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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-17
American League.
thursdays Results.
Federal League

Federal League.
Brooklyn. 8; ST. Louis, 8.
Pittsburgh. s: Baltimore. 8.
Kansas City-Newark game postponed
on account OF wet grounds
open date for Buffalo and Chicago.
National League.
ST Louis Boston game called IN sec.
ond inning On account OF rain. score
2 to 2.
Philadelphia. 10: Cincinnati. 8.
Chicago. L; Brooklyn, I'll innings)
New York, 8; Pittsburgh, 4.
American League.
Washington, 8; st. Louis. 2.
Detroit, 6; Boston, 1.
New York, 3; Chicago, 2.
Open date for Philadelphia ana
Cleveland.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-17
A Jolt for John euII.

Lincoln Star: Llody-George seems
to have struck the right key at last.
He is telling the boastful Britisher
that he is being licked and that 1t is
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-17
Today's Schedule.
federal League.

Federal League.
Brooklyn at ct. Louis.
Baltimore at Pittsburgh.
Newark at Kansas City.
Open date for Buffalo and Cnfcaso
National League.
Boston at st. Louis 1.-TWO games).
Brooklyn at Chicago.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati
New York at Pittsburgh.
American League.
st. Louis at Washington.
Detroit at Boston.
Chicago at New York
Cleveland at Philadelphia
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
PHYSICIAN.
Dir. w. P. SHERLOCK.

PhyoIctan and Surgeon.
Office, Masonic Temple. Residence
Alpha apartments.
Office Hours-10 to II .. M, to
) D. M; evenings, to 81 Sundays
IL to 1 p. m. United States civil ser
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
URGES RELIEF EXHIBITION.
To search for StefansSon the EEK
 pIorer. and Two Companions.

New York, Feb. IG,--Burt NJ. Me- Cornell, secretary to the kilhjalmur Stefansson, the explore" who, with two compa nions, has been missing in the ice fields of the Arctic ocean for several months, is making another effort to interest friends of the eX- plorcr in d relief expedition. Aid also has been sought of lEe Canadian government, under whose auspices the original expedition sailed.
 Mr Mcconnell is anxious to send a power schooner and two hydroaero- planes in search of Sucfansson. With the machines he believes 1t would be possible to make a thorough search of the regions where he is convinced StefanssOn and the others reported missing are still fighting for exist cuCC
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
The Minute Man Myth.
(New Republic)

We have all been taught in our school histories that the minutemen of Lexington and Concord performed prodigies of valor. Emotionally we are convinced that all an American citizen need to do is to take down his gun and shoot the presumptious il- vader of our sh ores.
 Let us examine the historical truth that underlies this myth. What as a matter of fact were the minute men of the revolution? They were citizens at-large whom the provincial con- gresses and the committees of safety of 1774 instructed to keep their pow der-horns filled and hold thems selves in readiness to shoot Britishers. They had had no military drill and no prac- tice except in shooting Indians and small game.
 They went down to defeat after de- feat; they were chronicilly under-sup- piled with ammunition; they were hardly more than an armed rabble until men like Lafayette and de Kalb took them Tn hand, and until untold and unnecessary hardships turned them into seasoned troops. They came we'll within the Inodern defini- tion of snipers and francstiereurs A modern army of invasion would give short shrift to such roadside anna teurs.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16

catcs a death rate of 271 per thou sand among babies in the poorest section-256 per thousand among the babies of fathers who earn less than ten dollars a week-compared with rate Of only eighty-four per thousand among babies whose fathers earn twenty-five dollars a week or more, the relation between street conditions and an infantile death rate is marked. In the sections of the city where the ratio of baby deaths is highest, this report says, the sanitary conditions were found to be the worst This remark. it should be said, is super
 1uous, as lack of sanitation and lack of infant vitality go together, as everybody who reads nowadays knows.
 Campaigns of education everywhere have dem onstrated what a peril for infants there is in impure milk. The relation of health to the quality of water flowing through a city's pipes has been demonstrated time and again. Wherever cities have adopted tenem nt-house ordinances, and car ried them out, forcing by law air and light and cleanliness into dark and insanitary dwelling places, the rates of infant mortality and child mor- tality and adult mortality have gone down. Adequate sewerage, streets that can be kept clean, wholesome water, good milk, air and light, are the guarantees of health and a fair lease on life, which a city can give to it's poor and its rich in something like the same proportions.
 The relation of infant mortality and working mothers is another of the things shown in this report. Fifteen women in a group of nineteen moth CTS whose babies died were found to be in the hard-working class. These, 1t was shown, had been subjected to the drudgery of keeping boarders in their homes, in addition to the mem bers of the family. Women among the very poor must work to a great extent. Education among the masses, however, can reduce the proportion of working mothers to some degree, and to a greater degree can indicate a manner of working less taxing on the mothers strength and less menac- ing to the lives of a generation un- born.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
WANTS BREAD TAGGED.

