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Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-21
THE FALL OF MoNAsTiR.

]. The capture of tho important city of Monastir in southern Serbia, and at the end of the Saloniki- Monastir railroad at the western end of the line of General Sarrail commanding the allied forces at Saloniki, may not mean so much through it's actual pos- session as it does through the advan- tage which is gained for further oper- ations against the Teutonic forces in that region.
 The Serbian army has been making flank movement against the in- vaders and by circling this western end they are in position to push on and threaten the retreat of the main German and Bulgarian army if full advantage can be taken of the opportunity thus afforded for advanc- ing through the Cerna valley and the important Babuna pass, which now becomes the key to the Vardar val ley.
 If this marks the beginning of the long awaited offensive from Saloniki the capture of this city has come none too soon. Whether it will have the effect of relieving the position of Rumania at this time rests upon the rapidity with which the advance is continued. The object of this drive of course is first to sever the Bel grade to Constantinople railroad and afterwards to recover Serbia and 1t is to be realized that the Germans can not overlook the menace to the line of communication between them and the Bulgarians and Turks. The capture of Monastir will be cheering to the Serbs but whether the reinforcing of that front will require the weakening of the armies fighting against Rumania remains to be seen, yet the allied pressure from that direction is one of the greatest hopes for helping the Humans out of their precarious posi- ton.
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GIRLS! MOISTEN.A CLOTH AND DRAW
 1T THROUGH HAIR
IT BEG o MES BEAUTIFULLY SOFT, ABUNDANT AND
 GLOSSY AT ONCE.
SAVE YOUR HAIR! ALL pAND- RUFF GOES AND HAIR STOPS
 COMING OUT.

Surely try ''Danderine Haii Cleanse' if you wish to Jrs,mediately double the beauty of your hair. Just moisteh cloth with Danderine and draw 1t carefully through your hair taking one small strand at a tinei this will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt or any excessive oiI--in a few minutes you will be amazed. Your hair will be wavy. fluffy and abundant and possess an incomparable softness, lus- tre and luxurlance.
 Besides beautsfying the hair, one application of Dan1eriue dissolves ev- cry particle of dandruff; invfgurates the scalp, stopping itching and fall- ing hair.
 Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers Tof rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots invigorates and strengthens them. It's exhilarating, stimulating and life-pro- ducing properties cause the hair to grow long, strong and beautiful.
 You can surely have pretty, soft 1ustrous hair, and lots of it, if you will just get 25-cent bottle ot Know1ton's Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and try it as directed.
 Save your hair. Keep 1t looking charming and beautiful. You will say this was the best 25 cents you ever spent.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-21
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Sad News When Negroes Were Freed.

