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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-05-03
TIE GLADNESs OF NATURE.

1t S our opinion that the new year
ought to begin with spring That
sweet, fresh, budding season, when the
spirit OF newness is Just awakening
from its long sleep ard begins with
magic power its work OF revival,
breathing new life and energy into ev-
cry vein of nature and thrilling the
heart of mankind with new joys, new
hopes, new aspirations. The soul that
can remain insensible TO the charm Of
spring is indeed dull and heavy even
unnatural. Hawthorne says, From
such soul the world must hope no
reformation of its evil, no sympathy
with the lofty faith and gallent strug-
| giles of those who contend in his be-
half" How joyously the birds are
singing this morning and why should
they not for the blighth and decay OF
winter is passing away and ere long
the earth will be arrayed in the fun
bloom and glory of springtime. AL
| ready the air, so soft and ,balmy bears
| the fragrance of delicate blossoms, and
the drowsy bee murmurs of newborn
delights, Bryant says in his poem on
! The Gladness of Nature"
Is this the time to be cloudy and sad
When our Mother Nature laughs
around,
When even the deep blue heaven looks
glad
And gladness breathes from the bios
soming ground?"
Surely our hearts should respond to
The gladness Of nature, and we should
not only he glad, but we shoGd feel
deeply thankful for all these blessings.
For are they not but so many express
sions nf diyina love and tapdarnaeo2
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-05-03
Up to Doctor 10 Work,

Up to Doctor 10 Work.
The Eskimo pays his doctor his
fee as soon as Re arrives. II the pa
tient RECEIVERS 1t Is kept. II not 1t Ia
returned.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-05-03
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
MAKING HOMES.

How true it is as the Milwaukee
Journal expresses it, that in family
life, in the real home, the highest
qualities of character may be develop.
ed. There is force lin family affec-
tion that makes and keeps the heart
tender to all. 1t banishes selfshness,
jealousy and malice. In happy home
life cruelty finds no place. Even ami
mails feel the benefit of the tender
heart. We need, and need greatly,
more good will to all with whom We
have to do. We need to know how to
make allowances for failures in others
to make concessions to the wishes and
conveniences Of others. The friendly
give and take Of family life tends to
make one more fitted for living in the
community.
Happy, well-ordered homes are the
foundations of society, solid basis
on which to build state. Home MAX
ing is something beyond and superior
to mere housekeeping. 1t is a high
calling. 1t requires noble traits of
character and fine executive ability
and real wisdom. The responsibility
of the home making does not devolve
on one alone. Every member of the
family has his or her share. Friends
are dear, strangers have a certain
claim on us, but the members of our
family are nearer and desrer. Give
OF your love, your help, your sympathy
and comfort to your own family first
and most. Those with happy homes
are more able to give from the heart
to others in need. No one can tell
how far the influence Of happy home
will so.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-12-05

Gus illness, and at this writing her
condition is no better.
MI Malcom Hunter spent Thanks
giving at home. lie returns to his
school duties at Wofford this week.
Miss Lulic lIichclbcrger of Laurcns
is visiting her aunt Mrs. J. r.. Owings.
Another one Of our bright and best
boys 'Ernest White, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. V. a. White, has gone to join our
boys over there. May this terrible,
cruel war soon close and God in His
alwisc providence bring our boys back
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-12-05

rcalized neat little sum from the
sale OF oysters, ice cream and cake,
at the chapel. They are doing splen-
did work for the Red Gross. Under the
enthusiastic leadership of Mrs. J. C.
'aPrec they have in the short time
q crSanization made 200 pillow cases,
pai''s of feet warmers, 20 shirts for
The soldiers in the trenches and are
busy now making dresses for the lit
tie French children. They meet at
tho chapel to work. All the ladies of
the surrounding community will be
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-12-05
gladly welcomed to assist in this good

gladly welcomed to assist in this good
work.
Miss Gladys Smith, Demonstration
ront will give demonstration at the
Gray Court-Owings school Thursday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton of Easley
spent Thursday and Thursday night
with Mr.. and Mrs. r.. A. Stoddard.
Miss Lila Moore was home for
Thanksgiving.
The many friends of Miss Sam Rid
die will be sorry to hear of her seri-
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-12-05
to our homes and loved ones.

