Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 4

Forwich Bulletin and Qoud —— i 120 Y'I’.ARS OLD | Subseription prie, a week: e l“:.lk ecks 5oc i Entered at tl (Conn., as second-class matter. Telephone Calls: ‘Bulletin Businses Office 450, Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Willimantie _Office, Telophone 210-2. Bulletin Job Offfca 35-2. st 67 Churen Npmlc?fl.{fid.y, Dec. 21. 1916. The Circulation. of The Bulletin The Bulletin has the eirculation of any paper In Eastern Connecticut and from three to four fimes lacger than that of any in jorwich. It is delivered to over wich and read by ninety-three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is deliverad to over 900 houses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100, and in all of these places it 18 considered the local dally. Eastern Connecticut has forty- aine towns, one hundred and sixty- five postofiice districts, and sixty ural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every he Postoffice at Norwich, | By targest § 8,000 of the 4,053 houses ‘n Nor-3 | | - preferablesto the conditions which would prevail under no license but which would doubtless result in the use of as much if not more liquor than under license, and at the same time mean a large financial loss. In comparison with other campaigns when the majority for ilcense was much smaller, having even but cut to as low as 11,000 on one occaslon, it is impossible to look upon the result from the standpoint of the license ad- vocate as anything but a complete victory. They apparently won over one-fifteenth of those who voted for no license last year besides adding several thousand others. ° Boston trom all indications has not as yet become convinced that no license is preferable, however it may look upon the temperance question itself. THEIR REGARD FOR OTHERS. 1t was a most touching appeal which was made by two young men, one having just become of age and the other close to it, to the superintendent of Sing Sing prison when having been sentenced to death for the commission of murder, they asked to have the date of the execution advanced three days in order that it might all be over with and their families given a chance to get settled down before Christmas. There was no reason which stood in the way of granting the application 1l it was complied with. They went to the electric chair without a tremor |@nd they will have been buried a day * two before the holiday arrives. They paid the penalty for their crime and they pald 1t without wavering, but they showed that they had some con- sideration for their families, However hardened they had become they had not entirely forgotten those who were left to mourn. But how much better it would have been if they had manifested some such concern for those who were near and dear to them before they struck the fatal blow or fired the shot which took away the lives of others, or if they had given thought to those who were to be left by those they murdered before committing their crimes. There are many of just such criminals who come to a realization of their position too late, They fail to think In advance of the penalty, or if they are so toughened that the penalty as applied to them has no terrors, they neglect to think what the paying of the price means to their parents. The lesson which they have furnished is one I happened to be at Lora Gilmore's when her new evening Wrap came home yesterday. I could not help feeling that she was pleased to have me observe Kidella’s name on the box. “Oh,” 1 sald, “aren’t you the fash- fonable lady to have your things made by.such an artiste! 1 wish 1 were effiuent enough to patronize her.” “Well, 1 don't myself usually,” ex- plained Lora, “but as we have season tickets for the opera with some friends Frank insisted that I have a really handsome cloak for once. I feel horribly extravagant, but it's a beauty, lsn’t it? “Indeed it is, and. I'm glad you have such a stunning wrap. You mustn't feel extravagant, dear, for 1 know you'll wear it for years. That hood eftect is perfectly fascinating. My lever cousin Fannie is making an ening cloak for poor little me, who can't go to Fidelia or her class, and I should love to have a burnoose like this. T do wonder, Lora, Whether you would be so marvelously good as to let Cousin Fannle get an idea from your wrap. It wouldn't be a copy if she does follow yours, for the coiors and materials are quite different, and yet, it would be most helpful to Cous- in Fannie if she could see this won- dertul_cloal “Certainly, Lucile, have her come over and look at it all she wishes,” sald Lora cordially. I think she was pleased. » “Thank you very much” I return- ed, “but I belleve it would be better for me to borrow it for a little while and let her look it over at home. It would be less embarrassing to her, as she doesn’t know you. You wouldn't mind, would you?” “Why, no, I guess not,” plied. “It's perfectly dear of you” I con- tinued, “and I appreciate vour kind- ness. TIl just take it home with me now, and perhaps I can get one of my friends to bring me over here with it to-night In a car. Then you won't have time to miss it at all” I wrap- ped It up In the box myself and hur- ried away. Lora