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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-18
u. S.. Officials Disturbed
By Attack of Chinese.
On Japanese Garrison

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The attack
by Chinese troops on the Japanese gar
rison at Chengchiatun in eastern Mon
golia, as reported from Toxic, dis
turbs official circles here today, as the
possible forerunner of difficulties be-
tween the two powers. No details are
known, but the fact that Japanese rein
forcements are being rushed there has
led to the belief that Japan may intend
a more vigorous handling of disputes
as to her Jurisdiction in China
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
SALISBURY

-Albtrr r. F@,rri}ilu received May i |. his arlci3tnr"r from Wnsh,ngton. D. c., for R r. n. carrier on route No. :.
 Dr. Kues will be absent from nis office from May II until June ist.- Avd
 Mir. and Mrs. Rrnshaw and two children. of East Orange. N. J., have been spending few days at their home here.
 Miss Louise Goddard is visiting her sister. Mrs. William Clark 1n Wasir- ington, D. c.
 Mrs. E. C. Dexter accompanied Louise Peck as far as Chicago on Fri. day from there Louise is to go TO her future home in Seattle Washington
 Mrs. Margaret Russell has reopened the White Hart Inn for the summor
 Miss Louise Bushnell underwent an operation for appendicitis at the sharon hospital on sunday aud is reported as doing nicely. ta' .-r.
 Mrs. J. c. Goddard and daughter Ruth spent Monday ill Hartford.
 Miss Margaret Spur, who has been in Waterbury for few weeks, returned to her home here on Monday.
 Miss Margaret Norton has been obliegd to resign her position as teacher owing to ill health, and has returned to her home here.
 Mrs. Ida McArthur wenI to New York, Tuesday to meet her son Howard, who has just returned from south Amer ica, where he has been for a few years.
 Miss Mabel Selleck, of Hartford, spent the week end with her parents in town. 51axk
 The funeral of Mrs. Bertha Ferris Conklin was held last Friday at the home of Mrs M. E. Bower with whom Mrs. Conklin had made her home for some time. Tine Rev. c B. Carpenter otficiated. The deceased left two sons and three grandchildren besides host of friends.
 The plays given under the auspices of the Salisbury Grange were very successful both as to enjoyment and finances as more than $65 was realized.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
DAYLIGHT SAVING POPULAR,
Ten Countries May Turn the Clock Back This Summer.

Ten Countries May Turn the Clock Back This Summer.
 The daylight saving scheme which is expected to receive approval in the British house of commons this week is the idea of William Willett, an Eng hishman. It probably will be adopted this year by nine other countries Germany, Austria, Turkey. Switzer- Rand, Italy, Spain, Holland Norway end Sweden, and perhaps also by France. The French chamber has vot- ed unanimously in favor of the pro- posal. A daylight saving bill was in- troduced i'll the house of commons In 1908, and a committee reported that kfs object was desirable if 1t could be generally attained. The bill did not pass and in the next year the question was again referred to a commission.
 MT. Willett's proposals were to move all the clocks forward an hour at N. m. on the third Sunday in April and backward an hour on the third Sunday Sn September giving a gain of 154 hours of useful daylight yearly. This would come about through carrying one of the hours of wasted morning sunlight to the end sf the day.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
CORNWALL HOLLOW

A. F. Palmer was not so well last week. His daughter came up from Bridgeport to see him.
 John Michael has been doing consitt. erable ploughing this spring. He comes pretty near being ahead of any of the other farmers in this place.
 MT. and Mrs. l.. $. Chipman called on several friends in North Goshen last week, taking dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kelley.
 Mrs. B. E. Yale and son Harry went to Torrintgon last Saturday to visit her daughter, returning Sunday afternoon.
 Fred Howe, moved with his mother, to South Canaan last Friday in one of Mrs. M. C. Deans houses.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
CANAAN VALLEY

Mrs. Henry Rudge and daughter, of Great Burlington, are guests of Mrs. E. J. Donalds.
 Miss Mable Donalds is caring for the sick in North Egremont.
 MT. Wellington, of Boston, and Rev. Fuller, of East Canaan, were visitors at the Valley, Sunday school Sunday afternoon.
 Robert Taylor is seeing the sights in New York.
 Mrs. Grace Mcintyre has purchased a young horse.
 An automobile party from Naugatuck and Waterbury were callers at F. H.. LangdOn's, Sunday afternoon.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
HUNTSVILLE

Miss Ruth Hurlburt was in Canaan last week.
 Jake Parmeley is visiting at Frank Siivernale's.
 Fred Howe has moved into the house vacated by Everett Martin, who has moved to Canaan.
 Wallace Dean has moved his family from South Canaan to Torrington, where he has employment ill the skate shop.
 MT. Heady was in this place last week.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
ARMY PLANS REJECTED.
House Votes, 221 to 1S2, Against Pro-
 vision For 250,oo0 Men.

