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Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03
THE ENEMIES WITHIN.

Because of acts which have been committed against the laws of this country and the efforts which have been made with much success to crip: ple the part which this country can play in giving aid to its allies and in carrying out it's own preparations in the conduct of the war, much atten= tiou has had to be given to watching the aliens in this country who are subjects of the enemy IT is known that to a more CT less degree of cer- tainty where these enemy aliens arc and what they are employed at To a certain extent the local and federal authorities have information regard ing the sentiments of these people as to whether they are inclined to be vicious or to go about their business In a peaceful manner.
 But in view of the extensive dam = age that has been caused. with new evidence of the wcrk of plotters be- Ing brought to light almost every day, it cannot help being realized that The only safe course to pursue is to. establish the most careful watch up- on all such people at all times. It is such a view which the local and fed sral authorities in New York have taken in undertaking a far reaching. surveillance of the 2S,0OO listed enemy aliens within the barred zones of two of that cfty's boroughs.
 The danger of too much leniency through the extension of too much freedom to enemy aliens at time like this Is reflected in the explosions, fires. and labor tfoubles which are handi- capping the war operations of this country It behooves every alien toi walk the straight and narrow path and obey the laws and if such cannot 5e obtained from them they should be put where it is certain that they can 1o no harm We have got to give fullI attention to the enemy within
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made it possible are to be encountered. l IL Is because of these forces that we are sending the flower of our man l hood to fight an enemy that acknowl- edges no law or God CT man beyond it's own lust to win; whose first move against our soldiers will be not ap encounter of man to man but the stab of the assassin in the dark.
 Too long, far too long has this country given leeWay to enemy propa- S;snda, and held it's hand; too long have individual Americans given ear tC enemy sentiment, and held their tongues through a courtesy and con sideration utterly thrown away. P
 Friendly feelings toward a German or pro-German must hinge upon his admission of the guilt of Germany, a confession of his own sense of humil- iation and vost regret. Thousands of Americans of German blood have hdavely made this hard confession. There can be no fellow-feeling be- tween the rest of the world and the man who will not
 Germany has seen to that. Wher- ever he be, the man who defends Ger many admits by imDlica ton that he would willingly share in the enormity of her manifold offences. He who condones raptne and murder, in effect commits them. The American Of German percentage who would prefer imprisonment to fighting against Ger many is not only a traitor but taCit- ly all that the German has proved himself capable of beiE S-and that is what those, the least of his admirers, shrink from, writing him down to bes
 Never more than in this war has H been true that one cannot serve both God and Mammon-never has the dis tIrction between God and NIammon been more appallingly clear. Yet tEere are among us on every. sid6s those who seek to justify Germans more or less openly. Loyal Ameri- cans can no longer afford to tolerate tl,em.
 Every instinct of sincerity every demand of loyalty and gratitude to those who are going forth. 1t may be to lay down. their lives that decency and liberty may continue to exist. call upon us who remain behind for no uncertain display of our own convic- tions.
 One course and one alone can re- deem today the man of German blood 0t the fact that he is German he must be held blameless. Blameless he cannot be if ne upho,ds and sanctions Germany in her mad orgy of ruthless CT ime against the rights and liberties Of the world. The parting of the ways between him and other men must increasingly widen unless he be willing to denounce and renOunce the creed that the rest of the world ab- hors and loathes.
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MORE PIGS,

Possibly every farmer has asked
 himself the question how he can Test said bis country. If he ~ hasn't he should. It is of course remembered that he was advised not long ago to grow bigger crops and there was a ready response made to the appeal as IS shown by the large supplies avail able .in this. country, but that does fnot bya any means indicate that his responsibility ends there or that his opportunities for helping have passed.
 On the other hand much Is still ex- pected of the farmer. The country is experiencinE a serious shortage of spork and .ln calling attentien to this condition Food Administrator Hoov- CT says Every hog is of greater value 10 the winning of this war than a she'll That means that every farm Ger has 8. greater duty to perform than the worker in the muniticn factories; and from the prices which pork is commanding he has. the chance to se- cure as attractive remuneration for
 his work. ,:, a -a '-- . The fact of the matter is that there
 has been a falling off in the raising of pork quite as serious as the decline
 in the sheep industry, and in spite of the fact that the demand has been steadily increasing. Where there should have been mere hogs raised there has been Q ten per cent. decline in pork production. There Is no won der therefore that MT Hoover says we need a pig movement in this country. We certainly do and the farmers of Connecticut and every other stata should do stheir part in pushing it. along
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THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society.

