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Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

Gulf of Mexico. Marshal Serurier. one
| Of Napoleon's most gifted soldiers and
| statesmen, was also native of this
place and a monument. stands here in
| his memory.
| The I-aon cathedral of Notre Dame
IS one of the finest thirteenth century
| Gothic edif1ces in Europe"
| Libau, the Baltic seaport from which
| according to recent advices, the Ger
| mans are threatening to make drive
! by sea against Petrograd is described
! by the National Geogra phic Society's
war geography bulletin issued today
With population of 100000 one
| nfth OF whom are Jews. Libau (Rus-
| sian. Libava) is the chief commercial
| city OF the Russian province of Cour-
| land" says the bulleAn. TT is we'll
| QUILT town. many of the houses being
of stone, situated on low-lying.
sandy peninsula which separates the
| Baltic Sea from the Lake of Libau the
! latter a body of water some u miles
! long and two miles wide having an
area of II square miles. A channel
connecting the sea and lake was dug
in 1903 and the modern town has
grown up on both banks of this arti-
fetal waterway. On the left bank. be-
fore the outbreak of the world war
/ there were numerous factories enga ged
furniture, agricultural machinery,
matches and rope. There were also
numerous grain elevators and saw
mills, for Ldbau had railway connec-
ton with Russia's most Productive
Whaet regions and forest lands
Although it is in high latitude.
less than ESQ miles south of Petrograd
Libau is listed among the few prac-
ticallv ice-free ports of Russia Large
quantities of grain. lumber and eggs
were exported prior to the war. while
the chief imports included coal and
herring. The naval harbor of EN-
peror Alexander III, a short distance
month of the commercial harbor was
strongly fortified but it did not pre-
vent she city from falling into the
hands OF the Germans, many months
ago.
There has been settlement at
Libau for many centuries At crst 1t
was only fishing village. the seafar-
ers being attracted by the excellent
harhor. AS early as the middle of the
18th century it had become a possess
sion of the Livonian Brothers of the
Sword. At the beginning of the 18th
century it was burned by the Lithu-
anians, and $50 years later was given
in pawn to a Prussian duke. In 1901
Charles XII of Sweden captured & and
assessed it's citizens for the expense he
incurred in fortifying 1T. Ie became a
Russian town in 1875. Seventeen years
later. Macdonald, he who had won a
naarshaPs baton on the field of Wag-
ram by piercing the Austrian center
and saving the day for the French, oc-
cupied the place with the Prussian
allies of Napoleon in the disa strous
Moscow campaign.
TN times of peace Iibau enjoys
certain degree of popularity as a sea-
bathing resort. and there is a fort
nightly passenger steamer service con-
Meeting it with Copenha gen Stettin.
Reveal and Petrograd. 1t is also con-
nected with Riga by rail, that city be-
ing las miles to the northeast Petro-
grad is more than 400 miles to the
northeast in an airline. The German
fortified city of Konigsberg lies almost
due south a distance of 125 miles.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
TOO MUCH WASTE.

Much attention has been called in
! the past to the great amount CT waste
which has occurred throughout the
country from the failure TO pay the
proper amount of attention to the con-
servation Of supplies Materials of all
kinds are thrown away, discarded and
made no use of simply because there
IS a feeling that there is plenty more
to be had where they came from. The
demands in a great many ways have
been increasing, great inroads thus
being made in the amount of available
material. without the proper amount
of attention being devoted to the ques-
ton of supply.
Too little attention has been given
to the use of the many coal tar pro-
ducts. Other nations have seen the
necessity Of utilizing them but not I'M
til the dyestuffs which this country
was purchasing abroad were cut off did
this country attempt to make much use
of them. We have long been using
wood as if there was no limit to the
amount which could be obtained. Just
al the present time there is a shortage
of tin cans while there is also trou-
bic experienced in getting certain of
the material for the manufacture Of
glass bottles and jars.
Attention is also being called by
Professor Breed of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology to the fact that
the United States wastes almost
enough money on wooden boxes and
fibre caseG, which are thrown away or
cut up for kindling after being used
once or twice to build as many war
ships as were provided for in the 1915
naval bill.
When it is realized that this waste
is going on in many other lines in
equally large amount, it cannot help
being felt that this staggering loss
should be sufficient to bring about a
haSty reform.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
THE WAR PRIMER
BY National Geographic Society.

