Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 16, 1915, Page 4

Glorwich Bulletin and oufied 119 YEARS OLD Suhserintion nrice 12e n week: 500 month; $6.00 a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: Bulletin Business Office 480. Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2. Willimantic Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. " Norwich, Thursday, Dec. 16, 1915. g'"l(' Circulation of iThe Bulletin The circulation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 3,000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- % Bulletin has gnine towns, one hundred and sixty- : i H H L the largest five postoffice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION average. 90000000000900004000006000000090000000 52000200000000 50000008 1901, 5 4.412§ 1905, average.‘.............‘5,9205 December 11......... 9,084; es00s00usecescssssssssessessescosessasesasses IS NORWICH FOR PROGRESS? If there has been any lack of con- fidence upon the part of the people of Norwich concerning the intentions or future of the Hopkins & Allen Arms company under its new management it must needs be dispelled by the man- ner in which that concern is acquiring property in the vicinity of its plant in order to permit the expansion which will be required to handle the bus- iness which it intends to do. It has demonstrated -by its own a it is prepared to give Norwich the greatest boost that it has ever expe- Pienced. In that connection the matter of housing the emploves that will be re- quired to carry on the business and secure the output desired is a vital matter and it cannot get too thorough consideration on the part of the peo- ple of this town. A start has been made in the way of providing addi- tlonal accommodations by the erec- tion of twenty houses which will ac- commodate forty families and there arc now available a certain number of nents but the number is insigni- ant in comparison with those which be required. tion is perhaps no different in other cities where large in the line of business in | company is engaged have been sccured, but the bringing here in the next few months of thousands of employes, h of families as well as single men it evident tha proper lodzing facilities must be pr vided. Norwich ot afford to s until the erowd comes and to handle it. Tt will be too ime. If Norwich is act- than acts S m: th: v for the time is at hand when it raake preparations to insure it such at least should be n keepinz with the steps which are veing taken by t! industry. GETTING RESPECT FOR LAW. ern measures to secure the proper respect for the law apparentiy considered necessary by the judges in the courts New York when vio- Intors of the automobile laws are brought before them. Leniency in such | cases have simply shown that dri 1 of a cert. 1s5 are preparcd to t every advantagze that is possible with tho result that the bringing of the same party int ind again appening jus were no per existing he law. In the t few days a batch of pris- oners of this character has been be- fore the courts with the result that first offenders are being warned and given suspended sentences in cases where they have proceceded to round corners at a speed in cxcess of four ryiles an hour because the regulation wa, 1y un- derstood. forty other cases, however, t offenders were given a fine of a second offender was fined , while cne who had been be- fore the court three times previously received $100, accompanied by the statement that his record would be sent to the state secretary by the judge as grounds for removing his license. It i. action as taken in this e and that in an- other where a jail sentence of thirty days was imposed for running over a child and then speeding away, which is likeiy to bring auto drivers to a realization of the fact that the regu- lations are made to be obeyed by all and not a few. It is by cooperation of that kind by the judges and the authorities who are expected to see that the law is enforced that safer conditions in the highway are golng to be assured new one and not gene; in EXPECT WRONG TO BE RIGHTED. As if in reply to the query of the United States consul at Hong Kong as to whether it was realized here that this country was fast losing its trade in the orient, comes the an- nouncement to the effect that a new corporation, The American Interna- tional corporation, has purchased from the Pacific Mail Steamship company Its seven remaining vessels which will be continued under the American flag. These vessels have not been engaged in the transpacific trade, those which were having previously been disposed of to other buyers for use elsewhere, 50 that the purchase does not give immediate promise of a resumption of trade with China and Japan under the American flag, but it does mean that there is recognition of the need of maintaining such trade as these *vessels have been engaged in with the Central American ports. The new company has the same ob- wacles to encounter as the Pacific Mail, but