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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: TUESDAY UGUST 31, 1915. FUNERAL OF CHARLES Is "everlastingly on the We are sorry that he la gone. third proverb: "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him," Enxtfaxh fflmtrant Established 1764. Published by HE HARTFORD COCRA.XT COMPANY Cournt Building, Hartford, Conn. WHITE HOUSE MAYJt REBUILT With Additions In Form of Wings to Make It Mora Like Palace eupy an even better position in Colombia's trade in the near future than his figures show.

Trade naturally follows the lines of least resistance. Colombia has better transportation arrangements with the United States than it has with any other country, and It consequently does most of its outside trading with us. The lesson is obvious, We must Invite trade, if we want it, by making trade easy. The people of Colombia did not go out of their way to build up a trade with us, but waited for us to go after it and for trade facilities to be supplied. What is true with regard to Colombia Is true with regard to the other South American republics.

Indifference or the failure to make trade natural and comparatively easy cannot gain new customers. preachers quartet; and here figure numerous popular lecturers among whom Mr. Bryan is conspicuous. H. Gerald Chapln'a "The United States of Matrimony" la a very clever exposition of the contradictory laws of different states, concerning marriage and divorce, and of the awkward, distressing and sometimes tragic positions In which divorced people are often caught by reason thereof.

The examples cited are better than arguments for some correction of these complications, and the illustrations of the author's text are exceedingly happy. The article by Dr. Edwin P. Bowers concerning Dr. Flus-gerald of Hartford and his nerve-pressure method of treating various maladies has been elsewhere noticed.

POPULAR MECHANICS is the 'despair of the reviewer because of the very fullness and variety and freshness of Its topics. Each number of the magazine is a complete refutation of the old saying, "there is nothing new under the sun." Could good old Solomon but see and scan this number, for instance, he would go away back and sit down, dumb-founded. In the first part of a series of articles on "Four Years in the Navy," one may learn all about the conditions of enlistment and the six months of preliminary training. Another article describes and pictures the new and curious devices employed in warfare. Again we see striking scenes In different military camps, and then pictures of the Panama Canal in operation.

Anon come novel and practical things for the home, shop notes, and construction hints for those who would build themselves homes. One notes in the various articles of this deservedly popular magazine no waste of words. Conciseness, compactness, and clearness are the characteristics of all that is written or described, and the illus HEMMENWAY ADAMS Verses Written by Him on Death of General Shermai IMpa. The funeral of Charles Hemmenway Adams, for thirty-four years an editorial writer on "The Courant" and for many years associate editor, was held at the home of his sister, Mrs. F.

Will Hallock. No. 122 Derby aven ue, Derby, at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The gathering of friends Included Dr. G.

A. Shelton of Shelton, who was a classmate of Mr. Adams's In the Yale class of 1866; and three associates of Mr. Adams for years on the staff of "The Courant," Wat son Robertson Sperry, Charles w. Bumee and T.

Sherman. The Rev. Charier W. Coulter of Stony Creek, a young man in whom Mr. Adams took an interest, officiated ana auer a reading of the Scriptures and a prayer in which, he spoke wun aeep u-ceritv of thA value, of Mr.

Adams a life work, he read the following beau tiful verses, written bv Mr. Adams on the death of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman: The strenuous day Is past; The march, the fight The bugle sounds at last Lights out Good night. The sky is white with stars; The tents gleam white. Tired captain from the wars, Sleep through the night.

Sleep till the shadows take Their endless flight; Until the morning break. Good night! Good night! Ti. KAn-A. Mr Adnms'n Kcaicis ni, Hartford newspaper associates and TTlomliora Vila fomllv. The bUrlal was In Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby, by the side of his mother, wnom ne tenderly cared for, for many years, in Vi i a Mtv Tiiora vorA mnv wreaths and loose flowers, and a wealth of roses from his former associates ana 'The Courant." FURTHER COMMENT BY NEWSPAPER EDITORS (By the New Haven Register.) It is less than a year and a half since he who was at that time the veteran of "The Hartford Courant" editorial writing staff retired, after a continuous service of thirty years.

He did not, even then, wholly sever his relations with "The Courant," and not infrequently within the time since that newspaper gladly received contributions from him. His keen mind was active to the last, and though his falling bodily strength has now permitted the silver cord to be loosed, the time of transit found him mentally awake and alert. Mr. Adams suffered that obscurity which is the common lot of many men who do the cerebration for our modern newspapers. His associates prized and respected him, and never failed to give him all honor in their power.

