Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 15, 1916, Page 4

» . Borwich Bulletin: and Goudied 120 YBARS:OLD. T e Year. ‘Entered, atsthesPostotace. atiNorwick, iConn., as'second-class matter. ‘nnnm P ey by ; 5 Business Ot o Bulletin Ealtorial ~Room; Bulletin Job OFACE J85-2. Willimantle Officy, Room £, ~Murray Building. Telephone'210. Norwich, Saturday, July. 15, 1916 e Circulation of e Bulletin THe Bulletin has the largest cirewiation of any paper in.Eastern Conmnecticut and from three to four th largér than that of any in Nor ich. It is delivered to over 8,000 of the 4,053 houses *n Nor- wichimnd read by nivety-three per cent.”lof the people. In Windham it 1s ldelivered to over 900 houses, in Pugnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it i8 comsidered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- ninestowns, one hundred and sixty- five postoftice districts, and sixty zural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in eve: town and on all of he R. F. \routes in Eastern Connecticut. ! CIRCULATION 11901, average 1% 1905, average... | ‘é.:..ly T S 9,2902 i Sresrenrsceessecesencassascasasenssesansassaced THE ONLY POSSIBLE DECISION. the sov be that the Ger Deutschland is a peaceful submarine and entitled to all the privileges of suc in our harbors is only W s expected. Tt is just such a decision as was fore- shadowed by the reports which been made concerning the thoro investigations to which the underwa- ter boat has been subjected neutral nation there was n for this government to do but to per- mit it to come into har in this country and to receive ce pa- pers whenever applied for. It is lkewise entitled to prope That the:report authorities should man submarine w nd as a tection W ree-mile limit and from all 5 ch have been gathered rel vessel, there are reas: believing th: those who are responsikle for the sub- marine and for the recognized that they would have to comply with the requirements in w hich they have in order to avoid any c plications. This having been done there nothing élse for this government to but to treat it 1 . rally the allied ous that some featu which would ma it as a war vessel, all other ions we = e might be found sssible to cla but a careful in- spection has faiied to disclose it. It is not constructed for purposes and it cannot be converted into a ves- sel for offensive action le or high seas. Its real purpose for ex ence is the nced of zetting past the British blockade in the North sea and this it has proved it can do, but that is nothing which disqualifies it for the privilege of carrying on trade between Germany and the United States. It was built for a purpose succeeded and the probabili that it, and others iike it, w h are make many trips. If it is Zoing to be stop- Ped it rests with the ailles to do it. THE U. S. MARINES. Within the past few increased attention has been directed to t value of the United States marine corps, and this s now emphasized by the service which it endering in Santo Domingo, or in fact at most any point where the interests of this na- tion are involved and where peacefyl conditions are sought. The marine zorps is an independer reh ¢ military service of the United Sts serving generally under the direction of the secretary of the navy and it numbers at the present time about 10,- 000 men. The effectiveness of their service is disclosed by the putting down of the revolts in Hayti and Santo Domingo, where the rebel leaders have been forced to lay down their arms and encouragement given to the recstab- lishment of peace. It has been dem- onstrated in this work that they were thoroughly qualified for the under- taking. They were ready to respond at the first call and they have shown that they were fully prepared to take care of the business at hand. It has not been possible:to carry' out! their purpose ,without bloodshed;or without the loss’of some of their number, but there hasibeen no serious fighting and no greatfloss of.life because of,the effectiveimanner. in which, they 'have, displayed their ability as fighters and shown themselves to be thoroughly equipped , to handle whatever task is given them to do. Every action of the Iind which the marines are required to take part in illustrates the-value which’the ' corps is to the government and.the.factor which'it is for peace. It justifies the re- liance placed in it every time an ex- peditionary force therefrom is called upon for dutles beyond the seas and such points out as nothing else can the, need; of maintaining it at the strength ‘which, will give the country the service which it desires, and upon Which so much depends. 