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New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Washington, D. C., April 26.-'"The reported occupation of Cephalonia by French and British forces, for strateg- ic purposes, marks another cycle in the strange history of this little island in the Ionian sea which has played the role of shuttlecock in international diplomacy for more than two thou sand years. It's unique story is told in the following interesting bulletin issued today by the National Geo. graphic society whose headquarters Is in Washington.
 With an area about three times as great as that of Martha's Vineyard on the Massa achusetts coast, Cephalonia, Is the largest of the seven Ionian islands The origin of its settlement is shroud- ed in the fascinating uncertainty of Homeric legend but from the year Of it's surrender to the Romans, 189 B.. C., its history has been marked by a succession of changes in ownership which would bewilder the most astute student of world politics. f
 After the Roman emperor Hadrian made a gift of the island to Athens, Cephalonia and the six other islands of the Ionian group, became free and autonomous but during the ascend ancy of the Byzantine empire they were subject to it's power.
 ''The next change came in the elev- enth century. While William the Con- queror was engaged in establishing himself firmly in the British Isles an- other Norman, Robert Guiscard ('the ResourcefulD, after conquering south ern Italy, sailed to the Ionian sea and captured several of the islands, pre- paratory to overthrowing the Greek empire This remarkable adventurer died on the island of Cephalonia while engaged in quelling a revolt, at 8 time when he seemed to have laid the foundations for Norman empire sim liar to that which William established in England.
 "Following Robert Guiscard's inva- sion, Cephalonia passed in turn under
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
Learn to Decide Quickly.

In the April American Magazine is the story of successful business man who attributes his success large ly to his faculty for making quick de- cisions.
 "Once decided, you ought not to waste time. If a man decides right ly, then he has a running start On rivals who hesitate. If he decides wrongly, then he has discovered his blunder, backed up, and is ready to start on even terms with the hesitat- ing rival, for a man of decision can decide he is wron gas quickly as he can decide he is right. Also, in a greater number of cases, the man who decide he is wrong as quickly as he best way, and still carry it through to success, and even convince others fe was right all the time. This has hap pened to me many times in cases where there were a number of ways in which a thing might be done.
 While we blunder inevitably, I be- l lieve our batting average IS higher than that of timid ones, and the re- wards much greater. I do not think I have erred in fifteen per cent. of my decisions in business, and not in five per cent. seriously.
 ''The great advantage of quick de- cision lies in the larger rewards that come to those who are bold for it is hold to decide vital matters quickly. The timid and the hesitating get small profits"
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

about it. That being the case, may we not expect that every farmer In Maine, realizing the wonderful value attached to certain portions or alcohol, when used in the hen yards, will double his order, knowing full well that sratc experimerier who finds out the cur4tiN value of this f1u''' will not prohibit it's entrance into the state when it is to be used for the spraying of hens7 We should think so. Ind, with a goodly combintion of alcohol to make the hens lay more eggs and the augmented number of eggs with the increased alcohcl, there should be goodly quantity of egg-f1ips on all Maine farms this summer. Where are you going to spend you vacation? :?
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
D. MCMILLAN fse-2oi-2OS MAIN STREET.

victory for itself as defeat for the President. If it can beat Woodrow Wilson by supporting Theodore Roosevelt or Charles E. Hughes or Elihu Root or anybody else, it will be satisfied, for it will have served its warning on every President to come that a similar fate await him if he defies German authority.
 Until that issue is decided at the polls. all other issues seem so trivial that we marvel at the state of mind which can discuss them. It Is because The World is convinced that the United States cannot be a Nation un.. til this foreign propaganda is crushed under the heel of Americanism that it has appealed to Republicans to in- dorse the nomination of President Wilson in their National Convention.
 So far as they are concerned. that is the one test of whether they are capable of putting patriotism above party. Will they devide the American vote? Will they try to make it pos sible for Germany to govern the United States through such a devi- sion?
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
The Armament.

