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New Britain herald., 1915-04-14

the last meeting of the fiscal year of the health commission yesterday, Tn ey were as follows:
 Milk Inspector G. IT. Crowley.
 Permits to sell milk issued to Al. |. permits suspended temporarily 1, sam ples of milk collected and analysed 344, samples brought to office, ard anaIyzed 3, samples below standard 50, samples found adulterated by the addition of water 4, adulterated by skimming 1, barns and dairies inspect ed 136, COWS inspected 1922, samples of water analysed 6. wells closed 1 ;, food inspections 1,765, prosecutions 15, total amount of fines S563.33. Goods condemned and destroyed were as follows: IA 3-4 veal, one hog, sev- eral pieces of meat, one half barrel of sauerkraut. one-third kcg of chest nuts, one loaf of bread, thirty-five musl1mellons, one lot of peaches, one lot of tomatoes, one banana and seven quarts of milk.
 Plumbing Inspector \. F.. Wciant.
 Permits issued to do plumbing 52S, plumbing tests by water 104, defects found by water tests 5, defects found py lilSpCSlioIl tV, IotlCSS SSllt lO lSIll- edy defects 35, permits to do work in new buildings 1oS, in old buildings 42e, total number of inspections 475. inspections of new buildings 91, of old buildings 3S4, reinspected 80, new water closets installed in old build ings 159, iron pipes displacing tile 8, iron pipes displa cling lead 1. Of the number of permits for new work. SC were to be occupied as dwellings or tenements as follows: 25 one family, stores; 12 two family, ? stores; o3 three family, one four family stores; A six family, stores; 1. twelve family; Y. w. c. A., 1 school, 1 factory six floors and one factory seven floors. There were thirty-nine permits issued to do sewer work, and 8 inspections were made. During the year he has collected and turned over to the superintendent of health S135.60 for plum bing license fees as follows: S54 for master plumbers fees, of which SIS were for factories, $92.50 for journeymen plumbers fees, of which $11.50 was from factories. He also turned over $S for sewer li- censes.
 Plumbers Examinations Committee.
 During the past eleven months, the examining committee held seventeen meetings in the rooms of the board of health. At these meetings there ap- peared before the committee forty three applicants for journeymen plumbers and thirty five for master plumbers licenses. Rules governing mode of examination and, require ments necessary to receive, a license were adopted. The committee eXer- cised it's best judgment during the first three months in issuing licenses to plumbers already engaged in tho trade in New Britain upon their show ing satisfactory evidence that they were entitled to a license. On and after September 1, 1914, all applicants for masters and journeymens license were given a full examination, oral, practical and by chart. Five appIi- cants failed to pass the examinations. As it is necessary for those who do not pass to wait six months before being re-eXamined, none can yet appear for re- examination.
New Britain herald., 1915-04-14
City Hens
Milk Inspector G. TT. Crowley.

The National Annual Hosiery event Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Da- mons Shoe shop.-advt.
 Miss Helen Dix of Hartford. former ly of South Stanley street, this city lies in a precarious condition at St. Francis hospital Hartford, where she underwent an operation for appendi- cities Sunday. She has developed pneumonia.
 Get your Lawn Mowers sharpened. B. c. Mercy Tel 1279-12 or Abbe Hdwe.
 -advt. Robert c. Kuper of Plattsbury, N. Y, is visiting his mother on Linwood street.
 Supernumerary policemen will hold their second drill Sunday afternoon at Hanna's armory.
 Peter Baba has been sued for s1OO by the Bigelow Varnish company through Attorney Joseph G. Woods.
 Four children of a family named Mazi1 of Orange street were reported to the police as lost yesterday. They were all home for supper.
 Ernest N. Humphrey has been re- elected chairman and H. C. Brown secretary of the house committee of the Elks.
 Superintendent Holmes of the pub lie schools will speak before Educa- tional club in Springfield on Friday evening.
 Durwood Toml1ins, a chauffeur, of 3S3 Arch street and Miss Emma Her. man of 103 Henry street were mar ried yesterday by Justice of the Peace A. l.. Thompson.
 David Hjolm has been granted per mission to erect a cottage on Common . wealth avenue. Paul Kohinwik has received permission to erect a housa on Overlook avenue at acost of $3,000. H. T. Sloper will erect a sleeping yer anda at his home on Lexington street at cost of $700.
 The Third Ward Republican cluc met last evening in Booths block and celebrated the victory of the G. O. P. in the fifth ward. Five new mem- bcrs were received and 1t was voted to hold an outing in June. President Stuart w. Parsons was authorized to appoint committee of seven to bring in list of nominations for office at the May meeting. Congratulations on the outcome of the election wera sent to republican headquarters.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
Famous Feats of Archery.

