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| of the division of fossils, is to make
good use of the steel rods which support
the structure. 1t is not desirable that
they be prominent. For this skeleton a
| half round steel rod was used which
conforms to all the curves of the bones.
| 1t was a work of skill in such a large
animal to make the job neat and at
the same time sufficiently strong.
| The skeleton Is a gift to the museum
| by w. D. Patterson and Maj. W. W.
Patterson, U. S. A.. of Winimac. Ind
| II was unearthed on their farm at that
| place while a steam shovel was dig
| ging a ditch through a field. At four
| different times, in it's efforts to re-
move the huge impediments, did the
| shovel break the bones. The skull and
| limbs were finally taken in two or
| three fragments. In the spring fol-
| lowing the discovery and Identified
ton of th~-bones the region of the
ditch was probed and most of the
skeleton was recovered. The extraor-
binary part of the entire matter lay
in the fact that the bones lay in a
clay formation at amazingly shall
| low depth of nine feet.
| 1t is to be adduced that the animal
got into this region during the forma-
| ton of its early swamp stages. for
| swamp decomposition at least two and
half feet thick. This gives n clue
| to the nature of the country it
| must have been after the glacial
| period. The ice sheet left the country
| barren and IT was undoubtedly level
| waste of sand and gravel marked with
| hollows. All of it's streams, however,
J flowed into the Mississippi, and, due
| TO the water running through this
| section. vegetation must have slowly
! taken hold. This banked up the water
| in spots. creating swamps.
| In such an environment did the
mastodon live during the early and
1 perhaps latter stages Of its existence.
at this period. Cotemporaneous with
! it were the mammoths of two or three
| species. the saber-toothed tiger, which
is so closely related to the present
| musk OK. the horse. much like the
| present living animal: bisons with
| larger horns than the present bisons;
| the so-called giant beaver and the
giant sloth Many of these are ex-
| tinct with the mastodon, while some
| have been perpetuated quite without
| change. So far as is known, no human
| remains have been found in America
at this time, but In Europe, especially
| In Siberia, where the fossil remains of
| the mastodon are SO plentiful as to
| furnish the bulk of ivory tusks for
| the trade. the human race had reached
the cave-dwelling point of develop
| ment and made photographs
| ANY history of the period is obscure.
but. geoiogically speaking. the age dur
ing which the mattodon fiourished just
preceded the present geologic period.
People are apt to be confused in re-
gard to these prehistoric periods, and
| think that all the prehistoric animals
Iof great size ranged the earth at the
same time: But this is not true. The
ldinosaur. for instance, the most preva-
tlent1y known Of all the extinct mon
listers. had long lived its span OF life
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@LATTSBURG, which has come
~ into widespread notice within a
year or two in connection with
' the military training camps for
civilians, is city of about 10000 pop
ulation with varied industries.
Entering Lake Champlain at Platts-
Fburg is the Saranac river, which flows
out of Saranac lake, one of those nu-
merous and picturesque lakes of the
Adirondack mountains. to which many
thousands of pilgrims resort in sum-
mer and to which good many also
resort in winter. A few miles south
of Piattsburg the Ausable river enters
Lake Champlain. and that river is as
ISOLATED in the minds of countless Amer
leans who have travelled in their own
country with Ausable Chasm, which is
sometimes referred to as the Yosemite
of the east. The Ausable river in its
passage from the Adirondacks to Lake
Champlain has chiseled this vast assure
through the mountains. For countless
ages this erosion has continued, and
the walls of the chasm are a most in
teresting example Of river carving and
a fascinating study for the geologist.
Around Plattsburg the country is
generally low and fiat, but to the south
and southwest rise the peaks and domes
of the Adirondacks, and eastward,
across the lake, presenting a magnifi-
cent picture on fair day, are the Green
mountains of Vermont. In Lake Cham
plain, in the Plattsburg region. are the
large 1slaids of La Motto, Hero, Grand
Isle and South Hero, and nearly oppo-
site Plattsburg, about a mile off shore,
is Crab Island. where the men killed
in the land battle of Plattsburg and In
the naval battle of Lake Champlain. are
buried. Between two and four miles
south of Plattsburg is Valcour Island,
off the southwest shore. where took
place the first naval conflict between
Great Britain and her North American
colonies, October II 1776, the Ameri-
can fleet having been under command
of Benedict Arnold
There is white marble monument on
Crab Island concentrating the land
and naval battles of Plattsburgs and
the battle of Valcour. This monument
may be seen from many parts of the
west side of the lake, and. Of course.
from the steamboats, plying Lake
Champlain. which pass very close to it.
