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New Britain herald., 1915-12-17
The Winner?

We have heard numper oI eloquent debates the last day Or two since peace was adopted as to whether Organized Baseball or the Feds won out.
 The answer to this is simple. Neither won. Both lost, for both have hurt the game immeasura bly and have dropped thousands of dol lars in the last two years. The Fed cral league has gained absolutely 1rothing that it couldn't have gained far cheaper by purchasing certain franchises outright at the start. And through the warfare started baseball las been set back many years. The amount of the damage will never be known, for thousands have been driven from the same who will never return, peace or no peace. Still, it has taken a number of Hagnates only two or three years to learn fairly simple lesson. This, at feast, is fair improvement. 2
 s'why doesn't Yale go out after Al Sharper" queries an indignant Eli alumnus. Probably for the same reason that Cornell doesn't go out after Haughton or Boston doesn't go
 
 f1ve-year contract with Cornell and the piece of paper upon which it was written was not of the scrap variety.
 Attitudes. /. s'The Syracuse Eleven says an ex- change. '.has a good alibi for it's showing against Montana University. The z. rarefied atmosphere worked
 Eyo 4 xxyhn hy~0l records by being forced to play 3,2S0 feet in the air" . Altitude records 3,280 feet? Why, after the first five minutes against Harvard the Yale eleven was 3,2S0 miles in the air and only start ing to ascend.
 It might be just as we'll for those who desire to spool Yale once in while to do their spoofng while the spoofery is so accessible. We have g. hunch that after this season spoof1ng Yale will not take up nearly so much of the fashionable chit-chat of the fall and winter.
 Free Fumbles.
 There is nothing at all in being prepared just well enough to lose @ good hard fight.
 For this stuff of being defeated but not disgraced' is the grand old bunk You won you lost The rest of it goes back to dust, forgotten in week.
 Johnny Evers is planning to go South a month in advance of the Braves to test the residence and sand capacity of a few bunkers. "I put nm fifteen pOl1ndS DIayjng golf last February" the Trojan says And can use all the extra displacement or tonnage I can pick up'
New Britain herald., 1915-12-17
Teutons.
Office Boys Beaten.

The machinists of the Skinner Chuck company defeated the pencil pushers' after 3 hotly contested games. The scores
New Britain herald., 1915-12-17
MERCANTILE LEAGUE.
RED MEMS LEAGUE.

The results in the Red Mems league were as follows:
New Britain herald., 1915-12-17

Aetna Bowling Alleys 83 Church Street. hO High Grade Alleys. New
 Patrons Welcome. Give
 us a visit.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-17

> Still, it has taken a number of nfagnates only two or three years to learn fairly simple lesson. This, at feast, is fair improvement. 7
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
Irish Speed.

In Judge McKinley's court they were
examining talesmen for the trial of a
boy who had killed his father. The
lawyers dwelt mostly on the facts of
marriage, paternity and whether there
had been insanity in the families OF
the men under examination.
When they got around to Michael
MCCARTHY the wait had been long and
he proceeded to whip up.
Asked the first question he galloped
away with this:
''My name is Michael Mccarthy and
I live at 1885 Fulton street and ! am
thirty-five years old and | am married
and have one child and ! have never
had any insanity in the family and II
/ had wouldn't be fool enough to tell
you"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
The Heroines of Novels.

If were his satanic majesty, and a
novelist came to me for judgment, l
should beetle my brows in horrible
manner and quiz him thus:
did you ever make your heroine
eighteen years old? Did you ever en-
dow a maiden with the repartee of
Pinero, the intuition of Blavatsky, the
carriage of Garden, the hauteur of
the Medici, the beauty Of Aphrodite
and the wisdom of Athene-all at the
age of eighteen years?"
If the novelist answered me Ger
tainly mott" I should say: ITO heaven
with you!" But if he answered: Sure
I did" I would blast him where he
stood.
For, of all the iniquitous, fanacious,
unfair and dangerous doctrines, this
takes the icing of the cake-that the
female species reaches her apogee at
the immature age of eighteen.-From
Balm for Lovers" by George Weston
in the Saturday Evening Post.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
CLINCHED IN HIS MEMORY
Small Chance of Charles Abner For
getting the Day That Meant
Everything to Him.

