Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 1, 1916, Page 4

S Glorwich Bulletin and Qoufies f 120 YNARS OLD - tion price 12c m week; 50c a meonth; a year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwich, Conn., a8 second-class matter. ' Telephone Calls: by Business Office 480 lletin Editorial Rooms,35-8, Bulletin ‘Job Office 85-2. Willimantic Otfice, Room 2, Murray Bullding. Telephone 210, Norwich, Saturday, July 1, 1916. 2esssvee The :Circulation of H i H The Bulletin has the largest} eireulation 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 4,063 houses ‘n Nor- wich and read by ninety-tiree per cent.' of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Daniclson to over 1,100, and in ali of these places it Is comsidered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-§ five postoffice districts, and sixty § iural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in eve town and on all of he R. F. H routes in Eastern Connecticut. § H CIRCULATION average. 1801, 1905, average..... 1rcteTarsasnesearsesesesssrensnessesiesresssacies THE NOTE TO AUSTRIA. For some time now there has been little or nothing sald in rezard to the unjustified manner in which an Aus- trian submarine fired upon the Amer- deen tanker Petrolite, while it was fly- ing the United States flaz, demanded food and held one of the crew as hostage until it had obtained what it wanted. If Austria expected that the matter was going to be dr auch manner, it must n it was ken Buch was a direct affront to this eountry. It was a piratical act which had no excuse whatever under inter- national law. It was_evider flag at the mast and by ¢ on its sides that the ts as an | American ship, but if thero had been| any @oubt about it there was a pre- | seribed method of o facts which was n. plain that he any restriction to have his own way ard knowing well what cor might expeect, =0 that w ernment, throush the state, complains to duet, insists that it w the American flaz and this nation demands that it mak > Teparation it have expected, sooner or tria had no reason to b submarine comr such manner w The possibility rmined he Austria of the con- 1sult 0 and of have existed had there m im attack, although the responsi ty of determining the nationality of the| tanker cannot be overlooked, but when the raid made upon ihe ship's stores it was certainly known that rights were being srossiy exceeded. Thus this country cannot overlook the matter unless it is to e Occurrences are going fo be contin- ued. The demands which are being made by this government are only the ct that such natural outcome of such mistreatment on the high seas. INTEREST STEADILY INCREASING 1t is only a little over a decade since an organized effort was made for checking the white plague. That movement has steadily grown through & constantly increasing recoznition of 4ts importance. It didn't re e much Study of the prevailing conditions for anyone to reach the conclusion that concerted action was needed for the purpose of relieving the suffering of those afflicted, so far as possible, for the extension of help to those in the early stages of the disease and for the protection of othefs who were likely 10 get into its clutches throuzh pre- | wentive measures. i Thus there is nothing surprising in} the widespread response which has been made to the commendable effort st on foot in 1804, at which time the National Association for the udy and Prevention of Tuberculosls was organized, and in the growth which is shown each year. Today, according o0 the new directory which has just been issued by that association it is ishown that there are nearly 3,000 s now listed in the fight against ‘mpuon in the United States, \which represents an increase of 1600 per cent., In the past twelve vears, or ‘since the national warfare on this disease was started. Almost every state has responded nobly, in the establishment of the 557 sanatoria and hospitals, 138 tuber- . culosts boarding houses,: the making of special provision for the care of tubercular patients at 90 insane hos- pitalstand at 35 penal institutions,.the bpening of 455 dispensaries, 310 open afr schools and the organization of 1324 anti-tuberculosis associations‘and THE CASEMENT VERDICT From the time that Sir Roger Case- ment was arrested, there has been lit- tle doubt as to his guilt or as to what the verdict of the court that tried him must be. The evidence appeared to be conclusive and this has been borne out by the conviction which has fol- lowed his trial and the sentence of death which has been imposed for high treason. Casement took advantage of every possible plea that could be made in his behalf, even to that of insanity, but it was without hope, and even though he was disposed to leok upon his position as a matter of no great serious consequence, right down deep in his heart he knew what he had done and he must have understood that Great PBritain is not disposed to handle such cases in a manner which will serve as an incentive for others to go and do likewlse with the expec- tation of gettjng a light sentence. Such a crime calls for the severest punish- ment, and when it is realized that Casement has heretofore been