Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 13, 1917, Page 4

S further delay throueh an appeal 10 a higher court. Since there has been a determined ef- fort made to put a stop to such dis- regard for American rights, these matters have been less In the lime- light. The evidernce that this coun- try would not telerate the contin- = against debt. He tells them it is bet: uance and the punishment which has|ier to wear rags that are paid for been meted out to others in previous|than to wear clothes cut out with & cases have had their good yet{handsaw by a cross-eyed tailor that they do not offer any reason over- | are not paid for to be in style. He looking \Lha offenses for which Con- :;A“:alu!hlt a man lz::yb:s wa‘u(g 3 1 Bo has been foumd- gui le devil at once as a vict e Sotmkl Fone UIY DY | Gebt as long as he lives Al habits o wsese s Billy Sunday warns the young men 21 YEARS OLD tion price 1Zc a week; 50c a a year. at the Postoffice at Norwich, cond matter. Telephone Calls: Otsice 480. 35-8. Bulletia Job Office 35-2. Office. 67 Church St wone 210-2. \ “Saturday, Jan. 13, 1917. Whether or not|ever his pretext for having done So- the lower sourt’s jury will be sup- | Prudence is the handmaid of ez mo- ported in its verdict remains to be|my, and it has been defined as “con- determined, but I it is the accused |forming to the rules of reasom, truth deserves full punishment for his op-{and decency.” The prudent lfl«;fllf erations. It is In fact a situation | 7 PO SXcesses of epeech of aciiofi ‘where the country which he Tepre- |).1jeq as a straight manifestation of sents must feel itself deeply interest- |imprudence. The man who doesnt ed if mot ealied upon to repudiatefear debt hit “the traii of Hard whatever he may have donme which|Luck and will not be long in coming was in violation of this nation’s laws.{ 0 a full realization of his foliy. UTIONA . | How little spiritual light is enloyed e -rll-o:I“ RROVEC by those who profess to have been ac- A cepted by the Saviour and to have A lesson to which no slight import- | Him for a friend. It always shocks ance can be attached is furnished by |me to hear a religious person smil- that instamce in Kentucky where the|ingly remark: “Yowll be & long while lives of $0 prisoners were threatened | d¢ad.” It seems to me as thousl such a Christian was spiritually dsad al- by a fire m}f in the llfl.-fl bullding, | 1,5y, and did not know it. They Wwhich made it impossible to enter|seem to have nouriehed the idea that that portion of it where the cell block | my end spiritusiity -are’ 8o in- was located, and it became necessary | volved that there is excuse for their to blast through the outer walls in|rampant doubt, when mystery has order to release the men who Wwere |been ’Dm”fly demel“lh as ;.nnxhar locked in individual cells. name for ignorance. Those who pro- e e e e D i e T O Ot e en Cireniyy | abundant life of which He promised EEN apnaat N et them a knowledge. Those Who are tion, but it is a danger which must|imyueq with faith, hope and charity be kept constantly in mind in every|inspired by love have no reason for place where many people are kept or |saying: “You'll be a long time de: reside, particularly when they are|The Saviour rose from the dead that handicapped by age or restrictions|mortal man might be assured he did from looking out for themselves un-|not die in reality, but was designed - |to be a victor over death. Science der such conditions. It may be possi. has demonstrated that the material ble to imagine to a certain degree the|, 3, ‘i " cvanescent, that it is con= terror of those prisoners, even though| stanuy passing away like a flowing the cell block was of fire proof con- stream; but the spirit remains un- struction, for it must be remembered | touched, substantial. immortal. That that even though they might have | will be revealed to us which we pre- been protected against being burned | Pare ourselves to receive. alive there is always that additional danger of suffocation. It is probable that a reoccurrence of that experience will be carefully guarded against by those who main- It may be true that for every hock a fish is swiming somewhere; but it doesn’t seem to be to the man who is watching tilts over holes in the ice for pickerel; or on the river ice wait- and free dellvery routes. _The Bulletin is s0ld in every and on all of he R. F. D.§|tain that Kentucky jail, but it is nev- |ing for tilts to fall to smelts, on & in Eastern Conzecticut. ertheless a warning to all others else- [a Wwindy, zero-temperature day when 3 where upon whose shoulders a simi- [ Waiting and watching is painful There can be no doubt that swimming in the waters of the earth are many more fish than there are hooks on the iace of the earth. If this were not so whales could not take in a half a million small fish for breakfast, prior to swallowing a dozen porpoises and a dozen and a half of seai, apiecs for dinner. Some people think a whale could not have swallowed Jonah, but the truth is some whales are capable of taking in a whole platoon of Jon- ah’s without feeling any of the pangs of indigestion. There is a fish for every hook; but it takes more then a fool man to get a fish upon every hook. An angler is not an angier born; neither is the artist to his art an heir. Fish are so averse o an ‘Bast