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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-27
KILLED At BAD CROSSING.
Train Hits Doctors Automobile
With Tragic Result.

Burlington, \. j.. Nos. 2T.--ilr.
David Spccr was killed Sunday night
when Pennsylvania Railroad pas
sengcr train crashed into his aulJ-
mobile ut one Of the unguardcd Gro:
sings in West Burlington not far
from his home. The physician We;
still breathing when cytricatcd from
the wreck. but died while being cen
vevcd to the Riverside Hospital.
Dir. Spec" was about 10 years OLE.
the son Of the lat" Judge Spccr, .,
the Ohio Supreme Court. lie former
" conducted Saniia.ium in Now
Mexico, but sold il and came t.
Burlington to practice. he Marie:
Miss Lcona iarr. Burlington "ii'l.
b." few months ago.
The crossing ut which the physi-
clan met his death i one Of tic mos;
trcachcrous in South Jersey. II was
unprotected by gates and no watch
man is stationed there. View Of TIE
track in either direction is partly
obscurcd by bulldogs
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-27
- . 4.
I'LL OMEN FOR KAISER.
Sncialist Organ Says the German
People Oppose Annexation.

Amsterdam, Nov. 27.-Comment'
| ing on the assertion Of the Leipzig
yolks Zeitung that the German gov
cr.ment is pursuing anncxatlonlsl
aims in the East, Vorwaerts, the So
cialist organ, says:
According to the governments
own declaration that is incorrect. II
it were correct the social democracy
would naturally have to take up a
position of sharpest hostility to the
government.
If it now comes to negotiations
with the Russians, the German gov
eminent, will soon recognize tnaI u
could not strive for any other peace
chan that which the German peoplt
desire. The German people, will mol
wage war five minutes longer i'll Or
der that Poland may become Aus
TRAN and Courland and tijuana
PruSSian.'
Stockholm, Nov. 27.-Thc Leipsig
volks Zeitung, the chief organ d
the German Independent Socialists,
prints an attack upon the majority
Socialists in connection with the Rus
sian developments. 1t accuses the ma
jority faction of having given their
comrades false information
about the situation in Germany.
The Volks Zeitung declares the ma
iority Socialists have assured the
Russians that the German govern
mcnt, in the East, Will respect the
rights of nations to determine thei1
own destiny, despite the fact, the
newspaper remarks, "that it is well
known both inside and outside %
Germany that the German govern
nent will not do. anything of 'he
iind.'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-27
RAID LEADER DEAD.
Iaaeson. Who Was Captured b.
Beers in Transvaal, Dies in Lon

Iameson. Who Was Captured b.
Beers in Transraal, Dies in Lon
;ion.
London. Nov. 27.-Sir Lcandcr
Starr Jameson, leader Of the Jane
=, raid on the Transvaal in 1899,
shortly before the Bocr war, dicG
Yesterday IN London. :
~. jameson, as he was thcn
k. own, lei the famous raid on the
Transyaal in 1895, fighting the battle
Of krugcrsdorp. It went against
him and he surrendered to the BocrS
He and his officers were taken 10
PRETORIA and sentenced to be shot, but
subsequently were turned over to Tn"
Brjtish. He returned to Englani
tx! was tried for leading the Illegal
rad, being sentenced to fifteen
months in prison.
Sir Leandcr was 81 years old. lie
went TO South Africa in 1878, ami
;,r;,r spending several years III t'!a
practice Of medicine became engaged
with Cecil Rhodes in The exploitation
Ct the country. After his rcIea%"
from prison he returned to South
4 ..ica AMI was premier Of Cape
Colony from 1901 to 1908. lie was
made a privy councillor in 1907 ana
l;r;ghtcd in 1911.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-27
HAS PEACE PROPOSAL.
BoIshcviki Plans for Armisticc .irc
Officially Before Wilson.

Washington. Nov. 81 Proposals
of the Bolshcviki government Tor an
armistice and universal peace are
officially before President Wilson yes
tcrday. The peace offer arrived ovc:-
Sunday from Ambassador Francis,
Petrograd. 1t will be considered
carefully by President Wilson and
by Secretary Of State LanS'a:.
Whether or not it will be answer 4
is undecided. An answer niIgdt re
construed as recognition oE tNG
Bolshcviki as the de facto govcr.l-
ment and this matter will be one 81:
the chief points in determining amer.
ica'S course.
In any event, this government viii
net accept an armiStice. and it has
no intention of negotiating for peace
until It's aim Of safety for worln 10.
mocracy is accomplished. the Sia,c
department indicated today If n
answer is given it will cndcavor pror-
ably to soldify the Russian peep"
behind the war, and to shattcr fur
ther efforts at an armisticc OF a
separate peace which might aid Ger
MANY. The Bolshcviki control is
rapidly extending to the Russian
army and navy. according to diplu-
matte officials here today.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-27
TABLE LINENS.

