Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 3, 1917, Page 4

Glorwich gallelifi 121 YFARS OLD Mexican soil all he would have %o do ‘would be to sign the agreement and in 40 days they would be out of -the country. That certainly would be brought about quicker than through any continuation of the deliberations of the joint commission. But on the other hand Villa has cities, even though he met with a re- Everybody but Mart Harris thought took Ethel to live in Chicago, Mart, from her house and her stock they had Bugle a copy and the Bugle printed GASES,SOURNESS, HIPPODROME 4 A Oll. A KEITH ACTS ' TRIANGLE PHOTOPLAYS CLEVER COMEDY MALE QUARTETTE ig:7g THE QUALITY SHOW " and @oufied it perfectly all right when Mrs. Bast- | thought her well fixed financiaily: ' g, been showing increased strencth. He|,mal' sold her little home and “cash- ever Ethel sang at ady of her " FORCE & WILLIAMS LATOY BROTHERS has raided two of the large Mexican |ed in” on her slim bank stock and |teacher’s recital she always mailed the inging com.ky uo ] The Inebriate and Bachelor Subscription price 12Ze a week; 50¢ a month: $6.00 year. Entered at the Postoffice at Norwicl Conn., as second-class mattern o Telephone Crlls: 1let! Businass Office 4S0. Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Offics 35-2. Willimantic _Office, 67 Church St. Telephone 210-2. Norwich, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1917. i jThe'Circulafion of The Bulletin 2900000008000000' verse in his last enceunter with Car- ranza's troops, but it is to be under- steod that as long as the United States are stationed where they are there is a certain amount of territory in which the operations of the bandit leader are denied. If the troops are recalled Carranza must as- sume this added responsibility and in. asmuch as he has not been able te either crush or control Villa, it may be at this late date that he recogmizes the help which is being furnished him by the presence of the punitive ex- pedition. The only service which it is rendering this country, however, is the protecton of the border, since the main object for crossing the berder has been abandoned, but if it is ne more effective there than distributed along the border, it might just as well be withdrawn and its attention direct- ed to the guarding of the line. THE BOND ISSUE. Regardless of the efforts which have been made to stave it off, there is no other way out of the present deficit the national treasury, except through an issue of bonds. We have experienced the imposition of “war” taxes in times of peace, we have wit- nessed the abandonment of the former tariff law and 68 per cent. of our im- ports are coming in duty free, we have seen the abandonment of the plan te put sugar on the free list because tha $50,000,000 which would have been cast aside By so doing was necessary to help out the government finances. desiring immensely to marry Ethel, refused to consider her voice in the light of a heathen god to be bowed éown to. “But can’t you sing here in Three Pines exactly as well as some place else?” he had demanded almost an- grily when KEthel, in tears, had fold him for the hundredth time that her life was to be devoted to her art. “I can’t get inte grand opera here, can I?” Bthel had retorted crushingly. “I might sing at the strawberry fes- tivals and get writeups in the Bugle, as I've done before, but with my voice, Mart—' That phrase always ended, explain- ed and sanctified every move. With her veice, everybody said, where couldn’t she climb? Plainly there was nothing to do but try climbing. In its farewell writeup the Bugle alluded to Mrs., Eastman as the de- voted mother of the future prima don- na who was to make Three Pines known from contiment to continent and ended rheterically: “Farewell, our @thel, hail apd farewell!” quite as though they fwere talking about our Geraldine Fartar. Ethel waved from the steps of the Pullman, looking very pretty in her new blue suit and with Mart's violets pinned at her breast. Mart was not slow—he knew that prima donnas al- ways swam in violets and he had or- dered these particular ones sent by dxxvr:sl from a town fifty miles away. en the vanishing train let out its long drawn whistle at the railroad bridge Mart turned away with a lump in his threat and headed for the hard- vare store, which he owned with his it, together with hectic comments on our rising young operatic star, who, it is rumored, will soon burst upon the world in a leading role. Mart set his jaw and continued to sell hard- ware, and after two years peopfe to- tadly forgot to joke him about losing his_girl. ‘There were times when he was shocked to find he did not even thinl about [Ethel. These occasions grew more frequent