it has a strong backing and it is apparently convinced that con- gress after realizing the harm that has been done by the enactment of the seamen’s law will proceed to modify it in order to lend the necessary en- couragement to the foreign trade which never had a better prospect. If those vessels were to be preserved for the continuance of business between the -ports along the western coast of the Americas it was necessary to act now and such action can be interpreted only as evidence that the mew owners are convinced that the needs of the nation will result in a righting of the wrong which was inflicted upon Amer- ican shipping at the last session of congress. Until such a time as that is done the new owners are prepared to meet the losses which the legislation promises. EliytaE THE MARINE CORPS. In connection with the plan which President Wilson has presented to con- gress for increased preparedness there is included an addition to the marine corps of 1,500 men. The marine corps is an independent branch of the mil- itary service of the United States serving generally under the direction of the secretary of the navy, though it may be detached by the order of the president for service with the army and on various occasions has so served. t was authorized way back in 17 and is used to garrison navy yards and naval stations and to man naval bases and to aid in manning those established even bevond the continen-' tal limits of the United States. In times of peace the members serve on battleships and furnish garrisons and expeditionary forces for duties beyond the seas. In case of disturbances the marine corps is landed to protect American interests and in perform- ance of their duties the marines have seen much service. They have car- ried their colors into action in Tripoli, Egypt, West Africa, the Fiji Islands, Sumatra, Hawali, Mexico, China, Uru- guay, Paraguay, Alaska, Panama, For- mosa, Korea, Nicaragua, Cuba, Santo Domingo and recently in Hayti. ‘When it is realized that the author- ized strength of this branch of the military service is but 346 officers and 9,921 men it must be realized that it no means too large for the ser- vice which it is called upon to per- form in looking after American in- terests in the various quarters of the globe. It would appear to be the part of wisdom to strengthen this body even though the question of preparedness in other directions was not before the country at this time. FIGHTING FRAUD. There is good cause for gratitude on the part of the people of this coun- try at the manner in which the post- office department of the government is enforcing the fraud order statutes. The mails have long been recognized as a means of reaching peorle and im- pressing them with schemes which are designed to get their money, but which would receive very little attention if presented in any other way. Much discouragement has been given in the past to such operations, but it is only through the persistent enforcement of the law and the running down of sus- picious cases that as much respect as prevails for the postal laws can be insured. It is a situation where if there was the least inclination to lax- ity there would be thousands ready to take advantage of the oppoftunity which would be afforded of getting a rich living through the fooling of the people. That is something which Uncle Sam thiough his postal system cannot be- come a party in. He must block every fraudulent scheme that is brought to his attention andi that the postoffice depdrtment is alive to its duty is evi- denced by the fact in 71 instances where concerns or individuals were cited to show cause why a fraud or- der should not be issued, 57 fraud or- ders have resulted. It is the attention given this matter which makes it pos- sible for the department to report that the schemes now brought to its at- tention are not, generally speaking, so ¢ fraudulent as heretofore, by the persistence in this which gives the schemers to and it policy understand that the penalty awaits all cases that the swindles will be kept to down the minimum. It is action which saving the American public millions and for which they should have full appreciation. EDITORIAL NOTES. The ity of the republican forces one of the significant_features of times. the Only ten days more and Henry Ford will be expected to make zood and have the boys out of the trenches. Where there the disposition it doesn’t require much effort to depart from the paths of international law. The man on the corner says: One of the first things a young man should learn is that his remote ancestors can- not hold his job for him. Norwich will expect great things of its pumper engine, but it would be bet- ter satisfied if it could be assured that there would be no occasion to use it. Tt isn't so much a question just now to whether the log of the Oscar Il will be properly kept as it is whether the peace party will maintain its bal- ance. Carranza should worry over the lunacy of Villa when he