Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 25, 1916, Page 4

120 YEARS OLD price 12¢ & week; 50c ‘Eatored at ths Postotfice at Norwich, a as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: n%.lm.m Office_480. tin Editorial Rooms Bulletin Job 35-2. tic Otfice, Room 2, Murray ‘Telephone 210, — . Norwich, Tuesday, April 25, 1916. The Circulation of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the largest 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; 8,000 of the 4,068 houses in Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per! cent. of the peopl In Windham it s delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over. 1,100, and in all of these places it is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty-: nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postofiice 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 averags 1901, 1905, average SHOWS NEED OF PREVENTION. In the city of Providence new thought is beins siven to the impor- tance of prevention by the fact that in the past year the fire loss has amounted to the large sum of $364,- 000 or practically a thousand dollars a day on the average. The fife lossas of a city are not the same eack year any more than they are the same each day, but whatever the amount is, it does not require a lengthy study of the causes to reach the conclusion that they would be materially reduced if there was the proper amount of at- tention given to overcoming careless- ness, and to taking steps which would eliminate the firetraps and contribu- tory reasons. Let a fire department be as efficient as it may, it is impossible for it to prevent fires. Its duties are to do the best it can to put a fire out after it is discovered, but an even greater re- sponsibility rests upon a community, and that means the individuals, to do its utmost to see that the fire hazards are kept at the minimum and that preventive measures are taken which would guard against the possibility of serious losses from fire. This can be done in many ways if there is the proper amount of thought given to it, for aside from the firebug amd a few causes for fires over which there is little control the majority of the cases where property is destroyed by fire show that negligence plays a prominent part in increasing the fire losses in every community. The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is as applicable Tegarding fires as ityvis for other things. Unfortunately it does not get @s much consideration as it should though every time it is revealed what a eity suffers in this respect it is one of the greatest lessons for preventive work that could be set before the peo- ple. THE EFFICIENT NAVY. Whenever the opportunity is given to the American naty to demonstrate its skill in operations or at target practice, it invariable comes up to expectations in accordance with what it is given to do with. Where there are unfavorable reports they are, as & usual thing, due to conditions which @re beyond the control of the navy, such as lack of equipment, failure to provide a proper quota of men and an insufficient amount of practice, all of which are necessary for a first class navy. ‘There are of course good reasons for feeling gratified at the showing which the Atlantic fleet made in the Tecent target practice which was held at Guantanamo, when the guns and gun- ners were tried out on targets ten miles away. the men behind the guns but the re- ports show that they secured a good This was new work for putting his best efforts into this work and to a large degree he succeeded in Germanizing the Turks militarywise, to as great an extent as Turkey would permit, for he was restricted in the limit to which he could go. Turkey wanted as efficient an army as Ger- ‘meny but it was not willing to make as great sacrifices and the fruits of the organizer's work were therefore limited for just tbat reason. Away back in the war with Greece in 1896 the influence of the methods which had been introduced by von der Goltz was apparent, and it is even claimed by military crities that the sorry showing made by Turkey In the recent Balkan war would have been prevented had he been allowed to have his way and not been restricted. He was there to teach them the science of fighting and at the same time he encouraged them to look to Germany in other ways and it was unquestion- ably this influence which had great effect in bringing Turkey into the al- liance of the central powers. Taken in connection with the reverses which Turkey has suffered it can be appre- clated that his death means much to Germany. NEW YORK'S POSTMASTERSHIP. As the president might have expect- ed it he had given the matter due con- sideration, his selection of R. F. Wag- ner for the postmastership in New York city 1s being attributed both to a desire to gain the German-American vote and at the same time throw a little sop to Tammany Hall. That Senator Wagner should be se- lected for the post was as much of a surprise to him as it was to others. 