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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
Martha Chapter, No. 81, o. E. S

Martha Chapter, No. 81, O. E. S.,
will hold regular meeting Thursday
evening. Six candidates will receive
the degrees.
Members are urgently requested to
attend the serving meeting, in the af-
ternoon at $50 and will please fur
nish material for an apron.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
FRENCH EDITOR DIES.

Paris Feb. 5.-Edouard Adolphe
Drumont, editor of Libre Parole, is
dead, at the age of 70. He was the
author of a large number of books
and plays. M. Drumont was best
known outside of France for the ser
sational anti-semetic campaign which
he waged for many years.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
FOR THEFT OF SHOES.

Hartford, Feb. Frank w. %
ing and Edward Murphy arreste
Waterbury Saturday for stealing
pairs of shoes from a railroad
in interstate commerce were b.
over to the United States court at
Haven, Feb. 20, by United States c
missioner Carroll in this city to
They were taken to Jail.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
NO OPPOSITION TO TRACK.

Hartford, Feb. 5.-There was no
opposition before the public utilities
commission today to the petition of
the city of Bridgeport for approval Of
plans for an industrial spur track on
4 Water street, that city.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
Camp Clara, r. N. of A.

Camp Clara, R. N. Of A., will have
it's regular meeting tomorrow night
In st. Jean de Baptiste hall. Church
street, at which time several items of
important business will come I'D for
discussion.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
FRATERNAL NEWS
Winthrop Council. No. 7.

Winthrop council, Sons and Daugh-
tiers of Liberty, will meet Wednesday
night. All members are requested to
be present as a very important ques-
ton relating to insurance dues must
be settled.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
PERSHING HOME AGAI
Commander of Expeditionary F'o1
Pursuit of villa Arrives Bacl
This Side of Border.

Columbus, N. M, Feb. 81
General John H. Pershing rode d
Mexico at 1905 today at the he|
more than 10000 soldiers of the
erican punitive expedition.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05

San Antonio, Feb. 5.-Orders
homeward movements Of the SEQ
Of the Wisconsin infantry at Sar
tonic and the fifth Maryland Inf
at Eagle Pass have been CANCEL
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
RUSSIAN BARK SUNK.

London, Feb. 5.-The Russian
masted bark Garnet Hill Of 2.272
gross, is believed by Lloyds to
been sunk.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-02-05
SIX DIE BY FIRE
Father, Mother and -Four Children
Burned to Death in PHILADELPHIA
Surviving Member of Family Away

Philadelphia, Feb "a family Of
six, father. mother and four children
lost their lives in a fire which de-
stroyed their home early today. The
family was that of Max Pomerantz.
The only member of the family left
is a son who was away from home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
THE OLD FASHIONED DOCTOR

From "The Stars in Their Courses" by
 Hilda M. Sharp Putnam).
 1N AIR. INGRAM-he did not like to be |NWII called doctor-stood outside the e oS surgery door and spoke with the chauffeur of his richest patient.
 ''Tell Lady Smith can't come and see her every day" he repeated. T haven't time. I put her on a diet yesterday and told her to walk more and drive less. can't do anything more. Tell her that"
 "Yes, sir,' the man looked dubiously at the bicycle on which he had come and back to the doctor. Begging your par don, sir, but I think her ladyship would like to see you all the same-it would cheer her up, Hke.''
 Nonsense. She doesn't need me. Why should I pick her pocket?''
 He turned back into the outer room where, in the space left beyond the X-ray apparatus which was his darling play thing and only extravaganza, waiting pa tients sat He was frowning impatiently, but the frown died away as he listened to the voluble story of the young mill hand who sat there, nervously clutching the shawl round her thin form. He patted her shoulder kindly
 Nothing to be frightened att he said. "Its influenza your mothers got And, as luck will have it, happen to have bottle of medicine by me that would be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07

