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New Britain herald., 1917-05-05
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come to an agreement with the tempo rary government in the interests of the country. We believe in the commoA sense and patriotism of the council and that it will reach a decision to which the intellectual working class must adhere"
 The Novai Zhizn, the socialist rev. olutionary organ, edited by Maxim Gorky, said:
 ''The first period of the revolution ended on May and now 1t is feared that the end of internal peace has ar- rived. The government is energetical- ly seeking to rally around it that part of the population whose class interests are conformable to the imperialistic intentions of Milukoff. It has failed to break the accord existing between the soldiers and workmen-to set one part of the army against the other and the proletariat. The country has expressed itself and these annexation ists will have to conform
 Mistake Can Be Rectified.
 The Bourse Gazette says that for eign Secretary Milukoff has made a mistake but one which can be reme- died. It declares that the present problem is to keep the situation from growing more acute and that Russia must be united on it's foreign policy The Rech defends the course of Milu- koff and appeals to his opponents to stop and reflect.
 The Volta says: We must be fair. There is no contradiction between the declarations of March 27 and the present note. The reason for the att tacks on the left and it's press is that the note does not seek to impose pressure upon the allies. We must be more considerate. We do not ask Germany her intentions and stu de-
New Britain herald., 1917-05-05

mand that the allies and the Gntts States accede to our conditions as ths1 thought they had no right to consfd' the matter from their own democrat {: viewpiont." z
New Britain herald., 1917-05-05
Other Public Meetings in Worth .in9ton Discontinued for Present
TOWN COURT REPORT
] eOmcers for the Home Guard Unit An
 nounced-Sunday at the Churches Fine Attendance at Foresters Fair ,. Opening-Briefs.

As a matter of precaution Health Officer Dr. R. M. Griswold has or- dered that the schools in the vicinity of Worthington Ridge be closed for an indefinite length of time. In com mon with this order church service at Congregational church will be sus- pended as we'll as all other public meetings in that section of the town of Berlin. While at the present time there Is apparently no danger that smallpox will spread to other sections of the town, the doctor considers that the measures taken will be for the general safety of the people. There are now four homes in the town under quarantine for smallpox and while there is one case under sus-. picion the places are we'll guarded so that there is no danger from this source. Guards were doing duty at the various places starting last eve- ming and only those qualified to pass through the lines will be admitted. This course was taken because of the actions of several who failed to see the serious side of the question and tried to mingle with the people of the town. All of the cases now under quarantine are of a mild nature and none have been discovered that could he called serious.
 Court Report.
 Judge George G. Griswold of the Berlin town court has completed his record for the month of April with the fines and costs remisable and 1t follows:
 clerk of clerk of pro- town superior bation
 court court
New Britain herald., 1917-05-05
Attention Called to Neckyvear

HAVING Al % % soob s1a5s 1Sg os DEFEND ON
New Britain herald., 1917-05-05
I.IbER LOAN

