Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 5, 1918, Page 4

and Qoufied 122 YEARS OLD Sabecrition price 128 & wesk; 500 n meath; $5.00 yoer. CIRCULATION Nov. 30, 1918, 10,457 THE WAR STAMP DRIVE. % -One of the very important ways in Svhich the small contributor has been a chance to marticipate in the rnishing of funds to {he government order to meet the expenses of the Svar has been throush the purchase of Jvar savings stamps. This has per- Initted of systematic saving and as- Jures to the holder the same guarantee $hat goes with government bonds, The §ar savings stamps are in fact little Fovernment bonds which will' be pay- #ble with interest in 1822 During tho week or elght days eom- fmeneing with Saturday Norwich is to bave a drive for the purpose fo com- leting its quota. According to the f'an it is hoved that each individual ill become a holder of at least $20 orth of these stamps, or that each Semmunity will purchase ‘enough of them to equal that much per capitn, This means that Norwich's share is $600000 of which amount about one-half has already been bought, Jeaving a like amount to be raised In this camnaign which is to be opened Saturday. «»These stamps of course represent an investment, one which matures within @ fow years and such a one as per- mits everyone to participate. Thers afe a fow cities of the state which Hlye about raised their allotment. It i€ mot unreasonable to suppose that thers are many pledged to buy these stamps who will do =0 in accordance therewith befo the first of the year, hut regardie: of that probable gain every possible effort should be made on the part of ¢he people of this com- funity to see that this commendable it of war financing should he made o at least reach the top. Norwich has done its duty in other respects and there is no reason to expect but what it will in this matter. ‘DR. GARFIELD'S RESIGNATION. - The action of Dr. g from the ofice of eld in resian. uel administra. for for the countrv, the the cors respondence with the president has not been made is from all indiea- tlons much the same as_that taken hy many others who were called away from their other dutles to help out the eountry in time of nnusual cons ditions. Apparently Iministrator Garfleld feels that the situation is such thal his services are no longer necs essary and th he should et back to his work as the head of Williams col. lege as soon as possible. The situa- tion of the collezes of the country is certainly far from being what it onght 1o be and his institution needs him now if it ever did The retirement of Dr. Garfield doss not, however, mean that it will not be repessary to maintain the restrictions| upon fuel. The situation shows marked improvement over last year at this time and there is no question but what there will be sufficient fue] pro- vided for all uses. The country's needs were being taken eare of much better even before the armistice was signed when it was believed that an- cther winter of the war was faeed, tHn at any previous time sinde the fBel control was inaugurated iDr. Garfield has held one rdest emergcncy positiens in the 15t. ly recognize the dif- figulties which have been enceuntered apd the handi under whieh . the work had to be dome. Many things hve served to complicate the gitua- tion because of the dependence which had te be placed upon other ggen- cigs. Certainly the fuel administra- 1i6n has not worked without criticjsm, but the best judgment on the real merlts of his work is perhaps geing to be reached after a full understan ing of the problems faced is obtained. of the TIME TO GET TOGETHER. It may be as claimed both in Peru and Chile that there are ho- efforts being made to engage in a way, apd that the mobilization of the army in Chile ig simply for the purpose of keeping down labor troubles, as one report has it. Certainly it is to be cure sugar more fréely, but it would not have beem surprising if it had been hecessary to wait until after the . opening of the new year before ]! the bars were taken down. , Bvon now it may not be possible at 'once to buy in large quantities as was done before the war, and it is perhaps well that such should not be the case. All will be satisfied if they can be assured of getting what 1is needed when it is