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New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
The Stock Market.
Waterbury Democrat. )

All indications on the Stock Ex- change point to reviving activity. Transactions have been largely trans- ferred to the war group, which now constitute one-half to three-quarters of the daily dealings The advances in these shares have been extremely sensational. Tn some instances they may be Justified on account of the enormous and very profitable con- tracts for ammunitions which it is known have been secured. The diff f1culty of securing accurate informa- ton regarding these contracts, how ever affords abundant room for ex- aggertion and misrepresentation Naturally the speculative spirit has been keenly aroused. Some of the advances may be justif1able, others are undoubtedly exceptional, and cau- tion is particularly urged in opera lions in these shares A healthy feature has been the widening ac- tivity and strength or some of the leading railroad issues, which have long been neglected. At the mo- ment railroad traffic Is still below normal, but indications point to an early recovery which, coupled with better rates, will probably prove a turning point for the railroads Dividend rumors. both favorable and uufavorable, have been current re- specting some of the prominent is- sues, but the more frequent improve ment in net results has imparted a decidedly better tone in railroad shares, and some substantial re- coveries have already taken place.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
Goodbye. Henery!
Waterbury Democrat. )


 US hard to get excited over the announcement that Henry James, the novelist, has surrendered his Ameri- con citizenship and become a Brit ish subject. Some of us are sur prlsed to learn that he ever was an American. As matter of fact, he mas been English at heart as we'll as in residence and in literary work TOT generation or sv, and where the heart Is the national allegiance might as well follow England Is welcome to Henry. If it had been his brother William the great Harvard psycholo- slst Who died few years ago, the country would feel sense of per- sonal loss. But when iu comes to Henry-we've never been able to make him out, anyhow. Far be it rom mere newspaper man to pre- tend that he's fathomed the verbose and polysyllabic depths of his novels and descriptive books. Possibly they gre work of genius and possibly they're not. If three-volume yarns crammed with interminable talk by mediocre people on uninteresting topics are literature, than give us the latest detective story of the sporting supplement. Yes, we can worry along without Henry James. as long as we have such writers left as George Adc, James Whitcomb Riley Booth Tarkington, Mary Roberts Rinehart and the author of "Ruggles of Red Gap" Whatever their de- fects, they're Americans.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

vened for the summer session and much school legislation will be dis cussed, including compulsory edu- cation law. The fact that Alabama does not meet again for four years makes it likely that Georgia and Mississippi may get ahead of her in adopting compulsory legislation. un- less action is taken this year.
 In the field of compulsory educa- tion throughout the United States it Is believed that the next steps will have to do with the adoption of state wide laws where optional laws now prevail; the raising of the age limits In conformity with the best princi- pies in child-labor legislation; and more strict enforcement of existing laws.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
Renewed After 42 Years.
(Phila. North American. ]

John T. Martin, 65 years old of Paxton, Ill, has married Mrs. Emma knepper, 63 years old, a Fostoria wid- CIV, the same woman he led to the alter AZ years ago
 Twelve years after tner marriage Martin while travelling in Illinois. was injured in a railroad acident and suf- Tered complete lapse of memory. For ten years he was in State hospi- tai, lost to his family and friends.
 When he suddenly recovered his memory, the first thing ne did was to look for his wife. He found that she, divorced him and married a man named Knepper, who is dead.
 Martin renewed his suit. and now they are married for the second time. and are on their second honeymoon. a trip to Florida.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
"old" Songs.
(Waterbury American.)