Crab Island has been converted into
a park named in honor of the Ameri-
can naval commander Macdonough Ma
tional Military Park. Directly after the
land and water fighting in September.
1874, a hospital was established on
Crab Island and the soldiers and SAIL
ors wounded in the battles were re-
moved to it. The British and American
land. with the exception of the officers.
who were buried in Plattsburg ceme-
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and become extinct before the masto-
don even put in its appearance
Such was the mastodon in life, fire.
quenter of Lnires and swamps. where
1t found its food among the lily pads
and vegetable forms. 1t was a truly
herbivorous animal, as may be judged
from the structure of it's teeth In APP
pearance it differed from the elephant
considerably. 1t had longer head, and
1T was heavier. 1t had shorter tusks,
though this may not hold good for all
the species. 1t must have had a trunk,
for the skeleton shows place where
the trunk muscles were attached. It's
skin was thick, and it probably had
hair.
1t may have had the same pose and
gait as the elephant One peculiar
thing about it's structure is that it's
leg bones were very straight and
locked at the joints SO that the huge
weight of the body's bulk could be
easily supported without overtaxing
the muscles.
One is prone to speculate on the
cause for the mastodon's extinction.
and the question of extinction among
all animals is really a battling one.
Scientists have answered it as far as
they are able by attributing 1t to high
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| the people and the places and the mean
ings of them both to him as he comes
| upon them. He gives one good view
of wonderful Bokhara," which, to the
most of us, means only one pattern of
oriental rug. He describes certain
Mohammedan cities and their inhabi-
tants. and discusses the Russian pion-
GERS in the far east. He introduces us
| berian border. And then war was de-
clared. In view of this all-absorbing
fact Mr.. Graham adds to this book of
purely pleasurable travel an appendix
in which he discusses the prospects of
future Anglo-Russian friendship and
sketches a comparative study of the
, Russian and British empires. The book
is interpretation, as well as obServa-
ton. and in both it is deeply enjoyable
and informing.
THE KINGS MEN. By John Palmer.
author of Peter Paragon" New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Next to the war itself, the uppermost
fact in England today is the social rev.
olution going on there as the first and
immediate effect of the war. This rev.
olution is undermining the long-nur-
tured and deep seated English tradition
of an excessive individualism. Obliga-
tions to render a selfiess service to the
handing and receiving recognition. It
is this national awakening that fur
nishes the theme of Mr. Palmers new
novel. In a beautifully consistent piece
of work the writer scales this para
mount and inclusive issue to the limits
of a social drama of decided power and
charm. A handful of Londoners, men
and women, represent in natural and
interesting sequence of events what is
doubtless going on all over England to-
day. 1t is very human story. one that
knows the English character and por-
trays It with feeling and mastery.
Workmanly in structure and illuminat-
ing in effect. The Kings Men" is
rarely interesting and worth while
novel
THE DAY OF WRATH: Story of
1914. BY Louis Tracy, author of
The Wings of the Morning" etc.
New York: Edward J. Clode.
This story opens with a scene in the
Friedrich Strasse station at Berlin. on
the night of Monday, August 3. 1914.
A young Englishwoman and an Eng
lishman. strangers to each other, are,
against great odds, trying to make
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
SELECTED LIST OF BOOKS RE.
GENTLY ADDED.

The following list, arranged by sub
jects, includes some of the latest addi-
lions to the Public, Library.
The lists which appear in this column
each Sunday are reprinted at the end of
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of twelve miles, as between the mouth
of the Ausable river and Malletts bay,
above Burlington, VT.
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common run Of thinking. This motley
of letter-writing is gathered up under
the headings. THE Dollar, China.
War" Aunt Margery." "Miscella-
neous." The introduction, by the editor.
is so much in the spirit and manner of
the author himself, that one is set to
wonderment over the fact that there Is
another person in the world SO much
like Stuart" as Is Aleister Crowley.
the editor of this volume.
THE UNsPEAKABLE PERK. BY Sam
uel Hopkins Adams, author Of
Little Miss Crouch" etc Boston:
Houghton Miff1in Company.