Some time since Charles Abner
courted and married the beautiful FL
len Estelle. One evening several
months later they were seated in their
cozy little den, Ellen Estelle reading
a popular novel and Charles Abner
looking over the sporting page.
Charley, DEAR" finally remarked
the little wife, do you recall the time
you proposed to me?"
= "Why, yes" rather indifferently an
swered Charles Abner, 81 think | re-
member it."
"Of course, you do" returned Ellen
Estelle. "It was in an automobile. |
shall never forget the lovely words
you spoke, and the noble sacrifices
you promised to make. 1t must have
cost you something to say those
things"
ct did, Ellen Estelle," responded
Charles Abner, with a reflective sigh,
sit cost me about two weeks salary
to hire the automobile. "-Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

You're bilious! Your liver Is slug
gish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all
knocked out. Your head is dull, your
tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach
sour and bowels constipated. But don't
take salivating calomel. 1t makes you
sick, you may lose days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite. breaking 1t up. That's when
you feel that awful nausea and cramp-
ing.
If you want to enjoy the incest. gen.
tlest liver and bowel cleansing you
ever experienced just take a spoonful
Of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone. Your
druggist or dealer sells you 5O-cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone under
my personal money-back guarantee
that each spoonful will clean your
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
RESINOL SPEEDILY HEALS
ITCHING, BURNING SKINS

Resinol ointment, with resinol soap,
stops itching instantly, quickly and
easily heals the most distressing cases
of eczema, rash, ringworm, letter or
other tormenting skin or scalp erup-
lions, and clears away pimples, black
heads, redness, roughness, and dand-
ruff, when other treatments have
proven only a waste of money.
Physicians have prescribed resinol
for twenty years, while thousands who
have been cured say, What resinol
did for us it will do for YOU" All
druggists sell resinol soap (25c.) and
resinol ointment Goo. and $D.-Adv.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
.CALOMEL IS MERCURY, II S|CKENS!
stop USING SAL|vAT|NG DRUG
Don't Lose Days Work. Your Liver Is Sluggish Bowels
Constituted Take "Dodsons Liver Tone."-Its Fine!

sluggish liver better than dose of
nasty calomel and that it won't make
you sick.
Dodson's Liver Tone is real liver
medicine. You'll know it next morn
ing because you will wake up feeling
fine. your liver will be working. your
headache and dizziness gone, your
stomach will be sweet and your bowels
regular. You will feel like working;
you'll be cheerful; full of vigor and
ambition.
Dodson's Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and can
not salivate. Give it to your children!
Millions of people are using Dodson's
Liver Tone instead Of dangerous cal
omel now. Your druggist will tell you
that the sale of calomel is almost
stopped entirely here.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

stand in a warmer temperature than
so degrees Fahrenheit, and the tenn
perature should be as much below this
as possible. Warm cream mixed with
cool cream will tend to sour the whole
mass.
When the cream is intended for the
ice cream or retail trade it should be
delivered daily. If intended for. the
creamery, and proper care is taken
of it, deliveries twice a week in win
ter and three times in summer may be
sufficient In hot weather cream cans
should be protected with blankets dur
ing delivery to prevent rise in tenn
perature.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
MAKE Strip FROM SORGHUM
Cultivation Of Plant Is Much Like
Corn-PIanting Should Be Done
When Soil Is Warm.
(By A. J. Lego

