Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, March 12, 1921, Page 4

have it that theére is nothing else to do. It is endeavoring toserve the demands of the greater number and that is what sheuld gcvern the actiod by the legisla- ture. s The action of th WHN breweries getting resdy to open up and do business on the'strength of the eleventh hour déaision of the former at- torney general, A. Mitchell Palmer, who the day béfore leaving office istued a rul- ing to the ¢ffect that a doctor could pre- scribe beer and wine as medicine much attention is bound to be directed 0 the effects of that opinion. 1t doesn't appear that there is any limit to the amount that may be pre- seribed although it does put the responsi- Dility for the business in beer and wines upon the doctors. Where it is possible for that to reach can be inferred from the number of prescriptions which are now being written for liquor for sick Dpeople on which a. limit 18 placed by the law. It is a case where the ruling would apparently hold the doctor responsible for conditions that might resilt as to traffic in beer. Efforts have been underway for a long time for an amendment to the Volstead act which woufd permit the manufacture and sale of beer and light wines. The Palmer ruling may be regarded as a step- ping stone to that although of course it does not go as far, and only maintains that permits must be issued to manufac- ture beer and wine for medicnal pur- poses and placing the distribution to the consumer in the hands of the docfors. That it will make much ‘more difficult the task of enforcing the Volstead act is Plainly disclosed, and coming at a time When that enforcement 18 being clrcum- ventel right and left the country is na- turally eoncerned over what the result is WEEK ENDING MARCH Bth, 1921 11,073 ~ COMMOXN CARRIERS, determination of the general assem- ¥ to deal With a problem which has fronted the state for some little time is indicated by the action of the lower house m passing the bill which makes the jitney a common carrier and places 1t under the jutisdiction of public utilities eomm'esion. That will mean that the Sitney will bs subject to regulation by the state commissicn just the same as the railroads and trolley lines are. Just such a move has been indicated and in Xkeeping with the action of the house it 18 €0 be expected that the senatq will view the need of action in a similar manner. Under the bill that is on its way through the legislature the state com- mission would Mcense the jitneys, deter- mine what service they must give and over what romtes taking into condidera.| oo ¥ SV ;‘;]g“';mlgr‘::‘::“] e 1;:: Not a little intetest will center oh how well to the safety provisions on the e i i TR e S5 MG ab scaieicy mndmnn‘:“’;[wung. whether he will take the same it Is o be presumed it Masmcn re|View and whether he. will accept or re- B 6 % s b7 cthot Gateit m: pudiate the act of Mr. Palmer just before would be required to adhero to 5 sche,|7® ¢10sed the doot of his term of offics. oqplitoge o ghafieg mibel d:” .| The situation Is of coutse one that awak- e Sliont Wil the: WHALE b b Pehd- | ong the interest of many more than the - e by the pub. | ¢ vers, the doctors and those who are not only o pleasant days and duting the warm weather but at all seasons and ol P during all kinds of weather. Regula- tons in soms states or cities provide| A BRI against the hit or miss method of oppra.| ThouUgh the tumber is small,‘only one tion and limil the time which the drivers can take for meals as a means of giving the public the service which it has a Tight 1o expect from a common carrier. The enactment of such legislation re- garding the jithey has been for some time coming to a head. As jitneys have de- veloped and operated unfairly against bther transportation lines there was pre- wented a problem that had to be deait with and the indications are that the so- lution proposed in the bill will accom- plish what is sought. This deals with the transportalion of passengers. How long before it Will be necessary, it at all, 1o deal with the truck transportation in » similar manner is as yet uncertatn. going from Connecticut, it cannot help being felt that the move which has been made to take those suffering from lep- Tosy, and kept isoiated at state expense, to a federal colony which is belng main- tained in Louisiana is a capital idea. There is something aside from the fact| that the isolation feature where