Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 15, 1915, Page 4

- Jorwich Bulletin and Goufied 119 YEARS OLD try should abandon its policy of watchful walting under the beltef that it will eventually lead to intervention _while his recommendations are strong- 1y in behalf of shutting off all firearms and ammunition shipments to that country. The Teport bears no resem- blance to that of John Lind, judging by the action which followed. Condi- tions, however, have failed to improve and they show no early prospect at Subscription price 12c a week; S0e a . mounth; $6.00 n year, | o Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich. ! €Conn., as second-class matter. + the present time. ‘With matters of greater importsnce occupying the attention of the gov- ernment it is probable that further { Telepnone Callnt Bt 480. Y Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantie Ofice, Room 3 Murray Bulldimg. Telephone 310. 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CIRCULATION 1901, average ............ i 4412 000090000000900000000009000049040800400004 0000000000000 090000 00000000800 80600800 00005 1905, average ...........5 920 - SCHOOL PHYSICIANS, The bill whick has passed both branches of the legislature concern- ing the appointment and duties of school physicians is an amendment to an act upon this same matter which ‘was passed at the 1907 session of the general assembly. Wnder the existing law the board of school visitors, board of education or town school commit- tee of any town, or board of education or committee of any school district may appoint one or more school phy- sicians and assign them to the schools over which they have jurisdiction. By the amendment such power is given in towns of less than ten thousand with the provision that they shall as- sign one to each school, but it is pro- vided that in cities and towns where- in the board of health maintains med- ical inspection as provided in the act such board shall appoint and assign such physiclans and the duties of the act can be transferred to the board of health or local health officer. Pro- vision is also made for the exam- ination of female children only after the parents have heen notified and given an opportunity to be present, and if they are not present a female school nurse shall be. It is to be noted that the act is not mandatory in that It declares such appointments may be made. The im- portant change is that in ‘erence to health authoritles, the duties of the school physician remaining unchanged except as to female children and the expense is borne in the manner of meeting ordinary school expenses. ‘Wherever defective sight or hearing or physical disability is found it must be reported to the parents. The pur- pose of the amending act is to im- prove the law which has been in ef- fect for the past elght year: GERMAN ATROCITIES, In view of the recent revelations as to Germa methods of naval war- fare there is added interest just at this time in the report of Viscount Bryce as chairman of a committee named to investigate the German atro- cities during the present ‘war, James Bryce was formerly ambassador to this country and while at the head of a commission named by one of the countries at war his presence thereon nevertheless gives added assurance of the faithfulness of the investizators and greater confidence in the findings in the report. The evidence on which the report is based shows that the killing of non- <“ombatants was carried out to an ex- tent for which no previous war be- tween nations claiming to be civilized furnishes any precedent. The report finds that the killing was done as part of a deliberate plan being the result actlon concerning Mexico will be al- lowed = to ~walt, especially if any radical change In the policy is decided upon as a result of this report. UTILIZING BACKYARDS. It is a well established fact that if the unused backyards of New England were utilized a most valuable off- set would be made to the living ex- penses. There is an extensive area which goes to waste solely through negligence. It fs the opinion of the federal commissioner of education that this 1s a matter which should be taken up throughout the country and there is no question but what there is an excellent opportunity for provid- ing good training and getting compen- sating results through interesting the school children in this very line of work in the small villages, towns and cities. Experiments show that with the pro- per instruction an average child be- tween the ages of six and twenty can produce on an eighth of an acre from $50 to $100 worth of vegetables. A third of the children in the city schools in the belief of the commis- sioner might easily produce $300,000,- 000 a year. Many of the children are at home during the summer ‘and eager for Just about as much work as the care of a small garden would furnish. It is a question how much effective work could be dome by the voungster of six but it is certain that those over ten could point with pride to their ac- complishments. It means a check to waste and for the children it means health, strength, Joy in work, habits of industry and an understanding of the value of money as measured in the terms of labor. The plan has been carried out in connection with schools with good results but there would ap- pear to