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Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22

ing control, Austria has worked won
ders, and brigand Herzegovina has
been transformed into a center of
economic, political and cultural pro-
gress.
"A large part of the land is barren
having a number of bare peaks rising
more than 1000 feet. The eastern
part, toward Servia, is especially torn
and rocky. The rivers of Herzegovina
plunge underground for great stretch
es on their courses to the sea. There
is just one river in this province that
manages to go its whole journey
without once forsaking the surface.
The Herzegovinan valleys are the only
fertile parts of the province, and most
of these are very narrow. A fine
quality of grapes are raised in them,
duced. Excellent tobacco is grown;
that is, it is considered excellent by
those who prefer tobacco as fragrant.
as cloves and cinnamon.
'Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina,
is a picture city, a fascinating Orien-
tai town in setting of wonderful
beauty. Sheer, massive cliffs, enclose
it one one side, while distant noun
tains divide the valley on the other.
Mostar has a population of about
$4,000, almost entirely Slavonic. Is
lam, however, shares about equally
with Roman Catholicism the religious
converts. The mountaineers of Herr
egovina are like their neighboys, the
Montenegrins, in their sturdy indie
pendence. 1t was they who started
the rebellion against tn Turks in 1875,
which, spreading throughout the Bal
kans and finally being taken up by
Russia, led finally to the Congress Of
Berlin and the birth of several new
states into the family of Nations"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
COST OF COLLEGE,

There should not and probably will
not be any encouragement to those
who wish to go to college in the state
ment which comes from Yale that the
seniors this year will spend over a
million dollars for their diplomas.
This. it is to be remembered, is figured
on the expense accounts of the men,
many of whom are representatives of
wealthy families and expenses get lit
tie consideration, as is indicated by the
statement that one spent $4,000 in his
freshman year while it was pos
isible for the frugal member to get
his education in the corresponding year
for a cash outlay of 5000.
What is fact at Yale is true also
OF other large universities, but even
the average of such a class, including
the heavy and the light spenders fail
to place college expenses in the right
light for such are seldom balanced, for
while the average for the year was
$1,076 at Yale. an amount which cor
responds well with Harvard yet 1t Is
fully demonstrated that 1t is possible
TO live and get just as good results
under half that figure. At the Univer-
sity of North Dakota the average is
but 1910 a student.
The whole secret lies in the push
and discrimination of the student, for
there are plenty OF opportunities for
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
THE WAR PRIMER
By National Geographic Society

Describing Herzegovina as a prov
ince beginning with the rock" the
National Geographic Society says of it
and its people:
Montenegro, after successfully de-
Tending her independence from a bleak
shoulder of rock for more than 500
years against all corners, has, in COM
mon with her sister nations of the Bal
kans, begun to aspire to empire
abroad and one of the fields
desire is that of Herzegovina Herze-
govina is a continuation of the Mont
enegro mountains. 1t has an area of
$3.50 square miles, or, added to Mont
enegro, would about double that tiny
Kingdoms territory. 1t would, also,
bring 100000 more persons under the
scepter Of King Nicholas. Montene-
grin statistics make one realize what
a. prize herzegovina would be. Mont
enegro has an area of $3.50 square
miles and a population of $40, 900.
Herzegovina joins Montenegro in
the south and Bosnia in the north.
The mountain formations of Bosnia
and Herzegovina are similar, but the
latter land is not so fertile as its
larger neighbor. There is a saying
that: Bosnia begins with the forest,
Herzegovina with the rock Here,
however, may be enjoyed some of the
most beautiful scenery of Europe, and,
in the future, there are numberless
be developed into famous and we'll
paying seasonal resorts. Before the
Austrians took charge Of this country
one almost took his life in jest who
sought to journey through it without
heavy armed escort. Since asSum-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
JlTNEY REGULATION.

