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Connecticut western news., 1916-08-10

things that brought tears to the eyes, and of,such the one entitled "Bereaved" is typical. It runs: Let me come in, where you sit weeping
 aye, Let me, who have not any child to die. Weep with you for the little one whose
 love
 have known nothing of. The little arms that slowly, slowly loosed Their pressure round your neck, the hands
 you used
 To kiss-such arms, such hands, never
 knew.
 May I not weep with you? Fain would l be of service-say some
 thing
 Between the tears that would be comfort
 ing
 But, oh so sadder than yourselves am Who have no child to die! Of the sentimental variety perhaps An Old Sweetheart of Mine" attained the greatest popularity, but there are others of merit, and "The Song" is one of them. It reads: There is ever something sings alway- There's the some of the lark when the
 skies are clear
 And the song of the thrush when the
 skies are gray. The sunshine showers across the grain, And the Rluebird trills in the orchard tree,
 And in and cut when the caves drip rain The swallows are twittering ceaselessly. There is ever a song somewhere, my dear. Be the skies above or dark or fair; There is ever a song that our hearts may
 hear
 There is ever a song somewhere, my dear There is ever a song somewhere! There is ever a song somewhere, my dear, In the midnight black or the midday
 blue.
 The robin pipes when the sun Is here, And the cricket chirrups the whole night
 through.
 The buds may blow, and the fruit may
 grow And the autumn leaves drop crisp and
 scar;
 But, whether the sun or the rain or the
 snow, .t-. There is ever a song somewhere my dear There is ever a song somewhere, my dear, Be the skies above or dark or fair; There is ever song that our hearts may
 hear. a-..a There is ever a song somewhere, my dear There is ever a song somewhere! To most people. and especially to most children, tidings of the death Of Riley brought a sense of personal be- reavement. He had so long sung to
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Eve of the Gun.

This Is called the telemeter and is used by all artillerists in some shape or other. The telemeter Is really a tube with two telescopic lenses, one on each end. The "objectives" of the two lenses are placed inside the in. strument and toward the end of the tube. Prisms with five faces act as re. fiectors, so that the person looking in has mechanically spread his eyes to the two ends of the tube, with tre' mendous range of vision.
 Of course the ends are so arranged that they may be directed at single object at the same time, thus making it possible for the observer to see what would otherwise be beyond the power of the human eye and to know by the angle at which it is viewed the distance away.
 1t requires a little practice to use this wonderful instrument, but in a few days the operator ascertains how easily he can determine the precise distance he is from the object he is looking at, and by a quick calculation he directs the pointing of the gun so that it cannot fail to strike at the de sired spot-Pearson's Weekly.
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Hard Words For the Hiah Hat.

The case against the topper was summed up many years ago by the fla nous Punch editor. Mark Lemon. "tt is hot in summer" he said: 'it is not warm in winter. 1t does not shade us from the sun; it does. not shelter us from the rain. It is ugly and expen- sive. You cannot wear it in a rail way carriage. It is always in your way in drawing room. If you sit on 1t you crush it. yet it will not save your skull in a fall. It will not go into portmanteau; it is too hard to roll up, too soft to stand upon. It rusts with the sea air; it spots with the rain. If 1t is good you are sure to have it taken by mistake at soiree; if it is bad you are set down for a indler."-London Spectator.
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Coat of the Porcupine.

Mother NaS,re surely must have set out to understanding different" the day she invented the porcupine. Here was an animal with a pathetically mild disposition. without cunning or courage and almost as slow and clum- sy as q turtle. It would have been absurd to give him weapons of of fense. He would never have the en- ergy to attack anything. so he was given a coat of mail in which he might walk abroad among his enemies and yet be as safe as though he were behind a wall of steel. His upper parts, from his nose to the tip of his thick, muscular tail, are covered with a mass of sharp pointed quills inter mixed with coarse hair. Each quffl is provided with number of minute barbs pointing backward, so that when 1t is once inserted in the flesh of any animal the mere movement of the muscles will cause it to work deeper and deeper.-Exchange.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-10
Queer Name. of Flowers.

