Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 14, 1915, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1975 Glorwich uIIetin aud Coufied 119 YEARS OLD Subscription price 1o a week) 00e & months £6.00 n Jenr, Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich. Coun., as second-ciass matter. i Telepnone Cal Bulietin Business Office 488, ‘Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-8. Bulletin Job Office 35-3. Willimantle Offcs, Room 3 Murray =. Telephone 31 Norwich, Wednesday, April 14, 1915. The Circulation bf The Builetin The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of ths 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by ninety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 800 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 sixty-five postoffice districts, and sixtv rural fres delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town o~ on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average . 3 | | | | | 4412 1805, average ...-......§,920 I H Apfil 10 ..eian 9,250 ; cesssasseseessoseesnossascassesansres NORWICH WANTS FAIR TREAT- MENT. The evidence before $he committee on new'towns and probate districts has been completed and it presents the most convincing reasons for the denial of the petition for the division ©of the town of Norwich. If considered solely upon the grounds adwanced by the petitioners there is only the flim- siest kind of a pretext for the crea- tion of 2 new towm, while theremounts up against it, even in the wery sec- tion which is mentioned for the new town, a mountain of opposition which cannot be ignored. and from the whole town there is such an overwhelming preponderance of records, facts and opinions from thosewhoare thoroughly acquainted with the existing conditions &nd as a result stand forth in opposi- tion, that it should require but little time on the part of the committee in reaching an adverse decistam. Where the weisht of evidence is so stronzly against, where the claims of the petitioners hawe been so. complete- ly shattered, and where a matter is of such vital importance to an exist- ing town what can be expectéd from ® disinterested committee which is handling the business of the state in B spirit of fairmess and justice but the dismissal of the petition? With the manufacturing and busi- ness Interests of Norwich, manufac- turing and business interests of the proposed town, banking, hospital, char- jtable and civic organizations, prom- ent individuals who have for vears n active in the building up of Nor- wich for the welfare-of the town as well as the city, judges of the supreme and superior courts of Connecticut, the town and city governments, which have incurred debt for the purpose of rendering service to the residents on the outskirts, and a large number of those who twere encouraged into signing the petition for separation through misrepresentation of the sit- uation, now resisting the petition and eppearing before the committee per- sonally in opposition as the result of their enlightenment, standing against two representatives of corporations which are controlled outside the state, & statlon agent, a village blacksmith end an insurance agent, any one of whom may be tomorrow located In an- other commonwealth, what is there to farnish one logical and substanttel ground for a division? Certainly from the facts presented &t the hearing there would be as much reason for the Standard Oll company, r some other forelgn corporation do- Ing business here to have a dream of some groundiess fear of unthreatened _and most improbable tax oppresston Bnd seek throush its local represen- tatives to have a valuable section of Norwich set off in a town by itself regardless of the ectablished business ©f the town and its Investments of long standing. as there is for the ex- Isting petition. Norwich has always been a strong advocate of fair treatment of its in- Bustries and of its citizens in what- ever section of the town they may be located. It has not digressed from that position and it has no intention »2 doing so. What it is asking and what it is entitled to is fair treat- mgnt in return. BERNSTCRFF'S ACTION. Bven though it must be admitted that it has been no easy task which been imposed upon Count Von Bernstorff as ambassador from Ger- any to this country it would appear at instead of doing his utmost for his country in the accepted method of diplomacy he has by his actions, 'ar as they can be taken as rep- fesenting the attitude of his country, lar exceeded the rights which one in s position s given, and proceeded jo create a worse instead of a better leeling. When he goes beyond the jurisdic- flon of a diplomat and instead of di- fecting his communications to the state lepartment or the presideng and there _jet it rest, addresses the American { people for the purpose of stirring up sympathy in a foreign cause against the position of neutrality which the country has taken, it i a diplomatic indiscretion which cannot be looked upon as accidental. 