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THE MERIDEN DAILY JOURNAL MERIDEN CONN WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 5 1907 IDEM DAILY JOURNAL library Furniture Hindustani There are 2000 linguists continually employed by the British and American societies which have this work in charge countries is due to the increased con sumption of animal foods particularly those derived from diseased animals This conclusion as to the cause of cancer does not meet the views of many experts who declare that there Is absolutely no scientific basis for the implied assumption that tuberculous or actinomycotic or any other form of diseased meat can produce cancer if it is cooked before being eaten and very little reason for believing that even in the raw state it could have any such effect As a matter of fact the new federal inspection prevents the sale of even slightly diseased meat until it has been cooked and absolutely prohibits the use of badly infected carcases for any food purposes It is said that the old theory that the excessive eating of wholesome meat is the specific cause of cancer has few adherents to-day among the leading students of the subject MITH HoosefurBisher 29 MOUl St THE LITTLE SOMERS 1 HYATT CO 67 EAST MAIN STREET THE DIRECT PRIMARY New Haven Journal and Courier Many of the state newspapers are discussing the use of the direct pri mary principle by the Democratic organization in New Haven as if it was a new indulgence It Is not as old as the bills of Connecticut but it has been in operation for a number of years The explanation of the belated interest of tfnr contemporaries liea in the fact that not until it was proposed to enforce the principle in state elections was their attention directed to the practice in this city There appears to be a disposition on the part of those interested in the discussion to accept as a condemnation of the principle of the direct primary its not satisfactory enforcement in this city There would be a warrant for this conclusion if it could he fairly said that the principle had been given a fair show here It wars originally undertaken in an honotpble desire to escape the arbitrary conduct of the machine which did all the nominating in its own way and In its own behalf but It has encountered obstacles which were unforeseen Any number of men may present themselves as candidates for local nominations in the Democratic party under the conditions imposed which are not onerous or discouraging It Is easy for a group of men to advance the fortunes of their choice if so inclined but it is not easy under the statute laws to obtain an expression of public opinion for the reason that the caucus registration law acts as a deterrent By requiring those who desire to take part in caucus or primary contests to register as partisans fully one-half if not more of the party members are deprjyed of a chance to vote It has been found that the majority of voters refuse to register as partisans though willing to register as voters This enables those who are registered to easily work the primary and keep alive the very evils the direct primary was devised to correct by elimination It no more fair to test the soundness of the direct primary principle by its embarrassed enforcement by the Democrats of the city of New Haven than it would be to test the legal ability of the Supreme court by the successful operation of the Police court The only way in which it can be successfully tried Is to compel its enforcement by legal enactment under stipulated conditions which have been approved by experience The way is clearly pointed out in the report made by the commission appointed by Governor Roberts though to be effective the number of offices to be filled in that popular manner should be considerably reduced In addition the registration caucus law should be repealed so far as the large centers of population are concerned It was conceived in a situation which existed in LitchflobT county and which never in the worul should have been seriously noticed by the Legislature These things done the direct primary act will be found to be the most effective scheme devised to stem the power of the machine The Pyrography season is now at hand We have the largest and most complete line of outfits and supplies in the state Outfits $100 $250 Call and look over our line SC55555KJ2555- BIRTHDAYS Information relative to the birthdays of Meriden people sent to The Journal will be appreciated Whenever possible photograph should bo sent at Isast two days before the birthday to allow time to make the half-tone CHRISTIAN HECKLER Christian Heckler to-day celebrated his eighty-second birthday at his home 28 Ann street 'where he received the felicitations of his friends and wishes for continued health Mr Heckler was born at Wurtemberg Germany September 25 1825 and he came to New Britain in 1854 where he stayed for a year He came to Meriden in 1858 and has lived here ever since He first worked in Meriden at the old Goodrich Ives shop and was working there at the time of the breaking out of the Civil war when he enlisted in Company Sixth Connecticut and served three years Returning to Meriden he went to work for Miller Co and stayed with that firm for twenty