New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1916, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1018. purpose of wiping out once and for all what they call swashbuckling Prussian militarism,—a menace to the entire They claim to have no hatred for the German people, but they do | express contempt and fear for the military the German Thus the matter stands. Such speeches as Lloyd George's von Britain IRALD PUBL Pr Herald. | COMPANY. oric world ja aatly (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., it Herald Build 67 Church St. red at the Po: 88 Second Cla. o t New Britain Mail Matter. great nation. to anv part ef the clty | 65c a month. to be sent by mall, 60 cents a month, arm of fivored by carr for 15 cents a criptions for payable in 400 a yeax and delivered will get | The only possible chance | for a lasting peace will come when the representatives of the various belli- gerent nations sit around the board and discuss the terms upon which all sides can make an honorable Bethmann-Hollweg’s, from now nowhere, until dooms'day only profitable advertismg medlum In rculation hooks and Fress = open to advertisers. | same sale at_Hota- | and Broad- | Board Walk, At- | lantic City, and Hartford Depot. | | peace. LEPHONE GALLS. | As matters stand today Germany Salioonanoanonios 25 | alone has it in her power to open the | door to a lasting peace. It will be ! an effort of sacrifice on her part, and THE DOCTOR. i itorial Roon SF her proud statesmen may not deem it All the citizens’ of New = wise to bow in submission to the Heeply interested in the plight of Wa-| onomy countries .In that event th erbury which is visited by a scourge | only way for peace to come about is Jf smallpox. The secretary of the: yrougn gome gigantie victory by Ger- ard of health; Dr. John % |ypny or by the Bntents Allies, That is of the UM!‘L‘\U\V that every is the long wa The shortest within T/ way home is through the avenue of have ito be vac-| giscussion, not bombast nor filled This also a0~ | with vitriol; but honest and sincere de- g0 there on busi-| pate - .The war is not won yet by | either side. If it was there would be no need for any discussion at all. So . long as Germany believes she s vic- | torious even so lohg must the war | last. It can never be settled while | there is a spirit of braggadocio on | elther side. There are but two ways to end the whole business, one is by a crushing defeat and the other by capitulation through the channels of | diplomacy. Which side stands ready | to give in, the Allies or the Central | Powers? The answer seems to be apparent. Britain are v around. orson residing the limits he Brass City may inatea immediately Wlies to those who or otherwise. The redeeming feature about the irevalent epidemic of this dread isease in Waterbury is that it is mild i form and although spreading seems 5 be reaching its end. The situation nevertheless serious when it is con- {dered that there have been 104 cases ‘ported up to yvesterday. These are i1 within the city. Three additional | fises have been heard fram in one of c suburbs. There are other citles in the state this time visited by pidemics - of smallpox. Happily e | ow Britain 1s not among them.‘; hat are at lhere are no cases of the disease re- THE PROPER SPIRIT. rted here. But that is no reason; One single gift of one hundred dol- hy precaution should be | lars yesterday to the Polish Orphan bandoned. This is the time for pre- | Asylum for the Christmas dinner is bntion. Once the germ gets a foot- | representative of the spirit that has b1a it might not be so easily stamped | fast taken hold of New Britain,— t. Vaccination is a very disagree- | good will toward those less fortunate ble thing at best; but those who have | than the average. At this season of t other citles in the|the year when the average family is ate where smallpox 1is prevalent | surrounded by health and happiness bould take this precaution, Even |there is something magnanimous in ose who do not visit those places ' extending the helping hand to those fhere smallpox is in evidence should | who are sick, or poor, or who are de- once attend to vaccination. Small- | prived of the loving care of mothers cyeles,—once evcry“ and the protection of fathers. The ven ve Those who have not | little orphans should not be forgotten. Lo vaccinated within that time| There is no better time of the year ould consult a physician, | to manifest the spirit of brotherly Imve, to practice the corporeal works | of mercy. The feeding of the hungry, | the clothing of the naked, the har- every casion to Vi bx comes in ars. NO PEACE IN SIGHT, David Lloyd George by his speech | poring of the harborless—those are House of Commons Yesterday | tn. qeeds that count. . placed the burden