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New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
IN CONNECTICUT.

In the fever heat of the moment
when the thoughts of all men. of all
parties are directed to the returns
from the national elections, the local
happenings are very likely to go by
the board neglected for the time. I'm
til the remaining few votes in the few
remaining states to be heard from
definitely decide who shall be the next
President of the United States our
own circle must await analysis. Not
that we are not interested in these
things, but this new era in the ma
tional political life is more absorbing.
ALI eyes are turned to the west.
The returns from the various towns
and cities in Connecticut breathe a
new era, just as much as do the re-
turns from those states west Of the
Mississippi. Although the seven cleo
toral votes of Connecticut were not
thrown in the ba lance on the side Of
to it that there was very grave I'M
certainty until the final counts were
made. For the past twenty years the
Democratic party in this state has
been the minority party and when
ever it was the minority party it's
minority was recorded by figures
ranging from thirty to sixty thousand
votes. This year that lead was cut
down away under the ten thousand
mark. This is proof of a new COM
plexion of things in the years to come.
The old bugaboo about Democratic
Free Trade is partly dispelled, and
voters are beginning to learn that
there is no such thing as Free
Trade party in this country, that they
will be as safe under Democratic Rule
as they are under Republican rule, it
they only give the Democrats a
chance.
In a city that is claimed by the Re-
publicans as a stronghold that turns
out anywhere from fifteen to eighteen
hundred majority in local elections,
! Democrats may we'll be proud of
their efforts in rolling that majority
down 10 less than five hundred. The
dav when a Democrat has to be
ashamed of his party in this section,
in this state, in this city has happily
! passed. The record of achievement
| during the Wilson administrator
clearly vindicates the party of Thomas
Jefferson. If the leader is returned
this year the next four years will
| mark a new era in the body polite
| And the industry of New Britain, the
! industry of New England will be just
! &C safe as if the entire government
. were in the hands Of men devoted to
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

Washington, D. c., Nov. 9.-The
historical and political Importance OF
| Ireland has created in the minds OF
| many Americans an exaggerated idee
of the islands physical proportions
and the density of its population, two
vital factors in England's task OF
suppressing the rebellion which has
had it's inception in the capital and
largest city Dublin. Today's war geo
graphy bulletin, issued by the Ma
tional Geographic society from its
headquarters in Washington, give the
following information on the subject
1.-THE whole of Ireland, recently I'M
der martial law, embraces an area
slightly less than the state Of Maine,
but with a population almost six
times as dense. In comparison with
the governing country, it is three
fifths as large as England and Wales,
with one-ninth the population. The
Of the civilized world where the pop
ulation has shown a marked decrease
during the last century. The first
census Of the island, taken in 1921,
recorded a population almost fifty per
cent larger than at the present time,
while the census of 1841 showed the
highwater mark of more than eight
millions, nearly twice the present pop
ulation of 4,375,OO0. This remark
able decrease, due largely to em1gra-
ton, began after the famine, brought
about by the destructive disease
which attacked the potato crops or
1845. This calamity resulted In the
withdrawal of more than million
acres from cultivation within two
years. Incidentally, the potato when
has played such an important role
in the life of Ireland during the last
three hundred years, Is not mdlgeh-
Gus to the island, but was one or the
food gold-mines discovered by the
Spaniards in their conquest or Peru.
The country is directly indebted to
Sir Walter Raleigh for her 1rlsh
potatoes, as it was he VINO proushI
them from what is now North Caro-
lima and planted them on MS estate
near Cork, in 1885.
ireland lies in the western rim OF
what was once a part of Continental
Europe. 1t has numerous mountains,
the highest being the McGillicuddy
Reeks (S,414 feet), in the Killarney
region, but there is no mountain
chain or elevated backbone There
is more Or less we'll defined central
plain, however, the distinguishing
feature Of which is It's bogs,-the
black dog producing the famous peat
fuel differentiated from the brown
boys of the mountains. If the whole
island were brought to a mean level
1t would rise 400 feet above the sea.
''The lakes, Or loughs, Of Ireland
are among it's most widely appreciat-
ed physical characteristics, their see
mic beauty being the inspiration Of
poets, painters and musicians. Nor
have the Irish rivers been over
looked in appraisals Of the islands
beauties The Shannon, which flows
for $50 miles from the county Of Ca
van, in the northwest, to the Allan
tic in the southeast, is the longest
water course in the United Kingdom.
1t is navigated by large steamers for
half its length, and Is connected with
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