wind that a wist angler is said to remain at home while it blows. CIRCULATION 1901, AVErage.....ceeccecs..n 412 2905, average...sersersenses.5,920 9,290 lar responsibility is placed. Such warnings may not be an every dav feature of the news, for which there is every reason to be grateful, but it ought not to be lost sight of when- ever and wherever it occurs. Inmates of public institutions, or even private ones, ought to be carefully safe- guarded at all times and the only time to do this is before such trouble de- velops. IN OTHER LINES AS WELL. New interest in the bid of Had- fleld’s of England for the 14 and 16- inch shells which are wanted for the American naval vessels now under construction is created by the des- patch from Washington to the effect that while no decision has been reached in resara to what concern THE ENTENTE'S REPLY. The reply which the entente pow- jers have made to the note of Presi- ent Wilson follows the line wWhich country had reason to expect. It " has even gone further than that from e central powers inasmuch as it Ceontains an outline of the terms which would be agreeable to them in If any one tells you to get wise he- fore you get busy just accept it as _ the establishment of peace, but it has| will recefve the contract, the con-|good > advice, and - start sn. rEat . _mamed terms which, while no differ- | ference with the American bidders by Knowleage is power, and is a good ~ ent than those which have heretofore [ the secretary of the navy has not re-|thing to precede any action. The trouble with half the world is that it doesn't know where it is going, only knows that it is on its way. The world thinks Solomon was the wisest man, but the rankest divorces could not 'keep in sight of Solomon as a matrimonial high-fiyer. The evidences of wisdom are said to be the ability of a person to bear and forbear; and 1o know what it is best to know and best to do. Getting wise to thmgs is just acquiring the knowledge neccs- sary to do them well, or the ability to meet any exigency. He is & poor stick who thinks he can cleverly turn his hand to anything. There is no truer proverb than: ‘“Jack_ of al! trades and good for none.” What we have in us and what we put into our work is all that makes work passable. Never submit to being made a square plug in a round hole if you expect to find joy as well as compensation in work. It is said milleniums take time to ripen. sulted in any substantial reduction in the figures submitted, by tham and the prospects are gond for the plac- ing_of the contract abroad. This may cause some people who have maintained right along thst the natlons of Europe are bound to be crippled for a Jong time to come and must place dependence vpon this na tion even after peace has been de- clared, to sit up and take no- tice, for it shows that England not only able now to supply all the demands which it and its allles are making upon its munitions establish- ments for such kind of work but that it is able to take on outside business while the war is still in progress, and the end of the struggle nowhere in sight. It shows that the cost of British manufacture is lower than it is in this country, and what is true in this line is also true in others. If that country is now able to supply this market in that direction it can be an- ticipated that it will be equally able to underbld local manufacturers in other lines of manufacturing just as soon as attention can be turned in that direction. It is an excellent¥ex- ample of what can be expected fol- lowing the war when other British goods will be thrown onto the Ameri- can market. ~ been voiced by the premiers and - @pokesmen of the several countries, there is no reason to belleve that their opponents will accept. Whether 4t will recult in a presentation of the _demards of the central powers re- ‘mains to be seen. The allies take, pains to point out that they are not fighting for sel- fish interests, but for the safeguard- ing of the independence of peoples Bnd the rights of humanity. = They . take the opportunity to refterate _ -again that the central powers are re- ‘sponsible for the war, that they have pursued it with cruelty and agsres- “sion, that they have not been guided by the rules of war but have pro- ceeded to ensage in a series of un- ‘Jusfifiable’ acts, massacres, barbari- tles, and murders which has culmi- nated in the deportation and reduc- tion to slavery of civil populations. It may be that the allles have not closed the door to peace, but they have nevertheless sét forth their terms in a manmer which gives no hope that the enemy will meet them. It will be possfble of course to con- tinue the talk as to what compromises might be made but it is their belief that it is impossible at present. to at- _ taln a peace which will assure them '+ reparation, restitution and guaran- tees to which they claim they are en- titled. They insist that they will . continue the war until victory makes ‘that possibl AFTER THE DOG. ‘While the need for more sheep is being pointed out in order to con- ~ tribute to the wool and meat supply | something more than talk is golng on in the neighboring state of Massachu- setts. There the board of agriculture has voted to ask the legislature to en- courage sheep raising and it would have it da so by taking determined It is no