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lorwich Bulletin: and @oufied e 120 YEARS OLD - . - & - Subscription price 12c . week; 50c “month; $6.00 a year. 2 | & Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich; !@onn., as second-class matter. : Telephone Calls: ‘Bulle! ‘Busi) Office_480. B ot B totial ‘Hooms 353 Bulletin Job Office 85-2. Wilimantic Office, Room 2, Murray Building. Telephone 210. — Norwich, Thursday, April 13, 1916. The Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the Ilargest circulation of any paper in Eastern H Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over ,000 of the 4053 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 it is considered the local ydaily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postoffice districts, and sixty 1ural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D. routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION ganization he was talking. It was the fact that the report of the address at- tributed the remark to him, and that it.was made in a civic forum held in a New York public school building. which set the investigation on foot. _And it is well that Mayor Mitchel ordered an immediate probes of the matter both for the sake of getting at the situation under which the state- ment was made and the good eftect that it will have in showing that suca attacks upon the flag will not be tol- erated. Except for his action an en- tirely erroneous impression would have been held concerning what Maurer said and there would have been good grounds for questioning his position as an American citizen, and particularly so since he is at the head of a state labor organization. It like- wise indicated that the public school buildings were being used for meet- ings of a dangerous character, and it even now shows reason for, determin- ing whether the member of the Pern- sylvania state constabulary was cor- rectly quoted. STIRRING Blackman sat down and breathed hard as he surveyed his hosts. Over his face spread an expression of deep pain. “Let me get this straight” he said in restrained tones. “Do you mean to say, you fellows, that you have lived here ‘eight months, facing that apart- ment across the court which appears filled with beauteous young ladies whom but to see is to admire, and you haven't got acquainted with ‘em? A: you blind? Haven't you wanted to? “Huh!” scoffed_Armitage, with elab- orate sarcasm. ‘Can you see the jani- tor taking us up and introducing us’ Would you suggest our running up the stairs to the back door in a nelghborly fashion and begging the loan of a cup of sugar? There hasn't been any fire to enable us to do the hero stunt, and none of their mail gets delivered by - mistake. We've got Just about as Yo much chance of getting acquain ARBOR DAY. with those girls as though we were on Now that Governor Holcomb has a decde:'l 'l!llnu:“lo,O‘OU n"mea (I.W;y!')‘l : fixed upon the 28th of this month for ‘ id cas ly inquire of the ini- Arbor and Bird day, it is not a bit too | 0T offered Bruce in o eixl“;‘;tul‘;':i early to make plans accordingly and | and he says theyie studyin; music, and eight of 'em have the apart- see that the purposes of such a day|mont ‘together with one of the moth- are carried out. Opportunities galoro exist for communities to enter into ers. They have serious aims In life, my friend! They have minds above the spirit of the day and to see that there is a decided increase in the num- attractive bachelors! We have only to ber of trees even if nothing further is suffer and forget!” done than to see that as many new ones are set out as have been removed for one cause or another throughout the vear. The gradual cutting down of trees because they are decayed, be- cause they are dangerous, [because they stand in the way of proper de- velopment of property or streets is bound sooner or later to clear the streets of them, and it is time to make a move to counteract that be- fore such a day arrives. “Cowards!” said Blackman, pleas- antly. “Weak livered poltroons! Also much more! Why, that dark eved one with the curls that appeared at a win- dow a brief instant is enough to make a man daring! And the little blond girl with her hair straight back—she's a peacherino! Why, I'd get acquaint- ed with those girls! And did vou see the brown haired one who hung up the canary bird a while ago? Say!" “Go home,” said Armitage. “We can't have you sobbing around here over the sadness of life! Don't you 1901, 1805, average. avera . 4p12 -5,920 ... ........ 