be an excellent apportunity for individdal actjon. STILL PLENTY TO DO. The large fire loss each year throughout this country is always a cause for regret because of the fact that 80 much of it is needless. With the many fires and the heavy losses which follow through lack of preven- tive efforts and inadequate provision against fires there is not so much sur- prise in the statement which was made before the National Fire Protection assoclation at New York this week to the effect that the money expended in the United States each year for fire Josses is nearly ten times the per cap- ita average of six leading countries of Burope. When conditions which make this possible are fully realized it is not so surprising that In an accom- panying statement the speaker ‘who ‘was the chairman of the committee on fire prevention declared that it Was possible to cut this amount fully sev- enty five per cent. The results which can be obtainea | through prevention methods fully bear out such a claim. It is revealed through the inspection of buildings and plainly disclosed at fires. A fail- ure to appreclate the attainable ben- efits, a willingness to take a chance and a disposition to tolerate careless- ness are responsible to a large de- gree for the needless fires, but in view of the position which this country holds as the leader in fire losses there is excellent reason for everyone con- cerned to do his utmost to better the situation. We are displaying a serious inefficiency in comparison with the ef- ficiency shown by European countries in keeping down the fire losses. The national association is doing an cellent work in this matter but it must be thoroughly cognizant of the fact that it still has plenty to do. EDITORIAL NOTES, This is the day when the straw hat can be worn, even though the snow flies. The man on the corner says: Even the rattlesnake never strikes without first giving warning. The resignation of the Italian cab- inet, which was a peace cabinet, tells its own story. The importance of preparedness which ‘has been advocated so much of late is not so much belittled as it wa — e If Berlin regrets that so many Amer- can lives were lost it has the oppor- tunity to prevent it from happening again. From some appeals which are being sent to the White House, the presi- of orders in many places as admitted 5y subordinates, that there was no ground for justifying their severity on the plea of military necessity, that what has been Iooked upon as exag- gerations of conditions cannot be con- sidered as such, and that the evidence is the more shocking because the acts ‘were “perpetrated on the peaceful pop- ulation of an unoffending country which was not at war with its in- vaders but merely defending neutrality guaranteed by the invading power.” The report is one of which Germany has no reason to be proud. It reveals such inhumanity and injustice that there is less surprise at the manner in which lives were taken on the Lusi- tania, though none of the practices can be given the least bit of Justifi- cation, THE REPORT ON MEXICO. The report of Duval West, who was sent into Mexico by President Wilson to investigate existing conditions, comes back with a lot of interesting suggestions because they are diamet- rically opposed to the policy which is being followed at the present time, In the first place Mr, West s of the opinion as the result of his ob- servations that none of the leaders, Carranza, Villa or Zapata, is a man of ability who can be relied upon to bring Mexico out of its present state of af- fairs, establish peace, set up the need- ed reforms and maintain a proper government and in this there is much to bear out his belief. Tt has fre- quently been demonstrated that condl- tlons there are worse today than they under the guidance of the much dent is getting as much advice as an umpire. v e e The canal may not be guaranteed against slides, but there are more rea- If you want popularity, you must not knock—you must simpiy praise. The last thing to do is to venture to crit- icise. What is knocking? Asserting the truth or finding faWk? The truth has never been popular. - When they approach the truth the editors, preach- ers and the political speakers all have to soft-pedal, not because they wish to, but because the naked truth is what nobedy appears to desire. The truth, to suit, has to be dressed up to please the public taste like the dummy in a haberdasher’s show window. Billy Sunday does not increase his popular- ity when he tells the ministers adorn- ing his platform that all of them laid away in the cemetery would not be worth two respectable gravestones— he is simply tolerated by them for the good he is doing. The people force most public speakers into a cemetery silence upon most vital points. To be nice, man must make rose bushes without thorns, and it is far from being an easy or a satisfying task. It may be true that figures do not lie ;but when a liar arranges them they look as if they were straggling a long ways from the truth, very often. The figure 13 of itself gives no sign of being a hoodoo; but the world says it 1s, although this government started out with 18 states, with 13 stars on its flag and on its coins; and has flour- ished bevond comparison. Still there are Americans who would regard a mansion prepared for them in the skies as anything