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New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
Rules for a Long Life.

There is no panacea that will bring long life to every user What is one
 mans meat is another mans poison"
 But few rules are applicable to every one:
 Be moderate in everything. Ex- cess in eating, in drinking, in any thing tends to bring an old age. Be faithful in your exercise, and be sure to choose an exercise that is helpful.
 Stand and sit erect, and use your lungs.
 Keep your teeth and gums and throat clean. The mouth is the prn- cipal port of entry for undesira ble inn
 migrant micro-organisms. Be careful to maintain the bowel
 functions. The digestive tract is a faVorite abiding place for hordes of
 marauding bacteria Have your body occasionally exam ined The physician will take notice
 of what is wrong, and will advise you accordingly And let him do the worrying. Fortunately the exact con-
 dition of the organs of the body can
 usually be seen by physicians. even when they are but slightly off nor mal
 Be happy. Do not worry: do not allow yourself to become a grouch do not get mad" Remember that psych ologists now contend that you do not clench your hands because you are angry You are angry because you clench your hands. So do not clench them. Act happy, and you will become so Act young, and you will remain so I-Hawthorne Daniel, in The Worlds | Work.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
CAMPAIGN AGAINST DUMPS.
Health Board Will Prosecute People
 Who Fill Vacant Lots.

The health board is about to start a vigorous campaign against the abuse of vacant lots; against the practice of neighbors using them for dumps AL though the health board has a num- Der of instances in mind, it is against the unsightlY dump at the corner of West Main street and Black Rock ave3 nue that the first action will be taken and it Is said that unless the practice is at once discontinued arrests will be made.
 The health department has ordered it's inspectors to watch these dumping places, where warning has been given by posters, and it is said that any one found disregarding the warning will be prosecuted. The health board states that not only do these dumps prove a most unsightly thing for tlie beauty of the city but they are also most unsanitary and make an ideaI breeding place for germs and bac- teria.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
|Many Valuable Goods Come
 From Fallen R0umdnlan C1tyI

mines of the vicinity are proftably worked. The town has shown N steady growth for the last quarter of a century until now, with 51 1000 inhab- itants, it is the sixth city of the na
 tion. It is 112 miles west of Buchar- est, forty miles north of the Danube at Rahova and is the most important station on the railway line~ of 2S7 miles between the Hungarian border town of Verciorova (beyond the Iron Gates) and the Roumanian capital.
 "Craiova was the Castra Nova of the Romans during their occupation of Dacia, and in the middle ages the place played an important role. 1t was here that the Wallachian prince Mircea the Old defeated the Turkish sultan Bayezid I, in 1897. Two hun dred years later the most famous @f Wallachia's chieftains, Michael the
 Brave, held sway here as ban or
 governor afterwards becoming prince
 not only of Wallachia but of Moldavia and Pennsylvania as well, thus for brief period uniting under one ruler the whole Roumanian people, the end for which modern Roumania is 1 fighting today < "The leu, which is the standard of value in Roumania, was first coined p1 l Craiova It derives it's name from | the figure of lion stamped on the ! early coins. It's value is equal to that l of the French franc (nineteen cents | and a fraction)
 | "Craiova was for centuries the cap- 1 ital of Little Wallachia, that division
 of the country lying between the Alt ] (Aluta) river and the Hungarian and l Serbian boundaries to the west"
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