When a writer is bent upon extrava-
CANT invention his first move, one
judges. is to choose for its setting
either place where almost anything
may happen and no questions asked.
or one that is so remote as to defy
challenge. Samuel Hopkins Adams Sc
lected an ofr-shore of the Caribbean as
the quarter best fitted to stand the
strain of adventure that he here i'm
poses upon it. The chief persons in
this light comedy are the modest sci
enlist, who figures in the title, and the
indescribab1y beautiful daughter of the
rich American, who, with company
of friends is cruising in the Caribbean.
The yachting folks go ashore long
enough to give the havoc working
beauty time to figure in tiny revolu-
ton and to WOO the scientist, both Of
which she accomplishes with char
acteristic devastation. This wooing
talks all the time. at first brightly,
but at the last a bit wearisomely
However, it is a bright, impossible
story, well calculated to give one a
half hour or so of respite from things
as they are. On the whole, the humor,
such as it is, lacks the spontaneity Of
Little Miss Crouch" The story ap-
pears in the main to have fallen in be-
Crouch" or 1.-The Clarion" other novels
by this writer.
LOOT. By Arthur Somers Roche. H.
Illustrated by Leone Bracker Indian
apolis: The Bobbs- Merrill Company.
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Florida. is the largest body of fresh
water in the United States, being lis
miles long and having an average
width of over four miles, though in
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LOOT. By Arthur Somers Roche. H.
Illustrated by Leone Breaker. Indian
apolis: The Bobbs-Merrill COMPANY.

The act that sets in motion the
wheels of this highly complicated plot
is the theft of a diamond necklace of
fabulous value. The plot itself is a
whirlwind affair of pursuit and evasion,
out of which finally energies the gray
ghost" worthy rival of Rafles and Ar
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q new fossil skeleton has been
IN placed on exhibition in the fos-
~ sill hall of the New National
. - Museum. 1t is the skeleton of
mastodon. the great, cumbersome ami
nal now extinct. which is more closely
related to the modern elephant than
any of the other prehistoric monsters
This new skeleton is a distinct &C
QUESTION to science and especially to
this particular museum, for 1t is the
FOSSIL of a male animal. As the COL
lection already includes a female speci-
men. II means that Washington is in
sured both forms of a type that no
longer roams the face of the earth
Not another museum in the country
can boast of two such specimens
New fossil specimens do not arouse
the widespread interest today that
! they commanded in the early days of
paleohtolosy. Then, the finding of
new group of bones. imbedded in rock
or clay. was cause for crave and
mighty celebration among the scientists
who were bent on proving the truth of
organic evolution.
Now. when the ages that have long
since passed into Oblivion are cIassi-
fed and understood nearly as we'll as
though their very history itself had
been recorded at the time 1t was enact
ed. and this mainly through the study
Of unearthed fossils. 1t cannot be ex-
pected that another fossil will create
more interest than is accorded to, any
novelty. Moreover, the mastodon is
one of mother earths recent children
he at int
of the sciences that treat the growth
Of the world. In these. a few thousand
years are truly as day and 1t is not
really mistake to refer to an animal
that worked it's life history. passed
through its period of existence and be-
came extinct before man had even
emerged from his savagedom as a re-
cent one. The workers of the present
era have demonstrated that mother
earth is. indeed. very ancient lady.
The new skeleton is nevertheless
worth seeing and devoting some time
10. Tor in the first place II is a rare OBJ
jeet, and it is a fine piece of resto-
ration. When il is recalled that fos-
sill bones are found in confused mass
each buried apart from the others. il
may be appreciated that the tasks of
hitting the pieces together and of erect
ing the completed skeleton in Iikelike
posture are not easily accomplished.
With this mastodom. nearly every
bone of the entire skeleton was disin =
TERED from one spot. with the excep-
ton of few Of the smaller feet and
tail sections. Models of these missing
parts have been made in cement copied
fiom perfect skeleton at the American
Museum of Natural History at New
York. These few substitutes are colored
TO match the rest of the fossil and
are easily distinguished. as the authori-
ties intended they should be. as the
only object in adding them was to rem
der the whole skeleton complete.
One Of the chief problems which con.
fronts q palenotoiogist in charge of
work Of restoration, in this case ]. w.
J Gideley. one Of the eurators in charge
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@LATTSBURG, which has come
W into widespread notice within a
year or two in connection with
the military training camps for
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new fossil skeleton has been
placed on exhibition in the fos-
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This story opens with a scene in the
Friedrich Strasse station at Berlin. on
the night of Monday, August 3. 1914.
A young Englishwoman and an Eng
lishman, strangers to each other, are,
against great odds, trying to make
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THE DAY OF WRATH: Story of
1914. BY Louis Tracy, author of
The Wings of the Morning" etc.
