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New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
Nen 0f Macedonia Wear
 AbbYepiafed DaIIef Skirts

Washington, D. C.-"Although not ed for their ferocity in guerilla war fare, their sullenness toward the stranger and their indifference, in general toward the graces of life, the mountain peoples of Macedonia pos sess many lighter characteristics, whose expression'' often strike the traveller in their country as far more entertaining than the comic opera in his home land," begins a bulletin is sued today by the National Geo. graphic Society which tells some of the peculiarltles of the conglomerate
 SoerVo-Bulgaro-Turko Wlach population of that area to which the most violent fighting has been trans ferred. It continues:
 To begin with, the traveller in Macedonia forms the impression that ne IS come to a land of bewhiskered women; for most of the men of Mace don1a wear skirts. Some wear a sort of ballet skirts, like the southern Albanlan and some, long Mother Hub bard skirts, like the Saloniki Jew. The skirts worn by the Jewish men are wonderful things in brilliant colors, and of kind of bed-curtain material. While a great many Macedonian men have cast aside their skirts, enough of them have clung to the time-hon- ored fashion to make the scene a con- fusing one to the Westener on his first visit.
 The Macedonian, also, has a cus- tom all his own for observing the ceremony of baptism. Many of his priests use oil instead of water in this office on account of the general Macedonian prejudice against water for any other use than as a beverage It is said that the people of Macedonia l bathe as often as they marry, which l is only once or twice in a life time. Bathing is thought by many of the superstitious mountaineers to be dan- 1 gerous to health.
 '"The peasants of this country, on the other hand, are very fond of l namentation. Their wives and
 daughters work long hours weaving
 and embroidering for the town mar
 kets, and with their savings they buy l brass belt-buckles and bracelets. The l bracelets often weigh more than 2 l pound, and the belt buckles, that i; l the more coveted sort, are grea
 things ten inches square and more.
 There is an amusing custom .ob l served in some of the smaller thea
 ters of the Macedonian cities, whicl ! enables the theater-goer to pay ac
 cording as he is entertained. Be
 tween the acts, the actors and actress
 es make their way about the hous and take a collection. The leader o
 the band comes first; then comes tn
 leading lady and so on down the lis | ct of 1oo To t1j ! had his or her chance at the guests pocketboOks. The actors are large
 ly Armenians; the plays are mostl!
 comedies with the tragedy touch O.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
OTTAWA'S EXPERIMENT.

his is the day of the vacuum
 her. The old broom and dust
 h have been relegated to the
 ID heap. The mop and the bucket
 e given way to this latest of elec-
 hl appliances in the home, the
 Ee and the factory. But who
 id have thought that city gov
 ments would one day get around
 bquipping their street cleaning de-
 tments with these implements
 we learn from a government re-
 t that the city of Ottawa will proD-
 conduct experiments next year
 h view of installing vacuum
 get cleaners and automobile-pr fe flushers. ..-
 Ottawa city has forty-two miles of kement, mostly asphalt, which is |aned daily under supervision of 5 city engineering department. |rty-five sprinklers and three flush of the air-pressure type are used the process of cleaning this great |panse of streeting. No mechanical Feepers, street-car sprinklers, or [tomobiie sprinklers or f1ushers are Vned or used by the city. During e winter months horse-drawn snow ows are used for removing surplus LOW, from sidewalks and from bus ess streets not occupied by street IT tracks. The snow is then packed y use of team drawn leve'ers. Or .reets having car tracks, car sweep rs are used for removing surplus tow, the leveling being done by stree IT winged blows.
 Many cities in the United State: i'll await with interest the outcome f the experiments to be conducted ! Ottawa. If the vacuum cleaner i } supplant the old type of stree leaner there is no use expendin much more money on the presen rop. While believing in the ol dage Be not the first by whom tn
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
The Terrible Chain.
(NeW Haven Register. )