 The revival of 'tSilver Threads Among the Gold'' some four or five years ago, prompted a woman of about 80 to say: 1T always liked that song. used to sing it when I was a girl" woman generation younger smiled when she heard this, and when out of the old lady's hear ing she said: II suppose she thinks she did. But as matter of fact, that song was new in 1875 or 1876, when she was in her 40's, though l wouldn't tell her so.''
 It is a common thing for story writers to speak of a song or hymn as an old one, and put it into the mouths of their characters, when, it they looked up the age of the com position in question, they would find it was written when those characters were beyond the age at which they are representa-, or at last, when they would have regarded it as something decidedly new. The hymn Lead, Kindly Light was written, it is true, as long ago as 1883, yet it did not come into general use till much later and so, at least so far as general knowledge of it is concerned, it can> not be said to be a really ancient hymn. The, younger generations of churchgoers have always known It and it seems to them as if it must date back in it's use as far as the hymns of Watts, Montgomery, Wes- ley and other hymn writers familiar to the men and women of past three score and ten in their days of youth and song.
 On the other hand, the man or woman of middle age is often startled by references to things as awful old" which seem to the mind of 45 or 50 rather new, or at least by no means belonging to a remote past. It is one of the cold water douches which ail must expect after passing the half- way mark, especially if good health and congenial occupation have made that passing practically unnoticed. Like the real cold water showers, these metaphorical ones have their beneficial effect if rightly taken, and help the one who receives them to guard against yielding to petty an- noyance and to great conserVatism- things which make people show their advancing years unpleasantly to themselves and to those about them.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
Good For JurrIcrs.
CFrom the London Chronicle,

(from the London Chronicie.)
 c. K. Chesterton does not like the modern way of eating asparagus. Excluding cannibalism.- he writes and the habit of eating sand (about which I can offer no opinion )there is really nothing one can eat which is less At to be eaten with the fingers than asparagus. IL is long. it is greasy it is loose and liable to every sore of soft yet sudden catastrophe: 1t is ai- ways eaten with some sort of oiiy sauce; and its nice conducr would in- volve the powers Of professional juggler, combined witk some practice in climbing the greasy pole.
 Most things could easily be eates with ones fingers. Only this one tiresome, topping vegetable eat between my fingers ana thumb. should be better of as a giraffe eating the top of d palm tree: it doesn't want any holding up."
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
Ew CITY COURT.

hext week marks the |alendar session of the, It is expected that a rguments and motions
 and the work of es- per1nanent docket of as- begun. This will serve. hprovement over the old |8s when neither judges, |lients knew when a case |Ied
 ne city court, in its pres. but a month old, the .c- h of New Britain is.
 its approval of benefits Tested and results to pe es are being returned to
 lively fashion and once Of the court is set in
 business will be easily
 court charter was
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
College Girls.
(Kansas City Journal.)

lhdnSdS SlIy JOuFHdl.J
 The University Missourian, the off, cial organ of the State University contains in recent issue a news art icls which probably will arouse con siderable discussion among those who have the best interests of the institu- ton, at heart The opening para graph embodies the gist of the situa- tion explained at greater length in the body of the article:
 Twill the university be compelled to build more dormitories for women? :? The present tendency of rooming house keepers to prefer young men to young women indicates that the time is near. Aside from the num- erous private families that are chang ing, Pemberton hall probably the largest girls dormitory, will take boys this fall. Numerous reasons are assigned for the preference, but all simmer down to the one general state- ment: Boys are less trouble.''
 Elaborating the reason involved in the general statement" the Missouri ian quotes a number of boarding house keepers who have had consid- erable experience in accommodating both young men and young women Boys are not in their rooms so much, declares one. Neither do they in- terfere with household arrangements, want rainwater to wash their hair, nor are they forever daboing out handkerchiefs and hose in the bath roofrl.'
 "The moral responsibility is too great another is quoted as saying. If woman in conscientious-and
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
New Eneland,s cavalry.
(Boston Evening Transcript.