Marguerite Head, in the Alethian
 Magazine.) What varied themes of exaltation spring ..-..'. From contemplation of Gods uni
 verse! The all-embracing stretch of vibrant Vibrant with life of lofty, rushing Like jewels glowing on the breast of
 space, Agleam with scintillating, subtle
 lights, . Adornments scattered from the hand .-~- of God. 7 Swift-speeding worlds, Creations mas
 sive gifts Peopled by strange, half-savage forms
 which Time Must coax toward progress, certain,
 slow and true, Or ruled by men in high perfection g
 prime, Their souls effulgent with great wis
 dom's rays; And worlds concealed from mortars
 puny sight, More luminous, most vast than
 thought conceives, Where men arise from death to trend
 for aye Unnumbered paths of immortality.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
DOWN MAINE WAY.

Prohibition Maine, the original dry state of the Union, has been accused of doing some strange things with alcohol, but probably the most unique use to which this vile product was ever put is that attributed to the poul- try experts at the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. They gave alco- hol to the hens, and as a result the hens have broken all records in egg laying, aside from showing symptoms of better health. All this has been brought out in a paper read recently before the American Philosophical so- ciety.
 This must be firmly understood. The hens did not. freely inbibe of the al- cohol There was no libation so far as they were concerned. They refused to drink the terrible stuff. So, we learn from what was read at the society for the dissemination of useful knowl- edge, the biologist sprayed alcohol over certain number of hens. Im- mediately they became inebriated. catch any of the spray and these re- mained sober, therefore allowing some basis of comparison. What happened ? The drunken hens (they must be called that) Immediately and with 1 much cackling started in to break all records for egg production. What is more amazing, they waxed healthful, became big and fat hens, and outdone their sisters in every way, the ones that did not partake of the stimulating beverage via the spray route On top of that, to prove conclusively that alcohol is good for hens. the paper in forms us that an epidemic broke out in the henery of the Maine Experi mental station, and that forty deaths occurred. But not one of the alcohol spryed hens fell victim to the cpl demic. An, no! They were immune. Coming from dry Maine, the argu- ment of the alcohol and the hens sounds as if someone is trying to fix l things for the Maine farmers during
 the dry summer ahead. Alcohol
 "llch Is looked upon as demon from
 the lower regions, has been officially
 stamped out. in the Pine Tree state for 10, these many years. Yet travel
 iers do tell us that there is quite con-
 siderable of certain beverages con
 sumed in the old north corner of the United States and that Maine is not as dry as some of the jokes they crack
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
FEODORE, THE UNRULY.

#achusetts has declared against Bre Roosevelt and his doctrines. hpledged candidates in the re- kn presidential primary yester- |ept the Old Bay state. Cover |rnuel W. Mccall, ex-Governor In Murray Crane, Senator Henry Hodge, and Senator John w. the unpledged big four, car Iery congressional district in the With the exception of two, and gre yet in doubt with the pos- \ Of a clean victory.
 dereat of Roosevelt in Massa- Els is sorry blow for those fol- or the Colonel who hoped to bn Yindicated by the vote veg- All eyes of the nation were to the neighboring state and
 he Colonel come out the victor. ] It is predicted by those who fol- ze intricacies of politics that he have won the nomination al ko on the Republican ticket Inc best thing he can do is boI Irty just as he did in 1912 anc but for himself. This he vii his predictions can be hailed lny degree of certainty. Roose Iants the nomination. His Trini |Serview is proof positive of that |cannot get it from the Republi
 party he will go elsewhere. The
 kssive party, which meets in Chi.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
When Is a Person Dead? Waterbury Democrat.)