2 12c-a' week; 50c. @ JULY 15, HEADED TOWARDS FINAL VIC- TORY. British cabinet have given expression to their sgtisfaction over the success thus far obtained by, the new offen- o Which has been . opentdl ,by; the British_in the | # glon. ch and. 3 v We have seized:the’ initiative ‘and” the” offense has only begun are the statements made by Lloyd George and Premler Asquith. The British under Halg and the French under Joftre are operating under a different policythan in the past. They have profited by past failures, this being particularly true of the British, and there is therefore ground for thelr elation. g After many months the time has been reached when a great general offensive is underway_ along, all the fronts. The Russlans“are fighting on the east front;as they.never fought before and theéy have apparently an unlimited supply of men and mupi- tions. So serious is that menace to the Teutons that they are reported to have withdrawn divisions from the west front in order to give added pro- tection to Kovel. Italy is keeping the Austriaps so busy that they are not able to send any of the troops on its western front to the relief of those in the east. The Turks are wholly occupied by the armies of Grand Duke Nicholas and Bulgaria is concerned with its own protectiop against the allled forces assembled at Saloniki, which, if they are not already, should be prepared to strike soon. With Verdun bolding valiantly and the allied drive on the west gaining ground steadily, the situation is in- decd one of the most serjous that the Teutons have had to face. The op- portunity of relieving one front to help the other does not t to such an extent as it has before, and if the kaiger is able to so marshal his forces and supply their requirements that hold back the ememy on all which is not suffering from of the handicaps which he is, #ill be an accomplishment which belleved possibl; strongly to the fact that offensive will bring the which will end the war. he can sides, man Indications the preser tory CUTTING DOWN WASTE. When it comes to making the most f our resources it must be understood t there is a tremendous amount of waste ch not only can but should be overcome, Industries in this coun- in n business. recognition of government forest established change, the bring tho ng quantit comparison W h the regu- this situation two the years ste ex- was to wood- service, a wood object of which lumbermen and ctories which have large s of what was considered to arketable lumber, or who make sawdust or small pieces of touch with each other, and s been particular It is only what mig under the eircumstances. Mak- wooden noveities have been icularly successful in finding sup- >f material near their plants other wood working industries been able to dispose of their at higher prices than they could rwise have obtained. The e ze has shown that there were who had such m al for sale 1 others who were anxious to buy cated near each other without 1 use wood in the result 1 and have powing as has been in the past two years it can be d that it promises even greater in the future. It directs at- to what can such waste hoped that it will utili such nes of industry. sults tention comix be done in over- it and stimuy material is to be interest in other nz EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on t& a “thank whom you giv standing eas: We now have a better idea of the periences of the Connecticut troops ring the heavy rainstorms down on the Arizona border. e corner from your s Even woman to seat makes ca Apparently all t a has been keeping in the background for was to hear that the United States troops had started back to the bordes When Bulgaria refuses to send aid to the Teutons it begins to look as if it realized that its one great duty at the present time is to itself. The Pennsylvania progressives have decided to stand by Hughes. The fact is they could not have reached any other decision and have been fair to themselv. It John D. Rockefeller really wants people to profit by his advice, which is not to worry if you want to reach 0ld age, he might do his part and re- duce the price of gasoline. Rumor ha it that congress will sit until fall, but if it doesn't make bet- ter progress than it has in the past there is little hope of completing its work by that time. Now that an underwater boat has crossed the Atlantic, aviators will be more ecager than ever to do the trick in the air, and when that happens it will be time for the submarines to worry. There is much rejoicing over the re- ceipt of the dvestuffs from Germany, but the need would not have been as great as it is had there been an effort made to stimulate the industry in this country. From all reports, it must have got- ten to the ears of the superintendent in charge that one observer remark- ea that thunder