after he had begun to observe how prettily the golden locks of Miss Cameron, the new kinderzar- ten teacher, curled about her ears. The night Mrs. Eastman dragged herself wearily home to -their little hall bedroom where they cooked their meals over the gas Jjet and found Ethel huddled on the lumpy bed in a Cespair beyond mere tears, was just three years and a half since they had left Three Pines for glory—and now Ethel feverishly gasped it all out. She hated herself, she was a failure, she had always known it and wouldn’t ad- mit it. She coeuld no more sing in opera than could a street sparrow. e could have killed the great wo- man singer gently, yet she was glad it was over. The strain of the last six months had been awful. All she wanted was to creep away where it was quiet and then rest. “Let's go back home,” Ethel got out Jerkily. Mrs. Eastman forebore to remind her girl that the home had been sold Iong ago. They would be welcome for a space at her cousin’s, she ‘was sure, and then, after a while— She noted with satisfaction that Eithel was looking over an old packet of letters in Mart Harris' sturdy “PAPE’S DIAPEPSIN” ENDS ALL STOMACH DISTRESS IN " FIVE MINUTES. Ygpu don’t wani slow remedy when your stomach is bad—or an uncertain ond a 1l one—your stomach is too valuable; you mustn’t injure it with drastic drug: ’'s Diapepsin 1s noted for its speed in giving relief; its harmless- ness: its certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Its millions of cures in indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach trouble has made it famous the world over. Keep this perfect stomach doctor in your home—keep it handy—get a large fifty-cent case from any drug store and then if anyone should eat something which doesn’t agree with them; if what they eat lays like lead, ferments and sours and forms gas; causes head- ache, dizziness and nausea; eructa- tions of acid and undigested food— remember as soon as Pape's Diapepsin comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. Its promptness, certainty and ease in overcoming the worst stomach disorders is a revela- tion to those who try it. — e has not yet spoken, pending invasion cf Lithuania by Germany, but when rormal conditions are restored the government will undoubtedly approve the autonomy already agreed to in principle by the Duma.” Mr., Ychas says Russia has consid- erably improved political conditions in Lithuania in recent years. Formerly WM. 5. HART in “The Five Part Triangle Western Drama. Devil’s Double” Sure and See It. 2 REEL KEYSTONE. Matinee 2:15; Evening METRO PICTURE CORPORATION PRESENTS VIOLA DAINA pouslt’koLe “THME CGATES OF EDEN” CRUSHES FANATICISM SHOWING HOW A PURE TAMES A FATHER MAD WITH REVENGE GIRL WINS A LOYAL Twelfth Chapter of “THE CRIMSON STAIN MYSTERY Wednesday Thursday AUDITORIUM New Show Today CHARLIE CHAPLIN in NIGHT OWLS A SIDE SPLITTING 2 REEL COME DY Felix Martin and The Strand Musical Comedy Co. YOUNG SUITOR The Bulletin has the larzest writing as_she_slij circulation of any paper in Eastern §| In addition to these acts there have |brother. He wrote to ®Ethel that very |her S anew e f—’sfi?m;mm;:_ fiqau‘;'-‘ the holding of lands by Lithuanians igonneclicut and from '.hre: to four $| been changes in the federal taxation mg‘l‘; FERE . e be things would come right again rv‘\'ia grohilriaiti_at;h the’ pr_ebss kwals ;l)rg- IN A BRAND NEW BILL mes larger than that of any in}|la : ans nthus . The|atter all. Mart w ¢ the - | hibited; all Lithuanian books inciud- e I erivared 10 pyis §| 147 for the purposo of Increasing the | oiey'‘was wonderful and her teachar | fur Lind and e wesld mmdereina s | e the bible were pronibited: hoidinz || SARAH BERNHARDT 'N HERLATEST AT HOME 00 of the 4,053 houses ‘n NOT- 3| crrort to eliginate th . told her that she had possibilities and | Ethel had dropped writing him for | Office was prohibited- All this has PHOTOPLAY wich and read by ninety-three per §{ C1OTt to eligginate the waste through|it made her dizzy to think of what|so long when she was so busy. been changed Mr. Ychas says and cent. of the people. In Windham §|the “Pork barrel was before her, and the grand opera < there was a fair degree of freedom . it is delivered to over 900 houses, §| It is true that some consideration|seasen was to open in a month’s| The strained look had almost van-|vunder Russian rule up to the time of in Putnam gnd Danielson to over§|has heen given to the necessity of |time, and she was going to hear ev-|iched from Ethel's face when the train | the German invasion. There were 14 | were ready to return to their own 1,100, and in al' of these places it §| providing for the nation’s defense, It|ery single opera. “I owe it to MY |pulled into Three Pines in.the spring | Lithuanian rcpresentatives in the first | trenches.” | o~ is considered the local daily. has resulted in substantial appropria- | Voice,” she wrote “to seize every op-|gusk and the cousin’s clanking car [ and second Dumas, and five in the No attempt was made at a counter-| 3 Who KIDNAPPED ‘ Eastern Connecticut has forty-§|tions and the bend issue which is te | Portunity—and seats are . awfully|met them and landed them in the|third and fourth Duma. attack until the following night, when BEVERLY CLARKE nine towns, one hundred and sixty- § he authorized will be charged up to|CP®aP Way up high.” beart of the comfertabie old home be.