re- After Cousin Fannie, who is re- markably deft with her scissors as well as with her needle, had cut a pat- tern of the hood and taken notes of the novel fastenings and all the de- tails that I wished copled I called up George Requier and asked if he could FROM LUEILE'S DIARY “You certainly will grace the feast,” he said when he called for me. “What a splendid cloak!” “It is pretty, ism't it?” I smotthed the soft rich' folds of Lora’s wrap, which 1 had slipped on just for fun. “I never saw you in a more becom- ing garment,” he said so admiringly that I really felt that it would be a pity to take it off and explain that it was not mine. So I wore it to_the banquet, feeling sure that Lora, whom I had alwaye considered a_dear, gen- erous creature, would not mind in the least But she did. She telephoned Jjust after I had left home to ask when I would be at her house with the cloak, and mother told her I had gone to a panquet. Strangely enough, _she guessed at once that I had worn her evening wrap, though mother herself didn’t know it until father, overhear- ing mother at the telephone said: ‘Why, when I came in I met Luclle going out in a gorgeous cloak.” Before 1 was up this morning moth- er came to my room and informed me that Lora had appeared to be ex- tremely annoyved, and she begged me to lose no time in returning it. She was so upset about the matter that I dressed at once. It occurred to me that it was not necessary for me to lug that big heavy cloak box way across the city again, and vet I did not wish to pay a mes: senger, so I decided to take it down- town and buy some trifle for Lora at one of the shops and have it sent out to her as a package inclosed. I tied it up carefully and put Lora’s name and address on the box and took it down to Blank’s, where I knew Lora has an account. I was just wondering whether to buy a handkerchief or a wash rag when I met Arthur Knight. “Talk ~about good _fortune” he said, “it'’s mine now! My mother has sent me to match samples and I cer- tainly need feminine assistance. If youwll find the right shade of rose and lavender ribbons to go with these scraps, Lucile, I'll buy you any color- ed lunch yoy wish from lobster to pis- tachio ice cream.” Of course we had the jolliest kind of time. We went first to the restaurant, and as Arthur said, fortified ourselves for the shopping. When we had Dbought the ribbons he told me that he had his car parked on the lake front and he said that he would take me home, as it was a dull day in his of- fice. We had a most_delightful drive, Had Catarrh Of Head Nose Throat And Stomach Mr. Samuel Rossi, No. 612 Chestnut Ave, Vineland, N. J., writes want ot thank you for your advice and for what your medicine has done for me. OTHER VIEW POINTS Tendency is to shorten the purchas- ing period of the holiday season, and it remains to be seen whether or not the plan will work out sugcessfully. At this particular time when business is carrled on at a rush, even in nor- mal times, the attempt to quicken the pace for a few days before the holi- days, in many instances results in dis- satisfaction on the part of the great conservative purchasing element of the country.—Middletown ' Press. With tbe approach of the bitterest period of the winter season, when men will suffer most intensely on account of the cold, the hearts and pocketbooks of comfortable folk should be opened. But when your pocketbook is open, don’t forget to open your heart! Some of us are driving hard to change social and economic conditions so there will no longer be homeless men. But don't let's wait until that time comes before glving a boost to the man who is now down and out—no matter how he got there. Be a “good fellow!’—Bridge- port Standard. 1 suffered with catarrh for seven years; catarrh of the head, nose and throat, lad stomach. Peruna cured me. lowed your advice and I ks thrue batties, oF Petare Tn thres weeks, and new my trouble is all over. I will never be without Peruna in my house. | can heartily recom- mend Peruna as a catarrh remedy. I am pleased to make public the good that Peruna has done me. In a later letter Mr. Rossi writes: “I will never be without Peruna in my house. We ui whenever any of the family have a slight cold, and find it of constant service. Peruna has many times saved one of my lit- tle boys from serious sickness. Those who object to liquid medi- es can now procure Peruna Tablets. boilers should: have the fire space fill- ed with coal at least to a point level with the bottom of the feed door open- ing, and one feeding should be suffici- ent for twelve hours, if the drafts are properly adjusted. Once in the morn- ing and once in the evening are the only times when attention is neces- sary under normal weather condi- tiols. Ashes should be shaken down before the furnace or stove is refilled with fresh coal. The common error of leaving open the feed door and admitting cold air over the hot fuel bed and at the same time cooling the heating _surfaces should be avoided. to combustion through the bed of coal and fire and all checking of draft should be ac- complished by in the stove pipe. possible is held in contact with heat- ing furnaces. Nitrogen Compounds and Oil. It has long been