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Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
When Mother Reads a Story.

 When mother reads a story jes' before we go to bed, There's not one of all of us that is a sleepy-head; We gather round and crowd up close about her rockin' chair, An as she reads I watch the light a-glowin' on her hair. Oh! Jimmy's eyes get big as plates an Mary sometimes squeals, An Betty sits with tear stained face because she sorter feels Real sorry for the dragon when the hero kills him dead; When mother reads a story jes' before we go to bed. When mother reads story jes' before we go to bed, I lean up close an hold the book so she can pat my head; For when the giants yellin' fierce. it's awful nice to know That mothers arm is holdin' you an will not let you go! Oh! Buddy's mouth falls open most, he gets so filled with fear, An Helen's eyes glow bright like stars an when the end is near We hear the words, "They happy lived forever-it was said,'' When mother reads story jes' before we go to bed.
 Margaret E. Sangster
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
What the Other Fellows Say

The municipal Christmas tree is do- ing itself proud this year and never fails to have a receptive and highly pleased .audience.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 Ella Wheeler Wilcox says man can- not love as deeply as woman can. And yet good many men seem to love deeply enough to get ill beyond their depth. Journal.
 Bridgeport's population has jumped from 5000 to about 150, ,000 since this year began, and of course her moving picture houses have done even better than that propOrtionately.-- Pittsfield Eagle.
 Dr. Cook "discovered' the North Pole and was welcomed by the Danes. Henry Ford is trying to "discover" peace, but the same Danes are not go- ing to welcome him. The deduction seems to be: "Go and get reputa- tion. .''-Hartford Post.
 Every good citizen of this town should take special pride in all that pertains to home. The schools, the churches, the amusements, the busi- ness, pleasures, the picnics, the cele- brations, ill fact everything should be looked on by our own people as just as good as can be gotten up elsewhere The town that says i've can," will always succeed.-New Canaan Al. vertiser.
 Mrs. Gait has promised to "obey" but there may be expected exchanges of diplomatic notes and much watchful waiting if differences occur.-New Haven Union. Fl Just as everybody was so sure Colonel Roosevelt was "all in" politi- cally he attends a little dinner and knocks into cooked hat all such asser- tions. Once again he is the most talked of man in the land and he did not say a word at that dinner-for publication. n.-Bridgepor Post.
 A Milwaukee doctor recently issued lot of suggestions to the public about the avoidance of the deadly grip germ. One of his principal "don'ts" was Don't kiss" Now the doctor has the grip, himself, and a rather flippant special correspondent of the New York Times says that it is impossible to as. certain which of his own rules he vlolated-Hartford Courant.
 From the way in which other na- tons are being drawn into the strug- gle, it looks as if the war were getting to be vast international whirlpool with an ever increasing velocity Torrington Register.
 It appears that the first boy ''out of the trenches and headed for home and peace Christmas morning was Henry Ford himself.- Waterbury Re- publican.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
Identified.

A party of New Workers recently came back from a fishing trip in the Province of Quebec, where they had a French Canadian guide.
 "On the first night out" said one of the party, tour guide said to us:
 "'You come from New York, hey ?
 "'Yes.'
 "'You know Adolphe Desjardins p "'No.'
 "The guide seemed mystified, but questioned no further. It should be remembered that in French Canadian villages there is one hotel, and that is the headquarters of the community life. On the last night of the trip the guide came to us after supper.
 "'You come from New York, hey?' "''Yes.'
 You know Adolphe Desiardins p No
 "'You not know Adolphe Desjar- dins?
 "'No.'
 "'Mon Dieu, you must know him He is the cook in the hotelt'" "
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
AN ATTRACTIVE SPEAKER.

Rev. MT. Crichton has made wise selection and is to be congratulated on his good fortune in securing the con- sent of MT. Wilson H. Lee. the we'll known publisher and scientific farmer, of New Haven, to speak to the United Brotherhoods at the supper to be given in the Parish House next week Friday evening, January IA. MT. Lee, who will have for his subject, "The Up- building of New England Agriculture, !" is eminently qualified to speak along that line. He owns an extensive farm, "Fairlee"-an aggregation of farms, in fact-which is the objective point for practical farmers from far and near who wish to inspect the results of scientific agriculture in it's highest state of development.
 The "Fairlee'' Farm is famous for it's dairy products especially, and for it's blooded stock, it's equipment of modern machinery, and the scientific system on which it is run. The farm is hobby of MT. Lees, whose princi- pal business interests are in a large printing and publishing establishment in New Haven, which publishes, an nually, practically all the city direct ories of the cities and large towns in New England He is also publisher of The Connecticut Farmer, an agricul. tural journal of wide circulation and large influence.
 AS speaker, MT. Lee is always in teresting and earnest, and constantly in demand, and his talk next week Friday evening is sure to be profitable to every listener, whether he be g farmer or small gardener, or even ii he thinks he has no special personal in terest in the subject.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
Letters From the People
A Fine Sentiment.

