Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 20, 1915, Page 4

lqilfliffliflh Bulletin i nusd @u\uiizé 119 YEARS OLD ton price 1Zc a week; G0 & “"‘lunlh; $6.00 u year. Entered at the Postofice at ‘Con: as ond-cless matter. Telepnone Calln: Bulletin Business Office 488. Bulietin Editorial Rooms 35-8. Bulletia Job Office 35-2. \Willtmantte Ofice, Room 3 Mwurrax Eullding, Telephone 310. Norwich, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1915. Norwica. The Builetin The Bulietin has the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Neewich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of ths 4,053 houses in Norwich, and re2d by minety- ¢hree per cent. of the people. In all of these places it is consid- cred the local daily. Eastern Connecticut nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and <ixtv rural free delivery routes. The as forty~ Bulletin is sold i every on all of the R. F. D. n Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average .. 4412 ---5,920 ss00ssssescessasssen: —_— AMERICA’S PREPARATION. The fact that this country recos- nizes the need of making. proper pro- visions for adequate defense strikes Lord Rosebury of England as deplor- able. - He does not look at the situa- * tion from the standpoint of this coun- try, but from that of the nations of Europe and laments the fact that such preparedness means greater expendi- tures by those nations. His own words are: “I see nothing more dishearten- ing than the announcement: recently made that the United States-—the one great country left in the world free from the hideous, bloody burden of war—is about to embark upon the 1905, average . tection since it was within th ritorial limits of Sweden and running between the vessels, the Swedish ves- sel, determined to prevent a wrong which was about to be' committed, cleared for action. This apparemtly brought the German commander to & realization of what he was about to do. He had no business attempting such a thing in Swedish waters and knowing that he was in the wrong drew away and disappeared. It was a duty which Sweden was called upon to perform, but hed that naval officer not been alert it is probable that there would have been one less British ship and an unjustified disregard for Swed- ish neutrality. EUROPE'S WAR SUFFERERS. The situation which confronted the 3| tramplea nations of Europe a year ago was appalling. It was widely recs ognized and the opportunity for assist- ing humanity was utilized through- out the civilized world. Large was the response and the good which was done has been reflected in the words of appreciation which have since been sent to those who so generously re- sponded. Aside from that there was a satisfaction in knowing that the impending suffering had to a certain oxtent been prevented. It was a situa- tion with which nations are mot often confronted, but it showed how quick and effective the response could be when the demand exists. The plight of the civilians of Bel- glum - is not as serious today as it was a a year ago, but there is nevertheless plenty of oppor- tunity for rendering assistance. Conditions are still in a deplorable state and it is going to be a long time before they approach the normal. In Servia and Poland conditions have srown worse. The people in those states are not responsible for thelr depression. Not only have they suffered the ravages which g0 with war, but they have been obliged to sive and give liberally of what they need for sustenance, Thys appeals are being made for help for the Serbs who are naked, homeless and hopeless, for the Bel- glans who are in need of clothing to carry them through the winter and for the Poles are likewise in the depths of distress. It has not been the dis- position of this country to see the innocent suffer needlessly when help can be extended and it is believed that the helping hand will again be ex- tended through the organized agencies which can be trusted to handle the funds and supplies. It is certainly a worthy cause. DR. TRUDEAU'S EXAMPLE. Much is being done by states and organizations in these days for the checking of the white plague and it is meeting with excellent results in the saving of life and the prevention of a great amount of suffering. One ‘temptation the will to hold firm for good instead of yielding to a weakness for evil. Spurgeon used totell his hearers to learn to say: “No!” It will be af more use to you than to learn to read Latin.” Life has revealed that “some temptations come to the industrous; but that all temptations come to idlers.” To resist temptation you have to be able to be blind to charms and deaf to the highest bidder. All temptations are weak to those who are wedded to a good conseience. An honest man is not expected to tel all he knows. The conditions of society make the subjects we know least about most popular for conver- sation. It is n the exploitation of truth that a man is likely oftenest to be called a liar. It every violation of truth is a stab at the health of human socfety, it is plain_to be seen that human soclety is sadly in need of a physician. The truth which in- criminates yourself or any one else never increases one’s popularity, but it may strengthen one's self