Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 18, 1916, Page 4

The Bulletin has. the largest clrculation of any paper in Eastern Connecticut and from thres to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 8,000 of the 4,068 houses 'n Nor- wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is delivered to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it i8 considered tbe local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postoftice districts, and sixty o IR tural free delivery routes. is eold in every D. The Bulletin town and on all of he R. F. routes in Eastern Connecticut. “ICIRCULATION average....... 1901, 1905, average November 11.......... BRAZIL WOULD FIGHT FOR RIGHTS. Among the neutral nations of the world at the presont time, Brazii is manifesting its ¢ ppro of the manner in which the rights of such mpations have been and are being vio- 1atédl in'no uncertain terms. It is ap- parently regretting its inability to do [more mMstcsisting SEARbzard for the rights of non-belligerent nations on the high scas. That it does not consider that the present war In Furope, with all its Prightful examples, will be the last to | be engaged in is cvidenced by the fplan whick it puts forward for tie protection of neutral rights in the case of future ones. This plan, which | has_been endorsed by parliament of that country, has been submifted £0 other nations for approval. It pro- vides for a lcague of the mon-com- batant nations which becomes active the moment that any act of aggres- #ion is committed by belligerent upon @ meutral. It would be for that very purpose that the natlons would be banded together. This of course would z the ending of-friendiy relations soon as any rights were in- inged upén @nd the opening of hos- Hlitlés Bgaindt the offending nation if it became necessary. 8 This plan is similar to the one to jenforce peace, except that it would used for the preservation of neu- &‘ngnu instead of peace. It is ly probable that it will be put in- o operation during the progress of ‘the present war but it should result) dn giving support to the much larger and mgre important proposition of narvlng meace. The prevention of War would put an end to the possi- Bility of neutra] rights being violated. BREATER PRODUCTION NEEDED. President Wilson has recently ad- |, 8n fncrease . in production for »_of meeting the highscost We ‘are.in’ the situation the country’s production along ertain lines In the asricultural field greater than other nations but we Ve not as yet gotten to the point our production per acre can ch some of the countries of Fu- which have been giving more to intensive farming. markets and it is seeking qualified to investigate cle situation in Russia east, investment opportu- in Russia, the chance for fancy in South sia and Brazil, the demand for jews and silverware in South Amerlca, hardware in Africa, the near east, and India, ports and transportation faclli- ties in Russie and the far east and the mineral resources in the far east- ern countries. That the manufacturers.of the coun- try could make excellent uso of such Information cannot be questioned. It Is in fact just what is needed, in ad- dition to the trade opportunities which are already available, and if the best men are selected much good should result from the time, money and ef- fort expended. pumadb g U WHERE’S THE SALONIKI ARMY? Some anxlety s said to exist in London over the situation that exists in Rumania as the result of the of fensive whié¢h is being directed against that nation by the Austro-Germans under General von Falkenhayn. For the time ‘being there appears to be a letup in the operations of General Mackensen. If reports are correct his forces are belng driven back but at least his advance has been checked and the menace from the Dobrudja has for the time being been’decreased. ot so, however, with the army un- der Falkenhayn, for in spite of the rugged resistance which is being of- fered by the Rumanians ajong the border and in the passes, and the drive which was attempted by the Russians from Bukowina, the Teutons continue to make progress on their ‘way to Buchagest. TUpon the blocking of this offensive rests the safety of Rumania, and Lon- don is apparently beginning to realize that the appeal of King Ferdinand that his country be not neglected by the allles was made with a full un- derstanding of the situation. Yet in e of the fears and anxiety but very little use 'Is being made by the allies of that large army hich has been assembled at Saloniki, The Serbs with aid from the other aliies are making good progress. towards Monastir but apparently - the main part of that army in Greece is not be- ing utilized, which if it was brought into play at this time would serve to give Rumania the aid which it needs. Delay now apparently only means that after the Austro-Germans have taken Rumanit they will then ve ready in increased numbers to offer cater. resistance to Russia and fur- nish such res'stance to the Saloniki army that it will be usele: THE INVENTCRS’ CHANCE. There is alway a ventor, and from the larze number of patents which are awarded by the governmert patent