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New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
The Grim Reaper.

(with Apologies to The Old Sexton.) From the vinyards of Flanders, From Scotia cold cline, I gathers gather, gather them in. From Scotlands bleak cliffs From the banks of the Rhine I gather, I gather, gather them in. From the land of the North. From the Moscovites realm, gather, I gather. gather them in, From the superdrea thought To the sailor at helm,
 I gather,I gather, gather them in. From the fair Isle of Erin, That Saint Patrick onces Blest, gather, gather, I gather them in, From the North and the South. From the East and the West l gather, I gather, gather them in. From the flower of Old England, From the salt, salt of Earth, I gather, I gather, I gather them in. 'Tis the greatest death harvest Since the Nations gave birth, Still I gather, I gather. gather
 them in 1Old up thelr arms, And I close up their eyes, As L gather, I gather, I gather
 them in,
 While the sun still beats down, From the pitiless skies,
 I gather, gather, gather them in. Their graves are unnumbered, No prayers for them said. zpfhar
 them in. Leaving trenches on trenches Of their dying and dead,
 As l gather, I gather, I gather
 them in. Iris the song of the songs, That the Grim Reaper Sings. As he gathers, he gathers, he gathers
 them in. { But Death is the harvest That the Grim Reaper brings, As he gathers, he gathers, he
 gathers them in. But God in his mercy
 Will open the Gate, & He'll gather. He'll gather, He'll gather
 them in, For the Judgment day They'll not have to wait
 For He'll gather, He'll gather He'll
 gather them in. No matter on Earth, --s-. i What creed they professed, He'll gather, He'll gather. He'll gather
 them in, ts He'll know the brave heart. Each soldier possessed.
 So He'll gather, He'll gather, He'll
 gather them in.
 R. E. BEARDSLEY.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
That Thin Blue Line. (Ansonia Sentinel

Once more draws near the day, when united nation pays tribute to that great. loyal army Of dead de- lenders and it4 survivors, whose cour- age and devotion saved It m it's hour of stress and storm. The thin blue line has s,lffered sadly from the sflrapnel of time since that day a year ago, when it rallied once more - the colors and listened once again to the mounting list of it's loved dead. Brothers in arms dear to the veterans of many battles and to all of us. have fallen from the ranks in answer to the call of the Great Commander but the line still holds and the flag still waves unstained.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

so, but from the general tone Of his communication we should set aim down as very much opposed to appointing chief of the fire department and su- perintendent of the police department every two years. A fire chief placed in that position would be likely to spend about half his time pulling wires, letting someone else look after the pulling of apparatus to fires. 1t would be both dangerous and foolish to change the system here so as to oblige these department heads to eat out of any politicians hand, and we can't believe that anything of the kind is really contemplated.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
UPHEAvAL IN CABARETDoM.

New Y ork lost what would probab- ly have been the most sensational court case in many years when Flu genia Kelly, heiress, lover of the cab aret life, and satellite of Al Davis, professional dancer agreed to go home to her mother and to give up the life to which she had become addicted. Bonnie Glass another dancer, also 9 satellite of Al Davis whose dancing partner she is had become jealous of Miss Kelly and had gone to her mother telling of the daughters acts. Tn an effort to make her daughter leave her married admirer the mother brought court action and for while "a big sensation was promised. Bonnie Glass threatened to call into the case many of the leading lights of the Broadway dance halls in an attempt to prove her contention of wrong doing, and it was promised that 9 story of seduction and crime such as the world has never seen would De uncovered. Luckily for some, url- luckily for the general welfare, the matter has been settled and the dis closures will not yet be made.
 Undou btedly the high class cabarets are hunting grounds for human birds of prey and they work under condi- tions that are perfect for their trade. The professional dancer meets every one in the hall if he so desires. Many young girls are only hattered by the opportunity to dance with him and thus under the spell of music and dance first acquaintances are made. The man is surrounded with glamor that is not present at other times and his appeal to the object of his at tentions is multiplied many times. With a favorable first impression upon an innocent girl the past master at the world old art has gained an inn mense amount and the rest must be fairly easy even with a girl with the best of homes.
 V
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
The Blasphemy of Billy sunday
(New London Day.)