1t was said that it was a personal ap- pointment by Mr. Wilson, which mizht be looked upon as a way of overcom- = the fight which has been made by the factions within the democratic party in that city to have thefr candi- dates named, but Mr. Wagner will hayve nothins to do with it. That there was politics in the choice cannot be denied. The fight for the postmastership in that city has been a bitter one and it is not ended. It is one of the big- gest appointments which the president has te inake along that line and the fact that Wagner has refused to accept ves the situation as it was befor name was mentiored or before it was offered to him. The factlonal fight will be renewed with increased vizor in order to land the plum, but if the president is desirous of filling the office by a man of experience, one who is thoroughly in touch with the @uties and the existing conditions, and therefore the one who can be consid- ered the most efficient because of the record which he has established there, he will reappoint the present incum- bent, Postmaster Morgan, even thourh he is a republican. The office requires the best man that can be had and there can be no question but what Mr. Morgan fills the bill. It certainly would be an excellent time for the pla¢ing of merit before politics and patronage. EDITORIAL NOTES. Roosevelt is urged to speak in the west. But why? Hasn't he said that he was not a candidate? United States troops in Mexico are ready to move elther way. It all de- pends, however, upon orders. President Wilson took a fiving trip to Philadelphia, but he knew better than to trust to one of the army aero- planes. An unpleasant Faster always causes much disappointment, but there is no telling how many autoists’ lives were saved thereby. ‘With railroad smashups and the de- struction of mills, southwestern Rhode Island is experiencing plenty of dis- tressing trouble. If the weather man should listen he might. hear something mnot entirely complimentary about his work during the past several days, The man on the cormer says: Man often hears from his conscience, but he ought to be thankful that it doesn’t jab him with a hat pin. Carranza has made up his mind that the United States troops must get out, but he doesn’'t appear to be doing any- thing to put a stop to Diaz. ‘When Col. Roosevelt talks abont be- ing ready to enlist and take his sons with him, it is possible he will be dis- satisfied if war doesn't come. It is to be hoped that it will not re- quire as long to decide the Villa mys- tery as has been spent by those trying to get a real clue to Dorothy Arnold. Henry Ford says that this country is insulated by 8,000 miles of water but he has perhaps heard that Russia is now sending troops from Archangel to Marsellles. Bernstorft declared that talked about, documents the that TIsn't it about time that Ambassador much were seized in von Igel's office were mere Average for hits which compares fa. | S°T®P® Of paper? vorably with work done at shorter It Carranza will show more inter- est and activity in putting an end to Villa leaders and followers it will greatly lessen the time the United States troops are to spend in his coun- try. But while the gunnery on these ves- sels which are in service is found to be of a high class, it must be under- stood that full reliance for protection of our long coast lines cannot be ~ placed upon a fow vessels. There are ~ 2 number of excellent warships in re- serve for lack of men to operate them _ and shoula they be placed in service It ean be readily understood that it would require some time' to develop he man behind the gun on those ships, else it would mean a weakening of efficiency of the present fleet by distribution of its gunners among ‘The proper course was adopted by a Louisiana university when twelve students were expelled for hazing. That is a practice which ought to be discouraged every time it makes its appearance. The map makers are of course in- terested in all such statements as that which recently came from Russia to the effect that it would not be long § good gunnery in our navy when the are given the practice and a to show what they can do, we not to be satisfied with our pro- untfl that same degree of effi- is shown Which comes from Gerard indicating that Germany will “make certain con- cessions” that that country believes that the final American note leaves a loophole for another mrolonged debate? The young man with the wavy hair and general well taflored effect enter- ed the bachelor Nving room and slumped into a chair with a sigh. :‘-h’sn he ran his fingers through his r. “Wow!” he remarked fevently to the atmosphere. Three other men sat up in as many Sekiigion cestrateng inquired the trou- e. “You have named it,” the newcomer assured them. ‘I am safe for & min- ute, but I didn’t have time to arrange to head off the comeback! If