Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 3, 1917, Page 4

Entsred at the Postorfice as Norwieh, ‘matter. » nn., as second-class ms tomer knowing the difference- ly probable but it Yt—‘ld T willimantic st phone and ready to take advantage best friends at the first o1 If “oleo would be sold for 1 without those handling it . . § oft for butter, there could be little ex- cuse for the tax, but experience reason the protectiom of the buyer re- quires the tax. ol LR THE THAMES RIVER BRIDGE. The action’ which has been. taken by the state senate in favor of mak- ing the bridge over the Thames be- tween New London and Groton, after it is taken over by the staté and con- verted into’a highway structure, a toll bridge for a period 20 years is to be commended. It is in keepinz with the requirements of the sit: lon. It is impossible by the present meth. od of ferrying to properly handie the traffic desiring to cross the river at The Bulletin has the largest§|all times. There i® need 6f a highway circulation of any paper in Eastern | bridge at that point and the New Ha- Connecticut and from three to four$| ven generously come forward times larger than that of any infl|ang offered the existing = raliroad bridge to the state for such use after its new structure is completed and no further use exists for the present one. By exacting a toll from those using the bridge means that the same meth- od will be followed as on two of the Connecticut river bridges. The cost of making the changes will be met by the state but it will not be a long time before the money will.be return- ed to the state treasuny, so that the commonwealth wiil be reimbursed for all that ' expends in this direction. TFortunate indeed is the state, and par- ticularly the southern'end of New Lon- don county that there can be obtained such improved facilities as is offered by this railroad gift. The railread saves money by not being: obliged to take down the bridge, but its value has by no means expired for such use as it will be put to and Connecticut can do no better than to.accept it with thanks and make the necessary pro- visions for turning it to the use of the people of this state for highway uses. it is delivered v over 900 in Putnam and Danielson 1o 1,100, end in all of these places is considered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- e towns, one hundred and sixty- e postofiice districts, and sixty rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin. is sold in every town and on all of he R. F. D -routes in Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION 4412 A --.5,920/ o 9,353; JURGES OTHERS. BY ITSELF. ~ Without ‘any ground for taRing such e position, no greater demonstration of the lack of confidence on the part of one government for another has béen manifested than in the course .which has been pursued by Germany relative to_the detention of the sail- ors.of the -Yarrowdale crew who are subjects of this country and the hold- ing up of the United States consuls, “Jocated in Germeny up to the time of the ‘bréak’ in “relations between the government “but who have been or- dered to other posts in European countries. - This conmiry has given Germany no cause for befieving that its consuls or subjects, or -even its property would ‘bé ‘mistreated in this country. It has dohe evervthing .to dispel such an idea, and if there was any reason ex- isting at.all fo. suspect that obliga- tions would' not. be -respected while diplomatic and “consular representa- tives “weré being withdrawn or even subjects were endeavoring to get hdme, they have been furnished by Germany rather than the United States. 4 Germany was not justified in the beginning when it make prisoners of the Americans on the Yarrowdale. There” has been no ground whatever for holding them. Not the slightest obstacle has been placed in the way of Count Bernstorffs party and no consular agent of Germany. has been interrupted in his movements by this country and when Germany attempts to claim that there has, or to express fear that there would be, it iS judging this eountry by its own actions in a ‘most unjust manner but expressing once more its disregard for the rights of anyone who doesn’t knuckle to its preposterous demands. No better evi- dence of Germany’s unwillingness to play fair could be furnished. February 24..... BETTER RURAL SCHOOLS. The bureau of education of the de- partment of the interior has been put- ting forth strong efforts for a long time in behalf of better schools in the rural districts throughout the coun- try. There is recognized of course that there are certain statés where such schools are much better provided for than those in others. There are better ~teachers, greater advantazes and in- many.cases they come nearer to offering the educatiomal facilities provided in the cities. i But there is need of just such im- provement over a large séetion of the country and just at the present time ehdeavors are being made to 'get better teachers for the schools out- side of the cities. There,cian be no question but what the ehildren. of the rural communities are ed. to just as good opportunitiex as those of