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New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
Sufficient Proof.
Philadelphia Telegraph.)

A citizen was standing on street corner looking a bit depressed when d friend sauntered along.
 What seems to be thetrouble old man?" solicitously queried the latter, extending the sympathetic hand. You are a sight like sad scenery
 T have just had something of a iolt,' answered the sad one. 'I was bequeathed a silver service as the solid thing a few weeks ago, and now I know that it is only plated ware y
 Sorry to hear that, old fellow" returned the friend. But you may be mistaken
 "Oh, no, I'm not" was the mourn ful rejoinder of the sad one. The service was on the sideboard the other night when burglars broke in, but they never touched it.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

Washington, D. C., Jan. 17.-"With a longer, braver, more terribly fought struggle to their credit for self-preser- vation in their native land than even the Montenerins, the Albanian, or Shkypetars as they are properly called the oldest race in Europe to survive upon the land where the nornins light history found it. are today star ing starvation and final submergence of their nation in the face, swallowed up in the maelstrom of a world war that seems to bode i'll for them which ever way it veers,' says a bulletin just issued by the National Geographic society, which sketches the heroic story of the Balkan people who nave fought with their backs to thelr crags voiceless through the centur ies.
 "Montenegro's courageous resis- tance to the Turk through five cen- turies has claimed the admiration of the world: the sturdy resistance of the Servian, the unflagging perseVer- ance of the Bulgarian, and the re- vival of the engaging Greeks, the nation of illustrious ancestry, have all awakened hearty sympathy among the peoples of the world But the unend- ing conflict so nobly sustained through some 2,O0O years against Greek and Slav and Turk and Frank, that the Shkypetars have waged for home and fath erland has stirred no echo of understanding in Europe or America The Albanians have been oversha dowed by the people around them; they, alone have not learned how to bring their case before the world, while their neighbors, mostly, also, their enemies, have told their wrongs through the press everywhere.
 There is no Albanian nationality, Bismarck roughly exclaimed at the congress of Berlin. More property
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
AN EXPLANATION WANTED.

EWhen the experts get around to it Rlosion which occurred on the sub- Brine E-2 at the Brooklyn Navy Rrd last Saturday and which re- Hted in the death of four men and permanent injury of many others Fer reading four or five columns of bIanatfon in the Sabbath sheets no hinary 1ayman could devine just Ey such an explosion could have
 eurred when it is emphatically sted that because of the new Edison zHeries with which the E-2 is
 Hpped there is only an infinitesimal Eantity of gas given off at the Sment of discharge. And yet it is EFdly probable that any outside #sncies got a chance to work any Nbolica1 schemes on a submarine Ht was securely ensconced in a gov hment dry-dock. Eliminating the Nschief that might have been Bought by an unknown quantity of &s exploding of itself it would seem Zen that some carelessness must have 1en wrought on the part of the work En, or even that the officers in Arge were not totally familiar with k new contrivances with which this Edersea boat was equipped. If the #er is the case it were better that A accident occurred in the dry dock E-. had the same accident occurred NiIe the submarine were running her or on the surface Of the high
 3 the loss of life would have been Hing. Now the Investigating
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
Going the Wrong Way.
(COllier's Weekly.)

Loyal Americans of German de- scent have sufficiently answered the hyphenated threat that all of German blood and sympathy are going to mi grate to Kaiserland after the war and leave Uncle Sam flat on his back. Possibly it wasn't much of a threat anyhow. The only thing we want 10 add is that during the first fifteen months of the war 26,414 Germans came to the United States and S,5OS left the United States. This ratio of increase was surpassed in the same period by Hebrews and Irishmen Perhaps some Germans think that ours is a fairly decent country after all
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE.

