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New Britain herald., 1928-03-16
SENATOR FERRIS ILL

Washington, March 16 R|Sena- tor Ferris of Michigan has been confined to his apartments in the Washington hotel with severe cold but hts condition is not regarded serious by hts family.
 Although his ailment was giving him less trouble today than at any time since he was forced to bed. it was said that if no immediate and considerable improvement is shown. he will go to sanitarium at Bat tic Creek, Michigan.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-16
MISS HErNzMAN sHOwERED

\ miscellaneous shower was ten- dered Miss Minnie Heinzman last evening by her associates at the Corbia Screw Mfg. Co. at the home of her sister. Mrs. Lawrence Dewey. AZ Allen street. Miss Heinzman re- coived many beautiful gifts. She ril become the bride Of Eagnor l.indquist in the spring.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-16
DOGS BEAT PLANE Primitive Method of Transportation Wins Out Over Modern Airplane in Aiding Town of DctOur. Mich.

Detour, Mich. March 1s (By Tel .phone to the United Press) )--Prirn- tive transportation beat the most modern of methods today in the race 10 bring supplies to Detour. isolated for two weeks by snowdrifts.
 A dog team driven by Dr. John r. Deadman arrived here early today with food and medicine for the vil- lage.
 Dr. Deadman brought 100 pounds of food and medical supplies to the village, which has been without medicine and almost without food for nearly three weeks.
 The dog team won an easy victory over an army airplane which has been en route to Detour by easy stages for two days.
New Britain herald., 1928-03-16
"Indra Oriental Pearls"

At the lowest price ever sold. 00 FOR TOMORROW .. O0C
 The sheen and subdued lus,re Of the real gems reflect from these excellent replica,. Many sizes and styles.
 'fou will enjoy wearing Indras"
New Britain herald., 1928-03-16
Prices Always the Lowest
Drugs and Toilet Goods

Sl.5o size Maltine Preparations s3c s2.00 size Eskays Neuro-Phos-
 phates .-,,.........,.. .Sl.2O $l5o size Pillows syrup Hypo-
 phosphatcs ..........,.. Sf.O1 S1.e5 size Otis Clapps Malt and
 Cod Liver Oil ,........ sSc so size pertussln ,......... 35C Sl.5U size Asarol .......... 9ir Sl50 size pctrola&ar ......... .Sl..1 so size Promo Seltzer ..... 35c .5o size Phillips Milk of Mag
 utsia ..... 20c 15 size lad Salts . 50C .75 size peNtri Maltese ...... 46c ..5 size Mellin's Food ...... 59c .25 size FrveZono .......... iSc .Gu size Papcs Diapepsin .... 33c .Gn size Doan's Kidney Pills 39c so size BorIen's Baby Brand
 Milk BOG Sl10 size TanlaC ..,...,,..... o2c .&5 size Schols Corn plasters 2&c 50 size lpana Tooth Paste :Wc 80 size Sykes Comfort Powder 1ac
New Britain herald., 1928-10-09

striking out for freedom-and all !
know about 1t 10 something l heard
at the club. Anybodyd think ! was
q rank outsider"
Tad scowled darkly.
THE whole things q mistake.
Sib ought to have let well enough
alone. ThersIl be . lot OF scandal
now. This modern mania for wash
Ing soiled linen in public gets my
everlasting goat. What does Sib
want q divorce for anyhow"
Craig laughed.
Don't ask me. don't know
anything about it,"
"Oh. please-PLEASE!"
''Sybil threw out her hands be-
seemingly.
Tad. DON'T make any more
speeches. II you and mother don't
stop nagging me, I'll 90 crazy"
She buried her head on Craig's
shoulder.
"Anybody'd think to hear you two
talk that I was just DOTING on the
thing. oh, Craig. they all make ME
sick! You'd think my own family
would stick by me-with every hen
In town gossiping."
She flung from the room angrily.
you make me tired-both of
you"
"Now what did l do? demanded.
Craig.
And her voice from the foot of
the stairs. commanded him petulant-
Iy: "Oh. keep still. Come down
here before you wake Teddy"
But when he reached the library.
she was nowhere about.
"Sybil has one Of her headaches"
apologized Valerie. She's gone to
bed"
He took his leave shortly. and
with scant grace. vowinE inwardly
that he had been made a fool of
long enough. How could he know
that Sybil. in her room. tears rain
ing down her cheeks. was praying
crafty:
"Oh. God. give him sense! Make
him know that l love him"
IT. was months before they met
again.
In November the case was called.
Two days before that MIR. Peterson
sent for sybil, to impart final in
structions.
ITO Re Conttnuc1)
New Britain herald., 1928-10-09

