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Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
CLEANUP WEEK,

In many cities at this time there |; is being put forth an appeal for an- other cleanup campaign. The idea | has been put into operation for ~a number of years past with excellent results. Perhaps it has never been possible to say that all was accom- plished during a cleanup week that might have been or that was intend ed, but there always Is the satisfac- 'tion of knowing that much which might never have been attempted was actually done. Unattracttve places, ieyesores and accumulations of rub bish in backwards. cellars and alley ways need constant attention, but there should be one time during the year at least when an extra effort to clean up ought to be made.
 Public interest and activity are con- tagious. Once a movement is sin cereiy and earnestly started it quick ly accumulates cooperation. The clean up effort makes an appeal which can no. be entirely ignored, for even those who are not disposed to give attention to such matters get the inspiration from the force of good example
 If the cleanup campaign could get such hold upon a community as the housekeeping habit it would be one of the best things that could happen to 1t. for not only would that city soon be entitled to the name of Spotless Town, but it would make most valu- able contributions to its health condi- tions and for the removal of the breed ing places of flies and mosquitoes. Thus with the coming of spring the cleanup week is to be welcomed and encouraged. Plenty of enthusiasm will make it a success. It pays and It is a week which Norwich should es- sablish in its calendar.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
QUICKLY STOPS HEAD
 COLDS AND SNUFFLES
Catarrhal Germs Cause of Most Colds New GermicidaI Air Treatment Best Remedy for These Common AiI- menta.

Reliable authorities say that up- wards of 90 per cent. of the so-called colds in the head and throat are in presence of acute catarrh. When you hear person snceze or cough it's al- most certain they are throwing catarrh germs into the air for some other per son to breathe and it"s just as certain that the person breathing these germs cold The time to make these germs harmless and drive out your catarrhal cold is the very instant you feel a desire to sneeze or cough, or start to snuffie and wipe your nose every few
 The quickest and surest way to stop a head cold and drive catarrh germs out of your system is to pour a few drops of the oil of Hyomei (pronounc ed High-o-me) into one of the Hyomei in haling devices which comes with each large package and place the inhaler germloidai but pleasant smelling air Into your nose. throat and lungs. This air utterly destroys all catarrh germ life, quickly opens the closed air pas sages. makes breathing easy. clears your stuffed up head, cleans out your throat and ends your suffering and quicker or more satisfactory way of breaking up cold, even after it Is well started, and a few weeks use will do away with all danger of chronic catarrh. Sold by druggists everywhere. including Lee Q Osgood, who agree to return the full purchase price to any m In IH buying Hyonaei for the first fime be very sure to get the large size, which contains the inhaler, as this Is very es- sential for best results.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
Stories of the War
Tried to Sink "Queen Lizzie".

Through the spectacular fighting she has beens engaged in at the Dardanelles, the British superdread- nought Queen Elizabeth has sudden ly jumped to such fame that in Lon don music halls all the comedians call her Queen Lizzie"
 An interesting rumor aof German espionage centers about the buildings of the battleship at the Portsmouth navy yard last fall. The story, which lacks veriication, of course, but is credited in many quarters, is that while workmen were ashore for lunch one day, the Queen Elizabeth was seen to be listing slightly. An i'm mediate inspection was made and 1t was discovered that several cocks had been left open and the ship was rapidly filling with water.
 All gates to the navy yard were closed. The men who had just left the ship were all called before an in- vestigating board. Che is reported to have broken down under the grill ing and admitted he had made an at- tempt to destroy the ship, Various rumors have since been in circula- ton as to the punishment meted out to the traitor, whose work would have resulted in great damage if it had not been discovered promptly.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
WARS ACCOMPANIMENT.

The devastating accompaniment of war is disease. It has always been so and despite such precautions as science has devised it has by no means been eliminated in the present str-ug- gle. After the great fight is over it will be found that the toll from disease in one form or another, among soldiers and non-combatants who suf- fer from war conditions is enormous. In view of such conditions as are reported to be prevailing in Servia from typhus, it is not surprising that Bulgaria has recognized the wisdom of establishing strict quarantine for the purpose of shutting out any pos sibility of that disease being carried into its domain. The necessity of con- fning it to as small a territory as possible cannot be overlooked. It is a menace of the worst character and
 far exceeds the danger from the other
 ravages of the war. Science and some of the best au- thorities are at work for the purpose
 of checking the plague and it is even claimed that one professor in this country has succeeded in isolating the germ of typhus. but even with this important progress and the sending of help from the United States to lend it's influence in combating the situa- | ton it is going to be hard uphill struggle to overcome the hold which it has already obtained. And until l it is effectively checked it stands as | a danger not only to the neighboring 1 countries of Servia, but of that entire | section of the world. It thus becomes evident that Bulgaria by it's action I is giving strong support to the hard l problem which the surgeons there and ! those going to their assistance face
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
OUGHT NOT TO BE DELAYED.