Medical science continues to rival the legendary feats of ancient miracle workers. Physicians at Johns Hop- kins hospital in Baltimore are experi- menting with serum which appears to restore life in persons, who, by all the ordinary tests, would be pro- nounced dead from asphyxiation or, drowning. So far they have expedi- mented only with animals, but they are satisfied that the serum would work similarly on human beings. One case reported is that of dog that had been drowned four hours hefore the treatment began. The dead dog was brought back to life by an infection of the serum It died later, however, of blood pressure a dangerous after effect which the doc- tors are trying to guard against. Wonderful results have been ob- tained by the use of the pulmotor, to induce artificial respiration, but there Is said to be no case on record of an animal or person that has been re- vived by pulmotor after being dead" for as long as four hours The Johns Hopkins treatment seems to the recent discovery that persons apparently killed by electric shock may be revived by the injection of adrenalin. Dozens of men have been returned to life by this means in the last few days. Just the other day, 1t was reported that a life had keen restored by much simpler means It was one of the common cases of a still-born child. The baby was dead, according to all the es- tablished tests. But the doctor breathed into it's mouth steadily and regularly for twenty minutes, at the end of which time it set up a lusty howl. We used to suppose that person died definitely at a particular moment, and that was the end of him. But these discoveries make the matter very perplexing. When is a person dead? How can we tell? How long does it take for the last spark of life to leave the body We simply have to confess that we don't know. We are beginning to suspect tbat millions of people in the past have been given up for dead, and al- lowed to stay dead, who today might be recalled for years of added use- fitness.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
4 Byzantine Logothete Liped
 Or This I0nian Island

the suzerainty of the princes of Tar entum, the five counts of Tocco, the republic of Venice, the ravaging cor sa,irs of Greece and Naples, the Turks, the Spanish-Venetian allies, Venice again, France, the Russo-Turkish al- lies the French and the British. Great Britain finally relinquished it's pro- tectorate and ceded the islands to Greece after the latter had allowed the Court os St. James to name a brother of the Princess of Wales as king of the Hellenes in 1862.
 s"The chief city of Cephalonta Is Argostoli, which has an excellent har- bor and which is especially noted for it's curious sea mills operated by a current of sea water flowing through a chasm in the rocky shore. Across the bay from ArgostoN is the rival port of Luxouri.
 "Cyclopean and Hellenic walls are still standing on the sites of the an cient cities of Cranii. Proni and Snr1os, while a few miles beyond Argoston there rises a relic of Venetian days, the strongly fortified castle of St. George.
 'The Cephalonians, who are men tally alert and who are more purely Greek than the inhabitants of any or the other islands of the Ionian group have shown great ingenuity and in dustry in building terraces for the cul- tiva;tion of the vine and olive. one or the chief products of the island IS a peculiarly favored currant Whlcn finds a ready market in Holland Bel gium and Germany. In addition to their agricultural pursuits, the Cepha- lonians are interested in shipbulldlng' silk-spinning, basket-making ana the manufacture of carpets. An odd lace' made of aloe fibre, is exported. "Elato, also known as Monte Ne gro (Black Mountain), which is more than 5000 feet high, gets its name from the dark pine forests which clothe it's slopes"
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
Is The United States a Nation l?
(New York World.

Is the United States Nation? Or is 1t only a congeries of European tribesmen?
 That is the only issue In the Presi- dential campaign. All other questions are of minor importance, whether they relate to prosperity or poverty, preparedness or preparedness, war or peace.
 If a President of the United States can be defeated for reelection be- cause his foreign policy is displeas- ing to this or that European belliger- ent, then the United States Is no long, CT Nation. If Presidential election can be decided by voters whose hearts and sentiments and sympathies are all on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, it makes relatively little diff ference which European tribe governs the territory that calls itself the United States of America.
 This country once fought a great Civil War to determine whether the Union should be divided or remain undivided. Yet fifty years after the close of that war we have developed a new form of secession more in- famous than the old secession. The old secession at least c1ung to the soil. It was pro-South, not pro-Ger- man or pro- English or pro-French or pro-Austrian. It fought under it's flag not a foreign flag.
 The professional Germans in the United States have shaped an issue that the American people cannot evade. Every vote cast against Woodrow Wilson in the November election will be a vote for Germany, no matter who casts that vote or for what candidate it is cast
 What the German propaganda is seeking is not so much an immediate
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
SUIT CASES AND BAGS

