Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 17, 1915, Page 4

NORWICH BULLETIN, 'SATURDAY, APRIL 17 plenty of tins of n the sent to London. evidence of this in the e bully beef. jam and } backyards of houses troops.” the seat ahead is keeping the window open and between the frosty wind and the cinders I'm anything but com- fortable! bladders for icebagzs and would not be so bad if they did not smell so dreadfully. There is on air-cushion and they need _warm clothes, tco. The Temporaire No. 13 and the Hopital Mixte are both very poor. At the latter there are many soldfers from Northern France, who innocent ises to remain in the limelight furr some time to come. It is a case where there are charges and denials upon botly sides, it being set forth that the bank o%cials ars exceeding thelr rights under thelr charter s a natlonal bank, that they are making loans with THE MAN WHO TALKS of DIARY OF A COMMUTER SUNDAY—Well, 1 caught a famous cold yesterday and today I'm on the Some people appear to think that - Sorwicih Zulletin = and @oufied 119 YEARS OLD jabseription prive 120 & week; S0e a month; $6.00 a year, | _ Entered at the Postomce et Norwioh, Conn., as second-class matter. Telepnone Calls: S B . o " Bigthetin Job 5.3, Willlmantio Ofice, Room 3 Murray “Wallding. Telephone 310. ———e——— " Norwich, Saturday, April 17, 1915. —_—— The Circulation of The Builetin The Bulletin has the largest cireulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from thr “to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It Is delivered to over 3,000 of tho 4,053 hous in Norwich, and read by ninety- thres per cent. of the people. In Windham it is deliversd to over . 900 houses, in Putnam and " Danieleon to over 1,100 and in all of thess pla s consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice distriotc, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town -~ on all of the R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1801, average wevesionweare 4412 ~ LESSO FROM THE WAR. The state of Colorado is making lans to ralse a record crop of sugar It is an industry which has ¥Been growing through encouragement ‘in this country, but it is not through any good will on the part of the present administration that it has se- cured stimulation In the increase of its output. Under the existing tariff conditions, It they were to Dbe considered alone, & sharked decline could be expected in that line of business. Free sugar of- yfers no encouragement to the home Industry, but the war in Europe has merved to curtall the enormous pro- * fuction of sugar beets in that part of othe world with the result that there FWill be increased demand upon the . ther sources for a long time to come. iffhe war is thereforo serving in a Jashion though of an uncertain dura- Mon, the same as a protective tariff. fit is furnishing an inducement for +Bot only the continuance but the in- Prease of this industry in this coun- My. It is one of the lines which “stands to profit from the war in spite » the d@emocratic legislative program scant sccurity and that they are loan- ing money to themselves and even en- s¥ged in making dummy loans, The banking institution on the other hand alleges an attempt on the part of the government officials to wreck the bank and that they have cxceeded thelr rights in withdrawing govern- ment funds while wrongfully with- holding interest on government funds 2s an offset to an unpaid and illegal penalty. impartial thrashing out of the muddle, it can be cleared up the better. GREAT BRITAIN APOLOGIZES. ‘British squadron it was in neutral waters. It had been refused time sought in which to make repairs and had been ordered by the maritime gov- which would have wiped it out. +‘Such protection, however, is meas- sFed only by the length of the war .And the demoralizing effects which ac- wompany the same, barring the fact shut there is a recognition of the need of reestablishing this protection at home through legislative action. In wthat very direction the sugar beet in- @ustry does not stand alone. There ‘are many lines of Dusiness which #H6uld be fostered in this country in- “stead of depending upon the product of Burope. The failure to recognize ,this is the cause of short time in many ‘factories in this country today and there are.even those in this city which Lare experiencing it. If the war has . been necessary to bring this realiza- tion home, no time should be lost in '-,mu our independence in home ¢ les. I;INCOI.N GREATER TODAY. It was less than two months ago ‘that homage was pald to one of this _};nntrru martyred presidents on the pecasion of his birthday