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Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26

'rEconomy!" sniffed the man from Hyde Park to his friend who had got on the train at Woodlawn.
 Where have I heard that wordF interrupted the Woodlawn man. There is something faintly feminine about it."
 sYou've hit iti" agreed the Hyde Park man vindtctively. Whenever it is something you know you ought to do and don't want to you may be wife. Women are the prize little re- minders when it comes to the sterling virtues!
 Don't I know I should be economi- cal? Isn't there a double bowknot in my conscience whenever I spend money foolishly? Isn't the spectacle of my diminishing bank account per feet throb of pain to me? Yet Inn ogene goes right on introducing econ omy to me exactly as though it were a wealthy bachelor uncle whom l had never met! It was ismply the echo in my brain of those Talks to the Weakminded' of hers that caused me all the pain and suffering under which am bearing up bravely.
 T got in the mail some time ago a single cigar" he continued, nicely wrapped and labeled, and, being of a daring nature, I smoked it. Nothing HdDp0uGuH IO IIl0 dIlO IL was d SOO'A cigar. Some time later I got letter telling me where I could purchase that brand of cigars by the box. To in troduce them they made the low price. It was so very low that l lost my breath sending a check. It's a won der somebody doesn't sell me the Ma sonic TeGEple or the Institute lions, because that box of cigars they sent me was made of pure, home grown cabbage, the kind of cabbage they feed to the COWS because the farmers can't sell it. After smoking one of them I put my desk in perfect order so that | the executors would have no trouble when they took charge. When finally I recovered my strength I picked up | the box and dropped 1t into the waste | basket.
 The next morning when I arrived ] | found that the faithful scrubwomar | mad rescued the box, and, doubtless | with the consciousness of rectitude | had placed it safely on my desk. Ot | course, I understood her point oi
 view, so I merely dropped it in the | basket again, taking care to paste or 1 the cover a scrap of paper on whicf l I intimated that I didn't want 1t | Either she rescued it the second time 1 upside down or else was a dyed in the 1 wool, nonE English foreigner because l bright and early the box greeted mt i again the following morning. It i! remarkable how the sight of 1t en,
 raged me. I expect a murderer wouli 1 feel just the same way if his crime l kept rising up and scaying 'gooC 1 morning.
 T kicked it under the desk and thu minute my stenographer came in sh, diyed for it like young terrier, hand ing it to me with the fanatic light O an incurably neat person in her eye | Her look said that no matter # sh,
 died for it she should continue pickin!
 up after me and heaven pity my poo 1 wife, whose job was permanent | Weekly I took the box, because she i l a determined young person and I wa | afraid that if I tried to explain sh would begin preaching economy jus as InlOgene does.
 T studied the situation for som
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
THE voN IeEL PAPERS.

It isn't quite plain as yet what the final outcome of the arrest of von Igel and the seizure of the papers in his office is going to be. It has, however, added new evidence and support to the belief, that previously existed, that the representatives of foreign govern ment were carrying on an active pro- paSanda against the interests of this country and entirely outside their rights as the helpers in the dip1o- matic corps of other nations. It has furnished further evidence that this country acted rightly and none too soon when it insisted upon the recall of Captains von Papen and Boy-Ed and it shows that the claims that hired agents of these men were using this country as a base for striking at other belligerents were founded upon more than suspicion.
 Ambassador Bernstorff has demand ed that the papers be returned to the German embassy on the ground that they are German property and not subject to seizure, but it has been plainly disclosed that von Igers office was not 9 part of the German embassy and that he was engaged in his activ- ity before he became an embassy at tache. This government therefore in forms tho German ambassador that it will he necessary to identify the embassy papers which it is claimed were found in von IgeTs office, and in view Of the nature of the disc 'osures contained therein. and the fact that von Ige3 WIS added to the ernba ssy staff after being connected with the conspiracy 10 violate the neutrality of this country, the ambassador is placed in an CmbarTaSsing position. There
 are papers there, if reports are true which the ambassador cannot lay | claim to without seriously involving | himself
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SHOULD FINISH THE JOB.

Even now there appears to be much uncertainty about what this country is going to do regarding the Mexican situation. One day the indications are that the punitive expedition is to be withdrawn in compliance with the de- mands of Carranza and on the addi- ionai ground that the Villa supporters tre thoroughly scattered, but on the 9ext the indications are that the troops eill not only be kept in that republic but that endorsements are being sent to them for further pursuit of the bandits and added protection to the lines of communication.
 This gives the impression that this government has DO definite or fixed policy regarding Mexico, and that it Is found eTing around much the same as it did previous to the raid upon Columbus. If Villa had been disposed of there could be only one thing to dc and that would be to call the troops back but 1t is quite evident that he Is alive and just as likely to make more trouble in the future as he has In the past.
 Carranza has done little or nothing to aid the United States expedition ol to capture the bandit chieftain. The trouble at Parral shows a tendency to cooperate with him instead of witt Lhis country. and with the reports tc Inc effect that the brigand is agair organizing a force in another locality through such passive assistance O: CarTanza's troops has given him. there ought to be little question about tn necessity of keeping the forces unde1 General Pershing across the bordei antil their task is accomplished.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
Stories of the War
saIoniki People Not Indignant.


