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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
,E LOOKING FOR REVIEW E,

Ehe New Haven Times-Leader is
6ponsible for the statement that
pearances indicate the reporting Of
bill to the Legislature which will
raise the liquor license fee from S45o
to $3.50 and that the state will re-
ceive 100000 from the fund. If
there is any such report coming the
members Of the legislature should De
on the lookout for it. At present the
state does not receive any money from
liquor licenses, ten per CENT. going TO
counties and the remaining ninety
per cent to the communities where
the licenses are issued. The law
could be amended SO that portion
of the money would go to the state,
and If there Is anything to the Times
Leader story it would seem as If the
scheme is to raise the license fee, give
the towns the amount they are now
receiving and take the balance for
the state. There has been some talk
along this line, but as the towns bear
practically all the expense incident to
the liquor business, the license fee
should go to those places where the
saloons are located. An attempt has
been made to prove that the state
shares in the expense of the saloon,
but the argument is Of that charac-
ter which is so far fetched as not to
have any great strength.
There has also been some talk in
the same paper of the state levying a
three mill tax on the towns so as to
esta blish sinking fund from which
the obligations of the state could be
met as they become due. State Treas
urer Chamberlain says that he has not
heard Of any such measure, although
he admits having heard of the half
mill proposed state tax which the peo-
pie have rather expected. There IS
much evidence that some Of the men,
bers of the legislature are making a
careful search for every conceiva BILE
place from which a dollar can be OBJ
tanned with which to meet the states
indebtedness, and unless a close watch
is kept upon them they may take rev.
enue that properly belongs to the
towns.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
News From Itadcs.
New FORK Times.

(NeW Ork 11meS.)
If Billy Sundays census of hell has
been conducted with care and ac-
curacy, there is a mixed society in
that winter resort. He includes in it
Pharaoh, Voltaire, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Huxley, Jezebel, John stuart Mill.
Nero. Tyndall, Judas, Thomas Paine,
Attila, Ingersoll, Louis XIV, Rousseau,
Louis XIV, Ivan the Terrible Nine.
Pompadour. Catherine de Medici.
Nine. de Montcspan and Nine. de
Maintenon
1t is we'll to have the matter set
tied and not have to wait until judg-
ment day Many of lis have won
dered who was going to the place and
have felt much vexation at having to
wait SO long to find out Mr.. Sunday
has relieved our curiosity only in
part, it is true, but every little bit
helps. Later he may get some fur
Their information on the subject and
let us know more Most men had
expected to wait a long time before
they should hear the words, Depart
from Me, We cursed, into everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and all his
angels We now hear them ahead
of time, not pronounced by the One
expect them, but pronounced by the
voice of indubitable though self-as-
sumed authority.
Upon what principle Mr.. Sunday
condemned these souls to hell it is
not, at first blush, quite easy to make
out. He seems to have sent Huxley
and Tyndall to hell because of their
scientific Investigations. which he
may think cast doubt upon the Sun
! day theology; and Paine and Inger-
| soil because of their infidelity. But
| nobody could be more orthodox than
Nine. de Montespan, Louis XIV, and
| Catherine de Medici Nine. Pom
| padour is apparently sizzling in flames
! under the Sunday sentence because
! she carelessly forgot the Formally OF
| marriage with Louis XIV, and Nine
| de Maintenon, was are forced to con-
| clude, is condemned because she
! scrupulously insisted on that formal
| ity. Or perhaps her condemnation
is caused by her having urged the
king to Danish the Protestants, In
which case it seems that some leni-
ency should have been extended tc
| Noltaire for his efforts to relieve the
Protestants from the burdens imposed
| by her.
Judas, of course, has no appeal
| from Judge Sundays sentence. Nero
! perhaps, might put in the insanity
| plea, or at least ask to have the Binet
! test for detectives applied before SEN
tence is passed If Northumberland
| had been able to get an alienist-he
! certainly had. the price-he might
! have been able to avert his fearful
doom. But, of course, no such de-
| Tense would avail in the case of John
Stuart Mill, who had all his wits
about him and trod his evil path with
open eyes.
Mr.. Sunday deserves praise for his
self-restraint in leaving out Caligula
stephen Irado, Napoleon, DR.. Chan
| ming, and Alaric the Goth. But per-
haps this is only the first install
ment, and we shall get another docket
oon 1t Is to be hoped SO, SO far
soon. 1t is to be hoped SO, for we
are ati1irst to know these things.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
GOVERNMENT CLOSES
IN PASSPORT CASE
Richard T.. StegIcr Denies Empiications
Framed i'm the Attorneys
Questions