years leaving it to go with Bradley Hubbard for whom he worked seventeen years or until he retired in He has five children HENRY MOREHOUSE Henry Morehouse the well known builder and contractor also had a birthday anniversary to-day and he is just twenty years younger than Mr Heckler having been born in 1845 Mr Morehouse has long been identified with business and social life mid his legion of friends will wish him many years more of happiness and prosperity'' ALBERT HALL Albert Hall the well known office employe of the Manning Bowman Co is another citizen whose birth anniversary occurs to-day Mr Hall i 1 Ik-1 Bjdi who is a Civil war veteran with a distinguished record was born September 25 1841 and Is accordingly sixty-six years old His active appearance belies his years and makes him appear much younger DRINK At the Soda Fountain Uncle Sam ti smoking the pipe of peace but a difficult question tj decide whether or not the world will accept It no hesitancy on the part of the people to buy our sta-tiontry for we've got the best goods at th right prlcss 15c 20c 25c box about one-half regular pries no Meriden House Drag Store 13 VEST MAIN SHEET JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO 7 mxbidem con of American If PubUtker'i 204 Fetter Building Nut Tor TELEPHONE CALLS Wnusiii Booms US Be out set Omc 1-1 Jos Boom urn BmnT 21-8 at Port Office at second cite matter JBSDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1907 tits Nows tho Day It Wi 0ept 25 In Wetory Bai boa discovered the Paclflo ocean sad took possession in tbs name of Spain Ethan Alien was captured by tbs British Mrs Felicia Dorothea Ilemans author of many gems in English poetry was born in Liverpool died 1S35 Marshal Macdonald a general under Napoleon and by him created Duke of Tanmtum died at Courcelles France born 1785 British troops under Generals Outran and Havelock relieved Lucknow and saved the garrison by fighting their way into the British residency Siege of Paris by the German army begun MW Jared Flagg noted American por-trait painter died in New York city bora 1819 American troops ordered withdrawn from Peking General Grtpenberg appointed to command Russia's Second Manchurian army The Circumbaikal railway closing a gap in the Transslberlan line be tween Russia and Manchuria opened to military trains PROHIBITION AND REVENUE It 1b stated in a Washington dispatch that lawmakers and officials there are beginning to talk about the certainty in the near future of a national prohibition movement Prohibition has been sweeping the southern states Oklahoma largely populated by southerners has just gone by a pronounced vote Missouri in the heart of the teeming southwest has recently shown a pow erful sentiment for local option in a considerable majority of its counties Georgia has adopted a prohibition law and the Democrats of Kentucky where 96 out of 119 counties are against the sale of intoxicajjs have declared for state prohibition It is said that Tennessee Democrats will take a similar stand Not many years ago prohibition measures were sneered at in Con gress but it is now practically impossible to persuade a majority of Senate or House to vote against any provision that curbs the sale of liquors The anti-canteen law the law forbidding the maintenance of public bars in the capitoi building and the law against the sale Of Intoxicants in im-lmgrant stations and other public buildings belonging to the federal government were enacted by big majorities Treasury officials are showing an interest because they realize that if the growth of the prohibition movement continues eventually it will affect the federal revenues Anything approaching national prohibition would necessitate extensive fiscal reform for a good part of the receipts comes from taxes on drinkables The Internal revenue from distilled spirits in 1906 was (137000-000 and from fermented liquors (54-500000 more making a total of (192-500000 The figures for the fiscal year 1007 have not been made up hut will probably amount to (200000000 The total expenses of the government for the fiscal year of 1906 were approximately (737000000 of which the revenue from fermented and distilled liquors paid something more than a quarter If this source of income should be curtailed greatly in the course of the next ten or fifteen years some other means raising additional federal taxes would have to be devised MEAT-EATING AND CANCER At the Instance of the Chicago Board of Health Dr 0 Adams of that city has gathered some live statistics regarding cancer Perhaps the most striking fact brought out or rather confirmed by his researches la the relatively large Incidence of cancer among the foreign-born population The Chicago mortality figures for the last woven years show the following totals: Deaths among tb Chicago-born from nil Muses 68835 of these 178 died from Cancer Of 81018 deaths among the foreign-born during the same period 4468 were due to cancer Dr Adams further analyzes thee figures and finds that the cancer mortality occurs chiefly among thos races that feed largely on freoh meat products -sausages canned "There cannot" he then "be the slightest question the great Increase In cancer foreign-born over the prev-ot that disease in their native