3 He was thoroughly sdcquainted with the stand which the administration had taken relative to the movement for the pjacing of an embargo upon munitions’ of war. He knew that no such action could be taken except by act of congress and he knew the limits to which he had the right to go in the effort to go over the heads of the government. No foreign diplomat can expect to make such an appeal to the people of a country against the known position of the administration and in this case with the united support of the entire country, without calling forth resentment. Such actlvitles have in the past resyited in a demand for the recall of such representatives. If the idea is held that it is helping tho cause of Germardy no more colossal mistake could huve been made. HOURS FOR W@MEN AND CHIL- DREN. Nothing 4n the way of new legisla- tion has perhaps brought the New York lefislature into the limelight of criticism more than the passage by both Jouses of the bill which will al- low the women and children of that sta’%e to work seventy-two hours a waelk in the canneries, instead of sixty 24 the present time. This is a change which might nat- urally be expected to arouse much indignation in view of the fact that it has generally been recognized that there should be less instead of more hours of labor for skilled workmen and such being the case, it should ap- ply with equal strength when it comes to the working hours of women and children. It can be appreciated when it was sald by one of those who rec- ognized the backward step that the finest products of this country are.its chlldren, and of more importance than Deas, beans and strawberries. If the women of this generation are over- worked and allowed practically no hours of rest:the children of the next generation will deteriorate. Pressure has been brought to bear in behalf of this bill under the claim that such hours are necessary to pre- vent the products from spoiling, but it must at the same time be recognized that what may be looked upon as spe- clal legislation for ome industry Is only going to result in bringing forth the claim that other lines of business are in need of It, and it having been granted to one it should be permitted for others. There is no telling where it will end. Mere than the usual amount of interest is going to be man- ifested in the actlon which the gov- ernor takes now that it is before him. GORGAS THE MAN. Major General Gorgas is wanted as the advisor for the clean-up campaign which the Rockefeller Foundation is supporting for the purpose of freeing Servia frem the grasp of the typhus fever, In seeking the best it is not surprising that the choice should rest upon General Gorgas. As a sanitation expert he has some wonderful accom- plishments to his credit and when it comes to introducing the necessary methods for tackling disease through prevention he is a master mind, The results which followed the cam- paign which he mapped out for the betterment of conditions found in Havana at the time of its occupation by this country in the war with Spain disclosed his ability in that particular direction and when it came’to over- coming the dlsease-breeding sections of the Canal Zone he met with even greater success. In both instances he did what others before him had failed to accomplish. His ideas met the re- quirements and but for the thorough- ness of his work far greater ohstacles would have been encountered in the building of the canal thian appeared. Pestholes and disease had to be over- come and he wiped them out just as he afterwards deyised a plan for mak- ing sanitary an important but un- healthy section of South Africa. While it may be a new disease against which he will be called upon to operate in case he accepts the call just extended, it must mevertheless be recognized that he will apply to it that thoroughness which has charac- terized his other work and that a great benefit to humanity can be expected to follow the efforts to unshackle Ser- via. If anyone can do it, Gorgas is the man, o EDITORIAL NOTES, Francis Joseph may be a lover of birds, but he is fighting shy of the dove of peace. The denial is made that Germany suggests peace, but it may be listen- ing mighty hard. It is not so much the position in which a baseball team starts as it is its location at the finish. ‘When Huerta said “I greet your land of liberty” he was Very careful not to include a salute to the flag, There have been repeated signs of spring, but with the drop in the price of coal nothing could be more con- clusive, Europe has been forced to decrease its dye production, but it is mak- ing up for it with its greatly increased death rate, The mayor of Terre Haute probably realizes that it is easier to get to Leavenworth than it 1s to get and hold the mayoralty. One good thing about the peace movements, if they fail on the first endeavor there is nothing to prevent HOW PEACE WAS DECLARED Nobody ever called on strangers in Wildlands, least of all Mrs. Me- Chonochie, who was the * prettiest woman in the suburb and in some ways the most prominent. She had her friends among the “landed gen- try,” which term the newly arrived Mrs, Marshall applied to those coun- try-city people who owned estates and whose automobiles waited at the rail- way stations. So when Marshall came home one night and said that he had rented the Dernberg bungalow next to the