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Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17
HER FRIENDLY HUSBAND

respect with husband like that7 The
women take me just as 3 matter OF
course and rum In At any old time
with their fancy work instead~of CALI
ing In state! I can't inspire a singie
bit Of curiosity or gossip or mysceryl
Hes even worse when we 20 frnv-
cling. It's a three hour trip down.
state to our childhood home and wa
80 there frequently. When get ON
the train sit down gracefully and
hat 20 the audience. 50 TO speak I
dispose my hands In my lap and gaze
from the window with deep, medita-
tive eyes and II hid behave Ia have
everybody within sight saying: "Oh,
looki Look at the beautiful stranger
Do you suppose she iH a Russian grand
duchess in disguise7 She certainly
seems out Of place among these rude
SURROUNDINGS What can have hap
pened to her private carr Let us tread
softly so not to disturb herr
But George starts in his underhand
work fifteen minutes after the train
leaves. He says he's just going to
! step back 20 the smoker and ! know
all is lost BY the time we reach our
station he has progressed from the
smoker to our seat He knows the
name, age and occupation of every
man on the train and has a stack OF
their cards that bursts out one pocket
Another pocket is full Of cigars they
1
all his TO them.
Three of the men he has enthusiast
tically invited to visit US when they
come up to Chicago again and one to
! going to bring his wife. 1t seems
/ George has discovered that the wife's
| great-uncle was the grandfather Of
one OF his cousins. He has fascinated
every small child in the car and has
all the tables screaming to 50 to
Him..
He knows the brand of prepared
food that each one is fed and has ad-
J yised two mothers to change at once to
a better one and they have thanked
him tearfully.
He has shown two games to a rest
less small boy. told a distracted wo-
man which station she shall changed
\ at. helped the conductor add up his
receipts and II he had fifteen minutes
more / know he would be out In the
engine cab showing the engineer how
to run the engine. and, what's more
getting away with it, He'd probably
find that the engineer was a son OF
some man who had loaned his father
SO sixty years ago-and he'd ask hin
to spend two weeks with us when he
got his vacationi
mo. Mrs. Picklegate. you dom
know anything about trouble with
your sort of husbandl It's a horrible
strain being married to a naturally
J popular mani"
Il certainly should say SOL" gaspet
Mrs. Picklegate. my goodnessl"-
d Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17
Awards for Conspicuous Bravery.

The award of five additional Victoria
crosses Is announced in the London
Gazette. Four of them were won by
most conspicuous bravery in connec-
ton with mountaineering exploits
which now constitute such an import
ant feature Of trench warfare. 1t was
during operations southwest of Krithfa
on the Gallipoli Peninsula that Cap
tain Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, First
Battalion, Royal Iinniskilling Fusi-
Tiers, won the highest award for valor.
This is what he did. as narrated in the
official report:
''On the night Of the 1st-2nd July,
1915, when IL was essential that a por-
should be regained, Captain O'Sullivan
although not belonging to the troops
at this point, volunteered to lead q
party Of bomb throwers to effect the
recapture.
He advanced in the open under a
very heavy fire. and, In order to throw
his bombs with greater effect, got up
on the parapet where he was COM
pletely exposed to the fire of the enemy
occupying the trench. He was finally
wounded. but not before his inspiring
example had led on his party to make
further efforts. which resulted in the
recapture Of the trench.
"On the night of 1Sth-leth June,
1915. Captain OSulivan saved q crit
| ical situation in the same locality by
ing"
On the day following this announces
ment came another, more sinister, in
the official casualty list, giving Cap
tain O'Sullivan in the list of miss
| ing"
Sergeant james Sommers Of the
same battalion won the Victoria Gross
at the same time. when. owing to
hostile bombing. some OF our troops
had retired from q sap" says the re-
port In the London Gazette. Sergeant
Sommers remained alone on the spot
until a party brought up bombs. He
trench and bombed the Turks with
good effect
/ Later on he advanced into the open
under very heavy fire and held back
the enemy by throwing bombs into
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