the bigger centers. Thé reason that they do not get them is that there are less people to. provide the expense and somehow or other the jdea prevails that as long as a teacher is provided regardless of his qualifications the re- sponsibility has been discharged. The fact' cannot be overlooked however that the &ucceds of a school depends upon the teacher, and for that reason there ‘should ke -ob- tained so far as o the best in- structors ‘available. This is why 5 great ‘4 demand exists for ‘those who bave received a normal school train- ing and the reason why greater atten- tion should be given to normal school support that the demand in this di- rection can be met. The rural com- munities are-entitled to and ought to have capable and efficient teachers. EDITCRIAL NOTES. ‘Even the poker mlavers may increase the interest snd expense of the game PROHIBITION IN WASHINGTON. y by the use of potato chips. The dry wave continues to make progress and the value of it seems ‘to havs made its appeal:to.the members of congress from .the way in which they have. dealt with, the bill for pro- hibition in the District of Columbia. Having the power to impose the re- 'striction there without a referendum both Houses of congress have proceed- ed to vote for prohibition in the dis- trict to.the extent that intoxicating liquors cannot De sold there, and there js mothing to indicate- but what the president will affix his signature to the bill. . This bill, however, does not mean that. the national capital will be “bone- ‘ary” ‘for while the saloons, which Tumber somewhere in the neighbor- hood of 300, will have to go out of business, there is nothing in the bill which prohibits the importation of li- quor. for personal use -and nothing which says that a person cannot have liquor in his possession, so that those who are inclined that way need not suffer for the lack of their. favorite bev- erdge but they cannot step up to a public bar and obtain it. The bill has apparently been aimed at the sa- loon influence and with the president’s approyal- it will. have succeeded in its purpose with-the proper enforce- ment. Such of course is_gratifyinz to the prohibition workers, but there is nevertheless not a little sentiment in behalf of an additional law which will provent the use of mails for getting liquor into the District, and with the spread of prohibition sentiment there is no telling what the result will be, even though the residents of t s trict- are given no-opportunity to ex press their mi The'man on the corner says: A for- lorn hope’s only nourishment is the postponement of the ‘inevitable. Whether it is called armed neutral- ity or something else, American ships should be protected in their rights on the high seas. No one will offer objection if sfine- one happens.to throw a torpedo into the prevailing high prices, or in fact if it should be done intentionmalty. With all the supplies which they are sending to the bottom, even the sub- marine commanders must regret that they cannot send some of it home. With ‘the British removing the rub- ber heels from the shoes of the Ger- mans in Count Bernstorff’s party the situation must result In a poor un- derstanding. 37 The Pennsylvania railroad has had two accidents with Joss of life in the past few days, which shows that all such affairs o not happen upon the New Haven system. 1f the advice of the governor of New York, to the effect that pecpls should learn to live on what they.can afford to pay for, was followed there would be less cases of -indigestion. What agitators can do is revealed by-the fact that investigators in New York city were unable to find a sin- gle case of starvation after all the hullabaloos that was made over it. Germany intended to give no more protection to American men and wom- en in. the -case of the Laconia than it did ‘when it sank:the Lusitania, Tt was nothing but a wanton destruction of lives. % e | Guns to arm United States steamers are said to be ready but the gunners “THE OLEO TAX. Much has‘been said and not a /Attle effort devoted towards bringing /bout the reduction of the tax on o) ymar- lacking. From the rate of garine. -This is because the roduct a dif- on that | progress it is possible that ‘the gun- is coming tb-be looked upen ferent light and the realig ‘every effort should be m¢ e to help “could be trained while ‘the”guns 1 ot the oo of livins. e teaches to the contrary and for that ‘most.” to hold their tongues in It does not seem from casual ob- servation that “he is best educated who is most 'ul. ‘While “this is far from being the popular thought, there is no disputing that practicality is always a little ahéad of mentality, although they make good yoke-mates. “The man mentally great without be- ing practical may properly be classi- fied with the man who is physically powerful but mot industrious. The power of knowledge is not in itself but in action. To know and to do, to direct energy, is to make progress, to achieve results; but intelligent in- ertia is no better than any other kind of inaction, unless there is design arnsl purpose back of it. There is efficiency in knowing when not to act as well as