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10 T0 STOP SALE OF DRUGS TO SOLDIERS Many Arrests Have Been Made and Convictions Ob- tained of Natives of Panama—Between 1€0 and 150 U. S. Soldiers Had Formed the Cocaine:Habit. Panama, June 1 (Correspondence of The Associated Press).—Following an investigation ordered by Brigadier General Clarence R. Edwards, U. S. A., : the Panama canal troops, s have been made and a number of convictions obtained of na- tives of Panama for selling cocaine and other drugs to United States soldiers stationed on the canal. Several sol- diers have been arrested and will be tried for using the drugs and probably will be given severe sentences for the deterrent influence such punishment may have the many recruits that at to the isthmus. ion was begun a short n the United States troops, following riots, undertook a separate patrol of the districts of both Panama and Colon frequented by the soldiers when on leave from the camps on the canal zone. It was then learned where soldiers were obtaining cocaine and becoming addicted to its use. It is not possible to obtain drugs on the canal zone because of the severe pen- alty attached to their sale and use within United States territory. Addicted to Cocaine Habit. Captain F. W. Coleman, U. S. commandi he patrol company, early in his iny tion found that many of the habitues of the tenderloin dis- trict of Panama not only were ad- dicted to the cocaine habit but also were acting as agents for several of t drug stores in the city in the drug. He obtained evi- e showing the connection between the small peddlers and the large ven dors. He ascertained also that in many inste es the soldiers and others can easily obtain the drug direct from leading drug stores. Soldiers Become Drug Fiends. It has been learned that between 100 to 150 soldiers have alreadd formed the habit and that its use has been grow- ing very rapidly, especially among the recruits who have recently come to the isthmus. Most of these young soldiers are from the interior of the United States. No cases have been found among the soldiers of the 29th infantry, which formerly was stationed near New York city and thus probably have come in contast with the results of the drug habit. Distressing Features. One-of the distressing features, ac- cording to the military authorities, is the lack of adequate co-operation on the part of the mational police authori- ties of Penama. They seem to be will- ing to arrest end fine the smal! ped- dlers, who are mostly negroes, but un- willing to make an example of the druggists, all of whom are influential men in the community. Captain Cole- man obtained conclusive evidence that one of the leading druggists of Pana- ma was making a specialty of the co- caine traffic, but owing to the apathy and unwillingness of the Panama au- thorities was unable to obtain ade- quate punishment. Only Nominal Punishment Provided. The laws of Panama do not provide for more than a nominal punishment upon convict: They specify a sen- tence of 29 days in jail, which may be tripled if, in the discretion of the mayor of Panama, such additional pun- ishment is warranted. Heretofore the drug store owners and large vendors of habit-forming drugs have escaped with light fines. The canal zone laws provide a severe penalty for the vend- ing and use of drugs and few cases have arisen among the white canal workers. A detailed report of the investiga- tion has been prepared by Major H. A. White, U. S. A, of the judge advocate general's department, and sent to the war department. JUNE WEEK GAIETIES AT NAVAL ACADEMY. Mark L. Sperry, Jr., of Waterbury, One of the High Stand Men. Annapolis, Md., June 1.—June week, with its usual giaties and its series of formal functions woven about the com- ing of the members of the naval com- mittees of congress to inspect the in- stitution, opened at the naval academy tod: The members of the board of arrived before noon and in- drill. Graduation exercises will be held Friday, and the graduates will receive their diplomas from Sec- retary of the Navy Dani It was learned unofficiall the following is the first ten men in the gr e first fi < K y today that tanding of the duating class, ve of whom are , Washington, ormick, Berryville, Nelson, Jr., Peekskill, . Tovey, Watseka, IIL , Jr., Waterbury, Con: Baler, Washington, D. Nelson, Minneapolis, Minn. C. Davis, Lincoln, Neb.; Wesley J. Shofner, and John McC. Maxley, Mutiny on American Bark Normandy. New York, June 1.