only I wasn't so doggone brilliant! I think of things too fast! I had one of those unexplainable lapses of memory this week and totally forgot an engage- ment to play cards at Bertha Basker's last nighf “Don’t ask me why on earth I for- got a thing like that! You know I am tagging around after Bertha with my soul in my eves, and all that, bark- ing joyously if she'll deign even to glance at me! T'd go a thousand miles to spend an evening at her house— In short, I'm just dippy about her! So my forgetting was one of those hide- ous tragedies ordained to discipline our souls! “Why, there was just as much chance ‘for me to forget an engage- ment with Bertha as there would be to forget to meet a lawyer who was go- ing to hand over a million dollars to me from my late uncle in Alaska! But the fact remains that I did forget it and never knew it till I drifted around there tonight and had it sprung on me. Say, can you imagine an animated iceberg, a glacier come to life? Well, that’s what I got. I give you my word that icicles were hanging from all ex- posed spots and 1 was so rattled that I lost my head. tion, and instead of surprising her by blandly confessing I had done just that, forgot it, thereby confusing and routing her by my calm audacity. I scrambled for an excuse. I said that Arthur had been taken suddenly ill at the club at dinner time and I had taken him home, and in the confusion the card party had escaped me. “No, don’t ask me why I picked out Arthur! I suppose my subconscious brain figured out that inasmuch as Arthur_was devoted to her, too, she would feel more kindly toward me for being nice to him. 1 hadn't been in such a hurry I should have done bet- ter in assigning the case of illness. She did not melt at all and call me a hero for attending to Arthur, so I had THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Socioty Mexican Indians—There are more Indians living today within the terr{- tory originally comprising Mexico than cver existed at any one time in all the rest of the Western Hemisphere com- bined, according to a bulletin issued today by the National Geographic So- cicty of Washinzton. “Of the 15,000,000 inhabitants of Mexico fully 25 per cent are pure In- disns, and 13 per cent of mixed bWod, only 18 per cent being whites,” con- tintes the bulletin. “These six million Indians, many of whom arc descendants of that wonder- ful race the Aztecs, are divided fito ny linguistic families and tribes, the numbers varying according to the! tandards of differentiation adopted by cach enthnologist. Some authoriiles &roup them into fourteen families, with Gfty-one languages and _sixty-nine ects, while others make sixteen ily divisions, subdivided into one dred. thirty-two tribez. “The degrees of civilization to be und among the many tribes are as- | tonishing, ranging from the _abject ri Indians of Sonora, as pitiably un- developed as the Indians of Terra del cgo, to the highly developed and! splendi specimens of manhood found among the Nahuatl and Maya tribes. “The finest examples of aboriginal civilization on the North American continent were to be found in fhe neighborhood of the present City of Mexico, with the possible exception of that prehistoric race of temple build- ers whose ruins dot the Yucatan pen- insula. It was on the site of the capital that the Toltecs left their im- print from 650 A. D. to the twelfth century when the Chichimecs, a cFuder tribe, replaced them, not by conquest but because the Toltecs died out, some antiquarians attributing their gradual disapearance to the ravages of pul- que, the insidious drink that I} ever Dbeen the curse of that country. “Then came the highly civilized Acolhuas, and a few years later, before the opening of the thirteenth century, the Aztec began to peur in, leaving in their wake, as thyy came 1 the plateau, the.remarkable structures now know as the ruins of Casas Grandes. They built Tula, fifty miles north of Mexico City, and eventually founded Tenochtitian, on a site selected for them by the gods, according to legend, the sign being an cagle perched on & clump of cactl, with a serpent in its talons. It is this sign which remains today the national emblem, appearing both on the coins and on the flag of Mexico. “One of the most interesting legends. about the tribes from which the In- dlans of today are descended is that recorded of the Colhuas, Who are sup- posed to have enslaved the Aztecs dur- ing the latters migratory march up the plateau. The conquerors soon re- leased their enemies because they were horrified at the Aztecs’ custom of gffer- ing human sacrifices to their gods. “It was largely to the’ cooperation of the Tlaxcalans, a neighboring tribe, that Cortez owed his triumph over the Aztecs. The latter “were as brave and as chivalrous soldiers as were the Spanish adventurers who enjoyell the decisive advantage of gunpowder and horses, both of which were unknown to the natives. The generosity