to do u thlnG, there's NO good Hacll-
lating. You're going through-or
you're not. The decision u your
own"
Sybil squared her shoulders.
I'm going through" she said.
and placed her hand In his.
When she had gone. the old law
yer rang for the junior member of
the firm, and ranted harshly:
What's the young generation
coming to? Answer me that. If you
can! The foiples OF innocence!
License and immortality. You're all
going to the dogs. You've gone
crazy-crazy as looms. Such carry
ings-on! Little girls and married
women. Flask-sucking lizards. ]
don't know what the worlds COM
ing to. You're going to the
The irascible Mr.. Peterson paused
for breath.
The junior member smiled.
Yes, sir" he conceded good nat
uredly. II suppose we are. You old
fogies are to blame for it
The summer was full Of confer
ences Richard wanted to see Sybil
First one emissary and then anoth-
er pleaded his cause.
They limited at possible reconcile
alton, and settlement out of court
Defiance followed on the heels OF
conciliation. There were veilej
threats. If Richard had child.
then. by the Lord Harry. he Tro-
posed to see him. Panic stricken,
Sybil refused to let Teddy from
her sight.
Richards lawyer. a smooth
young man WITH a face like a fer
ret. glibly submitted unpleasant in
nuendoes. Did MIR. Thorne know
of his uite's friendship with Mr..
Eustis? No? All! Probably Mrs.
Eustis would not wish to have him
informed of that-er-regretta BILE
little affair
Don't call me Mrs. Eustis!"
snapped Sybil. ....
but it is your name!" expostu-
lated the ferret, and continued
suavely. "Of course. Mr.. Eustis
would be Ioathe 10 resort to such
tactics. But. really. Mrs. Eustts
Now. If Mr.. Eustis were permitted
TO see the child. ="
Never" Sybil shricked her de-
fiance.
"Or II Mrs. Eustis would meet
her husband. ~
I'D die first!' she assured him.
"Rut consider your husbands
feelings. The child is his"
1.-THE child is mine!" SYPHILIS out
ragged maternity flared holly.
"Teddy's mine. tell you"
The ferret smiled suavely.
yours? Oh. yes. But you say"
he interpolated smoothly. that 1t
is also his"
Oh, the hateful insolence of that
purring voice. Sybil sprang to her
feet. and her open palm shot
swiftly through the air. Full on
his cheek he received 1t. and when
her arm dropped like lead to her
side. there was livid mark across
his face.
''You-you--. Leave my house"
she screamed. Get out. Quick.
Or I'll call my brother TO beat you.
You you . -.
She was pointing shaking fin
ger toward the door. like a tragedy
queen in melodrama. And the
palm of her hand itchcd for further
contact.
The ferret fondled his cheek.
you shall pay for this tndig-
nifty" he told her. fumtng angrily.
THE courts protect men from the
tantrums Of female tigers. shall
get warrant for assault and bat
terry"
He leered at her evilly. "And
what a story that will be for your
swell friends. Gettin' dragged to
police court like common rowdy.
! guess that will make 'em laugh
the high and mighty Miss Sybil
Thorne up on an assault and bat
terry charge"
Muttering darily. he took Lis
derby and departed, like villain
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Radiun, in Quantities
Would Change Nature

The Biblical prophet spoke of the
wilderness and the deser. places
"blossoming like the rose," and the
agriculturist, by means of irriga-
tion, has succt led, within limits, in
fulfilling the seer's words. But the
dream of making the poles of the
earth habitable and fruitful seems
a vain one.
Yet a way has been suggested. It
is not impossible, but highly inn
probable. If ever a method should
be discovered of manufacturing ra-
dium, or If a method should be
found of extracting radium from
natural materials In great bulk,
even the problem of fertilizing the
poles, by making them temperate in
climate, might find a solution.
So great is the heat produced by
radium in proportion to its bulk
that a quantity easily transported
by manual labor would be sufficient
to change the temperature Of the
polar regions. Indeed, If enough
were taken there it would produce
tropical conditions.
At present there is not a pound
Of radium collected In the whole
world, and it is the most costly
thing known. But the time may
come when we shall be able to
make radium from chemical ele-
ments in bulk, and then many things
now regarded as impossible will be
easy.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Cannon Made of Wood
Used in West Indies