treated with unusual consideration by his government and given offices of much importance, it can be appreciated that his act was all the more flagrant. That every effort at appeal will be made 1s probable. All the influence that can be brought to bear will be exerted fn the hope that the sentence will be commuted to lifo imprison- ment, but the chances of that succeed- ing are less favorable now that they might be at other times, or if the crime had been committed while Great Britain was not Involved in war. The fact that Casement has done 0 much in behalf of humanity stands out to his credit. It is impossible not to recognize his activity in overcom- ing distressing conditions, but it is a question whether they can be made to overbalance the enormity of his more recent act. PASS THE CHILD LABOR BILL. ‘While the committees in congress are gradually pushing along certain bills which are before them, when- ever they can get the time for con- sideration of mgtters which are not directly connected with the question of national defense and preparedness, there are still a number of important measures which have not emerged from committee, or upon which needed tion_has not been taken. Some of these may well be delayed while more important bills are up for m, and a number are de- ¢ adverse reports or defeat, nevertheless those which taken up and passed and in is the familiar bill for the regulation of child labor, re- which so much has been said which the failure of states to act ' the interest of thefr own people ade it necessary that congress respond and put an end to conditions i*h ought not to have been toler- 1 a5 long as they have and which uld now be changed for the bene- of the future citizenship of the ntry. Such_legislation would not mater- ially affect many states for they have scen the wisdom of improving condi- tions themselves and enacted legisla- tion to meet the needs, but there are others, which persistently refuse to provide the protection and relief to Which the children are entitled, and it is the influence exerted by these, which is responsible for the delayed action. In the last congress the bill was piz- conholed but nothing of the kind should be permitted this vear. The lower house has acted and the action of the senate'is now awaited. Bvyery rossible effort should be made by tha body to meet the situation and meet it right, and not wait until the rush of the closing days for a con- venient excuse for overlooking or kill- ing it ral avain EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner savs: Human nature is said to e the same every- where, but it seems worse in some places. Carranza has to appearances. all reached the wise conclusion that the people proud to of this country are mnot fig too As the situation continued to grow orse, Carranza appears to have gain- a better understanding of the de- sirability of peace. It Carranza has refused the assist- ance of Villa it is possibly because he wishes no dead men to be connected with his administration. Although Villa was the big trouble at the outset of the recent differences with Carranza he isn't getting very much consideration at the present time. What a lot of criticism Colonel Roosevelt would have avoided if he had only reached the conclusion a long time ago that he didn’t want a third cup of coffes. Norwich is golng to have an old fashioned celebration of the Fourth along uew fashioned lines and the preperations indicate that it is going to be a hummer. Gypsies are now said to be traveling by autos. That will be a bitter dis- appointment to those who have al- ways depended upon those people for horse swapping. Being as large as Germany, if it was only as well prepared, Texas ought to be able to handle this whole Mexican question and settle that trouble in about 15 minutes. No sooner has Greece agreed to the entente allies' demands than it ap- proaches them for a touch. It is of course time to settle for what they have obtained. Now that the destroyer Sampson has been placed in commission, there is a name which ought to strike ter- ror to the enemy unless it happens to possess a Delilah. - In view of their recent success the Italians are probably looking forward to thet*ime when they will have the /.ustrians forming a hollow square and fighting ‘Italy on one side and Russia on the other. Some people are committing suicide because their relatives have been or- dered to the front, without in.any way adding to the comfort or safety of those enlisted men, or adding to the peace of mind of other relatives. committees. - ‘This is a fight in béhalf of human- Revorts coming from The Hague are to the effect that children in German Ity wiiich ' is deserving of not only the [cities are to be sent to the country w that it is . receiving, but more and the ‘yearly increase wa, the! widespread recognition of - £igd where food conditions are less acute. Thet doesn’'t indicate that necessities are any too abundant despite claims to that effect. Y.~ THE MAN WHO TALKS ¢ I felt an ambition to be popular 1 would get up against the most pop- wlar person in town for awhile and make & etudy of the route and the costs. 