To the Editor of The News:
 The sentiment contained in the en- closed lines is oue which should we adopt, may well take the place of all our other intended New Year resolu- tions and aid in "Getting Together, Pulling Together. J. 5. A. "The roses red upon my neighbor's vine Are owned by him, but they are also
 mine, His was the cost, and his the labor, too, But mine as well as his the joy, their
 loveliness to view. "'They bloom for me. and are for me as
 fair As for the man who gives them all his
 care, Thus am rich, because a good man
 grew A rose-clad vine for all his neighbors
 view. II know from this that others plant
 for me, And what they own, my joy may also
 be; So why be selfish, when so much that S Is grown for you, upon your neighbor's s
 vine ?''
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
Critics in the Gallery.

Robert W. Chalmers, the popular novelist, said at the Century elub in New York:
 I've novelists have got to remember that the public. while claiming stoutly to like-well, here's story:
 "Two women stood in a queue wuit- ing to get in to see melodrama.
 |" 'This'll be good show,' said, the first woman. I don't want to he put to sleep, though. Still, can't stand nothin' far. .fetched.'
 "'Same here,' said the second woman.
 And then they went in and sat through five acts wherein the hero killed 36 Kaflirs with h;s naked hand, found diamond ss big us ducks egg. smashed with his revolver from mile away the bottle of poison that the beautiful heroine was about to swallow rather than yield to the blandishments of the villain, aud finally killed the latter in an aeroplane drel slightly of stage. inheriting later an unexpected dukedom, and so forth and so on.
 "When the curtain fell to the sound of wedding bells, the two women looked at each other with glistening eyes.
 Grand, wasn't it P said the arst. Like real life. eh p
 "You bet, said the second. That's life, that is. Nothin' far.fetched or over6one. n
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
Eighty.

Don't think because you're fifty" You've no more work to do; Don't think because you're "siEty" You're pretty nearly through. . Don't think because you're seventy There's no use trying more. Don't think because you Ire "eighty" Your usefulness is OCT. Mans at his prime at fifty If careful he has been; Strong, vigorous at "sixty"
 At least are many men; Man laughs at age at seventy" Results have often shown He's still in prime condition When "four-score" years have flown. Some of the worlds great leaders Are half a century old. At sixty" many statesmen High office often hold At seventy" merchants, bankers Are safest men we know. Many are hale and hearty
 At eighty" years or so.
 Brooklyn Times.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

Der of Commerce Bulletin and the bran new Windsor Town Crier, organ of the Windsor B. M. A.
 The Waterbury Bulletin is edited by President c. A. Colley, of the Cham Der of Commerce, and s:intillates with the intellectual brilliancy of that versatile genius. It is an irresistible booster for the city which has some- thing on everybody who has anything on aC all. and is roofing vigorously for an increase of the Chambers member ship from 75O to 1000 And it will get there, too, for Colley is celebrated for getting what he goes after, almost always-the possible exception being when he goes fishing.
 The Windsor Town Crier gives promise of becoming valuable ad' junct to the splendid Association of that hustling town. Its accomplished editor, Former President George E. Crosby, modestly admits that the Town C1ier has officially taken entire charge of all the knocking for the town, ' which places it upon commendable platform and will confound the chronic knockers and constitutional kjckers. The sheet bris5les with items of special interest to the people of Windsor generally, and the B. M. A. in partic- ular.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

A threatening storm-cl looms up on the democratic horizon, in the alleged fear of the regulars that Will liam Jennings Bryan will bolt the St.. Louis convention and head a new party on an anti-preparedness platform. It is pointed out that 4,00O,000 women will vote for president this year, and that if Bryan comes out as an inde- pendent candidate on platform that condemns militarism and advocates woman suffrage and prohibition, he will draw an enormous vote.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files,
 IQQd

