Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, January 4, 1918, Page 4

Jlorwich ;gnlle/tifi poray Bulletin Business Office 480. state where the most of the Iy ct occurred with Texas, each b g2 thus shows & wm g conied improvement. It ha$ apparent- Iy felt the effects of the criticism which has been poured ouf,& it from every séction of the il it is t6 Bé sincérely ‘nop; ‘!fiy I&; changed condttions A&fs peritan But there is plenty of oppartunity for public opinion in &l staled fo rise Up and assert -itself and. inéist th this low record Be &tfil further re- duced. Every.case ¢f Wynohigg is A blot dn the name of any commion- wealth. GERMANY AND THE BOLSHEVIKI. It is impossiblé t6 tell what the breaking off of the peace négotidtiéns between the, bolsheviki afd s it they have actually been iroken oft, is going to mean. éfe séems to-be some ground for thiiting that the bolsheviki have awakefied at this .I&t; date to the kind of trehtment whic they can expect fromi Gérmany, that Germany i8 going to profit if it énters any peace urderstanding With the bolsheviki and that agreaments with the imperial Geffian governiment sim- ply means the extemsioh of Cérfman and Qoufie? < 122 YEARS OLD :i'bnt.nflnlo- » 180 & weelis 506 o Bntered at the Postoffies af Norwien, Conn, &s second-class matterc Telephone Call#i Bulletin Editorial Rooms, 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 35-2 Willimantic Officei 625 Main Street. Talephone 210-2. h, Fri ay, J;fi- 44 1918 1801, cverage . 1908, average ..............5,920 «December 29, 1917 9474 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusiyée« Iy entitled to the use for republica- tion of all news despatches credit- ed to it or not otherwise credit- ed in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein are also reserved. annexations and noml?rmfl the bolsheviki Had h for else they must have beén - awakened, but the very faot that: the présent negétiations have i ily mean that they abandoned. - ! As long as Ceéfmany hds any il fluence with the leaders of the gov- ) ernment at Petrograd {§ can be antici- pated that it will he ékefcited to bring about just what thoSe leaders ate at the present time professimg their un- willingness to agreé to. Trroush that same influence it wis possible t6 put Russia where it is today And it can be appreciated that thefe f4 géing to be no letup in it 8o long as it ¢an pro. duce results. kg Every delay of the kind which is being felt, together With _ the interior trouble that is being experi- enced in Russia, is bound to prevent the German plads from becoming en- .| tirely suceeseful but whéther the bol- sheviki can resist the Cerman in- fluence in the end is a Mattér which the future must reveal. MORE WHEAT. ] The people 6f the countrv have been doing a lot of commendable work in conserving the wheat supply of this nation. Through the reduciion in con- sumption that which we have is m‘i‘ til the will. be. totally GET AT THE BOTTOM OF IT. In. connection with the congested conditions which exist at the terminals on the Atlantic coast, ther: are those who make the claim that when the ditector general of the railroads puts the probe into the matter in order to straighten it out that it wili be found that the government and its depart- ment officials are the worst- oftenders. It is claimed that conflicting orders from bureauerats and cars loaded with militaty stores and materials for goverhment work have tied up the roads, that government officers have ordered the immediate despatch of empty cars to distant poinls without waiting for freight that is ready for shipmefit to interior eities and that there flas been poor judgment tsed in the handling of the available facilities for the movement of freight. It guch is the casé the aquicker it can he overcome the better. It should Mmake no difference now who are the greatest offenders, whether the respon- eibility lles with the government and its department officials ot whether it is the fault of others, the conditions are such that there should be an imme- diate improvement. And it is to be expected that improvements will re’ sult even if the government has been the chief offender in the past. 1t is tiMie that efficlency was instilled into the departments of the government as well as elsewhere. It is (o be ex- pected that it will be. insisted upon there but wherever it is there can be ho question but what improvement is needed and the government