9,133 Sesssesesseraacecessaseesescescassseesssaserson: THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION It was a well delivered and cffective address which Senator McLean fnade at the opening of the state republican convention. It bristled with republi- canism from start to finish and the many points were brought out with the telling effect of which the senator is capable. As he reviewed the series of mistakes which has been made by the present administration in the handling of domestic as well as for- eign affairs, he hit out straight from the shoulder when he declared: “The honor and the safety and the prosperity of this country never, will be safe in the hands of the democratic party until that party changes its fundamental principles and that it cannot and will not do as long as its policies are in the hands of the men now in control of congress.” The sen- ator was handling a subject with which he is closely in touch and per- tinent is his slogan that “preparedness and protection will bring peace and prosperity.” - That the republican delezates in convention at Hartford acted with the Zood judement that was expected of them is evidenced by the action taken. #he delezation which goes from Con- necticut goes unoledged, as it should, save for the fact that its membe and the national convention are ureed to select as candidate for presiden: a tried republican In whose record -and character the nation can se2 only a guarantee of wise statesmanship. in the manazement of forelen and do- mestic affairs. The delegates are rep- resentative men—representativa of the party and of the state. < Throughout its deliberations, the convention displayed the unity ank determination which can be consid- ered as representative of the feeling throughout the state. It gave the evi- dence, if such was needed, tha: the res publicans of Connecticut will this fall take their politics seriously, as Sena- tor McLean on the evening before had declared that they would. MUST END VILLA. Heriians o the It is that constitutionalist Mexico should now consider that they are able to handle the situation in their country and that they are capa- ble of keeping down the remnants of the Villa bands, but it is nevertheless to be remembered that this was the same attitude which was taken by Carranza when the question of recoz- nition by this country was up for consideration. It was then he assured the United States that he not only had the inclination and control w to guard against any depredations by the bandit chieftain and his sympa- thizers, and confidence was placed in his estimate. This was after Villa had been decisive- 1y beaten on several occasions and was being driven back into the mountains, but it is a matter of sad record-that he was nevertheless able to reassem- ble his forces in sufficient number to attack the town of Columbus and suc- expect heads in ceed in ing many citizens and some of the United States troops on this side of the border. However much Carranza believed that he could prevent that, the facts show that he did not do it, and it was necessary for this government to undertake the t: of puttinz him cut of existence. Carranza’s obiigations were not lived up to and for that reason, now that the punitive expedition under General Pershinz has disposed of $ev- eral hundred bandits and brokenm up their orsanization and even shattered Viila’s prestige, the time has not been reached when this pursuit of the out- law can be safely abandoned. Even Mexico on the strength of its own ac- complishments ousht not to expeet it. It is not simply the dispersing of the And yet such a step does not de- pend upon community interest or ac- tion. The individual cannot fail to appreciate the importance of well shaded streets, or the value which trees are to property. It was not dis- regurded in years gone by and it ought not to be now. The example which is to be found in many locali- ties where the attractiveness of the streets is increased by the trees which bave been set out either by the mu- nicipality, in accordance with an es- tablished program, or by individuals, who long ago recognized the future benefit which was to be gained there- by, ought not to be disregarded. This is the season for tree planting and there ought to be sufficient inter- est to see that every such opportunity for beautifying a city, or a section of it is not neglected, even though it may not be pessible to carry it out on the day designated. It is a matter wrich ought not to be left soiely to the school children. = g REPEALING FREE SUGAR. The action of the senate democrats relative to the repealing of that clause in the tariff law which places susar on the free list the first of May, and the extension of the time when such a provision will go into effect to May 1, 1920, shows a difference of opin- fon from that expressed by the mem- Dbers of the same party in the lower house of congress, who stand for the unrestricted repeal of the provision. The idea of the democrats In keep- ing sugar from the free list now is to save the revenue which will be ob- tained from the duty running up as it does to about $50,000,000 a vear. That ¢he country is In need of such finan- clal aid cannot be questioned. It has been evident for a long time