office each week it i qu evident t the man with an idea and the ability to put ir to £0el use @944l amongst us New inventions arc copstantly be- fngacad upsn the market. New & nces chinery ant] ne mnad ifie v ma- ratus i ALl t ap; ed. being T derotes prozress in many lines of cn- a r. That is Dbeinz done durin; normal times but just at the present £me when conditions are so abnormal an even greater opportunity, fur- nished for the study of the existing prcbicms and the advancement of ideas that they may be overcome. At a meeting of boot and shoe men 1t Poston this weel they were calmly told that a pair of all leather shoes would be commanding $30 within a few years because of the increasing ¥ of leather. It is well known to. what heights the price of gasoline has soarcd becauso of -the situation as to demand and supply. Almost every winter is accompanied by jump in the price of fuel and there are many other things which are ad- vaneing in price for different rea- sons, This, makes it is a great field for inventors to launch out into for the provision of substi- tutes_and the fellow who can produce a safisfactory substitute for leather, gasofpe, coal and numefous other things has an attractive future before him. - EDITORIAL NOTES. The Deutschland may be slow in starting but if it keeps up its repu- tation it will make a great finish. There is considerable wisdom in the udvice which is offered to shop early and give the other fellow a chance. The man on the corner says: Some- times it looks as if the meek inherit what is left after the arrogant get what they want. From the prices which are asked for certain foodstuffs, one might think that the producers or dealers therein were disposing of war supplles. That there is*a failure to supply sufficlent cattle to meet the demands the meat-eating people is plainly in the prices which are de- One prophet declared that the war will end after Rumania has been ficla for the in-| apparent that there | on In of and It is folly to meet a cisis for that is when we need be calm and considerste. Recent events have shown that e nation anxlous is & na- tion wild—a nation suspicious, a na- tion receptive to every senseless An atmosphere of _suspicion makes all effected “as deaf as the sea and as hasty as fire” It is,not well to be alarmed, or to get into a state of mind because of our apprehensions; better come upon the more conserva- tive plane where the thought pre- dominates that “what is to be will be if it never happens” Getting into & passion over disappointment, or ~ap- prehensions, never yet accomplisticd one good or favorable thing, for “he who foresees calamity - suffers it twice over” Do not let your own thoughts become nicse harrassing to you than your opposers can possibly be. It is the part of wisdom to keep cool whatever happens. I pity those who become confirmed in the thought that life is drudgery. It s a wicked thought, for it saps the heart of good cheer, and makes person “his own worst enemy- Harboring thousht of a negative char- acter in the mind 1s like letting weeds grow in the garden from which you hope to harvest edible crops, for it deprives every sustaining thought of sustenance. People who do not want to work and arc compelled to from necessity have invited a condition akin to slavery. The progressive want to work because through work comes achievement, the acquirement of sus- tenance, fortune and fame. There is nothing comes from idleness except decadence. The price of every good thing is occupation on earth and in paradise. Keeping busy is what keeps poverty from the door and provides protection to the rich. He who has learned to enjoy his work for what there is in it for him has found hap- piness. The indolent rich are simply inviting stupidity, welcoming the day which makes life no better than a nightmare. Young fellow look out for your reputation. which through your disregard of the observations of others may become really worse (han your true character, Who you associate with, where you go, how you appsar and ‘what you say’ throw light upon what you seem to b, if thereby is not disclosed just what rou are. ~An old proverb tells us ‘thal “i’person with a bad name is more 'than half- hanged,” while a gocd name is “the jewel of the soul.” "It is not necessal to be one of the w'hoys, or to pose as a sport to be a man. It is easy to think you are in the swim even when you are in the whirlpoo] of destruc- tion and beyond rescue. Youth doesn’t have a sharp eve for peril, be- it has such a keen scent for fun, is mot o be condemned,- for mirror with an_iron 10d will To, through disappointment hold child in disestezmn, and to be un formly unkind to it, i to permuner ire . Young minds necl be red of what they van do, not wha they cannot; of what they may be- come, not what they are never likely to attain. To cail a child a wv: is to put a figure of peech mind which may spell ruin for him. Children are made to aspire by having intelligently explained to them things worthy of achievement. An ancient { philosopner “decisred - “aaweund from the tongue is worse than a wound jfrom a sworc; for the Tatter afiects only the bedy, vut