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New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
Taking Land in China.
(Boston Herald )

The seizure of lands on the shores of China by European Powers for trading settlements and naval stations is an old practice that ought to have ceased long ago. It is wholly dis creditable to the invading nations. But it has not yet been abandoned. and 1t is continued by more than the countries of crowned heads How deplorable 1t Is to see the French republic grabbing the property of the Chinese republic Perhaps if France were not fully employed in fighting for her life in Europe she would have discountenanced the high hand ed proceedings of her representative at Tientsin. As it is he has taken forcible possession of $50 acres as an addition to the French concession at that place. The area Is small, but the offence is great. It has so angered the Chinese government that the mediation of the British minister at Pekin has been declined, and it has so aroused the Chinese people that they threaten boycott of French and their trade. The boycott in the hands of the Chinese is a formidable weapon
 Japan once felt its force. and does not wish a repetition: M Briand would do service to his country if he would find time to order the tact less representative of France at Ten- tsin to take his hands off the land which the Chinese authorities did not wish to cede. apologize to them personally and for his government, and endeavor to enter into the friend ly negotiations with which he ought to have begun. What of the Great European nations would cast the first stone at Japan in Korea or Man churia? Y
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
Second IieutenantS.
Charleston News and Courier.


 We are glad to see that an organ 1zed effort Is being made to induce congress to come to the rescue of the West Point cadets who will graduate this year. It has looked very much as if these young men would be done a serious injustice; for unless they are protected by some action of con- gress in the near future they will be graduated under conditions which will leave them hardly chance of reaching the higher positions in the army.
 This situation has been brought about as a result of the large number of candidates who are qualifying under the Hay bill for appointment as Second Lieutenants in the regular army. It is announced that 447 of these candidates, drawn from the Philippine Scouts, the Philippine Con stabulary, the army, the National Guard, and civil life have already passed their examinauons success fully. Probably a thousand candi- dates, 1t is stated, will receive ap- pointment as second Heutenants under the Hay bill in the present fiscal year. If all these commissions are is- sued, promotion will come SO slowly to the West Point graduates of the class of 1917 that most of them will reach the age of retirement while they are still Captains or Majors.
 To permit this would be an injus- tice to the West Pointers and an in- justice to the army. The military academy at West Point is maintained for the specific purpose of providing the army with trained officers The young men who go to West Point do so with the expectation of making ser vice in the army their career. The country, which goes to large expense in educating them, has a right to se- cure the full benefit of their training. The West Pointers are entitled to a fair opportunity for the exercise of the talents which they. have specially developed. To let loose flood of commissions immediately ahead of those they have worked so hard for would be to deprive them of the op- portunities for service which they had a reasonable right to look forward to when they entered the military acade- my.
 The case for the cadets is so clear and so strong that we do not see how congress can fail to act.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

Washington, D. O., Jan. 4.-If the Russians operating in Asia Minor continue to press their advantage and sweep westward iron, their present positions, Sivas, capital of one of tho most fertile vilayets of the Turkish empire and in the middle ages one of the three chief cities of Asia Minor, will be an objective figuring promin- ently in war news dospatohes. The National Geographic society, from it's headquarters in Washington, issues the following bulletin on this city today:
 ''The importance of sivas as a stra- tegtc center In Asia Minor is based not merely on the fact that 1t controls important highways from samsun and other points on the Black sea to such interior points as Kharput but also because 1t is the capital of D region which produces most of the necessar- les of life. Wheat and barley yield bount1ful crops; great forests of fir. beech and oak cover the plateau and the hills while the mountains are rich in copper, lead, iron, silver, coal, and a variety of other minerals.
 ''The town, which has a population of more than 10000, Is situated on the Murdan su, small tributary of the Kizil Irmak, and is 130 miles in an airline due west of Erzingen, and 425 miles southeast of Constantinople.
 That picturesque traveller and TO- mancer Marco Polo, whose accounts of the far west stimulated the popular imagination of Europe in the last half of the thirteenth century, relates that when he visited Sivas, or Savast as he called 1t, 1t was one of the three chief cities in Turcomania'. He describes the inhabitants of the country as a crude people with an uncouth lan- guage of their own; they dwell among the mountains and downs, where they find good pasture for their cattle and for their excellent horses known as Turquans.' In addition to their stock raising, this traveller recorded that they weave the finest and handsomest carpets in the world, and also grea, quantity of fine and rich silks o1 cramoisy and other colors, and plen. ty of other stuffs.' Tody tho Sivaf citizes are more prosaically employed in making woolen socks and preparing 'jerked beef'-their only important
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
CLEAN MILK.