only a few are congregated will be relieved for while the afflioted are being taken to a| leprosarium under government adminis- tration there is aiso the hope of a possi- ble cure or improvement through the chamulgra oil treatment which they will be given there. > Results which have been obtained for the reliet of those aficted with leprosy have been most promising particularly in cases which have not become deep seat- ed. - The hew treatment at least gives reason for hope where little or none ex- INCLUDING ALL IN CUT. ‘While wage cutting may have been un. Zertaken with & view of having it apply to only & few classes among rallroad | iSted before and it Is desirable that any employes, announcements which are being|21d all Who have the disease should be made would imdicate that raflroad con-|SIVen thé opportunity to experlence any d@itions are such that many of the sys-|Denefits it may hold jn store. tems throughout the country are fecling| Ierctofore isolated’ campns have bdeem tLe necessity of resorting lo that means | T#intained at large expense for'the care of getting relief. The change in condi-|°f Such peovle and the protection of oth. tions throughout the country prevented|C™ It has been a case in the past of the railroads from getting the benefit they | 99M€ 2l that was possible and making txpected from the increase in freight ang | "¢ Dtients 25 comfortable and contented jassenger rates. That leaves them in g|2° 'he conditions under which they were bad situation for the slackening of in. | *"ir2ined would permit. 'That of course @ustrial activity cut traneportation ang |P2d Ite limits, but With the discovery of instead of increased operating income the |} © N>W treatment and the furnishing of higher rates were followed by a greater | SVilence of lts accomplishments it is & number of idle cars. To attempt fo es.|TOVe in tne right dircation when the ef- tablish a still higher schedule of rates| 0Tt is_made to assemble all such pa- would only be Fuicidal, and hasten the|''NtS at 1 central peint whera the ad- oads to that breaking point from which | ARLAZES Of the treatment, whatever they the lnterests of the country demand that| ™27 be in the respective cases, may be they should be kept. obtained. Not a little attention hus been attracted| ' 't S WOrk 'n whlch the government can by the announcement of the Pennsylva-| ™!l take a leading part and it will be nia road to the effect that after taking all | PO°SIDi6 t0 @eal much better with such factors into consideration 3 reduction In|C25°S 23 the country has in such an in- N the wage scales is necessary, and it pro- | SHtution as that to which the New Eng- Poseg to do that not by applying it solely | M cases have been taken. Even the %o the unskilied but to apply it to an|f2c* that it ives new hope to those who employes of the road commencing with |'2Ve heretofore understood the hopeless- the president and going right down|T¢SS Of Lheir cases means much to people fhrough the list. There is much that 1|0 Setiously efficted. : bound to apreal In such a policy. Seven- ty per cent. of the operating eamnings how go to r and that is a condition which needs‘to be remedied in spite of the reduction iy the number of employes since the road been back under pri- operation. EDITORIAL NOTES. 7 The man on the corner says: A fellow never develops optimism from having a toothache. vate ; Tackling the situation in a manner like With tho president desirous of helping fallen men, he will find plenty to do re- gardless of the slippery season, ‘What the consumers will be anxious to &now is whether the wage cut by the ¢ |packers 15 tor bigger dividends or lower Toads to take similar action. If of courss | PTICeE- the roads and its employes cannot reach ®n agreement thers can be an appeal to The plan of the Penmeylvania road in réducing expenses to cut the wages of sm- surprise until quite recently has béen so thoughit- our coal bins, presses himself qualatly. the rafliway labor board for a fixing of the wage scale under existing conditions. It iy preferable that an agreement em- ployer and employes should be reachel it possible and that - .