Me- Chonochies’, Mrs, Marshall burst out with the news she was primed with, “I never can be happy over there in the world,” she said. “I encountered that Mrs. McChonochie at the 10:35 train this morning, and she sat in the station an hour and never looked at “An hour? What happened to get you to the train an hour ahead of time “The train was late because _the| engine broke down,” continued Mrs. Marshall, “and I__had just arrived when I saw Mrs. McChonchie coming over the hill with her sister. They came in and never glanced in my di- rection. To make matters worse it was only a few weeks ago that I asked| her sister a _question about the train. So I was all ready to recognize her, but she just gave me one look and went on talking.” “Gave you the once-over, did she?” said Marshall. “Yes, and after that they didn’t either of them see mé and pretty soon the sister again. Then Mrs. McChonochie went out and walked up and down at one end of the platform, and so I went and paced back and forth on the other. I wasn't going to let her have a chance to snub me again, S0 every time we wers headed in the same di- rection and I was behind her. I would watch and wheel at the proper mo- ment, so she would always see my back when she turned around. Then I would wait to turn about until I thought that she must have started in the opposite direction again. “But pretty soon she found a way to get the best of it. She went over, to that little space beyond the station, where nobody ever goes, and paraded up and down there. After that I stayed farther away at my end until it got so bitterly cold that I had to go in, and there she sat pretending to read the newspapers. I held my head hish and stood at the stove with my back at her. Fortunately the train came soon, and as I managed to get to the door first I just sailed by her.” “You can sail some, too,” remarked Marshall -meditatively, and as Mrs, Marshall was a pretty woman and act- ed out her story with airs and graces which made the incident seem & spir- ited triumph, he said it admiringly. It was not long after that Mrs, Marshall stepped off the 5:17 from town one night and saw her enemy emenge from the rear coach with her husband. BEven at that distance she could see that the eye of the tall and athletic McChonechie was regarding her and she was sure that Mrs. Mc- Chonochie was telling all about it just as Mrs. Marshall had told her own husband. However, by this time she was stoical about if, as the Mar- shalls had made up their minds to take the bungalow, anyway. When next she was tempted into the city the weather turned into a blizzard before Mrs, DMarshall boarded her train for home. All through the long ride the snow blew thicker and faster on the outside, while the train was gradually thinned of its heavy burden on the ineide. When a scant half dozen people were left Mrs. Marghall suddenly heard words skoken behind her in g peculiar contralto voice which made her turn her head with quick attenticn. She had never consciously heard the voice before, but she recognized it as that of the opposition. Sure enough, as the train slowed down at Wild- lands, the stalwart McChonochie pass- ed down the alsle, followed by his fetter half. Mrs. Marshall gave them time to pass ahead of her as she gathered up her bundles. Then she stepped off into the storm that was raging with sufficient violence to send everybody burrying into the general store and postoffice. Thus it happened that somebody held the door open for Mrs, Marshail before it had fairly closed upon Mec- Chonochie, who was as bolsterous as he was stalwart, and as loud voiced as he appeared to be well intentioned and sure of himself, It was due to this fact that his voice carried back to Mrs. Marghall and made the last snatch of his talk exfdible as she en- tered. “Try a few kind werds, eh ™ he sald glancing back with o smile and as if to match his words Mrs. McChonochie stood unrolling a long aweater, which she had evidently cached at the store as she came by there in the morning. She held this out with both hands now, and faced Mrs. Marshall direct- Iyy “You have so much farther to go than I do, won't you take this? It's bad enough everywhere. but the drifts are so much worse over your way?’ “Oh, no, indeed! You will need it yourself! 'It's beautifully kind of you, but I wouldn’t rob you for anything,” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Storm of April 15. 