announces that he will coin money out of silver taken from mines owned by Americans and refers all complaint to Carranza. There are a few explosions and fires which are not attributed to German sympathizers, but their activity has been such that they are usually sus- pected whether they are actually to blame or not. That western man who has read his death notice twice in the last three years can appreciate some of the pub- licity which King Menelik once re- ceived and which the German crown prince also shared. If, as the opinion prevails, Austria is guided nowadays solely by Germany, it received all the notice necessary as to the attitude of the United States in the notes which have been ex- changed with Berlin For the purpose of boosting the cel- ebration of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Newark in 1916 that city is publishing monthly an attrac- tive illustrated magazine, The New- arker, which, if it can be taken as an indication of the character of the cel- ebration which is to come, gives as- surance that it will be a hummer. Norwich, which observed its 230th birthday six yvears ago, extends best wishes, BAMBOOZLING ARTHUR “My daughter's just become en- gaged,” remarked the man in the fuz- zy overcoat. “And the way she’s put- ting it over that nice young fellow makes me want to sob upon his shoul- der, 1 tell you!” ‘Why, what's she doing?” inquired his friend In the green felt hat, evinc- ing surprise. “I'm not saying that Irene isn't the finest girl out,” explained her parent. “She’s lots prettier and smarter than anybody else’s daughter, and don't you forget it! Only somehow her methods with Arthur wake dim, distant mem- ories in my own brain and I'm sus- picious! “Why, that girl positively agrees with him in everything! If he as- serts that the moon is made of Cam- embert cheese Irene just gazes lov- ingly into his eyes and murmurs ‘Yes, dear, it is! Isn't it lovely!’ When he says he prefers a Queen Anne cottage to a Lake Shore drive apartment Ir- enc says that he is quite right, and she has no use for ostentation! Right in my face! And only last year she had hysterics because I wouldn't move into the next street! Irene told us the next street was ten degrees higher in she social scale and she was ashamed to have any one come to call on her, living on our humdrum avenue! “‘It doesn’t matter where we live at all, Arthur dearest, she murmurs to him. “If we are together that is all that is necessary!” 1 fainted away at last, almost. When I recov- ered I looked to see Arthur giving her a gentle sophisticated smile and tell- ing her that he knew she meant well —but would you believe it? He was assuring her it was such a comfort to feel that She had his financial wel- fare at heart and did not want to splurge! Splurge! If that benighted youth can find a modern young wo- man who doesn’t want to spend all the money she can get hold of I wish he would introduce me! I should like to gaze tearfully, thankfully and wonderingly into her eyes before my time comes to pass on! “I spoke to Irene sharply later on. I told her it appalled me to think that a daughter of mine would stoop to such deceit. Besides, it wasn't necessary, for Arthur was tremen- dously in love, without any extra lure: She just gazed at me surpri edly and said she was sure she couldn’'t understand me! If I thought | for one minute she didn't mean every | word she said to Arthur— “‘Irene,’ I told her sternly, ‘strange as it may seem, I was young once| myself and I have a fellow feeling for Arthur! Didn’t your mother, when her waist measured eighteen inches and she was the best dancer in the county, look into my eyes exactly as you do into Arthur's and in dulcet tones murmur that she adorned a masterful man and all she asked was I rule our future home Didn't she twine her fingers in ir; T said to Irene, ‘and murmur her life should be spent doing everything as I wanted it and pleas ing me?> And here I am to this day afraid to my feet upon the steam radiators, and compelled to shave be- fore dirner! You know I tremble at her frown and even carve the roast beef the wrong way against my con- science ard the grain of the meat just because she has me cowed. I ar- gured that roast beef question for ten vears and then my spirit broke and 1 gave way at last. a thoroughly con- quered man! Don't I know you'll do precisely the same thing? And poor, deluded Arthur—' “Irene just giggled,” related the man in the fuzzy overcoat. “She said for a poor, bulldozed man I seemed to ick around home pretty close and for her she didn’t see how her mother could stand it to ha ve me tag- eitig her around every second as I| did, and hanging on her every word! | ““Last night, 1 countered, sternly, ‘I nearly came into the libr and | revealed vour duplicity to rthur! | Didn’t I hear you telling him that world old fable that you two could keep house on what he alone now | spent for his living? Didn’t you add as a sort of crowning triumph that ! you intended to make your own | clothes and your personal _expenses were going to be perfectly ridiculous- 1y small? ‘Don’t you suppose I remember using up thirteen blocks of paper when your mother and I were en-; gaged figuring at her dictation how much less than nothing it was go- ing to cost us to exist—and believing it, because while you're a pretty girl you can't hold a candle to what your mother was in those days! And haven't I had to chase dollars ever since as though I were racing around a cinder track pursued by a champing wild lion eager for a bite? I tell you, I won't stand it to have you bam- boozle Arthur this way! You've got to stop it and tell him that life is real and life is earnest and he'd bet- ter leave all hope behind!” “What Go you suppose that girl had the nerve to do? She just looked up into my eyes, precisely as she looks at Arthur's, and then she pulled my nose. “‘Crape hanger,” she murmured, sweetly, “there may be truth in what you say—but if you think for one minute I'm going to miss all the fun of thinking that we two are different and can beat the universe, you're just mistaken! You and mother, did it and we're going to do it—and if we turn out as well as you folks, why, I guess we'll be all right!’'” “And believe me,” dded the man with the green hat, “every engaged couple up to the end of the world will be just the same. Don't you worry about Arthur!”"—Chicago News. Stories of the War 30,000 Aliens of Military Age. There are almost 30,000 aliens of military age interned on the Isle of Man, all men, and they are being sup- ported by the government at an ap- proximate cost of ten shillings per capita weekly. Elaborate camps, with modern sewage systems, have been constructed and a beginning has been made in establishing workshops where idleness can be turned into industry. In time all the interned aliens may be brought here. There are almost 4,000 at Alexandria Palace in London still. There are no longer any intern- ed at Frimley, near Aldershot. There are still many thousands of Germans and Austrians who have not been interned and all have a chance of appearing before a tribunal estab- lished for the purpose of deciding whether internment is desirable. When interned they can communicate with their home governments through the American embassy which still main- iins two men at the former home of Prince Lichnowsky in Carlton Terrace. For many months these two men have been Edward G. Lowry of New York and Leland H. Littlefield of Provi- dence. The agitation calling for the whole- sale internment of enemy aliens, which part of the London press carried on 108t vigorously last year, has now died down and there appears to be no general criticism that the home of- fice not handling this difficult prob- lem rly and successfully. Ireland Making Bid for Markets. Ireland is making a bold bid for the canture of several markets hitherto dominated by “enemy traders.” Toys, : and cigarettes are the most successful examples of new industries thus far developed. The new workshops for the manu- facture of dolls and toys have attract- ed large numbers of girl and women workers who were thrown out of em- The War a Year Ago Today Dec. 16, 1914 Germans evacuated Dixmude and Allies made gains from Arras to the sea. Germans forced the fighting in the Argonne, but were repulsed in the Woevre region and in Alsace. King Peter entered Belgrade at head of army. Russians collected new army at Warsaw. German warships borough, Hartlepool killing about 120, British warships ende. shelled Scar- and Whitby, shelled West- THE VELVET HAMMER A Good Natured Treatment in Verse of Some of Norwich’s Prominent Men By ARTHUR BROOKS BAKER CHARLES 8. HE man who find upon h has to issue licens serv willin for desires Lo exercise his baj useless to remark. why he should get those papers S though these duties, ness or it will get away. breathless baseball game. s tkis town in hands an awkward pile of work. legal wedded bliss, for those who hunt and shoot and hit, as well as those who miss, and if a little dog bit—but then that often happens and they make the best of it. The huntsman well might wed the dear and think himself in luck —but still the marrfage license wouldn't let him shoot the buck. The couple who eloped by boat and did so after dark, might find the canine license would assist them to embark. cares and risks were not immense enough for one so intellectual, so muscularly tough, the; trusted in Charles Holbrook's hands the treasure of the town, expecting him to care for it and gently hold it down; for public money, so reformed politicians say, requires unfailing watchful- HIS personal activity is selling drugs and dopes, which form the firm foundation of some lovely human hopes. complete compendium of state election laws, reciting them with t eloquence and winning wild applause; and when he thinks his busy life is getting dull and tame he seeks the stimulation of a HOLBROOK. the capacity of clerk will He he must have a license, too, it's mixed the bridegroom