X standing army of 25O,OOO men, pro- Hided for i'll the senate amendment of rhe army bill, was rejected by the house. 221 to 142. The house bill pro- vfded for 10000 men.
 The senates plan to provide for a volunteer army of 261.O00 was rejected tgy the house by a vote of 251 to 1O0.
 When the conferrees' report began Representative Kahn. ranking Repub- Ecan of the military committee, made s speech approving the larger force and opposing the provisions of the house Dill to increase the national guard. He xaid it would be impossible to recruit fl1e guardsmcn proposed.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11

According to mcager dispatches from London. the White Star liner Cymric has been torpcd0cd and sunk or is sink 4ng
 The Cymric sailed from New York city for Liverpool on Apr:l 29. She carried no plSScn&orS.
 None of the White Star liners sailing Between New York and England is ear EyinG paS>cngcrS at the present time.
 It was said at the New York offices of the line that among the crew of the Cymric were fifteen or twenty Amcri- cans.
 The Cymric is steel twin screw steamer. built in 1898 at Glasgow and sfisplacing 13.37O tons. She has three decks and is 5S5 feet long, with a beam aof sixty-four feet and a depth of about RoI"ty feet She was registered at the Esort of Liverpool
 The Cymric Is commanded by Cap tain Beadwell She carries about n hundred officers and crew.
 Laden With Munitions.
 The liner left New York with 15,OOO Eons of war munitions and supplies. She has been engaged in this traffic since shortly after the war began. when she was transferred from the Boston Liverpool passenger and cargo trade.
 Included In her cargo were forty aero Eslanes and parts, rifles, gun parts. bay Unets, shell cases, cartridge cases and HyB22 bales of cotton. If she maintain ed her regular schedule she should RRve been near the coast of Ireland.
 H was reported in August, 1915, that tsn one of the Cymric's trips she was eonyoyed through the danger zone off Ehe Irish coast by fleet of destroyers and patrol boats. Officers of the Inter Eational Mercantile Marine denied this report.
 Shortly after the Lusitania disaster. when steamships carrying munitions were wary of German submarines Cap gain Beadwell of the Cymric said he had no fear of being sunk and would Dst his steamship against the cunning af the German submarine officers. The esner sailed at this time with consid- grable cargo of war materials and esrge passenger list of Canadians and Bnglishmen and was successful in evad- Eng the submarines.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
U. s. MARINES LANDED.
Will Protect Legation During RevoIu
 tionary Outbreak.

Marines have been landed at Santu Domingo from the American converted cruiser Prairie for the protection of the American legation.
 The situation growing out of the at sampt of factiOnal leaders to overthrow the administration of President Ji- nnsnes is critical.
 President .Jimenes has ordered the governor of SantO Domingo City to txr5e charge of the forces under Gen eral Ferrer. The rural guards have been placed under the command of au- thorities appointed by the chief execu- live.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
Mythology of Dragons.

The mythology of dragons is i'm mensely mixed. The one thing certain seems to be that of the many writers who describe them not one ever saw them. Many of the descriptions come nearer to a winged crocodile than any thing else. and the conjecture that the dragon idea was developed from some tradition of an extinct saurian seems probable. In the gypsy lore of south eastern Europe the 'drakos" becomes the ogre of the nursery. He takes a human wife. hunts, is an expert ill hOrSchcsh and lives. of course. in Il palace. Andrew Lang pointed out that the modern Greek story of the last DrakOS" is the same as that told in Scotland of the last pict"
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11

station. The ear was badly rsed ur. The same evening James Carroll countermam.td his order for Chev.
 rolet, contracted for a few days before
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
Evidently In Love.