| It was during the old perfod of|the Germans bombarded and raided | five postoffice districts, and SiXty 3| that reason, lows of the . tac:|, AS the wimter progressed Ethel's|hird the lilac bushes. restricting that so many Lithuanians |their own first line, or what was left | «—= and Why? rural free delivery routes. e B e <1 - ! lotters grew fewer. Mart sgathered| “Andand how's Mart these days?” | Went to the United States” added Mr.|of it, thinking that the raiders were - The: Fullafin tn sold fn weetsd] adminigtration long a#e | that her days were crammed with|Ethel gsked with elaborate unconcern | Ychas. “reaching 30,000 a year from |still there. As a matter of fact, the l Watch town and on all of he R. F. D.g|> andoned a tariff policy which would | breathing excrcises and lessons and |gfter the first interchange of gossip. ©09 to the outbreak of the war, and | Canadians who carried out the opera-| | this Space routes in Eastern Connecticut. '€ | have prevented the country from get- [ practice. The Smith sisters from| «On, my goodness!” laughed the | Ag8Tegating 700,000 in large colonies tion were miles away. They were not |, i 7 _1_2 f H 3| ting into its presemt predieament. ree Pines, who ran the best millin- | cousin as they sat down to supper, | tirougnout the United States—with|part of the fighting line, but on rest | {— —! =171 — CIRCULATJON 3| The bond issue will be for seme-|ery store, reported after they had|“You are way behind the times, I|tirty newspapers, and their own and had gone forward for this particu. ; £ 2| thing less than $200,000,060, but in ‘ad- | been in Chicago on a buving trip that ! must say! Bbass that butter, An- | Clubs, theaters and societies. But|lar piece of work which was planned £ 1901, average...c.ceeeeen... 44123 dition ‘thersto, the secretarv of the ""‘k«""s"g““ was working in the|drew! Why, Mart was married last|the L in America are es-| weeks ago. Pennsylvania securing control of the R x 5 | e rears ' 7hy, | etter social and olemnly discussing w vould hap- £ 905, avera arves more will have to be raistd by taxa-|gmeped, because with the. proceeds e Tee e ye sgor -0 ke own own homes, direct their 2 . el (s ot taa thould potbie e H Mo glan A etk eabene wone - ou always loved my jam! Pass it|SWD bU enjuy puliticel Jieorhy, OTHER VIEW POINTS this New England artery of com- H B e e right back to ber, Antrewl™, —Chi- {and exerciss a strong and wholesome merce. There i8 no doubt that the § December 30....... e i Banc e e e Clenien & cago News. influence in politics. Pennsylvania is the largest stockhold- $!the improvement of tho army ana| THE WA t Vel ter 4 Ry Mr. Ychas showed his faith or of the New Haven and that the ro- 3 iy H| navy. it will b intéresting to see what | THE WAR PRIMER LETTERS TO THE EDITOR n Lithuanians by marrying| here is not a thoughtful citizen of | lationships between the roads are us- Sesstnsen essssscssessesesnsssssssesssees | cifect it will have upon such offor y Nati R ” - the country who does not regret the | usuaily friendly, but so far that is all By Naitional Geographic Soctety e wite being a daughter of Dr. Szlu- | L05ia“haracter of the South poiitic- | thero fs to the rumor. if the Penn- as are made for adequate defense in =P 3 the future. I s of Secranton, Pa., one of the lead- | .\ly nor is there one who fails to' un- | sylvania should acguire this road It GERMAN INTEREST IN NEU- SHoult B Chesis e - publicists of the Lithuanians.