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Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21

great military struggles. It was for tif1ed in the 14th century by Jean d. Avesnes. In 1572 it was captured in a surprise attack by Louis of Nassau who held is for four months against the Spanish forces of the Duke of Ava, thus giving the northern pro- vinces of the Netherlands time to or ganize that heroic resistance to op- pression which resulted in the estab- llshment of the Dutch Republic.
 The town was captured by Louis XIV in 1891 but was restored to Spain six years later.
 Only ten miles south of Mons lies the village of AIalplaquet which has given it's name to one of the greatest battles of the eighteenth century. It was here that the English, Dutch Ger man and Austrian allies, under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eu- French commended by Louis XIV's most distinguished general Villars More than 90,00O troops were engaged on each side. and the allies lost %, ,o00 men, while the French retired in good order after sustaining casualties
 The battlefield of Jemappes. where the French Revolutionary Army. un- der Dumouriez, defeated the Austrians in 1192, is also near Mons.
 The fortifica5ions of Mons were dismantled in 1862 and attractive promenades were laid out along the encircling military works
 The 10000 inhabitants of Mons found occupation in the manufacture of cotton and wooden goods. in sugar refneries, lace works and iron foun- dries before the war. The trade in grain and coal was also considera bic. the town enjoying the advantage of tow water freight rates, being con nected with the River ScheIdt by means of the Canal de Condo.
 The cathedral of St. Waltrudis. be- gun in the middle of the 18th century from plans by the same architect who designed the famous Hotel de Vile of LouVain, is the chief point of archi- tectural interest in the city. A school Of mines was the leading educa tional institution of tAn rrovince of Hainaut up to the time of the German occupa- tion.''
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LET. ALL DO THEIR PART.

In anticipation of action by con- gross on the food bills, H. c. Hoover has made an appeal to the housewives of the country to do their part in conserving the food supply of the na- tion. Waste is one Of the big prob lens which this country has been foathe to meet. It is fully understood that there are millions upon millions of dollars worth of supplies which are wasted each and every year by the failure to give the matter proper con sideration. This has been due to a certain extent to the fact that the people have not been properly inn pressed with the necessity of doing their part As long as they could get what they wanted they have insisted upon it and have paid the price re- gardless of how much eventually went to waste.
 With the conditions as they are to- day and the necessity of looking well ing of foodstszfs for the people of this country. those on the battle front and those countries which are allied with this in the war, and prices where they are today. it ought not to be necessary to do much urging in or der to have those who are so closely connected with the handling of the food in the homes realize that they are expected to render an important service and respond heartily to the call for cooperative action in this di- rectiou.
 High prices may be doing more than all the appeals which can be made in behalf of conservation, but certainly the reason for 1t is fully established and with everyone doing his or her part the desired results are bound to be obtained.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society.

Mons, famous in the world war as the scene of the great battle after which the Anglo-F'rench forces began their memorable retreat towards Par is. a retreat which finally eneded on the banks of the Marne, has come once more into the limelight through a re- cent order of the Germans providing for the deportation of it's citizenS-a fate which has befallen the citizens of many of Belgiurn's stricken cities. The geography bulletin issue dfrom it's Washington headquarters, gives the following information about Mons, it's industries before the outbreak of the war, and something of it's interesting history:
 AS the capital of the province of Hainaut. Mons was. up to August 1914, one of the most thriving cities of Bel gium, for it was the center of the country's richest coal region, Le Bor- image. Of the 125,000 coal miners of the kingdom three-fourths of the num- her. lived in this province and were known as Borins (coal borers).
 Mons occupies the site of a cas- trurn established by Julius Caesar dur ing his campaigns against the Gauls. II crowns a hill on the bank of the little River Trouille. 3S miles by rail southwest of Brussels. Its founding Countess Waudru in the eighth cen- tury, and the first five hundred years of it's history constitute a period of much hardship and poverty, the whole region being known in that age as the poor land of a proud people,
 Count Baldwin of Flanders. one of the noblest and most popular lead CTS of the Fourth Crusade and the first emperor of Romania, being crowned in Constantinople, was one of Mons most generous benefactors. It was he who granted the city it's charter in 1900 just five years before he met death at the hands of the Bulgarian king who is said to have cut off the hands and feet of the captured ern- peror and thrown him thus nutilated into a valley where he fingered fpr three days before death ended his agony.
 Mons has been the scene of several
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21
NICHOLAS AND THE KAISER,