known that some of the shale in the Green River for- northeastern Utah would yield petro- leum when it was subjected to des- tructive distillation. All air necessary should be drawn shutting the ash-pit door and opening the check damper Thus all the heat mation in northwestern Colorado and Petroleum has TODAY AND TON FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN & m\v BAYNE “The Dlpkmntlo Ou-vbo" CRIMSON STAIN MYSTERY . COMING FRIDAY AND QAMIAV MAE MURRAY in “THE DREAM GIRL” The Socisal GRANT, THE POLICE REPORTER Founded on Frederick S. Ishman’s Widely Read Story With J. WARREN KERRIGAN and LOUISE LOVELY Shows 2:30, 7 snd 8:45 Buccaneer [0 CARTOON COMEDIES REMINISCENCES OF PRESIDENT WILSON’S COLLEGE DAYS By Dr. Inazo Nitobe of the Imperial University of Japan. Tokio, Dec. 20.—The reelection of President Wilson has caused Dr. Ina- 20 Nitobe of the Imperial University to write some reminiscences of the days when he and Mr. Wilson were fellow students in the graduate de- partment of political and __economic science in Johns Hopkins University. “Mr. Wilson showed even then that he was a man apart” said Dr. Ni- tobe. “When he went to Johns Hop- kins he_specialized in political econ- omy. He was about 28 years of age, four vears older than I and older than most of his class. His demeanor was always gentlemanly and dignified and he always fmpressed us by his ma- turity. In our seminars the students would often turn to him on a debated question and ask ‘What about it, Wil- son? . Dr. Nitobe recalled that President Wilson was a great admirer of Bag- ehot, the English essayist, and that when he wrote his Congressional Gov. ernment, he had in mind Bagehot's phrase Parliamentary Government or EATRE Uk an DAVIS T Thur‘fiy. Friday and Saturday BIG GALA HOLIDAY BILL The Melody 4 Vaudeville's Sweetsst Singers in a Lively Comedy Offering NATHANO BROS. In a Novel Skating Act BARNARD-FINNERTY- CARMONTELLO The Variety Trio in a Clever Com- ody Skit Triangle Photoplay Feature take me to Lora’s in his machine in |staying out all the afternoon. The American Indian no longer is a | heen obtained from the oil fields, how- | Governments In Which the exeeutive "m-n;fl&on“l;l:' ‘é‘ he & '1_7'. D.§| which can be learned by many others | tha evening To-night, just at dinner time, Lora |vanishing race, but under improved | 0"t PR (8 B (€ TR PON T GO S oy Vinfluenced by, come DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS o Who unfortunately will go the same| T can,” he replied, laughingly, “but | telephoned me, and said at once that |health conditions is increasing in num- > i - ilten of tha iteliltare: M Wilste way. The need of sreater foresight | hope to take you somewhere cise as [she wished to'speak to me about her |ber, according to the annual report of | cost so low that its production from|often read papers in the seminars SIN— CIRCULATION and less hindsight is in evidence every | well. A friend has just given me two | evening gown. Commissioner Sells, of the Indian bu- | shale by distillation has not seemed to | Sech To3ie, Apeared in s book g x a % 5 day, but how many are there who will | tiewets to a philosophical banquet, reau. There were 209.224 Indians when | be commercially feasible. despite the | Which caused him to be widely Rnown. ‘American Aristocracy” 1901, avera; eeviee 441231 0 oht by their example? quite an exclusive affair, where there| “Oh, your evening wrap,” I faltered. |the report was written, an increase actht at in Sco ‘uuc an indus- | “ioy ‘one occasion,” explained Pro- will be some renowned speakers from | for the truth was I had completely |of 1,522 over a year ago. Health and | try fls long been paying (_lhlflendu 0:1 tessor Nitobe, “our professor gave me A Great Comedy Drama in 8 rts 905, average....rui. +5,920%| cHANCE To HELP THE ALIENS. |out of town. I was on the point of | forgotten that troublesome garment |educational campaigns, the report!a larse investment and in fact, ac- | Wristorivs. Bolities, the main. points " | calling you to see about it when you |since the moment I sat down to lunch | says, reduced the gener: death rate | cording to current report, is now su?- of which I was to tabulate. When I NOTE—Many of the Scenes in this ; The bureau of education of the de-|called me. Will you go?" with Arthur in the store. The rather |this year from 35.55 in 1,000 to 23.33, | plying fuel oil for the British navy-icame to Aristotle’s references to milk Picture Were Taken at Watch 9 189 partment of the interior i making a | ““Yos, thank you! Luckily T happen |alarming thought suddenly came over and “cut down the mumber of Infani | Field investigations made by Dean |55"ah ‘Casential in the proper nourisn || hicturs Wers Taken s 'y §| countrywide appeal to “make a Christ- | to be free this one evening. me that T had left the box under the | deaths from 2,391 two years ago to F.dwqxt‘m‘h:stér and o:hgrsv of "I'f ORE= | rierith GEF thilEyvsinss) T weer i ¢ auisais L R. 1, 3 $lrias, preaent ta your) countey in ihe restaurant table. 1303 this year. Deaths from tuber-|ted States Geological Survey, Depart- | dary whether or mot I should put it ST SR | ducing one non-English speaking im- “I thought you might be relieved to | culosis were reduced 40 per cent.