|gcrstand just what makes it solid. On | would have to stand the losscs TRALS. THE NEW HAVEN ROAD. le in London Mme. Ychas ad- | the other hand, nothing but political | would be willing to make the & dressed large gatherings of Lithuan- ians. Sivas, Asia Minor—If the Russians operating in Asia Minor continue to press their advantage and sweep westward frem their present positiens, | Sivas, capital of ono of the mest fer- tile vilayets of the Turkish empire 2nd in the middle ages ono of the fice for the sake of the future. the New Haven is let alone, part iarly by the state ofsMassachusetts, | will soon rchabilitate itself. It iniprove the road bed, purchase rolling stock and give good service to New Epgland. It does not need Peen- hate can be served by dishonestly charging that-the South is a menace to the country because of its solidity and consequent selffishness. — New Haven Journal-Courier. and the receivers had ample time to turn into cash all is assets of thi | X mentks prix receiver, showed money he ‘While so many notes are being changed in regard to the peace move made by the central powers, and the effort of this country to get the bel- Hgerent nations to set forth what they From the fact that strong opposi- tion can always be dopended upon when there is any desire or thought on the part of the railroads te in- ereass their rates, it is the cause of Daring Exploit By Canadians. Arras certain t accomplished what ed statement of the that the amount of ected dur that time Nerth of Cana troops have j Recent action taken by both sides in are fighting for as a possible means|no little surprise that the public ser w: 11, wh o it i & $ b 7~ | thres chief citiss of Asia Minor, will | ¥@5 small, while the expense account|the British officers deciare marks a 1 e 8 ;fflzu‘r(\'ing at‘ the so!umlm of their | vice commission of Massachusstts, in|be an objective figuring prominently | ¥3S l2rge. For some time it has been |new phase in modern trench warfare, |the now famous railroad et g A i ‘;‘.’,’;,‘,’,‘,’i ¥ “dn’"(‘?‘m nf‘nnnd . nrmnI[J erences, it is impossible to over- | connection with the affairs of the New | in w: - % o ” I almost impoesible to find the present !« an Associated Press correspond- | of the past few months lead to the e A 2 2 look the stand w in war news despeiches. The Watlon-| . eiver at the company’s office, “un- | cot e s belicf that whatever is the decision |tiun took place—Meriden Journal, the British armies in France. In a raid, which; however, was much ich has beecn taken the submarine Haven road indieates that an Increas. in the passenger rates might da con- ered favorably. That §s ‘usually the last suggestion which comes from such a commission. 'Everything else is resorted to first and in fact the New Haven has been told time and again that it sheuld curtail on Its ex- penditures and save where there has been waste. Yet when that is done the road fai to get credit for it and is censured | for its passenger train sorvice. Re- zardless of the strides which the road has made to recever from its predica- ment, it is now advised to order new locomotives, but as the Sprinsfield Republican says “there is avparently no mention of the fact that during the present year this railroad has put in service 50 Pacific-type passenger lo- comotives of zreater size than Is used by any other New England railroas that eicht freight locometives of the heavy Mikado type have been received and that the company 1s asking prices on 40 locomotives of the Santa Fo 21 Geographic_Soclety, from its head- the of the supreme court there will be no more than a raid, they succeeded in |radical displeasure evinced by either ing out of action, temporarily at|party to the quarrel. Railroad man- st, an entire batalion of German |agers as well as the men who operate ry. They took 59 prisoners, in- | the trains know that the rights of all cluding one commissioned officer, and | Will be safeguarded by the highest ated that they killed 150 Ger- nal in the world—New Britain mans in dugouts which were blown to - atoms after thelr occupants refused to surrender. The Canadian losses were extremely light. of The “raid” took place at 3 o'clock | rectl: in the afternoon on a front of 400 yards. The German prisoners admit that they were taken completely by surprise. The officer captured said he was convinced that something was about to happen, but believed that the attack was coming on Christmas eve. He reported to the higher command, but rec The Canadians, mostly stalwart men from the plains of Manitoba, Sas- ‘hewan and Alberta, had skilfully ablished themselves well forward o t when the artillery had ceased the preparatory fire they were in the German front-line trenches in less than two minutes. The officer in com- less by special appointment” devotes but a shert time cach day there, and, it certainly s as if the time h2d now arrived to wind up this company’s affairs ivide the money amorg the depo: This can be very easily done by selling at auotion what asset thers still re- ins belonging to this coinpany and rning same into_cash. The receiv- er's cherges and the expense account as he by Spain regarding warfare as conducted - by Germany. This country is rated as pro German but there is little indication of it in the protest which it has made rezard- ing the illegal and inhuman methods pursued by the U-boats. The protest is