tNeW LOnuOQ Lay
 Billy Sunday has wound up his Paterson campaign and he wound it up with a, perfectly typical word Of advice to the Lord not to believe all that He may have heard about Pater- son.
 It is probably just this enormous egotdsm-this pose of leading on the Almighty and encoura ging and urging Him not to be discouraged; this mighty blasphemy-thar lies at the bottom of Sundays success if sue cess it can be called. He gives thrills to a class of people who enjoy thrills for their own sake. He thrills them by daring to adopt an attitude toward sacred things which puts a finite creature-hmself-i advance of the hosts of heaven and cheers and waves and abjures them on to. battle.
 It is more than intimacy with the Lord that. Sunday assumes. He pa- tronizes his Creator. He coaches Him from the third base line. He roots and boosts for a three base hit from God in his contest with the devil. And he tickles an appetite for the unusual on the part of thousands of unthink- ing persons who do not sense the enormity of the mans pretcnsions. But he sickens the souliof every man or woman who is able to comprehend God that does not wear hat or jingle car fare in His pocket.
 To all such his profit of $25,oo0 from. his seven weeks campaign in Paterson will, seem dearly won. They would not have it at the cost of a tenth of his blasphemies.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

sympathy with the Boers. IL was ttl)
 Germans who sold Spain god
 share of the ammunition she use]
 against us in our Spanish war was the Germans who proA ided gum rifles, shells and cartridges fo~ttm Turks in the recent war of the Bad kan states for real freedonn-ar
 Germany even provided gunners
 fire the guns. It was the Ctrmal who shipped rifles and cartridges in4 Mexico last year, in disregard of os embargo, to use against our soidie and marines at Vera Vera Cruz, wheI war with Mexico seemed inevifabi For half a century Germany has bed the armament factory of Europe. T1I great neutral German munitions ifl dustry-which was involved in grad political scandals only last ,year--ha| fostered and thrived on foreign wal( no less than on domestic nilitArisf] And there is this difference bctwceI the German and the American brad tice, which if either is to be c0n1 demned makes the former more fa4 rant. All the American war supplI@ sold to bellieerents are sold by prI vate firms, with which our governmeu has no official or business conectiol and over which it has not even AnI right of control or supervision. the Germans guns and ammunitioI sold to belligerents have been sold b| a firm which the German goverpmc4 has made monopoly. with whi9h ti% German government is Virtually
 partner, and in which it is declar< that the kaiser himself holds lar financial interest
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

any more lives to answer for. True Americansc can but hope that the sink
 ing of the boat was not due to the
 Germans, but rather to all accident. lt will be hard to reconcile any re- port that the Germans make, if the reverse IS true and the Nebraskan was disabled by 2 torpedo, with furt.aer neutrality on the part of this country.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
Baths For the Sparrow. (New Haven Register.)

It was an ultra-kind person who wrote recently to Mayor Mitchell ask ing if he wouldn't please see that bathing facilities for the sparrows were restored in connection with the fountain at Bowling Green park. "In big city like this,'' he wrote, where the birds render so much service in preventing bugs and measuring worms from walking over us, it sure ly is the duty of the city authorities to provide bathing places for them"
 By all means provide bathing places especially for the English sparrows. If there is a bird on this soiled and soling earth that naturally Cit seems) needs a bath, it is an English spar row. If he will bathe, provide him water, and if he will use soap, add that. And If it doesn't come handy to provide public bathing places in the open, invite him into the bath room. He won't mind if you can stand it. But let him have the bath, at all events. He needs it. If you doubt it, observe him as closely as you can.
 However, there is something to be said in extenuation of his looks Sometimes we may wonder why is an English sparrow But if we reflect we may observe that no other bird has the nerve, not to say the nerves. to ply his trade of scavenger and worm extractor and moth preventer in the swift and perilous midst of such city as New York All other birds, with the possible exception of the starling, would make for the open. The sparrow. sticks to the job, and the. greater the excitement.e the better he likes it. He fits into the strife and noise and confusion of the city. His "song' is perfectly in tune with it's discord. He belongs there. His life and his work are there. But don't forget the bath
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
ToRPEDOED?

