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Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-02
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Yaphank and Camp Upton,

Mir. Editor: As some of our, boys are leaving or have recently left for Camp Upton, I thought your readers might be interested to know where and what Yaphank is. One lady is sure it is near New Haven, others believe it to be 80 miles from New York, some where on Long Island.
 As my home for more than 30 years was within six miles of Yaphank sta ton. can give a little first-hand in formation.
 Yaphank is 50 miles from New York city, on the main line of the Long Island railroad, and is a farming viii lage of less than 300 inhabitants in normal times. Camp Upton is situated several miles east of Yaphank and now has a railroad depot and postofice of it's own.
 One year ago the site of Camp Up- ton was virgin forest. In few short 1 weeks last summer this wild scrub oak land was converted by an army of workmen into an up-to-date city, with stone roads, running water,- electric lights, telephone and unexcelled rail- road facilities, with houses and bar racks to accommodate 10000 men. The Y. M. c. A. was on the ground 1 almost as soon as the drafted men
 
 1 shaeks with the red triangle on the 1 front. Soon the hostess houses were l established, where the boys could meet and entertain their mothers and sis ters, wives and sweethearts. Each of the barracks is a long two story building housing 200 men. and l each barracks is a separate and com plete unit. The men eat, sleep and 1 live in these barracks. each mar
 washes his own dishes, plate, cur
 and spoon. They are well fed and 1 cared for, are drilled several hours l each day, and each in their turn has 1 leave of absence to visit friends. 1 Special trains are run from the center of the camp to New York city
 at greatly reduced fares.
 After the boys get used to the rou,
 tine and discipline of the camp, thu I most of them enjoy the big out of dool 1 life. I had the pleasure of visiting tn, camp last November and it was yer, | interesting to see the boys" each a his own appointed task for the day 1 Some were burning a few renainin: stumps in great pits dug for the pur pose, squads were marching ant
 countermarching through the streets
 every one was busy, and seemed to b . contented.
 AUNT JANE. | Norwich, May 1. 1918.
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I was feeling horribly serious mind ed" confded the girl with the ex tremely high heels, "and so I natur- ally put on my brown serge dress and plainest hat and my wide toed low heeled shoes. I don't know anything that is better calculated to go with a dull, serious frame of mind than shoes like that! In fact, I defy any woman to be ir the least gay and frivolous if her mind is burdened by the knowledge that her feet look as though they be- longed to somebody, size II, in the Brobdignagian family!
 Tt was damp day and I said to myself: 'No! Instead of squandering money on a marcel wave I'll buy thrift stamps and let my hair struggle! In this atmosphere it will struggle in f1f- teen minutes, any way! Besides, mo- body vii see mel But it's never that way.
 "It makes my fife just as hard as I've always fancied must have been one woman's who boarded at, hotel where I spent a few weeks, She owned l a corset factory and I don't believe l she removed the specimen she wore even for slumber. From early dawn till chilly midnight, eating, reading sewing, playing cards, talking, that poor creature never once forgot that she was the living advertisement oi l her goods and sat bolt upright. l grew quite nervously worn out waiting and watching for her to wilt or drape herself over chair or just plain slump the way the rest of us did ec- casionally but she was hero an6 never relaxed. She was thoroughly consistent and didn't even own a Xii mono. What was the use?
 Well you have gathered that it wa: a dismal day and my toilet was appro priate. I concluded it was fitting oc, casion to go over to the library ant dig out those references my ancien history professor has been trying tt wiring from me for weeks. I splashet through the wet, growing grumpie every minute, and when I got insid
 the library I ran squarely into Iren
 and the best looking man that's beel around here in a thousand years.
 Instantly I knew what was befor me. Irene has been saddening all tn
 rest of the girls in our dormitory fo
 weeks with tales of her third cousin | He was rich and handsome and charm
 ing to a degree that distinguished hir above men. We all realized that na
 ture never makes any two things alik
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THE cYcLoPs MYSTERY. !