The names of some of our prettiest flowers arc so queer that they seem amusing to us. Nasturtium, for exam pie, comes from the Latin word mean ing twisted nose" Nerbena is from the Latin for "twig," and lavender Is derived from the Latin word lavare, to wash, and is really the same word as N"laundry." Lavender probably got its name because it is put away with new ly washed clothes,
 Cornhower undoubtedly gets it's name because it grows among the rows of corn. Goldilocks looks like little yellow head. Honeysuckle is one of the sweetest blossoms and one of the easiest from which bees get their honey.
 Anemone is our "wind flower" It's name comes from the Latin word anemos. which means wind" and the anemone is really wind flower, grow ing best in exposed, windy places. Orchid is named for the Greek word orchis, which means Dag" Orchids always have curious little bags.-Kan- sas City Star.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-10
As You View the World.

The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it, and so it proves different to different men. To one it is barren, dull and supericial: to another rich, interesting and full or meaning. On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of mans experience many people will wish that similar things had happened In their lives. too, completely forget ting that they should be envious rather of the mental aptitude which lent these events the significance they pos sess when he describes them. To man of genius they were interesting ad- ventures, but to the dull perceptions of an ordinary individual they would have been stale, everyday occurrences.
 -Schopenhauer.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-10
INDIANA IN TRIBUTE 10 RILEY
Something About Life of Man Who Was Country's Premier Poet-LittIe, Interesting h. cidentS of His Career.

aged Riley's lecture tours in addition to those of many other notables, was fond of telling anecdotes of the Hoosier's wit. One of them related to Riley and Bill Nye.
 Riley and Nye were a peculiar pair. They were everlastingly playing practi- cal jokes. They were riding together In the smoking compartment between Columbus and Cincinnati. Nye was great smoker and s,iley did not dislike tobacco. An old farmer came over to Nye and said:
 Are you Mir. Riley? I heard you was on the train"
 "No; am not Mir. Riley. He is over there"
 q knew his father, and I would like to speak with him." "Oh, speak with him, yes. But he is deaf, and you want to speak loud"
 So the farmer went over to him and said in loud voice:
 "Is this MT. Riley?"
 "Er-what?'
 "Is this MT. Riley?"
 "What did you say?"
 "Is this MT. Riley?"
 "Riley; yes"
 T knew your father"
 "No bother.'
 "I knew your father."
 "WhatY'
 "I knew your father"
 "Oh, so did l." ... Tn few moments the farmer heard him talking in an ordinary tone Of voice. Rileys popular poems are so numer- ous that catalogue of them would be volume in itself. Little Orphant Annie" once called "The Elfin Child"
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Powar Pronalled Vehicles.

Experiments in power propelled ve- hicles date back to ITO, when Joseph Cugnot, Il French engineer, built the first automobile. He constructed a steam automobile that hauled two and one-hnlf tons threN miles per hour, and this vehicle is stIl preserved in form of model in France. In 1902 the first practical steam automobile was built by Richard Trevitluck of England, using a crank shaft for the first time and driving by gears from the engine to the road wheels. In 1891 Julius Griffiths of England gave us the first comfortable steam vehicle, the first ve- hicle to have a coach design of body, with seats carried on springs, as we know them today. In 1881 Summers x Ogle of England built three wheel tubular boiler and two cylinder en- zine, which attained a speed of thirty two miles per hour. The first motor vehicle to regularly carry passengers for hire was built by Walter Hancock of England in 1884 The motive pow CT was steam.-New York Times.
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Poor Mans Paradise.