To the circles which held him close and dear his friendship was golden. His writing was the inscription of a thinker, a scholar, and it was invariably profitable for reading and worthy of preservation. To him more than either its makers or its renders can fullv realize "The Hartford Courant" has for three aecaaes owed its oosition in the Journalism of Connecticut and the country. He is not the least of the fine men wno have made it great, and it is not possible that it will fail long to retain the Impress of his character. (New Haven Union.) Charles Hemmenway Adams, for thirty years on the- editorial staff of The Hartford Courant" and prior to that connected with the "Springfield Republican" and the "New Tork Sun," mvp to the nractlce of his profession a wealth of energy and talent which If applied to the law, teachings, or io nnlltics.

would have won for him far greater money remuneration and a larger measure or wnat me worm is apt to regard as "success," But no doubt it would have failed to render him anvwhere near the amount or durable satisfaction ne tooK in news paper work. Of his life ana worn ine niruora Times" savs: "Until this Illness he naa been lor manv vears absorbed in the newspaper to a degree not easily to De unuer stood bv those who have had no ex. perience of the hoia sucn worn taites on a man who is meant by nature for it. the real delight that goes with the most strenuous effort that will forever remain anoyrnous. mat is one of the mysteries of newspaper work which those not born to It can not understand.

And he was certainly to that manner born. "He gave his life to hard work with out prospect of personal distinction outside the small field wnicn ne was personally known, and he found delight in his work. These things are not unusual In the newspaper woria, and perhaps the fact that this Is so adds a genuine dignity to work that is avowedly done for the day, and for the most part destined to De forgotten the day after. It is seed sown by the wavside. but sometimes It bears mm, and the better the sowing the greater chance that something will come of it." Mr.

Adams was a man of scholarly attainment, keen powers of observation and analysis, and facility of ex pression, qualities too seldom found In equal degree and yet essential to the making of a real journalist. Mr. Adams served under William Cullen Bryant, Charles A. Dana, and Samuel Bowles and associated with General Joseph R. Hawley and Charles Dudley Warner.

He was of the old, and many would say the abler school of Journalism. (Ansonia Sentinel.) The newspaper world has suffered a serious loss through the death of Charles H. Adams, until late ly editorial writer on the "Hartford Courant." The deceased was one of the most forceful and well informed of the editorial writers of New Ens' land and for thirty years captivated the people of Connecticut with his well balanced, logical and convincing thoughts seasoned as they were at all times with the spice of a humor that had in it no trace of venom. His death means a deprivation not only to the "Courant'' and his wide circle of friends but to the state and io New England for he was no less highly es teemed as a citizen and man than as a writer. (Hartford Post) Until a year or two ago one of the well known figures on the streets of Hartford was that of Charles Hem minway Adams, for more than a quarter of a century the leading editorial writer in the office of the Courant whose death is reported today.

He was a large man physically is well as mentally and in his latest year walked with some difficulty. But he did not give up his daily visits to the "Courant" office until it was impossible for him to walk at all, and even then his contributions were sent in with regularity. He was a type of the edi torial worker who is becoming scarcer es the years go on the man who combines wide experience with multi- ranous knowledge and a masrerv of "the art of putting things," and "who (New Haven Journal-Courier. The death of Charles H. Adams, for many years an editorial writer on the "Hartford Courant," further thins the ranks of the old school of Journalists.

(Meriden Journal) While Charles H. Adams was not personally known much about the state his work as editorial writer on me "Hartford Courant" was known. He was a man of marked ability, a deep student and a sane thinker. FAMOUS BRITISH HOTEL FOR HOSPITAL StpT and Garter to be Resort for Dis abled Officers, (Correspondence of Hie Associated 1 London Aug. 14.