As time goes on the greater be- comes the mystery regarding the United States collier Cyclops. This strong, stauhch and comparatively new ship of 1000 tons. last heard of when it coaled in the West Indies. has been missing so long and the search which has been made for it has been so fruitless that there appears to be very slight hope that it will ever be located.
 This seemed to be the situation at the time the vessels disappearance was first revealed, but persistent en- | deavors have since been made to get some inkling as to what may have
 happened to it but in spite of all the securing of the seas not the slightest trace has been found. While this leads to the belief that the vessel
 must have gone to the bottom in some unexplainabIe manner without 1 leaving behind the least iota of wreck age which has been discovered it only heightens the. mystery surrounding ii 1 and increases the suppesition that by l some hook or crook, by some scheme engineered on board or by some out 
 side agency this naval vessel has got l ten into the clutches of the enemy. Loaded with manganese ore brought 1 from Brazil such a ship and cargo would be a rich prize for Germany 1 The achievement. could it have beer
 captured and been converted into (
 raider or even sailed into a German i harbor, would be all the greater be- ] cause it would have been taken from
 under our very nose. Time will tel whether this has been the case, ana
 whether as some rumors have indi l cated that there has been any reason: for suspecting it's commander, but i
 it has gone to the bottom there is yer. f slight possibility that anything vii
 ever be known as to how and where it met it's fate.
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sLIBERTY THEATREsn

LIBERTY THEATRES" Have Been Built in All National Guard
 and National Army Camps
 in America, "Smileage Books" issued by Federal Military Entertainment Council, pro- vide free admission to these theatres, Send one to YOUR soldier or to
 ANY soldier.
 Price Sl. For sale at the following places; The Perteous & Mitchell Co. The Reid & Hughes Co. (Boston Stere). Rarhbone's Drug Store. Riekers Drug Store. The Lee Gl Osgood Co. The Waufegan Hotel Office. Mara & Eggleton. George Madden Cigar otore). Engler's Pharmacy. k. of c. Rooms. Ring 6 Sisk, Druggists. The Y. M. c. A. Office. H. NJ. Lerou. J. C. Macpherson.
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THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
WHY WOMEN SHOULD BUY
 LIBERTY BONDS.

By Corra Harris. author of the widely read The Circuit Riders Wife"
 I was sent abroad by the Saturday Evening Post in September of 1914 to report the condition of wamen and children in the war zone.
 I was in Paris just after the Ger mans came 50 near taking that city.
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a very pertinent question whether the commission granted the increase after having so often refused to do so, be- cause now the nation and not the in- dividual stockholders would have to stand it. if the road is run at loss
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It is work like that which the mo- tor vehicles department is doing every pleasant Sunday in arresting viola tors of the automobile laws which is going to bring about the safety of the highway that is needed.
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tected to the fullest extent and that the proposed building should become a reality at the earliest possible mo- ment,
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When inmates of prisons. homes for the blind and other institutions where riciaes are not supposed to abound are numbered among the Liberty bond buyers, those who are enjoying the freedom and benefits of this country ought not to be willing to be termed Siackers.
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Princess Marie Antoinette has been ordered out of Austria for the dura- ton of the war. Germany will take no more chances regarding the letters of Emperor Charles,
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No worse time could be selected for fomenting labor trouble than right now when there is the greatest need for a united nation If a fight is sought fight the enemy,
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The number of carloads of wound ed Germans being taken to the rear is increasing every day. Is it any wonder that the German people are getting a bit nervous?
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Russia ought to be prepared to re- ceive demand most any day from Germany that it must finance the war debt of the imperial German govern ment.
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The man on the corner says: Those who are circulating pro- German stor- les are simply putting an added prop into propaganda.
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Unless you get into the home gar dening contest and start a little riv- airy with your neighbor you are go- ing to miss a lot of fun this summer
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We have not been informed about Michigan but the dry period in New Hampshire must certainly have got a wet inauguration.
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There is no danger of the sub scription being too large. Get into the line and pledge your support to- day.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Just a matter of two weeks now to the opening of the always welcome straw hat season.
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TROUBLES OF A SENIOR