when to strike a blow. Some think they must “strike when thé iron is hot,” but if they strike when the iron is cold and keep at it, they wjjl make t hot. As <Cowper has rved: “Mentality may teach us to do noth- ing with considerable skiH.” When we are asked: “Who has de- ceived thee as often as thyseif?” we are closed up. 1 came near saying man makes a million pro; es to himself in a life-time and does not keep half of them. Man's sins of omission exceed his sins of commis- sion ten to one: and he seldom lives long enoush to stop and think of them. Think of the promptinge of conscience he smothers and the good resolutions he frames up but does not live up to. “ has deceived thee as often as thyself?” Just take this into your mind and let it sink in. Deceit is one of thé worst of sins whether practiced upon ourselves or others, because we cannot foresee the consequences of it. If this deceiving ourselves becomes a habit it makes a hypocrite of us, gives us_ the mask of a saint when we are devils. There are few men who are always true to the spirit of generosity and love with- in them: and when they crush them selves angels weep, for they realize the fearful cost of this action .to our- selves. 'We are unmindful of our own peril—of the self-invited conse- quences. “What good can I do in the world?" is the greatest question man has ever asked himself, and “Who has decelved thee as often as thyself stands second. More than a century ago it became a proverb that “nine men in ten are suicides,” and in the present century Metchinkoff has told us all men are yigims—no man dies natural death; and that old declaration of Ecclesias- tes: “My children die because of their igndfance” was never truer to the world than it is to-day. Our inordin- ate love of “good things” incites us to over-eat, and dyspepsia cheeks us in our mad career by changing pleasure to .misery. Scientists see no -reason why man ehould not live as long the eagle—150 years—and the average life of man falls far short of one. third of this. The causes of disease‘and un- natural deaths is traced to ntemper- ate-eating and poisonous chemical mixtures — auto-intoxication—and the verdict of guilty is upon all, the fa-. mous Metchinkoff not having by his own estimate lived out half his days. A hard working man like Edisor lives on sixteen ounces of food a day, puts two days work into one by the union standard, and lives healthily; and most short-day, -indoor workers consume from 38 to 60 ounces of mixed foods. Nobody can be made to believe he eats too much although it s apparent encugh most of us die too soon. - Nothing truer than this has been written: “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of support- ‘ting’ it” There are too many men who from ene pretext or another make excuses for not doing their part. Some say we must be careful not to move too quick, but not one of these would venture to argue that it is not the better to start too soon rather than too late. Few men seem to realize how much individual free- dom depends upon the unity . and bravery of all organized bodies- or governments whose purpose it is to defend and _perpetuate democracy— to transmit that freedom to thelr children. This freedom is the free- dom of the church, the freedom of the press and the freedom of the peo- ple. The true freedom is to do what we ought, and the false is to do as we have a mind to. Those who would do as they have a mind to have not Ce enough to protect their own lib- erty. Queer, that many a man whose life has been saved by a doctor thinks his gratitude should pay the Dill. O course, most physicians like to wit- ness gratitude and to listen to the as- surance the. patient can never fo get him; but he would like to see Settlement so that he can forget the patient if he wants to- The prac tice of forgetting the doctor and com pelling him to keep a book of ingrates he cannot forget is far too common.| Gratitude is not a virtue when it is made a blanket for vice. Some pa tients walk around with the doctor's money Iir their pockets as if i were a safety deposit box of which the doctor had lost the key. It makes a man feel poor to look at his books and find that thousands he has earn- ed are being so carefully: taken care of for him that he is unable to col- lect even his funeral expens The dollars in another man's pocKet are n irritant as efficient as anything in the pharmacopoeia. 