Sorghum is divided into two gener.
al classes In the first are included
all of the varieties which contain
enough sugar that it will pay to culti-
vate for the sugar. This class is the
saccharine class.
In the second class is included the
varieties that are cultivated for the
seed stalks, etc., used for feed for
farm animals. This class Is called
the nonsaccharine class. 1t contains
some sugar, but is low in sugar con-
tents while the saccharine class may
contain as much as 20 per cent Of
sugar in it's Juice.
The saccharine or sweet varieties
are cultivated primarily for the sugar,
but the seed and blades both make
good feed for animals
The seeds make gooG feed for al
most any farm animal and for poultry
Sorghum is cultivated very much
like corn. It Is planted in rows 31s
to feet apart and the hills are about
two feet apart in the row, with four
or five stalks to the hill.
The first cultivation Is very tedious,
as the plants start off Aowly, but after
the plants get up little the cultiva-
ton is not more difficult than corn.
An acre of good sorghum will yield
from one hundred to two hundred
gallons of strip, worth from forty to
fifty cents per gallon.
The planting should be done little
later than early corn, as the sorghum
will not do much growing until the
soil gets warm. When the seed gets
ripe, the stalks are bladed and the
blades cured and tied into bundles.
The cane is cut and tops cut off. The
tops or seed head should be allowed
to dry out before storing away, else
they will mold.
The stalks are crushed in a cane
mill and the juice strained and boiled
either In an evaporation or large
pan.
Before the juice reaches the boil,
all of the green scum must be
SKINNED off,
Another way to dispose of the green
scum is to put the juice in a long.
deep box viii small holes in one end,
corked with wooden plugs for drawing
off the juice without agitating the juice
in the box.
The box is filled with juice and
about one-fourth bushel of well pull
verified clay with as little sand in it
as can be got is put in the juice and
well stirred. In few minutes the
clay will begin to sink and the green
scum will adhere to it. The clay
will take all of the green to the bot
tom of the box.
AS soon as the green scum and the
clay sink sufficient to allow the pure
Juice to run from the top hole it may
be opened and the juice drawn off.
Then the second hole from the top Is
opened, and so on until the juice is
all drawn of and only the pulverized
clay and the green scum remain.
When this is done the juice may be
boiled into strip without the trouble
of skimming by hand.
The clay method of cleansing the
juice is preferable to the old plan OF
skimming as it makes better, clearer
strip and the purifying Is done before
the strip is heated.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
a MINORITY Report.

A small, meek country negro, who
had always lived on one place near
Frankfort, KY, married big, domi-
neering woman, and very soon after
ward moved into town. where the
keeper of the local bar met him on
the street.
Hello, Gabe,' he said, what made
you move to town? thought you
liked country life"
"Well. Mistah Franklin" explained
Gabe, 81 ulster lax de country. But
NAH wife she didn't lax it-and I've
done got so now dat when she don't
lax a thing I jest natchelly hates it.
Saturday Evening Post.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
INSURE FERTILITY OF EGGS
One Vigorous Male Might Take Care
OF Twenty Hens, But II 10 Con-
sIdered Risky Business.

While a vigorous male may be al-
lowed matings of az high as twenty
hens, II is usually risky business to
allow such number to one male bird
Again, it is quite often just as risky
to allow but three or four hens In
the pen with one male bird. The
fewer the number of hens. the more
worrisome the male bird, to the detri-
ment OF the egg fertility.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

The ostrich always approaches its
nest by devious path. the idea being
to conceal the location from observa-
ton.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
Whenever You Need General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as .
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININE
and IRON. II acts on the Liver. Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

Only thirty-third degree artist can
make q soft drink of hard water.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

The "staff of life" by any other name
would smell as wheat.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
Too Much for Them.

Corpulent Individual you can't
give me any reason why should not
enlist.
Spouse-Well, I should miss you.
dear, but the Germans couldn't.-Lon-
don Mail.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
He Should Worry.

TIC OHOuu WOTtys
How do you account for Nero fid-
ding during the burning of Rome?'
asked the professor.
II suppose he had the place heavily
insured suggested the senior who
was specializing in finance.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
Odd.

ODD.
what caused the GOODNESS between
you and Jones?"
"A heated argument"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
stitch! Stitch!