anniversary, but this nation never overlooks an op- nity to pay tribite to its hon- Lincoln and the passing this of the half century anniversary his assassination found it generally suitably honoring his memory, After fitty years he is a greater ‘Lincoln today than he was then. His jeountry which was then about to start '1its reconstruction after five years of Lfeivil strife was still facing a gigantic lem. There was still the strong passionate feeling between the sections which had been engaged ‘war over a bitterly disputed ques- and Ligcoln has just emerged as victor in his noble stand for a nciple which concerned the very on of this government. It was the hour of triumph that his tragic came. He wi not given the op- nity of directing the united forces but from the magnificent example hich he set in his position as leader this nation there has since con- ued to pile up an admiration and from both sections which to- recognizes him as one of this ountry's greatest assets. The close of a half century finds valued at his true worth, a cham- of the plain people, a pillar of b and an example which every- is eager to emulate. His name grown great and it will continue o do S0 as the future generations un- na an unbiased standpoint great service which he rendered. great Lincoln has won a place himself which can never fade, & which s true of but few after half century of their passing, §i NATIONAL BANK FIGHT, . It was only a few months ago that country was deeply interested in new currency and banking law for purpase of making certain condi- of the past impossible. Now it {18 aimost as much concerned over the '} Aimculties which have arisen between ithe controller of the currency and fpther national officials and.the Riges nal bank of Washington, an in- ution of prominence and standing. Though this controversy has been for mome time, it is brought public attention through be- to the courts and that Chili considered that its sovereign rights had been treated with contempt and forwarded a note of protest to Great Britain. In the extension of a full apology to Chill for the action which resulted in the blowing up of the Dresden, Great Britain fully recognizes the jus- tice of the protest and the violation of Chillan neutrality. The commander of the British squadron, while not in touch with the conditions surrounding the internment was bent upon removifig a commerce destroyer and there can be no ques- tion but what his action proved ef- fective, and it is not too much to assume, as Great Britain points out in its reply, that internment at Juan Fernandez island was dificult of en- forcement. Inasmuch as the Dresden had defled the order to leave within 24 hours and failed to do so, vet was fiying the German flag and it had its guns trained and there was nothing to prevent @s much of a violation of neu- trality upon its part as that which the British squadron committed. The gov- ernment at the island eould have done nothing to prevent the Dresden from leaving when the enemy had disap- peared and a favorable chance came. However, even though Great Bri- tain might find grounds for justifying its act it does not attempt to do so and the full and ample apology will probably end the matter. NOTHING TO IT. The scare which has been started about Japan establishing a naval base at Turtle bay on the Mexican coast is s likely to prove as groundless as that which was used to agitate this country a few years ago regarding Magdalena bay. In the latter case it was the presence of Japanese fisher- men which gave a basis for the rumor of @ move to get a foothold .in Mexico and at the present time it is fully ap- parent, as has been explained by the Japanese authorities that whatever Japanese are at Turtle bay or have been landed at that point are engaged in the salvaging of the Japanese cruiser which struck a reef and was lost at that point, There is certainly nothing in such operations to cause.any nervousness and it is to be noted that the authori- ties at Washington are not manifest- ing any uneasiness over the matter. The fact is that the whole alarming story is but the work of imagination. It doesn’t take very much in the way of Japanese action to create great alarm along the western coast, much of which as in this case is unjustified on the face of it. Japan has given indication within the past few months that when it comes to expansion it has its eve in the other direction and nearer home. It thoroughly understands the attitude of this country relative to any foreign invasion of the American continents and there is nothing to indicate that it is anxious to go against it. There are reasons to believe, as