- . courss which most of the roads are following in en- i Geavering to meet conditions By the cut- ting of wages. ployes from president down indicates no disposition te show partiality. Throughout the country the railreads forced to cut expenses are notifying the employes of reductions in wages. Other methods have failed to bring resuits. It reports are true the bolshevik lead- ers are experiencing difficulty in con- trolling their forces, and they cannot fail to appreciate what that portends for the future. Those intading forces ; Germany are apparently vielnig With the weatherman as to mildness, and probably considering how gentle (lermany was in occupying Belgtuin. THE STANDARD TIME BILL. ' H ‘The big batch of Bills seelting increases in salaries when taxes are going up and fhe cost of living is coming down doesn’t appear to be getting much sympathy at Hartford. i ] 5 4] [ ] :' a§ A town planming engineer declares that the north pole gets about a week’s more sunshine than any other place. But that Infucement to pur- I i Fro, mthe way the lower house fn the THE MAN WHO TALKS It is & well known fact of soclo] that a-man Who has lived up to 60 years if, at that age, he takes a notion into his head to be a little funny, is apt to g0 the whole limit, justitying One of the important asts of the last _Erom sbout 8 a/m. fo 1 p, ri. thess & administration was the granting of au- - Sea wartiors fough! thé old saying that “there’s ne feol like |the an old fool” Now thers i a séed thought in this that applies to many other things. Of course, it would not be exact language to say that ‘manimate things act funny, but they do sometiines us. very mild weather that ful of our feelings and so considerate of . suddenly fell from :tn Sunday, Feb, 30. Old timets m‘r;:' saowfall? city may feel the pinch of zero cold bt it Will never wrestle with fiv or six féet of snow. er tempered by and merey still sits on the throne. Henry D. Thorean is not hame in American liteiture. ‘A recluse, shutting himself up from all contact with his fgllows, can never dwell in the highest domain of thought. But Thoreat had & very keen insight into the natural world, | be 1% | OF the two shipe, but less to (h: 4 azgies his delighttul essay on “Winter” he puts great. emphasis on the fact that the stan- dard is within us, and in the true life this will be unmodified by outside condi tions., Though always clear yet he ex- He says: “To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to work our mines of gold known only to ourselves, {ar up in the Sierras, where we puiled up awbush in the moun- tains and saw the glittering The Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology has gone one better than Some of her sister institutions in the application of cience to the prevention of disease. The aim is to aholish colds. If a stu. dent sneezes he is hastened -off to the medical clinic to discover the biological reason. Sneezing is caused by a microbe tickling the olfactory nerves. The sfu- dent must give good and sufficient rea- sons for renting his apartment to mis crobes. The theory is if he had followed the policy of “watchfu! waiting” he might have kept the enemy from getting Swithin his gates. More than that, the doctors examine every student who }as. a red nose. It is mot satisfactory to claim that fs a “left-over” from ante-prohibis tion days, or that 'the redness comes from “Greenland’s icy mountains” that waft into Boston harbor. Unless the student can prove that the redness is a family characteristic he must be submitted to treatment. Some of the more sensitive ones afe resorting to powder pults to escape the inquisition. 3 Nowhere is greatness n_ simplicity more clearly seen than in the thoughts and deeds of Jesus. How easily, how naturally. how free from fuss and strain did he go about his dally tasks! No ad- vance agent heralds his coming: no hall is hired for some future dat tickets are sold beforeband; no brass band is necessary to supplement his power which is never lacking. He is like the great primary laws that preserve the balance of power in the universe silently but ef- ficlently. As wWater tumbles along the sallow stony bed of a brook We knew it Dby the noise it makés. But who evar heard the working of that ham@ “that holds creation up, and guards his chil. dren well?” Whose ear can ‘détect ‘th resourceful energy that revelyes the planets in their orbits, or 1ifts up the water of the oceans in the movement of the tides? Did anyone ever hear thé working of that power that says every day to some deac Lazarus “Come forth? Jesus always worked easily because he worked with full equipment. Whenever wo undertake to do » thing, be it ‘small or grest, there is joy in nd- vancing because it savors of vietory. But we are very apt to