the very thing for her. You take it to her like a. good lass, and tell her to go to bed and pile all the blankets and shawls in the house on top of her. And I'll come and see her this afternoon for 8 bit of a talk-not a professional visit, tell her. No, there's nothing to pay"
 He went back to the inner room and made up the bottle of medicine which, ''as luck would have it, he happened to have by him. and then sat down at the shabby writing table to finish his inter- rupted and unsatisfactory accounts. It was perhaps no wonder that the writing table and its surroundings were shabby and the accounts unsatisfactory-
 How do you ever expect to make fortune?" his dead wife had been used to say to him querulously. And when he answered that he did not expect it, she would ask him if he never thought of his wife and children.
 I have to think of my work first" he said, "and my work is to do all I can to cure persons who need curing, irrespec- tive of whether they can pay for it. have no time to waste over people who enjoy having their pulse felt and their tongues looked at, just because they have money enough to spend on arrangements of that kind. I'm doctor, not an old lady's companion or an entertainer at so much an hourn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
sUNDOwN 15yoo0.0Oo YEARS HENCE From the Philadelphia Public Ledeer.

sUNDOwN 15,oOo.0Oo YEARS HENCE From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 And now comes a London scientist to plunge Pittsburgers deeper still in Cim- merian gloom by telling them the sun will only shine 15,O00000 years longer. Evi- dently most of his auditors were familiar with the orb of day, but the information was depressing directly after exhaustive research proved that Pittsburg had the biggest laundry bill of any large city. Pittsburg is wonderful city. city of ''vim, vigor and victory but sunlight is not its chief asset. and the daylight sav- ing movement, which is only a cult in some other Pennsylvania localities, is a religion at the meeting place of the Ale gheny and the Monnongahela. However the painful event that is to occur 15,000,- 0o0 years hence concerns us all though there Is no particular hurry about making tho final arrangements for earth's funeral ceremonies. We can pass the anxiety on to our descendants, and they in turn can make of it a transmittendum to their children. Much can happen in year or g. day or an hour, as the cosmic tragedy in progress proves. Tn all that far-reach- ing vista that stretches out before tho race "ere the last tide fails'' there is am pie leisure to fashion new heaven and new earth. Perhaps before the sunlight dies we shall grow weary of our crowded. noisy planet and relinquisR it for an abode on an unspoiled sphereN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
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CRIPPLE CREEK REFORMED

From the Kansas City Times.
 We'll! We'll! How times do changel Here's the mayoralty of Cripple Creek going begging. There's nobody to aspire to the honor of being the executive of the capital of Teller county. ''the great est gold camp on earth" True. the job pays only 9 cents year. but then that wasn't any objection to the job in the good old days.
 Creek was wide open all night and seven days week. they had to rope 'em and tic 'em to keep em fHpm running for mayor. Every other building downtown sheltered saloon and gambling house and Myers avenue resounded from dark bands and shrill voices
 The mayoralty then was better than a free lease on the Portland mine. Big Tom, with his dented Stetson sombrero and tawny mustache, with his diamond studded star pinned to his coat and two IOTly-IOuIS StIdppeu IO HIS WdiSt, COul0 walk down Bennett avenue any morning from Johnny Nolans to the Palace hotel and back by way of the Branch and Wacker's and head into the mayors of flee with roll that would choke a horse and show nothing less than .'hundreds. ? ] Maybe Tom never did that and maybe nobody else ever did, but there certainly
 used to be some hot contests for the may oralty in those day and nobody ever was hog enough to want second term. And then Cripple Creek got the reform
 bug. No longer did the light-hearted
 miner come down from the hills and play
 the high card from soda to hook; the click of the roulette ball as is dropped
 into double % in the green was heard no more. the blaring bands were silenced
 and the underworld departed for greeneI | fields.
 And now they can't even get . man tc
 run for mayorl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
THE ZEPPELIN FIzzLn
pm the Chicago Herald.