The modern library is something more than a place for books It is a comfortable cosy room where the body may rest as the mlqd asorbs ideas Our luxuriously upholstered leather chairs will increase the comfort of your reading and at the same time make the library one of the most attractive rooms in the house Prices from $10 to $56 CASTQRIA For Infants and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years emu OIMTAWa MBMHT MB VOS CITY IM I Announces His Purchase of West -End Coal and Wood Co He wilt be pleased to receive the patronage of all former customers and so licits the trade of new ones assuring both of carefuhrfUention to orders large et small Orders taken until September ist si this price Call or telephone- Klhbe Koal and Wood Yard ClATFlELk Manager Mala SI Waterbary Depot Orders taksn Pharmacy 85 Wert Main street LEWIS PLANING MILL awing and turning Specialty-Wood work foA paper box manufacturers connection MILL STRICT MUUDIN CONN You can find answers to some Important questions in the want ads Henry Whitney swept Boston for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at the joint primaries yesterday by nearly three to one and now his followers say there is no doubt whatever that he will be nominated at the state convention which will be held in Springfield October 5 Maine has some queer laws and one of her newest is about the queerest This requires steam engineers to have licenses and to get the licenses requires them to show that they have already had experience in other words before the man can have a job he must have a license but before he can have a license he must have a job There are plenty of churches that would like a pastor like Rev Schadhorst who retired recently from the pastorate of the North Bow (Eng) Congregational church after a service that did not cost the congregation a penny Moreover he built the church himself and paid for the land on which it stands and his wife who died last year served as organist with no salary Mr Schadhorst it should be said has a modest fortune derived from valuable discoveries in chemistry Official figures just published show how great is the extent of the grapegrowing industry in New York state It is calculated that there are approximately 52500 acres of grapes in that commonwealth Of this acreage 30000 lies in the Chautauqua district 15000 in the Canandiagua and Keutya district 3000 along the Hudson river 2000 in the Seneca lake district 1500 in the Niagara district with 1000 more acres scattered over the state The Concord variety is most grown footing up seventy per cent the Catawba ten per cent Niagara eight per cent Delawares four per cent with other scattering varieties The Pennsylvania health commissioner has issued an order directing that sheets in the berths of sleeping cars running through Pennsylvania hereafter must be sufficiently long to turn over at the end of the blanket at least two feet so as to prevent the blanket from coming in contact with the face of the occupant of the berth The same order also directs that porters on parlor cars mus( not brush the clothing of passengers in the aisles of cars but only at the end of the coach beyond the seats This order is designed to protect the travelling public from communicable diseases novel hospital trolley car is expected to render good service The interior of the car is fitted' with three leather upholstered permanent stretchers Hooks are placed in the sides near the ceiling from which a fourth stretcher may be suspended At each end of the car are stationed cabinets supplied with complete surgical outfits consisting of all necessary instruments as well as dressings that might be called for in emergency cases The car is electrically heated and water In a two-gallon tank fed from a larger receptacle may be heated in the same manner The car is not designed for city work but In outlying districts first aid will be directed on the ground instead of taking the sufferer to the city SHE REMEMBERED They wander by the sad sea waves In loviqg fancy free One little favor all he craves sweet remember me! summer breezes kiss the flow-er When winter blasts the tree I only ask in such ah hour That remember Just one short month slips once more In dizzy maze Behind the counter In a store She meets his loving gaze And looking at her erslwhile flame With true patrician vim Bbe turns aalde with scorn and She has remembered him! Ta Touche Hancock REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR fNcw York Press 1 Optimism Is lack of experience When a boy He a sign hla mother thinks so A girl will never tell on a man tor kissing her unless he The liat way Jo make money apeo-ulatlng is to bet against your own judgment It must be mighty comforting to castaway on a desert island to know he doesn't have to call on hia HE i JiVege table Prep aration for As Im ams hildkln Promotes DtfcstionChEerfu-ness and test Contains neither MHimaraua-SHMmjmwi SmU Mx Jmnm RhUUUb- AmtSerd WrmSmd- A perfect Remedy for Constipation Sour StomachDiarrhoea Worms Convulsions Feverishness and loss OF Sleep Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK VI (i month' old Dosis -jt i i EXACT COPYOF WRAPPER THE NEW COLLEGE YEAR With the opening of the college year this