2norrow the health department H the direction of Dr. T. Eben Ie will begin a campaign for Ter and better milk in the City of 8Britain. For one month hyper E1hl examination of all milk dairies distribute milk in this oity will be tce and score of inspectors will )bout supervising the supply. In may every pint of milk that is Ed for sale here will be brought the scrutiny of the health de- bent and if 1t Is not up to the ard set it will be rejected and prveyor brought within the juris- In of the courts. fary man, woman and child in Britain should cooperate with hsalth department in this latest aign. The milk dealers them
 should welcome such & step. IS IIlo Olle OSVcA d6S SAAos~ Ao uoS>A n, the young and the old. It Is bne of the liquids that Is easily ptible to disease germs. From hrm to the home it's Journey b be safeguarded all the way. It B be handled and treated with Utmost delicacy. Cleanliness to tn degree should be it's guardian
 And the health departmen in to see that this is so. The bulle-
 the department which will be
 tomorrow will describe the in d campaign in detail. Whatever 5 Is offered should be needed by 5 people in the city so that health pe protected.
 k Is . food that is either eaten sxen in liquid form by every per- fh the civilized world. There are Kew portions of food cooked that &3does not aid or abett In the ss. So it behooves every house Vko see to 1t that the milk de- kd at the home is of the purest Sle to secure. It being impos- for every citizen to Journey to airy to inspect the milk, the Ih department has decided to bend
 effort to see that no impure
 reaches consumers. Tn the
 however, that milk does run the let and arrive at the home carry ottceable filth or dirt it Is the
 of those who receive an allot-
 to report at onoe to the health tment. The proposed campaign
 will begin tomorrow is one of host important ever devised for ity and Dr. Reehs welcomes the |rt of every citizen from the high
 the low1iest. Clean milk is the from now on.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
INDEXFD FROM THE TRIPOD.
A New Haven Seer Adduces From the Pytha&orean Code Some of
 1917's Capers.

1917's Capers.
 {New York Sum-
 Our readers, skilled as they are in all obscure and therefore interesting sciences, would take little stock ln prophet who confined himself to such self-evident predictions as "the year will bring acute tension in our for eian relations Acute tension is the normal condition of our foreign rela- tions; no seer>1s needed to tell us that under the auspices now presiding over them it is unlikely to be relaxed. Moreover, the business of prophecy with relation to foreign affairs, wars, the misa dventures of potentates, has been woefully overdone. The future of nations and fate of rulers are being worked out before our eyes. Hence in tho "Prophecies of 1917 Adduced from the Pythagorean Code,' by Dr.. DeImer Eugene Croft of New Haven, we turn with gratitude to other chap l ters.
 ous. Mills and factories will be on full time:
 "A fine year for farmers. Deep snows in January and February index | an excellent maple sugar season. "The season will be rather late. Little rainfall Is indexed for the year; farmers should SOW and plant along the lowlands. Drought will affect the l West and South. Crops should be put l in early, as late summer will be hot ! and dry. Sudden, violent storms are | indexed, with high winds. Heavy 1 storms are shown for the last half of 1 January, the third week in February 1 and the first half of March.
 1 Shipping and transportation will ] suffer. February, April and July are the dark months of the year, intense magnetic bands encircle the earth, agttations strikes, riots, crime and l epidemics likely to appear The ides of March are dark for America" l As Tabor unrest will be absorbed by high wages" the strikes do not 1 hold the menace they otherwise
 might. Moreover, there is to be an l equitable distribution of wealth: 1 / "Prosperity that has been in heaps r will spread out into numerous chan
 ne]s Commodities and merchandise l will be in demand vat high prices. The 1 automobile industry will reap a har-
 vest. Cotton and wollen mills will find a broadening market. The cot i ton crop will be favored. The west
 will have great yield of corn. An
 abundant. fruit season is 'indexed
 There will be a boom in land, farms l and general real estate.'
 Commodities and merchandise al 1 high prices look discouraging to the 1 ultimate consumer, but he has had
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
Ca1pets and 5ilks of Old Came From Sipas, Asia Nin01