(Boston Evening Transcript)
 Trench warfare in Europe. the re- suit of a deadlock between enemies of almost equal strength, has resulted in the adoption of new methods Of fighting. but it is by no means safe to assume that these methods would be followed in this country, In the~ event of the United States being forced into a defensive war. Much of the brunt of the fighting in Flanders has been borne by the artillery, and this arm of the service has been brought to a hitherto undreamed-of state of perfection and erriciency, but the punch reposes in the infantry, still the backbone of any army, while even the cavalry has not been supre- seded to the extent that might be fm- agined from the reading of some re- ports. In northern France the cavalry has been dismounted for rhe reason that the men cannot be used to ad- vantage in trench war. although on the western front it will be repeatedly used cavalry In charges on entrench- ments. So far as the United States is concerned, joint manoeuvers conduct ed this summer in Rhode Island have demonstrated the value of the mount
 
 of cavalry is today in better condi- tion than it has ever known before. and the men have returned from Quonset Point more than ever con- vinced that their branch of the ser- vice Is to be permanent part of the military arm in America. where. in the event of war, enormous distances would have to be covered in what ever area the fighting might take place. Ii is encouraging to feel that New Englands cavalry is weil-trained body under single head represent ing not only one State but this. entire section. Connecticut Rhode Island and Massachusetts contribute their troops to the regiment. which. as the result of the closed order drills that have been in progress this year for the first time, have been delded into a compact machine that could take the field as a single unit. As a man. ifestation of the constantly growing union of these six States the New England cavalry is an institution to he nurtured and perpetuated.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

one who is not could not be permit ted to keep girls-she does not want girls under her care to do things she would not want her own daughter to do, The landlady must sit up and worry when her girls have gone pick nicking for fear they won't get home on time. She gives the boys a latch key and goes peacefully off to her slumbers"
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
WELCOME, THE TIN HAT.

Wonderful are the ways of man. His inventive powers are marvellous. Noth- ing under the sun seems impossible
 when mere man sets out to accomplish something Tired of trying to keep his
 straw hat clean, one of our fellow beings in Maine has invented sub-
 stttute which seems likely to be all the rage in mems fashions next sum- mer. It is a tin hat, with band made of copper. Because the name of the inventor of this wonderful innovation
 is destined to TO down tho ages. we record it with pride. 1t is w. H. Whit Ing, of Jonesboro, in the Pine Tree state.
 On day such as this when old Jupiter Pluvius, that supreme tutelary god directs his showers in abundance upon his wards, then it is that the tin hat gathers in it's just appreciation. What man would be without one were it in easy reach? We learn from the Boston Post. which first neralded the advent of the tin hal, that a head piece made of tin Is absolutely rain proof. It's inventor claims other quail ties for lightness in weight, cheap ness, and finally it's durability. One tin hat should last a careful wearer sev- eral seasons. We also learn that tin hat will not melt under 2s2 degrees fahrenheit.
 Just to prove that the tin hat,-is practicable. it's inventor is wearing che first model about the streets of his own home town. Naturally the boys on the corner snicker as he goes. by, but he is "a brave man and wears his tin hat with the dignity and grace that Kaiser Wilhelm sports his royal hell met. Tin being white and brightly slustrous metal, it follows that the Mearer of the tin helmet must be marked by his fellow men, But when they all start wearing the new style, of course, no man need be ashamed to don his metallic crest wIrn the fiaring copper band and go forth for stroll on the boulevard.
 It is coming, the tin hat; we take our straws off to It.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
lNote-Connectfcut map makers have omitted New Britain.o THE TOWN THAT'S NOT UPON THE
 MAP.

 THE TOWN THAT'S NOT UPON THE
 MAP. It's only a one-horse town, they say, It's not upon the map. A native son is but a jay, A poor, benighted yap. The trains don't even hesitate; They keep right on flittin',- Don't even stop for water Tn the town of "ole New Britain \ Now, I'm no first-class "wisenheim, = A guy who knows it all; But I've camped out in ev'ry cline, In Summer, Spring and Fall Yep. I've seen a lot of tank-towns Whose names have all been written, And wondered how they struck the N When they leave off .ole New Brit
 tain" For. this here town is regular, In big-league sort of way. With all the up-stage scenery For any kind of play. And map-producing gentlemen, Before they pass the nitten, Could cut out lots of other towns. But leave on ole New Britain 2
 WY LADD.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
'LEPHoNE CALLS.
lOD SIDEWALKS.

