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Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-10
In the Wake of the War.


 Describing some of the scenes of destruction he found in the wake of the war in the village of "B-', a chasseur, Rene Genton, writes:
 Horror and disgust are mingled with pity for those who will come this destruction in the place of their comfortable firesides. On the floor of one dismantled homestead there was an important family paper twisted and half burnt, having served to light a pipe, a cigarette or a cigar. In the same building, on a bed under a layer of plaster detatched from the ceiling, was found the carbonized form of a human being, evidently that of an aged man, still awaiting Sepulchre. Through great gaping holes in the stone walls furniture is seen hanging by some seemingly invisible hold on beam or upright.
 In the streets, obstructed with de- bris, the most unexpected things are incongruouslE associated. Opposite was a baby's cradle with the cloth ing still in it, and scattered about the children's playthings, including a rocking horse and a doll. In the same heap were a pointed helmet, a shredded white parasol, a sprinkling pot. a bath tub and a most costly tap estry.
 The only living things encountered in this wreck of civilization were a wandering cat in search of vanished home and a fox-terrier digging into heaps of ruins in a vain for a bone. In a broken glass case lying in the middle of the street, a mother had ev- idently collected childhood souvenirs {; there was locket containing a lock of brown hair, a long white baptismal robe, pair of little slipers and a miscellaneous collection of child's playthings. Nearby were picked up photos of a young woman in bridal gown and young man in evening dress. There were also photographs of children and with them blood stained letters scattering family se- cretS to the four winds.''
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Stories of the War

established a record. The report of the Canadians being moved down by | camp sickness proved to be unfounded. and the admiralty now says in regard
 to a similar rumor affecting the naval
 division in training at the Crystal
 Palace, that only two per cent of the 5000 men are now on the sick report. Courage of Beauieu. Pierre Leroy y-Beaulieu, son of the well known economist, Paul Leroy Bcaulieu, is the latest member of par
 Gament to give his life to his country. He had already shown his courage
 in a particularly violent political cam paign in which he braved several at tacks and received a bullet in his letter from German surgeon an
 nouncing his death, he showed the
 same courage on the battlefield A. la c. Jan. 19. (Probably Aix la Chappelle) l Madame:
 Tt is with the expression of deepest
 sympathy that I inform you that your husband. captain of a group of re- serviSts of the tn Regiment artil- lery, died day before yesterday in my was reported to me he was wounded while fighting with the bravery of a hLro. After all his gunners had fall en he himself served his piece; when nc was finally obliged to cease firing he continued to defend himelf with his
 revolver until struck by a bullet in the | temple which affected his right eye. He was wounded January 18th. The wound was so grave that he immedi- ately lost consciousness and did not | recover his senses before his death
 which was peaceful and painless. ',Fhe burial took place today in our l military cemetery with military honors l and in presence of German officers as | well as soldiers.
 '"The tomb has been marked by a
 cross identified by the number 75
 The benediction was pronounced by a
 Catholic priest of our army division
 I bow humbly and full of admiration | before the valiance of this comrads 1 fighting heroically to the last extremi- 1 ty for his fatherland.
 | '1t is painful to me that our med icai science, which did everything ii could, was unable to save such a pre- cious life for his dear ones. | May God console you and your | children.
 | DIR. GEISSLER, | "Chief Surgeon Ambulance No. 1 Third German Army Corps"
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THE ONE THING TO DO.

There can be nothing but commen- dation for the action of President Wilson in deciding that affairs are such that his presence is demanded in Washington, regardless of the eXpec- tations which the exposition officials and the people on the Pacific coast, to say nothing of his personal de- sires for a change at this time. may have had and the disappointment which may follow. The president wise ly decides that it is a case where country comes first. To have reached any other conclusion would not have been characteristic of the man. Under normal conditions it would have been a most happy occasion to have the president participating in the celebra- tfon in honor of the opening of such an important waterway as the Pan anna canal, but between that and the graver matters of the nation duty de- mands that he remain in Washing ton
 There have been indications for some time of the possibility of just such developments as have materialized They are as fully understood on the Pacific slope as they are in this part of the country, and while that section might naturally anticipate the cooper ation of the chief executive at this time it must realize that only the dis closure of a higher duty has made it necessary to send representative.
 Though the forwarding of his for nal announcement regretting his in ability to go to San Francisco was delayed in the hopes of possibility of accepting. California as well as the rest of the country must agree that the president has taken the only wise course.
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commission was created, and therein he can be expected to be fully in sym pathy with the duties which have been outlined for 1t, but whether his term of service is long or short rests with the next senate.
 It is undoubtedly the hope of the president that his action subsequent to the adjournment of congress will meet with the approval of the next senate changed though it will be, but in view of the bitter struggle which characterized the closing days of the old and the unwillingness to kneel before the party whip there may still be a senate which will act according to its own mind
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PRISONERS FROM SUBMARINES