exports aside from their agricultural products.
 "The ruins of the ancient city, gen. orally called sebasteia. are on the banks of the Kizil Irnak some six miles from the modern town. Under the Roman Emperor Diocletian it became the capital of Armenia Minor, and under the Byzantine emperors 1t was, next, to Ceasarea- the largest city of Asia Minor. At the beginning of the 11th century, when senekher- i'm, king of the Armenian province of Vasburagan was overawed by the menacing growth in power of the Se- Hulk chiefs of Persia he ceded his domains to tho great Basil IT at Con- stantinople and in exchange received the latter's protection and the ofnce of viceroy of Sebasteia and the con- tiguous territory. After tho defeat of Romanus ". soldier who owed his occupancy of the imperial throne to the fact that he had fascinated his empress while being led to the exc cution chamber for treason, the Sel- juks' power gradually increased and eventually they occupied Sebasteia in 1172 It soon became the metropolis of their empire of Rum. More than three hundred years later the page of the city's history was scared with the sanguinary stain of that most
 ruthless of Mongol princes, Timur,
 or T1amerlane, he, whose genius Tn devising exquisite tortues for his vic- tims equalled his unquestioned mili- tary prowess. When he captured Se- basteia he put to the sword many of the soldiers; caused 1000 children, each bearing a copy of the Koran, to be trampled to death under the hoofs of his war horses. and, as a final debauch of slaughter. had A. l 900 of the Armenian defenders buried alive in a plot of ground which to !; this day Is called the Black Earth. "The city never recovered it's lead ! ership among the comm mercial centers of Asia Minor after this blow.
 "Mechithar, founder of the Mechi- thar Order which today has it's head.
 quarters in a monastery, built by him
 on the Island of St. Lazzaro in Venice was born in Sebasteia in 1876. Among 1 the most important remains of the old city are some remarkably beau l tiful examples of Seljuk architecture i the ruins of their 'medresses' or col. ] leges." 'y
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
There Amt No News.

Say, what's the news of the Nancy
 Ann Tell me the news. if you can." we are just in from around Biscay, But there ain't no news for you today. Our ship was blowed on the rocks
 by squalls. And the crew was ct by cannibals.
 But there ain.t no news 70, mister, can your ship go some? Was she built to go or built to come? ?" '"rhe ship. mo lad. is so full of speed That she goes so fast, the crew can't
 feed. When we left Biscay the other day We went so fast that we boiled the
 bay.
 But there ain't no news 70, mister have you seen any storms, And U-boats, serpents or fearsome
 forms?" No U-boats, lad, have we seen, by
 heck, Or else we'd beat 'em across by a
 neck, A lads aboard with 8 wild harpoon, And playin' U-boats in his favorite tune.
 But there ain't no news" 70 cap, is your wife aboard tho
 ship? Did you bring your children on this
 trip?" My wife's at home-where she For women, V know, don't like the
 sea. Besides, me lad, 'tis a pleasure trip, And I've a flask in my starboard nip.
 But there ain't no news"
 New York Herald.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
MONEY SPENT ON WAR.

Federal Reserve Board at 3ington has estimated the war of the principal belligerent na- at $49, ,4b6, 900, 1000. This public lis being added to at the rate of boo, ,0O0 a day and Is said to be
 one-sixth of the entire wealth
 these nations; that is, one-sixth Dir national wealth.
 mind of man can hardly grasp (gnif1oanoe of such a sum. Here is country there Is some dis action felt over the elaborate ling of money on our army and
 Yet the sums appropriated by ress for these two arms of the be last year is as nothing com-
 to what is lost in one week in be. For the current fiscal year nited States army has appropria-
 of $8O3,00O, 900. Next year its bpr1ation will be $70,000, 0,0OO
 or s373,0o0, 900. The navy this year has appropriations of s313,- loo and next year will have $379,- loo. Thus the appropriations for branches of the service this year total the grand sum of 100000 which is spent in less a fortnight by the nations at war. fore the war in Europe began 1t Ithe United States less than one a. billion dollars to defray its ex- ks every year. The sum has n until now it is slightly more half a billion dollars. When it nsidered that the nations at war spent almost one hundred times uch money as it takes Uncle Sam n his business for one year some may be gleaned of the enormity e entire waste abroad. And the which is set forth as Europe's s debt is not the entire sum. There
 accounting taken of the homes loved There is no mention made e great cathedrals lying in ruins l the towns devastated. When the ral Reserve Boakd estimates the of Europe as being Approximate A9, 9,OOO,O0O,OO0 1t means that this
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