showers had mot been accomplishing much of late except making muddy roads. s Putting dynamite on the tracks of the: Pennsylvania road, or any railroad for that matter, was a dastardly plece of work, and those responsible for it ‘deserve to be caught and to receive the full penalty of the law. Even though they do not have a chance to get into a brush with the Mexicans the Connecticut militiamen will have a chance to appreciate’the fact' that their tour of duty has been morg beneficial than in past summers, Somime re- | of ma try do mnot begin to utiliz by products tharcugh a manner as it is possible, nor do they get rid of them as extensively cr at as good a price as in older countries where a greater appreciation is placed upon | their value. Rather is there a dispo- sition to throw much away because the income from such material is smail d it is not considered worth hand- ex- | Two of the leading members of tne || THE MAN WHO TALKS man who dives into the sea ony thinks he has a prize when he rises to the surface, but it takes some time before he knows whether his prize will keep him afloat or sink him. Some people think that matrimony is a chance; but some- times it is a conspiracy, and-sometimes a tragedy, and occasionally slow sui- cide. Matches were once, doubtless, made in heaven; but now-a-days it would puzzle the devil, often, to tell just how the combination was made. There is nothing uncertain in a true love match, for the worst cannot pro- voke desertion. In all other-matches, from the one in which the woman marries the man to reform him, to the one where the man weds a woman for her money, there is apt to be friction, weariness and desertion. The only woman capable of making a love match is_the one who has the love- light in her eyes and sees the love- light in the eves of her mate. True love may never run smoothly, but there is no love that is more depend- able and respectable. Bvery No doubt we need how to pray. Too many pulpit prayers assume to instruct God as to the needs of men, of which He knows all and we know little; or upon what form of government or religion he should bestow divipe favor, while too many individual prayers represent rank selfishness clouded in doubt. An up-to-date progressive religionist re- cently wrote a column essay _telling people how to pray, and upon reading it we felt that it was a Chinese puzzle which better be sent to Pekin for solu- tion. Among other things this writer said was: Do not pray to a far-off God, but to the near God—the best that is in ourselves. No doubt God abides in us and we abide in Him, since He is the All-in-all. “Pray belleving— ask and ve shall recefve is ser and it cannot be improved upon. best that is in ourselves is never so good it cannot be mad nsiderable beiter. We are told to pray without ceasing, and this is ofte as impossible, but the soul vearning for betterment and favor trusting is doing this very thin Continuous gabbling never could be come ceaseless prayer—that represents a heart desire. instructing on There are many things in life beyond human divination. Who can tell wh short persons wish they were tall and ns wish the Hort, or ttle maid usuvaily becomes ted with a tall mate. We are most of us too tall or too short, too t or too thi: too slow cr too fast, dull mbitiou: In our own nds ldom jugt the thing. n those who habitually think are it, are subject to a few mi n’they sit down and serio sider themsely ‘We seem to be born to an atmosphere of dissatisfaction, to a spirit of discontent. Of the tall person has most grounds for di content, for when seated in an ordin- ary seat on the trolley or in a railroad car he has to put his legs on the bias ep his knees down, and whe ng across an ordinary room has| to be on his g nt colliding It pl ant to 1p to you, but if y it must cause ansiety injure her neck. TF et clothing cheap at | a tall person has to too are 100 far lest she might rson can ut ana but bargain sales, be measured tailor's price made of one The man who cannot see that wom- the 1 instead of the and pe d to equal an run trolley c ad ca | firesids tion. Woma } franchise, but s| ana mobiles, steamboats, munition factories hospitals, take charge pf every kind of work of mercy, be the mother of men |and teach them the precepts which are | the foundation o greatness, governments, monarch 1rid demo- tic. the woman can do more s solve more problems cvery day than ever confronted a hu band. and the man, be he loafer or khead, says she fsn't competent to ote Wwhen the destiny of the nation | depends upon her as much as upon b If it was for the vices men and women condemn there no question as to her com- petence 1o vote in Amer What a difference there is in the cost of va Some people