Even though Great Britain has de- cided to hold such prisoners as it takes from German submarines sep arate from other prisoners of war, for possible different treatment later on, it is questioned whether it will be carried very far. That Great Bri- tain is sore over the submarine policy may be understood, but it is difficult to see where 1t is going to accomplish any change by the treatment 1t de- cides to accord to that class of prisoners. It will not in itself alter the course of Germany and it will not make 1t impossible to secure crews to man such vessels. It will encour- age the idea of treating like with like from which no beneficial results are going to be obtained.
 Some time ago Russia considered the advisability of handling as pirates operators of aeroplanes who might be captured after attacking unfortified places, but the suggestion was aban- doned on the ground that 1t was not the personal ideas of the aviators which were resulting in the unjus- Gfied killing of non-combatants, but eAat of their superiors and that thus Aothing was to be gained through harsh treatment of the instruments while the principals were unharmed
 There are reasons for Great Britain looking upon the captured crews o1 submarines in a like manner. To treat them as pirates or try them for mur- der at once or after the war would only result in similar acts being com. mitted against British prisoners. Ii can hardly be looked upon as plar which would accomplish any good either at present or in the end.
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(Copy.)
Dr. Hugo Kirbach, Secretary German
 University League:

Dr. Hugo Kirbach. Secretary German University League:
 Dear Sir:
 I must decisive1y refuse to join the German University league. I spent two senesters at German universities, but earnestly desire that England and France shall be successful in driving the Germans out of Belgium and
 France, and that England shall retain her supremacy at sea.
 My frame of mind is, I believe, like that of many Americans who have en- joyed the privileges of German uni- versity life. We love German land scapes, German friendliness, German Gemuetlichkeit, German beer, German cartoons, German music, German lit erature. We admire German scholar ship and German philosophy for their | patience and profundity, though we long since realized that no nation is
 more prone to ride a pet theory to death, and make everything grist | that comes to your mill"
 But we detest certain tendencies which we found operative in Germany operative in our own country), among which are jingoism, anti-Semitism, the doctrines of Treitschke and Bernhardi, and the ill-srounded and arttficially- fostered hatred and distrust of Eng land We now see all too plainly these detested tendencies at the helm in Germany.
 We believe that Germany. could have averted this war, as argued by MT. Beck in the New York Tims-- ~e cannot forgive the invasion and subse-
 quent wanton oppression of Belgium. We regard the arguments about the | Brussels documents as insulting slan- | der added to injury. as argued by Pro-
 lessor Lovejoy in the Nation. We are
 incredulous of stories of German l atrocities told by Frenchmen. and | equally incredulous of stories of Bel ! gian atrocities told by Germans. But
 we regard every drop of blood sneo from the veins of Belgian men and every tear shed from the eyes of Bel
 gian women as a German atrocity. 1 We look forward, not very confident | ly, to time when the aspects of Ger
 many that are dear to us shall domi-
 nate the all too humane tendencies we detest. Meanwhile we see no need for the activities of your league. The
 newspapers print both German and
 Anglo French reports impartially, in
 spite of silly islanders about British gold. German advocates have had a full hearing. The reason their efforts have been relatively futile is that their 1 cause is weak.
 l Very truly yours,
 ALBERT R. CHANDLER.
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Disease In the Army,

The first six months of the war passed without a single case of typhus or of cholera in the British army, in cluding both the expeditionary forces and the troops in the British training camps. Smallpox claimed only one victim in the United Kingdom, but re- turns in this respect have not been given out by the armies in France and Egypt. Of 7s3 cases of diphtheria, only six ended fatally. So far the greatest cause of mortality among the troops has been pneumonia, which re- suited in 357 deaths out of 1,50S cases.
 AS regards other diseases, 625 cases of typhoid fever and 49 deaths are re- ported in the expeditionary force, and 262 eases and 47 deaths in the camps in the United Kingdom. Scarlet fever had only 196 cases and four deaths in the expedition as against 1879 cases and 22 deaths in Great Britain. Meas les, @ disease associated with child hood, sent 1,045 recruits to the Eng lish training camp hospitals, with 65 deaths, while the seasoned men on the continent had only 175 sick from this cause with two deaths.
 Considering that the British army, regular and territorial, began the war with a half million men and has since expanded to about 2,500,000, the low : aAath rate is said to have .'arobably
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Disqraced by a Ciaar,