New mcrccrizcd table damask inches wide, yard sc
New mcrccrizcd table danask II inches wde yard 75c
New merccrizcd table damask II inches wide yard sOo
New table damask, linen mixed, Y inches wide. yard SIPS
New table damask II inches wide, yard slIo
New all linen table damask wde yard ;. $500
New all damask, y inches WIDE yard $3.50
New dinner napkins S1.75, $780, $780, $780, $3.50,
$3.50. $500 and $3.50
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-27
Table Linens for Thanksgiving

Our table linen department Of
fcrs good values for your Thanks
giving table linen. The stock IS
complete with all the best linens and
dinner napkins.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-11-27

We urge our friends and the public
III Top l. 4 X l. \
There arc lots of advantages II
SHOPPING EARLY
You get good many new goods 20
select from. you arc not rushtI,
vou are not IN the crowds, tic
clerks have more patience iah
,.onr purchases arc delivered in bet
ter shape.
T. o I $
OR Toy Department is full 81
TOYS Of all kinds ut present. Lots
Of Dolls, Drums. Hobby Horses.
Choo Flys, Doll carriages, Games,
VcIocipctIcs, Bicycles. Trains, Stores,
Dishes, .irks, Guns. Dol! Houses,
Christmas Tree Ornaments, and IN
fact everything to make the little
ones happy. Come carly and siaE
late. but we urge you TO Shoi'
EARLY. "
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26

the quality of said ice x x < shall be fined not more than thirty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days"
 Must we see the best trout stream in this part of the state, the source of which is the pnrest of mountain springs, changed and so defiled that fish cannot live in it-from the anglers standpoint wiped off the map? Or so polluted that people dare not hathe in it?
 When it gets to where the farHers refuse to let their cows drink the water for fear of making them sick, or taint. ing the milk, is it not high time to act rather than talk?
 Our local health officer, pr. Lee, is doing all in his power to correct the trouble and it is sincerely hoped he will be successful.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
COUNTY ORGANIZATION FOR
 FOOD CONSERVATION.

The effective coordination of the efforts of the women of Litchfield County along food conservation lines, is the aim of the movement now on foot to organize the women of every town into local branch of the Home Economies Department of the Litchfield County Farm Bureau. Many of the towns are already excellently organ. iZed,
 The work of organization is being carried on by committee of the Farm Bureau of which Mrs. A. E. S. Taylor of Nolfolk is the head. Mrs. Taylor represents also the Woman's Auxiliary of the State Council of Defense, in which she is Litchfield County Chair. man.
 The plan of organization, as ap. proved by the Executive Board of the Farm Bureau, calls for Town Com. mittee on Home Economies in each town. The chairman of the town com. mittees are to form @ County Home Economies.
 From this County Council will be chosen a committee to act as the home economics committee of the Farm Bureau and to actively direct the work throughout the county.
 One of the immediate results of the organization of women will undoubt. edly be the employment of County home economies worker, who will actively cooperate with the Town Con- mittees in carrying on the food conser. vation work. Five Counties in Connec. ticut already have such workers in the field, and are securing valuable results.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
Modern Education Ap- pears to Fall Short of Complete Success By Senator HENRY CABOT LODGE
 of Massachusetts
r HAVE become very skeptical as

I HAVE become very skeptical as l to the wisdom which would cast
 the literature of Greece and Rome upon the dust heap when l have contemplated the performances of the most diversely and most thor oughly educated people in the world, from whom we have so largely bor- rowed in the way of education; i; when I have seen that people de- velop to the highest point the sci ence of destroying human lives, as perhaps was to have been expected 1; when I have seen them produce an organized barbarism far surpassing in its savage efficiency any that has ever afflicted the world; when have witnessed deeds wrought by the products of the most modern and improved methods of education which surpass in wanton destruc- tion, in equally wanton cruelty, in sheer naked horror, anything which history can show.
 WHEN | HAVE BEHELD ALL THIS | HAVE SERIOUSLY DOUBT ED WHETHER THE MOST MoD- ERN EDUCATION HAS BEEN QUITE SUCH A COMPLETE sUc- CESS AS ITS ADVOCATES ASSERT.
 No one would think of belittling the value and helpfulness of the in ventions of applied science. But they all minister to physical com fort. THEY LEAVE THE SOUL OF MAN UNTOUCHED.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
A" ST RAW"