"1orpat is one of the important eenters of population in the Baltic province of Iivonia, which lies on the line of advance of the German of fensive in the direction of Petrograd," says a bulletin issued today by the National Geographic society from its Washington Headquarters.
 .sSituated on the south bank of the River Embach, which flows eastward into Lake Peipus, Dorpat is connected by rail with both Reval and Riga and also has a tri-weekly steamboat ser- vice connecting it with the trade cen ter of Pskov, on the Veiikaya, one of the water routes connecting the Baltic with southern Russia. The distance to Riga by rail is 156 miles in a south = westerly direction. while Revaf lies to the northeast distance of 11S miles.
 Except for one or two churches, in- cludfng the cathedral which crowns Domberg (cathedral hiii) and the cas- tle which rises on the brow of Schloss- berg fcastie hilD. there are few med ieval buildings in the town, owing to the fact that the place was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1777. It had suffered from conhagrations on two previous occasions when invading armies punished it for it's stubborn rae distance. The old Notifications have AIao heen disAuAntiedl and attractive ptomenades now take the place of the old wAlIs and sarthworks.
 Qorpat Is knewn by many naAes
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ment which if adopted will give the Bay State. voters the right to partici- pate in the choice of officials or to ex- press their preference upon any ques- ton which may be presented at any election even though they do not hap pen to be in their own city or town. WhatSthe people of that state are call ed upon to do IS to approve or sapproves the idea. The way in which the principle will be carried out will rest with the legislature to ar range, but in view of the many who are always away on election, day.. and Particularly now the many who are away in army camps, there appears to be good reason for adopting this policy of permitting everyone to have his sayl on election day wherever he may be. It will therefore be interest = ing to note. the expression off the Massachusetts voters on this ques-
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(Yuriev, Dorpt, Derpt, Tarto, Tartolin, and Tehebata), fact which recalls it's tempestuous history during the 18th, 17th and 18th centuries. when it was a veritable shuttleeock city, being tossed back and forth between contending ma tions which made the Baltic provinces their battlegrounds. It is supposed to have been founded by prince of Kiev early in the 11th century. Two hundred years later the Teutonic Knights arrived, and the year follow ing their advent the cathedral was es- tablshed on the Domberg. Russia busted the Germans in 1858; Poland took possession in 15S2; Sweden seiz- ed the town in 1900; Poland retook it in 1903; Sweden was once more in pos session in 1925; Russia asserted it's claims in 1866, followed by a long pe- riod of Swedo-Russian activities which claim in 1704. Four years later a large part of the population was deported to the interior of Russia
 "One of Dorpat's chief claims to dis tinction is it's university. which was founded by the great Swedish monarch and general, Gustavus Adoiphus. It was suppressed by Peter the Great in 171O but was reopened by Tsar Alex ander I at the beginning of the 18th century, when it was decreed that Ger man should be the language of the faculty. This rule was in force until 1895. when Russian was made the of
 
 cept that of the Lutheran theological faculty.
 "The astronomical observatory of the Dornat university is famous ow- ing in large measure to the distin- guished scientists who have from time to time been it's directors. Chief of these was Gustav Friedrich Georg Wilhelmstruve, who was noted for his contributions to the worlds Knowledge of double stars. Struyes sons and grandsons were also noted scientists, both at Dorpat and in other European institutions of learning.
 Before the outbreak of the world war Dorpat was the headquarters of the 18th army corps of Russia. It has a population of 50.00o and ever since the middle ages, when it was mem Der of the Hanseaic League. it has en- joyed considerable trade with Pskov and Nevgorod. The agricultural fair, held in August of each year is an i'm portant feature of the efty,s life in times of peace"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03
Views of the VigiIantes
DO WE WAR WITH
 THE GERMAN PEOPLE?
By Robert Adser Bowen of The Wig
 iiantcs.

