Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 4, 1914, Page 4

118 YEARS OLD price 12¢ ® wesk; S0 u year. d at the Postoffice at Norwich, el B flietin Business Builetin Edl Rooms 35-3. Job Office 35-2. Willimantic Office, Room 3, Murray e R poaid town and . D, routes in Eastern Connsctiout. CIRCULATION 1801 AVOragee.csaseacecss 45412 1905, AVArage..esssoreone 5'920 by ... 9; | nn COUNTY IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE The annual meeting of the New London County Improvement league 10 be held here Saturday should re- ceive not only the attention but the attendance of every farmer in south- eastern Connecticut. TEat it will not is probable because there are some who cannot fit it into their program for various reasons, but the farmer who is looking carefully after his busi- ness and all chances for betterment will not permit the opportunity which is afforded him to pass unheeded. The organization is just what its name indicates. It is solely for the purpose of making the country a great producer, arousing it to fits shorteomings and pointing out the way 10 overcome them. It is engaged in the commendable cffort of helping the people to realize thelr possibilities and to take advantage of them. It has passed through a year of actlvity with encouraging resulis and one of even greater effort is promised. Being de- Voted to the betterment of conditions in the twenty-one towns ofsthis coun- ty it should receive the enthusiastic support whicn it deserves. Thereby can it increase its mccomplishments and every advancement of that kind is S0 much profit to the people served. Go in any directlon and there can be found plenty of evidence of the neglect which has prevailed year after year. The cry for help has been overiooked and put aside too long but - under the active influence of this league and its energetic director a powerful agricultural pulmotor is at work. The people of the county should get every benefit from it that is pos- sible. Its endeavor is broad and gen- erous. Its aim is to help those who are anxious to help themselves. UNWISE COMPETITION When it is declared that there is & Jarge amount of goods in South Am- erican ports awaiting shipment to this country it is only what might be ex- pected under the existing circumstan- ces. The accompanying statement that many vessels of neutral nations have ‘been leased for the purpose of carry- on this trade between the two continents in this hemisphere indicates net oply that there are plenty of ships “avaflable but that steps have been actually taken to Improve the serv- ice, Private capital is Tesponding to the requirements and In securing the commercial vessels of neutral nations it is obtaining the additional advan- tages which go with vessels under for- eign registry. In view of this and the fact that it must be similer vessels which this country would acquire under the Al- exander ship purchase bill which the #dministration is urging at an uncer- $ain but probably large expenditure, the” folly and danger of dabbling in any such government ownership of which would be placed in competition with private capital are disclosed. The zovernment must op- erate its ships under the same rules and regulations as other vessels of American registry. Even American owners have found 1t to their/advan- tage to register their vessels under flags for good business rea- ons, and the revised regulations have ot accomplished the change that was ed vessels In competition with the cheaper manner in which private capi- tal can do it fs not encouraging. Ef- fort better be directed towards im- provement of shipping regulations. DEWET'S CAPTURE One of the strongest supports which was given to the revolt of the Boers in South Africs last month was the action of General De Wet in taking He is the veteran people gave Great Britain o few years ago. Outside of his connection with the outbreak, there was little which ‘without support his individuality zot hold out forever and It is well thyt ho has been over thus early. ‘has indicated its general contentment. It was possidle, if the desire existed | for that colony to not only cause Great Britain an endless amount of trou- e but to have undoubtedly set up an independent government. Failing to do 80 as a colony gives reason for the] belet that since the Boer War Great Britain has instituted such reforms and éxtended such self control as to create the feeling that it is best to let well enough alone. DeWet's. cgpture. should put an effective damper on the Boer trouble. RED CROSS SEALS Thankful as this country is that it is at peace, there is nevertheless a large army a_ relentless fight for the crushing cut of the atrocious activity of the white plague. It is a cause in which a supreme effort is needed, and it always comes at this time of the year—a period when great- er attentlon . is directed towards the enlistment ‘of the services of