Upon reconsideration the British Government has withdrawn it's hold ing order preventing a merchant ves- sel carrying Red Cross supplies to Germany and her allies from enjoying uninterrupted passage from New York. The obstruction to the pas sage of this ship was placed because the British believed that certain DOT tions of rubber on the vessel were to be used by the German soldiers as medical exigencies. There was never any occasion to doubt the sincerity Of the American Red Cross and Great Britain went a little too far when it demanded that guarantee be given that the questioned goods be used not as war material. The Red Cross could not promise this, no more than it could promise that goods sent to England would not be used in the same fashion. It is not conceivable that any nation would divert articles associated with the administration of medicine to uses other than for the humanities. Miss Mabel Boardman is to be congratulated for her untlr1ng efforts in securing the British Ambas- sador at Washington to intercede m the cause of humanity. The Amer ican Red Cross plays no favorites. 1t is not working in Europe to hinder any one particular nation in waging all in alleviating suffering. And thls 1t has done. From now on none or its ships will be detained.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
Has Run From N0 Eneny,
 OT PTOped Untrue 70 Friend

speaking, there was no Albanian diplomats, no Albanian spokesman, but just the remnants of the ancient Shkypetar race, forced ever further into a fringe of unproductive noun tains, which formerly bordered their broad homeland in the Balkans.
 Between the Slavs and the Silky petars there have been centuries of blood-feud Brigand and plunderer, the Slav has called the Albanian, and the world has accepted this verdict, though it is the Slav and the Turk who have steadily torn away the Shkypetar's home and land. Up un- til now, though occasionally beaten and forced into narrower bounds, the Shkypetar has refused to be con- quered, and alone, without sympathy from anyone, illiterate, poor in coun- try, his few remaining rocks coveted by every neighbor, with no ally or disinterested counsellor, the Shkype tar has put up a splendid fight with hardly an armistice through more than 2,00O years.
 t'Th csc people are the remnants of the original inhabitants of Illyra, Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace.. Over whelming waves of Kelts, Goths, Rom ans, Creeks Serbs, Bulgars, and Turks have flooded against them, but the Shkypetars have always survived the shock, have survived the burning of their villages, the wasting of their lands, and the massacring of their people, and have somehow emerged unbroken, unassimilated upon the stage of Twentieth Century Europe.
 Lord Byron gave them momen- tary notice, a brief literary memorial when he said that the wild Albanian had never shown an enemy his back or broken his faith to a guest The Albanian has asked nothing of Eu- rope, and Europe has given him nothing but a sad reputation. Even
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
COMMUNICATED.
Defines "Optometry'' and Tells of
 New Profession.

New Profession.
 To The Editor of the New Britain
 Herald:
 Dear Sir: I read with great pleasure your edi- torial (Take Care of Your Eyes) in last Thursdays issue, and agree with you in the warning given your read CTS. The only real objection in your editorial is the way you cautioned your readers not to see an oculist in every case whether glasses or medi- cal attention is needed. A great many are not aware there is such a science as optometry. Optometry as defined by Connecticut law is ''The employment of any means other than drugs for the measurement of the power of vision and the adoption Of lenses for it's aid.'' It is a sci ence that deals with all defects or ab- normalities, of the human eye as en- tirely distinct and separate from dis ease. Thirty-six states of the Union have taken precaution to establish laws governing optometry, to safe guard the general public against fa- kirs, etc. These laws have stand ardized optometry and a set standard of qualifications must be acquired be- fore an optometrist is allowed to prac- tice. These requirements in most states consist of a complete High school training and at least a two- year course in a recognized college teaching optometry such as The Co., 1umbia University of New York, The Ohio State University of Columbus, Ohio | Id a few others. There are state boards of examiners WhicI give
 
 ness to practice. This will give you an idea, the way states have taken every precation to make optometrists fit to take care of eyes and safeguard the general public against incompe- tent men. In the case of the oculist. all that the state requires of him is that he be a medical man. AS vet. there Is not one state in the Union, which has standardized the knowledge that an oculist must attain in order to qualify himself as an eye specialist.
 It seems only reasonable that an optometrist should be consulted at the first sign of eye trouble. Should the optometrist on examination. find need of medical attention, he will refer the case to an oculist.
 It may interest those, who are in terested in optometry that the Su- preme Court of Pennsylvania has up- held optometry as distinct profession, also that the remaining twelve states, which have not enacted optometry laws have bills before their legisla- tiOn, and l am almost assured that before this year is over every state in the United States will have passed a law governing the practice of op- tom
 Those wishing to know the exact wording of the optometry law as pas sed in this state in January, 1913 can refer to page 1886 in the Connecticut Public Acts for the years 1911-1913.
 Respectively yours,
 s. Stanley Horvitz. Optom etrist
 321 Main St.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
Diplomatic RetOl't.
(London AnsWers.)