In view of the conditions which are known to have existed in Russia un-
 der the rule of the czar. the manner in which the people were denied oD- portunities, prevented from having
 any say in the government and
 treated with varying degrees of harsh ness, there can be little or 10 sym pathy for the deposed monarch whose people had come to know their power and decided to obtain their rights. But even should there be those who were inclined to side with the mon archical form of government and therefore with the deposed Nicholas they must consider that they have been wasting their time and their sympathy when they became inform ed of the secret treaty which had been entered into in 1905 between Czar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm
 This plan to stab a friend France, in the back was discovered by the late Count Witte. who held high position in Russian affairs, and it was only through his efforts to bring It to an end by threatening to publish IL that the treacherous alliance was broken up. At that time France was in open alliance with Russia. The kaiser was intent upon undermining that tie at that time and by the power which he exerted over Nicholas he in veigled him into executing a secret treaty whereby the two nations were to work in harmony against the French, meaning that while Russia was manifesting close friendship and cooperation with France to its face, 1t was holding the knife at its back. Nicholas was prepared to adopt the Jekyll-Hyde role. and such display of gullibility makes 1t plain that the kaiser had confidence in his ability to swing him from his alliance a second time How near he came to succeed
 Ing is well known but 1t must be rec ognized that it was for the welfare of Russia that it was frustrated by The revolution.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21
HOME GARDENS
Cucumber.

The cucumber grower has more in sects to battle with than diseases to cure. says todays bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission, cooperating with this newspaper in a campaigT for more food gardens and against waste.
 Diseases prevalent among other garden vegetab bles, seldom attack cu- protected from disease carrying in sects they may become victim to any of the garden diseases.
 Anthacnose. downy mildew. and wilt sometimes attack the cucumber. Wilt is fatal disease. Infected vines should be burned. Anthracnose and mildew are fungons diseases and can be cured by spraying The first symp- toms of anthracnose are brown spots on the leaves. Downy miidew appears spray with bordeaux mixture, first when the plants have begun to form vines and later after the first blos- soms have faded. Repeat the spray ing in two weeks, and then two weeks after that. Some gardeners spray for mi-dew and anthrocnose as long as the crop lasts.
 Insects attack both the leaves and tie, spotted beetle. and flea beetle are chewing insects that feed upon the leaves. The vine borer is worm, which bores into the vine at the sur face of the ground. When the vine borer intrenches itself, the vine must be cut open lengthwise and the worm removed and killed. Earth should be thrown over the vines every few feet that now roots will form at those places.
 The beetles. although they are very destructive, are not so formidable an enemy as the borer as they can be dealt with in the open and are easily exterminated. doing no permanent in- jury to the vines.
 A good arrangement to fence bugs out of. the cucumber plants, is a mos quito net stretched over each plant and held up by a half hoop. An ex- cellent way to keep these parasites from the young plants is to cover them with pieces of netting, keeping the edges of the material covered with inches of soil and let this remain un- til the plant begins to run.
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Mark the Historic Places.

MT. Editor: I am glad 'L. E. T. George Dewitt was delighted with, Etta Barber's article on Historical Plainfield," and I hope he, or she. will get busy and help mark all historic places before June g. Both the his toricaI society and the D. A. R. will have to do some work if the mark ing is done. The D. A. R.'s have done much good work and I am surprised to learn they do nothing outside of that society as those I know are busy women. No one knows better than I do that the Historical Society is making a brave struggle. Etta Bar her is not a D. A. R., not because she is not entitled to mem bership bU2 because she has naver felt that she could give the time and financial aid expected of the members: but she was 9 member of the Rhetorical So- ciety before the local papers extended the invitation and does not feel ashamed of the part she has taken in it's struggle for existence.
 We hope to see some good letters on local history and helpful sugges- tions for the benefit of our town from "L. E. T. George Dewitt in the near future.
 MRS. R. F. B. DEVOLVE.
 Plaindeld, June 20, 1917.
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Views of the Vigilantes
THE GREAT AMERICAN THIEF.
By Hapsburs Liebe of The visiIantes