Several from here attended the SER
vices at Friendship Thanksgiving af-
tcrnoon. Mr. G. B. Bobo OF Laurcns
as always is tho case when he speaks,
the people give their undivided attcn-
ton and were delighted with the ad-
dress. AS a result of his efforts and
a love for the cause itself, the little
orphans in the Baptist Orphanagc at
Greenwood were remembered i'm n
substantial way by the good people Of
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1917-12-05
NUMBER 20
Friendship.

Friendship.
Miss Sara Lou Bobo who is attend
ing college in Anderson was greeting
her many friends at home Than1sgiv-
ing.
Mr.. Landie Hill and Miss Williams
We're married Sunday afternoon at the
residence of Rev. Hopkins. Best wish
cs for happy prosperous life.
Mrs. Mary Putnam and Miss Aman-
Mrs. J. D. Hunter OF Barksdale.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

scene in time to save buildings sur- rounding the conhagration. Without wishing to prophecy dis aster, there may come a day when Berlin and its officials will regret the failure to answer the letter of New Britain's fire commissioners. We have pointed out the danger before. Last night was but another proof of the folly of delay. The Town of Berlin is without fire fighting facili- ties of any kind, It is a goodly dis tance from New Britain in case of emergency. It has no water supply worth considering. By the time our engines arrive there the only thing to do is to attempt to save buildings adjacent to any fire. This fight must be made with chemicals. Last night almost every gallon of chemicals car- ried by the engine sent was used in the fight. Had the wind shifted the direction of the flames, had they got- ten beyond control, an entire section of Berlin might have been wiped out.
 These are the facts in the case. And, as such, they demand the attention Of every resident in the Town of Ber- lin. The City of New Britain will not, of course, ever refuse aid to Ber- lin when call for help is sent to the fire department here; but this city has right to demand that some con- sideration be given it's request for the fixing of responsibility in the event of accident to our men or machinery. Last night we sent ten thousand dol lars worth of fire fighting apparatus and seven men over roads where death and destruction lurked at every corner. The officials in the Town of Berlin have been lax, if nothing else. They refuse to fix the roads over which New Britains fire fighting ap- paratus must go to their fires; they refuse to answer 8 letter requesting the payment of nominal fee for this service; they refuse to place the re- sponsibility for alarms sent from their province; and they refuse to fur nish water when fires are fought by New Britain's fire department The least they might do is purchase a sec ond-hand chemical engine somewhere and fight incipient fires, thus prevent tion. r
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
BOOKS WANTED 5 . r
 FOR SOLDIERS

Auc N0W 6T1La1u !1n4I4IuLG WA0I4 books to send to the soldiers. .s.s The million-dol fund. which n oversubscribed, will supply buildin at attendance and the needed refer0nE and technical works. The tnanaS nope that most Of the fiction aS6 lighter books will be given throu&lN the public libraries in every. con t munity sumciently civilized to suppdtf one.
 Probably the best way to send cuf- rent numbers of perodicals at proseAt Is to put a one-cent stamp near t1tf official notice and mail at the poIfE office as soon as you have read them. or to send them direct to your ''pAf- ticular soldier.''
 Nearly all the camp library build 1ngs are nearing completion. The first two libraries contain books on the war and the countries involved military service, business me&hodst mechanics. and a little literature and fiction.
 Books are read and the men do nee them.
 We must remember, too, that booh wear out, and that their mortalitd rate will be higher in camp of younG men than even in g public library, high as that Is.
 New Britain people subscribeits { $2,750 to the Soldiers Book fund and , have given about 800 volumes through the library.
 We have done well. but we must } ''car1y on.'' Moreover, 'doing we1fe' has quite gone out of fashion; 1t must be doing our utmost.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
As the Cows Come Home.


