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‘ E. L. AND A. L. GOLDEN,
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SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1915
MINIATURE ALMANAC FOR
TOMORROW.
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MASONIC NOTICE.
.A stated Communication of Old
'lNeii Lodge, No. 108, F’. and A. M.
will be held at its rooms, May 18th,
1915 at 8 o'clock p. in. Work w. M.
degree Refreshments.
All Master Masons cordially Ind
fraternally invited.
Fraternall‘y Yours,,
SYLVESTER P. DECKER, W. M.
Attesti— .
' Robert M. Wilcox,
Secretary.
r1116, 17 18
The annual meeting of Old Well
Lodge Funeral Aid, will be held on,
Wednesday, May 19th, at the lodfleI
rooms.
Per Order:—
0. t'-'. MILLS, President.
A. J. CROSSMAN, Secretary
Butler Chapter, No. 38, R. A. M.
' Meets in Masonic Building, South
Main St, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, at ‘
each month—July and August ex~
. copied—vat 86.0le Alltlloyalhlch
I Masons cordially invited. Charles
A. Tuck, H" P Robert W. Wilcox,‘
"gulf SOUTH NORWALX EVENING SENTINEL
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plea in education is to avoid losing: or there won't be any left in the garlic.
the things once acquired; otherwide,
his 1ast stores of information QR youths, Sitting primly on the beaches
their mental shelves, so to speak, peri- after the manner oboxford and cm-
It will be a sad day for this country;
years are Iwasted. Cicero used to take when any aggregation of Americsni
5 EVENING SENTINEL TELEv .
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POSTGRADUATE WORK IN “THREE
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', The “Evening Wisconsin' of Mil .
,waukee makes a novel suggestion
along the line. of reinforcing public
school education it reminds us that in
spite of the years spent in drilling
the 'three R's‘ '——-not to mention the
"too G's"— into childish minds; the
present generation of pupils seemsl
lamentably lacking in knowledge and
understanding of those studies, after:
graduation. The “ Evening Wisconsin, ‘
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. therefore, foresees:
“The (oming of a day when some;
person will create a positive sensation
in educational circles by rediscoverf
ing the essentials of educatonwread-g
lng, writing, arithmetic, grammar andI
geography-“re establishing them in I
the public schools and taking all the
special studies, grouping them in aI
separate educational system and mak-
ing it possible for them to be stud-.
ied electlvley for a year or two after
the pupil passes out of the public
school as a sod of preliminary for
collegiate studies."
The suggestion has a substratum of
sound in it. Undoubtedly there is too
much instruction of varied sorts mix-
ed up together nowadays in the gram.
mar schools for really thorough and
effective work in any of them. Anoth-
er line of policy, however, is suggest-
ed by this proposal of a post-gram» "
ate course in "frills.” Many of these
special studies, it must be recogniz-
‘ed, are well fitted to childish minds,
but some of the heavier “regular stu'
dies’ are not. Why not give postgra-
duate work in the “R’s' and “G’s"?
There can beno doubt that a good.
deal of the instruction imparted to
children in the gi-ammer grades to not,
digested by them, and‘ therefore-not?
remembered and made serviceable in
after. life, simply. because at the time
their minds were not mature enough.
High school teachers in many cities
and it‘ necessary to take‘ 'froshmen'
through a; quick reviews! some! of-
‘.these=»eommon school studies. before:
they can go ahead” with the advanced“
:work. And usually it is found that the
same pupil who plundered through to
his public school diploma now, as n
‘Why, it is arguedrshouldanot lower
odically, and run through them to keep
them fresh and ready for use. it's
a good thing for anybody, young or
old, to turn back occasionally and pick ,
up the old books, and with the new
comprehension of maturer minds and
broader experience grasp and
down," the knowledge that slips so
easily out of the mind.
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' suvmc Lowsa' GALIFORNIA.
The old proposal that the United‘
States should acquire Lower Guillem-
is is receiving more attention lately.
There are two reasons given for such
a step. One is of particular interest
to California, and the other to the
country in general.
