New Britain herald., 1915-08-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.

If the suffrage could be taken from the unfit men and given to the it women. it might be we'll But that IS an impossible solution'-NeW York Times.
 Over 200 vagrants have been ar rested in New York, but the police i havn't caught the man who left that bomb at headqua uarters.-Boston Ad- vertiser.
 It makes a fellow feel pretty good when he recalls that he never heard | his father or mother denounce mar riage as a failure.-Toledo Blaue. i$ Tobacco prohibitionists have been sin convention in San Francisco laying @planS of warfare. When tobacco is |. conquered chewing gum may be ;ta tackled-Tacoma Ledger.
 Just about now there is race on between those who are out striking for jobs and those who are striking because they have them.-Berkshir Eagle.
 Great difficulty is being experienced by the Grand Trunk Railway in find ing names for 135 new stations be- tween Toronto and Winnipeg. It should apply to the genius who names the Pullman cars.-Philadelphia Led ger.
 Russia's wheat crop is reported to be thirty per cent. larger than. last year, but with the German submarines busy in the North Sea and no outlet as yet through the Dardanelles the American wheat grower has no occa- sion to worry on this score.-Spring- field Union.
 {. Now the poor Haitians, too, are starving like the Mexcans, because of the conditions created by their could be forced into the starvation zone, and compelled to feel them selves the pinch of hunger, they might be willing to earnestly collogue to- gether sooner in the interest of peace A week for Carranza, Villa and Zap ata, with nothing to eat and but lit tie water to drink, would reveal to their minds visions of the blessings of peace that would never dissolve. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
 Whether the Bull Moosers who re- main faithful to their past professions are to be termed Gittites of Hittites would seem to be a matter of choice in Biblical interpretation. It appears from the context that Victor MurdOck in referring to those who would pre- serve the Progressive platform as the
  i ant used the term Gittites, as he l should, and not Hittites, careless editing or proofrea ding in some in i stances made him do. There is a story of a man who said he believed | all about Noah, the Flood and the Ark, but he could not swallow the story that the Ark was dragged about in the wilderness forty years-Brook- lyn Standard Union
 In Denver the other day there died 1 a, wise man. His name was Bernard ] Beer and he left a considerable estate as monument to many years of strict attention to business. This es- | tate will eventually revert to two sons, providing they display the bus | mess abilities hoped for by their father. The will left by the father provides that the lads were to be given $500 of the estate at once And every year thereafter they are to receive much money as they have made and saved. If at the end of the first year they have over s1, 900 to the good they get another thousand, but if they have squandered the or- ginal $500 and have no assets they have nothing. It is one of the most sensible documents ever penned and should be an incentive to the boys to prove themselves worthy of the man who reared them.-Buffalo En- quirer.
 The Eastla nd disaster points with dreadful certainty to a grave defect in the system by which we attempt to secure safety at sea and on the Great Lakes. In the past we have learned prudence on particular sources of danger. It was the Titantic that show ed the need of adequate lifeboat equipment. It was the wreck of the Volturno which proved that in a storm even good equipment was useless without a competent crew. The lesson of the Eastland, pressed home with all the tragic appeal of it's hundreds dead, is no less plain. It is warning that every ship 1n which imperative principles of marine construction are violated threatens suffering and loss of life which ade- quate life boat equipment and con- petent crew can at best only mitigate. r. is sad that we should need so aD- palling horror to teach this simple lesson, long understood and often pointed out by marine experts. It would be a lasting disgrace if we paid the price without learning the lesson.-The New Republic