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Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

If tho report which comes from Pc trograd to the effect that the Russian controversy is over, that the council of workmen's and soldiers delegates and the provisional government have reached an understanding regarding the prosecution of the war and the fulfilling of Russia's obligations to the allies. and that there is new and definite declara tion in regard to it's foreign policy. is founded upon fact it indicates that one of the serious crises of the new government is over.
 It appears that all this trouble be- tween the workmen's and soldiers council and the government is due to the fact that there has been a mis- understanding on the part of the for mer regarding the declarations which have been made by heads of the new government concerning the carrying of the war to a victorious conclusion. This phrase appears to have been un- fortunate from the very fact that it was practically the same which had been made by the old government and while a victorious conclusion" would appear to indicate that they intended to stick to the end and until victory crowned their efforts there was the opportunity for the impression to be gained that the outcome desired was Lasdt WHICH those WnO were directing affairs for the czar were aiming at the conclusion of a separate peace. Such of course could be looked upon as a victorious conclusion. but it would not be the same sort of a one that new Russia is anxious to have or should have.
 From the indications which are ap- parent from this new understanding, Russia desires to do it's part in the war. That is unquestionabIy what the heads Of the government are com mitted to but in setting forth their position they failed to clear up any doubt in the minds of the council. All were of the same mind but they failed to appreciate it, but it is to be hoped that this misunderstanding has been cleared up and that Russia will set tie down to the task which lies before it.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
CATASTROPHE OF OLD CLOTHES

Sometimes" said the fluffy little woman 'I take great pleasure in inn agining what a wretched life my hus- band would lead if only he were mar of women than myself. I get so mad at him for not appreciating the re- markable blessing he has in me. Every time l try to do something especially health or happiness we nearly get a divorce before the smoke of battle has cleared away.
 For instance, clothes. Every time, for months, that Hobart has gone to his closet he has burst into wild inn precautions and said that it had any jungle beaten for impenetrability. To hear him an outsider would have pie tured Hobart gasping his way from the door to the back of the four foot closet, fighting the strangling suspen- ders and bathrobes, siashfng his way through thickets of trousers and coats, covering under rr~onslaughts of shoes and meanwhile enduring the stabs of umbrellas. Eventually the cook re- marked that she had always lived in refined families and her sensibifities would not stand the language.
 Amy woman with a sense of duty would have seen that she had to do something, wouldn't she?" continued the fluffy little woman. 50 tele- phoned an old clothes man and got Isabel to come down when he called. 1S6DSl IS the most WOHOeT1ul OI Illy friends, because she knows how to drive a bargain Nothing intimidates her and in the places where they ask you $95 for a hat I have seen clerks stutter and lose their presence of mind at IsabePs little air.
 'I picked out all the oldest clothes and things that Hobart hadn't put on for ages and the man when he came merely glanced at the pile and said he would give $3. I sat down, I was so disappointed, but Isabel gave a reg ular vampire laugh and glared at the man. He immediately declared that he had an extremely large family to support and did we want to take the bread and butter from their infant mouths. I'm not entirely clear about the sequence of things after that. Re marks return to me entirely independ- ent of context.
 "I recall IsabePs asking whether he knew what wool was worth these days and again I remember his scoTn over a five year old dress suit. He said the man who was obliged to wear dress suit so badly out of style would suffer the keen torture of the martyred and that only the reduced condition of the culinary department of his home would nerve him to offer it for sale to his fellow man.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

(soon thereafter to become a PruI- sian province) of Hanover which re- fused to allow the construction of a railroad across it's territory from Prus- sia into Oldenburg, so that all the material for the harbor had to be shipped from Prussia by the long sea route.
 'fWilhelmshaven is less than 40 miles in an airline northwest of Bremen, and is only so miles by rail from this great commercial center. The town Is given over almost entirely to the needs of the German navy. It has extensive arsenals, and mine depots, machine shops, iron foundries, and boiler shops. The imperial dock yards before being enlarged for the present emergencies included two large slipways. five inn mense floating docks, four smaller docks for the accommodation of tor pedo boats, and seven dry docks. The shipyards are surrounded by lofty walls and access to the enclosure even prior to the outbreak of the war was very restricted. More than a third of the population of the town before the be- ginning of hostilities in 1914 was made up of an army and naval forces.
 The New Harbor of Wilhelmshayen has an area of ITO acres and depth of more than 26 feet.'
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
TACKLE THE JOB NOW.