Suit Cases made of straw mating, imitation leather, fibre, sheepskin and cowhide. Priced 49c to $5.75 each.
 Straw Bags, priced 49c to $1.49 each. e
 Imitation Leather Bags, black, priced $1.25 to $2.25 each.
 Black Leather Bags, leather lined, priced 3.9s, $4.25, $500 to $7.5O each.
 Tan Leather Bags, priced $3.75 to $7.50 each.
 Professional Bags, sheepsl<in and cowhide, priced S1.9s to $4.25 each. 20
 You will find our prices lower than you can buy these qualities for else where.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

in disregard of necessary frugality and common sense she becomes a peril from which all sensible people should flee.
 Fashion taxes without reason, and collects without mercy-fashion car- not be ignored. but there is no ex- cuse for becoming fashions slave.
 The $S a week girl who pays s1O for pair of white shoes-the $S week girl who pays $16 for spring hat, isn't a devotee of fashion-she is just a very unwise girl
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
WE STAND, DIVIDED WE
 FALL.

Erams to the number of thou Nhave been avalanched upon 6smen by certain German or #ons protesting against any H between Germany and the States, demanding that the aes of the national Congress use &fiuence against bringing war
 Be country. This in itself is a &udable desire, one that every Fan citizen, whether he hail N %ermany, or Ireland, or Eng # the South Sea Islands, should < in his breast. The Congress @ be notified of the sentiment \ sts throughout the nation, and
 8ntiment is against war. But
 should be carried a step # Inasmuch as the entire mat 3bw up to Germany,-the Presi-
 ast message is in effect an ulti-
 and Germany has the choos-
 way or the other, either to liner present method of subma-
 rfare or to modify it in con- # with international law,-it &seem that few telegrams
 be sent to the Kaiser's repre- &e in this country, Count Von &rff, the German Ambassador Ellington. He, too, is in favor Hing the two nations from going others throats and were teIe- #sent him he would warn his anent of the feeling that exists
 hong the n-Americans,
 i've not as yet come to the con- I that there is. only one side to
 fstion, who have not become Bed that everything Kaiser &n does is right and everything &nt Wilson does is wrong. The # German influence that dictated Helegrams to the Congressmen #now set in and order a dupli- #sent to the German embassy #sachusetts avenue. Unless the Sand interests of America are zsacrificed to Germany merely R she is Germany, no one in suntry has the right to decide @ hearing both sides of the Nn that there is only one way sat way the way of some foreign When we reach the stage By people within these confine es se against the United States in bf the nation they left to take kr abode here then the time has Do surrender liberty as it is in democracy and go back to l method of government. If Rings come to pass and succeed, pvernment- is a failure. The we realize this the better. siS much truth in the motto of fentucky, United We Stand, B We Fall" -....-
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Germany may still have in mind a grand sea and air descent upon Eng land direct across the North sea, but it's long talked of descent by way of Ireland under the puissant leadershi p of the renegade Sir Roger Casem ent has come and gone and will pass into history as probably the most laugh able fiasco of the great war Even Germany must have enough sense of the humorous left to extract a melan- choly grin or two out of such an issue to it's petted notion before and since the war began of an Ireland rising as one man at the first opportunity New York World.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

cago at the same time with the Re- with the aid of some other influence Theodore might be heard from after all.
 Many consider that Roosevelt would be the weakest candidate the Repub
 lican party could possibly nominate because of his behavior toward Will liam Howard Taft. That act will never be forgiven him if he lives to be thousand years old. Again, the vast majority of Am orleans are against
 Roosevelt simply on the grounds that and were elected he would practically be the possessor of three terms in the White House. Eleven years in the Executive Mansion is broaching too man who believes in democracy unde- filed. Theodore the First Is not a fa- vorable appellation. Therefore, it might be reasonably concluded that even if Theodore Roosevelt does get into the ring the best he can do is to precipitate another such condition as held forth in 1912 when he rent his party in twain. He is headed in the same old direction.
 While the defeat of this drive to capture the Massachusetts delegation to the republican national convention for Roosevelt will have a strong in- fuence throughout the country and may sound his death knell, there is no telling what will be done by Theo- dore, the Unruly. To poll the vote his representative got yesterday is in- deed a feat in view of his bolt in 1912, coupled with the fact that he is not even a member of the republican however, to the belief that almost every vote cast in his behalf came from those of his followers who went back into the fold some time ago. united party is not so great, if as great, as it was four years ago. Those who have their ears to the rails and who hear the rumhlings from Oyster Bay and divine the true meaning of things know full we'll that Theodore Roosevelt has now reached the stage where he will sanction no candidacy for the Republican nomination but his own. This being true, he practically stands on defy already issued to the Republicans in convention assembled, a defy which means, What are you going to do about?" He has the old party where he wants 1t. If they do not take him, he will bolt and run cn an independent ticket, and he can do 1t. If they do take him, all the old who have washed their hands of him long ago will get on their high-horses and cause trouble. That seems to be the situation to date. It remains for Theodore the Unruly to do something big in the near future What it will be he alone knows; but it will not be an endorsement of some candidate other than himself
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
Colored Silk Umbrellas