the Japanese embassy’s statement says, that “it is more than absurd. EDITORIAL NOTES. There is nothing like the trout fish- ing season to develop the back to the farm interest, It is a little bit early, but no move- ment for neutrality has been launched in the baseball struggle. Jupiter passed Venus at daybreak. There’s an endurance contest which everyone enjoys watching. Bleaseism has disappeared about as completely as the time when Mexico City used to have a congress, The man on the corner says: Lots of strange things are done just be- cause there was a precedent. The opening of -the ‘lobster season makes it evident that the oyster drops out of sight with the ending of April. Huerta might introduce = little gin- ger into that Mexiean war by offering his opinion freely as to what he thinks ot it. There are a great many cases of German measles, but it is impossible to look upon it as a breach of neu- trality. From the way in which steel has been bounding around Wall street it appears to have taken on' the charac- teristics of rubber. It Germany wants to know what Belgium would do regarding neutrality if it should withdraw its army, it ought to ask the question. ~ Itdly’s agreement with Servia re- garding an outlet on the ‘Adriatic can- not contribute anything to the peace of mind of Francis Joseph. From the manner in which the Balkan states get warm on the war game and then cool off it is not surprising that they are of a nervous, excitable na- ture, : The Kronprinz Withelm is following the course of the Prinz Fitel with de- mands for “repairs, fuel and supplies,” but it will not alter the watchful waiting of the allies’ warships. If the spring planting has been de- layed it can be started soon. There have been 75 million packages of free seeds mailed from Washington. It is @ _great start for. bumper crops. The injunction which the bank has secured against the government offi- clals brings the matter into the courts and provides the opportunity for the From the claims which have been made, even though denjed, it is only proper that the real state of affairs should be made plain and the quicker ‘When the German cruiser Dresden was discovered and attacked in the Parbor of Juan Fernandez island by a ernor of that harbor to intern for the tvar. Thus it was with no surprise truth can be shouted into Iisteners, but it ognnot be, 'Truth to the human soul {s always more or less of a revelation. Truth ian't notay, but it is penetratin What snother declares to be truth is always qtiostionable: and it s _not truth to us until it has been made ovident to our mind. It is divine light which fllumines thie mind of men, and it 18 the spiritusl ove which compre- hends the truth. Truth comes into the human mind like sunshine coming Jver the Eastern hills in the morning: and error fades away as quietly as mist disappears before the sun, What man needs to cultivate is & quick Te- sponse to goodness so- that when the Divine hand resches down to save he may reach his hand up to grasp. We - | must do our part in the search after light and truth—we must look up with faith and dwell in silence, to know. What is & sense of duty? Some pro- fessedly plous people think their sense of duty is a passport to something higher. you suppose an angel ever felt a sense of duty? What re- ligion should do for those Who possess it is to awaken a desire to pass to others the good things God has re- vealed to them. There is no sense of duty about an impulse of love. As God loves us so should we love one another. Man in his relation to his Heavenly Father should become the medium for the outflow of Divine goodness which inflows to his own heart. The only way the flow of Di- vine goodness may be augmented is Dby extending it to our fellowmen. Luke makes this clear when he says: “Give and it shall be given unto you * % * for with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be meas- ured to you again.” What is a sense of duty, then? It is a sense of re- straint where there should be none— a handicap! 