 The inhabitants of Saloniki do not share the indignation of their sov- ereign making their fortunes out of It. Besides huge added profits on every thing bought and sold by the local tradesmen, there are numerous less usual ways of turning a penny that are evolved from the fertile brains of the Spanish and Portuguese Hebrews who constitute the greater part of the population of Greece's second city.
 There have been depots, docks and barracks to build, roads to construct and improvements of every kind to make to render the old Turkish city of squalor fit for the habitation of an European army. Then, too, there have been the extraordinary works of fortihcation and defense of the entire Chalcidic peninsula With one thing and another, the Allied occupation of Central Macedonia has proved a con tractors paradise and many a willy Greek has come all the way from Egypt to get a share in the exploita- tion of the strangers.
 The British, particularly, have been the victims of close dealing, as they have lacked that complete organiza- ton for the care of a large armed force that makes French army man. agement so efficient. Many of the of ficers enlisted in the army service corps, also, have been used to deal ing with Englishmen and not with Greeks. Their lack of experience in the latter's character costs the gov | ernment no little money.
 Tn one instance a local Greek took a contract to furnish several thous- and feet of lumber to a certain depart ment of the British expeditionary force at 96 cents a fot-and on that 1 he was making a round profit. Nat | uraIly, when the lumber was delivered foEtZsnarS cent was found not. to coms
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towns in the desert of the sea pen insula, would be affected.
 Would this turn of events curtail Americas supply of "unrivaled mocha | and java, with its wonderful bou- oGet and its delightful arornag The question was on many lips, prompted by epicurean palates.
 This appetite alarm win be dissi- pated when coffee drinkers realize that mocha and java is merely a name and that the scent of the berry which clings to the cup will be as pleasing when called by its right name Brazilian. Porto Rican. Mexican, Hawaiian. Central or South American coffee. As a matter of statistics, all the coffee imported into the United States last year from the Far East. | including the famed 'centers' of the | Industry, Mocha and Java, amounted to lcea than one-third of one per cent of the total billion pounds that went | into the American percolator.
 Coffee drinkers win not begrudge ! Mocha her fame, however. for that is | all that remains to her of a once | fiourishing trade, a trade which pop
 ularized the beverage throughout the
 world.
 tradition tells us that the uses of | coffee were discovered in Abyssinia. about the time that Columbus was | cogitating upon his scheme to reach the Indies and the tea countries by sailing west across the Atlantic. Cor relative with this tradition are many legends about the manner of It's dis covery, one of the most picturesque
 being that a flock of sheep, after
 browsing on the indigenous coffee
 shrub became unusually frisky, as a
 result of the stimulant and that this
 excitement was followd by sleepless
 nights!
 "rhe Mohammednns began to use coffee as an antisOporific during their long religious vigils. a practice frown-
 ed upon by orthodox Mussulmans who ] argued that it savored of a form of in- toxication. However. the habit spread
 It reached Egypt in the 18th century
 and Europe in the 17th, the first cof-
 fec houses being established In Con.
 stantinople and Venice. Some fiftI years after Sir Walter Raleigh start. f led the maid who tried to extinguisl Q him when she saw him puffing ava, l. on his American tobacco, the frs r London coffee house was established e Charles IT sought to abolish 1t as 1 = was supposed to be the place a v meeting for dIsloyal subjects. bu
 coffee drinking grew and coffee house " multiplied The Arabian province O e Yemen. of which Mocha was the chic a | seaport, supplied practically all tn s berries used. At the end of the 1Ttl s century the coffee plant was intro O duced into Java and in a short tim = mocha and java became a trad O name of great popularity.
 e Tt was in ITS that Jamaica re IT ceived her first consignment of coffe 6 plants from Amsterdam. and from tha
 time dates the rapid growth of tn n industry in the Western hemispher
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
Drua Users Increased.