From the Chicago Herald.
 British statistics establish the fact that since August, 1914. over seven times as many people have died in the darkened streets of London from auto mobile accidents as have perished in all England from Zeppelin lombard ments. While the air raiders have killed 1S7. the motor bus has brought death to 954.
 These figures point more than any thing else to the general failure of attack from the air which this war has demonstrated. The zeppelins have kept England frightened and vast numbers of their anti-aircraft guns at home rather than at the front. The airplane, too. has been of fnestimable scouting benefit to both sides. but both have failed as killers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
FRANCOIS WILLOW

From the Pittsburg Post
 SNRANCOIS WILLOW was one of the
 Tl greatest literary geniuses of his age-in fact of any age-for few have won such immortal fame, and yet under such extraordinary Ncircum- stances Even the real name of this French genius has never been known, and much of his life has been shrouded in mystery, yet his renown has en- dured for nearly five centuries.
 villon was a poet whose verses were beautiful and in exquisite taste, yet he lived the life of a blackguard, slum hero, a pickpocket and thief, and even a murderer. He was first discovered in the low taverns of Paris about the middle of the fifteenth century. He chose his chums from the sordid crim- inal classes and he fought stole, aroused and killed them, and then the next side of his character would as- sert itself, and he would write won- derful poems that were so musical that even his besotted comrades loved them. In his vocabulary was not only the slang of the thieves den. but also the most beautiful language known to man.
 Villon was known during his lifetime by at least six different names, and probably again as many more. Which, if any, of the names were really his own, no one knows. but 1t was surely not 'evillon." ''villon" was a French term for "crook." or "blackguard," and it was probably whimsically chosen for him as indicating his char acter.
 villon had wealthy influential friends. as we'll as the scum of Paris. First and last he needed all their in- fluence, and appropriated not a little of their wealth. His earliest known clash with the law was in 1455, when he was 24 years old. Returning frorn drunken revel one night he met a priest. A quarrel ensued and lVillon stabbed the priest to death. Then he fled to a shelter in the slums where the laws grip could not reach him and hid among his criminal admirers until family influence could win a pardon for him. A year or two later he was in trou- | ble again and was compelled to leave Paris in order to get out of severe, pun- ishment. In the early spring of 1456 he became a student at the College of | Navarro, and few weeks later the treasury chest of the chapel was rob- bed. A band of them confessed that villon was the ring2eader of the gang and that the poet was even then plan ming new robberies.
 | villon was put to the torture and then sentenced to be hanged. As he 1 lay in prison. waiting for execution. lie wrote one of his greatest poems, a grim. wonderful bit of verse entitled
 sBallade of the Hanged" Again his
 friends influence coupled with his own wit. came to the poets aid, and his
 death sentence was commuted to ban ishment.
 1 villon then drifted from one Euro
 pean capital to another. but during
 this period little is known of his lifo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
Judge Pelharm's Death
Is Widely L.annemGed

Is Widely LsaEmemted
 THE death of Judge John A. Pel- A ham, superior judge of the state court of appeals, has caused profound sorrow throughout Ala bama. He served with distinction on the bench and was recently reelected for six-year term by an overwhelm- ing majority.
 Few men are endowed with so many fine qualities of mind and heart, and perhaps no public man in Alabama has ever had more loyal friends than Judge Pelham. In Anniston, where he spent most of his life, practicing law and later serving as circuit judge, he was deservedly popular, and in Montgomery, where he has made his home since being appointed to the court of appeals, he was held in the highest esteem.
 Judge Pelham's public life was characterized by fearlessness in per forming his duty, an integrity which nothing could shake and legal dis cernment which made him capable and useful judge. He had to an un- usual degree the gift of charming everyone who met him in a social way. He was delightful companion, interested in his fellowman and al- ways glad of an opportunity to in dulge in neighborly chat. His death at time when he might have expected many more years of service to the state in which he was born and where he was greatly honored, is doubly to be deplored.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
HOTEL LOBBTEs
Time to Call a Halt

The request of the President that the Senate modify it's rules permitting the members unlimited debate should be con sidered,' said Robert D. Ramsey, alumni secretary of Washington and Lee univer- sity, yesterday. The Senate is the only legislative body, of any moment, in the world that allows it's members to debate for any time on any question.
 While some notable measures have been killed by the fllbusters of a small group of men, it was indeed reprehensi- ble for the senators. headed by LaF'ol- lette and Stone. to prevent the President from being allowed to arm the merchant vessels of the United States.
 While a privilege may be abused to such an extent, it is time for a halt to be called"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS


