk tafretas. poplins. messalines, combination dresses of serges and silks in plaids. Roman stripes and plain colors, all wool wONfEN'S DRESSES
 For Saturdays selling. s5.ss to s15.00.
 CHILDREN's DRESSES
 Cor1uroys, wool serges and plaid worsteds. Saturday SIPS, 32.ss and s3.9s each.
 WASHABLE SCHOOL DRESSES
 You would not make them for these prices, to year old sizes, lgc each; to 14 year old sizes, ssc, s1.49, SIPS each. E NEW NOVELTY
 Leather Hand Bags, 9sc. s1.so to s2.ss each.
 FRENCH IVORY HAIR BRUSHES
 A special value at s1.50.
 "MEYER's" MAKE
 Washable Cape Gloves for wona- en, our special, s1.0o pair. value s1.2s THE NEW GUnIPEs
 Of Laces and embroidered organ dies, 4ec and 9sc each.
 KNIT UNDERWEAR
 Vanta Vests, 25c to s1.00 each. Have no button to discomfort the little tots. E.......- "CARTER's' MAKE
 Infants bands and vests, 25c l. soc each.
 BOYS CORDUROY
 SCHOOL PANTS
 to 1s year sizes. special soc pair
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

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 There is nothing that teaches more than experience. Therefore, such let. ters from girls who have suffered and were restored to health by Lydia D. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound should be lesson to others. The same remedy is within reach of all.
 If you want special advice write lo Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Go. (c0nh- dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter win be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confldenees.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
A True Type of Cavalry Horse.
Louisville Courier-Journal.)

Another forward step has been reg istered by Kentucky. Through the efforts of the racing commission, a breeding bureau has been established for purpose of securing a. true type of cavalry horse. The ranks of thu cavalry horse in Kentucky having been depleted by the buyers for the nations at war across the Atlantic, it is the purpose of the commission to cross the blood strains of the or dinary mare which Is found on the farms of the state with that of the thoroughbred.
 A round sum has been subscribed by
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
BIG CROWD AT MISSION.

Another large crowd was in attend church last evening. Father McIn- tyre gave the instructions on The Satisfaction of the Justice of God" The sermon was preached by Father Casey on Judgment"
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

in writing these mes to express my grati- tude to you. l arh only 16 years old and work in a tobacco fla c tory. l havo been a very sick girl but l have improved wonderfully lin ce taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta- ble Compound and am now looking fnb
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
sENGLAUB CASE DROPPED.

Middletown, Oct. 15.-The charge of embezzlement against former Town Tax Collector William B. Sem glaub was dismissed on recommenda- ton of State Attorney Frank B. Haines, when the case came up in the superior court here yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

Great Britain proposes the taxation of war profits. There's an idea for the new session of Congress.-Buf- falo Enquirer.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

There is enough ingenuity in America to depopulate the earth" says Henry Ford. His love for the peace movement has the right string to it.-Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
that he believes in the safety first movem ment-Bos Globe.

Senator La Toilette has called on the Progressives of Wisconsin to arm for the campaign of next year, that the Colonel may be excluded from the party councils. How ungrateful MT. La Toilette believes the Progress sives to be!-New York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

"The expansion of business refuses to wait till the republicans can make a new tariff.-Collier's Weekly.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Secretary Garrison hasn't yet or dered anybody to muzzle Mount Las sen.-Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

The village firemen of Hartsdale are accused of setting fires to break the monotony of Hartsdale life. But the monotony of Hartsdale is nothing to compare with that of Sing Sing, even, we venture to say. under War den Osborne's regime.-New York Tribune
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

If Margaret Wilson and Helen Woodrow Bones keep up the good work there will no longer be mar rying or giving in marriage at the White house.-Milwaukee News
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

The answer to What Is the most popular sin ?" Is easy. It is fussing about other peoples sins instead of curing your own.-Pittsburg Dis patch.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

The fact that a bachelor has just married widow with eighteen chill dren, reminds the paragraphers that peace hath her heroes no less than war.-Trenton Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-10-15

When a bald-headed man sees a woman in the back yard washing her hair he smiles happily; it Is not the worst thing on earth to be bald Atchison Globe.