The Star and Garter Hotel at Richmond on the Thames, which has Just been bought by the real estate men of Great Britain and presented to the Queen as a Red Cross Hospital for disabled offi cers, is probably the most famous hotel in England. For something over 150 years there has been a hostelry of this name on the brow of Richmond Hill, present ing the finest view of the winding river that is obtainable anywhere within a day's Journey of London. The view from the windows of the Star and Garter has. inspired poetry from Wordsworth to Maurice as a picture which 'Bursts in a flood of glory on the view, StlU bright, still varied and forever new." An auctioneer's advertisement print ed 130 years ago described the prop- ery as follows: "These truly desir able and valuable premises, the Star and Garter of Richmond Hill, the fav orite spot for centuries past of princes, and the admiration and resort of the first nobility and taste in Europe; replete with every requisite convenience for the reception of all ranks in the public line, possessing the most extensive and delightful views of the Thames, the whole forming one of the most enchanting pictures in Great Britain," One of the notable occasions of the big hotel was a breakfast served on June 10, 1814, at which were present the prince Regent of England, the Emperor of Russia, the Duchess or Oldenburg, and the King of Prussia, with his sons and nephews. The com pany, which also included Generals Blucher and Platoff, had Journeyed out from London by coach.

Queen Victoria was a frequent visi tor the hotel, particularly during the early years of her reign, and there were few of her royal contemporaries who did not at one time or another partake of its hospitality during the decade preceding the fire of 1870, which destroyed the greater part or the luxurious building. Within two years it was rebuilt in even more magnificent fashion, and for the next few years was at the zenith of popular King Ed ward, while Prince of Wales, was often seen there. The cook was excellent the wines unimpeachable, and the cost heavy enough to keep away the "mob." Given a fine pair of horses. it was a delightful drive of Just the right distance from Hyde Park Corner, the center of fashionable London, on a fine summer evening. Not only were the smartest of private dinners given there, but the great City Companies held their banquets In the spacious pavilion, and statesmen and celebrities of every degree met beneath its roof.

But with the dawning of the present century the attractions of the Star and Garter waned. It is the con ventional thing to say that the com ing of the automobile killed Its popularity. Other causes contributed. The road, instead of running through pleasant open country, was rapidly becoming an artery of heavy omnibus and tramcar traffic. The era of the fashionable restaurant in town had begun, and it was no longer necessary to go so far afield for a good luncheon or dinner.

Ten years ago, the hotel closed its doors. There have since been rumors from time to time as to reopening it as a palatial boarding house or rebuilding it into a block of luxurious flats, but none of the schemes came to maturity. In its new use as a permanent hospital for officers, it -will preserve for a work of national usefulness a site of rare beauty. The hotel Is almost completely surrounded by park lands, which have been gradually acquired by the London county council to give the public easy access to the banks of the Thames. GROWS VEGETABLES IN EMBASSY GARDEN Frits, German Gardner, Left Behind in Paris.

(Correspondence, of The Associated Press.) Paris, Aug. 20. Notwithstanding that Germany is at war with France, the empire is not unrepresented in Paris. When the secret service men escorted Baron von Schon from the embassy, 73 rue de Lille, August 8, 1914, they left there on parole, as guardian of the building and premises the gardener, Fritz, a magnificent Prussian employed there since 1899. The blinds are closed and the magnificent mansion is dark and lifeless, but the garden thrives the more in that the gardener is obliged to stick closely to it.

"I adorned Paris," he says regretfully, "but all I see of it now is a little corner of the blue sky." Fritz gets no news from Germany, but. he learns something of what is going on across the Rhine from the French papers, lis knows that pota toes are growing in many pf the flower gardens in Berlin and he has fallen in with the movement The superb flower beds of the embassy gardens were all dug up this spring and planted with potatoes, string beans and cabbages. PUTNAM, City Engineer George W. Perry, has prepared plans for doing away with the dangerous and inconvenient turn made by the trolley cars at the corner of Elm and Providence street. The matter of eliminating this bad turn has been discussed and rediscussed but nothing has ever been done towards its elimination.

The plans outlined by Engineer Perry have been submitted to the Shore Line Electric Road and have been approved by S. B. Palmer, of Chandler Palmer, Norwich, engineers for the company. It is under stood that the Morse-Nightingale Company, owning property at the corner, Is willing to relinquish, enough realty to make a proper and safe turn. It Is hoped that the matter will be put into effect in the near future.

Funeral services for V. H. Longden, ex-captaln of police of Putnam, were held from his home on Grove street Monday afternoon. Rev. F.

D. Sargent officiating. Burial was in Grove Street Cemetery. Joseph A P. Gagne, wife and daughter have returned from a vacation spent in Providence and Boston.

