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New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
MIR. FTDDLEBACK CHAIR.
(By James Shepard.)

(by James SHSpdFQ.J I'm somewhat like a quadruped
 But yet, no beast am l. I stand so firm upon all fours
 I'm seldom known to lie. A grant of arms for the name Chair" Dates back to o1den time; My Christian name of Fiddleback Was given for my spine. Each side my spine my two rear legs Along my back run high And terminate at upper end
 In cross piece for tie. And lower down another tic
 Extends from side to side, Thus a support for my backbone These two cross-ties provide. And just below the lower tie,
 The rear edge of my seat Is firmly tied to my rear parts
 Where back and legs do meet. At the front edge of my seat frame My forward legs are found While all four legs with rounds are
 held
 Together all around. With legs thus tied, cannot walk, And so l stand upright Ready to hold whoever comes Upon me to alight. The top of my seat frame is called The bottom of chair, 'Tis made of cane, sometimes of
 wood.
 Of splints of flag or hair. I promise to behave myself The same for great or small. And must be taken as I am By both the short and tall am for those who sit upright To eat, to work or rest, But MT. Morris Chair inclines For lazy people best. And MT. Windsor Chair, like me, Also the Chippendale Are for the prim and dignifed, The hearty and the hale. My sister Rocking Chair may rock, Supported on two feet, But my four feet were made to fix The level of my seat. While I assure all who sit square That I will never slip; When so inclined, are those I serve, I always take @ tip.
 And with me tumble Der, The question then is which of us Can better claim the doaS2
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

they being able only to make out MT. Greeleys signature.
 Another story is told of another of the past famous editors, whose chirograph was equal to if not worse than MT. Greeley's: MT. Charles Dud- ley Warner, editor of "The Hartford Courant"
 One night one of the printers came to MT. Warmers private office and told him he had decided to give up his position as a compositor and enlist in the army. Cit was during the war with the south.) MT. Warner con- graduated the young man on the step he was about to take, commenting him for his loyalty and patriotism, saying that the country was sorely in need of just such men with the spirit he displayed.
 "Oh he'll" answered the man, Its not that at all. I have concluded that I would rather go to the front and be shot than to have to read your copy any longer
 duce a bill in the legislature on Tuesday providing for $10O,O0O for the support of soldiers dependents This bill means that New Britain, as we'll as other cities, will receive in full all that they have paid out to the sol diers' dependents during their ab- sence. It is a bill that should please all
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
A TWO BILLION DOLLAR BARY,

l Just before the sixty-fourth Con- those members who were not in strict sympathy with the vast work carried out nor with the spirit of the times, l made an attempt to bring up the cry "Extravagance," campaign issue that has been tried and found wanting. These men shouted, This Is a Two Billion Dollar Congress-" They met the clever retort, Yes, and this is a Two Billion Dollar Country
 All Congresses since the first have | made mistakes, and this Congress which has just adjourned is no excep- ton. It made mistakes, but 1t com- pensated for them by following the needs of the hour and giving the peo- pie of the nation what they wanted No other Congress, since Abraham L1ncoln's day, went through such try ing times No other Congress accom- pllshed such a vast amount of work The great bills passed by this Con- gress clustered near the end of the session, so that all who follow the events of the day know and are fa- m1liar with the work done The Army and Navy bills are the greatest bills ever passed for the national defense. The people demanded them, and they got what they wanted. The cost was secondard consideration It would take columns of space to enumerate the legislation passed, laws which mark new epoch in American his tory. The latest achievement of the Congress was the railroad eight-hour day, which staved off nationwide railroad strike and insured peace and tranquility instead of bloodshed and starvation to 1o0,0oo,oOO people. As this bill carries with 1t a provision for a Federal Commission to investigate the working out of this new standard of time, any mistakes which seem i'm minent can be recti1ed by the next or later Congresses.
 This Congress need not be afraid of going before the country with it's rec
 
 ord so long as there are written on the statute books of the nation such legislation as the Child Labor Law, the Federal Workmen's Compensation Law, the Rural Credits Law, and the law which creates non-partisan Traf- f1c Commission. There are many others which deserve attention, such as the Philippine Act, which has fulfilled the traditions of the United States and pledged the good will of the American people to the inhabitants of the islands. The people know the record, and if reason still predominates and good sense holds true to form, the Demo crats will get the credit they de- serve for enacting long looked for and much needed legislation.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
Here He is. (Hartford TimeS.)