New York, March 1S.-Richard II.
Stegler German naval rcserVist, a goN-
eminent witness against Richard Mad
den and Gustave Cook, charged with
aiding Stegler to procure false Amer
lean passport, denied i'm cross eXami-
nation yesterday implications framed
in the attorneys questions.
Several other witnesses testified ana
the government closed. George y.
Cutley, for the defense, addressed the
Jury. He said that he would prove
that Stegler never saw Madden lh
his life. that Madden, Cook and Steg-
Ter were never together, that Madden
had procured the birth certificate Ia
order to get a passport for himself
and that the certificate had been stolen
from him.
Cook in his own defense said he
first met Steglcr in a lloboken bar
room about three years ago. He de-
MED Stegler's testimony that as early
as September, 1914, Cook had suggest
ed to Stegler that he could procure an
American passport for him He de-
MED that he had ever had any con-
versation with Stegler in regard TO
obtaining an American passport or
had ever assisted him in procuring
such a document He swore that he
never introduced Stegler to Madden.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
D. MCMILLAN
1908 Main Street

but he will never think OF mention
ing and doing all that he can for
people and causes outside his home.
Business is business. To be sure
ii u.s. but no one deems ii necessary
to state that fact unless he is doing
or intends to do something hard,
cold and unfeeling, or else something
oblioue or shady. If a cruel land
lord intends to turn a widow and
her family into the street, he is very
likely to remark as he proceeds to
do it, Business is business IL a
promoter seeks to work off some
worthless stocks on an unsuspecting
victim, he is likely TO remark thai
business Is business" and that
''cvery one must look out for him.
self" If a money-shark forecloses
on a poor man who cannot pay an
exorbitant interest, ne is sure to tell
you with much solemnity that,
though it is hard, yet "busness Is
business"
We must play the game. This,
though sometimes used iD good
sense. often means in business par
lance that We must be as mean and
sharp and untrustworthy as other
bad men. They arc playing the
game; and, il we would not lose, VIC
must play H., too. They nave no con
science in financial transactions; so
we must smother ours. They bow
down to the money god: SO must We,
or we shall get left in the dollar race.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
knocking Old Notions.
(Troy 1'ines.)

his Is an 1cOnOclastic era One nv
one ancient beliefs, held in reverence
because Of their age, if for no other
reason, are objects of assault. and
many OF them have been weakened
ana some utterly destroyed. One of
the most recent attacks upon notions
Wnlch nave been cherished fondly for
generations Is that by Prof Andrew
III. rainier of the weather bureau at
washington. The professor is out
with vigorous indictment against
almost the entire collection of fall
lacles, as he calls them, regarding
meteorological matters He saws tho
weather is not influenced by the
phases OF the moon or the positions
OF the planets; that there is no con-
nect1on between weather phenomena
ana earthquakers or magnetic dis
turbances, like those which cause the
aurora borcalis, and that the asser-
tons of the oldest inhabitant'' that
weather conditions have radically
changed since his boyhood days are
not based on fact
All this is bad enough, but worse
remains. Professor Palmer knocks
--or attempts to knock-the Medicine
Hat idea into a cooked hat The
present resident of the North Amer
lean continent have been brought I'D
on that idea. They have been taught
that all cold waves, billiards. and
other extraordinary developments of
severe winter originated in Medi-
cine Hat, away up in the wilds of
| northwestern Canada, sweeping down
from that point over terrified and
shivering communities lying in their
pathway. Professor Palmer says
there is nothing in it-that Medicine
Hat is simply a way station, so to
speak, in the line Of weather move
ments, which have a regular course
around the earth, and that the evil
fame of the place is not deserved.
He says a whole lot of other things,
including denals that storms are more
frequent at the time Of the autumnal
equinox than at any other period.
He declares that Indian summer is
another popular superstition" If he
is correct in all these assertions he
does away, at one full sWoop, with
beliefs on which have been founded
a great mass of sentimental literature
in prose and poetry.
There are other "knocks," and the
professors allegations, if sustained,
leave not Il prop remaining for the
old teachings regarding the weather.
And he attempts to prove all he says
by an array of facts and figures, in
Guiding carefully kept records and
minute observations which are like
lv to go far toward convincing per-
sons of scientific mind. Those given
to literal exactness no doubt will ac-
cent the professors findings, and the
! notions at which tho exposure is
| aimed will be swept into the discard
inst as the childish conception that
the moon is made of green cheese is
sidetracked when the youngster comes
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
COURSE OF LECTURES FOR
POLICE. .i