Mrs. Ernest L. Wilcox has returned to her home on Putnam Heights after being confined in the Day Kimball Hospital for five weeks. Mrs, Mary Jnssimlne. wife of Napoleon Jasslmine.

has bought bungalow and nine acres of land In Kll-linely. Judsre M. H. Geissler and a partv of friends motored to Rocky Point, Sunday and enjoyed a Providence Riw shore dinner. AGAIN THK DIRECTORY.

Although one swallow may not make a spring, we know that the fall of the year is upon us when Geer's City Directory makes its annual appearance. Last year's directory has been overhauled and revised, and it took 44,631 changes to bring this year's issue up to date. That means a lot of work, but in the Geer office work is accepted as the order of the day. Completeness and accuracy must be obtained no matter how much work is required. With the directory of Hartford residents Is combined the directory of the residents of West Hartford, while the residents of East Hartford are In a separate list.

Subtracting from the combined Hartford and West Hartford list the 2,500 West Hartford names, we have left the names of 69,066 Hartford residents. Multiplying this number by two, which is conservative, we have for Hartford a population of 128,132. This Is 3,218 more than was indicated by the directory of last year. As usual, the directory is carefully edited and well printed and It contains much information about the city apart from its list of names and addresses. It is, of course, indispensable to every business man and it will be found a useful adjunct to every household.

If Germany is massing on the Serbian and Roumanian frontiers about 200,000 troops and if these troops are being withdrawn from the Russian front, it may be assumed that the Teutonic allies have decided not to push their Russian campaign much further. They have had a wonderful advance and they have pushed the great Russian armies steadily before them, yet, with all their success, it is not probable that they feel strong enough to reduce their forces in this quarter if they intend to carry the war into Russia proper. Russia's resistance has been little less remarkable than the Teutonic drive. To overcome it the strength and strategy of the Germans and Austrians have been taxed to the limit, and if the drive Is to be continued there can be no reduction in the strength behind it. If there is to be a campaign in force against Serbia, It must mean that Germany and Austria will be content for the present to entrench themselves where they are and hold the Russians in check.

With the Russians driven entirely from German and Austrian territory and with Russian Poland in their hands, the Teutonic empires may well regard their campaign on the eastern front as having been successfully carried out. Their present advantage Is great enough to permit a pause while more pressing matters are being attended to. Mr. Adams was buried very quietly yesterday by those who loved him. Ills face, thinned by Illness, was familiar, and yet with the purely intellectual lines in it strongly marked The weather, which was fitful early in the day, became settled and bright with the light of the sun as he was laid away among his kindred in the Derby cemetery.

His grave was made on the gentle slope of one of those beautiful hills of the Naugatuck valley. It he had been among the living grouped about his final resting place he would have liked the simplicity of what was done and the sincerity with which the farewell words were spoken. The sadness of it was softened by the great hope which the Christian feels when death steps in. It was th'e end of a long day's work, well and faithfully done; and his friends felt, as they strolled back to the cares of the living, that the old friend they had left behind deserved his rest. SEPTFMBF.R MAC.A7.INKS.

OUTING for September is unusually full of a variety of good things. J. P. Cuenin tells of a busy day on the California marshes with the canvasbacks of San Pablo, where he made good use of both camera and gun. George Mac-dougall's "By Canvas and Birchbark" is a delightful account of canoe-cruising Illustrated by eight full-page and beautiful pictures.

"Brick's Last Fight." by Roger Martin, is an excellent dog story. Horace Kephart's papers on "The Sportsman's- Clothes" will be found instructive and useful not only for sportsmen but for all who spend vacations or have their work in w41d country. Donal Hamilton Haines professes to tell a "True Fish and, by way of experiment, to describe a fishing trip with accuracy. True or not. his story and description are good enough to be true.

A brief account and a good picture of Frederic C. Walcott are glvcja. Mr. Walcott is a corporation ofTicer who finds time to direct the raising of wild birds on his game-refuge near Norfolk, Conn. He gradu ated at Tale in 1891, made a trip with camera and gun, in 1S92, through northern India, Burmah and the Malay Peninsula.

In 1902 he traversed northern Wyoming from east to west, on horseback, working with his camera, and two years later made another cam era trip by canoe through the country north and west of Lake St. John, Que bec, Canada. Another paper of excellent quality and profusely Illustrated with photographs by the author, is that of William Haynes, entitled "Afloat and Ashore In Casco Bay," on the Maine coast. This article is especially com mended to our readers. EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE comes out strongly for national "prepared ness" which is Just now the vogue, snd coins a curious phrase: "Prepare the Eagle, Protect the Dove!" This seems somewhat paradoxical, and a scoffing pacifist might prosaically remark that the fondness of eagles for doves does not commonly show itself in the form of protection.