Reasonable caution has compelled the republican organization to re- nominate Governor Holcomb. Gov ernor Holcomb is undeniably a for midable candidate. His selection emphasizes with renewed force the manifest duty of the democracy to forward the movement for the rein auguration of democratic govern ment in this state and to strengthen the commonwealth in its loyalty to Woodrow Wilson by securing as its nominee for the governorship its ablest, strongest and most courageous man. It should secure this man if [ it has to draft him.
 Opinions may differ as to identity, although for our part we see no req son why they should not be brought into unanimity. We think we know him. He could have-probably he would have-been nominted for the chief magistracy long ago, but for his own modesty and the conviction of his friends that he was too valu- able in other lines of public endeavor to be spared for the govern orship of Connecticut. No man in Connecticut is too valuable for that service.
 He is not a politician, but his knowledge of politics is one of rare discernment because it is builded up- on intimate knowledge of and consci- entious concern in public affairs. He has rare gifts of the intellect and of the heart. He is wit, an ora tor, a publicist. His code is high His spirit is dauntless. He knows more men to be a friend to than any other man in Connecticut and he probably never knew a man or thing to be afraid of. He wears the title of Colonel" won, as he mer- rily asserts by springing from tho sidewalk to the saddle. He runs a newspaper. He lives in New Haven.
 His name is Norris G. Osborn.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

variations of his one big idea. It re- mains for him then to present to a waiting multitude new line of thought, a crispy, punchy argument against the reelection of Woodrow Wilson. And if he does not produce the greatly desired product it is for Senator Brandegee to deliver. Having rid himself of those stereOtyped platitudes at New Haven on Tuesday night the senior senator from this state should be in ready mood to supplement a live issue. If these two utterly fail to inject new life into the campaign Senator Mclean would not be worthy of that confidence reposed in him by a unanimous renomination should he neglect to come forth with a stirring, brilliant, and highly con- v1ncing speech It Is to be hopeds that these things come to pass, that the three venerable gentlemen who grace the United States senate will rejuven- ate @ fast failing and rapidly ageing campaign, a campaign so old and feeble, yet so young.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

Five months ago the Department of Commerce issued a statement that
 steel merchant vessels building or under contract in the United States numbered 96s or more than 100000 tonnage. These figures, which will be augmented by the next report, denote the greatest shipbuilding activity the country has ever known. As a result, every shipbuilding plant is working to capacity.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
THE COMMISSION SHOULD KNOW.

It was indeed inconsiderate of Con-
 to give their employees an eight hour
 day when the railroads were bowling
 calamity. To listen to those high in
 the councils of these properties such
 action meant prompt disaster to the
 roads of the entire country. And yet
 here comes the report from Washing
 ton which shows that sixty-seven of
 the largest steam railways in the
 United States during last July earned
 a net revenue of s545 per mile which
 is an increase of $43 mile over the
 July previous. These figures are
 from the Interstate Commerce Com
 mission which receives direct reports
 from all the railroads of the nation. A summary of the commissions an- nues of these sixty-seven railroads totaled $41, ,355,921 as compared with $36,328, 5SS in July 1915, or a gain in 1 net revenues of more than $5,000, ,000. Of course, these slxty-seVen rall- roads are not all the lines in the country; nor is the five million dol lars they earned over and above last years revenue the exact sum needed to make the eight hour day a profit able affair The Interstate Commerce Commission, however, will see that the freight rates are adjusted so that in the long run the railroads will not go into bankruptcy. They are making l the future. In the end, no matter which way the thing works out, the people will foot the bill. But, in this
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
Will Lodge Secede From the Union?


