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New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
Magazine Poetry.

Once l saw Tombed in a shard of liquid, golden
 amber, A cruel spider and silly fly, And a wise ant, quite close together. Allan Updegraff in Lippincotts Once I saw Perched on my bed flock of pink and green snakes, A blue monkey and a red giraffe, And a purple dog, all in a bunch.
 Cincinnati Enquirer Once saw Approaching toward my f1ivver on the
 highway A heavy truck and speeding bike And an ice cart, too close to dodge.
 Boston Journal Once I saw, As held three deuces at little green
 table, A king full and a flush And a straight, and they told me to
 stay out till I had sOmething
 Detroit Free Press. Once I saw, Calmly drinking at the bar together, A BritOn, German, a Frenchman And a Herzegovinian from Sarajevo called the police. St. Louis Post-Despatch. Once l saw Four gentlemen standing on the oor- ner Three of them were absolutely "brOke.' The Fourth one didn't have a cent either For he was married, too. Bridgeport Post. Once I saw In the mad subway's everlasting night A grizzly beard and a pink feather And a soft snore quite close together. New York Sun. Once I saw 1 Strolling down the gaily lit Rialto | chorus girl, preacher and close by A blind man selling lead pencils 1 All in bunch
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

entitled to something more than people going around talking about it. Not that he should have proposed to his best girl'' without conf1ding in her the number, age, height and weight of each of his bantlings and older off, spring. He should! But it was for Edward Johnson to do all this; no one else. It mattered not if Edward was the father of one hundred children in stead of the twenty eight which right fully belong to him, no one should have gone and told on him. And then again: Was it any crime MT. Johnson committed, this playing paterfamilias to a family of twenty y-eight? Shades of Roosevelt, No! So there was an innocent man driven to look for surcease of sorrow in the flowing bowl because, as he puts it: Somebody must have told" Shame on some body. Fie on somebody for telling. Yet, where is the person who cannot say: Somebody must have told on me?"
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
D. MCMILLAN
,as-2of-2oa MAIN STREET

departure in Irish life. Bishop O'Don- nell, who its kept constantly informed by Redmond and was in especially close touch with him in the closing days of the home rule fight, brought forward comment that Irish unity al home and valor abroad had produced an entire change of heart toward home rule among the English and even among he Irish opponents of the measure.
 He makes the valuable and fruitful suggestion that when the amending bill is introduced it should not take the form of dividing Ireland, but of broadening the powers of the Irish parliament.
 This apeal will probably produce the little effect among professional politicians who still exploit to their own advantage the foolish prejudices of the Orangemen, but will probably lead to a united declaration by the unionists of southern Ireland and the sane business men of Belfast.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
Fire Escapes.
(New Haven Register.)


 We have not yet reached the dr. tistic stage of the fire escape. The iron networks which serve as connections between the upper floors of our sch ools and public buildings and the ground are not eautiful. But they are, so far as we have been able to test them, effective. Fortunately, we have not been obliged to test them much. It is pretty certain, however, that the lesson of the Collingwood dis aster was pretty we'll learned in this city and state. Few public buildings, especially schoolhOuses, lack efficient fire escapes. There is indeed little possibility of the repetition in New Haven or anywhere in Connecticut of such a tragedy as that which hap pened in Peabody in the state of Mas sachusetts last Thursday.
 As to the fire escape itself, there is yet much to be desired. It is distinct ly regrettable that such fine old building as the Orange street school house, forme erly beloved as Hillhouse High school, had to be marred by the ugly and conspicuous fire escapes But the demand for imm ediate pro- lection had to take precedence over ornament. Cannot something be done, however, to prevent the mar ring of our newer buildings? Of the art of architecture is demanded a fire escape system which can be effi- cient without being ugly.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
In Respect to Irish Affairs.