each and every individudl in the gigantic and worthy strife. Through the Red Cross Christmas seals the appeal is made to the entire country for generous participation in the extension of relief to suffering hu- manity. All herolc service is not ren- dered amidst the hum of bullets and the clash of swords. There is the bat- tlefigld of health on which there is certainly need of widespread help and valiant service for the checking of the ravages of the disease against which the. anti-tuberculosis army is fighting. Two million dollars were raised in the past six years through the medium of the holiday stamps and that means much as an expression of the deep interest which is taken In this work and the means of gathering the funds, but when it is realized that there are 200,000 deaths from this cause each year it can be understood that it all and much more is needed. The movement tommands the sym- pathy of every community. It is a cause in which the contributions can be big or little, providing as it does an excellent chance for the display of the proper holiday spirit. POLICY OF SAFETY There are those who are ardently and sincerely working for the estab- lishment of International peace and it is @ cause which everyone must real- ize is ideal, and from which the whole world would profit if it were carried out, There are others, however, who, looking upon the cold facts presented Dby existing conditions or.even those previous to the war, recognize that such an attainment lies in the far dis- tant future. Commendable and desir- able though it 1s, untll the day ©f the ideal dawns there must be preparations to meet the present day requirements. In other words, we must look after our protection until such a time as the possibilitio of war have been obliterated. As long as protection is demanded it is highly mmportant that it should get proper consideration. It is not a matter which should be entrusted to the vagaries of luck. It should be based upon actual requirements—the necessities which are needed to show proper preparation against possible emergencies. This is what is being sought in the effort which Congressman Gardner is making. He seeks an investigation in- to our present national defense for the purpose of determining our state of preparedness and just so long as prep- aration is vital all efforts in that direc- tion should be based upon actual re- quirements.— There is not the least objection to finding out where we are weak or where we are strang that any weakness may be overcome. It is a go0d sound policy of safety. EDITORIAL NOTES. Any stamping of feet or wild ges- ticulations can be attributed to the war tax rather than the cold weather. Dr. Wiley says that better teeth are needed, In that he will find himself in accord with a large number of peo- ple. ‘While it 1s being figured out who started the war, an effort might be made to determine who hit Billy Pat- terson. December apparently knows what to do to maintain the T'd-like-to-see-a- good-ball-game-today feeling among the fans. The man on the corner says:. When a man comes to know how little he knows he is making progress towards aequiring knowledge. Pictures of the prince of Wales may represent him leaving for the front, but he looks better prepared for. a hare and hound chase. When Ohio assesses John D. Rocke- feller for about a third of a billion, he doesn't contribute to the public till solely as 2 rent payer. ‘When Villa declares that he knows he 1s unfit to be president of*Mexico it is an admission which few men would be willing ot malke. ‘While England is disposed to abolish football because many prefer it to war, it might be a great stroke for peace to_abolish war in deference to foot- ball. ———e Mexioo is as uncertaln_ as a fickle thermometer. Todey it may portend peace and tomorrow be engaged in preparations for the hottest kind of a. revolution. ‘When the crown prince of Germany declares it to be a cruel and useless war 2 good many will agree with him, but it has taken a long time for him to find it out. - Such rellef to the coal hin as the weather man has been giving for the past Sew days could be appreciated if it wasn't his Intentions to ‘make up for it later on. The collection of the war tax is be- ing accompanied by as great a lack of preparation Dby the federal authori~ tles as was the income tax, to say nothing of the confusion. existing in the minds of the taxpayers. Even though toncrete bases said to bave been built on a St. Lawrence river island by a German have been destroyed, there is no connection be- tween such action and the declaration that the Monroe doctrine would not prevent Germany from attacking Can- tance Tax on Legacies to Yale—Plans to Extend New Haven, Dec, 3L—The plans are| ‘now practically complete for the con- struction of the Anthony N. Brady Memorial , for the Yale Medical school. This will be erected in the coming spring r administration - near the New Haven hospital on land owned by the bospital. The plans accepted are the work of Architect L. W. Robinson of New Haven and call for a three story building with 2 high basement. The. building - will De used for doing the routine pathological work of the hos- pital including examinations and in- vestigations. The work done here will consist of research in logy and clinjcal patholosy i medicine and sur- gery. e neeq of such a building was long felt by the Medical school as well as the New Haven hospital be- fore they became allied. The comple- tion of the laboratory will necessitate the enlargement of the present medi- cal staff and at least three or fou: paid men will take charge. These will be nominated members of the hospital staff by the Yale corporation and will be voted upon by the direc- tors of the New Haven hospital. The men so elected will rank as professor: or instrictors on the Yale facuity. The erection of this laboratory was made possible through a gift of $625,000 last April to the Yale Medical school by the members of the family of the late Anthony H. Brady, in order to en- able the university to declare opera- tive the agreement for an alliance be- tween the New Haven hospital and the Yale Medical school. Of this sum $125,000 was paid to the university las® June for the erection and equipment of the laboratory. From the founda- tion of $500,000 income at the rate of $25,000 a year is to be paid the Medi- cal school, for the purposes covered in the agreement with the _hospital, for a period of ten years. On or be- fore the expiration of this term the foundation of $500,000 is definitely to be transferred to the Medical school provided the latter shall have recelved other bequests aggregating at least $2,000,000 for endowment and build- ing funds. Last summer’s military camps for college men were notably successful. The increasing interést which is being shown in the camps is encouraging to the authorities who have the move- ment in charge and this very import- ant organization now seems to be firm- ly- established in the United States. There werg four camps with about 200 men last Jear. The largest camp was at Burlington, Vermont, and consistea of about 350 men. All Yale men who attended a military camp last sum- mer were at Buriington. The Yale, delegation had 37 members and was the largest of any of the college dele- gations. Last vear at Gettysburg there were 12 Yale mmen, the largest single delegation there. The work dur- ing the summer was well planned and although the shortness of time pre- vented a thorough stnd- ~* any one subject, very little was left untouch- ed. The result was that the men ob- tained a g00d general idea of tactics and military matters. The plan, in general was to study the theorectical side one day and to put it into prac- tice the next. The organization of these military camps for the mstruc- tion of collége men was established by the secretary of war in 1913, since which time the summer camps have been growing more popular. ‘ The Ad- visory committee which has general oversight of the camps is_more than pleased with the way in’which the students have entered this profect The - committee at present includes President Hadley of Yale, President Lowell of Harvard, President Hibben of Princeton together with the presi- dents of six other large universities of the United States. As a result of the fall freshman work in track, cross country 'and football, 31 men have won numerals. Of these, 16 were awarded to academic men, and the other 15 to the members of the Sheff. freshman class. Academic has one more numeral man in_both track and cross country than sm but one more football numeral awarded to Sheff. than to Academic’ Eleven of the 31 men prepared at Hill, and seven at Exeter. Nineteen num- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Early Christmas Shopping. Mr. Editor: So much is being said and done to impress us with the virtue of glvis ear to the slogan, BEarly Christmd Shopping, that perhaps a letter on that topic may-be in point at_this time. The early shopping theory presents itself in more than one aspect, three of which we will notice. The first is the advertising view. It is not hard to see that the intent of this ery is to impress us that Christmas shopping is a veritable institution, an obliga- tion resting heavily upon the com- munity, and which must—MUST—be attended to at all hazards, first or last. Now, Mr. Editor, is this the case? Or, it it be so, surely at this exceptional perlod in the world's history, when the poorest of us are being solicited to contribute to the Red Cross fund, to the Belgian sufferers, not to speak of the United Workers and the annual deficit which still remains to be made up by the finance committees of the varfous churches of our city, might it not be as well for our peoplé to post- pone their Christmas shopping until next