Just at this time there are many unusual problems confronting the people of this country. They are fac ing extraordinary conditions in many ways and they must put forward ev- cry ounce of energy and use every means to arrive at a satisfactory so- Iutfon, but attention must at the same time be directed to the prevention of the great amount of waste which is bling up each year under normal conditions.
 EepeatedIy has attention been call cd to the fact that there are millions of dollars worth of white. pine in this country which is threatened with de- structton by the white pine blister rust. It requires time to combat this disease but with the white pines as with everything else a. dollar saved is a dollar earned. It Is useless to cry about the ravages of this disease af- ter 1t has spread all over the country and the trees are gone. The time to make a fuss is now when it is possi- bIe to eradicate the rust and save the trees It may mean additional effort when so many other things are calling for attention but the saving of the white pines, a large part of which are or soon will be ready for the market, is worth all it will cost in time and effort
 Attention is called to the fact, by the state forester of Massachusetts, that now is the very best time to find this disease on the white pine trees. ft is easier to detect the white pos jules which are breaking through the smooth bark and will soon be scatter ing the yellow f1ower-like spores, which spread the disease, at present than at any other time during the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
eoETfIAas SAYS STEEL SHIPS.

General Goethals, who has been chosen to direct the work of con- structing the wooden ships which this country has decided to build for the purpose of meeting the requirements In the shape of shipping and offset ting the losses which are resulting from the submarine warfare, is not so optimistic as the shipping board about the success of this undertak- ing. He understands of course that wooden ships can be constructed in
 large numbers and that large num-
 Der of men who would not otherwise
 Ae employed in such work can be utilized by the building of wooden
 instead of steel ships but it is his belief that reliance should not be
 placed entirely upon wooden vessels.
 The possibilities of steel vessels are
 greater. Tn his opinion they can be
 constructed under proper standardi-
 xation and under the existing condi- tions among the steel plants with greater promise of defeating the ob- feet of the underwater boats than as If the efforts of this country were con- centrated solely upon the production of wooden ships of green timber.
 This he would do by commandeer- ing all the shipyards of the country and placing them under fhe supervts- lon or In6 Sn1pplnS OodTus Dy (eii4iSeliiS the cooperation of the great steel cor porations and by placing the problem of constructing the new tonnage in the hands of a single administrative expert who would make use of every available bit of space Tn the yards.
 There can be no question but what If it is possible to get the material and to get the yard room for their construction that every effort should be made to build steel well as wooden ships. We have got to make the best use Of our resources and while we are building We should see that the best results are going to be obtained. If the building of steel ships can be speeded up, 1t should by all means be dono and the time to start is now. This country has a chance to show what it can do and under such a capable administrative as General Goethals there can be no question as to the successful outcome If the undertaking.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
HOME GARDENS
Turnips. "On the fourteenth day of July Sow your turnipS wet or dry"
Turnips.


 So runs the old farm rhyme but the ancient author of the verse doubtless never knew the advantages of garden turnips in the spring says today s garden instruction from the National Emergency Food Garden Commission with which this paper is cooperating in the effort to make American cities self sufficient in war as far as vegeta- ble food is concerned.
 In fact you may not only SOW your eurnips early as soon the soil is
 ready for any crop-but preferably wait for a wet day. Damp ground makes the turnip seed sprS--t we'll. ]
 Turnips are one of the easiest of all garden crops to grow. The produce abundantly for each square foot of soil devoted to them. Give turnips moist soil and cool weather in the spring and they will mature in about 69 days or earlier. The faster they grow and the more luxuriant their top leaves the better they are. It is well to plant spring turnips in rich soil. If they
 grow slowly they become woody and bitter.
 Because turnips need moisture ii follows that they need frequent culti- vating.
 Turnip rows should be 15 to Is inch es apart to allow the tops to spread and still leave room for cultivation A half ounce of seed will plant 10C feet of row. Plant seeds half inch deep When plants are well up thin ther so that they stand three or four inch es apart.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

srHe had a remarkable ability to create pictures in your mind. 1 act
 ually could see some distinguished, sad eyed individual shuddering into that dress suit which up to then l had thought looked pretty well, sneaking along in the friendly shadow of build ings and fences and emerging into the restaurant where he worked, pale and haggard from suppressed shame at his appearancei 1 was so conscious stricken when Isabel pinned him down to sS for the dress suit alone that felt urged to explain to him about the check summer suit. I told him it was an awfully good looking suit and mo- body would ever notice the moth holes in the vest and the collar. Isa- bel looked as though she would like to shake me. She started in again about wool-why. that girl had ali the sheep on the American continent tearing around the pasture before bands of determined pursuers, anxious to sheer their precious plunder.
 ''She and the man fought worse than ever over the shoes. It didn't matter that the heels were run down and the toes stubbed. Isabel said they were leather-as though they were thereby naturally incrusted with diamonds. The firner she got the more pathetic
 grew the man and the larger seemed
 thought I'd have to call in outside help to separate the combatants they ceased "Twenty-six dollars and thirty
 cents for the lot,'' said Isabel crisply.
 "tHeaven help the oppressed poor!"
 shrieked the man and paid over the
 money He wanted to know whether
 didn't have an old grip of some sort
 that I wanted to sell, because he had
 to have something to carry the smaller
 articles in. So I hauled out a dusty
 and battered affair from 8 corner z nd
 he gave me a dollar for it-and when
 Hobart came home and I showed him
 the $27.30 I had earned and told him how I did it he dived into that closet and came out a sick man. He said I had sold his London made grip that he had paid $50 for in times when leather was plentiful, that the shoes containing his dollar and a. sa.f arch supporters were gone and the knicker- lockers to his newest golf suit. Be- yond that I had done very we'll but he asked me to leave him for a short
 time until he could commune with himself and remember that he was a gentleman. And he never said word of thanks over his cleared out closet! I'll never do anything for him again. let me tell youi"
 No, I wouldn't" said the listener "Fs far safer not to!"-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society.