might be ve He's our ployment by the hard times prevailing in the lace and millinery trade in Bel- fast and Dublin. The financial results of the new enterprise are said to be most encouraging. The “Turkish” carpets made in Ire- land are of a type which experts de- clare destined to deceive even the elect of Constantinople. It is notable that one of the largest of recent orders comes from Egypt. The manufacture of hand-tufted carpets is about 15 years old in County Donegal, and gives employment to hundreds of peasants who have inherited through all the troubled ages of Irish history, the sub- tle “knack” for form and color that distinguished their Celtic ancestors. Cigarette factories have sprung up as if by magic in several cities, and are emploving great numbers of nim- ble-fingered girls. There is also talk of a commercial glass factory in Dub- lin. Nancy Has a Front Seat. Nancy, the old capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, had for more than two score of years the hazardous privi- lege of occupying a front seat in the theatre of a probable war. “Targets for cannon” the conscripts sent to Nancy were called. It was here the “iron’ division” of the famous 20th army corps was stationed with the 26th brigade of cavalry, not to under- take the supposedly impossible task of saving Nancy but to receive and deaden the first shock. The story has been told of the French officer who, anticipating war in June of last year, sold his little country property near Nancy, bought a villa in Belgium and congratulated himseif that his family would be far outside the vortex. While the stout fortress of Namur was crumbling under the blows of the heavy German guns, unfortified Nan- cy, defended by Castelnau, proved im- regnable. The French officer’s fam- ¢ fled to France with Belgium refug- at the same time that Emperor William, who, with 10,000 cavalry of the guard had awaited the moment for this triumphal entry into Nancy, turned back towar# sletz. As to the purchaser of the officer's country place, he has not seen a_German sol- dler and since August 24, 1914, the sound of the cannon has been grow- ing fainter and less frequent in his ears. It is only when the wind is right that Nancy hears it. Only once did the German artillery get close enough under cover of night to bombard the city; then it did less damage than the dozen visits of German aeroplanes and Zeppelins. Nearly every one of those visits was ic because every one wanted to the aircraft. The two children nd wife of a ber in the rue Saint- an stepped to the door to get a look a Taube one morning: all three = killed together with four other persons, while the barber escaped without a atch. Four people were killed by a bomb that fell under the windows of the prefecture. The second attempt of the Germans to bombard Nancy with their heavy guns is still the talk of Nanc One of the 15-inch lon naval pieces, put in position n Chateau Salins’ (Salzburg) to send into Nancy the me destruction that they had hurled into Dunkirk, was_ discovered by air scouts. The French advanced their heavy artillery to easy range and destroved the big gun and its foun ion before it had fired a sin- e shot, according to the report. Nancy appears today to be anything but a military headquarters. Only a few soldiers on leave, a few conva- lescent wounded and officers on vari- ous missions give it the semblance of a garrison town. The soldiers' quar- 1 the barracks are occupied by a thousand or so of families and debris from different parts of e, awaiting the moment to re- turn home. Among them are 84 chil- dren called “the orphans of Pont-a- Mousson”, because their parents have remained in the little town shelleq re- cently for the 17Sth time. The wo- m of this colony of exiles, taking the; art in the work of national de- fense by turning out 600,000 trench work at which they can earn nts a day besides their board hg. It is rather coarse work 1 lodgir me of them, expert in the finest e TY. y's industrial, commercial and c »r:al life has gone on uninter- nd modified only by difficul- of fuel and transportation medical college la wschool and other b anches of the university have not missed a day of their regular terms nd the public schools were never closed. | OTHER VIEW POINTS The fact that munition manufactur- of other cities are sending to tford for skilled machinists offer- ing them contracts which call for big salaries is a tribute to the ability of workmen here, but the latter should not be “carried away” by the seem- ingly grand chances. Expenses and conditions in_ other places may be found to be in keeping with the high wages.—Hartford Post. There may be some pride in British financial resource. But that is as nothing compared with pride in Brit- ish men and women, upon whose in- tegrity the brunt of the struggle has come and by whose stamina the issue must stand of fall. Unless falsely heralded, nothing in the record of German efficiency has equalled the demonstration of English spirit mani- fested in_the unparalleled responses to Lord Derby’s call to enlistment.