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SEE THROUGH

In view of the work which is being carried on by Warden Osborne at Sing Sing and the interest which is being manifested throughout the country in the better treatment of prisoners, the necessity of seeing the experiment through to a conclusion, one way or the other, Is recognized by the state prison commission of that state when it refers to the good results which have been accomplished, makes sug- gestions for improvement where in- terest has fallen off in the prison school, and advocates that the plan of administration which the warden introduced be tried out over a suffi- cient period.
 It is impossible to fairly judge the full merits of the plan from the re- suits which have been secured during the Introductory stage. It will require time to demonstrate the effect which it is going to have upon the prisoners after they leave the institution as well as during the time they are within its walls, and upon the reformation must the success depend. While 1t Is un- derstood that the prisoners should get decent treatment while serving their sentences unless they are going to profit from their stay at Sing Sing, it is time and effort wasted to endeavor to turn them from their criminal ten- dencies. It is wrong, however, to base an opinion upon the wisdom of the plan until it has had a chance to exert a reasonable influence over the convicts. It is a tremendous change and it cannot be rightly passed upon from the actions in a few cases.
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to be carried down in sheets tied to the ends of sticks, and 1t takes a dozen men to carry one down." he remarks.
 Scout duty is particularly dangerous, except for skilled Alpinists, and many of these never return Touching on the remarkable echoes thrown back by the mountain peaks, the officer says: The roar of the guns is heard twice, thrice. or perhaps dozen times, the echo throwing the sounds back and forth, and transforming a single re- port into a fusillade. Many of our men have been rendered unconscious or even driven mad by the fearful noise of the guns in the rarihed at mosphere of these high altitudesy"
 The same officer in another letter described an attack by the Italians on the position held by his troops Tt was after nine o'clock in the evening when the Italian infantry began to climb the mountain and storm the po- sition- We lay low behind the rocks and poured a fusillade of fire upon them as they came up in three lines. That was easy. But some terrible and trying moments for our troops came after this. The Italians, having been reinforced by another brigade. came in such force and with such determin- alton that the hot barrels of our rifles could do no more. A fourth brigade was then seen in reserve trotting up behind.
 They surprised the advanced posi- tions. a whole company fell into their hands. and they came on against the heavy fire of our infantry and artil- lery so courageously and undisturbed that even their most gallant adversary, Major Turndija. remarked: Honor and respect to those Italians; they be- have beautifully. | would not have expected anything else.'
 They reached our rocky covers to within six yards. Our machine guns and granades literally swept them off the slopes, yet more took their places, shouting 'Corraggioi' and Evvivan
 Again our rifles failed us. They came over the rocks in front, but there was no bayonet work. for our men were retreating to another height, where the reserves were ready to re- pulse any further advance"
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an end which may or may not pan r11% es exnefsfed

an end which may or may not pan out as expected
 Because of the section through which it runs and the expenditures which have been made in it's behalf 1t would appear that the reorganiza- ton committee which bid 1t in had struck a bargain. but it is to be re- membered that despite the territory and the facilities there was such a burden of expense attached to the road as it was being operated that it could not survive. Dividends were not to be considered. It was not able to meet it's heavy expenses incurred by its indebtedness.
 Like some other roads which have found that 1t was not being recom- pensed for the service which it was rendering, the auctioning off of the Wabash was inevitable It must now undergo reconstruction upon new financial basis. but it is safe to as- sune that the building of costly and improbable extensions will not be re- sorted to and that 1t will make a closer study of income and expenses With such a great sacrifice of value, how ever, as the selling of the road for less than ten cents on the dollar, it is not easy to understand just what is going to result in that case from the physical valuation of the railroads of the country now underway at a tre- mendous, expense.
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EXPRESS RATES.

From the decision which has been given by the Interstate Commerce commission that the revenue of the principal express companies Is made quate and the modification of its pre- vious orders so that additional income will be provided, it is evident that the companies produced the facts that were necessary to bring relief.
 It was the same with the express companies as it was with the rail- roads. The federal commission could not be expected to accede to the wish es of either just because they. desired it. They demanded that the proof be produced that would justify whatever action might be taken and this they received when 1t was shown despite the economic policy carried out and the efforts for new business that were made, that the operating income for the year showed a decrease of nearly two and a half million, leaving a net operating deficit of over million dol lars.
 The express companies persisted in rates for a long time which were pro- ductive of unreasonable dividends. Their methods of doing business were such that the country became anxious for the establishment of parcel post and it Is but a. natural result that they have lost much business, Under the existing competition it is not sur prising that the express companies have experienced a decrease in the vol ume of business and income. and un- der such conditions, which make the business improbable, it is but right that they should be allowed to make an advance in rates which are war ranted to bring a proper return on the investment and for the service rem dered
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THE THIRD NOTE,