the former the spirit.” Isn’t harmory more of a dream than a reality. We yearn for harmony be- cause it sweet; and we miss it doubtless because it is more than is good for us. You krow we are a dis- appointment in inany ways to our families and friends; and we are con- scious taat in many ways thcy are a disappointment to us. We all have different concepts of life, and our tastes are so wide apart that we run in counter channels. When Nature designs a man the irend seems to be toward individualizing rather than harmonizing. Society and governments are not organized with a view to harmony, but for competitions and an- tagonisms which _usually count = for progress. Fabre in nis study of life found that mun as well as all of God's creatures was made to eat and then be eaten or. as he naively puts . it “man is first a guest and. then a dish.” This does not put the line of Nature in sweet accord. First we are, then we were, and the taie is told. Harmony would be Heaven, and let us hope we may all attain it. Some one has ventured to say that trouble was the second thing which came to man. No Goubt trouble came to man early in his career—iong be- fore he was capable of keeping an ac- the worth or abundance of lifc cannot be show: hoyt it: but do not for- get that to show a want of decency is to disclose a want of sense. By ail| means have a go0d time—a time of | good humor and clenn enjoyment; but do not hold in disesteem the decorum which tells for health, henor and hon- Many an _ unsuccessful man. on woman are “What “they ' are because pavents dr' ghiiiralins Weve T8 ant of the power of 2estion. ren may be made to think il gr think well of themseives by the uttel ances of those having them in charge To cail a chiid a dunce, or any cther depressing name, ner will as surely i r that c riking a (Written Speclally for The Bulletin.) " “During the Rev War, Norwich was admiradly situated serve as a port of"re to« which. vessels could retire and discharge their cargoes in safety. In July 1776, the brig Nancy, owned by John Winslow, a promincnt Roy- alist of Boston, having on board eighteen or nineteen thousand galions of molasses, was forced by stress of weather into Stonington harbor. It was no sooner known in Norwich that she was anche: near the coast than her capture was decreed. Without the state authority, but with the sanction of the Committee of ~ Imspec- tion, a spirited band of volunteers, in o large sloop commanded by Capt. Robert Niles, proceeded forthwith to Stonington, where they took posses- sion of the vessel. They brought her, with her valuable cargo, -round to Norwich. They then made a rt of the affair to the Governor and Council, who approved their proceedings and sequestered the prize for the use of the State. waiting for The Tory molasses, as it was ocalled, proved a valuable acquisition. It was mility—He wasn't seeking honor, but just ~ standing for truth. Tens of thousands of men who have been dis- tinguished for little things since His day have been forgotten, He cannot be forgotten because he stood for things eternal. Man's measure of greatness is a false measure when it fails to recognize those who have sStood for love, fraternity, freedom and goodness. When you are tempted to say while in wrath mean things just bid your tongue be silent. The other party may be aple to say meancr things than you are capable of expressing in words; and the retort vile is like the retort courteous in this, that it often far exceeds the truth. This is a° point where the beauty and blessedness of silence easily may be tested. When in anger it is possible to say things you will be sorry for as long as you live. Nothing worries an antagontst more, or makes him feel cneaper, or cuts him deeper, than to decline to imitate him in any mean or dishonorable con- duct. The apologics, the I'm-so-sorrys, the I-didn't-meanto’s may be soothing liniments, but no one ecan warrant them to heal the wound. Calling names while in anger discloses a uality no one ever is proud of. It a good plan to shut up like a clam vhen vou are in danger of speaking like a madman. If we do not speak mean of -or to others they are very much less likely to' speak mean of or to us. Clean speech is a zood evidence of ability and worth, of dignity and reserve. Sunday Morning Talk EYESIGHT AND INSIGHT. The average dog has very good eye- sight—-much better than that of his master. Yet he could spend a whole in the Loutre ‘ahd'”‘béHeld 1o paintings Pictures amean: nothing - to because they e not_in _ his He gazes unsceing on statue nd tapestr, It is the mind that &ees rather than the cyes. Unless inteilizence supplies the mearing, mere paysical perception avails lttle. Fido can see a printed page quite as well as an, but no dog was ever tauzht to read & book. To read is not merely to see sheets of paper and ink, but to aprehend an in- visible message. The material volume is only a vehicle by whicr the thoughts of the author may be communicated. Only®mind can appreciate. No one reads a book save as he succeeds in recreating in his own mind thoughts that the writer had first. The objects our eyes behold must be measured by their