"Wilhe!mshaven, the scene of a terrific explosion which is supposed to have wrought great damage to the imperial docks and shipyards recently, is one of the two most important naval stations of the German empire g by the National Geogra phic Society from its Washington headquarters.
 Only sixty-five years ago the site of this now strongly fortified town of 35,00o inhabitants given over chiefly to shipyards, drydocks, fitting out harbors, iron foundries and boiler fac tories, was a desolate, Iow-lying, marshy tract of land on the edge of shallow inlet of the North Sea known as Jade Busen or Jade Bay, which had been formed by inunda- tions in the 18th and 18th century.
 "1n 1852 however, the nascent spirit the kingdom did not own a single inch Of seacoast on the North Sea. In order to acquire a foothold on the western shore of Europe the Prussian of Oldenburg the marsh, four square miles, upon which now stands Will helmshaven, and the purchase price was 500,00o thalers tabout s355, ,00o).
 For IT years a large body of work men was engaged at great expense in building the town, dredging the bay, and sinking piles in the peaty soil upon which to erect the docks and SHlpyaTdS. lIL was a herCu10an IaSk and frequently months of labor would be wiped out in a single hour by a by a high tide or a violent storm Tn the end, however, the work was com pleted and the harbor was formally opened by King William, afterward Emperor William I, in the presence of many British naval officers who lit tie imagined what momentous cer- emony they were witnessing, for with the dedication of Wilhelmshaven be- gan in earnest the development of modern Germany's sea power.
 One sof the odd difficulties with which Prussia had to contend in the building Of Wilhelmshaven was the unfriendiy attitude of the Kingdom
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
As the Facts Stand.

Mir. Editor: I sympathize with the Baltic farmer and I have no objection to his getting 12 cents a quart for his milk if he can.
 know farmers within nine miles of Norwich are wholesaiing their milk highest price demanded by whole sale producers in any state is 1-2 cents a quart. The few miIlzrnen who tried to force 12 cents a quart from the people demand AS cents a gallon against 14 cents a gallon by nearby and IS cents a gallon for a top-notch satisfactory price for milk bought at the farm.
 Since only 43 of 173 milk distribu- tors of Norwich could be led into such Il wildcat scheme there is no doubt concerning the opinion of the major tty. They regard 12- cents a quart as being too much-so does the public.
 BILL.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

year. If this growth is detected, cut out and burned before it has an op- portunity to spread to the currant and gooseberry bushes, it's ravishes will be greatly checked.
 It is therefore the duty of all own CTS of woodland where white pine Is growing to give this matter attention. 1t Is their duty not only to themselves but to their neighbors and a campaign which is started with the determina- tion of reducing it to the minimum will accomplish excellent results, The white pine blister rust should get the attention which it needs.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
Congressman Freeman Says Send to
 Him and Get Book for Gardeners

Mir. Editor: A word to the citizens of the Second district: In view of the great interest in the improvement and gardens, etc, I beg to call the atten- tion of my constituents to a bulletin which has recently been issued by the dapartment of agriculture, entitled The Small Vegetable Garden.
 This book is full of interesting and instructive information as to the best manner of laying out small garden, preparing the soil, cultivation, etc. and in my opinion it would be of great assistance to anyone who con templates raising some vegetables fer the home.
 If any of my constituents are inter ested in this book and will drop me a line. l shall be very glad to send copies.
 Very truly yours,
 RICHARD P FREEMAN
 Washington, May ', 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

and everyone are volunteers. It's wrong. dead wrong, for a congress- man or senator. just to be on the pop ular side at the present time to cast a slur at the volunteer. Any system that has never yet failed this or any other country that depends solely up- on it.
 I honestly believe that at the pres cnt time the draft is right. Of course it's right. but why knock the volun- tecrs of days gone by?
 c. F. MONTGOMERY Packer, May ). 1917
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