1854. Mr. Editor: The snow storm to which Mr. Charles Thresher refers in Saturday’s Bulletin occurred on April 15, 1854. It certainly was a Snow storm of great severity, though to have been full fifteen inches in_depth and was accompained by a furlocs gale It was very destructive of bird life. This fact and the fact that on the 17th I went to Colchester on_the! Norwich stage from Tantic and at a house near to the Green that my father had formerly owned, the peo- plo had tunneled through a snow bank to make a path to the street. It S0 impressed me that I remember the event very distinctly. The height of the tunnel would allow a person to| walk through without stooping. The term “blizzard” had not been invented continued efforts. The April showers are putting the sofl in excellent condition for the new trees which should mark the pessing of another Arbor day. That Massachusetts almshouse which had strawberries and mushrooms on its menu card may have an occasional visit from Lady Bountiful, The man on the corner says: No one has been able to satisfactorily ex- plain why the dog always prefers to lie in a newly made flower garden. Though our war stamp act went into effect some time ago, Canada's does not become operative until Thursday, but of course it is another case of anything to beat Canada. Germany complains because there are shipments of munitions of war to the allies, but its navy appears to be snugly tucked away without offer- ing or threatening any resistance, Is this also to be blamed against this country? then but it certainly was a wild storm. I was a_youngster of seventeen, then iiving at home with my parents in ‘Windham, WM. F. GATES. Lebanon, Conn, April 12, 1915. Rev. J. Newton Perkins. Mr. Bditor: The recent death of Rev. J. Newton Perkins reminds many friends of the Academy of days long past. < In the early part of the Civil war Mr. Perkins, then a recent graduate of a military school, instructed the Academy boys in milltary drill. That the patriotic spirit was real may be seen from the fifty-six names on the memorial tablet in the Academy build- ing. From a school that scarcely numbered fifty boys at any one time, fifty-six in the course of the war enljsted to fight for the Unjon! Mr. Perkins’ father, also J. Newton Perkins, established in his son’s name the “J. Newton Perkins Medals,” which, distributed annually for mire _than half a century, have inspired thous- ands of Academy pupils to greater ef- forts in achool work. Ve truly yours. “HENRY A TIRRELL. Norwich, Conn., April 18, 1915.* got up and went home|" said Mrs. Marshall, trylng to be as gracious as her enemy, but distinctly disturbed with the thought of how that person must have described her to_MeChonochie, But if it were true, as she thought, that McChonochie now looked at her with an amused and twinkling eye, he soon showed what main strength could do to make cobwebs of femin- ine diplomaey. The drifts were moun- tain high as the little party started Bomeward, and if the paths were found at all it because the storm had had the grice to sweep a spot clean now and then, while it heaped most of them five feet upward. Mc- chonochie lifted his wife out of a ditch_once, and then crossed over and pulled the staggering Mrs. Marshall to the sidewalk. So strong w the gale at the place where their roads forked that the two women were blown past each other and Mrs. Marshall found herself going Mrs. McChonochie's way, and Mrs, McChonochie was heading up the Marshall path. “Here's where 1 get a dog team in- stead of an automobile next year,” said McChomochie as he once more picked the two women up and faced them properly homeward. “Good-night. I'm coming to call on you when you get to the Dernberz house. I intended to come before this” called Mrs. McChonchie over the snowdrifts—Chicago News. / Stories of !l:e War What It Is Costing Holland. The Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts of Amsterdam, calls attention to the enormous increase not only in tem- porary, but also in permanent ex- penditures which is ived by the exigencies of war. iscussing the new Budget, the newspaper calculates that interests on war loans, deficit for war years, and the making good after the war of military and naval expenditure will mean at the ver: least the doubling of all existing taxa- tion. The annual increase of expend- iture is figured at $625,000,000 to $750, 000,000 Regarding suggestions of huge in- demnity, the Vorwaerts says: “The Secretary, of State remarked that he by Do means remounces the idea ot/ obtaining a war indemnity. It is| nevertheless better for the present tod leave such a problem out of account. If one does that, it is urgently nee sary to deal in all seriousness with the groblem of shaping our future fin- anicial system. Unfortunately the! Secretary abstained from indicati what new sources of revenue he in- tends to open up.” The Boersen Halle, official paper of | f§ the German Stock Exchange, touching| on the same subject, says: “The expenditure to cover the war Ipans: the maintenance of the invalids and the survivors of the killed, at the|H very least will require two milliard| marks ($500,000,000) vearly. The damage to our national fortune is at present incalculable, and we are still a very long way from the end. “Our markets in_the East are taken by Japan, and in South America they are in the hands of the United States. Whether a victorious Germany with weakened means will be able in_the long run to carry the enormous bur- dens is the question. “It ought not to be forgotten that the German workman who joined the colors in August with enthusiasm will not look on the situation created dur- ing his absence with the same enthus- iasm when once he returns to his employment, finding wages decreas- ing and cost of living increasing, while in all directions he will be compelled| to assume his share of the unavoid- able heavy taxes. “Many, and perhaps not the least skilled, will emigrate to obtain bet- ter