Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 5, 1916, Page 4

mfifinwunug the. t that what the 4 ; from Nor- A e P e o and the V. there the Appam B S it the 3 Bt Job mfi“:rb:.a;flm 3 65¢ tie Offics. Room 3, Murtay|dent that as priss, were timia aboul eesecssssssisenccsshssssstcecnrenre — e — large allied shipping new ventures,and the iike. Whatisit. ¢ : 90c Saturday, Feb. 5, 1916. g:mmuh hin The writer will say that any further | Handled . .. s e o o o o wlp B & ol i e - new raider when = No better way of refuting this netion exists than is found in the records exports from tbe town of Norwich back in the period covered by 'fi%’,‘mm’“ 1, 1788, to March 4, A consideration of thtse records shows us that the old town was fairly busy, even at that date: In cold figures it is' et down that the exporis this port reached a total of £34, in_round numbers about $170,000. Interesting it is, too, to scan the lists of articles and supplies sent down the Thames to be sold in distant ports. Even four barrels of gingerbread, valueq at £20, about $100, will be noted in the list. There were 549 horses, value £12 aplece, about $80— 205 mules, an equal number of horned cattle, 821 sheep, 566 hogs, 1,903 Ibs. of beet, 1,774 lbs. of pork, £5,000 Ibs. of butter—some butter, even these modern creamery days!—$2,120 lbs. of cheese—which goes to prove that the letters eonmnln'g malevolence, ignor- ance and untru reply. e c‘n mmm&ram or l%’u say evil m about m% up a plant out of, speaking, nothing, and ning and fmproving In % ‘warships, but it s a the side which needs to be if Great Britain hopes to maintain its control of the seas. PROTECTION BETTER THAN RE- PRISALS. Those communities in England which have suffered from the last visit of the big German airships are reported as crying out stronger than ever for re- prisals of a similar nature. They are much incensed at the manner in which the lives of non-combatants have been ruthleesly taken and they feel that nothing but retaliation will satisty them and nothing but the same kind of treatment will bring the Germans to- their senses, It is not to be forgotten, however, that similar cries have gone forth be- fore and that it has been considered ess will have no This is the lowest price st which High-grads Axes have these service, having its value The price of all steel gdods is Dut up for sale, fifty thousand same goods in a few mionths. i ;&:zmmufl Fail- : roads and Industrial corporations all around us (which we could name) had presidents, treasurers uflm Circulation of _The Bufletin has the largest ulation of any paper in Eastern and from three to four imes larger than that of any in '$ Norwich. It is delivered to over 000 of the 4,053 houses in Nor- h and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it 1s delivered to over 500 houses, n Putnam and Danlelson to over ,100, and in all of these places it considered the local 3 Eastern Connecticut has forty- towns, one hurdred and sixty- postoffice districts, and sixty ral free delivery routes. The earliest entries of note were: Aug. Brig Neptune. Hezekish Per- from Hispaniola. kins, with 805 tabs of salt. ; T BULLETIN BUILDING, Im.blurdnnvlv-lhtnL:GA forty can seldom be to the acceptance of truth;” and to-day someons says: “At forty a man knows about half as much as he thought he knew at twenty.” Life is a period of elimination as well as of achievement, and it takes keen perception to cut out the things we have been taught by ‘well meaning people that are not so. A man of forty has had experience enough to prompt him to decline being led into other men’s heresies or con- ceptions. He has reachéd the point gers with enormous these corporations into A final word for Disinterester. Be- fore he or any of his ilk cast any more reflections on the former commission will they please tell us of any plant under the same conditions in the state of Connecticut, in the United States, or in the world, with a better record than the Norwich gas and electrical plant under its former commission? When the ship Josephus, Elisha Hunti cleared for Demerara Sept. 13, 1789, a memorandum of her lading will give a good idea of an old- time Norwich cargo to the West In- In livestock, 62 horses and mules, 3 Bulletin is cold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 1901, average . 