control is relled upon to bring it about. Let the axe fgll where it must. ——n ANSWERS ARE CONFIDENTIAL. In the questionnaires™ which have been ‘sent to all the men of the coun- try enrolled and subject to draft for military service it can be appreciated that there are many questions which they are called upon to angwer which are personal and ought not to be sub- fect to public perusal for any other purpose which others might make of them. The questions are considered necessary in order to classi(y the' men and to make the selective draft the success that it should be, and it is of the utmost importance that whatever secrets the men reveal, or what they may in a great many instances con- sider to be secrets even though others do not look upon them in that light, should be kept from the prying eyes of those who would be all too eager to get them for one use or another, whether it happened to bc good or bad. It fmust therefore be condddered that the order which has been isswed by the provost marshal to the effect that the answers to questions asked of the young men who may he called into the nation’s service shall not be made to be made to serve all needs un next crops are available, But there will be large demands ade of the wheat growers, and thdse who can grow wheat but who haven' done so in the past, during the coming year. It 15 well, therefore, ihiat the slogan of “A biilion bushels of wheat for 1918” should be wut forth at this time and that it should be kept to the front until the obfect is atcomplished. Ae- cording to figures it the posseseion of the department, of agriculture the sow- ing of winter wheat shows an incréhse of four and a half per cent, with the condition of the crop the frst of last month none tao ‘good, Thir hag for- nished a basis for the estimate that there will be 540,000,000 bushels 6t winter wheat secured for 1918 Such being the case with the ‘condittons of this erop neither improving nor grow- ing worse it will be necessory to ralse 460,000,000 bushels of sprifig wheat if the billion désired is to be ohtained. This places a big résponsibility upon the farmers for it mieans an increase of about 60 per cent. prer the amount of spring wheat rai last year. This is a big jump inasmuch ds there were greater efforts put forth last year, but Jaint heart never won fair lady and the goal will never be reached by viewing as impossible that which can be made possible by proper effort. A greater chance to demonstrate our agricultural résburces was never pré. sented as the farmers must roalise, e — EDITORIAL NOTES. No one understands how to conserve coal like those who are foreed to do-it. These are trying days 67 thase who have opcned the new year with & vigid set of good resolutions. Pt bttt oy Lightless nights it should be remet- bered have no referefice to the front and rear of the automobiles. The man oh the cofner says: Pift- ting the official stamp upon winter only seems to aggravate it. It is to be sincerely hoped that the Germane can prove that thev were in no way responsible for the Guatemala earthquake. ———e The argument that cold éars will ‘bring sickness will hardly hold good in those communities where they have been urged as a health measure. bt ‘The placing of trolley lines in Pean. sylvania under government eontrol will be looked upbn with envy by many of the other electric roads about the country. public is the right one. There ; Germany may be going to smash in- is nothing in such secreey that|qustrially and otherwise but it hasn't will infure the army service.| gotten as vet to the point where the They will be carefully looked | Hohenzollern control has been prop. erly crushed. - x oyer for any misstatements or any in- tenitional “dodging so that there will be no encouragement given to slacking, and there can hé Httle question but what just as satisfactory results will be chtained in this respect as if they were _thrown open to the zeneral® pub. lic. There is no teason for going back of the order just issued uniess it will serve a good public purpose. The gratitude of the bolsheviki is well displayed by the arrest of the American railroad commtission who are in Russla to do all they ean for the Russlan people. The penalty imposed tipon thé Camp Devens men who went Hhome for Christmas without permission ought to be sufficient to prévent afy otlier ex- cursions of the kind. THE LYNCHING HABIT. Although it may be only one of those ars when a low