First, it is pointed out that the great
imperial Valley of southern Californ~
is, which has 250,000 acres under cult
tlvatlon and might have three times
that much, can never be properly de-
veloped or even properly protected
without the annexation of some of the
territory below the border. The trouo
his is with the Colorado It,
brings life to the valley, and at the‘
some time threatens death. At the
border, the river‘s natural flow is back
toward the north, into the Salton Sink.
it has been forced to continue south-
ward into the Gulf 31 Mexico, by a
mud dam at. the northern end of Vol-
cano Lake. This‘ barrier,
say, will ,not permanently remain ef-
river.
engineers
raising the level of the lake and is‘
threatenin'g‘s general inundation some
day. There is need of enlarging this
dam, and constructing a .permanent
restraining work at the place where
the river leaves- its original channel
and flows toward tile lake.
liut both of these dam sites are in
Mexican "territory, and the United
States government is therefore hump-
ered in carrying out the requisite plan.
California he bought, so as to facili-‘
into the development of this area
north of the present boundary, worth
more than the whole peninsula? 111
would be possible, too, for Americans
to develop some of the land below
the line; which it isn't likely the Mex-
loans will ever utilizi‘
The other reason is mainly strate-
gic. Tile ownership of Lower (tali-
‘fornla would give us a continuous
stretch of territory down the coast
800 miles nearer the Panama Canal,
strengthening our hold on that‘great
waterway and pro1idlng 11s with val-
uable harbors and cooling stations
The peninsula is of little value to
Mexico. It is sparsely settled, the soil
is unproductive and it is almost en-
tirely separated from the Mexican
mainland Buying it, howev er-and of
course we could acquire it in no oth-
er way—is a difficult matter.
At present there is no government
in Mexico responsible enough to make
such a transfer. And even if there was;
a legal transfer would be hard to ef-
fect, owing t‘o a clause in the Mexican _
constitution that makes it an act of
treason to sell any piece of Mexican
territory to another country.
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WALLOPING BASEBALL SLANG
Harvard University, New E’nglandfs
chief dispenser of ‘sweetness'and light,
in trying to take the slang out of col-
lege baseball.
Fancy—just fancy-=9. bleacher bunch
deciaiming in decomds unison, mom»
age, comrade!" instead of hollering
I“At-a<b0yl" Fancy a rabid fan courte-
ously requesting a batsman to “please
hit tbe»balll insteadgof. howling. "Soak
it on the‘W" surmounted”:
committing such an offense ‘would’ be
likely to. suggest judicially that the
adverse decision of. an umpire "ap-
peat-ed somewhat questionable” in-
“stead or'surtekmg; as overrides“
citizen- has an ihsdienablb~ri§lit1 to‘ no,
11111111: umpzr' ‘" 1
The lack! of slang in the Harvard-
stadium may have a dreadfully OHMs‘
sting effect. Youths gently waving
crimson means in the spring soiL
mmm no). “a...
genitals aad sees the application use ‘
“nlil ‘
bridge, lean just a trifle forward when
their batthlg Hercules lines out. a hom-
er in the ninth with the score tied
and three men on bases, andpat glov-
ed hands together inaudibly, and hand
the expectant welkln merely a well-
bred murmur of “Well played, Sir,—
well played!"
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IMPORTING SAND.“
We are now. importing building sand
from lrelaml. it is being. used mostly
in New York city. Not that Irish and
is any better for mixing mortar than
American sand. The stuff is brought as
ballast, and having arrived at port is
sold for a trifle or given away, be-
cause there’s a law against dumping
sandln the bay.
Luckily for ship owners, there is no
tariff on sand; otherwise they'd have
to pay money to get rid of it“ after
burning a lot of coal in bringing it ov-
er. The owners of domestic sandbanks
have made no demand for tariff pro-
tection, either, and it isn't likely they
will, since nature has made sand so
plentiful around New York that dredg-
ing it out of the harbor is one of the
city's leading industries.
The importation of sand is striking
index to the status of the foreign
trade. Vessels bound for Europe are
loaded to the batches, and on the re-
turn voyage are seldom able to get
enough cargo to serve as mere bal-
2lest. it is a reminder of the similar
V'lectlve. The suit carried by the river”
situation 200 years ago when the lack
of American-bound cargoes impelled
vesselmen to ballast their ships with
Dutch brick on the westward trip.
They had to sell it very cheaply, for
colonies in those days made excellent
brick. That accounts for the many
houses around New York built
Dutch brick at that time.
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IN THIS LAND OF OURB.
There are 10,000 debr in theGraud
Cerium game refuge Iii blunts."
The United States navy has per.
footed a. Searchlight visible under fa
vorablc circumstances for 100 miles.