—New | ment of the Interior, have shown that|down. I did so but was somewhat cha- dietast 6. leain” e B know where it was” continued Lora | Britain Herald. enever economic ‘conditions necea- | grined when my fellow students CHAS. MURRAY ant to le he language of g S e e S Rt = sitate or justify the distillation of oii | laughea at my including milk as one /PRESIDENT WILSON’S MOVE FOR | America” This is in keeping with Waterbury is to complete |shales for _their products and by- —IN— THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Soclety Today raising a fund of $350,000 for the Y. M. C. A. That such an amount could be secured in six working days speaks well for the generosity an the intelligence of Waterbury, and especially so as the city already has Y. M. C. A. building Blank’s_this afternoon, and they tel- ephoned to me to ask if they should send it up and— “Oh, then it reached you in good time and by the same ~method by which I had intended to send it. T took it down to Blank's to have them of the essential points of Aristotle’s educational scheme. Wilson, however, took it most seriously and 1 remem- her that I was greatly comforted by seeing him copy my tabulation with great care. And in a book called The State which Mr. Wilson wrote later PEACE. Though he takes great care to im- Press upon all the nations addressed the fact that he is not offering media- tion, and that he has not been moved 0" action by the the campaisn which it started some months ago to create a greater inter- est among the aliens in this country, in the educational opportunities which lie before these people. Such an ef- fort of course deserves the greatest . products the shales of the Green River " formation in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming can can be made to yleld vast quantities of oil, gas for use in the process of distillation, and fertilizer enough to enrich most of the farms of the Middle West. “His Hereafter” Two Reel Keystone Rumania and the Fortunes of War— ‘Matinee 2:15; Eve. 6:45 and 8:45 % ¢ P d which has been translated into recent overtures e as fared in times | deliver it to you as a package inclosed, |an excellent i x L __{an: ¥ e n n e BT ?::n;:\emae.}::ea]“:h:ch How n?mamah has fa; T o eS| and then—well, it happened that—- | which has been outsTown. The new] . Northwestern . Colorado . alone | Japanese I was very happy to discover Wwhich Twar s 5 ot wi 00 [gone by in the course of wart “Plense spare me any explanation, |fund is to enlarge and expand the|there is sufficient shale, in beds at|that he gave a resume of Aristotle’s powers, but solely as a friend and as |large a response. tween her neighbors is strikingly | Lucile,” interrupted Lora haughtily,| work, which is recognized on all sides |least 3 feet thick and containing more | political doctrines and that the points There are millions who have come the representative of a neutral nation, from abroad, President Wilson in his notes to all oil than the average shale now mined as a practical and necessary one. In in Scotland, to yieid about 20,000,000,- which he brought out were almost this connection it may be noted that shown in a statement prepared for the identical with the tabulation which National Geographic Society by Ralph “I'm not feeling particularly patient development for this evening.” from 1902-1912 public service use who have was approximately little or no 1 v ve § barrels of crude oil which is more | had caused the other men to laugh. i = ommand of the English language. isti i iter I cannot understand, inasmuch as;New London and Winsted have just|000 three times as at as in steam pow- the nations engaged In the European | o 1 and S A. Graves the distinguished writer % di han five ti h oot X m v = | Kk me - |occupied new Y. M. C. A. buildings. | than five times the total amount of = war lays emphasis on the need of Lot Means that they are getting (o5q traveler. i Jemepecions Slaak ioms per 2 to prove the | crude Erestal fec < Water | £, EISSSTysoowat,, IRSANAGHI from oil produced in t he United States to date; and in Utah there is probably nearly as much shale just as rich. This shale oil will yield 10 ‘o 15 per cent of gasoline by ordinary methods of refining. The shale in Use of National Power Development. In the fiscal year 1916, says Henry S. Graves, Chief of the Forest Service, in his annual report, 20 new water which utilize National It needs no argument necessity or the vaiue of such in- stitutions in all live communities. The record of good accomplished is too clear and convincing to peamit of skepticism. Bristol is certainly more some of the benefits which this coun- try furnishes in the way of labor but they are not getting all the advantages which are open to them either for their own =ood or for the good ot the fectly safe, why Lora should be so disagreeable to me about the man- ner of its return For my part, I am a_ firm believer in the old saying that al's well that ends well, and I_think there’s no use getting worried and all sources and for all uses increased from 1902 to 1912 more than 2 1-2 times as rapidly in the eleven Western tates as in the remainder of the United States. While the increase for primary