By way of comparison, we observe in the July issne of The Telephone Bulletin, a tabulated list of the mum. Der of telephones in use i'll the various exchanges of the state on May 13, 1917, and also the expected gain to date, which was evidently the anticipated increase during the month of June. This was followed by the actual gain or loss, which may we'll be considered one of the "straws that show which way the wind blows" in the progess of a town. because as the business world grows the demand for telephones in- creases.
 Here are the figures for this corner of the state:
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
LOCkJAW WARFARE.

Of course we would not insinuate that the Germans are responsible for it but we cannot help doing some think ing when we read such news as this:
 "Three men, believed to be Ger
 mans, have been captured in widely
 separated parts of Kansas while en
 gagged in what appears to be an
 attempt to inoculate men, women
 and children with tetanus bacilli by distributing germ impregnated court
 plaster among them"
 When members of the animal King. dom who choose to call themselves human, stoop so low as to deliberately and Intentionally deal out the agonies and awful death which innocent women and children must suffer from lockjaw, it certainly looks as if "war is hell", not only in the battle.felds but ill our hcmes.
 That this means of killing people comes from a source other than mere cranks, is evidenced by the fact that it would be difficult for this class of people to obtain the cultures of tetanus bacilli. This is why it looks as if the "cultures" referred to may be related to the we'll known German "Kultur".
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26

visitors.
 B!cycles Were coming into vogue; one youthful rider paid Sl0 for the fun of riding on the sidewalk and injuring a pedestrian.
 pr. c. Y. Camp and NJ. N. Decker had both purchased promising colts, of John K Hurlburt of South Canaan, to train for trotteis at the Riverside Park.
 Thirty-siR Years Ago This Wesk-f5Sf
 Surveyors were at work on the west side of the Houshtonic river on a pro. posed railroad with Danbury as the terminal
 c. H. Stiner, who lived on the Franklin farm, south of this village, was seriously iii; four of his neighbors turned in and finished his having for him.
 100 men at work on the new water system st Lee, struck for an increase of wages to sl.75 Der day, which was refused.
 The Tobacco Growers Mutual Insur. ance Co of North Canaan. starts the second year with record of all losses satisfactorily paid, with full confidence of ample protection fer all tobacco growers.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
GRAVE YARD HUMOR.

From old files of the News we glean the following lines under the above title.
 In an English cemetery there is a stone that contains: "Here lies me, .andssm three daughters, Brought here by using Seidlitz waters, If we had stuck tosEpsom salts, We wouldn't have.been in these here
 vaults. ..-r
 A stone in Oxford, w1Hampshire has these lines:
 "To all my friends Isbid adieu, A more sudden death you never knew, As was leading the old mare to drink, She kicked and killed me quicker,,n a
 wink''.
 On tombstone in South Carolina is the following beautiful tribute: "Here lies the body of Robert Gurdir, Mouth almighty, and teeth accordin', Stranger tread lightly over this wonder, If he opens his mouth, you are gone by
 thunder.
 An inscription on a monument in Tennessee winds up with the following touching obituary.
 "She lived a life of virtue and died of the cholera morbus, caused by eating green fruit in the hope of ablessed im- mortality, at the early age of 21 years, 7 months and 16 days Reader, Go thou and do likewise. ' ,:Sz
 In some town in this state man died who had large wen on the top of his head, and his tombstone bore the following inscription to his memory and also to the wen: "Our father lies beneath the sod, His spirits gone unto his God, We never more shall hear his tread, Nor see the wen upon his head".
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
Genius Which Created Submarine Can Also
 Destroy It
By Professor MICHAEL L PUTIN, Columbia University, Member of the
 National Research Council

THE Germans ought to h. 2 \ known that the same invent :
 genius which gave them t..c submarine weapon will also knock II out of their hands.
 The Germans have announced to the world that unrestricted subma- rine warfare is their trump card and that they are stalking their all upon this card. The result of this latest move of German ruthlessness has been most serious. It has forced us into the war, and we have now to combat against the VERY WEAPON WHICH THE INVEN TIVE GENIUS OF THIS COUN- TRY PRODUCED.
 The submarine itself as well as the instrumcntalities employed in it's operation are the product of American inventiveness, the same inventiveness which gave birth to the telegraph, the telephone, the photograph, the rapid firing gun and the flying machine. But the Germans ought to have known that the same inventive genius which gave them the submarine weapon will also knock it out of their hands.
 THEY DID NOT KNOW IT ow- ING TO THEIR UTTER LACK OF SUBTLE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIS CREMATION, BUT THEY WILL KNOW IT VERY SOON.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
BORN