The drill sergeant was real mustard, and the recruits were having bad time.
 The weather had been very wet and the parade ground was still slippery In doing movement smartly, as an example to his men, the sergeant slipped and fell full sprawl, and, naturally, the 'rookies' could hardly repress their mirth.
 Getting up with all the dignity he could muster, the sergeant's eye fell or Murphy's grinning face.
 Well, you grinning yena!' he 1oared ''What's 'urting you? Do YOU see anything funny?'
 NO, sur,'' grinned Murphy, tact fully. "But shure, Oi was just thinkin' what a laugh we cud have had it been anywan ilse save yerself, sergeant
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

riors are going down apparentEx in a storm so great as to blot opt the insignificant manner of their going. Austrian, German and Turkish armies are marching over their western bord
 CTS, while Italians and Servians are in the east. Shkyperi, or the land of the Mountain Eagle, is to be the bat tleground. In this deluge, the Shky- petars, famine victims of two bad harvests and at bIood-fued on every hand in all likelihood, are living the last few pages of their history"
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

tenegro, who story has been told so often and feelingly, struggled against the Turk a bare five centuries.
 "Pyrrhus, the greatest soldier of his age, was a Shkypetar. The first known king of this people, Shkypetars or the Sons of the Mountain Eagle, was Hyllus, who died 1925 B. c. Truly Slav and Turk and Frank are the in terlopers, and not this ancient race. But today the resistless waves of the greater peoples are closing over the
 Shkypetars' heads, the voiceless war
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
HE ORDINANCE OF THE SPOON

Highly indignant, one of New &ritains foremost citizens complains Eat often when he is downtown and Hlt of reach of the family dining om and must perforce take refuge \ one of the common, or garden Lriety of lunch rooms, for his noon &Ay meal, he is sometimes presented 3ith utensils bearing the marks and #idence of having escaped hot water Principally, the spoons are the Blenders. A soiled fork, and, occa- bnally a knife, that has run the untlet and broken through the lines atouched, comes to hand; but, for Eat looms. up large and excellent tn copious quantities of caked food 8Iffs, bearing evidence that other liners had visited the emporium. &hether this is done for advertising,
 the purpose of showing the noon- #y guests they are not the only ones ho patronize the place, the gentle hn does not know But he has sug- #sted, and a very good suggestion
 have enacted, a city ordinance
 k1ng tb mandatory that all who en- Age in the gentle art of dish-washing
 downtown Iunchrooms pass some ft of an examination, one rigid Rough to place them above criticism
 ten the spoons, and the forks, and Xe knives, that go through their Ere reach the ultimate destination. this gentleman, it is task *lough to eat in lunch rooms without Ewing the additional trial of sur 81ing begrimed spoons, with the Zasequence of lost appetite and
 much wounded sense of pride.
 is indeed time something were #omplished in this direction,- solving of the soiled spoon prob
 h, or the adoption of the ordinance # the spoon. Whether the fault lies
 h the person who dips the silver in
 boiling, or Iukewarn1, water ether it is neglect on the part of
 knight of the drying cloth; ðer the serutinizing eye of the liter who serves the implement is
 of alignment, is difficult to say Here are so many handlers of the bon before it finally gets into action
 t the placing of responsibility is no
 an task. The blame is widely dis Routed and leads to the shifting of Xponsibility. For the sake of suffer
 humanity, then, for the good of
 community at large, for the pre- &yation of those who must suffer the Convenience of dining away from \ family circle, let the board of &alth go out on the war path and Ne a few lectures to the offending Eties. They are not so many. The
 ces where such spoons are put Eth are few and far between; but s fact remains that they are with 8 and they should be called to task. Bng on the clean-away with the aled. Put into effect the ordinance
 the spoon. -.-.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