>y1 olDLV kAllh5s N Eewalks not only -enhanct |of any city, but they pro. les and limbs of it's inhab- E day is fast passing when |estone Tagging with all it's iding propensities in wet II be used as covering for k. New Britain has an lace of. this old time form non Council is to be com the manner in which it board of public works at eeting on the Park Street latter. The board recom~ t defective flags be re- Hive foot flags used to re-
 of smaller dimension.
 however. applied merely rect. Many of the older the same treatment. Bet crete should be substitute lags.
 ewalks, we reiterate, are lets to. any community. the country concerto has ely replaced the old fash one flags. Particularly Is suburban sections. And q reason for the change. operly made and laid to . and foundation of cin- he'd stone will last practi- g as flags and, what is point will give infinitely e. The concrete walk is h to the eye and foot. It aooth. dry footing while K at best is soon out of examples on every hand. the old residential streets s have been down a half ey have long outlivcd ess and are a torment to Roots of trees and vim i've thrown them out of
 who suffer maladies If tremities know too well hent mis- aligned flags srl- inv days the footworn innumerable cracks pro- Dr deep pools and the re- eet for the walker. Tn pillows become filled with treaeherous footing Tire gainst the flag walk is ous. It is apparent. and nt is needed to convince
 of New Britain Of it's may be found in num- ! say the good word for K. Tn most cases such their property and it se to replace them. The of necessity narrow and
 sidewalks make for bet N he Thousands of New Brit Io work in the factories -of- date walks four times
 They have used them
 for the most part un-
 They are entitled to Ftter and when the i'm
 ay be secured at conl-
 We cost the council should M its action. Hundreds good walks have been
 outskirts of the city in
 years and the work
 1tinued until poor walks in1inated. Thousands of being spent every year to Etreets and thoroughfares
 Ind everyone appreciates pf the investment. If 1t or horses and automo-
 smooth going, it should
 urgent that the people walks be. treated as we'll,
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Why not send lawn Evers, K. 0. Quigley and Heinie zim over to- deal with the German foreign office? Heinie, of course, as interpreter. Lowell Courier Citizen
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

It is only $500 miles to New York.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

' Neighbor is the pleasantest word in any language. Boston Globe.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

Judging by current neckwear. American dyers have discovered some of those valuable German secrets.-- Journal
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

The great war is a year old-a year too old.-Albany Journal.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

1t costs less to produce cloth-toI shoes than all-leather ones, but you can't prove it by retail prices.-Syra- .cuse Post Standard.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

The fellows who followed the colonel out of the republican part. have evidently received tip from quirer.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

When an ordinary citizen disappears the police are notified, but when ar Unconditional league baliplayer is n,issing the pay rolls of the Federal Iearue are scanned.-Rocheste Post Express. a
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

Inventors having patent self-starters for Mexican government of the 1916 model should send the same to Cor nish, N. H., with return postage en- closed for the device, if not wanted. No Villa favored individual need ap- ply-Burlington Free Press.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

Tn his summer pictures Carranza looks like Peace in pajamas. Constitution.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

The war has already cost France more than the indemnity exacted by Germany in 1871, to say nothing of the destruction of life and property. And the worst is yet to come.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

The United State commission on in- dustrial relations is going to investi- gate the telephone exchange girls will it please ascertain why operators persist in saying "thr-r-ree' ?-Pitts- .burgh Sun.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

The German argument in thirty-five words: What is the use of spending years in gathering the arms and the men to whip any two nations if neu- trals are to be allowed to sell to these nations the means of defending them selves ?-Chicago Tribune.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

At SOC, 8Sc and S1.49 Each < Try one of our guaranteed Crav anette and Jersey Lilly Umbrellas fo men and women at S1.9S and S3 each
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

Heaven be praised that no suoilia rine has been, or is, able to loi peoo 1 the Shin of state.-Manila Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