— New London Telegraph. Bridgeport's location on the shores of Long Island Sound and the com- paratively mild winters of recent vears have deprived its residents of the delights of winter sports, except for brief periods. The joys of skating and the pleasures of tobaggoning and skiing have been deuied those who live in this thriving community. Be- ing busy with other concerns, the city has not endeavored to overcome this defect, for it is a defect for people to become so infatuated with indoor life that they fear the snappy, invigorat- ing air. This season is too far ad- vanced to rectify the error and the and Scotch H Thog: F*AUDITORIUM Complete Change of Program Today Tabloid Players Presenting “SHAUN’S FAREWELL,” JIM DORHETY, The Irish Tenor DANIEL FROHMAN Presents JOHN BARRYMORE In “THE DICTATOR” From the Celebrated Comedy by RICHARD HARDING DAVIS EATRE sROADWAY THE GREATEST FEATURE EVER SHOWN IN THIS CITY HER CREAT MATCH Clyde Fitch’s Unique Drama in Five Wonderful Parts YE SOUTHERN TRIO, . ... Pathe Movies and Comedies Showes 2:30, 7 and 8:45 Matinee 10c; Eve. 100-20c An Irish Farce, Featuring Vaudeville [ Mat. 2:30; Eve. 785 FEATURING GALE KANE Big Sconic Singing Noweh | Orchestra e —————— Today - COL.ONIA L. - Today THE COMUS PLAYERS Iin The Artist’'s “THE MAYOR AND THE BOSS” STRONGEST MUSICAL VAUDEVILLE ACT ALL NEW SONGS AND SKETCHES Dream municipal ice plant is not far enough advanced to be of any help. But with the return of the “skating craze,” and with plans for the city ice plant only in the making, why would it not be a good idea to incorporate provision for a skating surface and possibly a to- boggan slide? If the city does not wish to donate this to its taxpayers it can charge a small admission fee.— Bridgeport Standard. There are instances where sympa- thy is needed quite as much as ma- terlal assistance. If people would only bestir themselves to offer their services to the several organizations which are doing work in Meriden, they would soon find that there was a wide field for usefulness open to them. The person who refuses to go half way is shutting himself from the blissful contemplation of charitable achievement which would give him pleasure. If you don’t knéw how to get into the game of giving of the right sort, consult some of the char- itable organizations which will show you the way.—Meriden Record. The indeterminate sentence law is found in section 1,535, as amended by the law of 1915. The law provides that when a person is sentenced for two or more separate offenses, there shall be but one minimum imposed, and that on the first offense. All fur- ther sentences on other offenses shall be constructed as one continuous term of imprisonment. This language is specific enough. In applying it to the King sentence it makes the minimum sentence three years the maximum eight vears. If King had been charged with a half dozen other offenses, had pleaded guil- ty or been found guilty, and the court had imposed two years on each count, it would mean 12 years more on the maximum, making a continuous sen- tence of 20 years. Under the law it would be impossi- ble to impose a minimum of six years on one count because the maximum penalty for forgery is only five years. Outside comment would no doubt differ on the operation of the punish- ment to the extent that the board of parole would have the right to exer- cise its discretion after three years instead of waiting six years.—Bridge- port Post. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society Teheran—"The capital of a small buffer state between three clashing empires, the English, Russian and Ottoman empire, Teheran in recent years, and_ more especially since the outbreak of the great war, has had an importance thrust upon it of a most embarrassing kind,” begins the latest war primer of the National Geogra- phic Soclety. “Geographically of greater interest to each of the groups of contending powers than any other neutral capital, Persian Teheran is experiencing insuperable difficulties in keeping destiny clear of those nts around it. to the Per- but the native's of the warring gi “Teheran, according sian, is very beautifu praise of his countr; capital is sel- dom supported unreservedly by the W : for he finds the Persian city of Shiraz far more beautiful and Isfahan the peer of the residence. The capital 70 miles south of the pian Sea, on a plateau of coarse and gravel, which is fringed by low, dis- tant hills, and, to the north, by some higher mountains. Mount Damavand is_the key to the city's setting, tow- ering in the northeast to a magnifi- cent crest 19,400 feet high. To the southward, stretcit level lands, which lose themselves in waste and desert. “The East and West meet and min- 'gle as oil and water in the Sahah's metropolis. Teheran is, of course, a purely Oriental ci but, like all Eastern centers of importance, it has suffered such encroachments from