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RSDAY, SEPT. 14. 1916
TOMORROW
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.- IATURE ALMANAC noal‘he “"“~'~i°"-
:1234 p. m'.
So are other vies. And so are white
en's diseased. The Eskimos would
be better clummlly and physically,
if they had never seen a white man.
It’s the sump old story, so familiar
this history of the Caucasians deal-
ing: with the Indian, and repeated
‘iib‘Shtiilthll of the superior races with
The highly civilized man
’always contaminates the uilclvilized
aor lialllciiilized mun, ruining his slin-
{pie virtues. hurting alike his morals
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PHONE CALLS
torial Rooms—9:.
ess Office—9d}.
» alk Branch {flee—1388.
Editor’s Residence—218.2.
City Editor's Rundown—7514.
8_ inc» Manager’s Residence—-
'lll 1113-12.
.hbiishcr’s Residence—890.
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MASONIC DIRECTORY.
“tier Chapter, N. 3:, R. A. M.
‘ Meets in Masonic Building, South
””131 each nionthwluly and August or
_ ell—at 8 o'clock. All Royal Arch
«880115 cordially invited.
’- JAMESA. HOLLERIN, H. P.
Win. 8. Lyon, Secretary.
‘ Jim" Lodge, No. 108, F. and A. M.
.iflsets in Masonic liuilding. South
:fihin street. let and 3rd Tuesday of
Which month—July and August ex-
';elited~at 8 o‘clock. All Master
Ififlssons cordially invited. Arthur
il'l' Ferris, W. M. Robert M. Wilcox.
sec-
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AN ENGINEERING FAILURE.
”For the giant Quebec bridge to col-
lamp of the very moment of comple-
tio‘p, when its last span was being
‘hpiynted into position. would We regard-
wwlder any
rt-breoking calamity.
circumstances as a.
. 5
Only an en-
_ eel, perhaps. can fully appreciate
t . bitterness of such a failure.
fame notion of what it must mean
t
Ttlie men who huve‘spcnt years
)iifinniug end creating such a stl‘uc-l
I c, for the mastery of a great river.
story, “The liridgc Builders." But
;
‘ii cclni day, into a peaceful and.
ndly river, in the presence of
I . mg to whom the event should hovel
for the second time.
. Nature cannot be blamed for this
' star. Nobody can be blamed but
engineers themselves. And if they“
ived criticism for the first costly
urn nine years ago, they are in-
, nrsbly more biamcworthy now.
I. 0 worst of it is thnt apparently
39° blame in neither case rested whol-
3;,“ til the engineers in charge of the
‘IMIrn’ction, or even the engineers
'Yh‘d drew the plans, The whole pro-
Mon seems involved. For the best
“Moe“ of Canada and the United
whales are slid to have been consult-
e‘dfinnd to have given their approval
”fie plans adopted.
it was, of course, a gigantic unden
‘lrlflng-dhe biggest bridge In the
florid. But it was never regarded ill
* gigantic for American engineering
_ ii. Our modern engineers recog-
“w‘rno task its immiscible because of
c "or local dimculty. And the public
M his acquired a blind faith in the
1insifieerlng profession. Its experts
reg-riled as the miracle-workers
V , e new age. _
long spun that now‘ lies. crum-
st the bottom of the St. Law-
. river, beside the twisted wreck
predecessor, seems as if intend-
apd' Rum as n rebuke to the pride
3‘0! Mord mechanical science.
slaw
Zn
' unmu m Eskimos
p on will find fresh food for their
glam in the experience of Dr. An
mn. head of~ths Canadian Arctic
. ' don which no returned 'nfter
' .. years“ eiplorntlon of the north-
"cnd of the continent. Dr. Antler-
. :pcrts thsttho militias luvs tic-
’- thnhcnutwoutmg
’only five years ago. My whit-
' simple virtues. usually, round
H ”in NING SENTINEL ”LE-l it is the worst elements of our civil-
)Iain street, 2nd and 4th Tuesdaysl
— [whether she was destroyed by storms.“
{large submarine fleet of which
llleutschland was merely the pioneer,
H be gained from Imam“ wnndmxinnd which was destined to foil the
‘ 1 hi i 't f th inn-lush blockade and reestablish com-
. ' ' , ‘ i e o c.