CT. P. O'Connor's London Letter.)
 In most eloquent contrast to the "crank'' minority in America are the scenes which are witnessed in Ireland when one of the Irish heroes who has received the Victoria cross returns Fifty years ago Westmeath was the hottest spot in the civil war between landlord and tenant. Rochfort. the leader of the landlords, was one of the most hated of the class. He is dead !ong ago. but last week the na- tionalists of Mullingar triumphantly rushed to the railway station to receive another Rocbfort.
 It was Boyd Rochfort, son of the former landlord, who, because ne had brought honor to Ireland, by winning the Victoria cross, the fifth of tho entire number which have hoop awarded to the Irishmen, received tbis enthusiastic welcome.
 A remarkable letter from Bishop O'Donnell of Raphoe may mark a new
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
KILLED CAPTIVES.

Berlin, Nov. 3, by wireless to Say. vile, N. Y.-From an official source there was given out today what wis described as a Russian army report, found on a prisoner of war. Accord ing to this report colonel of Cossacks notified his superior officer, Baron Won Stempel, commander of the Sec- ond Brigade, that his troops found it necessary to kill a number of German captives so that they could partici- pate in nearby fighting.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
DEFEAT OF SUFFRAGE IN EAST.

DEFEAT OF SUFFRAGE IN EAST. l
 East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet At least for the present that holds true. We have an instance of the validity of the argument in yesterdays vote on woman suffrage in three eastern states. Having practically conquered the West, the suffrage leaders recently turned their attention to the old timers of the union, to New Jersey. New York Massachusetts and Penn sylvania New Jersey was the first state to give it's verdict and it did so in no uncertain terms. It would have naught of woman suffrage. The time was not ripe when New Jersey ities would burden lovely woman with a vote And, having been dealt a staggering blow in New Jersey the leaders of the 'cause" forthwith went into the other three commonwealths resolved to do or die And they have
 died,-not ignominiously, but nobly
 They have gone down to defeat in the old Bay State, in the Empire State and
 in the Keystone State. With the over
 whelming defeat of suffrage in these
 four states aforementioned there can
 be no doubt that the East has not as
 yet met the West, that they do things
 different here in the so-called effete part of the country than they do in
 the wild and wooley. Suffrage hav-
 ing been trounced in the East must
 hie itself back to the West for even
 in the chivilrous South it is not want cd. But the women need not be ter
 ribly discouraged. They have shown the wonderful spirit of persistence that is characteristic of their sex, and, by that token they should triumph in
 the long run. They have done this, they have taken the question of woman suffrage from the plane of
 jckedom and elevated it to the dig nity of a national issue. It is be- cause of that that the states in this Union may someday unite in giving woman, lovely woman, the privilege of the franchise.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
BETTER THAN CALOMEI
Thousands Have DiscoveredDr. Edwards Olive Tablets arc
 a Harmless Substitute

Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets-the substi- tute for calomel-are a mild but sure lsxa. tive, and their effect on the liver is aitn0s. s Instantaneous. They are the result olI.. OF Da Edwards determination not to treat lvsI ,,.I and bowel complaints with caiomel |, ,si efforts to banish it brought out these hetie olive-colored tablets.
 These pleasant little tablets do the gooo that calomel does, but have no paa ai1e, i.,e, effects. They don't injure the Lee.n ,1s ilas strong liquids or calomel. They tahe ,n1is noio of the trouble and quickly correct it Why cure the liver at the expense oI '1e s,, tns Calomel sometimes plays haVoe "ien LIN gums. So do strong liquids.
 It is best not to take calomel, but to lel pr. Edwards Olive Tablets take its place
 Most headaches, duilnesS ,in1 ana .rd sa's s disordered liver Take Dr; Edwards ofNs Tablets when Eo% yGg tbsS fsSl ca9E 9Egy ycoudeS e brain and how they "perk up" the spirits At 1oc and 25c per box. All druggists.
 The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus O
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
School Fire Drills.
( (Meriden Journal.)