81 have just read an interesting
article about the sewers of Paris"
said hubby, closing the book on his
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

eyes," replied wife, they're busy
night and day making shirts for sol
diers."
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
DAISY FLY KILLER

READER s 6 S sn; aPP, sISss a: sdTss
1sed ia it, columns should insist upon having whas
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20
Then They Fought.

Then They Fought.
Shaking your fist in my face cannot
alter my convictions. sir.
But showing 1t little closer might
alter your features"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

DON'T VISIT THE CALIFORNIA Elk
POSITIONS Without . supply Of Aliens Foot
Ease. the antiseptic powder to be shalen Into the
Shoes or dissolved IN tho foot-bath. The Standard
relief to tred. aching feet and prevents swollen
hot fest Ono hdy writes: = enjoyed every minute
Of my stsy Il the Expesitions. thanks 70 Aliens
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-05-20

placed anywhere, az
tracts and kills all
Aies. Neat, clean, or
narnenfAi, convenient.
cheap. laet0 al
oaa0osl. Mad OF
metal, cAn'tspili or tip
over, win net sofa or
anythfng.
Guaranteed effective.
All dealers oressns
express paid for el.oo.
Brcokiyn. n. Z.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-19
Same Old Sona.

Mir Editor: We read as we ride in the street cars If you buy out of town and l buy out of town, what win become of our town We also read the remarks of Mayor Murphy at the Board of Trade banquet calling our attention to the above poetry, or prose- just as you care to call it, also about investing our money in twelve and if teen dollar tenements.
 The tenement part has has spoken to us about before as a duty we owe for the prosperity of our beloved city, but at present writing we fail to see in the real estate news where he has in vested any of his money in the above tenement proposition Nor, has he told us inst why he disposed of the ones he had. 1t is the same old song without any chorus that we have sung to us about once a year without any encore We also read about the poor former and what q struggle he has had 10 get on in the past, and the new era that is about to be opened to him in the cooperative scheme by the county agent III car load lots while the above farmer reserves the right tu peddle his truck and cider from house to house at his own price in competi- ton with the merchants that pay big taxes for the privilege of doing bust- ness. There are two things in this world that come absolutely free, one is salvation and the other is advice. If we could work up some scheme where by we could get them in car load lots we might be able to get a rebate on freight rates Then we would get them at less than cost, But when It comes to dollars and cents the giver of advice calculates his commodity is a little above the other fellows money without any rebate for freight.
 Let the good work go on; print yom signs, put them in conspicuous places where the public can read them; get your mail order catalogues, pick out what you want, send your money and take what you get, but don't mourn for the town you live in, but grieve for the junk you receive with no re- bate, if you know what junk is, fl prosperity continues in the future as it has in the past under democratic free trade and if Woodrow Wilson would let up on his ship purchase bill long enough to write another letter to Oscar Underwood about prosperity
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-19
BAD TASTE.

It is impossible to suppress sur prise at the action of Frank P. Walsh. chairman of the industrial relations commission of this country in giving an interview or making a public state neut of his personal opinIon rela- tive to John D. Rockefeller and the foundation which he established before the commission has completed the task which it has undertaken. The chances arc that his opinion may be unchanged at the conclusion of the investiga from what it was at the start or is now, but in justice to the character of the inquiry and to the commission of which he is 8. member even though chairman, it would have been better to have refrained frcnn talking.
 By his action Mir. Walsh places the commission in Q peculiar position, D oth now and as to the finding which i. must render. What he has said would have come with better judgment ai the conclusion, not of one mans tes- timony but after all the great char itajble foundations had been prabed and then be made through the com missions report to congress by which it was appointed. It must be realized that the commission was appointed to investigate the causes of industrial unrest that congress might have some first hand information as Q basis fo1 possible action.
 Whatever opinions MT. Walsh has CT what recommendations he desires tc make, to say nothing of the oDserva. tions he has made relative to indi- vidual witnesses are entirely prena- tur and without good taste until hs has placed them before the body thai put him on the commission.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-19
AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION.

