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New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
SELF PRESERVATION.

And this is the havoc of it all, that just when the doctors are in need of copious quantities of medicine with which to combat the ravishings of disease the laws of economics put in an appearance and the prices of neces- sary drugs go up. It is the law of supply and demand. This is the sea- son of grip, influenza and pneumonia. The former malady is the most pre- valent In it's treatment are required the following medicinal ingredients:
 Quinine, Salol, Salicylates, and Ace tanelid. Quinine has advanced in price four hundred per cent: Salol has taken greater rise, reaching the eight hundred per cent. advance mark.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30

900 people. There are extensive and well-stocked bazaars, and more than forty caravanserais. Among the few concessions that the hoary treasure city of the king of the king of kings has grudgingly made to the nervous, restless civilization of the west are post and telegraph office.
 "Hamadan is situated at the north eastern foot of Mount Alvand, whose granite walls rise to @ height of Ill., 300 feet. The city itself has an ele- vation of 5930 feet, and level plain, fifteen miles in length and ten miles in breadth, spreads before it like a garden. Barley, wheat, fruits, vege- tables, and the scarlet poppy plant are grown in profusion here. The mountains frame the plain, like part-enclosed appanage of the city.
 Crooked alleys, dirty walks and street-ways. squalid houses, and din- gy.brown neglect effectually suppress memories of the citys former great ness, when it was the home of kings, the seat of fabulous riches; a foremost display -city of the world, whose build ings were fretted with gold and silver; and the home of such riotous luxury as the world has never seen again, and as modern civilization has forgotten how to provide. All luxury has de- parted from Hamadan; but, then, the city is supposed to have passed it's 3000th anniversary, an age at which the giddy pleasures of youth are no longer tempting.
 "Ramman-n nirari, whose greatest claim to fame is that he was the hus- band of Queen Semiramis began the long centuries of royal patronage that built up Hamadan, and his renowned queen, Semiramis, launched the place upon it's brilliant career. Hamadan steadily grew in wealth and favor, added ever new splendors to it's pub lie works, state buildings and private palaces, erected columns and arcades overlaid with plates of gold and silver, constructed a costly royal home of ce- dar and cypress woods, and planted famous gardens. Most of this wealth was footed by Alexander the Great, whose men carried away a treasure vast even for the present age of wealth. Following Alexander, Antig- onus, Seleucus, Nicator, and Antioc- bus the Great plundered here, and, according to Polybius, the Greek his- torian, there remained in Hamadan a wealth equal to 4,000 talents ($4,730,- 000) to the last plunderer."
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
COnnCcticut'S Growth. Bridgeport POst.)

The annual report of the school census made public yesterday in the Hartford Courant, shows that while the rest of Connecticut is not leaping ahead so fast as Bridgeport, it is doing mighty well.
 The State Board of Education re- port shows an increase of II, 334 in the number of children of the school age for the year, as compared with gain of 4,4S4 during the previous year. That gain, figured from the ratio of about four and one-half times the number of inhabitants to school children, would indicate an increase in the States population of 51,0O0 for the twelve months, a remarkable showing for our State and the largest for one year in recent history.
 The notable thing about it, too, is that the gain is spread over the entire State, to considerable extent. Every county shows an increase. Especial ly noticeable are the gains in such counties as Holland, Windham and Litchfield, where the population has stood still for many years. Only two towns in Holland county show a loss and about one in Windham county.
 Bridgeport has the largest gain of all the towns, as was to be expected. Our gain was nearly fifty per cent. greater than all Hartford county and was but a few less than all New Ha- ven county. Bridgeport's figures were 2,99O, Hartford town had 699 and the entire county 3,097.
 The increase for Fairfield county was 4,375, more than twice as much as Hartford county. Out of the twenty-three towns in this county only four, Danbury, BroOkfeld Hunting ton and Bedding, show a loss, and two, Wilton and Weston, no change.
 Stamford is howing up well with an increase of 4O2 scholars. or an indi- cated gain in population of about 1,S0O for the year. Srratford is the third town in the country in gains with 27S and Fairfield the fourth with 235, showing poulation gains of 1,2b0 and 1,06O respectively. Our neigh bors are sharing in our boom.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
OUR MARINES.