3 Some one- has sall the mother of all the and we may as well nots.” Necessity has ever presided over the exigencies of life, and where things are urgent there is always more or less-peril.. What we must do and what we must not do-form the com- plete cade for = self-government and self-enoblement. Necessity as the mother of the musts and must-nots has imperial sway. “Nugessity is the argument of tyrants,” said William Piet” and the creed of slaves” It is the ‘first stimulus to industry and the first prompter to crime. It is neces- sity which prompts the nations to fly to arms,"and it will eventually compel them -to sue for peace. Necessity teaches the bitter lessons in life that the gentle offices of the Graces may be better appreciated. Necessity knows no law, but constantly nags the chil- dren of men; “Necessity 1s musts” in life; 2dd the “must It is?said of sbme men: “He can- not keep money!” It seems as if every man could keep money if he ‘wanted to, provided he had sufficient to mor® than meet the cost of what he daily needs, There is a great differ- ence between What a man needs and what_tHe thinks he needs; and’ too many ‘persons never draw the ‘line. Some /people think they need a piano when they have not a first-class bed or couch in the house; and some fam- ilies think they need an automobile more than they do a home, and use their savings to gratify this extrava- sant desire. The man who always has his money spent 4s soon as it is earned is more conscious of his wants than of his lack of ability to gratify them; and the man who has it spent -before it is earned has made himself a slave to his uncontrolled desires, The man who cannot keep money needs to study pro- portion and keep his recognized wants in the right relation to his income. The man who acts as though he is proug of his faults is simply liv- ing in an. atmosphere of. deflance. He is @ blyffer- and nothing else. He feels: the shame he does not exhibi and gloats . over the illusion he is beating - some one else when he is making a fool of himself. These are the persons we describe as “standing in their own light”; and they are pav- ing the way to perpetual despair and do not.know it. Such a life of decep- tion can never be less than a life of discords - and discontent. To make one’s life a lie, Pope says, is to make one’s self a symbol of the gates of hell. This attitude toward our own consciousness comes nearesf to total depravity, of anything a fool is cap- able of manifesting. The man' who feels an -henest conviction and smothers it is assassinating virtue and becoming a master of frauds. The. man who throttles honesty is engaged in putting villainy on. top. woman 1s one who does not know_how to use cosmetics, doesn’t follow style, join clubs or dis- cuss political questions or agitate for woman’s rights. She is just the plain, unpretentious home-builder, who fears God, raises sons and daughters, and gives solidity’ to communal life and strength to the state. It is presumed nature in forming the butter-files to. flit améng the flowers deemed them just as necessary as the beavers which dam streams and perform works. of engineering which were once object. lessons to man, 8o there is nothing to be said against the beautiful in our Tecognition and praise of the practi- cal, upon which all beauty is based. Hence the eccentric woman is the man's helpmate; and -the worhen, Saville declared, "“have more strength in their looks than .we have in our laws; and more power in their tears than’ we havo in our arguments.” The! eccentric woman is the treasure while the others are classed among - the jewels of life. .To the work-a-day. Wwoman the world owes its advance- ment and .civilization. Those who advertise for domestics know that the first applicant where a girl is advertised for is usually a middle-aged woman; and that the girl expected seldom makes her ap- pearance. This only shows how slow the epirit of youth is to give up pos- session- and leads up to the questio “How old a girl Nas to be to consider herself a woman?' The youth of the soul is sald to be everlasting, so it 18 not so strange the line of separa- tion between youth and age is a very, varlable - line. It was Cicero who sald: “As I approve the youth who has ‘something of the oid man in’him so0 I am no less pleased with the old man who has something of the youth. He who follows this rule may be old in body, but never, can become old in mind” "As a general, rule we all feel Younger. than we look, but it is given to only the few to look younger than they be. Under a strictly business interpretation of the terms, a girl Is & girl Just as long as she is able to g0 out to-service, while ‘a .oy is a, boy only so long as he wears. knieicer- bockers. But the old girl is a treas- ure and:the world tecognizes that the lady cunmot lolt in the pariorf the ol girl isn't in her, places: = - What ‘the * world ~ needs is. more referees. < Wheii* things #6t- off color in the prize ring'the command rings out: “Break away!” and the princi- pals renew their actiyity, Now . prize fighters- are’ nct “the’ only 'men” who stick and- hang and dawdle. A great many of our public speakers are held tight by conventionalities and inter- ests and seem to be unconscious of the