1Tn this day of wonderful inventions some way ought to be discovered to get fhe money from the debtor’s pocket. It seems to me that the man or woman who rises in the morning feel- ing that the Lord is on their side have the best chance for meeting the difficuities as well as the duties of the day and- overcoming them with honor. There is no feeling of power which so fortifies the soul of the mor- ‘divine, | for our blunder! neighbor?” ing could mlk.ln‘ the -estimation of years, this Persons | tablishent, to say and the|iheir families, Smith & Wesson established a pistol and rifle factory on Central Wharf; but finding itself restriw«d in point of space, the firm removed to pleasing in His eight. The spirit of trust which thought_ of His daily presence and beaus inspires is strength added to strength and faith added to faith and joy added to What seems to many to be foolish. ness is might, and what seems to the epiritually blind to be imaginary is real power. Science has shown us the material fortes are temporary and the invisible forces eternal. The soul who is conscious of .the Fathe: of God has no reason to fear the weak demonstrations of man. Such a soul knows He is the Alpha and Omega— the beginning and the end. Some one has said: “Advertising is educating the public where things may be found and is a netessity.” No argument is needed” to prove this be- cause it is seif-evident; and yet there are many business men who still ques- tion the policy of putting out ten dollars in the expectation of getting back twenty. The -great advertisers pay out millions to acquaint the peo- ple with their specialties and take in more millions because the people need them. It never pays to advertise things the people do not need. Ne- cessity is the mother of trade, as well as of invention. If they do not know they need the things advertised the art of the advertiser must be exer- cised in impressing upon them ' the fact that they are necessary for sus- tenance, comfort or protection. Hence, it is important that an advertiser should first realize that he must be an educator .in order to make his busi- ness announcements. effective and second, that as a equare dealer he must size right up to the guarantees he holds out to the public. Sunday Morning Taik CHANGE PLACES. A mayor of our greatest American city remarked that an official in such a position receives so much more blame than praise, try as hard as he may to do right, that he could not see how anyone prizing peace of mind should care for public office. He Whimsically quoted the opinion James Whitcomb Riley that does his best gets more kicks than all the rest.” Similar testimonies from similar sources might be multiplied. As a matter of fact, our pubilc and semi-public officials too, .often must take for granted any commendation for efficient service, while a blunder is pretty sure to be heard from -within 10 minutes. The impulse to criticize arises from deficient imagination. Men have no power, or, at least, take no pains to see the obstacles against which the other man ors. The handicaps in our neighbor's situation are lightly ignored. We demand results of others that we should be the first to declare ible were we ourselves under e y of producing them. In his first inaugural, President Wil- son, after outlining the task of .the executive, uttered the words: “Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all hon- est men, all patrictic, all forward- looking men to my side. God helping me, I will not fail them, if they will buf 8ustain and counsel me” . tha “great- trust” ived up to, opinions are bound to differ. But no one can deny that plenty of difficuit and perplexing questions have arisen. It is probable, moreover, that the President and his advisers have handled the various sit- uations as well on the whole, as the .average critic lounging at his elub window, or sitting on a cracker box at the corner store. It is so easy to find fault, when one has no responsibility beyond that. The carper shouid stir up his imagi- nation. He shonld t to put himself Before Let him picture tape and selfish ch your alderman think clearly and act the confusion inters: = None of the vocations in which men ! win bread lack their peculiar tempta- tions. The along lines generally unsuspected by »sual observer. Consider the dif- ties of the mercl t, the problems of the doctor, the oppositions of the lawyers and the minister. If we un- derstood the burdens of any of these people, we might be less ready to cry failure when things go badly. It would be the most healthful thing jin the world for many of us to attempt the task of another worker, and under the same conditions in which he works. There are mistresses of households who ever Temain hard employers be- cause they have never tried the work their servants do. T.et them take, for instance, the cook’s place for a sin- gle week, to learn what the job re uires of regularity, ingenuity and in- ustry. At the end of their term of service they might be less fussy and unreasonable. So it is in every range of employment. It would be well like- wise, if the servant could understand the responsibilities and . perplexities of the employer. the prime human sol- keeps us reasonable and charitable. Tf we could only put our- selves in the other man’s place and see from his viewpoint! If we could only be as generous to our neighbor as we are to ourselves! A night, toothache, a piece of. bad news—such facts excuse listlessness and slack achfevement in our own case. Why not make similar charitable IDOW oth= a_happier, and there- world than that charity rereth long and is kind.”