respect. Our courts compel witnesses to make oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the fruth, but counsel make it difficult to get the whole truth in presentable and believable shape. Mental reservation is a right recognized by most organizations with codes or creeds. The fact is the commonest man among us knows more than any one else wants to hear. In this world you are chal- lenged a dozen times as to what you belleve to once as to what you know. ‘What you know is yours to keep. | do mot think a bachelor girl is sometimes an old maid Wwho is ashamed to admit it, do you? Why should a bachelor girl be a constant subject for jeers or gibes more than a bachelor man? Why should any one on earth be obliged to explain or apologize to any ome else for living a_single life since a single life hia often been more a blessing to the many than it possibly could have been to the few. We all need companion- ship and the evidence is abundant that the widower is more lonely at last than the bachelor. When it comes to those who curse the day they were ever foolish enough to get married and those who deplore that in some way they never found their mate, the balance would be 1ound to be about equal if we had any way to test it. The Florence Nightingales and the Clara Bartons and the Jane Addams’s have proven that a life of single blessedness may be glorified by service to the human family. The bachelor girl has a lap upon the mar- ried femipine flirt or sport for virtue and for worth. When we wake up in the morning with a coated tongue and a ruffled temper nine times in ten it is_yester- da’s folly expressing itself. No per- building of a huge armada destined to be equal or second to our own. It means that the burden will continue upon; the other nations and be in- creased . exactly in proportion to the fleet of the United States.”. If the United States had shown any Aisposition to militarism, or if it had & national policy for extending its lim- its or had been engaged in the con- quest of other lands, there might be gome ground for the fear which is ex- pressed by Lord Rosebury. But such is not the case. The United States is not contemplating an improved con- dition of its army and navy for any- thing of the kind. Whatever is finally done in the way of preparation is sole- ly for the purpose of protection. It has seen just about how much respect can be expected from nations which enter into an agreement to protect the neutrality of a nation and how little serious effort is made when it comes to the maintenance of peace, and ir recognizes that if it is going to com- mand any respect whatever in having its rights upheld and its treaties ob- served, it must place itself in a posi- tion which will not permit it to be pointed out as a hopeless weakling. Our preparations are simply protective so much so that if all the powers were willing to disarm no nation would be quicker to head the list than the TUnited States. SOFTENING THE LAW. Because of the work in which he has been engaged in Colorado in behalf of young people, the object of which has been to impress upon them the difference between right and wrons, for the purpose of influencing their lives in the right direction, the recent decision of the higher court of that state in finding Judge Lindsey guilty of contempt of court for refusing to divulge the statement made to him by @ witness in a murder case, has excited ‘widespread attention. Judge Lindsey justified his stand on the ground that the violation of such 2 confidence would impair his ser- vices as a juvenile judze, which were of a peculiar nature and not to be gov- erned by the rules and practices of other courts. In view of the opinion of the higher court this is an interpretation of his latitude as a juvenile judge which is not sanctioned by law. As the Phil- adelphia Bulletin says “even the ju- venile mind ousght to be taught that there is a certain rigidity to law, that there is formality and dignity that must be respected, that the law is as it is written and not as some kind man or woman in a special seat of justice may interpret it. Even a ju- Venile court ought not to be a pleas- ant, home-like place to which offenders may come and have their sinning for- given. There is a danger of goins too far in softening the law.” If thero is any question as to what the rules and practices are by which a juvenile court judge should be gov- erned, it is time that it was deter- mined, but the finding of the judge suilty of contempt indicates that there is no doubt in the matter and that such an official has no such privileges as he was inclined to believe. FORCING RESPECT. Many breaches of neutrglity have occurred during the existing war upon the part of the commanders of naval vessels of tha belligerent powers. They have been so bent upon attaining their object that too little respect has been pald fo the rigits of neutral nations. It has called for constant attention - upon the part of countries which have notable instance of what can be ac- | complished through a faithful observ- ance of the requirements which long study has found<to be necessary -is revealed in the-case of Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, whose death recently oc- curred