'. ings bridge w n hp inicrcm communication with America.
‘ be, lril e fell
8“ 60ml The Que c ) ”I. jTlit-rc is said to be no trustworthy evi-
e
-. n a triumph. And worse still, it
whom a the. an
good his health.
l
,izalioi‘ that are absorbed first. in the
'long run the lower races have a
charce: those who survive may, in
the end, come to understand and prac-
itlce the virtues by which the civilized
lpeoples keep their own vices in cherk.
lBut until that period of reaction comes
l-nno it lmver certain to comev the
l"snvages" find intercourse with the
l‘fclvllizcd‘ men devastating and disas
Jilrour.
! ______4_~ _____‘
: THE B‘MEN.
‘ The failure of the longherslded sub-
\Illill‘illt‘ liner Bremen to appeaizin an
lAnit-iit-sn port, or iii any other port so
liar as the world knows, constitutes
,one if the mysteries of the vrar. Most
Fof the speculation thus far has been
:concerned with the possible fate of the
’li‘cincn. Observers have wondered
.
:Wllt‘ll‘l’l‘ she laundered en route
rihrough some mechanical defect.
.
lwhrthcr she was sunk by a mine or
isheh. whether she was caught in one
jof tl'c fatal steel nets spread by the
'lli-itish. or captured by enemies who
ihave chosen to conceal their triulliph.
3 But all the time there have been
Icynlcal observers who doubted that
l
glherc ever was n~Drenien. Anti latclyl
it is sug-
thal suspicion has spread.
gested that the Germans ware simply
‘fooliny. their foes and fooling the rest
ml the world when they boasted of n
the
x
dencc that any other craft of ’tho
lkililM'lllHIld type has yet been launch-
. it ‘5‘.)
However that may be. it Is evident
ihiit the fruits of the Deutschland's
voyage have been and will remain sen
timcntsi rather than practical. it isn‘t
likely, even if several more such vcs
sols are put Into commission, that
they can ply the Atlantic with de
pendablo—regulurlty and safety and
lupply Germany with enough war ins-
terlnls to make any appreciable dif-
ference- in the result of the war.
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MOONLIGHT TO ORDER.
And now we're going to have urti-
ticial moonlight that can be turned§fi
or off at will. This doesn't mean that
the real moon is out-of-dste and must
be discarded for a fine, efficient moon
that works every night in the month.
It simply means that the owner of it
very beautiful Italian garden SEMI“
island in trying to nicks his garden as
beautiful all the time as it is when
bathed in moonlight.
The feat is to be accomplished by a
system 'of concealed light sources that
will lllumine that pertains and lovely
statues of the garden, dedpen the
shadows nnd accent the night beauty
'of shruhbery and vines. White light
will be thrown on'thc dark green of
the foliage which absorbs nearly 95
per cent. of the light striking it. A
little blue light is to be used for the
poi-going ””19””! white uni-hum.
This light Will be thrown in long hori-
zontal run the whole length of the
Dem”.
it isn’t. mutant to initially the
moon nor to defy. Nome with crun-
ciul lighting. The owner ‘slmply wish-
es to utilluc tho‘bosutiec of the gar-
den st Ill times and to crisis on illu-
stun thnt—will august moonlight. it
col-nits; is an Iii-lea om lumps
and no lights. And while we still re-
»... a. .. .-
TALKS ON BANKING.
The Origin of Savings Banks. l
When it is considered that in some,
[states such as Massachusetts, one out;
{of (very two and a bull petrol!I have'
leaving: bank aecountifnnd in Newi
} York with its great population, one out
of ll‘lt—t“ the intimacy with which the!
shviiigs bank tout-hes the individual
will become manifest. In flictno 0th-.
er institution except the home, the:
chnlth, or the school comes into such I
close contact with humanity as does!
the savings bank. And because it'
touihes the lives of so many people
>9 lilolly, the whole body politic is
interested in the savings bank and
what it does.