man- their expenses and come and others come home sick in debt. The prudent do th which amaze the imprudent. An quaintance of ours was told he couldn’t g0 to the m for two weeks for less than 380. He made a bet he could do it for forty, have sood shel- ter and food and come home with money in his pocket. He not only knew how to make a dollar go far, but he was a come his w gentus for making money He left home with 340, s gone two weeks and came back with $60 in his pocket. He made a rough sketch of a mountain-view and s gave him $60 for it, and here he boarded gave him low rates because he knew how to be entertaining. The son any father likes is net the one who can’t make $20 D a $20 debt; but the one who takes the money, pays it, and jingles the_di count for cash in his pocket. Some people can drive a bargain while lots of other people cam’t drive a horse The difference in costs of all kinds usually represents the difference in horses and the difference in people. It is a good plan not to expect any- thing you do not pay for. If there is a iot of s00d will coming your way do noc expect it will come forever, for it will not. Do not bank upon futures. but just take things as they come now. has been incontestibly proven that those you do most for are not your best friends. for your best friends are| the ones who do most for you. Do not rt before the horse in this No one is obliged to keep up| anything except a good personal cl]m'-l acter and #ood personal appearance. Don't presume upon generosity, for it is either the outcome of good heart- | edness or the spcculative venture of selfishness. No one is entitled to con- tinuous favors, and it is not that the tide has turned and i H has taken tie place of good-will, when | they cease to come your way. It is| more blessed to give than to receive, but expectancy is a mildew which blights the blessing. The hostility provoked by disappointment produces the ®basest monifestation of ingrati- tude. Bo agreeable and do not let the fuctuations of life vex you or lead you to baneful concluslons. The winning way is the best way through life. 1 cannot sit down beside an affiicted person and say: “Be cheerful!” He isn’t in a cheerful atmosphere and it is a waste of breath. He must have something sald which !s soothing, he must be led to think of things which excite hope. “Don’t worry,” is a fool's advice when given to a person who has | enough to worry about. Good advice may be very easily mjsapplied. There is sense in cheerfulness and no sense in worrying; but one must bo con- scious of the supremacy of the soul Dot to fret and worry when it is:per- fectly natural to do so. I fear there | bas man has { form, WHEN WOMEN NEEDED “RIGHTS ” (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) During the earlier years of 1700, the sum of 40 saillings was granted by the country, that is, by the Generall Court, for ‘the benefit of schools; and each town was obliged by law to main- tain a school for a certain part of the year, After this, the history of Norwich contains nothing of importance ia regard to schools until far into the century. The old course, we are told, kept on with gradual improvements in teaching and a wider range of sub- Jjects, but with no particular system- atic change of plan, to the era of boarding-schools for misses and class- ical schools for boys. It was in 1743 that Richara Hide and. Ebenezer Hartshorn were ap- pointed to survey the town and draw & plot of it embracing the course of the rivers and large rivulets. Norwich at that time was composed of eight ecclesiastjcal societies, viz: First, West, Newent, East, New Con- cord, Chelsy, Hanover and Eighth; but the First, or Town Plot society still maintained its pre-eminence, pos- sessing twice the number of inhabi- tants and three times the amount of influence of any other. Schools were maintained by what was called a country-rate of forty shillings_upon the thousands pounds, as already noted, and all deficits were plishment to be able to say the right ord at the right time—to be able to brighten the cve of the afflicted and to ghten the burden of the bereaved. How we mortals blunder in this field of service, and how few are efficient. There are those who can allay pain; ana those who can cause sleepless eyes to close in slumber, and there ought to be more of them. The wWor- ried and fretful do not need advice as much as they need to be administered to. whno was not a preache wrote: “Thepdevil can give us not but we are all the time making s to the devil” It is a mistake think he is the author of all the populs ngs in the w and that he hief promoter of jollity. The glad hea: A hes bestow- ment, and never a note harmony ever came from hell. The good things | of lite a the Lord, and the exc of the intemperance of him he creator of his own misery and of many of the blemishes and aflictions of his children. And the gladdest heart under the sun is the heart which knows the truth h the truth has made fre to_ follow and do but free eck the - beautiful and find ch surpasseth all devil controlled | earth until man A to become his rements the devil T ted to him. And is true that man is resents to the devil for his A womal d lluring on and woman_ventur servants. What all Sunday Morning Talk THE POTTER'S WHEEL. | | in large degi selves. The tat the of thes often by control. Aak onal wil in oW mst carcers our limi- tic earthly hands of Isaiah in one of I exalted mo: ) Lord, we clay and Thou our Potter he declares, is Power ordaining human lots posing of plans men. the *Divi that shapes our rough hew them how we will To the mind of the prophet, such a thought was full of hope. It cheered him to feel that he was not in a uni- verse without meaning or purpose. He was glad to think of himself as no mere waif, the sport d and im- personal forces The s life on the flying wheel wa telligent and benevolent. The work would “e well ¢ The poet, T gleam of insight. had a similar note that Potters at metaphor, and £ v time spins fast, why passive lies our clay He fixed thee nce This present, thou, forsooth, would'st fain arr just m soul i 1 turn thee forth suf- mpressed fitness of figure becomes apparent a ko s a transforming proc: years are doing something to Each experience, in its degree, ions character. No event transpires but sets its stamp upon us. Behind the whole process abides hand of the Almighty. The labor of the skilled worker In v involves the personal touch. As we view the completed products in the showroom, no two pleces are alike in color or ornamentation. Kach has been held on the wheel till an individual outcome has resulted. So does God develop in each human soul a distinct personality. Whether one| emerges at last as a bit of plain earth- | enware, or as.a gleaming Carrara vase, he has, at any rate, recelved individual attention. = The beauty of the product Is conditioned on _the clay's being docile and not stubborn or refractory. he directing \ The work of the potter also imparts stability. All the elements of perma- nency in the rich and lustrous vases that delight our eyes on the pottery shelves are due fto the fierce and searching fire in which they have stood, eometimes for a whole week at o time. You have a parable of the way in which those coloss of Tife named kindnoss, sympathy, charity, self-sacrfice are often only made permanent through a baptism of fire. If this view of the prophet seems! to any of you too austere and difficult | for acceptance, consider whether it be not the only faith that ultimately| satisfies. Perplexed and baffled as we | often are by the events of life, de-!| spair might well be fustified but for | main into one’s confldence in > gracious | Power who governs ail. The whirrine: wheel that ehapes our Hves is guided | and controlled. Tt is designed to mar!| no single plece, but to bring each to = | form of usefuiness and beauty. Nor are conditions which’ would cause any. one to fret and worry; acd they are often conditions over which We have 1o control. : It is 2 wonderful-ascem-) . should we forget that ths whole rocess goes on ufider the cve of the made up by parents and guardians. ‘The schools were distributed over the town, and “kept” a longer or shorter period, according to the list of each soclety. In 1745, the apointment was as fol- lows: School at the Landing Place to be kept 8 months and 17 days. Schools two in the Town Plot, 19 at_cach end, 5 1-2 months each. School at Plain Hill, 19 days. School 16_days. 2 months, at Weuwecus Hill, 1 month, School at Great Plain, 2 months, 15 davs. School at Wequanuk, 2 months, 15 days, ‘School on Windham Road, 2 months, 11 days. Is is a fact which should furnish ammunition to the local suffragists and those men who favor equal fran- chise, that during the period referred to, Miss Caulkins etates, “if any of these schools should be kept by a wo- man, the time was to be doubled, as the pay of the school-mistress but half that of the school-master So_educational matters continued up to the Revolution. During that stormy period the schools of Norwich were not neglected nor intermitted. An institution of higher grade than elementary was sustained in the Town Plot section, through all the distrac- tions of the country. It called to Norwich many boarders from_abroad and at one time, with Mi Goodrich principal, acquired a popularity which extended far, and made the name of Norwich famous even at that early time—as it has since remained—for its