vear, or until after baving paid the dealers In necessaries, who have kindly given them credit, and, having settled all their other pledges, find out together with an| paign Whether there be any balance left for luxuries and jimcracks? The second is the illogical view. It is not hard to see that if the people beed this cry, Early Shopping, that it would only make the crowd earlier. Instead of having the crowd in the last two weeks of the month, we will have it in the first two weeks, But, doubt- less, the raisers of this ¢ry would mot be put out, even if the erowd lasted through all four of the weeks. The people are ‘getting wise, nevertheless, about this shopping business—lkmowing weli_that the next cry will be the af- ter~Christmas cut in prices; so_they who have change to spare and are goonomicel Wl ‘adt for ihe. fters math. The third is the common sense view. Would it not be well to allow the peo ple in whom Mr. Lincoln put such con- fidence to do their own thinking and planning and shopping. and to do these at their own time and in thelr own way and let the dealers, wha are do- ing so much for show, discount that ‘amount from their prices and wait on customers kindly when it pleases them to place their orders, any day in the year? That is business—legitimate ‘busineas. > Much more might be eaid, Mr. Ed- itor, but this may be enough just to give a hint of what the masses are thinking ' about the Early Christmas Shopping cry. - . ONE OF THE MASS. Norwich, Dec. 3, 1014, ‘ R erals were won in fobtball, nine in track, and three in cross country. During the past year the School of Religion has made a cam- to secure funds with which to| endow its difterent chairs. These ef- forts have not been in vain, and they have succeeded in raising over $375,- 000. By this the Chairs of So- clology have endowed, There are still many thf.gs along this line Toped that & million aRd & haif ot hoped a million e o1~ lars can be raised. An aftempt is being made to atart work similar to that carried on in China, in Japan, in India, and in the Mohammedan world, 'With the widening of the work of the missionary department there arises aii extra expense and it is intended that these funds will cover the ncf assessments, The decision of Judge Gilson in the probate court of New Haven that hereafter all legacies to Yale uni- versity shall be exempt from the five per cent inheritance tax, claimed by Attorney General Light in behalf of the state, may lead to disagreements between lawyers and possibly to an appeal to a higher court; and it wguid be a matter of considerable coisequence to the state and to all of the educational and charitable in- stitutions that are accustomed to Te- ceive legacies. The Gilson decision appears to have stirred up a certain amount of opposition. in the _state. However, it is said that in as much as the yearly expenditures of the tni- versity exceeds its jncome from the student body, thus making it neces- sary to rely on the domations for its continuance, it is placed beyond ques tion-in the class of charitable insti- tutions. Therefore, since charitable institutions are equally beyond ques- tians exempt fram the Inheritancs tex, here can be no question of law. t be no. a w. The committee on business informa- tion of the New York Yale club re- ports encouraging results of the en- deawor that Jas recently been made to extend the scope of its work. A feature of tlie effort in that direction has been the organization of commit- tees in Pittsburgh, Louisville and Los Angeles to act in cooperation with the New York committee. The num- ber of men who have been assisted in securing employment has greatly In- creased. However, the activity of the committee has also tended to swell beyond all expectations the number of applicants for positions. It is hoped that the requests for men will pace with the applications for employ. ment, as the most satisfactory results can be attained If these two factors, are more nearly equal. In view of the fact that the qualifications of the applicants are now carefully classi- fled and the committee 1s according- Iy in a position to consider judicious- Iy the requirements of the employer in its recommendations, it is not av ery difficult matter to convince Yale em- ployers that in making use of the bu- reau services they will not only be helping an entirely worthy movement but will probably be able to fill open- ings in their staff more advantageous- 1y than through other channels, Since the erection of the new bowl many varied jdeas and plans have been advanced to extend its useful- ness. Perhaps the mpst probable of these was offered by the Yale Uni versity Athletic association last week when the plan was suggested to hold two large games in New Haven in- stead of one as in the past. The pro- posal to play Dartmouth in the Bowl has seemed advisable to the associ: tion and has met with favor where- ever suggested. It has been reported that Dartmouth has been included in the 1915 football schedule. Though Yale has frequently played Dartmouth in baseball, Dartmouth has never met Yale in a 'grigirop contest and foot- ball enthusiasts are anxious to, see these teams contend for the football superiority in the Bowl. Harvard has cut Darthmouth from her list of foot- ball engagements and it is thought that a Yale-Dartmouth zame would not only be greatly beneficial to the development of the team but would attract an attendance equal to the size of that at the Yale-Princeton contests. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Socluty The following are pers pictures of Petrograd, the history of whose laying out is not dissimilar to that of the planning of Wasnington; and Calais, the center of the lace making indus. try of France. The one is the direct- ing center of the Russian armies and the other the objective of the German armies in the West. “Petrograd, he city made to the crder of Peter the Great to serve as Russla’s political capital, is the ad- ministrative center -of the mightiest of the world's land empires. It is now, probably at higher tension than any other city on earth, .performing, as ever, the work necessary to the ad- ministration of church and state over vast distances, from the Gulf of Fin- land to the Black Sea and the far Pa- cific, and, besides, taking care of a great war business, which includes planning for the defense of more than 30,000 miles of frontier. _This 30,000 miles of fromtier, of course, does not take into account the vaguely known northern boundary of the Empire. “Petrograd has always been 8 high- tension city. It was constructed upon islands and swamp at the behest of & high-tension ruler; built with wide, straight streets upon a perfectly flat country, with no softening natural beauty except that of its dividin Neva, a river-that has offen been com- pared to the English Thames. Even the archltecture of the city is repres- sive, almost wholly of sternly chaste classic Roman and Greek. And in this city, the primary business has been tbat of caring for a vast empire, em- bracing o _its far-reaching swesD many peoples, numerous religions, @i- verse traditicns, a confusion _of tongues. anid widely varying ideals The responsibilities of government have held the city’s life as tense as when its founder, with 40,000 workmen, drained the Nova swamps and buflded over night his capital hard upon the lands of_the Finns- “The bureaucracy which governs Russia in the names of the Czars, or- dering everything in the people's lives, even in the fartherest governments, dces ail of its thinking in Petrograd. From _this city, also, the Russian Church 1z admidistersd Moscow. the ancient capi mowe important economically than More- over, Moscow has, at , equal claims as an artistic and intellectyal center. And _furthermore, M is the center of Russian life and tradi- tion. But, as the symbol of the might of Russia, as the city where the Dire's destiny: 18 thought out clerk, and sia’s highest nobility. “Calais, which has recently world-wide military upon it has been suspected, by Wwho have giyen it mere chance com: sideration as a necessary part transition form London to Paris. There is no amusement to speak of in Calais; there are few imposing bulld- ings, and only occasional unheralded relics of the achievement, effort and romance of the past. But Calals is an important port, a tourists’ threshold, a drab and earnest industrial city, continental Europe's harbor to Eng: land, a vital key in naval Channel maneuvers, the seat of an American consuiate which in normal times watches over a huge French-American ‘business, and, one of the four great- est machine-inade lace citles of the world. It is as a center of manufac- tured laces that Calais in peace times 1s most widely noted. “Calais is a lace town. Almost ev- erything about it has some bearing upon the filmy, delicate webbing which it makes and distributes over _the world. Should a tourist miss his Paris express—a thing, by the way, which is most improbable, for the Calais-Paris connections are excellent—and find himself forced to spend some hours in the city, the first tl he remarks is that there seems to be a dozen or more women to every man upon the streets. While, of course, the relative disproportion 1s nowhere near &0 great, still girls and women do largely outnumber the men, as the lace indus- try is continually drawing them from the surrounding country to its fac- tories. Wages in this industry are very low, and many of its operations can De performed as well by young girls as by men. “The loiterer next notices lace signs verywhere, upon commission houses and factories Generilly, thess sigus appear in three languages, nch, German and English. In spring and autumn, he will meet a _continual stream of his countrymen, buyers for the big importing houses, “Of his own