Commissioner Woods of New York
is having a series of lectures given
the police captains of that city with
a view to police training. In one
of the lectures the speaker referred
to the detection of criminals by
teeth marks on pipe stem and by
the finding of few particles of saw
dust on the coat of an escaping muir
derer. It is being claimed that these
licemen because they show that in
searching for a criminal clues of
even the smallest kind may be of
Importance.
It is safe to presume that in order
to be shrewd detective a man needs
to be good talker, able to stay at
| sagacious, to have courage and the
ability to keep what he hears to him
self. In looking up criminal case the
important thing is to get evidence as
y
difficult some times and there is no
| doubt but that there have been a
| number of people committed to prison
on circumstantia1 evidence who were
| innocent of the crime charged There
was one man hanged at the Wethers-
| field prison for murder and who said
as he stood upon the fatal trap that
| he was innocent. He was convicted
on circumstantial evidence, but there
were some witnesses who said that the
accused was not within several miles
of the scene of the murder at the
time it was committed. This testi-
mony was contradicted, but it was
probably true just the same or the
condemned would not say so as he
was about to die. A man was given
life sentence in New York at one
time because he had been seen with
the victim some hours before the
murder and because the scrap pings
from under mis- finger nails showed
traces of human blood. The mar
| denied it all but went to prison just
the same. He vas liberated later
because of a feeling that he had beer
unjustly convicted.
Service in a police department
makes an officer valuable, but a mar
must also have some natural quail
ficatipns before he can be an exper
detective He cannot be taught it
although length of service will helI
in the way of acquiring acquaintance
and knowledge of men. The lectures
before the New York captains ma,
have some value in directing atten
ton to an important work and b.
showing that much attention shoult
be given small as we'll as greater ap
{ pearing matters in the police bushes
, because they may lead to something
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

Forbush Published by the Massa-
chusetts Board of Agriculture.
Science in the Industrial Wcrld.
BY II. S. and r. H. Williams.
Sun" BY II. A. Sampson.
Sums up admirably for the gener-
al reader the present positions of fact
and theory about the sun.'--A. L. A.
Bookist.
useful Birds and Their Protec-
ton" Containing brief descriptions
Of the more common and useful spe
cias of Massa chusetts with accounts
of their food, ha bits and chapter on
the means of attra citing and protect
ing birds. BY f. II. Forbush. Pub
lished by the Mass. Board of Agricul-
ture.
wild Life Conservation in Theory
and Practice" BY w. T. Hornaday
Readable plea for the conserva-
ton of wild animal life, based on
lectures before the Forest School of
Yale, 1914. Purpose is to awaken
educated citizens to a sense of their
duty and power in the matter. Pre-
sents a general view of the status Of
our wild life and it's economic value
"A. l.. A. Booklist.
"Amazing Grace: Who Proves That
Virtue Has It's Silver Lining" BY
Mrs. X. T. Sharber.
"Greenstone Door" BY William
Satchell.
"A story of adventure in New Zea-
| land Astounding in striking and bril-
! liant descriptions
katy Gaumer." BY Elsie Sing
master" A story of the "Pennsyl-
vania Dutch"
Maid of the Mist" BY John Oxen
ham.
"A good story of the stranded on
the-desert isle type, some time after
the French revolution. One storm
wrecks an English physician and a
! sailor on desolate Sable Island an
| other sends Avice Drummond, a niece
! OF Louis XVI. ashore. The arch
villain is furnished by the sailor who
is proverbially removed to his owr
undoing, leaving the lovers to work
out their problems until their rescue
| A. l.. A. Rooklist
Secret of the Reef BY Harold
Bihdloss
Those Of His Own Household" 3,
I Rene Balm.
/ "A quiet, naive story delicatel,
presented with a lovely Breton at
| 1nosphere. The characters are vel
drawn; their story makeg goot
| antidote to the usual story of a sep
arated man and wife, and the end
! their reconciliation is convincing
! brought about chiefly by their dauch.
ter.'-A. L. A. Booklist
valley Of Fear" By A. Conan
Doyle.
| HAN book of Sherlock Holmes
is better than dozen Of almost an,
other kind. NATION.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
The Man Of Forty.
providence Journal. J