 (New York World.)
 Senator Lodge is at least a century and a quarter behind the times. He has gone back to the good old days of the confederation, when the states, baked at contributing to the support of National government. In his speeches in Maine he is preaching a rebellion in which he will walk out of the union, followed by the Home Market club and as many of his de- voted political disciples as he can muster. Any day he may secede.
 MT. Lodges grievance, as he states it, is that four states of the north Messa chusetts, New York, Pennsyi- vania and Illinois-pay more than half the direct taxes collected by the United States government, while ten southern states-Alabama, Arkansas. Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississ- ippi, North Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee and Virginia-pay only 4 per cent of the entire tax. His heart bleeds especially for New England interests, . which no longer rule the nation and write its tariffs to suit themselves. He is bitterly aggrieved against the dem ocratic majority in congress, which fails to recognize New England's sectional right to tax the rest of the country to suit the pleasure of New England's manufacturers. It has provided for direct taxes that fall on Massachusetts, as on other states according to it's wealth and resources.
 Like MT. Hughes, MT. Lodge sees something to be gained by raising the issue of sectionalism. Ordinarily, be- tween campaigns he is a pronounced federalist, a believer in a strong cen tralized national government. But as a campaigner in presidential year, the only strong federal government that appeals to him is a. republican party government in which New Eng land dominates in writing of standpat tariff schedules and the rest of the country is made today for the privi lege of subsisting under the control of txnsts and tariff monopolisss
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
WHEN WYE THREE MEET.

&Charles Evans Hughes is not coming zConnecticut during this campaign least he has not been scheduled for
 appearance,-becau 1t is firmly
 no urgent need for such visit. The
 6 line Republicans claim this as 8 &lghes baiHwtck. It will go into the j Sotective column by the divine right prerogative. There is no need to
 brry about the seven electoral votes l <bm this commonwealth. They will properly placed when the time mes Having saved the candidate a & D into the Nutmeg state so that he lay spend his time where his efforts Ell be more profitable, it has been 5ected that three noble wearers of Enatoriala togas take his place today Lake Compounce where an expect Rt gathering will be brought face to ! ce with the triumvirate of Senators, zarding, Brandegee and Mclean.
 It is unfair to take advantage of democracy in this manner. It Is also lafair to Candidate Hughes to select 5ree men to do the work mapped out br one. It is unfair to the three men themselves It Is belittling their ef- brts. Each one of these Senators, lther the two from this state or the Eorthy son of Ohio, should be able to |eal singlehanded 8 death blow to the |emocracy. The mere announcement
 hat three of them would wax elo- Iuent at the same barbecue was |nough to stir the clements to fury. he clouds and thunder and lightning f yesterday naturally had to proceed
 his gathering of the giants. The Eorm was the forewarning of 8 ter Aflc battle The shores of Lake Com bounce will witness the final blow |iven to staggering opponent this .fternoon. All will be over with dem- |cracy in this neck of the woods. And let, 1t is not so much Charles E Hughes as 1t Is desire to gain more bower for the Republican party thai prompts an arraignnent of the Will
 on administration. The Republicans Lre not so much interested in the eader so long as he delivers the yoods. Theodore Roosevelt, although
 here is no special love for him, would make as good a candidate as an, other, provided he was certain tt win. Anyone of the numerous can 1idates at Chicago might be at tht head of the procession if there was { chance to win out over the Presiden against whom the noble slogan Any thing to beat Wilson," has been adopt ed. It matters not the medium which a victory is secured It does matter that a victory b. scored. There is not so much req grievance against President Wilson a 8 President. There is fault to f1nt
 with n1m as a Democrat. lie stand sn the way of the Republicans return 10 power,-that is sufficient reasol for his political death. That is req son sufficient too for united effort t. vilffy and condemn the President o the United States
 It has been some time since a nev thought or an original phrase ha been uttered in the tirade of abus against President Wilson. Since Sena tor Harding as temporary chairman
 of the national convention in Chicag @ampaign tPere have been but fey
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

MT. and Mrs. Hughes late for breakfast at a Colorado resort hotel, were forced to plead for food. This may make you feel easier, if you have ever had the same experience.-Bos- ton Globe.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
FACTS AND RANCHES.

small town is one where all the trains are known by their numbers.- Meriden Journal
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

It is the opinion of some men that opportunity instead of knocking, should take a sledge hammer to the door.-Toledo Blade
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09
Literature.
(Fron Life.)