joke that the contribution box takes a great famcy to twenty- dollar gold pieces and never seems to glow over a widow's mite, although the widow’s mite was a power on earth many centuries before the con- tribution box was invented. It illus- trates that the merit of the gift rests in the spirit of the giver not in the size of the gift. This lesson in the fullness of its truth has been recog nized for nearly twenty centurfes. but it takes no root. It is accepted as a beautiful example, but the world hesitates to follow. If the contribu- tion box is not actually conscious of what goes into it the man back of it is, and as an advertising medium rt has been vastly enjoyed by a seiect few who gave of their surplus, bu not in a devout and self-sacrificing spirit. No one should think of blaming the contribution box for it is only the creature of those back of it, and is not to blame for any unseemly or un- christian performances; but as an in- consistent instrument it cannot be sincerely regarded as a holy symbol. EDITORIAL NOTES. The man on the corner says: Man isn’t old until he begins to tell how to keep young. ! The only surprise in connection with the arrest of Harry Thaw is that he kept out of the meshes of the law as long as he did. \ It looks as if the administration officials were getting ready to tax most everything to make up that de- ficit except the backyard ashpile. No oneé has ever heard Billy Sunday | T1E MaN wHO TALKS || In November, 1775, the tells, a certain Dr. in Church was sent by General Washington under a strong guard to Governor Trumbull, at Lebanon, with an order from con- gress that he should “b eclosely con- fined in some secure gaol.in Connecfi- cut, without pen, paper or ink, and that no person should be allowed to converse with him, except in the pres- ence and hearing of a magistrate or sheriff of the county where he should ‘be confined, and in the English lan- guage until further orders.” Governor Trumbull directed.that the gtarmef should be kept in custody at lorwich, in charge of per Wet- So many people sit in the atmosphers of their own conceit . thinking they are refined—the real thing—that the rest of the world iooking their way sees only an exhibit of vulgarity. The vain-giory of this world is well de- fined in this: “It is a deceitful sweet- ness, a fruitless labor, a perpetual fear, a dangerous honor: her begin- ning is without Providence; aad her end not without repentance. Some inspired writer penned thi “A. greater thing than to make a liv- ing is to make a life.” This is a sen timent worthy of being indellibly ha- pressed upon our minds. 1t is not :ke man who makes the greatest life who occupies the greatest place in history. Man today knows a great deal more about the men who taught him how to fight than he does about the men who taught him how to live. It is not the men who are getting the credit who are doing most for man- kind. Fabre is right when-he says “The names of all the king’s bastards are to be found in history, but not: ing about the origin of wheat.” The origin of things essential to life would disclose’ the names of men who mnot only made a living but made lives. It is up to us all to be doers in this world—to contribute_something to Jife that will make living better, eas‘er and freer for future genetations. ‘While we are working and bputting provender into the kettle we =“:ould see to it that we are putting s,me- thing worth while into ourselves that will outlast the storm and stress of mortal existence. SQUARE PEGS IN SQUARE HOLES There is a lot of truth in the recent charge of Dr. Richard C. Cabot of Boston that the choice of vocation by many High school and college gradu- ates is “infinitely unintelligent”” Ob- servation would certainy tend to bear the physician out. We see boys and girls choosing careers for which even a novice can tell that they are ill adapted by nature, or see them drift- ing into mere blind-alley jobs that lead nowhere. The number of round pegs rattling in square holes is proof enough that no very serious thought has been given in countless instances to one of the most important of hu- man probiems. ‘We have ever with us the traged: of the unfit—the infirm or defective classes for whose support society must_ever be, in the main, responsi- ble. But hardly less tragic is the case of the misfits—the men and women who fail or succeed only partfally in their chosen vocations, when they might have come to spiendid succes in some other. Such as these ma: awaken our sy vy and stir our desire to help. s he who has found ing it!” we ail exclaim. w shail he gy - “Happy s work and But how sha iscover jus. the parti fits his_pariicula; guarantee one t last in just that occup: which he can be happiest, most useful and most sucessfu There no day in the vear in which ousands of young men and yoyng women, as well some who are older, are not pon- lering such highly important ques- tions as these. Let us think of a few general principles in the way of an- Ewer. In the first place, one should view the situation both seriously and confi- dently. He should come into the sober conviction that he is meant to succeed. He should be sure that the Creator who fashioned his brain and body de- signs to use his powers, whatever they are, at their utmost. If any of us drifts into a second or third