The physical director Of the West
Side Y. M. C. A. in New York, on
the strength of his examination of
more than two thousand city men
during the past year, declares that
he finds the type (meaning the typi-
cal New Yorker) physically deterior-
ating The average city man, he
says, leads life that results in his
growing old before his time. He
eats too much, works too strenuous
ly and exercises too little, and by.
the age of forty he develops many
of the symptoms of old age. The
man of forty is in effect an old man,
frequently on the verge of a physical
collapse.
To many who do not happen to re-
| member that they have heard 1t all
before, this will seem alarming talk.
| But there is some solace in the re-
| Election that the doctor who writes
or talks for publication is quite like
| ly to be an alarmist. Doctors have
a fondncss, seemingly, for the utter
ance of solemn warnings. For some
years we have been hearing about the
| fearful physical degeneracy of the
| male portion of the human race in
! this country. There must be a con-
! siderable amount of cXaggeration in
this medical pessimism. To the cas-
ual lay observer the race seems to
be getting along tolerably we'll, ana
there are few indications of a marked
decrease in the average percentage
Of health and vigor.
There is also a tendency to exag-
gerate the detrimental effects Of city
life Any comparison of urban and
rural habits of living is naturally in
favor of the latter as the more con-
ducive to sound health and long life.
I But it is necessary to remember that
bodily health is not dependent alone
upon merely physical energy; II
thrives in part upon nervous energy
| diversion and recreation and a var
iation of mental interests. AS a rule
the city dweller obtains this intellec-
; tual tonic more abundantly than the
farmer. His chief danger is over
Indulgence in the mental and emo
tional stimulants, while the farmc,
| is more susceptible to the aging eff
, ! fects Of nonotony and the lack of di-
| versified interests.
Which habit of living is the more
likely to bring on premature ole
age may be d dcbatable question. But
|. probably if ten city men and ter
, country men, all OF the age OF SlAlA
were chosen at random and com
pared, it would be found that the
men from the city were the more
youthful in appearance and genera
| condition, although a physical test
such as a tug Of war; might show
the country men to be stronger.
The statement that the average city
= man is old at forty IS absurd. 1t is
not credible even when, applied tt
the average New Yorker. who ma,
be assumed to find the pace of mod
} ern life rather more rapid than j
s. is in any other city. The New Y orl
g doctor must have found an abnor
NAL number of poor specimens amons
the two thousand meen upon whom
he based his remarkable deductions
y IF old age comes at forty. anothe
! five or ten years must bring an ad
vanced senile debility, and even Will
some provincial prejudice we canno
> he prepared to believe that this i
g +vnica1 OF New York life.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
Vicious Proverbs.
(Christian Fndeavor World }

Itnr1Stlan FINOeaNOf w OTIU.D
There are some proverbs that are
used only to bolster unworthy
thoughts or words or actions. Here
is one of them: Charity begins at
home. or course it does, but no one
says that to himself, or says it out
loud. who does not wish to excuse
some mean and parsimonious action
Every really generous man will, of
course. begin his charities at home;
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18

m lived in another section
good shot and between
the deer would be soon
and there would be much
zor sale. 1t does not seem as
sEument that deer should be
br market the same as cattle
yep will prevail because the
cannot be done in this state at
bfit. There would be nothing
I'd by adding another unprofit-
ebusiness to those already known.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18

of greater value. 1t is Of still greater
Importance that this kind of q lee
turer should understand his subject.
If he did and was connected with
the police business he probably would
not talk about it,
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18