: In attempting to secure legislation
lt this time for the regulation of the
Iitneys the Connecticut general as
senbly is simply being guided by the
action which has been found necessary
IN other states. Throughout the west
the jitney has been in operation for
some time and the need of restrict
ing it and regulating 1t in state as
well as in cities has been experienced.
In the proposition to require a bond
from each operator of such trans
portation service there is presented one
Of the plans which has been adopted
DIT Is under consideration elsewhere.
In Tennessee the bond required is
Is, 900. The legislation proposed in
Massachusetts for the jitney provides
for a bond of $4,000, while in Penn
sylvania, where there is before the
legislature bills for the control of the
htneys the amounts considered for a
bond range from $4,000 to $4,000,
though one of the drastic bills would
require a tax of ten per cent. of the
gross receipts and another would
amend the charters of the traction
companies permitting them to engage
In auto transportation.
: In all instances. however, is there
demand for regulation and this is be-
Ing manifested by state as well as
municipality for the protection of the
public as well as for the safeguarding
of existing rights and investments
Where there is no effort in behalf of
d bond the need of an additional Ii
cense fee is recognized and is being
urged.
1t is an important fact that the tit
the requirements of the public are not
being met by the trolley lines. In
cleveland, for instance, it gets little
encouragement, but in Providence the
streets are not broad enough to per-
init of the rush of business that they
are finding. The result is going to be
that unless steps are taken to furnish
proper supervision, such service as is
now being rendered by the traction
companies is going to suffer and the
interests of the public throughout the
year are going to feel the effects.
There can be no question but what
the jitney is giving and will continue
to. provide accommodations in many
Instances where none at all exists to-
day, but it is only proper that they
should be required to operate under
restrictions in accord with the re-
uuirements imposed upon the existing
common carriers.
Connecticut cannot afford to ignore
this iitney service even though it is
new, and though it's chances of con-
tinuing are not of the best. It has
been demonstrated from the manner
in which such vehicles are operated
that there is a justified demand for
regulation the same as for all other
street vehicles for hire. No state or
Community can tolerate the wild races
Tor business which accompany the jit-
lney's introduction and it is highly i'm
portant that there should be the in
.sistence upon the safety which is aim
ed at IN the bond. No state or city,
however, can afford to discourage or
'curtaN the service which the electrics
are rendering.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
Mass of Wreekage.

A dispatch to the London Daily
News from Chios, dated April IL,
says:
along the coast from Chios and after
a voyage of Is miles came to the tiny
hamlet of Komi in the Gulf of Kala-
mott, where the Demir Hissar, the
Turkish torpedo boat which tried to
sink the British transport Manitou, is
aground, by permission of the Greek
authorities. I was able to go aboard
and make a thorough inspection, be
sides taking statements from the
coast patrols and other witnesses of
the engagement.
ut seems that she was run literally
to earth by four British men of war.
Two destroyers chased her on the west
and south sides of the island till she
began to turn north between Chios and
the coast of Asia Minor and then the
cruiser Minerva and a third destroyer
met her inf1ight. When she saw these
two, she knew the game was up and
ran for q sandy cove between craggy
hills, sprinkled with olive plantations,
where found her.
She is a thoroughly modern craft
and proved herself possessed of fine
turn of speed. Examination of her
two deck torpedo tubes and Maxims
shows that she was armed in 1910 by
SchwatZkopff Of Berlin.
Internally, the ship is a mass of
wreckage, and she is holed below the
waterIine, though not as a result of
British gunfire. The damage was done
by two Turkish or Turco-German
bombs Of a makeshift description, out
of four or five, which were intended to
blow up the vessel while men were on
board.
"A boarding party of 20 had an ex-
ceedingly narrow escape. The pres
ence of one of the bombs was detected
Immediately, and few moments after
the men had been withdrawn 1t wreck
ed the interior of the vesePs stern
quarters, blew the pinnacle to pieces
and flung an iron ladder, which was at
the ships side, dozen yards away.
Half an hour later, when a board
ing party returned to the ship, a Sec
ond bomb, probably intended to ignite
ened, slightly injured two men, who
were trying to enter.
81 saw what was pointed out to as
a third bomb. It was a petrol tin
apparently filed with explosives, lying
i'll the water near the stern Of the
vessel. A fourth, said the Greek SEN
try on board, had been located in the
forward part Of the vessel.
Inside the vessel everything was in
the widest confusion, with two feet
of water in the saloon. On deck were
English charts, German novels, French
pic ture postcards, of every Partisan
type, private letters, and ships doc
Cments in Turkish. These lay among
heaps of oranges, biscuits, and other
paraphernaha of the vessel, which had
been a long time at sea and was ex-
pecting still longer trip.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22

