Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 10, 1915, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1913 Jlorwich Bulletin and Gonsicd 119 YEARS OLD bacription price 1Zc @ weeks 56e & e o Enterod at the Postomce at Norwich. Conn.. as second-class matter. Telepmone Callxt Bulletin Business Ofice 480.. I ial Rooms 35-8. s Edé\?\{l:fln Job Office S5-3. Whltmantic Ofce, Room % Murray Bullding. Telephone 210. Norwich. Wednesday, March 10, 1915. The Circulation of The Builetin The Bulletin has-the Targest circulation of any paper In East- ern Connecticut and from three o four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of tho 4,083 hou: in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 200 houses, in Putnam _and Danielson to over 1,100 and in all of these places it is consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and xty-five postoffice districts, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Builetin is sold in every sown and on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average ......... 4412 1905, average A NEEDED CLEAN-UP. The placing on trial of twenty -eight politicians of Terrn Haute on the charge of conspiracy to corrupt in comnection with the election held there Jast November reveals 2a situation which meeds just such publicity as it 1s getting and such punishment as the proven facts deserve. The disposition o slids over such a state of affairs with a shrug of the shoulders and the query, what are you going to do about it? is tco often encountered. The best way to ront out such evil is to take the bull by the horns, apply the Jaw and Insist upon the abandonment ©of such conditions. Just as long as corruption is allowed to have full sway 1t can be ex] ted to take full advan- tage of the policy of keeping ‘hands off, ard it is right there where the firm punch of public opinion should get in its work, Werre Haute isn't the first instence of @ city being in the grasp of a corrupt political ring and it fsn't likely-to be the last but evervthing desirable is to e gained by refusing ~ ~ countenance the continuance of such practice. There s always an opportunity for a beneficial clean-up wherever political corruption exists. Whatever th. re- sult of the prosecatfons now in pro- gress Terre Haute is bound to profit for a long time to come. It ltkewise should be a valuable lesson to every other city which is in the grasp of a political ring which is determined to win regardless of the cost or the ‘method. That Indianapolis clty may have shown too much lenfency In the past, but it is to be congratulated on the fact that it appears to be in a fair way for a much needed clean-up. mle?fiS FROM SUBMARINES. Even though Great Britain has de- cidea to hold such prisoners as it takes from German submarines sep- arate from other prisoners of war, for possible different treatment later on, it is questioned whether it will be carried very far. That Great Bri- tain is sore over the submarine polfcy may be understood, but it is difficult to see where it is going to accomplish any change by the treatment it de- cides to accord to that class of prisoners. It will not in itself alter the course of Germany and it will not malke it impossible to secure crews to man such vessels. It will encour- age the idea of treating lfke with like from which no beneficlal results are Zolng to be obtained. Some time ago Russia considered the advisability of handling as pirates operators of aeroplanes wWho might be captured after attacking unfortified places, but the suggestion was aban- doned on the ground that it was not the personal ideas of the aviators which were resulting In the unjus- @ified Killing of non-combatants, but #at of their superiors and that thus pothing was to be gained through harsh treatment of the instruments while the principals were unharmed. There are reasons for Great Britain looking upon the captured crews of submarines in a like manner. To treat . ‘them as pirates or try them for mur- der at once or after the war would only result in similar acts being com- mitted against British prisoners. It can hardly be looked upon as a plan which would accomplish any good either at present or in the end. - RECESS APPOINTMENT. There were reasons why the senate withheld its approval of George Rub- lee, the one New England man who was appointed by President Wilson to the federal trade commission. Sena- torial courtesy may have playved its part thereln, but if he had been rec- ognized as the man for the place there . are reasons to belleve that he would have been confirmed as were the others. s As was expected, however, he has recelved a recess appointment from the prestdent and he is included with the other four so that the commission’ is able to go ahead and organize. He will have the opportunity to serve un- 111 