 With klingle, klangle, kling1e Far down the dusky dingle, / The cows are coming home; Now sweet and clear, and faint and
 low, The airy tnklings come and go,, Like chimings from a far-o6 tower Or patterings of an April shower That make the daisies grow; Rolling, ko-lang, ko-lingle-lingle; Far down the alark'ning dfngle, The cows come slowly home; And old-time friends, and twilight
 plays,
 And starry nights and sunny days, Come trooping up the misty ways, When the cows come home. With jingle, tangle, jingle. Through fern and periWinkle. Y The COWS are coming home; A-loitering in the checkered stream, Where the sun-rays glance and gleahn' Clarine, Peach-bloom, and Phoebe
 Phyllis Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies, To-link, to-lank, to-hnkle- -hnkle, Der banks with buttercups *a~twinkle, The cows come slowly home;' And up through Memory's deep rav1ne Come the brooks old song ana us
 old time sheen, r And the crescent of the silver queen, When the cows come home. With klingle. klangle, klingle.. With "loo-oo." and "moo-oo, and
 jingle.
 The cows are coming home: And over there on Meah.l hill Sounds the plaintive cry of the whip And the dew-drops lie on the tangled vines,
 And over the poplars Venus shines And over the silent mill, Rolling, ko-lang, ko-lingle- Jingle, With a ting-a-hng, and jingle, The COWS come slowly home. Let down the bars; let in the train Of long-gone songs, and flowers, and For dear old times come back again, When the, cows come home.
 ALICE B. MITCHELL.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
EACIS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY
Double Bottoms
BY LIEUT.. FITZHUaH aRy

Are you garrulous, loQ1lacious, ver- bose, or for any other reason fond of wagEing your chin? Are you argu- mentative or disputatious, or just plain stubborn? You are? Would you like some good live ammunition
 Try Double-Bottoms.
 Love, marriage, divorce courts, suffrage, and the H. c. L. are pretty good fertilizers of conversation. But taking it by and large wager that on the subject of double bottoms the tongue-tiedest High School Philo- mathic could spout like a Yellowstone geyser. Double bottoms are. Double bottoms aren't. Double bottoms will and won't may have been, and occa- sionally cannot be. Whatever about them seems right there are always plenty of experts to prove that it is wrong. And now that war and the submarine are with us, every third man in the country has invented a new kind of double bottom proof against torpedoes.
 All big ships have two bottoms, two layers of plating, an inner and an outer skin. Hundreds of steel partitions or bulkheads brace the two skins apart forming a perfect boneycomb of water-tight compart- ments from four to ten feet deep and often thirty feet or more square. These compartments or rooms are known as double bottoms. Their use, size, shape, disposition, and struc- ture, have been the greatest causes of debate the marine world has ever met.
 Access is through small manholes closed by heavily bolted doors. Strips of rubber, called gaskets, it under the door edges making water-tight Joints. If torpedo, rock, or another ship puncture the outer skin the few connecting double bottoms flood in stantly. "A thousand other of the light cells stay tight and dry and buoyant. They float the ship. A frac- tion of their number can keep her up.
 Pipe connections lead to all double bottoms for draining. or flooding. or filling with air. If the leak Is small heavy bilge pumps can be switched in and the water expelled at once. Some times, as after the explosion of a sub marine mine. there may be a great number of controllable leaks, enough as whole to sink the ship. Tn such a case the pumps may save her.
 Flooding of double bottoms is often resorted to in battle. A lucky shot may penetrate one side below the
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

water fine. Water pours in and 6tve1 the great warship 8 steep list or t1lt to that side. She may heel so far that guns cannot be brought to behr on the enemy. By flooding corre-- spending double bottoms on the op- posite side the vessel Is balanced back on an even keel, and despite her great load of water, still floats and fights. |
 Air is used when the ship hes grounded and sunk. By pumping heavy air pressure into the flooded compartments water Is forced out and the ship foated up and off.
 A~nQtable case was that of the YankeeA She was of several thou- sand tons displacement. She lay ass the bottom off Nantucket almoNt- submerged. A famous wrecker to1f charge one sunny afternoon, smiled patronizingly at the engineers whA jeered his plans, and proceeded to salvage the wreck without a hitch. His scheme was mostly air. The only kind of air scheme that works,
 Few others parts of a battleship AEb more difficult to care for. Ono leakA rivet or armor bolt can streak M double bottom with rust and rashs like corrosion. Paint must be chipp4A ana SCrApeu, Fe&-IeaQeQ ana reneW@Ne Since ventilatioA is nearly impoesihiA the fumes are suffocating. Paintqr1 must do the job in agonizing stageS. Gas-masks will be used some day. K.
 Once on French man-of-war whtN double bottoms were being overhauled the ships cat went exploring. Some. one saw her enter manhole. Search failed. According to regulations ths plates were bolted on for the night3 The poor cat was locked in. One .Qk the sailors had dozed off in q cornAt$ The cats cries walked him. RA groped and found her.
 Next day the ship got sealed ordetDs to sea. Bottoms are never opened. underway. The imprisoned man be4 his knuckIes raw on the steel platpA The cats pitiful walls joined hA shouts and echoed through the damn black spaces. Their steel tomb mit 2 fled all sound.
 Ten days later both were foundAT-4 though the finders didn't know sd The cat was inside the sailor. HeE skin was in his pocket. Years late& he confessed that had his shipmat
 known he'd eaten their maAcot, evNm to save his own life, they would hat6 killed him. .a..
 Which may be the reason why of
 cat keeps out of the double -bottcnaa.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
\ GovNtaNn1ENr CONTROL