at Saranac Lake. Dr. Trudeau contracted tuberculosis when & young man and his case was considared hopeless at the age of 26. He was nevertheless advised to seek the benefits of the vegion where he spent practieally the remainder of his life. There it was he began the open air treatment, with himself and two others as patients, which is now rec- | ognized throughout the world as the successful method of treatment for the dread “disease. As the result of his work and steady adherence to his con- victions he prolonged his own life un- til at his death: he was 67 and his life had been one of extreme usefulnes: ‘And what he had been able to do for himseif he helped by his counsel in accomplishing for thousands of others. If he had resigned himself to his fate ‘when tuberculosis made its appear- ance, humanity would have suffered a tremendous loss, though unconsciously, but thanks to his determination he made a valuable contribution to sclence and became a leading authority on the treatment of the disease. He showed that with the proper care .tuberculosis loses its terrors, EDITORIAL NOTES. Everyone will have a chance after today to pick the all-American foot- ball team. e In trying to force Greece into the war the alliles must be careful not to drive it to the other side. From the bids that were recetved there is no evidence that the price of warships has taken any tumble. Despite the one session there is a small army of school children who are sorry it wasn't snow instead of rain. The man on the corner says: Even people who refuse to gamble eat oy- sters with the hope of finding a pearl. It is about time some beauty doctor was given a chance to remove the dark features from the Union square face of the town clock. —_— . Even though Vincent Astor has had his pockets picked there is no im- mediate danger of his being thrown into bankruptcy. Villa is reported as making his last stand. Itijs quite evident that Car- ranza will soen get General Obregon over the fl line. Lord Rosebury evidently under- stands despite his regrets. that this country doesn’t intend to be caught in the plight of Belgium. It beging to look: with’the investi- gations underway as.if all the efforts for adequate defense- should not. be dévoted to increasing armament. Even though the king of Greece has his salary paid in part by the entente powers, he apparently belleves that he is ‘clever enough to serve two mas- ters. The move to have the members of the American Federation of. Lahbor come’ to the rescue of the Danbury hatters is a good one. It ought to have ‘been done some timp ago. The statement by the New York not taken sides to see that interna- tional law in respected and the ex- pense of such work has not been slight. That therc is duty imposed upon . the neutrals when itions are de- #acted is thoroughly understodd and doctor who Was a passenger on the Ancona to the effect that the Austrian statement of the bombardment and sinking of that ship is incorrect, has the effect of torpedoing the Vienna version, son can be guilty of indiscretions and g0 scott free—no man can make a monkey of himself and escape recog- nition. We have to pay the price for all our high jinks and our low jinks It takes us.a long while to become consclous of this, but nothing can so quickly give firmness to a resolution to reform. When we see from an economic viewpoint that we cannot afford the price we immediately cut out our excesses. In many things concerning his own well-being man i a dunderhead—he jumps over the precipice when the path before him is flowery and inviting. Many a man has made himself like a galvanic battery, capable of shocking every- body but himself. Thére is nothing in the world seems right to him for he has put himself out of harmony with it all. He has become a discord—a disturber of the peace, an undesirable unit in life possibilities of the plant under cul- tivation are a modern discovery. We know of no plant which responds so wonderfully to constant care, and the leviathan of the tribe which is now or exhibition at the San Francisco exposition is 65 feet in diameter and is the second largest chrysanthemum in the world; but these great plants are mot the producers of great flow- ers. The Japanese first discovered the wonderful result of disbudding While the chrysanthemum is old the | which gave rise to the 'mum craze over a quarter of a cemtury ago, and which is likely to continue forever. The growing of these beautifully il- luminateqd flowers with their incurved and reflexed petals is an art in which even the amateur finds success and delight. - Mr. Clarence Norcross, at the place of Mrs. Helen Gardner on Maple street has devoted himself to ‘mum-culture with wonderful success producing exhibition flowers nine and ten inches in diameter in white, pink, and vellow, varying tints and shades, to say nothing of a score of seedlings which would do_credit to the skill of a professional. Under the guidance of Mrs. Gardner, Mr. Norcross has be- come familiar with thelr culture from seed to bloom, and it is the beautiful seedings produced which makes their limited collection of rare interest and value. If the present European war has done anything It has disclosed the mistake Gen. Sherman