prom otion of legislation. The money
 already has been contributed. The
 constructive program, it was an
 nounced, would be to work for
 change in the law which requires con-
 firmation by the senate of presiden-
 tial appointees to offices in which the
 functions have no bearing upon gov
 ernmental policies substituting there
 fore direct appointment by the presi-
 dent on the basis of merit and with
 out partisanships and change Tn
 the civil service law which will re- quire the head of a department to dis
 charge an unfit employe in the inter-
 est of efficiency.
 The league held it's thirty-sixth an-
 nua1 meeting in this city, 1t was fur
 ther stated because of a local situa-
 ton described as the throwing out of the window by the general assem- bly of the Connecticut civil service law" This characterization related to the action of the last legislature which amended the merit law to the extent of giving the governor author ity to exempt departments from it's provisions if after a hearing the ex- ecutive sees fit to do so
 Governor Holcomb attended the
 meeting and was welcsmed by Rich
 ard H. Dana of Massachusetts the
 president Many men prominent in
 the civil service movement were also
 present. The entire day is being giv-
 en up to sessions, the greatest inter est however, being in the night meeting at which Postmaster General A. s. BurleSon will speak to be fol- lowed by Mr Dana who will do so | for the league and by William Durley Foulke of Ind, former United States civil service commissioner. It is eX- pected by members that MT. Burle- son will state the attitude of the ad- ministration towards the civil serv- ice in the postal service. The league it is stated, will take up this matter in the form of resolutions, based upon discussion of it in the report of the council made to the members.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

Washington, D. C., Dec. 5.-Crai- ova, (also spelled Krajova) which has fallen before the Austro German forces invading Roumania by way of the Jiul valley, through the Vulcan Pass, is the subject of the following war geography bulletin issued by the National Geographic society:
 'The fall of Craiova is a severe blow to Roumania, for. in addition to being an important railway center, 1t is the headquarters of the First Army Corps, the seat of a military academy and of great importance is the fact that here is located an immense tan nery which supplies the Roumanian army with its leather.
 "The country surrounding Craiova is not excelled in fertility anywhere in the kingdom. The town is in the center of the Wallachian wheat lands, and the truck gardens of the region are highly productive, while the for ests which clothe the adjacent up lands make it an important timber de- pot A branch railway conveys these products to the Danube at Talafat some fifty miles to the southwest in ar airline. The Jiul river, which rises in the Carpathians beyond the Rou- manian border, flowing south and en. tering the Danube opposite the Bull ga1an town of Rahova after course of 200 miles, passes mile or two to the west of CraiOVa.
 While trade in cereals, leather and lumber is the chief occupation O. the Craiovans in peace times, there are several large rope and carriage factories located here, and the sal
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
ILLINOIS PROBING
 CORNERS IN FOOD
Canadian Potatoes Coming h.
 Purchasing Power Of s DWindleS

Chicago, Dec. "A new investiga- launched in Chicago today by the De- cember state grand jury. The sole charge to the jury was to inquire into alleged conspiracy of dealers in food- stuffs to advance prices
 Another step was taken when the national conference of marketing and farm credits, in session here, invited members of a score of Chicago Wom- ans clubs and civic organizations to cooperate in devising a scheme for direct marketing of farm products. One of the means to this end which will be considered will be the parcel post, it was said.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
The Children

The house that have the childher is
 the house that has the joy in 1t.
 To me 'tis only home that has girleen or boy in it, An every one that's added only makes the place cheerier. If childher are the gifts of God. the more He sends the merrier. Sure every little one I've had gave something to my bliss the An every little baby face my lips were drawn to kiss the more. An though I know the trouble an the thrial an the care they An though I know how aften wild, how wayward an how quare they are.
 An though 'tis many a night I've watched beside the little beds of them,
 An held their little hands an cooled the fevered little heads of them;
 An though I know the surly moods that fall upon the best of Can one who is unkind outweigh the love of all the rest of them No, no, the throuble that I've had, through them, I'll never rue at all.
 An sure, without the childher. now, I don't know what I'd do at
 Denis A. McCarthy.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
A Wife's Influence.

A considerable amount of interest has attached to the fact that James J. Hill, although himself not of the Roman Catholic faith, was so gen. erous in his benefactions to the church. The explanation is given by Joseph Gilpin Pyle, his biogra pher, in the November Worlds Work. Incidentally, it throws an interesting sidelight upon the home life of the great Empire Builder.
 One of his largest benefactions was the establishment and endow- ment of a seminary at St. Paul, Minn. for the education of students pre- pairing for the Roman Catholic priesthood. When this seminary was dedicated and presented to the church authorities MT. Hill, at the close of his presentation speech, used these words, words that were expressive of the deepest feeling of his heart and the greatest fact of his life:
 Some of you may wonder why l., who am not member of your church, should have undertaken the building and endowment of Roman Catholic Theological seminary, and you will pardon me if I tell you plainly why. For nearly thirty years I have lived in a Roman Catholic household, and daily I have had before me and around me the earnest devotion, watchful care, and Christian example of a Roman Catholic wife of whom it may be said, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" On her behalf l desire to present and turn over to the illustrious archbisho op of this diocese this seminary and it's endowment. ,..-- .. 4.--.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
It Can Be Done.