In the days when the buffalo vas
found in vast herds on the western
plains there were Indians who, while
riding at a gallop, could send an ar
row through a butfalo's body. Re-
markable as this archery was. it did
not equal that reached by the archers
of ancient times. 1t is of record that
the MacReas Of Gairlock, Scotland,
were such skilled archers that they
could hit a mar at the distance of
500 yards. In 1894 the Turkish am
bassador at London shot an arrow in
a field nea that capital AIS yards
against the wind. The secretary of
the ambassador on hearing the ex-
pressions OF surprise from the Eng
fish gentlemen present, said the Sui
tan had shot 500 yards. This was the
greatest performance of modern days,
but a pillar standing on a plain near
C~onstantinople recorded shots rang
ing up to 500 yards. Sir Robert Aims
lie, British ambassador to the Sub
lime Porte. recorded that in 1898 he
vas present when the sultan shot an
arrow 972 yards.-Washington Star.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
The Clumsy Jury System.
do Minneannlis 1nnrnn

$500 NV -hltllicd pOllS JOURNAL.
Ihc jury system is one of the Oldest fea-
lures of Anglo-SaNon justice. Along with
INC common law 1t has come down to us
from ancient times. But is it not time
seriously to consider whether 1t has not
outlived its usefulness, and whether it
tirely?
Any citizen who is called to serve as a
petit juror in Hennepin county must be
profoundly impressed with the clumsiness.
the inefficiency and the sheer Wasteful-
ness of the system.
In the first place, there is the injustice
OF the method OF summoning citizens for
jury duty. This is so devised that. while
one man is called to serve with great fire.
quency, his equally competent neighbor is
never called at all. The interference with
ones business might be borne. If the bur
den was distributed with something like
equality.
But IL juries could be depended upon to
DO exact and prompt service, the burden
be borne. In the nature of things, how
ever, the ordinary jury is a very imper-
feet instrument for the dispensing of jus
tie or nothing OF law: who are puzzled by
court proceedings with their ecilnicalities
their objections and motions. their recon
dite rules of evidence.
The jury in theory is to be judge of the
facts and to get its law from the court.
But in Judging of the facts it should be
guided by law. After the tedium Of a
long and boresome trial. many jurors are
more concerned with reaching a compro-
mise verdict than with doing justice. 9th
er jurors are planning how to prolong the
discussion. so as to eat sundry meals at
public expense. Others are merely obsti-
nate. and, having taken a warped view
OF the case. stick to 1t In defiance Of the
opinion of the majority.
In short, the result of a jury trial is
about the most uncertain thing on earth.
The jury may disagree. and make another
trial possible. 1t may reach an utterly UNI
warranted conclusion. 1t may find q COM
promise verdict which does justice to
neither party. 1t may even be corruptly
influenced. or it's action swayed by preju-
dice or passion.
Judges, lawyers and many laymen pretty
well agree that justice should be dispensed
by courts and not by juries. ~Uninportant
and trivial disputes should be submitted
to single judges for decision. Weishtier
matters should be passed on by three or
five judges sitting together.
IT is believed, for example, that the
eight judges sitting in the Hennepin dis
trict could hear ala cases without iuries
and dispose of them promptly at half the
expense Of the present clumsy system.
And justice would be not only prompte
and less costly, but surer than now.
1t will take courage to cast over an in
stitution so Embedded in our life and our
traditions as the jury system. but II
should be done.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
Big Business and Government.