made when he sald war is hell, for it had not then got beyond the power of human con- ception in ferocity and baseness. The old soldiers cannot comprehend the savage rigor of an artillery engage- ment which in 72 hours discharged from one side two million shells, or a fraction over 456 shells a minute for three days; but this is the French battery record, which is equal to ten days' ‘output of all the French fac- tories. This reveals why heavy am- munition is always short, and makes plain that it is no fairy tale that at the end of the three days’ bombard- ‘ment ‘what Germans were left alive in the trenches were too exhausted and dazed to make any resistance—they did not seem to knew whether or not they were on earth. There was never anything like this in war before and who can imagine it being excelled. The plains of strife in France may in future be mistaken for iron mines. Perhaps humor is not as necessary as humility in life, but it gives sea- goning to it. The heart that doesn't gurgle and the face which doesn't glow now and then with a smile hasn’t caught the sunshine of life, and to be without the sunshine is to be abnormal. The long face is the sign manual of the graven image, while the ripple .of humor is the audible ex- pression of pleasure and peace. If good humor was sinful there could be no Gospel of good cheer. Good humor and good nature are akin and both may be classed among the best gifts of heaven ta man. There is no doubt a good stomach has more to do with good nature than the .conditions of the biliary duct has to do with making Presbyterians or Unitarians. A precarious state of health usually cancels humor and _sometimes annihilates good nature. How much the character aud quality of our ex- 1 a wet or late s ; discuss the vantage of a grass:hopper dief for birds, and so on. Pictures of the gobbler begin to |northern one thing and another; toy turkeys suddenly grow popular as favors. It becomes a question of na- tional Jjmportance whether anybody is going to keep up the cuatom in- augurated by the late Horace Vose, of Westerly, and send a North Ston- ington turkey of the prize bronze or black strain to the White House, for the President’s holiday dinner. There is so much talk on the subject that the Traveler from New Zealand might fancy the turkey emerging from a state of extinction as nowledged as that of the dodo, just for this special feast day. For a brief time, teo, the Eagle has to go way back and sit down, as far as being the National Bird is concerned! During the space of a week or so, his nose is broken, or more accurately, his beak is twisted clean out of joint, by the gobbling fowi of the barn yard. True, the turkey's supremancy is not acknowledged solely in New Eng- land, or even throughout the United States, at Thanksgiving time, . or earlier or later. It has come to pass that now, in uearly’ every corner of the globe, except perhaps its very un- civilized 'localities, the domesticated turkey may be found. Sad for him is this fact, t. for it indicates what his fate i to be eaten. His flesh when roasted so ap- peals to epicures of all nations that, willy nilly, has had to circumnav- igate the globe! Left to himself the turkey would never have wandered from his own barn side. In his wild state, he is not giggiii. E N never sets on any land where are not. We are apt to refer to this fowl -mmhfiy —No\;m Piobably because our 2 im for his eating qualities from earliest Puritans. But is derived the Rocky Mountains. He has peared as cultivation has axtended, and has become scarce and rare even In parts of the valley of the issippi. It is a question whether his goed qualities as an -llln’ bird were first made known to the Indians by the colonists, or vice versa. Knowing what we do of the skill as cooks of those Indians we kmow best, those remaining from the tribe of the Mo- hegans, below Norwich, we can W imagine that their ancestors, frien: ly to the new-comers from across the sea, may have imparted to the strug- gling and hungry imigrant Pilgrims what a treasure the turkey was in the commissary line. Like the con undrum, “Why do great rivers always run past big cities?” ome might ask, “Wasn't it a real find, to discover that the little red berries,’ which, eaten by themselves so pucker one's mopth, if cooked, go so well with roast turkey, under the head of cranberry sauce?” No wonder the Mayflower comers and their successors instituted a Thanks: giving day, having by chance stu bled upon the fact that right at hand was such a palatable cembination! Undoubtedly, to Horace Vose as press agent the New England turkey is largely indebted for his wide- spread fame. Before Mr. Vose conceived the idea of sending a_Thanksgiving bird to President U. S. Grant, way back in 1868, people had had their holiday dinners with a roast- duck, or chicken, or even £00d substantial roast spare- rib ‘as the centre dish of the feast, and nobody had been dissatisfied. Then Mr. Vose began forwarding a big turkey to the White House, every November, and because we are a race of imitators, uncomscious or other- wise, every family in America some- how felt that a Thanksgiving dinner without a turkey was worse than a Hamletless Hamlet. The hotels took up the