wanted and know that the danger of a ghortage has been over- come, and that is what the removal of the regulations seems to indicate. It ts well to remember that though the war time system of ratloning has been done away with there is bound to be for some time the need of the consumer continuing a reasonable and voluntary system of his own, which will permit him to satisfy all his needs and yet net rush into the market and buy sugar in such quantities that the impression” would be gained that he was trying to corner the commodity. Every effort has been made to pre- vent hoarding and certainly with plen- ty of sugar for all, due to the new crops which nre being furnished, it is well to see that no attempte are now made o stock un for long periods of time,. It i3 quite evident that such is not necessary and in this as in other things it should be understaod that any action of that kind would not only be inclined to affect the chances of others getting it, but it would be_likely to hava the wrong kind of influence upon the nrice, and certainly sugar, as well as other nec- essities, is already too high. CANNOT BE TRUSTED. Some time ago it was declared that there ecould be no further dealings with the imperial Cerman goyern- ment. This was becruse it was im- nossihle to place anv trust therein, By ite actions and eonduct it quielly de- stroyed all confidence in 1t, When it made premises it was only for the purpose of creating a Wrong impres. sion. It had no idea of kecping them. inasmuch as no reliance could be plaeed in it every statement by it and every act in which it participated was suspected. The situation deesn't appear to be much different now it we ure to judge Ly the rituation suryeunding the ab. Gieation of the kaiser. Those who pro- feesed to speak for the German iov- ernment at the time of the - signing of the armistice gave notice to the world that the kniser had abdicated and that the crown prince had re- nounced his right of succession. The text of such docyments were neyer published but the fact that the Hohen- zolierns fled ‘o Holland appeared to substantiate the claim. Since then the admission has been made that the first alleged abdication wasg false, sinee another and a real givs ing ud of his claims to (he office of emperor has taken place and this re- runciation has been pubiished. Bu: this does not include the crown prinee, e declares that he has given up nothing, \ Lut in view of the deceit and treach- «ry which has been experienced in dealing with Germany all sueh mat- ters, as wall as the claims and ap- peals coming therefrom are hound to be discounted. And when it comes to the matter of arranging the detalls of peacs it is quite apparent that all Germany is going to get an opportu- rity to do is to agree to the terms af- ter they have heen agreed upon by the tllied nations. It has no reason te expect anythinz more, EDRITCRIAL NOTES. December with its snow flurries is =iving us o hint of only what we have reason to expect at this seagon of the year, It should be remembered that a zood bit of relief work is being done by getting In your Christmas shonping ca The man on the corner says: If you're stuck for a proper Christmas wift don't overlook war savings stamps. In talking about.the left hank of the Rhine no one feels quite certain that the other fellow has the right one in mind, If the war advocates are in contrel it looks like a good ehance for them to kick up seme real trouble between Chile and Peru Perhaps- ne s more surprised than Holland te wake up to the reali- “Good night” sai o front doo;'."flnncxg; ini Bhrary she paused hefore her peacefully read- | time ing father, “Well?”_ghe inguired with a toueh “Huh?" asked her statiled “Well, what 0 tris Carolin brows fle and :a:“ dow l?' ‘ghm h' nmt‘r'Y q-:e"u-lzgfi ne. IWRYS t them and most are perfectly ::fi t0 be funny! But 1 T'q get it aver with this time 15 undi s at e dinner tabie and wo ha something. aid you Think about umm" G '1' w:ln!" said her w-o’:-nt“a't_l'ndvuly. 8 m‘ every “No, "‘?flwfl fi“:"'é" lnt::; rupted 5 own. ¥ book pre umw 's_because 1 sat where I could wateh you and—" “Have I me Privaw in my own home?” asked her father in’ g-!