6Ie despatches, unverified as yet,
 communicated to this country |eport that another boat of Amer iregistry has been the victim of
 rman submarine. While the de-
 Of the act are unknown, the an
 eernent is to the effect that the
 askan, afreighter. Captain Green
 tnn1and, was tbrpedosd off Fast
 Ireland, and was in danger of
 Ing. The crew put eff in boats,
 wireless call for help, and ac-
 ag to all that can be learned were kte department officials at Wash Pn hesitated to express any opin- |Df the case before the facts were vn. The theory was advanced that boRt nit mine, and was not tor Is a curious thing that the Ger |s should waste ammunition on steamer outward bound from land If it is established that the was torpedoed the action can be ling more than wanton destruct- |ees or carefully thought out plan 6ow just what the German policy krd the United States in particu- |ie to be. There was absolutely !ing to be gained in torpedoing a
 that was going away from the
 1one. It could not pe accused irving contraband, nor can 1t ever }roven that the ship was engaged 11y unlawful action A.contention
 the boat had carried rontraband ,ngland and was torpedoed to "get Y, might be advanced, but the fact
 United States boat was dis d by Germany when returning to home port, if shown beyond 3 bt will make the last action the t tiagrant violation of all
 a1e crew escaped with their lives
 tle boat was not immediately in- S6lkated is the report This re e f6 rome extent, the strain oi rikuation Germany will not have
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

essential that the Napoleonic idea should not prevail. It threatened all others. Precisely the same thing is true that of German idea.
 What we are now facing is some thing more than a contest between rival powers. It was that when Francs and Prussia were at war in 1870. It is more than a quarrel over commerce C provinces It issa fight to preserve the Individuality of nations. 1t is a battle to save Europe from being German as the Napoleonic wars be- csrne contest to save Europe from French domination. If Germany is beaten we shall have many races freed consolidated, esta blished. We shall have the rights of little states pro- tected and guaranteed, Belgium, Ser tia, Rumania. Greece, Bulgaria, from all of these will be removed the men ace which the German idea constitued. Subject races in Austria will be en- ffanchised if not assured seperate ex- fstence. *i%
 But if Germany wins Serbia, Bel g.um. tomorrow Holland, will be ex- tfnguished More Frencnmen will become the subject of the, Kaiser, Italians will be condemned to Aus a - inA1 TulS. Al ONeIs EuGCpc IhC pti ciple of nationality. will be violated end the inherent right of men to de- termine their own land and language denied. Look at the consequences of German victory and no American can hesitate to hope for German defeat, for American reasons. Our own cause is that of the Allies.
 The entrance of Italy is in fact the crisis in the Great War, and we are living through one of the great periods in human history Whatever be the immediate ends of the Italian peo- pie, however selfish the incidental occasion of the declaration of war, 1t will remain a landmark in history because it will promise, as did the entrance of Austria into the Napo- leonic strife a century ago, the begin ming of the end of great dream founded upon the injustice, upon the repeal of all that civilization and re- ligion have won for the world in cen- turies.
 And in such a struggle Italy be- longs with the liberal powers All her splendid history in the last cen- tury, all the magnificent heroism of her patroits who died on Hapsburg scaffolds, all that Mazzini and Gari- baldi mean to mankind would be re- pudiated by Italy if she did not today stand with those nations who are re- suming the battle for liberty fought century ago against Napoleon and row being fought against the Kaiser.
 And Italy should carry with her American wishes for success. Our women and children have been sac- rificed to German necessity, our dead have been scattered over the seas and HOW float with the tides because, hap less and helpless, American women ard children stood between Germany and her purpose. This is what the German idea means. Italy has elected the only course that could avail to will fight for civization. Will Germany save her from the German peril She will fight for civization. Will Ger many insist that all other nations follow Will she recognize that though our arms are nor yet enlisted cur hearts are with her enemies. not because we hate Germans. but be- cause the things today called German are the negation of all for which American stands.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
Flower in the Trenches.
(san Francisco Chronicle. )

