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New Britain herald., 1916-02-01
EUGENE D. FOX DEAD,

Hartford, Feb. Eugene D. Fox, personal tax collector since 1912, died at his home today after three weeks illness. He was a native of this city, forty-eight years of age, and prom inent in Foresters' circles here and throughout the state.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-01

Native eggs, every one strictly fresh, 33c dog. Russell Bros.-advt.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-01

Strictly fresh native eggs, 33c doz Russell Bros, 301 Main St.-advt
New Britain herald., 1916-02-01
SAN DIEGO FARMS RUINED BY FLOOD
Further Damage in Arkansas Conditions in Indiana Improved

< San Diego, Cal, Feb. 1.-When the water drains out of San Diego coun- tvs flooded valleys many ranchmen now encamped in the hills, who a week ago counted themselves pros porous, will have no ranches to re- turn to. Not only their dwellings, barns, orchards and livestock gone. but the soil itself has been devastated by erosions and deposits of sand and gravel to such an extent that, as one investigator said today, those unfor- tunates might as well try to grow crops on a granite sidewalk as to think of utilizing their land any long er"
 Many Farms Ruined.
 Tn the San Diego Valley between the towns of Foster and Lakeside, twenty miles northeast of this city, fifteen partly improved farms of forty acres and more thus were ruined, and reports of similar disaster were received from other districts.
 It was said that the naval authori- ties are prepared to send further medical supplies into the flooded dis tricts and if necessary assign more marines and sailors to patrol and re- lief duty.
 The total number of deaths by the flood remains at sixty-five.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-01

Strictly fresh native eggs, 33c doz. Russell Bros, 301 Main St.--advt.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-01

Native eggs, aSc dog. Russell Bros.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-01

Native eggs, every one strictly fresh. 33c doz Russell Bros.-advt.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-01

Native eggs, every one strictly fresh, 33c dog. Russell Bros.-advt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
GET MANGANESE SUBSTITUTE
Germans Find Other Substitute for
 Manufacture of Steel

New York, May 16.-(Special.) )-The sub- situte for manganese. the discovery of which by German chemists was announced in a dispatch from Berlin on February 17, is proving entirely satisfactory and the output is being rapidly increased, accord ing to the latest number of the bulletin issued by the war committee of German industry to reach this country. In it's re- port on this subject the bulletin says:
 "Germany's enemies had placed great hopes on the prospective shortage of manganese, as up to the present it had been indispensable in the manufacture of steel. As matter of fact there never was any question of deficiency in the supply of manganese. Apart from the quantities stored up in the country Germany possesses manganese mines in the Rhine province, in Westphalia, and also in southern and central Germany Such mines are likewise to be found in Austria and Turkey, so that the extrac- tion of manganese in these three en- pires amounted before the war to ap- proximately 100000 tons. This was enough to satisfy very extensive requirements.
 Tt might nevertheless have been feared that, in the event of the war lasting a long time, certain shortage of man ganese would make itself felt. This fear now no longer exists: for substitute, in every respect satisfactory, and sus- ceptible of being produced in unlimited quantities in Germany, has now been dis covered. The factories are already in full swing. and still larger ones are being built
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
MRS. CORY GREETS OLD
 HEROES FOR DAUGHTERS

only balm in all these Gileads of war.
 is that sacred principle for which our
 heroes dead and heroes living, went out
 to dare and die. When the right of men
 with common interests and common sym
 pathies to form their own governments
 and round themselves into nations shall
 be recognized and practiced, as it will
 be, the war drum shall cease to throb and
 eternal peace begin her reign on earth. The Confederate soldiers cause is a liv- ing breathing cause, and the sore dis tress that follows every violation of it's immortal right to bless and save, is vim dication of the Confederate soldiers fame. My old and well beloved friends there was always one place where Your star never did set, where your sun never did cease to shine-in the hearts of the wom- en of the southl The time will never come when the mothers of the south shall fail to answer your spirits call from | the radiant haven on the other shore. l We who proudly call ourselves Daugh- l ters of the Confectionery. mighty and l growing host whose behalf I speak | today, in the endless future even as now, will call our little boys about our knees and teach them the nobleness of cour- 1 age, the beauty of patriotism, and the | holiness of fidelity And we shall find the l teaching easy, and the lesson lasting. We | shall tell them the story of the Confed- | crate soldier. Our mother hearts are glad and glowing in the faith that generation 1 after generation of our sons in their end- 1 less marching toward eternity, have only | to follow where your footsteps trod the l path of duty and of honor, to reach at l last that heaven where the army of the l good made perfect shall await their com | ing.
 And now, best loved veterans in all
 the world, glorious remnant of our knight ly race. now that we have you with us | once again, we would wish to close our | swinging doors and bar them tight against your going"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