but heavenly if it was No. 12. To all Americans 18 ought to look inviting. By the rules of men odd numbers were made unlucky in the game of toss and take: "o0dds you lose— even I win!” Man has always been | able to queer the truth. If figures never lie it is curious bank commis- sioners find banks have a dependable surplus long after they have a deficit. Figures surely can make things look long that are short. There has to be an honest man back of figures to keep them true. A rogue can make 30 cents look like $30 without any pre- tense whatever of being a genius. You have doubtless heard men ask: “It there is & God, why does he not put an end to the horrors of war? Why duesn’t he strike dead the few that the many may be saved from slaugh- ter?” I cannot help asking myself why men do not remember the angelic an- them, “On earth, peace! Good will to men!” This is the wish of heaven. War s representative of the wilfulness of men. Almighty God is not destra ing men. The Jeaders of men are destroying men by leading them away from the light and the truth. We bave Divine authority for the state- ment that love is power! Love is peace! Love is happiness! What hate is tragedy discloses to communities and war illustrates to nations. God never appointed one man to tyranize over another, but showed Himself to us as our Heavenly Father and assured us we were brethren and sisters, be- cause we gere all of one blood and from one source. Man rejects the truth and because of selfishness and greed excels the beasts in ferocity and cruelty. It appears to be a fact that a per- son Aho does not know how to use himself well is unfitted to use others well. The person who constantly thinks of himsef as a miserable sinner instead of a son of God—who thinks he was born under an unlucky star instead of heir to every heavenly bliss; Who gets to thinking I can't instead of I can; is engaged in creating for himself "a depressing atmosphere which is the cause of irritating med- itations and a mental condition which gives rise to doubt and fear and sus- Picion, which bring him into disesteem and make enemies for him.instead of friends. This is self-abuse through ignorance of the power of the mind upon us for weal or for woe. Heaven showers its blessings upon us to make us cheerful. but we close our eyes and elect to be blind and wallow in our own mistakes and grouchiness. He Who treats himself well is always in a mood to treat others well, Those who have their minds set upon saving something for a rainy day, often fail, because of the dis tance of their focus. Concentrating our energies to achieve now is bet- ter than to fix our minds and effort upon the by and by. Why isn't it ju as well to save something for a sunny day? Money is good to have, but it can dispel neither gloom nor miser: A sunny day offers larger opportuni ties for gladness than a rainy day. Age and decreptitude have lost their heart for most of the things money can buy and they have more of the afflictions money cannot even soothe than they have any use for. Rasy street looks nice to the less fortu. nate, but disease and the Gleaner reaps a harvest there, just as regu- larly as he does anywhere else. Money is good to have in age: but it is bet- ter to have in the prime of life when the current is on the flood and one feels equal to anything inviting that may turn up. Although an American humorist said this it is no joke: “When a young man comes to me for advice, 1 first find out what he wants and then I sive it to him, and he always comes to the conclusion he and I are the two smartest men on earth.” This constitutes the art of winning friends. and keeping in with them; and it is one of the g0o-goo tricks of life. We all like to be donme, and well done! This is what made Barnum say: “The people like to be humbugged” and prompted some keen, observing bus -iness man to declare: A sucker is born every minute!” We ask for things we don't' want, and are ansry when We get them. The man who calls on you for advice would like to have you praise his judsment; and the friend sons than that for not sending the fleet to the Pacific. China may take stock in the belief that opportunity occasionally Knocks at the door but it must feel that it will have to be shown. The fellow who makes preparations a weel ahead of time to do his clean- up work realizes the importance of starting early to avoid the rush. The disposition of the legislature to approve the suggestion that an exper- imental farm for inebriates be started here is a wise one. The matter should pass. ‘While Germany’s action on the American note commands attention, all eves are also being centered on the outcome of the Transylvania's pas- sage through the war zone, The new note to Germany tells that government that it is wrong, that it is wrong according to its own pre- vious attitude, and it remains to see whether it will admit it. Inasmuch as the last representative of the president to visit Mexico de- nounces all the present leaders, V. Huerta must be chuckling gleefully in his new Long Island home, fo et g The determination of the legislature to transfer the office of the compen- sation commissioner from Willimantic to Norwich must be looked upon as meeting the needs of the district. who invites You to criticise his literary work will be pleased if you say you feel