George w. Perkins, the heart and soul of the Progressive party, is em- phatic in his denial that the Bull Moose Is for sale, that 1t will De placed In the Museum, that it will be supplanted by the Elephant, or any other political animal. He says in his musings that the Progressives are not looking toward amalgamation with the Republicans, that they are just making a sincere effort to see if they cannot get the same candidate and the same platform as the Repub- lican party All of which sounds like a new password for ''fifty-f1fty. Almost one hundred per cent. At least a little more than half way
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

board will have a chance to adopt some preventative measures. If the E-2 is equipped with death dealing apparatus for it's own crew there is TO need of fitting the entire submarine flotilla with the same outfits, as was the original intention.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

the mission schools have passed him by.
 "When the Slavs appeared in the Balkans in the beginning of the 9th century. the Shkypetars had already enjoyed eleven hundred years posses sion of the land. Rome po1iced these peoples, but left them largely to themselves. The Slavs destroyed them or drove them from their land. For more than 1000 years, the Shky- petars have contested every inch of ground against Slav and Turk. Mon
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

Two more weeks have been thrown in the discard. Only fifty lett Tn the pack, and then 1917.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

Well, Mrs. Wilson has presided a her first White House social function and the verdict seems to be that :hE will dO Another crisis seems to have been successfully met.-Berkshirs Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

The pacifist argues that this cot IT. try should set a good example to a warlike world. Good examples form part of the flooring of a place that is paved with good intentins. Peace loving China has long been re- proach to predatory pOWers.-NeW York Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
FACTS AND RANCHES

All is comparatively quiet on the western front, even in that sector where the peace expedition is operat- ing.-Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

That the jitney still f1ourishes, to the discontinue of rival transporta- tion systems, appears from the pro- posed city ordinance in Oakland, Cal., to forbid to jitneys the streets used by street cars. The city attorney has declared the ordinance unconstitu- tional; as it certainly ought to be- Springfield Republican.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

A wealthy woman in Chicago an- nounces that she has become a social ist because the police interfered to some extent when, in an automobile, accompanied by her husband, her lawyer and her private secretary, she created a disturbance at factory where a strike was in progress. Per- haps the socialist party does not know it, but it is recruits of this kind that keep a lot of plain, law abiding Americans out of it's ranks.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

J. A. Royal of Newark, N. J., has offered S5 reward for information concerning the whereabouts of his wife. He says she is thirty-eight years old, weighs 200 pounds and has a mole on her upper lip. MT. Royal evidently feels that, having offered the reward, he has now done his full duty and is freed from the obligation to be inaccurate concerning details of Mrs. Royals personality.-Bos Globe.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

The arrival of the Adriatic with only twenty eight passengers in the steerage brings to notice again the fact that the war has shut off New York's sources of household help. No more young girls of Germany or Brit ain come knocking at the kitchen doors They are doing mems work for mems pay at home.-New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

ntered at the Post Office at New brl1aiD
 as Second Class, Mall Matter
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17
Floor Coverings At Sale Prices

OILCIOTHS Now priced 27c and 32c sq. yard. PRINTED LINOLEUMS Now priced 47c sq. yard.
 INLAID LINOLEUMS Now priced 75c, $1.OO and S1.19 sq yard.
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

sued daily Sunday excepted, at 4:1e D. H.
 at Herald Building. 67 Church SI
New Britain herald., 1916-01-17

HERALD PUBLISHING LOMPAN
 Proprletors.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20
The Camn at Noeales.

Nogales, the Arizona town where
the Second Idaho is encamped has a
population of nearly 5000 people, a
good water system, electric lights and
other comforts usually found in a
town of this size The limits run in
to Mexico, and on the principal thor
oughfare there stands a Mexican
guard to prevent the passage OF men
in uniform. Civilians, however, are
permitted to pass back and forth
freely. The altitude of Nogales IS
$3.50 feet above the sea level, about
1000 feet higher than Emmett. The
rainfall of that section is irregular
and more than half of the entire an
nual rainfall usually occurs in July
and August. The normal annual
temperature is 62 degrees, or about
II degrees higher than that of Boise.
The difference in temperature is more
pronounced in winter than in summer.
The normal temperature for July at
Nogales is about so degrees, as COM
pared with 73 degrees here.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20
LETTER FROM A
SOLDIER BOY
G. H. Murphy Of Co. M. Writes In
terestingly to Mother.