(From Life.) Baker-Manning is making a great success in literature. Barker-Plotless stories, humorless jeSts or formless verse; -L.4>
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

If MT. Edison really buckles down to work for the presidents reelection there's no use trying to hold him to an eight-hour day.-Ne wYork Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

Now that Admiral Peary's Crocker Land has been disposed of, how about pr. Cooks Bradley Land ?-Provi- dence Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

The greater shrewdness of the Yan- kee is evident when a gang of Ameri- can autom obile bandits holds up a Standard Oil collecting wagon while a brace of Japanese bandits rob an American missionary. - Louisville Courier Journal.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

The district attorney of Suffolk county is to investigate the tipping habit in the hotels. As a quiet tip for the district attorney, we advise him that he needn't be surprised if he has to wait little longer than usual for his soup.-Berkshire Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

The senate has ratified the Danish West Indies Treaty, and now Den- mark must definitely decide whether it will part with the islands or miss the opportunity to get $25, 100000 for unproftable colonial possessions. It can no longer justify it's hesitation on the ground that it cannot be sure what action will be taken in Washington. New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

oeu -osAy tsunday excepted) at 4:ib p. m.
 az Herald Building. 67 Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

tered at the Post Ofdce ar New Britain
 @S second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

James IF. Beale, prominent III Cho advertising department or Laloei9 T'rarv and Clark, and former news naner man. recalls one of the numer- ous anecdotes credited to the famous editor. Horace Greeley, whose hiero- glvphics were wont to puzzle the printers. The founder of the New York Tribune was an execrable writer and the printers were everlaStlngly put to it to decipher his manuscripts. This was in the days before the advent of the typewriter or the linotype, and before stenogra aphers were pressed into service, when editors wrote their edl- torials with pen and ink and read their own proofs
 According to MT. Beale, there was one man among the compositors en- ployed who had great difficulty in reading MT. Greeley's writing, and with whom the editor had expended all his patience. On one occasion when this printer had made MT. Greeley's milk train" read 'swill train" and purity of a woman read "putridity of mummy" he sent for the offending printer and, telling the man he was discharged for careless ness and inability, gave him a note to the cashier to pay him off.
 The man, it is said, kept the letter, went in next door to "The Sun" office, a letter of recommendation from Horace Greeley, which he presented, and which was accepted by "The Sum-"
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

Ex-President Taft says he walked four blocks through the downtown streets of Chicago and made one pur- chase in a store, without any one apparently recognizing him. It must be great to have ones creditors-if one has creditors-so blind as that Manchester ON. H.) Union.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

Speaking of higher education, the Iowa state college now graduates jan itors The vocabulary acquired in col lege added to that which natural born ianitors ever have, will terrorize any tenant who might so much as suggest that it's a little cool in the apartm Buffalo Express.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
 Proprtetors
New Britain herald., 1916-09-09

Investigation has shown that numer- ous automobile accidents in this city result from the practice of an auto mo bilist, bicyclist or teamster start
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-20
NEWMAN INVESTMENT co.
EAT ESTATE INSI RANCE FRnNl