Described as "very near being an earthly paradise for the poor" the is- land of Cozumel is inhabited mainly by the poor, being satisfied to lead a hand to mouth existence. To gain a livelihood requires the minimum of effort. The natives pay no rent be- cause they are able to squat on, a building site with all necessary ma terial at hand from which to constsNct cottage; free fuel, free fodder Nor cows, food for hogs and fowls. small game and wild fruits plentiful. fish for the trouble of throwing in line, tur- ties for the taking, to say nothing of turtles eggs, and to provide such things as the island does not produce clothing. for instance-a days work
 for asking. Cozumel is near Yucatan.
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Roadless Russia.

It seems almost inconceivable to the foreign visitor who has ever left the beaten track of the railways in Rus sia how great empire can have sub- sisted so long and so successfully with out even a pretense at roads. The se- cret lies in the fact that for five or six months in the year nature herself pro- vides roads over the greater part of Russia = admirable. smooth, glassy roadways- over hard worn snow. The traffic is further cheapened over these roads by the substitution of sledge runner for the wheel and axle. This brings the cost of land carriage as near the cheapness of water borne freight as possible. and it is the prin- cipal reason why Russia in the twen- tieth century is still a roadless land.
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cunninq of Cat.

A cat once had the misfortune to break one of its forelegs and was care fully tended by its owner. One of the members of the family kind hearted old woman, was especially kind to the animal and gave 1t numerous extra delicacies. Tn due time the cat recov- cred, but it had the wit to see the con- nection between its broken leg and the solicitude of the woman and accord ingly concealed the fact. When unob- served it ran about like any other cat. but on the approach of the tender hearted woman immediately began limping on three legs.
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Saved by a Cookbook.

There is a story of man, desperate ly i'll, who, having passed the crisis of his ailment, needed only, so the doc tors asserted, an incentive to recover. He had dire misfortunes and had lost all interest in living Neither his busi- ness nor his motorcar nor his children nor his wife sufIiced to lure him back to the trials of temporal existence. Then some inspired relative thought of the cookbook. She put 1t into the hands of the sick man as he lay with ering on his pillow. He turned 1t over languidly; then he fiuttered the pages with transparent fingers. Presently he asked to be propped up in bed. Be- fore long he was whispering fervidly of what he was going to eat when he got well-those pig hooks with dump lings, hot wafiies and sirup, schnitt- bohnen with sour sauce. What were rissoles and ramelSins and bannocksf And why hnd he never known about toad in the hole? These were the sen timents that wooed him back to llfe.-- New York Mail.
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has been acclaimed from every school platform in the country and is a never failing success today from almost any elocutionist. Another typical of his be- loved Indiana, is "When the Frost Is on the Punkin," embraced in his vol ume of poems entitled "The Old Swim min Hole and 'Leven More Poems." It is as follows: When the frost is on the punkin and the
 folders in the shock, And you hear the kyouck and gobble of
 the struttin' turkey cock, And the clackin' of the guineys, and the
 cluckin' of the hens, And the rooster's hallylooyer as he tip
 toes on the fence Oh, it's then's the times feller is a-feel-
 in at his best, With the risin' sun to greet him from
 night of peaceful rest, AS he leaves the house bareheaded and
 goes out to feed the stock, When the frost is on the punkin and the
 fodder's in the shock! They's something kind O h'arty-like about
 the atmosphere When the heat of summers over and the
 coolin' fail is here Of course we miss the flowers and the
 blossoms on the trees And the humble of the hummin' birds
 and buzzin' of the bees, But the airs so appetizin', and the land
 scape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny ynornin of the airly
 autumn days Is pictur' that no painter has the col
 orin' to mock, When the frost is on tke punkin and the
 fodders in the shock. The husky, rusty rustic of the tossels of
 the corn
 And the raspin of the tangled leaves as
 golden as the morn, The stubble in the furries, kind O lone-
 some-like, but still A-preachin' sermons to us of the barns they growed to fill; The strawstack in the medder and the
 reaper in the shed, The hosses in their stalls below, the clo-
 yer overhead Oh, 1t sets my heart a-clickin' like the
 tickin' of a clock When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!
 To the public his dialect verse is bet ter known. and "Goodby. Jim; Take Keer of Yourself" ''The Raggedy Man and "Griggsby's Station" will be long remembered. But Riley was also a poet who -ould write serious, beautiful
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us of honey things that we had come to regard him as an intimate who could enter into our every mood and who knew us better than we knew ourselves. Without chick or child of his own he yet was the poet of child hood. Though unmarried, he was tbe poet of the home. He knew us so we'll, our boyish escapades, our love affairs, our delight in nature, our griefs and gladness, that we can give him that highest title of all, the poet of the common life. Such a hold had picture Uncle Sam as being "jes' wrapped up in him" and as saying in the last hour:
 Well, goodby, Jim;
 Take keer of yourself
 Riley was born on Oct. z, 1S49, ill Greenfield, Ind, a village about twen- ty miles from Indianapolis. His father was a lawyer, and the lad tried to study law, but he forgot as fast as he read and found it "worse than picking oakum in jail," so he gave it up. In school he didn't seem to fit."
 The fact so mortified him that he got to running away from school to avoid the pathetic things in the read CTS, with the result that he met some real griefs in the form of whippings both at school and at home. Small wonder that he quit school altogether.
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clevar plants.