49, ~ "SA
The injunction suit Of the Riggs Ma
tional bank in Washington was the signal
for every advocate Of big business to as
sail Secretary McAdoo, Comptroller Will
ponents of the administration Joined by
instinct in the ululation. The answer Of
the government Of the United States.
others, will give big business and its or
gans something to think about.
These affdavits describe the Riggs
ly breaking the banking law; as un-
land loan business: as making illegal
on stock collateral; as swearing false
oaths; as gaining government favors
from those about to enter it's employ
ment.
charge tina illegal and improper loans
We're made to Senators Bailey, Quay and
Proctor: to the late Renresentative J.
Oil traction interests; to Frank A. Van
derlip. now president of the Standard
70 it in the purchase Of the old custom
reasury officials, among them Comp
troller Ridgely, and various assistant
Treasury Leslie M. Shaw.
II these sworn statements stand test
we shall nave disclosed a yeritable al
lance between big business and the gov
eminent Of the United States under adj
ministrations more lenient with law
breakers than the present. We shall see
laid bare the secret course of pipe lines
tina led from the treasury straight to the
lair Of Standard Oil.
The Riggs banl has had its say. The
government has made its reply. 1t is
proper to await the final word OF the
courts. Yet thi. Is a fit time to empha.
size the purpose OF the gov
ernment to put it's seal of approval only
upon banking institutions that serve the
legitimate commercial needs Of the coun.
try.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
ALL SEEK FOR HAPPINESS
The One Thing for Which Mankind
May Be Said to Have a Univer-
- sal Desire.

we cannot pick and choose the
happenings of life any more than we
a select the circumstances of our
birth and death; we are but creatures
OF a wonderful destiny directed by
the Almighty, 1t is said that many
tragedies OF life might be averted il
we took our medicine like men and
did not put our personal happiness
above everything else. 1t is as nat
ural and to be expected to long for
happiness and cling to it as for the
flowers to turn to the sun. Happiness
Is the great lamp of life which lights
our way through all sorts of shad-
oWs-shadows that blur the vision
and make long nights of our days.
shadows that terrify by their gro
tesque shapes and threatening as
poets, and shadows that bury in their
depths much that we hold most dear.
We are Jealous Of our happiness and
guard it as the most precious thing
in life and when we watch it go down
the long aisles of memory farther
and father away from our yearning
eyes we begin to plead for it, and
strive for it, and fight for it. We
batter the walks of the past in our
vain efforts to call it back before it
is too late. II spend long days and
waste precious strength in the futile
e%ndeavor to clutch it back to our
hearts. And all the while, perhaps
right at our hands within easy reach,
happiness in a new guise stands ready,
Charleston News and Courier.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
CLEAR-HEADED.
Head B%ookkeeper Must Be Reliable.

The chief bookkeeper in a large
Western cities speaks of the harm
coffee and tea did for him:
MY wife and l drank our first cup
of Postum a little over two years
ago., and we have used it eve since.
to the entire exclusion of tea and
coffee. 1t happened in this way:
Il had an attack Of pneumonia,
which left me with dyspepsia, or neu-
ralgia of the stomach. My cup of
cheer had always been coffee or tea.
but | became convinced, after a time,
that they aggravated my stomach
trouble. ] happened to mention the
matter to my grocer one day and he
suggested that l give Postum a trial,
Next day it came, and we liked it
SO much that we will never change
back; for l am a we'll man today and
have used no medicine.
My work as chief bookkeeper in
our Cos branch house here is of a
very contining nature. During my cot
fee drinking days / was subject to
nervousness and the blues in addi-
ton to my sick spells. These have
left me since ] began using Postum
and / can conscientiously recommend
it to those whose work confines them
to long hours of severe mental exer-
ton"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum cereai-the original form
must be we'll boiled. 15c and 25c pack
ages.
Instant Postum soluble powder
d~issolves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
q delicious beverage instantly. 300
and SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious ant
cost about the same per cup.
There's q Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocere
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
More Words Followed.