Record ot Doings from Week to Week
 CulIed from The News Files.
 1884
 June 1. Thirty-five from Canaan attended the Barnum circus in Pitts. field.
 r. B. Young. foreman of the ThomastOn express, spent Sunday in town.
 The net receipts from the primary school exhibition were S25.
 The standing of the following pupils of the high school averaged over so: Mary Barnes, Ira Bennett, Louise Bragg, Emma Bullard, Ella Hall, Mabel Page, Fannie Page, Mary Parsons, Mary Root, Emma Rodemeyer, Minnie 5paulding, Cora Tucker, Lizzie Van . Deuseu and Frank Stevens. George E. Taft. principal.
 Comrades oE David $. Cawles Post received $62.6 from citizeBs to defray expenses of Memorial Day.
 c B. Johnson, of Ne viown. a former compositor of 1iIe News, visiLeeI friends ill town.
 A very severe frost did great damage to farm crops and gardens.
 Lawyer W. A. Roraback, of Tor rington, called on old friends.
 A North Cornwall lady brought to The News, six hens eggs, double yolked, weighing 20 ounces.
 The Chautauqua Circle met at Dr. Eddy's.
 Mrs. Adeline Beckley, of New Hart ford, recently recovered from severe illness. was guest of MT. and Mrs s. O. Beckley.
 Principal Taft, of the high school, left town to enter the law office of w. W. Bidwell, of Unionville, as partner.
 The singing class, under the diYec- tion or Mr. Weaver was to give a con- cert.
 Prof. Weaver sang "Barbara FrieJchi" at the Decoration Day ex ercses, Miss Sara Eddy playing the accompaniment.
 ttev. E. F. Atwood, Rev. Dr. Eddy, Rev. E. H. Roys, Lawyer D. w. Clarke, of Falls Village; MT. Harry Sedgwick. Of Cornwall, Erastus Good win, of Lime Rock, and MT. David Whittlesey were the speakers at the Decoration Day exercises.
 West Cornwall-Manv persons from this village attended the unveiling of tue monument erected to the memory of Colonel c. D. Blinn at New Milford. Miss Jessie Hart returned to Sheffield to resume studies ill music. Dr. w. E. Weed spent Decoration Day in Bridgeport. The Ladies' Benevolent Society was to meet with Mrs. James A. Cothrane. Frank Ward was in New York for a few days Joseph Memmott was suffering from malaria. Ethan Bosworth was home for week before taking position in Thcmaston.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

From the Anheuser-B Busch brew ing association comes a gladstone new year wish accompanying package that contains some of the liquid cheer more generally known as Bud" To the Brewing asso. citation we return hearty good wishes for the coming year and our thanks for their thoughtful ness.-Hartford Sunday Globe.
 Prosit Neu Jahr, Herr Macomber!
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
Margaret E. Sangster

"Why, inquired the curious visitor, "do you call that mule of yours Roose- velt ?''
 Because" replied the philosophical farmer, "he pulls like minnow and blows like a whale. ."-Richmond Times Dispatch.
 She-"Are you still keeping your auto ?''
 He-"Parts of it. I had little &C., cident last night. "-Richmond Times Dispatch.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

According to statistics collected by the New York World, there were, in New York, during eleven months of 1915, no less than 6,O28 persons in. jured in automobile accidents, and 321 persons were killed by autos. More than half of those who were killed were children under Is years of age. The World attributes this heavy casualty list to inadequate automobile laws and the lack of enforcement of the laws as they exist. But what is New York going to do about it?
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

Good Cheer nubbin, by J.. R. Miller. D. D.: "The man W hose life lacks habjtual kindness may succeed splen- didly in worldly sense. He may win his way to high honor. He may gather millions of money. He may climb to a conspicuous place among men. But he has missed that which alone gives glory to life-the joy and blessing of being kind.''
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
PRESENT MOMENTS.
BY EMMA RoDEMEYER WAIT.

Are you waiting till tomorrow
 To enjoy this world of ours Are you passing by the daisy
 Looking for the brighter flowers !? Are you waiting for the sunshine,
 When the most refreshing rain Calls to you m sweetest music
 AS 1t beats against the pane Oh, accept the present moments,
 Get good as you go long: Scatter kindness all about you.
 Scorning everything that's wreng. Heaven bestoms ear.h-blessings on. Us, Gives us new ones every day ; So enjoy the present moments,
 And be happy all the way.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
Sharpening Himself.