rate place of usefulnes, it is at least not the fault of the Almighty. We must look near- er home, in the direction of our own carelessness, or sloth, or stubbornness t. understand the ruin of the plan. As for God who made us, we may be sure that He desires to bring each ome of the sons of men into the largest pos- sible field of usefulness. It is a fine start to believe that. Let the young man ask of any pro- posed occupation: Is it useful? Does it result in any contribution to human well being? If the query must be answered in the negative, one may ‘well pass it by. Not all gainful oe- cupations are gitimate ones. A gambler may make more money thar a teacher, but no lad with a norma! brain and a heart in the right pla‘e would choose to be a gambler. He will rather choose work that means sction asainst the sheep killing dogs. Its idea is to have created a staff of dog officers whose duty it would e to see that sheep killing dogs are ‘eliminated from sections where sheep raised. ‘Whether this would be the most satisfactory method of dealing with problem is uncertain, for if it G5 accomplish no more than is ~ done by some of the fish and game _ wardens in prevention of the viola- k “of existing laws, it would not be " likely to help the situation very ‘much. But there is one thing, about it and that is that the Massachusetts ‘board of agriculture has-made up its " mind that the sheep killing dog must g0 and ft is not believed that' they insist upon the carrying out of ir plan if one could be presented it would be more effective. "The dog has gotten himself In dis- Massachusetts is not the only ‘which has determined to take to see that he is removed or where he belongs and in the In- of the sheep industry it is high that fhe matter should get con- id at the present session of e Connecticut general assembly. THE BOPP VERDICT attention is directed to thc which have been golng or country since the European broke out in violation of the complaining that he is misrepresented by the press and he doubtless smiles when he hears sympathetic clerzzmen apologetically explaining that in the use of slang Mr. Sunday is not as rough as the print makes him ap- pear. The most forceful slang sound: better uttered than it can ever ap- pear in print. Mr. Sunday’s whole power of attraction is vested in his ability to be Mr. Sunday and n> one else, and to express the truth as he sees it- as glaringly as possible to ring true to truth. If he had not beel a base-ball man first he might never have become so conscious of the value of hard-hitting. A feather- pillow rush for truth does not dis- turb any evil force. There is too much soft-pedalling in this world A bear tickled with a feather will lic down and kick up his heels in glee: but if he is punched with an_iron rod he will glare and growl and fight. The adyocacy of the truth requires valor and force more than it needs elegance of stvleperfection of diction. ~The people like Billy Sunday because he When Greece received its ultimatum | spares no class of evil-doers and Billy requiring compliance with the allies’' | Sunday likes the press because with- demands within 48 hours it must have{out it his fame would not precede been only what it had anticipated, if | him. g in fact it was not what it was ang- It i to wear your best man. ling for. well A L RSO AR ners ail the time for these is 5o yau At a time when economy should be | €T, being made gt the watchword at Washinkton, the | neri {5: special folke sinbe they wame free seeds bill calling for-a quarter|jeve. “desiemed to be used of a million gets favorable action and |way. Special 2 $39,009,000 rivers and harbors bill is pending. " “The req the. Dac) ‘n Belgium by the military sovernor ¢ that country will probably be ex- | BoSsessor. slzined, when jt is being fired pack 2 the sl of ammunition as being “or the bemefit of those people, Spain is now having trouble with its cabinet, but judging from the re- sults in other countries it can by no means be looked upon as a fatal mal- ady. While much is being said about what the legislature cught to do, how much is being done to convince the members of ‘the advisability of such action? What are the deserving democrats going to think of the announcements that positions in the farm loan banks are going to be filled solely upon merit? The fellow who . is buying- coal by the bag or even by the ton would be eatisfled if we had received all the cold weatheér we are going to get this winter._ 48 o some sort of service to his fellow men as_well as a livelihood for himself. Let him ask, agdin, Is this work that I like? Can I work here without friction; will my native tastes anc abilities find expression? No man or woman can sweep successtully against the wind. The natural born farme: may easily fail in the law office, as will the girl of real artistic bent con- demned to stenography. Even ad- mitting the need for getting promptly to work that confronts so many peo- ple, thousands of them might constilt their native tastes far more intelli- gently than they do. Let one ask again, What do my friends think of my fitness for this particular job? We are often too close to personal problems to judge them quite fairly. “Other people are often shrewder judges of our powers than we are ourselves. It is wise and il luminating to see ourselves “as others see us. Ask again. How Jong does this work last? Is it fit for a career, or is it only a makeshift? Where will it or at 75, if I live as baseball gains early plaudits and a fat salary. but he is an “old man” at 35. Who wants to be thrown on“the scrap heap at 8. tims when he Is Just begiuning to ve? It is a great thing to be in love The thing we do with the thing we There is no dead line for in full measure, | (Written Speically for The Bulletin.) | more, then sheriff of New London | “that either these gentlemen tories; { transferred to Norwich. county. Hers the prisoner was detained dur-. ing the winter in strict and cheerless seclusion. Mr. Edgerton, the gaoler, Was dirdcted to build a' high picket fence around the prison, and even within this enciosure Dr. Church was not permitted to walk but once a week, and then with the sherift by his side. This was harsh discipline. we are re- ! minded, to a man accustomed to a luxurious, independent style of living. Dr. Church was a Eoston physician of considerable literary ability, wi bad written/songs and deiivered ora- tions In favor of American liberty, and had been -a member of the Provincial congress in 1774. He was an associate of Warren and other patriots; but in September, 1775, a letter written by him in cypher to his brother in Boston was intercepted, and the - contents found to be of 50 questionable a char- acter that he was arrested and tried for holding a treasonable correspon- dence with the enemy. The letter, though it contained no positive trea- son, seemed to emanate from one Who was fecling his way to treachery and dishonor. .Dr. Church was_ kept_ in Norwich until the 27th of May, 1776, when by order of consress he was sent to Wa- tertown, ‘Mass. About the same time h eobtained permission to retire to the West Indies; but the vessel in which he embarked was never heard of af- terwards. i Norwich and some other towns in the eastern part of the state, removed from the seacoast, were often charzed with the safe-keeping of tories and other prisoners of war. Items like the followin gappear in the newspapers of that time and In the public records: Aug. 26, 1776. Last Sunday a num- ber of gentlemen tories were brought to New London and sent from hence to Norwich. i In the accounts of the State Pay!! Table there is a startling item of £580 10 s. 2 d. drawn by J. Hunting- | © ton _of Windham for rum and coffee || furnished to prisoners under his charge in August, 1777. “This might lead us to conclude” comments Miss Caulkins in ‘her History of Norwich, it t were very numerous, or that they were | slightly luxurious in their habits. and had uncommonly indulgent wardens But it is probable that the amount is given in a depreciated currency.’ ! Anocther ltem reads: Ten persons arrested in New York and first im- prisonced in Litchfield gaol, have been |t Teb. 22, 1777. John L. C. Rome, Esa., of New York, confined as a tor: in Norwich, was released on his pa- | role, to return on request of the gov- erncr and council. i [t During August, 1776, the sheriff re- | ! moved from New London to Preston twenty persons arrested at Albany for toryism. They remained at Preston for several months and were allowed to live as they chose, at their own expense, most of them paying for their board by their labor, The tory prisoners of Norwich were often distributed in private families, and allowed their liberty within cer- | tain limits. |t |t i t | of the wharves; In March, 1782, a ars, eight or ten in been taken in an and sent up from safe-keeping, broke jail in the might, company of sail- number, that had English privateer | ¥ New London for out of Norwlch and after lurking | three or four days uncaught in_the woods, succeeded in reaching New London. and by stealth got possession | of a fine new coasting &loop, just fit- ted for a voyage and fastened to ome | | t v and in this they es- caped. The large number of tories arrested during®the carlier years of the war =gests one of the great trials that set the patriot cause: Secret ene- mies, opponents at_home, were, we are told,’ “Iike thorns in the side, or ser- pents in the bosom.” Such were often dom kept long in dw tion for a fe w were generally dism bonds to return when upon taking oath not against the countr: comfort the enemy s arrested, but sel- | s, After deten- | s or weeks, they ed, on giving called for, or to bear arms | or to aid and| any way. | 5 It was during the summer of 1775 that the town set about building prop- ed defense for itseif. A battery or redoubt was erectod | below the Landing, on Waterman's | Point. Benjamin Huntington and Epbraim Bill were direcors of the| work: but the labor was mostly per- formed by Captain Lyon’s company of militia, that had been sent to Nor- | wich on an alarm of an invasion from vessels prowling in Long Island sound. | Capt. Ephraim Lyon, by the way, was of Colonel Putnam’s regiment. When the work was completed, four six-pounders were brought up from | New London and a regular guard and | watch kept. [ t r For further defense of the place, two wrought iron field pieces and se eral other pieces of ordnance were mounted, manned and placed in charge of Capt. Jacob DeWitt. ‘That other preparation for defense, both local and state, were made by Norwich is evident from the records. William Lax established a