incompetent to do it. What a bad habit it is to be a fisher for com- pliments and how disappointing: a practice. There is nothing surer of bringing condemnation than frankness, We have lost our warbling tenants of the bird house in the Sheldon pear tree, Two happy bluebirds took it on the Thursday following Easter Monday and before night a pair of audacious English sparrows appeared to dispute their right to it. The bluebirds are quiet, peace-loving birds, but they in a dignifled and persistent way stood by their home for 19 days before they quit. The sparrows know the value of organization and one rainy day five of them came and challenged the blue- birdsto battle on the ground, and they acquitted themselves nobly, pitted two to five in a combat in which they won without killing or maiming their ene- mies; but these sparrows seem to have adopted the old motto of the insurance companies—soc et tu em—and they lived up to it. " A robin who was en- tranced by the old site for a nest at the top of the tree fought the blue- birds one day, and a catbird gave the pair battle on another day. These birds did not come back, but the spar- rows had a real Prussian campaign and they wore the bluebirds out. What do We know about the competitions of life? The sparrows have the house and we shall tolerate them as unwel- come tenants without song or beauty. It beats all what an interest the malcers of patent medicines take in our health. It is real good of them to tell us that “the cost of doctoring (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) It is doubtful if any modern Gray would be moved to write an Elogy in the little, forgotten burial-ground back from the post road running through Ofohegan; but there s the history of a vanishing rece in the sunken graves and few quaint, high- shouldered head-stones. For this is part of the government reservation of the once mighty frive of Mohegan fIndlans, whose grea chief, Uncas is buried under an im- posing granite shaft erected by the. town of Norwich on Sachem street. But jn the old burying-ground thers is no intrusion of moderniem. On the moss-grown stone is record- ed the simple tragedy set forth in rough lettering: In mem. of Joshua Ashbow ‘one of the Royal Family who was drowned at New Tondon August 21st. 1797 aged 22 yrs. Nearby, is one of the most pPreten- tious stones in the enclousre, marked as follows: In mehory of the Rev. Samuel Ashbow one of the Royal Family who died Nov 7 1795 in the 7Tth year of his life This stone is elaborately carved, with the ancient head, cherubs’ wings, etc. A less pretentious stonme is lettered: In mem of Hannah Ashbow widow of the Rev. S. Ashbow who died July 10 1881 aged 85 yrs. On another stone, that of Martha Uncas, who died Oct. 8th, 1859, aged 98 vears and 8 months, there is the verse: She lives. Why That she from She lives for us, She lives with shed we tears of woe earth is risen. she lives in lovi God in heaven. A very old stone bears the inscrip- tion: In_mem of Joseph Ashbow who died Feb 18 1792 aged 70 yrs. A rare Indian name is recalled by the memorial to Charles Wyyougs More precise is one to the memory of Mr. Henry Shantuk who died May 20 1799 aged 25 yrs. Somewhat modern is enother stone which reads: Mrs. T. Quidgeon died sure to keep vour health good In these times as never before. The war is still raging—one one knows what will happen or what the result, One thing is sure, you need good heaith above all things as conditions are today. You need health right now for your spring work, etc., etc.” You bet we do, and We are not going to try to get it out of a boille. I thank the parties for sending me such a splendid letter, but I have what they so highly commend without the use of a bottle. The bot- tle isn# such a builder up of the sys- tem; but it has an established reputa- tion for depleting one's resources. The medicine most of us need is more ex- ercise in the open air, more moments with the axe, the bucksaw or the spade. We must exert energy to get energy—the price of health really is activity. e e ——— I Sunday Morning Talk I A PLACE IN THE SUN. Germany wants it, Russia wants it, England wants it—everybody wants it and ought to have it. We all need to set out of gloom and shadow and into regions of light and warmth, where we can be our best and do our best. A certain wise old pussy cat taught me a lesson one cold winter morning. I watched her circle around the room half a dozen times til] she found the one spot of sunlight that came from out a troubled sky. Finding a single narrow streak of brightness on the carpet, Puss lay down in ths warm zone and purred contentedly. It would be well for us if we were always as sensible as that. There is generally a spot of light in the most dismal situation if we are of a mind to find it. We can live in the light of the sun if we really determine to do 50, Nearly everyone has some things in enviroment or experience that are S0 wrought into the warp and woof of human experience that they cannot be ignored. As Dr. Luther Gulick has said, “There is probably no one person in the world but has tragedy enough and pain enough straight along to warrant pretty complete discourage- ment, and I imagine there is no per- son who is so perfectly balanced in health, so perfectly adjusted by na- ture that there are not times when it is