of respaNsi- | or the eity back on the shoulders of Ger- any. The negotiations hinted at in o <pecch of the German Chancellor, the The orphanages have struggled through- out the entire year adhering to the | highest dictates of humanity. A little nelp now when extra favors mean n Bethmann-Hollweg, are no nearer| ore than at any other season will o the day the peace ; not go unrewarded. The joy of giving oposals were drawn up by Germany | ¢5 those who are powerless to provide d announced to an anxlous warld. | ¢or themselves is one of the greatest an approach is to be made to them, | satigtactions the heart of man can 'is for Germany to lead the way. d this can only be done by the Cen- | mhe Childrens’ Home, the Polish il Powers outlining a plan and| Oorphanage and those other private licy that will meet the requirements | ang public institutions that give shel- i mulated by Lloyd George,—com- | 4o t5 the deserving should receive pte restitution, full reparation, and | gttention within the next three or ectual guarantees that the peace of | your days. It has been suggested, rope will never be disturbed again | ang the suggestion still holds good, it has been during the past two and | tna¢ groceries and provisions of all half vears. If Germany was sincere | sorts he sent to these homes. It is her first declarations, if the peace | g gimple matter to order an extra dposals she ' advanced were not|portion of foodstuffs when at the gly for home consumption, then|grocery store and direct that such ere may be some way out of the| pyrchases be sent to either one of fiiculties. If, however, Germany |tne aforementioned places. There is prely made her vague Dropositions|need for food and clothing at all the purpose of squaring herself|j,.p ingtitutions, at all times. Bs- th’ her own people and before the | jo0in)1y is there need for something utral world there is little chance of | ot of the ordinary in the way of v immediate negotiations that might | 1j411¢ ravors bordering on the luxuries len eventually lead to peace. The| ¢ jyrq. b is long and arduous at best. bovd George has not strewn it with ks [There are precious few people E world today who wish deep down np ity they were know. Those suffragists who insist upon calling Miss Ruth Law “The Columbus of the air” should clothe the noun in in its proper gender and bask it in ap- propriate poetic sentiment somewhat like this: *“Columbia the gem of the | celestial region.” their hearts for a continuance of The world has seen enough sery it But when peace is fared the people of neutral nation war. as is, well as those who live in the bel- | = erent lands want some at an occurrence such as this colos will itself of those living to- assurance | This fellow John Barley: though he has been driven from many state: palatial residences in the larger citie He has renewed le: will be seen at the s corn al- stru s e not repeat still manages to maintain a few the memory If there can be no certain gu his se in Boston teés to that end it were better that!and ame old places for another period. Billy Sun- day fell down before him this time. v should be fought out until| Even e sidc the other is crushed to the ih, wce proposals advanced by n the ne vin. the Ger- Christmas trees are going up,—in The high cost have with us Chanc emphatically | nomes and in of celebrating always. prices. inuated that Germany is at we present | torious, that the only reasons vanced the proposition was because | her great love for humanity. In . Only four days to Christmas, to this Lloyd George does G rmany is victorious, her AND FANCI ompted the love for humanity fir o t move toward peace. eches are entirely an- ] | Phere is one war chariot in Burope is hoth nd so lor there is 1 novel and effective, and York xap of sentiment between | '3 5 it is sater wagon.—New of thé first part and the|it 1is the wa n.—New Irty of the second part there is little | Sun. Ipe of reaching an immediate agre bnt. German, hier very existence. England and allies say they are fighting for the | ter is the determination of the citi- claims to be fighting . The only really valuable city char- zens to have good government.—Phil- adelphia Record. We are learning some lessons use from the great world war. and mosquitoes are to be exter- minated by gas attacks.—Baltimore American. of House Well, if a party manager ought to get §10,000 a year for managing the party ,the party ought to pay it, and not the public treasury.—Brooklyn Standard Union. Those nine thousand Germans who were gathered in by the French in the Verdun region were, perhaps, sur- prised in the midst of holding & peace meeting.—Providence Journal. Another Yale freshman has made a successful elopement in an automo- bile. Matrimony seems to have be- come a popular elective at the New Haven university.