record is eStablished if by accident, it is to be hoped that the decrease in the lynchings about the country during 1917 represents a veal improvement in fespect to law and order and a recognition of the evil of lynch law and mob rule: According taq #tatistles which have Leen kept by Tuskegee there were 38 persons who were lynched Guring the past twelve months, one of whom was a woman. If the record is complete, and there are reasons for believing that it has been kept with the same thoroughiness as in previous years, this means a dropping off of marked sig- nificance when it is realized that there were 54 cases in 1916 and 67 in 1915, With two exeeptions where lynchings look place in Montana and"Wyoming all the cases were in the states south of the Mason and Dixon line, and in ufis connectfon it is pleasing to mote that Georgia has dropped from its commanding lead in this respect dand -aw shares the dishonor of being the It was a most commendable thing for the miners to work on New Year's day, but New England would feel more enthusiastic about it if it could get some of the results. With Bessarabia now seceding from Russia there will be littie left of that country for the bolshevik! to rule when its provinces get thfoush as- serting their independence. There is an excéilent chance for ey- eryone to maké out &n income tax form now just for the purpose of learn. Ing How much they actually do make, Surprise parties may be in order. After what ig khown abbut Germat perfidy, the report which comes from Germany to the effest that such pesice ofterings as the impérial German gov- ernment is making to the bélsheviki Iack sinderity ought mot to catise any surprise in Russta or elsewhere, 151 4 girl, & = ey said dreamily. E s0_lohely, and it - rt-bréaking. thing 1 aggfl some great sorrow and hesi- ot that acdount.” ? S,"He Bad a _sorrow afl right, but it was due to the fact that he loved the know that Jimmy loved control in spite of the tAlK abOHE o e 5. g Fudely| Natatia suceessfil thus far doss not necessar- |4 “Df ‘yéu mean the Jimfty Who rked here Some time ago?’ asked blaé eyed stenographér. “That t young man Who never noticed at least never o that the gi 2 d the young didn't notite s volutly or even aloud at all, ' it that was .simply’ because Was afraid of himself, girls who would have begn with Jimmy’'s compgny.” .“I always thought he was a dear” the blue eyed stenographer, “I often wondered why he was the most egrhmd‘ m‘t! to my party the time 1 2elt that his looks re- invite him it. But iy and .didn’t know how to show “iers was Maggle, for instance. T l}fmie, He tell me 50, but I have a Won- #ful sixth—or maybe it's seventh— in siich matters, And Marion! sitive if Marion smiled at Jim- id Hdve keeied over with 1 bellevé also that he Louite, Helen, Veronica, Da. atia phne and you. I'm s, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ‘The Heating Problem. Mr, Bditor-~just a few words about the;huumg problem. . In the first place most of houses in the country are not built for comfort in cold weather. It is an easy matter to heat the air in the upper part of the living rooms but when we undertake to keep the frost out of the floors and stop the frosty air from pushing through the cracks all around the base boards, it takes a lot of extra fuel and the re- sult is npt very satisfagtory. No ene can be domfortable with ~cold feet. now, if the lower part of the houses was encloséd with a tight wall of suf- ficient thickness to make them frost proof, the compartively small addi- tional expénse of such ° construction would be offsét by saving in fuel in a very short time. With small stohes as plenty as they are in most country places a rubble wall which could be made to look well enough could be added at any time. Again, in these times when fuel is §0 hard to get in a £06d many places, if people wotild set stoves out away from the wall and chimney the radiat- ing surface of those two or three ex- tra lengths of stove-pipe would make & lot of difference. The idea is to} eatch all the heat we can before it goés into the chimney and is wasted, A good many farmers use coal. If you have wood on vour place which can be used for fuel now is the time to show your patrietism by cutting it for that purpese and ledve the coal on the market for those who havé not | the wood and are obliged to buy ! ot " i!l the fuel they use. Do your bit in Skl UNCLE BILLIE Ragleville, Jan. 2, 1918, Views of the