1t is not so difficult to @iscover the way to popularity. Money, af- fabllity, generosity and responeive- ness bave much to do with it. A person may become popular without money, but not without affability and a reciprocal epirit. Popularity may be as much of a tax as political favor- itism, and the responsibilities and ob- ligations_which support either is the price. There is not the personal pleasure in being a specialized indi- vidual most folks think. Homors of which we know nothing are never as desirable as they-seem to be, and never as satisfying as people imagine. These favorites are always harrassed by “friends’, and the tail of their kite is often too long for comfort; and so long that it threatens to dis- turb their. equilibrium. There are manifold_annoyances attending all of these attractive places which excite the ambitious and make the ambitious unhappy. —_— It does not seem as if there could be 2 humorous side to this great Buro- pean war, but there ie, and if the funny incidents are ever collected and printed_they will make a large book. After the German cruiser Emden had been_sunk by the British men of war, the Frendh occupants of a trench on one side of the road wrote out the facts and tying the note to a etone threw it into the German trench on the opposite side of the road. Short- Iy a stone came back bringing with it o scrap of paper which had written upon it: “Monsieur, go to hell” The commanding officer threw this mnote back: “Dear Boches:—I have been in- vited to visit many places in my time, but this is the first time I have been invited to. visit German head- quarters.” A London society lady sent a package to the loneliest British sol- dier in the German prison camp. This not came back to her from the German commandant: “Madam:—Your _gifts have been impartially distributed to the prisoners. We were unable to decide which was the lovliest British soidier in camp.” When Gen. Von Hinderberg’s chief of staff resigned because of ill-health the Kaiser tele- graphed the General asking who he would prefer for his chief of staff! This was his answer: “I should prefer Joffre” Funny things are constantly happening in_ the war zone as well as horrible trgedies. Do you realize that full half the people in the lunatic asylums are vietims of balance destroying thoughts. When we fail to #:ink right we cease to be right. It is up to us to select and cherish good thoughts, thoughts which make for health, prosperity and happiness. If you wish to be gloomy just cultivate the habit of thinking you are misunderstood, it life isn't worth living, that this is a_wicked world, that the poor man has no rights the rich are obliged to respect, that the wicked prosper and are hap- pler than the orderly and God-fearing classes, keep judging when you are warned to judge not. Keep violating every principle of right and attract to your own soul more misery than you can endure. Those who have an eye for the good, the beautiful and the true do not magnify the errors of life and blind themselves so they lose con- sciousness of God's presence and daily beneficence to all people. Do not mind so much what your neighbor is doing, but be alert as to what you are doing to yourself. In 1915 there was no wren on my hal? acre and as there had been one there every vear for 17 vears his ab- sence was keenly felt. T do not feel at home in-the garden unless the robins, the goldfinches and the wrens feed and feel at home there, too. They are all present again and they make the air vibrate with their songs. The wren can sing and scold as no other bird of its size can. It will chase an English sparrow as a kingbird chases a crow; but it is seldom ruffled in its zarden domain, where it enjovs life as well as 1. His shrill trilling might not_be regarded as music by nervous souls who get wrought up over small matters; but it breaks the monotony of the morning hours and seems to be repeating: “Life is joy to me!” Tt is good to have these little feathered folks around singing a song of glad- ness. Who can help feeling the thrill and influence of it, who can weary of their good cheer? God made them nd pronounced them good, and they all seem beautiful and good to me. You do not realize the power of a great thousht conscientiously recog- nized and firmly held in the mind. Let us take this scriptural averment: “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good” The divine One did not see evil, then why should we mortals see it to vex our souls. Bicome aware that everything in life is tending toward the beautiful. Everything cannot go to the dogs with a Lord in Heaven holding the destiny of all things in His hands. It has been well said that “man reads too much and reasons too little” If the human soul takes upon itself the eweetness of the Lord's view of things it carnot become law. Do you think the mind which holds this great thought could become chicerless? This is not the way to Grouchdom, but the way to Good Cheer. You can see that many things are not “very good.” You can; but they are the conditions man has’ made, not the one's God looked upon: and man has got to abate them before he can realize in its fullness divine purpose and his own destiny. The lawyer who quotes postry to a