necessary to hold himself by abso- lute will power. NORWICH BULLETIN, SATURDAY, MAY 15, Y915 OLD-TIME EPITAPHS Sl F Nov 17 1879 7 aged 84 yrs. Forever with the Lord Amen, so let it be Life from the dead is in that word 'Tis immortality Ancther stone may Bear the tribute & sorrowing widower, since it reads: Sarah A. Smith died Nov. 3 1868 -rod 62 yrs. Jesus my wnll to heaven is gone On the opposit side of Thames River is even an older burial-ground, the Brewster Cemetery, at Brewsters Neck. The old buriai-ground near Preston City is very ancient; but the Brewster plot ante-dates it. In the latter cemetery is buried Mrs. Lucretia Brewster, who came to Plymouth, Mass. on the Mayflower, in 1620. She was the pioneer of the family, since her husband, Jonathan Brewster, did_not leave the fatherland for the New World until the following year. They came to New London in 1648 or '49, moving to Brewster's Neck in 1650. Mr. Brewster, who was a son of Elder William Brewster, died in 1661 and his wife in 1671 The foot-stone which marked the grave of Jonathan Brewster is still in existence and its lettering can be dis- tinctly read. With the progress of time, it is evi- dent that reformed epelling began to be favored in that vicinity; for on old-time stones marking the last rest- ing places of a goodman and his wife in the succeeding generation may be read: Here lies the body of Captain Ben- jamin Bruster, who died April 14, 1710, aged 80;' and on another stone, evidenfly that of his wife, Here lies the body of Mrs. Bruster, ho died May 9, 1709. It will be noted that this is just 206 years ago . this month, which gives a good idea of the age of these quaint stones. Other inscriptions noted include: Here lies the body of Mr. Jonathan Bruster, who died November 20, 1704, aged 40. Then the spelling raverts to the more familiar form; for the observer reads: In memory of Joseph Brewster, who died October 15, 1770, in the 73rd year of his age. And nearby, Here lies ye body of Mrs. Dorothy wife of Mr. Joseph Brewster. She died April 30, who died 1779, in ye 77th year of her age. Jan. 14 1837 Another and qufte pretentious stone aged 29 is lettered: In memory of Mrs. Sarah Brewster, wife of Captain Jabez Brewster, who departed this life June the 18, A. D. 1773, in the 23rd year of her age. A young wife, possibly a bride; but the mossy stone reveals no more of her ‘history! Some of these Brewsters lived past the Scriptural allotment of three score Yyears and ten; but others, it is evi- dent, were cut 'off as the flower of the grass; for there is a stone, In mem- ory of Miss Mary, daughter of Jona- than Brewster and Lucy, his wife. She died December 31, 1778, in ye 24th year of her age. And not far away is a stone re- cording the early death of her moth- er's namesake; to wit, In memory of Miss Dolly Brewster, daughter of Captain Jabez and Dolly Brewster, who died Nov 11, 1810, in the 20th year of her age. Lord, I commit my soul to thee Accept the sacred trust Receive this nobler part of me And watch my sleeping dust. Youthfu] Miss Dolly’s parents sleep near their girlie; for on the old stones one reads: In memory of Captain Jabez Brew- ster, who died May 12, 1802, in the 56th yvear of his age. In memory of Mrs. Dolly Brewster, relic of Captain Jabez Brewster, who died Feb. .16th 1817, in the 84th year of her age. Another couple memorialized by ‘which read: In memory of Mr. Nathan Brewster, Who died Aug. 30th. 1817, aged 83 years. In memory of Mrs. Cynthia Brew- ster, wife of Mr. Nathan Brewster, Wwho died Nov. 29. 1814, aged 30 years, who died young is the nearby stones, Tho' it may seem of little weight Which of us goes before For surely we shall shortly meet Never to part no more. Another sample of the original Brewster's Neck poesy appears on the headstone to Mr. Nathan Brewster, husband of Mrs. Cynthia, who died Aug. 30th, 1817, aged 35 years. The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish, tho' they sleep in dust. THE DICTAGRAPH. Stories of the War Art Follows the War This year's Royal Academy Exhibi- tion of Paintings and Sculptures in London, shows in marked fashion the presence of a European war. A con- siderable proportion of the exhibits deal with war subjects, although the critics find little that they regard as of lasting merit. Almost the only work universally gloom, however. Grand Banke. madam?” was the reply, here.” “There Is beauty rectly toward wholesomeness.” Anyone can who ‘determines to do s hibit a glad countenance heart. as_religion in the age on." toward a right inner state. and his petition for one for us all. If T have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness, If I have moved among my ce If beams from hfl,pgy human eyes Have moved me not; Books and my food, Knocked on my Lord, Thy most is only a small part of the cost of bad health.” Just read this warning: “Be And stab my spirit broad awake, THE ngx«. It is not necessary to dwell in the “Is it always foggy here?” asked a lady passenger of the captain, as the ship was crossing the “How should I know, “I don’t live It is the privilege of any of us to move on to the spots touched by the sun. As Dr. Gulick further says: enough in the world and enough sanity in life, so that if ‘we deliberately put our minds on that beauty and sanity we shall reach di- Praised in the prest review