MANGLE-At Winsted hospital, July l3, a son to MT. and Mrs. Carl Mangle.
 GODING-At Canaan, July IS, 6 daughter to Mir. and Mrs. F. Landon Cooling of Church street. MERRIMAN-AtS South Canaan, July 20. a daughter (Naomi Ruth) to Mir. and Mrs. Dorville Merriman. CURTIS-At Taconic. July 16. a son to MT. and Mrs. Wallace Curtis. EGGLESTON-AtN New York, July 21, a daughter to MT. and Mrs. Gerald Eggleston.
 MARRIED RUSS-TALLERDAY-In New York, July 22, John Russ to Miss Mabel Tallerday, of Ashley Falls. FFINGwELL-At Canaan, July 22, Clifford Babb and Miss Mabel Leifingwell.
 DIED POWELL-At Lakeville, July 19, Mrs. Emma Powell. EVANS-At Sharon hospital, July 22, Miss Agnes Evans of Dover. HICKEY-At Norwich, July 21, Miss Helen Hickey, aged 32 years, for merly of Lakeville. Waterbury, July 22, Miss Mary F. Palmer, aged 63 years.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
CAMPFIRE GIRLS IN CAMP.

The Pocohontas campfire circle of the Asylum avenue Baptist church, Hartford, is having its annual outing for two weeks at Twin lakes. The following girls are attending. Miss Muriel Case, Miss Dorothy Robotham, Miss Frances Denison, Miss Hazel Caldwell, Miss Bertha Sanford, Miss Gladys Merriman, Miss Gertrude Good. child, Miss Gladys Smith, Miss Doro. thy Johnson, Miss Barbara Ronmel and Miss Beatrice Breed. They are chaperoned by Mrs. Willis B. R. Case, Miss Edith Hoskins, Mrs. William G. Fennell and Miss Vera Fennell.- Citizen.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
United States and Por- tugal United by Sen-
 timental Ties
By BERNARDINO MACHADO, President
 of Portugal
' HAVE always felt there were'spe-


 ' HAVE always felt there were'spe- \ cial bonds uniting the United
 States and Portugal, almost to the extent of an alliance, ..r we are both allies of countries allied to each other. Brazil is to Portugal much as the United States is to England-each looks to the other as the mother country. At the same time the two older countries, England and Portugal, are held to- gethcr by a traditional alliance, while the two younger nations of the west, the United States and Brazil, are also closely associated by those ties WHICH ARE LINKING TOGETHER THE NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN REPUB- LICS.
 Perhaps it is as a university pro- lessor that I feel thrill of admira- ton for the noble ideals which the American president has held out to the world-ideals of humanity, last ing international peace and fellow ship among nations which the busy spirit of the times is slow to grasp, but which are so solidly grounded that they will in time become an en- during part of the system OF LlB- ERAI REPUBLICAN INSTITU- TIONS AND THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
,nge Expected Actual Excess or

From the above figures wei snote that Canaan grew faster than they expected it would and exceeded the estimated demand for telephones more than any
 the exchanges mentioned, which comprise this entire corner of the state. Does it not also prove that Canaan's slogan-"t the Growing End of the Nut. meg''-is true slogan?
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
THURSDAY, JULY 26. 1917,
BLACKBERRY RIVER.