That awful affair at Pea body, Mass, when twenty-one school children lost their lives in a fire, again demon strates tn tremendous value of the fire drill. If those pupils and those teachers had been perfected in their fire drills such a terrible loss of life could not have occurred, for training and instinct would have made them do what they were taught
 Here in Meriden we have the fire drill pretty well perfected and we are certain that in the event of an alarm that any or all of our buildings would be emptied in record time There drills are being held constantly and none of the pupils has any idea when an alarm is to be sounded. Every drill thus far held has been in perfect order and every building emptied in wonderfully short time.
 The mayor paid a visit of inspec- tion to the schools a short time ago and these fire drills were made. Even in the big High school the building was cleared in minute and most of
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
NIERODY MUST HAVE TOLD, ,,

Fill the merciless wagging of Hues ever cease? Will human
 Ire never learn to mind it's own
 hess? Will folk ever trudge "a weary way through life talking
 lt their ncighbors2 Oh for the day n some Maxim rises in his might invents sileneer for the gossip for those uncanny individuals must ever prate on, telling truths untruths with the same disregard personal feelings. Members of the |hool for Scandal should be given unlimited vacation. What great l ny they inf1ict. upon their fellow h one never realizes until confront with some such story as dire in it's possibilities as this one which
 hes, from, Hagerstown, Maryland,- gerstewn, the home of dear old Fhyrannbic Dick, to wit: Edward |nson, widower was hailed into |rt on the charge of tryingsto drown
 sorrow because his last sweetheart t him aside. He confided in the lrt that he was the father of snty-eight children, that he had
 n married three times, that he was Irting his best girl and that she
 rev him down" on learning of his nerous progeny. Somebody must ,e told on me- was Johnson's S int. tta.Thei [ took to the flowing yl." .-ira r.t- at.. :"
 Oh that somebody would come into
 world who would never tell on ople, would never resort to those -ty little methods of. nosing around. uld never take so much interest in affairs of others. Poor Edward nnson, widower. The heart of any Il human must bleed when it hears
 his blight. Somebody must have q on hinS Z What a shame! Only that heWou1d proba bly, now be .rrled ffor the fourth time, and tied down, And if there was ever lime when Edward Johnson needed lelpmate it is just now. After hay 5 raised tWenty-eight children he Is
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
(GlasgOw Republican,

The mule trade Monday was the best for months. More than 60 chang ed hands at good prices. Ed Lyons bought 10 head of horses and mules at prices raiging from $2OO to s25O. Messrs. Crump & Hendricks of Smiths Grove bought nine mules at from S155 to $1S5. Lonnie Mitchell bought II head but We did not learn the prices. Harry Lazarus bought 31
 mules at prices ranging from s9o to $2O2.5O. Saturday MT. Lizards bought 53 head il Columbia at s65 to s175.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
(CadiZ Record.)

w. M. Puckett, who works for Judge Shaw on the Hillman farm, near Trigg Furnace, caught a large bull snake in one of the troughs of the stable while feeding last Sunday afternoon. The snake measured 5 1-2 feet long and as big around as your wrist. It was trying to swallow an artificial hen egg, which Judge Shaw had placed in a hens nest, when MT. Puckett discovered him, and he suc- ceeded tn getting a string around the snakes neck while he was thus en- gagged.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
A Fable of Re-Marriage.
(New Republic.)