—Captain Marke- of the arrived toda por south > ‘help quell a mutiny among the cr One man had been shot, Captain Markeschlaeger id. After qui s the trouble the boarding par t the bark, which proceeded for erpool. Broad Brook.—Thomas Walsh has been promoted to a place in the sig- 1 tower at Hartford with the New rk, New Haven & Hartford railroad and will take up his duties there as soon as he is relieved as station agent at Scuth Windsor. Baby Coverea With Sores Physician said Perfumed Pow- Here’s proof and baby’s picture “‘I am sending you & picture of my little niece, Edi& ‘White. When only ten days old she was completely covered with little festers or sores and our physician said itwas caused g a perfumed powder they were using and told them to stop using this powder and use Comfort Powder, which we did. It quickly healed the sores and her skin does not show a blemish. I have been a nurse for a number of years and can highly recommend Sykes’ Comfort Powder.” —Margaret E. Farley, Lowell, Mass. Not a plain talcum powder, but a highly medicated preparation unequalled for nursery sickroom uses, to heal and prevent chafing, itching, all skin soreness. At Drug and Dep’t Stores, 25¢. THE COMFORT POWDER CO., Boston, Mass, GOVERNOR WALSH ON RAILROAD LEGISLATION. Vetoes Two Bills for Financing the New Haven Road. Boston, June 1.—Besides vetoing two bills providing for railroad financing, both of which were sought by the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road, Governor Walsh also sent to the legislature today a bill which he claim- ed would bring about harmony in the railroad financial legislation in this and neighboring states. The bill was sug- gested by the public service commis- sion in its annual report last winter. All three measures dealt with the issuance of stocks and bonds by rail- roads. One of the bills which the gov- renor vetoed specifically validated cer- tain securities of the New Haven com- pany. The other two were general in their character. Governor Walsh claimed that the measure which he sent to the legislature was not ex- posed to the objections which caused hlfil to veto the general stock and bond bill. THE ADRIATIC SEA. Upon It South European Supremacy Has Been Contested For Many Yeare. (Special to The Bulletin.) l Washington, D. C., June 1L—“Once more the peoples upon the opposite shores of the Adriatic Sea are in duel Wwith _one another for the mastery of the Mediterranean—just as neighbors across this arm of the land-locked sea have always clashed—for upon the Adriatic South European supremacy has been contested since the days when Rome fell heir to the sea-power of Athens and Carthage. Over this Rome met the pirates of waterwa Istria and Dalmatia, aggressive Teu- tribes and pressing hordes of E over it the Empire of the East s expeditions to attack the Em- pire of the Wes and Austria a gen- ion ago waged war with a disinte- ated Italy over Adriatic paths and for the suzerainty of the Sea.” After giving the above brief review of this historic theatre for the trans- port of invading armies and the actions tonic of battle fleets, youngest of the war theatres in the present FEuropean struggle, around whose shores the in- terest of Southern European battles Wil center through the months to come, the bulletin issued today by the Na- tional Geographic Society continues in resentation of the geographic de- of the Adriatic Sea: The Adriatic Sea is 500 miles long and about 13) miles wide in its great- est width. It separates the Italian and Balkan peninsulas as far as Brindisi and the lower coast of Albania, and ends at the Strait of Otranto, by which it communicates with the Ionian Sea. Its average width is 110 miles, but the islands off the Dalmatian and Istrian coasts decrease this average to about 90 miles. The sea is very deep, varying from 500 feet in the north to more than 4,000 feet in its southern area. “The Austrian, or eastern coast, is very broken, strewn with fine harbors, and lined with numerous rocky is- lands, which belong to Istria and Dal- matia. This eastern coast is of great naval and commercial value, well formed for the upbuilding of great, thriving ports, and, by reason of its most continuously mountainous shores, its deep gulfs and bays, and its screen- ing fringe of rockv islands, advantage- ously defended. The western, or Ital- ian coast, on the other hand, is low, sandy, and almost unbroken. It lacks good harbors and offers foew