jury, and the minister who presents conundrums to his congregation. do not know how to do effective work. Simple facts sink deepest in what- ever cause they are presented. ‘The average mind calls for the naked truth, and declines to hike over flow- ery meadows to find it. The way to impress the mind of the masses is to present thoughts in form to fit fit. ‘When Billy Sunday says: “The Lord commanded us to feed his lambs not to pass up fodder for the giraffes,” the common mind does not miss fhe point, Every worker knows what a spade 1 but if it 15 epoken of as an agrioul- tural implement used to disintegrate the soll, he might not be able to recog- nize it. Fine language fits fine folks; and common Jlanguage fits common folks. Both classes must be addressed in accord with their receptive capact- ty and thelr perceptive ability. Do you enjoy reading? It you do not, why don't you? You havem't the reading habit. You would have if You would read what you desire to read instead of something a solicitious per- son recommends. The man who talks began with “Jaclk Shepard” and “Six- teen String Jack”, and the wild and wooly literature of bygone days which was regarded as poison to the juvenile mind. They 4id ot poison him. They opened the way to all the flelds of lit- erature. He first read along lines which interested him and then ven- tured to explore new fields. He reads books now that are recommended to him; but he never could have found joy and entertainment if he had tried 1o start with books recommended “for his good” We must select our own good in this world just as bees select thelr own koney. What does he read now? He reads novels, travels, sclen- (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Bverybody hereabouts is familiar with the name of the Norwich Line to New York, the Chelsea Line, the Shore Line, various stage lines and other popular means of transportation; but nobody is now alive who remembers the Norwich-Western Reserve Line, which was inaugurated before 1800. The pleasure and convenience of keeping up intercourse between the emigrants who had gone forth from the home town to open up new set- tlements in the then almost unknown region called vaguely “The West"— now the most populous and prosperous portions of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio and parts of New York state— led the friends left behind to start what was known as Hartshorn's Stage-wagon route. This stage was a ponderous, hous like wagon, drawn by six = horses, which made six or eight trips per year to Chemung, German Flats, and other distant points, carrying passen- gers, letters and freight. Its arrival in Franklin and Norwich was hailed with enthuslasm, the his- torfan of Norwich tells us, since it was sure to bring intelligence from distant friends. The letters sent home were, natural- 1y, filled with absorbing narrations of hardships endured, dangers encoun- tered, as well as of jolly parties and rural’ pastimes. The Norwich Packet, one of the earliest newspapers of the town, pub- lished an account which had come from the western wilds of a terrific tific works, religious works in varlety —and especially books certain classes vehemently condemn. Reading is a constant source of influence and pleas- ure and a good book is always a good friend. Read for practical knowledge read for spiritual knowledge and read for pleasure. What we can’t stand makes a great deal of unnecessary trouble for us. If we thought we could stand it all, and more, it wowld not annoy us. Al- though we fret and complain and say we can't stand it, we do stand it — we have to stand it—hence the dis- turbing condition is mot what makes us so very miserable, but the condi- tion of our thought in regard to it. What is the use of thinking and de- clearing we cannot endure trials which we know we cannot prevent or flee from, and whidh never have and never will prove to be fatal. There are lots of miserable people who cannot stand a disappointment or an insult or a hundred aund one other trifles which are encountered every day by other people, and hardly noticed; and which they have endured and will endure for years to come. Cultivating fretfulness and irritabllity is laying the founda- tion for insanity, to say nothing of the disturbing atmosphere of such a misapprehension of our mental or phy- sical endurance. Half the people in asylums are there as the direct result of bad habits of thought. Sunday Morning Talk TO PLUNDER OR TO PAY. “Why then the world’s mine oyster Which I with sword will open.” Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Falstaff's servant, Pistol some of the most familiar words of his “Merry Wives of Windsor.” He allows that lover of pompous pirases, withal to shout forth a thoroughly selfish and despicable philosophy of life. ~ The swashbuckler’'s proposal represents bad economics as well as bad morals, It all men went on that piratical plan, the universe would become bankrupt. There would soon be no oyster left for anyone. Yet that same ideal can be met with any day. Plenty of people who ought to know better are asserting that the world owes them a living and are giv- ing all ‘#eir time to collecting the debt. Under their view, liabilities are all on the side of society. The sole responsibility of the individual is in snatching something from the com- mon store for himself. The world is an orange to be sucked dry, an oyster to be opened and devoured. As a matter of fact, we stand to the world as debtors rather than as cred- i Plenty of us, of course, can e a package of receipted biils and declare that we owe no man anything. So far, so good. It is decent and law. ful to square accounts with the butch- er, the baker, and the candlestick maker. In civilized society, that much is taken for granted. But there are cther accounts than those the- village tradesmen render each month. If one were to be brought face to face with his real obligations to the world in which he lives, the sum of them would stagger him. inety-nine hundredths of all that you bave, my brother, you owe to society. You are the “heir of all the ages” Liberties and legacies from the past were be- stowed upon vou on your natal day. You were born into a thousand men- tal, moral and material possessions you did nothing to earn. In any hour of self-exaltation, pause to make up a swift and partial catalog of your dependencies. The list should make you humble. Look back across the centuries and contemplate the struggles and the sacrifices out of which came your liberties, your eit- izenship, your education Your physical health, and your mental outlook, Learn how true it is that no man ‘Aveth unto himselt.” For all these sifts one is under bonds to_render some return. The extreme individualist should be rated as a so- cial parasite, a ghoulish plunderer. He represents an element in modern soci- ety as dangerous as those that we call defective or criminal. It is not fair to this world to treat it only as an object of loot, as vandals descend on some fair city only to sack it. That s no square deal to genera- tions that have gone, nor to those yet to come. The honorable citizen will strive to use the world as not abusing it. He will try to pass on his inheri- tanco enlarged and enriched to ages yet unborn. Why should all of us not strive to be benefactors rather than malefactors? Why should one not add his little bit to the total of human welfare? Here are the great reforms that challenge effort: here are the good causes that cry out for support; ere are moral impulses and spiritual aspiratigns of the race that eorely need strengthen- ing. Nt is simply dishonest to take much and to give nothing, to add no gift of virtue or of cheer to one’s times. The sensualist, going the way of all the earth, leaves behind him naught but an empty dish, but the eaint has a higher embition. He would “bequeath fis fellows some good ere he joins that chotr tnvisible. Of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their pres- ence; ‘Whose music is the gladness of the world. » THE PARSON. NORWICH-WESTERN RESERVE LINE combat between four men and a bear, which took place on June 6th, 1797, at another namesake of Norwich, a Norwich which was the sixteenth township on the Unadilla river. Ths four men were Dr. Dan Foote, Enoch Marvin, the latter’s son, and a hired man. Three of them were badly wounded; but the animal was finally conquered, and weighed when dressed, 260 pounds. The Western Reserve, called also New Connecticut, was a territory be- longing to the state of Connecticut, which lay on Lake Erie, west of Pennsylvania. It contalned three mil- lion acres. The Fire-Lands, compris- g the western portion of 500,000 acres, had been granted by the state to those towns in Connecticut which had suffered from the torch of the enemy in the Revolutionary War. During 1786, the general assembly passed an act to survey and dispose of the remainder of the territory. Hon. Benjamin Huntington, of Norwich, was one of the three commissioners appointed for this business. In 1795, the tract was sold to a land company, organized for this business, and under their management the whole three milllons of acres, then an almost unbroken wilderness, was sur- veyed and distributed into townships and farms, and offered to settlers on easy terms. This territory now forms a tler of counties in the northern part of Ohic. Its settlement began in 1796. Gen. Joseph Williams, of Norwich, was a prominent member of this Land Company. Daniel L. Coit, another of the original purchasers, devoted time, labor, means and influence to promote the settlement, and made repeated visits thither, undismayed by the long and tedious, as well as dangerous journey. Among new towns founded, ‘Williamsfield and Coitsville perpetuate the names of these men. Wheeler W. Williams, who went from Norwich, built in 1799, with his partner, Major Wyatt, the first grist mill and saw mill in the Western Re- serve. No greater benefit could have been conferred upon the new country at that time. The towns Norwich—another namesake of t town—Huntington, Kinaman and Kirtland, in this range of territory, indicate the origin of some of their first settlers. Col. Simon Perkins, of Lisbon, a Revolutionary officer, moved with his family to Warren, Ohio. Hon. Samuel Huntington, one of the most distinguished of these emi- grants to the Western Reserve, left Norwich