of the opening day is by a Belgian sculptor, M. Egide Rombeaux. It is a statue of more than life size, entitled “Prem- ler Morning.” The critic of the Morn- ing Telegraph says, without more en- thusiasm than the others “outside the charmed circle where Rodin reigns su- preme, no sculptor more remarkable in originality and poetry of conception ‘has been seen of late vears in a pub- lic_exhibition. This Belgian work leads some of the critics to speculate as to the pos- get a place in the sun Will has a very great deal to do with the matter, We may resolve for one thing to ex- and that, in itself, will help us to keep a glad There was philosophy as well exhortation of the old hymn, “And put & cheerful cour. A Tight exterlor will help Surely, no one ever -chose -bright- ness_more resolutely than Stevensom, himself is a good And shown -no glorious morning face, if morning skies, and summer rain sullen heart in vain— Dpointed pleasure take sibility_of the war bringing about a groat Renaissance of art, literature, and music, in the devastafed parts of Belgium and Northern France. The critic of the Post declares that the only real plece of artistic inspiration thus far produced by the war is the poem “Chantons, Belges, Chantons”, written by Emile Cammaerts, a Bel- gian. British poets, musicians, and painters, he says, have felt as yet very little of the humansor spiritual im- pulses of the war. “Our artists” he explains, “In common with our liter- ary men and musicians, apparently re- gard the war from a purely profes- sional viewpoint. They seem to lack the stimulating experience evident in M, Cammaerts’ poem.. If a new and Tiobler era of artistic thought and ex- pression s to dawn In the' course of the war, it ‘will begin in France or Flanders or in the other countries where the war's serfousness has been impressed more polgnantly on the minds and hearts of men and women. The wanton destruction of old cities and glorious arohitecturgl monuments Taised in ages of higher faith and acs complishment should_quicken the gr- Help the Stomach Digest Your Food When the stomach fails to di- gest and that L eaten, the bowels becoma?‘. Wwith a mass of waste and refuse that ferments ~and generates Ppoisons that are gradually forced into the causing distress and often serious illness. Most_people naturally object to the drastic cathartic and pur- gative agents that shock the system. A mild gentle laxati positive in it effect and that il Quickly relieve constipation bDr. gllflw‘afl" Syruj P‘D‘a. sold y_druggists at fifty_cents and :::1. dollar a Botde. It &-— not pe or cramp, but acts easily and pleasantly ‘and is therefore the most satisfactory remedy for children, women and_elderly persons. For & free trial bottle write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 452 ‘Washington St., Monticello, flis. —_— tistic temperament of our Allies and bring about & Renaissance.” One of the popular war pictures in the new Academy will be Herbert Ol- ivier's “Where Beigium Greetéd Bri- taln” It is a large canvas portray- ing a frontier post on the road from Dunkirk to Furnes on December 4 of ast year. King George of England, in neat’ khaki and polished boots, is alighting ~ from his automobile to greet the King of the Belgians, while the staff stand rigidly at salute and the chauffeur casts an Interested eye upon the Belgian King. Another side of war, somewhat re- moved from the battlefield, is seen ih John Lavery’s “Wounded: London Hospital.” It portrays a long line of hospital wards, with a strapping Gor- don Highlander in the foreground, his wounded arm being dressed by a Red Cross nurse. The Serious business of war is keenly made evident by the surgical implements on the glass table, and by the helpless figure of a band- aged soldier in the mearest cot, while @ less tragic touch is felt In the con- valescent warrlor smoking happily in a corner and in the warm spring sun- light which pours through an open door. The picture seems to be still un- finished, owing to the fact that the artist caught “Flanders flue”, a form of influenza common among the troops Wwho have been too long in trenches. He had to leave the hospital where he was painting this work and go to the seaside to recover. The same artist contributes another war picture_entitled “Armored Car Squadron.” “W. L. Wyllis also has two war pictures, “Fighting Line from Ypres to the Sea” and “Bringing in the Wounded Lion.” The latter is so startling realistic that one critic ques- tions the propriety of exhibiting it. “If this picture is founded on person- al observation” says the critle, “or on duly ascertained fact, it furnishes evidence as to the state of the glant cruiser Lion after the North Sea Bat- tle which no writer would have been allowed to reveal.” Another brilliant war_picture is Napier Hemy's “Black Flag.” shows the pirates of a hundred years ago at work. A queer deckless ves. sel, armed with cannon_of brass and crowded with pirates salling openly under the black flag, attacks with ap- parent success, a big schooner which is Zoing at full sail in vain effort to es- cape. Norman Wilkinson’s “Battle Cruis- ers” portrays the British Invincible and Inflexible engaging the enemy in the Falkland Islands action. A glimpse of the fighting lines in France is given in John Charlton's “French Artillery Crossing