4412 the part of wisdom to refrain from retribution along such lines, and in view of the fact that the German air- ships appear to be able to strike when they please and are thoroughly effec- tive when it comes to causing con- tsternation and rolling up the death st of defenseless men, women and children, it would be folly to extend where he knows his eye-teeth are cut, unless he has become confirmed in Some heresy or frightened into prac- tices someone has convinced him are right. This man of forty doesn’t re- Ject the truth because he refuses to accept what someone else declares is truth. Accepting truth without being yourself conscious it is truth is not housewives of that era were no drones! —86,600 1bs. of ham, 16,000 bushels of grain—the farmers had no bu- reau in those benighted days, but we can feel sure that they were not idle! 175 M hoops, 160 M staves—note how they made the woods useful? 14,600 Ibs. hayseed, 586 bbls, potash, 25000 yds. homemade cloth (score another for the busy farmers’ wives and weveral cows, a yoke of oxen and a dozen sheep and swine. Of provisions 4500 bunches of onions, 18 hhds. of potatoes, 88 boxes of cheese, 18 firkins of butter, about 80 hhds. of beef and pork, 30 kegs of crackers, 34 bbls. of ‘bread and 30 bbis. flour. The Josephine carried also a large amount of brick and lumber, planks, s, staves, joints and spar: INTERESTED IN NORWICH. Norwich, Feb. 4, 191 Blind to Other Side. Mr. Editor: James H. Cummings, ‘whose letter appears in this morning" Bulletin, appears to bélong to class ‘of patriots whose chief mission in life is to discover and frustrate the eighteen attached to the peak of the § clapboard: 116 water hogsheads, also a big con- signment of parlor furniture, includ- ing mahogany tables; green chairs and sofas. Her cargo included a few sad- dles and bridles, giving a pretty £00d idea of the various lines of in- dustry in the old town, which we are accustomed to consider so slow in the years up to our own times! § 1905, average....... -saving grace, but a bad habit. ...5,920 9,050 tassel is then broushit over shoulder of the wearer where conspicuously on his breast. The garters, too, may be lu: They Bold nothing up, o fxr as can 862, #eting rather as scabbards daggers. For the close-fitting drawers seem to extend from the waist to a strap passed under the foot. But stroy our industrial plants, bring ridi- | the garter, worn below the knes, Cule upon our diplomacy, commit atro- | Sists fieat of an embroldere? | <rCCy citles upon non-combatants flv-uu'mb ey e g s 04 those of the Indians or plot the ex-|{orm of ‘&n ate, 'at a point from termination of whole peoples who| e Ereater Dropeq A% B stand in the way of their schemes of | Which a tassel aggrandizement without detracting the attention of these ever-watchful senti- nels from the supreme object of their lives. But let England delay a letter, or, more dreadful yet, a bale of cottom, and they are at once in full ery to warn this country of its impending doom. The great originality and the fertile minds of these people is shown in th discovery of Mr. Cummings that the real cause of the European war was the determination of England to dom- inate the commerce of the world. It seems indeed a pity that such a plece of information should not have been an invitation to come oftener and do worse which Is about what retaliatory measures of the kind urged would amount to. It is but natural that the people of England as well as those of France : = should resent the manner in which bombs have been dropped upon the T FACTS ABOUT GAS AND|upfortified towns of those countries, ELECTRIC PLANT. for such slaughter has been of no mil- " The conditions which have been re- [itary advantage, but the thing that ed in connection with the gas and |Should be done is to devise some department since the question |Means of protecting those countries making a new contract with the|and the people of the cities and out- ncas Power company has been raised |Iing communities from the occasional such as to make the citizens of |2ir raids which are so terrorizing. It forwich, the stockholders in that|is apparent that thus far little or no ighting plant, want to know more |ObStruction stands in the way of the bout the manner in which it is being | 2ir raiders and what has been done ucted and more about its actual |[in behalf of protection is fruitless, physical condition. thus making it a matter for still great- "" It is of course an pld story to have |T efforts in behalf of defense instead eone urse the selling of the plant, |0f displaying an attitude which is there is certainly no harm in|bound to make matters worse. ng the facts that the citizens == elves may have grounds for| TURNING FILIPINOS LOOSE. g their judgment fairly upon| For a country which holds up its e matter. daughters!) 631 hhds. flaxseed and 278 tons of pressed hay. By contrast, there were importad, during the same period, European goods to the value of £3,909, hides, salt, molasses—11,2625 galions of the sweetness—and, alack! 