of the Aztecs as fighting men is exemplified in @ single incident. Learning _that the enemy was without food, the Mex- icans dispatched an ample supply of provisions, because they scorn\l to fight a starving foe! “The majority of the pure-blooded Indians of Mexico are a quiet, some- what melancholy people. Even on holldays, of which there are 131 on the Mexican calendar, they move silently among the crowds, the men either barefooted or wearing Woven sandals, their shoulders covered with their striped_sarapes, and the women with their dingy blue rebosas wraped about fhem. In attire the young girls, like the children of Holland, are miniatiye replicas of their mothers. “The pure-blooded Indian of (\e remote regions untouched by civiliza- tion is more frequently than otherwise a stalwart individual of upright char- acter, moral, honest, and loval Ope of the finest examples of his race Was Benito Juarez, a member of the Zap- otecas tribe of Oaxaca. He was by turns a shepherd, a student of divin- ity, governor of Oaxaca, minister of Justice, and finally president of the republic. “Porfirio Dias, the outstanding fig- ure in Mexican history during the last quarter of the ninetenth century, was also born in Oaxaca and according to his official biography was one-fourth HIS FERTILE IMAGINATION | fare upon those ps to elaborate. I sald he was uncon- scious for two hours and his mother was distracted, but Bertha was abso- lutely stonyhearted. “I might say that she gave forth the on that she was very, very doubtful about my romance. Of cous being a lady, she did not so put hei impression in bald words, but 1 could discern her sentiments without the sightest trouble. “I looked at her sorrowfully, de- tachedly, trying to wear a nobie ex- pression’of truthfulness and innocence. But, say! That girl should be on the detective force! She just continued to regard me as though I were some- thing odd and curlous and rather dis agreeable. “So then I made my grandstand play. I sald I was amazed to find that I was In a court of law where legal proof of statements was neces- sary, and I should be very glad to call up Arthur to convince her. And she had the nerve to tell me to go ahead. “As 1 wabbled to the phone I re- membered that, of course, she knew his telephone number, so there was no chance of strategy there, and 1 had to_call the right one and ask for him. T then gave Arthur the treat of his Tife. ‘Hello, 0ld man.” said L you feeling to-night?” ““What's that ’ asked Arthur. Noth- ing the matter with me!® _ “Oh, is that so!’ I said sympathetic- ally at my end. “Well, you'll have to go slow for a while—no more fainting spells? * 'Sa; you crazy? demanded Arthur, T never knew you to drink before, Roscoe!’ Oh, dow’t mention it!" T replied depprecatingly. ‘What I did was nothing at all Perhaps if I had thought to get the doctor before I took you home instead of afterward you would have revived sooner! 1 hope your mother is all recovered now!" “‘Look here!’ Arthur roardd, ‘what Go_you takg me for? What's doing? “T'm glad of that’ said I ‘GW%e “How are her my best regards—and I'll bring you some books to-morrow. Take care of yourself!" 0 to the dickens!' snapped Arthur —and I turned to Bertha with a kind, forgiving smile. I never was one to rub in a victory “She was terribly humble. She in- sisted that she had not actually doubt- ed me—but it seemed so queer at first, and would 1 forgive her and come to dinner next Saturday?. 1 tell you I came away from there walking on air —till 1 happened to wonder how I was going to muzzle Arthur!™ “The only thing left for you to do,” said the pleasantest of his Interested Iisteners, “is to meet Arthur in a dark alley and ard enough to insure him a hospital— before he “Oh, gee!™ mourned the victim. “I have a merry life 2d of me! T know now how the parrot felt!"—Chicago OTHER VIEW POINTS Could we hire the ships of the Ger- mans they might let up in their war- r vessels even if they were carrying freight to the Entente Allies. But we could use such ps for other commercial purposes, such as trade with other neufral na- tions and the German submarine con manders might learn to discriminate in such matters sufficiently so as not to sink German ships in their zeal to cut up the commerce of the uniyerse, gen- erally.—Bridgeport Standard. The administration has made some pretense of cleaning up idgeport The hcad of the Police board has been active in toning down the more notor- ious offenders against law and ofder, Some good work has been accomplish- ed in this direction, but more remains to be accomplished. There are still a great many dives in the city which are the meeting places for vicious characters of both sexes. It is not difficult to shut them up, if the ad- ministration means business with its “clean up” program.