OF coloring. and in the monotony Of it's
life. II Is crossed by great sluggish
rivers. with red banks. Its fields
reach to. the horizon lines. unfenced.
vivid green in spring. grey7sh-b brown
in summer. and unbroken white in
winter. Its forests are of birch and
pine. Its villages are all alike, and all
the houses in a village are alike. A
village IL q straight, abominable street
two rows OF houses; a white orthodox
church. and a signpost. with the name
OF the place and its number Of souls
In the street are pigs, geese. garbage,
and fair-haired children The huts
are simple, and are filed TO one-fourth
the first aids to Russian life, in whose
ovens the peasants bake and take
steam baths, and upon whose upper
surfaces they sleep in winter.
Although an important manufac-
ture has grown up in Central Russian
cities, as in Moscow and Tver. the
Great Russians are still primarily an
OF the Slav Is the working Of land
In summer, he and his family work
barefoot IN the fields; in winter. he
banks his hut with earth and straw
halfway m company with his stove; MS
cattle and his fowls There Is little
wonder that his home Is generally in
sect-ridden- The peasants are capable
Of tremendous energy. though, In the
rule they do not over-rate times
value They have many delightful
virtues. but coupled with a grave
tendency to be dishonest. Everybody
steals according to a candid and reclS-
less proverb OF their minting. except
Christ-and He would IL His hands
were not nailed to the Cross In this
connection il is only fair to note. that
the peasant regards 1T almost as q
righteous thing to convey from the
State or from an owner Of the upper
classes. .nef..t-4
The peasants possess an Infinite
appetite for receiving. though thank
fulness Is not a besetting sin among
/ them They are tolerant, hospitable,
and shrewdly practical. and, on the
other hand. they are needless Of the
modest claims OF Truth and very inn
| provident They have proverb:
4 Beat your wife like your fur. but love
her like your SOUL However. Great
Russian home life runs a more untrou-
bled course. probably than in many
lands more utterly satisfied with their
degree of civilization When not
| drunk. the peasant Is generally mild.
peaceful. and ell-wishing. When un-
der the inspiration Of vodka, he often
falls into fearful passions, becoming
elemental and dangerous 1t Is upon
\ these peasants of Great Russia that a
large part OF the duty of defending
the fatherland must fall"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17
SUFFERING ARMENIA

The plight Of the Armenian people
has been generally understood for a
long time. They have always been
kept under the heel OF the Turks and
been massacred and prosecuted until
4 y surprising that they have not
aeteriorated in keeping with their
treatment At the present time they
ire being treated like dogs and not
much more could be done if the Turks
had openly declared their intentions OF
discriminating them.
In the cry Of Turkey for the Turks
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

One feature OF our disturbances that
we do not like is the possible effect
upon several hundred young appren-
tees who are learning their trade as
machinlsts. II they go out on stike.
their education is interrupted and per-
haps terminated, and they have lost a
great part OF the time they have put
in. The union organizers have no right
to gamble with the futures of. these
boys and pull them away from their
benches in the hope of tying up fac
tories. On the other hand. the en-
ployers ought not to consider striking
apprentices. even though working un-
der long term contracts. as contract
breakers. They have broken contracts
but what Is a contract more or less 70
an impressionable and easily infiu-
enced boy OF eighteen? Perhaps the
very man who Is teaching him his
trade and whom he naturally looks W
to with reverent respect, asked him tc
walk out--Waterbury Republican
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17
The War a Year Ago Today
Sept. IL, 1914.