NJ tnaL
s1nly one
can be
that is in
Rd the civil
ere except
n the police
/ of officials
Fork. One
nent is that
court room
il police de-
be removed
artment Is
its own and
lnetine, al
eed to be a
/ will be.
e discussion
! city court,
Ian will go
ght to be
start so that
Ace trials as
aid be taken
slne proceed
afterwards
held anyway
necessary to
ty court UNI
so disposed.
charter pro-
b stand, but
g law points
pf this or
|ouId be any
court pro-
Der the whole
1selves admit
trial is not
that should
to them
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Boss Barnes of New York IS groom
ing Elihu Root for the republican
nomination in 1916. Root began his
political career as the friend Of Bill
Tweed and has always been the re-
preventative Of special privilege in
one or another form. His nomination
would represent reaction gone mad
Bridgeport Farmer.
1t might be more than a wild tale
that moving picture manufacturing
concern has leased or is about to lease
a piece of property near New Haven
for a studio. They say that the cloud
less climate of southern California is
the only ideal place to make moving
pictures, but there must be some bases
OF supply, in the present increasing
demand, nearer the places where the
moving picture shows flourish most
mightily.-New Haven Register.
There are plenty of ways for ambi-
ttous young people to earn money.
Let them offer the world some service
that it really wants. Able bodied
young men can always work their
way through college by taking Jobs on
farms, and girls by waiting on hotel
tables, selling food, or performing do
nestle service. In such ways they ron
der real service. and have the self
respecting feeling that they are asking
for no sympathy, but are standing on
their own merits.-Norwich Record.
The people of Manchester decline
to be ATTRACTED by the lure of being
known as a city and thereby prob
ably are wise. Manchester, as city,
n n n g
a town and if her people are so mind
ed, they can make their town govern
ment so efficient that every city in
the state will want to copy it. If
Manchester were to become a
city she would find herself saddled
Immediately with new expenses
which would bring her no returns
Hartford Post.
New York state health auth critics
have decided on a roundup of tramps
in order to make better progress to-
wards controlling the hOOf and mouth
disease among cattle. 1t has been
proven that men as we'll as cattle may
carry this disease and it is known
that persons working a bout a stable in
which diseased cattle are kept can
carry the disease to neighboring farms
or stables. 1t is because OF the habits
Of tramps that they have come to be
suspected as carriers of the hoof and
mouth disease, and it may follow that
all states will seek out the nomads and
fumigate them in order to protect
cattle while danger of infection exists
Gradually the tramp is acquiring
most unsavory character.-Waterb
Republican.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-18
MARKET.

blk of raising
at is to per-
$ cattle or
the venison
here is a bill
hich seeks to
ulry does not
rnation that
sion that the
ed IdVOfdD'y.
he deer, how
the farmers
" say that the
or damage to
u they do not
ation to make
It they would
present law
can kill deer
1T looks as if
he may be re-
be. If such a
If 1t will open
t trespass and
Ainnals will re-
&erally hunted
ed in the end.
! If deer could
for market at
great many
in some parts
e animals are
ge person can
bf them, but it
hesticate them
bndit1ons there
by of raising
t is Impossible
jtion of senti-
kcause the deer
is naturally
kJaug inter- it fol
|essary TO shoot
Id pc necessary
b Enclosure anC
build result in i;
t that Woul(
Unpleasant sight
(ne some queer
|Ored to NEE
peculiar wa.
ht not subscrib,
lat. In SOM
Uttered in larg'
bin sold. but no
hnecticut. Th
deer eating hi
and sell TIL
experience som
Eithin range Q
mother farrnel
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-05-28
THE DRY FARMERS

The past week has been jubilant
bne for the dry farmers Of Utah.
They are dreaming of automobiles,
pianos, bathing suits and dinners at
the Utah and Newhouse hotels.
In thought they are coming the
raindrops Of the past week into due
ats, they are wondering If it will be
possible to spend all the money they
are going to have, when their prod
ucts are gathered in Salt Lake, and
at the expositions in San Francisco
and San Diego.
The dry farmers daughter, who
would have married an $50 clerk last
week, would not look at any one less
than a mining superintendent now.
We congratulate them, may Heaven
bless them and keep their hopes
bright, and bring them full fruition
with the harvest Goodwin's Week
lv