Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-17

and incident1y dabbled in electricity, when he found that it would attract things after a little rubbing. From hfstory's dawn to the present day. many people have had faith in am ber's curative properties As a med-' icine. it has been worn around the neck and taken dissolved in alcohol It is needless to say that modern medicine takes little note of amber 1 cures. M
 ~Arnber was one of the principal things which served to keep a sturdy Phoenician. the Greek and the Roman concerning the dreary north The greatest supply of this product is found on the coasts of the Baltic, where the coniferous trees of amber resin grew in ages past. and most Of 1 it comes from Sanaiand Inferior ambers are found elsewhere in the world: some are found in the green sands Of New Jersey; but genuine amber, fragrant when rubbed, comes the southern Baltic coast. It oc- CUTS in the sands and in shallow wa ters in the form of Jumps, or in drops. Very rarely humps have been gathered weighing as much as twelve pounds or more.
 'Insects, leaves and flora of a long decayed world are preserved in many pieces of amber. Pieces containine 2 these insects are very valuable one perfect leaf having sold for $250.00. A museum at Konfesberg has a price less collection of amber prtsoned me morials containing more than 50,o00 specimens.
 A tangled land of marsh and l brake, of forests of pine and fir and birch, of canals and sluggish rivers; sprinkled over all with lakes of every 1 size and figure, lakes similar to the N rrTr. | Ohio where summer yacationists go;
 big lakes little lakes frog ponds; this is the Masurenland Lake District
 which makes up the southern part ot
 East Prussia. and which forms one of the most difficult of military districts
 to be found upon the war map. Mas urenland is a great natural barrier of 1 her eastern frontier. It is. however l not the dismal country of damp and l depression. which so many have pie
 tured it to be.
 Masureniand, on the contrary, is of
 such beauty as to deserve many more | tourist visitors than have every
 wandered there. In summer. it is a region of continuous, unexpected pleasures; an intimate land Of little | lakes and even country, bathed in ar l air spicy with evergreen tang: of de- lightful waterside drives miniature islands in the midst of forest dark l.
 ened pools, of wild. wood -ffringed larger waters, and, altogether of end fessly interesting combinations of
 water: woodland. seduestered Villages
 and reclaimed fields ' = g 4s- East Prussia's region is worth a
 visit. It has nothing of the impres-
 siye grandeur of the Alps, where one never does get upon familiar terms with Surroundin9 nature. but it is a
 place-and, in this characteristic, il
 stands in sharp contradistinctfon to
 the rest of Fast Prussia-which re- ceives the stranger upon the easy
 terms of old friendship on his first day out.
 There are many bright pleasure resorts in Masurenland. but the bIuE of the visitors come from neighbor. iCg Silesiar and the cities of Easi Prussia and Posen. The Berlin va. l eationist goes to the North Sea baths
 where he meets his fellows of the capital and where fresh out of doors
 may be enjoyed with a proper stir an6 clamor reminiscent of the city. Mas. ' rrenland about the size Of the State
 Connecticut with some 1000 square niles of area and its thousand lakes
 draws few visitors from east Of Dan. zig or south of Posen.
 Poles migrated in large numbers
 to this region in the fifteenth century
 and of it's some 40e.9 population many are the descendants Of thest
 early immigrants. These people speal
 a Polish language which bears aboui the same relationship to good Poiisf
 as Pennsylvania dutch bears to pure
 German. The Polish peasants Hve lscattered through the marsh and lake lands: the German settlers are foune mostly in the larger cities. Amens these cities are Angerburg. Jomhan. nisburg, LsensburE, Loetzen, Lyck Ortelsburg and Neidenburg.
 Many of the lakes are bound to.
 gethef by canals, and. thus form far.