German army strengthened be-
tween Berry-au-Bae and Argonne.
French advanced In the Woevre
district.
6eIaians repuIsed attack on Ter
monde.
Austrians fed before Russians to-
ward Craoow.
General Rsnnenkampf blocked
Hankina movement by 6eruans.
Austrian warships shsllsd Semlin
and Belgrade end were rspelled BY
Serb artillery.
German fleets In Baltic fired on
each other by mistake.
Prize courts established in Eng
land.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

put a time limit on the birth of fools.
He said there was one born every
minute. Judging from present day
events the old gentlemen. who year
after. year took his show throughout
the country and gathered in the Amer
lean dollars, Is about right. Surely he
has not underestimate this birth
rate. II not every minute, then they
must arrive at the rate Of one every
thirty seconds. For example, we
cite the wonderful fistic iasco that
was staged last Saturday night at the
Brighton Beach Motordrome over on
Long Island. The promoters, after
relieving the public OF some additional
1000, are today intantly pondering
over those few well chosen remarks
made by the late lamented Mr.. Bar
num- The circus man was right At
the present time. however, pugilism
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

In attributing the loss Of it's big
ammunition plant to German intrigue
Russia probably realizes by now that
the army il not the only thing II
has to fear
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

Revolutionists in Portugal may be
endeavoring to eclipse the European
war, but it stands less show than a
smoked glass would against the sun.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

Henry Ford must realize that his
ten million dollar fund for peace is
puny whe1, France alone is spending
almost twice that daily for war.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

II the kissing Of Bryan was respon.
sible for his recent silence, It Is tor
bad that that demonstration dldn''
take place at the Baltimore conven,
ton
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

Pity the much abused summer hote
keeper who has to shut up just wher
his weather prayers are being an.
sWered.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

The fellow who thinks that a mil
lion soldiers could be made in a month
probably has reference to tin ones.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

An August sun may have no mercy
on sweltering humanity. but it takes
Old Sol in September to do 'em to
a fragile.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

White pine and yellow pine are the
woods most used for boxes, and each
contributes more than 1000, 00o, 900
feet to the box industry annually.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

When surgical instruments were ex-
ported during the past year to the
value OF nearly th;rty-six million DOL
lars, or nearly twice that Of the year
before, 1t shows what the conditions
in Europe are demanding.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

Those who are trying to block the
loan to the allies should remember
that the interests of this country come
first
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

1t is pretty tough on the fellow
who has to settle for cellar full of
coal this weather.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

Kitchener says Germany has almost
shot its bolt, but he also promised
that the war would open last May,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

Tho man on the corner says: One
way to study human nature is to OBJ
serve the kind Of dogs people harbor.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

It is curious how cities allow them
selves to get behind In the matter or
providing school accommodation They
will be extravagant in other depart
ments, often going far ahead Of needs,
especially in the police. IRE and pub
lie works departments, but II is the
exception. to find them even up with
the times in the matter of school
needs. Springfield, Massachusetts,, we
believe. is a model in this respect II
is easy enough for a small city to keep
up with educational demands. 1t Is
when a community begins to approach
the 100. 900 mark that you notice over
crowding and a disposition to fall be-
hind. The reason for this no doubt Is
that there are not as many votes pos
sible in the educational department as
in the police and fire departments. -
Bridgeport Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Summer appears to have opened fol
an indefinite season.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

Morton F. Plant seems to show a
disposition to emulate Frank A. Nun
sey in the matter of owning a chain
OF newspapers. He will find II an ef-
fective way OF disposing of his sur
plus money. However. one can hardly
blame him for yielding to the temta-
ton to own the Boston Herald news
paper with a noble past II. as seems
likely, he will keep Robert Lincoln
O'Brien in charge and give him free
hand. the Herald may once more be-
come one of the powerful newspapers
of New England.-New Haven Regis
ter,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

has received a black eye: but It will
soon recover from this and in the not
far distant future another great bout
will be staged for the edification Of
an unsuspecting public. And the pub
lie will falI.-New Britain Herald
There is something doubtless in the
change OF scene" as there unqustion-
ably Is in being In the fashion. but,
after all. these do not pay very big
dividend when one takes back to his
healthy city home the seeds Of typhoid
fever or the results OF ptornaine pois-
oning. The health commissioner OF
New York hopes, he says. IL he can
persuade the state to stand for the
expense. in time to make the country
as healthy as the city. But II Is a
large contract unsanitary surround
ings and parctices are indigenous in
the country and require heroic meas
ures. such as the elimination Of the
sink drain. the Punishment OF the too
convenient COW yard and even the
abolition Of the germ disseminating
"old oaken bucket that hangs in the
(contaminated) we'll" - Bridgeport
Standard.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17
OTHER VIEW POINTS