For one reason or another, prob- ably because they did police duty upon battleships and thereby incurred the enmity of sailors, the marines were not held in highest regard, they were not considered as good as the jackies. But now that spirit has died away, the old prejudices have been supplanted by a broader sense of respect and Uncle Sam's Marine corps has be- come the pride of the Navy. Ever ready to perform the multifarious du- ties that fall to their chosen lot the marines. through a period of one hum dred and forty years, have covered themselves and their country with glory. They have been selected all an expedition was sent ashore to at tack The recent incident at Vera Cruz and the more recent one tt Hayti stands in evidence of this and of the wonderful ability of our ma rines. The annual report of the Major General Commandant has been issued and sets forth the reasons why certain needs of the Marine Corps should be satisfied at this time. There is nothing radical in the report, no great demands asked of Uncle Sam: merely that the Marine Corps be all lowed to pursue the even tenor of it's way, be given the necessary momen- tum to continue it's work which it be- gan as the first regular force of the Republic and which it has performed with credit up until the present hour. It is recommended by the General Corps should be properly twenty per cent. of that of the navy making it's authorized strength for the fiscal year 1917 trifle more than thirteen thou sand men, Anyone who is familiar with the work of the marines will hope and, trust that the Congress of the United. States will look after the wants of this great organization. The Marine Corps is one of the greatest
 parts of the United States Navy. Its record speaks for itself. Therefore, it should have no trouble in getting ; what it wants.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
Fall Fashions in Interviews.

'Very smart indeed," writes Helena Smith Dayton in Cartoons Magazine "are. the fall fashions in interviews ' Mrs. Dayton, who illustrates her types. with. clay figurettes, records an interview with Mrs. John C.. smugg, .anti-suffragist.
 Calling to interview Mrs Smugg,'' '' she says. "I found nobody home.
 "As Mrs. Smugg has often declared that 'woman's place is in the home, . it. seemed incredible until it dawned upon me that in Mrs. Smugg's case there never vas anybody home. So [ proceeded with the interview.
 Mrs. Smugg, I began, what is your particular objection to the wom en of New York obtaining the ballot on November second?'
 'Because! elucidated Mrs Smugg
 "The questions put to Mrs. Smugg. being the usual ones. will be omitted Her, answers, however, being so il- luminating and so unanswerable, fol- low:
 " I don't know'
 T refuse to think about it!
 " Tt isn't womanly'
 'Because!'
 |" Well, I just don't
 |" 'Woman's place is in the home " My John says
 'Because!'
 "'And now,' concluded Mrs Smu~~, T must ask you to pardon me for I must take F'ido out for his airing. What, I ask you, would become of Fido if I was off voting all the time D
 "I looked at Fido. An, I decided, Mrs. Smugg's place was indeed with Fido."
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
The Newspaper Reporter.
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(New Haven Journal-Courier).
 We do not recall having encount- cred 8 more delightful characteriza- tion of the newspaper reporter than is contained in the round robin state ment which the spapermen travel ing with MT. Ford on his peace expe- dition have made of their relation to it.
 In the first place, the newspaper men connected with the expedition make it clear that they are to be viewed from an entirely different point and angle than the point and angle of the members of the peace party. The round robin reads: The active newspaper correspondents who are accompanying the Ford peace party are simple reporters in the plainest sense of that word. Go to the upper west side orders an editor in our home town. We go. Jump to Chicago says the boss. We jump. Go to Norway, says the boss. We are on our way. West side, Chicago, Norway. it doesn't matter to us, it's our job; we take it, do the best we can with it. The particular task set this particular circle of reporters is to use their eyes and ears to the best of
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
Battered Stone Lion
 Guards TYeasure City

Washington, D. C., Dec. 30.-"Ham-
 adam, the treasure city of the great
 Achaemenian kings, identified with
 the resplendent Echatana of the Greek writer which has come under
 control of Russians advancing from
 Teheran. lies well on the way toward
 that part of the Tigris basin where
 the English and Turks are struggling
 amid scenes of the earliest human
 battlef1elds," begins a war primer is-
 sued today by the National Geograph-
 1c society. 'The ancient city lies 18S miles west-southwest of the Persian capital, Teheran, while the ground maintained by the British expedition
 aries lies about 25o miles away to the
 sOuthWestward.
 "All vestiges of the bygone glory of the place have been destroyed, save
 alone 8 famous but battered stone lion which lies in sombre, mutilated
 desolation flat upon the plain near the road leading to Isfahan. The old
 lion has lasted through all the ages of Hamadan, a guardian genius of the town; for it was set up as a talisman to protect the walls of the city. The lions fate and the city's fate were con- nected in a prophecy that the city and it's people would be safe as long as the lion was not thrown down or broken The talisman today enjoys a supersti- tious veneration; mothers bring their
 babies to kiss the huge carven face
 and pilgrims place offerings of stone before it. According to one tradition, the lion was set up to frighten away the severe winters of Hamadan.
 'The name of the city can be traced back to earliest times, and 1t means literally a place of meeting of many ways In the days of the city's splen- do:. the most prominent highways of the civilized world crossed here. It is still a meeting place of many high ways from many parts of the Persian kingdom, and the chief station on the road from Persia to Bagdad and to the Persian gulf. It has, thus, been able to maintain g. scrap of its old prestige as a place of wealth, and as
 a city important in Persian commerce and industry.
 "The leather made in Hamadan Is in demand throughout the east, and great quantities of it are exported, un- worked and in the forms of saddles, harnesses, trunks and other leather articles. Felt goods and copper uten- sils are made, and a flourishing transit trade brings it's tolls to the city's 40,-
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
United States Asleep. Washington Post.)