18,300 gallons of rum (for bathing purposes, let us suppose!). Then there were 1,271 Ibs. of Bohea tea, 20,700 1bs. of coffee and 417,200 1bs. of sugar, all, it will be seen, the natural imports likely to be brought home by the vessels trading with the West Indian ports. diabolical schemes -of England. They are so earnestly and blissfully engaged in this particuler form of “watchful waiting” as to be entirely oblivious to anything which may oc- cur in other directions. Germany and her allies may murder our citizens upon the high seas, fill our land with sples, foment strikes and plot to de- i Good advice that is worth accept- ing: “Always keep your temper for it is worth more to you than to anyone else.” One's temper is the only thing when lost that harasses a person the more. There is no very good excuse for any kind of a temper, unless it be temper-ance in all things, which s the concrete foundation for a well- rounded manhood. Most temper is unadulterated ugliness, and the source of every variety of retallation and meanness. Did you ever hear of the fellow born with a quick temper, who as a churchmember later in life has enough kinds of “righteous indigna- tion” to shame the devi He thinks the Lord had made him over; but if this were true he would be nothing but a visible evidence of the Lord's helplessness. The religion that only changes the name of temper without in anyway removing its meanness does not commend itself to anyone. | ' January 29.... e theater is - perous.—Waterbury Republican. 4ay now may bring & fiat ye- now with as followling of qur. in our relations with her. Bat % break after all sueh & break would % That was the era when farmers made a business of raising cattle and horses and when shippers and owners did not seem to mind risking send- ing what we would now consider a dahgerous number of such on their small craft. For instance, among the smaller vessels or sloops, popularly referred to as horse-jockeys, was the Betsey, Capt. Jabez Lord, which on one trip took out 35 horses, while the Nancy, Capt. John Fanning, carried 36. The brig Neptune, which cleared Oct. 1st, 1789, for Hispaniola, carried 49 horees, and the Enterpriser, Isaac ‘Willlams, sailing for Demarara, Nov. 2nd. had a cargo which Included be- sides brick and lumber and provisions, 20 horses, 17 cattle, 9 mules, 20 sheep, 20 swine, 150 geese and 100 turkeys. At that tims the shipping belonging to thi port was summarized as fol- low: Twenty sloops, Five schooners, 325 tons. Five brigs, 545 tons. One ship, 200 tons. tangible to show that his reputation i not based rather mpon legend and & distinctive costume than upon fact and proved achievement. Germans Still at Noyon. “The Germans u': nlpll.;! 1"“(1 - as the saying goes, but s is unde- niably more optimistic at the thres- hold of another New Year than at any previous stage of the hostilities. The boulevard crowds during the holidays 940 tons. Of course, at that period there was Many a man sits down and weeps and expresses sorrow for his vices, then dries his tears, rises up with resolution and resumes his vices once no continuous warm weather for Jan- uary like that of the year 1916. How- ever, it is probable Southern New Eng- land has had just such Januaries be- were bigger and there was more real hands in horror at the manner in|more. We call him a slave of habit; | fore, Here are two old sayings bear-| The return cargo consisted of mo-|siven to the waiting world before this | cpeer in the air than a year ago, not- It the plant has been allowed to|which treaties have been violated by |and why think you, do we not have|ing upon January: If the January cal-|}asses, Tum, sugar, wine, pimento, |late day, but them, “better late than | ithcionaing that since last New teriorate until it has gotten to the|other countries and which has placed |Slaves to righteousness.. “Oh,” you|end's be summery gay, ‘Twill be win- | Pepper, limes, tamarinds, sweetmeats, | never.” y Year's day the allies have achieved few and only local successes. ‘““Peace on our conditions and in our own good time.” That is the prineiple ennunciated in‘a strong article by For- mer Premier Louis Barthou, to which the French people have subscribed | most with practical unanimity. “If it takes only one more year of war, so much the better for us, but If it takes two, @0 much the worse for the Germans.” That is how the Parisians lok at it and their holiday attitude proved that it costs them little to adhere to that Pphilosophy. The German lines are only about §0 miles from the boulevards at the near- est point, yet the confectionery shops were crowded as never . Never were the traditional New Year's bon- oint where its productive capacity es it possible for an outside com- ny to say that the price it demands electric current must be met even it means a ten per cent. in- e over the price which the city already paying to that same com- ¥, it is time that the people knew say, “righteousness makes all men free.’ It does, and makes all men brethen, but sectarianism does not. I fear we have men who are slaves to sectarian- ism. But is man compelled to be a slave to either? If a man's sorrow is deep enough his horror of vice be- comes strong enough to repel him from it. If the consciousness of his own responsibility is strong_enough he will fight for the right, and the spirit of righteousness will scon come to his aid. The man who Is resolved to do his part gathers strength not weak- ness. Lots of men are not as sorry as they seem to be, or think they be. Desire for Godlikeness is born of sor- row, but it must be well-born to be effective; ang well-born it creates the conditions which repels from the hu- man heart the poison of evil try weather till the calends of May.” And “If the grass grows green in Janiveer it grows the worst fort all the year It looks as If the signs point to a late spring and an abund- ant grass crop. January was marked by Robinhood’s wind—the wind tbat blows over thawing snow. aniseed, bags of coffee, bales of cot- ton, tobacco, indigo and salt. It is recorded that the Enterpriser, on her return voyage, was libeled by the gov- ernment for importing goods not con- tained in her manifest, concealing and delivering them at Norwich without a peérmit, viz: 13 hhds. spirits, 10 bales cotton, 1 bbl. sugar, 1 cask cocoa. So e see that smuggling, was not an un- known art among the forefathers of the hamlet, any more than it is at this later day, when to cheat Uncle Sam seems to many to be not only inno- cent but clever. One siipper for many vears gaged in the West India trade was Capt. Isaac Hull, who sailed from New | ined that some good thing might come London in_the employ of Norwich and | out of England and who had been in- | pois (6 RO UANEC T PSS otle New London merchants. On one of clined to attribute some of our ma-|pic.r The boxes were delicate spec- his voyages in the ship Minerva, in|tional virtues and institutions to that | pieeer T3 BOREE VOIS Cr oty and 1798, he carried 98 oxen on the deck.|nation may well stand aghast at our | ele %0 were never so dear. A pound e former abyssmal ignorance. of chocolates cost from 80 centa to Respecttully, 32.40, according to brand. From §0 FAIR PLAY. | cents, boxes conld be had all along the ‘Windham, Feb. 2, 1916, scale up to $15.00. The most popular were aluminium boxes in the form of There are people who. have been so ignorant and stupld as to ascribe the present struggle to Germany's desire for “a place in the sun” and to the conflict between democracy and im- perialism, but at last the true cause is revealeq and deception is no longer possihle. There have also been those who were so foolish as to.believe that the tri- umph of German absolutism and mili- tarism would result in peril to this nation, but now they are to under- stand that the clouds are lowering threateningly over the future of this land by reason of England’a ambition to_control the commerce of the world. Really, some of us who have imag- so much reliance upon treaties to keep it out of the troubles which so fre- quently lead up to war, there can be nothing more surprising than the ac- tion which has been taken.by the up- per house of congress favorable to the abandonment of the Philippine is- lands in four years. ‘When this country took over those islands in the Pacific it assumed cer- tain obligations concerning the preser- vation of the rights of the Filipinos and the protection of those people. The purpose has always been to help those people through education to a better understanding of their own af- fairs and their position in the world at large and progress is constantly be- ing made in that direction with this country as the guardfan and director. It has meant a decided change to those people and the experiment has now been carried on in this field for less than two decades and while it may take pride in the accomplishments If it is because politics has got a Irm ‘and fast grip upon it it is time it that wus known and instead of lling the plant or junking it remove e politics. " The secrecy of the gas and electri- il commissioners has caused many clusions to be drawn in the past many which may have been un- fied. In the state of Massachusetts pal gas and electric plants