electric power for the same “For a thousand vears the country was the shuttlecock in the game of political battledore and shuttlecock staged by the rival sovereigns of Eu- rope—Russia, Poland, Hungary, Aus- Peace. He points out that while all are strong for the future peace of the world such a matter cannot be con- sidered until after the preseft trou- i Furk r] C power projects ble has been adjusted. countrs. They are not coming under | tria. Wurkey. Once Peter the Great| . iijeq over troubles that never |progressive than eithes New London or | Colorado should produce not only tne{POWel Brodcets which utiize National| brimary elest ‘Per cent for the West- It fs not to bo supposed that any [ the influences which will tend to make | S5tablished ‘o protectorate over Ahe!y,ppenea, Winsted, and the Community bullding ol but also, with only a moderate | 2s"an increase of 18 1-2 per cent. in |ern states, as against 226 per cent. in proposed for her boys and girls stands for a much wider field of work and activity than the Y .M. C. A. which fact, of course, works an appeal to a added cost, about 300.000,000 tons of ammonium’ sulphate, a_compound es- pecially valuable as a fertilizer. The industry requires a large and costiy them better citizens and nothing is more desirable than the improvement of the citizenship of the people who live in this country. DL the belligerents are anxious to con- Hnue the war for war’s sake. They mre all desirous of peace if such a peace the total number. In the fiscal year 1915 the number of new projects which began operation was 12. ° Forty-two per cent of the total developed water the other states. The development per capita of the Western states in 1912 was 2 1-2 times as great as in other parts of the country. Great with a plan to annex them to Russia. Austria, afraid that such a course meant Russian territorial ex- pansion in a direction that threatened LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Why Not Have Street can be secured as they favor, but fust what each side demands has never been clearly and fully set forth. It is understood in a general way but not In the concrete and that is what the president thinks ought to be set forth for as he says “It may be that peace is nearer than we know,” and there is the possibility that the avowal of their respective views which he seeks would be the means of its ac- complishment. Certainly no harm can come from the move and if it should prove to be the step which would lead to lasting peace it would be the cause for everlasting Joy and thanksgiving. I it s possible thereby to bring about a satistactory understanding between the nations the wisdom of preventing the further slanghter, demoralization, ruin, suffer- ing and torture cannot fail to have its appeal. President Wilson has drafted his note in such a manner that it cannot be interpreted as meddling. e has not suggested that one side should @gree to the terms of the other. Ife has in & plain manner set forth the need of o better understanding of the demands of each, that out of the dis- closure it might be possible to reach & solution of the terrible and tremen- dous struggle. . There is of course only one purpose ~ in the appeal and that is the ending | of the conflict which has set on fire . the whole of Europe and from which ' the meutral nations of the world as “well as the belligerents have suffered and are suffering. * It is unfortunate that this note has & followed the move of the central pow- © ers, but having heen given to under- ‘M that it is in no way basea thereon, it should be, as is asked for by the president, “considercd on its 4 merits and as if it had been made ’ other circumstances.” " It is”certainly to be hoped that it ‘,?:"lu be the means of accomplishing | what is so greatly necded—peace. ' What & happy outcome it would be st this particular season. BOSTON'S VOTE ON LICENSE. _ There were surprises in connection theresult in the license test in Bos- no-license vote showed a decrease d of an increase over last year. very time when one of the big- for license was increased by I.Wh'-mmnbeno the people in the | a marked improvement in its appear- to the merits | ance since receiving a much needed They | addtion to its linotype equipment, and { The forefgner who locates here is invariably anxious that his chiidren should get all the advantages In the way of an education. It Is highly fm- portant that those who may be be- yond the school age should be encour- aged to improve the chances which are offered them to learn at least to read and write. Bringing them to such a realization would be not only & most valuable Christmas present to them but to the country. It is a good work which has been undertaken and one which deserves the greatest success. EDITORIAL NOTES. The kaiser may yet come to the conclusfon that it Is easier to start a war than it is to bring about peace. It can always be told what a person thinks of his neighbors by the way in which he keeps his icy sidewalk sanded. Whether it is welcomed or mot, there is something about a blanket of snow which makes Christmastide seem more seasonable. The man on the corner says: The fact that a man is full of theorles and ought to be happy in their