be filled with a feel- ing of humiliation, a sense of- shame, when compelled to retreat, because it Seems like failure. As a matter of fact it takes more downright ability to re- treat gracefully than to advance victori- ously. Of Nanoleon’s great general Ney was considered far inferior to Mas: sena, but in making the bold onward dash he has no superior in all history. And yet when it came to retreat Ney had no more spirit than a whipped dog. It was in retreat where Mascena showed his masterly ability. After the disaster at Moscow, when Napoleon cowardly left his army to its own resources, it was Mase sena that saved it fron. utter angihila- tion. During Washington's great oareer how many times he was compelled to re- treat! How he was snced at for -his Fabian policy ! And yet it was not Wash- ngton, but Lord Cornwallis, who surren- dered at Yorktown. It has been my obe servation that, in making a sweater, it takes more of the grace of God to rip out than to knit. The story is told in & current magasine of a man who was making a collection of buttérflies. He provided himself with a chrysalis. He put It away in the autumn and thought no more about it during the winter. In the spring It began to show some feeblo signs of life. He became more and more intergsted in the con- tents of the chrysalis’ As the warmtn of spring increased so also did the life of the embryo butterfly. Day by day did the little creature put forth more and more effort to break away from its im- prisonment. At length ils straggies be- came frantic, and, thinking his littie pet was suffering, in a moment of misplaced sympathy he fook his knife and opened the chrysalis, and the liftle creature came fluttering out. But.there it stayed; it had no power of wing. It ought to have been allowed to Work itself we freedom. The energy of its struggle was to give it flight. Our e our struggles. We live only by our capacity for life. It was lack ef oil that put the five foolish virgins to shame and cenfusion. While' they Wwent to a garage after oil the bridegroory came and they get left. No matter if they did thump on the door and -yell themselves hoarse, th imply had to stay out. There is & up- to-date teaching in this story. We must be prepared for the great invitations of life. We must be ready with our lamp, trimmed and burning; it must be full of necessary is born in ofl, and if we are wise wo will take a | M little can of oll with us in case of an emergency. It i pretty hard for & physi. cal weakling to maintain himself in the workshop. He lacks the vigor. Mental lightweights are also going te find it hard in the futute. If it is not college men that will be demanded; it will be capable men. At least they“must pe ca~ pable, however they get their capability. Nothing but thoughtiessness can deprive Us of the full lamp. ‘We have receatly bees appalied by the report of twe frightful accidents, one om the trolleys at Shelton, Conn., and' the generd] assembly rusheq slong the day- | Central fght saving Bill mighty Httle considera-. tion was given to the desires of the large centers throughout the state. —— Finding 2 bolshevik near Hartford the scene of more than one he tragedy. Why hasn’t the public utili commission abolished this ~death long ago? armed with knives and bombe, who came | into the country = month ago indicates that even undesirables’ are able to get the Potomac at Washington, near Riverside drive, south of the Lincoln Memortal. . The month of March is associated with i stations, never to meet in -col hor ever to be in battle again. The Mer- dimac was destroyed May 10, 1362, when completed and established in due time. No mention of E: can be made without brin; § g up the Monitor, and no mention of tie Mohitof should be made ‘Without connecting it With tho jnventor, ry gives much space to ™~ battle The epoch tn the history of the Clvil war, and the gervice of the “Cheesebox on a raft” undoubtedly saved the destruction of the femaining vessels and the intended rald on_the northern ports. The secvios donie by thess two »":-‘; to uaval gevelopment was remmast an At once the entire nayal arohitecture was change Britain immediately recognised portance of the battle and the develop- ment of the two types of vessel so effec- ively tested, and was ready at once to rap” her great fleet of wooden-walls, and begin the eénstruction of the ern fron-clad. The day of the frigate and the three-decker ended in the smeke of the burning