European nations, not only those engaged in a life and death struggle, but the neutral nations, look with surprise on the lethargy of the United States in making preparation for war, according to Lieutenant Commander H. G. Van Steyn, of the Holland navy, who has been sent here by his gov ernment to investigate the hydro aeorplane industry. Commander Van Steyn is an expert aviator who has seen service in the Dutch East Indies and Europe.
 Tt is beyond the understanding of naval officers of Europe that America should lag so far behind. other nations in war preparation" said Commander Steyn, at the Shoreham. Here in Washington the first suc- cessful demonstration of the aero- plane was made, yet today America is the last country in the world in the development of the aeroplane and hydro-aeroplane for war purposes. It is well enough, perhaps, to cry ';,7eace,' but there will not be univer- sal peace for many years, if ever. and the only way to insure peace and a nations safety is to prepare for 1t. I should not say, perhaps, that the United States is the laughing stock of the world, but certainly its slowness in preparation is beyond the compre- hension of European nations. The American navy is strong numerically. I have no knowledge of its efficiency, but I observe that there are prac- tically no submarines and fewer aero planes.
 "Both the submarine and the aero- plane have, taken an important place :r the science of war. The European struggle has brought about greater development than was accomplished in a decade before the war started. But do not take the view that the submarine has superseded the big battleship. The big battleship still rules the waves. Submarines are in- valua ble for coast defense. but they have vet to demonstrate that they can be used for fighting.
 No great war ever will be fought again without the aeroplane as an important part of army and navy equipment. added Commander Van
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30

their advantage, not for the pleasure for the information of the readers of the newspapers to which they are at tached. That" adds the round robin, i've will do with what vision and what descriptive power We pos sesS"
 The effect of the trip upon these reporters has apparently been some what different than they had expected. As the round robin describes them :: Were cynical, perhaps. We've seen enough to make Us so. We're cau- tious, maybe. We've been through enough of many-angled life to inargni that attitude through our personali- ties. Some of us doubtless entered upon this expedition tainted with the spirit of jest. looking upon it as a foolish exploit of an ultra-rich ideal ist." Then comes a most unexpected confession from this bunch of cynics to this effect: We realize that this is a serious undertaking from which good must inevitably come, even if the highest hopes of its projectors may not be fulfilled" The impression we gain from this ratherT remarkable human document is that the special correspondence, which these cynics, already half way won over to the peace mission, will send to their news papers from now out will be worth reading. Tn the meantime, it is pleasure to have made their acquain- tance and to find that they are like the rest of the dwellers in newspaper dom s.-
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
The Great Travel Route Neglected
 Waterbury Republican,

We are all prone to think in ruts.
 Waterbury has been so long consid-' cred as located on the Naugatuck division, and Incidentally on the old New England railroad, aflerward the Highland division, that a train be- tw cen New York and Waterbury had naturally to be a Nsugatuck divisiorf train. Ana New Britain and Bristol have so long depended upon Hartford and the Hartford division that their outlet to New York is still mainly via the Hartford line.
 As a matter of fact, Bristol is near CT to Waterbury than to Hartford, and her natural route to New York is through Waterbury, while the nearest way for New Britain people to get to New York is via Waterbury-if there is a train.
 These facts are simple and self evident, yet we doubt whether they were realized either in Waterbury CT in the New Haven offices until New Britain and Bristol got busy andN pointed them out
 Adding up the population to be served on the Waterbury line between Hartford and Bridgeport, we find thht
  tel 15,0OO, Waterbury S5,ooo, Nauga- tuck 15,000, and Ansonia, Derby and Shelton 35,0oo. not to speak of smaller communities. This gives us total of 2O5,0o0 people and with smaller places say in round numbers, 225'- 000-not population claimed local ly. but actually existant according to 1915 census estimate.
 This is substantially twenty per cent. of the population of Connecticut.
 It furnishes twenty per cent of the, train service of the state 1t is receiy- ing.
 The lower half of the Naugatuck valley, with Bristol and New Britain constitute a trade route of Themselves and their interests, as far as travel 10 New York goes, lie largely together They should be cultivated together hereafter.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
Honor Minstrel Man.
(EXchange.\