When the train stopped at the little Southern station the tourist from the North sauntered out and gazed curi- ously at a lean animal with scraggy bristles, which was rubbing itself against scrub oak.
 "What do you call that ?" he asked curiously of native ?"
 "Razorback hawg, suh.'
 "What is he doing rubbing himself against that tree ?''
 "He's stropping hisself. suh, just stropping hisself. ''-Farmer's Advo- cate and Home Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

The headline, in a contemporary, "Drops Dead After Cleaning His Side walk," moves the cynical New Haven Union to observe: "A good many of us would drop dead if the neighbors cleaned their walks.''
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

"Won't you take my seat ?" said the man in the street car, as he lifted his hat to the pretty girl.
 "No, thank you," she replied: "I've been skating all the afternoon, and Pm tired of sitting down. ''-Puck.
 "Pa, what is an echo ?"
 "An echo, my son, is the only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word. ''-Boston Transcript.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

The Kaiser's ailment requires that he have a silver artificial palate. It is to be hoped, with more or less sin cerity, that he doesn't swallow it and choke himself to death.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
LIVE WIRE JOURNALS.

Evidence of the seasons activity in the wide-awake Business Mems Asso- citations. around the state, is shown in the resumption of their Bulletins and
 periodicals. The latest arrivals at our desk are the revived Waterbury Cham
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

It cost Hartford $35, 1000 in drink to welcome the New Year in, last Friday night. The Courant estimates that $28,000 was spent by midnight revel- lers in the hotels, and $10,000 in the saloons of the city. So the New Year foated into the capitol city on verit- able high tide of booze.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

The "union hymn sing''i is one of the valuable and in every way con- mendable institutions growing out of the brotherhood spirit that distin- guishes the churches of Canaan; and incidentally it makes 8 joyful noise unto the Lord.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

The height of the Woman's club season inspires the query: What has become of that festive and frolicsome auxiliary of the Hawthorne Club-the Husbands, Brothers, Others and Hus- bands of Others
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
"These zeppelfns have accomplished

"These zeppelins have accomplished one thing"
 What is that ?"
 "They have reused some of those Londoners to the point that they think it's about as safe to go ahead and en- list "-Jacksonville Times- Union.
 Marriages, said the old-fashioned sentimentalist, are made in heaven.
 "Yes, replied Miss Cayenne. But some of them are like motor cars. They run badly after they leave the factory. Star.
 "Ish housh on fire ?" asked Scraggs swaving to and fro.
 "Nopr
 "Well," !" said Scraggs. eff I'd only known thash. I-hic-wouldn't been n such a-hic-hurry t get home." - Pennsylvania State Froth.
 "I'm sorry you don't admire Mir. Gumpins, said the tactful woman. "His ancestors were very distinguished and estimable people,"
 "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "What misfortune for his family that so many of them died. ."-Washington Star.
 When Mary goes to light the fire, croon an anthem, sweet and low, For Mary uses kerosene
 And no one knows where else she'll
 go.
 -Richmond Times. Dispatch.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

The little bird' that eats out of Dame Rumor's hand, is garrulously twittering in the tree-tops about a harvest of local weddings booked for the near future.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

Dr. Slicer must have large practice. Should you ask us how we know When patients have nothing the matter He ups and he tells lem so.
 Boston Transcript.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
MAILS CLOSE GOING

MAILS CLOSE GOING
 North East South West 9:48 a. m. SIS a. m. 7:44 a. m. 10:20 a. m. 7:09 p. m. 355 p. m. 2:32 p. m. 63S p. m.
 MAILS OPEN FROM North East South West 8:25 a. m $50 a. m. 10:30 8. m. 800 a. m. S:10 p. m. 11:00 a. m 7:39 p. III. 4:25 D. m.
 7:15 p. m. Mail closes on Route No. 1, R. F. D. at 10:30 a. m. For Southfield and Mill River at 1. D. m.
 E. L. ROBERTS, P. M.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

One nine ring one six! Time flies. Only nine months to the next annual banquet of the Bald-Head Club of America,
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

Capt. Ginty declares that he has discovered new kind of fruit in Bridgeport. The other day he was walking along when he saw a sign that read: "Chairs Canned Here. "-Bridgeport Post.
 Of course Capt. Ginty knew it re ferred to cherries.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

That mysterious millionaire dinner to ex.President Roosevelt is now termed the "Dinner of Doubt.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06

What has become of "Communit, Sunday ?'
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
> Planned to Reclprocate.