The very fact that eastern Con- necticut has water privileges of which little or nc use is made, meaning so much cheap and valuable horsepower going to waste every day while in- dustry is seeking cheaper motive pow CT, is sufficient reason for the utiliza. tion to Its best advantage of the nat ura1 resources of this section of the state. When a section, or an entire state for that matter, has at its very doors such opportunities for develop ment and growth as exist in this end of Connecticut there should be the dis position to help along whatever eff fort is made for the utilization there of. The possession of such advan- tages without development has accom- plished nothing in the past, but it is time there was an awakening and there will be if the rights to go ahead and turn what is now going to waste into potential energy is permitted.
 From the hearings before the legis- 1ative committee on interpretations at Hartford and the testimony of en- study to the topography and conditions of this section as to the possibili- 9ies of coordinating the different de- velnped and undeveloped powers on the Quinebaug river strong evidence is furnished of the desirab1lity of granting the charter sought by the Cooperative Power company. The views of the manufacturers along the Quinebaug indicate their approval of the project. It is a matter which means much to eastern Connecticut and for its good cannot be put into operation too soon. Just such de- velopment as this company proposes is what industrial activity is coming to depend upon and there should be nc delay in making a favorable report upon this bill.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
THE PRINZ ETEL.

The internment of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich at the eleventh hour shows that the captain of the William P. Frye knew what he was talking about when he declared soon after the ar- rival of the German raider at New port News that it would be interned. It must be looked upon as a display of good judgment upon the part of it's commander. Being watched like cat would a mouse there wasn't a chance in thousand that it could slide out from that port and escape destruction at the hands of the allies vessels. It was cornered and it was wise cap tain who gave sane consideration to his plight. To have gone forth would have been to sail into the jaws of death for no purpose whatever save to display a bravado which would amount to nothing in the end. There was no definite plan under which
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
RoTTERDAM's TRADE
 SUFFERING GREATLY.
Transient Shipping Shows Enormous Falling Off-ln Peace Time 1t Ranks Third.

The transit shipping trade of Rot terdam is suffering to an enormous extent. In peace times this port traffic. During January and February only 749 vessels of all kinds entered port as compared with 1705 in the corresponding period of 1914, and their tonnage was only 804,511 against 2,o96,612 in January and February last year.
 The loss is due not only to the cur tailment of traffic by sea, but also to the fact that large proportion of trade with the Rhine districts y( has been cut off by the prohibition of export of certain goods. The labor exchanges are consequently more crowded every day with the number less unemployed. Groups of them are to be seen also at all hours of the day around the wharfs.
 In addition to the suffering thus caused to seamen and shipbuilders, terdam's population, the ordinary building trades have been the victims both of bad weather and the wide spread hesitation to invest money at this time. The plumber, incidentally has been an exception, the rainy weather hayin~ kept him busy all winter
 Among the clothiers the prohibi- tion of the export of woo1en stuffs hard blow, together with the fact that court functions have been slband- oned until the end of the war, and that there Is a general tightening of purse strings.
 The trade of supplying the world
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it was operating. It was a free lance doing its best to intercept and sink vessels of the enemy and even had it succeeded in escaping the temporary harm which it might do would only be slight. while its career as a raider has already caused it's country to be injured in the eyes of neutrals.
 There Is no dishonor in the action which has been taken. It was an un- armored and only lightly armed pas senger vessel converted to meet the requirements of a commerce raider and what 1t has done is only what had previously been done by Ger man gunboat in the Pacific. It is far better that the several hundred lives aboard should thus be conserved than that they should be carried out into the Atlantic to be killed or drowned like rats in a trap. Nothing worth while could have been gained by any other action.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

as to the quantity or quality of the food. Indeed, the most serious com plaint that has ever been made is that plum jam has been issued too frequently.
 There may not be much pleasure in the life led by the driver of the mo- tor lorry; but those who imagine that he leads an uneventful humdrum ex- tstence or that the Army Service Is a non- -combatant branch of the army should hear the experience of some of these men.
 They include early in the war many narrow escapes from hostile cavalry patrols, long night journeys without lights over bad roads between the hostile lines, daily drives over the open stretch of a plateau swept by howitzer shell, and generally ex- hausting days and sleepless nights spent in taking up food and carrying back wounded. Even under present conditions the work is arduous and not always free from danger.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