and regretfully admitted that Irene was favored of mortals
 When she told LIS that Herbert was going to be in Chicago a whole week we cast off our resignation and apgled for introductions. Surely she was not going to be so selfish as not to give us l the ghost of a chance! You could see i she promised just because she couldn't l help herself and wasn't at all enthu- siastic about it. Nobody had met him and now that I was going to 1 wildly didn't want to, remembering the | clumpy shoes, the brown serge,
 straggly hair and dumpy hat. Do you think Irene let me slip by? She posi- lively grabbed me
 "'Oh, Lillian she cooed, come here! ! want my cousin to meet you! He's dying to make your ac- quaintance, because I've told him
 you're the most attractive girl in the crowd and So popular you can't count l ,emi'
 Wasn't that lovely way to spike my guns? Herbert, the six-footed and the beautiful, took one survey oi me and turned pale. Iow-do,' sait he, feebly and uniHterestedly, ana 1 walked off with Irene His very bacl shouted that if was the best of tht Hot heaven save him from the rest And there isn't one thing I can do t l Irene, because she didn't do a thins but introduce me. as had begged he to do!
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from the parapet. But he finally got what was coming to him. He was dead all right with a bullet through his forehead.
 . The Germans don't like the Cana dians, and they don't like the Kilties.
 They have no use for them. You see we haven't forgotten the way they
 treated Sergeant of the first contin-
 gent. We still have it on our minds. On Sunday the Emperor Charles re- turned to Baden (near Vienna from a trip in the south. and received Count Czearnin in special audience. The latter left for Bucharest on Sunday evening.
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And to -day-when am looking like this, which must say is particularly well, and when nay hair stays in curl and I've got on new shoes and spifiy dress and a new brand of face powder and eyerything-I go out for stroll around the campus and every last soul
 I meet is that professor, who doesn't know whether you are a girl or an obelisk when he looks at you. and that junior from the Sandwich isles who
 never cuts his hair or slaves, and the little bit of five-foeter with the squeally voice who is always trying te
 ensnare girl into going to a dance with him! I ask you, Is it fair? Is l it logical? Is it right?''
 ''Peoh;" said her roommate. tf
 know what's the trouhle-the little boy
 asked you to go to the next dance l suddenly and you couldn't think up ar excusei
 Well giooniiy said the yeunl
 person with the very high heels, may be I can catch some hospital diseas.
 before then! There ought to be somt l ray of light in the darkness."
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The senatorship recently left vacant by the death of Senator Stone of Mis- souri has been offered by the governor to four different men, the most promi- nent Of whom is Champ Clark. the present speaker Of the house of repre- sentatives. The temptation to take the offered place in the upper cham Der must have been sore one to MT. Clark. the more so as the caucus of the house republicans assured him that they would not attempt to fill his place with one of their own party. This promise left MT. Clark entirely free from any fear that his opponents might get control of the house, and entirely on patriotic grounds he has
 elected to remain where he is and 1 forego the senatorship. He has proved
 himself a capable speaker, respected
 and admired by both great parties. and
 though membership in the upper | house is undoubtedly great honor his continuance as the leader of the
 lower house is certainly a mark of his patriotism.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-02

The interstate commerce commission
 has at last grudgingly allowed the
 railroads of New England to increase
 their freight and passenger rates, all
 though the privilege was not granted
 to the New Haven road without an-
 other slap at it for the misdeeds of its former directors. The new de- cision permits a mileage rate of two and three quarters cents. This will bring the fare from Norwich to New York to about s5.S5. The New Haven road is particularly interested in this increase of passenger rates, inasmuch as it's passenger revenues form far larger proportion of the total receipts
 than is generally the case for the rail l roads .of the country. Ia fact, the passenger increase alone is expected to net the New Haven in the neighbor- hood of s4,008so00 a year. and to this extent will relieve the national gov ernment from paying from Mir. Mc- Adoe's revolving fund into the treas. ury of this particular railroad. It Is
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT.