the next congress convenes at any rate, during which time the eommission should be functioning along the lines which it is Inteflded to operate. . It may be that Mr. Rublee is going to take a prominent part in"this organi- zation work since he it Was who was | ‘prominently engaged in drafting the *rovisions of the. bill under which the commission was created, and therein he can be expected to be fully in sym- pathy with the duties which have been outlined for it, but whether his term of service Is long or short rests with tze next senate, It is andoubtedly the hope of the president that his action subsequent to the adjournment of congress will meet with the approval of the next sencte changed though it will be, but in view of the bitter strusgle which characterized the closing days of the old and the unwillingness to kneel ‘Defore the party whip there may still be a senate which will act according to its own mind. OTHER THINGS FIRST. Every once in a while there is an agitation for one cent letter postage under the claim that it would be ap- preclated by the business men of the country and that it is only such ser- vice as might be expected of the gov- ernment since it is the people who are paying for the expense which is entailed in the operation of the post- office department. That such a re- | duction would be welcomed by the business men and many others is un- deniable. Everyone is looking for bargain rates, but the fact of the mat- ter is that the postoffice department is in no condition to make any such reduction. It has other things which should be attended to first. It has not reached the point as yet where it is able. to balance its expenditures with receipts, which in itself might be small reason for criticism, but it is obtain- ing a large share of its income through a failure to do justice to the transporters of the mail It was unfortunate that the ques- tion of railway mail pay could not have been adjusted at the recent ses- sion of congress so that the railroads would be paid a sum commensurate with the service they are rendering. They are now furnishing the trans- portation for the parcel post addition to the postal service without provid- ing adequate pay for handling this extra, and constantly increasing vol- ume of business. That the roads are not being justly treated in_this spect Is recognized, but adjustment has not been effected. Until that is done and the postal service in all ‘branches placed upon the highest basis of efficiency, thero should be little time spent in the advocacy of the one cent letter rate. More important things should come first THE ONE THING TO DO. There can be nothing but commen- dation for the action of President Wilson in deciding that affairs are such that his presence is demanded in ‘Washington, regardless of the expec- tations which the exposition officials and the people on the Pacific coast, to say nothing of his mersonal de- sires for a change at this time, may have had and the disappointment which may follow. The president wise- ly decides that it is a case where country comes first. To have reached any other conclusion would not have been characteristic of the man. Under normal conditions it would have been a most happy occasion to have the president participating in the celebra- tion in honor of the opening of such an important waterway as the Pan- ama canal, but between that and the graver matters of the nation duty de- mands that he remain in Washing- ton There have been ind time of the possib of just such developments as have materialized. They are as fully understood on the Pacific slope as they are in this part of the country, and while that section might naturally anticipate the cooper- ation of the chief executive at this time it must realize that only the dis- closure of a higher duty has made it necessary to send a representative. Though the forwarding of his for- mal announcement regretting his in- ability to go to San Francisco was delayed in the hopes of a possibility of accepting, California as well as the rest of the country must agree that the president has taken the only ‘wise course, EDITORIAL NOTES. It begins to look as if Thomas A. Edison would have reason to believe that there is a firebug on his trail. ications for some Now that the new Thaw trial has been started, evervthing, including the war, can be expected to take a back seat. The man on the corner asks: find fault with the weather when are so many other things to about? Excellent results are always Dos- sible even if clean-up movements are conceived and conducted solely by in- diviguals. Constantinople must do some close microscopic work to discover any sil- ver lining in the dark cloud overhang- ing that viclnity. The greatest need of Mexlco today s to have someone clearly explain to the people the feal meaning