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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
A Series of Wars at Once

This war is not one war, but a
series of wars. Already it has pro-
dueed a revolution in Russia which
makes that of 1898 in France look
very small. 1t may produce revolu-
tons in two neutral countries, and
il is completely altering the rela-
tons of capital and labor wherever
i atouches. The world revolt against
Pussianism will, in my judgment, be
hng and full Of surprises.
u-boats and land battles are only
part of the drama, and not the
greatest part. In my personal opin-
ion the submarine bulks too large IN
your eyes and too small in ours.
Since the defeat of her plans to
capture Paris in six weeks and dc
ssts terms from there, Prussia has
Sten resorting TO a long series OF
nakeshifts, including the attempt to
tapture Calais and dominate Eng
snd and the second attempt TO get to
Psris by way Of Verdun. Both were
holish and ghastly.
These attempts have been sue
eseded by the makeshift of the sub
nsnne, which is not more likely to
& the war than the more repeated
ssacks for Calais and the frustrated
'asnpts 10 reach Paris. Other fall
u'es we're the attempts to cut the
Seer Canal and TO thwart the bsit-
a attempt TO capture the business
end OF the Raodad railway.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14
IMMENSE RED CROSS DEP0TS
Sixteen Large Warehouses Established
in France to Serve Needs of
American Troops and Hospitals.

To serve the American troops and
the hundreds of war hospitals behind
the French firing line and to reach the
thousands of French refugees the Red
Cross commission to France has estab-
lished n system of 16 large warehouses
throughout France.
Six of the new warehouses have
been located in Paris. which serves as
the center Of the distribution system.
Ten other warehouses are located out
side the capital. Approximately 49,
600 tons of materials are now being
distributed monthly from these ware
houses by the Red Cross commission.
Every kind of medical supplies
drugs and surgical instruments is car
ried In stock for the use of hospital
staffs. Foodstuffs, clothing, building
materials, plowing implements and
tools are also being imported In large
quantities for the assistance Of French
refugees.
American college men, many Of
whom formerly served as drivers in
the American ambulance, are direct
ing the work, while the force of work.
men Is recruited from veteran French
soldiers and Bcigian men no longer f.
for military duty
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14
Right Kind Of Spunk,

You must never give up until you
reach the goal aimed at. Obstacles
are the test stones for discovering
strength. When sure you are right
there can be no real excuse for your
failure. Bruce learned from the spider
that instead Of mOping he should spunk
up and keep spunked up. History nev-
er tires recOunting his successes. Cy-
rus Field knew what 1t meant when
the Atlantic cable parted repeatedly as
IL In defiance Of human invention. But
he kept at it and joined together the
continents. The same spirit led Edi-
son to make $500 trials before he got
the results he sought In the incandes-
cent light. Weak men would have CIV
en- up early In the game. The right
kind Of spunk is the energy that brings
things to pass and makes fortunes
Pennsylvania Grit.
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14

attitude, listening; and there was no
sound either within the house or with
out; nothing could have been more
ominous. Finally, carving knife In
hand. he went back to the kitchen.
where he had left the AK and returned
to the dining room doubly armed.
Again he stood to listen.
Suddenly Pcnrod whirled straight
ahGIt, with Ak and carving knife both
lifted TO strike at something behind
him.
Nothing was there except the side
board, so he 'bout-faced susplciOusly
again. Then, laying the aX upon the
table, but keeping the knife In his
right hand, he stepped upon chair
and extended his left hand to the gas
fixture, meaning to turn the jet on
full. But he pressed the key in the
wrong direction. and for the second
time within that half-hour Penrod's
light went out. To person In his
condition 1t was a disaster, and. ut
tering an exclamation of horror. he
stumbled and fell from the chair with
light crash.
He was up again in an instant. cut
ting the air in all directions with the
carving knife; then he grOped for the
ax, found II, and stood still once more,
on the defensive, listening intently, ex-
pecting the worst and painting, with
an effect, upon that stiffness. almost
uprOariOuS.
He moved about, and cautiously felt
his way round the table and debauch-
ed to the mantelpiece. where matches
We're sometimes to be found in a small
porcelain slipper, madly believed to
be decorative.
a chill struck to his spine ut verit-
able sound behind him. This one was
faint creak, the result Of some cap
Hilary action in the wooden floor, but
so far as Penrod's nerves were con-
cerned it might have been a shot.
Wheeling, he struck frantic blow
with the ax, which. completing a fine
curve. miraculOusly failed to ampu-
tate the wielder's left foot at the
ankle, but. as an incident. permanent
ly relieved all members of the house
hold from troubling to put any more
matches in the porcelain slipper.
Thereupon Penrod decided to go
simple matter; action upon it was de-
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14