The cleverness of some plants is in- disputable. A sundew, or fly eater, de- ceived by piece of chalk, seized it in It's tendrils, but upon discovering the fraud immediately withdrew them. A fly, held just out of its reach, did not tempt 1t to move, but as soon as it was brought little nearer the plant prepared to take possession of it. Dar- win showed that begonia had habit of searching for hole to insert its tendrils into and even of withdrawing the tendril to insert 1t in another hole If the first proved unsuitable.
 Nor is this power of selecting con fined to any particular class. Climb CTS like the lianas will refuse to coil round branch not strong enough to bear their weight.
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Pieturesque Quarry.

A limestone quarry which is about n mile lsng, picturesque in appearance and dangerous to work in is located near Rockland, Me. There 300 labor- CTS, chiefly foreigners, toll in chasms having perpendicular, sides 800 feet high and no way of entrance or egress except by means of the derricks which hoist and lower about dozen men at a time. Approximately 100000 bar rels of lime are prepared in the vicin- ity of Rockland annually. - Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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Giant Monument to a Child.

Mount Grace, in Warwick Mass, seems to be in a way giant monu- ment to little child. According Co tra- dition, the Indians< captured n Mrs. Rowlinson and her child. As the party were passing through the woods on their way to Canada the child died and was buried at the foot Of the noun tain. The child's name was Grace, and the mountain has been Mount Grace ever since.-Exchange
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THE PRESIDENTS TRIBUTE.

President Wilson sent the fol lowing telegram to Henry Eitel, brother-in-law of the late James Whitcomb Riley:
 May I not express to you my sincere sorrow at the death of James Whitcomb Riley? With his departure a notable figure passes out of the nations life, a man who imparted joyful pleas ure and a thoughtful view of many things that other men would have missed. I am sure I am speaking the feeling of the whole country in expressing my own sense of loss"
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PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Force Yourself to Be Wen.

+ Force Yourself to Be Wen. + "Plant your feet fianly and : !. squarely on the ground, throw : T. back your shoslaers, fold your . i. arms and affirm in most emphat- . + ic terms that you are strong. i. healthy and well. B1 this fer T. few minutes every evening and, : T. even if this is not how you : + actually feel. maintain by your : i. physical and mental attitude that . I. it is your condition. and you will : + soon find that it becomes so and . '. that you are not really telling ..- lies" This was the advice given . I. by pr. J. Stenson Hooker in a !. lecture in London on "Posturing . !. and Posing For Health" Tt is : I. wonderful to what extent our : -.- state of health can be altered in . T. this way" pr. Hooker added. : ..- Tt stirs up the currents of feel .s. ing which act on the nerves. . i. These act on the blood vessels, 7. I. and thus the whole system Is i'm + proved, and we become different . + beings"
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Pressino Thunohs.