of work and education, Carranza has become so accustomed to watchful waiting that the chances are he will discount the true meaning of any firmer policy. Hayti has had three presidents in the last four months, but it is to be hoped it doesn’t attempt to equal the record set by Mexico. The report is abroad again that the secretary of state is to resign, but it isn’t that which is keeping the pres- 1ident home from the Pacific coast. From the New England reports the continued prevalence of the foot and mouth disease indicates that too little attention was given to it at the out- set. That proportion of a Philadelphia passenger list which “prefers to stand” as one manager declares probably has reason to believe that its preference is being fully catered to. Not a few would like to know whether the federal commissions will hereafter recognize the “deserving” or get their employes through the fed- eral employment bureau, La Touralne adds fresh evidence fo the invaluable service which the wire- less is capable of rendering. Every case of that kind offers the best argument for the equipping of every Vessel with such apparatus. It would have been better had the president urged greater attention the postoffice appropriation bill, and proper payment to the railroads, in- stead of wasting all that time on the ship Durchase measure lit was ‘fine to “During your absence,’ girl with the weary air, unfortunate discovery.” “Yes?” queried the girl who had traveled a year. “Let's have it.” “It was about dad,” said the girl with the weary air. “Dad, as_you know, is a dear, and it grieved me deeply to discover that he has an un- happy failing.” “Reall How failing » “Inconsistency. However, to make myself clear: Of course you recall dad’s old objection to summering at fashionable resorts. He insists, you remember, that we meet S0 many peo- ple every vear from our own city and are thereby compelled to do a lot of enervating entertaining in the winter.” The girl who had traveled smiled. “Ang that when spring arrives,” con- tinued the girl with the weary air, “mother is a fit subject for the sani- tarium and I am worn to a frazzle.” 've seen you look the part,” com- ented the girl who had traveled. But never so much so as now. And I wasn't at a fashionable resort last summer, either. You see, we gave in to dad and went to a lake up north that we had never heard of. As there was only one hotel there and most of the houses about were farmhouses, dad declared we'd have a peaceful summer, and for once in our lives would mot meet a crowq for whose sake it would be necessary to almost kill ourselves in the winter, “I must confess that we did find the Take and its environs restful and beau- tiful. And the people were very friend- 1y and nice, so homelike. Dad called them ’worth whiles' and fraternized with them at once.” The zirl who had traveled smiled warmly. “You know,” went on the girl with the weary air, “dad was a farmer sighed the I made an interesting! The “I don’t think you would have known him last summer,” she continued. “He was rigged out in an old flannel shirt, khaki trousers and a floppy straw hat. And in his actions—really, he was a boy again, so young, so carefree, SO happy! But he proved so inconsistent. t was this way,” she explained: “On the day of our departure every- body came to see us off. Of course, dad had a word for every one, from the Burton’s 6-month-old to Grandpa Mefford, aged $0. Yes, I must admit ee dad so interested, and to note the warm admiration the folks had for him. I was quite happy about it and proud of dad, until I sud- INCONSISTENCY OF DAD denly discovered that he was extend- ing to every individual on that plat- form a hearty invitation to come and see us in the winter. What do you think of that? Wasn't it a fine piece of inconsistency ~ Depriving us of the gayeties of the season to insure a ‘restful’ winter, then giving out in- vitations by the wholesale! In consequence there has been scarcely a week this winter in which we haven't had company—dad's com- pany. First it was the Tinkers—in in- stallments, then the Dakins, then Mr. and Mrs.” Brown, and _during the Christmas holidays the Brown twins. “Those twins,” tragically, ‘“almost finished me. From 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. they were on the go every minute and I with them. Every morning we visit- ed the shops, and always there were a hundred questions to answer to the second. We made three visits out to the animal house in Lincoln park: we went to a circus, and visited all the movies within a radius of five miles of our house. Is it any wonder I'm worn to a frazzle?’ “I think yow're looking remarkably well,” responded the girl who had traveled, “and—so happy! The girl with the wi ing the disagreement, “Then to have dad simply rave er the visit of the Brown twins, and insist that this winter has been the most worth while we've spent in years, when he knows I never had so much to do all my life before, is most exasperating! And | to cap things, this morning he posi- tively asked me to write lititla Miss Blake, who teaches school near the nd invite her down for the vacation! Did ever you hear of h inconsistency ? “Perhaps,” answered the gi had traveled, “knowing your dad as I do, I can’'t consider him consistent. Perhaps I think it was perfectly love- ly of him—planning that kind of a winter. Perhaps— “Oh,” she broke off wistfully, “T wish I might have helped with the Brown twins, and with these others, to whom the city heretofore has been just a dream! Perhaps yowll let me with little Miss Blake. Will You?” The girl with the weary air, whose eves were widening strangely, hes tated. “I—I—haven't sent the invita- tion yet.” “But you will—because it's so worth while!” “Do you think so gently asked the girl whose weariness was fast evolv- ing into a very human warmth. “Then I shall, right away!—Chicago News. ignor- who OTHER VIEW POINTS | The announcement that the town of Rocky Hill has laid a_sixteen mill tax, goes o show. that from an ex- penlse point the average rural com- pense real estate will carry.—Middle- town Press. These are great days for walks and anyone who is free to pass an hour or two exercising Shank's mare is a lazy sinner if he doesn't and de- serves no sympathy if his liver bothers him.—Waterbury Republican. We must_pay more attention to our city's health and pay more for it, if we wish to be sure that we shall al- ways be guarded against contagion, and it Is necessary that we shall have a watchful eve to look out for sanita- tior, that we shall ever be on the alert for the evil from without as well as that which come from within. Civic health is a great blessing which it is only possible to secure and keep by eternal watchfulness and that costs money.—Meriden Journal. American ship _owners are very sore over the La Follette devised law for the improvement of seamen’s con- dition, described in full on our finan- clal page. They predict as a result of that law a marked rise in freight and passenger rates, the disappearance of our flag In the off shore trade of the Pacific, and the return to foreign res- istry of vessels recently brought under our flag. Of course. All of which will m necessary the government ship purchase bill. Do you see why Wilson signeq the La Follette act?—Water- bury American. Vacation is a fiflexible term. It does not necessarily mean the ex- penditure of a great deal of time or a large amount of money. A trip to a nearby city or a hike into the coun- try may do the trick for some people which a2 month’s outing would not ac- complish for others. Introspection and retrospection are both good in thelr place. They are better perhaps than criticism of one's neighbor, but ere comes a time when it is a good idea to play the role of outsider and to get a sane perspective of things in general. The real vacation provides the means.—Meriden Record. Governor Holcomb indicates again that he is at heart in favor of the principle of civil service reappoint- ing Burton Mansfield as insurance commissioner, when it was possible for him under the doctrine of spoils to replace him with a Republican. It is quite needless to say that the gover- nor's decision to rtain the present LETTERS TO THE EDITOR German Propaganda and Spreading the Truth. Mr. Editor: Like many others who have studied at German universities, I have been invited to join the German University league and pay 32 dues. The aims of the league are set forth as fol- lowe 1—To establish in the United States a well organized center for former stu- dents at_universities in Germany and Austria-Hungar: 2—To co-operate in these serious times with every effort to strengthen the regard for the Germans and for. their aims and ideals, and to secure for them, now and in the future, fair play and proper appreciation. —To correct misinformation about German _conditions and problems by placing before educated Americans and before the press of the country reliable | material bearing on German affairs. The invitation is almost a comman: for it says that “it is deemed the duty of those who have enjoyed the priv ilege of a German university education to unite and take the lead in spreading the truth and an understanding of German aims.” However, I do not ac- cept the league’s interpretation of my duty, for I do not think pro-German propaganda and “spreading the truth” are the same thing. The enclosed let- ter is a copy of my reply to the secre- tary of the league. It may be of in- terest to some of your readers. Respectfully yours, ALBERT R. CHANDLER. Columbus, O., March 6, 1915, (Copy.) Dr. Hugo Kirbach, Secretary German University League: Dear Sir: 1 must_decisively refuse to join the German University league. I spent two semesters at German universities, but I earnestly desire that England and France ehall be successful in driving the Germans out of Belgium and France, and that England shall retain her supremacy at sea. My frame of mind is, I believe, like that of many Americans who have en- joyed the privileges of German uni- versity lite. We love German land- scapes, German friendliness, German honesty, German _fidelity, German Gemuetlichkeit, German beer, German carioons, German music, Garman lit- erature.’ We admire German scholar- ship and German philosophy for their patience and profundity, though we long since realized that no nation is more prone to ride a pet theory to death, and “make everything grist that comes to your mill” But we detest certaln tendencies Which we found operative in Germany (just as we detest certain tendencies operative in our own country), among which are jingolsm, anti-Semitism, the doctrines of Treitschke and Bernhard, and the ill-srounded and _artificially- fostered hatred and distrust of Eng- land. We now see all too plainly these detested tendencies at the helm in Germany. We believe that Germany could have averted this war, as argued by Mr. Beck in the New York Times. <ve cannot forgive the invasion and subse- quent wanton oppression of Belgtum. We regard the arguments about the Brussels documents as insulting slan- der added to injury, as argued by Pro- fessor Lovejoy in the Nation. We are incredulous of stories of German atrocities told by Trenchmen, and equally incredulous of stories of Bel- gian atrocities told by Germans. But Weo regard every drop of blood smea from the veins of Belgian men and every tear shed from the eyes of Bel- gian women as a German atrocity. ‘We look forward, not very confident- 1y, to a time when' the aspects of Ger- many that are dear to us shall domi- nate the all too humane tendencies we detest. Meanwhile we see no need for the actjvities of your league. The newspabers print both German and Anglo-French reports impartially, in spite of silly slanders about British gold. German advocates have had a full hearing. The reason their efforts have been relatively futile is that thelr cause is wealk. Very truly yours, ALBERT R. CHANDLER. Feal Test of Neutralty. ‘We are beset by a horrible thought: How is American neutrality to be maintalned when the time comes to root for Hans Wagner and Napoleon Lajoie?—Manchester Union. b Not Suitable to Such Audiences. Vice-President Marshall's epigram’s. will do for the job he now holds, but they’re entirely too good for the Chau- taqua Circuit—Washington Post. The Standing Good. Mr. Taft advises us all to stand by the president ang the flag. Right- The standing is good there, anyway.—Chi- rago News - Stories of In the Wake of the War. Describing some of the scenes of destruction he found in the the war in the village of chasseur, Rene Genton, writes: “Horror and disgust are mingled with pity for those who will come back some day from refuge, to find all this_destruction in the place of their comfortable firesides. On floor of one dismantled homestead there was an_ important family paper twisted and half burnt, having served to light a pipe, a cigarette or a cigar. In the same building, on a bed under a layer of plaster detatched from the ceiling, was found the carbonized form of a human being, evidently that of an aged man, I awaiting sepulchre. Through great gaping holes in the stone walls furniture is seen hanging by some seemingly invisible hold on | beam or upright. In the streets, obstructed with de- bris, (he most unexpected things are incongruously Opposite the rotting carcass of a sheep there was a baby’s cradle with the cloth- ing still in it, and scattered about the children’s playthings, including a rocking horse and a doll. In the same heap were a pointed helmet, a shredded white parasol, a sprinkling pot. a bath tub and a most costly tap- estry. “The only living things encountered in this wreck of civilization were a wandering cat in search of a vanished home and a fox-terrier digging into heaps of rulns in a vain for a bone. In a_ broken glass case lying in th middle of the street, a mother had ev idently collected childhood souvenire there was a locket containing a lock of brown hair, a long white baptismal Tobe, a pair of little slipers and a miscellaneous collection of _ child’s playthings. Nearby were picked up photos of a young woman in bridal gown and a young man in evening dress. There were also protographs of children and with them blood- stained letters scattering family ee- crets to the four winds.” 