idea, the decorators ditto; and, presto! The Connecticut turk, in particular, might have begun to boast, “Look at me! Gobble, gobble! I'm the bird that put the thanks in Thanksgiving pressions are controlled by physical conditions. This is why health is de- fined as the soul’ that animates all the enjoyments of 1 Which strikes you as being most heavenly, one grand endiess leisure or one sweet eternal service of love? Ts there anything we can get more queer conceptions of than of heaven. There is no doubt that leisure and songs, service of love and love of service are necessary to make heaven complete, whether it is a_condition or whether it is a place. What lots of things have been sald about heaven: “Heaven is the perfection of all that can he said or thought” said Shirley. “Nothing is farther than the earth from heaven; nothing nearer than heaven to earth” said Hare. “Heaven must be in me before I can be in heaven” said Stanford. “Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn” said Guthrie, but we.ge: a better grip when it is pictured as home governed by love. Home seems to fit the com- mon heart right. As a condition heaven within us is established by the observance of divine order, which in- troduces us to the freedom of right- eousness—for no man’ can be freer than he who is confirmed in the right. Mr. Vose stimulated farmers for a radius of ten or twelve miles to rals flocks of anywhere from 25 to 200 fowls, so that in some seasons, as many as 7,000 birds would be ready for him, when he wanted to select three of the best, from which trio the heaviest and finest looking would be chosen for the trip to Washington. This was back about 1908, when far- mers in the Rhode Island-Connecti- cut turkey belt!had some inducement to make an effort to grow his birds. Then Mr. Vose would also ship tur- keys to England, South Africa and other distant points, evrywhers a na- tive-bern American was going ~ to spend Thanksgiving, and to have a dinner as mueh as possible like the old-fashioned one of his dear old home town. Sunday Morning Talk THE THANKSGIVING HABIT. It comes hard on anyone to ask him to be thankful on a certain Thursday of November who has not been so on the previous 364 days of the year. To ask the habitually unthankful man suddenly to give thanks is like start- ing up a creaking pump to raise water in pipes that have long been dry. Not even a machine can reverse a habit in_a minute. Nor can the mood of thanksgiving ~be suddenly conjured up for a special occasion. The thankful spirit comes, if at all, as the result of a process of cultiva- tion. No governor's proclamation can make any appointed day of thanks other than a dreary farce un- less we come to it with a sort of running start of preparation. Thanksgiving Day ence over, the turkey becomes, if not a fowl of con- tempt at least a bird of distate; for the mext few days he enters the re- view of reviews class, being served on the table in varied forms, gener- ally to be received with scorn and contumelious remarks! Miss Caruthers, of Norwich, has told in a clever poem of The Seven Ages of the Turkey, from ais first g‘:’“d Wapcarance on ThankssivBog y, through his different stages: sliced cold, warmed up, in croquettes, hashed on toast, in stew, finally in the soup. By this last stege every member of the family has grown to detest the famed bird; but this hatred is forgotten long before next Thanksgiving Day rolls round, and without complaint turkey is eaten on various other dates and occastons; but somehaw, it never tastes as when carved during the meal of the last Thursday in November, and for that matter, cranberry sauce and pumpkin ple don't taste so good either! THE DICTAGRAPH. The ~very instinct of gratitude may be lost out of life, unless one is on his guard. People may reach a state of mind in which they rarely or never say “thank you.” It may be that, in- side, they experience some sentiment of gratitude, both to God and to thelir fellow men, but, at least, they never express it. Any word of praise to the Giver of All Good is absent from their lips and they are equally nig- gardly as regards their associates. How many thousands of faithful toll- ers labor on year in and year out, never knowing whether their efforts are appreciated or not, because the appreciative word is never spoken. What tragedy and even heartbreak results from such ungenerous ret- incence, God only knows. Blow, blow thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind as man’s in- gratitude. Stories of the War A habit of thanksgiving that can flower into amny fitting observance of our annual holiday is fostered by an appreciative consideration of others the whole year through. Let us cease accepting favors without a word or a sign of appreciation. Let us be ashamed never to say ‘“thank you” even to those constantly perform- ing love’s ministries for us. One sometimes sees children speedily for- getting every sacrifice made for them in the family circle, going on into later years of success and attainment strangely oblivious to the ceaseless de- votion that surrounded their young lives. King Lear is not the only par- ent who has learned, “How si than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. How Champagne Battle Germans. Letters written by German sol- diers during the battle of Champagne, rom“:x;‘ Dl"‘mul:‘" ‘Anndo‘fleld.m throw some t on the spirit e troops. “The battle-front has disappeared in a cloud of smoke,” wrote one. “Nothing can be seen, for the French artillery fires almost as rapidly as the infantry. One armored shelter was cruehed in and not one of the 16 oc- cupants escaped. Men are falling like flies and the trenches are noth- ing but debris.’ “Shells are simply raining upon us,” another wrote. “If the end were only near! This is the cry evervone should raise ‘peace! peace’ - “Cruel hours!”. a captain noted in his diary. “It is as If the earth were gambllng up. Our loses are very vy. Ome company of 250 men had 60 killed last night and a battery close by lost 16 dead. A shelter five yards deep, protected by two rows of and two and a half yards of was caved | i€ it were match; that's a imen of the of the French shells.” :vt t{l - ! ol:l' of l.hl.lr:t) infantry w: e captain in a report for his superior officer. “We must have reinforcements at once. Our men are dving of fatigue, Impressed The Bible declares that “Praise is comely.” We are reminded that “It is a good thing to give thamks” It anyone has gotten out of the habit he may well set himself to form it again. The lack of the grace of grat- itude from character is as if one of the seven primary colors were want- ing in a ray of light. Possession of other noble qualities will not atone for the loss of this one. Another year has nearly rolled its round, and, while we behold sorrow and sjiffering in this present world that Avell nigh staggers the mind, there is hope in the situation if we' know where to look for it. The greatest hope is that the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Therefors let the earth rejoice. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet Lest we forget, lest we forget. THE PARSON. long will it ? Every spot of position ia so bombarded that It is | e inodified by the ‘Chronic Constipation g 5 a35e z?%;g ,,figih i H 5, pie Bs labis of Teguiarity: ve process wEen both the muscular systems are relaxed and When relief does not come readily, is an excellent plan to ative at ifi?;ifi* system, should not be employed. An effective laxative remedy that is very dependable, and whic! gripe or otherwise disturb invoive MRS, C. C. ALLEN. Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and keep it in the house to use when occasion rises. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writting to Dr- W, B. Caldwell, 454 Washington St., Monticello, Il Mrs. C. C. Allen, 215 Foam St., New Monterey, Calif., wrote to Dr. Cal well that she “found Dr. Caldweil's yrup Pepsin just what was needed for constipation and distress of the stomach after eating. It should be in every household.” fusion into the German ranks, result- u:: in precipitate and almost orderly engagement of reserve: Fe B KK ‘moralized—| properly un- dertaking a general counter-attack. Over-confidence in the solidity in the first line trenches scemed to be gen- eral among the officers, for many of them were found in bed at Trou-Bri cot a half hour after the attack be. gan. They were ignorant of the cap- ture of the first line of trenches be- cause the telephone wires had been n the counter-attacks divisions were broken up and scatterad, resi- ments even were divided, battalions sent to right and left in absolute con- tradiction of the German spirit of or- sanization. There were engaged be- een the“Maison de Champagne and 199 'Hill, 32 battalions belonging to 21 differant regiments. What acted most on the nerves of the German troops, according to in- formation brought out by questioning prisoners, was the continuity of Sthe French artillery fire, the weakness of their own reply, the extent of their losses, lack of food for several days and thrist. They surrendered in sec- tions in meny instances and in whole companies- in some. Ali acknowledged they were tired of the struggle. A fact that is regarded as signifi- cant is that the reinforcements that Germans sent up during the battle were mostly of the contingent of 1915 with some volunteers of the conting-~ ent of 1918 previously held in reserve at-their bases. The conclusion drawn by some military critics is that Ger- many is nearing the day when she will no longer be able to maintain her present force cn all her lines. OTHER VIEW POINTS ky as & drink. Such a prophecy is made by ene Charles B. Landsi, a former congressman from Indiana. At the present stage of the license game ict almost ference with the state tax commis- sioner and the attorney general con- cerning disputed points in the new in- heritance tax law, as shown by their action on a motion eubmitted to their |it Is quite proper to pred! meeting in this city Wednesday. The|any other form of than, the real judges said they were capablc of de- |artitle. In fact it is mot the real ar- ©iding the law for themselves. Never- | ticle that is making all of the predic- theless, to those who are not directly |tions you hear about—Middletown interested in the collection of possible | Press. fees, it would seem better to have a N . T Studying Serum from Snakes. aniform interpretation of the