Financially speaking no other instl“
tutioli has such a marked effect for;
good to the. individual and the come
mushy. as does the bank that takes
your money. Every time you cross I
well paved street, take a walk in the
park. :end your children to school.
turn in all alarm of on», draw some
water. look with pride upon your pub-
lic buildings, enter a Well kept-home, ,
you pay lllillllt‘ to the institution thnt I
made these things possible, and that
institution is the savings bank.
While the blink of discount Is an in- ;
dispensable part of business life, and
we could not do business without it.
the number of patrons of the banks of
discount is insignificant in comparison.
with the depositors oi the savings
banks of the country. now numbering:
over ten million.
it is well to know something aboutl
this feature of banking. for ti savings!
bank is more than “ a place to put
niOllP)"»‘ll is a great cooperative in-
vestment institution. and inasmuch as
this is the Centennial Year of the sliv.
inks bank aiid the event will be prop
crly celebrated by tile American Bank-
err’ Association at its annual meeting
at Kansas (lily in September. it is
proposed to outline as briefly as pos-
sible in the next three or four talks
on r: nkliliz in the present series. the
fundamental features of the savings
bank. Like fl. great many other insti-
luticlls that have made for human
l - ”‘
l
aeroplanes to protect thclllsclvcs
enemy's lint-s.
treaty. but It is Senator McLenn who
really had the treaty put through."
The L'nited States Biological Sur-
vey, the official bureau in charge of
'1 his double machine gun is the newest contrivanc on French.
llicy are, Jullllftl‘ Oil a turret behind the pilot,’
where one may operate tllclii mains! aeroplanes which attack.
I
when they go scouting over the:
p.
l . ’ ’
tinsel. upon A state election in a Re-
pubiiran state With the issues of the
‘t-snipnlgn complicated by a prohibition:
:«mesiionl’ I
.. .....n. ._
good, the savings bank is 3 develop
mom. and the origin ofthc idea is in
doubt. Daniel Defoe of “Robinson
frame" fame is mentioned as the or-
iginal savings bank 'man. who conceiv-
ed a scheme for the rel/lpt of depos»
its on the part of the Government
Nothing clinic of It. Priscillii WnktL
mid and Joseph Smith In England
also had schemes for the receipt on
the pan of the well to do. of sum
savings and“ the repaying of the son?”
at Christmas time with it bounty. coli-
ll'ibl‘lf’tl by the wealthy managers: bui
these endeavors worked on the theory
that the poor should be encouraged to
save for the sake of the reward om.
ed, and were supported by the dons-
tions of the rich. which is far from
the savings bank idea. The first man
to growth: fact that the , earning
power of the money left in the care of
the managers should support the lush»
tution, was the Rev. Henry Duncan. n
Scotch preacher: who. In the village
of Futhwell, Scotland, opened his sav-
liirs hank-the first true savings bank,
ln‘1810. along the lines still in vogue
today. This was the first savings
banlt that had in it thlI essential ele-
mentu of success. impressed with the
lmprovidence of the people of his par-
ish be resolved to found an institution
to receive their small savings, invest
them for the benefit of the depositor
and after paying the expenses of man-
iiizement, return the balance to the do
posiiors its interest. This plan proved
so sensible and so helpful that savings
bank: sprung up all over England and
Scotland. and shortly the idea crossed
the, Atlantic. resulting in the savings
bank movement in this country, which
closely followed the lines laid down
by Duncan's bank, 'a brief sketch of
which will appear in the next bnnlb
ingtslk.
FROM THE'WATIONAL ASSOCIA-
TION AUDUBON OOCIETIES.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.——~Dcnstor
McLean is receiving letters of ~ con.
graiulstion from bird lovers all over
the country for his successful handling
of the treaty between the United
States and mm. respecting migra-
tory birds, just ratified by the United
States Senate. The treaty gives
greater promotion to-m’igrntory gone
birds and prohibits the destruction of
insect-entitle birds. .
When the Federal migratory bird
low was brought borers the Supreme
Court of the United States on the
who: of its" con-mm.
sought to make sure of his purpose by .
having the United sum and m
enter into a treaty on migratory birds.