"I told that boy" remarked the teacher, ito remain after school and write some word l0O times. But | don't think it was any great punish mcnt"
 "Why not?"
 "i ru.>cd that he wrote the word 'l.v>.v' 'm t:::.,: Wi.A an cc*!atic smiIr."- st. I.o"i5 Po<t-lai@put:h.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
RESOURCES

Loans and discounts (eNccpt those shown Om b) b)..........SI SI,uIp.4I, l.. $. bonds deposited to secure circulation Cpnr value) ...... so,ooo.oo Securities, other than |. $. bonds (not including stocks) owned unpiedged ..... s3Sso.62 Subscription to stock of Fed eral Reserve bank. S7,Soo Less amount unpaid ... 5000
 - S;90o.oo Value of banking house Gf unencumbered) .......... 6,cOo.oO Furniture apd hxturcs. ...... 100000, Net amount due from Federal Reserve Bank. Aooo. .oo' Net amount due from ap- proved reserve agents in New York, Chicago and St. Louis. .-,.....:.......... 2t436,75 Net amount due from banks and bankers (other than in cluded in 10 or rD......... n3,I95.30 Outside checks and other cash, items, $SS2.25; fractional currency, nickels and cents, $34.93 3;.............. ..... SS7.IS G@fn and certificates. ....... o,G2o.4o Legal-tender notes. sroo,oo Redemption fund with U. $. Treasurer and due from q. ;. Treasurer. 2,soooo
 
 Total Gyor o,,s. n.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
LIME ROCK

Dr. Ross will be absent from his office from May 14 until June 1st.- Adv.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
Could Count Them.

Mr. Rinkpate-Part my hair ill tn, middle, please. The Barbcr-But th"rl is an odd number, sir. r.-EXchange.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
No. I,G4.

QEPORT OF THE CONDITION of N TnE NATIONAL IRON BANK, at Falls Village in the State of Connecticut, at the close of business, May Ist, 1910.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
LIABILITIES

Capital stock paid in. ....... $looooo.oo Surplus fund nd........~....... 27,ooooo Undivided profits ....$2,6os.4S Less current expenses, inter
 est and taxes paid Sl,SI9,S2 S7s.96 Circulating notes outstanding 4q6oo.oo Net amount due to banks and
 bankers (othcr than included
 in % or sol l....->........-- 7,554.47 Dividends unpaid d............ I2S.oo Demand deposits:
 Individual deposits subject
 to check. ck...-............ IG3,963.o7 Certificates of deposit due in
 less than .2odays. ........ 2,7SS.r4 Total demand deposits, Items
 B, 34, 35, 3& B, 3S, 39and 10
 ................SG SGIh75I.2l
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
LINER CYMRlC
 REPORTED SUNK White Star Ship Carried No
 Passengers. LADEN WITH MUNITIONS.

Fifteen or Twenty Americans Said to Be Among Crew-Captain Was Con -fident He Could Elude All Subma- sines-Steamer Was of 13,37o Tons and Built In 1898.
Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
No. SSIL.

DEPORT OF THE CONDITION of NTHE CANAAN NATIONAL BANK, at Canaan. in the State of Connecticut, at the close of business, on May Ist, I9I6.
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tories closed unless there is an eight
hour law, union wages and an utter alb
sence of child labor.
Criticism of Wilson, also, was ill-ad
vised. The Californian notion of Mr..
Hughes before he crossed the Sierras
was a r-intellectual. They thought
of Mr. Hughes as the great and learned
Judge who had beaten the racetrack
gamblers into submission and whose de-
cisions were so just that the initiative,
referendum and recall which they hold
would be unnecessary if all judges were
like Mr.. Hughes. Mr.. Hughes lost
prestige when he criticised his oppo-
nent. What would seem natural and
UNSUITABLE with T. R. or their own
Hiram Johnson was regarded as un-
dignifed in Mr.. Hughes.
1t was natural that younger COM
munity like California should venerate
what Mr.. Hughes was supposed to rep
resent before he revealed himself on the
other side of the Sierras, learning and
dignity. Evidently some poor adviser
told Mr.. Hughes to affect the hail-fel-
low-well-met stunt in California. Who
ever did it got his knowledge of Cali
fornia from the New York magazines,
which still maintain that the cowboys
ride into the Palace Hotel bar in their
chaps" and shoot out the lights in the
ST. Francis. The more human MIR.
Hughes tried to appear in his effort to
meet this fictitious breezy Western
err the more like caricature ne ap-
peared to the Californians.
This is not said with any intention OF
wounding the feelings of Mr.. Hughes.
That gentleman probably is still Won
dering why he lost California when the
political situation there was represent
ed to him as rosy as one of those Be-
lasco sunsets in the Sierras. | simply
want to be frank in order that future
candidates and future campaign man.
ayers of all parties may not make mis-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
ARMAGEDDON is STILL A SA-
CRED SPOT TO THE PROGRESS
SIVES OF THE COAST