I'm a woman of my word" said
Mrs. Prebscomb, with an air of final,
ity.
Indeed you are. my dear" said Mr.
Prebscomb.
when ] so out | don't come home
and tell an improbable yarn about
where I've been"
No. you don't, my dear heplied
Mr.. Prebyscomb mildly, but that may
be due to the fact that | have neve,
had sufficient courage to ask you
where you have been"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03

been invested in Canada, showing
that United States financial men are
satisfied of the solidity of Canadian in
stitutions. Western Canada has been
a heavy borrower and Western Can
ada's great resource is agriculture. u.
S. financiers must be convinced that
agriculture in Western Canada is sure
and profitable or they would not be
ready to invest so many millions In
the country.-Advertisement.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03

had no appetite. Since l have taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound the aches and pains are all gone
and l feel like a new woman. cannot
praise your medicine too highly. Mira.
AUGUSTUS LYON. Terre Hill, Pa.
1t is true that nature and q woman's
work mas produced the grandest remedy
for wornan's ills that the world has
ever known. From the roots and
herbs of the field, Lydia e. Pinkham,
forty years ago, gave to womankind
a remedy for their peculiar ills which
has proved more efiicacious than any
other combination Of drugs ever COM
pounded, and today Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is recognized
from coast to coast as the standard.
remedy for woman's ills.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds Of
thousands of letters from women seek
ing health-many of them openly stats
over their own signatures that theyhavs
regained their health by taking Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound;
and in some cases that it has saved them
from surgical operations.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
Unfair

Don't you ever let me catch you
kissing my daughter again, sir" thun-
dered the irate father.
You wont, sir" answered the quak-
ing youth, You wouldn't have caught
me this time ii you hadn't been wear
ing rubber heels"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
Roston's

Mrs. Gotham-But your streets in
Boston are SO crooked.
Mrs. Hubbard yours in New York
are so straight.
But aren't straight streets an ad-
vantage?"
Why, no. Now in Boston IL can
walk and walk ard get some place,
but in New York you a walk and
walk and get nowhere
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
The Violet.

Down in a green and shady bed
A modest violet grew:
Its stalk was bent, it hung its head,
AS If to hide from view.
And yet 1t was a lovely flower,
Its colors bright and fair:
1t might have graced a rosy bower.
Instead of hiding there.
Yet there it was content to bloom,
In modest tints arrayed:
And there is spreads its sweet perfume
Within the silent shade.
Then let me to the valley go,
This pretty flower to see:
That I may also learn to grow
In sweet humility.
lame Taylor H7s3-1g24).
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
Wayside Chat.
From the Kansas city 10,

From the Kansas City Journal.
There's a good deal in his southern
hospitality"
rs tina SOP
Yes; they gimme eight months for
vagrancy in New Orleans. / never got
more than 60 days in the north"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03

Lyon u.
Vegetable Com
pound. When I first.
began taking it l
was suffering from
female troubles for
some time and had.
almost all kinds Of
aches in low
er part of back and
in Sides, and press
ing down pains. !
could not sleep and
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
Drink Denison's Coffee.
Always pure and delicious.
Incidental Advertising.

Il suppose you think that if you
abandon your old party you will
deal It the finishing blow"
Not necessarily" answered Sena-
tor Sorghum. My leaving it may help
it a little by calling attention to the
fact that it still exists"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
In the Upstairs Bedroom.