Once upon a time I knew an old man who was president of a smallish railroad. For years it had been his policy and his pride to fill vacancies among the general officers by promo ton. Other railroads, he used to say, are welcome to get their executives by looking the country over and brib- Ing stars out of their orbits. Our own poys ne used to say, are good enough TOT us Only once had MT. Bolton made a considerable mistake. His general manager, as every one admitt- ed, was failure. Every one rejoiced decently when this general manager died, and every one assumed that the place would be filled by the general superintendent There was much to justify the assumption. Mir Franklin had begun as a telegrapher and work ed his way upward. Throughout his career he had had MT. Bottoms ap- probation. He was competent, indus trious, straightforward
 Great was our surprise when he was passed over and an outsider ap- pointed, despite the almost unani- nous protests of the directors. Several years later I found out MT. Bottoms motive. Mir. Franklin, just before ] the vacancy occurred, had married his l second wife less than a year after his 1 nrst wife's death Did such an act i lessen his qualifications for the gen eral managers job? Of course not,
 put MT Bolton had his prejudice.
 me nery old man would not listen to reason. He had his own standards of loyalty. And he had lived up to them.
 HIS hrst wife had been dead seven
 years before he married a second
 HIS second had been dead five years
 pefore he married third. He is sur. | vived by his fourth.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
PaIltaEptteS.
{ Meriden Journal. )

(Meriden Journal.)
 Our grandmothers wore 'em. So why the fuss over 'em now?
 These new ones, of silver, etc, with lots of lace dugums on 'em, are some lockers, believe us
 We have a friend whose eyes went back on him so that he could hard ly see a golf ball lying on ground before him.
 Lately he attended a country club dance where several girls wore pam talettes, and now he has job as 0 proofreader.
 The fad is a passing one.
 They won't be worn much longer. If they are, they'll be step on.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
AY STATE RETURNS IT.
 THE FOLD,
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the Republican vote sweep
 e state of Massachusetts there
 no doubt that some of the Prs who broke line and ran
 the split of 1912 have return the. Grand Old Party and are
 to take their places on the
 ont of 1916. The Democrats en be forced to meet a united
 Republican party made up of
 old line mem bers, with the B exception of one, Theodore cit, erstwhile commander-in-
 It was a notable victory in the iy State yesterday, notable at
 or the Republicans who will themselves the conquerors of hd. For the whole fight in
 hccCtts' was waged seemingly
 state issues but on national tions, with criticism of the
 administration and democratic as the bulwark of the argu-
 Viewed from this standpoint Samuel w. Mccall who today limself the possessor of some 'ousand z plurality in votes for or over his political rival the |ratic @,encumbent, Governor
 I. Walsh, has reason to Ee
 Republicans throughout the who watched with much con- i he election returns from the ftate will. congratulate them and their party and from now fll see nothing but overwhelm- |ctories for the elephant over |ule. And yet, when all is said lone, the Republican victory in lay State is, nothing more than |xpecteaa from a party that has always ruled. the state. Be 1t hbered, ,9s s- GMassa sachusetts has 5 been a@roek -ribbed Republican ,hold, Tn the light of recent ,pments, the coming back of srers toskhe sfold, it would be 1t to see.--party which has ss been. ia { rhirority one in this plar aSSa.iss SSontinue to. clinch Id on the property of the oppo- sS sWHep sAll things are con E it is hSsbtful that the Mass; etts elections can be taken as tive of a trend of feeling against lan in thA White House or even olicies of the Democratic party. 1T is it a 'dementings of the break
 has existed for. almost four in the side, of the Republican
 It might also be recognized 9 death rattle. in the throat of srogressivea sparty.t Simply that iothing more. 2TF-''
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New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

the other structures the time was much less. The North Colony street school, one of the worst of them ali, was emptied in thirty seconds.
 These things prove the value of the fire drill and because they are held frequently and because the pupils do not know when they are coming the Meriden schools cannot have any such holocaust as that which took place this week in the Massach usetts town.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
(Mt. Oliet Tribune-Democrat.)