The report of the death of Quentin
Roosevelt. received in dispatches yes
terday, has been read with mingled
feelings of regret and sympathy by
everyone. Just what it is that sets q
son Of an eX-president apart from 9TH
er men who are as brave and whose
actions are as praiseworthy it is diff
ficult to determine.
But it nevertheless is true that
young Roosevelt's death over the
fighting lines in France has stirred
the people of America as deeply as
has the death of any officer or man
thus far in the war.
He was the ex-president's youngest
son. Three others are in the army.
None of them chose non-comb mbatant
branches of the service. They are all
where the fighting has been heaviest,
and two of them have been wounded
severely. Not much more than that
can be said.
The sympathy of the country will
go unstintedly to Colonel Roosevlt
and his family.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18
THE BRAYLESS MULE.

One who has spent any considerable
time in Missouri or any other mule-in-
tested territory will recognize the re-
markable victory achieved by the
Portland, ore, veterinarians who
have succeeded in eliminating the
bray from the mule.
If there is anything which will drive
a sensitive person to wish for deaf
ness it is that bray. IT is even less TO
be desired than the mules stubborn
ness.
But now the bray has been con-
quered. These western horse doctors
selected the mule with the loudest
bray in oregon. and removed the car
tilagineous wall in his nose. Several
hours after'the anesthec passed away
the mule, in spirit of playfulness, at
tempted to bray. but with a feeble at
tempt The amended noise was like
a whisper. The removal of the wal
frustrated all vibrations
Great is the surgeons knife-wher
applied to mules.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18
BARON BURIiN'S SPEECH.

If the world had not learned to look
with doubt and suspicion on the ut
terances originating in the cabinets of
the Teutonic empires, the note ad-
dressed to the premiers of Austria and
Hungary by Baron Burian, the Aus
tro- Hungarian foreign minister might
find quick response from the al
lied belligerents. His admission that
President Wilson's -four points" would
meet with the approval of the Austrian
government is long step beyond the
replies received from the German
chancellor several months ago.
But Austria's position does not ad
NIT of much consideration from the
United States or the allies, and until
Germany herself makes frank and
honest proposals which might lead to
the suspension of hostilities while
peace was being seriously discussed
there will be no let-up in the fighting.
Baron Burian's note, however, re-
fleets an unmistakable wishfulness on
the part of his country to do something
that will bring the end of the war a
little nearer.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18

NOW FOR THE AXE.

The recommendation of the Cham
Der of Commerce committee to the
city commissioners that steps be tax
en- Immediately to remove cotton
wood bearing trees from the city
should receive the support of every
Albuquerque citizen interested in the
welfare of the city.
1t is expected the city commission
ers will act upon the recommendation
at once and that actual elimination of
the offending trees will quickly follow.
The old cry that to destroy a tree is
a crime and a sacrilege will find lit
tie response from people who have
had to be about the streets the past
two months when cotton was blowing
and eddying everywhere.
AS Mr. McMillen pointed out in his
address Tuesday night, the cotton is
more than a nuisance, it is a menace.
1t endangers health and it is q con-
siderable fire hazard.
There is no one but deplores the
loss of shade trees in a country where
sunshine is uncomfortable at certain
seasons of the year but there can no
longer be any question as TO which is
the lesser evil; the loss of the shade
with the elimination of the cotton, or
the retention of the shade and with it
the cotton.
The nuisance has continued to grow
worse for thirty years. Yet every time
the destruction of the cotton bearing
trees is proposed there rises great
protest. The evil will not be lessened
until the trees are cut down. If they
had been cut down twenty years ago
there would have been other trees
fully grown in their places and now
the city would have been much better
off, If they are removed now, and
non-cottOn trees put in their places,
it will not be long until flying cotton
in Albuquerque will be but an unpleas-
ant memory, and the next generation
will be thankful for what has been
done.
Immediate action is what is needed.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18
GERMANS IN THE BLACK SEA.