upon it and suelled the contents-spir-
its of camphor. Suggestion was i'm
mediately reused by the memory.of an
unpleasant experience in the past. He
recorked the bottle, placed II under
his arm, and muttered:
"You betcha, Guess they won't like
this so much Sprinkle 1t In their ole
eyes,"
Ii now became his purpose to make
his way cautiously to the front stair
thence. by the front door, reach the
outer air. So. with slow and noiseless
motions, he put himself once more in
possession of his AK and carving knife,
thrust the latter in the breast of his
jacket, ahd, though encumbered to the
point of difficulty by the Ak. the gun
and the camphOr bottle. returned To
the upper hall and began an advance
in force.
He went forward dozen steps with
some confidence. then halted alb
ruptly.
What stopped him was something al-
together inside himself. In the dark
ness a green vapOr appeared (though
not at the other end of the hall. where
he thought 1t did) and there emerged
from 1t the shocking figure Of an
old man lying In the rain at the mouth
Of q wind-swept cavern. The vision of
the Sawdust bOX-spiteful, like all
other visions-chose this particular
moment to recur to the author Of
Harold RamOreZ."
He was standing by the portal of his
own bedroom. Gasping. he hoped
across the threshold. kicked the door
shut, and maintained possession of
his armory. though, perhaps. not of
his faculties, huddled himself upon
the bed and buried his face in the pill
low.
1t Is not altogether discreditable to
boy in the dark that he sometimes
initiates an ostrich. But 1t Is unfor-
tunate, because, when one is already
in the dark. very little relief can be OBJ
tained by closing the eyes.
Penrod. burrowing into his pillow,
could see the old man rather more
plainly than If he had allowed his eyes
To remain open. He saw him through
the pillow and through the wall; 1t
seemed that the old man was lying
on the hall rug just outside the
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14

closed door, and that before long he
would get up and come into the bed
room and bend over the bed and
But the Imagination baked In ultimate
horror.
Without lifting or turning his face
Penrod managed to squirm inside the
bedclOthes and to cover himself COM
pletely. as far as the top of his head.
for the old man was but one of the
monsters that threatened.
Burglars
Burglars were creeping through the
halls upstairs and downstairs; the
air Of the whole house became MUIR
murOus with the whispers and rust
lings.
Penrod, still not moving his head,
pulled the AK and the camphor bottle
beneath the sheet; slid the gun off the
coverlet, and pushed 1t as far under
the bed as he could. Burglars might
be more merciful If they believed him
but little lonely sleeping child in
tending no resistance.
He gulped lamentably, and a poig-
nant bitterness began to form no in
considerable part of his condition.
What kind of parents were they Che
asked himself) who could go blithely
Off and leave little lonely child to
be found by burglars-and other
things-in a great. horrible. hollow.
empty house? Probably his father and
mother were somewhere with whole
crowd of people. in brightly lighted
rooms; no doubt at this very mo-
ment they were both talking and
laughing.
Laughing!
His Indignation extended to cover
the cases of his nineteen-yesr-Old
sister Margaret, and OF Della, the
COOK. and Katie, the housemaid. Most
likely all three of these marble hearts
were also somewhere. talking and
laughing!
Big. strong, old grown people
every one of them-well, maybe they
would be sorry tomorrow Besides,
he would get even with them-if he
lived
He was making up his mind in what
manner n general revenge should be
accomplished upon the household
when the handle Of his door clicked
family, and yet distinctly; was softly
turned, and the door opened a little
way.
Penrod's heart did not stop. but his
breath did. He lay motiOnless.
The door was closed again. gently.
Then heart and breath both bound
ed. There was no doubt about 1t /;
something had certainly opened his
door-and had looked at him. He had
felt It,
1t was too much for closed eyes
Penrsse lifted himself on his elbow
and stared whirlingly about him until
his gaze became fixed in utter hor-
ror upon the threshold Of the door. A
thread Of light glimmered wanly along
that threshold.
Shaking to the verge of spasms, Pen
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14