possession doesn’t always make him so. 1t is quite considerate of Bandit Vil- la, after calling Americans barbarlans of the north, that he should want to make friends with such people. Bryan sends a peace message to England, but then his communtcations are subject to the claim that they are meant for home consumption. Even those who have completed their Christmas shopping can hardly keep away from the attractive holiday dis- play of goods shown In the local stores. There is nothing in the speech of Lloyd George which indicates that he has been at all frightened by the kai- ser’s peace appeal even though he has suffercd from a chill. It is now claimed that the hammer In a favorite weapon of the British In trench raids. They may be the basis for the stories about pounding the enemy on all fronts. General Scott says it was lucky this week, not becauso it failed to [a real lot of fighters on the border, its has been made in behalf of | done Greece by the allies, & smaller vote was cast for | spends any last year by 2,000, while the |situation in Belgium and who is re- that this country did not have to face There is little possibility that wheén Germany complains of the injustice that it time thinking about the sponsible for it. The New London Globe is showing: her, objected so vehemently that Catherine reconsidéred, and Moldavia and Wallachia were placed, in 1774, under the suzerainty of Turkey. In 1861 the two principalities decided to unite under the name of Rumania, in accerdance with an agreement reach- ed by the Powers following the Crim- ean War. Their autonomy guaranteed the Rumanians selected an army of- ficer, Col. Alexander Cuza, as their prince, who thereupon came into power under the title of Alexander John I, Prince of Rumania. “In 1866, the ruling element in Bucharest decided that they wanted a change, so they politely invaded the prince’s bedroom one night, gave him a certificate of abdication to sign, and announced that there was a car- riage waiting which would convey him to the station where he was to take the night express for Paris. He obeyed, and disappeared forever from public gaze. “Thereafter, a provisional govern- ment elected the Count of Flanders. brother to_the late King Leopold of Belgium. But Austria and the other Powers protested so vigorously that the act was reconsidered and Prince Charles called, as previously stated. When Carol assumed the throne it became one of his principal aims to free his country from the suzerainty of Turkey. When the conflict between Russia and Turkey was impending in 1875, he first attempted to have the Powers guarantee the neutrality of Rumania during the war; but they were too busy with their own affairs, and his efforts failed. “Then Rumania decided to enter an agreement with Russia. This agreement, which is illuminating, in the light of present day history, grant- ed free passage of Russian troops over Rumanian soil, Russia undertaking to respect the political rights and to de- fend the integrity of Rumania. “One of the first acts of Rumania after hostilfties began was to declare her independence of Turkey. As the war, proceeded, Russia found herself in sore need of help. Repeated ap- peals finally brought Rumanian par- ticipation, and Prince Carol was given the supreme command of the allied forces before Plevna, where he gained a great but costly victory. When the war ended and Turkey and Russia en- tered into the Treaty of San Stefano, it did recognize Rumanian independ- ence, although Rumania was not ad- mitted to the peace conference But it also provided that Rumania should get the swampy country between the Danube, where it flows north, and the Black Sea. On the other hand, Rus- sia_was to have Bessarabia, territory which Ruménia claimed and a part of which she had occupied. “Rumania stood firm against the idea of giving up the beautiful Bess- arabia_in exchange for the unattrac- tive Dobrudja.. ~Russia, thereupon, threatened to disarm the Rumanian army, to which Prince Carol respond- ed that Russia might destroy his army, but that it could not be dis- armed. “The congress of Berlin, which ov- erturned the Russo-Turkish treaty of San Stefano, did not interfere with Russia's determination to force Ru- mania to accept Dobrudja in exchange for Bessarabia, and Rumania came out Department Clear Walks of Delinquents. Mr. Edit In response to newspa- per notices and public discussions re- garding cleaning walks of snow; al- low me to suggest the advisability of the street department supplimenting the work left undone by delinquent citizens, who fail to clear their walks of snow within the time limit, charg- ing the property holders for the work done. It seems to the writer this #vould serve a larger public than prosecution of the could possibly do. What the property owners and citi- zens alike want is proper freedom and I believe everyone Is willing to pay for work done. But let the money be expended for labor done on the street rather than for lawyer fees and court charges. The department is already equipped to do this work. Why not let them do it? The streef department already have charge of our walks and if property owners fail to keep them in proper condition the street department can