are erable to the public utilities com- sfon, and presumably for the pur- | Dose of ziving the people the facts. | Under the existing circumstances ‘Bere it would appear to be a wise on the part of the commission- Sunday Morning Talk WHAT AM | HERE FOR? Has any thoughtful person escaped the mood in which such a question as that above is asked? Why on earth was I ever put on earth? one exciaime to himself, if not to others. Of course, the smug and consciously superior people make no such inquiries, but the humble and striving people do, ?m'l they, thank God, are in the ma- ority. J Do not look back to the wrong steps of your past, but look forward to the right steps of your future. We all have enough behind us to worry us—enough to make us weep. It is a waste of energy to bemourn have- beens—it is weakened concentration to A big and profitable trade was soon established between Norwich and the northern coast of South America, es- pecially to Dutch Guiana, and the car- NEW BOOKS - dates 1914- | The Heel of War—By George B. Mo- and in the manner in which the FIN. 5 goes brought from there paid a higher an explosive shell with the think of anything but now. “Look| There is a dull sameness about hu- | duty than did any of the others. Some - 1915-1916 in black on a copper band or| Clellan. 171 Pub- fo set forth the facts fully and |pinos are responding it cannot be be- | frin, %, &F Packaaral Lok up, not|man careers that hecomes, at times, a | of tha littie vesscls averaged two voy~ Stories of the War collar. Some houses had metal boxes Iished byh(-?."fi. Co., oly. there is nothing to conceal |lieved that such *a brief time has|down” A glorified present will keep|bit nerve-racking. Day succeeds |ages a year; and there must have been with the busts of Jffre and other gen- 'ew Yorik. Price $1. by keep it in the dark? If there [brought islands such as the Philip- | your past from looming up never mind |day, and we seem no farther advanced 1 great hustle and bustle when one of them prepared to clear for such distant ports, loaded with a Norwich-produced | cargo, and great rejoicing when, after the silence of those months of wire- lessness, the craft would be sighted coming briskly up the Thames. on her erals stamped in bas rellef. Others used reproductionls of famous statues of the Rheims cathedral to decorate their boxes and all of them gold freely at al kinds of prices. Soldiers on leave swelled the Christ- mas week crowds, and if the restau- mismanagement it is time it was before a million dollar plant so0ld for a song and if it cannot ascertained in any other way, why start an investigation which will pines were and as some sections of them are today to a position where they should be allowed to shift for themselves and control conditions without as well as within, When this country assumed the ob- how error-blotched it is. If we did not change minute by minute we should not grow better day by day. Everybody holds up eelect patches of their past as evidence of attainment— everybody would like to bury more or along the pathway of our lives. To. day we are 24 hours older than yes- terday, and- that is all. As Mark Twain once observed, we do not seem to be gaining any on the scenery. Having spent half of the traveling _through the. was-sts country of Europe to see wihihis own eyes and hear with his own ears, the author of this volume who rec. What Greece Can Furnish, Should the Greeks determine to en- ter the European war they will be in a position to furnish their allies with to the people the facts that they 1 return. some valuable material of a very spe- | rants suffered from the maintenance of | tory of modern Europe ? ligation which it did the world had -finofsx:hem;ggnflv‘v‘: ::.unaw:;; m::: :.l:e‘x: ‘éfi".'{‘.,‘ofi‘ °1="mnu=‘ afi? THE DICTAGRAPH. |cial kind, used to the rough work of | the restrictions as to hours, the the-|sult of his observations in & most in- reason to belleve that it would be dis- | blush for shame. There are no saints |drums, with sails hanging limp and —— e —— | fighting in the Macedonian mountains, | atres reaped rich harvests. There was | teresting manner aided as he is, by THE GREATEST NAVY, | charged fully, faithfully and to the|among us. Should that old mandate, |getting us nowhere. It is then that LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |27 _ thoroughly familiar with the|not a vacant seat at matinee or eve-|the fact that he is thoroughly ae- While President Wilson has right|°"d but to crawl from under because [ “Let him without sin cast the first|one questions whether it is worth broken, trackless country of the inter- | ring performances