V?giiantes CUTTING DOWN ON THE NCN-ESSENTIALS By"Edward Hungerford of The Vig- ilantes. A man coming into one of the large New York hotéls today, for the first time in some months, wouid not gain a very vivid impression that the one of the most truthful lines ever penned by won fair lady,’ otherwise he wouid have given it a workout. , Fle just Wheréas they —Were P his love that was hid under a bushdl would never be the army one day last week. He came in yesterday to say good-by—to the boys. the girls: vatious shower of wrist watcthes, five pairs of puttees, fineteen botes Pipes, P& v -three comfort kits, three camp, outis. pledges of knitted socks and forty- nine cabinet photos, to be worn next to his heart, with the addresses of the donors on each.” g ful!” exclaimed the blue eyed stenog- rapher with a pearly tear in the cor- ner of each eve. loved | wonderful, salesman. 1 blame- but himself.”—Chicago News. L:art of the ration of their wife country was at war; involved in one Jf ‘the very great crisis of its exist- enice, True it is ‘that the dining- rooms are draped in flags, that Mr. Hoover's injunctions are solemnly upoh the mefnu-cards, that m in khaki are seated here and there and everywhere and that all tise upon the playing of the natiomal anthem. These evidences of patri- otism are mnot difficult. An effort, more or less successful Has been made to close restaurant and cabaret festivities 2t one o'clock in the morn- ing. But that is about" all. Jazz- bands still bang out their discordant melodies in the cheap places, with softerstoned orchestras for the more expensive ones. There is gaiety in the air, And prosperity to sign the check. “We're keeping them cheered up.” sald the sleek proprietor of the res-’ tanrant, with a wink, “You know. Business as usual” Be he means, “pleasure as nsual” Go over upon Fifth Avenue. press of limousines,is as great as in any o6ther Decémber; perhaps éven groeater. Cars run in second-speed all the way from Thirty-third street to Yixty-third and there is a tremendous wastage of gasolene. What matters it that the president of one of the very largest of our 6il companies warns us that we are usihg gasolene far fastér than e ate producing it, that there i8 less than five years re- serve remaining and that soon wé will Bave to begin putting aside a large amount of the best.product for that gréat new aviation fleet which is to be America’s chief contribution te the war? Does that worry the men in any one of those cars? As . for that matter does .it worry you in yours? Is it any of your business f.hg& there are 25000 men—nearly ten full-sized regiments—today engaged in driving private pleasure automo- biles in the city of New York; per- hapg twice that number elsewhere in the country. Is that yvour business— or mine? I rather think that is. Is it any of our business that we cannot manufacture phonographs rapidly enough to fill the demand at this time; that it is a big season in fues; that florists never had a better year? Should we not rejoice that the hon-essentials are doing so well in these bitter times Why not business as usual? Englatid can answer that question. 8he went throuzh the same per- formance? She tried to stretch her industrial productivity despite a grédt shortage of man-power—into making an increased output of both essentialy and non-essentials; and failed. We shall fail if we persist in tfying to do the same thing. Only in our case such 4 failure would® ®e #ven more tragic. For the best titings, in addition to food-stuffs, weé can supply to aid the AHies afid the great cause to which we are gil pledged are the products of our industrial productivity—guns, powder, clothing, shoes, aeroplames, motor- trucks, loeomotives, railroad cars; and then the ships in which to carty 4l these things overseas. Of monsy we Have & plenty; already we are g g geéneroisly of it to our Allie: #e can supply and shall—but am afraid, never in more than a com- paratively limited number. But ;u- ! we gan and should supply— th almost unlimitea quantities. Yat these weé canmot zive pleatifully The | i “Jimmy evidently had 'never read man, ‘Faint heart ney ished © unde the hallucination the girl dn’t care for him, completely én- with any common or, gardeh variéty of boob that ever crossed theff I knew | path. “At last, feeling that. the glimmer of noticed, he ' joined And this is what he got from Twenty-seven kisses of l!ax and dimensions, & ntimental ‘tears, seven