inner meanings and their moral values. An American flag is nothing but a few stripes of colored bunting. That is all the dog sees. An intelligent man sees in the flag much more than that. Here in these stripes and stars is recorded a whole epic of struggle and sacrifice and _victory- Here is told tie story of Bunker Hiil, of Yorktown, and of Gettysburg; of a thousand struggles and triumvhs of war and of peace. The Sistinc Ma- donna is naught on its physical side, but canvas and pigments. Yet, to a devout mind it images forth the world’s supreme fact. Bayard Taylor tells of a traveler who, during an Alpine journey, gazed with_him over the awesome heauty of the Mer de Glace. “All that ice would bring a lot of money in Calcutta in the hot season, you know,” was the man’s only comment, Compare such a point of view with taat of Coleridge in his Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni: Let the torrents like a shout of na- tions Answer! Goat Sing ye meadow streams with glad- some voices! Ye pine groves, with your soft and soul like sounds And they too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, P Ana in their perilous fall shall thunder, God! And let the ice plains echo, The poet looked and saw. The beef- a for such food supplies. There are large quantities of fresh and can- 8d meats which are now sent abroad ‘before this call from abroad o dts present phase there was ‘fallure on the part of the cattle to keep. the supply up to the While the country has been and the demand therefore in- the number of cattle has m decreasing and instead of meet- g our normal requirements there been A piling up of the shortage are naturally affected. We . o other countries for sup- to meet the situation but. that emphasizes the failure of this ptry to solve its own problems. [ an increased interest in the g of more cattle, more sheep more wool, more hogs, need a better cultivation of for the production of other When there is & proper mtfonof this and the right at- 4 to it the supply will "pearer the demand, and when fakes place prices will be regu- acc during normal times. —— i crushed. But that is not the way that Rumania expected to hasten the end. ‘When the president of -Columbia university says that institution needs $30,000,000 one might get the impres- sion that he was preparing to float ® war loan. The German war minister- is indig- nant over the allies' treatment of Greece, but he probably hasn’t heard anything about the way Germany has treated and is treating Belgium. It may be, as some seem to think, that a straw vote tells the way an election is going, but no one has yet discovered a method of finding out in advance where & submarine 1s headed. From the demand which exists for tickets to the big football contest in the Yale ‘“bowl” it is quite evident that election and the war have not en- tirely overshadowed the interest in the gridiron battles. Of course as long as the president has declared that only one per cent. of our exports now are occasioned by the war, it ought to make no differ- ence to this country industrially it the conflict ended tomorrow. —— Inasmuch as Col. Bryan has an- nounced that he is going to devote himself to the dry cause for the next four years, the prohibitionists, recall ing the influence which he has on the 1issues which Ne supports, will ten to declare that he was not count of his trials: but it isn't safe to be too sure about the numerical order of things. There may have been several things before trouble, There is love and expectation and suspicion and jealousy, the imps which have always been back of trou- ble since man was; and man was long before time. It took man unnumbered ages to invent time; and still more ages to conceive of euch a thing as eternity. Trouble doubtless came just as soon as man became incon- stant or false to the spirit of honor and truth. That was a good while ago, and man has never become clear visioned enough to recognize his error and to resume the precepts which en- sure harmony and peace, which are the foundation .of true brotherhood. Man is a great success at creating trouble and makes a hero of himself in suppressing the trouble he has made and defending the truths he thinks he has discovered. Hero-worship is common, and it often leads men to honor men who are not worthy of homor. It is re- garded as & special honor to assoclate with men who have attained wealth or distinction regardless : of their character or their dastardly deeds. ‘Weak people become flatterers of the famous and often the infamous that they mgy say they atte 2 banquet i:ma s hthom m‘g: , as a c porary relation of this kind added to them something they can get in no other way, or gave them an enviable ad- vantage over thelr neighbors or fel- low citizens, and which other weak|grip on the invisible realities. and unfave them of. .Bouis_actually. _envy eater looked, and saw—nothing, There are short-visioned people Who assert that the, material and tangible things represent the only certainties. They are mistaken. It is the Invisidle, the spiritual that gives significance to all else. Peter Bell, to whom a prim- rose by the rivers brim is & yellow primrose and nothng Irore, has the best of the world's thinking against him. All the phenomena that we call physical are manifestations of epirit. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handi- work. Nature is but the garment of elty. God pity the man who sees nothing in the world except what any kodah can catch on its sensitive plate, who hears no voices except those recorded by a phonograph! I do not wonder that such a man grows narrow and crabbed. There is enough in the ac- tual conditions of the world in which we live to make his hair white and his heart stony. Your materialist has a license to become a pessimist also. It is only when one glimpses a goal aliead, when he can read a promise in the sky that chaos resolves into order, that dismay yields to hope. Of Moges, the man of God, it s re- corded that he “endured as seell Him wh® is Invisible.” cann miss the pathos of the phrase. Faith was not easy in that rude age when men lived close to the earth and prayed, if at all, to stocks and stones. The earthward pull was strong, but Moses aid not yield to it. He would not lower his ideals nor slacken &l: same victory must he won by - who! JLLETIN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916 doled out to hospitals, and used as a medium of exchange for public pur- poses. A’ that time, molasses was a commodity which cculd only be ob- tained by capture, and the want of it was one of the home-felt privations. of the war. According to Hinman's History, there was un incidental fact in con- nection with the capture of the Tory molasses which is the best indication of how public sentiment has advanced since that tume, The world has not yet ceased to ‘m \t the_prohcbitive fpeasires y gn nations in the ter- rible Old World war; but in early times in Connecticut it was deemed necessary to supply troops with spirits of some sort. ; Consequently, the historian writes: B"'R; side of this fact (the great scarcity and need of molasses fn Con- neeticut) an order of the Governor and_ the Council, May 4, 1777, for the dist ©of 40 hhds. of molasses into New England rum does mnot ap- pear very creditable. But spirituous liquors vrere then regarded as abso- lutely necessary to. the highest physi- cal efficloncy of soldiers and laboring men. Feb. 28, 1777, the Governor_and Council ordered 250 hhds. of West India and New England hum to be purchased, to supply the troops of the Stage. The scarcity of sugar and molasses continued for several years. Various were the substitutes contrived in Nor- wich and elsewhere. Corn-stall molasses is no myth or caricature, Miss Caulkins assures us, but a veritable resource of tiose try- ing times and probably the very best substitute that was brought into use. The stalks were cat when the ears of corn were just ripe for roasting or botling, thrown into a mill. the juice pressed out and then boiled down until it became a tolerable syrup. It served at least to satisfy the natural craving for some sort of saccharine substance in food. The seizing of the molasses cargo was so successful that Norwich sai ormen made another excursion to the port of Stonington, when news came in October 1775, that another mer- chant vessel was steering toward that harbor, in distress. Sihe had a cargo Baltimore for Faimouth, England, but had lost her mainmast in a storm, hence was compelled to make port She was seized by an armed schoon- er belonging to :ihe Connecticut Col- ony and conducted to Norwich to secure her from recayture. Later she was sold for the benefit of the countr: Even more serious than the scarcity of molasses at that period was the high price of salt, and the extreme difficulty of procuring it at any price. The need was especially felt because of the aimost impossibility of getting a sufficient _quantity for putting up provisions for winter use, in the sub- stantial, old-time way which was the vogue hefore the imodern hand-to- mouth system of buying in small and most expensive quantity, in gaudy paste-board bLoxes (changed in the sales) or in fancifully ribboned pack- ages, and the like. Finally the State government was obliged to send abroad for supplies of salt and to. distribute it to the. various tow: It was ihen apportioned . by the selécimen to the districts in pro- portion to their population, and again | dealt out by a committee to individ- vals. ‘Whenever a quantity of salt was obtained, it was disposed of with great care. One of the State cruisers hav- ing captured 300 bushels, it was pasited in Novwich, and in April, 1 the Governor and Council directed Jabez Perkins to dispose of 1t to in- habitants of iConnecticut only, let- ting no family purchase more than half a bushel, and srall families to be supplied with less, in proper propor- tion. While we are grumbling just now at the high price of provisions, it may serve to calm our agitation a bit to learn that, three years before peace was deciared, ealt was six dollars .a bushel, and bohea tea two dollars per pound, and this in fair barter, not Continental bills. At the same period, comon, cream- colored cupa and saucers cost two dollars per FLalf-dozen, so that many persons cven