)
 A correspondent of the Hartford Times calls attention to some ancient but easily forgotten facts about the cnain-prayer, which reappears inter- mittently, and of course would be ex- pected to spring up now in this time of war as prayer for peace. The ilan is, as many who have received the letter know, that each person write the prayer to nine friends, re- nine friends with the request that each pass it on to nine more, and so on ad infinitum.
 This correspondent simply calls at tention to the terrifying possibilities of an unbrOken geOmetrical progress sion. We used to learn about them as enc of the Vaccinations Of arithm etc. There was that case, you rememb Der, of the man who thought he had a bargain on a yoke of oxen, because the owner offered to sell them at one cent for the first shoe, two cents for the second, four cents for the third, and so on in geometrical progression. He lived to learn that two oxen had ! eight feet, and two shoes for each foot so that his bargain amounted to a sum of money practically uncount- l able. He tried to recoup by selling 1 his pair of horses on the same terms. | and got $2.55 for them.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
GETTING EVEN WITH A BARBER-
A Tonsorial Incident That is Counted Unusual in Breathitt
 County, Ky.
Louisville Courier Journal.)

Louisville Courier Journal.) Bob Wallace, a barber, whose place of business is in Jackson, is re- covering from the temporarily debil- iating effect of 22 wounds made by bullets from 38 caliber revolver of the type known as special Some of the bullets perforated the barber's s midriff, and others were distributed over other parts of the target. Both in the matter of the number of wounds inflicted and the tenacity with which the barber held on to life after a double handful of lead had passed through him from the rnuzzle of a long barre1ed pistol, the incl dent is rated unusual in Breathltt County. The 'forty-five" always has been favored as a weapon of revenge because the shock of large cahber bullet more certainly knocks man down. But it has been believed gen. erallv that in ultimate deadliness the 'thirty-eight" almost eQualed the "forty-five' As a compromise be- tween an innOcuous pocket plstoi such as a vain youth in a city might show to his best girl to prove himself bold fellow, and really usetul weapon, the thirty eight special has
 been 1OOkcd upon IdNOleb eboiS D9
 perienced murderers.
 The case of Bonn Wallace will be long remembered in Jackson. 1t es- tablishes the fact that even in the hands of a patient man who is will ing to reload several times, and when used upon q man who for one reason or another does not reply in kind and allows himself to be shot as long as the supply of ammunition holds out, a thirty eight speciaP is not always deadly. It is merely play
 thing to be carried to o'clock tea, and not really an arm worthy of ser iOus consideration when the evening is to be spent at blind tiger and the pro bability is that someone may lose his temper.
 But aside from the clinical aspects of the case, and it's suggestivenesS to young men about to purchase their first weapons of offense and defense, the experience of Bob Wallace holds a hint for graduates of colleges for barbers who are casting about to find lucrative practice. It will be unwise to "locate" in Jackson. In many parts of the world the barbers' persistency
 in the matter of offering to elaborate the service is not hazardous. The man who has placed himself in the hands Of the barber and whose i mouth has been well lathered, 1 against the probability of negative
 answer, before he is invited to un-
 dergo a facial massage, try a new cure
 for falling hair or pay for the sham 1 poo which, he is assured, he shame-- l fully needs, usually submits grum- l blingly in Louisville. But in Jackson l the customer is not always tame and 1 may not always submit tamely Else
 where, as well as in Jackson, ,2 bull
 lets from 'thirty-eight special
 have seemed about the right number
 to express the mental attitude of the
 man who has dropped in for a shave
 and is assured that he is in need of
 a complete oVerhauling, like an auto
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07

Such a little thing, an order of three tons of camphor from a Hong Kong concern through a Philadelphia house. But it means that the United States of America has gone over into pastures new. This same colorless, translucent body called camphor, be it said in passing, has never been dealt with in this country, except as an import To begin with, it is a native, for the most part, of the Island of Formosa, little piece of territory that stands off the mainland of China as a carriage step graces the front of any American mansion. So when China, instead of going over to this little strip of land and getting all the camphor she wants, is forced to send all the way to our own city of Phila- delphia in the United States of Amer ica, many, many thousands of miles it only goes to show that American business men are at last forging their way into hitherto unknown places and trades.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07