We hear much of the wonderful methods employed by the Secret Ser vice men of other countries-Ger- many, England, Russia and France. We seldom learn what our own men are doing, what they have done. Except for trials such as the one now going on in New York the American people might never know their coun- try is so well protected against the conniving of outsiders. Men fn the American Secret Service and the Bureau of Investigation of the De- partment of Justice do not go around with iron crosses on their chests or epaulets on their shoulders: but they get there just the same.-New Britain Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

Count Tarnowski on sailing hoped that he would return to this country later. This country has no objec- tions, and with the understanding on our part that this might follow peace with entente victory, 1t might express the wish that 1t would be soon.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

With the administration standing for the censorship of the press it looks, from the way in which the talk is going around about new subma- rine catcher, as if the real need was B muzzle for some of the talkative government officials
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

To great many people the advice which is being given in England to eat less will prove beneficial even though it may seem like a terrible and impossible sacrifice.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

Horse racing is to end in England From the way in which certain rac- Ing stables fin this country are being burned 1t looks as if someone had the same thing in mind here.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
EDITORIAL NOTES

Those who are looking for warm weather continue to live in hopes, but thus far May hasn't been much of an improvement over April.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

When the king of Greece declares that he is not under German influence. it may be another one of those cases of domestic trouble where he is un- willing to admit the real state Of affairs
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

The federal trade commission says that the price of coal is too high. It ought to be possible to get together big chorus on that refrain
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

The man on the corner says: The home gardener can never expect to hit the bulls-eye unless he digs and plants and hoes and sweats.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

It is reported now that Count von Bernstorn is to be sent to a neutral country. That of course limits his destination to very few possibilities.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08

A contemp porary announces that this is Bahy Week but there must be some mistake, for some of the clothing store advertisements are pro- claiming that this is Blue Serge Week We need more weeks in the year, also more days in the week in order that great national movements may be ad- Vanced and great national industries boosted If we had any kind of a gov ernment this would be promptly at tended to.-Waterbury Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
An Explanation.

Things are getting to be so hot for the Germans that the Kaisers only explanation to them can be that they
 are approaching that place in the sun."-Was ashington Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-08
OTHER VIEW POINTS

These are good days to walk. When you're finished working in the gar den, don't stagger into an easy chair. Throw back your shoulders, stick out your chest, and walk, Hike around the book, if you feel like hik- ing only that far; or take a longer walk into the country or through the park. Walk to work, if you have time; or walk from work. It's good for you. It'll put you in trim. And physical fitness is patriotic, these days.-New Haven Times Leader.
The Washington times., 1917-08-14

On the door of the Brandon Ice
box, I found two marks, apparently
made by hard instrument. I believe
those marks were made when the mur-
derer hit at my daughter, either with
beer bottle or something else, and
one Of the blows looks like II might
have glanced and struck the door.
don't believe q white man would
have been so brutal in his attack as
these marks seem to indicate. I be-
lieve that II 1 could cross-examine
the negro about those marks on the
door, It would have . large bearing
on the case.
All along, I've felt that solution Of
the murder would not be long delE1-
ed, and even II the police have not
arrested tthe right man. I am salts
fled that they are steadily closing In
their net OF evidence.
Grsfined with Outcome.
am particularly gratifsd with
the outcome OF the case 50 far. The
arrest OF the negro seems to set At
rest all the various theories about
q former. sweetheart of my daugh-
ter committing the crime.
All along. the theory that there was
Q former lover mixed up IN the case
has seemed particularly foolish to me,
because ! was acquainted with my
The Washington times., 1917-08-14
BRANDON OBTAINS
PERMIT TOESHUME
BODY OF VICTIM

The body OF Mrs. LottIs May Bran
don, who was buried Saturday in
Glenwood Cemetery, will be exhumed
late this afternoon for an autopsy By
Maryland physIcians.
Following a conference with Major
Pullman at police headquarters this
morning Valentine Brandon, husband
Of the slain woman, went to the
Health Department and asked for. .
permit to exhume his wifs'S body.
After the permit was Issued Bran
don accompanied W. n. Sardo, an
undertaken Of 40s H street northeast,
to his funeral establishment. where
the body will be taken for examina-
ton
District Coroner hewitt win be
present at the examination, which
will proceed under the direction OF
physicians who are expected TO
reach Washington from Annapolis
late today.
The Washington times., 1917-08-14
DENY ANNlSTON HOTELS
ARE INCREASING RATES

Reports that hotel and boarding
house proprietors In Anniston, Ala.
are raising their rates to the Broad
way level in anticipation OF the com.
ing OF the District troops for q train
Ing period were denied today In q
telegram to The Times from L A.
Stanley OF Admission.
He declares that the statements are
erroneous and that reasonable rates
obtain.
H. A. Goodlett, an Admission resi-.
dent, who Is in Washington, also is
sued a denial OF the tale.
Statements to this effect" said
Mr.. Goodlett today, must be products
OF some overLealous imagination"