Chicago, Dec. 5.-Chicago's dieting dozen have proved that, even with the present prices of foodstuffs, it is prac- ticable to live well on forty cents @ day pr. John Dill Robertson, city health commissioner, asserted today, the final day of the health depart- ments two weeks test.
 'The exact cost will not be known until after tonight he said, "but from tentative figures compiled l be- lieve the average expenditure per day for each of the members of the squad will be about thirty cents. All but one of the persons taking the test have gained weight and I consider that the experiment has been a success"
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
RAPs FOR CONNECTICUT.
Civil Service in This State Thrown
 Out the Window

New Haven, Dec. 5.-The National Civil Service Reform League met in this city today. Ten years ago 1t held a session here This time, according to declaration of the leagues policy made public during the first gather
 inc of the delegates here today, the 1oeoue has a definite, constructive no1icv which will embrace new ideas. and new men. a policy which provides fo, 9 1egislative agent at Washington, . ,nh1icitv man. and a research man u,bo will assist the civil service com r,ission in carrying out the civil serv- ice law and the use or S4o'ooo Ill
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
Bad Air"

(New York Medical JournaD.
 Some we'll planned and painstaking work on the subject of ventilation has been recently carried out in which valuable findings have been made con- corning the influences of temperature upon those whom it surrounds. While those who have carried out these experim ents however, are convinced of the effect of these physical states of the atmosphere, they do not go so far as to say that they have solved the problem of ventilation. Even those who seem most assured that there Is nothing more to "bad air'' than high temperature, moisture and lack of motion still show a quaver in the tone with which they make the announcement. If this is all there is to the problem of ventilation. why was it not solved long ago? Rooms have not always been kept superheat- ed nor OVermOiSt, and in many modes of ventilation there has been motion of the air Again, if these simple faults in it's atmosphere are corrected, the horrid smell of a badly ventilated room still remains, an odor that Is often overpowering to one who com ing from pure air, suddenly makes it's acquaintance. Foul smelling air means air containing foul mater1a from the respiratory passages, skins, clothing or alimentary tracts of the occupants of the room. It will ha a to be proved that these exhalations these dead breaths of men," as Hen- ry Ward Beecher so we'll called them
 are not harmful before it is accented that ventilation is purely a matter of temperature, moisture and motion.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
JOHN D. ARCHR0LD,
 OF 0|L FAME, DEAD
(Continued from First Page.)

(COntinued from First Page.) Rockefeller in a way that led to busi- ness association with the Standards s interests.
 among his associates to whom MT. Rockefeller pays tribute in his remin- iscences. Among other things, he said:
 Wit in Court Proceedings.
 MT. Archbold has always had a we'll developed sense of humor, and on one occasion when he was on the witness stand, he was asked by the opposing lawyer:
 MT. Archbold, are you director of this company"
 I am
 What is your occupation in this company?'
 " TO clamor for dividends
 It has been estimated that his for tune, made almost entirely in oil and its by-products, was nearly $1OO,0O 900.
 MT. Archbold was one of the best informed of men in the details or the oil business in all it's branches, and he held, according to his own statement, that all the practices of the Standard Oil company were hon. orable, and, he believed, in conformity to law.
 'I stand unquestionably," he said in defending the trust idea, for CO., operative evolution. I believe that the large corporations of the present day represent more nearly this CO., operation than any other system yet undertaken"
 Although MT. Archbold was not particularly ionspicuous as a bene factor, he made many large gifts, in cluding a sum of s40O,000 to Syra- cuse University In one lump, besides annual donations of smaller amounts. He was also a church member and a liberal contributor to religious work. He was married in 1870 to Miss Annie Mills, of Titusville, Pa, and main- tained a beautiful estate at Cedar Cliff, Tarrytown-on Hudson, and a home at Southampton, Long Island.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
Dollar Failing From Grace.