It has been with a shock that has threatened faith in humanity itself that the realization of the GerrFn character has been forced upon the rest Of the world. Even with the re- I.eated evidences of its brutality the brain of mankind reels under the strain upon it's credulity, In sad this thing have come to pass So long had we been told of the German honesty, and sincerity and tender love of home-so long had we heard of German kindliness of heart, German love of the beautiful in nature and in art-that we could not believe in the German lust. to despoil and befoul and destroy. We could not credit its its self. Justification through the viz cious slogans of Deutschland ub2T Alles and Weitmacht oder Niedergang.
 We know 1t now, Murders on sea and land; deliberate slaughter of wo- men and children, the wounded and those that minister to the wounded: dishonor in diplomacy as in war; cunning, low trickery, and self abase- nient! The heart sickens at all the vile. degrading story; the mind stag gers at the knowledge that behind their. constituencies rulers and the instigators of those loathsome crimes stands a proudly united people fellow ing their Kaiser's Onward with God!'
 Do we war with the German people? Yes!
 And with all men and women. whether they be German or American, who defend, uphold or attempt to jus tify, them. In this war there can be TO let-up, no concession, for 1t is a moral war, holier than any Crusade that was ever wage, justified as no other war has ever been more Suati- fled. Any wavering, be 1t of the slightest is 10 admit that wrong is right, that diShon0r is honor that Eestiality Is manhood. k.
 Not only is this war to be fought out on the battle front. It is to be fought wherever those forces which
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03
FOOD CONSERVATION.

It is not surprising that the food dministration expresses it's gratif1oa- .tion at the manner in which the j+housel1olders of the country are pledg- ing themselves to effect savings wherever it Is possible. That of course only reflects the patriotism of the peo- pie in another way. They have shown that they are willing to loan their money. that the government may have the funds necessary to carry on a suc- cessful war, they are showing that they are willing to part with their |spennies that the additional revenue required may be obtained through taxation and 1t is only to be expected that they will be willing ito help the
 country by 'practicing economy, for
 as in the case of the Liberty bonds, such economy works to their advan- tage as well as to the benefit of the nation. sr1s~ ,-'.s- te E Through the sugar shortage it has heen demonstrated that we can get
 along with much less than we have been accustomed to without any de- Htrimental. effects. being experienced,
 and what can be done in one direction can 5be done in others. The food con
 servatisn plan simply means that we are asked to make the most of what :we have, to make our supplies go fur
 tIler by eliminating the waste which is
 characteristic in many households and
 by adopting new standards of living
 which will not only bring much relief
 to the pocketbook but which is bound ito have it's good szeffects upon our
 health. It Is, thus apparent that it
 is an opportunity for helping ourselves as well as the government and mat ter in which everyone who is not do-
 ing sso should be anxious to partici-
 pate.
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NoRwAYs NEW NOTE.