manu- factory of gun carriages in town, and succeeded so well that he was em- ployed by the state to furnish appa- ratus for much of the cannon used. Elijah Backus, Esq., at his forges upon the Yantic river, manufactured the ship anchors used for the state’s arm- ed vessels, two of which weighed 1,200 pounds, each. He afterwards en- gaged in thé casting of cannon. Samuel Noves made and repaired guns and bayonets for the light in- fantry. Capt. Ephraim Bill of Norwich was in the service of the state as a marine agent, and Capt. Jabez Perkins as contractor for and dispenser of the| public stores. t t c e c i b t t Governor Trumbull gnd the Council of Safety sometimes 'held their ses- sions in town. In fact. all the histor- ical records go to prove the import- ance of Norwich during Revolutionary times, and the way in which sur- rounding places turned toward this town in emergencies or alarms. This was the virtual metropolis of Eastern Connecticut, and it is pleas- ant to think that much of its pres- tige remains, although conditions and circumstances have changed so ap- preciably, and the dependent com- munities ‘of the neighborhood have long since grown into independent towns or cities; but it is to Norwich that most of them still look for initi- ative and this_state of things would be more emphatically demonstrated, in the ‘evm of any such cirelg.:nmeel aris- ng as existed during the early years of the Revolution—a. possibility, hap- pily, remote and unlikely! THE DICTAGRAPH. t ) Ital fectly clear. The historic sea enfolds the around It in a great semicircle from Mediterranean to Adriatic, closing the circuit. backbone, thrusts out practically into the cen- sides. | rather colonizing, Greek who combined with the aborigine to form the popu- and southern boundar: ern Ital, point of the Alps, at the French fron- | cut a huge Ushaped bas Italy—ihe Apennines sweep southward do its nines are not, however, merely a back- bone, but minor ranges and groups of peaks, generally separated by high uplgnd erywhere by | sunny of the mountains, Arno and the Tiber—the onlysstreams of importance—give the keynote to any geographic study of the region. 6n the eastern coast no rvers of im- | portance can exist, because the moun- | beds of the ‘torrent| more than displays when, on a clear day, Sasso, Abruzzi b5 been inferred alread; no Dbuil military roads which to this day vein ously hills of solid rock, {among them are shallow | entirely different in both character and | aspect. country so clearly, | warked the long and tortuous Italian {peninsula on the west with o host of rocky defenses in the sapphire waters of the storied Tyrrhenian Sea—Gor- gona, of the suggestive name; rocky Capraia; Elba. of Napoleonic will find that for your pqor, sore, , aching, per- spiring feet—and will surely help you. THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society Italy’s Destiny Shaped by Geogra phy—In a communication to the Na- tional Stanley Riggs ascribes to Italy's pe- culiar geographic position one of the chief sources of the country’s remark- | able individuality. In a war geography bulletin Riggs says: Geographlc _ Society Arthur issued by the Bociety Mr. “From the beginning Nature set apart. Every boundary is per- Oon sweep t to the south, east, and west. morth the terrific Alps “To be sure, from the time of Au- sustus the boundary of each side of northern Italy has been juggled, now to the cast, now to the west, by poli- | tics; still’ definitely there. So thoroughly id_the ancient chroniclers recognize but the physical boundary is hese natural limits that Iong before he name Italy had any political signi- icance or entity the writers applied it o the countsy thus inclosed. The pen-’ nsula, with its tremendous Apennine makes a huge boot which er of the great Midland Sea. ‘Necessarily, then, Italy was exposed o attack and invasion from three Indeed, it was the invading. or ation that stocked the peninsula. Taken in a smaller way, geographical site or position exercised no less dis- tinct an effect upon some of the fore- most Italian cities; and in shaping heir alairs and men it also influenced the entire world. “Italy is generally regarded as ly- ne in three parts—northern, central Vature has set no between central and south- but from the southernmost the Apennines swing across to leaving in the arc they n, drained by utaries, open ier, he’ eastward, he river Po and its t o the Adriatic. - S After forming this basin—northern n a rugged backbone which deter- mines the whole internal geography of as _the Alps he countrs The Apen- on: as_definitely e northward. brond mass with several alleys, one of whose plateaux, ‘the Piano di Cinque Miglia, at a height of 4,298 feet above the sea, is the win- iest and bleakest spot in all Italy. “This upland region is bordered e lowlands of luxuriantly ertile character, prolific in fruit and rdure and of a genially warm and climate. In central Italy, west the valleys of the Over ains there approach too close to the ea, though the tortuous, mostly dry scar every height. n this connection it is interesting 0 note that nowhere is the peninsular 17 miles wide, and gen- not more than 100, while down the width dwindles in two ally n Calabri; | places to 35 and 20 miles respectively. jOne of the most inspiring views in length of