ferred because of extreme hesitation
to move at all. But after gruesome
period of inertia he began to tiptOe
backward In the direction of the door
keeping his eyes, aX and carving knife
warily toward where the villainouS
creak had sounded. Thus retrogress-
ing, he presently found himself In the
side hall. which separated all the front
part of the roomy, Old-fashioned house
from the dining room and kitchen.
The doors leading to the forward
rooms were closed. and the thought of
opening them filled him with horror !;
in his minds eye he saw them, gaunt,
huge, full of black shapes of furniture
lurking places that might conceal
anything!
An empty house in the nighttime
| has few attractions for a boy. In
closed darkness sickens his soul and
! likewise has discouraging physical
effect; climaXing In the pit of his
stOmach-which is the seat of courage
This tabled point, in the case Of Pen
rod, was becoming more and more SEN
sitive every moment. He suffered from
an unpleasant conviction that he was
surrounded by vital dangers which be-
came the deaG!ler for each slightest
movement that he made. fhese dnn-
gers were all the more deadier be-
cause they were underlined; the inscru-
tible darkness held Secrets-and, put
ting out his hand to feel the wall near
! the kitchen door, he encountered one
of them. His fingers very, very brief
| ly closed upon something that felt
like head of wet, cold hair. 1t sank
from his touch, and there was n thick
sounding tbud upon tlse floor.
"Oof." moaned Penrod the question
Of going out through the kitchen thus
definitely settled. and when he became
again conscious of his whereabouts he
was on the second floor at the top of
the back stairs.
Mops had driven greater than Pen
rod.
He was sOrely shaken. but not dis
posed To linger In the vicinity of stairs
that led toward a kitchen Inhabited by
surprises of this kind. He fled into his
fathers bed chamber, bruising him.
self variously in the passage thereto,
and. abandoning his weapons for the
moment, slid his hand along the wall
until 1t came TO a forbidden object
| that hung there.
1t was an Enfield rifle. muZzle-
/ loading relic last put 10 use by Pen
rods grandfather on day In the year
/ 1863, and ii was truly unlOaded. Pen
rod got ii down, pointed the muzzle
waveringly in the general direction of
the door by which he had entered. and
whispered feebly and tremulously:
"Now let's see whu-what you were
goin TO do so mum-much J"
He maintained this attitude until the
weight of the extended rifle became
insupportable; then he grounded arms
and leaned against a bureau. breath
ing even more vehemently than before.
His elbow touched q bottle; he seized
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14
PenitentiaI PsaIms.

The term "penitential psalms" n ap.
piled to group Of seven psalms on ac-
count OF the marked penitence they
show. They are the Sixth. the Thirty.
second, the Thirty-eighth, the Fifty.
first, the One Hundred and Second, the
One Hundred and Thirtieth and tn
One Hundred and Forty-third. The d.
tinction Of these from other psalms -
gan In the early Christian timeA
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14
Bad Marksman.

"What is the chief aim of Jobling'!
existenceT
Making money"
"But he's always hard up"
"Quite true. His aim Is poor"
Tensas gazette., 1917-12-14

not the monotony of work, but Of leis-
ure
In the absorption of making money
for the support Of home and family a
husband may lose the true perspec-
tive Of life. He may become unduly
anxious for more money; he may keep
his desires too high: he may be sac
rificing too much Of his real self I'm nc
quiring wealth. In over-absorption In
providing all that money can buy he
may forget the greater things that
mere money cannot buy. forget that
mere material things do not bring real
happiness. II he goes home tired
physically, mentally and morally. and
Is pre-occupied and silent or irritable
and fault-findlng. he is drifting to-
wards the rocks Of matrimonial mo-
nOtony.
The failure Of many marriages is not
any great positive wrong nor even q
series Of lesser wrongs hut Just lnp-
sing into the omission Of words and
acts Of love, cOmradeship. thoughtful
ness. confidence and interest that mean
the Joy Of life; 1t Is surrender to mo-
notony that may at last bring revolt
and break for freedom. And two
who have loved may just grow tired Of
each other. hardly knowing why or
when or hOw-and both may be to
blame.
Monotony means surrender to an
environment. not conquest Of 1t. Man
Is the only animal that can consciously
change from within. change manners.
thoughts. impulses, desires, dreams,
ideals. Man IS the only animal that
can consciously modify his environ
ment. by deliberate choice move to an
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09
Trinity Methodist Church.