with his family in May, 1801, settling first at Cleveland, but after- wards at Paipesville, where his de- scendants still reside, The new country found in him a useful and efficient magistrate. He was colonel of the militia, judge of the supreme court, and governor of the state from 1808 to 1810. He held many other offices by which he pro- moted the welfare of Painesville, and merits the honor of being accounted one of the founders of Ohio. He died at Painesville, June 8, 1817, a young oA for one 0f his honors, being only of The first settlements upon _these wild lands were made by small bodies of emigrants, scattered at considerable distances from each other, some amid dense woods and others near the In- dian borders. Consequently they suf- fered much from the horrors of the wilderness, as well as for want of proper food and clothing. ‘Wonderful were the accounts sent back to the mother-town of Norwich, perhaps by Hartshorn's state-wagon, possibly by some homesick and re- turning emigrant, concerning the hardships and adventures of these sturdy settler: Some of thess tales were more thrilling even than were the first ex- periences of the early settlers at Wy- oming, the territory in Pennsylvania opened up by Norwich and vieinity emigrants. . It was related that Governor Hunt- ington, while riding through the woods, was suddenly attacked by a pack of wolves from which he only escaped through the fleetness of his horse. A party of voung people gathering berries near the Muskingum, sudden- ly alarmed by the sounds of the blood- curdling war whoop rising from the nearby thickets, fled in wild dismay to the shelter of their fort. News was brought home at one time that a cabin of some of the early emi- grants was buried by the snow of mid-winter and that it was fully three days before the family was extricated. A boy kidnapped by the Indians had grown almost to manhood before he was released. As was to be expected, the toma- hawk and scalping knife, savage beasts and deadly serpents, figured largely in the tales written home in letters brought by the quaint parcels post gonts of the Norwich-Western Reserve ne. The striking feature in_sll these stories of early emigration from Nor- wich is the intense love of the plo- neers for their home town. They carried the name of Norwich through the trackless wilderness, over unknown rivers and into savage and forbidding territory, naming new towns for the beloved town of their birth, never losing their fondness for that distant home-town, giving of their best to uprear new cities, and states, and transmitting to their chil- dren those traits of nobility of char- acter, industry, enterprise, true de- mocracy, love of liberty, which they always fondly attributed to the tradi- tions and influences of that Norwich in Connecticut from which they had gone forth. THE DICTAGRAPH. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety Larissa, an important city in Thes- saly, mentioned as King Constantine’s place of refuge following disturbances in the Greek capital, is a twelve hours’ railway journey to the northwest of Athens. "Concerning this city’s im- portance both commercially and h torically the National Geographic so- clety has issued the following war geography bulletin from its headquar- ters in Washington: “As the capital of a province of the same name, Larissa, with a population of 18,000, has played an important role in the history btoth of modern Greece and anclent Thessaly. It was The War A Year Ago Today July 1, 1915, Great artillery engagements along the Aisne. Teutons captured Zamest and ad- vanced between ula and Bug rivers. French aeroplane bombed Zee- brugge and Bruges. the headquarters of crown ) _duri the of the TGRkICE war of 139, Snd it was at this place that panic seized the Greek army in April of that year, the prince's forces fieeting in confus. ion to Pharsala. This event Imarked the end of the first half of & war which ended disastrously for the Greeks. b took part in the triumph of Greek arms over Turkey during the war of independence, however, for here was _established the headquarters of Ali Pasha of Iannini, who elected to 2id the patriots in _thelr struggle against his master. PBut long before the struggle ended this remarkable leader was treacherously stabbed and his head cut off while he was leaving the tent of an after having effected an agreement with the repre- sentative of the porte. This tragic end of Ali Pasha was in keoping with his whole career. In his boyhood he was tatored in brigandage by his strong- ‘willed mother and schooled t> nurse a consuming spirit of revenge against the murderers of his father. In the course of 80 years he rose to a posi- tion of such power that he threatened the throne of the sultan himself, and ruled with barbarous harshness over ‘Thessaly, Albania and Macedonia dur- ing the first quarter of the nineteenth century. “The history of ancient Larissa was closely associated with that of the famous Aleuadae family, founded by Aleuas Pyrrhos (Red-head.) Through- out the fifth and sixth centuries be- fore the Christian era the Aleuadae enjoyed the privilege of naming the Taguas or leading king of the Thessa- lonian forces