in any theatre, |quainted with those countries in their the requirements of the guardianship mean a certain amount of oversight and help is much like turning a child out to shift for itself when it is fuily understood what hardships and dan- gers he is bound to encounter. EDITORIAL NOTES. It has been so long since we have had a snow storm that most anything seems like a blizzard, stone,” be heard In our presence we should likely all flee. There is not much chance for the: I-am-holier- than-ness around here. Do right now and your future will be all right. ut faced on several matters since office, none has perhaps caused er surprise than the attitude he sumed in addressing his audience at {"Louls when he declared that this ought to have “the greatest M the world” This from the it advocate of watchful waiting, | though he has recently declared ¢ something more than note writing De provided if the rights of this are going to be respected un- jor. Just now Saloniki is full of these “evzones”, as they are called—in their short, once white skirts, their long, once white, tights, thelr upturned “shonshi”, or heelless slipers _with plack pompons at the turner up toe: But the “evzones” in Saloniki are very differgpt from the magnificent, red-capped, blue-skirted, betassled “evzones” that parade the streets of Athens. The latter are the royal guards, of the first “evzone” regiment, of which Queen Sophie is the Colonel. while to cruise at all. How many prosaic lives are lived similarly, in the doldrums! The waking hours of thousands are spent in earning a wage just big enough to satisfy household needs. Each Saturday night the books just about balance, with no surplus of time, strength, or money left over. Nor is the experience confined to the humblest workers. “This is a dog's life,” said a man to his companion, as.'they walked from work. His occupation was one of considerable happier days of peace. Mr. McClellan treats- on the ecen- omic condition of - Germany, its con- fidence of victory, Belgium under Ger- man rule, Louvain, France, sacrifices to win, the disaffection with the Vi- viani ministry, Italy’s attitude the war and Giolitti and the government. Never Get Enough. It is always “somebody " music hall or moving picture show in Paris either Christmas or New Year's day. In front of all the cinemato- graphs giving continuous representa- tions on the boulevards long lines of people were seen at all hours of the afternoon and evening, waiting for seats to be vacated. A conspicuous feature of the holi- days of 1915 was the revival of Christ- mas literature, Christmas books con- stituted a larger proportion of holiday gifts than usual: most of them were on Reply to Disinterester. Mr. Editor: In an article in your paper this morning sheaded “Gas and More of It” and signed Disinterester, whatever that means, I wish to dis- pose of in a few words. To begin with, this gentleman’s letter is in very bad taste, aes he should mot have in any way referred to the letter signed A Citizen With the Best Interests of the City at Heart, unless he was able in some way to refute the facts con- to get rid of disease, said a drugless healer, is to stop talking about it. It is certainly the way to create a new atmosphere for one's self and to forget the little physical irregularities of life. Those who do not believe it would should try it. In Mexico. Carranza was & - The “evzones” that are so common in|mil'tary subjects and many of them T Tristend of (he Aibet bbta o There are a great many things we|importance and emolument, but still|tained in that letter or give an excuse nized, and now the populace 3 international law she " - | Saloniki are for business purposes on- d to the war in progress. Many —] ternational law shows a radical | where neither side e dom't belleve because we do mot test |kept him, vear after in the |in some intelligent and truthful man: related to the T M B BT T L straightest of straight jackets. It is not much to be wondered at that there rests upon many of the ‘world’s workers a dull mood of weari- ness. From early morn till set of sun they perform the toll of the day, tum- bling into bed at last merely to get strength to do the same things over again tomorrow. It is eaid that in- sanity reaches a high percentage among farmers' wives. One can easily believe it, but I imagine that many besides dwellers in rural parts come to regard life as being what the anclent cynic calleg it: “One demned, long horria grind.” ‘We easily find a place in the scheme ot things for a William the Conquerer, & Queen Elizabeth, or a George Wash- ington. The towering greatness of the few requires no