I was the whole thing and was aware that my duty was a duty of interpreta- tion, how could I be sure that had the right element of information by which to interpret truly?
 What we are now talking about is largely spiritual You say all the peo- pie out my way think so and so.' Now. I know perfectly well that you have not talked with all the people out your way. I find that out again and again And so you are taken by surprise. The people of the United States are not ask ing anybody's leave to do their own thinking, and are not asking anybody to tip them off what they ought to think. They are thinking for them selves, every man for himself; and vou do not know, and, the worst of it is, since the responsibility is mine, I do not know what they are thinking about I have the most imperfect means of finding out. and yet I have got to act as if I knew.
 CAN'T DO AS HE PLEASES
 That is the burden of it. and I tell you, gentlemen, it is pretty serious burden. particularly if you look upon the office as I do-that am not put here to do what I please. If I were, it would have been very much more in- teresting than it has been. I am put here to interpret, to register, to Sug- gest, and, more than that, and much greater than that, to be suggested to.
 Now, that is where the experience that I forecast has differed from the experience that I have had. In domestic matters I think I can in most cases come pretty near guess where the thought of Amer ica is going. but in foreign affairs the chief element is where action is going on in other quarters of the world and no: where thought is going on in the United States. Therefore, I have several times taken the liberty of urging upon you gen. tlemen not yourselves to know more than the state department knows about foreign affairs. Some of you have shown sin gular range of omniscience, and certain things have been reported as understood in administrative circles which I never heard of until I read the newspapers I am constantly taken by surprise in regard to decisions which are said to be my own, and this gives me an uncomfortable feeling that some providence is at work with which I have had no communication at all.
 "Now, that is pretty dangerous, gen. tlemen, because it happens that remarks start fires. There is finder lying every where, not only on the other side of the water, but on this side of the water, and man that spreads sparks may be re- sponsible for something great deal worse than burning town on the Mexican
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
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 that I felt constantly personal de- tachment from the presidency; that one thing that I resented when I was not performing the duties of the office was being reminded that I was the Presi- dent of the United States. I felt to- ward it as a man feels toward a great function which, in working hours, he Is obliged to perform but which out of working hours he is glad to get away from and almost forget and resume the quiet course of his own thoughts. am constantly reminded as go about as I do sometimes at the week end of the personal inconvenience of being President of the United States. If I want to know how many people live in a small town all have to do is to go there and they at once line up to be counted. I might. in a census taking year, save the census takers d great deal of trouble by asking them to ac- company me and count the people on the spot. Sometimes, when l am most beset, seriously think of renting a pair of whiskers or of doing something g else that will furnish me with an ade- quate disguise. because I am sorry to find that the cut of my jib is unmis- takable and that must sail under false colors if I am going to sail incognito.
 "Yet, as I have matched my expert ence3 WltH my dntlclpdtloAS, l, oI coul Se, have been aware that l was taken by surprise because of the prominence of many things to which I had not looked forward. When we are dealing with domestic affairs. gentlemen, we are dealing with things to us as Americans are more or less calculable. There is singular variety among our citizen- ship, it is true; greater variety even than I had anticipated; but, after all, we are all steeped in the same atmos- phere, we are all surrounded by the same environments we are all more or less affected by the same traditions, and moreover. we are working out something that has to be worked out
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

sometime comfortably close over their heads as the black waters of oblivion. sometimes imagine that l see their heads going down, and I am not fn- clined even to throw them life pre- server. The sooner they disappear the better. We need their places for people who are awake, and we particularly need now, gentlemen, men who will di vest themselves of party passion and Of personal preference and will try to think in the terms of America. If man describes himself to me now in any other terms than those terms. 1 am not sure of him; and I love the fellows that come into my office sometimes and say, MT. President, I am an American. Their hearts are right their instinct true, they are going in the right direc- tion, and will take the right leadership if they believe that the leader is also a man who thinks first of America.
 You will see. gentlemen. that I did not premeditate these remarks or they would have had some connection with each other They would have had some plan. I have merely given my self the pleasure of telling you what has really been in my heart, and not only has been in my heart, but is in my heart every day of the week. If did not go off at week ends occasion ally and throw off, as much as it is pos sible to throw off. this burden I could not stand it. This week I went down the Potomac and up the James and substituted history for politics, and there was an infinite. sweet calm in some of those old places that reminded me of the records that were made in the days that are past; and I comfort ed myself with the recollection that the men we remember are the disin- terested men who gave us the deeds that have covered the name of America all over with the luster of imperishable glory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
ARE GOING BACKWARD