"Well, what can Ido for you, Sam ?" asked Jones as the colored waiter who usually served him at the restauEant entered his office.
 "I got chance to change my psi tion, boss. Kin yo' say a good word fo' me. Say Ise hones' an sich ?'
 "I know, of course, that you are a good waiter, Sam, but how do know you're honest ?" ss e "Well, jes' say yo' think I'se hones'." ....
 All right, Sam" #.".+.s
 "Thank vol, boss,. thank yo' very much. When yo' come ovah bomor- row, be sure to sit at nah table. I'll give yo' shot check. '" s.@a.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1916.

Strength for today is all that we
 need,
 As there never will be tomorrow; For tomorrow will prove but an-.
 other today
 With it's measures of joy and sor- row. Selected.
Connecticut western news., 1916-01-06
THE EWS' AGENTS

THE NEWS AGENTS Extra copies of The News are on sale at the office of publication and at Dempseys Drug Store, Canaan, Post Office, East Canaan.
 Post Office, Falls Village,
 George T. Johnson's Store, Norfolk H. l.. Rood, Ashley Falls.
 A. l.. Dickinson. Salisbury. J. W. Morgan. Great Harrington, Mass.
Evening star., 1916-11-19
Label the Live Wire.

From the Louisville Couriar- Journal.
The death of Bishop Eveland. in
Pennsylvania, as a result of his steel
fishing rod touching high tension
wire when he was passing under a
railroad bridge should suggest the
necessity for making the designation
of live" wire compulsory. The rule,
"let the label tell" is good one as it
is applied to a bottle of tomato sauce
which has a preservative in 1t, or a
pound of oleomargarine. which but for
the label law might parade as butter.
But the charged wire which will kill
instantly any one who comes into con-
tact with 1t may be strung pretty
nearly anywhere ana Is unrecoshlz-
able.
why shouldn't live wires be so col
ored or marked that it would be pos
sible for any one to recognize them on
sight? When wire falls in the
street the safest course is to assume
But many persons fail to do SO, and
many of those who neglect to take
abundant precaution pay for their in
cautiousness with their lives. Nobody
can distinguish live wires from the
harmless ones in the network Of wires
that every city permits to injure it's
appearance and endanger the lives Of
its Inhabitants. Why not force per-
sons who are responsible for live wires
to so designate them that every one
will know them? The stop! look!
listenr' signs at unguarded grade
vices. but they are better than moth
ing There Is nothing to warn the
unwary against the risk Of being cleo
trocuted by a charged wire.
Evening star., 1916-11-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A revolution may be the same thing
over again.
He's "A wise butcher who can make
both ends meat.
An egotist imagines he is in the best
society when alone.
they have no say about it.
No man ever does as much today as
he is going to do tomorrow.
A man may pocket his pride, but a
woman always has to conceal it else-
where.
No. Cordelia, the clearing house has
no connection with the weather bureau.
of a sermon when they jab the other
fellow.
Every man is satisfied that he is
worth more to his employer than hio
pay envelope indicates.
A considerate wife will not Insist
upon her husbands doing more than
two-thirds of the housework.
Somehow the more you are willing To
do for your friends the less time yoH
have in which to do things for yourself
Sometimes a woman Is almost as sorry
that she married a certain man as she
is glad she kept some other woma0
from getting him.
Evening star., 1916-11-19
Patriotic Spanish-Americans.
anita Fe New Mexican.

From the Santa Fe New Mexican.
1t Is absurd to talk about any COM
munity of interest. sympathy of fellow
feeling for old Mexico Mexicans among
the native people of this state. They
have absolutely nothing in common
and the average New Mexico Spanish
American doesn't take kindly to being
classed in the same category. The
New Mexico natives live CLOSE to the
soil"; they are intensely local in their
affiliations and their loyalty is based
simply on the fact that their home is
the United States. New Mexico Is
their home state and they live largely
in the same spot where their fore
fathers have lived for centuries. With
Mexico they have no more ties than
with any other foreign country. save
that they speak the same language.
The fact that the native people have
furnished three companies of the Ma
tional Guard at the border and that
the Spanish-American company In
Santa Fe went of with a larger initial
number of recruits than any other