the country also this ~narrowness strikingly from the Gran the highest point in the bleak Range, central Italy, at near- y 10,000 feet, one may look mnot only he whole eastward over the Adriatic to far Dal- me ward over the mountain and moor, city and sandy coast, to the dim and misty blue of the Tyrrhenian Sea. canic southern Italy, | of any great waterways, the Apennines break peaks. not usually so’ lofty as farther northward. ia's rocky shores, but also west- In vol- likewise barren up into groups ‘of hills and “italy is fairly provided with deep- ter seaports—Naples. Genoa, Spe- . the naval bae, and Leghorn, on he western coast, and Venice, An- ona, and Brindisi, on the east, The ers—except the Po—as may have , are of little or importance for navigation—a fact hat Romans cleveriy disposed of by ng those beautiful and enduring he whole length and breadth of the ountry—though the rapidity of their urrents and the flashing, dashing cas- ades and ‘torrenyi’ that come swirling nto them make them highly pictures- que and delightful as a feature of the andscape. “What human being with a single spark of soul could fail to expend un- der the magic of that wonderful chain of lakes along her northern border— Garda, Idro, Iseo. Como, Lugano, Mag- | giore, | exquisite sheets of water, formed by Orea? These remarkable and he tributaries’ of one single stream— he Po—sprawl about In tremendu- deep valleys among towering while scattered little lakes “Besides defining the Hmits of the Nature also bul- fame; Punzas: he stony fleet of the little bold and rugged Ischia, with its castle on a big boulder: humpbacked Capri, where ‘t old goat,’ as Suetonius called t] peror Toberius, held his revels; Aeolian or Lapari Isles, black monsters Procida wise, hairy| Em- the hat spout fire and sing weird music to terrify the superstitious argonaut: magnificent sister Corsica_clinging to its coat-tails a step behind. Dby every right of Nature—as a bright leadership and doubtless |1ad In a Sicilian school told me: ‘Sar- Sardinia, with its little Both belong to_ Ttaly defl,“' si! But Corsica—no! She e to Italy geographically, but politically to France’ And the great- est of ail these outworks in Sicily. “As in the case of Japan, the sur- rounding sea makes a vast diference in-the Itallan climate. Judged by its position alone, the peninsula should be about the hottest part of Europe— it is only 90 miles from the southern shore of Sieily to Africa. But the twin seas and the ever snow-capped moun- tains temper the heat, and the regional pecullarities are such that we fnd Turin, for instance, colder in winter than Copenbagen, and Mslan as warm in summer as Naples. These same striking differences characterizes the vegetation also. North of the Apen: nines nothing will grow that canmot withstand sharp frosts, yet in vir- tually the same latitude the strip of coast called the Riviera di Genova sports luxuriant palms and cactus and olives, while oranges and lemons are the most important crops.” NEW BQOKS The Origin of Life in the Higher Ani mals. By H. L. McKibben, Wood- bury, Conn. FPaper, 34 pages. Published by the author. Price $1.00. The author in this small vojume clafms that all of the higher animals are a direct creation from earth’s highest vegetation, \the mighty forest trees, and are in process of creation now as in the past. The original cre- ation of the higher animals to forms of flesh is accomplished through the transfer of the fovest trees life forc to the creation of flesh forms within their main roots that shelter its ve etable life forces after all other Veg- ctate parts of the forest trees have crumbled into decay, but the animal life Goes not spring forth -from the roots until 20 years and six months after the death of the tree, Accord- ing to this queer idea mice come from the maple tree, deer from stubble colts from the horse chestnut, wood- chucks from the locust and o on through the list such being in addi- tion to those born of progency of a specie. . India Against Britain. By Ram Chandra. Paper, 62 pages illus- trated. Published in San Fran- cisco by the author. This is a reply to Austin Chamber- iain, secretary of State for India, Lord Hardinge, former Viceroy of India and Lord Islington, under secretary for India. It tries to show that Great Britain has been cruel and harsh in the treatment of the exponents of the younger Indian patriots who wish to have “India for the Indians,” and con- tains much circumstantial detail of the punishment of alleged _rebels against British rule. Great Britain has done great things for India, keep- ing back plagues and assuaging fam- ines. The natives of course are un- grateful, iaily those who would prefer the “good old times’ of un- speakable barbarism. famine and plague unvexed by missionaries or British authorities, Doubtless, too the German propoganda has not been ab- sent in the Peninsula. The Book of Truth and Facts. By Fritz von Frantzuis. Cloth, 98 pages. | Published by the author, Chicago, Il. Price 50 cente. This the and German volume purports to set forth truth about Germany, England the United States, dealing with achievements in philosophy, science, art, inventions, discoverie finance, commerce administration and legislation, English culture and Amer. ican culture, and printed for the pur. pose of seiting forth