The unmarked grave of Daniel De- catur Emmett, who wrote .I Wish I Was In Dixie' for Bryant's Minstrels back in 1859 and lived to hear it be- come the battle song of the South, is soon to be marked, says an exchange The grave is at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and the monument is to be erected by James Lewis Smith, a rich bachelor of Ashtabula, Ohio, 1914"
 "Old Dan Tucker" is another child of Emmett's musical brain, written, as was Dixie" on the hurried demand of Jerry Bryant, pioneer minstrel man. One of the conditions of Emmetts en- ployment With the Bryant show was that he was to write original music on demand. Dixie was one of them, milled out for rehearsal on a Monday morning and produced the same eve- ming.
 Emmett's show experience dated back to his thirteenth year, when he ran away to follow a circus. When he was twenty-e eight he was one of four men who organized the first min strel company in history, and since then Emmett had been with almost every big minstrel in the land. His last work was two seasons with Al c. Field. But, despite his prolonged minstrel success, Emmett died a poor man, and his grave went unmarked
 The Mount Vernon (Ohio) dra- matic Club and the Mount Vernon Citizens Association are cooperating with MT. Smith in placing the mem orial.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30

while Salicylates and Acetanelid have scared six hundred per cent. above their normal prices. All of which shows that whenever there is an epi- demic of sickness there must neces- sarily be a panic on the medical mart. The price of drugs is no respector of persons. So to avoid the annoy ance of prohibitive medical bills it were we'll to take every precaution against catching grip germs, those lit tie demons which Turk around in large crowds, where sneezing, cough ing, rasping, convulsing humanity go to your trundle cot be sure the windows are open and plenty of good, fresh air visits you. In this way you prevent weakening of the sys- tenn which may stand in good stead when the early season of March,-the pneum onia period,-puts in it's appearance. It is then the pneumonia rate is highest for the year. That is the end of the winter when the young and old who have become weakened by the shifting changes of such weather as this fall before the sweeping scythe of the Grim Reaper. It is well then to have a care at this time, to be guarded against grip and it's kindred disorders. Get plenty of sleep, avoid crowds and irregular hours and, the doctors aver, there is chance that we may see another presidential election. Have a care! Also remember the high cost of medi- cine.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30

New York is now rated as the largest city in the world. Because of gigantic mistake in estimating the of losses occasioned by the war the English metropolis must give way to the American city. New Yorks leads by about a quarter of million people. Americans can take pride in that bit of news, for New York has ever striven to be the largest city in the world and we wanted 1t to be.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
eUDYARD KIPLING.

en of letters have approached
 century mark carrying with
 e fame of .Rudyard Kipling
 erses have been sung round
 Id and who today celebrates
 eth anniversary of his birth.
 bats who thought his name
 water" died when he was half
 of Kipling and left verses
 Thaps will outlast those from
 of the study singer of bar bm ballads, for Keats was a better poet than Kipling,
 times has been referred to as
 maker of rhymes; yet a mas hetre. True, his "Gunga Din," |hnny Deever'' set a new style k; yet, they do not soar to the Fights occupied by other Eng D productions. His Recess has been stamped as the best in the way of poetry. |dyard Kipling is young at fifty he lives long enough We may |something from him that will down the ages, something that ver die. His many admirers his will happen. They also most of what he has already
 will live unless future genera ,ject his style. Curiosity might is work alive. The one point gly overlooked by many is that s's prose is just as attractive lightful as his verse, and of the three volumes he has already uted to literature it is safe to the vast majority of his stuff Iay attract future readers will med from his short stories and
 He has yet to write his war so eagerly awaited for by an 5 following. Mayhap in the ing years of his life,--may } many,--he will strike the true see the vision that has been
 even by the poet-laureate of d.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30

We can merely record our impress sion at this time concerning the sig nif1cance of the current Roosevelt talk. One must assume the bank ruptcy of the Republican party in the first place, if it must now nominate for President man who so nightly sought to destroy it in the last cam paign and who has not yet even re- turned to membership in the Repub- lican party or given the slightest in timation that he now regards his des- perate warfare on MT. Taft and the Republican ticket at the colossal mis- take of his career. Another impress sion in this, that the capture of the Republican national convention for MT. Roosevelt next June would be the signal for a second revolt that would make MT. Wilson's election as sure as it was in 1912.-Springfield Re- publican.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30
Why The Lady Did Not Smile.

The gentleman had just related to the lady an anecdote. with a double entendre in it, says '"The San Fran cisco Argonaut," and the lady, being such, did not smile.
 Anal" he said, in disappointed tones, you prove that women have no sense of humor. You didn't see the point, did your" No" she answered with dignity. Mot if it's what I suspect it is.''
New Britain herald., 1915-12-30

Steyn. '"The Zeppelin has not proved its value as a war craft, in fact, it has been pretty we'll demonstrated that for war purposes the Zeppelin is a failure, whereas the aeroplane and the hydro-aeroplane have proved themselves. The Zeppelin raids on London, Paris and the English coast may have a big moral effect, but that is all"