Nine thousand young trees and 10.-
000 pounds of seed were planted on
the national‘ forest reserves 1111914.
The government built more than 2,-
000 miles of trail and, 3,000 Mistral
telephone lines on the national II'orest,
reserve in 1914.
The cottonseed oil production of
the United States is now more than
200,000,000 gallons :1 your, or five
times as mu'chas in 1890.
One passenger was killed. for each 1
4,900,000 passengers carried by the
railroads of the United States during
the last year.
To enable visitors to get 11 closer
view of the whirlpool of Niagara)
Falls, 11 passenger carrying" cable will:
be built across the river.
The United States flag flies over“
8,000 islands having a. population of?
10,000,000 and in which $400,000,000
of American capital is invested.
More than 120,000,000'board feet of?
timber were given away‘by the gov‘
crnment last year to settlers and
miners living in or near the national
forests. '
THE WHY OF ALASKA.-
A_ correspondent asks why the
United States is spending a lot. floi‘i
money to pay for a rallrad: into
Alaska
Alaska has more coal than Pennsyl-
vania.
Alaska would make 470 Rhoda Is-
lands;
Alaska has the only tin mines in
the United States.
' Alaska has 599, 446 square miles—-
388.6464“ acres:
Alaska has the greatest fishing wa- _
tors in the world.
Alabk‘a is» over twice the: sire. of the!
German empire. . '
Alaska ls.fonrteen timelthe size at!
New ‘Yoritlistatec‘ ‘
Alaska has“ more copper than Mich:
igan and Arisonn'. .
Alaska is one-iiftitithe also: of» that
United: Sthtes prom
Alaska was purchased for 37,200};
out), lesstliaotfmoents as was V
Alaska“ has pm the med“ twenty-
five times overlu‘gofd‘ and silver.
, Ala-intis‘restlmtedwmw as
hrucii“ our on. simian ultimatum.
Alamo lieu the1 contest cattle» and
Sheep ranges’ my the American.
flag.
Alisha libs tll‘v bfgllbst mountain
tinder thematic-1o armor.
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Links 11.111:qu tumult mm‘ i
mat-track :11 fireman! There Ferrous warren was
. One of the most valuable prinoiv'x mast bet wallop left in the languam,
011 gm! LUSITANIA. I
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Elbert Hubbard and his wife
were among those who pent
down when .1 German @rpcdo
struck the Iusitania, according
to reports from Quecnstou 11
Elbert Hubbard. the seer of
East -\urora, treated for himsclt
a uniqn‘ plate in Anioritan 'c;t-
leis by his “it and epigrams and;
lately b) his philosoph1 of Iiig
Rusincss Iirst noted for hisl
pamphlet. ‘Thc Philist'me,‘ Wt 111
1. :- kicu satire he later pubI-sllcil
manv books 1d made a success
of Is own pitI dishing and priilt- I
in." business in Fa. t \:1rora,
1‘1crc Ilf' established :1 settlement
of his workers 'knoirn as the Ilov
traitors ’
lie was born in HIMniingtom.
III., on Illnt if), 1850, and bad;an
only :1 10111111011 school education. 1
but be was honored wit‘t- the dc
grcc of master of arts b1 Tufts.
College lie. started :1 newspaper
career in the 11 eat but went 10*
East ’\urora. and from there;
built up his printing cstabIIin-
ment for the publication of do
luxc editions. and published 111ml
of his books.
Of late Fra Elbertus, as be but]
been kno11n.l1arl written much in.
«Iefcnsc of leading men in busi-
ness allow in business life and of
their business methods. although
his earl} 1v ritings 11cm consider‘
‘(‘(I radical.
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The Glory of War. I
Hoof beat and trumpet blast
And banners in the down
And what of the grain in the fallow:
field
When the liusbandman has gone? ‘
Sword song and battle roar,
And the great grim fifhtlng line!
And what of the woman in the door
And the blown grape on the vine
Drum. beat and drapedfflas.
And he beneatb'blssbield-v
And what ofathelivomanzweeplng low—
And‘ the deadtgraln in the field?
~Dana‘Burnetln New YorkSun.