returns of yesterday and today show
firmly that the great army OF Greedy
has grown to full sized manhood. Fer
the most part they are men and WO-
mon from the East, from the North
and South, who control and do things
in the West. They were the wise men
who went there when the country was
first thrown open, and VINO have build
ed it to it's present gigantic proper
tons.
This shifting of political RESPONSE
hility to the broad shoulders of the
West will not be relishcG by the old
! timers of the East. 1t Will not be TO
their liking. But there are younger
men and women of the East who are
growing up to take the places soon to
be vacated by the reactionaries and
these exultants will welcome the West
into the great family of progressive
Americans. Forward-looking men
and women see great things in this
shifting of power, and, if Wilson is
reelected know that the past three
and a half years of progressive legis-
lation will not be thrown away Even
if Wilson is defeated Charles Evans
Hughes cannot carry out his threat
delivered in Milwaukee, to wipe off
the books every achievement Of the
Democratic Party" because a Demo-
cratic Senate and a Democratic House
of Representatives will take care Of
those achievements. Before the polls
opened on last Tuesday morning there
was great speculation as to the
whereabouts of the Progressives of
1912, whether they had gone back to
the Republican party. The answer
came yesterday. They are out West.
1t is a good thing for the nation
the Progressives are out West. 1t will
be some time before the effects of
the blow they administered pass away
but when the shock is absorbed the
East will be bigger and better for
what has happened. The truth of the
matter is, we have been living within
ourselves too much in this part of the
country. We cannot readily agree
that there are other places to be con-
sidered. Local pride has bounded just
one or two rungs too high on the
ladder of contentedness. The great |
commercial spirit we narbor has made
money the god, and money the pur-
chasing power is supposed to buy |
everything, even voters. Out West |
the roundup is for the purpose of |
corralling beef for the market, not |
voters for the polls. 1t will be a good |
thing if the new progressiveness of |
the West shakes the staid old East |
off it's foundation of ultra conservatism |
and teaches the doctrine that |
there are other things to live for be-
sides money. There are ideals far
more precious than gold and one of |
them is good government not Of the |
reactionary kind.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
In the Fall.
(By Ethel Lynn Beers

Wy LHLilSl Lynn bGS1o.
Away to the mountain, away to the
Fountain;
HE off to the hill-circled glen;
Go battle in the bllow, clasp waves
for a pillow
The summer is on us again!
Hearts loving and tender communion
surrender
When the woods breathe their jubi-
liant call;
From the cities come hither, ere
spring-howers wither;
We shall all meet again in the fall.
There are carpets of flowers spread
out in the bowers,
Gay pictures not hung on a nail;
Soft couches of clover in meadows all
over
Bestudded with daisies so pale.
There are mirrors not gilded, but in
the green builded,
Just polished by breathings of
June;
And arches so solemn, where shadow
and column
Make twilight beneath them at
noon.
All sOftened and shaded by curtains
braided,
Leaf curtains gold shot with the
sun,
In the moons glowing splendor,
when evening grows tender
The emerald hue fades to dun;
Then lamps, angel-lighted, for pill
grims benighted,
Are hung from the nights bending
arch;
And for lullaby song, all the summer
night long
The cricket shall Chirp in the larch
'.., = 800
God grant that the portal to glory
immO rtal
May lie through the old homestead
door,
Where faces that love us may circle
above us,
To bid us good-by nevermore!
But if it's denied us that loved ones
beside us 49, 80 ,.'''.
Shall gather-his hand doeth all;
And there, loving stronger, we'll wait
for them longer, =.
If we fail to meet here Gin the
fall"
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
PRINCE REPORTED DEAD.
Bavarian NobIeman Said to Have Sue
cumbed to Wounds.

Berlin via London, Nov. 9-Prince
Henry of Bavaria, nephew Of King
Louis, is reported from Munich to
have died from wounds received on a
accommodating trip on November T.
Prince Henry was thirtytwo years
old, and a major in the Bavarian
guards He was reported to have
been wounded on the battlefield last
June The prince was unmarried.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
Work Recognized.
(HartfOrd TimeS.)