But Mr.. Johnson is human. He would
have to have been something more if
he had put his whole heart into carry
ing California for Mr.. Hughes after
Hughes had sighted him and turned
toward his political enemies. Mr.. john
son is so human that the wonder is that
he did not come out and denounce
Hughes as a reactionary for the COM
pany he kept in California.
1t was a bitter pill for Hiram john
son to swallow, in the first place, this
supposedly reconstructed Republican
party that was patched up at Chicago
Johnson was the stalwart of the Pro-
gressives in 1912. Armageddon was
not an episode to those young Cali
fornians who stood with him. The
Armageddon where they battled for the
Lord and Roosevelt and Johnson is still
sacred spot to the Progressives of
California. With all their love for
Roosevelt, there is hidden belief that
T. r. is the lost leader.
."How ingenious" they will say east
of the Sierras. "How quantity West
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

takes. 1t seems so unnecessary for any
party to lose through tactical blunders
which might be avoided through little
candor.
While Hughes was criticising Wilson
in his most dignifed manner Francis j.
Heney was pointing out how much Pro-
gressive legislation had been enacted by
the self-same Mr.. Wilson. Heney's
campaign was effective He appealed
to the Californian sense of justice.
That is something really tangible. Bret
Harte, an Englishman, has told you
that it was strong in 40. According to
Harte, all of the lynchings of that
stormy period were just and carried out
with a certain crude but impressive
dignity.
1t is hard to say how earnestly john
son really worked for Hughes. In pub
lie he campaigned most fervently, and,
as have said before, Mr.. Johnson is
most fervent campaigner. He is an
impressive platform speaker, inclined to
swell at the neck and get purple in the
face when vehement, but his style is eff
fective. heard Johnson and T. R.-to
whom I love to listen-speak from the
same platform, and am forced to con-
clude that Johnson has the harder
punch. This is not because like T. R.
the less, either.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
THE STAYING-AWAY PROCESS AS
A MEANS OF WINNING
A STATE

Without any desire to rub 1t in,
must say that / believe that Mr.
Hughes might have carried California,
if he had refrained from visiting that
state. Mr.. William Howard Taft, if ne
greatly desired the election of Mr..
Hughes. should have warned him
against crossing the Sierras into that
periIous No Mans Political Land. Mr..
Taft committed a number of tactical
blunders there. Mr.. Hughes committed
the same blunders and few more.
Mr.. Taft placed himself in the hands
of the political dead ones Of the state.
Mr.. Hughes did the same thing, only
the dead ones were just that much
deader If either gentleman were Wis
ting Egypt he might be interested in
mummies, but he hardly would select
one of them as a pilot up and down the
Nile. The "old guard machine Repub-
leans are deader than Rameses l-out
there beyond the Sierras. Charles
Evans Hughes did not know that.
William Howard Taft did not warn him
and he luncheoned and dined to his
doom.
The luncheoning and dining part is
literal. Mr.. Hughes made the tactical
blunder which cost him the vote In San
Francisco County in little matter
concerning a luncheon. There was
walters strike on in San Francisco at
the time. The mummifed Republican
"old guards" who were entertaining Mr..
Hughes at the time insisted that only
non-union walters should serve at the
luncheon.
The president of the Walters Union
Of San Francisco sent very courteous
note to Mr.. Hughes, asking that ne de-
cline to attend the luncheon. That let
ter was never answered. Whether Mr..
Hughes received it and ignored it or
whether it was intercepted by some OF
his "old guard" hosts i cannot say. l
only know that it was not answered.
To appreciate the blunder you must
remember that San Francisco is per-
haps the strongest labor union city in
the country. San Francisco has wait
ers whose feelings are easily ruitled.
Moreover there are the mattresses.
Every waitress is a lady, and-more to
the point-a voter.
The arrangements for the luncheon
proceeded. Walters, half of them union
members and the other half strike
breakers, were hired. In the meantime
the union awaited some sort of reply to
the note. No reply came. Half an hour
before the luncheon all of the walters,
union and non-union, walked out. Mr..
Hughes had not only affronted the
union; he had affronted all knights OF
the tray and napkin.
The "old guard" hosts added another
blunder. Mr.. Hughes was on his way
to the luncheon in an automobile. They
rerouted the car and showed him Twin
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| Dental election. This is ad-
mitted generally, on the one
.;de accusingly and reproachfully and
.he other side with jubilation and COM
-sndation. For better or for worse,
,be Californian did it with his or her
rttle ballot. Paraphrasing an old polit-
,al axiom and putting it in the past
.erse where it seems to belong, "As
rent California so went the nation"
Right now all the political experts
EAST of Belasco's Sierras are saying:
I'VE know how it went, but why in the
name of Sam Hill did it go?" They
rant to know what sort of political
curio this Californian, who will not stay
xbere he has been carefully card-in-
dexed, may be.
California is the cause Of considerable
acrimony in what might otherwise have
been a gentlemanly and sportsmanlike
nost-mortem into the causes of the un-
srpected demise of the late lamented
Hughes campaign at the Republican
HEADQUARTERS. 1t is apparent that
Hughes might have carried California,
and with it the nation, if certain fatal
mistakes had not been made. The close
figures demonstrate that, even to cam
paign managers.
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TT SOUNDS enough for candidate to nbbie at
lettuce passed Him by worthy Seneganbiar
Mr. Huqhes probably did realize that he had afroned
enough Progressive walters have carried California for him.
and that unchng by courtesy of the Southern Pacific
the Oc0pus fenfaes the CaifOrnianS under Hiram
johnson have recently Topped off, One leffuceSandwch nib
bed inauspciou circumstances therefore, cost Mr.
Hughes election
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