—New York Sun. It is not difficult to believe the re- port that Germany would give the Trentino to Italy if she would sign a separate peace. That is Austrian territory.—Philadelphia Ledger. This is the season of the vear when many husbands are lost or mislaid in the great department stores by eager shopping wives. Again we appeal for a lost and found department for hus- bands.—Chicago News. The coming back of the British at Kut-el-Amara, recalls an insular characteristic that has made history A people that does not know when it is beaten has warlike capacities that in the long run make themselves respected.—New York World. Hints. (By Alice Cary.) Two thirsty travellers chanced day to meet Where a spring bubbled from the burning sand; One drank out of the hollow of his hand, And found the water very cool sweet. one and The other walted for a smith to beat And fashion for his use a golden cup; i And while he waited, fainting in the heat, The sunshine came and drank the fountain up! In a green field two little there were, And both were fair in and tender-eyed; One took the light and dew heaven supplied, And all the summer gusts were sweet with her. flowers the face that The other, to her nature false, denied That she had any need of sun and dew, And hung her silly head, and sickly srew, And, frayed and faded, all untimely died. A vine of the bean, that had been early wed To a tall peach, conceiving that he hid Her glories from the world, wisely slid Out of his arms, and, vainly chafing, sald: un- “This fellow is an enemy of And dwarfs me with his She would not see That she was made a vine, a tree, And that a tree is stronger than vine. mine, shade.” and not a Church Tries Advertising. (Greenville 8. C. News.) An interesting experiment will be tried by the Fourth Presbyterian church of Greenville. This church plans to publish a series of = large newspaper advertisements, the first of which will appear in the News of Sunday morning. Church advertising, on such a scale, is novel in Green- villee. The Fourth Presbyterian church, realizing that such an institu- tion has much to offer the public, re- solved upon the advertising plan as a means to acquaint the public with what it hopes to do and can do. The effect of the advertising in regard to church spirit, attendance and other results will be watched with much interest. In many cities it is the custom of churches to pay for read- ing notices of a formal character. However, church advertising is prac- tically new In Greenville. It has heen tried. and often successfully, in larger places. Why will it not prove beneficial here? The Fourth Presby- terian is leading in the experiment. Old Ships Made New. (Philadelphia Ships, like men, rublic Ledger.) may have strange, eventful histories. It will interest old ocean travelers to mnote that the Al- fonso XII, now making her maiden voyage to New York in the service of the Compania Trasatlantica, is none other than the once-popular Havel, of the Norddeutscher Lloyd. She was sold to the Spanish government for a transport as long ago as 1898, and she has since been used as a royal vacht. With a portrait of Frederick the Great still adorning her saloon, she now flies the Spanish flag as a merchantmen. Many other once fa- miliar ocean liners hold the seas under unfamiliar names. In spite of of the rapid retirement of tonnage that the demand for speed and lux- ury had brought about before the war, these older vessels now and again come hack to their own, just as stanch and as comfortable as ever. Somie of them, like the once-popular City of Berlin, are still being used as army transports by the United States government, Long Term For President. (Utica Press). ‘Whether the term of president of the United States should be length- ! election prohibited, which a New York paper has been asking of railroad presidents, presi- dents of chambers of commerce and other men of recognized influence in the industrial world. Fifty-four re- plies were recelved within a day or two and of these all but five favored the longer term. Of the sixteen ralilroad presidents is a question making the suggested change and cated it. Some of them favored eight vears instead of six, and one or two opposed re-election under any cir- cumstances. The most powerful ar- gument in favor of the lengthening the presidential term without giving a chance for a second one immediate- ly following it was given in concise form by President Ripley of the San- ta Fe, who said: “Because of the necessity of politics, the first presiden- tial term nearly always makes the in- terest of the country subordinate to personal and party ambitions. No private business could be operated on the alternation of parties and persons in management. How