Laon-"Situated on a long, isolated
hill that rises abruptly to a height of
nearly SOC feet from a fertile and ex-
tensive plain, Iaon. toward which the
| French army is rapidly fighting its
way, a town OF 900 prosperous
| inha bitants at the outbreak of the war.
| The capital of the department of the
Aisne, 81 miles northeast of Paris. it
! formed with the Rheims and La Fere
g triangle of important fortresses in
Frances scheme of defense along the
northern frontier" says a war geog-
raphy bulletin issued today from the
Washington headquarters of the Ma
tional Geographic Society.
Surrounded by vegetable gardens
and fruit orchards for which is was
famous, Laon was also an important
manufacturing center for metals, SUI
gar and linens before the war de-
stroyed all of its industries.
1.-THE first mention of Laon in the
chronicles of ancient Gaul appears
! under the name of Laudunm in the
fifth century. During the ascendancy
great importance and in the 10th CEN
|; fury was the royal residence of the
Carolingians. To st. Remigius, who
baptized Clovis. the traditional found
indebted for the establishment of it's
bisphoDric which for nearly 1900
years was second only to the arch
bishopric of Rheims in prestige and
tween the townspeople and the bishop
of Laon resulted in many sanguinary
conflicts during the middle ages.
Under the walls of Laon lin 1914
Napoleon met defeat at the hands of
his German nemesis Butcher, he whose
opportune arrival was to turn the tide
of battle against the great military
genius at Waterloo the following year.
"Laon figured conspicuously in the
military annals Of 1870 through an ex-
traordinary incident. The town had
capituiated to the Germans who were
entering the gates to take formal pos
session when Henriot, a private of en-
gineers in the French army, succeeded
in blowing UP a powder ma gazineN Sc
rioJsly ds<2aging a number of build
ings and killing and -wounding fully
500 people. The explosion killed three
times as many French soldiers as it
did Germans, however, and Henriot
was one Of the victims of his own en-
terprise.
"On the ramparts of the thirteenth
century Notifications have been built
beautiful promenades commanding ex-
tensive views of the plain in every di-
rection.
THE town of Laon is OF special in
terst to Americans as the birthplace
of the intrepid Able jacques Mar
quette, the Jesuit missionary who,
with Louis Joliet re-discoyered the
Mississippi River in 1878. journeying
down the great watercourse from
Wisconsin to within zoe miles OF the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
TIME TO APPLY THE REMEDY.

There is frequently urged upon the
people of all sections of this country
the necessity of raising more sheep,
both for the contributions which will
thereby be made to the supply of wool
and to the supply of meat and sheep
skin For a number of years there
has been a steady decline in the sheep
raising industry and the presentation
Of the situation which is made to re-
suit from this state of affairs does not
appear to be making much Roadway.
There are reasons for the decline of
course Those who used to raise
sheep OF those who have succeeded
them in the business do not find it
profitable There is a handsome profit
today for these who raise sheep either
for the wool Or for marketing -pur-
poses, but there are handicaps which
must be considered in connection
Herewith and until they are overcome
it can hardly he expected that those
who might otherwise be interested in
resuming such business or launching
out therein viii respond 10 the de-
mand
When 1t IS reported from Pennsy1-
vania that sheep to the value of S49,-
600 were killed b. vicious dogs, it does
not show a condition which is not en-
countered in other states. The dog
nuisance is one of the greatest draw
backs to the raising of sheep which
exists today Connecticut suffers from
II the same as Pennsylvania. and other
eastern states do, and they will con-
tinue TO until the proper action is
taken in these states to overcome this
serious drawback. AS long as vicious
and worthless dogs are favored in
stead of sheep this deplorable condi-
f.on can be expected to exist
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
Views of the Vigilantcs
A GREAT WAR
If WE DON'T WEAKEN
BY Wallace Irwin of the Vigiiantes.