excellent schools. In 1783, doPsed by we find this school en- its committee, Andrew Huntington and Dudley Woodbridge, os furnishing instructicns to ‘young gentlemen and ladies, lads and misses, in every branch of literature, viz; reading, writing, arithmetic, th learned languages, logic, geography, mathematics, Charles White, master.” etc, The exhibiton of the liy enlivened with scenic rep- entations—probably on the line of e modern pageant—and interludes of music. A taste for such entertain- ments was prevalent. The Norwich young people, even after their eman- cipation from schol, would occasion- take part in theatrical reprsen- From 2 town newspaper s The Norwich Courier—it at in February, 1 a se- company of young ladics and gen tlemen performed the tragedy of Gus- | tavus and The Mistakes of A Night, school were re The typical day doubtless ory in the r swarming hive of pu and with just as for education prese; now tainly did her par —in the building-up the earty town lif That wa: some superintendent a far-off city unexpectedly, teaching me 1 profier in another towr ance in ong school-mistress of that earned a crown of ove! With her ls, just as live- | keen a distaste| iren of the | pensable, nd that and develor and progr e day big one | of when principal of to pop in personality instruc- ter appointment at a consider The mi nibent, v ine »ing out f one line of performance, always teaching little boys and girls to sit up straight and _tre s defer and spelling-book re (whi juer th dern pupils nev h, or their elders matter!) to repea catechism, row s, never to tell s and t a sought the fini; neighbor m, as sh Two of the n Miss Sall ng, or city T Grover, of the higher ducation | a’c her do- Almost every popularly >st_famous in Smith, at the Mis re Land- Strangely enough, period, dancing-s ed, but ¢ “deportment minuet and for that staid cols also flourish- to teaching rough the the classes and schools wer il ¥ e th > one-s yo, t people duck, devoting themselyes to a pastime | ne were and a form of re tion as old as the THE n on and recrea- man race DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The New Traffic Laws. Mr. Bditor: I cannot refrain from saving a few words about the Injus- tice of the traffic laws that are nov being enforced in our city. “Tra in Norwich” is the cry of the ber of Commerce and the B Trade, but the present law relative to traffic is in strict confliction with thelr request. Are the persons who drive their own cars going to trade with our mer- chants and be limited to fifteen min- utes? Should tourists en route who wish to stop for lunch or dinner at any of our hotels or restaurants be obliged to devour food like a hungry wolf, or pay a fine? I am a citizen of Norwich and pay state, city, and town taxes toward keeping the streets in repair. Am I not unjustly restricted as to their use? ONE OF THE ABUSED. Norwich, July 14, 1916. Stories of the War Operations in Egypt. A Reuter correspondent with the Egyptian Expeditionary force writes: “Certain it is that this country re- mains marvellously untroubled in the midst of the universal uproar, though its peace is constantly threatened for there can be no doubt that it was long ago marked down by our enemies 85 one of the prizes of successful war. But the British line in the desert keeps the =otive and watchful enemy on our Easterr. frontfer in check The fanati- 2l hordas of the Western Desert and Durfour have received a lesson which will probably last them ot least until! fhie end of the war, and In the interi- ium the real Bgypt, the green strip of | the Mile valley and the Delta, the Eaypt of the peasan: cultivator, of tha teeming fisids and the mud-bullt villages have not been touched by war.| It has not heard a chot fired oF pald o penny of extra taxation. “Fhe Fropean element in the coun- trv hss foit the near refghborhood of | they did in pe: | fortable, but adds other thing: continue to | weather. {in the world will not Europe. The Germans, Austrians -and turks have been removed ar inferned. But the natives are hardly affected at all. They rae not asked to serve— the merest handful of Egyptian re- servists have been called up to serve as camel-drivers, They have no in- terests in the casualty lists. Al that the war means for them is higher pric- es for their produce and their labor, ond a much larger amount of money in circulation among the poorer class- es than was ever the case before. In these times of short tonnage and high Dprices everywhere, it is naturally the Dolicy of the army authorities 1n Egypt to utilize, as far as possible, the produce of the country an dto im- SATURDAY port only what Egypt does not supply or can only supply at excessive rates. “There i3 a military