"Oh Miss Ripley, somebody called
you up twice today and wanted to
speak to you. awful bad" said Mrs.
Gerson, the moment the bright eyed
youngwoman entered the fiat where
she rents the best room. 1t was Sat-
urday afternoon.
who was it? Did you get the
name?'
Yes, of course I asked who it was.
1t was man by the name of-of-
well, if that amt funny! It's just
slipped my mind! But wait a minute.
I'll think of it. Let me see. Oh dear,
1 wish 1 had written it DOWN."
It's too bad you didn't" said the
BRIGHT eyed young woman. little
grimly. You said it was some man
who appeared very anxious to speak to
me. I wonder why he didn't call me
at the office"
1T was this afternoon. only a little
while ago. the last time. It's the fun
NEST thing how 1 forgot that name,
when I put it on my mind SO hard.
Well, I'm sure it will come to me. Yes,
I know how it vast was. well.
can't quite get it, but anyway I'm sure
1t ended in err"
"rEr,'" repeated the young woman.
May be it was Jack Weber. Didn't
he leave any message?"
mo, but he seemed awful excited
away"
well, TIL call him. I'm sorry now I
didn't come straight home from the Of
fee"
She went to the telephone with
pleasant visions of a motor ride that
she might not yet miss. and she
breathed a sigh Of relief when Jacks
mother said that he was in. "Any-
way" she said to herself as she wait
ed for him to come to the phone, "he
hasn't taken any one else out any
where"
"Hullo. is this you, Nell? How are
you?"
"Why, I'm all right. I thought I'd
see whether it was you who called me
twice this afternoon. Jack? I thought
perhaps there was something YOU"
mo, not /. I've been terribly busy
lately, but I have been intending to
telephone you and see whether you
couldn't take a spin. The runabout's
just out of the shop, all vanished for
spring. Can't you go for ride to-
morrow morning?"
'eWhy yes, I think SO. but L"
Fine! I'll be around by $50 in the
morning. Will that be all right?"
Yes, thank -ou," she hung up the
receiver in not an entirely happy mood.
HE wouldn't have thought of a ride
tomorrow at all if I hadn't phoned
llIIt, she TGHSCISO III d1llOSI
didn't decline" She sat for mo-
ment in silence and then murmured
Ger .er," two or three times.
"Mr. Springer, of course. He said
last week that he wished me to go
to one of those Sunday concerts he is
so enthusiastic about. Is this you. Mr..
Springer" she was saying in a mo-
ment This is Miss Ripley"
ooh, how do you do. Miss Ripley?"
VERY well. Some one called me on
the phone this afternoon before came
in. and I'm wondering whether by any
chance 1t was you. The fragment of
the name reported to me suggested
yours
mot guilty this time. but I'm aw-
fully glad to have a word with you!
By the way, why can't we go to the
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22

dress I do not know. The custom is
in this battalion if a parcel with eat
ables or perishable goods is sent to a
non-com. or man who is killed or
wounded, it will be opened and dis
tributed to his comrades. This par
eel contained with your gift, cake,
oranges, etc. The above was carried
out; the eatables distributed, and l.,
as company quartermaster sergeant,
deputed to write and thank the kind
donors. If, however, Pie. Perrin re-
turns to this battalion your gift will
be handed to him. You will see the
difficulty of finding out the names of
places to which the wounded are sent,
as they go to Havre, Boulogne, Paris,
or any hospital in France or England,
so that when they leave our forward
base hospital it is almost impossible
for us to trace them.
No doubt you would like to have a
short account of our lives and the
manner of work we have to perform.
This is not a war like you read about
in books. 1t is in fact a war of the
most profound science and cunning.
We, as infantry, are entrenched here,
say, with our right on a road or per-
haps in an open field. The enemy are,
say, sometimes 200 or 800, or in some
cases only 80 yards apart, with barbed
wire cunningly fixed in front of each
trench. You have to use the greatest
care or you are SHIPPED, and ceaseless
watching is absolutely essential.
Sometimes their guns fire on us, but
we are so well under cover that very
little damage is done. Latterly our
guns have shown marked superiority
and great havoc has been caused to
the enemy's trenches. This is literally
an artillery war, with enormous guns,
which tear holes in the ground large
enough to bury an electric car. This
is how the majority of us have spent
the winter; three days of >ceaseless
days in billets not far from the fir
ing line, in which we have managed
to have a bath and sometimes a
change of washing. Sounds drab
and cherries, doesn't it, and certainly
not like the glorious charges and
1and-to-hand encounters which SO
thrilled me when a boy.
The roads are drying up now, so
possibly we shall be making history
shortly. My battalion, the Second
Wits, belongs to what some kind
writer's designate the immortal G Di-
vision left OH England for the front.
All trained soldiers, with an average
of 1--WE years service with the colours.
We left Gibraltar on Sept. 4, 1914,
where we were stationed. After a few
days training at Lyndhurst Camp,
an unknown destination. I prided my
self on my geographical knowledge,
but when I was told we had landed at
zeebrugge I was at a loss. However.
we went to Ypres made history there
and then, until our little affair at
Neuve Chapelle a few days ago, had a
fairly good insight in trench work. To
show what our regiment has been
through, not one officer and only sew
enty-1ve men remain of the splendid
battalion which left England on the
Second Of October last. I am pleased
to hear that you have cousins in Bris-
toll, as am Bristol man myself.
Again thanking you for your kind
gift to my comrade. remain, mes
danes,
Yours sincerely, ]. M. Miller.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
HER MYSTERIOUS CALL