Any one familiar with the con-
struction of modern weapons of
warfare and the high explosives
used in them would naturally sup
pose a cannon made of wood would
be of little or no value as weapon.
But wooden cannon have been used
with considerable success in revolu-
tionary movements in Cuba, Haiti.
and the Dominican republic.
The wood used in the construc-
tiOn of these crude weapons was
a very tough variety, having a
twisted grain that curled about the
log in such way that to split the
timber with ordinary means was al
most impossible. The best trees
were selected and a piece of the
log five or six feet in length and
about one foot in diameter was cut.
After the bark had been removed
and the log made perfectly round
Ut was swung up on crude truss
and hole was burned into it from
one end. The log was wound with
strips of rawhide. When the can
non was covered with the strips of
hide, another layer was wound on,
and this was continued until the
weapon had increased several
inches in diameter.
After the log was covered and the
bore was finished, the weapon was
treated to a hot draft, which tended
Ito contract the hide binding.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
FelO Readers Who Do
Not Enjoy Pictures

There is a Chinese prOverb, the
purp0rt of which is: "One picture
is worth a thousand words" says
Rear Admiral Snow in the Antigua
rian Magazine. A reason for this
saying, centuries old, may lie in
the fact that the written language.
Of the Chinese people, though truly
pictorial, can only be mastered by
Iprodigious exercise Of the memory.
However out Of perspective are
their drawings and pictures, it is
much easier to gain an idea Of
situation from one Of their pictures
than it is to commit to memory the
Chinese ideOgraphs used to describe
the episode.
The oriental people are not, how
ever, alone in their estimation of
the value of illustrations as q
means Of quickly conveying In
formation. Any occidental who has
observed at all carefully the action
of children upon picking up a new
book, or running through favOrite
old one, must have remarked their
inclination, first and last, is to look
through the pages and, from the
pictures scanned with concentrated
attention, fix in their minds the
persons, places and incidents about
which they are going to read.
We are often told that "gr0wn-
ups" are very much like children
wearing mask. In looking at
pictures or old prints we older peO-
pie do gain useful information and
experience much pleasure; we are
like children.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Gift Proved of Little
Value to L0fdveffe

When General Lafayette visited
America in 1924 congress, by act of
December %, 1924, granted him
100000 and zone complete town Of
land" in recognition of his services
and sacrifices" during the Revolu-
tion, Pathfinder Magazine recalls.
The land was to be located under
the authority of the President "in
any of the unappropriated lands Of
the United States" This location
was made in what was then known
as West Florida and embraced 3d.
O2S.50 acres covering part Of what
is now the city Of Tallahassee. A
patent for this land was issued on
July 4, 1925, and was delivered to
Lafayette in person by the COM
missioner Of the general land Office.
A notice in the 1ensacola Gazette
says that Colonel Mckee arrived In
Florida to select the land for the
famous Frenchman. Lafayette never
saw his Florida land. An attempt
was made to colonize this tract by
French settlers under Count La
Porte, but the scheme was unsuc-
cessful. A few years later LaFay-
ette made another attempt at col
onization. He sent Charles Murat,
q son of the great cavalry general
and Napoleon's sister, but he too
failed. After Lafayette's death the
land was sold by his heirs, and Is
now owned by a large number Of
different persons.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Silly Idea Prevalent
That Idleness Is Sin

America is the only country in
the world where idleness is one OF,
the seven deadly sins, according to
Irwin Edman, novelist and essay
ist, writing in Harper's.
with us leisure has been melo-
dramatic escape into excitement"
he points out, "or a moralisti, fight
into Self-improvement. We oscil-
late between night clubs and out
lines Of culture. Every one has at
some time or other been present
lat determinedly gay party. He
has seen ordinarily quiet, intelligent
people become willfully noisy and
stupid. He has seen men and wom-
en-, separately delightful and en-
tertaining, prance about, loudly
screaming vulgarities, acting like
lgrown-up babies of the age. And
his pain has been increased by
sense that none o. these people
cared to do the silly things they
were doing. They drank more than
they really wished to, and uttered
hiccoughing nonsense that they
themselves despised.
Every one, likewise, has listened
to group of people at dinner or
afterward, talk with obligatory
boredom about the. modish books.
and plays and ideas. Spontaneity,
which is the essence of any truly
spiritual life, flies out of the con-
versation and out of the window
when culture becomes deliberate"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Found "Boss'' of Home
Busy Washing Dishes