by wallace irwin or the V9iIanteS,
\ few nights ago a public demon
| stration was held in Madison Square
Garden to honor the crews of visiting
| French warships. That night was
| truly inspiring to loyalty and to
thousand who beat the other twelve
thousand to the door and stormed the
auditorium were on their feet most
of the evening, shaking the Ordered
ceiling with Yankee cheers and Rebel
yeI-s. At one dramatic point French
Lieutenant Commander leGped over
the ropes into the central arena and
WHIPPED out his sword, a tongue Of
fame, to signal many hundred French
bayonets which sprouted suddenly
sl1yward a cornfield of steel, raised to
the glory of new Ally. The ensuing
din was terrific and lon the IKE of
a Young enthusia snl--helped knock off
the hat of the only pactest present
Tt was out of the contrasting silence
which followed that ! heard the warn
ing spoken softly by the little man
Just behind me.
It'll be q great war;" he said. "if
we don't weaken"
If we don't weaken-there's the
point of a sermon! Nobody likes to
preach on the elderly subject of pro-
hibition; but we are now launched as
a Nation upon the business of killing
and being killed and at such a time
none of us can afford to trifie with
the truth. We mustn't weaken and
we must cut out the rotten roots of
weakness.
Sane America wants the manufac
ture of alcoholic beverages stopped
for reason that has nothing to do
with sentimental twaddle. The man
ufacture of alcoholic beverages, If
continued with us, would amount ~
deadly German pot in our midst.
This is matter of p>1 business
fact. The world is facing starvation,
America must feed herself and the
world; and she cannot sit by and see
millions of tons of good, clean grain
being poured into wits to make a
rather expensive, somewhat poison
GUS. entirely useless liquid.
Already they are talking of giving
US war bread. Your grocer has learn
ed to say Food shortage" as he dou-
bles the price of every edible apd in
the saloon next door the workman
who would surely serve our Industrial
Army a little better were he sticking
to cold Water-is cheating somebody
out OF a square meal every time
glass of "the same is showed at him
over the bar.
It's up to the banker and the baker,
the pub and the club. yge are strug-
Cling desperately to make food-ships,
large percentage of which are dcs-
tined to feed Won Capelle's ruinous
and cowardly sharks. War is becoIn-
ing something hell never dreamed OF.
And if we're going to OUTAGE hell
we can't do it by getting drunk at
the expense of soldiers abroad and
children at home. Uncle Sam has got
to go in training for the big fight. If
he's going to win he mustn't be starv
ed or drugged. Patriotic brewers and
distillers know this and are diverting
their business into channels useful to
the Government. Those who are not
patriotic must be compelled into de-
cency-and your influence will help
if you don't weaken.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
WHEN LULU MADE TROUBLE

Sadie eased her plump form into a
seat beside Stella. 'Kiddie, she said
never Introduce your best gentleman
friend to a blond! Listen! Me and
Billie are goin' to the movies last
night when we meet up with Lulu
Walters, her gettin' there accidentally
purpose, and, of course. I had to do
the polite. L wish you could a seen
and heard her when 1 said the fatal
words that made them acquainted.
bunch Of curIs she bangles on her
brow, and Glad to collect your ac-
quaintance,' she says.
Il nudge Billie. but do you think he
give me a comeback? No! He's look
ing into her uplifted eyes and he's
smirl<in like a cat that wants a
chanel at a canary.
well I says when reached my
limit, guess we'll have to leave you
here and started on, but Lulu just
only about as big as cigarette and
she snuggled her head against his
shoulder and peeped around at me.
Lucky you'll she gurgled, to have
a nice big man to take you places.
alone, and sew"
Stella SMILED. Much she sits home
and sews. What she dom now,
waitin' at Dinks?" Sadie snapped her
eyes. 'ewaitin'? Her? The nearest
she ever come to a mattresses job Is
washin' out the eyes of spuds aCd
removin' the union suits from onions
in the kitchen there. But she smiles
and grins and gargies at Billie and
he's just like all the rest of the fool
men-he fell for it. Then she looks
around at me and smiles. You know,
that deceitful look like a cat wears
when it rubs its silky sides against
your ankle and scratches holes in
your silk stockin's while it waits for
a chance to steal your cream.
What's the matter with goin with
us?" Bill says.
You know that leer she can give
a person of the other sect e around?
Well, she done it. I'm AFRAID that
Sadie wouldn't like it, she hsped.
"'Oh, I retort, Don't nina me, go
as far as you like And blamed if
she didn't make believe she thought
I'd give her cordial invitation.
Il wish you could a seen her all
through the show. She insisted in
runnin' into the seats ahead of me and
coppin' the one next the wall, where
she wouldn't have to take her hat off.
Then she engineered Bill in beside her
and every time they was q shootin'
piece on the screen she grabbed his
arm and said Somethin' till he looked
at her, and then she'd open her eyes
so big and frightened I was that
Disguised I wanted to put chewin'
gum in her hair. She sduealed like
she couldn't hold herself when the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