-t in- dignation. P The idea of your— “And I knew you wore thinking about him every. time you did it,” ps ceeded his daughter ruthlessly. “It made me sqnirm. You acted just that way the first time Hodgett Burns came to cal! and I have never seen him since W\ out thinking ahout your nicknaming him the Codfish, The trouble is he looks cxactly like a fish. when you consider it, only I would have lived and died witout ever hay- ing realized it if it hadn't been for your pointing it out to mo. jome. how, T've never liked Hodgett very much sigee—and if you are going to break up all my friendships—' tensify your interest in- said her father. ‘Instead of having to plan your next geason's wardrobe while he ls horing 'you to death with a voeal nois2 about what he did when you'd prefer to talk about what you did, you could occupy your mind making notes concerning the cu- rious resemblance and the iittle sim- ilarities. Why, I know a man whe logks so much like a greyhound that T get a thrill every time 1 jneet him, and I like him immensely. One geis tired of regu'ar human keinzs. Whe 1s this Curtis Phillips fonizht? I could get nothing but his r¢ile be- cauge of the chair you put him in. 1 take it his full face is not s good w when 1 :‘D mfi-»- ours day an rann e to know how you ex: pect me to polish up my profile in that brief time.” 'he {dea!" (laroling said indigngnt- . “Curtis fen't at all thar sort. Why, less than a Year ago I heard his m’wr call him back clean from the it gate to wash his face befare he played tennis! - And he doesn't talls Dbgt what he's done! Curtls is very intellignt! . He's heen devating sim- ply heaps of time to reading sbout the war. T guess he's real almost ev- erything there is to read and you'd be perfectly surprised at his ideas” ¢ he” aeked her father hopeful- %d he pappen to say .'Im”v:hen the war was golng to cnd?” ol “Yes, he dfl;," sald roline. “He said he was absolutely cartain that—" “Neyer mind,” her father got in ‘hastily. “And he explaing and Pershing aye tn do this win- ter,” added Caroline friumphantly. “I should think vou could see that he has an_extraordinary brain! He.-" “1 did," sald her fathse feelingly. “T wae 50 amazed at his brain that I couldn’t read my book! I never in my life heard sueh a congiomeration of migin-s" f’flll m just what TFoch “Isn’t he wends " thrilled Caro- line excitedly, s glad you thought so, 100! T'm so zlad you iike him! Tm coing to have him here lots this winter—what dil vou say?" “Er—I just sort of couzhed" ex- plained her father. “Well,” said his daughter. getfing to her feet ani yawning with a little smile, “most anybedy wouil admire Curtls Fhillips, T think he is perfect- Iy wonderful Den't yeu?™ The fatiler of the family took one m‘ol;1 atflher glowing face and swallow- ed hard, “Oh, go to bed,” he ordered.—Chica- 80 News. STORIES OF THE WAR Fighting Northwest From Verdun. (Correspondence of The Asseciated Press.) The country over which the Amer- ieans fought thelr way northwest from Verdun presents a picture of rain, de- struction an deselation. The vil are upinhabited and homes sepulehres, Torn by mines causing huge eraters, gashed by bomba ents which made hundreds of theusands of sheji-holss and strewn with broken o ahapdoned BVNS, WOE heaps of ammupition, helmets and #l] the othe: debris of four years of despopate fizhting, the vhale poute betrays the awfu! effects lvervwhers. in every djrcction and protecting each slight angle and nook, across the roads until torn away by shells or human han less strands of barbed it rusted hv the raima cra: turvey on iis supporting stakes that have fallen to right and left. “If jt takee four years to win the war” said one casuai visitor to the front, “it wilj take six vears to roll un the harb wire that has been used in winning it Take, for instance, the trip from ruined, desolate Avoeourt northward to Malaneourt and Montfarican, the scene of some of the bittecest fighting of the entire war. Avocourt was in riins before ever the American offen- sive started. For a solid mile nerthward the road winds across foothills that once were covered yrith green troes but now are shorn and bare. Glegantic mines have! torn the road in twain and gouged out holes fifty and more feet deep, a hun- dred and more feet across, ta gzet| around or across which engineers have had to exercise their