The difficult situation in the Med
iterranean sea promises to be influ-
enced by the appearance of new fac
tor Bolshevsm removed the Russian
armies from the field and opened the
way for the Germans to the Black sea.
The enemy could not use the Rus
sian troops against the allies, but he
may be able to use some vessels of the
Russian fleet now in the Black sea-
1t is commonly supposed that the
ships are already under control Of the
Lenine is reported to have ordered
them surrendered under a German
threat, Won Kuehlmann having given
some pledge while he was still foreign
minister that they would not be used
until there was general peace
According to the Konnische Volks-
zitung their officers had determined
to blow them up before the Germans
could take them over. 1t does not ap-
pear certain, however, that the Ger
mans can gain control of any consid-
cradle battle force in the Black sea,
though the possibility must be and is
recognized.
If the Germans do seize the Rus
sian ships, it is reasonably certain that
they will have to refit them complete
ly. provide them with ammunition,
and commission them afresh with Ger
man officers and German crews per-
haps with proportion of Turks
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18
IN ITS DEATH AGONY.

Admiral Francisco de Mattos, chief
of the Brazilian naval mission to Eu-
rope, upon his return to London and
after a visit to the naval ports,
squadrons and munition factories of
the allies, made the following COM
ment regarding the submarine situa-
tion:
Submarine warfare on the part of
the enemy is in its last stage--in its
death agony, and I think it is abso-
lntely beaten. The belief / had in the
allied victory before l saw these war
preparations has been strengthened
since my visits, and ] am more con-
fident than before.
"The thing that surprised me most
was the wonderful development Of It.
ally. had no idea that he had made
such tremendous strides. They have
a wonderful accumulation and pro.
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ing of dry rot, DR.. Rumely, as he has
more than once assured me, thorough
ly conceded as result of his own
observations while at oxford.
DR.. Won Schultze- -GaevernitZ had
also Travelled extensively in Russia and
helped by his writings to form Ger
man opinion of Russia and the Rus
slams. OF Won SchultZe -Gaevernitz in
his role of defender of and apologist
for Germany's world ambitions you
shall hear more later, for the friend
ship that sprung up between the Ger
man scholar and the young American
medical student proved an enduring
one, at least up to a very short time
before America drew the sword
against Germany.
Active in Socialist Politics.
do not know that young Rumely
was the one who suggested TO the So
cialists of Freiburg that they were
throwing away their votes by nominat-
ing third party ticket and thereby
always insuring the election of mem
ber of the Catholic party to the reich
stag from that district; he tells with
great gusto, however, of the adoption
by the socialist party, of which he
was member, OF the proposal to COM
bine with the liberal party in nomi-
mating DR.. Won Schultze-Gaevrenitz a
plan which proved so successful that
the eminent apostle of kultur became
the member of the refchstag from that
particular section of the Black For
est.
1t was not long after this excursion
into German politics that a reconclia-
ton with his family in America came
about and young Rumely returned to
Laporte, bringing with him his Ger
man degree of NJ. d. and unshakable
belief in the ultimate destiny of the
German nation to world domination.
Un his next article Mr.. Stockbridge
will tell how DR.. Rumely undertook to
establish on the prairies of Indiana
school for the training of boys to
become masters of menu
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18

duction of war material and a great
enthusiasm for the allies cause. am
not surprised at the result of the Aus
trian offensive, because l think Italy
is now absolutely prepared, and | am
confident that she will be able to
maintain her own position now
The admiral is of opinion that the
war will finish next year, and that
Paris will not be reached Germany
he compared to a bun that had ex-
pended it's strength and which was
an easy victim for the matador.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1918-07-18

A soldier went to a market woman
and asked for pound of butter. She
made a great fuss. but eventually
gave it to him and asked for $2.5O
saying: Everything is scarce in war.
time, so we must take what We car
get"
The soldier, apparently satisfied
then asked for a second pound. This
was given to him and when he wa.
asked for the money he replied. "Ev.
erything is scare in ar-time--includ.
ing money, SO one must take what one
can get"
Then he disappeared with the but.
ter, but without paying"