concert tomorrow? I hope you have
no previous engagement
mo, but"
Surely you'll be good enough to
overlook such short notice: You see
I feared I might be out of town to-
morrow or I would have called you
earlier in the week"
Thank you very much. I'll be de-
lighted to CO." she answered, and
after Mr.. Springer had expressed his
satisfaction she held the telephone ir
resolutely
cit must have been Tom, after all"
The young womans cheeks burned
with heightened color. II wonder
how he ever came to call me. 1 sup
pose I'd better wait and let him call
me again. Still, Mrs. Gerson said he
was awfully anxious to speak to me-
and, of course, the lines been busy
these last few minutes, so maybe I'd
better call him and show him I'm not
too dreadfu1ly unforgiving."
SIS this Mr.. Harter? Is this you,
Tom?" she asked in a strangely sub
dued voice when she got the Harter
number.
why. Nell. bless your heart! Are
you going to let me come over to see
you? I do want to tell you'll want
you to understand You see. you
thought something entirely wrong. and
I know I was a bear to go away
growing as I did. but l think it's just
like your sweetness to call me and let
me-
tom Harter, didn't you telephone
me twice this afternoon" Nell de-
manded in a much stronger voice.
why no, I've been wanting to. but
you were so severe and SO sort of final
that I hadn't had the courage. but
you'll let me see you tonight, won't
you, Nell? I have a date to go to the
Athletic club, but I'd break an en-
gagement with anybody to see you.
I'll be over by $50 o'clock"
"An right. Tom," she said, and as
she hung up the receiver she muir
called ed him Just to give him a chance
to come over, but Til make him under
stand clearly how 1t was I happened
to telephone" Notwithstanding these
firm words, there was a very happy
light in her eyes as she went to her
room.
ooh, Miss Ripley, that mans on the
phone again." exclaimed Mrs. Gerson
scarcely stopping to knock at the
young woman's door a few minutes
later.
yes this is Miss Ripley"
I'm Mr.. Turner. the cleaner"
YES, well?"
IT just wanted to say that I can't
send your skirt over tonight, the way
promised because when we took that
spot out 1t lS1I Ddu pace anu the
whole skirts got to be cleaned. You
said you had to have it tonight, so
i've been trying to get you to tell you
so that you wouldn't blame me. I
hope this won't cause you trouble"
mo, Mr.. Turner, it's all right. It
won't cause me trouble. 1t caused me
other things" the young woman
laughed a little Historically.
whats that you say?"
Nothing of Importance, Mr.. Turner
Just send the skirt over next week
when it's done" Up went the receiver
room, saying to herself: eff it hadn't
been for you. Mr.. Turner it might
have been dull weekend for me-
Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
Stories of the War