but Coleridge was, I believe, justified in calling it the one idyll of modern life Whether in town or country, the main features of a clerical home its simplicity, its regularity, it's industry, its benevolence, its unity
 of interest, and its habitual piety- are everywhere the same. This is, perhaps, overstated; but it leads one to reflect whether there be any other group of qualities more likely than those to conducive to the devel- opment of culture and character. Even with the possibly sterner cast of our New England religion, the clerical home on this side of the Atlantic has a record comparable to that of the clerical home in England. Nor can the value of it's influence be measured merely by tho men of "em- thence or prominence" ~
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
RED CROSS SEAL FIGURES.
225 100000 Holiday SticlSers Already
 Distributed in United States.

Few people have any conception of the magnitude of the Red Cross Christmas Seal campaign. Here are a few figures that will show what a gigantic movement this is. Already 225,OOO,000 seals have been printed and practically that entire number distributed to agents in every state and territory of the Union from Alaska in the North to the Canal Zone in the South and from Porto Rico in the East to Hawaii in the West Advertising circulars, posters, cards, etc., to the number af several million have also been distributed Not less than 100000 personal let ters asking people to buy seals have been sent out. It is estimated that the army of workers, nearly all of whom are volunteers engaged in selling the seals numbers well over 5OO,OOO. Tho advertising and pub iicity donated to the campaign amounts to several hundred thousand dollars Every effort is being put forth to sell 75,0OO,OOO seals. or less than one for every man, woman and child in the United States. This will mean $75O,O00 for the anti-tuber- culosis campaign in the United States and particularly all of the 200 anti tuberculosis associations of the coun- try derive their support from Red Cross Seals.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
A QUERY ANSWERED..

Asking if, in all seriousness, we consider the present session of Con- gress which opened in Washington yesterday a very important one and if we have any idea when it will end we answer a communication to this office in this wise: If you would call the Civil war an important item in the nations history, we would look upon this session of Congress in quite the same light. As to when it will end, well that would be like predict ing the close of the European struggle. But one thing is certain. The second session of the Sixty Fourth Congress will begin at noon on the first Monday of December in 1916, and this first session can last nc longer than that date
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
Wars Waste.
(Waterbury Republican,


 British soldiers in and about the trenches are careless and wasteful, both of ammunition and "bully beef" as "corned beef'' is known there. This statement has the authority of John Hodge, M. P, who recently returned from a visit to the troops in France. He was informed, he said, that thou- sands of tins of beef and millions of rifle cartridges were lying about the trenches and trampled into the mud.
 Wastage, MT. Hodge found, was in some cases checked by the officers in charge. The trouble is the men get an excessive amount of meat--twelve Ounces-in their daily ration. No ac- count is taken of casualties of the sick. So the tins lie around the trench es fall into the bottom and get stept on. Ultimately they are buried in the trench mud. This is also the fate of the cartridges left behind by the men when relieved. In some cases the oft1- cer of the relieving party would ascer- tain now many fired so as to keep a check on the amount lost. But these officers, according to MT. Hodge, are in a minority.
 The same complaints as to wastage have been made against the troops in the English training camps. Here the blame is laid to overabundant rations and the wastefulness of cooks who throw away whole loaves of fresh bread and leftover beef and vege- tables.
 War is an epidemic of waste, of course, but with the rising prices of food and raiment at home and the rising prices of munitions, it is only to be expected that the members of par l liamcnt who are at all keen about the | welfare of the poor of Great Britain l will kick up some fuss about wastage. l It is not at all improbable that there 1 are thousands of pounds of canned 1 beef being shipped to the allies from | American packing houses and at the | same time there is a constant demand made on Americans to send food and clothing and money to buy more food and clothing for starving victims of l the war in Europe Here is double 1 waste and Americans, non-combatants | and neutral are bearing the burden. 1 There is a phase of the war that few l of the belligerents will get until years after the conflict has ceased, if ever, l and yet it is an illustration of what | 8 frightful waste war entails the i whole world over.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07