Now that the analysis of the water taken from the Blackberry river has been made public, showing that the stream is pollHted with numerous in- furious bacteria, is it not high time to do something besides talk about it?
 The water is contaminated to the extent that 1t will not be safe to use ice from it next season unless the evil is corrected, and fhe best open trout stream in this part of the state has been ruined and the fish killed. One armer has felt it his duty to remove his COWS from the river pastures, and it is not pleasant for other farmers along the line of the stream to know that their COWS are drinking water con- taining the "bugs'' that the state chemist says are there. Some of the village people have even forbidden their boys bathing in the stream.
 We believe that one of these two things must be done and we, "hold these truths to be self evident" viz. either the contaml nation can be re. moved from the Blackberry river and tho stream purified or the we'll of the North Canaan Water Company must be condemned for use as supply for drinking water.
 If filtration through l63 feet of earth will keep the dangerous bacteria. which we know now is in the river, from entering the we'll, then filtration through 168 Cor more) feet of earth will keep this same bacteria from get. ting into the river.
 This means the installation of a retaining popd' at a safe distance from the river at the plant of the Con. necticut Chemical Go. from which the !, water containing objectionable refuse matter must seep through sufficient ground to insure purifcation before reaching the river. If this is not done then it cannot be safe to pump the water from the water company's we'll into the pipes for drinking purposes.
 This would not, of course, prevent the company from supplying the rail- roads with water from this we'll for their locomotives, but another source of supply for drinking purposes would have to be provided.
 But the Connecticut Chemical Com. pany is not responsible for all of the contamination in the Blackberry river. Much comes from beyond our town limits and it is quite possible that some of the worst forms of bacteria found in the stream may come from this source
 This is matter which should have a most thorough investigation by the state board of health, and the fact that the state chemist found nothing injur. ious in the water in the we'll at the particular time this sample was taken does not prove that it will always re- main pure. The only way to convince
  nothing injurious from the river will ever get into the water they drink is to take it from a source higher than the level of the strean-and the higher it is above that level the better it will suit them-or purify the stream be- yond suspicion.
 The Blackberry river has always been depended upon by many for their annual ice supply, even as far down as it's outlet into the Housatonic. Section 2593 of the general statutes reads:
 Every person who shall put any substance into waters from which ice is procured for consumption
 which shall defile, pollute, or injure
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
We Came Into the War to Justify Our
 Rights
Bv FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary of
 the Interior

By ERA[NkLllN h' LAlNEf OSSrStary oA
 the Interior
 VETHY are we fighting Germany? w The brief answer is that ours
 is a war of self defense. We did not wish to fight Germany. She made the attack upon us-not on our shores, but on our ships, our lives, our rights, our future.
 And so we came into this war for ourselves. It is a war to save Amer lea, to preserve self respect. to justi- fly our rights TO LIVE AS WE HAVE LIVED, NOT AS SOME ONE ELSE WISHES US TO LIVE. E..
 It is more precious that this America should live than that we Americans should live. And this America, as we now see, has been challenged from the first of this war by the strong arm of power that has no sympathy with our pur- pose and will not hesitate to de- stroy us if the law that we respect, the rights that are to us sacred or the spirit that we have stands across her set will to make this world bow before her policies, backed by her organized and scientific military sys- tenn.
 WE ARE FIGHTING GERMANY BECAUSE SHE SOUGHT TO TER RORlZE US AND THEN TO FOOL US. WE COULD NOT BELIEVE THAT GERMANY WOULD DO WHAT SHE SAID SHE WOULD DO UPON THE SEAS.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
Duty of Business Men to Help Government
 Win the War
By OTTO KAHN, Noted Financier

THE first duty of business men is
 \ to do everything in their pow
 CT to help the president win the war. Besides the fine duty of personal service and sacrifice, there rests more particularly upon the business men the less grateful duty of vigilance concerning the business part of the conduct of the war and if necessary-but only if necessary of helpful criticism.
 BUT THERE ARE BOUND TO BE MISTAKES IN AN ENTERPRISE OF THIS COLOSSAL MAGNITUDE.
 Such mistakes, as far as they con- cern the policy and practice of ex- penditures, are likely to be the first noticed by business men. It is the duty of each one of us in such case quietly and courteously to bring them to the attention of the official responsible for the respective de- partment, and if, contrary to expec- tatian, there should be no proper re- sponse THEN TT BECOMES OUR PATRIOTIC DUTY TO DIS CLOSE THE FACTS PUBLICLY AND FEARLESSLY.
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26
Men Who Serve In This War Need Have Lit
 tie Fear of Disease By Surgeon General WILLIAM C,
 GORGAS, U. s. A.

4 IL the old terrors of the army "A have been forced to surrender
 to science. Typhoid, which used to be the worst scourge of troops, is now eliminated by vac cine, and the same is true of vari-
Connecticut western news., 1917-07-26

Wnlcn come to w c copcEe large camps as
 surely as to public schools, and scar let fever and so on are all taken care of by the METHODS OF QUARANTINE NOW IN FORGE IN THE ARMIES.
 1 think that the men who serve in this war and who escape wounds will be, on the whole, in better physical condition when they come out than when they went into the army.
 | THINK THIS IN SPITE OF THE HARDsHIPs PECULIAR TO TRENCH WARFARE, BECAUSE OF THE LIFE OF THE MEN IN THE OPEN AIR AND THEIR ScIEN- TIFIcALLY SELECTED, WHOLE SOME FOOD.