in keeping with those which have been made by this country but it comes at a time when it is realized tiat the promises which have been made that neutral and humanity rights would be respected are not being kept. This lends new force to Spain’s po- sition and particularly so when it is considered to be friendly to Germany. Naturally it is difficult for any of the neutrals to take much stock in the in- terest which the central powers in their note appear to be taking in those non belligerent nations which are suf- fering from the ravages of the war end for humanity in general. If the central powers were desirous of impressing the neutrals yith their determination to uphold neutral rights guarters in TWaskingten, issues following bulletin on this city “The importance of Sivas as a stratesic center in Asia Minor is based ot mersly on the fact that it con- trols important highways from Sam- sun and other points on the Black Sea to sueh interier points as Khar- put but also because it is the capital of a region whioh preduces mest of e necesmaries of life. Wheat and barley yield bountiful creps; sreat forests of fir, beech and oak cover the platesu and the hills while the mou tains are rich in copper, lead. irenm, silver, coal, and a variety of other mineral “The tewn, The Clays of Arkansas. Deposits of clay are so common that the clay resources of a state sel- dom attract much attention, yet clay may be put to an infinite variety of valuable uses, and its annual output in the United States is worth more than $150,000,000. The state of Ar- kansas produces clay of several kinds which are described in Bulletin 261 of the United States Geolosical Svrvey, Department of the Interior. This bulletin not only states the lo- cations of the clay deposits of the state, but describes their composition, character, origin, occurrence, and us- es. The clays are classified as resi- dual clays, clays of mechanical ori- gin, clays and kaolins of chemical ori- gin, and bauxite. The production in each county is considered separately, and the uses to which the clay is put are given. An interesting use has becn made locally of some of the pot- ter’s clay found in Dallas County. It has been dissolved in buttermilk and boiled and used as a whitewash. When 1o used it gives a smooth coast of It isn't pleasant to have every case smallpox in the state “traced di- o terbury”—and it may be an assumption rather than a fact in some cases—but it is the penalty we suffer for letting the discase get a start here so that the city has become a center of contagion. Dr. Black, sec- retary of the state board of heaith, says that he expects cases to break out anywhere and that the state is in for it till warm weather returns. Our local authorities must do all they can to blunt the finger of wrath which is pointed at us and must see that their preventive measures of vaccina- tion are carried out with firmness and energy.—Waterbury American. devote more time dafly to the affairs of this company, and ow out the sugeestion stated above, ny’s affajrs ean within a rt time be closed up, and_ the ors receive their fina checks. A DISGUSTED DEPOSITOR. Norwich, Conn., Jan. 7 STORIES OF THE WAR receiver will which has a population of me 08, is situated on the Murdan mal] tributary of t <izil Irmak, and is 130 miles in an air | line due west of Erzingan, and 425 miles southeast of Censtantinople. That picturesque traveler and ro- mancer Marce Polo, whese accounts of the Far East stimulated the pop- ular imaginatien of Furope in the last half of the 17th century, relates that when he visited Sivas, or Savast as ert on the marketing of milk, An and to relieve those nations as far as|type which is heavier still. It is quits|he called it, it was ene of the three 4 who was reportng the raid to I G n . 3 4 w 2 ¥ stifying before a New York com- P h is s possible from the deplorable effects of | true that the New Haven is handicap- | chief cities in ‘Turcomania.’ He d 2 < ade headguarters by telephone said | tSEGITIPE _BEtote 4 N O e | Sy S rablc as & coating made the war, they should first institute re- cribes the inhsbitants of the countr: Lithuania’s Aspirations. t he had hardly uttered the words|sy0,000,000 annually was wasted in|with lime. “They’'re off” before he had to say “They’re in. Lithuania, a region on the Russo- New York city in the delivery of milk, German Baltic greater in extent and ANow o 4 with an unceuth dwell forms in their submarine warfare as a ‘crude peeple g:d by inadequate power, and by other uses that make fer congestion and —,————— which would show more clearly than promises that their plea was sincere. Words cannot make the neutrals for- get what Germany has been doing. THE LYNCHING RECCRD. The lynching