Admiral Montagu was only 73 at the time of his death, yet he could remem- Der the time when tobacco was regard ed with so much disfavor in high quar- ters that no well bred man would care to be seen smoking a cigar in Hyde Park or any of the fashionable thor oughfares. q have stayed in more than one house." he records. where smoking was not allowed at all, and in many houses you could not possibly smoke until all the ladies had depart ed to bed. Then you were relegated to a dreary, damp, cold office in the vaults the servants hall or the housekeep- CTS room" When visiting his father in-law, Lord Hardwicke, the future admiral was allowed as a special favor to smoke one fter-dinner cigarette in his hosts study. A fellow guest-an Indian colonel-found joining in this mild dissipation was promptly ordered by Lord Hardwicke to pack and de- part.-London Chronicle.
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still an accurate description or the
 varieties and their migrations. A hundred years ago Constantlnople and the Bosphorus hung in the bal ance just as it does today. pr. Gros. venor relates how, after the treaty of
 Tilsit, Emperor Alexander, of Russia'
 had insisted to Napoleon upon the ab-
 solue necessity to his country was the
 possession of Constatntinople. He de-
 clared that there was no price so
 great no condition 90 hard, that IL
 would not be gratefully accorded by him for the city's acquisition. Ma
 poleon gazcd in silence earnestly and long at the map of Europe, of which he was at that moment, the autocrat- ic arbiter, and then exclaimed: Con stantinople, Constantinople! Never! it is the empire of the world!'
 Iowa's bee industry has a value of 000 wear
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There is scarcely |,

AHcIc IS sCdTCciy d HelRuDor arOunQ me who does not use your medicine. Mrs. J. F. JOHNSON, R. No. 4, Box 30, Prince ton, Illinois.
 Experience of 6 Nurse.
 Poland, N. Yin my experience as nurse I certainly think Lydia E. Pink lam's Vegetable Compound is a great medicine. wish all women with fe- nale troubles would take it. I took it when passing through the Change of life with great results and always re- commend the Compound to all my pa- ients if know of their condition in lime. I vii, gladly do all I can to help others to know of this great medicine. !" Mrs. HORACE NEWMAN, Poland, Her zimer Co.,, N. Y.
 If you are i'll do not drag along until m operation is necessary, but at once ;ake Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
 If you want special advice write Lydia E. Pinkhaln Medicine Co.,. confidentiaD Lynn, Mass.
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A NEEDED CLEANUP.

The nJacing on trial of twenty-e1ght noIiticians of Terrn Haute on the charge of conspiracy to corrupt in counection with the election held there last November reveals a situation which needs just such publicity as IL is getting and such punishment as the proven facts deserve. The disposition to slide over such a state of attalrs with a shrug of the shoulders and the query, what are you going to do apout it? is too often encountered. The hest way to root out such evil is to take the bull by the horns, apply the law and insist upon the abandonment of such conditions. Just as long as corruption Is allowed to have full sway if can be expected to take full advan- tage of the policy of keeping hands off, ard 1t is right there where the firm p,1nch of public opinion should get in it's work.
 Terre Haute isn't the first instance of a city being in the grasp of a corrupt political ring and it isn't Hkely-to be the last but everything desirable IS to fe gained by refusing countenance the continuance of such practice. There is always an opportunity for a beneficial cleanup wherever political corruption exists. Whatever tn re- suit of the prosecutions now in pro- gress Terre Haute Is bound to profit for a long time to come. It likewise should be a valuable lesson to every other city which is in the grasp of a political ring which is determined to win regardless of the cost or the method.
 That Indianapolis city may have shown too much 1eniency in the past, but 1t is to be congratulated on the fact that 1t appears to be in a fair way for a much needed cleanup. .--.
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and a weakness all caused by. fem ale trouble, and I took Lydia E. Pinkham's V e g e ta ble Com pound with such ex- cellent results that 1 am now feeling fine.
 1 recommend tn @ Compoundand praise it to all. l shall be glad to have you publish my letter.
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It would have been better had the president urged greater attention to the postoffice appropriation bill, and proper payment to the railroads, in stead of wasting all that time on the ship purchase measure
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The Hartford Courant is right when it indicates that it is necessary and proper to increase the state tax on au- tomobiles on the ground that they "are ultimately responsible for the heavy road bils," and it is equally right when it says it would be a mis- take to take them out of the local tax lists. The state tax is imposed for the use of the state roads. The local tax is a property tax and helps pay for local streets. Considering the mil lions spent on state highways, of which auto owners are the chief bene- ficiaries. and the streets, the tax which auto owners pay is very moder- ate, and one which all should be glad to pay in the interest of good roads and in fairness to those of their fel- low citizens who do not own automo- piles and are consequently not in a position to benefit from the large state expenditure. It may be added that a state tax appears inevitable, even with an increased auto taX.-New Haven Register.
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