26,000000 German Shots Daily. Twenty-six million shots are being fired daily by the Germans alone, ac- cording to estimates credited to “one of the world's foremost authorities on copper,” whose discussion of the im- portance of this metal is published in the London Times, with his name withheld. His estimate of 26,000,000 German shots every twenty-four ours, is based on the belief that the German firing line extends in all about 750 miles and the “conservatives” guess that 1,300,- 000 Germans are taking part in the ergagements daily, to the extent at least of firing 20 shots each. This would be a low average, he belleves, as during real engagements hundreds of shots are fired by each man. Since a rifie cartridge, unioaded, weighs 184.5 grains, the total wastage of brass in this form would amount to 637,578 pounds, or roundly 305 tons per day. These figures made no al- lowance for the machine-guns, which spit out bullets every second. Owing to the mud and water in which so many of the battles have been fought, the writer believed it was doubtful that five per cent of the cartridges used were recovered for re- melting. “Not even Germany's huge prepara- tions could have provided for such a waste of copper for any - length of time,” he declared. Disease In the Army. The first six months of the war passed without a single case of typhius or of cholera in the British army, in- cluding both the expeditionary forces and the troops in the Eritish training camps. Smallpox claimed only one victim in the United Kingdom, but re- turns in this respect have not been given out by the armies in France and Egypt. Of 783 cases of diphtheria, only six ended fatally. So far the greatest cause of mortality among the troops has been pneumonia, which re- sulted in 357 deaths out of 1,508 cases. As regards other discases, 625 cases of typhold fever and 49 deaths are re- ported in the expeditionary force, and 202 vases and 47 deaths in the camps in the United Kingdom. Scarlet fever had only 196 cases and four deaths in the expedition as against 1,379 cases and 22 deaths in Great Britain. Meas- les, a disease associated with child- hood, sent 1,045 recruits to the Eng- lish ‘training camp hospitals, with 65 deaths, while the seasoned men on the continent had only 175 sick from this cause with two deaths. Considering that the British army, regular and territorial, began the war with a half million men and has since expanded to about 2,500,000, the low dauth rate is eald to have .arobably established a record. The report of the Canadians being mowed down by camp sickness proved to be unfounded. and the admiralty now says in regard ar rumor affecting the naval in training at the Crystal ce, that only two per cent of the 8,000 men are now on the sick report. Courage of Beaulieu. Tierre Leroy-Beaulieu, son of the well known economist, Paul Leroy- Beaulieu, is the latest member of par. liament to give his life to his country. He had already shown his courage in a particularly violent political cam- paign in which he braved several at- tacks and received a bullet in his shoulder. According to the following letter from a German surgeon an- nouncing his death, he showed the same courage on the battlefield. 3 la C.—— Jan. 19. (Probably Aix la Chappelle) “Madame: “It is with the expression of deepest sympathy that I inform you that your husband, captain of a group of re- servists ‘of the ——th Regiment artil- lery, died day before yesterday in my hospital of a wound in the head. As was reported to me he was wounded while fighting with the bravery of a huro. After all his gunners had fall- en he himself served his piece; when he was finally obliged to cease firing he continued to defend himelf with his revolver until struck by a bullet in the teraple which affected his right eve. “He was wounded January 13th. The wound was so grave that he immedi- ately lost consciousness and did not recover his senses before his death which was peaceful and painless. “The burlal took place today in our mititary cemetery with military honors and in presence of German officers as well as soldiers. “The tomb has been marked by a cress icentified by the number ~75. The benediction was pronounced by a Catholic priest of our army division. I bow humbly and full of admiration before the valiance of this comrade fighting heroically to the last extremi- ty for his fatheriand. “I+ is painful to me that our med- fcai science, which did everything it could, was unable to save such a pre- clous'life for his dear ones. “May God console you and your children. DR. GEISSLER, “Chief Surgeon Ambulance No. 3 ‘Third German Army Corps.” IN ALL OUR NEIGHBORHOOD There Is Hardiy A Woman Who Does Not Rely Upon Lydiw. E. Pinkham’s Veg- etable Compound. Princeton, Ill.— ““I had inflammation, bard headaches in the back of my neck T and a weakness all | caused by female trouble, and I took Lydia E. Pinkham'’s Vegetable Com- pound with such ex- cellent results that I am now feeling fine. I recommend the Compoundand praise it to all. I shall be glad to have you publish my letter. There is scarcely a neighbor around me who does not use your medicine.”’ —Mrs. J. F. JonnsoN, R. No. 4, Box 80, Prince- ton, Illinois. Experience of 2 Nurse. Poland,N.Y.—*‘In my experience asa aurse I certainly think Lydia E. Pink- 1am’s Vegetable Compound is a great nedicine. I wish all women with fe- nale troubles would takeit. I took it when passing through the Change of Life with great results and I always re- sommend the Compound to all my pa- dents if 1 know of their condition in ime. Iwil gladly do all I can to help sthers to know of this great medicine.”” —Mrs. HORACE NEWMAN, Poland, Her- cimer Co., N. Y. If you are ill do not drag along until n operation is necessary, but at once ake Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Sompound. e If you wantspecial advice write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., confidential) Lynn, Mass, commissioner will meet with general approval. He has proven an efficient and tactful official and deserves to be retained. But it is worth noting that, had the spoilsmen had their way he would have been cast into outer dark- ness with dispatch in order to make room for one of the faithful followers of the machine—Ansonia Sentinel. The Hartford Courant is right when it indicates that it is necessary and proper to increase the state tax on au- tomobiles on the ground that they “are ultimately responsible for the heavy road bils,” and it is equally right when it says it would be a mis- take to take them out of the local tax lists. The state tax is imposed for the use of the state roads. The local tax is a property tax and helps pay for local streets. Considering the mil- lions spent on state highwaye, of which auto owners are the cnief bene- aries, and the streets, the tax «ch auto owners pay is very moder- ate, and one which all should be glad to pay in the interest of good roads and in fairness to tnose-of their fel- low citizens who do not own automo- biles and are consequently not in a position to benefit from the large state expenditure. It may be added that a state tax appears inevitable, even with an increased auto tax.—New Haven Register. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society The Bosphorous and the part it has played in human history is of peculiar interest at this particular juncture when another chapter in it5 wonderful story is being written. One writer states that there is per- haps no other locality in the world surrounded Dby so many historical souvenirs and adorned with so many varied gifts of nature; another that God, Man, Nature, and Art have to- gether created and placed there the most marvelous point of view which the human eye can contemplate upon earth; still another remarks that upon this planet there is no other stream so wonderful, that its equal can be found if at all, only upon some other star. Dr. Edwin A. Grosvedor remarks that there is harly a nation in the civ- ilized world whose blood has not mingled with its waters; hardly a faith, hardly a heresy, which, by the devotion of its adherents and martyrs, has not hallowed its banks. Associa- tions tho most dissimilar, the most in- cougruous, the most distant, elbow one one another in every hamlet and vil- lage. The German Emperor, William 1L in 1889, disembarks at the same spot which tradition makes the land- ing-place of that other youthful lead- Today AUDITORI PAUL PERRY Juggler Shows 2:30, 7 and 8:45 Mat. 10¢; Eve. 10 and 20c UM EXPLOITS OF ELAINE Seventh Episode See the Thrilling Fight on the High Church Tower and the Clutching Hand and Its Dramatic Ending 5-=Violin Beauties--5 Between Kennedy Vaudeville’s Most Beatuiful Musical Offering BUD SHEPARD Piano and Songs HIS DOCTOR'S ORDERS THEATRE DAVIS . sROADWAY MARY PICKFORD In the Five Reel Feature “BEHIND THE SCENES” Joe Moore & Co. Comedy Musical Sketch VICTOR Ventriloquist 3—SHOWS DAILY—3 MAT. 2:15—EVE. 7 and 8: ALL BIG FEATURES CHAS. CHAPLIN In the Funny Keystone Comedy “HIS FAVORITE PASTIME” Johnson & Wells Singing, Dancing Duo Mabel Trunelle in Mrs. Wilson “HEART'S DESIRE,” “THE LEGEND of t “THE INEVITABE RETRIBUTION” “BASEBALL AND TROUBLE” ..... —_—— olonial Theatre TTTE ROSE at the DOOR,” From “Olive's Opportunities’ Tmming Serial o Materploce %22, Vitagraph CI . Biograph Lubin Comedy The Trinity College | Musical Clubs OF HARTFORD will give a Concert at Trinity Methodist Episcopal | Church, Friday Evening, March 12th, AT EIGHT P. M. Tickets on sale at Geo. A. Davis' I 35 cents Annual Concert and Ball WHITE CROSS COUNCIL Number Thirteen Knights of Columbus In the Armory, Monday Evening, April 12th, DON'T FORGET THE DATE = Admitting Tickets gentieman and Lady $1. Each additional lady 500 Fourth 1915 Every service. sublime