with butter substitutes is one of those to profit by the war. Hol- land was the first country in the world to start the manufacture of margarine, produced from oleo-stear- inc and oleo-oil, most of the latter from the United States, South Ameri- ca and Australia. The demand for butter surrogates has already in creased, especially for England, but Britain's regulations as to sea trade have hindered the arrival of raw ma teriaIs. It was hoped Britain would see the necessity of permitting these to come through the blockade lines for her benefit, notwithstanding that Holland did not prohibit the export of margarine to Germany. England, however, prohibited the export of lard, cotton and oil and ground-nut oil which had been brought to. the British Isles from America on the way to Holland, and therefore the butter substitutes factories were ir> a quandary. After a time, they sue ceeded in securing permits for some of the raw materials to come through and have thus been able to keep their works running at their fullest capac- ity.
 Mining, although not very exten- sive in the Netherlands, has thrived since the war started and especially
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ped the export of coal. All the Dutch miners available are in full employ ment.
 The fisheries, always an important trade, have taken on a fresh impetus since the rise in the price of meat everywhere has caused the people to seek cheaper foodstuffs. Many of the unemployed sailors have now taken to fishing for a livelihood.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
shipbui,ders Hard Pressed.

Norwegian ship-bui1ders can scarce ly keep pace with the demand for vessels. The ship owners find the war so advantageous to their trade that, in need of more vessels, they are turning to obsolete craft. They are taking old whalers and other vessels that had been marked for the grave, fitting then with gasoline en- zines and screws, and pressing them into service. The local ship yards were never so busy as now.
 In tonnage per capita, Norway S mercantile marine is the largest in the world. It has 527 tons for each thousand inhabitants as against PAP in Great Britain. The wrecks of Norwegian ships during the past year do not greatly exceed normal, although third of them were caused by mines and torpedoes.
 When, the war ends, Norwegian ship owners expect to put out a new lot of Atlantic and Pacific freighters and compete seriously for the trade then to be had
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
STOMACH RELIEF! NO INDIGESTION.
 GAS. SOURNESS--PAPE'S DIAPEPSIN

trouble has made it famous the world over.
 Keep this perfect stomach doctor in your home-keep it handy-get a large fifty-cent case from any drug store, and then if anyone should eat something which doesn't agree with ferments and sours and forms gas:
 causes headache, dizziness and nausea i;
 eructations of acid and undigested food-remember as soon as Tapes Diapepsin comes in contact with the stomach, all such distress vanishes It's promptness, certainty and ease in overcoming the worst stomach dis | orders is a revelation to those who | try it.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
OTHER VIEW POINTS


 Six slices of bread day will be the new bread laws go into effect. That's enough bread for the good health of bachelor. How about old maids? How much bread are they to have?-Waterbury American.
 The Connecticut suffragists have yet a good deal to learn about the nature of mere man, particularly of theA Conencticut variety. Baldly and openly asking legislator to "please vote for our cause" Is almost if not quite the surest way to make him do the other thing.-New Haven Reg ister.
 Everybody should give the jitney blessing to the community. Anything that will improve the abominable trolley service that Waterbury has been subject to of late, will be much appreciated by the public. The troll ley service has been getting worse effort has been made to improve con- ditions. We do not know who really Is at fault, but one thing Is certain the trolley service in Waterbury has been anything but good and If the public can give any encouragement tc tHS J.L1oys, it slou1o Uo So'--W dteI' bury Democrat.
 If the so-cal1ed Fox bill becomes g law in Connecticut 1t will mean that large proportion of the pupils 1T the high schools will be compelled tc give up their courses and thus be de- prived of the opportunity of securing an education which will benefit then in after life. They will be compelled to take their places among those who never went beyond the grammar grades and in a generation or so will be filling the places of laborers, while those whose parents are able to pay the tuition which this, bill proposes will be their superiors in business
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Against EIectrocution.