The war has incidentally revealed the existence in Paris of a number or opium smokers, cocaine and morphine users that was unsuspected before Monsieur Charles Bernard. deputy for the district of Montmartre where he Is engaged in the drug business esti- mates the number of opium denS now in existence at 1,200.
 Even uhe flower girls on the street" he says, have been drawn into the traffic in stupefacients. Recently girl in short skirts and with a vicious expression offered a bouquet of violets to a passer-by. The man wanted no violets but the girls expression e1- cited his pity and he tossed her two sous. But it's twenty francs, she said softly. Then, approaching near enough to whisper, she added, there's some coco inside.
 "'Coco' is the familiar term used in the quarter for cocaine Of which there was a little paper concealed in the heart of the bouquet. There are other quarters of Paris also where the same
 practice has tken root"
 An elegantly dressed woman got out
 of a taxi in front of a fashionable
 bar in the center of Paris and asked
 the fCotman of the establishment if he would please fill her lighter with Eas- oline. A plain clothes man standing by seized the lighter when 1t was fill- cd and 1t was found to contain so- | lution of chlohydrate or morphine These incidents show how forbidden drugs are procured There are said | to be at least thirty illicit establish
 ments in Montmartre where morphine | is to be had including bars. cafes ] restaurants and hotels
 | The Chamber of Deputies has tus' | voted a law raising the maximum pen. | atty for Illicit traffic in opium ant kindred drugs from 5000 francs tC l 10, 900 francs fine and from two month! l to two years fmprisonment.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
GOLD MINING ENTERPRISE
 ON ISLAND OF SUMATRA
Big Order for a Plant Is Likely to be
 Placed in America.

The Hague. Netherlands. April e5.- A big order for gold mining plant Is likely to be placed in America shortly by the Dutch Government. This plant is required for the important gold mining enterprise that has just been undertaken in the province of Benko- elen, on the island of Sumatra- If this state exploitation scheme proves successful-Of which there appears uo be every prospect-it should bring large sums into the coffers of the heavily burdened Treasury of the Colony. and help to pay for the big naval and military reinforcemsnts that are declared to be necessity of the near future. Collaborating orc has been proved to a value of ss.o0o, 900. and experts report that there IS probably another 32,OOO,OOO worth oi gold in the fields
 The first years expenditure Is esu- mated at some S24O. 900. and the sec
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up to specifications and was promptly rejected. The Greek was not very happy over this outcome of his little deal, but by no means in despair. Aft CT scouting about a bit he found an other department of the British army, in need of lumber and offered the re- jected timber. A brief bout at hag- glinE over the price, and the Greek received 46 cents a foot for the lumber that had been rejected at ten cents less
 On another occasion a British officer in charge of certain road construction solved the problem of securing his labor by letting the contract to em- plOy the men to a Greek. There were to be something over 1000 workmen who were to receive three drachmae Csixty cents) per day. The Greek contractor, was to receive, in addition, ten cents a head per day for each man so furnished. As all Macedonia is full of refugees form Thrace and Asia Minor who are in most desper- ate want. the contractor had no difti- culty in securing all the men he want ] ed and collecting, himself, ten cents a | head per day from each of the men whom he turned over to the British | officer.
 Though the Greek was making s2Ot | per day and over out of the arrange ment, with no personal effort. he Wal ! unsatisfied with his bargain. So h' | engineered a strike among the men | and then offered to act as mediator
 persuading the laborers to return t' | work on condition of an increase of { | franc (twenty cents) per day in thei pay. Of this he himself levied on tn | men for an additional five cents pc man per day-and only made the ar 1 engagement on consideration of receiv
 ing from the British officer in charg of the work another five cents per maj
 per day in addition to the ten cent he was already drawing from tha
 source for his services.
 The work lasted over a month. Wit his double rake off of 30 cents pc
 man per day, the Greek cleared some
 thing over $s, ,000 on the job.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
Brazil produces tn

until today Brazil produces three fourths of the worlds supply.
 Mocha with its bis white build ings, presents an imposing appear ance when viewed from the decks of steamers passing through the Red Sea but a closer examination reveals that this grandeur is a mirage and that the big buildings are chiefly ruins. The town Is like the hull of ehe coffee fruit, from which the berry has been taken. Ships of deep draft can no longer anchor in the bay and sillaTiow native vessels are ample to handle the smal percentage of the comerce of Yemen which reaches there. most of the caravans now going to Hodeida and Alden"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26

ond years at somo si00. 900. the largest item of expense being the necessary machinery. Dutch industry is unable itself to provide this highly special ized plant. and Germany, where cbe order would no doubt normally be placed. Is too much engaged in other directions. A state engineer is eX- pected to arrive here with ore sam ples early In April, which samples will then be duly submitted to American and British manufacturers to serve as basis for definite tenders Seeing. however. that British industry is SO largely monopolized with the manu- facture of munitions of war. it is pretty certain the order to a value of some hundred thousand dollars. or more. will be placed in the United States
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
NEED FOR MORE SHEEP