Congress, and amid the clang of fron shot on fron sides. Henoeforth the beauty afid impressiveness of the ship ‘With her rows of “tecth” under a cloud of snowy, swelling canvas was to be & mat- ter of the past, as obsolete as the ships of Drake or Columbus. Now the dignity and impressiveness of a warship Was to be measured by her iron walls and her huge guns. The scene of the battle between these two dissimilar but effective types of sea- fighters bears no monument. The waves and the of Hampton Roads are swept north #hd south by the changing winds. Only one flag flies where iwo waved that March morning, and the iwo of Ericsson before he Bucceedcu in gets ting his plans adopted. But the fruit of his clever brain was produced in the ops portune time to savé the federal cause from a crushing blow. That the Monitor ‘would be a very important factor in turfi. ing the course of naval architécture into entirely new channels was searcely thought at the time. The intent was to defeat thé ram Merrimac. It was a sad evening which fell on the Roads ipton 1882. The splendid , the Congress and the Cumberland, had been destroyed by the shot and beak of ths terrible new sea- monster, which had come out from Nor- folk to eat up the Unlon navy, and to spread ruin along the Chesapeake and the. Polomac pivers. The pessibility of the menace td the capital eity seemed almost a probability, after the other woeden frl. e 1N theTevas ekt Tts of thelr sister ships, as thelr crews expectsd would be the course of events the next day; and an honorable death faced the stout sallors of the Minnesota, Rnanoke - SIE Vi Shea's and St Lawrence, remaining frigates of | Ye35¢ls have vanished from the sea, living | only in history, On the decks of the modern battleshipe, and represented in idea In sponsons curved ports, is the turret ot the Moni- tor, the peculiar characteristic of the original vessel that gave her such a pre- ponderance of power in that strange duel. It is true that the turret has changed in form from the “cheesebox” design. It re. | has beon eliptical; it has been horse-shoe ©¥oing {heped With & sloping side (the side of t 1 the Merrimac) where the guns protrude, and where shots are expected to fall, but no matter what the désign, the turret is there Jecause the Monitor proved that a turret’ was the most eftectiVe position in Which to.place a ship's guns to have them constantly under control and capable of inflicting the most damage on the ad- versary because they are grouped. The navies of the World are peculiar in their traditions and customs. The wide cbilar on the scaman's shirt remains, though the prease-slushed qneue has long bech forgotten. The American man ‘war's man wears a black neckerchief be- cause the Bfitish gailor put it on as a badge of mourning for Lord Nelson: the three white braids on his collar are stmi- larly ‘adopted in token of memory of Nel- son’s victories at Copenhagen, the Battle of the Nile and Trafalgar. He has taken a star from the flag and put it in-each corner of that queue-guarding collar, and he holds to sope other peculiar ideas, which other services share but the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimaec, the merning of Sunday, March 9, fifty- fhine years ago, is remémbered and me- morialfzed by all the great battleshins of the world’s navies without regard to na- tion, recognized as introducing the great- est improvements and reforms tructure of fighting ships since ships were built. — e —— e to put oft all Il “fomorow. Congress voted thanks to Capt. Plke and he soon rose to be s brigadier gen- eral. After his return from Mexico. Gen- ral Dearborn, the secetary of war, wrote to him: *“I can with pleasure Inform THE EXPLORER OF < THE MISSIS-|You that, although the two expeditions g Trdank by The. pevmident of the. Dnited o Gen. Zebulon M. Pike was only 26|3Hdered by the president of - States, yet ybur _conduet years old when he Was sent out to find|y o % T tiane met the approbation of the source of the Mississippi River. | Hreor © Sk the the president.” Lewis and Clark had made extensive |MgPresifent’ = o 0 “gyé dlscoveries in. the Western domain. but |, SO0 after Hls retumn to . the Tnjed in July, 1805, Gen. Wilkinson, command- | S{iee Pike wwote an, extended Sccant er-in-hief of the army and governor of |of Titee exDeditions WICE Tras B the newly created Louisiana Terrltory, |yion because of the mdventures that it recorded, and hecanse it gave an account