make the necessary charges and charge the cost of the work against the property—the same as done in oil- Ing and sprinkling, why not the same regarding denrlnx away the snow? Respectfully yours, . TAX PAYER. Norwich, Dec. 19, 1916. plan interest individual STORIES OF THE WAR Women Seel Employment. The number of women applying at employment agencies in Germany in- creased notably during the fiscal year of 1915-16. While the number of male work-seekers - dropped notably there were 206,980 men who sought work of the so-called “Central Em- ployment Agency,” the largest in Ber- lin, while 157,514 women were regis- tered as looking for jobs. That is a decrease of 121,465 men, and an in- crease of about 25,000 women appli- cants. Brayless Mules The brayless mule is one of the scientific developments of the war. Large numbers of mules have been im- ported from America for use at the front, but theirhabit of braying at in- convenient moments had to be reme- died before they could be used to the best advantage. The veterinary ex- perts were called in, and after a lit- tle experiment they 'discovered that a slight operation on the nostril had the desired effect, and all the mules sent to the front are now made mute by this process. Different. People who live on farms don’t ex- pect to eat eggs in the winter when the hens lay very little. But it's dif- ferent in the city.—Cleveland Leader. King’s Important Duty. King George is England's electoral college. He approves the new min- istry after he is.told what it is. — with less than she had when she went what has always been a bright and r gives promise of being in. All she could do was to console herself ‘with Lord Beaconsfield’s re- mark to her that “In politics the best services are mn rewarded with in- gratitude.” - Kansas City Times. . : To keep disk phonograph records clean an inventor has patented u should gmall brush o, be mounted in front|and larger constituency.—Bristol Press. A dozen years or so ago there were several toll bridges in the state, i cluding one between Windsor Locks and Warehouse Point one between Middletown and Portland and the so- called Rope Ferry bridge owned b; the LeCount famil yat Lyme. The legislature abolished ~ tolls on those bridges and it was supposed that Con- necticut had seen the last of toll bridges and toll roads. Then came the proposition to bridge the Connecticut between Lyme and Old Saybrook and the tolls system was revived. It was retained later in the case of the Had- dam bridge. Under the toll system the bridge pays its way and is continually contributing toward its own cost. The Saybrook bridge has been a tremend- ous convenience and a great stim- ulus to traffic. In the light of the ad- vantage which it has been to the state, which certainly will be dupl; cated in the case of the New London structure, one cannot but believe that the toll system, whether it is a relic of the past of not, should be adopted there—Hartford Post. HOW TO SAVE ON COAL BILL. Hints to Domestic Consumers on An- thacite Economy—How to Feed the Furnace. The following suggestions for the economicay utilization of anthracite by the domestic consumer have been put out by the Anthracite Bureau of Information at Wilkes-Barre: In_ the first place the householde: should ascertain definitely what size of coal is best adapted to his furnace, his cooking range, his fireplace, or nis base burner, and whether the draft of his chimney requires a free-burning or one of the harder varieties of an- thracite. The heating of the home should be brought down to a pract cal basis of efficiency. The consumer should ask himself whether or not he is getting a dollar’s worth of heat for every dollars worth of fuel he con- sumes. Probably he is not. ‘The fault may be with the stove or furn- ace, or with the kind of fuel he is using, or with his method of regulat- ing the stove or furnace. Quite fre- quently that same faithful old stove or furnace is unjustly blamed, when it is in reality the method of regula- tion that is at fault. Sometimes the combustion chamber is not sufficiently filled, or it may pe too full. The top of 'the fire-brick lining in the range, cylinder stove, or hot-air furnace, and the bottom of the feed door opening into the steam or hot water boiler, are the definite gauges by which’ the height of the fuel bed should be judged. Fill the fuel epace of the furnace, Stove, or boiler according to these suggestions, heaping the coal slightly in the cen- ter. The fuel space should be filled twice a day in winter weather. The last time should be late at night as is convenient. There is loss-in both economy and comfort if smaller quan- titles of anthracite are added to the fire several times a day with attend- ant ehakings. The grate should be shaken only until a bright light shows underneath, and this should be done only twice a day. Additional shakings \Im:onmlmed coal to . pass hrough the e bars. -V 5 chinery, so that be profitably scale. organized on a resists erosin burn_when | bluish remarkabl ignited. As white on and wil it weathering, refer to_it as burn.” When freshiy broken, off an odor of petroleum. distillation, exists in the shade as oil. mercial quantity in wells that western Colorado. obtained