Your Government haS authctizeds Bonds of the LIBERTY LOAN beaF-s ing 3 1-2 per cent. Those bonds are convertible into higher rate bonds in 1t necessary to pay higher rate dur-; ing the present war, se
 Your subscription will render tnss valuable service to your Country.
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caladium. The castor bean grows rapidly, is easily propagated from seed, and comes true to variety, af- fording in one plant a wide range in color of foliage and in stature. This plant frequently grows six to eight feet in height from seed, even as far north as New York, in a single season. Its broad-spreading habit, together with its attractive foliage, which in we'll nourished plants is retained well down to the ground, renders the castor bean a very satisfactory makeshift or sub stitute for shrubbery where screens and masking masses are needed. The trouble with all such makeshifts is that they produce an effect which lasts for a few months only, while with shrubs the benefit is lasting and they serve quite as useful a purpose in the way of shelter belts and screens in winter as during the summer. For the sake of variety, the caladium and canna can be used to good advantage in connection with the castor bean. The tall habit of the canna and the broad leaves of the caladium render IuC1l WCll htICu Iol hloSoih6. AouSh plants as the castor bean, the canna, and the caladium can be used to good purpose in shrub borders and masking groups before the shrubs are suf- ficiently grown to produce the effect desired. Even after the shrubs have grown sufficiently to accomplish the end sought an occasional mass of cas- tor beans, asters, eulalias, or arundo interspersed at intervals will lend va riety and life to the groups.
 There are several varieties of shrubs that can be planted on the farmyard lawn which will greatly enhance the beauty of the place. One of the most graceful of these is the weeping mul- berry, which will produce a perfect mountain of foliage. Its long branches fall to the ground on all sides, con- pletely hiding the trunk of the shrub. The golden syringa and golden elder are so attractive, and both grow very rapidly. Feathery hemlocks are also desirable shrubs to have in the yard. Every farmer should have some shrub bery. After it has once been installed in the yard 1t will prove its worth and command as much attention as any other branch of outdoor gardening.
 In addition to a well-executed gen. eral planting plan the successful de velopment of place depends on the preparation and fertilization of the soil, the pruning and planting of trees and shrubs, and the making and main- tenance Of greensward.
 The nature of the plantations upon city lot or suburban place is such that the main part of the cultivation must necessarily be done before the plantations are made. The soil should be thoroughly pulverized, brought to
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Go. .ManW Without 0ACOunthy @ W Fd\uord Everett Hale

and poker were still unknown. But one day Nolan had his revenge. This time Burr came down the river, not as an attorney seeking a place for his office, but as a disguised conqueror. district attorneys; he had dined at l know not how many public dinners; he had been heralded in I know not how many Weekly Arguses; and it was ru- mored that he had an army behind him and an empire before him. It was a great day-hiS arrival-tO poor Nolan. Burr had not been at the fort an hour before he sent for him. That evening he asked Nolan to take him out in his skiff, to show him a cane-brake or a cottonwood tree, as he said, really to seduce him; and by the time the sail was over, Nolan was enlisted body and soul. From that time, though he did not yet know it, he lived as "A Man without a Country"
 What Burr meant to do I know no more than you, dear reader. It is none of our business just now. Only, when the grand catastrophe came, and lief
 
 that day undertook to break on the wheel all the possible Clarences of the then House of York, by the great treason trial at Richmond, some of the lesser fry in that distant Mississippi valley, which was farther from us than Puget Sound is today, introduced the like novelty on their provincial stage, and, to while away the monotony of the summer at Fort Adams, got up, for spectacles, a string of court-martials on the officers there. One and anoth- CT of the colonels and majors were tried, and, to fill out the list, little No Ian, against whom, heaven knows, there was evidence enough, that he was sick of the service, had been will ing to be false to it, and would have obeyed any order to march anywhither with anyone who would follow him, had the order only been signed, "By command of His Exc. A. Bur-" The courts dragged on. The big flies es- capped, rightly for all know. Nolan was proved guilty enough, as I say i; yet you and I would never have heard of him, reader, but that, when the president of the court asked him at the
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coboea, or with wild cucumber, during the time which must elapse before the permanent vines can be grown sufa- ciently to cover the structure.
 The comparative value of shrubs and perennial grasses and herbaceous annual bedding plants is at once ap- parent. Residents of the country or of suburban places have difficulty in securing suitable herbaceous plants in sufficient quantities to produce rich eff fleets, and even if such plants can be obtained in profusion they cannot take the place of shrubs and grasses either as cover plants or as screens or wind breaks. A complete arrangement re- uuires harmonious use of both shrubs and annual herbaceous plants.
 For quick results, however, where shrubs of large size cannot be secured pr are too expensive, temporary eff Feet can be produced by the use of tall-growing, broad-leaved plants, such as the castor bean, the canna, and the
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Whales.