Though defeated in the New Britain
district, Senator George M. Landers Is
entitled to the thanks of all the demo-
Gratis Of Hartford county in helping
to place the county in the democratic
column. The great campaign Waged
by the former senator in the Hard
ware city cut the republican ma1orl-
ties to one-half, and made the cleo
ton of Mr.. Lonergan certain.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

The st Clair county Democrat urges
its readers to patronize home indus
try and buy a certain brand Of soup
made in Cincinnati because some lime
made in Osceola is used in the man
ufacture of the soup.-Cass County
(Mo) Leader.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

Well, fellow countrymen, what are
we going to do about the Monroe
Doctrine 1t has bobbed up again
with bells on-New York Sun
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
RAILROAD PLANS APPROVED.

jefferson City, Mo-, Nov. 9.-The
proposed reorganization plan of the
Missouri Pacific and the st. Louis
Iron Mountain and Southern railways
was approved here today by the state
public service commission.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

Old Man Peabody has been and is
yet attending a sick COW, swelled
about the head, neck and under belly,
sore throat and cough. She doesn't
seem to lose any, but rather gains,
out not an even distribution being
mostly underneath, but as long as
there Is life there is hope.-Valley
Falls indicator
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

Some day and somehow, perhaps,
the avenging spirit of Rio Grande
cowboys will get within range of
Pancho Villa, and no human agency
will prevent a funeral.-Paterson Call.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
ARKANSAS RAZOR-BACKS.
How a Flock of Pcsky Red Headed
Woodpeckers Fooled ''Them Hawgs."
(By the Commentator in The New
London Day.

(By the Commentator in The New
London Day..
A Northerner, for some inscrutable
reason, was driving along one of the
rutty wagon tracks that meander
among the tupelos, sycamores ana
cottonwoods and the alternating
c1earings of eastern Arkansaw, when
his attention was attracted to the
puzzling antics of a drove Of those
agile creatures which, in that part
of the world, pass for hogs and
which particular bunch seemed to be
more or less at home in a snake
fenced niece of woodland. After
watchin gthe razor backs for a full
quarter of an hour without finding
out what was doing the stranger
clucked to his horse and drove on.
A furlOng further along the road
he came upon a discouraged looking
ha bitation with six feet of extremely
narrow. Arkansan lettering about.
Pulling up the northerner saluted the
native: "How dye do?"
In the aspirated whisper of one
who has lost the power Of normal
speech the native breathed, "Howdy,
stranger"
Live here?"
"Reckon I do, stranger
This all your land, running back
through that piece of woods back
THEREOF
"Reckon it be-"
''Those your hogs that I saw there
as I came along?"
Reckon So stranger"
well perhaps you can tell me
what they were up to. Never saw a
that kind Of performance before.
When [ FIRST caught sight Of them
they were standing still in a huddle,
all headed the same way, with their
ears cooked up, listening. All of a
sudden they started off as If the devil
had given them kick and tore along
like the dickens for maybe fifty yards.
all astanding, cooked their eyes in an
other direction and in a second more
bOlted off again at an angle Thew
kept on doing that, starting and sion
ping and stampeding in a new direc
ton and never seeming to get any,
where or find out what it was thew
were chasing or running away from
how?'
"Wel. stranger" gasped the huskv
one, stretching his neck and lingering
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

On the day when it was reported
that Sonora Carranza had fled to the
United States in anticipation of the
overthrow of her husbands govern
ment, she was merely putting in the
time at San Antonio, where she visit
ed two fashionable dressmakers, at
tended four picture shows, ate lun
cheon at a fashionable hotel made.
numerou purchases at the denart-
ment stores and accepted an invita-
ton to dinner.-St. Paul Pioneer FIX
press.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
FACTS AND FANCIES,

Americas naval program is def
c1ent in at least one respect-it
should be about ten years Older
Chicago News.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