music played loud Altogether was
the life of the party.
You can imagine my feelin's when
Bill whispered to me: She's an
Yes l says. About ais amusin
as a headache
''Well, the pleasant little thing goes
right along out with us and then she
says she's afraid to go home alone
us passin' her street to get to my
house, and, of course, Billie takes her
I was just combin' my crown of glory
when he came back 1 didn't expect
But I hope to be found dead in a
Chinese laundry, if the first words he
said to soothe me wasn't She's some
cute little tike, amt she?'
Yes, she amt 1 says.
"'Mad?' he asks. You look 50 SER
ious'
me mad?" I says, mo, indeedy.
was just wishin 1 had a million
dollars so I could found home for
lunatics SOS to be sure you'd be well
taken care of in your old age
Now, what have 1 done?' he asks
rs or isn't that like a man? He
looked at me keen, and then he added
the last camel: Can it be that you're
jealous?' he asks
:" Tee heel I laugh. Jealous OF
what? 1 just want to say William
DAILY I says, gettin' warmer all the
time, that you can spend all your
have other engagements every night
Say he says. Cut the comedy
I'll be around tomorrow night as
usual
You needn't, I cut in. For ]
won't be herei'
DO you mean you want to shake
me-? he asks. My heart did a f1iphop
but I shut my lips and answered: IT
looks like it, don't it%
Then he says kind o. calm, I will
hack me
In that case, you better give me
one OF your pictures 1 tell him, for
you're goin' to be gone a long, long
time"
out the car window and tossed her
head. Then she looked at her friend.
And he's went for good. I guess,
cause he amt sent any word"
We'll. there's a. thorn to every rose, -
Stella observed. Cert Downs was
tellin' me that Lulu had lost her job
at Drinks and her father is home with
a broke leg"
1.-The poor kidd" returned Sadie. '~I
wonder could get her in at our
place"
Stella smiled. And" she continued
ued, billie Daily asked me to invite
you over to our house tonight and
not to let on, but he is going to be
there and try and make it up with
you
Gee, Don't you love this kind of
a nice, wet. sloppy nigllt?' shifted
Sadie.-Exchange
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
GERMAN SYMPATHY ALSO SUI.

Throughout the war there has been
a strong pro-German feeling among
the people of Sweden. 1t has even
been claimed that that country, along
with others, was drawing supplies
from other neutrals for the purpose
Of sending them, or their equivalent
to the central powers. No one can
deny but what they had a right to
deal with Germany the same as with
any other Of the belligerents and that
il rested with the belligerents to 50
blockade the ports of the enemy that
they could not obtain such goods if
they hoped TO cut off such supplies
But the Scandinavian countries have
suffered severely. nevertheless, at the
hands Of the Germans. They have
gotten the benefit of the trade they
were able to carry on but there has
been a tremendous loss in shipping
which they have been forced to bear
and the latest occurrence of this kind
has been the sending to the bottom of
three Swedish vessels which were on
their way TO Swedish ports with grain
These vessels were proceeding IN
der an agreement which was supposed
10 give them protection It was the
Swedish people who were TO benefit
from the cargoes but regardless of
the promises and the fact that no ben
eft accrued to the Germans and no
loss TO the enemy, the submarines pro-
cesded to sink and kill, the same as
they have done in the case Of Danish
vessels and those destined for Bel
GUM. II is but natural the IRE that
much Indignation should be felt in
Sweden. and that one who voiced his
reeIing should declare that not only
Swedish grain but German sympathy
went down at the same time. The
longer such methods are continued,
and particularly against the neutrals,
the sooner will the time arrive when
Germany has no friends at all.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
LETTERS TO THE EOIIO2
City Water.