. THE PARSON. fore a better, “suff that war, soon tiona for those dave, X contracts an rnishing large plies of musketry for the government. ‘This company bad two establish- ) on klin street, m ing the premises of Horace i ol sy - They made, besides the Springfield ‘musket, 2 new kind of improved rifle, the invention of Armstrong & 9 of Augusta, Ky. In this process, gun was composed of forty-nine parts, each part aecurately fitting in place in any other of the gums. Any barrel would fit any stock: any Screw would enter any hole for which it was_de- signed, so that out of the heaps of finished parts, a musket ‘could be put together with' zreat ease and celerity. The completed rifle weighed ten pounds. This company had a wonderful ac- cumulation of machinery for its -va rious operations, hundreds of skitled workmien were employed, regulating the machines and tending them as they threw out their millions of parts with rapidity and precision. 5 This plant was considered oné of the wonders of theé country, and a leading New York magazine of March 1864, devoted much space to an illus- trated description of this Norwich armory and its output. Heavy reports like thunder used to come from the proving-room of this big plant, jwhere' the barrels were tested. They were loaded with heavy charges and fired by a train, dis-| charging ~the balls into banks - of earth. Other industries of that time are in- teresting as ni recalled. Abner T. Pierce at one time had a large foundry and car-factory in Norwich, but, get- ting into business difficultics in con- mection with his other car ¥ near the castern terminus of the Erie railroad, in 1853, ileft suddenly for Californi: In 1852, Christopher C. Brand ob- tained a patent for a newly invented whaling gun and bomb lance. A mus- ket three feet lonz discharged a gun twelve feet in lenath, which would strike and soon explode, forcing the lance into the side of the swiftly mov- ing whale. The rest was easy. A big brick buiiding for thé manufacturing of these whaling guns and bomb lances was erected on ¥Franklin street, in 1860 manufacture of ~ sewi ma chines of the Howe patent was begun here by Gresaman .& True, in a build- ing on Central Wharf, in 1860. This establishment brought z number -of workmen to the city at that period. A steam floure- mill, having 8ty horsepower, was #tablished on Cen- tral Wharf in 1855, by Capt. W. W. oit. At that period. the Union Machine Company and Caleb R. Rogers & Co. in West Chelsea, were companies organized on the joint stock principle, each with a capital of $200,000. { At the eouthern extermity. of the city at that time was the rolling mill and other works of the ~Mitehell Brothers, bearing the company & of the Thames Iron Works. At Greeneville. near the eastern border of the city, was the Norwich Bleaching and Calendering Company, already many years in operation, em- ploying meny hands, and still, happi- 1y, working on In an enlarged plant, in spite of a severe set-back a fow years At that industrial period referred to, there was a stock company on the western border of the town from which much was expected. This is recorded as The Waweekus Hill Min- ing Company, which was formed In 11851, Later it was organized, with a capital stated as $500,000. Jesse Fill- more of Providence was president. The company was based upon the sup- position that the rocks where it was located contained gold, silver an{l nickel: and a lease for 100 years, of about 180 acres of land covering the location, was obtained by its hopeful promoters. The idea that there must be va¥- uable metal in the rocks was -first suggested by C. M. Roberts, a_young man who claimed that he could smell sulphur when the rock was broken. Reuben Safford, equally hopeful, lived for a time alone upon the premises, digzing and exploring the bed of rocks: but history does not state that any pure metal was ever discovered thereabouts. THE DICTAGRAPH. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sam Dick May Be Right. Mr. Editor: A writ‘en request in Yyour paper caught my eye and having read J. H. Cummings’ letter I wonder- ed what he had said when I finished It. Mr. Sam Dick may be right. But I think he will find that J. H. Cummings is one of the many missing links in this country. Now a missing link is a. cross between man and monkey, and Germany having discovered the vermin here, has offered to give them, n kulture for the dirty work they wiil do for her. So few know that the serpent J. H. speaks so ill of was the same that gave Eve the apple. . He has been very wise since the first fa- ble about him. One th! be did, and l‘lh‘kt is h: bit off the tafl 5 the missing nk, and no amount foret: made him disgorge 20 o A Cummings might hereafter aive the serpent a little credit and not be like the rest of his kind—blame every thing on God. i MRS. M, LOEFLER. Norwich, March 1, 19i7, Wants to Be Prepared at All Times. Mr. Editor: Since my article “Two Sides to Every Issue in‘The Bulletin, there have been several ar- ticles written refe ng to same. have agreed with me—others to the 'hose that did the writer, but failed to answer the severat questions asked. In this article little reference was Russia. il " Hnowne Tes, the Snmiish dia hire the nown. Yes, the Englis re Hessfans té fight us in the War of the Revolution. They would hire fighters to for them in_ these days, only that it is impossible to hire in such numbers as. the present. war