that there would be a serious embarrassment un- less this impending loss was prevent- ed, inasmuch as the other tarift cutting acts of the administration have scriously affected the national revenue. The senate action has been in ac- cordance with the attitude disclosed by the conference of senats demo- crats’ taken a short time ago and it now Temains for a conference of the committces from the two houses to determine whether it is the house or the senate method of repeal which will ultimately be passed. If it is wise now %o save this revenue which would otherwise be thrown overboard there is géod reason for believing that it will continue to be needed, even after the war is over, just as much as it is now seen that it was a mistake a few years ago to plan for the entirs removal of the duty on the first of May. It is folly to drop this Tevenue and pro- tection and malke it up by federal tax- ation. suppose we have long borne aching hearts over the situation? Only we're bearing it like men! It's no use, I tell st The dickens it ism't!” sald Black- man argumentatively. ‘T guess # I lived here and wanted to get acquaint- ed with those girls I'd do it!” ‘His hosts turned on him superior and pitying smiles. “How?" they asked in polite chorus and sat down expectantly. Blackman coughed. “Well,” he be- THE WAR PRIMER Verdun. History has repeated itself with cu- rioug fidelity in the struggle for Verdun and in some of its side- lights. In 1792 ds in 1914 the Prus- sians approached the fortress by way of Longwy and in the same month of August. In 1792 as well as in 1914, Longwy fell after two days’ bombard- ment. The Duke of Brunswick avoid- ed the armies of the Marquis de Laf- ayette and de Luckner in 1792, and marched on Verdun as did the crown prince in 1914. In 1792 as in 1916, the king of Prussia was a spectator of the assault. Then as in 1916 the Prussians took the route by Ormont and Hau- mont, and approached the stronghold in exactly the same sector as in 1916. Goethe related the passage of the troops through Samogneux August 0. 1792, to bivouav at Brasjust south of the Cote du Poivre (Pepper Hill), the object of furious attacks by Germans in 1916. _Etain, Manheulles, as well as Samognaux, were the scene of operations, and would, as today, have figured in the official communique of the revolutionary _government had there been such a thing. In 1792 as in 1914 France was un- prepared for war. Legislators had neglected to supply war material; Ver- dun was armed with only four pieces of heavy artillery and had a garrison of only 3,500 men; then, as today, the cry was “more cannon—more ammu- nition;” that was the demand made to the revolutionary leaders by Lieuten- ant Colonel Galbaud, commanding the fortressses. His cry was unheard, and he solicited and obtained of Lafayette the privilege of fighting in the ranks. Nicolas Joseph Beaurepaire, who suc- ceeded him, went to his post like a man approaching suicide. “Assure the legislative corps,” he wrote, “that when tue enemy has become master of Ver- dun, Beaurepaire shall have ceased to live” The legislative by the fall of Longws to Verdun—too lgfe. The Prussian commander had ocCupied the place “in the name of Louis XVL” and Beaure- paire shot himself. The Prussians held Verdun in 1792 just long enough for Kellermann and Dumouriez to organize a counter- attack. Verdun had 140 pieces of cannon and was garrisoned by 6,000 troops in 1570. It was again in the month of August that the Prussians poured into the Ar- gonne, 122 vears almost day for day after the surrender of the place o the Duke of Brunswick and the suicide of Beaurepaire. The fortress had elements of embly, impressed EDITORIAL NOTES. It doesn’t take long to ravive that old familiar question, What's the score? No sooner does one revolution peter out in Mexico than some other pa- triot considers it necessary to take up the cause. both timation of so good an authority as Marshal Von Moltke himself. “Thanks to its high walls and its deep ditcnes filled with water,” he said, “Verdun was in a state to resist an assault ab- solutely. On the other hand it was surrounded and dominated on all sides by heights at the feet of which were villages and vineyards permitting the besiegers to approach very close to the exterior works. None of the fortssof 1914-15-16 ex- . isted in 1870. The interior fortress had to rely upon its own strength. It is now declared that Captain von |That the heroism of the garrison was Papen is in Holland on a secre: mis- | equal to that of the. men who recap- sion, which means.that it is that | tUred Dovaumont, von Moltke himsele s testi! in his memoirs. e ‘During the night of October 19th he wrote, “while the wind blew a_hu ricane, the advance guard on the Hay vaux Hill were surprised and the guns The man on the corner says: The well-known ~ world grows better wherever the hearts of the people are in-the