the West as street cars, telegraphs, gas- lighting, and severely dyed and tail- ored clothes for men. It is backward in its development and uneven in its improvement. Its Boulevard des Am- bassadeurs is more or less of a eplen- did_thoroughfare: and it is lined wth a European type of shops, two good and a number of fine native It has among the largest parade grounds in the world —550 by 350 yards—roughly paved with strewn cobble stones. “The modern city is not so very old. as it came into existence less than 700 vears ago, about the time that ancient Ragha, the crumbling suburb to the south, began to sink into oblivion. Ragha, known in the time of Alexan- der the Great as Ragae, was the birth- place of Harun al-Rashid, and at one time the golden capital of Parthia. In SAFETY FIRST THE VALUE OF FRESH FISH IS ITS FRESHNESS the days of its supremacy, it was as vain and rich and showy as toried Hamadan, the pride of earliest Persia, the city of seven walls in seven colors, with palaces wrought in gold and sil- ver and frescoed with precious stones. Modern Teheran is the inheritor of the traditions and the pride of Ragae and of Hamadan, and of the ancient honors of Pasargadae and Persepolis. With the rise of Teheran, Media re- gained the place that it lost to Per- sia in the time of Cyrus. “Anarchy has ruled within the cap- ital in a way more or less pronounced during the last several years, and the people of the city have accomplished little toward its modernization and the development of its importance as a place of commerce and manufac- ture. There is an important caravan- trade, which passes through Teheran toward the Russian borders, and a certain manufacture of cotton, linen, carpets, shoes and iron products. Its business is enough to give support to a population of about 260,000, in which are included about 600 Europeans. “The climate of Teheran is not a favorable one, and especially are the summers unhealthy, when all of the people who can get away go to the foothills in the north. Writing in 1596, a Persian gives a pathetic summary of a Teheran summer. He says that the air was too hot and even smelly, that the water was heavy and un- wholesome, and, in short, everything so bad that the Angel of Death ran away from it. But, then, this author wrote shortly after a fearful cholera plague had passed over the city. The nearby-contrast of the cool summer gardens in the foothills, likely, has conspired to give the Teheran sum- mer a bad standing.” “Ipek, the first Montenegrin city to fall before the invaders, is the most important city acquired by the Black Mountain people for their part in the war of the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire in 1912, says a primer on war geography just given out by the National Geographic So- ciety. “Situated anywhere else but in the world's most troubled peninsula, Ipek would have made name and riches as a mecca for vacationists; for nature round about is friendly, beautiful and varied; its air is fresh and full of moutain-tang; and the rich Mediterranean fruits are grown in its gardens. “For the sportsman, Ipek could have furnished hunting, fishing, and mountain-climbing. For the nerve- worn patient, it could have given a bracing mate and picturesque soli- tudes. While all of these things would have made it a tempting spot to the pleasure-seeking vacationist. As an unfortunate center of unrest, how- ever, where Albanian, Montenegrin, Turk and Servian kept the pot of trouble boiling year after year under an Ottoman administration that stirred the embers under the pot when these showed signs of smoldering, Ipek, has remained unknown and al- most entirely unfeed by the world out- side for the beauties of its place. “Ipek lies upon the present bord- ers of Montenegro, in the east toward Servian Prishtina.” The Mokra Plania rise high behind it to the west, and this range forms the immediate bar- rier to the invaders from Ipek. On neighboring heights is situated a fa- mous monastery, in which the Servian patriarchs formerly housed, the Ipek monastery, founded by Archbishop Arsenius the 13th century. Many of the olden chiefs of the Servian church are buried here, and here, al- so, is preserved the marble throne, upon which the patriarchs were crowned. The city lies 73 mlles east- northeast of Albanian Scutari, which latter city has now become the seat of Servian government. It has a pop- ulation of about 15,000, which has been better housed and circumstanced than most of the populations in the Balkan uplands.” DANGEROUS VARICOSE VEINS CAN BE QUICKLY REDUCED Readers are advised not to trifie with enlarged swollen veins, but to procure from a good druggist an original two ounce bottle of Emerald Oil (full strength) at once and start this simple Home Treatment, which gradually re- duces the velns to normal. Emerald Oil is most successful. You apply it as directed and im- ment begins at once. Miss M. G. W. New Brighton, N. 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