Many true word has been spoken.
by mistake.
It's better to stay out than to get
married and fall out.
Nearly every business proposition
looks like winner on paper.
When arrested for vagrancy a beg
gar naturally has a pinched look.
Isn't 1t queer how marrow minded
those people are who disagree with
you.
A pessimist is a man who neverS
smiles-except when he faces the bar
tender.
Try to be different from yours
neighbors, and no doubt they'll ap-
preciate the effort. a......
A small boy firmly believes that
every time he earns a reward some
other boy gets it.
Cupid need not hope to bag certain
old bachelors unless he exchanges his
bow and arrows for rapid fire ma
chine gun.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

dai.v SUNDAY cNcented) at AS D. m.
Herald Buil3ine. Ct Church st.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

cd at the Post = .dcc st New Britain
) second Glass Mail Matter
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
JOCKEY MAHER DEAD.
Famous Rider Had Been Off the Turf
Three Years.

London, Nov. 9.-Danny Maher, the
American jockey, died at a nursing
home in London early today after a
lingering illness, which caused his re-
tirement from the turf three years
ago.
Danny Maher had the greatest rec
ord of any jockey on the English or
American turf Of recent years. He
was a star performer on English
race courses for nine years prior to
his retirement. In this time he rode
to victory three derbys, his mounts
being Rock Sand, Cicero and Spear
mint. He also captured the Oaks in
1906 with Keystone II, the Doncaster
ST.. Leger in 1903 with Rock Sand and
the same classic race of 1909 with
BagardO. He was reputed to be
worth a large fortune as the result
of his turf victories.
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
Britain Herald

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New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

only profitable advertising medium in
ne CITY: Circulation books and press
Dom always open to advertisers
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09
The Emerald Isle
Smaller Than Maine

| Dublin by means of the Grand and
| the Royal canals.
ALTHOUGH coal is found in most of
the thirty-two counties into which
the island is divided, and there Is con-
| siderable iron ore mining is not an
important industry. Gold was being
mined in q modest way in County
wicklow at the time of the rebellion
of 1898, but the works were destroyed
and the source of the metal has never
been re-discovered.
Agriculture and stock raising are
the chief occupations of the inhabi-.
tants. At one time the wooden manu-
features of the island were formid-
able rivals apf English factories, but
hostile legislation gave the industry
a check from which it has never re-
covered. AS the Irish have raised
fax for centuries the manufacture Of
linen early became one of the import
ant Industries of the country. Irish
whiskey is an important article of
export and one of the largest brew
cries in the world is located in Dub
lin. The islands production of beer
is three and a half million barrels
annually.
"Shipbuilding in the great yards at
Belfast is one of the most widely
known of Irish activities, and the
deep sea and coast fisheries afford a.
livelihood for many thousands.
Thanks to the temperature inf1u-
ence of the west winds from the At
lantic, the therm ometer rarely
reaches freezing point in winter, while
the average for summer day is sixty
degrees.
eat TORI Head on the north the
distance to Scotland (Mull of Cantiri)
is only thirteen and half miles. The
Giants Causeway, a short distance to
the east of this point, is the outcrop-
ping basaltic formation which in g.,
former age joined the two islands"
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

A furlong further along the road
he came upon a discouraged looking
ha bitation with six feet of extremely
narrow Arkansan lettering about.
Pulling up the northerner saluted the
native: "HoW dye do?"
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

'WeH stranger" gasped the husky
one, stretching his neck and lingering
New Britain herald., 1916-11-09

pred by carrier to any part of the city
Tor 10 cents a week, Csc a month
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-07
600 Street Car
Wen Of ~. Y. On
Strike: Only Few
S1gI5f Seeing Cars
Are Running
(By Aseociated Press.)

New York. Sept. IA strike on
subway and elevated lines and
-eral surface systems of the Inter
'ough Hapfd Transit Company in
|, Broax and Manhattan boroughs,
In eGect today. Up to noon the
y was only slightly affected. The
lon leaders, who demand abroga-
n of the so-called master and
want" contracts binding employees
/ to seek wNge increases for two
lrs, claim 5000 men have struck.
. New York Railway Company's
reen carsn are chiefly affected, ap-
GENTLY not more than thirty per
At Of thoo6 surface cars are now
nning. Ihe New York company
nounced recent agreements with
ployee sbrogated effective today.
. Intefbor0ugh announced that its
70 who are not striking will re-
We double pay until further no
b. There we're a few minor dis
-banees On the East side.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-07