The third note which has been sent by this country to Germany following the sinking of the Lusitania, and bear ing upon the rights of this country which Germany should observe, is firm In it's demands. It does not deviate from the position which has steadily been maintained. It asks no conces- sions, because none are desired. All that is wanted of Germany is to live up to it's obligations and this country is ins1stent that that shall be done under the penalty of a repetition of the Lusitania affair being considered deliberately unfrfend1y act.
 Neither is this country disposed to accept the proposals of the German government that there be a sacrifice Of it's rights. Such action could only ,nee looked upon as an approval in part bof the methods which Germany has adopted in attempting to strike at its enemy through this country. The terms aunder which this and other neutral !; Icountries can sail the high seas have ,been determined by a congress of na- .tions and 1t is not for the imperial Herman government to cast them aside and set up new ones simply to serve its own interests. The new note makes 1 it evident that there can be no com promise and back of this the country stands.
 g4oS If, Germany for any reason has been 5misled in the interpretation of the uAmerfcan position and hoped by the 'dodging which it has been doing to avoid the real issue, it must realize now by the repetition of the demands and the refusal to compromise that it z71as been following the wrong course, Tt is the rights of this country and Humanity which this country insists Hpon. The note simply reiterates a l. demand for a square deal and does so Smore firmly than it's predecessors.
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RANK LNGRATITupE

[ When the war broke out there was sHrgent need that Americans in Eu- rope be given the assistance which was necessary to get them out of the war zone and back to this country A great many found themselves handicapped because their funds had been so dis tributed as to carry them through their z tours or their return transportation was not available at that time. Con- .dftions were abnormal and in the rush to get away there was fully understood the need of providing immediate funds for the use of those who were help less. There were also many other leases where there was excellent req son for this government furnishing the means for getting back to America. 14.rT,sIt was an emergency service, which was of much value and one which call ed for proper appreciation upon the ynart of the recipients, but that it did not in many cases is indicated by the announcement made by the treasury department to the effect that suits will be brought to recover for the relief or Transportation extended, in accordance with the vote at the time such help was given which provided that those financially able should reimburse the government,
 There was spent by the government about two million dollars for this pur- pose Ordinarily 1t would be expect Id that enough appreciation would be Relt for the assistance rendered to has, 1en to return the money advanced swithout being reminded of it. The Overlooking of 1t Is the rankest kind Of ingratitude. especially when it is Realized that many of them are sup @osed to be we'll supplied with funds. Much people deserve to be neglected Mext time.
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THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society

Grodno-"Among the great fort resses that are opposing the march of German armies into Russian lands is that of Grodno, a stronghold on the main railway to Petrograd from the West, and one of the more powerful links guarding the line of the Musco- vite frontier" says a statement issued today by the National Geographic So- ciety. "Grodno is on the line of ad- vance from the lake region in East Prussia. and lies about 50 miles from the German border. It is $40 miles southwest of Petrograd. 9s miles south west of Wilma, and 160 miles northeast of Warsaw. It is an objective of German invasion from the north, while 1t, also. is nearly due north of the Austro- German columns invading from the south.
 About no miles south of Grodno, lies the Russian fortress. Brest Litew- ski, guarding the trunkline railway, Warsaw-Moscow. The cutting Of these two great railroad arteries has been, likely the main object of all re- cent Austro- German endeavons in Russian Poland. The trunkline from Petrograd passes through Wilma, Grod- no, Bialistock, to Warsaw, and beyond Warsaw to Sl<ierniewice. a place cap- tured. by the Germans. where 1t sends Thorn in the north, to Kalisz and Lissa in the west, and through Czen- stochowa to Cracow and Koenigshu- cite In the south. These two railway arteries. between Warsaw and Petro- grad. and Warsaw and Moscow, are the Muscovite avenues for boring men and supplies into Russian Poland and toward the western and southwestern frontiers.
 "The works of Grodno fortress have been considerably strengthened during recent years. The city is the capital of the government of Grodno, and is situated on the River Niemen. It is the headquarters of Russia's IT Army Corps. The city, itself. is very poorly built. Nthough 1t has a large trade in grain. iDaber- and meats. It has a
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population of some 42,0o0, of which two-thirds is Jewish. There are im- portant machinery. firearms. tobacco and vehicle factories in Grodno, and the output of these factories was enormously increased by the war. Grodno is rich in Polish history. Here the second partition of Poland was effected in 1793; here Stanislaus Poniatowslxi, the last king of the Poles. resigned his crown in 1795. The Polish king, Stephen Bathory, made Gradno his capital, and died there in 15S6. The town has been battered by many an enemy, since its foundation in tho 18th century"
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
War Not over Yet.