 " noon tomorrow all the railroads khis country will come under the olute control of the United States @arnment. This by proclamation the President. William G. McAdoo. |Oretary of the Treasury, is appointed Td designated Director General of Salroads. He will work in co-opera-' n with the present boards of dfrec- |ssI these men being subordinated to directions.
 Essentially a war measure, having authorized by Congress in the raarattons of war with Germany and
 Dual Monarchy, the government n&rol of the railroads will prove a Es & to every person interested in
 welfare of the country. Every Srantse that can be given has been Sde that all interests will be pro vi 90 long as the government SS these possessions. The stock 6erg need have no fear of losses. fhe contrary, as the early acCons 4ho New York Stock Exchange " show. greater confidence IS
 Id in the government than in the siduAl ownership plan.
 AN the financial strength of the slea States h in this one act placed
 Ind the railroads Of the country. nr can now be run on a united
 . There will be curtailment of avAsances. the while there will be 1lding up of deteriorated properties some of the high salaries now paid presidents are cut down to g. reas- able level, there will be but little nplaint; and that from those direct affected. All in all. the nation has
 nAy approved the Presidents Fnsn
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

better to close the schools until the saving of the fuel which might other wise be used. Even an expert janitor, i'll trying to keep heat at 60 degrees, will let most of the boilers energy SC up the chimney. The ten extra degrees which would properly heat any school building in the city are probably lost in just this way. So, what is saved in the school building is lost in thin air It is poor economy, st best.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
A GEORGIA LULLABY.

A GEORGIA LULLABY. Dear Editor: <. This is my latest poem. I dedicate it to you. Hope you'll like it.
 Yours very truly, HENRY WILLIS MITCHELL. Come you lil ressis baby } <
 Mamy's gwan wash yo' face, Den gibs yo' pone an lasses
 An put yo' in yo' ressin place; War Angels'll watch yo' all de vile
 An mamy'n sob an see yo' smile Come, fo' calls de goblins
 Wot'll kerry yi' CT way, Den yo' many sho go crazy
 Am what'll you den say? Quit yo' foolin an fussin chile Mamy's gwan watch yo' all de vile. Dcan yo' see de haeds O cotton
 Nodden in de breeze? Doan yo' haeh de banjo wangin
 Sounin' fro de trees? Time fo' Til knkey haed
 Dun be lowered up in baed.J CHORUS: Hush a~ bye, hush a bye, Now she's gwan to sleep Pess my Ill sleepin' lady, Wot nanny wants t keep.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