with Germans. When he was forty
miles out he discovered three Ger
man stowaways aboard. He went
back to port and put them off but
when he was out one hundred miles
he discovered another German stow
away aboard. AS he was so far away
from Pernambuco when the man was
discovered he decided to bring him
to Pensacola
The man in question was August
Heildorn, steward of the North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Sierra Nevada,
which has been at Pernambuco since
the outbreak of the war. Heildorn
worked his passage to Pensacola,
stating that he desired to go to
Crown Point, Ind, where a friend
has employmentNfo for him in a hotel.
Heildorn was given a hearing be-
fore immigration Inspector John K.
Worden this morning and was ad-
mitted to the United States after
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-07
'W0MAN'S HOUR HAS STRUCK. !"
DECLARES CARRIE CHAPMAN
Gait IN STIRRING ADDRESS
COURT ORDERS
RECANVAS OF THE VOTE

Tallahassee, Sept. THE Su-
preme court yesterday issued an al
tentative writ of mandamus, re-
turnable on Friday, ordering the
State Canvassing Board to show
cause why it should not reconvene to
canvass the amended returns Sc
cured by w. v. Knott in recount of
the gubernatorial vote cast in the
Democratic primary of June 6.
The proceedings before the Su-
preme court followed refusal by the
State Canvassing Board to recon-
vene, when request that it do so was
made by attorneys for the comptrol-
ler. Mr.. Knott claims that the re-
canvass will show that he, and not
Mr.. Cats, is the real nominee. The
official canvass gave Cats a plural
ity Of 26O votes over Mr. Knott.
The latter has secured part re-
in score of counties which,
he claims, has wiped out the plural
ity Cats was given and gives him
800 over Cats, with
other counties to be heard from.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-07
YER 10000 RUMAN|ANS
BY GERMANS WHEN
Town ON DANUBE TAKEN
AMERICAN SCHOOLS FOR
WOMEN IN GREECE
(By Associated Press.

Athens, Sept. THE American
and British schools of Archaeology
in Greece are making preparations
for the accommodation OF women
students of the respective schools.
Two new buildings are to be built,
one by each school for the housing
of the women students. The build
ing for the male students of the
American school has only Just been
completed. There is nothing like
it for comfort, cleanliness aud mod
ern conveniences in all Greece.
Though at present there are almost
no students of either school. it is
hoped that when the war ends both
the American and British schools
will again be flourishing.
The present buildings o. the
schools are situated in very beau
tiful wooded park where shade "a
rarity in Athens) is plentiful and
excellent tennis courts at hand. 8
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-07
SPANISH WAR VETS
IN FAVOR OF JAX
Assurances Given That 1918 Con.
vention Will Come to This
City

Chicago, Sept. 6.-Jacksonville
will in all probability get the 1918
convention of the United Spanish
War Veterans Association. Printed
invitations today to hold the en-
campment in Jacksonville on the oc-
casion Of the twentieth anniversary
of the Spanish-American war were
received with loud applause.
While the meeting place for 1918
will not be officially selected at the
present time, assurances were given
by many hundreds of delegates that
Jacksonville will be chosen.
The present convention is the
smallest ever held by the association.
there being only about three thou
sand in attendance, owing to many
fearing to leave their homes at a
time when the railroad strike ap-
peared inevitable.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-09-07
AN AMERICAN SHIP
HALTED ON HIGH SEAS

Pensacola, Sept. captain w.
p. Richardson, of the five-masted
American schooner Marcus l.. Urann,
which is in port for repairs, stated
this morning that his ship was halt
ed off the Atlantic coast on July 81
en- route from Norfolk to Pernam-
buco and a German seaman named
Hans Herclesen was taken prisoner
of war by an officer from a British
cruiser. Captain Richardson filed a
protest against the seizure of the
seaman before the American consul
when he reached Pernambuco.
Captain Richardson said this
morning that after his ship was halt
ed by the cruiser a British officer
came aboard, examined his ships ar
ticles and thereby determined the
nationality of Seaman Hercleseu.
Herclesen was placed under arrest
as a prisoner Of war and the cruiser
departed. Captain Richardson said
that Nc name was painted on she
British warship and he did not learn
her name.
Coming out OF iPernambuco Cap
tain Richardson had more experience