Whales are able to attain such an enormous size because their bodies are supported by the water in which they live. A bird is limited to the weight which its wings can bear up in the air. A land animal, if 1t becomes too large, cannot hold its body off the ground or readily move about, and is doomed to certain destruction. But a whale has to face none of these problems and can grow without restraint.
 Because whales live in supporting medium their young are of enormous size at birth, in some instances the calf being almost half the length of its mother. I once took a 25-foot baby which weighed about eight tons from an S5-foot blue whale.-Exchange.
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close, whether he wished to say any thing to show that he had always been faithful to the United States, he cried out, in fit of frenzy:
 "D-n the United States! wish may never hear of the United States again!"
 suppose he did not know how the words shocked old Colonel Morgan, who was holding the court. Half the officers who sat in it had served through the Revolution, and their lives, not to say their necks, had been risked for the very idea which he so cavalierly cursed in his madness. He, on his part, had grown up in the West of those days, in the midst of Spanish plot" "Orleans plot" and all the rest. His education, such as it was, had been perfected in commercial expedi- tions to Vera Cruz, and think he told me his father once hired an English man to be private tutor for winter on the plantation. He had spent half his youth with an older brother, hunt ing horses in Texas; and, in a word, to him United States" was scarcely a reality. Yet he had been fed by "Unit- ed States" for all the years since he had been in the army. He had sworn on his faith as Christian to be true to Limited States" It was "United States" which gave him the uniform he wore, and the sword by his side. Nay, my poor Nolan, it was only because Limited States' had picked you out first as one of her own confidential men of honor, that "A. Burr" cared for you a straw more than for the flat boat men who sailed his ark for him. do not excuse Nolan; only explain to the reader why he damned his coun- try, and wished he might never hear her name again.
 l He never did hear her name but once | again. From that moment, Septem- Der 23, 1907, till the day he died, May
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the top should be reduced in propor- tion to the loss of root area, in order that the newly transplanted and unes- tablfshed plant may be able to secure sufficient moisture and food to supply the demands of the top. The roots should be pruned, so as to pro- tect them against decay, by cutting away all broken and mutilated parts, leaving the cut surfaces smooth and in such position that they will come in contact with the fresh earth. After the plant becomes established certain branches will grow more rapidly than others, and the appearance of the plant will be spoiled by this unequal growth. Pruning should, therefore, be resorted to in order to preserve symmetrical development of the plant without rendering it artificial or for nal in appearance. Care should also be exercised during the early develop ment of plant to maintain a uniform distribution of branches around the central axis, if it be tree, so as to in- sure symmetrical and pleasing form at maturity.
 At planting time the excavation pre- pared for the reception of the tree should be of sufficient depth to allow 1t to be set as deep as it stood in the nursery and large enough to accom- modate the roots without bending them, while the earth in the bottom of the hole should be loosened at least one spade length below the general floor of the hole. In replacing the soil over the roots of the plant, thin layer of earth should be placed im- mediately in contact with the roots and thoroughly pressed down by trampling in order to bring the par ticles of soil in close contact with the feeding roots of the plant. The hole should then be filled and the surface left slightly above the general surface of the surrounding ground.
 The bays of curved walks and drives should be filled with groups of shrubs, so that if there be no natural object for the road to make a curve around, the plantation will serve as a substi. tute for one, and in so doing produce one of the highest effects which canbe secured in landscape gardening. By a judicious use of plants in the bays of | walks and drives new and unexpected features in the form of vistas, lawn pieces, or specimen plants can -be brought before the observer, thus pro- ducing pleasant surprises and holding his interest. The plantations show vas rieties as well as serve the purpose of marking the walk.
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BEST SPRAY FOR RASPBERRY
To Prevent Diseases Which Destroy Canes Bordeaux Mixture Is Rec
 commended as Efficient.