of cigars, eighteen ten fountain pens, fifty “Oh, weren’t the girls just wonder- “Girls were, are and always will be replied the young boad “A shy hoy has no ome to unless we have plentiful man-power. And_ our England’s has been depleted by drafts for our army. have learned from her mistakes and showed more men for the trenches and le{ving the right typés for our essentfal indus- tries, the fact remains that our fight- ing serviee already drains These drains we cannot now prevent. But we can prevent the drain of non- essential industries upon our work- men, to say nothing of our materials u&% our very limited supply of fuel. must §top. England stopped it—in a large meastire at least—by forbidding the employment of men between thé ages of elghteen and sixty-one years man-power, like that of the And even if we judgment in, picking has made great our industrfal army. upon this is the very thing that we in sixty-eight industries. which she classified a8 .non-essential. And when one of the manufacturers barred, or practically barred. from making his product protested. saying that he must keep his plant and organization together until the return of peace, she found othet work for him. Thus a factory given ordinarily to the out- put let us say of candy, suddenly might find itself manufacturing can- ned tomatoes for the Army, at a price which not only enabled the eandy- maker to keep his business together out to gain a small profit.from it. And if he was at all puzzied at the details of canning tomatoes the gov- ernment smoothed. out hi& problems. Tn Great Britaln, more than 10.000 plants large and small. in other davs urning out & tremenddusly diversi- fied list of produets are today under government direction making the sup- An escaped sivilian from Beigium says: The sityation is made worse, es- pecially in winter, by the enorméus pricz of coal (£107& ton) and of clothes and boots (£4 to £4). Even the upper class has to suffer, In the Hainaut province, where I was travel- ing this summer, the number of desti- tute bas increased from 60,000 to 400 000. The workmen are obliged to tak and children if they wafnt t6 do any work: they are iosing weight at a fearful rate nd . their mortality has trebled durifig tihe past yéar. ' I have had the op-! portunity of talking to them and have visited their homes. They only take two meals & day and often fast on Sundays. In the course of my patriotic work in Belgi I made the acquaintance of a publican who kept a small cafe in ofie of the BrusselS subiirbs. This man has done more for the allied cause than many soldiers. He had an obscure death. I saw him with 25 comrades cartied away to our national shooting ranze in one of the German motor- buses which I know only too well He was allowed, the day before, to bid & last farewell to his daughter, a lit- tle girl of 10. Ha did not hide the truth frem the child. “Tomotrow,” he sald, “at 5 o'clock, I shal be shot by the enemy. I want you to get up early to play the ‘Brabanconne’ or vour piano. I Shall heéar it over there, you may be sure, and I shall cry ‘Long live Belgium!’ Do as I téll you, it will help men.—London Times. Bread discovered in Zeppalins which came to grief in France last monti has been folind, on expert examination, o consist of two kinds, The first sample of the baby-killers' loaves prove ed to be made of unmixed rye of pre- cisely the kind ordinarily cofisumed on a considerable scale in Germany. The other a sample was from a loaf made of wheaten flour containing an ad- anfxtu.re of 10 to 12 per cent. of rice our, The carbo-hydratss neceseary to sustenance at high aititudes were fur- nished in the form of a thick layer of lard between slices of rye hremd, while sandwiches between slices of the wheaten loaf was a generous portion of honey. “A cloud overhangs Austrs.Hunga- rian relations,” says a telegram from enna to the “Bund” at Lausanne, and quoted by the Exchanges corres- pondent {n that city. The Hungarian agitation at a ecritical period of the war in faver of an indépendent Hun- garian army has caused great sur- prige in Vienna. The growing bitterness between the partners in the Dual Monarchy finds expression in the press of both na- tions. An article in the “Magya- rorzag.’ ontitled “Divorcons,” has created a sensation at Vienma. The newspaper says that tiie ery ::Los von Oosterreich” & heard even in ciycles at Budapést friendly to Austria, and says that the desire to break with their partner is manifesting itself amonz Hungarian politicians—Exchange. A letter from an Englishman to the war counzil says: “Think of the in- famy of all this bisiness. Barley grown near a mill goes by rail to a distant bréwery; batley from a dis- tance comes by rail to the mill. Haye we really trains as. well as food to waste? Our war-timé = drink = ships have brought 5,000,000 tons of food fot breweries tg destroy. Had we saved it we should have had a national bread. resetve for 47 weeks and sugar for 38 weeks, and we could now spare ships to transport the entire American army. “We are asked to eat less, and for every two loaves we save you give ovr brewers three. We are asked to save ships for America, and for every two ships we save by rationing bread we should save three by mipplnl‘ drink. Italy cries for bread, and in our brew- eries a vear's supply for the Itallan army is waiting to be destroyed. s are asked to defeat U-boats and for every shipload of bread the submarines destroy British brewerias daatrov mix. GLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES Years had to sen for molasses like Brer Rabbit. - Now all first class ers carry Brer %bit ?:Z Molassesin medium and large size-cans. Never sold from barrels, Brer Rabbit and 'gofl biscuit;ry are elicious., it today. PEMICK & FORD, LTD, Lnrgest Cahingry of Molasses in the World New Orleans, La. R O SR plies essential for England’s part in the winning of thé war. Here is a lesson by which the Uni- ted States may profit—if only she will heed it in time. It has not as yet sunk far. When it does sink and Wwe begin to tajke héed, there will be a lijtle less gayety in the hotels; == they -and the theatres will begin to take on more of the complexion of Lonfion - playhouses nnd (hostels, where there is light and laughter — and supreme confidénce —but re- straint as well. THere will be léss pressure of passénger automobiles upon Fifth Avenue, New York, of Michigan Avenue, Chicago, ~ or any other of the great pleasure streets in the land. The \‘.hh:gi 1 noticed mo:cy a recent trip to Montreal, after an absence of two years, was the tre- mendous reduction in the namber of motor cars upon the streets; the fact that most of those within sight were driven by meén and women, ob- viously their owners. Canada has had to learn her lesson. And so, must we. Only it is within our power to inake that lesson reasonably easy— or fearfully hard. And if we do not practice self-denial now we undoubt- €dly shall be compelled to practice it at a later time; and in a far greater meastire. 0 3 Is this farce to go on till we lose the war in a shameful peace? “But if we do not like thest things you will make us. While drinkers may have double rations, you will put the rest of ux oh compulsions. Those who drink may Have as much grain as they like; those who ohey the RKing's Proclamation may have so much and ns more. Do you think you can make British. mothers {ake the breéad from their children’s mouths to throw it into brewerd’ vits? We aie getting om, but we have some dignity left. Cotton, paper, food, all the decent things are going, but we will not 'et our children hunger while you throw 750,000 loaves a day {ato breweties.” Latest retufns from the Canadian polling booths in England ang France show that the total of Votes polled is 175,000. About 9,600 men have record- ed their votes in London. Vating was a8 brisk as ever yesterday. The elec- tion will be in progress up to Decem- het 17th-—Tondon Chronicle. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” says: nificance of the B quoistion. General ed by a political demonstration, so participated. Nothing fas been lost strategically by the surrendeér of Jerutalem. The gig- sh success lies in the political field, in which it is incontestable, The success is ‘alsg very great in its bearing upon the Syrian Allenby’s report shows that be is making the best pog- sible use of the advantages to be gain- in which the French and Italians have al- Meatniwhile it must be % “laddin Seeing This Pioture is Like TODAY AND SATURDAY Alice Joyce iN The Fettered Woman Adapted ‘from R, W. Chambar's Widsly Read Novel, “Anrie’s Bridge” ] Pathe News - “Big V. Comedy COMING SOON The Magnificent Screen Spectacle “THE WARRIOR” WATCH FOR IT victim is Mme, Malaxa, aged 76. A fourth victim, Peodoresco of Constan- 2a, was kept in a cell for six months with irons on his hands and feet. Ten other distinguished Rumanians, formérly gZovernment officials, weére subjected to sintilar cruel treatment at the Holzminden prisoner camp.