PRAISES--FR’E&lDENT WILSON;
SPRINGFIELD, 111., May 14.-—-"The
president and mi- advisers at’ Wash-
ington have acted‘ with-utmost caution
"and deliberation,'."said Governor Ed-
ward F. Dunne toast:
“Thor have only formulated» the as
sition of this Republic as to the pro
tection of the lives andirlghtorof its
citizens after. sufficient time has elaps-
ed to‘let reason andllaw'supplant the,
shock that resulted from the loss of so;
many noncombatant American lives. '
prefiident, unspoken and‘the patriot-
dentin. behind. him. and. will; sustain
him to she end.” ,
FRANKFURT, Km, my 14.-- --“Pres-
ident Wilton, Maven prompted by
patriotism, inmmsddfirmness in the
declaration item trampoline; dov-
mar Jam 'B.‘ Misery; of Rosa
‘tuem 3101th
“The president's mandamus to
member positing 111mm ovum-ahea-
sive Map to tlie‘deusmof the on
ANNIVERSARY
‘con‘gratulatlon over the very marked
{reported to be amazing. When suf-
Ilntorests that campaigned constantly
’ itles', noftliat'a‘ll the work- of the sum-
f‘The American nation, through its .
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- Connecticut was represented at the
New England conference of suffrage
workers that was held in Boston yes
terday'by Mrs. Edward Porritt of
Hartford. All the six New England
states had sent delegates and there
was much interesting comparing or
notes and mutual encouragement and
For vard
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59c NIGHT GOWNS, high
quality iltusilu, each ..
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overwhelmingly the most important of
the New England states. in Massa-
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with lace and embroidery.
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chusetts a woman suffrage amendment
has twice passed the Legislature, the
last time by a vote of 196 to 33 in the
House, and 33 to 3 in the Senate Thel
amendment goes to the vpters of the‘
state in November, and in view of this '0
critical election every. suffrage league. 3‘
club. association or other organisation .
is working to the utmost of its ability.
The advance in suffrage sentiment was
MW
May is becoming the suffrage rum-
mage sale/month". ‘A number 01' the
lobeal leagues are holding or have'lreld
suffrage rummage'sal‘es twthin the last.
week ortwo, and’no better way of rats.
lug money for'suiff-age and at the same
, time of offering most tempting bar-
lu spite of the supexlor importance” gains to the poorer women has yet
of Massachusetts, there was deep inA beendevised.‘ Thisweelfit‘has been the
terest at the conference in the doingiI turn of the Hartford Equal Franchise
of Connecticut. Mrs. Porritt outlined‘ Keane, and“ a rummage sale was op-
tbe plan of campaign which had beep oned at headquarters on Wednesday
followed both in the constituencies and and is still in progress. So great is
in the lobby of the Legislature. 8119‘ the demand for the articles that are
told of the suffrage meetings held inI put on sale at imemls by the H. E.
the small towns to arouse sentiment F 1.. that the only limit to the sale is
and to bring pressure to bear on that the disappear-anus of 1111' the things
local representatives, and then of the that have been collected'fOrth’e sale.
hard and steady work put in by the- The immediate purpose at the meant
suffrage lobbyists to keep the votes sale is to nlfl‘lmmey'forthe state as.
that had been promised to them and updating, forum league pleased 31', 000
to offset the equally hard and Denist“to the state at: the convention last
out work of the liquor men and other? October,
frabe geccmes imminent thousands 01‘
me n and women who have pre1loualy
appeared indifferent, declare for it and
are quite indignant at being taken for
an.tls
{against woman suffrage KDOWIHS theI Haven last night, at which the speaker
strength 01' the forces ranged “D was Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson
against omawn suffrage. the soars-.3315 Mr: 'I‘ N Hepburn was also
glsts. Mrs Porrltt 355811911 were suro' present and made. an address, and the
priSed and 9168886 that they were; New Haven Equal Franchise Magus
-able to D011 80 large 3 vote. The mil-i which promoted the meeting, scored
resentatlves, who voted for them had‘ another success in. the long list or
shown surprising independence 3M their achievements since their organ-
courage; for it took a great deal 015 isation in 1912. On Wednesday even-.1
courage to withstand the constant; in: Mrs, Hale spoke- at a large meets
WNW"! 0f the interests and 0t "10' 'ing in Waterbury, when the chair wool
'party machines-ail of which were op- ‘ taken by Mrs Julius Malthy,
posed to voice for women.