Some of the soldiers are cultivat- ing little gardens in their trenches Ones emotions get somewhat mixed at the thought of flowers growing in such places, and yet we are assured by the worthy Omar that sometimes think that never blows
 so red The Rose as where some buried
 Caesar b1ed; That every Hyacinth the Garden
 wears Dropt In her lap from some once
 lovely Head.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

Movies and general high life in Sing Sing appeal to James J. Jeffries, a Eegro porter to such a degree that he is willing to serve an eighteen months sentence there in preferenc to year in the penitentiary. New York's up- state criminal club will soon have a waiting list. N
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
NATION OF THE POLE.

citizens of thIs city in com
 h other communities where
 a Polish settlement of any
 planned for a tag day, the
 63 which will be sent to re-
 ir suffering countrymen on
 side of the world. The agi-
 funds for these people has
 headway in supstantial
 howing that people, are in
 in the relief work there as
 other devastatd portions of
 m another part of the Her
 be found list of contrib
 ( have already signified their
 Ss to help, although the
 t has been but 2 day or so
 ky here.
 merican people are familiar la conditions in Belgium
 the agency of the photog- and the news writer and the
 ruin there need not be de- further. Unhappily, however, d of information on the hard- dergone by the Poles is lack Se provinces are more isolated der to get information from. xggling of the Russian, Aus |nd German armies over three-t s of the territory n Galicia 1asian Poland can readily be Sd to have left great ruin in it's The tide of battle has ebbed ned in the sections mentioned. armies have over1owed the |Ss, gaining a living by fair pr foul. The houses are near E wood and have been in most burned by wanton soldiers or re. It is stated that there is a tree standing in the provinces |e roads have all been de- need of the Pole must be than the need or the Belgian. me that Belgium has been de- q, but its inhabitants nave been back into lands where there warfare. England and neutral s have furnished havens of ref 'he Pole is Between two fires. If from the zone of war is his he must make his way through ltry where all the transp orta-s scilities are given over to the
 If he stays where he is he is ii the firing lines an object of stray bullet. HIS, home is gone, stenance is tramped under the sy heel, and the lines of com $ absorb every bit of his sup .rom one side or the other be- $ can obtain them.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

High school boys are going to start a lunch counter. Wonder if they have the normal food capacity of the high school boy? If so where will the lunch go? Other pupils would do we'll to remember that old one, -'first come first served"
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

England having indicted the Kaiser for murder. it is up to England to arrest him.-Atlanta Journal
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
Extra Values For } Days
THURSDAY, FRIDAY and ] SATURDAYS

E |& s For the last three busin&s days of the month all depart ments share in extra value. giving. Be the article small or lrge you get extra value for your money.
 TABLE DAMAsK ~<H Special 45c yard. s6. anches Wide. Regular 59c value. Ufib1eached nn- cn damask, special soc yard. sReg- 1ilar s5ec value.
 TABLE CLOTHS.
 21-4 yards long, hemmed or soaA loped. special. ssc each. x
 BLEAtHED SHEETS. #' Size 21-4x2l-2 yards. special sbc each. Regular 75c kind. . PIIhow CASES
 Hemstitched. value 17c eachs rpe- cial 12 1-zc each.
 TOWELS. Extra large Turkish towels. special 17 1-zc each. Regular 17c values.
 LARGE HUCK TOWELS. Tn plain white, also red borders, special 1oc each value IF i-2c.
 BUREAU 'sCARFs a Good value at.esc, special ssc bach. Big variety. #&
 BOYS BLoUsEs. All styles, special 4sc each. HOSIERY s Mems and Women's broken lincs of silks and lisies, 25c value. speciaist7ci pair. s UNION SUITS women's and children's, special 45c
 WOMEN's VESTS. Regular and extra size. special 10cI value fsc, fancy vests at 15c each. ks EMBRoIDERIEs {; Special 15c yard for organdfs ede' ings, hand loom edgings. that afs worth 2bc. fst
 BABY FLOUNCINGs Special sec yard. value 5sc rv Hem stitched and scalloped edged LONG WHITE SILK GLOVES 6sc value, special Soc pair.
 WASH GOODS
 Flowered and striped organdies. lace voiles. crepe cords, sec values af special, 2sc yard.
 MBRCERIZED PoPLINs Yard wide. aIl colors. 3sc value special 29c yard. st
 DRAPERIEs AND RUGS Velvet rugs, size 27x54 inches. spe@ ciai ssc each.
 &EURTAlN SCRIMS Plains sknd drawn work. kinds. 1s values, special 15c yard. SCRIM CURTAINS Special eec pair, value s1.0o. z1s yards long with lace edgings.
 SHIRT WAIST CLEARANCE Three big bargain. lots. value $10Q to s3.50, special s9c. BIC. s1.ss each Silks, crepes, chiffons, lace and lin geries. in this sale.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