—Wire- less Press. “Plevna? | never heard of it. Iknow of nothing later than the 14th century,” said Ruskin, when he was tald that the Turkish stronghold had passed ifito Russian hands forty years ago this week. King Ferdinand of Rumania will not forget the anniversary. The crown he wears is of steel, wrought out of a Turkish cannon won by -gajlant Ru- mantan soldiers at Plevna. He knows what Plevna meant. It means the re- demption of Ruménia from Turkish | bondage. It is grievous thutthe gloris <L ous anniversary should fall on a day. 50 dangerous to the fortunes of his country. Most of the 23 speeches of Sir Rob- ert Borden frém which Mr. Percy Hurd hag compiled his interesting narrative were delivered in Canada and thé United States, and are therefore quite new in this country. They all deal with the war, and have ah immediate Value in view of the Canadian elections which ciose on Monday next, and up- on which great issues depend. Thére is hardly a Canadian or Imperia] phase of the war upon which the Canadian prime minister in these speeches does nbt touch, and they will appeal 'as much to the people of the Uhited Kingdom as to the soldiers from Cafi- ada. It is one of the most remarka. ble incidénts of this war that the Do- minion, with its population of iunder eight million, has already, uader the voluntary system, sent nearly 500,000 men deross the Atlantic to fight Ger- mahy. No other war has yielded such; a4 significant demonstration, and no! embpire but our own could have ocea- ioned it. Mr. Hurd’'s compilation can- rot be read by any Briton without a thrill gf .pride—London Chronicle. An extraordinary picture of the coa) ctisis in Berlin is given in a long ar- ticle in yesterday's “Vorwaerts” It may be accepted that the description applies to the whole country. As regards the supply for the efvil- ian population, the article says the whole business is sim 808, and the resultant misery in the city, es- pecially of course in the poerer ‘quar- ters, is beyond words: Crowds of people e to walt out- side the coal merchants’ offices, often for six or seven hours. They haveé to wait in winter cold, rain, snow, and mud, and then in the large majority ; MATINEE 205 _ _ 45 ; TTYHE mfipns BEA'«.’mruL 2 e _”' ‘ and the Wonderfol Lamp i - It Bringé Hours of Enjoyment ; GREATER IN LAUGHTER TM. ‘ stomach-ache eatre Rubbing Wishing Lamp Ritek YAUDEYILLY 8os RAE Jewett & Pendleton Ina iinalnn and Dancing Offering “DANCERS FROM DANCELAND” e S S S AN TR THREE ROSALLAS Music With a Smile MURRAY CAHILL The Happy Contedian FEATURE PHOTOPLAY Julian Eltinge CLEVER MRS. CARFAX CURRENT EVENTS Mat, 2:15) Eve. 6:45 and 8:45 in British hands toddy, and millions of Jews survive to return. | Carthage and its people? fought for the mastery of the entire world, & more thoroughly than Jerusalem. Not only was évery single structure in it demolished: the entire site of Carth- age was passed under Where are Carthage 1t lost, anq was destroyed far the plough. Where are the Carthaginians toda: And where are the Saracens who van- ished after eight centuries of domin- ion in Kurope?—fLondon Chronicle. CHLD'S TONGUE “BECONES COATED IFCONSTATED WHEN CROSS, FEVERISH AND SICK GIVE “CALIFORNIA 8Y- RUP-OF FIGS. Children love this “fruit laxative,” and nothing else cleanses the tender stomach, liver and boweis so nicelyy A child simply will not stop play- ing to empty the bowels, and the re- sult is, they become tightly clogged with waste, lver gets sluggish, stom- ach sours, thén your little one becomes cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat, sleep _or act naturdlly, breath is bad, satem full of cold, has sore throat, or -diarfhoea. Listen, Mother! Sez if tongue is coated, then give a teaspoonful of YCalifornia Sy- rup of Figs” and in 4 few hours all the constipated waste,’ gour bile and undigested food passes out of the tem, and yeu have a well, playful child again, Millibns of mothers give “California Syrup of Figs” because it is perfectly harmiess; cHildren love it and it never falls’ fo act on the stomach liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for.a 60-cent bot- tle of “California Syrup of Figs” which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainiy printed on the bottie. Beware of eases they g0 away empty-handed, I vet ugh and frozen, to their cold of