lordereq Pike to explore the ““-hfl‘lfi‘ to its source and to select sites for mill- | o0 peving goficerning which 1ittls had been tary posts, to treat with the Indians. and [P FFTE A2REErt BE BOCH R B0 to find out what he could about activity| ™, sy weeks after Pike was honored by f_British traders in that section. congress he was killed in the capture of Pike and his party of twenty Soldiers |y, “conage, which 18 now Toronto, The battle was won with Gen. Pike in com- mand ana as he waited for the white flax a magazine exploded and the General fell. There was just time to hand 4o him the flag of the enemy. With a brave emfle he laid his head unon it and his spirit fled. The country owes him a debt of apprectation for his herolc work In making known a vast territory in our possession. (Monday—The First United States Bank) the squadron near ¥ost Monroe. But the dawn of a new era was at hand. While the gung of the Metrimae ‘were woecking the Congress and t berland, the tug Seth Low from New York. was bringing up the stream past Cape Henry & vesse] as unlikn aaything afloat a8 was the Mefrimas, and as thig stfange craft passed othar vissele at anchor cff the fort, a boatswain's mite on { marked, “So, that's the boat that to save all of us tomarrow? Why, to me like & cheese-box on a raft. Thus was tamillarly named the product ot the brain ot John Ericsson—the Moni- tor; and the pigmy veseel was well char- actetized by the description, for she fully avolded the restrictions of the Decalogus, being unlike anything on earth, the ses, or fn the heavens. The craft was 172 fest long, 41 feet Ibeam, and with § freeboard of less than two feet; with a flush deck on which was @ turret about 20 feet in dlameter, con~ taming wo 1l-inch guna. The remainder of the deck was unbroken excepting by the smokestack, and the small pjothouse. Tt was avout midnight that evehing that the Monitor arrived at her station along~ side the stranded Minnesota, and Liough the plevious night had been passed in fighting the sea to keep the clumsy vessel from foundering, and this night was one of excitement and nefvous strain, the crew ware ready at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, March 9, to meet the ugly- low. lying ram Virginia, reconstructed from the razed frigute Merrimac, which, hav~ ing wreaked her bloody Wil on the ships, which were efenceless against her iron walls and heavy gunms, was now returns ing with her escort to finish the destruc- tion of the federal vessels in Hampton Roads, before beginning her triumphat { career through the northern harbors. ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAY HISTORY Prairie-du wl tiement of 370 white people. The journey and explorations were of danger and eight mnihe. But man, and he brought prepared tion of the upper part of the river and of its tributaries. He es- tablished several jmportant trading posts ang took down the British flag where: he found -it, replacing it with that of the United States. He had 8o clearly demonstrated his fan Btories That Recall Others , Weet There lived side by side two familfes. Bear and Wolf. Bear ordered some goods at the store and the deltvery boy who brought tem happened to be a new ene in We ooLimunity and not famlliar with the customers. v Knocking at the door. he asked: “Bears live here?” o which the householder said: “No Wolfs live here; Bears next o 3 Thinking he was being “kidded.” he sald: “Think yer smart, don't yer?” _ Chaaging the Programme Two lifelong residents met dally at the noon hour, one goinz to lunch ang the other returning to work. Their habits have become 8o regular that they usually meet at the same placé on consecutive days, As neither hears well, their brief forms of greeting have become stereotyp- ed-but the other, day something slipped and this is what was heard: “Morntag, Mr. Jones—nice weather we're having” sald the one oblivions of the fact that it was pouring ratn.. *“No, Mrs. Smith ain't doing so well, lately. Reckon the weather aln't the best in the ‘world nowadays.” was the reply. “Geing to attend the meeting this week, Mr. Jones?’