voyage of the fourteenth cen- tury before Christ. The physical features of the Bos- phorus are described by the same au- thor in striking terms. He says that in its swift flow it is a river, and in its depth a sea—yet many a sea is profound and many a river ads wider and has a less rapid urrent. Iis average depth is about 39 feet. At no point in the channel i the depth less than 147 feet. So sharply do its submarine banks descend that large vessels, hugging the land too closely, though in deep water, often run their bowsprits and yerds’ into houses on shore. The Strait of Glbraltar, which wrests Afri- ca from Europe, cteen miles wide; | even the Dardenelles expand from one mile to four. But at its widest the Bosphorus is only one and four-fifth miles. : The length of the Bosphorus is less than 17 miles. Each Asiatic side in- denture finds a convex bend on the European side; each European bay is met by an Asiatic promontory. Tradition goes back to a time when, countless ages ago. titanic forces here rent Asla and Europe asunder; wher the pent-up, resistless waters of the Black Sea tore through valleys and levelled mountains, in _their sudden southward rush to the Mediterranean. The voleanic origin of the region con- firms this tradition. Seventy edible varieties of fish sport in the waters of the Bosphorus. They are mostly migratory. The strait is the only line of communication be- tween the Black Sea and the Medi- terranean, their summer and winter homes. In their migrations countless shoals succeed one another at inter- vals of days, and never did the men in the crow's nest of a battleship scan the horizon more earnestly for an enemy than the outlooks for the fish- ermen peer into the deep for signs of a fish migration. As soon as the ad- vanced guard arrives, a signal is given, and immediately the Bosphorus becomes black with fishing boats. So regular are the fish in their habits and so unchanging in their ways, that Aristotle’s account of their movements Killed By a Lion. A British soldier was killed by a lion according to the latest casualty list from German East Africa. In a letter accompanylng the list an of- ficer explained that for his regiment the wila beasts have proved a more serious foe than the Germans. He writes: “Soon after we began our udvance into German East Africa we ound we were going to have a lct of trouble with beasts of p-ey One nixht six lions were seen huterws: aroi.d the camp, and they killed two mules ba- fore we got going at them. We Kiled two and slightly wounded a third. This wounded one next day attacked one of our men who had gone down by a stream to shoot wild fowl. The poor fellow was taken by surprise the wounded lion springing out of some tall grass right behind him. He planted one shot, but unfortunately without fatal effect. “The animal sprang upon him and tore him up terribly. ' He managed to rezain his rifle, and although suffering pain, finished off the infurlated brute with a shot in the head, but the man was badly hurt, and died thres days later.” Disgraced by a Cigar. Admiral Montagu was only 73 at the time of his death, yet he could remem- ber the time when tobacco was regard- ed with so much disfavor in high quar- ters that no well bred man would care to be seen smoking a cigar in Hyde Park or any of the fashionable thor- oughfares. “I have stayed in more than one house,” he records. “where smoking was not allowed at ail, and in many houses you could not possibly smoke until all the ladies had depart- ed to bed. Then you were relegated to & dreary, damp, cold office in the vaults “—the servants’ hall or the housekeep- er's room,” When visiting his father- in-law, Lord Hardwicke, the future admiral was allowed as a special favor to smoke one after-dinner cigarette in his host’s study. 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He de- clared that there no price so great, no condition hard, that it would not be grat accorded by him for the city’'s acquisition. Na- poleon gazed in silence earnestly and long at the map of Europe, of which he was, at that moment, tite autocrat- jc arbiter, and then exclaimed: “Con- stantinople, Constantinople! ~Never! it is the empire of the world!" JTowa's bee industry has a value of $1,500,000 a year. Painful Coughs and Bronchitis Promptly Relievad with 2 ounces Schiffmann's Concen- trated Expectorant. Besides, guaran- teed to give perfect satisfaction or vour money returned by Pitcher & Service's Drug Store. Prices Mark;dwl)own Cut and reduced on the bal- ance of our stock of Horse Blankets, Fur Coats, all kinds of Carriage and Auto Robes. These goods are bargain values for the money as we want room for onr Spring Goods which are already hipped. THE L. L. CHAPMAN CO0. 14 Bath Street, Norwich, Ct. 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