the Flooded Alsne” and his “Retreat from the Marne.” “Comrades” by John Charlton, rep- resents a British soldier exposing him- self to the bullets of the enemy out of regard for his dead comrade, a Frendh soldier. “The Strongest” by Charles E. Stewart, is a. picture of the Belgium of today. A small Belgian boy, being dragged down the street by his mother, turns to stick his tongue out maliciously at the German soldier, Who stands with a puzzled look, un- gertain whether to resent or ignore the insult. General Botha's Story. In warning a camp of soldiers in training to be always on the lookout for mines and similar devices, in South Africa, General Botha told the fol- lowing story of the recent fighting: “During “the enemy’s retreat, the burghers were crowded around a water hole. Below them lay buried tons of dynamite, while in a cave nearby was @ single man left behind by the foe to discharge the mine. While they were quenching their thirst he made his preparations to blow them up. “First he pulled one wire, and it broke; a second wire got caught and could ‘not be fired. He had a third wire also, on the opposite side of the cave, but just before he could put it into action, somebody mnoticed the wires and traced them to the cave, cutting them before any harm could be done and taking the mine-setter pris- oner. Too Inhuman. Asphyxiating gas as a weapon of war is not original with the Germans. Military writers here recall that Lord Dundonald submitted the plan of smoking out the enemy with sulphur fumes o various British war commit- tees from 1812 and 1846. Dundonald during the Crimean War asserted sul- phur smoke would reduce the fortress of Sebastopol in four hours but the scheme was rejected by the committee as to inhuman. OTHER VIEW POINTS One of the most encouraging bits of news that has come out since the de- struction of the Lusit is the dis- patch from Bradford, England, to the effect that a deputation of prominent German citizens residing there called on the lord mayer to present a writ- ten protest against “inhuman methods employed by the German government in waging Wwar against non-combat- ants, including women and children, which culminated in the sinking of the Lusitania.” There is no doubt that in many homes of Germany, back of the trenches and the battlefields, the same sentiment is felt, if not actually uttered—Waterbury Republican. Aside from the catching of the mi- gratory shad, the oyster industry, one of the great and growing occupations of our people, is already badly effect- ed and seriously imperiled by this con- dition of pollution, which contaminates end corrupts the waters of all our coasts. _The oyster industry is entitled to protection, indeed it pays for pro- tection which it does not receive, But the eyes of the people who make our laws have been opened at Jast to the situation and its requirements and an effort has been made to remedy the all too obvious evil of the pollution of streams in this state, of which the waning shad catch is only one of the undeniable evidences. — Bridgeport Standard. But the inevitable is coming. Sun- day) amateur sport and free shows will not prove to be enough. They will only attract. and interest those Wwho do not constitute a problem in society. But professional sport, and paid ad- mission and - theatrical and movie “This | Straw H The T You can purchase a BRIGHAM, HOPKINS €D, BALTIMORE, MO, We show here but a few of the new shapes and urge you to call and allow UNUSUAL SNAP AND STYLE DOMINATE THIS ENTIRE LINE, Thaulorhnenlofbnid-lnd:hmcompr'-e?ml- Bankoks, Sennitts, Split Swiss as well as nmpleuoflfighartinhltn_ukinqltmdumpficu. E JAS. C. MAGPHERSON 291 Main St., Opp. Chelsea Savings Bank and Mackinaws. Straw Hate here at $1.00, $1.50 $2.00, $2.50 $3.00 and up us to place before you ex- shows on the same principle, are the only things that solve the problem for the great body of citizens. They de- mand them and society will be relieved of injurious pressure when the demand is supplied. These performances, out- doors or in, ought to be controlled and regulated, by censor and police, &0 as to protect the rights of others In an orderly day of freedom from work and of rational recreation. —Waterbury American. The Iiberal Sunday idea’ séems to be having hard sledding in the general assembly and it is more than likely that it will die quietly between the house and the senate because the members of the house will have none of it. Naturally this idea does not ap- peal to the residents of citles wherel greater latitude prevails in regard to the observance of the Sabbath than in the smaller towns but it must be re- membered that the cities do not rule Connecticut. The small town represen- tatives do that and every once in a while they demonstrate the fact. And in the present instance they stand for the Puritan Sabbath and make it stay put.