This done, thrl‘cdorsl We. of
mm; birds am about anti-nut
loony. Blindn- treatie- exist Batman
mot liloropcun usilons.‘ ’
the protection of the country‘s blids.
ieraids the treaty as mm of the great.
SPECIALS
Big Savings
Values Worth While
Shop Here Tomorrow
“BEACON BLANKETS”——l7rcsh.arrivals, big full
size, warm and collliortalilc: best $3.00 value 81 98
l .
More new GINGHAMS AND PERCALES l<
FIGURED FLANNELETTES, big valu’c a1 :3
ALL SILK NOVELTY STRIPE VOILES, all the
95m
new colors; value 85c ..................... 69¢ vtl.
$2.50 i~‘uil Size COMFORTABLES ............. $1 98
New SERGE DRESSES, all the Fall Colors: value
$12.98 ..................................... $9.95
$2 iz-vd. picccs fine quality LONG CLOTH, full
36 inches wide ............................. $1 49
DOUBLE SAFETY FRUIT JARS, quark and
pints: value 85¢ per dozen ................... 65¢
“FITS THEM ALL” FRUIT JAR RUBBERS 7Q? dOZ.
8oz. JELLY GLASSES, tin top: value 25c doz. . 19¢
A new. model SERGE DRESS fur triiiliilctl, plaited
- skirt: all the new Fail shades ............. $14.98
OS" I. a: I
_| l ‘e c.
; . .5. P. .\,'-. .. {I
H.
NEW LOCOMOTIVEO ARRIVING.
est tonservntlonal measures put into‘ —..._
forct in recent years. ii. \\‘. Nelson,
of llit. surrey, says. "The treaty is it
KTPLI forward step iii the protection
of America’s birds.
I
The first or the 50 passenger loco
linmlves ordered by the New Haven
lsysltni appeared yesterday. These,
‘Pnfllnf‘fl are expected to put the road
into if lat-class condition its far as:
lliaulliig li- passenger-trains is concom-
led. and will relieve the embnrrasslngl
icondltion crusted when federal in.
\2 t . . ,
ago Dormer-II. Mo Thinkn, , ,anflors ")er I “y engines out of:
Homer 8. Cummings, when “kfi‘l‘service .
yrstl‘l‘dly about ""3 "9““ 0‘ ll" “(Ti Thf- new engines num'fi'red froni‘
I
AS CUMMINGS SEES IT.
....—-_
mm In Islamic-i Discour-
l
New Fall Suits $l5 to $50
New Fall Dresses $5.98 to $25
New Fall Sweaters $4.98 to $8.50
CHARGE ACCOUNTS OPENED
J Mill’s "
m” “‘ ”‘m" "m" $135“ to 1309, will be run in freightl
"i am not much of u believer eitht-rlmm" I
b l
in political JifOPl‘i‘Sl” or ‘loc‘i°“,bcred up. It was an engine of this;
lntil they are thoroughly liin-l *
post moitems. There was a vigorous
campaign waged in tile State of Maine
by both parties. Considerable inter.
est developed ,and. although'lho full
figures are not before me. it would
appear that a large vote has been
cast. 1 made no predictions as to the
outcome in'Mslne. The issues there
are complicntcd by local political
questions. Unless the results had been
ovelwhelnling. one way or the other,
it would be of very little significance.
“Partisan Democrats will scan the
figures and base upon them s confl-
dent prediction of Democratic success
in the nation. Republican partisans
will do the same thing from their
standpoint.
"Film 1896 to 1908. inclusive. the
State of Molina cast enormous Repub-
lican majorities. Beginning in 1910,
the breakup of the. Republican party
began, and there were Democratic
successes in linine. as in practically
all of the other States in the Union.
This year the Progressive party has
disappeared from the voting list. and
the result is a party mummies»
There has not been a year since 1892
when the. political situation was not
disturbed by millions which were
manifestly abnormal; '
"In 1892 the Republicans carried
Maine in the September elections by
about. 12,500. That same year Mr.