apology. But it s not always 50 easy to find an_excuse for the plain John Smith, nor for his sis- ter Mary. It is not easy, that is, till one attains the clear moral vision to see that any spinner in a cotton mill who does his work with steady faih- fulness is on a par with the genius whose deeds are trumpeted to the ends ly. They are fighters, not paraders. They look anything but _soldierly, squatting sidewise on the rough wood- en saddles of their mountain mules, their balance precariously kept by hav- ing one foot thrust in a rope stretched from the cross of the saddle, and with a_very long-barrelled sharp-shooter’s rifie hanging across each humped over back. They are little men, and like most GPeek soldiers look astonishingly puny beside the deep-chested French troopers. But they undoubtedly do get cver the ground—the difficult ground of the Balkan mountains—with amaz- ing speed. And they are besides pop- ularly supposed to be ignorant of what fear is. Certainly they are a silent lot, with whom war seems a trade rather than a temporary service of their country. If they frequent cafes—and it is dif- ficult to concelve a Greek, soldier or civilian, who does not pass the major part of his waking hours in a cafe— it must be some obscure, ill-lighted, evil-smelling_dram shop hidden away in the Jewish quarter of old Saloniki, or perhaps it may be the rare moun- ner of the methods pursued by the present commission. Now he does not contradict nor even intimate that he is| able to prove that any sentence or word in that letter is not true. On the contrary, with regard to this Disinterester, 1 will leave it to any disinterested reader to search with tel- escope or microscope for either truth or knowledge in his letter. I find four sentences in_his letter and will take them up in their order. No. 1. “It takes more than the words of the commissioner who seems to have a bad case of sour stomach just at present, to seriously impress the public with his views on gas and electricity.” “A case of sour stomach” has noth- ing to do with either fact or argument. As to serlously impressing the public, the present commission have done enough of that, and if the commission have a few more so-called friends who write as he does the public will be dis- gusted with all of them, if they are not so_already. No. 2. “Better have the doctor pre- scribe for him: maybe he has, and the -eprints of celebrated - military ro- mances, books on Waterioo, the Mar- seillaise, some works on the devasta- tion of Belgium, including one by an American author, collections of anec- dotes and heroic words of combatants in the great war. Rings and other ob. jects manufactured by the soldiers during their leisure hours at the front were the most popular of all presents, regarded as perfect treasures when the gift came direct and bought readily by those having no one in the war zone to | think of them. “Products of German |} exportation”—bullets and the alum- inium fuses of shells—were mostly veed in the making of an Infinite va- rlety of objects. mercial-Appeal. Was only at the opening of the|"here both are anxious for it. a nt session of congress last De- that he declared that if the il program as prepared by the sec- Biary of the navy was carried out it Would mean an effective navy in 1921 ng of 27 battleships of the first line, six battle cruisers, 25 battleships tOf the second line, ten armored cruis- 13 scout cruisers, five first class 2 three second class cruisers, " fen third class cruisers, 108 detroyers, | 38 fleet submarines, 157 coast sub- ines, six monitors, 20 gunboats, supply ships, tenders, fuel and - ition ships and “this would be 8 navy fitted to our needs and worthy b traditions.” Within two months of that he tells the people of the middle v and the country that instead of uch being “fitted to our needs” it is ly inadequate for we need “the navy in the world” and cer- such a navy would have mno told an assembly of Protestant minis- ters many of whom had come to feel that Christianity was a failure, that it was not a failure because it had never-been tried. Any religion that is not practical is too thin to base a hope upon, and any theory which will not stand the test will go to pleces because it is too weak to bear its own weight. To be conscious of our ail- ments 2nd weaknesses and to keep ‘talking about them shows the mind is being continously disturbed instead of being comforted and strensthened. This of itselt is evidence of disease We are not obliged to furnish. What do fou think of the man or the woman ~on the car who says “This seat's engaged” when it isn't? This is an everyday spectacle of the hog that beats the hog who holds the end seat, Excuse the style of the ex- pression but it seems necessary to make the truth plain and penetrating. You can.scratch the hog in the pen and he wiil show signs of appreciation, but this kind of a hog has to be forced That fellow in New York who drank gasoline and then set fire to himself probably thought he was starting the kitchen fire. Office for La Follette. . Why doesn't La Follette run for premier of Japan. All the shipping Interests of Nippon would cheer him o the echo.