Mr.. Editor: Is there any good rea-
son why the city water should taste so
filthy as IL does? The city of Norwich
is lucky if it's citizens do not have an
epidemic on their hands with the
water in its present condition. If there
is anybody in town who cannot afford
to buy potatoes and who wants to
know what they taste like, just tell
them to take drink of the city water
and if that does not taste like dirty
potato water. then 1 don't know what
it does taste like.
It might be well to hire an expert
to investigate the water supply. We
have had one on gas and spent a thou
sand dollars for the same. Now why
not tackle a real question, one which is
endangering the health of the com
munity at the present time, to say
nothing about the terrible inconVen-
fence which the people must suffer for
the want of clean, fresh water.
Perhaps this is the price the citizens
are paying on account Of the life job
which has pcen made for the superin-
tendent. Get busy, City Fathers. and
attend to Il real question and give us
some fresh water before we all die Of
thirst.
PROHIBITION.
Norwich. May 81, 1917.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
HOME GARDENS
Eggplant.

Eggplant is difficult vegetable for
the amateur gardener~to handle, says
today's bulletin from the National
Emergency Food Garden Commission
whose garden instruction approved by
experts of the National Department of
Agriculture, is printed daily in this
newSpa per.
It is a hot weather plants therefore
1T should not be grown where the
summer season is short. Nor should
it be attempted in poor soil; nor by
anyone who is not willing to give It
plenty of attention. 1t requires one
or more transplantings, and if it's
growth suffers-any check the crop is
likely to be a failure.
1nasmuch as it is not safe to set out
eggplant in the garden much before
the middle of June, and because the
plant requires long growing season,
the seeds should be sown indoors, or
in outdoor hotbeds. One third of an
ounce of seed will produce enough
plants to make a row 100 feet long.
These seeds are usually sown thickly
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
THE CAPE COD CANAL

When the Cape Cod canal was pro-
Jected and work actually started upon
IL there was doubt expressed at the
ability of the builders to make it pay,
because Of the large expense involved.
IL wes realized that it would be OF
much benefit to coastwise shipping,
especially in bad weather since it
would afford a short cut which would
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

The bringing of United States and
Japanese war vessels into the fight to
overcome the submarine menace gives
reason for the belief that the under
water boats are going to be hunted as
they were never hunted before.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

There has been introduced in the
British parliament a bill giving wom-
en- the right to vote upon reaching the
age of thirty, but that apparently
doesn't take into consideration that
vast army Of youthful appearing
women who of course never admit
reaching that age
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
somethina Original This lime.

It is believed Chancellor Won Beth
mann Hollweg is trying to frame up
a peace speech without referring to
this war which was forced upon US"
Kansas City Star.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

Every little bit ADDED to what is pos
sessed swe1la the grand total is the
way the treasury department feels
about the Liberty loan.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The man on the corner says: L
doesn't make any difference what the
situation is, someone is always kick
ing
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

The poultry raiser who doesn't be-
lieve in restricting his flock finds It
difficult to keep peace in the neigh
borhood now that the backyard gar
iening is in full SWING.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

If the reports are true, Russia is get
ting ready to demonstrate anew by
means OF its army that 1t Is anti Ger
man.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

The time to start in and lend a hand
in the cleanup week is at the begin
ming and not after shutdown on the
final day
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

II Russia. could SO arrange its af-
fairs as to have its armies strike now,
| it would hasten the day when Ger
many decides to put forth its peace
terms
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

Nearly half or the moving picture
houses in Edinburgh give variety
turns"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
Midht Be So.

If Italian patrols have sunk IS AIS
TRAN submarines in the Adriatic dur
ing the last few weeks, perhaps the
Italians have learned the trick OF
which the other A%ses are trying to
find the secret.-New York World.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22
Casualties Are Terrible.

one X G. girl is beginning 10 feel
the cost of war. il has taken nEe ~
her best sweethearts already Kan
sas City Star.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

Platinum deposits have been found
m Spain.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-22

Gulf of Mexico. Marshal Serurier, one
or Napoleon's most gifted soldiers and
statesmen, was also a native of this
place and a monument. stands here in
his memory.
The I-aon cathedral of Notre Dame
IS one of the finest thirteenth century
Gothic edifices in Europe