The eastern Caucasian mountaiAeess never shake hands. When two men greet each other they merely clasp hands, with upstanding thumbs press ed closely together. There is no up and down motion of hands and arms George Kennan in Outlook.
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Seeinu Double.

He-Why did you fail to recognize me in the street today? -shc-l didn't see you. He-That's strange. l saw you twice. She-Oh, that probably ae- counts for it I never notice a man when he is fin that condition.-London Telegraph.
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purina the Honeymoon.

q weigh 130 pounds. How much do you weigh, Mir. Sweetey7"
 "Begether with my wife exactly 250 pounds"
 And you aloneT
 "I don't know that. We are always weighed together. Blaetter
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Musical Spe,1isI1-

In extent the Spanish vocabulary is far inferior to the English. though in richness of tone or expression the Spanish is ahead of the English. lan- guage. It is claimed that the pure Castilian is the most musical of lan- guages, the Italian not excepted.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-10
No Room to Turn.

Laura gazed intently at some sar- dimes lying in an opened can.
 What seems to interest you?" her mother asked.
 Pointing pudgy finger. the little girl answered.:
 'I was just thinking what a lot of trouble that middle fish would have if it wanted to turn over."-Youngstown Telegram.
Connecticut western news., 1916-08-10
Patriarch or Preptet.

A man approached a stand upon which some questionable looking fowls were offered for sale. What will you sell them for?' he asked of shrewd. gray bearded farmer. '1 sell them for profits" answered the individual "Is that .so?' answered the customer in feigned surprise. 'I'm glad to know they are prophets. I took them for patriarchs. ."-Exchang
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All Business.

"Then I can be one of your pupils?"
 "Assuredly, sir, for 10 crowns les- son." said the great artist. And a favorite pupil for 2 crowns extra."- Puck.
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True.

Money makes the mare go."
 (Which shows that the mare isn't so much different than the rest of us in that respect"-Detroit Free Press.
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Politeness.

"Politeness pays"
 "So they say. think the profits run mostly to deferred dividends. Pitts. burgh Post.
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Ca Do wa All

"For the sake of peace often keep still even when I know am right" Same here. I'm married too."-De troit Free Press.
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Constsncy of purpose is certainly
 sue of the secrets of success.
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Duty and today are ours; results and Security belong to God.-Horaee Gree sy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-03
Cotton or Lives?

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir; The Republican House leader Mr..
Mann. like many other prominent Republi-
cans. appears to be wearing the gag Of the
German vote He processes to think that the
country is more likely to have war with
England than with Germany. but without
stating the grounds FOR such belief Does
be mean that We would fight for cotton. but
be content to accept money indemnity for
tho ruthless murder Of our women and chill
dren on the high seas?
As 70 war with England. If we ever do
have such a war. it viii be Of our own max
ing and brought about by the Hoke Smith
and tho hyphcns. T. is inconceiyabe that
England should want war with the United
States, or that the United States should
want war with England. If we can stand il
10 have our face slapped repeatedly by Ger
many and swallow these insults. as the Ad-
minIstratiou has been doing. surely there
can be no reason why we should declare war
on England over few bales of cotton OF
other merchandise. " T. r.
New York, Jan. 81, 1916
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-03
An Eleventh Hour Discovery.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: Prepare! The world IS on fire." is
the cry Of President Wilson. Well, the
world has been on fire for over year and
a half and why are we not prepared? The
Democratic Administration has been in A
dream from which it has just awakened
With Republican President and a Repub-
licsn Congress the nations defences would
never have been in the condition they are
in TO-DAY and there would never have been
either Bryan or a Daniels IN the Cabinet
Politics should not az the present moment
play any part in the question Of immediate
preparedness. but the question of response
bility for the present condition Of affairs
must sooner or later be met, and II cannot
be evaded by sounding the tocsin at the
eleventh hour. Before the bar of the Ameri-
can people next November the Democratic
party must answer 10 the charge Of culpable
negl gencc. J. Joss IVES.
Danbury. Conn, Jan. 81. 1916.