—Brooklyn Eagle. The man on the corner says: The uncleaned sidewalk is only one of the many manifestations of man’s inhu- manity to man. . A YEAR AGO TODAY Feb. 5, 1916, Allies in strong offensive in Bel." Is it possible that the Moewe fur- nishes the evidence that Germany kept its promise when it declared that its fleet was coming out? 2";:? ane recaptured Gumine. ritis! flmm m\'{. With Germany planning a new drive on Calais it is barely possible that it is tiring of the oft-made promise that the war will open in the spring. P Aliled sirmen deenbiiiediiog eral from Altkirch he OTHFRVIEWPO!N'I'SI There appears to be at the present time an opportunity for the gas and electrical commissioners to furnish the citizens with a new kind of light. Under all of the circumstances it is nder al to & decidedly radical posi- N ‘When it is declared that Holland| to the quarters he has pald for by the conductor, and the passenger who sits calmly emiling in the seat monopo- lized feels that he is bowling in the right alley, all right. It is disagree- able to be caught in a fib and worse to of the earth. Each human life has its own pecu- liar gift for the world, and it is one are no duplicates in nature, and none that no other life can make. There medicine didn't taste good.” An inmate of Brewster's Neck would bardly write stuft like this, so we do not think it worth a reply. No. 3, “He wishes to know one thing that the commission has done which tain Inns buried in the hollows of the Macedonian backwoods that harbor him in his hours of ease. For cer- tainly In the more frequented streets of Salontki or along the crowded quals, the “evzones” eeem always on the 's chance, and in that way en- be crowded into ' corner a3 & liar. Of co a ®0 dense never real- {xes fast “how he_ looks under such conditions. A clean is not THE RAIDER MOEWE, lo interest here 1is cemtering the ‘which this coun- courage the day of complete ence, but the American sense Jus- tice ‘would searcely commend in human' pature. That poem _of |suéceeded him” Emerson is in point in which the| This was a fair question, but Disin- squirrel 1s made to say to the moun- e e dare a reply, so we will pass tain: “If I cannot carry forests on move, convoying long trains of pack- mules mountain bound, driving supply carts or marching along in sigle file, a habit learned from following scarcely 1Tl to blame for “not being at home” to an unclean and undesirable searcher for a seat, but claiming twice what you've pald for, and keeping worthy oD standing in‘twios a mean s it impolite. S The weather 15 always a_ propular topic for conversation, and the present ter has knocked all the weather- prophets silly. Thelr extremely cold winter has seemed to have been a Win- ter without back-bone enough for February to break. “Month of all months most contrary, sweet and bit- ter January”, eang tne poet; and the my back, neither can you nut” If is a parable of the widest application. Let none of us consent to be brow- beaten by ess. world is not delive: into the i brilllant. The possibility of immense- crack a of the “Qne thing they have not done is to keep taking out the side of the electric Iight building and put- back again every time they bought a plece of machinery, and what few contracts have been given out we ly valuable service is open to the 5 humblest. There is a place for the average man. No one can live your life for you. your w expresses no other. Have a care lest the divine intention in your case be thwarted either by your cowardice of your um= THE BARSON. marked tralls among the rocks. The “fustanella”, or accordeon pleat- ed skirt of summer has been covered over for winter service by a long, ¥ low-green coat fitting close at walst and spreading out like a skirt somewhat after the manner of the Cos- sack’s coat. The “fustanella™ proper is underneath this, and does not appear. ‘The skirt of the “evzone” s orie of the oldest of the military relics of Greece, Bas reliefs of the soldier who fought at Marathon show that he too wore a imilar costume. In the time of Louls of France thess s a Tike uni- form in-use in the French army, Where