The announcement that the town of Rocky Hill has laid a sixteen mill tax, goes to show that from an ex- pense point the average rural com pense real estate will carry.-Middle- town Press.
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Not a few would like to know whether the federal commissions will hereafter recognize the deserving" or get their employees through the fed era1 employment bureau,
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La Touraine adds fresh evidence to the invaluable service which the wire less is capable of rendering. Every case of that kind offers the best argument for the equipping of every vessel with such apparatus.
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Constantinople must do some close microscopic work to discover any sil- yer lining in the dark cloud overhang- ing that vicinity.
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That proportion of a Philadelphia passenger list which prefers to stand'' as one manager declares probably has reason to believe that its preference is being fully catered to.
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The man on the corner asks: Why find fault with the weather when there are so many other things to kick about?
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Hayti has had three presidents in the last four months, but it is to be hoped 1t doesn't attempt to equal the record set by Mexico.
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The report Is abroad again that the secretary of state is to resign, but il isn't that which is keeping the pres ident home from the Pacific coast.
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Excellent results are always pos sible even if cleanup movements are conceived and conducted solely by in- dividuals
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The greatest need of Mexico toda1 is to have someone clearly explain to the people the real meaning o1 work and education.
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Not Suitable to Such Audiences.

Vice-President Marshalps epigram's 8 will do for the job he now holds, but they're entirely too good for the Chau- taqua Circuit-Washingto Post.
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From the New England reports the continued prevalence of the foot and mouth disease indicates that too little attention was given to 1t at the out set
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Carranza has become so accustomed to watchful waiting that the chances are he will discount the true meanins of any irmer policy.
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Painful Coughs and Bronchitis
 Promptly Relieved

with ounces Schiffmanns Concen-
 trated Expectorant. Besides, guaran- teed to give perfect satisfaction or your money returned by Pitcher & Services Drug Store.
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Now that the new Thaw trial has been started, everything, including the war, can be expected to take a back seat
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Real Test of NeutraItx-

We are beset by a horrible thought: How is American neutrality to be maintained when the time comes to root for Hans Wagner and Napoleon La joie e?-Mancheste Union,
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

It begins to look as if Thomas A. Edison would have reason to believe that there is a f1rebug on his trail.
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The Standing Is Good.

MT. Taft advises us all to stand by the president and the flag. Right The standing is good there, anyway.-Chi- cagO News
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commissioner will meet with general approval. He has proven an efficient and tactful official and deserves to be retained. But it is worth noting that, had the spoilsmen had their way he would have been cast into outer dark ness with dispatch in order to make room for one of the faithful followers of the machine.-Ansonia. Sentinel.
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IN ALL OUR
 NE|GHBORHOOD
There Is Hardly A Woman Who Does Not Rely Upon Lydis. E. Pinkham's Veg
 etable Compound.

Princeton, Ill.-"I had inflammation, hard headaches in the back of my neck
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anyone who is free to pass an hour or two exercising Shank's mare is a lazy sinner if he doesn't and de- serves no sympathy if his liver bothers him.-Waterbury Republican.
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We must pay more attention to our city's health and pay more for it, if we wish to be sure that we shall all ways be guarded against contagion, and it Is necessary that we shall have a watchful eye to look out for sanita- tior, that we shall ever be on the alert for the evil from without as well as that which come from within. Civic health is great blessing which it is only possible to secure and keep by eternal watchfulneSs and that costs money.-Meriden Journal.
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Most of the Korean mines are in the hands of Anaaxicaps.
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American ship owners are very sore over the La Toilette devised law for the improvement of seamen's con- dition, described in full on our finan- cial page They predict as a result of that law a marked rise in freight and passenger rates, the disappearance of our flag in the off shore trade of the Pacific and the return to foreign reg istry of vessels recently brought under our flag Of course. All of which will make necessary the government ship purchase bill. Do you see why Wilson signed the La Toilette act?-Water- bury American.
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Iowa's bee industry has a value of $1,500,000 year.
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Governor Holcomb indicates again that he is at heart in favor of the principle of civil service reappoint
 ing Burton Mansfield as insurance commissioner, when 1t was possible for him under the doctrine Of spells to replace him with a Republican. It is quite needless to say that the gover- nor's decision to rtain the present
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Vacation is a ffexible term. It does not necessarily mean the ex- penditure of a great deal of time or a large amount of money. A trip to a nearby city or a hike into the coun- try may do the trick for some people which a months outing would not ac- complish for others. I1trospection and retrospection are both good in their place. They are better perhaps than criticism of ones neighbor, but there comes a time when it is a. good idea to play the role of outsider and to get a sane perspective of things in general. The real vacation provides the means.-Meriden Record.