That Is also true. gentlemen, of the
 world and of affairs. You have got to run fast merely to stay where you are, and in order to get anywhere, you have got to run twice as fast as that That is what people do not realize That is the mischief of these hopeless dams against the stream known as reaction aries and standpatters and other words of obloquy. That is what is the matter with them; they are not even staying where they were. They are sinking further and further back in what will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

During the previous engagements of D.. W. Griffiths historical spectacle, 'The Birth of a Nation," at the Jefferson thea tre, several inquiries were received as to the old melodies played by the sym phony orchestra. In reply to these in quiries the titles of the various compost tions making up the score ranging from afte-belluIn tunes to excerpts from stand ard classics, are given herewith in the order that they are played.
 First part: Original melodies composed by John Carl Briel Down Upon the Sawanee River, Medley of Southern Plan tation Songs, The Perfect Song, Turkey In the Straw, In the Gloaming. We Are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

Mrs. Chappell Cory voiced the senti. ments of the Daughters of the Confed- eracy in her welcoming words to the vet erans at their opening meeting yesterday Mrs. Cory said:
 For the third time in her brief and buoyant history, Birmingham has opened wide her doors to let the blessed sunshine of your presence in. May I not better say the door has stood wide open al these 20 years and more since first yor came to light our homes and warm oul hearts?
 Full many noble heart has ceased to beat since then full many an olC familiar face, in it's gray and wrinklet setting, grown young again with youth: immortal bloom, is looking down upor us now from the battlements of heaven would not have them see welcom, short of giving all we have and are, low, rising on the wings of duty to heavenl, perfection. Face to face, hand in hant and heart to heart, we mean to giv you such a happy time in Birmingham that your old comrades, who are listen ing and watching us from the far spiri land, will know for very deed and truth we still love them down in Dixie Like many another radiant sun befor and since, the sun or our beloved Con federacy sank to rise again No darke night than Appomattox has been followe' by so bright day. Clouds that scene to have no rim of promise anywhere, hel, | on and on their ceaseless, hopeless, crue way across the southern sky. But trut never yet has died, nor righteous caus | been buried. Scant 50 years have gone and the muse of history is chanting tn , praises of the Confederate soldier in al tongues and in every land.
 "A million throated cry for blood i doing its evil best to wreck our good ol, world this sunny. springing day Tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

Coming Father Abhaham, Coming Thro' the Rye, BonnH Blue Flag, Light Cav airy Overture, Maryland, Farewell My Own True Love, Dixie, Frieschuts Over ture Maryland, The Perfect Song, Simon ettIs Madrigal, Marching Thro' Georgia, Peer Gynt Suite, Light Cavalry Overture, Trumpet Calls, Arrangement of Wag- merriam Themes for war) Taps, Star Span sled Banner, Kingdom Coming, The Perfect Song My Country 'Tis of Thee, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Coming Thro' the Rye, Home, Sweet Home Norma Overture.
 Second part: Original ThemesNby John Carl Briel The Perfect SoDg, In the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
Rubber Plant Resumes

Youngstown, O.. May 16.-The plant of the Republic Rubber company, closed since April 29, when the management an- Eounced that it would not operate in view of 'the excessive demands of labor 9 reopened today, and the company claimed that $50 of its 1250 employees returned to work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

Gloaming, Original Melodies by Briel, Mocl1ing Bird, Call of the Clans, Bee thoven's Fifth Symphony, Aud Lang Syne, 1872 Overture Ride of the Valkyries, Rinzi Overture, Cocoanut Dance (with Hampton pictures), Gloria from iiozart' s Twelfth Massachusetts, Star Spangled Banner.
 The score was arranged and synchron- ized to. the 5000 scenes of the spectacle by John Carl Briel, composed of Adele and other successful operas and the sym phony orchestra is conducted by Alfred Moulton, a. gifted Englishman who first visited Birmingham with The Merry Widow and later with Naughty Marietta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
St. Louis Strike Settled

St. Louis, May 16.-The strike in the building trades here was settled today when officers of the Building Trades council agreed to accept compromise on wages and hours. The compromise pro- vides for a nine-hour day, 30 cents an hour for building laborers and time and a half for overtime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17
Swiss Use American Corn

OWISS USE AHeTICdM CUTH
 Berne. Switzerland May 16-(Via Paris.)-An official report to Parliament states that since the beginning of the war Switzerland has imported mostly from America corn worth 2490OO,000 francs. It has also imported IT cargoes of wheat. 1s cargoes of oats. IS of maize and three of barley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-17