Lincoln Steffens's story, "Pop's Ribbon Thief." is amusing. Henry K. Webster contributes the first installment of a story entitled "The Real Adventure." An unsigned article, entitled "Chautauqua Stars," gives an account of many of the men and women who bring the laugh and the uplift to the summer assemblies in our land. Here are pictured and described bell ringers, Swiss yodlers. comedy players, Cecilian -choirs, Methodist- Oldest Newspaper In America, Published Dally.

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3.B0 Daily and Sunday, six 5.00 Dkily and Sunday, one year 10.t0 Delivered In Hartford. TUESDAY MORNING, Al'G. 81, 191. EIGHTEEN PAGES. The "New Tork World" regarded as a first-page piece of news the fact that Colonel Roosevelt "gave out no statement at his home In Oyster Bay" Sunday.

His silence Is apparently considered something; worthy of special note. It now transpires, as might have been expected, that the deciHlon of the secretary of the navy to make the New London naval station headquarters for the submarine fleet was due to the eloquence and hypnotic power of ex-Congressman B. F. Ma-han, who, It Is said, has long been exercising his influence upon Secretary Daniels to have the government supplement the generosity of the state in New London's behalf. Until Secretary Daniels visited New London last week, ex-Mayor Mahan had worked In vain.

New London is entitled to our hearty congratulations on the recognition which ex-Senator Mahan has secured of her manifold and manifest advantages. PONT SMOTHKK US. It is a question of fullness. Nobody cares much when one newspaper expresses the opinion that Mr. Wilson surpasses In foresight and levelheadedness all the Presidents who have preceded him.

It is an opinion, and it stands by itself in the newspaper that takes that view. But when one newspaper, after expressing this opinion on its own account, proceeds to cram its columns with every similar utterance that chance places at its disposal, the effect is sickening. It is like- being tickled to death tickling being a pleasant sensation by itself, but not pleasant at all when it is carried to the point of death. If President Wilson actually possesses the surpassing Bagacity ascribed to him, there is no sense in making a party matter of it Let us all have a share in this wholly unusual good fortune. If, on the other hand, his sagacity Is much like that of other men now of fairly good quality, and now running so thin that you cannot tell it from downright blundering, as in the case of Mexico what is the sense in saying twenty times a day that it Is the most remarkable ever and wholly supernal? What these eulogists are so extravagantly praising is nothing more than ordinary human fallibility of Judgment, which sometimes hits It and sometimes does not To make it appear as never missing fire can be noth ing less than an effort to establish for President Wilson a factitious reputa tion an effort that does not shine tor respectability, and which i3 neither fair for him nor fair for the country.

Let us say that the President is try'rig to do the best that he knows how, but that his "know how" Is no keener nor surer than that of other public men. That lots President Wilson out when he blunders, as he undoubtedly does from time to time, und secures full credit for him when he does not blunder. Those who have so much flattery in their systems that they must give verbal vent to it a dozen or twenty times a day ought to pack it away in private letters and send these at sundown to the White House by parcel post. Private Secretary Tumulty's intellectual stomach Is strong enough to dispose of such stuff. SOUTH AMERICAN CUSTOM KRS.

Our official relations with the United States of Colombia have not been entirely cordial since we began digging the Panama Canal, as Colombia did not approve of the proceedings by whtch the Republic of Panama was created out of Colombian territory. Washington, was held responsible for the proceedings and Colombia still has an unsettled claim against this country. Yet, in the matter of trade, the United States of America and the United States of Colombia are getting on first rate. Consul Ross Hazelttne at Cartagena reports in "Commerce Reports" that 73 per cent, of the exports from his consular district came to the United States and that 43.5 per cent, of the Imports were from this country. Recently the consul at Barran-quilla made a report which gave an even more favorable showing for this country.