free will, however, the traveler seldom stays. He is always willing to leave Calals for most any- where. There are plenty of self-cen- tered, serious, hustling business towns at home, and there is no occasion for enduring the monotonous - twentieth century atmosphere when one is on a pleasure trip. There are, nevertheless, many things worth seeing in the flat, dingy, strictly p port city, Visits to the great lace factories are well worth while, and usually give one a new reverence for the possibilities of insensible machinery. To the most intricate patterns mingled In a foam wave of exquisite lace, possibly of sev- eral colors, with gold and silver threads, and all this done by a mas sive, complicated piece of machinery, at one end devouring thousands of thread strands and at the other, giv- ing forth a lace equai to theé highest cunning of the human hand, is to wit- ness almost the. perfection of man's inventive genius. And, then, this piece of machinery operates automatically, much like the piayer-pian “Calais shares with Nottingham, England, the honors for the manufac- ture of machine-woven laces. The other two leading lace towns make what are known as the embroidered and “burnt out” laces, on entirely dif- ferent machines. Calals smuggled its industry from England, byt it has added to the original English process- es and machinery enough to be in po- sition to claim a perfection of its own. Aside from, and beyond its momentary military interest, Calais has the liveli- est interest for the person wide-awake to present-day marvels, as a world center of lace production where all the famed handmade lace genre are im- itated on machines.” Ostrolenka—A town of Russian Po- land, on the left bank of the Narew River, 58 miles west of north of War- saw, 22 miles south of west of Longa, and 2 miles from the Prussian bor- der. The town is situated in a marshy region, with high wooded hills on the west. It is modern in most respects and has shown a healthy rate of in- crease in population in the last two decades. Its inhabitants, a large por- tion of whom are Jews, number close to 10,000 A Russian corps suffered a severe losses in an action with French here in February 1306, and the place was the scene of the violent encounter between the Rusians and Poles in 1831. The manufacture of cloth is the prin, cipla industry. Stry--A Galictan town, well forti- fled, 40 miles south of Letberg, on the left’ bank of the river Stry. The sur- rounding country is mountainous and woody, and agricultuore is much neg- lected, apples and flax being the chief products from this source. The town produces fumber, leather, matches and sait. The place has taken on remewed activity in the last 25 ‘vears, during which _time_its which is now about 25,000, has more than dou- bad a Skole—An Austrian town, 21 ‘miles southwest of Stry and 58 miles south of Lemberg, on the Opor River, in a valley at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, The town is an important station on the rallway line from Lem- berg to Munkacs. It hds important glass-works and a nail factory. Iron and tin are mined extenalvely in the ;lfilglw- Skole has a, population of Starasol—A Galician town, in plain 12 miles west of southwest of Sambor. Although the was 3,500 in 1850, the town now has aoat L5060 inhabrente. Toe | peicl Pal activities of the place are in con- nection with the oil, and magnesia industries of the neighl ing b e Etiead, on the saat g vad. on Wn't. 110 miles northeast of London and eight miles eouth of Yarmouth. The town is a fashionable dat re- the with its oldest sity mxwm mmgn(lfufll Cromwell captured the place 1643 and the ‘English defeated the Dutch fleet off the coast here in 1665. The pepula- tion is about §2,000. mmmfitm«-..flmud chief seaports on the north side TRIAL OF EARL OF LANCASTER. There have been many frials which serve as specimens of the English judicial system in early times and still other cases, which occurred in times COLONIAL TH Two Reels—“GWEN - Adaptation of George Eliot’s Famous > l’.l'::fifid Biograph Dramatic Feature, Other Films and “Her he Gorden Hope® Nev in Arthur Matinee 5 cents 5 and divided among those who have la- ‘bored under its dome. What a splendid parior ornament the figure of Genius would be, for instance!