Send The Weekly AEe-HeraId to your Confederate veteran friend or any other friend who lives on farm. You can send 1t for an entire year from May IS for only 25 cents. Thls offer only good this week
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-03-08

Drlng fresh car loads OF brand rev
mIIIlonaires. the metropolis was not
SO openly Keeling with dollars as 1t is
at this moment, when the gayest sea-
SON of it's history is drawing to q
close"
planned? First, for the last eighteen
months the world has learned of un-
precedented disasters in such quick
succession that it is no longer sur
prised at horror of whatever magni-
tude. Second, the war is in Europe
and American homes are but little af-
fected. Third, American industry is
being rushed to its limit to supply for
eign demands and Americans are busy
spending the billions that European
governments are pouring into this
country. Fourth, Sidney Brooks says:
"Stay-at-hom Americans simply can-
not enter into or even conceive the at
mosphere of the belligerent nations in
this struggle"
Even these reasons seem hardly
sufficient to justify the indifference
and lack of sympathy. We fear the
Americans today are too near money
mad. Possibly like Belshazzar we are
too much given to feasting and revel-
ry are glorying too much in our pros
perity. 1t certainly seems a time for
serious reflection, for a keener appre-
citation of the qualities of sympathy
charity and fellowship. America
should gain something more than lux
ury and the splendor of gold from this
terrible war
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-03-08
A veteran Correspondent.

The star newspaper correspondent
of Vermont and perhaps of all Ameri-
ca is H. A. Blake of Sutton and he has
been sending the news of his town to
The st. Johnsbury CaIedonian for AT
years-a most remarkable record. In
cidentally, he had taken The Gale
DOMAIN for eight years before he be-
came its correspondent. Among other
things, he has chronicled the death of
every person in town living when he
began work, and in some cases of
course two or three generations have
passed away.
Speaking of Vermont newspapers,
we note that the Brattleboro Daily Re-
former has completed the third year
of vigorous life. 1t tells us, we are
glad to be able to say. that long ago
it was established on an assured basis,
and its permanency is now unquestion-
ed. 1t is a well edited, newsy paper
and on the mechanical side it main
tains the traditions of the Brattleboro
Phoenix, so long the model in make
up and press work.-Burlington News.
H. A. Blake of Sutton, VT, must be
close to the top of the list of veteran
newspaper correspondents. He has
been sending Sutton news to the st.
Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN for At years.
Manchester Union.
H. A Blake of Sutton is unques-
tiOnably close to the top of the list of
veteran newspaper correspondents. He
has been sending items from his home
community to the ST. Johnsbury Gale
DOMAIN AZ consecutive years. The cor
respondent of a small town who re-
ports the news for the newspapers
which are the county centers of bust
ness and activity does an important
work. The publishers of county papers
cannot afford to pay adequately for
the service which the correspondent
performs. but the person who records
the happenings of his village or ham
let keeps his own locality on the map
all the time. 1t is worth something
for every rural town to be represent
ed each week in a reputable newspa-
per which is striving to do its part in
the Industrial, social, educational and
moral advancement of towns, county
and state. The good correspondent of
a county newspaper gives his town a
standing and character by the pub
licity gained through a weekly chron-
icle of the events Eat home. Brat
tleboro Reformer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-03-08
Good outlook For Preparedness.

The introduction of an army bill in
the Senate last Saturday and of an
other in the House on Monday brings
the preparedness issue directly before
Congress. The two bills are so nearly
alike that it is felt there will be little
will give the country much more eff
fective military strength than it now
possesses. The Senate bill would pro-
vide for a regular army of IT'S, 900 in
times of peace and a war strength of
225,OO0 with a term of enlistment of
seven years, four with the colors and
three with the reserve. The national
guard would be practically doubled in
force. each member to serve three
years with the colors~and three with
the reserve. A federal volunteer force
is provided for in a general way, the
number not to exceed 600 in any con-
gressional district and a total strength
of about 100000.
1t is claimed that in the federal vol
unteer force Sec. Garrison's desire for
a continental army is fulfilled The
plan promises an increased military
strength for the country but we have
not seen any estimate of the. increase
in cost it will necessitate. We are
glad to see the prospect of increased
military strength but we still believe
that compulsory training of all young
men Of certain ages would be a better
plan. Under the present plan every
volunteer must give up a portion of
his time from business or schooling.
Any young man who does this cannot
be given the same opportunity in in
dustrial life as one who can give I'M
broken service. But if every young |
man was compelled to give a certain
term to military service there could |
be no discrimination on that account.
OF course we accept what Congress
will give but believe ultimately uni |
versal training similar to the Swiss
plan will have to be adopted in this
country.