In the Upstairs Bedroom. :,
He cant do the maxixe.'
"Goodness!"
He can't even Castle walk"
Horrors. What a stick"
He's ugly"
"Hopeless!"
He has an auto and regular seats
al the show"
What's his ?"-Texas Coyote.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
WHERE ART CEASES.
Sheldon Cheney

All art is a matter Of nature or
life acted upon by man; a part
taken out of its accidental sur
rounGings and given artistic form.
At either side of the field of true
art is a waste place, where art
ceases to have beauty. And the
waste on the one side is reached
when the artist becomes so enam-
ored OF life that he forgets to inter-
pref. to give artistic form. and
brings forth Il Photographic image:
while the wa>sc on the other side is
reached wheh h artist perfects his
form but foihets 10 put life into 1t.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03

YOU DRUGGIST WILL TELL. o
Try Murine Eye Remedy for Rcd, Weak, Watery
Eyes and Granulated Eyelids;, No smarting-
BY mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03

Without a supply Of Aliens Foot
Ease, tho antiseptic powder to be shaken into the
Shoes. or dissolved in the foot bath. The Standard
Remedy tor the feet Tor 25 years. 1t sives instant
hot feet. Ono lady writes. Il enjoyed every minute
Of my stay at the Expositions. thanks to Aliens
Foot-Ease in my shoes Get II TO-DAY Adv
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
MRS. LYONS
ACHES AND PAINS
Have All Gone Since Taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Terre Hill, Pa.-"Kindly permit ma
to give you my testimonial in favor OF
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
Differentiation.

Small Boy-Yn have to be both,
don't you Miss Oldgirl?
Ancient Family Friend-What are
you talking about, Willie? Both
what?
Small Boy-Why, ma says you're no
chicken and pa says you're an old
hen.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-03
The Maxine of Books.

"'"rN''8 Vt 0SSNS'
knicker = Has Smith writer's
Gramp?
Bocker-No, readers cramp.
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1915-04-16
The Last Shot
FREDERICK PALMER


the details Cor bis departure, while
'he rest OF the stan was immersed IN
the activity CT the preparations for the
attack on Engadis. He knew that he
could not sleep * he lay down. So he
spent the night at work IN the morn
ing his successor, young man whom
he himself had chosen and trained
| Colonel Bellini. appeared. and the
fallen man received the rising man
with forced official courtesy.
"ln my own defense and for our
aid he said Il show you a copg OF
what ! have just written to General
Westerling."
a brief note it was in farewell, be
ginning with conventional thanks for
Westerling's confidence in the past.
Il am punished for being right" it
concluded. 1T is my belief that Miss
Galland sends news to the enemy and
that she draws It from YOU without
your consciousness of the fact. tell
YOU honestly. Do what you will with
me-"
1t took more courage than any act
OF his life for the loyal Bouchard to
dare such cand0r to superior. See.
ing the patchy, yellow. bloodless face
drawn ii stih lines and the abysmal
stare OF the deep-set eyes in their
! bony reCesSeS, Bellini was swept with
wave Of sympathy.
Thank you, Bouchard. You've been
very fine," said Bellini as he grasped
bouchard's 5 hand, which was icy cold
My duty-my duty, ia the hope that
We shall Kill two Browns for every
Gray who has fallen that We shall
yet see them starved end besieged
and crying for mercy in their capital.
replied BOuchard lie saluted with a
dismal, urgent formality and stalkeC
| out Of the room with the tread OF the
ghost Of Hamlets father
The strange impression that this
farewell left with Bcllini still fingered
when, a few moments later, Wester
ling summoned him. Not alone the
diitidenCe of a new member OF the
staff going into the presence accounted
for the stir in his temples as he wait
ed till some papers were signed be-
fore he had Westerling's attention
Then Westerling picked up Bouchard 5
note and shook his head sadly.
Poor Bouchard. You can see fol
yourself" and he handed the note tC
! Bellini. 81 should have realized ear
lier that it was a case for the doctor
and not for reprimand Mad, Poor
| Bouchard. He hadn't the ability OF
the resiliency of mind for his task, as
| | hope YOU have, colonel"
Il hope so, sir replied Belini.
I've no doubt you have" said Wes
! terling. You are my choice