Mir. Editor: In reply to "A Reader from Windhan," I wish to state that the South did not rebel against the United States government but seced- ed just as a child, old or young, has right to do if he or she has un- kind parents, and never once did the southerners turn traitors-for they did
 not betray the government into the hands of the enemy. Generals Lee, Jackson, Longstreet and many others could name regretted much that they felt it their duty to do so. The south erners bought and paid for the Me- Sroes-and they had a right to retain them and fight for them if they wanted that they owned. In most cases they were treated kindly and it was sad news that was carried to them, tell ing tEen1 that they had been set free. In freeing them, Abraham Lincoln simply dumped them right back upon the white people who had lost homes and property.
 The New 1Inglanders once owned
 them-but they say that the Negro owners felt it great wrong to retain them.'' Strange for any New England CT to feel it their duty to set them The Negroes were sold to the south
 erners by the New England and Eng fish raiders. When the New Eng
 flanders found that their southern HelBnDOT Dy Cne1n LIlST0 they became jealous and were determined to try and use some means to have them set free. If the Reader and Soldier will go to the public library here and ask for the book written by Dr. Graves and who was stationed at one of the southern forts he will read how JeST Davis, a gentleman, broken down ic health, was overpowered and chained to the floor. They knowing that It was impossible for him to make his escape. Then again the humiliation that the women and children were called to endure during Sherman's raid to the sea was an outrage-but tits only too true that blood will tell. and such men-or so called 1aen--as Ben Butler and Sherman are not to be compared with such men as Lee or sJackson. It is said that right will pre- vail and sure it was as in the case Of Lees beautiful home-of Arlington when the Union officers were sent to conf1scate, for it belonged to the
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to tie to his girdIe, and only a pieoald blind horse to drive, and that a hired one, but he still was a noble if owner ship of land had eyer set it's approv- ing stamp upon him or his family
 With him the peasants were as but worms of the dust. The Russian mo- ble is proud of his peasants, the Ger man noble was proud of hls, and the Austrian noble had nought but words of praise for his; but the Polish noble was not proud of his.
 Nothing illustrates better how the Polish peasant felt toward the Polish noble than the iasurrection of the movement of the nobles. The govern ment did nothing to check the out burst, and it is said that the loyalty of the peasants to the government, and their hatred of their aristocratic breth- ren caused the uprising to die aborn- ing.
 Whatever may be said about the relations between tho Polish aristo- crat and the Polish peasant however, the hospitality of tho former has all ways been whole hearted and sincere. Tactfulness IS as natural with the mo- bies as taking to the water is natural with duck. They like company and love entertainment, and are as fond of dancing as any other people in the world. It takes vigorous men to stand all the liquor that is provided by the Polish host.
 Polish women are among the most beautiful in the world. The perfect shape of their hands and feet is com mented upon by every visitor to the home of the Polish aristocracy. When they visit the shoe stores of Vienna, 1t is averred that the shopkeepers ex- claims: We know those are Polish feet and proceeds to go to cases that are not drawn or except when women of this nationality come into his place of business"
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

Greenwich is to be congra tulated That town is graced with one aof the finest Y. M. C. A. buildings in the Ecountry. It was formally nedeicated Saturday night. In design arrange ment, equipment, completeness and attractivrness it is superior. It wa4 accommodate a membership of eight hundred and now has four hundred The building is the generous gift ot a woman, Mrs. NathanIel Witheril1. = Bristol Press.
 It's an i'll wind that brings no sood at all. Forced by war conditions to stop over-eating and apply the hun ger cure" on a vast scale, the Ger
 mans have been greatly benefited phy- Sically. So, at least, the reports de- clare, the last one being brought by
 George E. Eager, American consul fo1
 eleven years at Barmen, Germany. On arriving in this country the other day
 MT. Eager declared that enforced
 abstience from surerf1uous food has
 transformed the kaiser's s ubjects from a nation of dyspeptics into hea1thful people.-Torringto Regis ter.
 The Hartford Courant has consist ently opposed the use of tho voting
 machines in elections fer some time
 because of one mistake that Vas made
 when the machines were less perfect
 than they are now. The New Haven
 Journal-Courier adds it's plaint be- cause that paper dees not think that
 the machine tends to assist split tick ct voting. The Courant opposes that
 theory by proving that there were
 more split tickets voted this year thar ever before. The only objection to the machine is that there is a possibility
 of the mechanism going wrong ana that voters may, be disfra nchised While that is true oe any mechanical method yet there are mighty few in- stances on record where there hay. been voters disqualified. We ne1e1 had any trouble in Meriden, and ii the machines are carefully inspected before they are used there is small chance of mistakes Before the ad vent of the voting machine hundreds
 of Meriden voters were disfranchised because of mistakes in marking bal
 lots, because of torn ballots and be-
 cause the intention of the elector was
 not clear That is not possible now
 Meriden Journal.
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THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society
Keratsini. Suburb of Piraeus-Fo