the German ideals which are so much misunder- stood in this country. Digest of Workmen's Comp Laws in the United States and Territorie: with Annotations— 1916 Supplement. By F. Robert- son Jon Paper, 235 pages. Pub- lished by Workmen's Compensa- tion Pu ity Bureau, New York City. Price $1. A fair acquaintance with the opera- tion and effect of workmen's compen- sation Taws in the various states of the Union may be gained from a study of the cases relating to this subject as reported from the courts of ighest jurisdiction. In the “Supple- ment for 1915, there have been cited and classified upward of 200 new cases from Arizona, California, Connecticut. Tilinois, Towa, Kansas, Maryland, Mas- sachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mon- cbraska, New Hampshiré, New 3 York, Ohio. Oregon, Texas, Washington, nd Wisconsin. togeth- er with a selec >d list of leading Bri- tis and Canadian cases. To any one engaged in the adjustment of work- men’'s compensation claims, some fa- miliarity with these recent decisions is_indispensable. land, West Virginia. The compiler has also prepared brief syllabi of decisions rendered during the past year involving the constitutionality of the workmen's compensation iaws in California, - inois, Iowa, Kentueky, Montana, Ore- e ——— gon, Rhode Island, Texas, Washingto and West Virginia. The arrangement of the supplemen is the same as that of the complete Digest” of previous years: and bound in convenient pocket form LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Not Told Half the Story. Mr. Editor: Please allow another sufterer from the “N. G.” Worwich gas voice approval of the protests miad through the medium of your valuabie aper. The letters already publis: ave not half told the story Of discomforts caused by inhaling nauseating fumes of the “N. G the - commissioners are giving 1t is a miracle that eve: obliged to use that vile stufl gas is not under a doctor'’s care they are not they will be, for there | likely to be an epidemic of nd lung digeases as the result of inhall this polsonous ordor that will | fatal than the infantilc last summer. The author of I 1, printed about ten days ac “How long are we to endure, etc yet we have had no answer to Question—not even & peep. He another questidn: Are the mer run our city gas plant asi ¢ they altogether unmindful of 3 terest and comfort of us poor mor tals? Perhaps. they Wre fortuma enough not to be obliged to use deadly sickening stuff for illum and cooking and so do 1ot know vile the odor is. It i claimied the nothing about the gas tha our health, Now Mr. N. G. Gas Man, &« beautiful “healthy plant and shed all its leaves in a the same atmosphere must be disastrous to human being: need to have the gas and commission doubled agair ly, No! but we do evidently commission that is awake and the nterest and comfort of the they are chosen to serve, as we efficient superintendent. Flave & commission and superinte there are no satisfactory an these questions, let us o res! “The Rose” rebel by shutting pipe and going back to the methods of lighting by burning even candles. ANOTHER SUFFERER Norwich, Jan, 11, 1917 OTHER VIEW POINTS T De b0 _old voters made a take the other evening in down the proposition advanc Warden Coe for the building fireproof vault for the records of borough engineer. These records resent a great deal of labor and t voters have gone on record dif ferent toward the preservat valuable property.—Torrington ter. Torrington vot Whether or not the" police’ of port are in need of a lecture on the value of courtesy is not stated, but any event there is good advice in the address of the mayor to the patr men. In brief, it is to be as polite a poor man as to a millionajre man who may be down and out is man who needs a word of encourage ment or help,” the mayor says. As a rule the police of New and cfti are tactful in their dealings witk ple, and their consideration for seeking information is an value to the community ery itor remembers with pleasure in which he is given information & the officer on duty in a spirit friendliness. And Newport in part! ular desires to make a favorable pression on visitors.—Providence ¥ letin. zatio The mere fact that an inve is under way by the coroner Haven, due to the fact of a boy inmate of the for Boys, at Meriden, is not en: ing in the year 1917. Even is bad enough about public t tions, but real action should rovea one of two things, that the whole foir is untrue, or if there is action the Investigation shoul t cease until it is impossible for ey rumor to hang over an Institution the state. Bad hoys require disci but there is a_difference between cipline and a Mcense to become a ufito yourself In enforcement of ru Time was when unfortunates we treated other than humanely a was thought that time had fgor In some Instances one brutally ed individua n institut the least, bri such a_state of under i in authority affairs vestigatlon at the present time.—Mi dletown Press. Flaked potatoes are used f: man food and cattle fodder. Children Cry " FOR FLETGHER'S CASTORIA need h. foars. STRICTLY SANITARY OFFICE charge for consultation. DR. F. G. JACKSON 203 MAIN ST. Lady Asistant ‘The i Don’t You Want Good Teeth? Oces the dread of the dental chair cause you to neglect them? 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