right place. The federal trade commission has made a report on the gasoline situa- tion but it doesn’t appear that it has tried to explode it. There is a tone of confidence in that remark of Premier Asquith’s when he says that the allies are not defeated and are not going to be. was an even more important stortie by the garrison. The French climbed the Mount Sinai Michael, north of the for- ress, destroyed the parapets and shel- ters from which we were able to with- draw our guns. Another detachment attacked the Hayvaux Hill again and put out of action the guns posted there and which we could not withdraw be- cause of the soaked ground.” This section of the state appears to be getting its share of the lessons which show the mistake in disregard- ing the danger of grass and brush fires. That is a pertinent question by the revolutionists that this country seeks but the prevention of an¥ more Co- Jumbus massacres and that can be as- sured oniy by the end of Villa. MAURER’S VINDICATION. Following closely upon the ordering of an investization of the statement alleged to have been made by J. H. @daurer, president of the Pennsylyania Federation of Labor, derogatory to the American flag, there comes a denial and explanation from the labor leader concerning his address which serves 10 clear up the situation. Mr. Maurer doesn’t deny that he uttered the werds attributed to him but he declares that he used them as the words of some- else, and that when he said.“To with the Stars and Stripes” be B but repeating an utterance made an official of the Pennsylvania _ Btate constabulary, against which or- Springfield Republican, when it asks If the U boats did not sink the Sussex and other vessels, what are they doing? Then as today the assailants requir- ed reinforcements to reduce the valiant defenders of Verdun. A great differ- ence between 1870 and today is that ‘while then the losses were 60 to 70 per day, they now run into the tens of thou€ands. Verdun resisted in 1870 until over- whelmed at the end of October by the reinforcements in men and guns that came to the Prussians after the fall of Metz. The name of Verdun as it is pro- nounced today in every household in France is a concentrated expression of all the higher sentiments of the Gaelic race. There is the tenderness of an affection little suggestive of the cold- ness of stone and mortar; there is ven- eration for a superior force that may Dbe counted upon; there are pride grat- itude and- reassurance, for Verdun bas 2 wider application than the name of a fortress; to the French it means the army as well as the town, apart from the ramparts and the moats. that mod- ern science has rendered useless. The stories about the death and bur- ial of Pancho Villa are getting to ba as much of a chestnut as those con- cerning the passing of the German crown prince, The war paint appears to have been abandoned by those Apache scouts for the gogeles and wrist watches which certainly ought to strike fear to 'the heart of the enemy. 1 Ot course if Germany had any idea of cvossing the Holland border it | would let the Dutch know as it did [ Belgium, and even as it has told this country that no move is contemplated for the conquest of American terri- , sent 3,000 rifles | strength and weakness then in the es- | of our battery spiked. The 28th there | THEM UP san, “of course it isn't a thing you can block out like a mathematical prob- lem, you know! You have to allow something to chance and your grasp of the situation and—er—all that, you know!" “Fine words.” quoth Bruce taunt- ingly. “If you're so clever,” added Armi- tage, “just go ahead and do it! You can live here, if thatll help. We'll give you every advantage. Only you can't! Blackman smiled benignly. “TIl take you'up,” he said. “II" do more! Tll engage to get acquainted to-day! Tl do something' “What? “Well, Blackman told them, Tl call there as a book agent—sgive me that ponderous volume on art on your table!” “If you get fresh you'll get thrown out,” said Armitage joyously. “Their cook weighs 200! Anyhow, book agents don’t make social calls!™ “You'll see,” said Blackman caimly. “Pm going to_demonstrate to you in- fants what a little perior knowledge will do! TII not only get acquainted, but Tll introduce you two, just to show that I have a lovely, unselfish nature! Grabbing the book, he departed. His fosts blinked at each other. Breath- lessly they eyed the flat across the ‘way, but there were no outward signs of an explosion. Blackman did not return at once, a battered wreck, as they secretly expected. said Armitage get away with anything!"” The Blackman who sauntered in smiling forty minutes later surveyed crushed and humble hosts kindly. ‘m to take you over to call’ he an- nounced, “any time I wish to! And the little blond girl is even prettier at close range! They “Are you kidding?" roared his hosts. am not!” declared their guest. “Did you really and truly go up talk to ‘em?” he insisted. They sat down and beat their heads with sofa pillo: And we've lived here eight month: groaned Bruce. “But how—how did you do it? Blackman regarded their respectful, beseeching faces a satisfactory minute before he lighted his cigar and edged ard the door. “Well,” he said, “not to relieve your suspense in the least, but because she'd probably give it away five minutes after you got there, the dark eyed girl with the curls happens to be an friend of mine I hadn't seen for some time.