— egram. ridgeport Tel- We shall be surpeised of the noley, of irritating, troublesome campaign the four Roosevelt candidates delegates at large from Massachu —Cushing, Bird, Gardner and W burn—appeals to the temper of the re- publicans of Massachusetts. We should think that they would be so evasper- ated as to vote against them if they agreed with them. They are constant- ly issuing statements, challenging the people of different beliefs and trying a sort of “hold-up” game on the par- ty.—Waterbury American. Gov. Baldwin's proposal to take the submarine controversy to arbitration under The Hague convention of 1907 hardly fits the times. According to the belligerent nations, about every provision of that convention has been calmly violated by their opponents. Witere does the neutral country that resorts to arbitration get off when the warring nations are raiding neutral commerce, sinking neutral ship® and violating neutral frontiers at their own sweet will? What we need is not a friendly lawsuit to be adjudicated some years after the end of the war but some method that will protect our own from the war-mad nations. ‘Waterbury Republican. Some one remarked the other day, when a certain proposal of local im- provement was being_ discust, that ‘Beauty is a luxury. We can't afford it” Was he right? Here is one plain fact, and any expericnced real estat® man can verify it from his own obser- vation. Take a street of plain, sim- ple houses, with no attempt whatever at ornaments of any kind, just naked wood bricks, and cement. Suppose some morning this spring the residents should get together and -decide that the street looked too bare and com- monplace. Suppose they all agree to spend $50 in planting shrubs and trees, srading, and sowing grass seed. Let them also agree to spend a few hours a week in keeping the place neat and in planfing and tending flowers. What would be the effect?—Southington News. What has the United States accom- plished in Mexico? Reports have been sent out from Washington to the ef- fect that officials claim this country has accomplished what it set out to do when the troops were sent across the border. To the fair mind nothing has yet been done in Mexico, and the The War A Year Ago Today April 25, 1915. Phosphates are as neces- sary to your body as salt RYZON, The Perfect Baking Powder, is made with a new and better phosphate. ‘Why not use the right kind of bak%gpowder? e Expert cooks get best results with a littleless of RYZON than required of other baking pow- ders. 10, 18 and 35 trouble is far from being settled. About DAVIS THETR! The Show 715, All Seats 10 Eve. 10c, 15c, 20c. Has The Whole Town Laughing DIRECT FROM KEITH'S BOSTON THEATRE STAN STANLEY TRIO IN THE BIGGEST SURPRISE IN VAUDEVILLE HARTZ & EVANS I Singing, Talkis CHARLIE TOM KUMA CHAPLIN IN ONE OF HIS LATEST 2 REEL BESSIE BARRISCALE In “Bullets and Brown Eyes” Five Part Triangle Play Today—ON THE TODAY ONLY Matinee 10c and 20c—Eve: FANNY WARD in | All Week AUDITORIUM A2 uni7p. m. JovruL BOB OTT With the Greatest Dancing Chorus in the World AN ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRA MME DALY g 10c, 20c and 30c. AND HIS MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY MARCH—Today PARAMOUNT FEATURE Seats now on sale THE CHEAT all that this country has learned by its invasion is that the United States is far from being prepared for war. If this is what the United States wanted to accomplish by crossing the border, then the result has been attained, but if, on the other hand, it was the inten- tion to restore peace in Mexico, and make that country pay for its slaugh- ter of Americans, the expedition has been an absolute failure. The admin- istration has been about as successful with its lexican policy as anything that has been taken up during the Wilson administration.—New Britain Record. LETTERS TC THE EDITOR The Hohenzollern Creed. Mr. Editor: With regard to_ Presi- dent Wilson's tolerance it may be well to heed thi: wegtern cautionary phrase: “Don’t shoot! He is doing the best he can!” He is up against one of the toughest propositions the worta has_known. Stories of the War Injury to Munition Workers. The manufacture of the high explo- sive known as tri-nitro-toluol is seri- | ously #Mecting the health of thousands of munition workers. It causes un- usual drowsiness, frontal headache, cczema and loss of appetite and some- times jaundice, according to a com- mittee which has been devoting much study to the health of the munition workers. In a few cases even death had re- sulted. The committee also found that tetra-chior-ethane, a _non-inflamable liquid, which forms an ingredient of the varnish applied to aeroplanes, is also having a dangerous effect on the workers. It smells in vapor form like chloroform and is a powerful anaes- thetic, leading to death. In searching for a substitute the committee learned We should all familiarize ourselves |that the heads of the munitions de- with the Kaiser's creed as set forth | partment have found an effective v: by himself in his address to his de- |Nish which does contain the pois- of ceived peopk 1—We Hohenzollerns take our crown from God. 2—War is a good thing. God will see that war always recurs. 