The Philathea class will meet at the church tonight at 1880 o'clock to sew for the Red Cross, also to pack q barrel for the Mountain Whites of North Carolina. Contributions of clothing for men, women and chill dren are solicited for the barrel.
 The following united with the church at the morning worship yes terday:
 Clarence Ward. Royal Clough. Will liam Oleson. Clifford Oleson, Vincent Doolittle. Raymond Holcomb. On confession of faith: Norman F. Hartford. By church letter from other churches: MT. and Mrs. John Smith. rom South Norwalk Methodist Episcopal church; Mrs. B. B. Clark. Maple Hill, from the Methodist church, Orlando, Florida: Miss Edna G. Clark, Maple Hill. from the First Methodist Episcopal church, Meriden: Mrs. Grace Currier. Marion Currier. from Providence, R. l., Union Methodist church.; MT. and Mrs. Geo.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09
PLAN TO CAPTURE
 AGGRESSIVE U-BOATS
War Department Seeks Additional Methods to Those Employed
 By Allied Navy.

Washington, April 9.-Improve- ment in methods of com batting Ger man submarines has been undertaken at conferences between Secretary Daniels and other representatives of the navy department and naval officers representing France and Great Brit ain.
 The navy department, through it's reports from American naval at taches abroad and its intelligence off, cers knew before the United States entered the war of some of the plans adopted in Europe for capturing and destroying submarines. and officers here have been at work trying to de- velop new and more certain devices.
 In addition to the naval officers attached to the French and British em bassies, other officers of those na- tions now are in communication with the navy department. The names of the foreign officers have not been re- vealed.
 No facts concerning possible ways of fighting the submarine menace will be made public. although the need for more aircraft for the American navy is recognized.
 General cooperation with the fleets of the entente nations is also being taken up at the conferences. Mean while the mobilization of the Amer ican fleet is going ahead and naval militia organizations in different states are being put on a War basis as rap- idly as possible.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09
ENROLLED FOR SERVICE"
Automobiles Offered for Emcrgenc
 Use Will Be Marked.

Boston, April S.-Insignia inscribed "enrolled for service" will be placed on all automob and motor trucks offered to the state committee on pub lie safety for emergency use. The committee will attach pennants bear ing the name Of the committee to all cars actually in service. Efforts are being made to enroll several thou sand cars.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09
Stanley Memorial Church.

The following persons were received into membership at the morning ser vice. Mrs. Bessie Williams and Mrs. Agnes Swift, by letter; Misses Bessie Williams, Evelyn Swift, Alice Carl son, Hattie Anderson, Gladys Marie Laurie, Hazel Elizabeth Timbrell Elin Linnea Stohl, on confession of faith. In the evening an interesting Easter concert was given by the primary and junior departments of the Sunday school. The church was tastefully decorated with Easter lilies and potted plants and the services were we'll at- tended.
 The Boy Scouts will meet tonight at the church at 7:15 and the trustees at the parsonage on Tuesday at s p. m.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09
UnivcrsaliSt Church.

Dr. Dillingham; delivered an ex- cellent Easter sermon at the Univer- salist church last night. The choir rendered music appropriate to the occasion, and evinced excellent train ing All the selections were sung with fine precision as regards shading, attack and style. MT. Samuel Crosse. violinist, added much to the service by his finely rendered solo. Next Sun day night another special musical program will be rendered.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09