in all military expedi- tions. “Larissa became the seat of govern- ment for the commonwealth of The: saly established by the Romans in 157 B. C., after the famous battle of Cyn- oscephalae, in which the hitherto un- conquerable Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion measured their strength in open battle for the first time in history. Some commentators say that the Roman general, Titus Quinctius Flaminninus, employed both elephants and cavalry to break through the ranks of King Philip V.'s army of 26,000 men, but whatever the means employed, the legions triumph- ed, the legions triumphed and the re- sult wa s so conclusive that Rome be- came master of Greece and subse- quently of the known world. “One of Larissa’s claims to distinc- tion is the fact that here practiced and died the great Hippocrates, the ‘father of medicine’ and the propounder of the famous Hippocratic oath, to which physicians subscribe today as a course of conduct toward their patients. “Few remains of ancient Larissa are to be found in the vicinity of the mod- ern city which presents a somewhat oriental aspect, one of the relics of Turkish occupancy being the twenty- seven lofty minarets that provide a picturesque skyline, while in the resi- dential section are many houses with blank white walls facing the street, but with atractive interior courts and graceful arcades. Many Turks emi- grated from the town in 1881 and in 1898. Larissa is situated in the midst of a fertile plain, one the bank of the famous Salambria river (the Peneus of the ancients), which flows into the Gudf of Salonika, twenty miles to the north, after passing between Mount Olympus and Mount Ossa. Between these two summits immortalized in mythology the Salambria cuts the famous Vale of Tempe, noted for its scenic charm and grandeur. “The chief products of Larissa are Turkish leather, tobacco, silkk and cot- ton goods. Although the city is cooled by the breezes from Olympus to the north, it is not a healthy city, for the frequent inundation of the plains by the waters of the Salambria causes fevers and agues. “The city is*known to the Turks as Yeni-shehr (new town) as distingvish- ed from Old Larissa, the ancient Cran- non, which lies fourteen miles to the southwest, the scene of Antipater's victory which ended the Lamian war in 22 B. C. OTHER VIEW POINTS Speaking without prejudice to mos- quitoes in general thers seems to be a size and voracity displayed by this year's brood in the Naugatuck valley that indicates they are second cousins to the famed Jersey disseminators of malaria. One stab from their enven- omed beak is guaranteed to raise a lump like an egg on the cuticle of even 2 hardened sinner.—Ansonia. &entinel. There are some people in Meriden as well as in other places who seem to think that the men in the regular army or in the National Guard are the only ones who have the power to render service in the hour of their country’s need. Those who bemoan the fact that they cannot enter the ranks and who have no one whom they can sacrifice on the altar of patriot- ism, are spending energy they might better apply to something which will bring tangible results. If the United States wars against Mexico therc will be much to do in which every loyal man and woman can join. Ilosts of ways will develop by which those who stay at home can show their apprecia- tion of the sacrifices made by those who have responded to their country’s call—Meriden Record. Lord Kitchener said that modern war depended on the marksmanship of the individual soldier, steadiness and morale being equal. 'If that be true, our boys ought to make short work of a body of Mexicans not outnumbering them more than two to one. The Mexi~ can peon regards his rifie primarily as an instrument capable of making a noise. Americans regard theirs as in- struments of precision, useful for mak- ing holes in distant objects. This is especially true of southwesterners. 1f we are ever forced into a battle, this difference in points of view will tell on the issue decisively, for skill in hand- ling tools marks the difference between the races of men, and is_the material criterion of civilization. In the use of that crude tool, the knife, the Mexi- cans might hold their own, but the modern long distance repeating rifie requires the mechanical skill which s natural to Americans. It is not a crude tool but a very delicate machine— Hartford Times. Do the people want meters? That is the question. Do the taxpayers of the city want to expend more money for a water supply to supply a por- tion of the people of the community paying less than one-half of the fixed within an_imaginary border pay 100 charges of the community while those per cent. of the fixed charges and thelr property is held in law as the only portion holding for the bondsd debet? Do the people want to vest in their water board the right to expend the people’s money without the consent of the people? Do the people want sad- dled on the community more paid ser- vants, the annual amount of whose alaries, if expended in excavating present reservoirs, from year to year, or placed in a sinking fund for that purpose, would lead eventually to a plan that would give Middletown a supply of water that would never be questioned. If the people want these modern ideas they have a perfect right to have them, and want to keep si- lent and let the water board keep right along spending thousands of dol- lars on meters without the consent of the people and eventually having fixed charges that will prove a burden for- ever. It is time the le expended an opinion on the ‘before it is late.