Mrs. Porrltt then gave an outline of
the work that tile Connecticut” Woman
Suffrage‘Assoclatioo iit‘settlitg out to
perform during the present sumnier. ‘
She-told‘of‘theabsence of the meteor-
gunners who- are“ working in New
Jersey, and' said that the looslzieagues
were rising inobi‘y to! their responsibil-
111211111111,—
merisrfalling anthem. She described
the plan“ of" enlisting! ehch- leesuoi‘in
the‘ work‘ of organizing}; sailings ‘ I IEWS“ ‘
league intwomtlireeof‘tho'nsigbbbr— . ..:
ing~ towns; and siier spoke especiaiiyror‘
the splendid local“ Worth-that'- has been _
doae‘iirNéw Haven; and tire-intention
of the New Haven womon' t6 e‘xtum OILINB THE STREETS;
thid' work until it covers the Whole Editor Evening Sentinel:
county. ‘ ‘ Why not have the roads oiled nowr
The plans for the commutes-i while they are in good condition tors
sional Union Convention whlclnwilltbe 'oiilng‘l ‘ V
beld‘itr‘mrtford' J'snebanfltmue al- Stamford, Greenwich; New Rachel
so'dettiled “slumber-mos“ of‘and other towns oiled their streets a
the intimate connection betwm watt monthVor‘ more" ago;
for the “aluminium. outlier ifslted' trust'yesrtlterpeople‘wereobliged to.
States museum and . sum-age suifer with the dust until the‘rmid'dle of
Viol-if" in” the “dim sites: The ' June. A‘t that’timrtlfo‘md‘ways had
a
states Wmmmuflm to become ground! mans covered witlr
Ithls sternum-walnuts. nut is 11mm: money command «111-1,
was who” 1‘ “use. them wltboin’snyrmm Moll was
muffin”! WMtbem' sprayed on. Wait plum, menial
was u. out!!!“ w m .lir‘ nloisflmlirg' the M‘ofltfloflm
their mm as may it] n nonnat- munching
was omimw be tracked on by the daily trails.
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A big mass meeting was held in New,
bedrooms 2
are fairly drmrandasolid, if the gut-
ters were cleaned, loose stones raked
unread beds brushed off a little and
111 few of the worst. depressions filled
)up. then thoroughly oiled: the roads
iwould-be kept In good-shape through«
out the entire year without attention
or expense, andaiford. much pleasure
to all who use them and to those who
reside on them. There is. no better-
roadway for. general use than a dirt
road thatls properly: oiled. It takes
care of itself.
The streets shouldebe oiled now and
avoid. a. repetitionuof last year's do.
luslon. Why: not commemorate clean.
up week by- oiling the streets?
GOOD ROADS.
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THE won sun:
3 Cheerfulness is one of the oldest
and mint powerful remedies for bodily
ills. it it is a sovereign remedy
against dyspepsia. Everyone knows
the influence over appetite and good
digestiont a'jovtal companion affords.
Pope tells us that Lord Lansdowne
was ordered' by his doctor‘to dance
when he had'an‘ attack of‘gout and'to
sing at the same time:
After the Battle‘ot” Bunker Hill, a.
young soldier, who had been wounded‘
lin the chest, was reported as dying
His comrades, who were watching
him, finding one of their number had
fallen asleep, amused themselves by
painting his thee with the" candle
mine. This madelthe'sick‘ man'laugh
so that he vomited blood" and“ was
completely cured’ by?“ his gaiety.
Voltaire tells the“ ’ story" of " a. lady
who, seeing her daughter very ill, said '
she hoped God might take all the rest .
of the family‘hnd restore her daugh-
ter. The husband of the‘ daughter
asked. her gravely if she intended to
include her sons-in~law in her wish,
and this made the "daughter laugh so
heartily that she was promptly cured
of her fever.
1 Try the laugh cure.
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DIDNIT WANT TO MISS AN-Y-
? ‘ ./ THINGa
J. Stanley Todd. the portrait paint-v
er; was talking about the beggars of
different lands. "1. have met,’,' said
Mrs: Todd,.{'beggars. oil every ’descrip-
tion—shy beggars, Vblusterlng ones.
old" humus: robust» mar-hut. the
most remarkablerbesnnmthew lot
was a man whom I' never met: yet
whom Lnever assuredlwwill forgot.
Alhl sawpf this beggar was bisfl‘nt I
andlchalr..'liho chair stood on a cor-
nor of the Rue 8!. Locate in Parts.
The hauls): on the chair, thwi a few
coupon unit and behind the list in
euplsosrttreodlngi' mam don‘t for-
getttho beggar, flio‘ is nbf tnlllg 1
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