ingennity and the surrounding country, swipped of its woad, has furnished the roek. Wortu- nately there is plenty of that. Ta either side of the road are the remains of what were onte livable, comfortable dugouts and buildings, blown into thousands of yieces by dis- chearges of explosive when the enemy rotreated. Further a feld as far as the eye can reach aeross ihe low hills are hundreds and thoussnds of shell holes, their craters overlapping, Mg and little holes from missiles of every charaster, thut have torn and searred the earth almest beyond the hppe of redemptign. Everywhere is the debris of the hat- tlefleld, gums, helmets, nrticles of clothing, piles and heaps of ammuni- tion, hroken-down and splintered wa- gons, caissons and trucks, And, if one go over {he scene soon enough, bodies | awaiting burial. The comparison between Malacourt and Avocourt is striking—tecaure the former has suffered so. much more, Buildings no lenger have lieen a sem- blanee of their farmer state. Where in Avocourt walls at least still stand here and there, in Malancourt every- thing has been razed as thought with dynamite, and the crumbling remnants are seized upon to rebuild the shat- tered roads gnd make them passable for the insatiable armies ahead that must have more and even more ammu- nitior, and food and suppliss, Neither Malancourt, nor Montfau- €an, nor any one of a seore’ of towns within the sector where the Ameri. cars operated has a single living in- habitant left. In every direction’ is a waste of eraters and up-torn earth. It is the quaintessence of desulatign and nothingless. zation that it has been entertaining the kaiser all the time. Postmaster General Burigson will find himselr up against real good brawny epposition if he tries to get control of the elotheslines. There are still four goel weeks fn which to make geod op those pledges tc buy war savings stamps. It is an investment whish no eme should try to dedge. Conditions this winter are ne dif- ferent than on previous ones emcept that the priee of eoal started upward before the thermometer geot to gsoing down very far. The talk gbout the viee president le a change to refresh their memor- es as to whe hoids that pffice. What President Wilson wanted the heped so for there has been bloodshed enough in the last four years to make afy nation want to avoid all sem- blance of it. There is apparently no reason why these two South American countries pught not to adjust their differences If thers is a disposition to do so. From #ll indications the difficulty is not in. surmountable and does not require the of arms to bring about a nent settlement, two provinces in te, which taken from Peru under the un- ding that a plebiscite should which government should control them are direetly seuth the present southern boundary of country to do at the last eiestion was to give him a consress which would do his hidding even as will the peaee de] ‘which he has named. One the very strange things in connection with the e conference is that President Wilsen feit it was necessary for him to go, oF that the allies should want his personal coun~ sel, a8 long as Colonel House was al- ready there. The cemptroller of the treasury ¢laimg that centraets maede by tela- vhope or telegraph with companies engaged on war work are no good. But what a howl would haye gone up from Washingten if these sams man- Liacturers had refysed to prepare to exeeute those contracts on the same The once beautiful wooded slopes and hills are now torn and gashed Great artillery bombardments have stripped hillsides of all but the stumps of thelr trees, which tower pathetical. EEPING EGZEMA SOON RELIEVED A Parfoct Traament For This Distressing Complaint Eczema; go had that my eclothes would be wet through at tim 1 suffered terribly., loonl’m no relief until I tried ‘Pruit-a-tives (or Fruit Liver Tublets) and ‘Sootha Salva’, The first treatment gave me relief. Altogether, T have used three boxes of ‘Soothg Salva’ and two of ‘Fruit-g-tives’, and am entirely well”, G. W. HALL, Both these remedies are sold by dealers at 50c. a bex, 6 for $2.50, or sent by FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, N.