II a German submarine ofacer is to
be left IN a position to lie out Of his
guilt; IL the burden OF proof Of culpa-
bility is to be put upon the dead. what
ship and what American traveller can
be safe? American anxiety for peace
is so sincere that our people may swal-
low the bitter pellet of palliative which
German cleverness has devised, but
the humiliating exbrience will rankle
IN American hearts for years to come.
New London Telegraph.
Waterbury is to have an ordinance
regulating the jitney. On the surface
IL apears to be a reasonable measure
that will not bear TO oppressively on
the jitneur but has for its handspring
the protection OF the average citizen
from many jitney annoyances and dan
gers. The provision that limits the
number of occupants that the titney
can bear around the streets Is In the
direct line Of public safety and in
dividual convenience.-Ansonia Send-
mel.
The Washington times., 1915-02-15
.BERBER|CH'S BEGINS
$4,000 G|F 7 SALE
Attractive Merchandise to Be
Distributed Free to Purchas.
ers Of Spring Shoes.

Berberich's two shoe stores. on Penn
sylvania avenue and seventh street.
were crowded today at the beginning or
one of the most unusual sales that this
shoe house has ever conducted.
The occasion Of the crowds was the
announcement by the house Of Ber-
bcrich that it had arranged to give
away $4,000 worth of merchandise with
the new spring shoes sold at either Of
its two stores or In the shoe department
OF the Young Mems Shop. This distr-
button was arranged on a cooperative
plan between the makers Of the gifts.
the shoe manufacturers. and the house
Of Berberich.
The Ponds Extract Company. the
Osullivan Rubber Heel Company, Oft
erdinger's Cigar Factory, the Lady Fair
fax Candy Company, and the kno- -Tair
black silk hose manufacturers are the
concerns which have associated them
selves with Mr.. Berberich and the shoe
manufacturers in an arrangement which
enables the house of Berberich to pre-.
sent to every purchaser Of ladies' shoes
toilet goods amounting. at the regular
selling price. to s., and to every pur.
chaser Of mems shoes merchandise tc
the amount. at the regular selling price
Of from 81 to g.
Berberich has conducted gift sales OF
a similar character on other occasions
but announces that he has never beer
able to make arrangements so favorable
to the purchasers Of shoes as the gift
plan which Is a feature of'this sale. HI
announces that the total of $4,000 worth
of merchandise IL ready for distribution
during the limited time planned for the
sale.
Fifty-tour drug stores in all parts OF
the city are cooperating with the Ber-
bericli advertising campaign by giving
special displays of Ponds Vanishing
Cream and Ponds Face Powder.
The sale is a result Of a cooperative
idea worked out by Berberich's to create
quick demand for manufacturers OF
well-Known brands.
The Washington times., 1915-02-15
Predicts Woman
Suffrage Plank
Miss Kate Gordon Tells Southern
Women Democrats Must
Take Step.

Prediction that woman suffrage
plank would he included in the next
Democratic platform was made by Miss
Kate Gordon. of New Orleans, before
the Kate Gordon Chapter of the South
ern states woman Suffrage Council ut
tho Jardin de Dance yesterday.
President Wilson and the Democratic
party have been caught between two
fires. she said. and must come out with
n woman suffrage plank or stand be-
fore the nation with their bluff called -
Miss Gordon intimated that the state
mcnt by the President that woman suf-
frage was. in his opinion. a matter with
which the state must deal, was merely
used as Il means of evading the women
who are demanding an amendment ia
tho Constitution.
To-day the southern States Woman
Suffrage Conference occupies the most
advantageous spot on the suffrage
map said Miss Gordon. THE women
seeking the ballot from Congress have
forced the President to say 1t is not up
to Congress. but up to the State Leg
islatures.
Now we come along and demand
the Democratic legislatures to Give us
the vote. We believe the Democratic
party Ia for States rights. and we are
going to make 1t live up to that tradi-
ton
Congressman Abercrombie and Nickel.
lar Of Alabama and Tennessee. respec.
lively. and col. John Temple Graves
also spoke.
The Washington times., 1915-02-15