There is, of course, a reason why we have so prosperous a trade with a country that officially has a grievance against us. To some extent this show-War is due to the stoppage of imports from Germany during the past year, but to a greater degree it Is due to the accessibility of the Colombian field to the exporters of this country and to the excellent transportation facilities. Mr. Hazeltine thinks that the conditions that the United States will oc- PLANS AND MODEL" ALREADY MADE UP. How Structure Got ItsName Legally Called "Presi-dent's House." That in the future there will surely be a third rebuilding of the White House to make it Into a.

nalnra. la ihm. tiupntcj( ramie me New xoric Sun" by Rene Bache. Plans for the structure, in fact, have already been made and even a model It that both noble and beautiful. The ideas embraced in these plana require that there shall be no modifica tion of the White House as It now stands; no interference, that is to with its structural integrity.

It is a national monument, made sacred by historical associations, and publla opinion would not tolerate any changes in it. But its enlargement is a different matter, the old building remaining always the central and dominant feature. This, as suggested, is to be accomplished by the addition of wings, their exterior architecture taking the) form of colonnades sweeping around in curves at either end. Inside the chief feature of each wing would be, on the main floor, a lofty room sixty feet in diameter. This apartment in the east wing would be a reception room, much better adapted for the purpose than the vast East Room, which is only suitable for balls and grand dinners.

In the west wing it would become the State dining room. Above each wing there would be space on the second floor for fivfc bedrooms, thus adding ten much needed guest chambers to the dwelling. Eventually the construction of additional buildings on west and east, matching in size and shape the present White House, connecting with the latter through the wings above described and forming, together with conservatories in the rear, a magnificent quadrangle, would realize the utmost ideal vi wuai me rresiaeni Daiace aniens to be, the estimated cost of these projected alterations being in the neighborhood of $1,500,000. The writer tells how the building got the name, "White House." Before the fire of 100 years ago, set' by the British, the color of the building had been brownish gray, the material of which it was constructed being sand stone from a quarry down the Poto mac. It had been literally ruined by the fire which the British set.

Everything it contained was utterly destroyed, and the walls, though they still stood, were damaged to such an extent that eventually they had to be taken down and rebuilt, the greater part of them above the first story being replaced with new brick and fresh cut stone from Virginia. Three years were destined to elapse 'before the mansion could be again occupied, its reconstruction costing nearly $250,000. Utmost efforts were made to have the White House finished in time to receive Mr. Monroe, who was inaugurated in March, 1817. But this was found impracticable, the Interior being still in a very disordered state.

Only three months earlier 1,290 panes of glass had been lacking, among other items requisite. Thus it was not until September that the Monroes finally got into the mansion, where they rouna so mucn rresn paint and fresh plastering as to make them feel that the place was hardly wholesome. The nouse had also been newly painted white on the outside. Previously its color had been brownish gray. Anybody may know exactly what its color was by examining the Capitol, which are bare of paint, the middle part of the Capitol having been built of the same kind of stone-In this way it became for the first time the White House, whereas previously it had been known as the Great House, the President's Palace or the President's House the last of these names used always In the laws.

SMUGGLING GOODS OVER DUTCH BORDER Large Quantities of Foodstuffs Going into nciginm. (Corresjjondence of the Araoclte4 Press.) Amsterdam, Aug. 20. Smuggling on a wholesale scale Is proceeding at Bergen-op-Zoom, according to a frontier correspondent of -the "Tele graaf." The traffic between Holland and Belgium In this region has never been so heavy, he declared, although much of the business violates, at least in spirit, the Dutch laws covering ex- v. iii jl n.i ju me iwo aays preceding the filing of the correspondent's message only 24.000 kilogrammes of merchandise was allowed to cross the border at Bergen-op-Zoom, but.

this amount, it is claimed, was abnormally small. "Of rice alone," states the correspondent "100 tons were sent last week to Belgium. Flour, bacon and petroleum pass the frontier every day. At some hours the road between Bergen-op-Zoom and Putte reminds one of a migration-ogives, indeed, the Idea of a second exodus from Antwerp, only the stream is in the opposite direction. Carts of every description, bicyclists by hundreds, and foot passengers, all with bulky parcels as thev go towards Belgium, but empty handed as they return." It is explained that persons crossing the frontier are allowed to carry four pounds of rice and four pounds of flour.

The peasants earn about 40 cents carrying this qnantlty, from Bergen-op-Zoom to Putte. Compensation Hearing. In the absence of Compensation Commissioner George B. Chandler, who leaves tomorrow morning on a month's vacation, Compensation Commissioner Frederick M. Williams of Waterbury will hear the case of William T.

Hbllister against W. M. Pen-field of South Glastonbury tomorrow afternoon. Hollister was hurt- April 16, straining his right side. On May 1, 1915, he was allowed compensation of $6 a week.