fagt that they sre making no headway in the pulpit or on the ros- trum, -3 -Wes- only the eother-day a (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) MONDAY—From every point of view, I think it is going to be an ad- vantage to me to live in the country. Somehow, in the rush of the city there is no chance for one to think; and think I must, it I ever mean to work out the big idea I have in my mind! _There's millions in it, I am sure. Hvery morning, as I ride into town, I intend to jot down my thoughts in this new diary which the Sunday school teacher gave me at Christmas. The dream has come to me, that the only practical way to dispose of the hundreds of wires which disfigure the streets of any city is ta carry them along, not in the ordinary man- ner underground, but in a hollow tube, which shall do a double duty; this, and forming the curbing. Just yet 1 have not solved the plan for getting it by crossings. That's what I must meditate on, as I have the leisure daily. Dear, dear! See those high echool boys, plaguing those girls with two big turtles! I heard once that the German word for boy corresponds to our word “booby”! And wasn't & Holmes who declared that all boys should be put in a hogshead and fed through the bung-hole till they were past 187 The droll little scamps! One can’t help watching them:; and the pesky turtles act as though they were trained just when to poke their heads The station? Well, I have certainly wasted this ride watching those bothersome kids! Tomorrow Tl settle right down to work! All out! TUESDAY—I got a good idea yes- terday, about the merits of concrete as contrasted with iron, for my plan of a tube to conceal yet protect the underground wires. This morning I must try to figure out something Te- garding the relative merits of the two substances. Certainly, sir! That seat is not taken! I merely pay for one -and am perfectly satisfied if I get only my rights! Yes; as you say, it is a pretty good measure of the country’s intelligence, when people go wild over the visit of a big prize-fighter! What's that? Your cousin was in Havana at the time it was pulled off? Say! That must have been an interesting exper- fence! * * % s & Oh, /f course! Every horse and pet cat and dog will be named “Jess” after this! Ah! here we are at the station! Glad I met you, sir!’ Good morning! WEDNESDAY—Today | really must clergyman taunted his fellows of the cloth with being repeaters instead of free-expressers of thought; and a condition which warrants such a charge calls for the referee’s com- mand: “Break away!” The world is crying today as in days of yore: “God give us men! Men who can stand be- fore a demagogue and dam his treach- erous fatteries without winking; tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog 'In public uty and in private thinking.” These Billy Sundays have an umpire and hear the cry: “Break away!” And fearlessly they fight wrong and error. What our advo- cates need is to break away from fear and proclaim the truth if they ever expect Love to triumph. I Sunday Morning Talk THE LAW OF COMPENSATION. It is related of Phillips Brooks that, sitting in his study one day and see- ing a laborer pass, swinging his din- ner pail, the great preacher remarked: “I suppose that fellow thinks I have a very easy time in here; but I con- fess on my part that I often envy him his freedom from care” One man had a small wage, hard work in rain or sunshine, long hours, and few social responsibilities. The other had a comfortable salary, a spacious house, books, culture, and the constant care of a great parish. Each might have picked out attractions in the situation of the other. If we lock ocarefully at the lots of men the law of compensation will be apparent. No one of us has all that is difficult or at all that is desirable. There are in our environment hard and galling facts of which our neigh- bor has no experience—but we have Joys of which likewise he is ignorant. ‘We look with envy at certain ‘evident advantages that our neighbor enjoys, but if we could see other hidden dis- advantages it may be that we should Tecoil at the prospect. A rich man' may have a heavily stocked larder, but it is by no means certain. that he has appetite or di- gestion to match. A crust of bread and real hunger, is a better combina- tion than stalled ox and satiety. A sheltered and easy life is to be dis- counted if accompanied by insomnia. Few people covet laborious days, but at least the sleep of a laboring man is sweet. As a matter of fact the materials of happiness are much less unevenly dis- tributed in this world than we im- agine, A sort of evening up process