By Hapsburg Liebe of The VigiIantes
 It was away back five years in the dusty past, when l was a perfectly good filter of 6ig -log-Saws instead of a writer of indifferent power that < had my first real introduction to this Brobdignagian. I had just left the saWmill, in company with the sawyer when l noticed an ordinarily but neat ly dressed old man picking up kind ling that had fallen from a passing wagon. We soon overlook him. I was sorry for him.
 "Old man. said I, If you'll come around to the mill tomorrow I'll give off"
 He laughed rather amusedly. Son." he replied, I'm just picking this up to keep it from going to waste. Waste is the great American thief"
 We passed him by. The sawyer nudged me and whispered: That's old So-And-So; he's worth a hundred thousand. and he's not accounted a Stingy man."
 I got the lesson. I've since worked it out very thoroughly-so very thor oughly in fact that I am able to tell you, which is apt to surprise you, that another nation the size of ours could have lived six years on that which we have wasted during the last ten years And, which is of even greater importance. both this and the other nation would have been a. better and stronger and more efficient nation because of it. Get that. Waste is, beyond any doubt. the great Ameri- can thief, just as that philosophic old man told me.
 It is our eating that we are most 1mmoderate, most incorporate, most wasteful We are. in the main, a na- tion of meat and bolters and over-eaters. We think that we save time when we bolt our food but we don't; we lose time, because by so doing we impair health and shorten life to an extent that would be. larnl- ing to use if we could only realize it. The eating of much meat may be all right for a digger of ditches, but it certainly is unwise for those who ex- pect to do any amount of clear think ing. Over eating is good for nobody for so many reasons that I can not attempt to set them down here Let me break the news to you that Ger many, as a nation, can put it all over us when it comes to efficient eating And Germany's efficient eating is one
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from the high places down into and through the celebrated Hetch Hetchy Valley to rest eventually in the Paci- fife. It's rush of several thousand feet into the depths of the Hetch Hetchy. which valley by the way, it's waters originaff- carved in the living granite, constitutes one of the most remark able spectacies in the remarkable Sierra
 The Tuolumne Canyon here is wild beyond description. The rivers bed slants sharply for several miles. Rush ing with gathering power, the stream leaps over precipices and foams down long, sharply tilted granite slopes. Here are found the Waterwhee. The swift current, striking rocky projec- uons s1ing across the granite slopes. rises nifty feet in air and describes long sweeping arcs of foam before again joining the rushing river. The spectacle is one that fills the behoider no less with astonishment than with enthusiastic admiration. The larger Waterwheels are extremely impress sive.
 The reason so few persons have seen the Waterwheels is that the passage down the Tuolumne Canyon is one of extreme difficulty. The hardy camp CTS of the Sierra Club. who for many years have maintained a camp at Soda Springs in the Tuolumne Mead ows. have been their principa viei- tors: it is they who have made known their unique beauty to the world. One motion picture only has been made. of them.
 Last year the Department of the Interior built a trail over the White Cascades in the Tuolumne Canyon as sar as the top of the Waterwheel Falls. Here the funds were exhausted, ieav- ing the most strenuous part of the climb without a trail. The completion of the trail past the Waterwheels and through the entire canyon to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, will be attempted this season.
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YosEMITE's WATERWHEELs.
The Trail Begun Last Year Will Soon Make Them Accessible to the Tour .-4

This season will see the opening to the public of an American water spec tacle of such extraordinary novelty and beauty that its eventual world wide celebrity seems easy prophecy. The Waterwheel Falls of the Yosemite Ma tional Park have probably been seen by less than a thousand persons, all told, since their discovery by white men: no doubt they were a familiar sight to the Indians of early days who considered the Tuolumne Canyon one of the safest of their fastnesses.
 The Tuolumne River is one of the finest of the many trout haunted streams which flow from the snowy hollows of the high Sierra. It sings and roars by turns it's sinuous way
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21
AMBITION OF A SORT

The young man with the tall brow coughed. Yes" he said, apropos of humanity are sad to contemplate! Aren't they!" agreed the girl who likes to talk. Seeing that you have brought up the subject, I'll tell you about my unfulf1lled ambition rare- ly mention it because people always elevate their eyebrows and oppose me when I do. They simply ,brim over
 with objections and the awful part of it iS that I can see what perfectly good objections they are, which is an moving. Besides that I can think up
 objections myself at the rate of sixty
 minute and you must admit that any ambition so hampered is a very hard one to realiZei But, honest In-
 jun, way back in my head, from the
 time was three years old, has lurked the wild mad craving to own mon key!"
 My stars!" gasped the young man
 "You see" nodded the girl who likes to talk. '~rhey all feel just that way when mention it, so you can under
 stand why of late years I have kept
 have owned striped zebras and got their pictures in the illustrated Lon- don papers, because they drove the things in the park, and people merely to me that I've heard of lady who led a baby tiger around on a ribbon and nobody arrested her.
 "But let me introduce the subject of harmless little monkey, not nearly so large as a dog or a cat and see what happens! You might think I had contemplated introducing a croc- odile into our happy home or wanted a boa constructor in the sun parlori Mother just means with horror strick- en eyes and father gives splendid imitation of a gentleman in convul- sions. He wants to know what is the good Of raising a daughter to grow upness without having her elope with a. bogus count or adopt bloomers or take up uplift work among the Sas- katchawaIls only to have her turn the house into a five ringed circus When there are so many ladylike pets in the world why do I have to glance over the several hundred varieties and pick out a Sinian
 q look my parent in the eye. sadly and sweetly. and shake my head. I can't help it. I tell him. Dogs don't appeal to me. cats give me creeps, I really shouldn't know what to do with a guinea pig-all I am conscious of is that it's a monkey I want. I don't know why any more than one knows
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21
Onion.Insects.