3—Weak nations have nrt the same onous chemical its ingredients to_meet the demands. The committee found overwork a source of waste and eays that it is to | be hoped that the study of industrial but that the supply s at present insuffici to right fo Tve' as powerfal matione. fatigue and the science of management “—The Polish, French and Danish | Pased upon it. ma ve lasting re- press should be annihilated. |sults to benefit the industries of the P the Poles should be allowed |country during the succeeding years three privileges: To pay taxes, to|Of beace. serve in the army, and shut thefr jaws. | OuUr national experience in modern 6—German should replace English, |industry.” the committee reported. “is the begtard tongue. as'a world lan. |longer than that of any other people It has shown clearly erough that false ideas of economic gain. biind to pay- siological law. must lead, as they led | through the nineteenth = century, to| vast national loss and suffering. It is ¢ suage. 7—We are beyond conception mor- ally and mentilly superior to all oth- er_people 8—The German language coming di- langus g T ke oi et Tuct from Get minks into the heart|yrial life is to be guided in the future HRS & wecions Sl by the application Physiological 9—The Civilization of mankind sut- 5% the application = of = physiolozica fers overy time a German becomes a5 | St Canont hope. ta. atmialn e rican. position hereafter amonz foreign rivals, who alread: spect have tage.” Proper attention earlier in the war to the need for weekly res: would, stated. ha some of its in that re- gained a present advan- 10—We must English fanatics. 11—The ugliest stone marking a German grenadier's grave is a more orious monument than all the cathe- fight Russian beasts, mercenaries and Belgian prevented a large par drals of Europe put together. the diminished capact 12—They call us barbarians! What | eared, and would have averted much of it? The German claim must be |costly and wastefl expenditure upon Education to hate. Organization of | imperfect work. hatred. Education to the desire of | In very many cases, perhaps In al- hatred. Let us abolish unripe and|most all, in which staleness is well false shame. To us is given faith, | marked, or has even advanced to de- hope and hatred: but hatred is the |finite sickness, the committee found greatest among them. These arc quoted utterances of the German Kaiser and the Crown Prince. It is evident enough they cannot be successfully parleved with, that they must be overthrown. They have no love or respect for the other races. It may be well to inquire, as Toileeu: “Can in Godly souls? that a single day off, given occasional- Iy at the right time, would have avoid- ed much wasteful reduction of capac- ity, and in the worst cases the total 1085 of many deys of work 500,000 Lost at Pepper Hil The savage renewal of the Verdun| battle after a week's lull is described | by a staft officer who has arrived in! Paris. “The German Infantry began an at- tack about 2 p. m. on Monday, which shows they hoped to gain a substan- tial success, as merely local assaults | generally occur under cover of the| evening, while the early morning op- erations are hampered by the effect of darkness on the preliminary bomb- ardment. “In this case the latter was tre- mendous throughout the _morning. Their troops—Wurttembergers and | Prussians who prisoners indicated belonged to five different division though the total force was under 4 000—advanced in deep columns an. dia such gall find place AN AMERICAN. Norwich, April 24, 1916. A Flock of Strange Birds. Mr. Xditor: On the morning of April 224 1 was disturbed by sounds which suggested the presence of a litter of kittens in the open air and while looking for them I discovered the mewing sounds proceeded from a large flock of grayish white gull-like eppearing birds—756 at least—grace- fully sailing about in the clouds above me. They were apparently birds of passage, and never having heard birds make such a mewing sound be- fore 1 concluded they were new to this latitude. Can any Eastern Con- necticut ornithologist tell me what |Other proof of the seriousness of the these birds were? operations, some trying to climb the INQUIRER. |heights on our left from the Brass orw! 3l ravine, others mounting the western it AR 80 200 face of Pepper Hill, others descending | from the hills of the northern crest against our trenches on the southern flank, and stil others moving from the north against the Haudromont spur| on our right center. | “The attempt was doomed to fail- ure from the start, for the heights of the Meuse in this sector form such a | network of ravines that the defend- ers can crush attacks at any point by enfilade fire, especially as long as they hold Le Mort Homme and Hill 304. 