New York is urging that the Ordi- nance providing that the weight of each loaf of bread be marked plainly upon 1t be enforced on the ground that when a person purchases a loaf of bread he will know how much he has bought and if he has it weighed he will know just how much he got It is not clear how this would in any way affect the price, but 1t would satisfy the buyer as to what he got for his money and if there were any bargains offered in loaves he would also know just how much the loaf weighed when compared with another loaf he may have purchased some- where else.
 The question of price is to be inves- tigated in New York and it is an- guilty of boosting prices as a matter of speculation will be forced to answer charges of conspiracy and if possible sent to the penitentiary. IdI IS lIle only way Dy WHICH SpeCu- lation in foodstuffs can be effectually stopped. One may easily understand how articles of food may be increased but it is difficult to understand how it can be done when the amount of the principal ingredient in bread, in fact about the only ingredient, should have been raised in almost unprece- dented quantities last year. the natural result of which would be to have the price of bread lowered. The state authorities say that the cause of the increase is a criminal conspiracy, that they know one of the big criminals and expect to get them all.
 It is stated that the evidence in this case will startle the community. The people would like to be startled once in a while by such revelations because it is time that something was done If the increase in food supplies is due should know it; if it is due to a criminal conspiracy that should be known too, and the interested parties should be given a term in the pcniten- tiary as a merited punishment for themselves and also as a warning to others.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
w. clfare of Infants.
(N eWarI1 NcWs.)

There is no reason to believe that babies in Johnstown, Pa, die any earlier in their abbreviated little lives. the number of births, than do the baples or the average American city of Johnstown's size and character. The children's bureau of the depart ment of labor selected that city for q survey, probably because it is typi- cal ot it's class, mill town with q large percentage of loW-paid labor. and a report has now been made.
 Figures contained in that report are startling, as indicating the con- trasting hazards of baby life in vary- ing conditions of environment. The fact that sticks out most unmistak ably is the responsibility of any and every city for the welfare of the babies that are born, that must live, if they can, in it's confines
 The responsibility of city comes under more than one head. There are included sewerage, water, clean or dirty streets, housing ordinances. with their enforcement or lack of en- forecement, milk supply, food inspec- ton and other things. The Johns town survery shows but forty-one miles of sewers, with only thirty-six outlets, to take care of 135 miles of which serve as thoroughfares for inc poor. only eleven per cent. are paved while sixty-four per cent. of inc streets have pavement. ....
 Considering that this report indi-
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
Champ Clark Applauded.

Times change and manners change with them. A curious survival of old days is seen at Washington in the con- tnued presence of the snuffboxes from which the senators and other states men used to help themselves. Snuff taking is now unfashionable and tabooed in polite society, but the boxes remain. In other respects customs have altered, and there is more digni- ty in congress than formerly. ApropOs of which the Washington correspond en of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat tells the following: Smoking with ones feet elevated on the desk in front of him may be all right in the MissouriN legislature, where Champ Clark once served, but to Champ Clark, now speaker of the national house of representatives, it seems little unbecoming, at least for states men, to assume such attitude and in dulge their favorite habit. I recall now some years ago in the Missouri senate that immediately after the chapla1n's opening prayer Senators Field and George Lee would take up their positions before the fireplace on either side of the presiding officers platform, light heir Missouri meer- schauns and blow the smoke up the fues while splitting the fire out Champ has been the best adviser of the Missouri meerschaum' the fac tories in his district that make them have had, as he has given away thou sands of them and assisted former Senator Cockrell in popula rizing the pipes. However, there are no open fireplaces in the national house, but the hall is provided with abundant 'cloakrooms, which are used for smoking and storytelling bv it's members and that is where Speak CT Clark thinks such things should be done, not on the floor of the house. It became necessary for him one dav this week to call attention to the rule against smoking. He said: Before talk ing up the next bill the chair desires to make a statemen The rules of the house prohibit smoking inside of this hall. Complaint has been made to the char more than once about members smoking in the hall. Now, there is plenty of space outside of this hall for gentlemen to smoke And, while the char Is at it, he will suggest it is q good thing for members to keep their feet down from the tops of the seats This brought applause"
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
To Hurt, Not to Kill.
Philadelphia Ledger.)