is at work balancing the.elements of pain and pleasure among the sons of men. If the grass grow a little thicker and greener in the next field the chances are that it %s not so sweet there. There is a great difference in peo- ple as to their power to enjoy. One has many things and another only a few, but the second man may have greater spiritual resources, greater power of enjoyment.” One bee must Troam the whole fleld for Honey that another can extract from a single flower. Little Jimmy Sudds, with a few spools and a plece of etring, may have a better time than little Percy Rocks, with many costly products of the toy shep about him. In this re- gard men are but children of a larger growth. There is a kindly provision of nature by which the balance of happiness is preserved. More o erally than we think this distribution of the bare and the blessing ‘. of life reduces to the familiar but philo- sophical formula, ‘Six of one and half a dozen of the other." If the compensation is a law of life it is wel lfor us to recognize it. Let us cease groaming over the dark spots and pick out the bright ones. If the balance seems to have swung. against us let us seek those elements that even the matter up. Let us not depre- clate or underestimate the other fel- low's blessings, but let us appreciate and exalt our own. If our good things are few let us make the most and the best of them. Intensive methods may 'be applied to other pursuits than farming. ‘I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be. content’ de- clares the Apostle. There is always something to be thankful for in the most dismal situation. The vacuum of lack or loss may be filled if the tide gates of life are not kept shut and bolted. The divine purpose is not to give us poverty and death, but to give us life, and that abundantly. get my, thoughts down to business! Tere’'s hoping that nobody comes to interrupt me! Let's see, what was it I had to re- member to’ bring out tonight? A new nozzle for the hose, a couple of screens —this is the time to head off the flies —wicks for the blue flame stove, that bottle of spring tonic’ for Grandma, one, two, three, four; there was some- thing else! Now WHAT was it Maria said be sure not to for get? Nothing for the sewing machine, nothing to eat; no bird eeed for the canary, nor polish for the silver—Mm! Mm! Mm! Oh, T know! Something for curtains for the dining room! Now Wwhat did she say to get at Spooler & Needles' I was to bring enough for three win dows—drat it! WHAT was the name? A yard and half for each window; and I was to get it of Mr. Spence, with whom Maria always trades! FEureka! 1 remember! It was buff, she said! Four yards and a half of buff! Well, I've remembered it; but if here isn't the station! Too bad! THURSDAY—I sure thought I'd get a few fres minutes to jot down my leas on the trip today; but Blank has Just left me at the last station and all the way out he has been giving me points about the profit of having one’s own garden, in a suburban place like Newlotshurst. Claims his family raises enough vegetables and fruit to e'ena’ most keep their table through- out the year! Tll stop and get some vegetable catalogues on my way home! FRIDAY-—This mornin dressing, | had a real about my curbing device! could think straight, with bors, Mrs. Jenks and Mr: changing across the aisle ion notes as, “It really though the old-fashioned girl was coming Dback, this season! Frills, laces, full skirts, hats with drooping brims and ribbon streamers!” “l know it! Doesn’t it mak think of Dolly Varden time: “My rich cousin Adeline’s dress- maker has just finished for her to take to California a ruffled skirt and point- ed bodice exactly like one Grandma Bates wore, when she sat for that old portrait in mother’s room!” “Well, you know-they say come back every seven years! Look at the little hats, and-the col 1 pumps, and the sashes!” etc., ete., etc. My ride is wasted! Oh, for a lodge In some vast wilderness, or a seat in a freight car! while inspiration But who my neigh- Jeilaby ex such fash- looks as ke you shions SATURDAY—Somehow, | don't ap- pear to be making much headway with my Inventions, clever as they seem—to myself! Yesterday, I haa occasion to go in- to ‘the Skyscraper Bullding and it occurred to me to just ask Hobbs, the patent lawyer, if there was anything to the notlon’ of putting wires in a tube which might at the same time form a sidewalk curbing. By good luck, I was cautious; and merely said to Hobbs that a friend of mine had such a scheme and I wondered if there might be anything to it. By great control, I kept from show- ing disappointment, when he assured