keratsini, Suburb of Piraeus-F'ol- | lowers of the war news from the 1 Balkan aid Greek zones of activity will search all but the largest scale | maps in vain and pore over many of the standard encyclopedias in a fruitless search to locate Keratsini where, according to report from Pa tras, the French flag has been hoisted ] on the Greek light fotilla. And yet l this village oFerlooks waters upon which was fought one of the most
 momentous battles in the worlds his- tory, one which helped to preserve Greek civilization from Persian spoil iation. The National Geographic So- ciety, from it's Washington headquara ters issues the following war geog
 raphy bulletin on Keratsini and it's historic environs:
 Tt is less than an hours walk in a northwesterly direction from the railroad station of Piraeus, the sec ond city of modern Greece, to Kerat- sini. This suburb of the chief sea- port in the kingdom IS situated at the head Of a small inlet in the main land shore, directly opposite the Bay of Ambelaki, which tndents the near by island Of Salamis.
 "Overhanging Keratsini to the northwest is a hill upon which a pow der magazine has been constructed
 but which bears the exalted and sig IlilCdIiI IdLle, IUFOn0 or AGrX0S.' Legend says it was from this enin- ence that the Persian despot, seated in his Silver-footed chair, watched the destruction of more than 200 (the Greeks claimed 1000 of his ships of war by the wooden wall triremes commanded by Themistocles. Some historians identify the rocky promon- tory of Keratopyrgos. mile to the west, as the more probable vantage point from which Xerxes saw his hopes of punishing the iinpudent AthenianS' vanish.
 "The great marine drama which was enacted in these waters fronting Ker- atsini, probably on September 22nd, 4S0 B. C., has been described by one
 of the foremost geniuses of ancient Greece, the pcet- playwright Aeschy- Jus. who was himself a participant in i the battle. It was eight years later
 that the dramatist's "Persae' {The
 Persians), in which the victory is so magnifcently recounted, was enacted | in the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens. This is one of the seven plays. out of
 the ninety written by Aeschylus, which have been preserved.
 Standing on the beach at Kerat- sini and looking toward the south the visitor sees the rocky islet of Pysttal- eia dipsokoutalD barely two miles
 away. At this strategic point xerxes stationed 600 picked men, many of
 whom were of noble and princely | blood. They were supposed to lie in wait for the Greeks as they should flee before the Persian fleet. As events developed, however, the Per- sians were so decisively beaten that in their flight they had no time to l think of withdrawing this select body of men. They were left to their fate l a tragic one, for Aristides, he whom the Athenians delighted to call the Just, organized a band Of citizens, | landed on the island and put on the l sword. t .s;z.si T :e 8l The bloom of all the Persian youth, in spirit
 The bravest. and in birth the uobleet prtnceE.ss
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Lee family only. The silver and an- tiques that Mrs. Washington had will ed to her son who left it to his daught- CT, Mrs. Lee, and many years after the death of Gen. Lee. his son sued the government and finally won his case. He only fought for his rights, just as his father had fought for his, but the latter lost. I am sorry that we have not more men like Lee and Jackson in. the North and grateful Negroes of the type of Uncle Tom and Topsy- but few are to be found-either in tho South or North. I hope that the Northern agents who have gone into the South with false promises will have it all returned to them by some of the ingratitude that our people have had to put up with from the black race-but-if they all come they will think find old New England too cold to endure it long. General Wash fngton was man and a sfave-hold- CT. Now does "A Soldier" or "A Read CT" believe that he would willingly have given up his Negroes? No, he would have fought and bled for them if it had been necessary.
 A SOUTHERNER.
 Norwich, Nov. IS. 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-21
PEASANT LIFE IN
 THE GALlciAN PROVINCE
Log Huts, Share of Crops as Reeonn- pense, Hard Pleasure-Less, Simple Existence
Especial to The Bul,etin.a !