can we expect government business to be well handled on so absurd a plan?” President Peters of the Long Island Railroad, who was one of the two op- posing any change, thought we should go- slow in making changes in the constitution and added: rennial elections afford opportunity to take account of the situation and to decide whether we shall change lead- ers and policies, or shall continue them for another four-vear period. We need the discussions and agita- tions of the presidential campaign to make us appreciate our civil duty.” The question, also asked, whether an extension of the terms of repre- sentative in congress to three years, less unanimity of sentiment. Of four- teen railroad presidents expressing an opinion on it, four opposed it, while ten were for it. An argument put forth by those opposing the sug- gested change was that the shorter term tended to keep th congressmen in closer touch with the people and with public sentiment. On the other hand, it was urged that so short a term gives a man too little time to familiarize himself with the duties of his office, while with the longer period he has opportunity to become better acquainted with the needs of the na- tlon as a whole. Besides the arguments which have been given, both as regards presidents and congressmen, it s urged that elections, especially national ones, are to some extent unsettling to the coun- try’s business, and, of course, the more frequent they are the greater the cost. This last, however, is not a vital matter, for the cost would never stand in the way of public welfare. The question is simply whether the country is better off with the longer or the shorter terms, Arguments in favor of a longer term for the governor of the state could also be put forth with equal reason. Two yvears Is a pretty short time in which to carry out guberna- torial policies. Of course, if a really undesirable man is elected to any of- fice, then the shorter his term the bet- ter. The matter of length of term was one that was fought over when the republic was organized and when the Constitution was adopted. One school of thought was governed by the idea of the greater efficiency in office which the longer term would be likely to give. The other feared putting too much power in the hands of public officlals and making them little responsive to the people. It is probable that the sentiment in favor of a longer term for president, at least is stronger now than formerly. Any change will certainly not be made until the matter has been given the fullest discussion and has been viewed from all its angles, of which there are quite a number. American Pronunciation. (Waterbury Democrat). Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, the foremost theatrical manager of Lon- don, now of this country, laments that the United States has no stand- ard of pronunciation. He wants us to decide on standard and then live up to it. Our edu- cators, he says, ‘‘the school teachers and heads of universities,” could get together and select the idea system. But what would they adopt as a standard? And how would they “put it over”? We have several distinct styles of pronunciation, firmly fixed in the various sgeographical sections. There is the New England pronun- clation, represented at its best by Boston. There is th New York clty pronunciation, which is a modified Bostonian. There is the general sys tem of intonation and articulation prevailing throughout the south, very distinct from that of New England. There is a still different system in the west, and another, more western than eastern, in the middle west. And there are definite local vibra- tions found in Vermont, Pennsylva- nia and several other states. TIf there is to be a standard. what shall it be? Most highly educated citizens lean to the Boston pronunciation. The stage follows the New York pronunciation, with London improvements. Publ akers in general try to approxi- a sp standard. But their efforts, however admired, never percolate very far into the common speech of the people west of the Hudson river and south of Staten Island. Tt is not to be expect- ed that the people of any hig sec- tion will adopt the pronunciation of any other section. They could not if they wanted to. The variations are probably due as much to differences of climate as differences of customs and tradition. A ‘northerner going south eventually comes to speak the southerners do. So does a New Englander in the west, or a westerner in New England. Why indeed should we all try to speak alike?It is desir- able, no doubt, to get rid of local od- ditions or unpleasantnesses, such as 1the slovenly slurring of words or the ened to six years, with immediate re- | giving their views, only two opposed . “The quad- | What mate the