—Middletown porch where are extremely ing quality. Everything in readiness for the hot Summer days. Make your resting place on the in our New Furniture you can keep cool and comfortable. Our prices low consider- 62-66 MAIN STREET, Norwich M. HOURIGAN FINN’S BLOCK, Jewett City Stories of the War Fighting Above the Clouds, Adamello, which Virgil crowned “King of the Italian Alps,” is the most elevated spot in the world where war has ever been waged. Through ilie courtesy of the Italian General Staff, which is desirous that the world outside of Ttaly should know the hardships of this unprecedented campalgn, the correspondent of The Aesociated Press was the first civilian allowed to witnens the fighting on this colossal mountain, which is 11,500 feet high and covered with ternal snows. The corrspondent saw the mountain swarming with thousands of white- clad Alpine soldiers singing, alert, eager, crossing glaciers, challenging evalanches, charging the enemy with fixed bayonets—all above the clouds. ‘There the correspondent witnessed e actlon of heavy artillery, a battery of which fired from the highest point in the world where artillery had ever been placed or from which It had ever been fired. It seemed almost a mira- cle that such big guns could have been transported in two months of hard labor from a distance of fifteen miles in one of the vallevs below. Over two hundred men had been re- quired for the dragging of a single one of ihe pieces, and at one stage of the work an avalanche had swooped down from the mountain sides and swallow- ed up the cannon and devoured forty of the men. The professional mountain climber never attempted to reach the top of Adamello, but in summer the view of the surrounding Alps with Mont Blanc, the Jungfrau, and Monte Rosa in the distance is considered the best in Europe. - Winter and summer, the fighting there is under conditions that prevail only in the Arctic regions. There Austrians and Italians meet in ¢ilent death grip, their deaths and their deeds all but unrecorded save in dry army annals, given but a. brief line in the terse bulletins of General Ca- dorna. ‘While the Austrian and Itallan can- non rumbled lazily, exchanging rude courtesles, or seeking to dislodse avalanches to better destroy and ham- per the enemy, awakening echoes that leaped from dozens of miles up and down the abrupt peaks, the genial Italian colonel accompanying the cor- respondent remarked that in no other war had such fighting ever been, that neither e armies of Hannibal, nor Caesar, nor Napoleon ever dared en- gage in such work, that their amies, which did go over mountains not half the height, were hardly larger than a regiment of Alpine troops as to- day organized, that above all they did not winter in the mountains nor deal with heavy artillery, nor drag up to these fastnesses pound by pound, plank Dby plank, piece by piece, their food, their suplies, and e guns and ammunition. These conditions are not limited to the Adamello region, but repeat them- selves on two-thirds of the Italian front, or over a line of 275 miles of mountain chains going from the Swiss frontier down to the banks of the Is- onzo river from which can be seen the “bitter” blue of the Adriatic, as the poet d'Annunzio described it. Along this line titanic struggles take place daily of which the outside world never hears. It took five days for the correspondent to slowly climb the Adamello crest and in _this period the Italians succeeded in blowing off the top of another mountain called Coldl Lane, which sudenly burst into the air with its defenders who were on their side trying to explode a mine which would blow to pieces the Ttalian troops. ‘That the new effort of the Italians to advance wil be unhandicapped by e difficulties of a year ago, when not only men but smail arms and can- non were lacking, may be appreciated by the fact that now the army is equipped with numerous heavy can- non, new artillery, manufactured in Italy. The correspondent saw these guns at work towards Monte Kuk and Monte San Michele, the hitherto im- pregnable hills held by the Austrians and again and again taken by the Itallan soldiers at tremendous sacri- Tfices, only to be compelled to sur- render each time the crests of the hills because of the lack of eavy ar- tillery to silence_the heavy Austrian cannon. 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Don’t we all like to take life easy and make it as There is only one way to do that—banish the coal stove and all the drudgery and hard work goes with it. bring in the GAS RANGE and with it some com- fort and economy, for not only is gas more convenient than coal but it costs less to operate. “THE CITY OF NORWICH GAS & ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT FUNTO IT 56 Wi