NoPCNAal lO 6uliGIlJi.) Washington, D. C., Nov. 19.-The Francis Joseph intends to- grant to Galicia the right. to manage it's af- fairs independently, at the same time that Poland is reconstructed an inde- pendent kingdom, gives timeIiress and special interest to the following war geography bulletin issued bS the Ma tional Geographic Society, in which peasant life in Gaiicia is strikingly described. The bulletin, which is based on communication to the Society from William Joseph Showalter, says:
 Tn many parts of Galicia the Polish peasant lives in log hut covered with straw: he breakfasts, dimes and makes his supper of porridge, washing it down with bad brandy ;and in general leads life full Of want and empty of pleasure. The peasants who farm for the nobles receive no money in pay ment, but only a share of the crop.
 The usual division, all over Europe ranges between q half and q fourth, and even in Russian Poland it never goes below thc latter proportion. In Galicia the peasant now receives no such proportion. The nobles estates are either owned outright by absen- tees or are controlled by them through full-valpe mortgages, and they have combi4ad to force down the peasant farmerS share, with the result that it ItOW A5 ftfSqu0HIly as LOW as one twelfth n wage of slow starvation which fs4argeiy responsible for a dis ease known as 'I1ica rolonica' con- tracted as the result of insufficient shourishment.
 The lot of the Polish is always hard, whether he lives in Russia, Ger many, or Austria. His food is sim pie, if not poor. His whole family must toll from the hour that the sun peeps over the eastern horizon to the hour when twilight falls into dusk If he can say that his wife works like a horse, he has bestowed the acme of praise upon her. Hard work, many cares. and much child bearing com pine to take all pride out of the wife's heart and give to the women of peas ant Poland a haggard lock even before closed.
 You may even see them working as section hands on many of the rail- roads, and they are reputed to make good ones. It is not exceptional to see them carrying mortar for bricklayers and plasterers or to find them paint ing or paper hanging Tn the cities
 Every peasant wants his daughters married off as soon as they reach womanhood. and little hands are drawn upon the lintel of the door to rnaIrfageable daughter inside the house. And the wedding day among the peasants is about the one bright spot in girls life. Where the child dren of the United States roll eggs on Easter Monday, those of Poland pour water over one another in a spirit of fun.
 Poland was republic of land- owners, In which the serf did not count The man who owned land, or whose ancestors owned land, was a noble. He might match poverty for poorness, he might not have a single sole between Iris feet and the ground he might have only rusty old sword
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-21
A STRING TO NEW POLAND.

What will Chancellor von Beth mann -Hollweg have to say to the claim which is now put forth that he told the main committee of the reich stag that the German promise to create the new Kingdom Of Poland was conditional, being dependent on the success of the plan to raise a Polish army which would fight for Germany? Will he deny the whole thing, or will he admit, that 1t is par tially true but very much distorted !?
 Such a situation if it exists cannot be considered good grounds for the Polish people to show much enthusi- asm over it. It simply means that they are being encouraged in revolt and that if they will take up arms against Russia and help Germany and Austria to fight for their cause they will receive their kingdom as prom ised provided the central powers win. This means that they must fight, with the prospect that if they do not vol unteer in sufficient numbers to pro- vide the army which Germany thinks adequate they will be forced to by conscription in view of the promise and will be made to undergo in creased sacrifices in, behalf of a propo sition which has been thrust upon them, and which they cannot but have hope they will secure through the promises already made by the other side where force is not being used.
 If Germany really has string to its gift. and it does not seem improb- able, the Poles will have good reason to do some serious. thinking. If the central powers are ready to withdraw their offer if the army does not ma terialize the sincerity of the Austro- Germans for Poland's welfare must be seriously questioned.
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seotIands Fireiess cress.

The news from Canada of recruit ing campaign amongst Scots in New Brunswick by means of beacon fires lit on the hills and the fiery cross car
 ried by messengers mounted on mo-
 tor-bicycles (besides, of course, the usual recruiting meetineS) may puzzle the Southred. The fiery crass of the Highland clans was not. as might be supposed, a flaming torch. but cross made of two charred sticks, whose ends, after being thrust in the fire, were extinguished by dipping them in the blood of a goat sacrificed for the purpose. The fatal sign. of fire and sworc'' was sent out by a chief tain to summon his clan, and en- trusted to swift messenger, who ran full speed with it to the next ham,
 let presenting 1T to the chief man with a single word-tfe name of the rendezvous. He in turn must forward it with like speed to the next ham
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-21
Doctors Agree On
 Eczema Remedy
Confirm the Statements About D. D. D. Prescription