Boston or New York stage | corn belt. | | | have: over-accentuation of unimportant syl- lables or the flat and unpleasant “a” sound uttered through the nose. But { as for general accent and manner of‘ speech, isn’t it better to have variety rather than dull uniformity? Sir Herbert needn’'t be so dogmatic and superior about it, anyhow. His Lon- don may set the best standard, but his own country doesn’t follow that standard. Not to mention the wide divergence of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, there is far more variation with the norrow limits of England than there is in the whole United States. North and south England can hardly understand each other. most of the others strongly advo- | Eventually we may work out by un- conscious degrees a somewhat more uniform pronunciation than we now According to the judgment of an eastern scholar, it will approxi- mate Chicago’'s pronunciation. And why not—even if the suggestion of it fills London and Boston with horror? Asleep at the Coal Bin. (Philadelphia Public Ledger). To most Americans it will come as a shock to learn that our trade with the Philippines is largely de- pendent upon British coaling stations. Now that England needs all its own fuel, it has decreed that independent shipping will hereafter get none. Here is another example of the shift- less work of our government. Con- gress haggles for months over pork- barrel appropriations and neglects a pimary business proposition such as coaling stations for our own ships. would be sald of a rallroad that forever kept its fuel supply in the hands of a competitor who might stop the supply any day it saw fit to do so? But our government affairs being conducted primarily on a par- tisan political basis, are left in a slovenly conditlon. Since , the United States mines far more coal than any other nation, it would ap- pear to be elemental that it should furnish all the coaling station facili- Instead of two, as at present, brought | ties which could be needed for our | Rio de Janeiro take own use. Pointed Paragraphs, (Chicago News). Grafters oft break in where burg- lars fear to tread. A boy in a schoolroom is worth a dozen in a poolroom. Some beauty is skin deep and some is put on with enamel. All our thoughts are original— either with ourselves or others, You don’t notice the express much at the time if paid with check. If some artists see things as they paint them they should ecut out booze. And many a man fails to good because he loves to take things easy. . An ounce of happiness contributed to another is a pound added to your own, At least two thirds of the married men are henpecked and haven't found it out. so How to Prevent Colds. (The World's Work.) In the way of practical advice on how to prevent colds, Dr. Eugene L. Fisk, of the Life Extension institute in New York city, suggests that one of the best methods for preventing colds is to breathe as much fresh air as possible; a draft, he holds, is not to be feared unless it is enough to be chilling. to weaken your resistance by cod- dling as it is to be over-Spartan. The skin can be trained to help resist germ infection! and one of the worst ways to train it is to work and live, and sleep in overheated rooms. The same sort of rules applies to clothing. Adapt your clothing to the condition of your health and to the conditions of the weather. One man can wear light underclothing all the year round; for another whose physique is not so hardy or who has chronic heart or kidney trouble, such a course is folly. It is as harmful to strong It is as silly expose yourself too much as it is to | weaken your resistance by bundling up. Baths? One man can take cold baths and be no worse for them; an- other of a more delicate constitution will suffer nervous shocks from the me temperatur Try out your skin and find out its reaction point. Of course, fatigue, for these all aggravate colds and invite them . The man who is subject to colds should be sparing in | his use of tobacco, and should know that he weakens his resisting powers if he drinks alcohol. In many an in- stance where death is attributed to a severe cold or to pneumonia, the real cause was that the patient’s svs- tem was so weakened by drink that it had no resistance to offer to germ attack. Corn in the Kitchen. (New York Sun.) Speaker Clark advises more use of corn as a food. “Mush is good,” he says. Indeed it is. Corn meal mush makes a healthful and satisfying breakfast; the left over portion fried, sweetened with molasses, makes a good dish for lunch or for next day’s breakfast. The housekeeper who goes out to market may hot realize it, but she de- | pends upon corn for the best beef, | fresh pork, sausages, ham, bacon, | poultry, egges, butter, cheese. “Where | there is plenty of corn