Local Resouces Board at Cairo, which, with the aid of civilian advisers familiar with the country, systematically collects, trans- ports and utilizes all Egyptian produce wherever obtainable, that can serve the turn of the army. Naturally, foodstuffs and especially grain are in the first need. All the wheat, maize and barley required is bough _inc and barley required 1s bought in £ypt and at urices which invariably show a substantial increase on the pre-war prices. Purchases are made in a wholesale fashion. The army for instance, took the whole of the last maize crop at an abnormal price, and has seen to it that this vear there is a larger acerage under cereals than ever Lefore. “Fgyut does not supply the troops with mieat—it cannot rival the frozen meat from Australia and New Zea- land, but all the fresh vegetables for the army are bought in Egypt and en- ormeus quantities of fruit are bought by the soldiers on their own account. Oranges, of which this country is a large producer, fetched unprecedented prices last season. The cultivator is net slow to observe these things and is growing much more garden stuff thai ever before. In particular, the. very high price of potatoes last win- ter has encouraged him to devote more land to growing this indispensible vegetable. There is, In fact, nothing that he can grow that does not pay him better than in ordinary times. The army is » mighty purchaser of camels and needs vast quantities of fodder, hich it buys from the Egyptian farmer. The army has resuscitated the moribund salt idustry at Da ette. It has created a tifnber indus- try which mever existed before Egypt. The country is not rich in timber, but large quantities are-needed, and the looked around till found supplies in various parts of the countr; The army is also a large employer ¢ labor. It is calculated that _the military authorities have some 18,000 native laborers on their payroll, and these men besides being fed, lodged and clothed, earn o time when they had to live out of their wages. It should be noted too, that although last cotton crop was small it was cold at a good price and this year more land under cotton than er before. Bgypt this vear will be L bigger producer in all ways than she has ever been. “The Egyptian peasant, therefore, has done well these last eighteen month He buys little and is sav- ing money. The high prices for im- jorted goods affect him far less than he Kuropeans in the country. dearness,of coal has been a alffculty, but it has not offset the high prices of all the country’s products. “In ome respect Egypt has been a loser. There is now no winter tourist traffic. The tourists come no more. But their place is taken by the large number of officers who spend their 2 Cairo or Alexandria, and_the of costly curios find them stomers. The men spend a great deal of mopey with the small shopkeepers, and the Australians are customers worth having, even if they have no more than an Australian pri- pay to spend. Also the new military season lasts all the year round, while the tourist season at best was a matter of two or three mont2 Hotels in Cairo whicn formerly veg- etated in summer now @o a thriving business right through the hot season ral of the great hotels have been over by the army as hospitals or for other military purposes and those that remain have as much bus- iness as they can cope with Sev taicen QTHER VIEW POINTS | Lieutenant Colonel Tilson of the Second Connecticut infantry, now en- camped at Nogales, Ariz, tells of days with the thermometer rising to 122 de- and nights so cool that extra ary to keep com- at despite this and the health of the “boys” good. This is probably due the fact that they are from New and, and consequently used to apid and exireme changes yn the Ansonia Sentinel. Hence, it is just as well at this time of the vear to remind ourselves that a great deal of poor health, if not positive illness, can be avoided by a little hot-weather common sense. And the greatest of this is cleanliness. lean food (and all the pure-food laws give it to you you individually demand ‘it), clean water, the particular care of waste, and the consequent elimination of all flies—these things will do more for the health of your family than a trip to the mountains.