 The reason why a father knows that his son will have to quit smoking is because father tried to and couldn't quit.
 Another fairy tale: Once upon a time there was a married man who didn't think that his wife talked too much.
 Telling woman that she is worth her weight in gold won't keep her from trying to reduce.
 You may not believe it. But thou sands of the worlds greatest men man. aged to get by without the aid of T Do 1t Now motto on the wall.
 whole lot of married men are not afraid of the hereafter because they feel that they are getting all the pun ishment coming to them right here on earth.
 If he is late showing up before they are married. his excuses are all ex- plantations. But if he is late showing up after they are married, his ex- plantations are all excuses. Any regular church goer can tell you that 1t doesn't take much to make a choir giggle.
 Every now and then man has a bad day and things get on his nerves un- til he feels like telling the whole world to go plum to Halifax. A college graduate doesn't say that we have had right smart" of rain or right smart" of snow like his coun- try-raised daddy, but his grammatical remarks on the weather are just about as entertaining.
 Give small boy a charge account at grocery store and let him order what he pleases and the betting is that he won't keep Xou broke paying for the soap he orders.
 Maybe married life would be more pleasant if woman felt as sorry fol her own husband as she does for some I other woman's husband. The d-fashioned girl who used tt consult the fortune teller before sht married now has a daughter who i, wise enough to consult the Income ta, collector before she marries. A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07

When he returned to Paris four years later he was cast into prison once more for sacrilege, and he spent the summer of 1461 in cell. He was final ly set free in general Jail delivery that year.
 villon's old spirit of wild, reckless adventure seemed gone. Soon after ward he wrote his famous Grand Tes- lament" work that breathes of weari- ness. regret and utter despondency. Broken by prison and dissipation, vil- lon died at the age of 50.
 The strange twist of the brain which made villon a criminal, and also en- abled him to write such verse as no man of his time had written, Is hard ly understandable. Of the man him. self. nothing good can be said, yet his writings live in spite of his personal career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
Hes Ready to Write a Poem

This sunshine looks mighty good to me-" said James Smith yesterday. ''When the sun begins to shine and the birds begin to sing, and the flowers begin to blossom forth, life is really worth living. Then the old boys hang around the down. town corners and watch the damsels blossom forth in their new spring togs.
 And you can take it from me, there are no more beautiful girls anywhere than we have right here in Birmingham. If any person does not believe this, just let said person hang around the streets on windy day in March and chances are he will change his mind. If nothing else will change his mind, spring surely will.
 "The girls of Birmingham had better watch their steps this week, for the eyes of the world are upon them, and that from their faces down, or vice versa, most probably vice versa"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
Sheep-Killing Dog
 Causes Heavy Loss

WTHouT reference to official w statistics every farmer and every observer of the wool market knows that sheep production is de- clining. The sheep-killing dog has been playing havoc. He may not put to death large number in any one year, but he is ready and eager year In and year out. Several years ago all the sheep-raising states began to agitate against the "yellow" dog. Alabama was one of the first of them. Legislation was adopted and the situ- ation in this state has been improved, but throughout the country as whole the decline in sheep raising has been seriously marked.
 Production of mutton and wool has fallen "amazingly in the past, es- pecially since 1910." In 1840 there were nearly 100000 sheep in New England. "Now," says high au- S thority, "there are about 25O,0OO. At the same time there were 7,0OO,000 head in the middle Atlantic states. Now there are less than 1,500,0O0 In 1865-70 there were 100000 Now there are 2,750,0O0."
 Pennsylvania has been great sheep state, but during the last seven years there has been a decrease of upwards of 33 per cent in the number " sheep kept, causing loss, it is ostimated, of $3,OO0,OO0 to the Fonnsylvania farmers. Similar losses have been reported in other eastern states.
 AThe situation has become so acute" says a wool statistician, "that our manufacturers are making inves- Y I51fxations to find out the reasons for \ Snch decreases" It is traced to sev-
 nl causes, but chiefly to the dog. < <1&vs for compensating the farmers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
47
 FATE