1 saw charges against our center where the enemy secmed the most deter- mined, and_had massed fully ten men per yard of front. They poured over the crest of Pepper Hill, but could not get near our trenches. It was mad- ness to try to charge over a distance of 150 yards against such fire. “Our_gunners made fine practice, although the enemy's ranks were Sacrifice. Mr. Bditor: The most recent state- ment by Colonel Roosevelt that he and his male Kin, in case of war, woul sacrifice themselves to protect the honor of the country, recalls the sacrifice he made of the republican party four years ago, and also the willingness ‘now evidenced to sacri- fice the progressives. Who can doubt the sincerity of the Colomel's willing- nedsl to make any sacrifice to gain his end? CITIZEN. Norwich, April 24, 1916. “Is that doctor capable of teliing you how to avoid grip”” “He ought to be. He had it half a dozen times himself.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch. Don’t You Want Good Teeth? | Doss the dread of the dental chair cause you to neglect them? You noed have no fears. By our method you can have your teeth filled, Growned or extracted ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT PAIN. CONSIDER THESE OTHER FEATURES STRICTLY SANITARY OFFICE STERILIZED INSTRUMENTS CLEAN LINEN ASEPTIC DRINKING CUPS LOWEST PRICES CONSISTENT WITH BEST WORK If these appeal to you, call for examination estimate. and No Germans gained more ground at Ypres and - began terrific drive near La Basse French repulsed in tho Argonne and the Meuse hills. st Austro-Germans took by storm Ostry mountain in the Carpathians, commanding Orava valley. Russians ~ repelled Germans Prussian Poland. Indian, however, - some geneglogis! hold that he was neafly mm—tmifé Russian Black Sea fleet bom- barded Bosporus forts. eharge for consultation. DR. F. C. JACKSON DR. D. J. COYLE Today = 3 Parts—“Tried for His Own DIAMOND ARE TRUMPS, “MINNIE THE TIGER” ... COLONIAL. - Today UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Murder”—3 Part Vit. Drama Selig Drama in Three Parts Monday Evening, May t—a Great Qua sured. A Great Hum: ing evening is Large Hall; ADMISSION 50c Concert and Entertainment under the auspices of THE MENS CLUB of St. Andrew’s Church Pulaski Hall, 160-162 North Main Street . MR. CHARLES T. GRILLEY of Boston .- The Great Humorist THE TEMPO QUARTETTE of Hartford rtotto—a most enjoyable and entertain- DON'T MISS IT. ly ventilated; will comfortably seat 1000 people. N orimerd south bound cars pass the door every few minutes. sl 1st, 1916, at 8 o'cock = ur CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS 25¢ mostly hiden in smoke. Now and then a compact blgek would break forward only to be cut down iike corn by mit- raiileuse The tried hard, hible his men could hardly stay in the trenches. “The German losses on Monday can- not have been far short of 15009, though they were more = the front than they were But_Pepper Hill a terribie death traj cost them 50,000 are told, and is untaken. Variously Born. an eager and intelligent fel- low, but his nationality was doubtful The recruiting officer, who was taking particulars of his family in the ordin- ary way of business, became g0 Inter- brother in Hungary, one in Belgium, one in Holland, and one in Italy. He had two brothers serving in the Bel- glan army. Had he been born three weeks later he would have been a and m: e hou: = ble. It is remarkable tha pline can still maintain such sa “Further to the east he Chauf- four wood, which is sheltered from stern enfilade, they made gress, but it must have been you_kne of German | ich are still | unburied. e failure on the April 4 ttered assault columns from east and west to the sh the wood and four 75 b y moved right up and ered them in droves. A friend whose company Is holdifz one of the Chauffour trench- es told me that when the wind was from the north the stench was so hor- Debate on Woman Suffrage MRS. T. N. HEPBURN, Suffragist MR. C. L. UNDERHILL, Anti Suffragist SLATER HALL April 28th, 8 o'clock Admission Free Friday, Tnstead fate made RMi ar. Austrian, and he had been interned for it. By profession he was an acro- bat in a travelling show. —Manchester | Guardian. Frenchman. 18th-Century Prize Money. Prize money now is a_trifie com- pared with what feli to lucky crews |in the palmy days of the eighteenth century. After the capture of the single Spanish ship Hermione in 1762 by the Active and the Favourite the ar-admiral and the commander, who had not even been present, re- ceived between them £4,963 3s. 8d. Of the Active’s crew, Captain Sawyer got | £65.053 13s. 94, three commissioned officers each £13,004 ld4s, 14, ei3® warrant officers each £4336 3 2o, twenty pety officers each £1806 10s. 104, and 150 seamen and marine each £485 4d.-—total £203,151 4s. 24 Twenty wagons triumphantly broug™ the treasure from Portsmouth to Lon- don.—London Chronicle. Dead Easy. 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