¥, . “Fruit-a-tives” is also put upina Iy against the sky witheut hranohes or foliage, mere crippled relics of thy former selves Many of them have heen fhottered by shells us by light- aing, ofbers cut off gy though by bung- ling wood croppers unabi: to fell a a tree cleanly. The raconsiruction of Europe s admittedly eoing to be a lonz, hard {axk, far’ lopger than the war that| mide it neaessary, Tn time to come the meadows and vallevs netween Avo. court and Malapcoyrt will be green | P . and {he trees of 1he Argonne | Vorest STEW Up a8 they did herore | 1914. But as tkey all look now it scems vory, very far in the furure hofore the | rush’ the utter destmiction. can he| made pood apd the former status of this portion of Franee resicred. ive bf & Great Thought. Here is an enret from a letter written by a Red Cross aide, do-| scriptive of the final seenes of the| war, and suggestive of a great| thaught: i “It is my custom, uhless it is rajn- | ing too hard. towtake a brisk walk! fram my quarters. after breakfast, up | round the chateau which is at the ex, creme end of our emelosure, Let me tell you, or rather suggest to you, since I have not the power to te]l if, the lovely thing—or botter—the bit of loveliness I saw this morning, There was a peculiar effect of atmosphere. a sort of delioate frosty hage oyer everything, softening all outlines and enveloping famillar outlines with an | alt of mvstery that was quite won- | dorful. There was a sort of hush' about it that added an element almost | of awe to-its charm and made me,! while wishing there were others to| enjoy It with me, vet glad to be alone. | “The sun was pretty well up and | mounting rapidly, and gaining in! brightness as it ciimbed. Just as 1 was going to turn off to the read. T turned for one backward glanee at the view I like best—the’ glimpse from the end of the farden that one gets| through a sort of arched pergola he- twesn the main building and a sort| of connected section—always heautl- ful—when T was transfixed hy the glory of the picture I beheld. The building itself was almpst lost to view, its whiteness melted into the ofter pearliness of the haze, but the exquisitely proportioned arches stood out in reliel lke ‘some great cathe- dral window-—not of earth, but of seme celestial region of unutterable beauty —fpr.beyond which was the slight]y darker mass of trees in the distance; and the pereeptibly brightening rad- jance of the sunlight was like some heavenly stage manager of supreme artistry’ “turning on the light* with so deft a hand and so steady an eve that the physical senses eould not meagure, but the spirit felt how the pale mystery was being warmed to golden glory. ¢ “While I' stood - spellbound, several of our boys came out of the woods, first a single, ghostly fizure, then a couple of them slde my side, then a larger group of three or four, without a sound of their footsteps or voloes breaking the perfect stiliness, mount- ed the half-dozen steps on the side towards me, crossed the spaee be- tween those marvellous portals—just {ther than the a jmitted to fly in anv British port. Reu- hildpen| éhriotmas gift problem, articles of splendid prie A Few Su Philippine Gowns and Envelapes, Silk Underwear, $3.75 to $5.00 Camisoles, 75¢c to $1.28 Boudoir Caps, 75c to $2560 Lunch Claths, $3.00 to $3.060 Opera Bags, §5.25 Candy Boxes, §1.50 to §7.00 Baby Dresses, §200 to $11.00 Baby Caps, $1.25 to $3.0. for faney work. [Klicuouonceicuoscucs | seas caps, showing like shadows| through the radiant whitenes; d disappeared into the blinding heyond as if-some mighty but infinite- | 1y tender Power had swept them out; of mortal sight into something too! beautiful for human eyes to see. “It took me by the threat somehow,! but with no feeling of anything but! joy and gladness and wonder, and While it was gone almost before T ‘got’ | it, T am syre {t will stay with me ;¢ foreyer, and 1 hope it will in time banieh “other ures—of bloody bat- ! tlefirlds, of anguish. of horror apd suffering—so that when I think of all the boys who have ‘mone on’ in| this war, I shall see them not asj mangied or convulsed corpses, pififul} tenements of hlscd and dust from! 1 h | which the spirit has fled—it might| | almost seem in loathing—but rather | as one of these steady-going, head- uplifted. strajght-forward-gazing men | of heart and brain and soul all| blended