The largest ground hog that has ever been caught hereabouts was "treed" by the two small dogs of J. D, Curtis and son, Claudio, Sunday. A fierce fight took place between the ground hog and the dogs, but the ground hog was too much the strong CT and MT. Curtis had to kill his hogship. It was of unusual size and weighed IT pounds.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
Results show that in this state wo-

Results show that in this state wo- men refuse to accept the obligation which at their request or upon their apparent acquiescence has been inn posed upon them, or to discharge the resulting duties. The question, then, for the people of other states to de- eide in the light of the experience of the western states is whether it is in the public interest to impose on wo- men imperative duties which the great majority of women refuse to discharge after they have been imposed upon them.-San Francisco Chronicle.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

Bishop David H. Moore of the Methodist Episcopal Church favors a woman for president, and says Jane Addams is equipped for the presi- dency. Opinions may differ as to that, but it seems certain that Miss Addams will be thoroughly equipped by the time she is elected president.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
JITNEY ACCIDENT.

Bridgeport, Nov. 3.-Five men were hurt, one seriously, this morning when a jitney bus was run down by an au- tomobile fire engine responding to an alarm in the west end All the victims are in a hospital
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
FACTS AND. RANCHES.

There are many male suffragists in the city, but he who takes the palm for consistency is the laundryman who displays "Votes for women" in his window and irons shirts insde.-New York Herald.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

This all means the turning loose of thousands of dollars among the farm ers and this means easier times, all of which we gladly welcome.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
War Songs.
"UH OoI1SS. Philadelphia InquirerD

The death in Boston the other day of Luther o. Emerson, the song and hymn writer, recalls the interesting fact that he was author of the famous Civil war song, We Are Coming, Father Abraham," which Is said to have been of great help to President Lincoln in his calls for volunteers. It was inspiring and carried with 1t the note of victory which counts for so much when there is a wavering in the hearts and minds of the most loyal In it's way this war song did aS much TOT the union cause as uncle Toms Cabin" did in the free ing of the slaves.
 A Wlse person of the past once said that he did not care who made the laws of his country if he couldbe allowed to write the songs. There is Il" oouot of the power that popular songs nave over the imagination and the leehngs of men, especially in t1nes of national peril Every war produces it's crop of this kind, and if 'he alr happens to be this kind, and catchy it lives long after the event "hlch inspired it has passed into history
 1he Civil war was especially pro-
 1Aio Ill the sort of songs that appealed o" the multitude. The composition might have been crude and the tech hlque faulty in some instances, but as long as they contained the proper sentiment and went with swing, the people, and especially the sol- olers on the tented field were quick to accept them. In the beginning of the war between the section the Con- federates were singing Dixie and the Dnionists the "Star-Spangled Banner but later, and even after the war, we had John Browns Body"
 renting on the Old Camp Ground' and When Johnny Comes Marching Home'
 At the outset of the European war the soldiers among the allies got much comfort and satisfaction from 'Tipperary," now replaced in some quarters by "Onward, Christian SoI- diers.'
 A study of war songs, past and pres ent, as exceedingly interesting, es- pecially when considered from the standpoint of their psychological ef- feet.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

Sunday in these modern times has developed into 8 day especially de- voted to auto speeding, tire skidding. loss of control and collisions.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
life i'm Rural Kentucky.
(CentraI City Argus )

'Possums are said to be plentiful in the bottoms at present. Hoker Clark and friends captured six in one night last week.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

Bryan is touring Ohio this week in the interest of grape juice and preparedness.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

Ex-President Taft, in his speech at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, ex- pressed doubts as to whether half a million men could be raised for the army without conscription even early in a. war. MT. Bryan, on the con- trary thinks a million men could be raised in a day. The truth probably lies between these extremes. But if MT. Taft is anywhere near right in his estimate, Americana must stop criticising England, which has already put more than 3,O00,OOO men In the field without conscription and is daily adding to the number.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

Dead at the age of 113 years. Must have been born in Baltimore
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

Just the kind of weather to do ones duty by the cider.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
SunbRannS.
Baltimore Sun.

The goblins II get Germany e she don't watch out.
New Britain herald., 1915-11-03

Made s1o0,0Oo from $1,0Oo." Lots of dreamers do that every day.