MT. Edltor:-In Fridays papers I read "Nr. Wannamaker proposes to buy Belgium for $10,o00, ,000, 900 and reinstate their government and na- ton. Better it seems that Wanna maker keep his coin and his fellow countrymen as it may be needed later here in the United States. This war Is not over and God only knows when it may be over. Our people are taxed heavily now. Any break in neutrality liable to happen in two months would give the Wannamakers ct al a little to think upon at home.
 J. L. Gardiner. M. D.,
 Central Village, Ct. July 2s, 1915.
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plfHeuIty of supplying Food.

A Hungarian officer, describing the lighting on the Tyrolese mountain peaks. a mile above sea level. states that the most difficult problem for the stan Is to maintain the supply of food to the troops. On account of the high altitude and the continuous physical strain. they need good supplies and plenty of them
 The oficer pays tribute to the work of the Red Cross. -Our- wounded have
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Sunday Morning Talk
THE SCIENCE OF MERRIPATHY.

Let us harken to the wisdom of the ancients. Josh Billings once observed: eff man kant laff there is sum mis- take made in putting him together, and if he won't laff he wants az mutch keeping away from az a bear-tr9p when it is sot." I should hate to live with anyone who either couldn't or wouldn't laugh A lack of that kind would argue an abnormal nature.
 Man in his normal and best estate knows how to laugh. Degenerate races who have sunk toward the beasts level through their vices and their indiffer- ence seldom do. The Veddahs of Cey- lon, for instance, are said to be unable to laugh. One of them who had been taken to Colombo, and had learned the speech of the Cingalese, was expostu- lated with because he never laughed at anything. What is there to laugh at?" was his answer. Deliver me from residence, except as a missionary of cheer among the Veddahs of Ceylon!
 The doctors speak a good word for laughter, telling us that it has a high ly beneficial effect on the heart and lungs. During what is called fit of laughter the lungs may be almost com- p1etely emptied of their contained air. Fresh air is then drawn in to the fullest extent of their capacity, inflating those little used air cells which contained previously only stagnant air and ba- 1n0 ncdEI IS lO vigorous action during laughter. AL most all the principle muscles of the body are brought into play when we laugh with a will. There may be more truth than at first appears in the maxim: Laugh and grow fat" At most substantial and rubicund people laugh a good deal.
 "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" wrote the wise author of Proverbs. That is true in many cases you yourself may have witnessed. necessary but they all may fail if joined to fear and melancholy in the patient. Laughter has cured some dis eases at least and that is more than one can say of frowns or fears.
 There are people who take life too seriously and others who take it not seriously enough. One class is con- stunned with care and another wastes its time in frivolity. The world Is per haps about equally divided in this re- gard. To which section of humanity do you belong, reader? If to the first, you are living below your privilege. You should learn to see comedy in some cases where now you see only black tragedy. You should practice merri- opathy. the science of the healing laugh. You should train the corners of the mouth to turn up rather than down. You should try the fun cure.
 Does your work get into kinks?
 Laugh it off.
 Are you near all sorts of brinks?
 Laugh it off.
 If it's sanity you're after
 There's no recipe like laughter
 Laugh it off.
 The biographer of Mary Lyon, one of the noblest and most useful women of her time/ named two victorious traits of hers not always found in combina- ton. "A habit of prayer" he said, "and a sense of humor forge invincible armor" The serious-minded people need not be somber- minded. Blessed is he who, along with his sense of duty, has a sense of humor. He has that which is worth more than money.
 THE PARSON,
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A RAILROAD AT AUCTION.

Her the hammer at one-twelfth of it's Rated value presents in marked con- arast the position of railroads today .p what it was in years gone by. There Ffe also being exploded some of the
 theories in regard to management and
 he ideas, that the expenditure of all
 ands of sums is warranted to-secure
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The communication of the death sen tence of a murderess and the failure to take similar action for Becker on the part oe Governor Whitman must indicate to the latter that his mistake was made in not getting a crowd Of
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It is about time Harry Thaw was authorizing the announcement that he intended to go on the stage to earn the money to pay his nine years ex- pense fighting the law.
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The effort Of Becker to shift the guilt for his crime to .Big Tim" Sul- livan is like the attempt in Europe to place the blame for the war on the late King Edward.
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Left "a Bad Impression.