Peaks and the place where the Vigil
lantes held the necktie parties of 1886.
Mr.. Hughes was interested but hungry.
Some one who had some influence with
the Southern Pacific Railroad tele-
phoned the company, and corps OF
Pullman porters was rushed to the ban
ouet hall to serve the Hughes luncheon.
- It sounds innocent enough for can
didate to nibble at a lettuce sandwich
passed to him by worthy Senegam-
bian. Mr. Hughes probably did not
realize that he had affronted enough
Progressive walters to have carried
California for him, and that he was
lunching by courtesy of the Southern
Pacific, the Octopus, whose tentacles
the Californians under Hiram Johnson
have recently Topped off. One lettuce
sandwich nibbled under inauspicious
circumstances, therefore, cost Mr..
Hughes an election.
DUMPING ALL THE BUMPS THAT
TAFT BUMPED PRE-
VIOUSLY
This is one of the specific mistakes
made by Mr.. Hughes. The greatest
blunder was his failure to recognize the
fact that Hiram Johnson was a person
of some slight Importance in Califor-
MIA. 1t should not have taken the fig
ures which indicate that Johnson III his
Senatorial contest ran few hundred
thousand ahead of the party to con-
vince Hughes that the Governor was
more or less influential. But the "old
guard" mummies seemed to have Mr..
Hughes, and he followed them bllndly
over all the bumps upon which William
Howard Taft thudded on his trip to the
other side of the Sierras.
In San Francisco Mr.. Hughes was
personally conducted by the head pail
bearer of the remains OF the old
guard" In Los Angeles Mr.. Hughes
tied up with Harrison Gray Otis, the
arch enemy of union labor in the state.
He was very much in the plight OF
respectable visitor to a city who un-
knowingly strolls into the red light dis
trict. The aftermath always is en-
barrassing.
1t is true that Los Angeles did go for
Hughes, but the inhabitants of Los
Angeles are not Californians. They are
Peorians, real estate statesmen and out
landers. The heart of California is San
Francisco. AS my friend Benny, the
newsboy, says, "And don't let nobody
tell you different"
During the brief time that Mr.
Hughes remained in California his path
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
IN CALIFORNIA, THE ISSUE OF
THE FULL DINNER PAIL Is
A SOCIAL ERROR

The mummies murmured that errlng
California had returned to the fold OF
Republicanism in a chastened frame OF
mind, ready to venerate once more the
fossils of the G.. O. P. and to weep at
the Tomb of the Tariff. Mr.. Hughes
evidently listened and believed. The
men who were talking were the he
publican leaders of the state, and they
would not steer him wrong.
Mr.. Hughes ratified the full dinner
pail and he abused Wilson in dignlfied
and judicial manner. This was a geo.
graphical blunder. In California the
idealist predominates, and the full din
ner pail issue is a social error. A can
didate can breeze into a New England
district and tell the inhabitants that ne
will have all their factories working day
and night. if elected, and make a hit.
But the Californian wants all of his fac
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

crossed that of Hiram Johnson, who
was then ostensibly campaigning Tor
Mr.. Hughes with all the Johnsonian fer
vor and vehemence. Mr.. Johnson on
the platform exhibits fervor and vehe-
mence which is at least equal to that OF
r. R. at his best. Mr.. Hughes did not
call upon Mr.. Johnson. He did not at
filiate himself with him. Wherever ne
went Mr.. Hughes was attended by the
political mummies of California.
The "old guard" leaders evidently
convinced Mr.. Hughes that it was not
necessary for him to have any extern
sive dealing with Mr.. Johnson, the I'M
reconstructed bolter from the Grand
Old Party. 1t would be a great and
glorious victory for real Republicanlsm
if Mr.. Hughes could win California
without the aid of one of the Chief
wreckers of the party in 1912. Also 1t
was an immortal cinch that it could be
done.