—Ansonia Sentinel. Ice can be manufactured artificially and sold at a profit at a scale of prices ranging from 40 cents per 100 Ibs, in small quantities, to 15 cents per hun- dredweight in carload lots. This, at any rate, is the experience of the first municipal ice plant in America, located at Weatherford, Oklahoma. Since the success of the Weathford proposition a number of other municipal ice plants have started at widely separated points points all over the country and so far as can be learned all are op- erating with considerable success. The purpose of the municipal plant is not to create a monopoly, but to wipe out a monopoly. Ice is too important and too necessary to the public welfare, to be_controlled by a private combination. —Bridgeport Telegram. Even if the war in Europe costs $10,- 000,000,000; if it destreys 5,000,000 hu- man lives and devastates the fairest countries of the world it will be a small price to pay compared with the value of total abstinence among those nations for sueceeding generations.” “This is not the ravings of an extremist carried away by the situation which the war has been the means of reveal- ing. It is the claim of Col. L. Mervin Maus of the United States army medi- ca corps. Certainly no maudlin senti- mentality attaches to this deslerstion It is the produc® 62 fhw hard headed men 6 affalrs who talks of what he knows and on account of whose ex- perience the claim carries weight— Meriden Record. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety Libau, recently reported captured by the German invaders of the Russian Baltic Provinces, where the Russian Kiel or Brooklyn navy yvards are lo- cated, is one of the important naval and commercial ports of the Tsar's Kingdom, and a city whose rapid growth during the last few years has given an earnest of the remarkable future in store for the mighty Musco- vite Empire. It forms the subject of the study in war geography issued to- day by the National Geographic So- clety. The eketch of this prosperous port, as yet little known to Americans, ibau is one of the first of Russia’s naval bases, a strongly fortified port and a weli-supplied arsenal. The Russian government completed the ex- tensive and powerful defensive works that enclose the porg during 1893-1906. The naval harbor is'north of ¢he com- mercial harbor, though the fortifica- tions were planned to imclude both barbors. The port is prepared to build, equip and commision naval fieets, “Russlans know and have a pride in Libau for its military strength and for its commercial enterprise and progress. It is the metropolis o Couriand, and, With its fleets enjoying free passage of the Baltic_Sea, Libau has promise to become a Russian Bremen, or, even, & Russian Hamburg. It is the home port it splendid advanteges in its competi- tion with the other ports of Russia. “The annual export of Libau total as high as $30,000,000, while Its imports have soared to well beyond $10,000,000, The leading articles of export are oats, wheat, rye, butter, egge, spirits, flax, linseed, ofi-cake, pork, timber, horses and petroleum. A great part of the vast golden tonnage of butter from Siberia_and the nearer_interior that takes its way into Great Britain, France, and Germany, during times of peace went - through Libau. Ldbau's imports _are mainly. - menbfactured £00ds, and modern Russia, demanding the conveniences and sanitary necessi- ties of the Western world, has been bringing stores of these = things in through Libau. “Millions of dollars have bedn ex- panded in the harbor development of the city, and, just before the outbreak of the war, the government hd under consideration plans for expending many millions more for extensive im- provements. The railway connections of Libau are good, Moscow, Petrograd, Orel and Kharkov being bound to the port by adequate railways. “Side by side with the commercial strength that the city has developed, there has been laid the foundations for a_ great industry. The establishment of an important naval station here has done much to encourage the industrial advance. Libau possesses large mod- ern factorfes for the manufacture of explosives, machinery, belts, &afls, Topes, and iron products. It has other important factorfes for the produc- tion of colors, furniture, matches, agri- cultural machinery, tin-plate, tobacco products, as well as soap-works, oil- mills, cork and linoleum factories and flour_mills. = “In appearance Libau is new and it is also solidly successful. It is built of stone, with fine gardens, and laid in wide streets. The town is angular, or Anglo-Saxon and German in cut rath- er than Slav. Too, there are few evi- dences to the characteristic Siavonie in its architecture. The steep gables, the square and diligently-proportioned lines of the Germsn building are ev- erywhere visible, there being little of the fanciful of the Slavonic builder, of the upturned, onion-shaped towers and other maze of florid complexities of Slavonic architectural composition. “As in the case of other Baltlc of- ties, Libau is merely a stepdaughter of Russia, not a blood descendant. Its population of some 70,000 is Germap, Jewieh, Lithuanian, with just a smaij sprinkling of Russian administrators, Bafocs ti wer, the street signs of the ey were in German, Russian and Let- tish. “Canals, jammed with shipping, add- ed life to the city of before the war, Libau has been popular as a fashion- able seaside resort among the Rus. sians, and many Germans from the neighboring German provinces have followed in increasing numbers here each summer in the wake of theiw Russian neighbors. The city was held by the Order of the Brethen of the Sword for a long time. In 1701, it wag captured by Charles of Sweden, and passed to Russia with Courlan in 95, * BAR PINS PENDANTS RINGS and - . BROOCHES