Chicago, Dec. 5.--The purchasing power of a dollar is only fifty three per cent. as great in Chicago today as it was in 1900, according to estimates submitted to the mayor and city coun- cil today by employees of the city en- gineering department together with a petition for increases of twenty-five per cent. in salaries. Prices of every common commodity were tabulated in the estimates.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
THE ENORMITY OF TIT ALL.

It HaS peel recently recalled that
 our Civil War debt was in the neigh
 borhood of two billions of dollars, a sum that is not completely off the
 books after half a century of time
 Nor has the South completely recov-
 cred from the devastation of that war
 With this in mind it is interesting to note some figures which the Wall Street Journal has compiled to show the present indebtedness of the nations of Europe that are grappling in the colossal struggle. Compared to these figures the two billion dollar debt of the United States fades into insigni- f1cance. It is like comparing the light of the noon-day sun to the glow of a tallow candle, or the grand and glorious heights of Mt Mckinley to the pigmy proportions of a snow man. The mind of man cannot really grasp the true significance of the sum total of Europe's present indebtedness on account of the war. It is utterly past the realm of imagination. The mind refuses to reach out and know what means the spending of almost $8S, 900, 100000, for that is the sum- It is as easy to think of this as it is to conceive of all the people in the United States standing shoulder to shoulder in one great army of humanity, at rest on the great Ameri- can Desert. If every man, woman and child in such an assemblage should be given an equal proportion of the European indebtedness. each one would have almost a thousand dollars. We are told by the Journal, and this paper is considered one of the highest authorities on such sub Jects that of the total European debt now in existence 7,OOO,OOO,OOO was in existence before the war began. The cost of the fighting up to date, therefore, has been more than s6O,- 900, O0O,OOO, less than s1O,0OO,O O,OOO,OOO of which has been in new bonds is- sued Part of this latter sum has been raised by aXation, some is represented by notes and the rest is debt not yet provided for or in process of arrange ment. The list of indebtedness is divided among the warning nations as follows. Great Britain leads with $18,840, 0,000,O00 of new debt Ger many, Russia and France have each issued a little more than $1O,OOO,OOO,- 900 in bonds, while Austria Hungary has issued less than $6,OOO, O,OOO,0OO and Italy less than $3,OOO, O,OOO,OOO The other small nations are not given in detail. It is supposed that Great Bri- tain has loaned heavily to some of her allies, but her chance of getting back any of the advances depends upon the condition the war leaves her friends
 A statement is made by one of the British treasury officials that so far
 Great Britain has paid almost one
 third of her war cost out of new tax
 ation, besides paying all the heavy in terest charges from current receipts.
 France has laid new taxation, but Ger
 many has adopted the policy of bor- rowing to pay interest until the end of the war, although some new taxes have been laid.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
LUST FOLKS"

Tn quite a brilliant dissertation the Hartford Courant this morning comes Ito the defense of the people in this Icountry and removes from their shoulders the stigma hurled by cer @tain hyper critical Scribes, the brand 1that marked the people lower than 1Pharisees,- Slaves of Mammon. In |the eyes of the Courant we are still Servants of God. We are not as wicked as some would believe, or Bmake-believe. In short, we are a fair lcountry, a fair people. The folk of athe United States are not totally de- spraved. After reading such a noble defense of his fellow men the average Rdweller on this mundane sphere might rush quickly to the cupboard, or swhereever such things are kept, and take down his golden crown, even begin to polish up his wings. But 1.-the Courant forestalls any such rash sness. Do not believe we are too good, as we are not to believe we are too : bad We are just folks" suscep , Etible to all the faults and foibles of such, and ready at any moment to { trip and fall on the primrose path Sthat leads to eternal perdition. AL sthough we have cast aside some of the puritanial robes of our forefathers, we are not less sincere in our char acter building than those who wore more somber more benign counten- ances.
 Il Indeed, the Courant has rendered a noble service to humanity. It has pleaded the case nobly and well be- fore the bar of public opinion. It has vindicated human nature. And, it proves it's case well. It grants every thing that can and should be granted comedies points in evidence to the opposing side, and yet wins by a fair margin. True, the Courant necessari- y had to foresake some of it's earlier opinions to win such worthy victory 1t had to forget that we were al
 