mobile that has not been to the gar age for year. But the custom of habit becomes second nature, and self-restraint becomes habit, and the barber is allowed to pass criti- cisms and make suggestions which, from any other source, would be regarded as insults. Barbers will do we'll to keep in mind that there are places in which, if a man needs a shampoo ever so badly, he regards any reference to it as being entirely beyond the limits of the permissible, and where a man whose hair is growing thin does not consider it warrantable for casual acquaint- ance to remind him of it from mo- tives purely mercenary.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07

the interludes of collection. Despite the voluminous criticisms which have been written about the backwardness of Macedonia, the Macedonian might boast of having among the few ho- tels in the world that go in for teach ing their patrons manners. There IS such a hotel in Saloniki. In con- spicuous place, on the walls of its bed rooms, the following rules of con- duct are displayed to guide the trav- eler alright.
 I. Messieurs the voyagers who descend upon the hotel are requested to hand over to the management any money or articles of value they may have. 2. Those who have no bag gage must pay every day, whereas those who have may only do so once a week. 3. Political discussion and playing musical instruments are for bidden, also noisy conversations. 4. It is permitted neither to play at cards or at any other games of hazard. 5. Children of families and their servants should not walk about the rooms. 6. It is prohibited to present oneself outside ones room in a dressing gown or other negligent costume. 2. Coffee, tea, and other culinary preparations may not be prepared in the room, or procured from the outside, as the hotel fur nishes everything one wants. 8. Voy- agers who take their repast descend to the dining room, with the excep- tion of invalids. who may do so in their rooms 9. A double-bedded room pays double for itself, save the case where the voyagers declares that one bed may be let to another per- son. 10. It is, however, forbidden to sleep on the floor
 "The Macedonian criticises much and often unjustly, has become very sensitive to fault-fnding. He has developed one all-inclusive excuse for his sins and failings, and that is his invariable excuse when blame is placed upon him that he has been under Turkish rule for so many, many years. He hastens to assure the dis gruntled stranger of this fact often before criticism can find verbal ex- pression.
 "He trusses up his pigs for market
 binding their legs so tightly together that the thongs bite deep into thei1 flesh, causing the animal agony while on the way to market and during tn
 wait for purchaser. To the European
 who remonstrates at this unnecessar,
 cruelty. the Macedonian peasant, gag
 ing with sad tenderness at the suffer ing pig answers: but we have bee so long under the Turks, Anothe thing that nearly touches the trave E Ter in Macedonia, is the extortionat prices he must pay in land wher all is naturally cheap. The Jew, tn Greek and the Wlach unmercifull increase their bills, lodging and boar
 are charged at many times their nor nal sales, and scenery, Balkan smells
 and bed-bugs also figure in the total.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
The Whisl<erS Peril.
 Schenectady Un1on.)

There are rumors that whiskers are seems destined to have the same effect on mankind over there that the Civil war is conducive to whiskers. The inconvenience of shaving, even in this age of safety razors, puts premium on full boards. Then, too, a beard gives a man a warlike appearance. IT you doubt it, look at the pictures or some of the Russian troops, and doupI no more.
 If this style becomes obligatory we may well engage in fasting ana rrayer to escape a fate so terrible. A look through any old family album in existence is enough to give one hypochondria. Those wooden old an- cestors of ours with their long boards, short boards, and worst of all, those n'Nurlant side whiskers, a la "Lord Dundrcary," are worse than the seVenteen-year-old locust
 Don't you remember the fat men who insisted on wearing "burnsides" 7" : Don't you recall with tears some little shrimp of a bow-legged, p1geon-toed man about five feet two ! inches tail used to make when he Pl'NA 'SA AoiiS, lIo"lIlS SLUG " ilA'o'>~ S' who then completed the crime by putting on a silk hat? And, worst or all, was the chap who trained his long, sweeping moustache to grow on and on till he could pull it back to his ears.
 There is no question but that a beard on a man whose chin flowed into his Adams Apple without any apparent dividing line was help. 1t is true that there are some men so homely that whiskers that cover up enough of the facial horror so that it is safe for him to enter a jewelry store without stopping all the CLOCKS in the establishment may be looked Upon as a blessing But these are the exceptions that prove the rule. We live in a comparatively hairless age
 For this let us be thankful. If 1l&n's head is bald, it's an act ot Providence. If he grows whiskers, Providence ought to get busy.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
T SUCH A BAD PLACE.