New Britain couple apply for a three years marriage license. Pretty close figuring, that.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

Smith, Smith and Schmidt have their troubles. From an international standpoint the case is grave. Two smiths and one Schmidt are the pre- vailing odds just now.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

Police are going to have a photo graph gallery. Who will be chief '.mugger"
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

she is buying her husbands neckties and Philadelphia Telegraph.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
FACTS AND RANCHES.

The real fun will come when there is lighting in the streets of venice.-- Baltimore American.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

Cheer up, yesterday was a nice day Just to show us there is some left.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
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New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

Don't knock the man who has the gift of carrying big enterprises to suc- cess. We would all be enterprising if We could.-Buffalo Times.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

The America First policy is al right as far as it goes, but bettel one Is America First, Last and Al the Time And this includes Ameri can industries.-Haverh Gazette
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

The danger or difficulty that attends foreign remittances is reflected in the increase of $19,000.00o in postal saw ings deposits in the last eight months. But for the war in Europe large DOT tion of this sum would have found it's way abroad.-Springfield Union.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
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New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

An ancient mariner of Swampscott, Massac who has just died at the age of ninety five, is credited with having caught more fish than any other man in the world. If he told more fish stories the Ananias club will
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

And of one thing there is not the slightest doubt. John Redmond has earned 8 place in the coalition Cabi- net.-Boston Journal
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

The reorganization of the British cabinet at this stage implies that the public men of Britain are settling down to a long war.-Montreal Star.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

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New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

The Swiss may not have t--e naval equipment of this republic, but if they get into war with Germany because they take this country's attitude about the Lusitania affair they'll at least have some army to put berind their ultimatum.-New York Tribune.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

Driving back the Russians seems a god deal like denting rubber ball with ones thumb. No permanent scars are left to mark the spot Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26

America need have no worry about the loyalty of it's foreign born popula- ton. They seek residence ;,ere be- cause this country offers better oppor- tunities and better government than their own. As between their. native land and other belligerents they can be excused for taking sides, but where America is concerned there need be no fear as to where their loyalty lies. Buffalo News.
New Britain herald., 1915-05-26


 to them. Napoleon abolished states and sought to destroy nations, but .11a- tions the people when their kings failed. overthrow Napoleon, because the spirit of race and nation was un- .conquerable It is the same spirit now that is moving Europe from the Straits of Dover to the tiolden Horn. ' Nor should Americans permit their vision to be obscured at this time. The German idea is as fatal to what we care for as to what the English and the French cherish. The subordina- ton of the indiyual the destruction of a free press, of individual liberty, of all that the Anglo Saxon tradition and the French revolution have meant to mankind would be inevitable con sequences of German victory. All cur history, from Lexington to 1915, represents the conviction that force d oes not make it right, nor military power justice Yet the essence of the German idea is force, might, power.
 The Napoleonic idea could not en- dure. It was always bound to fall because 1t was based upon military to repeal even the commences of the rules of international right by brute force. True, Napoleon's crimes were small besides those of William II. His execution of the Duke of Enghien shook Europe, but it is a mere detail when compared with the massacre of the Lusitania. But Tor Americans quite as much as Europeans it was