A French general has figured out 1 that 1t cost France in 1870 s21,O0O to kill a German soldier. It cost the Russians S20,40O to kill Japanese soldier.
 The generals method of obtaining an answer to the question, how much does it cost to kill soldier? was very simple. He divided the total eXpen- ditures of the war by the number ispf troops killed in ths enemy's army. But this calculating Gaul omitted the value of all by-products. For every soldier killed in battle about four are wounded Hence part of the expense placed against the dead may be subtracted and credited to the injured.
 The chief aim in a battle is not to kill an enemy, but to wound him. more fighting than a dead one, so that as an offensive measure when one soldier shoots another through the legs he get rid of an enemy as effectually if he had hit him in the heart.
 But he does really better for his own cause, since a wounded man at once becomes a much greater burden to his own comrades than is a dead soldier The latter needs no more care, but the former must be helped to a field hospital doetored and nurSed.
 One of the most dramatic incidents of the Civil war was the retreat of Lees army after Gettysburg with it's hundreds of wagon loads of wounded soldiers.
 A woman who lived by the road down which this long line of scream ing, groaning and dying men were being hauled told me recently that it was the most awesome event in her life. They went by her home during the night
 But even the wounded had to make | way for the guns. When the artl- l lery came laundering along the road | the officers in command of it forced i the wagons loaded with wounded to | give them the right of way, which was | done.
 A good many of the thousands of | the Union wounded at Gettysburg | were brought to Philadelphia war ! hospitals by railroad trains. The | nearly 5000 dead in blue and gray who lav over the sunny fields at f Gettvsburg gave the opposing armies far less worry than did the hosts of wounded.
 That's why I have said the real aim in battle is to hurt, no to kill.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
An Example Set By Club Women.
Chicago 1'ribune.)

An excellent piece of emergency,
 work nas been done by the Woman's
 club of this city, and it should not pass unnoticed and unhonored. There
 is, moreover, a moral in it-that the
 way to do a thing is to do it.
 The club established some months ago an emergency bureau in order to contribute its mite toward the solu- tion of the terribly knotty and grave unemployment problem. Several members offered to give practically all of their time to the work of that bureau, while others agreed to serve on a committee to have general charge of the bureau. An efficient superintendent was employed and only a little over s6,0e0 collected to defray the expenses of the service. A sewing room was established tc give employment to women and girls for whom other work might not be found. The bureau, in a model report by the chairman of the committed. stated the other day that the following posi- tions had been procured by it: House work, S10; day labor, 467; office work, 291; plain sewing. 331. No appli- cant was turned away. Most of them were widows women with sick hus- bands or strange girls, unable to find anything to do. The bureau proved itself a true friend in need
 The committee, largely on the basis of its direct experience. has recom- monded the crea ion of an efficient municipal employment bureau, under the control of a merit appointed per- sen, and tae establishment in that bureau of q woman's department, also in charge of a competent merit ap- pointed person, q woman. The com mittee further recommends the crca- ton of an advisory board of trained, mature women. representing civic and other clubs, interested, not in politics and spells. but in relief and honest, service. The Woman's club has indorsed these rec ommendations, and it is understood that some of the filter aldermen arc prepared to sponsor them. The takes pleasure in commend ing the quiet and efficient service of these club women and in inviting emulation Of if by men.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
MURDER A WEEK OLD.

week ago today the dead bodies or the Rev. Joseph Zebris and his
 housekeeper were found in the Lith- uanian parish house on Church street, he having been shot to death and she strangled. The local police and the most skilfull of the state consta bu- lary have been working on the case ever since, and so far as known they have not found a single clue upon which they would be justified in mak- Ing an arrest. The case is not only mysterious but it does not present any opportunity to work up a case against any suspects because who- ever committed the deed did not leave any tracks to indicate who they were where they came from or where they went to. The police are natural ly keeping their own counsel and are also keeping up a diligent search, run ring down every clue that the inquiry presents, and yet they do not report any encouraging results.
 It is understood that most minute search has been made of the con- tents of the house with the hope that something tangible in the way of evil dence may be found, but if anything of importance has been found the po- lice are keeping it to themselves. There are all manners of theories and stories afoat, but when they are ex- amined there is always something missing to make them logical People are coming forward with statements that are plainly unfounded but this is nothing new as there never was a time of such excitement when there were not just such stories put into circulation.
 1t was thought that the large re- ward would cause some people to talk but so far it has not done SO and so far as publicly known the situation has not been improved. The murder may never be satisfactorily cleared up and the solution may remain one of speculation.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to Herald Off1ce
Great Is Connecticut.
(Rural New YOrker.)