Fr0m the now note which has been sent b. Norwav to Germany bearing upon the attacks on Norwegian ships and the taking of the lives Of it's sail DTS. 1t mi=ht be inferred that that country was getting sick and tired of having sucl, treatment inflicted upon it and that it was going to take steps zhich would more positively show its resentment and i.rSvent if possible any rcoccurrences- Norway does not deny iliat it's ships were under convoy of warshiDs hostile to Germany, but it plainly states that they were forced Into the acceptance of such protection because of the conduct of the German submarines and now other warships.
 Norway doesn't do much fist shak- Ing. in spite of the fact that it has long had reason to. but it does say to Germany that it will not again state it's views concerning the viola ton cf the principles of the freedom If the high seas by the inclusion of 2 large tract of the ocean as a war zone and by the sinking of neutral Ehips not carrying contraband-
 This Scandinavian country has been Q great sufferer from the acts of Ger many and it has occ2sioned no little surprise that it has tolerated it as long as i- has in view of the less in lives and shipping. but what is more surprising in connection with the re- iatioE-s- Of Norway and Germany is the announcement made at this time to the effect that the Norwegian gov ernncnt is keeping silent about the arrangements to resume the shipment of nickel to Germany at the rate of 100 tons a month after the first of Inc year The handing of such ma lerial over to that country to help it continue its past conduct doesn't in- sicate that Norway is as sore about it's treatment as it claims to be.
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themselves and directly trying to make goats of other folks. We must be right to lave things go right we must do right to be right Too much high jinks is just as bad as too much worry. and too much pleasure dr any sort, is as injurious as too much serious medita ton. Every wise person guards against excesses of every nature. We cannot eat too much, or sleep too little. or talk too much. or look so sharply after our own interests tf.at we neglect our employers interests, without losing our grip. Life is no go-as-you-pleas ase walking match. The just and the un- just must lives iong if they are tenn rerate in all things, they dc not live Gu. half their days if they .lefy Ma
 ture's laws. Man must be orderly as Nature is orderly if he would do most in life and get most from life.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03

(Written Specially for The BulletiH.)
 In his informing account of the de: velopment of silversmithing in Con recticut the late George M. Gurus gives some interesting facts regard ing the manner In which the carry
 A silversmith of Colonial times, he tells us, probably used a lathe worked by foot power, not for spinning, but for shaping and truing porringer, a beaker, or a bowl, after the hammers and anvils had done their work. This is plainly shown by the mark left by tlie lathe in the centre of these Ves- sells.
 The metal was hammered while operation was arnealed; that it, heat ed in a charcoal fire, to prevent brit tleness and to make it tough.
 With the planishing hammers and anviis, rotten stone and burnishers, a uniform and beautiful surface was Iroduced' that can never be attained by a modern workman using a buff ing wheel.
 hr. Curtis, shows specimens of early spoons, including the earliest type of rat-tail, made by -Jeremia h Drummer aboat 1690-or: about thirty years after the settlement of the town If .Norwich-for Rev. Noadiah Russell and his wife; Mary Ham1in- These are now owned by Miss Mabel ". Wainwright, of Hartford. A some what later type of rat tail dated 1895. is noted as made by W. G." Types of the rat-tail of about 173O. rnade by William Ward, of Guilford. Dunham,. have the mark ". Ward, in script, in the rectangie.
 Other types of spoons pictured are
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03
ABSENTEE VOTING.

At different times throughout the country there have been strong cam paigns conducted in behalf Of absentee voting with the result that a number sf the states have enacted laws which allow their voters to vote whether they are in their own town or state on election day. r. has been adopted In or1er not to deprive those who have a legal right to vote of that privilege when for business or other reasons shey are unable to get to their polling place without great sacrifice or ex- pensc-
 In recognition of the justice of such | law and the wisdom of preventing Inc Acknowledgement of voters, our neignboFing. state. Massachusetts. is 10 vote at its election next we X on Inc proposed constitutional amend
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03
OTHER VIEW POINTS

We wonder what the philosophy is of the poHcy of the treasury depart men to return any of the money it has received from the Liberty loan. It needs money and it has got it. Why not hold on to it? No one will com plain.-New Haven Journal Courier.
 There are few who. will begrudge the boys and girls their fun on the eve of All Saints day. These festivities have been going on each year since century when the Pantheon at Rome was converted into a Christian place of worship. The celebration then oc- cured always on May the first until later the Feast of All Saints was
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Will Ra There In Tine

The kaiser's visits to other capitals with peace terms do not seem to have been successful. Probably he will have to wait until somebody visits Berlin. with peace terms.--Kansas City Times.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-03