New York: Edward J. Clode.
Putnam patriot., 1916-01-14
Observes Eighiy.eighth Birthday
ars. Bugbee Enjoys the Occasion and
Suffers No III Effects

In honor Of the eighty eighth birth.
day of Mrs. Frances Agatha Thurber
Bughee, Jan. sth, there were two re-
ceplions given for this very popular
dainty little lady. Al the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Ernest b. Kent, 133
Grove street, from to o'clock, Mrs.
Bugbee received the many who called
Mrs, Bugbee displayed to her callers
a locket In which were pictures of her.
self and Mr Bngbee taken when they
were young. A lse there WAS display.
ed a unique affair, produced by her
brother, Artist Thomas Tharber OF
Putnam Heights. This was poem
eaeh line of which ended with the
wlFd eight or "ate This poem,
which told Of the baby girl coming in
To home S. years age and followed
events through her life, was mounted
on frame, made Of TWO giided lights,
suspended from an engraving, also ia
gait frame.
Mrs. BuRbee also received many
gifts, flowers, letters and kilograms
Mrs. kent's home was beautifully
coraled with flowers and green. In
the dining room Mrs. J. II. Carpenter
of South Main street and Mrs Edward
Whitney of Providence poured tea and
chocolate. Misses Marion and Eleanor
Carpenter passed the tea, chocolate,
cakes, eonfeetions and salted nuts
from most attraetively decorated
table.
Surrounding a centerpieee of flowers
were IS candles aud there were two
very handsome birthday cakes. Mrs.
Kent was assisted in receiving by her
daughter, Mrs. Ethel Kent White.
Ia the evening Mrs. Bugbee again
received At the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. Mary II. Medbury, 50 Center
street. This .also proved delightful
affair. Apparently Mrs. Rugbee was
not at all weaTied by the festivities
and was AS bright and fascinating
when she saw her last guests depart as
she WAS when the first left her in the
early afternoon Mrs. Medbury was
assisted in receiving by her sister, Mrs.
Kent In the dining room We're Mrs.
J. Il. Cafpentef, Misses Marion and
Eleanor Carpenter and Mrs. Ethel
White. Just IS guests registered as
callers Of the day, the number just the
axe Of the honored hostess.
Mrs. Bugbee came to Putnam from
Woodstock 50 years ago and has made
host of friends and aequaintances
who rejoice with her in her active
mind and cody upon this anniversary.
Putnam patriot., 1916-01-14
French River Condemned As Nuisance
Massachu els State Board of Health
forbids Continued Pollution

The Massachusetts state board of
health has condemned the French
diver owing To the gross pollution Of
the small stream mainly from sewage
from the towns of Dudley and Web.
ster.
The selectmen of Webster have lust
received letter from the chief engi-
neer of the state board of health in
which he says in part.
Examination OF the French river
below Webster shows that during the
past year the stream has beer grossly
polluted aud is nuisance. The state
board OF health aims at having Web
ster and Dudley dispose OF The sewage
ia filter beds, regarding the pollution
Of the river rs Of very serious impor
lance.
This matter directly effects the Con
aeeticut villages of Wilsonville, the
GrosVenogdales, West Thompson and
NechanicSville through which the
stream flows. Indirectly il effects
Putnam as The French river empiie,
nlo the Quinebang river just north Of
MechaniesVille.
The Quinehaug river Is also used as
an outlet for sewage out it is much
tuteer stream Than The French river
aud no complaints have AS vel been
publicly made regarding ills condition
As time gees on and the river is more
and mote utilized for sewage outlets il
aeu.d seem that the day viii come
when The Connecticut state officials
will forola it further use for this pur
pose This was In The minds Of the
elty officials when they purchased Il
iatge tfact OF land on the south bank
Of The river opposite the sewer outl, {
loT The purpose ag ballding sewer beds
when the necessity arises la this city
-Fiay.two steel lockers have been
received ~ The Putnam Country Club.
fhey viii be Installed in the club
house tof use when the season opens.
Putnam really took up golf in ERNEST
last season and Il attracted many con.
veris. II Is expected that when the
season opens in The spring The mem.
esshiP viii nearly double a. many
have sisuided lhsiF intention Of join
ing
Putnam patriot., 1916-01-14
senesei Grange

The first regular meeting OF the new
wear was held Wednesday evening,
| January s, the subject Of the Lee
turer's heur being Temperance.