| She comes from down home—and I recognized her in the window ‘Huh!"” said the relieved Armitage. might have known it was only your luck instead of your brains!” change. OTHER VIEW POINTS Thers is hope In the seriousness with which the scientists at Johns Hopkins treat the proposition of a serum which may restore life to the drowned after it apparently is extinct. This should not be mistaken for a venture on the task of raising the dead. The drowned often appear to be dead and to all ef- fects are dead before life really is ex- tinct. They are dead before any ap- pliances so far discoverd can be made to operate. This is simply a move to | intensify the agencies of resuscitation. It may accomplish the saving of many lives such as heretofore have heen sacrificed—New Haven Register. There was a period in our history when we discounted the value of greenery in a city. Proper care w. not given to trees and they died. bbery was largely a Dppening, few taking the pains to carry out any definite plan in its arrangement. With- in the past few vears there has come an awakening to the possibilities in | trees and shrubbery arranged with an | idea for effectiveness. A little mone expended by one who knows the artis- tic value of landscape gardening, oi even the rudiments of effective arrange- ment, is bound to produce results out of all proportion to the amount ex- pended.—Meriden Record. Inebriates,. men out of and infirm peopl invalids and d crowded into the are under the much prospect and the cure of the Each tvpe is a ring its own spe le the expense of a segre- tem at the outset may be n that of the almshouse sys. work _aged , subnormal children, cenerates cannot be same in the long run is greater; for almshouse system seldom effects s, but tends to retain the inmates as per- manent charges, whereas the other system effects a large percens cures and in many cases converts p lic charges into self-supporting indi- viduals—Bridgeport Telegram. There is insistence on part of some | t the sense- which pre- governor, be ever was any @ the absurd party statute. It has actually defrauded Connecticut. It prevented the state from receiving the benefit of the con- tinued service of Rollin S. Woodruff, who fully measured up to he best of Connecticut _governors; it sent into retirement another able, conscien- tious and highly desirable governor— Frank B. Weeks, and if continued will retire another governor who has made good and is needed now more than he was two years ago, Marcus H. Holcomb. The silly one-term rule or dictate or party statute or custom, whatever it is, should be unceremon- fously kicked out.—Bristol Press. less rule so long in forc vents renomination of a smashcd. There cent reason for Prospects for an incorporated ecity of Warwick may well be thought to be made poorer by the supreme court's decision that the general assembly lawfully may provide a “financial council” in the town of Warwick, to be elected in taxpavers' town meeting and charged with the most important of the functions of the financial town meeting, to wit, to provide for appro- priations and taxation. In the larger New England towns It is quite gener- ally recognized that the making of the financial plans of a town for a year is a task for which a general meeting of voters, lasting perhaps three or four hours and held annually, is poorly cal- culated to act with understanding. In Massachusetts and our own state the custom of referring the annual budget to a committee for consideration and report is becoming common. This may be thought to be a makeshift, because after the report is made its disposition is in the hands of such voters as vol- unteer to attend the town meeting, and who may not represent a majority or include the men possessing the best ability to deal with such matters. If the “Warwick idea” is legally author- ized and is tried it should be benefictal to our whole state and to other states on account of the opportunity for ob- servation of its workings.—Providence ‘Bulletin. The Surprising Part. The wonderful part of the Celonel's candidacy is that the Master of the Universe can bring himself to ac- cept o0 paltry an office as the presi- dency.