me carelessly that about twent men all over the country had already patented that idea! Welil, at any rate, T've saved money, by not going into it any further! I guess I'm not cut out for a great genius, to make the world gasp and incldentally make millions! ' It's back to the Tegulation hard old grind for me! I wish I hadn't been bamboozled | into the belief that it is Spring, and left off my heavy coat! The jay in Sfive | semi-Invalid ~ list. Downstalrs the phonograph is grinding out Harry Lauder's “Your Breakfast In Your Bed on Sunday Mornin'!” Through the window I can see the wires on the poles which help epuip Newlotshurst with electric lighting, telegraph and telephone service; they are not_yet put out of sight, by my patented curbing device! Well, anyway, 1 got Hobbs' advice for nothing; and saved what it would have cost me trying to patent my idea! I gues, when I get up, I'll burn this diary! Nobody but sentimental girls and old men enjoy keeping a diary, anyway! The Sunday school teacher meant well, of course; but—— THE DICTAGRAPH. Stories of the War Przemysl Garrisen Story. Leonard Adelt, correspondent of the Berlin Tageblatt at the Austrian gen- eral headquarters, sends to his news- paper a denial of the charge that the fortress of Przemysl at the time of its capitulation was trebly over-garrisoned and that the officers had plenty to eat while the men hungered. Herr Adelt, who professes to write on the basis of official information concerning the in- terval between the first and second sieges, says the garrison during the first siege numbered 85,000 men, as had been contemplated by the ante-bellum arranzements. The experience of the first sleze, he adds, showed mot only that the fortress could not have held less men but that it also demonstrated the advisibility of enlarging the works and _increasing correspondingly the number of defenders and workmen in it. This was done during the interval. The soldiers and officers shared the same rations, Adelt says, neither bread nor cereal being supplied to anyone, even the commander, General von Kusmanek. The most painful depriva- tion of the men inside the garrison was of smoking materlals. This was felt alike by officers and men, until a upply of raw tobacco leaves was found and worked into cigarettes. In French Hospitals. A correspondent, who has very re- cently made a tour of many hospitals in_France, wrises: We have just returned from Brest, which completes our long tour of more than 2500 kilometres and sixty-four hospitals. In cases the hospitals are delighted with the bales, and beg us to continue the good work. I am giving you a brief resume of some of the visits, which may be of aid to the packing committee in knowing bet- ter the ‘condition of each hospital. The Hopital Militaire at Gourin is very poor and has some very ill sold- iers. It is most miserable, but the doctor and townspeople are very proud of it! All the beds, as well as other furniture, were given by the people In the town. So you can imagine how the wards look. They need everything, from socks to chloroform. At Pontivy there are several hospi- tals badly In need of help. Hopital Temporaire No. 13 (505 beds) is very large and well kept, but poor. It has a very fine surgeon, Gourdot, of Nantes, who has saved many lives, but he has to use his own instruments, and the operating room s very primitive. It is a very deserving hospital and full, and needs warm clothing, sheets, air- ons, hot-water bottles, besides medical stores. The hospital for con- tagious diseases there (sixty beds), is haye no one to send them things, no news from their people. And it is the same with the Belgian wounded. At Baud there is a hospital for con- valescents, which is a qmost cheerle: hole. There was not one woman in the town even interested enough to visit them. Do send the poor things something to_cheer them up! It is so dirty and dismal. At Lorient there are also a number of hospitals which are very poor. At the one in the College des Jeunes Filles, the wounded were lying on boards, as the beds had no springs. They need many things. Warm cloth- ing is also needed at the Hopital Mili- taire Duplex and the Temporaire No. 29 (380 beds) in Lorient. The hospitals in Quimper are also very poor and need everything they can get, also the Hopital Mixte at Chateauneuf de Faon, and the Hopital Militaire, St. Gildas, Morbigan, which is remote and very poor. Odessa Quiet and Gay. There is little in Odessa to remind the casual visitor of the war. Along the roads are seen a few proclamations dealing with military matters; down the wide streets motor-cars flying the Red Cross flag