A local man who frequently
boasts of being "the boss around
his shanty" is busy trying to make
a certain group of women desist
from spreading the tale of how he
was "bossing" the day that they
called on his wife.
On the day in question group
of about seven clubwomen decided
to call on his "better half to in
duce her to join a club which was
in the process of formation. They
went with some misgivings because
the "lord and master Of the estab-
lishment" had frequently stated
that he was not in harmony with
clubwomen and that his wife would
not join such silly affairs as long
as he twas boss"
!. AS the group entered they found
his wife smoking a cigaret and
reading a novel. In the kitchen
iette they heard a clatter Of dishes
and as conversation became diff
cult with the din that came from
j the crockery, the wife shouted:
,,"Oh, John, do be less noisy when
you wash the dishes. ."-Springfeld
Union.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Chinese Pirates Not
Like Old Buccaneers

Although pirates are hardly less
common than fishermen on some
Chinese rivers, they differ from the
pirates of popular juvenile fiction
i'm that they are not particularly
bloodthirsty. In fact some Of
China's best known government off,
cials began life as bandits or pi.
rates, and found it no detriment So
cially in after years. An incident
illustrating something of the sort
was told in the Dearborn Independ-
ent by William e. Barton, who has
Travelled extensively in the Orient,
as follows:
"Only a few months ago steam
launch belonging to Canton Chris
Ftian college, loaded with students,
was captured and held for ransom.
The ransom was not paid. The
governor of the island of Honan,
on which the college is located, as
Esured the college people that it was
not wise to pay ransom, or it would
have to be done again. They will
not KILL he said. When I was
robber we captured for ransom, but
we did not KILL"
This information proved reliable,
the writer continued, and the stu
dents and launch were returned
within a few days.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Cold Responsible for
Error of Steuensons?

!; Robert Louis Stevenson never
was in sympathy with those to
whom snow and ice brought JOY.
During a cold spell in Edinburgh he
wrote: II feel fit for little else be-
sides prayer. / cannot be comfort
ed; my wits are frozen. ;. Life
lis an amusement totally unsuitable
for winter. I place claim to Inn
mortality on that phrase. How
can you mind about Shelley? You
wouldn't if you were as cold as l
am"
1t may have been this loathing
of cold which, by some psychology
cal twist, betrayed Stevenson's wits
into his worst literary blunder,
the Manchester Guardian suggests.
When Marcel Schwob sought per-
mission to translate ''The Master of
iBallantrae," Stevenson implored
him to make a variation in the orig
inal.
! spray do not let Mrs. Henry
thrust the sword up to the hilt in
the frozen ground" he wrote; zone
of my inconceivable blunders, an
Iexaggeration to stagger Hugo. Say
she sought to thrust it into the
ground"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Indulgent to Grandma

Virginia, age six, was very pre-
else as to the correct pronunciation
of words, and had a serious habit
of contradicting people. Her grand
mother was visiting her, and her
parents had cautioned the little
miss not to correct the grandmoth-
er. Now the old lady always pro-
nounced "heard" as If it were
spelled ''heered," and as soon as
Virginia detected this she deter
mined to correct her grandmother's
pronunciation.
She met with no success; her
grandmother declared that s'heard"
as Virginia pronounced it meant q
lot of cattle, and insisted on her
own way of speaking the word.
So Virginia said she would ap-
peal to the dictionary. She walked
over to the bookcase and found
there small red notebook. She
opened it, turned over the blank
pages rapidly, and said at last:
Here it is! .Heard-Young peo-
pie should say "heard," but old folks
say what they want to'p'-Youth's
Companion.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Says Jelly-Fish Jazzed

! That jazz was first introduced by
our jelly-fish ancestry, was the dec
laration of DIR. G. P. Bidder, head
lof the biological section Of the
British association in an address
before the organization recently.
"Our ancestors" he said, ''were
flagellates, or lower than fiagel-
lates, for at least 5000 times as
many generations as. there have
been men. All these fiagelIate an
cestors of ours passed their whole
active lives in this continual rhythm
of accumulating energy and build
ing, twenty or more to the second,
through the whole of their short
lives. l believe that to that same
metabolic rhythm inherited from
the fagellates we owe our sense Of
time, so that our appreciation of
dancing, poetry and music shows
that we are still fagellates at
heart"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Woman Is Not Weaker
Sex BY Natures LalU

Woman is not the weaker but the
stronger, more vigorous sex. She
lives longer and can endure more.
More boys are born than girls, yet
Ian adult census shows more women
than men. This holds good, so far
as Is known, throughout the human
race.
We deliberately coddle women
and make it practically impossible
for them to be as rugged as boys;
they actually become the weaker
sex; and then we call them the
weaker sex. But nothing that we
can find in higher animals or in the
human race gives us grounds for
inferring that the female is nat
urally weaker or inferior. On the
contrary, the fact that nature put
the larger burden on her is>evidence
that nature fitted her to bear it
George A. Dorsey in Cosmopoli-
tan.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Message Not Exactly
Connected With Loue