—] Post- Great “team work” we have in_this administration cabinet! “While Dan- EAT ' i N, Biogr Reels iel Deronda.” Johnson's “Beloved . Evening 10 of viclence and arbitrary rule, in which |fels is plugging the navy flute, Bryan | writer and lecturer, at law and justice yielded too often to passion and personal enmity. In the 1dth century, Thomas, Earl of | Christian Soldiers bas been cut out of | December 4th Lancaster, was the living _po- bleman in En:l‘nd. barring the King. That he had his good traits was very obvious for we are told that when people had arguments to settle troubles any kind on his large es- tates, always came to Thomas for a decision. Also that he hated the wiles and flatterings of the court min- ions, and consequently he was forever on {il terms with his cousin, the King- At_length a civil war broke out the Earls of Lancaster and Hereford lestinggihe oppasition against the Royalist party. Finally Lancaster was taken prisoner, and it is worthy to note. that he was the first leader of any civil war in England after the time of William the Conqueror _that was executed for his part in leading an_insurrection. The record of the charge against the prisoner was very lengthy and writ- ten In Latin. Part of it transiated goes, “Seeing that Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, wao was taken prisoner for many treasons, murders, burnings, depredationz an@ divers other felonies, was brought before the King, whers was the following peers, viz: Bdmund Plantagenet, surnamed of Woodstock, Barl of Kent, the King's brother; John de Dreux, Earl of Pem- broke, Karl of Surrey, Earl of Arundel, Barl of Athol, Earl of Angus and Lord Hugh Spencer. The Chief Jus- tice. was Lord Robert de Maimes- thorp, and several other -peers of the realm. Condensed, the following is the story of the charge, which was very long. That Thomas, the Earl of Lancaster, had, in times past, carried himself wickedly.and maliciously contrary to his b faith and allegiance. He had purloined from Newcastle-on-Tyne various properties which the King had in storage at that place, such as jew- els, armor, food and horses “and sev- eral other goods and movables. For this the culprit was forgiven by the King, but in return for the favor Lancaster went up to Yorkshire and gathered together an army. When the King was traveling north to York, upon arriving at Burton-on-Trent, Ne came upon Thomas, “together with Humphrey do. Hohun. late Earl of Hereford, who was a traitor to the King and kingdom, being found with bapners displayed at Burrow-Brigg, waging war against the King our Sovereign Lord.” The charge then further stated how that Thomas, together with his army, had withheld the King for three days at the other side of the river at Bur- ton-on-Trent; that when he saw that the King had effected a crossing, fled with all his army,.pillaged the town of Burton and then feloniously burnt all the houses and goods. Then with- drawing to the fleld, it was charged, he had drawn up his army once more as if to oppose the King, displaying ban- ners and waiting for the coming of his soverelgn, the King, into the field- It then went on to say how he had fled upon approach of the royal- ists, burning and sacking every town through which they passed. Also that papers had been found which showed that he was negotiating an ailiance with Robert the Bruce, Thomas Ran- dolph, James Douglas and other Scotchmen, who were enemies of the or King, A copy of the confederacy was read in court, and if true, would have been an epoch-making invasion, for the forces all intended to incorporate, which if they had done, would have made e formidable army which would bave outnumbered the King's. When the judsment came before the King, he was proclaimed guilty, with this amendment of mercy. “That the said Themas shall not be drawn or hanged: but that the -x:echntion be done upon the sald Earl, by beheading him.” “This noble, who was the Earl of five earidoms. of Lancaster, Lincoln, Lipcester, Salisbury and 'D&Hi ‘was beheaded on the same day, y . 3, 1629, at “Pomfret” now called Ponte. fract, in Yorkshire: together with. some of his accomplices. Warin de Lisle, Willam Tochet, Thomas Mau- duit, Henry de Bradeborn, Willlam Fitz-William and William ‘= Cheyney, who were convicted of treason, oppos- ing the Kink, .:d cofnmit:‘.\':‘ depreda- The estimate of ap) tions needed to carry our picaume little is out west heckling the rum demon. Happily the Secretary of war sticks to his Garrison. We ~suppose Onward the navy hymn books. Neutrality, what crimes are committed in thy name!—New London Telegraph. Let us save every penny for charity this wjinter, mindful that pounds are made of pennies, with gratifying cer- tainty and spéed. And let us dis- miss from our minds all fears us to the use to which our offerings will be put. The best and the most possible service will be extracted from every that goes to the Red Cross ew Haven Journal- There is good reason for looking forward to a time when every tory will be a dustless and almost nolseless place of work. Considering this promise and modern methods of eliminating -smoke, with promise of rubber pavements and wheels to prevent street noises, we have the Prospect of a city of comfort such as our grandfathers would never have dreamed possible.—Bridgeport Stand- ard. Leaders of the Progressive party in- sist that the organization is not yet dead. It may not be among the lead- ers here nor in certain sections of the West. 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