week nearly 500 institutions in this country which call themselves colleges or universities will open their doors and indications are that the enrollment will be much greater than ever in our history although the year past broke the record It is estimated by the Philadelphia Inquirer that the total number of those engaged in acquiring education as distinguished from primary and secondary will amount this year to 110000 in the academic courses In private Institutions and over 50000 at the state universities In professional schools there will bo at least 70000 about one-sixth of whom will attend state institutions making a total of 230000 studying in advanced courses The figures are based on a normal increase from the most recent available statistics which are two years old This figure compares with about 1000000 in the secondary schools about four-fifths of whom are In public High schools and the rest in private schools almost entirely under the fostering care of some religious denomination There- are some 17000-000 children of primary school age (the technical term Includes all up-to the completion of the grammar grade courses) of whom about 12-000000 are attending the public schools and about 2000000 private schools It should be noted that In the south and In some rural districts in the north the school year does not average more than five months except In the more eOightened statos In the last twenty-five years the tendency has been steadily to increase the requirements for admission to college and to reduce the minimum work in the four college years through an indiscriminate allowance of electives It Is hard to get into college and easy to stay there though the opportunities are greater than over for those who desire to study hard and get the most that Is possible out of academic instruction It is also noteworthy as showing the signs of the times that classical study is declining while scientific and technical training Is more sought after As most young men get sufficient classical training for ordinary purposes before they can enter college the result Is not so distressing as it may seem to some persons And now Oyster Bay will he off the national map for another year Men are scarce in Georgia but it is still possible to get five hundred together to hold a lynching bee Dr Arthur Mees of New York city for ten years conductor of the Cincinnati Musical Festival Is to be the new conductor of the Worcester Music Festival succeeding Wallace Goodrich of Boston who has resigned after six years of excellent service The surface cars in New York are to be equipped with a system of sign lights Tor night service so that all who learn the various combinations of colored lights can tell at a glance the destination of a car Borne such system might be used to good advantage in Meriden Charles Cloister and the Hearth" has been strongly opposed in Sheffield England as matter for literary study in the evening school A leading Catholic and a Congregational minister united In the opposition but the education committee decided to retain the book The Bible is translated and read in 400 different tongues This work has coat many lives and many millions of dollars In addition to the first cost of translating there Is the expense of revising The last revise of the Madagascar Bible cost (16000 and (150000 was paid to Dr William Carey and hla staff for the Berampore version of the Bible la ATWATER ON FOODS New York World Food fads received no recognition from Wilbur Olin Atwater This fact gave him strength in his special field of research He pursued not notions of nutrition but truths And for each truth the exact why Lying dead today at Middletown this Wesleyan professor is still a Jiving authority In matters dietary the world over Professor Atwater was a Vermont Yankee with a scientific twist to his Yankee curiosity and ingenuity He wanted to know about the chemistry of food and how add in what proportions the elements of the things we eat are transformed into energy So he bent with a natural knack to the invention of tests and apparatus to satisfy his inquiring mind Like most followers of hard facts Professor Atwater had the courage of his demonstrations Experiment proved to him that alcohol had a food value a small one but certain placing the limit of an ordinary indulgence for nutritive purposes perhaps at one glass of clargt He was a Methodist son and he knew the storm which the declaration of his discovered fact would raise in ultra-temperance circles But he stated his truth and faced the raging with the calm of the man whose demand on nature has been satisfied Students of food and nutrition the world over owe much to this modFBt Yankee professor of a minor American college THEREO IS THE BEST CAR on the market for the price We also sell Oldsmobiies and Premiers A BOWE SON 231 WEST MAIN ST THE LOT BUM C0 Wholesale and Retail Dealers Lumber and Coal $700 ti PER TON 13 South Colony Street MERIDEN THE MONROE CO BManafaturwr of RICH CUT CLASS Hllty NOVELTIES mu art Merest XcrUc CHICAGO NEWS TIPS The smile of the hyprocrlte la a misfit It's easy to be liberal with other people's money Keep your eye on small opportunities They some time 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