Priced $2.9s, SEAS, $3.9S each.
 CoIored Silk Umbrellas with fancy self or contrasting borders, made on ten rib frames, suitable for rain or sun, fitted with the newest short handles with silk cords or leather loops. Priced $4.9s and S5.4S each.
 Mems and Women's black Water- proofed Umbrellas, COG to $1.49 each.
 Cravanette covered at $2.OO each.
 Silk and silk and linen, $500 to $5. co each. .... ...--. .s
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
CEDAR CHESTS

Priced $4.9s to $12.9s each.
 Made of the genuine Red Tennessee Cedar, the more knots in the cedar the more fragrant the odor, it drives away the moths, mice and insects. Just the thing to store your furs or winter wraps.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

It Is hard to understand why Ne braska5should favor one great pacifist in Henry Ford and turn down another great pacifist in MT. Bryan.-Boston Globe
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
TRUNKS

Dress and Steamer Trunks, all sizes, and styles, priced $4.25 to $12.50.
 Fibre Wardrobe Trunks, priced $15.OO and S22.5O each.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

The New Haven road continues to offer distressing reminders of the per- ills of peace.-Washing gton Star.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

The papers seized by representa- tives of the United States government when they arrested Wolf Won IgeI should by all means be returned to him-after they have been carefully copied.-washingt Herald.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

We seem to detect the germinatior of an alliance Roosevelt, Bryan, Mann Times
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

R COUNTRY: IN HER IN- COURSE WITH. FOREIGN |ONS MAY SHE ALWAYS
 N THE RIGHT; BUT OUR FTRY RIGHT OR WRONG. STEPHEN DECATUR.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Perhaps the secretary of war will also be known Gf the troops are with drawn), as Home-run Baker-Boston Advertiser.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Some of those translations from Mister Carranza's notes smack too much of Spanish idiom to be good English. Buffalo Times
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Albert, Prince of Monaco, has taken a stand beside President Wilson In the submarine issue. Pipe smokers please notice.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
FACTS AND RANCHES.

Michigan has reason to be extreme ly jealous of the picturesque aspects of Nebraska politics.-New Yorl, Sun.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Judging from his Turkish and Aus trian 'incubuses," one might get the imprtssion the Kaiser had an idea he was a carry all r.-Philadelphia In- euirer.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Burlington extends hearty welcome to ex-President Taft. He should feel particularly at home in Vermont Burlington Free Press
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

By this time MT Lorimer should know by heart the stirring story of his life.-Chicago News.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

We trust MT. Morgan will enjoy the collection of 15,00o,o00 dollar bills he now may have in place of his late fathers art treasures.-Brockton on Times.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

MT. Bryan Is passing through one of his leanest and dryest periods Springfield Republican.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

Priced S2.8s, S3.8s, $500 each. Several $79S Coats at $5.9S each. $t2.5O and $1O.O0 Coats at Ss.9S each.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
Children's School .: Umbrellas

Priced soc, 75c, ssc, s1.4s each.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

H1fy tSunday excepted1 at 4:15 D. rn., Herald Building, 67 Church St.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26

at the Post Office at New Britain @econd Class Mail Matter.
New Britain herald., 1916-04-26
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