MT. Editor: Hon. T. M. Osborne, warden of Sing Sing prison has in vited me to be state witness to the execution by electricity of Karol Draniewicz, which will occur at the prison Friday morning April g. I was present there when the -four gunmen' were electrocuted and post mortem findings were published in the N. Y. Medical Journal.
 Capital punishment in the electric chair should be abolished
 The state of California had in mind to establish electric chair. but when they read my article, they gave uI the idea"
 DIR. s. R. KLEIN. Norwich, April 7, 1915.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

ana society because the SIaEo 1dlleu to afford the man education.-Hartford Post.
 There, are denials of the runors that Thomas J. Reilly is to become editor of the New Haven Union, but if he is not to serve his party as the editor of the New Haven daily. which was built up to its present high rank among the democratic journals of the state by the efforts of the late Alex ander Troup, it is possible that he will return into the field Of state journalism in some other capacity to await the call to return to public life pointee. His friends ought to pro- tect him from his ambitions desire to become a great poet by planting him where he'll be too busy to woo the muse.-Waterbury Republican.
 The best jitney bus In the world is a pair of legs. A man can walk a fort. It takes @ trolley car at least 10 minutes to do the same distance, through the city, where stops are fre- quent. Allowing for delay in waiting for the car, the chances are that a trolley trip for the average mile dis tance will not greatly cut down the time of walking. Then why not walk Walking is health insurance especially at this time of year, when winter of inertia has allowed the muscular system to become run down and atomic. Muscular exercise creates the need of deep breathing. and deer breathing in the open air is very ben efcial and refreshing. Besides, ii saves a nicke1-which, we state
 without fear of successful contra | diction,"-is the twentieth part of 9 | dollar.-Bridgeport Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
TIME IT! IN FIVE MINUTES YOUR UPSET STOMACH WILL
 FEEL FINE.

You don't want slow remedy when your stomach is bad-or an uncertain one-or a harmful one-your stomach is too valuable; you must not tnjure 1t with drastic drugs.
 Pape's Diapepsin is noted for its speed in giving relief; it's harmless ness; it's certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. It's millions of cures in indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

Germany planes Great Britain for the loss of lives on the Falaba. Prob ably the fact that England ordered grain from this country was suffi- cient reason for sinking the Frye.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
What the Soldiers Eat On Duty.

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 The British soldier has bacon for breakfast, bread and cheese for luncheon, a hot meal of meat, vege- tables, and bread for dinner, and bread and jam with his tea In case Of emergency he carries with him an 'Iron Ration,'' composed of preserved meat, biscuit tea, sugar, and two concentrated meat cubes. Since the commencement of the campaign sev- eral additions have been made to the scale of food ordinarily allowed. Pea soup is provided twice week for the troops in the trenches, as well as ex- tra tea and sugar. Cigarettes are served out in lieu of part of the week. ly tobacco allowance, matches are provided twice a week, and butter Is substituted twice week for Jam.
 In these circumstances 1t is not surprising that this Is the first cam paign in the history of the Army in which there has been no grumbHng
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

The time is fast approaching when every vessel that goes down will be added to the toll of the German sub- marines, whether they are guilty or not
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What Germany ought to do and what it will do relative to the Frye claim may be far apart, but 1t must hustle if 1t hopes to beat Mexico's promptness in paying indemnity.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09
City of Norwich Water Works

Offioe of
 Board of Water Commissioners. Norwich, Conn.,. April l, 1915. Water rates for the quarter ending March si. 1915, are due and payable at the office April l, 1915. Ofhce open from 8.30 6. m. to 5 D. m.
 Additions will be made to. all bills remaining unpaid after April 20,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

General Won Kluclz's wound is re ported as healing nicely. Would tha Europe was showing as much con valescence.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

The man on the corner says: wher it comes to a matter of keeping tht chin up self respect Is as helpful as a high collar.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

Jess Willard at the present time has an opportunity to boast of the fact that there is one champion who has never been knocked out.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

The story is told of a codrlsh pulling a boy overheard, but there must be something the matter with the trout fishermen to let that get by unbeaten.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

The arrival of two hurdy gurdies brings to mind the joyful fact that 1t is but five weeks to the opening of the straw hat season.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

Pinchot must feel that his reception by the Germans was much the same as that he received from the Penn sylYanians.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

It is time to make those Arbor da, arrangements which have been neg. lected year after year.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

It is absolutely impossible for John ny Barleycorn to be neutral in this war if he wanted to be.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

A slight earthquake was reported in California, but if election results could be blamed one should have been felt through Illinois and Missouri.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-09

The Prinz Eite1 will be interned The 50,000 bottles of beer will b. turned in.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Captain Thierichens has shown the
 makings of a first class poker player.