The respondent has lately stopped the weekly payments, claiming that Hollister is now able to return to work. on the other hand, says that he Is still totally incapacitated. The hearing is set for p. m. Cored- (Washington Star.) "Bliggins suffers terribly from hsy fever." "Not this year.

He can't get the time to take a vacation." ON KISSING AND JiKKti KISSED. Richard Pearson Hobson will do well to look to his laurels and also to his political fences, for the shadow of William Jennings Bryan looni-eth up, A colonel outranks a captain, for one thing, and Hobson's prohibition platform is equaled by the one Bryan has built on grape Juice bottles, and now enters the colonel Into the osculation arena, In which the captain won his Rpurs years ago, when a mere lieutenant. Bryan has undoubtedly kissed his share of babies, when a candidate for public office, and Hobson has kissed babies and girls, the number of the latter who were saluted at the time he became one of the heroes of the Spanish War giving the name, in some quarters, of the "kissing bug," but there is no record that he was ever kissed by a farmer with whiskers. Bryan, therefore, seems to have something on his fellow democrat. Hobson has been a kisser, but Bryan is a klssee.

SOME PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHV. In the ancient Book of Proverbs It is written, "Answer not a fool according to his folly," and the next verse reads, "Answer a fool according to his folly." These counsels are seemingly but not really contradictory. What is the explanation? It has been sug gested that the proverb-writer adopted that paradoxical way of advising that fools should be answered by not an swering them at all. That is not satis factory. The old writer knew that there are, at least, two kinds of fools and that these deserve and require a different treatment The word, "fool," in his use of it, had different meanings, sometimes signifying Intellectual dullness or ignorance or negligence or lack of good sense, and sometimes, worse than that, downright, willful and obstinate perversity.

Whether a foolish person should or should not be answered according 1o his folly, depends upon the kind of "fool" he Is. It is worse than useless to argue with one kind. "Answer him not, lest thou be like unto htm." That is there are some so impenetrably fool ish, in one way or another, that to answer them or to argue with them is folly. In attempting to do so one either wastes time, strength and treason, or, descending to their low level and striving with them "according to their folly," is badly beaten. Other foolish folk there are who are tractable, with whom It la the part of wisdom to deal with consideration, patience, tact and kindness.

Answer such "according to their folly," that Is, taking their folly, or what seems to be that, Into kindly consideration, "lest they be wise in their own eyes," that Is, that they may be helped out of their folly. The twin proverbs thus denote the entirely different treatment which the really wise man will give to these different kinds of more or less "foolish" persons. With the one kind he will be friendly, patient and gentle, well aware that there is a good deal of merely ignorant, thoughtless and heedless folly In the world that Is superficial, capable of improvement, and curable by kindness. With the other kind the wise man will have as little to do as possible, simply because all efforts In that direction are useless. What Is to be gained by answering or arguing or contending with Inveterate prejudice, immovable obstinacy, immeasurable conceit, arrogance, insolence and the like? With God all things are Indeed possible, but all that kind of foolishness Is humanly Incurable.

It Is so entrenched against all approach or appeal, that it were sheer folly to besiege to say nothing of Its hand grenades of approblum and abuse wherewith to bruise and batter even the bearer of a flag of truce. The wise man Is reverently silent In view of the real. Divine omniscience: also, pitifully silent In view of the petty assumption of omniscience by men. Human lnfallability is a self-deception too transcendent and a folly too tremendous to be meddled with. Sir Oracle is unanswerable and indisputable.

When, like Goliath, he stalks into the open arena, swaggering and blustering and daring everybody to come on, it may be that some shepherd lad, foreordained for the business, may appear to down him with his sling, but that rarely happens. Better keep away from Goliath. It were sheer folly to tackle him. Better keep off, let him have his day and say, run his course and break his own neck. The word "fool" is a nasty and bad word, too much in use with us.

Car-lyle made too free use of it, as did old Solomon. A greater than Solomon warns us concerning It. Deficiency In sense or wit and natural dullness should ever move our compassion. Folly that is incident to youth and inexperience and heedlessness, superficial rather than Ingrained, deserves a kindly consideration and treatment. But there is a foolishness of people who are by no means "fools." but are Intelligent and educated, which is of such a naturethat it Is sheer folly to attempt any argument, discussion, or controversy with them.