natural advantages for defense. “The commercial importance of the Adriatic Sea throughout the Dark Age and the Middle Ages was very ~reat. This importance was somewhat im- paired by the opening of the all-sea route to India and by the determined growths of the Dutch and English mer- chant marines. With the opening of the Suez Canal and the commercial free from poisonous with headaches, backache, ural sufferings. All know this famous remedy few doses will make imm cause a cleanse system an relies on Beecham’s Pills, condition, not The Woman Who Takes the proper halp to keep her digestion right and her system accumulations, women who BEEGHAM'S PILLS _to be the proper help for them. A x ate difference and occasional use will tl};ermanent lmé)rovel_nent in health and strength. They e purify the blood and every woman who 0] with quieter nerves nndm{righter spirits, but she Enjoys A Clear Complexion Dircctions of Specisl Value to Women with Every Box. 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The water of this sea therefore is very salty. Navigetion is generally safe, although there are some dangerous points upon the eastern coast, and sSuden, northerly squalls often lash the waters with terrific force against the rock-bound coast. , “The. principal guifs of the Adriatic are those of Manfredonia on the west, systems of screening Adriatic receives but Quarnero on the northeast. There are numerous and admirable bay harbors, extending from Fiume and culminating in the wonderful land-locked harbor, the Bocche di Cattaro. The Strait of Otrento, where Italy approaches near- est to the Balkan mainland, is 45 miles wide. Here is the magnificent Alban- ian_harbor, Aviona, over which Italy aspires to win control.” Kinsale's Great Dates. Kinsale, made for ever memorable by the tragedy of the Lusitania, keeps a modest place in the history of Ireland. It was here that Don Juan’'s fleet landed 3000 men to join hands with O’Nelll, out of which landing grew the story that the cottages at World’s End are “still inhabited by the descend- ants of Spaniards.” ~ It was from Kin- sale that James H. on March 2, 1689, Venice.and Triest on the north, and. % = landed, and from Kinsale he sailed aft- er his defeat at the battle of the Boyne. Thirty years ago the house in which he spent the night before his departure was still in existence. Kin- sale was greater in the\past than now, for we read that “of all the Irish ports it was the best situated for in- tercourse with France and that in the town of Marlborough found a thous- and barrels of wheat and eighty pipes of claret.”—London Chronicle. Sediment in the Water Main. It has only been recently observed that the efficiency of the flow of water in a city main is very much restrict- ed by the sedimentation and in- crustation which takes place in them. Because of the slowness with which these deposits occur, it is not readily noticeable but the difference i e LD UNs e e quickly discernable by making note of the character of the stream issuing therefrom before and after cleaning. In the case of an elght-inch main in Camden, N. J., the capacity was found to have been cut down less than one quarter. Another illustration. may be derived from the experience of Belle Plaine, Ia. Here is a cast iron Wwater pipe nearly a mile long and six inches in dlameter had a capacity when clean of 335 gallons a minute, With a pressure of sixty pounds. This pipe became 80 clogged that a pressure of 125 pounds was necessary In order to deliver 248 gallons a minute. There are several mechanical means of ac- complishing thi stask. One consists of a nine-foot device which is placed in the pipe and sent along by pressure Dbehind it, and as it moves the deposit is cut by the many revolving knives which it is made. A flow of water ig maintained and the released material is washed away as it is detached— Indianapolis New: Legends from Tenedos. Tenedos, so frequently mentioned in news from the Dardanelles, is an is- land whose name. every schoolboy knows because it is mentioned at the beginning of Homer’s “Iliad” and Vir- firg neid,” instead of at the end. Nestor’s handmaid, fair-tressed Heka- mede, who mixed a posset of Pramnian wine for wounded Machaon and her war-worn mester, and'served it from the old man's dove-cup, was a native of Tenedos, which thus produced thej first trained hospital nurse in history. —DManchester Guardian. ° The entire world produces 000,000 fionl'Bf coal "”‘““‘“"} 1,000,« ~ 4