In many localities there is no neces sity whatever of spraying raspberries There are several diseases which de stroy the canes, however. To prevent these, it Is well to spray with bordeau1 mixture. made from five pounds oi stone lime, five pounds of copper sul phate, and 50 gallons of water.
 The first spraying should be applied just before the leaves come out in tho spring; the second spraying when thu leaves are about half grown, and thu third spraying just before the blossoms come out.
 There are a few insects for whicl it is occasionally necessary to spray but they are not at all common.
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general grade, and the surface smoothed and raked with steel-tooth rake. If a lawn is to be made, the grass seed should be sown immediate ly after the raking, and then the sur face thoroughly compacted by the e of heavy lawn roller. Fertilizers for the lawn should be free from weed seed and be of lasting nature. If the soil is heavy it can be improved by blowing in crop of cowpeas or Can ada field peas. If this cannot be done, the next best plan is to use thoroughly composted or sterilized stable manure, If the soil is naturally light its store of plant food can be augmented with bone meal. This should not be plowed under, but narrowed in at the time of preparing the soil.
 The critical period in the life of a plant is when 1t Is transplanted from the nursery to its permanent location. In moving trees from the nursery a portion of the root area is lost, and
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mask by covering unsightly objects.
 Vines have a peculiar value in deco ratfve planting in that as a class they are shade enduring; yet many of the best decorative plants of the group thrive to perfection in full sunlight. Since many vines will thrive in partial shade as well as in full sunlight, they lend themselves well to porch and ar Dor decoration. A few have the power to attach themselves to bare walls, thus making them extremely useful In covering rough brick, stone, or wooden walls, giving them an effect or age, beauty, and appropriateness which cannot be produced by artists and architectural materials. Two of the best vines for covering walls are the Boston ivy and the English ivy.
 Vines which attach themselves to wire or wood supports and are chiefly valuable because of their covering and shading effects are the clematis, with all Its varied forms, the wisteria, the trumpet flower, and the Actinidia and Akeb1a, both valuable cover plants. For sandy regions either as a soil binder or as an arbor or trellis cover none of the vines is more useful than the Japanese honeysuckle. There are many other good honeysuckles grown for decorative purposes, but none is more rapid-growing or freer from in sect pests and fungous diseases than the Japanese honeysuckle. In this catalogue of valuable vines two more Of our native vines justly merit high places-the five-fingered ivy and the bittersweet.
 Annual vines may also serve a use full purpose about a new place. The perennial woody vines are slow grow ing, and usually make but little shade or protection during the first two or three years after planting. With an- nual plants, however, the case Is quite different. Many annual climbing vines have profusion of leaves, grown rap- idly and luxuriantly, and afford sim- pie, inexpensive, yet satisfactory means of securing an immediate screen. For best results with these plants special attention to early plant ing, often indoors, Is essential. When planting-out time arrives, place them in a rich, well-drained soil, and at all times maintain an abundant supply of moisture. Under such conditions use the moonfower, the morning-glory, the cypress vine, the hyacinth, bean, nasturtiums for low screens and lattices, and the wild cucumber for taller structures. Rustic summer houses and arbors may be very beau tifully and satisfactorily adorned with
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Understanding Art.

A writer in the New Republic makei this very sensible observation: 'To be Heve 1t important, as people continual 1y do, to understand art rather thar to look at it, is absurd. Such uflder standing has no value either as mental or esthetic culture and is merely the satisfaction of facile curiosity. It ii soothing sirup for a mild agitation I have more than once been told, When I have given a trumped-up explanation that the oldest man in the world could not have understood, 'Thank you so much, that makes it perfectly clear.' In all except spelling and mood such explanations are just like the blessed word sMesopotamia.'
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Women Aid AnuIers,

Among the many unusual occupa, tions for women which the war has served to promote, the field of dress ing fishing tackle for the worlds an. glers seems quite unique. One woman in Edinburgh, Scotland. has an office where she herself makes salmon and trout flies, and manufactures and sells trout and salmon gut casts, rods, neta and other equipment for the expert angler.
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FIRST INSTALLMENT.