in comfortable circum- stances drank their daily beverage out of glazed earthern mugs. The scarcity of wheat was even a greater calamity than that of salt and molasses. Norwich, of course, shared in the general dearth; but tke winter of 1777, appears to have been her only season of actual deficiency znd short allowance. Then, The History of Norwich records, the authorities were obliged to enforce str.ct scrutiny into every man's means cf subsistence, -to see ‘that none’ of the necessaries of life were withheid from a fzmishing community by any local monopolizers. Each family was visited and an ac- count of the grain in the posseSsion of each—computed in _wheat—was taken. The surplusage,.down to the quantity of four quarts, was _esti- mated. One hundred and twenty-six families were at one time reported de- ficient, as recorded: “42 up town, 26 down town, 12 West Farms and Portipaug, 2 Newent and Hanover, 9 East Society, 27 Chelsea, 8 Bozrah.” The foillowing undated cert: also upon record: lcate is This may certify, that the whole number of inhabitants in the town of Norwich is hungry; for the quantity of grain computed in wheat is scanty; the deficiency omounts to a great many bushels, as pr return of the se- lectmen unto my office, agreeable to the act of assembly. Certified by ~ GALETTIA SIMPSON. THE DICTAGRAPH. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety The Carso, or Karst plateau as it is more familiarly known, the ecene of the newly inuugurated Italian offen. sive against the Austrians, 1s the su ject of ihe following war_geography | bulletin issued from the Washington headquarters of the National Geo- graphic Society: “So distinctive in appearance is that] Austrian limestone plateau known as ©of 8,000 bushels of wheat, shipped at| Istrian ula: which juts into the ‘Adriatic beiow Trieste. ° “The Wippach or Vippach River, which flows along the northern base of the plateay, is one of the tributaries of the Isonzo. The Italians were forced this stream, in order to gain-the Karst heights. from which to continue the drive against Trieste. . “The Karst plateau has not always been ‘a barren ‘waste of grey rock. to ight their way across the valley of | Get the Round Package In ancient times the heights are said to have been forests but the Romans ruthlessly des- troyed thesé trees to secure timber for their galleys. In recent years the Aus. trian govérnment has “gone system- atically about the task of making this district once miore o forest-land, and the travier frequently finds groves of young Jarch and pine which have been planted in pursuance of this plan. “Among the most ctriking features of the Karst plateau are its numerous caves and grottoes, formed by subter- ranean ivers. most famous of these is the Grotto of Adelsberg, 50 miles by rafl northeast of Trieste. Be- fore the war it ‘Wwas much frequented by tourists, on whom the 3,600 inhabi- tants of Adelsberg thrived. The grot- to is lighted by electricity and there are safe paths through the “Ball Room” ‘the Ferdinand Grotto’, the. “Brilliant’, the ‘Betvedere’ and other compartments, some of which are 150 feet in length and otbers as much as 165 feet high. Through the ‘Cathedral’ a room 150 feet long and nearly 100 feet high, there flows the river Poik or Pivka, which becomes a subtesran- ean strezm in the vicinity of the Grot- to, “Many of the pools and streams in the caverns of the Karst contain a curious kind of fish which constitutes an important article of food for the peasants of the region, while above ground ‘he stony wastes are infested with poisonous reptiles.” From far off Penang, next to Sing- apore, the most important city -in the Siraits Settlements {n the East indies, comes another stofy of the re- markable power and endurance of an American made car. In this instance the small but pow- erful car negotiated the enure dis- tance from the base to the top of Government Hill, a little moré than 2400 feet in height, over a road prac- tically unknown to vehicle traffic. Its steep grade can be better appreciated when it is known that the usual way of ascending it is in & chair carried by six_coolies. The road up tha siGe of Government Hill measures 2.85 miies from the bot- tom to the top amd it has an average gradient of 1 in 6.3. The ascent was made more difficult by kars of earth which run obliquely across the road, at intervals of 40 feet. in order to df rect the rain water into the drain at the side. These bars are about five inches high with their sides sloping at an angle of 40 degres LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A National Cause. Mr. Editor: There are very few in- stitutions in our great nation that are doing more good in_ upbuilding the colored race and making tham_self- reliant, and ~ self-respecting citizens than the Slater Industrial School for Colored People at Winston-Salem, C., and perhaps it would not be over- stating the case to say William A. Blair, who is treasurer of the school and vice president of the People’s Na- tional Bank of that town, Is doing more to Lelp the poor handicapped negroes of the south than any other white man, The, school buildings, land