Mir. Editor: have been scratching ever since that flock of f1ivvers from Manchester went through here Thurs day morning. think got one of them on me.
 Yours respectfully,
 FORD1E METZ. Norwich Conn., July -2s. 1915.
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Encouraged by the freedom he has already received Harry Thaw gives notice that he will now apply for a divorce
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Probably Jane Addams is getting some consolation out of the fact that her efforts for peace have accomplish ed as much as the rest of them.
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Bryan demands $500 and an audience of 50.000 to tell what he believes when as a matter of fact no one gives a picayune what 1t is.
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The man onNthe corner says: Money used to make the mare go, but it takes a mortgage to get some autos started.
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LATTER-DAY MAGIC

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) , During vacation days it used to be one of the trying experiences of wait ing about stations to watch the per- spring baggagemen as they would trundie overloaded trucks along the platforms one pulling another push ing. Trunks and suit cases and boxes and hampers piled high, went rattling along the line. to be pitched off into the baggage car. If seni-occasionally one got a vicious throw. because it was unduly big or heavy. the spleen of the overworked railroad men was easy to understand
 How is it now7
 The trunks and bags and boxes are even more numerous and quite as heavy; but the man who must handle them will pile them on his truck, feel ing no particular spite against them or their unknown owners, and actuated by no sudden, socialistic hatred of work and of the plutocrats who have nothing to do but go travelling, to make trouble for some poor workman When the pile is high enough, he will cheerily jump on the front of his par ticular truck, another workman will jump on at the rear, the former will set a little machinery going, and, pres to! Off the loaded truck glides with magic speed down the station platform to the baggage car of the long train.
 It is no more labor-at least that portion of it-than would be a ride on a smooth sled down an icy hill on a winters night.
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Three Balkan kings are to gather at Athens. The chances are they have an eye on the jackpot.
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Despite all the revelations which Becker is alleged to have made, he hasn't told Governor Whitman any thing that he did not previously know.
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has said he is a man who can hold his job. This definition might be improved. The man. who can maintain his family is man of more ability than the one who barely can hold his job. Ability has been defined as a poor mans wealth. and as gift from God. It includes perception, conception and a consciousness of power. There Is scope to ability, for we are assured "a1l may do what by man has been done" Ability to learn, to acquire, to design, to create. to entertain, to en- noble make up the useful and success full life. The man of ability is the man who creates opportunities and who changes to meet conditions, or makes conditions to meet his requirements. The man who makes places for men is abler than the men who simply are efficient enough to hold them.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

There were times when conditions were more suspicious along the Wa bash.
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If Russia can prevent the German Austrian armies from taking Warsaw its ability to do so is not reflected in the departure of the Belgian consul.
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It begins to look as if the Germans were hitting it up for Tipperary via VladiYostok.
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How we used to spend our sympathy, during the sultry, humid summer time, on the poor horses forced to drag great loads up hills, or to stand and droop, while their drivers were unloading trucks and wagons!
 It took all the pleasure out of drive to think of the horses tugging and sweating, even with nothing more than the burden of drawing light carriage. One hate dto come to hill. or to en- counter a stretch of sandy country road. It seemed a species of cruelty to animals, even to take a horse out of
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Because of his fathers sudden ill., ness, Rev. A. L. Townsend of North Stohinston has been called to New York state :
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

The Colonel Is short on arbitration and long on fighting. He cannot see why a commission should be ap- pointed to arbitrate matters after an armed force has invaded any country. The best thing to do, he contends, is to be prepared to resist the attack of an enemy. To this end he would es- tablish in this country a standing army of 100000 professional soldiers and set up a system of universal mill itary service such, as is in vogue in Switzerland. There are many who will disagree with the latter part of the ColonePs argument, but few are willing to stand for unpreparedness.-Ne Britain Herald.
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Notice the new bridge or apartment house being built.
 There, too, mans friend, the good Giant Electricity. is waiting to do his bidding in scores of ways.
 He stands by, to hoist the beams and spars and bricks and metals and rivets and hammers and bolts, one story or twenty; it is immaterial to him, with his never-failing, never-dis- concerted strength.
 Aided by him, a mere boy, in a little, obscure office or tower, can touch with one finger the button, or turn with ease the switch, which will set going a force astounding in its capabilities and re- sources.
 In the olden days, men talked of the Seven Wonders of the World; but in our own times we witness daily sew enty times seven wonders. in the man ifestations of this wizard force which men have learned to tame, to harness with simple wires. to do their work ir a thousand of ways.
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{, For some genius has applied the principle of electricity to the hard labor of the baggageman, and his truck is now his working motor-wagon, not disturbed by the number or the weight of trunks or bags or baskets which he can pile upon it. He just has to get the luggage pieces together, and, like the Gold Dust Twins, lightning, har- messed, will do his work,
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pops up and claims that the fact that the United States and Canada have lived neighbors for 100 years in peace! without building a fort or a frontier fortiflcation between them is evidence question. If all the nations of the world would consent to remain unpre- pared and would build no forts or defenses on their frontiers there would be no need of preparation But where one country prepares for offensive war and builds Notifications for defense it's next neighbors must do the same thing. As long as either the United States or Canada refrains the other may safely do so.=Waterbury Amer, ican.