h view of the existing condition of state finances and the recognized need of curtailing expenses, it would ap- pear that admiERble advice had been furnished the committee on humane institutions of the state legislature by the Norwich gentlemen who appeared before it relative to the establishment of a state farm for inebriates.
 Such an institution has long been regarded as advisable and necessary to meet existing conditions The eX- pense has been the one obstacle in the way of it's establishment and it is the strongest argument that can be a,d- ranced in opposition today as it was two years ago. When, however, it IS announced that this highly desirable work can be carried on in connection with tho state hospital here for a, Ee- rioG of six years, if necessary, sim ply by providing for necessary alter ations in the rules relative to com mituents and retention, and the small expense that would be required in changing over a suitable building to meet the requirements for housing such people, an opportunity for ob- taining the benefit of such a plan at once Is disclosed.
 It is an idea which should get fla -vora,nIe consideration. It does not place upon the state a big expense. It can he carried out entirely within the bounds of reason and under a policy of economy, and will permit an immediate start towards the relief Of a situation which is deserving of attenticn. It will also be possible un- der such q plan to determine whether the best results are likely to be ob- tained from the establishment of sev- erai small institutions of the kind about the state, possibly in connection with existing state institutions, or from one large central farm. There is every reason to believe that the com ulittee and legislature will be i'm pressed by the valuable suggestions
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-19
NO wARsHlP CONVOY.

It is q sensible attitude which is taken by this country relative to the suggestion that the commerce of this nation be protected in GerInany's newly established war zone by having it conveyed by an American warship. While that might seem to be q way for this country to help Germany out of the difficulty which it's order has created, it would nevertheless involve the United States in complications which it is determined, as neutral. to avoid.
 Such a plan might relieve the re- sponsipiIity which now rests upon the nation which is planning to carry on submarine operations against mer- cfantuef1 and which has warned all neutral shipping to keep away lest it should suffer through mistake, but it involves responsibility upon the part of the commanders of navy yes sels in attempting to guarantee the character of cargoes and their freedom from contraband which cannot be aS- stunned.
 The fact is that vessels have the right to carry contraband if the owners are willing to take the chance of deliver ing it, but it rests with the belligerents to prevent it. It is easy to under stand what trouble might follow the attempt icf American warships to pass cargoes of which nothing is known and of which they have no opportunity to determine the character, and as between contraband and non-contra- band it can hardly be expected that this country is going to do the tag ging,
 The responsibility for blockade rests upon the oelligerents. If it ap- plies only to certain goods or to every thing it must be maintained by the blockaders and not by neutral nations which must get proper respect
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-19

man advised me to try Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound and got a bottle. felt better the next month so I took three more bottles of it and got well SO I could work all the time. I hope every woman who suffers like I did will try Lydia E. Pinkham's s Vegetable Compound Mrs. P. LANSING, Box 8, Allyn, Wash.
 Why will women continue to suffer day in and day out or drag out sickly, half hearted existence, missing three-fourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound?
 For thirty years it has been the stand ard remedy for female ills, and has re- stored the health of thousands of women who have been troubled with such ail- ments as diSplacements, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irregularities, etc.
 If you want special advice write tC Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfi dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by q W0maR and held in strict confidence
Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-19
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Home Charity First.

AIr. Editor: If the good people of the United States would keep their charity ships to home and look after our own people who are in need in- stead of going across the water at the present time to take bread out of the poor peoples mouth at home, there would not be such high cost of living in this country today If we are going to remain neutral lets be neutral and keep our ships at home until the war is ended or make some agreement with England or Germany for the protection of ships flying the American flag. This will stop the ex- changing of notes with these two coun- tries and relieve the anxiety of us poor people at home who are willing to re- main neutral and mind our own affairs I think every good American citizen believes the same as I do in home charity first.
 THOMAS W. ALLYN.
 Norwich, Conn, Feb. IS, 1915.