record for the year just past is available as the result of statistics which have been kept at Tuskegee institute in Alabama, and it shows that there were 54 cases where lawless' mobs took the admin- delay, ceive credit for the progress making. but the company should re- it is EDITORIAL NOTES. Those who put their faith In odd numbers ought to expect much from the year 1917, The nations of Furope do mnot ap- pear to have taken adwantage of the new year to put forth additional reso- language of their own; among the mountains and downs, w-here they find geod pasture for their cattie and for their excellent horses In addition to stock-raieing, this traveler re- corded that ‘they weave the finest and ndsomest carpets in the world, and also a great quantity of fine and rich silks of cramoisy and other colours, and plenty gf other stuffs’ Today 1ge Stvas Mizens are more prosaic- ally emploved in making woolen socks and preparing ‘jerked beef’—their, only they pepulation than Sweden, has had her sspirations stirred by the war and is locking forward to emerging from it cither as an independent republic pat- terned on American lines, or as an au- tenemous nation with its own Parlia- ment and home rule, subject to Rus- sia’s Imperial authority only in mat- ters of natienal defense. This was the view outlined to The Associated Press by Martin Ychas mnember of the Russian Duma, wher he represents the important Lithu- Consternation reigned among the Germans who scrambled for the saps and dugouts leading to the rear trenches while the Canadians pelted them with hand grenades. Caught ab- solutely unprepared, many Germans in the front line offered no resistance, but {hrew up their hands with cries of “Kamerad.”, Others were taken as they fled for the second and third lines, for the Canadians pushed on quickly to the second trenches. About 20 dugouts were destroyed by b3 hecause of the conflicting routes of tte various concerns in the busine!!.' The proposition Practically every family practically every residence is vis- ited by a milkman in the morning. If one milkman. driving one milk wagon, ited all houses in a block and de- livered all the milk to all of them the delivery would be efficient. many milkmen, with many different equipages, other's steps in the delivery lk, ¥ basically simple. uses milk, is He’s the Father. A proud and happy parent is apt to discount a broken collarbone if his son scores the winning touchdown.— Birmingham Age-Herald. But when This—and Five Don’t miss this. Cents! Cut out this slip, retrace and cover _each|enclose five cents to Foley & Co., 2835 of the| Sheffield Ave. Chicago, Ill, writing there is a great waste which|your name and address clearly. You the Canadians, several with bombs captured from the Germans. One of the officers engaged said: “As we en- tered the trenches many Germans broke for the dugouts. All who did were subsequently well cared for. Each of our men was given definite instructions for his precise task which proved absolutely correct. Each man knew every detail of the proposed op- cration. When they came out two hours later they were singing and as hoppy as schoolboys on a holiday. The neatness and dispatch with which the raid was carried out were unique The artillery co-operation of the Brit- ish guns was perfection. The program had given the men an hour and a haif for their work, but the clean-up was accomplished in an hour and 10 min- utes and the raiders signaled they A RAW, SORE THROAT RF.'ases Quickly When You Apply a Little Musterole And Musterole won’t blister like the old-fashioned _mustard plaster. Just | spread it on with your fingers. It pene~ trates to the sore spot with a gentle tingle, loosens the congestion and draws dut the soreness and pain. Mausterole is a clean, white ointment made with oil of mustard. It is fine for quick relief for sore throat, bronchitis, umsili:is§l croup, stiff neck, asthma, neu- ralgia, headache, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of e back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, uises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds on istration of justice into their own hands and snuffed out lifs regardless of the existence of laws and courts for legally attending to just such bus- iness. There were even cases where men were strung up to a tree merely upon suspicion. The record for the year shows a slight. improvement over 1915 for in that year there were 13 more who were murdered by lynchers, than in the past twelve months, but it is an improvement, measured by past ex- periences, which is not steady. What is shown to be a decrease last year may be entirely offset by an Increase during 1917. Georgia has been the leader in this crime in past years and