calls for. Instead of that, England allies herself ‘with other unwise nations and has them fight her batties for her. why dld she have to get into mess? Didn’t she have enough 40 years ago? e have beén helping France for some time by furnishing her with war supplies.. The “Observer” says that the writer must be .a -Quaker-Pacifist. Wrong again, aé often before. The writer has been connected with the national guards for a number of years. He is still on the reserve list and is ever ready to defend his country. He doesn’t believe in hunting for war- however. Sherman said, “War is Hell,” and he must have been right. Then why do Fwe want to ¥1ung this, our beloved country into Hell? ;Why do we want to send thousands of our young men to Hell? On_ the other hand. if this severance of relations with Germany is going to o us a prepared nation, then it is well. For one, the writer wants to be prepared at all times for the de- fence of Flag and Country. If those who have remarks to make will kindly refer to my original arti- cal, and. answer those questions, the object of these writings will have been A YANKEE. Norwich, Mareh 1, 4317, EpeiEry «t “ * The Point of View. Mr. Editor: As The Cloud Digger looks at it when he orders a rip-roar- ing old storm period to swoop down on us, said storm just has to submit like David Crockett's coon, willy nil- 1y. The point of view from this angle is different; this onlooker is reminded of the man who was bragging to com- pany how good his dog was to mind. He said, “He'll do amything you tell I'll show you; ‘Watch, go out of then added quickly; ‘og under the bed,’ " when he saw where the dog was headed. The Cloud Digger ordered “worst of the winter” storm from February 15 to 18. Cater” he agmitted it falled to arrive,” but sald it would surely get here. Heé -ordered February 24 to 28 “very cold” The early morning tem- peratures - for the five days were 36, 14, 19, 39 and 28. He ordered eight days of zero weather In Februery. There were only two here. Of course, there are cheap thermometers which get rattled when they go below ten. I have access to figures by a reliable thermometer, and I notice figures given dafly in Builetin are from 3 to 6 or more degrees above mine, never er. My readings, however, are usually made earlier than 7 a! m. The Clond Digger in order to make .a showing. brings in Maine and New Hampshire. Syre he can win on eight “days. of zero weather if he takes in enough territory; say Canada and the Arctic regions. Are his predictions not for The Bulletin's fleld of circula- tion, Eastern Connecticut Oh, ves; that “worst of the winter” storm, that “very cold” spell, those ejght zero days will all get here sure, if not this winter s'm’other winter: if not here in New Hngland, in s’'m'other country. They must come. The Cloud Digger accuses his critics of having short memories. May it not be his own? In his latest he claims his “old rules” his famous sailors’ loj ‘had saved every. ship ever sailed by four generations. “Tn his earlier let- ters there were only three generation: Same in matter of his years of ser- vice as forecaster. In his first letter ‘this year it was 24 years; three weeks Inter it was 25.vears. A year or two ago in replying to ome of his great army of commenders, he modestly con fessed he did not really make th ‘weather, he merely forecasts it. Isn't he making it now? " MRS.T. . Voluntown, March' 2, 1017, ' STORIES OF THE WAR | Home - for Mutilated Soldiers. The waf has turned the palace of the Bourbon kings of Naples into a home for mutilated soldiers. Around the exquisite marble table wh th guests of the “Rol Soleil” of Naples dined in the garden on hot summer nights—the ladies in powdered head dress and panier skirts, the men with lace at tHeir sleeves and embroidered coats-—today are gathered the pitiable fragments of humanity that war has left in its wake,, There are neither candles nor masgive silver, neither sweetmeats nor rare wines. The Italtan_ rovernment allows 70 cents per day for their lodging and main- tenance, and food is high in Naples. .. The marble table on warm days in the garden is the recreation center of the mutilated, their worn and fad- ed uniforms. Before each is an ob- long cardbgard placard, some of whose spaces are numbered. One of the men (he must be.one of those who have lost a leg, for the on-armed cannot do the trick) shakes a basket-bottle and turns out a numbered counter. In the sk Neapolitan dialect, he cries - the number,” The one whose placard bears it, covers the space with a bit of glass. - Who covers all his spaces first wins from each of the others. Those who have no hands at all have grown wonderous skillful at flipping thejr bits of glass onto the placard by ns of a bent pin stuck in the emply sléeve. This is- recreation. There arc also hours of work. Once sumptuous cham- bers of the royal palace haye been turned into school rooms, in the month that the hospital has been rynning. In one, those who wish are taught tail- , in another shoemaking—the leg- less natuarally, for 6ne must have two h&nd;‘u make shoes or clothes. Those ve. e cent. best shoes on the market