the present council to find some of the same type of men. In regard to my objections to an investigation of slackness or the waste of money by our public officials, I would say that I think they should be investigated thoroughly-but I do object to making 8 farce of things, as is being done at present. And let me ask the alderman if the ice-house was not a bequest to the present admins tration, and did he vote against the appropriation for the same? If not, why not? He claims it was an inn practical scheme. Now, did he vote against the appropriation for the potato-raising? If not, why not? It was an impractical scheme. Did he vote against the appropriation for the Town F'ar1q barn? If not, why not? This is ahother of his impractical schemes.
 In regard to the writer's attempts to work on the imagination of the members of the council of German birth or percentage, it is a dream, as I did not refer to the birth or parent age of anyone in the council in my letter; but I would ask the alderman to look back to the last mayoralty election and explain whether he was working on the fears of the pro-Ger- man voters at that time, when he sent broadcast to them circulars denounc- ing our mayor for informing the man. ufacturers that someone had informed him of plot to blow up some of their plants and asking the citizens of Ger man, birth and percentage if they wanted that kind of a man for mayor Now, in regard to MT Cur. tis looking after the expenditures Of the city, why does he not go at it right-not at the bookkeeper. but at the men who have charge of the jobs? His argu- ments on the farm committee led us to believe there was something wrong in the bookkeeping, but H. l.. Curtis over his own signature, says the book keeping was perfect. The alderman in the council, even from what we get from an editorial in the Herald of the 21st inst, claimed there was twenty five hundred dollars unaccounted for, and, pounding the desk with his f1st said he could prove it. Yet, on Sat- urday, the 22d, he says he had just had placed in his hands supple mentary account which practically brings their figures together.
 He also says he met MT. Riley for the first time and was much i'm pressed by his sincerity and fairness would ask the alderman if he did not find MT. Riley an aggressive man as we'll? Now as he claimsS that the person doing a criminal act does so knowing that he takes the risk of losing his life or liberty, yet the one who brings about the same results un- knowingly is just as dangerous Does this rule not apply as well to one who, by imputation or lack of investigation, assails the character or motives of others? Now, as to my Americanism, I know no flag but the Stars and Stripes, and hope never to be com pelled to bow to any other, and would. say that Benedict Arnold was once good American patriot, but a selfish ambition and bad company proved his undo1ng.
 BoB.. 27 Maple Street, City.
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
COMMUNICATED.
ARNOLD ONCE A PATRIOT.
But Bad Company Proved His Un- doing, Says Assailant of
 O. F. Curtis.

To the Editor of. the Herald:
 In your issue of the 24th inst, MT. Curtis takes decided exceptions to my in particular, which appeared in a former issue of your paper. His let ter is somewhat garbled and inclined to misinterpretation of mine.
 To start with, he claims that I show my ignorance and inability to size up the real issue in question. will say in regard to that that feel as did our martyred president, Abraham Lincoln, when told that Secretary Seward said that he was a fool. Per- haps I am, yet we'll see this. Mir. I4incolns reply was, Perhaps I am" <" yet his profile may be seen on treas- ury notes of Uncle Sam. as we'll as on some of his subsidiary coins.
 He also asks to know if I was aware of the fact that Artemus Ward was a Copper Head during the period of the Civil War. In reply to that ques- ton, never had cause to think Mir. Ward had a head made of ivory, and, while Mr. Ward was willingly doing his best to help the cause of the Union by getting all his wtfe's relations to enlist, there were some who were not called Copper Heads who were do- ing their best to keep their wives re- lations at home. Now, as regards go- ing back eighteen years to the record of Councilmen Patrick and Tourte- lotte. will MT. Curtis please tell us why he did not curb their tongues, as the records show that he was then acting as an alderman? And, as re- cards their public expressions, 1t is not necessary for me to go beyond
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27
1.-THE ROAD TO BERLIN.

ont expea1ences prove clearly " something must soon be done in way of bringing about a working lDement between the Town of Der and the City of New Britain in
 matter of fire protection. Not - ago the fire commissioners here commended that a fee of fifty dol |a be paid every time the New Bri- b lire department is called upon do active service in the neighbor-
 town; that Berlin township builder the responsibilities for all B alarms calling our apparatus; It such calls be put in only when cessary, and that the Selectmen pre specify when such service shall rendered.. The letter written by
 ofllcials here to the authorities Berlin was never even granted the trtesy of reply.
 1Ast night there was . dangerous
 costly fire in the town limits of Tin, Our fire department was aed after one building was burned the ground and another was on a way of being destroyed. The !. to save the lace of one Select u. was sent in 8 round about way. <her than shoulder the responsibil- for this service, the official in ques-
 failed to telephone fire head rters here. Instead, someone in 11n called Hartford. In turn a
 phone message was sent to Mayor
 Hey. He, in his turn, called
 narters. A call from there was
 ia chemical engine company No ft1f 1t had first been ascertained action was absolutely necessary ,sn then on no time was lost. Over
 icy roads to Berlin Assistant IT Noble led his band of fire
 sEs and they arrived on the
New Britain herald., 1917-12-27

It is possible that New Britain can beast of having one of the youngest representatives in the United States navy. Merle P. French, son of MT. and Mrs. Arthur B. French of 61O West Main street, was 13 days under being 16 years of age when he en- listed on February IS. 1917. The "13's' do not seem to have bothered him in the least as his record will show. He is on board the battleship Arizona and. is stationed in one of the turrets from which. the 14-inch guns hurl their pills of death at the enemy. Thus far he has won $26 in prizes for accuracy anl marksman- ship.