: !: Possibly Emperor Charles is won dering what penalty he will have to pay sfor calling ona Emperor Wilhelm at this lime for assEstanee.
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Uncle Sam is just as helpful to his comrades in arms in q time of dis aster as when matters are more cheer ful. Russia learned this some time ago, and now Italy understands it. She faces serious trouble, but that does not prevent the United States, from ad- Yancing her s2so.00o,oo0 as an evidence of. good faith and Bristol Press.
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: With the refusal of the German sol- qieFs, ir Belgium tc fight, there is no doubt but what Field Marshal Hais xilTA take full advantage of every such TEllll1 1Gnssss pns sthe part of the enemy to help.
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switched to November l. and Hal lowe'en or the eve of All Hallows- All Saints-was naturally placed as the 31st day of October: While the day after this is a sacred church holiday in the olden days the people going to the cemeteries for devotion and he lay has nothing churchly about it so far. Ing Of flowers on graYes-Iallowe'en 'en as the American nation can discern.- New Britain Herald.
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Those who are disposed to. kick at
 the var taxes can well compare their Epesit ian with that of the fellows at the front. Y
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Won't chanue the Vordiet

The senatorial Investigating commit tee will hardly be able to give any de- cision in the LaFollette- case that will upset the popular verdict already rem dered.-New York World.
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If there Is danger of the Boston Symphony Orchestra dishandins be- causa .ita.- -p2anagrr or l4ader will not biAce 0n its praarammes for sthe Star Snanglsd Banner. then by all meaas let it dieband.
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There is still time to get the bad sid dewalks put into. passabie shaper be- fore the slippery and sposhy season arrives. -as
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The man on the corner says: What is going. to keep all the idle hands kusy after the knitting fad dies out
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Y -Novsrnber is opening with the kind
 Of wsather which gives indication that ! t tw1EfS not be long- before the snow spoE twill have to be polished up. z
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: 1t Sbegins to look as if the noise ot the. ash sitter would soon make up for that of the shelved lawn mower.
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! Now that red headed man fired the frstsaAmerican shot in France there wjslss lse keen rivalry in Tthe redhead d fraternity until it is determined just what the shade is.
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< Ua1ees there IS cheek to the large loss of human life F in hunting big game. hunterH might profit, by adopt
 fRg the principles of trench warfare,
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EDITORIAL NOTES,

With below zero weather report ed
 in Denver, we certainly have some- thing to- look forward to.
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sst Reports indicate that the pledge fde9 ef Hoover Is making strong
 appAa1. If the second part is carried ,opt as well as the first it ought to be
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. It is beltsvabie that the Ohio paci- fist who was whipped. Is, in a forgiv-
 ihg moedy .It Woaids be more to the point. however. fo .1earn Whether he is convinced of the error of his way.
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Germany may be only carrying out this sdfive< as peace move, though we d9abt it. but no rn6fe effective means could be taken to bring to- gether the Italian factions.
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Broken Hill miners have declared their strike at an end.
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Most of the ancient smiths impress ed the plate they made with their trademark. The earliest marks were initials in a shaped shield or in a heart. with some emblem above or be- low.
 Later marks were initials or the name in a plain or shape or en- sraved rectangle, or oval. In the early part of the last century the word Coin" vas added. and about 1865 the word Sterling was employ ed to denote the correct standard.
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Meet q the psspis ir tho world who are incidentally engaged in abusing
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Mir. Curtis explains that when the United States Mint was established, in 1792, the standard of siIher coinage was fixed at .ss2 rA-10 fine. In 1897, the standard was raised to 300 fine. Therefore Coin" stamped on plate does not indicate .S25, or Sterling fEe.
 This fact will probahl prove a dis appointment to collectors of old sil- yer. who have prided themselves on their "Coin'' specimens. fancying them equal to the Sterling in fneness.
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In the series of illustrations in Mir Curtis book are shown some of the most striking types of other examples Of mid-efghteenth century plate, in- .eluding belf-shaped tea pot, a pear shaped tea pot, a sauce boat, a can- d.e-stick and tankard with domed top.
 On these types the ornamentation is very simple although naturally show ing a greater tendency toward elab- oration than on types of the century before.