conditions of living, and this again will be a further loss to the working power and nationa] fortune of the German Empire, No Resorts for Convalescent Officers. Applications from some of the bel- ligerent nations, particularly England and Germany, to use the Norwegian health resorts for convalescent offi- cers in need of a complete change be- fore returning to the front nave been refused by the association of Nor- weglan hotel-keepers. Only those in- capacitated for further service will be received, g0 there will be no danger of phsical clashes between British and German fighting men. This winter has been exceptlonally fine in Norway, and the resorts have been crowded with tourdsts who us- ually go to Switzerland at thia time. Location of Prisoners. One of the puzzling problems which the German authorities in charge of prisoners of war have had to deal is the failure of many of these prison- ers to notify their relatives of their WwHereabouts. As a consequence it is Delng discovered constantly that men. particularly Englishmen, whg are prisoners of war or are in hospitals, have long been given up as dead. To minimize the difficulty the Doe- beritz authorities have printed quanti- tles of post cards which bear in big, black type the words: MY ADDRESS IS— GEFANGENENLAGER DOBE- BERITZ DEUTCHLAND (Prison camp, Doeberitz, Germany. Every prisoner is encouraged to write home so thai bis people may know his whereabouts. __ Weriters in the War., According to lists published in Ber- lin, nearly 200 German writers are doing yeoman service for their coun- try, engaged directly in the fighting, doing work with the hospital and otht er adjunct corps, or pursuing their calling behind the front as newspaper. men. Not a few of them are well kno outside of Germany,—men like Ernst von Wolsogen, who visited the United States several years ago and wrote a, book about his American _observa- tions; Dr. Walter Bloehm, whose nov- el, “Das Fisene Jahr” (The Iron Year) referring to 1870, has reached more than 100.000 copies in its sales; Ru- dolf Hertzog, whose dreams and nov- els have come into great popularity within ten years; Richard Dehmel, the poet, who was beyond the age- limit but volunteered when the war began; Fedor von Zobeltitz, author of many ‘society novels—and ' scores of less well known names. Some of the men here mentioned, as well as many other writers, have already been dec- orated with the Iron Cross. . Distinctions have also been confer- 1éd oy other writers, who, though not in the war themseives, have given moral -support to Germany’s armies by means of their pens. Thus Ger- hard Hauptmann and Ernst Lissauer, the author of the famous * Hats inst England”, have reached the' eagle order of the fourth class, The same.decoration was also given to Ludwig Ganghofer, the Bavarian pov- elist, upon his recent visit to the - peror at headquarters in France. Some of the writers at the front have al- | | | | | SPLENDID and SUITS achieved has been gained avoiding competition chandise * and als and modeling. Women and misses I (] fl kind. Q 151650 $1950 8§ latest fashion tendencies in ) and colors. WOMEN'S AND $10.75 $15.00 o M-I ——"1——0] DOUBLE STAMPS TODAY OF POPULAR PRICE COATS for Women and Misses Whatever success we have ordinary commonplace mer- developing fashions that are distinctive and exclusive in both materi- good taste — who take par- ticular pride in their appear- ance appreciate our garments. 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Last week she Was the spouse of the world’s champlon and as such sure of, not only the no- toriety which one of her nature would relish, but of o degree of consideration frot the peculiar social circle in which she moved. And today she is gnly the wife of a big, black negro—Hartford Times. Here in ‘America the exact conditions in the war zone are mnot easily com- prehended, but when it comes to esti- mating the fall bread lines instead of the fall crops one is shocked to a sense of the proportions of the wants of war sufferers as compared with the wants of the merely unemployed in this coun- try. There is so much to be done to upbulld Burope after the wars have ceased that American benevolence is Jikely to be taxed regularly and heav- ily for a decade or two.—Waterbury Republican. thoughtful citizens of Connec- oot are met dlsputing the fact that the unregulated deer is a growing evil in this state. They generally agree, it they have information, that either the number of deer must be reduced in Connecticut, or that some means must be found of keeping them in confine- ment. To say that “the only good deer is a deod deer” is about as far from the truth as it was to say the same of an Indian, but let it be conceded that the best use for deer, In our circumstances, 15 to make vension—New Haven Reg- ister. 