It were folly to reason with an Idiot, yet not so much less foolish than to try to answer or to reason with the man who, however intellectually brilliant, regards all who disagree with his opinions as fools. And so we have this trations are both profuse and Illuminating. Admiration, appreciation and enjoyment of "Popular Mechanics" are sure to increase with acquaintance with It. TO CONSIDER BIG APPROPRIATIONS Finance Hoard Will Decide On City Plan Commissions Request and Others. Among a number of matters to come before the board of finance at its meeting next Monday noon, is the resolution providing an appropriation of $1,150 for the commission on the city plan to make an estimate of the cost of appraising the expense of abolishing the Central New England Railway tracks, in accordance with a plan submitted to the board of aldermen recently.

The matter of appropriating $9,800 for a sprinkler system in the city hospital and almshouse; one of 33,600 for the establishment of new shower baths and toilets at Colt Park, and resolutions appropriating $310 for Sunday band concerts and $92 for extra summer concerts, will also be considered by the board, in addition to a number of minor matters. NO SEPTEMBER PAYMENT ON MO. PACIFIC BONDS New York, Aug. 30. B.

F. Bush, receiver of the Missouri Pacific and the St Louis, Iron Mountain South, em railroads, announced 'today, after a conference with Federal Judge Adams, that he had been directed to take no action toward paying interest due September 1 on any of the outstanding bonds. Interest due June 1 on unextended notes and Drincinal and Interest on all equipment notes. wnen due, will be paid, Mr. Bush said.

The bonds on which interest will not be paid in September are the first and second refunding mortgage and sinking fund, the interest amounting to aDout the rorty-year gold loan 4's, the interest amounting to about $745,000, and the collateral bonds of 1917. on which the Interest Is approximately a total interest default of about $1,865,000. Sugar Market. New York, Aug. SO.

Raw sugar, firm; centrifugal, molasses, refined, quiet; cut loaf, 6.55; crushed, 6.45; Mould 6.10; cubes, 5.90; "XXXX" powdered, 5.80; powdered, 5.75; fine granulated, 5.63; Diamond 5.65; confectioners', 5.55; No. 1. 5.40. Sugar futures were quiet Liquidation depressed the late months in the afternoon. The closing was barely steady, 2 points higher to 5c.

lower. Sales, 850 September $3.66, December 3.23, March 3.09, May 3.13. IJve stock Receipts. Chicago, Aug. 30.

Hogs, receipts, 37,000, weak. Bulk, $6.65 7.60; light, 7.408: mixed, 7.85; heavy, 6.257.60; rough, 6.256.40; pigs, 7 8. Cattle, receipts, 18,000, steady. Calves, lower; native beeves, 10.20; cows and heifers, 3.10 8.60; calves, 8 11.75. Sheep, receipts, 16.000, lower.

Wethers, $5.80 6.50; ewes, 4 6.10; lambs, 7 9.40. Acton Explosion Accidental. Acton, Aug. 30. Convinced that the blowing up of the glazing mill of the American Powder Companv yesterday morning, was due to an ac cident, the local authorities made no effort today to continue investigations of the explosion.

British Steamer Sunk. London, Aug. 30. The British steamer Sir William Stephenson of Newcastle, 1,514 tons gross, has been sunk. Cotton.

New York, Aug. 30. Cotton futures closed easy, October $9.67, December 9.97, January 10.11, March 10.37, May 10.69. Spot quiet; meddling, 9.75. His lint Is in the Ring.

(Bridgeport Telegram.) The nation had almost forgotten the existence of Theodore Roosevelt until his recent belligerent utterances on the subject of preparedness and war with Germany. What he says gives absolute ground for the belief that if he were at the presidential helm at the present time, we should now be involved to our necks In the European war. When one contemplates this, one understands the force of the demo cratic slogan, "Thank God for Wil son." A study of the actions of Col onel Roosevelt Is sufficiently illuminat ing as to his intentions. He wants to be president again. More feverishly even than in 1912 he is casting about for an excuse for scaling his hat into the ring.

But if he thinks that war with Germany Is the popular temper. he has misjudged the public as never before In his career. To insist on our rights in the matter of Atlantic travel as President Wilson insisted, was a matter of national honor. To interfere in the European bloodshed on the ground that the violation of Belgian neutrality was our affair as Col onel Roosevelt insists that it was is nothing short of.