counterfeits sold here. Get the gen- uine, made by “Callfornia Fige Syrup homes. _ Countless Dbitter despairing letters to_us tell of people who, for weeks and months, have been totally unable to obtain even a lhandful of fuel of any sort. For months they have heen unable to obtain heat for cooking and washing. They have been forced to go cold, hungty, and filthy. It is customary to speak of the trageédy of Jerusalem and the Jews as the most compieté in history. But is that true? A daughter Jerusalem is assumed that the last word has not yet been sroken in the strategical or Palestine. —EX- political affairs of change. Bookmén who know the Bndlr Library will be interestéd to hear Mr. W. R, the library. Jack Tar has magnificently windward of the multitudé o ‘who smoke. Nieotine. of his monthly “slo by the recent free ki wise—London Chroniele: che Zeitung” points out, many will pearance. Cottonwool and coi obtainable, will be unlighted. Confectionery, we are told, “is prac- tieally not to be had,” and &ingerbread Toys which on the average ate 100 per cent. dear- “simply does nOot exist” et, are only offered for sale in smal fquantities, The article notes & curiotis efféct of high prices and thé difficuities in the way of buying things—an enormous Nearly every big shop in Berlin is compelled, owing increase in shoplifting. to thefts, to’ employ detéctives, The Rumanian | issued a Germany. G They inglude Michel Antohesco, the doyen of the Rumanian bar and for- merly vice president of the Rumanian chamber of députies. Anotier victim is Diacagescu, a judge at the highest Rumanid, A third court af aoneal in iau hat Sims, who has Been half a century on the staff and is now senior assistant, {8 to receive the degree of Bachelor of Music this week. Mr, 8fms has an expert’s knowledge of music, and takes oversight of the scores in ot 1o meén In the matter of lobacco he has always been better off than the rest of us; today he is the happlest of all the worshippers of My Lady His tobaceo is to cost him exactly nothing. Tobacco is one of the items that come to him by way chit” and thege t concession are fnow what he calls “Harry Freeman.” ‘Whitehall eays 80, and for once tie matelot agrees that my lords are all German housshelds are all accus- tomed to havé a Christmas tree, but this year, as an arti¢le in the Vossis- have to do without fit, owing to the high prices, and in cases wheére it is obtained it will preseit an unusual ap- lored paper for its ornamentation will be practieaily un- and as candles are ex- trémely scarce and expensive the tree ation in Berne has communication dendiuncing tite brutal treatment of Rumanian of- villan prisoners, dragged from their Lomes in Rumania and internea in Never Let genius in Cineinnati who covered freezone. callus. Instant! disappears and 1 find seed have no fears. crowned or exthacted , CCNSIDER THESE ETRICTLY BANITARY OFFICE G STERILIZED INSTRUM, me 1 LOWEST PRICES CONSIST ¥ theso appesl to you, eail for ehi or consultation. DR. F. & JACKSON \ 202 MAIN ST, Latly Asistant Women! Keep It On Dresser! Instantly! Few dropsstop corn-soreness, then corns and calluses shrivel, loosen and: lift out with fingers—No pain! The world owes thanks to the Tiny bottles of the magic fluid can now be had at any drug store for & few cents. You simply apply & few drops of this freezone upon & tender, aching corn or s hardened the soreness e corn or callus 86 loose Don’t You Wanti Good Teeth? Does the dread of eh-.dnn-l ohair 5'3' n: i oI LV ABSoLUTELY "WiTHOU CLEAN LINEN DENTISTS (Successors to the King Deatal Co.) A W taBP M Company.” Refuse any other with contempt. THE 124TH AN AL, MEETING of the Muttal ahy of the City of Nor be helid at the Notwich Savin y Monday, * Jan. 14th, 1918, at ?fl 4. m. Notice to Policyholders. Policles will be renewed at the Nor- wich Bavings Seciety on presemtation, dec24d C.'R. BUTTS. Treasurer. Corns Ache Twice and shriveled that you lift it off with the fingers. Not a bit of pain or soreness is folt when applying freezone or after wards, It docsn't even irritate the skin or flesh. For & few cents one can now get rid of every hard corn, soft corn, or torn between the toes, 88 well as painful cslluses on bottom of feet without pain, Ladies! Koep it on the dresser. die- will 40 negiect them? Yeu testh flled, “paIN. OTHER FEATURES INTS ASEPTIC DRINKING CUPS ENT WITH BEST WORK éx&mination and estimats. L] OR. 0. 4. COYLE NORWICH, CONN, Telophane