—Torrington Register. unless From all reports the United States is not prepared to take care of its soldiers. The means of transporting the troops to the border is very poor, and the government has received many complaints. It seems that this coun- try should take steps to remedy these difficulties. The same was true in the Spanish-American War as is true to- day, and there seems to be but little improvement at present. The country will find it much easier to get recruits for its army if they give the men good treatment. Proper care of the men shoulld be one of the first “prepared- ness steps,” that is taken by the gov- ernment—New Britain Record. The amendment proposed by Con- gressman E. J. Hill, to the bill con- stituting a tariff commission provides for the appointment of an equal num- ber of members from each of the prin- cipal political parties. ~Both parties favor the establishment of the com- mission and both parties should be equally represented upon it. The ap- pointments are to be made by the president and he has demonstrated his liability to vield to temptation in such matters by his appointment of pro- gressives instead of republicans upon the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Hill's amendment makes it less easy to be partisan and to discriminate against the republicans and is in the The War A Year Ago Today July 15, 1915. Germans held gains in the Ar- gonne against counter-attacks. Germans renewed drive on War- saw and took Przasnysz. war. The shortage of tonnage has affected businesses in many cases, al- though in others business men, in spite of high freights and high prices, are doing better than they ever did before. 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Picardy—"If historical assoclatfons inspire to brave deeds, the British forces in their offensive against the Germans along the Somme River should be heartened to extraordinary acts of valor by the thought that they are fighting in Picardy,” says today’s war geography bulletin of the Nation- al Geographic Soclety, issued in Wash- ington. “This ancient province of France, now divided into four departments— the Somme, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Aisne—has two battlefields whose very names_quicken the pulse of English- men, for it was at Crecy that the Black Prince won his spurs, and at Agincourt that Henry V, commanding his yeomen with their cloth-yard bows, utterly overthrew the flower of French chivalry. “Picardy is a treasured name in ro- mantic literature and in French his- tory. It had a literature of its own in ‘the 12th century and its soldiers were among thp most valiant in France, being known as the Gasons of the north. “The province was 2 natural battle. ground for the French and_Enelish during the Hundred Years' War, for its shores extend along the North Sea and the English Channel, from the River Aa, above Calais, to a point be- low Dieppe. Fifteen miles north of Abbeville, one of the principal cities of Picardy, is Crecy where until late in the 13th century there still stood the old windmill from which Bdward 101 of England in 1346 watched his be- loved son, the first prince of. Wales, at that time only 16 years of age, tri- umph over Philip of Valois. On this occasion the English were outnum- bered four to one, and they wrought terrible havoc among the enemy, the losses of the vanquished being various- Iy estimated at from 10,000 to 30,000. One of those who fell in this fight was the chivalrous John, king of Bohemia, who_although blind, led a charge for his French ally. Some historlans trace the Prince of Wales’ crest of three os- trich feathers and the motto Tch dien’ | (I serve) to this battle, the Black! Prince adopting them from the fallen | John in memory of the event, “Less than 20 miles northeast of | Crecy is Agincourt, where the Fng- | lish archers, nearly 70 vears later, | after letting fly their clouds of arrows | against the heavily armed nobles, at-| tacked them with hatchets as they| floundered helplessly in mud. Five thousand Frenchmen of noble birth, including their commander & Albret, constable of France, fell in this battle while the estimate of English losses | was astonishingly low, some chron- | iclers giving only thirteen men at| arms and a hundred foot soldlers. “Several towns of Picardy—Amiens, ' Soissons, and Beauvais—owe _thelr names to the ancient tribes which in- habited this section, known as Belgica Secunda, when the Romans maintained armed camps along the valley of the Somme. In the third century Christi- anity was introduced, and St. Quentin, from whom the important town 20 miles east of Paronne gets its name, was martyred at that time. “Picardy was ‘the heart of Merovin- glan France in_the fifth century, for Clobvis named Soissons as his capital, while Charlemagne designated Noy as his principal city, and the lesser Carolinglans in turn similarls honored Laon. “By the treaty of Arras in 1435 the royal towns of the Somme valley were ceded to Burgundy, but 42 vears later,! after the death of Charles the Bold, Louis XI regained them. During its | brief eras of peace the province thrived as ‘a center of the wea: Industry, f;emlsh immigrants having introduced e art.”