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. . | s tem, we-do not believe that the expense | NORWICH BULLETIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916 ‘WY Kraut A Delicious Vegetable A Wholesome In Generous 5¢ At Ev Food and 10c Confainer ery Dealer LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The City of Norwich. Mr. Editor: The account in The Bulletin of Tuesday, April 11th, of the collision and sinking of the steamer City of Norwich, in Huntington Har- bor, L. 1, fifty vears ago, reminds me that she was subsequently raised and repaired, her state rooms taken out and came on the line again as a freighter and as late as 1876-7 was in command of Captain Horace Shirley, an outside navigator who used to run steamers on the Savannah line, be- tween Portland, Me., and Savannah, Ga. Later she was sold and went into New York waters, and was burn- ed at her dock, if my memory serves me right at Newburg, N. Y., on the Hudson river, only a few years ago. JOHN. W. AYER. Yantic, Conn., April 11, 1915. Is She Serious or Humorous? Mr. Editor: Tt would be interesting to know whether Mrs. Marinda C. Robinson, of Asheville, N. C., is ous in her letter regardint Quayle’s lecture,” or whether her let- ter is a bit of humor almost as e quisitely funny as the bishop's own. If Mrs. Robinson is really in earnest, she should confine her reading o the dictionary and encyclopedia, anything more imaginative would prove dan- gerous to her literal mind, 1 feel surc. One of the Bishop's Hearers. Norwich, April 12, 1916. sor Stories of the War ishop | training of a military attache, on Ger- man conditions in the nearby agricul- tural section; and, then, escape. The notes on German conditions are proving valuables, now that the pris- oner is free. Most information on German conditions paint a very bad picture in order to please the French authorities. But these notes are de- signed to inform rather than to please, and they show favorable as well as un- | favorable conditions now prevailing in Germany. They show German farm- ers, with whom the French prisoners { were taken to work, in a prosperous and contented state, with good crops and normal stocks of cattle, swine, poultry, etc. In particular it was not- | ed that horses for farm labor have not fallen of seriously through the mili- tary requirement for artillery and cav- alry horses. But in the entire time this officer was in the German prison camp, going dally through the sur- rounding agricultural country, he did not see one automobile used for pri- vate purposes, although there were hundred of military automobiles. In general, his observations, as an ex- pert military observer, were that the internal conditions of Germany, par- ticularly the farming regions, were not as had been painted; that there was little evidence of internal exhaustion and considerable evidence of prolonged means of resistance. Meantime, pending his observations and the routine of prison duties, the officers had noted the daily coming and going of a large dumpcart, used for carrying away horse manure from the cavalry stables to the nearby fields. The sides of the cart were high and rigid, and the tail piece was remov- able to let the contents slide out. It occurred to the officer that if he could DAVIS T DUNLEY & MERRIL DAPHINE AND THE PIRATE 505 fiinGus DGE Y CONCERT ORCHESTRA Towe Aot Keystons Divection G A. Dowsatt Two Gems of Vaudeville With Chas: Murray | e - AUDITORIUMLL L 2 s o ANGETEERY™ CAHILL'S DANCING GIRLS PROGRAMME BY Erowenting e Bringing Home Father .07 7224 DOROTHY DONNELLY in MADAME X ONLY e nige HIGH FLYER NICHT What Is 1t? Something New Today =COLONIAL = Today UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT 3 Parts—“The Clause In the Constitution”—3 Parts “MISS FRECKLES" ........ ... Two Part 8. & A. Drama “HALF A MILLION" ......... seeseseneos veses.. Lubin Drama JACK SPRATTS AND THE SCALES OF LOVE ...... 8. & A. Comedy Fuel Briquet Inlustry in 1915, Over a million dollars worth of bri- quets were made out of waste coal dust in 1915, the exact production be- ing 221537 short tons, valued at $1,035,716. This was the largest out- put In the United States for any year with the exception of 1914. The man- ufacture of this type of fuel is how- ever, still in its infancy, and according Radium Never Seen in Nature. Radium is a metal and is described as having a white metallic luster. It has been isolated only omce or twice and few people have seen it. Radlum is ordinarily obtained from its ores in the form of hydrous sulphate, chloride, or bromide, and it is in the form of these salts that it is usually sold and used. These are all white or nearly Havre of Today. Havre has always been the most cosmopolitan port in France, but never before the war would you get three British balf-pence and a Belgian sou in eight cents worth of small chan That triviality is symbolical of the Havre of today—only half French, three-eights British and an eighth selgian. It is the influx of the British that has doubled the traffic of the port dur- ing the past