2 The French characteristic of saving and the French disposition to trust the government with funds in times of need are remarkable evidences of na- tional solidarity. This factor will count for much in the future of the country, no matter how the war may terminate. Such .a spirit as that of the French people, such settled habits of thrift. bespeak for the nation a perpetuity of blessings, blessings of prosperity and a continuance of the graces of solid com- fort in living that have been the mark of the French peasant for decades— ready brought out books about their experiences in camp and battle, apart from the vast flood of newspaper ar- ticles emanating from less ambitious writers. Thus Paul Oskar Hosecker has brought out “An der Spitze meiner Konpagnie” (At the head of my Company). and Zobeltitz fahrten eines | Johanniters” (War Torrington Register, The beauty and privilege of free- dom is not realized until one is de prived of it. No matter what improve ments in prison management and con- ditions may be introduced, ‘the fact that the wings of liberty have been clipped. still remains a trial which all but the most hardened individuals find t difficult to endure without a tre- endous strain upon the mentalit: The loneliness, the isolation from tI most common privileges vouched man- kind, in Nordinary walks of life, the brand of Cain or the stamp of the thief—all go to make cell life a thing to be dreaded and shunned. The in- troduction of entertainments, of work and other innovations, will lessen the tortures of prison life, but nothing can entirely eliminate the horrors of ex- istence in a cell with its tendency to convert into a ' machine, the thing which is_made of flesh and blood.— Meriden Record. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society RETURN OF THE FAVORITES After the First Show. tered this Contest. ALL NEW PHOTOPLAYS $10 in Prizes. 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The soils of this island group are luxuriantly fer- tile, and copra—dried cocoanut—is produced here in large quantities. Tropical fruits, yams, arrowroot and other agricultural products are brought forth in abundance. It is, however, as a strategic port of call, an advanced harbor in the Ori- ent, that Germany set her highest value upon these South Sea posses- sions. For a time the Samoan Islands were under the ccntrol of the British government and German consuls. The control of the islands which existed before the war was effected by a treaty made in 1899, The total area of the group is about 1750 square miles of which the German share is 1610 square miles. There are eight inhabited islands in the group, with a. total population of 37,000, of which that s found throughout the West. The whole history of the Roumanians since the casting off of the Turkish yoke has been one of conservative progress leavened with enterprise, of thrift lightened by keen appreciation of the embellishments and pleasures of life. And in Bucharest one finds more artistic, literary, and sclentific lifethan in any other part of the peninsula. To- day, the ministries there are facing the enormous difficulties of normal Balkan polities, made a thousand times more difficult by the European war, but the past ~ives the assurance the Rouman- ians are not likely to risk lightly what they have builded with so much care, “Bucharest is an attractlve city of 300,000 It is taid out with many broad boulevards and avenues, as becomes a capital; and has, as Paris, Berlin and Washington, famous drives and parks within its area, an “avenue of parades,’ and zoological and botanical gardens. 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The Roumanians have chosen Paris and Vienna as their models, and have produced a judicious blending of the two upon the much smaller Balkan scale, Bucharest has plenty. of good music, and its people who gather in the concert halls or enjoy the free military concerts in the evening along some promenade are appreciative and critical listeners. The national thea- tre brings varied offerings, and that the best. Then, the entertainments of the little capital are discreet imita- tions of social Paris, with a touch of mild Vienese friendliness. ~ Further- more,. Bucharest, as also becomes & European cgpital, is a great educa- tonal center. Its schools, academies, colleges, and university are models for Balkan countries.” 33.478 live within the confines of the German _islands, These figures - in- clude only the mative population, The number of European settlers is negli- gible. The climate of Samoa is found by some to border upon perfection as far climates go, and by others it is issed with a vague notation that it id supportable. Perhaps the de- lightful descriptions by Robert Louls Stevénson, who, on account of lung trouble, took up his permanent resi- dence there in 1866, and who lived and worked eight years after the doctors had given him up, can best be trusted among all others. Germany found it difficult to persuade her sons and ters bent on immigration to set- tle in the group. Bucharest—The Roumanians have spared no effort or thought towerd making Bucharest, their capital city, a real capital, and not just one of the 1 Balkan towns, out to the severe des! of the modern commercial city NEW YORK TO OLD POINT COMFORT, NORFOLK & RICHMOND, VA, Special 4-Day, All Water Tour Historic James River Route 888 miles of all ‘water travel 518.“ Including all expenses afloat and ashore Send for illustrated pampblet No. §8 .. BROWN, Gea'l Pas. Agt. ‘W. 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