A sign writer has discovered tnat pro and con are abbreviations or pro ducers and consumers.-Wheel ln- telligencer.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

shouts an excited Munich editor. If we were inclined to be sarcastic we might ask him how far he thinks it is to Paris.-Detroit Free Press.
New Britain herald., 1915-08-04

The difference between mllitarisi'i and preparedness is the difference pc tween raising your boy to be soiuiei and raising him in such a way tiia' he knows how to be one if he mas .o' Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-12
ANDERSON HAS
/ PENNY ! y MOVIE
Palmetto Theatre VIII Give Daily
Show for Admission Of One
Gent

Anderson has not yet acquired the
1itney bus habit, ,Sbut she has gone q
long ways forward and established the
penny moyipg picture house. Manager
a. M. SPinkston sor the Palmetto an.
nounced yesterday that Beginning
next Monday eswil1 put on a "penny
q throw" motions picturs show, to. be
run every AFTERNOON exceEt. Saturday
between the hours of 1880 and y
O'clock ,5ss ~ n a ~ 3 4
a comedy OF the Keystone or,Heera-
liar variety will be shown at the PEN
ny shows. The show will 4 not be
given on Saturdays, asfths vaudeville
At the Palmetto starts sat Il O. clock on
those days = IN ;;ss'.s
There is but ore other penny motion
picture show in the United States.
that being in ST. Louis; and accSrding
to reports Il isS doing o land office
sb,isinoss, Witha penny motion pic
.ture show in Anderson, there { Is
scarcely u child I'm the city who can.
mot get si.s MI of the movies every
day. - q ~. E e & ss:
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-12
Stocks and Bonds.

NEW YORK. March 1l.--Rcac-
tiOnary tendencies Of the previous
session were lacking in today's stock
market. prices showing firm under
tone on moderate dealings. The sue
cess of the New York State bond
sale. additional gold import from:
Japan. with prospects of further
drafts uDon Brtain's gold stores in
Canada. we're factors or sentimental
value.
Exchange markets took on more
variable tone. sterling OH London
being easier. while greater firmnesa
was shown in reniittances to the con-
tinent. This contrary was attributed
to sales OF the new Swiss govern
ment notes and the new German war
notes. TO-: both OF which an increased
demand was manifested.
More titan the usual amount of to-
days business In stocks was deyOt-
ed 10 automobile shares. which clos
cd with gains OF l TO 6 points. Rum
ors OF cash or stock dividends, or
some other form of melon" accom-
panied their advance, but trading
Was confined largely 10 specialists III
those issues. Other semi-nctivo
stocks made to point gains,
among the chief exceptions being
American Sugar preferred ana
Snnthcrn R..ilwdy prcferied. Erics
were strongest Of tic railway divis-
;nn. Total sales ot stocks amounted
to 900 shares.
bonds mainly irregular; the only
feature being the weakness OF New
York Central dcbenturc skies. Total
sales tpar valued aggregated ST.
S87 900
Panama registered As declined
3-S per cent on call.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-03-12
Moss.Whitten.

Married. on Sunday afternoon.
March 7th, at q o'clock at the home
of N. :. Whttten, Of Salem, Miss Myr-
itls Reh aeca Moss and Floyd Watkins
Written. The groom is a son OF
j. Q, Written, Of Pendleton: He is
q prosperous young farmer; of this
caahty having received his training
ut Clemson College. The bride is the
fourth daughter, OF Mr.. and Mrs, NJ.
"A, Moss, OF Salem. AS Miss Moss
she was most popular with the young
er hbtiat set. Tho groom Is to be con-
graduated upon winning tho heart
md 3hniil OF SO Charming and nccom-
spli1hed O. young lady After,a a few
idays spant at the homo OF the groom's
father and among p2hcr relatives IN
Anderson, city and county ;tney viii
he int lsofna tp Ia cir MA NY isiands at
Ss,s::.s. rAli,niiy yeas perIornfctl
3ily.sS REV. A; ghitten- ISeowee
Courier. s;3 W. 3;