law oo g A, L) 2| Medical scientists interested in the aiscovery of an efficacious antidote ment among the probate judges, the attorney general and the tax commis- for suake bites are risking their lives at the Zoological Gardens, in Fair- sioner, than to have a different inter- pretation on _each of _the disputed points by every ome of the more than E a hundred probate judges of the state. [mount Park, conducting experiments —Hartford Courant. among the reptiles in the snake- house Toxicologists the world over have been working for some time to perfect a serum. A tender charm is imparted to th Yale Bow! when it is utilized by gen. erous workers to raise subscriptions| How would you like to sit down at for worthy causes. On Saturday the(a table with ‘a writhing rattlesnake immense audience present at the Yale- | before you, his fangs darting vicious- ly in every direction, and busy your- self with extracting the “sting” from Princeton game gave a sum in ex- cess to five thousand dollars for the Red Cross work It was well worth|the reptile? This s the work of the doing and well worth asking for.|Scientist who risks his life for the sake of humanity. In order to work out a powerful serum the toxicologist Fhewe e Lovery reason in the world appealing t wh it tor & day Of rejoicing, to|has to have some of the deadly poison of the snake, and to get it he oper- who are out for a day of rejoicing, to stop a moment In their enjoyment and think of the immense amount of good | ates upon the live snake. a contrfbution to a great cause can| In 1843 Lucien Bonaparte first made accomplish. It is not an Interference |an analysis of vipr vine vemom and with their personal rights. It is the |claimed it to be proteid in character, one kind of invasion that meets with |and 20 years later Dr. 8. Weir Mitch- our heartiest support.—New Haven |ell confirmed this statement after a Journal-Courier. long_ series of analyses of g@e poison of the rattlesnake. Since that time snake venoms have been the subject of discussion and research by the greatest toxicologists the world over, all endeavoring © Afscover a successful treaiment to eombat the swift and deadly propers ties of the poison. The importance df this work can be readily appreciated, inasmuch as more than 20,000 deaths are recorded annually in India as the resuit of bites from venomous enakes. It is predicted that buttermilk will take the place of both beer and whis- The British government has tem- porarily suppressed the London Globe for—as Lord Curzon explained in par- Hament—"having invented a false statement, for repeating it after it had been officially denled, and for then ds The War a Year Ago Today Nov. 20, 1914. French abandoned Chauvoncourt. British gained at Bixschoote. claring that the denial was untrue. .|| Dr. Calmette, in India, was the Whatever the champlons ~of Iree || French wrecked Qerman earth- ||, " [MTUioduce an antiserum for speech and print in England may say. ot e & Von Hinden- || snake venom, after a series of exXr comment in this country is likely to |}, CH*CRny, SOPmQr Lo tOnCon I periments ~ demonstrating that ani- London Globe's notorious fondness for _groundiess misrepresentation and defamation of the United States.—Torrington Regis- ter. mals could be immunized by injecting 2 nonfatal dose of venom and gradu- ally increasing until the animal would survive many times the fatal dose— Philadelphia Public Ledger. wen success near iz. Russians toek four towns in Ga- licia_and in East Prussia reached the Mazurian lakes. of commons voted ity siopead Gorm: fery stoy an Woevre distriot. Mlu in Poland and at The Liberty bell is on its way back to Philadelphia from the Panama-P: cific exposition, and it is said that it has taken no harm from its tran continental journey. Still it has been exposed and soomer or later would meet with an accident that -vould complete its destruction. Why should not the old bell have an understudy, made with convincing exactness as to size and condition. to do the running about and take the chances, leaving the old bell to rest in safety at home and incur no needless danger?— Bridgeport Standard. Opened a Charge Account. He was about twenty-five years old, and it was his wedding day. After the teremony, when the time came to feé the minister, he calmly sald: “Charge it” The minister never saw or heard of him aftér that ans. Allied aeroplanes bombarded Zeppelin sheds at Friedricshaven. ‘We pour milllons of gallons of sew- age deposit into the harbor and then every few months go down to Wash- ington and ask congress to zppropri- ate a lot of money to pay the cost of dredging it out so that steamboats and schooners will not get stuck in the fiith of our city when they a tempt to reach our private or public landing places, The time is not far distant when pollution of streams harbors will be stopped forcibly, if it is not previously stopped voluntarily. New Haven cannot dodge this matter if it would, and it would not if it could—Now is the time to get busy.— New Haven Times-Leader. . Pessimists are ever reverting to “the good old days” and insistent in their cries that present there is no chanee for the poor boy in Ameri- ca. 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