$4,000 houses. Is apis. well located s25s
rental, Bisbee, ARR, exchange for FL Paso
property
Ss50O-l0rm. home, 100 blk Montana. best
buy on this fine street. $500 cash bal suit
worth $4,000
Sj75O-New rm- buug- glassed sip. pch
tile floor in bath and kitchen. steam heat
3 cor. lots garage. hwd- frs. throughout
$500 cash, $50 month
S5250-5 I'm bung-. Mckinley Ave. glass
sip. pch-- furnace. - It fri. cost last VI
S550e: $500 new furniture. a. goes for
$3.50 cash,
S40O0-6 I'm bung.. Golden Hill servants
quarters ia basement. hwo. frs. $500 cash,
bal 50 per mo
SSjOO-e rm- bung. lots restricted dis
trict basement fine garage. car iine $500
cash. $50 per mo
S26JO-5 nm cottage. Laurel ST. near Ia
mar school $3.50 cash. SIS per mo.
Sls5O-4 I'm bung-. Alta Vista district lust
building. $50 cash. S25 per mo
SlSO0-S rm- cottage. > sip pches Nations
Ave 5000 cash, So per mo
S22OO-7 very choice lots in C Y. exchange
for equity in c1ose in house
Sl2O0-4 fine c. Y lots trade for standard
auto.
$500 acres. 40 in fine cult GOOD house
ali fenced. near Chamberino. trade for ri
Pssp property
500 per acre-5-s acres in Valley Gate Sub
division in cultivation. trade for good build
ing propsrty or bungalow in FL Paso
NEWMAN INVESTMENT co.
100 San Antonio St. Phone 900
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-20


Corner on Epson avenue. just
on top Of the hill. Ie7 II. on
Stewart street by s5 # on Up
son Ave. only s63ee- = cash.
balance 10 years
one Of the best buy ON the
market. corner OF Mills and
Campbell St. 60!z f. on Mills
by 110 II. on Campbell St:
small payment down. balance
long time
Corner on Myrtle Ave. close
in. partially improved. 5exIe0
IT., 1880. good terms.
Corner on Boulevard. close ~.
I25x120 f.. $4,000. good terms.
New room bungalow in Man
haitian Heights. on Wheeling
St. on two fun lots and paved
streets. hardwood floors: heat
ing plant. tile bath. sleeping
porch ana modern builtin fea-
lures. 1850. small payment
down. balance long time.
Corner. close in on Texas st. IS
1lee It: trackage; n a bar
gain price.
g room brick house. sleeping
porch and basement. Bassett
addition. on Cedar st. s35e8-
VIII consider good lots in trade
lp 10 $500 ana balance month
ly payments
BROADDUS & lie BARON.
Land Merchants"
-G9--l0 LIST Nat. Bank Bldg.
Phone 155S
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-20
CTrY HOME IN COTNTRy

room red pressed brick bungalow .
screened porches. individual water system
electric lights. isis garage chicken houses
. hydrants ia yards. on main road and inter
urban rural route. telephone and near school
main ditch. 1 acre Of ground this is
e. ndy and bargain Price $3.50; small
cash payment. balance 50 per month
T. +. TURNER co.
Fhore 1893 SEQ Texas ST.
YOUR MISTAKE
II you don't buy these lots Golden hill.
close to Sena tor Falls home Price sl15e.
We have placed in our hands Tor im1ne-
diate sale by The bank swell little room
bungalow, close 10 La Mesa school Priced
at $500 TO save foreclosure proceeding,
good terms.
CASSIDY & NEIL. sIi Mills Il
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-20

S2650.
$3.50 CASH. BALANCE LIKE RENT
This beautiful Government hill bungalow
with hardwood floors and built in features
on south front lots on the car line. II you
can pay rent sou can buy this home
SO4 .esa-CREEL REALTY CO.-Ph. 5055
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-20
For Sale Real Estate-Ciy Property.

For Sale Real Estate-City Property.
FOR SALE-N. CAMPBELL ST, NEAR
HIGH SCHOOL.
room modern bungalow Price S4fgu
good terms
For SaIe-5OO Block. Arizona.
Modern room cottage. large sleeping;
porch. lot 5ox1e0; paving paid Price 5000.
good terms
CASSIDY NEIL. eII Mills II
MANHATTAN HEIGHTS
one Of the best views ia Addison new
room bungalow. facing south ON fCil
lets, large cement from porch extending
around side. hardwood floors. iIe bath.
finished basement heat. glassed sleeping
porch. paving paid, an modern built in
features; Just being completed; $3.50;
terms.
MCKEE BROS.
Valley lands -oS Mills bids