A letter received this week by the
mother of G. H. Murphy, member of
Co. NJ, Idaho regiment, says the troops
are nicely located and the boys are
having a good time. He also says he
misses The Index and asks to have
his name put on the subscription list.
The letter is dated July II, Nogales,
Ariz., and the following extracts are
taken from it.
eve have got our camp all fixed
up. We have the prettiest flowers
in front of our tent that you ever
saw. We are having good time
here drilling in the rain. 1t rains
here for three months steady. We
are camped about mile from town.
There are about 5000 or 1000 people
hereabout; about two-thirds are Mexi-
cans.
"There are about $4,000 Mexicans
about six miles from here. We have
$4,000 to $4,000 U. S. troops here.
Don't worry about me. We don't
have to sleep on the ground; we have
cots to sleep on. Tell Albert he ought
to be here, as there are some of the
prettiest Mexican girls that he ever
saw"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20
InstaIls Welding Machine.

J. w. Blurton has just completed
the installation of an acetyiene weld
ing machine in his garage. This ad-
dition to his already very complete
machine shop, places his plant on a
par with any in the Northwest. The
new machine makes it possible to
weld large castings that heretofore
have had to be replaced by new or
the broken parts sent to the large
cities at loss of time and additional
expense. Mr.. Burton is to be COM
mended for his enterprise in keeping
his plant right up to the minute 30
that he may give his customers the
most efficient service possible.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20
CALDWELL FARME R DIES
ON BR0WNLEE
Stricken While On Vacation Trip
And Dies Suddenly of
Heart Disease.

C. C. Bales, a prominent rancher
of the Caldwell country, was stricken
with heart disease Friday evening
while passing through the Brownlee
country in his automobile for a vaca-
ton at Payette lakes. With him were
his wife, son, a daughter and her
husband.
The body was brought to Emmett
that night by Henry Cutler, the Banks
merchant, in his automobile. Ac-
cording to Mr. Cutler, death came to
Mr.. Bales without warning. The car
in which he was riding became stuck,
and while the old gentleman was en-
deavoring to pry it loose he fell to
the ground and died almost without a
struggle.
The dead man was one of the. most
extensive ranchers and cattlemen in
Canyon county and was one of that
county's oldest and most highly re-
spected citizens. One of his sons was
a member Of the legislature from
Canyon county in the last session.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20
An Enemy of Rattlesnakes

C. M. Hull, the veteran turkey
raiser. is waging a relentless warfare
on rattlesnakes and this year has
killed SO on Little butte. Two of the
snakes were brought to town Monday
and are on exhibition in The Index
window. The stuffed skin of one OF
them is a monster and is the largest
ever seen by any of those who have
examined it. 1t is over five feet IN
length and has eight rattles. This
snake was one of den that Mr.. Hull
ran into while herding turkeys. he
killed five of them.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20
Seedless Apples.

Mr.. and Mrs. James Kinzer and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Moulton auto
ed to Weiser Sunday and spent the
day with the latters' son, John Moul-
ton. They report that Mr.. Moulton
will have a full crop of Winter Ban
ana apples, but that all of them will
be seedless and coreless, caused by
the spring freeze The center Of
each apple has hole where the core
usually is.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20
Case of Tetanus.

The 7-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Thos. Whiteside, living on the bench,
is threatened with an attack of te-
tanus, or lockjaw, it is feared. The
young girl, about 10 days ago, step
ped on a ROSTERS foot that lay IN
the yard and the spur pierced her
foot. Within the last few days the
wound has become highly intiamed,
the child's temperature is high and
the muscles of the neck and jaw are
Estitfening. A consultation of Emmett
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-07-20

grain crops. Harry Hamilton was
secured TO make a canvas of the
ranchers whose lands lie within the
proposed project, and when ne gets
ready to report another meeting will
be arranged. The enterprise means
much to q large are. of lsnd contig-
uous 70 Sweet and Ola and means
much to the development and pros
perity of that section