 [No document in actual Amer . ican history conveys more powerful lesson of what citizen- ship in this republic means, none delivers a more searching appeal to loyalty, than this fancifuI re- cital of the Man Without a Country. The unhappy creature whose living death it has graved upon the memory of mankind was but a figure born of a writ CTS imagination. Yet, the &C., count of his passionate outburst and of his dreadful expiation stirs the duIIest soul, and will awaken emotion in the minds of readers of generations yet un- born. There can be no more ar- resting lesson for the disIoyaI or the needless, no more inspiring appeal to the spirit of true Amer icanism, than this memorable work of literary art and high souIed patriotism.]
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MUCH IN LITTLE

The extension of branch of the Siberian railway for 500 miles has opened one of the worlds greatest coal fields.
 Practically inexhaustible deposits of asphalt, discovered in the Philippines two years ago, will be developed com mercially.
 Many European peasants now in the contending armies are getting more meat in their rations than they ever had at hona4.
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Seventy per cent of the 400 bright est stars are redder than a normal star and S5 per cent of the 400 faint est are more blue than normal.
 A brilliant and permanent green can be produced from the juice of the stalk and leaves of nettles. It is sometimes used to dye woolen stuffs.
 There is a reward on the head of every sparrow in Brunswick, Germany. with an extra price for nests with eggs
 A western bungalow has folding rooms" which greatly economizes space.
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Tobacco Production In U. s.

The area devoted to the cultivation of tobacco in the United States in 1915 was 1868, 400 acres. The production of tobacco was 1,060, ,5s7, 900 pounds, and the farm value on December 1, 1915. S96O41, ,OOO.
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Stickln's,

When boy asks his mother if 1t is wrong to play marbles for keeps, 1t is a safe bet that he has come home with more than he started out with.
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Didn't Want It.

Barber-You've got bald spot conn ing on the top of your head here.
 Customer-Really? Can't you give me something for 1t?
 "Indeed, not. Why, I've got one oA my own." '.
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LIMBING plants meet a demand in the adorn- ment of a place which can be filled neither by trees nor shrubs. Trees
 and shrubs can be used to hide unsightly objects from a distance, but vines serve the same purpose as the draper ieS of a garment: they
The Keota news., 1917-01-26
"kiddlna" the AneIera

Two recently converted neophytes tc
the gentle art OF angling. on the way
to the stream where they proposed to
try their luck. paused in establishment
at the sight of a small urchin stagger'
ing under the burden OF huge fish,
almost as large as himself. Approach,
ing him, the stout member said: Good
gracious, boy! That's good catch !"
The youngster slowly sized him up
from his conspicpously new shoes to
the latest style Of "Alpine" hat which
adorned his head, spat disgustedly. and
said: Jaw. this ain't the catch. it's the
baitl"
The Keota news., 1917-01-26
Had Beau Once.

Was visiting in the country this
summer and everyone hnd beau with
the exception OF me. my husband being
in town. Someone thought they would
tease my daughter, Jane, by saying,
Everyone has beau except your
mother" She replied, Il don't care.
My mother had beau once and he
turned into husband"
Leader.
The Keota news., 1917-01-26
Niekei.s Riaht to Boast.

During lesson In elementary COM
position little girl read the follow
ing as her effort "a nickel and quar-
ter met In mans pocket. The quar-
ter turned up It's nose ut the nickel and
said scornfully. why. I'm worth five
times us much as you Yes. said
the nickel, but even mt that l am u
good bit better than you are. go ev-
cry Sunday to church and you seldom
dO.'"
The Keota news., 1917-01-26
Early French Lighthouse.

One OF the most beautiful of the
early lighthouses, and the first tower
in a sea-swept position. was Cordouan
light, on the coast Of France mt the
entrance to the River Gironde. 1t was
built in 1911, and, although 1t has been
remodeled. some Of the original struc-
ture Is still there, more than two hun
dred feet high.
The Keota news., 1917-01-26
Preserving Firehy's Light.

ing and drying the light-prOducing or
gans OF the FREELY without impairing
the power OF the substance to phOs-
phoresce, according to the Popular Sci
ence Monthly. When water containing
oxygen is added to the powder. 1t gives
the golden glow of the fireny's light.