it still clings to that honor as if it was something to be proud of. Its total for the year was 14, or more than a quarter of all that took place in the country, and yet in spite of the fact that it is claimed that this does not represent the attitude of the best people of that state, it is quite evident that It must represent the feeling of a considerable majority or else public opinion would rise to the situation and see that an end was put to it. If the poople of that state do not countenance such lawlessness they have no greater task before them than to clean the blot from that state’s reputation, for as long as it continues to be a leader in such crime its people cannot escaps the charge of being responsible for it. Each and every case of lynching dis- graces the state it occurs in. THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. lutions. impertant experts aside from their egrioultural preducts. “The rulgs of the ancient city, generaly called Sebasteia, are on the anks of the Kizil Irmak some _six miles frem the medern town. Un- der the Roman emperor Diocletian it Lecame the capital of Armenia Min- or, and under the Byzantine emperors it was, next to Ceasarea, the largest city of Asia Minor. At the beginning of ‘the 1ith century, when Senekher- im, king of the Armenian province of Vasburzgan was overawed by the menacfiz growth in power of the Sel- juk chiefs of Persia he ceded his do- mains to the great Basil II at Con- stentinople and in excange received the latter's protection and the office of vicerey of Sebasteia and the con- tiguous territery. After the defeat of Romanus IV, a seldier who owed his occupancy of the imperial throne to the fact that he had fascinated his empress while being led to the execu- tion chamber for trezson, the Seljuks’ power gradually increased and event- uaily increased and eventually they occupied Sebasteia in 1172. It so be- came the metropelis of their empire of Rum. More than three hundred years later the page of the city’s his- tory was seared with the sanguinary stain of that most ruthless of Mon- g0! princes, Timur, or Tamerlane, he whese genius in devising exquisite tortues for his victims equalled his nnquestioned military prowess. When he captursd Sebasteia he put to the sword many of the soldiers: caused 1,000 _children, each bearing a copy of the Koran, to be trampled to death under the hoofs of his war horses, ahd, 2s a final debauch of slaughter, had 4,000 of the Armenian defenders bur- iod alive in a plot of ground which to anian city of Kovno, and occupies the post of sacretary of the Finance Com- mittee. Mr. Ychas is conferring here with the large Lithuanian colony, fol- lowing similar visits just made in the TUnited States. “It should be understood,” said Mr. Ychas, “that Lithuania is entirely dis- tinct from Poland, although the pub- lic is in the habit of treating them as one. Poland is the great central re- glon around Warsaw, whereas Lith- uania and the Lett Country is _the vast northern section along the Bal- tic, with_the great ports of Riga, Li- bau and Windau, and the cities of Vil- na, Grodno, Kovno, and Suwalki, ag- gregating eight million population, or more than any of the secondary king- coms of Europe.” ‘Like Poland, Lithuania has her own hopes and aspirations,” continued Mr. Ychas, “and_with my colleagues in the Duma we have already secured the acceptance in principle of com- plete political autonomy for Lithu- aria. This means home rule the same as Canada, with a Lithuanian cabi- net and Lithuanian parliament, and with Lithuanian delegates in the Im- perial Dums. and a Lithugnian viceroy from the Czar. There are unofficial hopes going far beyond this, particu- larly among the_Lithuanians in _the United States. But officially we look te autonomy as the first step to re- storing Lithuania as a nationality. In the Duma the controlling authority, the Constitutional-Democrats, or Ca- det party, has_accepted in principle autonemy for Lithuania, and it was by Cadet votes that I, as a Lithuian, was elected secretary of the finance committee. “In America, however, I found a strong mevement for securing com- nieans an added expense.—Bridgeport Telegram. will recelve in return a trial package containing Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, for bronchial coughs, colds and croup: Foley Kidney Pills, for pain in sides and back, rheumatism, backacheg, kidney and bladder afl- men! and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleans- ing cathartic, especlally comforting to stout persons. The Lee & Osgood Co. The man on the corner’ says: The reason memories of bygone days are sweet is because time has eliminated the bitterness. 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