Cleveland was elected President by an
enormous majority. and carried Con-
necticut, if recall correctly. by about
5,000 pluralit . . '
"Thh year the Republicans .. have
carried Maine by from ten to thirteen
ihourand, and, if the vote in 1892 is
w criterion. it would indicate the re-
election of mm Winch by n
overwhelming vote, end would indl~
cute also thnt the Democrats would
carry Connecticut by s substantinl plu~
rim. _ ’
“Personally. however, as I “have
paid before, I place little reliance up-
on deductions from political results
whore so may Wt! ele-
ments exist. Both sides will claim
grout things from tho vote in Ill-ins.
The only. thing that it do‘oit indicate is
omen-oi. or seeym
city. «mm of the Nation and
um tumult crammed political
it . l’ 'l‘ ' .
,= antimony-rm of
million!-
llype that caused the fatal wreck llli
lSlsmford. because II had not been lim“
lberct‘i up sulficicntlyJeforo it went'
into service.
W
REPAIRINO HIGHWAY.
The Foirfieldcounty division of the
State Highway nonviolent is working
on some 700 feet of Tllford construe-l
lllon on the highway betw'een New-‘
'toivi: and Bridgeport. Just above Long
ililll center. To use the road during
the work it will be necessary to be.
.’ both cautious and careful. Emmett
lDonnelly. in charge of the work, did
'not arrange for a detour for travel.
so it would take persons using the
highway ion for out of their way. coI
the highway is being used during the
work.
SHERIFF AND MAN FIRE
'PIBTOLS AT SAME TIME:
EACH KILLS THE OTHER.
—..._-.
NECKWEAR
A large assortment of Collars, Collar and Cut? Sets and
Value for fall wear.
Large Cape Collars in net and fine organdy; plain—-
picot edge or hemiitched. Embroidery and lace trimmed.
Also small and medium sire Collars.
Prices range from ......... 25¢ to $1.00
Vectm in fine urgently—plain and lace trimmed or em-
broidered—with flat or rolling collars 50¢ to $1.00
Vestees in Georgette Crepe, plain or embroidered, white
and flesh colored $100 to $1.98
Luce Guimpcs in Oriental laces with fancy collars,
$1.00 to $1.98
WOR'I‘HVIDIE, Ky, Sept.. 14.—wJ. E.
Robertson. sheriif of Carroll county
and Lucian Rice, who he was at1
tempting to arrest, were killed slin-
ultaneously in a pistol duel late yes-
terday at Rice‘s home at Sanders, near
here. . Sheriff Robertson found Rice
sitting on his front porch. \nfn‘iEd.‘
Both men opened lire‘ at oncé. Each
was killed instantly. Rice was wanted
on it disorderly conduct chum.
noose mm room.
mm Will Sign Two IN: Pieced
. By “mm Muddy;
' dun.—
HAR'I‘MD, bent. urns two
measures passed by the usual-in ss-
umhiy at its unsold union yester-
ddy, will become law teddy; The bills.
will out be signed by lieutenant Gov-
‘ernor Wilson and then sent to the gov-
emol- roi- hil signature.
marrow skunks: «knee.
was 31mm ‘ Capital.
in. ‘
Kuwaiti). Bantu-m Mon
or incrimhml bunt no m use
our Inclination; at ’ (maul:
may, midis WW the' in
’
m-
J. I. MALLETTE
._ M. _. _. __..__.—..
ultirloil or sacusiriis iii onus.
If you hove money on deposit in a bank or own
any Jewelry, or any negotiable securiti 3, you may
be surprised to learn how the uteri law. of
Connectlcmmwmm you or your heirs. ‘
We have just published a sixteen pagepumph-
let riding with the subject of taxation of securities
in’ Confluent ill all its phases. It has received
words of Very high appmvnl from Tax Commis-
Iim and we believe it will be of very
pncticul interestcc any owner of in Con-
necticut, especially to holders of bonds, stocks and
notes.
To! day is approaching and we shall be glad to
, send loopy of our booklet to my address upon
HINCKS BROS. & CO. ,
Malibu: New York Stock Mung.
207mg Since at. .Bridguport.
PM! mom on hmmfimm. " ‘ ‘ '
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