The following program was pre-
seuled:
Health and Temperance
Df. Joseph spauldipg
why Women Work foi the Temper
ence Cause Mrs. Nm. &. Child
rbe Rum Element In Politics
Miss RiIla Child
Position Of The National Grange on
Prohibition Miss Louise Howard
Reading 81 g0i Ingersoliis Tribute 10
Mhiskey Vim. G. child
Readlng 81, iseV JAS BuckieSis Pnr-
ody on IngersolPs Tribute 10
Whlskey Mrs. Geo. W. Butts
Al The annual session Of the National
Grange at Oaklnnd, Cal, last Novem-
ser, resolutions were unanimously adj
pied Endorsing national prohibition
~ amendment 10 The Federal eonsulu
ton Ia line wilh,ihis action Of the
national BODY, senexet grange passed
The following resolutions:
Whereas, according 10 our best
knowledge and Information, it is
Clearly shown that the use OF intoxica-
ting liquor as "A beverage is seriously
detrimental 10 the welfare of our
county, and that The manufacture and
sale Of such liquor Is attended by cor
ruption in politics and by the obstruc
ton of the natural proeessesof law and
Justice:
Whereas, the time seems at hand
when talI advocates OF temperance
should publicly declare and reaiirm
their opinions; and
Whereas the Grange, working for
welfare of the country and Of man
kind, has always advanced and en-
eouraged the cause 'of Temperance
having frequently passed resolutions
in National, Stotes aud subordinate
bodies in support Of temperance
Therefore be 1t resolved TINT We, the
membeis Of, senexet Grange, Ne 10
Patrons of Husbandfy, IN regular
meeting assem- bled this 9th day Of
January, 1916, hereby affirm and
adapt .ihe resolutions passed by the
Naional grange at its last annual ses
sion. and TINT We aId and encourage
Is far rs Il lies in our power 10 do So
every lawful act and endeavof looking
toward tie -peedy. abolition of the
liquor trtflic in the State of Connect.
cut aud throughout the nation aud
be il further
Resolved that q copy Of these resolu
tons be placed upon the records o.
this grange and that copies be sent &c
the steretpfy OF the State Grange and
10 the Putnam Patriot andsthe Wind
ham County Observer
The latter part of the Lecturers houI
was much enlivened 10y the retiring
officers, each Of whom read a Will In
fnvof OF his OF her successor.
At a special, meeting held last Mon
day evening Wm. c. lChld and Mrs
Louise Child were appointed delegates
Ia attend the Connecticut state grang,
which conveues IN Hartford Thu
week
Al the next regular meeting January
nineteenth, The officers foT 1916 vii b
installed.
Putnam patriot., 1916-01-14
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Mrs. Martin tof Bradley street Is
confined to her home by illness.
Mrs. Israel Lindsey Of Worcester
was in this city Tuesday.
Mrs. Fred Case ana Mrs. Stone Of
Worcester we're guests Tue sday Of the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r.
smith.
Rev. Charles +. Bedsrd has an
nounced 10 his congregation that he
ex pecls to occupy The new st. aafy's
rectory Ia about four weeks
-samuei Walsh, Jr., entertained a
number Of bis sehOolmales NJ the home
Of his parents Friday evening There
was music by the host and Miss
Katherine seward, both fine piano
players. Games and eharades filed
out sn enjoyable evening. Refresh
ments were served.
Putnam, like the rest Of the state
md country, is experiencing an cpl
,iemie Of giip. ,Several prominent
people have been seriously i'll, Rev. j,
X. ss4ubbert OF the Baptist church,
Judge f.. q. Wright and Mrs. Ellen
NJ. Bagbee are among those confined.
| A few cases of diphtheria have been
reported.
Charles Belair of the Baisleship
| Connecticut, who has been the guest OF
| his parents on School street, left Mon
| day to visit his brother Henry an
Waterbury before returning to service.
Mr.. Belair expects to be transferred 10
the Nevada as quaftermaster after his
Through expires. The Nevada Is now
In port at Boston.
Mrs. Herbert Smith, Mrs &. r.
| Waterman and Mrs >. NJ. Nheeiock
have entertained the Monday Dupii-
cate Bridge players nj intervals dur
ing The holidays and at each home the
players were delightfully."- entertained.
| The prizcs at the winning table at
Mrs. " heelock ) were won by Mrs.
Herbert smith, mrs +. NJ. Brunn,
Hiss Ellen Nheeloek and MIS-. Helen
Wiley.