into one immortal indiyid- nality, going, in the duty assigned to® them,’ without panic or haste or lag- ging fear, on—on through the portals of one existénce into the beauty o another. whese glory was so. great| that it irradiated even this side of the | gateway between here and other- where.” OTHER VIEW POINTS Hon. William H. Taft is a sreat na- tional harmonizer If he wore to ac- cept the baseball offer he would have to devete his whole enerey to adjudi- cating what ave, in spite of the sport- ing editors, comparativelv pet’y bus- inpss disagreements. The hassba tagnates take their problems tno se- | riously when they ask it. Goo? but- | ter ghould be spread thin.—Waterbury Republican. Admiral von Reuter, eommander of the late German fléct, is an uncon- | selous humorist. He protests against | the order of Admiral Beatty campell- ing the hauling down of the German flag. In view of the faet that Reu- ter's act of uneanditional surrender of his fleet to the ellies automatically trought down that rag it is amusing tp see him protest over the order r: He is characteri: tically Hunnish. Admiral Beatty biuntly sets him right by reminding him that a state of war still exists and that no enemy flag cen be per- ter is an end man in more scnses than one, and he is very amusing —Bristol | Press. The Journal in its news columns last evening called nttention io the fire danger that faced factories outside the city limits because of the decision of the fire board not to respond with the city fire apparatus to calls beyond the limits of the cfty. It was hinted € ONE AT ?NICE &y e, a clill § . &my the. ‘:;ull“haul- a the eutlines of thelr straight, trimly eled bodies topped by the jaunty over- Furs Great frial size which sells for 250, THE SPECIALTY SHOP 140 MAIN STREET . Big Reductions In DRESSES AND SUITS One-third Off THE SPECIALTY SHOP 140 Main Street, oppesite Plaui-Cadden Co, imes. 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WALKER, M.D. | Phone: Office 1262-4—House 128 | | THE LURE OF LUXURY Burton Holmes Travel that this would be the means of ere- ating a real asitation for consolidation SKATING RINK OLYMPIC HALL | AFTERNCONS 230 TO 5 EVENINGS 8 70,1030 P. M. voalize the yalue o getting into ih oity. People who have heen living auiside the city limits and getting 2.1 the benefits of city water, sewers, po- lice and fire protaction, have heen sel- fishly refusing to pay iheir proportion of the share of runping the eity. If ihey would see that the eoat of these v improvements should be distrib uted equably and be willing to pa: their chare, there would be enly ene government here And the cost to theee 20 live a consideratle distance from the center wonld be emall. Perhaps ihe action of the firs heard will bring ihis gltuation to a hend, for when the fire insurance azents learn that there i o fire protection they will prompt- 1 boost the rates antside the city and the man who thought he was getting by building just outside will find that s an expensive matter. He must now whether he comes info the or mot. This is only onme of the argumgnts for consolidation. There ¢ miny and they are all good— erjden Journal. Section 111 ‘of the national defense | act of June 3, 1915, says the Natlonal Guardsmen drafted into the regular army “shall stand discharged from the Tea Consumption Inereassd By Pro- hibition. The marked increase in the impor- tution of tea inte the Unjted Staies lends interest to a statement mage by = British tea grower, that world con sumption of tea is ngw excecding pro- duetion by reason of the reduzed cop- sumption of alcoholie liquors in many of the principal countries of the world. Trohibiticn, he said, s so increasing the consumption of fea that the world'y demands, especlally after the reopen- ing of Russia “must far exceed any production for seme years to The receipts trom India and Ceylon also show a marked increase: having been in the fiseal year 1918 43,000,003 pounds against 11,000,000 in 1917, Still nora recently this mew movement was intensified. and in the eight months ending with August the quantity from the Dutch Fast Indies was 25,000,000 pounds against 5,000,000 in the same months of 1917, and from -British East. Indies 20,000,000 pounds .against &.