city in the United States the
 New Britain that can show the
 in growth that New Britain
 wn within the past four years
 eed be proud of it's record. In
 hy's Herald there was set forth
 nent showing the general re-
 New Britain-sr manufacturing
 s by way of comparison be-
 the year 1909 and the ye;lr
 Every loyal man. of New Brit
 uld clip that article, paste 1t in
 ap book and hold it for the
 len some doubting Thomas ar
 the confines of this city.
 h any city of fifty thousand in
 hts can show thirty-five million
 invested in manufacturing
 Is, that city can we'll call itself live American center. Add fif-
 illion more dollars to that out hich can be done in not so many
 and you will readily see that ery man, woman and child in Eritain there would be one mill bllars invested in manufactur-
 rsuits. Not a figure to cause lsh of shame to surm ount the
 of any New Britainite. On the |ry, when you take those figures |lrn them over in your mind, Iyou look at them this way and lay, up and down, sideways and lays, frontwards, crisS- cross, di- tly or catacornered you must say Erse1f, After all, this is a real |merican scity: New Britain is llf as bad as some people would it." And after a term, if you thinking along those lines, you ealize that there are far worse
 on the map than New Britain, there are some American cities fifty thousand population, the T of whose people are getting along in life. But here different, as shown by the pre- try report of the United States or of the census. When the full . is given to the public in the 1T distant future it will probably lown that the figures already
 out are far too modest,-that Britain is even greater and big lan the United States governmen it credit for being. And then we wake up to the fact that we do not sarily have to go outside of this to get anything, that if we stay d long enough we can have thing we want pIouSHI to us, ricals, luxuries, necessaries,- thing that man wants here be- But we've got to stick together all this, and when the year 1916 s over the horizon we might as start out on a new era.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
3 uPEN N0STRILS! END ~ A COLD OR CATARRH How To Get Relief When Head and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count fifty! Your cold in head or catarrh disappears. Your clogged nostrils will open, the air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more snuffling, hawking, mucous discharge, dryness or headache; no struggling for breath at night.
 Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist and apply a little of this fragrant antiseptic cream in your nosrtils. It penetrates thrQnghI every air passage of the head, sooth-| ing and healing the swollen or ind famed mucous membrane, giving youI instant relief. Head colds and catarrI yield like magic. Don't stay stuffed up and miserable. Relief is sure.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-07
Log of the Oscar 2.
Dec. 6, 1915


 Nearing the submarine zone
 On second thought, sorry Bryan did not accompany us. In case of a threat he could have talked the crew of any sub to death.
 Have passed several ships bound towards the U. $. Wonder what all the passengers are laughing at Notl- ing extraordinary in appearance about our ship as far as I can see.
 Peace at any price, f. 0. b. Detroit, Mich., all parts guaranteed.
 America may give Henry the ha Ina, but wait until the return, when the dear people are forced to read a ton or two of this junk being turned out by the magazine writers.
 Rather a lonesome existence, this. No one seems to know I'm on board. Wish something would happen to break the monotony. Yes, even an insurrection among the crew.
 Notice today two stow-awGys on board. Promptly put them to work, one peeling potatoes and the other turning music for our organist.. What withal there are no "stow-aways'' on the "star-boarder' side of the dining I tables,-no one slowing away food, mean.
 Fear me the party will never last till we reach that other shore. Some of the ladies have not been on deck during two moonlight nights. Am be. l ginning to feel homesick for the Hote Pontchartrain back in old Detroit l One more cabaret show there would fix me right. Am beginning to wavel , on this peace mission. The orl, soothing thing aboard is the rattle O. tin on the hurrycane deck. Remind: me of my own lil' jitneys.