tho worst of it so long he should be oalloused by this time. The resilient and elastic temperament of America is unprecedented in the world"; and whom. Congress having passed a great war budget for preparedness, the declaration of war by the nation comes, "to be received with the en- thusiasfn of a holiday festivity," tho swiftness and directness of our na- tional preparation and action will astound the nations Young blood and new methods will predominate." These gratifying. if sobering develop ments will not serve to deprive us of pleasures:
 Health and recreation resorts in this country will have long and pros- porous season. Extended periods of intense heat will make mountain and seashore resorts popular. The great abundance of money will make the season gay with festivities Yachting, polo, racing and baseball will have record breaking seasons Sports and games everywhere will win abounding enthusiasm"
 Religion Is to be greatly quickened Churches arc to reorganize, uniting for common purpose and carting
 
 vival impends:
 War agitation and preparation will augment religious fervor. Creed bar riers will disappear, unity, harmony, cooperation will abound. Human suffering will bring forth a deeper human sympathy. Religious bodies will work in new directions. Educa- tional institutions will be greatly favored new national interest will develop in schools and colleges Art, education and training will take on a new relation to service and society
 Only a pretty and carping disposi- ton could seek the credentials of a crystal gazer. Dr. Croft submits his without inv1tation:
 "The author prophesied the world's 8 war in 1912, and since has had forty eight important fulf1lments of these prophecies In his prophecies of 1916 was the death of the Emperor of Austria, the crisis of Greece, the continued revolution in Mexico, the activity of American troops, the cpl demic of infantile paralysis, thhe great crops of wheat and corn, the great advance of cotton and coal. the change in England's Cabinet, the suc- cess of the armies of France and Italy, the international crisis of the United States and the great wave of pros- perity."
 Alas! For 1916 our Pythagorean friend predicted that "the next Presi- dents name will begin with R. and he will be elected by the greatest vote ever given a President" And yet we cherish the diviners!
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

Naked, save for a lap, or 1oin cloth,
 the hunter stands motionless as a statue, with drawn bow and poised
 arrow, and, if no fish are visible with in range, he "ca,lls them'' by peculiar beckoning motion of his hand and a low whistle. Whether or not the fish actually respond to this command cannot say, but the Indians affirm that they do, and, when this method fails, the savages resort to cting the fish within range by throwing cer- tain pods and seeds into the water. A Hyatt Verr111 in Harper's Magazine.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
SENTENCED A BoYHooD FRIEND
But Al Made Jim's Penalty Lighter on Second Thought.
 (KanSaS City Starl

When they went to school together they called each other Jim and Al. But when they met in the Wyandotte county district court recently it was Judge A. J. Herrod and James Sex ton, confessed bank forger.
 The judge looked down from the bench at the prisoner. who fumbled his hat and looked at the floor. Jim had admitted to Al that he had forged the name of Daniel Stumpf to eight checks he cashed at the Commercial National bank. Kansas side.
 "Ten years on each count" the judge said.
 They turned to lead Jim away. Al looked up from his docket.
 Make 'e-n run con-currently," he added. 'Ten years is a long time, you know"
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
Some New Year Wishes.
Waterbury American.) )

The government talks of starting d paper mill. We wish we had one and little coal mine in the back yard, and a vegetable garden and a few hens, a COW, a sheep or two and a spinning wheel anHloom. It is this having to buy everything of some body else that puts us at the mercy of greed.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

There was time. even within memory, when a dollar would 20 a. long way; but that was before the automobile and after Washington Potomac.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

The door to peace may be almost closed, but there seems to be & lot of whispering going on behind it, Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
FACTS AND RANCHES

Or course men are not vain, but just tell a man of fifty that he doesn't look a day over thirty and watch the efect-Paterson News.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

While every belligerent nation of Europe insists that 1t was forced into the war, each seems determined not to be forced out of it.-Norwich Record.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

No Yale student had run away to be married today up to the hour of go- ing to press-Newark News.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

perfect, but an expectant world is still awaiting the regular annual Venus de Milo returns from Welless- ley, Vassar and Bryn Mawr.-Boston Transcript.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