and ap- pliancts ‘have“cost '$65,000. It is the third colored school in importance. So creat is its influence that the state legislature has offered the trustees $12,000 if they can raise the same amourit. Tt is totally impossible for them to meet this offer, as they have strained themselves o the extreme limit to bring it to its present worth. If each reader of this article will slip one dollar into an envelope and_ mail it to the treasurer, William A. Blair, Winston-Salem, N.'C., the money will be raised and the school buildings erected. This small amount will not hurt any one, and will very greatly aid a most worthy national cause. It is a sad sight to see the number of colored children turned away from this school for lack of accommodation. If our readers knew the facts in de- tail concerning this school, it would give ‘them much pleasure o respond fo this ‘call, and send the $1 immedi- ately. thus helping the trustees raise $12,000 to meet the offer made by the state legislature. Any donation made now will multiply four times when it becomes brick and mortar, as the stu- dents and friends of the school will do the construction work when the materials are furnished. Let it be re- membered that the colored citizens are loyal citizens. Not one of them has ever raised his hand against our flag, and many of them are now in our ar- my, and brave soldiers. Should the president call for volunteers the col- ored people would do their full share. Ir every reader who sees this item would send in $1 to Treasurer Blair the school equipment and efficlency could be increased to the extent of $48,000. J. P. RAWLBY. Winston-Salem, N. C., Nov. 16, 1916. OTHER VIEW POINTS \ The ressuring circular of a New York coal firm calls the present situa- tion ‘“largely psychological,” and says that it was “unquestionably aggra- vated by uninformed newspaper sensa- tionalism.” At least, it was not unin- formed. The newspapers first inform- ed themselves as to the facts and then showed ~_their “sensatiomalism” by printing the price lists and| informing the public. There was certainly noth- ing “psychological” in the process. The point that now interests the newspa- pers and the general public|is the ex- traordinary psychology of the coal op- erators and dealers.—Providence Bul- letin. President Wilson will shortly ap- point a tariff commission. Ile cwes it to New England in all justice to ap- point 2 man who comes from this part of the country and is interested in manufacturing. This section of the ‘United States was hit the hardest by the Underwood bill, and it is hoped that when the new commission is nam- ed it will take into consideration the needs of New England. This state In Your Homg As a protection against intense suf- fering from pain’of all kinds—always the Karst (Italian form, Carso), that the term ‘karst landscape’ is now fre- quently employed to define similar re- gions barren of vegetation, ‘pock- marked’ with lime-sinks and grottoes, and seamed - with subterranean streams which now and then appear suddenly above the ground, then dis- apear again “The. Karst plateau rises some dis- tance to the south of the city of Gor- izia, on the Isonzo, one of the most : Austrian ' strongholds cap Tlians sins tom e L keep in your home, for instant use, & bottle of Minard’s Liniment. There is nothing so effective as this ‘wonderful old reliable, creamy lini- ment for instantly stopping the in- tense pain of lumbago, neuralgia, rheumatism, backache, sprains and bruises, and for burns and cuts. Minard’s is @ clean, wonderfully healing, antiseptic liniment that soothes and invigorates. It puts new: ‘what covered with magnificent| Take a Package R and city depend on manufacturing and a low tariff would be hurtful in the extreme. The appointment of the commission is awaited with a great deal of interest for that reason. In the making up of this ipmortant board all parts of the country should be rep- resented. The tariff is one of the most important matters now before this country, and when the great war is over this country will aeed a high tariff to protect its interests.—New Britain Record It appears that the laying off of sev- eral workmen at the factory of .the Yale & Towne Co. in Stamford a few days ago was not due to a slump in business and that the full activity of the plant has been resumed. This fac- tory is doing much work for the muni- tions makers now and some excite- ment was caused when some depart- ments began laying off help, but there was no cause for alarm. It is doubtful if there will be much curtailment of work throughout the winter in any of the munitions plants unless the rail- road transportation facilities fail to meet the test. With the cost of living as it is there can be no doubt of the fervor with which even munitions plant employes will pray for the better health of the railroad system.—Wa- terbury Republican. The Stamford Advocate reviews the condition of Bridgeport's water-front, as gleaned from the reports in the Standard, and finds that the situation is one not creditable to a_civilized community. Perhaps that character- ization is somewhat strong, but it is not one whit too much if we can rely upon the evidence produced, and it seems entirely dependable. 