nineteen months and con- Zested the docks until scores of ships are at, times seen lying for days to- ether in the offing ance to New Orleans. The cotton sheds, covering 20 acre of ground and fitted with 20 electri cranes, have become insufficient and the bales are rolled upon the quays everywhere that a ship from New Or- leans happens to find a berth. The traffic of the port of which amounted to 1913 was less than half t! terdam and only a littie more than third of that of Antwerp and Ham burg. The reasons for it were largely lack of docking facilities and the lim- ited railrond communications with Paris and the center of France. Even before the war ships were sometimes held up in the roads waiting their turn to dock, and a new basin called the “Tidal Basin” was planned and p: finished with the view of ru congestion. The congestion of traffic now is not only a hindrance to commer danger to navigation which vigilance on the part of th navy against German submarines may obviate but which is considered suff ciently serious at the present time to stify consideration of the temporary of the uncompleted Tidal Basin as a refuge for vessels waiting the turn to dock. Havre 5,400,000 tons in greater far more animated ri in time of peace, and is unavoid- ably gett rich from the v penditures of the British comm depurtment and the individual trad of officers and soldie *nzlish sh signs_are seen everywhere aion the French, for “Tommy Atkins slow in learning the languag One of the most conspicuous one sees in the Rue de F he pal street in the town, is Bar” in big, brave British red o adow of a saloon. A little the way to Tub. thinss prin- ¢ Club” verywhere cuously while there nd restauran advertise “Ha The rizht s for ¥ in and demand for all the ou want,” “Football among some of the app soldiers. things w boots,” als to are the ave the right- ships_in_the and the Brit- on shore. Some inquired whether on_is going to last spired by the haracter of the the different services of the a ish troops. Most peoy d if it does, b rich—all, exceptin The herring use the has dimin- hed 50 per cent., while the othe. commerce of Havre h Havre is under na military_rule, despite tish army. vailing color, but th a rd, is the king of Havre and Tom my Atkins must submit to his auth ity. He must quit the saloon at § o'- clock and must not be found in a r taurant after 10. Patrols look for him through all the narrow ways and by ways and in the corners of the dock: and pick him up sharply if found a ter hours where he should not be. As to the civilian, he looks in-vain for any sort of consideration in Havre; those that live there content them- selves in taking British money in ex- change for the best rooms, best apart- ments and best tables in the restau rants. The civillan from abroad g in with so much difficulty, he feels as if he had broken in and aimost inser sibly tries to sneak out; this, too, is difficult, for the man from Scotland Yard considers every civilian guilty spying until he has proven his inno- cence; If he happens to speak English, the presumption agalnst him is =0 much the stronger. French Officer’s Escape. A prominent French army officer has just gone through a thrilling es- cape from a_prison detention camp in Germany, which parallels in real life that famous escape of fiction in which Victor Hugo's hero took the place of the corpse and was carried off to bur: 1al The officer of this recent experience was the military attache at Vienna up to the breaking out of the war. He Joined his regiment when the war opened, and in a dash ahead of the main body of troops was taken pris oner end sent to a German prison camp not far from the Dutch frontier. Here, besides the physical hardships, two things occupied him closely: first, taking careful mental notes, with the lin aiting for a spot | cotton, giving to the port a resemb- of Rot- | French | be carried out in a load of manure, and be deposited under a dung-heap the flelds, he might work his way to freedom. And so, with a compan- fon, he tried it. There was the difficulty first of get- jting in the cart, so that when it was drawn up early i nthe morning for the manure to be thrown aboard, the two nien would be underneath. But this part they managed, and they were ly- Ing in the cart under a thin covering of straw_when the morning cleaning began. Soon the big clods of manure descended in showers over the sides of the cart, and gradually the officer and his companion were pinned down un- der a smoking, sweating, stinking pile of manure, six feet deep, with two German troops on top as it rolled off to_the fields. Here there was another danger be- ycnd that of suffocation and_ stench: that when the cart was dumped the top contents would go out first and the bottom with the prisoners would come out on_top. t the slide was even, top and bottom going out together in a crash which left the French officer