- 606,000 in the correspon®ing-monmths of 1917, The inereased movement of tea from the British and Dutoch Indies direct to the Unpited States is probably due in part to the diffieyity which those coun- iries bave recently found in sending their teas to Furone, and the feasibil- ity of avoiding submarines by sendins it across the Pacific to the West coast cf the United States, instead of send- ipg it 1o Great Britaln, and the Neth- ¥ core. Whether legislation of. this charac- ter in the United States has or has not affected the consumption oftea, it is at Jeast a fact that the tea im- ports into the United States are now far in ecess of anv preceding vear, A compilation bhv The National City Tani of New York shows that the quantity of tea Imperted ~Into thei United States in the fiscal year 1918 was 151,000,060 nounds, against 108,- 009,000 pounds in the immediately pre- @ s & erjands as former militia” Which means that the Na- | (lqine "Sear. and 115.000.000 in the | Worid. produotion . of: tea mow tional ‘Guard of every stat: In thely o) lecord year 1009, The yalue of |agiounts B Ve Lot 800 pounds union will have to be =y e reorganizel. Some of the states probably will pon- test this view, on the ground that ihe federal government has no right to terminate the contract between the state and its citizens who offered the the imperts of the fiseal ygar 1918 is also 50 ner cent. greater than in any earlier Year, aggresating $31,000,000 in value. against an averaze of about 818,000,000 er annum in the preced- per: annum - {exclusive con- sumed in China and Jupan, for which there is no teeord). Of this, aboul 300,000.000 pounds are produced im In- dia, 200,000000 in Cevlon, 200,000,000 ing five years. in China (for exportatign), 75,000,000 guard. At any yate it brings the “Another cxtremely siriking change |in Japan (for exportation), 150,000,000 question up for decision and if Als0 | in the “tea habit” of the propls of tre |in Formosa and 50,004,000 in Java. opens the matfer of reoramizing the regular army. This in turn suggests the question of the size of our stand- ing army in peace times and the whole problem of universal military servies, Some army officers are in favor of solving the whole problem by the creation of a federal guard, which will include both the regular army and the Vational Guard thus preserving the | latter organization and at the same time offering a nucleus about which | the graduates of the unjversal milita training schopls conld cluster.—Wate; bury Democrat. United States is the disposition to look to the Tndies for our fea supply in- stead of the China-Janan area as in the past. Prior to 1917 most of the tea reaching the United Btates came from Japan and China. Out of the 116,000.000 pounds imnorted in 191§, ,000,000 came from Japan, 20.800.800 from 'China, 10,000,000 from Ceylen, 4,000,000 from India, and 2 little ever ' half million- pounds from the Duteh East Indies. In 1917, however, the {emount fro mthe Dutch Fast Tndies emount from the Duteh Tast Ind‘es 1018 jumped to over 23,000,000 pounds, The value of tea entering interna- tional trade under-normal. conditions is_about $175,009,000 per annum, of which approgimately §65,000,000 is ex- rted from India: $10,020,000 from ‘eylon: $25,000,600 frém China and $15,000,000 from Japen,-ineleding its colony of Pormosa. —— A rich deposit 8¢ agohalt hs been discovered in the Philippines” located 50 near the water's edge that no in- land trapsportation whatever is necessary. Ladies’ High Cut Boots! THE RECENT ORDER RESTRICTING THE HEIGHT OF LADIES’ BOOTS IS NOW IN EFFECT, BUT WE HAVE ON HAND A . CHOICE ASSORTMENT BOUGHT BEFORE IT WENT INTO. EFFECT. WE MENTION A FEW SPECIAL VALUES IN NINE-~ . INCH BOGCTS: Gray Kid Boots, nine-inch at $7.50, $8.50, $9.00, $10.00 and $11,00 Brown Kid Beots at $6.00, $7.50, $8.00, $9.00 and $10.00 Dark Brown Calf Boots at $6.00, $7.50, $8.00 and ‘900 Nut Brown Calf Vamp with Gray Buck Top, Wery chibies, Bt . oiconcsvannionsess OO Brown Kid Vamp and Brewn Cloth Top * at $6.00, $6.60 and $7,50 These are Boots that will be affected by the new restrictions, and are of special quality and value, | OUR STOCK OF “COMFY” SLIPPERS NOW HERE. HANDMADE “DANIEL ‘GREEN,” THE JAMES F, COSGROVE.CO. 206 MAIN STREET olephone 544 FRANRLIN SQUARE.