there is plenty of other good food,” they say in the It is a luxury for cattle, hogs and chickens. Tt was well thought of in this coun- try as human food fifty, forty, per- haps thirty years ago. But in an unfortunate day even poor folk be- gan to neglect corn. Dressed up as | hominy it still had a certain popu- larity, parents were willing that their children should eat it thus. Treated with baking powder, salt, plenty of rich cream and butter, it was still made into a hot bread some were not ashamed to eat. But corn was gradually disappear- ing from the American table. Tolks had not yet begun to démand corn fattened beef pork, chicken, and the vellow grain was so fallen into dis- a| malke | corn belt as domiesiic fuel; it was cheaper than coal or cordwood. | Corn came into its own forever when “feeders” began to buy range | steers and fatten them cn corn for the table of beef eating America i | The price of any food which sells iat more than a fair profit for pro- | ducer and marketman can be lowered by taking your choice roasts, your strietly fresh cges, cream, butter, | { bacon and ham in the criginal form | of these delectable foods, corn. Cakes, | puddings, breads in a hundred shapes, forms and flavors can be made out of jcorn. A hundred million more bush- {els a year will be grown when the {humble food hecomes fashionable again, and a hundred million bushels more each year until we are all sup- | plied. ! Here is so simple, so direct, so ef- ficacious & cure of our present ills it is quite certain not to be adopted. Communications With South America, | (Philadelphia Inquirer.) | A report is going the rounds inj| financial circles that the Western | Union company may invade the South American field by laying cables to all| the principal ports. This would mean | a keen struggle for business and prob- | ably a lowering of present rates, | which are actually high, but are de. | clared to be only mildly remunerativ But if we are going to have a greatly enlarged trade with South America there is room for improvement in various forms of communication, At present the mail service to South ! American ports is very slow. This is in part due to the fact that the cost of coal is so great that it is found| economical for vessels to steam slowly. | With some of the nations we have| fairly regular service, and with othe™; it is irregular and at times exaspera- tingly slow. It is hardly possible far an American merchant to write to| Brazil or Argentina and expect an answer within two ‘months. Of late | a few steamers have been making bet- ter time, but for others the vovage to almost a month, It is expected that after the war there will be some new and fast liners | put on which will improve the service, but much depends upon the future ! course of business. While South American trade has been picking up, it has not yet reached the proportions | expected. We bave improved our banking arrangements with most of | the nations, but, unfortunately, some of them arte still on a depreciated paper basis, so that commerce is car- ried on under difficulties. -The trouble is that we are compelled to ask South America unprecedénted prices for our goods at a time when she dislikes to | pay any increase whatever. | theless, trade is iniproving, and one | vear more should-see all of the Sauth ‘American countries on a sound finan- | cial basis. CORRECTION. An article in Saturday’s ‘“Town Topics,” on the increased number of automobiles in the city, as printed, gave the approximate number per | capita as one for every 4,333. This is abviously wrong, due to a typographi- cal error. The intended figure was ' choose from Never- | McMILLAN’S The Big, Busy Store Open Evening All This Week ' For Christmas - 3 you’ll find the hig stocks to with complete assortments to the last min- ute. Furs--Furs We are fortunate to have two thousand dollars worth of Fur Neckpieces and Muffs consigned to us by a New | York manufacturer and they' are on sale at prices that average one-fourth less than regular. Mr. Man give your wife a Fur Set for a Christmas pres; ent. . Sweaters A big stock for Men, Wo- men and children. Gloves Our Glove stock in splen- did condition. The right kinds at the right prices. D, McMILLAN 199-201-208 MAIN STREET. one for every forty-three. ! | \How Traftic on Danube riflight Have Been Bottled Upr‘ | | D. C, Dec. 19.