opinion. D. D. b. should be applied in all cases of skin disease-an immediate relief to the itch, calm to excited nerves, soft, to the general system"
 pr. Unna. Holmes: "D. D.. D.. is as near a specific for eczema and the dreaded stantly prescribe D. D. D. also for salt rheum, letter, barber's itch, pfmples, aEl forms of itshing ssuptiOns,, scales; aa sosss;s ;. that D. D. D. reaches most. cases of eczema and permanently cures them" of the best skin specialists in the state. Write and ask him about D. D. D.
 Druggists are glad to recommend this
 Come fo us and we will tell you more about this remarkable remedy. Your money back unless the first bottle relieves you. D. D. D.
 Lee q osnpod Co., Drunnlsta.
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the most improved style. When you get it under the wings the concussion almost capsizes you and you feel as if the old joys or guiding lever, never viii put her back on an even keel.
 . The Hickey -boos," it develops in the course of the cor versation. are the Zeppelins Where they got the name TO one seems to know. It is the ex- elusive language of the flying corps. Archie is the name of the home de- fense aircraft guns as well as those of the Germans, for generally speak ing all such guns are the natural en- eny of the airfnen, whether he be chasing a "Hickey-5oo" over London or taking observations at the front. They are always threatening him with an unpleasant end.
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WORKS LIKE A BOOMERANG.

That the. policy of reprisals acts like boomerang to the one who puts 1t nto operation first has been revealed )n numerous occasions throughout the var. It is because one nation stands yeady to retaiiate in like measure for ha disregard for the rules of war, hat those who would show no respect br such understandings as are reach "a in time of peace are forced to lee the wisdom of strict conformity. those who would break the rules and keat humanity un1ust1y. just because
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Italy has now joined Russia in pro- testing the setting up of the new Polish kingdom, but it could hardly have been expected by the Teutons that any of the allies would have ap- proved their action. They were try ing to irritate not to please the al- lies.
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let, and 50 in very short time the whole countryside was aroused to arms, every man between the ages of 16 and 60 being obliged to obey the sunons on pain of infamy and ex- tinction by fire and sword.
 It is rather odd to class the fiery cross under "new methods of recruit ing" though the motor -cycllst intro duees a new form cf speed into the delivery of tie symbol. The fiery cross in The Lady of the Lake, is cross1et of cubit's length, the shaft and limbs being reds of yew. In New Brunswick it may have been modernized, like it's bearer but as
 Prompt at the signal of alarms
 Each son of Alpin rushed to arms one may expect as much from t,a sons of Canada, who have a'reaG-- 0 nobly responded to the call f kn and motterland.-Manche Guard ian. : z,a --s z-- -#-.
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In opening the Turkish parliament the sultan recounted the achieve ments of Turkey. but 1t is safe to say he didn't dwell longson the fright
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There are sections where they are welcoming the jingle of sleigh bells, but there are many who are willing to forego the pleasure for while longer.
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Soft coal may not be any harder than it always has been but it seems harder. to the fellow who has to foot the bills.
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That the government Is to look in-
 to the high cost of living will meet with approval but the average house.
 holder requires something more than the proof of the fact
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There is only one thing about this increased cost of coal; it makes the people hot whether they are able to buy 1t or not
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Possibly it is too much to expect that the kaiser can present a good front in all directions at the same time, but he is nevertheless doing his hest
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The two weeks test to prove that people can live on from, 25 to 40 cents 9 day in Chicago comes at a time when lot of people are willing to be shown.
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One railroad engineer in Mexico ap- parently did not intend to let his American brothers outdo him when 1t comes to the number of killed in a wreck.
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The man on the corner says: If there were not two sides to every question there would be less talk in the world.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

With four killed and three injured at the international grand prize auto race the spectators were the greatest sufferers.
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SARl,(lI> nz THE azzs FLESH BUILDER

Used successfully for eight years by thin men and women who want to put on flesh and increase weight. Eat with your meals. Pleasant, harmless ana lnexpens1ve. Sold in Norwich by H. M. Lerou and leading druggists everywhere.
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No License.

MT Editor: A county commissioners ard a physician had an argument the other day in which the doctor claimed that town in this state voting mo- license meant prohibition as used in national or state matters in the ques- tion of liquor selling in the town. The commissioner claimed 1t did not Which is right?
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Prompt at the signal of alarms Each son of Alptn rushed to arms

The substitute for absintl1e fin Greece is liquor known as rastica.