 the war, because we were living in 2 fools paradise, because we had fol lowed the sickly sentimentality O. I Woodrow Wilson, because we were Worshippers of the pen rather than O the sword, because we were growing rich on the sale oi munitions of war because we pended t!ie knee before fictitious and depraHed neutrality But, calling attention to how Ion tires of all this villification," the ney Courant, with it's magnanimity o spirit, and extrava gance of soul, ask this question:-"Should we be bette and nobler if we were engaged in tn ] bloody conflict, if our harvests wer Il thin, our industries crippled, our busi T ness prostrate ?" It's own answer mus
 serve as the seeming paragon of eN l cellence Hear!-"In that cast judging by the past, we should b l summoned to fasting and prayers fC our sins by the same voices that no
 reproach our peace and prosperity.
 Luckily the dreadful campaign over, and the Courant is not no found reproaching our peace an prosperity.
 There is surely balm of Gilead. laity that imagines itself condemne j on all sides by the good and hOl 1 men whose duty it is to point out tf sins of humanity to show the pitfal that are ever watching and Waitir for prey, will take on new life at tl encouraging words of the Courant. C this beautiful day when the sun shin gIoriously in the heavens the slime of the night will leave their darkene habitats and come out in Gods gre
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

Colonel Frederick V. Streeter, com- mander of Stanley Post G. A. R., will be a valuable addition to the staff of the national commander. His two years service as commander of the State of Connecticut Grand Army fit him for his new duties, if no other qualifications were needed. But the Colonel as all his many friends in New Britain know, has many accom- plishments. He will at once be an added grace to an already dignified body of men, and he will in addition render valuable services. For the Colonel in all his years of activity has never lost the buoyancy and viva ciousness of his youth. He is boy at heart and never has grown old And when the national commander draws his staff around him for consultation the Colonel may be expected to ad- vance ideas of originality and merit. With his old friend Colonel John Me- F1lroy, editor of the National Tribune, the organizations official magazine. and with the Drummer Boy of Chickamauga,' Johnny" Clem, Col ! onel Streeter will form a notable tri- | umverate. New Britain is honored in
 this choice of one of it's favorite sons
 The Stanley Post is sgnally recog- ! nized In all, it is a fair appointment l and one that will bring the flush of
 nride to every New Britainers face
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

Christmas Red Cross Seals go on sale in New Britain today. That this city responded nobly to. this great charity last year is attested by the fact that 5O,OOO additional stamps are allotted here.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

The least President Wilson could do for Bryan after the Sage Brush coun- try had turned the scales, was to 1n- vite him to dinner. In this matter all criticism is hypercritlclsm.- Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

The deportation of the Belgians, the semi official Cologne Gazette insists, is an act of necessity. The necessity that knows no law, human or divine, it is to be inferred.-Springfel Union
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

Some persons never could be satls- fled. Here are two men who hold 10 per cent. of the stock in the Ford Au- tomobile Co.,, kicking about the way Henry Ford runs the business.-Hart- ford Post.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Football and deer season 1atallles total about the same this year as here- tofore.-MiddletOWn Press.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

The Krupp Company has declared a 12 per cent. dividend. Heretofore it seemed to be the impression in Ger many that only American firms were making money out of the war.-Phila- delphia North American.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

A fortune awaits the person, who discovers a (cheap) substitute for eggs-Worcester Gazette.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

Entered at the Post Office at New Britain
 as Second Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-12-05

Sausage made from the meat of the jack-rabbit is a Texas experiment in meeting the cost of living. Is this the germ of a great economical idea? An inventor who can add a new food to the national dietary will deserve well of his country.-New York World.