Our good friend J. H. Hale, recent ly made the trip to California and while there addressed the fruit grow CTS at their convention. Halle rightly received an ovation. He carried the wit and wisdom and mellow philoso- phy of New England-a human nut meg of the right sort of wood. Among other things Hale carried pocketful of New England Baldwin apples some of them from a tree a century old. You know how those Pacific coast people brag about their fruit, yet this is what Parker Earle says about Hales BaldWins:
 If grey old Connecticut, worn and exhausted by 300 years of farming, can grow such apples as these, right at the doors of the consumers, then let Oregon and Washington look out"
 "Grey old Connecticut" You spell the word wrong. Cut out your "y'' and substitute "a-t," and you have a truer word great! Worn and ex- hausted soil." Why, man, did you not know that some of the most pro- ductive farming in the world is done in the Connecticut valley? Did you know that the ten-year average yield of corn in all New England was 39.3 bushels at an average price of eighty three cents? The average on the Pa cific coast is only 29 1-2 bushels at eighty cents. The average for H. linois is 35 1-2 bushels at f1fty-four cents. "Worn and exhausted' Con- necticut stands at the head of the country in average corn yields with foryt-six bushels. Did you also know that last year four New England states and New York and Pennsyl- vania produced 15,912, 900 bushels of those beautiful Baldwin apples, and that they have only just begun to know how to do it? Our children will see the day when the apple orch ards on those hills of grey New Eng land will give larger annual returns than the orchards and vineyards of California. Half a century ago New England could not dream of the pos- abilities of the Pacific coast Today California canont dream of the pos abilities of the upper Atlantic wa terShed.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
Panama Has Returned Two Millions
(New York Times


 Receipts from tolls from ships passing through the Panama canal in the first six months of it's operation are reported to have been $2,000.000. This seems like a lot of money and, of course, it is, but it doesn't look as large when one thinks of what the canal cost and when the $2,- O0O,OOO is consid tered, not as an ab- stract sum, but as return on invest ment.
 It must be remembered, however, that the canal is still so new, that the readjustment of international trade routes which it is expected to bring about is little more than be- gun, and relevant, too, is the fact that this is an extremely bad year for just such enterprises as this one, viewed from the strictly financial as pect. When peace returns there is likely to be another story to tell.
 The practicability of the canal, at least has now been demonstrated be yond reasonable question: for there is nothing surprising or discouraging about the slides of earth into the Culebra cut. They will stop as soon as a new angle of stability has been reached, and meanwhile the Gatun dam, about which so many gloomy prophecies have been made-the great wall that is the canals one really vital organ-is standing up nobly to it's work and seems to be as solid as any other mountain on the isthmus.
 Profita ble or not, the Panama ca nal is a magnificent engineering tri- umph, and a credit as well as pro- lection to the country that built it. .
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
TRAVEL BECOMING DIFFICULT

London, Feb. 16, 2:0S P M.-Trav- el between Holland and England is becoming difficult. All passengers leaving Flushing, Holland, for Foll<e- stone are now required to have their passports vised by the English con- sul. The only boat making regular trips leaves early in the morning, and as most of the passengers from Ger many and Belgium reach Flushing late at night they find difficulty in get ting their papers countersigned with- out the loss of a whole day.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
D. MCMILLAN 198-2O1-2O3 Main Street
K. OF P. OFFICERS MEET.
New England Encnnrmcnt Discussed
 at Convention in Nc1idcn.

Meriden, Feb. i6.-1'he commis- stoned officers of the Connecticut Brigade, Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythlas. held their annual conven- tion in this city today. Brigadier Gen. George R. Tyron of this city presided. The speakers included Major General Loomis of Michigan.
 Among the business taken up was consideration of the New England encampment
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
INNENTS "PHONOSCOPE. '"

Bombay. India, Feb 16, Via Lon don. 1 r. Mt has been an nounccd in Lahore that a Professor Abe, of that city, has invented a ''phonoscope" the use of which en- abes the totally deaf to perceive sounds, such as speech and music, by means of the eye.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16

Mayor Curley could hardly please the people of Boston more thorough ly than by his emphatic declaration that for the spring and summer at least, Boston is to be d duStleSS city. The plan is to keep the streets well flushed with hose streams and then scrubbed with brushes. Plentiful water will do the business and that is what we ought to have.-BOston Post
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
FACTS AND RANCHES.

William E. Chandler of New Hamp- sElre shows himself to be 79 years young by his proposal that New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts take over the Boston and Maine railroad system Springfield Republican.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16

This is every indication that farm ing in Connecticut is about to come into it's own again. In our highly in dustrial state it is beginning to be realized that it's agricultural develop mcnt is matter that concerns in the most intimate way those who are en- gagged in the pursuits that are com mOnly grouped under the term "busi- ness" Looked at in the right way, of course, farming is just as much of business as any other aVocatiOn.- Bridgeport Standard.
New Britain herald., 1915-02-16
DMPEN SATION

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