and his companion buried under the durg-heap in the midst of the field. The rest was waiting for the fav- orable moment of darkness to let the two men dig their way out and get in- to the nearest wood. They were well away that night, and after extreme privation from hunger and exposure, came in sight of the Dutch boundary only to find sentineis posted at regu- lar intervals along the froatier to bar exit or entry. There was a rush at the nearcst sentry, with the hope that in one of the prisoners would get prang forward in ve seatry, but a fig- roughly fashioned out of nk. with a German uniform it, topped by a German helme A gun across the shoulder. The line of frontier sentinels was figures in German un- jer arms. r and his compan- soll, and were later , cager to take their e of wood hout with | whote Dutch Will Take Holland Next. The Missouri Democra: ave in- dorse Vilson for re-elec this thing exciting sosh, ain —Los Angeles Times. The War A Year Ago Today April 13, 1915. French made gains near Berry- au-Bac, but ‘were repulsed at other Zoints. Germans near Thicnville Metz heavily reinforced. Austro-Germ:. violently af tacked Russian left wing. Russians gained in Uzsok region, near Koziouwka and on the Ni men. Ossowetz Ger- mans. French aviators bombarded m tary hangars at Vigneulles. Many killed by explosion at naval reserve station at Lerwick, Shet- land. German shells fall on Swiss ter- ritory. Bedy Covered With Hives Baby Suffered Tortures. Healed by and bombarded by | | “] am sending you a picture of my little a'rl. ’Eho g‘ucflrfldo{ a | | to C. E. Lesher, of the United States Geological Survey, a good many years will probably elapse before the briquet industry assumes very large propor- tions. The work of briquetting this low-grade material and converting it into fuel suitable for higher uses is. however, practicable conservation and as such deserves far more attention than it now receives in this country. Evropean countries, more thrifty in their use of coal, have developed the briquetting industry to large propos tions. Most of the mechanical difficul- ties of manufacture have been solved in this country and the future growth of the industry now depends upon the development of markets for the prod- uct The producing plants are, how- ever, so widely distributed and the to- tal production is so small compared with that of other kinds.of fuel that the conditions affecting the market for e output of each plant are more or less local and peculiar. In gener#i, in the East, briquets compete with an- thacite as domestic fuel, and nearly all the output of the eastern plants i manufactured from anthracite culm. The people of the rastern cities, ac- customed to the incomparable anthra- cite, have not taken very kindly to these briquets, probably largely be- cause of tke volume of tarry smoke given off by nearly all kinds of bri- quets when they are first ignited, and perhaps partly because it has not been possible to offer them at a price enough lower than that of anthracite to in- duce their extended use. Being made from the cheaper sizes of anthracite. the briquets contain a greater amount of ash than the domestic sizes. and al- though this ash does not clinker the furnace it reduces the heat value of the fuel. There were 15 briquetting plants In operation in the United States in 1915 one less than In 1914. One new plant in California reported an output in 1915, and 2 plants, 1 in New Jersey, and 1 in New York, ceased operations. The greatest increase in output was made on the Pacific coast, the central states recording little change and the ecastern states a large decline In out- put. white substances, whose appearance is no more remarkable than common salt or baking powder. Radium is found in nature in such exceedingly small quantities that it is never visibie even when the material is examined with a microscope. Ordinarily radium ore carries oniy a small fraction of a grain per ton of material and radium will never be found in large quantity be- cause it is formed by the decay of ur- anjum, a process which is wonderful- Iy slow, and radium itself decays and changes to other elements so rapidly that It is impossible for it to accumu- late naturally in visible masses. Min- erals that carry redium, however. ars fairly easy to determine. One of them, pitchblende, as generally found, is & black mineral about as heavy as ord- inary iron, but much softer. The prin- cipal radium mineral, carnotite, ®as a bright canary-yellow color, and is generally powdery. There are other radium-bearing minerals of less im- portance. Can Find What We Want. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler found Root leading in the West, with Hughes second, and the Colonel “dis- cussed” How we all tend to find what we want to find!—Wall Street Journal. Naturally Despises Himself. 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