Onions are sometimes seriously dama ged by several insects but they suffer from none of the garden dis eases, says today's bulletin from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission of Washington which is cooperating with this paper. Should thrips or cut-worn1s make an appear ance in your onion patch you should take quick methods to kill them out. Leek, garlic, and chives are also sus- ceptible to these two pests.
 Thrips-a sucking insect-can be killed with nicotine sulphate spray. This insect causes the leaves to take on a si1very sheen or become whiteaed and latter curled and twisted.
 The cut-worrn eats the plant away at the root. Poison bran mash, put closely about the root of the plant will kill this insect. Cut-worn1s work mostly at night. In the morning you can usually find the worm hidden in the soil near a cut off plant. Dig him out and kill him. Cut-wor7ns are dark in color and not easily detected.
 After the onion crop has been gath cred, all useless material should be inm mediately destroyed by burning and not left where any remaining insects could spread to neighboring plants
 On land where infested onion crops grow, next season you should plant
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
President Should Have Support of All.

Mir. Editor: It Is unfortunate in some respects that there is not a general election about this time for there. are several men in the United States sen ate and the house of representative who should be retired to private life, and for all time to come. Such men certainly do not represent American ideas or American patriotism.
 Anyone in congress who plays into the hands of the greedy traitorous band of food speculators will inevitably share in the universal odium that will be showered upon them and their allies in congress or elsewhere.
 President Wilson at this time should have the united support of all men and women and children who love America and liberty.
 WILLIAM KIMBERLY PALMER.
 Norwich, June 20, 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21

not onions again. Cabbage, cauli- flower, cucumber, the strawberry, and few other plants should not follow onions the succeeding season, because the onion thrips attack these plants.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21
Quicker ResuIts.

The esta bliEhmeut Of an al-Hhl E line from Berlin Co Couatartlnrr ls will at least enable the Eaieer t1 geE quicker hrst-hand reports reEar1I r the ssacrinE of Christians f1 ar- menia-Charleston News and Cour- fer.
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why he prefers strawberry ice cream to pineapple-I just do, and that's all there is about it. It has saddened my whole life-
 But" interrupted the tail browed young man somewhat wildly, what would you do with the thing if you
 My goodness gracious!" cried the girl who likes to talk, what do you do with any pet? I should -contem- plate it! Do you ever go past an an- imal store in your life that the side walk wasn't six deep with people watching cage of monkeys? I should sit down in the sun parlor and look at it. Never in all my fife have I had time to watch the antics of monkey at my leisure. There always has been some one at my elbow reminding me that we'll miss the train or we'll be late for luncheon or that it's disgrace full to stand in such a mob on the street and maybe get our pockets picked and what on earth do want to act so for anyway?
 Nobody would think it was queer if I wanted to look into florists window or stopped to watch a canary bird sing-but just because watch ing a monkey happens to be the one thing I really want to do the whole world conspires to see that I shan'ti I suppose the natural perversity of human nature is responsible for. every body's acting so!
 After grandmother visited us when was IS and reckless about express ing my wishes she sent me clippings for year about people being mur- dered by pet orang-outangs. Why, she had visions of my sending home a seven foot simian some day and even tually wiping out the whole family! She has been jumpy in my presence ever sincei
 Yet all I want is one of those tiny little marmoset monkeys with a face no bigger than a quarter and such a pathetic expression, They look as though they were representing the whole human race for being what it is and apologizing for their part in it. Now when you happen to see me looking sad and wistfu1- you'll know what is troubling me-it is the thwarting of my life's ambition,"
 '.Well.' said the tall browed young man, '-that-er-well that isn't exact ly the sort of ambition I was talking about, you know"
 Well" said the girl who likes to talk. sternly, it'll do you worlds of good to discover there are all sorts of wild varieties not under cuItiva- tion! If you're going to start talking about your kind. let's go to the movies and enjoy ourselves !'-Chicago News
Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-21

Those striking matters out in Dan bury ought to take into consideration the promise which they made to re- fer all disputes with their employers to arbitration until 1920.
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June is doing it's best to redeem it's 1917 weather contributions and if praise amounts to anything 1t ought to persist in a continuation of the welcomed change
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From the way congress is handling the important business before it, there is little wonder that the kaiser thinks this country isn't going to amount to much in the war
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There appears to be a greater fond ness for the olive drab among the girls than there is among some of the young men.
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In spite of Hindenburg's hold on the Siegfried and Wotan lines, the German war machine appears to be advancing backward
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Tie man on the corner says: While all other prices have changed an ounce Of prevention is still worth a pound of cure
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Have you made your plans to get acquainted with some of the highly interesting and. historic points along the Mohegan trail?