One worry is taken off the mind of the English farmer. Government will tell him what crops to plant, and he will plant them. As for rotation, 1t will follow rotation in government, we may assume.-Brooklyn Eagle.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

A MT. Hemmersley of New York has just dedicated s65,00O barn with a barn dance costing 12,0OO. He must keep a lot of hens!-Norwich Jour nal.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

There's distinction in flying, too so far as sex is concerned. Ruth Law received $2,50O for her feat and Vic. tor Carlstrom received $10,000.-' Bridgeport Post.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

The Germans have decided the Somme battle in favor of themselves. This is such an easy way of winning great victories that we wonder why they don't try the same method with Verdun.-New Haven Union.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

One Russian authority says Russie Is now about ready to get into the war in earnest, and Rumanla, nc doubt, feels that 1t is about time.- Mertden Journal.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05
Mid-Winter Clearance Sale

CHILDREN'S COATS
 Sale Price $1.49 to $6.98 each.
 DAINTY BLOUSES of Georgette Crepe and Crepe de Chine, in white and flesh, values up to $.98F Sale price $2.98 each. S RAINCOATS Marked Down When you can buy high grade Raincoats at these prices, why not invest a few dollars in a practical weather proofed garment that will bc of service to you every day inS the year. N5 Sale Prices are $3.9S, S4.98 $7.98 to $500 each. As
 CHILDREN'S S
 RAINCOATS 8a with cap to match (complete) Sale Price $1.98. S Rain Capes, at $1.98 eachs TWO HUNDRED UMBRELLAS &S that were to be here for thel| holiday business just arrived this week, being tied up in transit, therefore rather tha11E to have us return them the manufacturer offered the en- tire lot to us at a price conv cession. The entire lot go of- sale Saturday.
 MEMS AND WOMEN'S '
 UMBRELLAS Fast black, waterproofed covers with exceptionally z fine handles. Sale price 98c, $149, $1.98, $2.25, S2.98 toA $4.9S.
 Colored Silk UMBRELLAS in this sale at $3.75, S4.75 and $.98 each.
 WOMEN'S PURE LINEN
 HANDKERCHIEFS
 Lay in a supply when you can get them at these prices.
 All Linens are advancing ina the markets almost daily. ~ For this sale-15c grade ss at ................ .. 12Hcss For this sale-19c grade S ar .. I5cS' For this sale-25c grade ' e
 QUICK CLEARANCE !, s
 PRICES .s
 on Stamped Goods
 French Ivory, Brass Nov-s cities, Leather Goods, Jewel- ry, Shell Goods, etc. D,
 KNITTED SCARFS s
 for Men and Boys
 Sale price 49c, 69c {, S1.25s to $2.98. Values up to $3. .o8.S WOMEN'S FIBRE SILK 4
 KNITTED SCARFS "a Sale prices SIPS to S2.98. Values up to $3.o8. Colors Gold, Old Rose, Green and Copenhagen Blue.s DRAPERY REMNANTS N Values up to 45c yard. LOI l ........... 1Oc yard LOT 2 19c yards ODD LOT CURTAINS <; One, Two and Three Pair Lots. Some samples slightly soiled to be sold at less than cost. S Mid-Winter Clearance Sale
 Prices on
 FLOOR COVERINGS Call at our 3rd Floor Drap-' cry and Rug Dept. just tos. look around. It will be worth your time. D, MCMILLAN } lee-2ol-1os NAM OTREHE.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

g When a woman is in her garret, she imagines she hears noise in the cellar. And when she Is in the cellar, she thinks she hears som ething in the garret. Outside of being very pecul- far, the average woman Is fine be- 1ng.-Meriden Journal.
 We have always been led to believe that the great German intuition and steel plant at Essen, owned by the Krupps and the government, was the greatest thing of that sort in the world, but Mr. Schwab tells us that the ordnance plant at Bethlehem, Pa., Is fifty per cent. larger than the Ger man nplant.-Brldgeport Standard.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

A New York magistrate says wear. ing short skirts is not a crime an6 yet the Boston Globe declares that ii is-occasionally.- Journal
New Britain herald., 1917-01-05

daily <Bunday excepted) at 4:15 p. fnf.a Herald Building, 67 Church St.