"You are wanted on the tele-
phOne," said friend stenog as she
laid aside her powder puff and
moved her vanity case to one side.
He responded.
'Is that you" he asked in his
best voice.
"This is l." she responded.
"You don't know how happy l
am to hear from you. You have
frightened my whole day by call
ing"
whats that?"
"Oh, is that you, Hattie? l
thought at first it was my sister,"
'Yes, this is Hattie" He thought
he detected a little ice in her voice
he wasn't just sure-but he
thought so. 81 wish that on the
way home you'd stop in the market
and bring home that salt mackerel
I ordered. The clerk told me it
would be a late delivery, and I
wanted it for supper."-Berkshire
Eagle.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Remembered Famous Jump

Little Kathryn, who was driving
through the country with her uncle,
clamOred to be taken back to the
city, claiming that there was moth
ing to see in the country.
"Why," said her uncle, trying to
distract her attention, "see all the
pretty cows over in the pasture,
and they can't hurt you because
there is a rence around them."
Kathryn was silent a moment and
then expressed her skepticism.
"Huh," she said. "a COW jumped
over the moon once, so l don't see
why it couldn't jump over a fence"
Children, the Magazine for Par
ents.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Didn't Like the Color

81 can let you have 'twos, lady,
no more one cent stamps" said the
man behind the counter.
NO." replied the dreamy-eyed
girl, 'they won't do" and she
stepped aside to allow the woman
who was next in line to make her
purchases. She was still standing
there as the woman stopped a mo-
,ment to put her supply of stamps
in her purse.
II just can't make myself use two
cent stamps" confided the girl !;
s'they're such a dreadful color they
positively make me shudder and
they won't go with any kind of let
ter paper. / suppose I'll have to
go up to the next post Office, but it's
better than using pink stamps. -,
New York Sun.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Used to II

The hotel was much frequent
led by commercial travellers, who
thought they had found a good tar
get for their humor in a clergyman
who booked a room there. Day In
and day out, at table and in the
lounge, he received all their jests
with irritating Indifference.
Il wonder you stand those young
sters so WELL" said an older man,
after a particularly foolish joke at
the dinner table. ssDon't you hear
what they say?"
The clergyman smiled gently at
the grinning faces waiting for his
reply.
"Oh, yes," he answered, shut then.
you see, 1 am chaplain at lunatic
asylum, SO I'm used to this sort Of
thing II
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Didn't Lose Anything

Students of the times are quite
convinced that women are rapidly
grasping the business spirit of the
age as well as the lingo of COM
merce. The growing business aptfs
tude of one of the gentle sex is in-.
dicated by the following incident
which is reported to have occurred
very recently. A young wife, resid-
ing in Chicago, lost her husband by
death and telegraphed the tidings
to her parents in Maine:
"John was killed in an automo-
bile accident this morning." Loss
fully covered by insurance.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
Something of a "Dig"

There is a custom in some parts
Of England when a big political DEM
onstration is held to propose gen.
eral resolution of thanks--to the
principal speaker, the chairman,
and Tin these days. to the man
who leads the community singing.
At a recent gathering of this sort
a prominent local worker for the.
party was deputed to perform this
task.
He waxed eloquent about the
community conductor. "We owe
much," said he, ''to Mr.. The
community singing was delightful.
We were all enjoying ourselves
thoroughly before the home secre-
tary arrived!'
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
In a Bad Fix

! He came to the Liberty avenue
bowling-alley man wearing long
face.
''I'm in an awful mess" he con-
lfided. My wifi thinks I've been
bowling every Saturday night for
the last six months, and now she's
decided to come down and watch
me roll a match. can't do thing
ito dissuade her. It's fierce"
! "Oh, you can get by all right
soothed the bOwling-alley man. "She
probably doesn't know much about
the game"
swell, that's just it" he lament
ed. Neither do 1. l never bowled
in my life."-Pittsburgh Post-Ga-
zette.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1928-05-31
lnattentiue

Suddenly a cloud semed to over
cast the brides features and with
AN anxious note in his voice the
groom asked what was wrong.
"What is it?' he cried, tremen-
dously perturbed. "Why are you
sobbing like that?"
'Be-be-because you are growing
cold towards me. You don't love
me any more!''
"Oh, my DEAR" he walled, "how
could you say that?"
"Well,' she said, II saw you look
out Of the window twice."