Warf1eld, from Plainville Methodist l church, and MT. and Mrs. James 1 Hauelick, from Landsdawn Presby- terian church, Philadelphia,
 First Church of Christ.
 There will be a meeting of the Center church young people at the Burritt Mission on Tuesday evening at o'clock.
 The monthly meeting of the Phila- thea class will be held Tuesday night at o'clock.
 The Girl Scouts will meet Wednes- day afternoon at o'clock.
 Troop 4, Boy Scouts will meet Wednesday night at 7:15 o'clock.
 The Bible class for Armenian women will be held Thursday at 2:3O p. m.
 There will be meeting of the sew ing school Thursday at 4 o'clock.
 Union meeting will be held at the South church Thursday evening.
 The Home Missionary society will meet to sew on Friday at 2:30 o'clock A large attendance is desired as the Red Cross work is to be finished.
 The Young Women's Foreign Mis- sionary society will hold a food sale " euIOSOdy d1t0IAOOH 4IOAA D to D. m., at the home of Mrs. Stanley Goss., 4S Grove Hill.
 There will be an all day sewing meeting for the Red Cross on Tuesday.
 Choir rehearsal will be held Satur- day at 2 o'clock.
 The following persons were well comed into the membership of the church yesterday:
 ', Ruth Mildred Boardman. Dorothy Abbe Booth, Dorothy Isabel Gamlin, Marion Gooden, Mildred Dolcan Holcombe, Lillian F. Miller, Madeline O. Miller, Margaret Sloan Mitchell, Helen Ida Osden, Ada Irene Pieffer. Gladys Elsie Strople, Dorothy Gladys Townsend, May Kirkham Wiggles- worth, Doris Williams, Clement Lewis, Charles Abajian, William Helstein, Melvin William Hosford, Kendall Mills Howard H. Mitchell, John Had dow Morrison, Morton Swift, 2nd, William Lawrence Tancred. Sheldon Montgomery Wesselek.
 Adults: Walter Wheelock Leland, Mrs. Angeline Leland, Miss Jessie Isabella Gilmore, Mrs. Isabel Craw- ford Morrison, David Morrison. Hazen Beecher Hinman, Kachador Mardero- Slan. E1OO6rC oTOWH VMAAl0As "oASSA Eugene Ragsdale, Miss Alice Caroline Wigglesworth.
 By letter: Miss Emily Bailey, from Stanley Memorial church; Llewellyn Forker, from Rosevllle Methodist church, Newark, N. J.; Morton Gib- ney, from Berlin Congregational church; Mrs. Morton Gibney, from Berlin Congregational church; Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmore, from Grenville Congregational church, Norwich; Mrs. Belle Futile Stack, from First church, Middletown.
 First Baptist Church.
 The annual meeting of the w. A. B. Home Mission society of Connecticut will be held on April Ii at the Central Baptist church, Norwich. The morn- ing session begins at 10:30 and the afternoon session at 2 o'clock.
 Church night services will be held Thursday at 7:45 o'clock.
 The Women's Mission Circle will meet on Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Niven on West Main street.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09

after three doctors said never would stand up straight again. Twas mid wife for seven years and I recommended the Vegetable Compound to every wo- man to take before birth and after wards, and they all got along so nicely that it surely is a godsend to suffering women. If women wish to write to mo will be delighted to answer them. Mrs. JENNIE MOVER, 342 E.North St., Lima, Ohio.
 Women who suffer from displace- ments, weakness, irregularities, ner- vousness, backache, or bearing down pains, need the tonic properties of the roots and herbs contained in Lydia P. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
New Britain herald., 1917-04-09
BROKEN DOWN
 IN HEALTH Woman Tells How $ Worth of Pinkham's Compound
 Made Her Well.
Lima, Ohio. was all broken down inhealth from a displacement. One of my

lady 1r1ends came to see me and she ad- vised me to com- mence taking Lydia B. Pinkham's 8 Veg etable Compound and to use Lydia E.
 Pinkham' Sanative Wash. l began talk ing your remedies
 and took $5. .00worth
 and in two months was a we'll woman
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-31

bringing the musulmen over to the
cause OF the Cretan.
Col. Samy speaks of his work as a
crusade" and draws his religious
authority for 1t from rescript which
he received from the Grand sheriff Of
Mecca, guardian of the tomb of the
prophet and officially recognized by
Great Britain, France and Italy as
:ning Of the Hedjaz, on January 3fd.
The Bey's temporal authority depends
upon old Abdul-Hamid, whom Col.
Samy refers to as that grand politi-
clan who was ever, IN Turkey. the
High Protector of the Greek element.
Col Samy fed Turkey at the same
time with Abdul-Hamid, in 1909. on
account, he says, Of his Entente SYM
rathies He claims to be Greek sub
ject Since the beginning Of the pre-
sent war, he has been busy with the
Mohamedans in Arabia, Syria. Pales-
tine and Africa, spreading his propa-
ganda In favor Of the old regime in
the Ottoman Empire. In Macedonia.
he works in touch with Essad Pasha.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-31
THROW LIGHT ON COPS

The Milwaukee Police Department
is experimenting with the idea OF
putting traffic officers stationed on
downtown Intersections into the spot
light. BY courtesy Of the electric
company, powerful lights have been
stationed on corner buildings and are
directed at the street on the spot
where the traffic officer stands, 50
that traffic cannot fail to see the OF.
fieer or the directions he may be Civ.
ing. So far the system is declared a
success.
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Other ma
PART PAYMENT BUSINESS
RUNS INTO BIG FIGURES

The largest company doing business
in the financing OF part payment sell
ing automobiles is handling under
its plan cars worth $4,000, 900. Al
though twenty-five different makes
are listed. Ford cars represent 10 per
cent OF the total.
Part payment business must be at
tractive financially, for another com.
pany has just come into New York,
this one with about $17. 0O0, 900 capital
(stock) to buy and sell such paper.
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