was subsequently held on board the
u. 8. s. Tacoma. at Puerto Cortez. for
the purpose Of selecting a provisional
President who would be acceptable to
all factions To this plan General Bon.
lila assented, and named as his plenipo-
tentiary DR.. Membreno, with the result
that DR.. Bertrand. a friend Of Bonilla
Membreno was named as minister OF
foreign relations in the new cabinet
and afterward as minister to Mexico
having for several years enjoyed an in
Innate relationship with President Ma
dero. A few months later. when con-
eral Bonilla was almost unanimously
elected to the Presidency. which Office
he continued to hold In peaceful posses
sion until his death in 1918. being sue
ceeded by his predecessor. DR.. Bertrand.
DR.. Membreno was then transferred to
The elevation of DR.. Membreno to the
Presidency Of Honduras is regarded
with distinct approval by officials Of
the State Department and the various
Latin American diplomats accredited
near this Government particularly those
only a man OF great talent and learn
Ing but one Of moderation and respect
for the law. He Is not only a disting.
uished lawyer and diplomat, but also
a noted amateur botanist. an dhas writ
ten several interesting papers on certain
phases Of plant life in the tropics and
in the north temperate zone.
Recently he was selected by the Pan.
American Union as member of the
committee Of three, his colleagues being
the ambassador of Argentina and the
minister Of Uruguay. to draft plar
to insure the neutrality of American
! waters in connection with the present
war in Europe.
The Washington times., 1915-02-15

years ago. lived at hotel ia New
York with her infant boy. nftc.n
months old. since last becembet she
has been occupying 81 expensive
suite at another hotel ard. she sain,
has been employed as reporter by a
New YORK newspaper unuer '"e "a'e
OF Mrs. Catherine Northrup.
She was arraigned in the Women $
Night Court. where Magistrate Bar
low held her in $1,000 bail Tor iurther
examination.
f'aulticssIy dressed and in the latest
style. she excited the suspicion OF John
Julian, sexton OF st. I.eo's Catholic
Church. in Twenty eighth street. be-
tween Fifth and Madison avenues at
tho services yesterday because she
been numerous complaints recently OF
women who had lost handbags IN the
pews of st. Leo's. 1t 40 happened that
1t was in this church tnat.the $500 gold
meshbag OF Miss Dorothy w. Fisk,
daughter of Pliny Fisk, banker. OF l:a
East Sxty-seventh street. was stolen
In March, 1913
The Washington times., 1915-02-15
CHARGE WOMAN WITH
THEFT OF PURSES
Miss Catherine FenneII Trai|ed
Through Several Manhattan
Churches.

Catherine Fcnnell. member Of a prom
incnt Washington family. who was
taken In custody in New York under
rather sensational circumstances about
two years ago. is again under arrest in
that city. Miss Fennell was arrested
after being trailed through several New
York churches. Searched at the police
station. a number of empty purses are
said to have been found in her posses
sion.
Miss Fennell was accused of stealing
wealthy womcn's urses from church
pews when arrested twL years ago in
New York. and spent several months
in the Tornbs.
The young woman has been known
Under various names. She has called
herself Mrs. Randolph Fitzhugh and
Mrs. Alfred 8. Northrup.
Miss Fennell was arrested in Wash.
ington several years ago. following n
transaction at a department store. AT
that time she was living in an expen-
sive suite at one Of the fashionable
hotels. Her father. who Is an invalid,
was at one time one of the best known
patent attorneys In the country. with
other members of his family he still
livca in Washington.
Miss Fennell. when arrested two
The Washington times., 1915-02-15

Swift e. Co.'S sales Of beef in Wash
ington, .. c.. for the week ending Satur-
day February 13. averaged as follows {:
Domestic beef 1868 cents per pound
Adyt