marked.at prices: that " theylatter must begin v baclk than that, and learn 16 Yéa a° write first. For reading tng ~writing In Southerri Italy are mot common ac- complishments, #o° there “i§ 4 "schiool - room—a primary "' school<room,” of these grown children:who have krown only give an armor - a legfo . their own. their families: -~ * < ‘Whieh ig -why some do not stud They are suspictous. Mutilated, they are entitled to a government pension, and they are afraid that when they have learned & pew trade by whic they can live, the government. will say: “You no longer need helprmigke your own ‘living.” So they -sit-all day in the sunlit, royal garden, with its fai- ence flower-pots- marked -with: fleurs de lys ,and watch the changing lights o the bay of Naples, and think of what life used to hold for them be- fore the war came to change.it utter- The sea once came to the very wall of the garden where they sit. Below the ;balugtrade,, was, . seapoc), where the ‘courtlers of Gado 1II. fished from the terrace. Later. when the people of Naplés voted the Bourbofts: out and the House of Savoy in as rulers of United ltaly, Garribaidl gaye the pal- ace to Alexander Dumas. And the government of Italy had no end of trouble to get it back from ths famous author. But the soldiers who. wand through the spacious rooms of the pa. ace today know none of these things. They know only what they have given to their country. They merely wait the issue of war. fn the death of Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart, Connecticut loses one-of its' best and most useful citize a man ho ever, who went so quletly and modest- 1y about the broad work he was doing thet it seemed as If he was altogether unconscious of the important place that he held alike in affairs .and in the hearts of his wide circle of admir- ing friends.—~Hartford Courant. The house has rejected the -bill pro- viding for direct. election_of county commiseioners. It was doubtless afrald the olements~of ‘politics womid be ih- troduced. Therg aillsbe no fault find- ing over the act, for it showed even better judgment when "It “Killed the absurd_bills to licemse ' and muzzie cats. Dspite distraction the 12 ture is doing good work. If an occ sional worthy measure goes down:-it is the penalty for keeping bad comi- pany.—Bristol Prese. So much progress has been made in many towns and cities of the state in regard to the mijitary census and 50 any blanks properly filled out with PaZommation . invaluable to the state already in the hands of the: authori- ties that one may say- the-success of the undertaking is agsured. It is true that- miuch work remains-t6-be done but the spirit in which the enterprise has been received by the citizens 3 Connecti: has been so patrigtically co-opérative and bhelpful that nothing can prevent the census from being carried through on lines of complete success.—Ansonia Sentinel. Last night the Ordinance committes of the.Common Council sent instruc- tions to the city attorney to: draw up an amendment to the building code to allow . the, erection of “three decker.” Provision that these bulldings must be of - the ~Colonial 7oof type, ~with -fire- proof roof, have a three-foot- fireproo! stairway to the third floor and a back veranda of similar consrugtion will be included. Supports must be of fron or steel, ' with floors of concrete or other non-inflammable material This amendment should be killed by the council. The abolition of the .“three- deckers” was brought about only after a long fight, and it is a step toward unprogressive ideas to amend the bullding ‘code to this end. “Three- deckers” are. unsightly, a . great fire hazard and reflect 1no crédit on the city. Let the couneil kill ‘fhis propo- sition fostersd by men who think more of money received- from.'sueh invest- ments than they do of ciyic better- ment.—Bridgegort Standard. New York state 18 likely to have a military census. A bill to.take it has been prepared by the military aw®hori- ties. It calls for a “man poéwer” blank which will require truthful answere from every male resident of that state over 16 years of age, which, will set forth his trade, occupation, 8ge, height and weight, whether he 18 married; the number of persons dependent upon him for support, whether he has done any military service and, if so, for what country. Tt also will narrate whether the man can ride a horse, handle ‘a team, drivé dn-automobile, ride_a motorcycle,- whether he .under- can operate a wire- ; e he has had with steam engines or electrical machfnery, whether he can handlée a power or sail boat, Whether He is éxperienced ' “in coastwise pavigation,-or in handiing high speed marine gasoline engines, and whether he is a good swimmer. It will be noticed that the author of the bill hasn't omitted anything pertinent which was contained in the law. au- thorizing _the Connecticut military census. - Question for question, it £51- lows —out the ‘same lines,—WaterWiry Republican. One Excepfion: . The ifventor of the #ying that you can’t get something. for nething never was a member of the iegisiature. — Pittsburgh Dispatch. A e S in excep! 4 offered a few .points on 2