'The en- forcement of some general and state- wide system of sewage disposal snd purification is the only radical and satifactory solution to this unfortunate situation, and the longer the applica- tion of the remedy is delayed the more costly will it become. The next legis- lature should grapple with tils mat- ter seriously, and it will do so if the members are sufficiently inpressed with the statements made in the re- port from which we have made the above extracts. The evil is state-wide and the remedy must be of an equally extended character.—Bridgeport Stand- ard. As long as the grown people who walk the tracks are not arrested just so long will children take chances on the iron highways and there will be fatalities like that of yesterday when a boy’s life was snuffed out. The rail- road is doing its best to keep persons off the tracks. It is continually issuing warnings and_notices are posted all along the road where people are like- ly to take the racks. The police have other things to concern them- selve, and people who wish to take short cuts use the tracks. Until there are arrests and. the public is made to understand that the tracks are not sidewalks such accidents as that of yesterday will continue to happen. The children go on the tracks because older persons do and because they are not sufficiently warned. The fact that it is dangerous and against the law to walk the tracks has not been really impressed upon them. If the railroad would put extra police here for a time and_arrest everybody who walks the tracks the practice would soon end. The ordinary mortal has to have things hammered into his head by force or at least by a show of it be- fore it really makes an impression on him.—Megiden Journal. The Lavas of Hawai None of the island possessions of the United States exhibit more nota- ble points of interest for the observ- ant traveler or the naturalist than the Hawalian Islands. The natives are typical of the race inhabiting many island groups of the south Pacific, the plant lifo has the attractive features of insular development in semitropicd latitudes, the marine life of the warm waters is wonderful, but perhaps the most fascinating, instructive, d aweinspiring of all the natural phen- omena of Hawali are furnished by its active voicanoes. The whole group of islands, extenaing in a chain for many hundred omiles, is of volcanic origin, though some of the isiets and reefs are but the wave-battered remnants of — volcanoes whose fifes have. long’since died out. Approaching Honolulu by from San Francisco, the traveler has the evidence of volcanic action plainly before him in the first land he sees, in the ash come of Koho Head and the well-preserved craters of Di ‘Head and the Punca Bowl, which are in the outskirts of the city. The high mountains of the isiand of Oahu are also made up of hlack but they are vesetation and largest for the fhe process by W mountains the most are showing_jus mountaine. ~ Beth® of are inciuded in the Hawaii National Park. Since the time of Captain Cook the have been visited by geologists and others interested in the problems of volcanoes, ard much has been written concerning them. Paper 88, Hawaii and their Relations,” 'y Whit- man Cross, of the United States Geo- logical Survey, Department of the In- terior, presents'a summary of what is now known concerning the lavas of all This paper technicai in its character, for it is in- tended primarily to eerve -as'a; basis Hawallar Islands Professional the ispands. for future study of thc ogists. It appears that there are many other lavas in Hawall basalt, and many facts of association of the different lavas are.of: interest to students of the inner ‘history of volcanoes. Wkile much is yet to be kinds of learned concerning the ialands, Mr. Cross shows that present knowledge of the rocks is sufficient to throw lizht on some of the most periaining of the igneous The chemical re- lations are discussed with particular Petrologists .will_find valuable material in this report, bear- vexed questions origin and relations rocks of the earth. thoroughness. ing on many probiems. encouragement Omaha Bee, Maybe the Other. Way. The state of Illinois is fortunate in having a véry sensible population of Most of them, when went to the polls, voted the same way husbands did.--Rochester women. that their Democrat-Chronicle. i A Humphreys’ Seventy-seven largely . olang. DM) must go to the SIaRg ot ctta. Sroun, oRRAaL derometation h all these island n built up from great ocean Kilauea, one of a ‘and Mauna Loa, one of the lary volcances in the world, how . lava builds up these volcanoes . Holds Encouragement. ‘Woman suffrage ‘fell by the wayside in South Dakota and West Virginia, but the narrow margin of defeat Lolds for another teamer xmond lava—basalt— covered with Hawall, of newly ~created “Lavas _ of is_largely rocks geol- besides lavas of these to the turn.— they For Grip, Inflaenza COLDS Cold sores or fever blisters on the lips are caused by an upset stomach from taking Cold. 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