. said the first. - “Yes, you come and see us one_of these days,” was the parting answer. IN THE DAY’S NEWS" - SOUTH AFRICA. The Union of Soutn Africa, where a re: in each oA Ntbw York velopment of the United tor. of the Dutch farmers tion of settling beyond trekked farther. Trangvaal Republic. discovered . in the Great Britai the world Shortly new union, an act signed In 1910, State slightly smaller a few thousand square itish control. with & rim of high low and low ones fro steps vary In Within “this te great plains ‘or veld world. FROM Sk G. N. DELAP, Special Agent D. W. LITTLE, Special Agent Hartford, Conn. | When Bnglishmen followed Finally, —_— Woman's [lls asd E.Pinkham’s News Burean MAGAZINE SPECIALIST UNION SQUARE ew Hi Staten. or ‘boers’ trekking into the interiog with the inten- glisn influence. them they beyond the Orange river they founded the Orange Frep State, and beyond the Vaal river, First diamonds and then gold wers . They brought great prosperity to the Boer re- | publics, but they brought many outsiders as well; and the presence of these finally led to the Boer war as a result of which the republics came inio the possession of “Aside from the war-born republics and monarchies of the last few years, the Union of South Africa youngest of “thé important countries of It t00 was largely war-born. ter the cinclusion of the Boer war plang were sel on foot to fuse the two old_republics with Cape Colony, the oldest South African government, and Natal, next in point of age, to form the It was finally created by “The territory of the Union octuples the whole southern and southeastern tip. of Africa in a wide strip extending about 250 miles inland from the Indian ocean. Its area lacks only 25,000 square miles of reaching the half milllon mark. Of its four provinces, Cape Colony is slightly larger than Texas, the Transvaal about the size of Nevada, and Orange Fres is one of the lem; South Africa, half around the world and littie known to Americans, has ia its history, mevertheless, chapters which we know by heart. New Yorkers can find an even closer if minor tie to the residents of Cape Town in the fact that ihe sites of both ports, now almost price- - | less, weré bought from savage landiords for a few nandfuls of gaudy trinkets. “In one respect, however, the carving out of what ig now the Union of South Africa is without its parallel in the de. In South Africa the strife of two white peoples for control has been an all important fac- For about a century and a half the Dutch had gpssession of Cape Tows and the small area surrounding it whien har- bored all the whites in South Africa. The | Napoleonic wars transferred _possession 1o England, and in 1808 the English as- sumtd a final control which many of the Dutch inhabitants resented. In 1536 many | than Alabama, wnile Natal exceeds South Carolina by miles. “But extensive as it is, the Urlon will some day be much bigger. of all South Africa, and evi governor general,of the Union high commissioner for all other lands in southern part of the continent under The addition alone of Rhodesia, which lies to_the north, would double the area of the Union. “From fhe south and southeast South Afriea is a series of-mighty terraces, each s the heir now the is also OUR PRICE for Spring. and new prices. makers. to show. s monds. But the few handfuls of diax monds exported fn 1913, before the World wrr, were worth more than fifty million dillars and exceeded in value the eombined vaiue of the many shiploads of Wool, bstrich feathers, hides and coal that .ailed away from Seuwa Africa the same year. the last year “Some 200 miles to' the northeast of the diamond couutry are-the gold fields. bt el Africa. cightles the city sprang. up almost over night. Though at frst it was the usyal uniovely minibg oamp, soon substantial structures were efected, and it now ranks, witn its well paved streets, fine buildings and beautiful parks ,with the leading cit- their midst i the gold-built, wonder ly. of Johanneshurg, metropolis of South the discovery of gold in the ies of Europe, America and Australia. It untains from be- above. Mot of the slopes near the sea are ferills, well wooded and well watered. The ascending. moisture and fertility. bulwark lle the ‘where wild game “Toward the inner elge of the terri. tory of the Union are the world's great. est diamond minés, where earth sufficient to fill thousands of cars is screened year- ly for the sake of u! peck or two of dia~ QUICK RELIEF once swarmed and where great herds of sheep and cattle have taken their places. These plains contribute yearly miilions of dollirs worth of wool, ostrich feath ers, hides, and mohair to the outside hag” about the same populatlon s Den- ver, Colorado, and Providence, R. 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