occasionally ~pass; under the trees and in the fashionable cafes may be found groups of conva- lescent officers nearly ready to return to the front. The hotels are rather more empty than usual, for Odessa is the Atlantic City of Russia, and peo- ple are mostly staying away from the fashionable watering places just now. The absence of some of the one-time visitors has been especially noticeable since the German-Turkish cruiser Breslau bombarded the resort town of Yalta. But Odessa is still a gay town, with the same stream of automobiles and carriages, the same well-filled cafes and restaurants, the same smartly dresed women at the afternoon tea hour, the same brilliant jewelers and florists’ shop: Odessa has sent forty thousand men to the front, but there seem to be al- most as many left as before. At tea hour in the cafes, the visit- or at once recognizes that the women residents of the town have turned their energies into war-time channels. All sorts of work for the eoldiers is under way, even in the tea rooms and hotel parlors. Twice a week the wo- men of the British colony meet in a room adjoining the English church, and they have sent sixteen hundred garments to the Russian front since the war began. Southern flowers, fruits, and vege- taoles are piled in inexpensive pro- fusion in the dessa shops. In Petro- grad, 1,200 miles away, they would be unobtainable. The jewelers’ shaps, always one of the greatest attractions of Odessa, have not changed with the g of war. They still display a n of diamonds and sapphires such as could not be seen in the win- dows of any other city of Europe. At night, Odessa is dark but behind their heavy curtains, the hotels and dance halls and theatres and even the opera_house still run on as usual, al- though most places must close at eleven o'clock in accordance with mil- itary orders. The street railway sys- tem, one of the best in Europe, closes down at midnight. The harbor is dark and silent after sunset, and a constant patrol is maintained to guard against any surprise attack from the sea. Living Off the Army. “Officially the army is supposed to be living off the country, but really OTHER VIEW POINTS ! It is not unusual for churches to call ministers west; it is more unusual for t to send for our Connecticut ministe Yet the report is that a c b Chicago wants the Rev. William Beard, of Willimantic. = Willim ill not give him up without a stru gle, but if Willimantic must give him up, what is Connecticut thinking of if it lets him leave the state? is a man we cannot afford to spare— New Haven Register. When one hears of al sorts of su gestions and bills and re: for the regulation of the jitr some wonder why all these restric- tions were not thought of and applied to the taxicab and other vehicles, which carry pessengers fc y it c Jitney except t rates. But the the trolley. reason for the mad rust the jitney in red tape that it do business—Ansonia Sentinel cannot It seem: liquor b fairly certain _that ness will have to bear a portion of the increased taxation necessary to meet the growing ex penses of this state. There can be no reasonable complaint from ar quarter if this is brought about. T saloon business is at best of doubtf value to the community. The liquc dealer makes good profits and ma them with comparative ease. At same time his traffic is the cause heavy expense to the community and the state. Therefore it is just that he be assessed his full share of the state’s burden.—Manchester Herald. the There is one location of every garage and that gouge out of the sidewalk at the curl up which the car may be bounced whe the owner comes back from his day touring. Just now these gouges are be ing made as artistic as possible gang of men sent about for the pose of concreting them, but before the year is out there will doubtless be more of them and winter will be alon before they are all smoothed filled in and topdressed with sand. Those that the street miss will be fringed with broken crete and treacherous to the pedes train on dark nights, besides generous contributors to the sands that fill the street gutters at every shower—Wa- terbury Republican. thing marks the Rumors continue to multiply to the effect that Warden Osborne is meeting with unexpected disappointments in his management of the Sing Sing prison. The great majority his rules and regulat hich ave been in force at fleid a long time, work well, but it is n s0 sure that his Mutual Welfare league, which is a farm of seif-government for the prisoners, is working well or that he has been able to solve the problem of idleness. 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