By Bret Harte. The sky is clouded, the rocks are The spray of the. tsmpest is white in
 air. ssS4 The winds are out with tho waves at
 play. . And I shall not tempt the sea today The trail is narrow. the wood is dim. The panther clings to the arching x limb. The lion's whelps are abroad at play, And | shall not join in tho chase to-
 day. But the ship sailed safely over the And the hunters came from the chase And the town that was builded upon Was swallowed up in an earthquake
 shock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07

for the loss of sheep killed by dogs are said to be entirely inadequate. In Pennsylvania not only is it impos- sible to get immediate compensation for actual losses of sheep killed, but other losses of flocks are not paid for at all.
 Farmers in New York and Pennsyl- vania are organizing for the purpose of staying the evil complained of. Alabama and every other state in the union that feels the decline of the sheep industry will be asked to join in the movement to get rid of the "yallar" dog that has the mutton tooth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07

BEGINNING THE DAY-Gracious Father, give me brOtherly sympathy with the weaker travellers in this pilgrimage of life. Teach me to courage, not to criticize. Make me to know that I in my own way am also full of faults and that in their circumstances I might be far worse than they. For Christ's sake. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE PRESIDENT,

THE PRESIDENT,
 Four more years of Wilson
 Now we contemplate,
 Willingly the nation
 Trusts to him her fate
 Time has proved his mettle-
 Strong, courageous, wise;
 Glad we are to hail him
 Where Old Glory fliesl
 WOULD BELIEVE ANYTHING. Mrs. Dubwaite found a pink-scented note in Mir. Dubwaite's pocket last night" Dear mel I presume there was a ter- rible row?"
 "No. MT. Dubwaite convinced her that some of the men at the office had played a practical joke on him." 'Welll Well! Imagine being married to woman as easy to fool as that!"
 LEAVE HIM OUT. You are patriot, I hope?" "Oh, yes" replied the prudent person, ''but unless it is absolutely necessary, at my time of life would rather show my patriotism in some other way than risk ing pneumonia in Washington on inaugu- ration day"
 SIGN OF GREATNESS. 'Biltner is an ambitious man.. Are you sure of that?'' Quite sure Why, Biltner even hopes to become so prominent that some day newspaper photographers will take snap shots of him while he is playing little golf.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
A REvELER

<A ANAA certain type of citizen
 Youll very often meet. Who likes to hear the music play, Is light upon his feet And when the cabarets are full Of mirthfulness and song, He's more than apt to have place
 Amid the merry throng.
 SECOND SIGHT
 ''Did understand you to say that Flih bits fell in love with Miss Grabcoia A first sght?'
 Certainly not He didn't discover thlt she was the daughter of old MT. Reginald Grabcoin, the multimillionaire. until the day after he met her"
 Aa. CUTTING DOWN GOSSIP.
 How do you suppose some people spent their spare time before motion pictures were invented?"
 T don't like to appear unkind to tfose persons, but before they started to spend ing practically all of their leisure mo- ments in photoplay houses they knew great deal more about their neighlprs' private affairs than they do now
 MAKES THEM ENVIOUS.
 aThe idea of rich woman paying ;1ooo for fur coat" exclaimed the socialistic observer. That doesn't increase the sum of human happiness
 You are right, friend" answered hard worked married man. "At any rate, it doesn't increase the sum of happiness among women who can't afford to buy s1oOo coats" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07
Value of Vacant Lots

Birmingham has not yet learned to use it's vacant lots for the greater good of the community and the lesson should be taught" said F. L. Wade yesterday. s'Vacant lots are unrealized assets Other towns have found out the truth and prof tied notably thereby.
 Charity is by no means the only thing that ought to begin at home. If the yards in your neighborhood are inclined to bear the earmarks of vacant lots, even to the old rubbers, commence your garden ing right there. Talk about it to your neighbors, and they will certainly become interested and later enthused
 Nothing pays like advertising and nothing succeeds like success. so just as surely as your own gardening efforts are crowned with success, your neighbors will emulate your example. If not this year, next year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07

framed in Berlin, we are assured that we won't get hurt. Austria will look on armed merchantmen as pirates and treat them accordingly. A rupture in diplomatic relations is inevitable.