—Gal- atz, Roumania’s largest and most im- | portant commercial city situated on i the Danube, is the subject of the fol- | lowing war geography bulletin issued | by the National Geographic society: “If Field Marshal von Mackensen's drive through the Dobrudja had ex- tended beyond the Tchernovada bridgehead to the north as far as Galatz, Roumania would have been cut off entirely from the Black sea, and the traffic of the Danube would | have been bottled up. This city, which has a population of more than 70,000, is the chief lumber port of the kingdom and stands second to Bra | in grain shipments. “Galatz enjoys signal commercial | advantages in its situation on the left | bank of the Danube between two ‘Washington, ourse, you will do well to avoid | great tributary arteries of traffic, the imal constipation, overeating, and extreme | gereth and the Pruth, the former ris- an ing in Bukowina and draining all of | | central Moldavia, while the latier rises in the Galician Carpathians and flows in a southeasterly direction, irormxng the boundary line between | Roumania and the rich Russian prov- | ince of Bessarabia. The mouth of the | Sereth is three miles southwest of | Galatz and the Pruth enters the Dan- | ! ube ten miles east of the city. The new section of Galatz takes ! | the form of an amphitheater spread | | out upon an elcvation some distance | to the north of the river, and the ‘old | | town’ occupics the low land between the cliff and the water front. Most of | the residences are in the new section | while the flour and paste mills, tho | grain elevators and the immense | grain magazines are located in the | old town. . “Galatz is defended by three lines of fortifications, resembling an en- | trenched camp. The Sercth line of | defense, which extends to the north- st as far as Focshani, five miles, is well Krupp and Gruson guns. “For a number of vears Galatz has been the headquarters of the Euro- pean commission of the Danube which had control of the improvements and the malntenance of the channel through the lower reaches of the riv- er, the Sulina mouth of the waterway being ninety miles east of the city. At the time of the outbreak of the war this commission was composed of rep- resentatives of Austria-Hungary, France, Great Britain, Germany, Ttaiy, Roumania, Turkey and Russia, all of which nations are now involved in the war, so that for the time being the commission is completely disrupted. “Galatz’s rapid growth from a town of 7,000 inhabitants to a place ten times as large began in 1834, the vear that the first steamer arrived here after a successful and historic vovage | down the river from the Tron Gates, | a distance of spplied with | I | | | esteem and consequent disuse that one hard winter it was burned in the on the distant Hungarian border. “The region between Galatz and the | | the Great Pruth river is a forbidding swamp or mere, covering fifty square miles, where fowl and half-wild swine are to be found in great numbers. The swine have been known to attack the peasants who frequent the lowland to gather the gigantic reeds which ara extensively used for fuel. The Pruth, incidentally, is held in aversion by. all Roumanians, who believe that many of the calamities to whick the fdesh heir have come f{rom beyond waterway—cholera, war and famine, And a ser ill, but which trics the patience of the peasant farmer, is the burr which is brought over from bia in the talls of the Russian es. Th creep up clothing things make an inex ble tangle of woolly fabrics. When they get in tlie manes and tatis of an they form a stiff. heavy mat like movable board or club. Roumanians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Russians, ns, Jews and the recently emancipated Tsiganes (gvp- s¢ies) mingle in the great bazsar ot Gualatz. The Jews, who constitute twenty per cent. of the population, are the thrifty merchants of the pert and are largely in ccntrol of the ex port trade in lumber and cattle also handle the imports texti machinery and coal To the tourist the o ing building in Galatz of Ma which the 1omlb of the celebrated Cossack chief, Mazeppa, whose intriguc with wife of a noble at the Polish nishment (bein w'd h desert) Bryon's pposed to h by the T several city. for the memor: ccrated Ly the soldiers much as he became arles XTI of Sweden in the same defeated field of Pultowa.” interest- the Ch . contains tha court bound e and been Th rifled ans during upon the ppa is the Cz ally ot died ot Peter the on the in have poem ve heen iesce of Maz of an He year that Charles on one of poison President 'W (Girard lson’s Grandfather. the Philadelphia Publia Tedger.) in Charles T. Hughes has now con- gratulated President Wilson upon his re-election. and the town of Strabane has reached hands across the sea and said: “Shake, because you are one of us.” Strabane has a good memory and it recollects that the president's grand- father came from that spot in Ireland to Philadelphia, where he once pub- lished the ‘“Aurora” newspaper. “Strabane sends heartiest congratu- lations,” said a recent message, which I obtain from private sources, “and is justly proud of a descendant of one of its citizens.” thaty >