from an average Scotish oil shale. ton areas,” by localities examined, northwestern Colorado and parts of Utah and Wyoming. MY LITTLE GIRL A TERRIBLE SIGHT With Rash on Back and Arms. Also Over Face. Very Red. Formed Eruptions, ltched Badly, HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT e “My little girl was five years old whén & rash broke out on her back and arms and also all over her face. When it first came out 1t was very red and then it began to form into eruptions like smallpox, and ber face: was 50 full of the eruptions that you could mot put a pin head between them, and her eyes were closed. She was & terrible sight. She cried night and day the eruptions itched s0 badly, and I had to tie heg hands 8o thas she could not scratch. She also had & fever and was sick. “The rash was very bad for three weels. ‘Then I got a cake of Cuticura Sosp and & box of Cuticura Ofntment and the eruption Degan to heal and after, using three cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Olatment she was healed.” (Signed) Mrs, Watson ‘Haines, Garnerville, N. Y., Oct. 21,1915, Sample Each Free by Mall equipment of retorts, condensers, and oil refineries, as well as of mining ma- it probably can not small Rich oil shale is exceedingly tough, bleaches the ranchers in some parts of the region “white rock that will it gives ‘Althougi oil may be obtained In large quantities from some of the shale by destructive it does not appear that more than a small percentage already Further- more, oil has not been found in com- have been drilled into the shale in north- In the area examined there is a vast quantity of shale that will yield a barrel (42 gallons) or more of oil per ton, and shale from a thin bed at one locality yielded 90 gallons per ton, or nearly four times as much oil as is of Bulletin 641-F, entitled “Oil shale in northwestern Colorado and adjacent Dean E. Winchester, con- tains information relative to the quan- tity and quality of the oil that may be distilled from the richer beds of shale, the number of such beds at the and the general distribution of the shale throughout adjacent power of the United States figures show. in evidence, in the Rocky Jjects is particularly {cording to Mr. Graves, 1| Mountain states. California in_operation. creased by 13 duringthe year. Forest lands there. the existence of a monoply in power in the United States, Graves say M. tion. of a large percentage ies. and principal officers panies. The movement toward con- centration in commercial central sta- tions of all the primary power em- ployed in the electrical industries and in mnnutactures was found in all sec- f the United States, the rate of ooncemmnon during the period 1902- 1912 being highest in the South Atlan- tic states and the extent of concen- tratioh greatest in the Western states. ‘The rate of increase in water power utilize national forest land, the forest service Development of relatively small pro- ac- leads in the amount of power under permit and The number of trans- mission line permits in effect was in- The 40 applications for po®er-projects per- mits received in 1916 included 8 from Alaska—a notable cvidence, according to the report, of increased local inter- est in power development on National Concerning_the report prepared by the Forest Service in response to a resolution of the Senate calling upon the Secretary of Agriculture for in- formation regarding the ownership and control of water power sites and any facts bearing on the question as to the ownership and control of hydroelectric “This report presented in far greater detail than has ever been attempted before an exhaustive analysis of the general power situa- 1t showed a marked concentra- tion of definite and complete control of developed water power by a very few compan- Data presented regarding inter- relationships through common direcors indicated a marked tendency toward association or community of interests, particular— iy between the principal olding com- The report showed a considerable over-development in _nearly all the power centers of the Western states— California, Oregon, and Washington in particular showing instailations far in excess of maximum demands. The Young Doctor Defended. The Supreme Court of Louisiana has recently made a decision which may be of more than passing interest to young doctors. The case was one in which a young physician who had been a friend of the testatrix sued the estate for $1500 for services. The trial judge allowed only $262 of this claim, giving the opinion that a young practitioner had no right to charge or expect the fees charged by older prac- titioners. The Supreme Court, on the contrary, held that the young physi- cian fresh from the schools, enlight- ened by recent discoveries, is more competent to deal with a case than a physician who has the experience of a - | past generation, and allowed the amount claimed, $1500.—Indianapolis News. CuredHisRUPTURE 1 was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk several years ago. Doctors sald my only hope of cure was an operation, Trusses did me no good. ~Finally I got Bold ot something that guickly and completely cured ine. 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