In spite of the conditions which de- mand it and the benefits which are to be obtained from it, there has been no increase in the business of sheep raising in this country. Instead of go- ing ahead statistics show that the ir- dustry is going backward and that since 1909 there has been a falling off in wool production in this country of twelve per cent.
 This presents a decided contrast to days gone by when every farm had it's sheep and contributions were made therefrom to the wool and meat sup plies, and the natural result is sub stantial advance in price, which, as in the case of cattle raising ought to be an incentive fer revival of the sheep industry of former days.
 The demand for wool is constantly on the increase. No satisfacto sub stitute has been found and manufac- turerS are quick to appreciate and eager to get home grown wool because of it's superiority. The decline in the production, however, at a time when the population is constantly increas- ing and the shortage becoming the greater thereby, leaves nothing else to be dcne but to depend upon the foreign sources of supply, and what an opportunity exists in this direction | for the farmers of this country is re- vealed by the fact that over half oi | the wool that is used here has to be i obtained abroad.
 The decline in the business here is 1 placing bigger business and better
 prices in the way of the foreign pro.
 ducers. With such opportunities pass
 ing by unnoticed it is but natura
 that President Wood of the American | Woolen company should declare tha
 it is a duty of this country to grov more wool.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
MocHA's FAME IS ALL
 THAT REMAINS OF TRADE
The Arabian City Which Came Into Prominence Through It's Coffee Business Chiefly a Mass of Ruins.
Special to The Bulletin }

Washington, D. C.. April 25.-The National Geographic Society of Wash ington. in a bulletin issued today on one of the important places mentioned in the news of the day, relates the origin of a popular fallacy. The bull letin says:
 When the news reached America that the Eastern area of the world war had embraced Arabia. concern was felt at the breakfast table in thousands of American homes It was believed that Mocha. like many othAz
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
SUBMARINE OPERATIONS.

The submarine activity on the part DT Germany continues in spite of the aote which has been sent to that coun- ny from the United States. There is 2othing surprising in that even if here had been time to get warning 10 all the underwater boats which have seen away from their stations since hat was sent, for this country is not undertaking to stop Germany from
 vsea~ it's salhnaaER1hlAa. TaaaS sasSsAA~
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
For Ferr,s Sake. AnYhew.

Democratic newspapers are 90 busy nominating a Republican can diGate for president that it seemF almost unnecessary to go to the ex- pense of a convention. yet we feel that a Republican convention will make a better choice than a Demo- cratic newspaper.-Phfiade Press
Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-26
HE TRIED TO ECONOMIZE

time. Then when went out for luncheon I took the box and dropped it dn the corridor, careless like. argued that whoever picked 1t up could only blame himself if he smoked any of the contents. No court of law would give the family damages against me. Anyhow, it would teach the victim lesson, to beware of oth- CTS property. Why, just that simple little act of mine might change the balance and start, some young fellow on the path of rectitude! This feel ing buoyed me up all through lunch con. Hardly had I got back to my desk before young clerk from ne>L
 door appeared. beaming, with the box
 in his hand. He said he had noticed
 it falling when I departed and had called after me, but reached the el-
 evator too soon, so he had kept It
 carefully against my return. lie
 handed it to me expectantly. l hes ftated. He was very young and had long nose-still, for all l knew, he might be supporting an invalid mother and three little sisters, and l must think of them. Therefore curbed my impulse to give him the box. In stead I put 1t into a drawer and lock
 ed the drawer and breathed more free l ly now that I felt the young man was | quite safe. 'Have-have a chew of 1 gum I said to him cordially, Have | the whole packet of gum! Yes, real | ly!'
 'T couldn't do any work that after ! noon because I had to sit and gloom | over that box of fatal cigars. Along | about closing time I raised the win dow and dropped it out The window | is above an alley and the box hit the ! janftor on the head and nicked his l brain. Yes, my name was scribbled 1 on the box-the honest young clerk
 with the long nose had penciled it or l in his excess of zeal.
 How I wished I had let him smoke those cigars-it would have been a fitting punishment! The janitol | brought up a policeman and threat ened me with the powers of the Anal. gamated Society of Prevention o | Cruelty to Working Men-and I had
 to pay him the price of a bang-up bo7
 of cigars just to square myself! WheI
 told the sad and pointed tale to I'm ogene to show her the foolishness O her preachments of economy, she re
 torted that I had no business to smOk , anyway. Whatchu going to do with l woman? You cant convince 'em!" With nothing short of an ax, sympathized the Woodlawn man. - Chicago News.