have not been fulfilled. The blame
for this rests with certain of our neu-
trail neighbors. In Rumania we placed
contract for several thousand wagon
loads of wheat, but we have not yet
received a single wagon. The Ru-
manians took our money, but have so
far kept the wheat in their own ter
ritory.
Let me give you another example
of our difficulties. I purchased in Ru-
mania 200 car loads of beans, but the
consignment could not be Immediately
delivered owing to the shortage of
cars ON the railroads. Now Rumania
has placed an export tax of $500 in
gold on each car load!
In September last I purchased
wheat in America. The ship was for
tunate enough to reach Genoa with
out being molested. But Italy now re-
fuses to let the wheat pass through
to US, and it has therefore had to be
sold in Genoa harbor.
Even from Hungary we have not
yet received the wheat that we pur-
chased. They should remember that
we are waging a common war, and the
time is now come when Hungary must
let us have her surplus supplies of
food. Even during peace time We have
to depend on Hungary for wheat and
corn Is the price we pay SO poor?
Thank Heaven, we were able to confis-
cate some large stocks of maize at SIS
a hundredweight, and we have been
living on it for long time. Do you
know what price Hungary demands
for maize now? Over 50 a hundred
weight
1T is question which touches
most deeply the people of Vienna.
Hungary must let us have her sur
plus, and that at no higher price than
our sister state can decently demand.
If it be true that Hungary is going to
send us her surplus, think we shall
be safe. But we must make sacrifices
ourselves by using inferior flour and
by limiting our food to the minimum
ration which will see US through to
the next harvest
After complaining Of the system of
bread tickets, which the Government
has been compelled to adopt, the Bur-
gomaster continued:
Were it not that I have the people
of Vienna at my back We should wit
ness a debacle terrible to imagine. I
am giving you the plain facts so that
thousands of people who never read
the newspapers or glance at the pro-
carnations. You must explain to
them how things stand, in order to
prevent any public unrest at the out
set. You must not lose your bread
tickets. for you will not get new ones.
Il pray every day to God that the
system of wheat distribution in war
will work out so that I may obtain
the requisite -four. Had I not pre-
pared carefully in advance, and had
the secret flour reserves of the NUM-
cipality not been distributed at the
critical moment, Vienna would have
found itself in a very unpleasant sit
uation. Now, it stands to reason that
our reserves will in due course be ex-
hausted, but I have acquainted the
Prime Minister with our universal
opinion that he is responsible for see
ing that we obtain fresh supplies in
time I am Of the opinion that we
shall obtain them all right"
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
Food Supply in Vienna.

There have been so many contra
dictory runors of the state of the
food supply in Vienna that it is in
teresting to find in the latest issue of
the Neue Wiener Journal a verbatim
report of a speech on this subject by
the Burgomaster of Vienna, DR.. Weis-
kirchner. He says in part:
We shall not starve, but We must
so arrange our consumption of food
that we can last out till the next
harvest. I can say confidently that
the municipality has done everything
that lies in it's power. Anticipating
the coming state of affairs, I began
buying in supplies of -four as early
as last August. In that month alone
I bought five hundred thousand dol
lars worth of foodstuffs. and since
then we have expended three million
dollars more in the same way.
I am not to blame for the fact that
certain contracts which we placed
Norwich bulletin., 1915-04-22
VILLAS DEFEAT.

Too often has the end of the revo-
luton in Mexico been predicted by
events which have transpired to take
too seriously the assertion that the
defeat of Villas army by General OBJ
RECON of the CarranZa faction means
the fading away Of that leadership.
That it carries an important signifi-
canoe cannot be doubted. especially
when there is coupled with it the state
ment that the rout has resulted in a
quarrel between the crafty leader and
General Angeles which has been fol-
lowed by a split in his forces. With
none too much strength while united
this seriously handicaps the revolu-
zionist and particularly so when the
claim is set up that his control of the
cities in the north have been weakened
by the sending Of the garrisons to the
front.
Carranza certainly has reason to
feel jubilant over the result even
though it may prove only temporary.
1t has been fully demonstrated that
Villa can be beaten and this is bound
to have an appreciable effect upon
the men who have been standing with
him. Whatever charm he was sup
posed to have as a victorious leader
has been broken and his control must
suffer as the result. His cause has
been given a setback from which it is
possible he may never recover and it
can be appreciated that the elimination
of one faction means an improvement
in conditions in that republic which
cannot be belittled. What that coun
try needs is the restoration Of peace
and a new start and the quicker il
can get it the better for all concern
ed, and Carranza knows what it means
to get rid of such an antagonist as
Villa