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Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

priation of 3 half million in order to
increase the fire fighting operations.
That would be only half of what
was authorized out of the special de-
Tense fund last year by President VIII
son to meet a similar emergency
while in 1917 congress provided $780,
600 to meet the serious fire situation
in the forest lands.
When it is realized that there were
5.s14 fires in the national forests In
1917 of which 5.6s2 were caused by
human agencies and could have been
prevented, it can be appreciated
what difficulties are encountered in
protecting the forests of the country
but when it is realized that nearly a
million ac-cs were burned oser that
year it can be app eciated what might
have re led he Il the forest Ere ST.
vice M. been mar tanned and at he
same time the necessity OF giving 1t
every reasonable aid at all times and
especially during such emergencies as
the present.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
Gas Well spoutina 80 Years.

For thirty years. gas well at Peli-
can Rapids, on the Athabasca river,
has been running wild and spouting
gas into the atmosphere at the rate
of two-and- half to four million Gu
bic feet every twenty-four hours. Oil
and gas experts estimate that. at 10
cents per 1000 cubic feet the old
spendthrift wastes about $500 worth
of gas day. says the Inter-Oeean
Syndicate. This well is located in the
famous tar sands region of northern
Alberta. The Department of the In
terror has made half a dozen efforts to
place a cap upon the well and bottle
up it's riches for future use, but the
gusher has defied the Canadian gov
eminent and blown all its caps and
plans ky-high. The department re-
Gently sent out H. L. Williams, of
Edmonton with instructions to do any
thing possible to bring it under con-
troll.
w. A. Frazer. the well-known Can
adam NOVELIST and author. started the
well on it's wild career. While pros
pecting for oil in the Athabasca coun-
ty thirty years ago, he accidently
struck this vast reservoir of natural
gas. The gas comes kissing out of
the bore with such cyclonic fury and
in such tremendous quantities, that it
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

Lets sit here for a minute The
girl with the big brown eyes. whose
rose colored cheeks seemed pinker in
contrast with the blue of her nurses
uniform dropped down on bench
from which she could watch the
fountain in Grant park lightly tossing
its feathery cascades into the air. The
sta1wart young soldier at her side fol-
lowed her example and they both sat
silently looking over the broad, beau
tifui avenue Both from western
towns they had met in a local military
hospital where she served as nurse
and he was convalescing from wounds
received overseas.
so you're really going home next
week ?" she said and sighed a little.
sounds good. doesn't it?" he quer-
in his voice rang not quite true.
'I'd like, awfully, to see the people at
home" the girl replied Just be there,
don't you know? Not that 1 don't per-
only sometimes l think. now that the
wars over and l don't seem to be need
ed SO much, that maybe I'm getting
just little homesick. Lots of boys
in the hospital, yes, but not so many
as we thought there would be-
II bet you are homesick, you poor
kid, you Impulsively he laid his hand
on hers and gave it a gentle, SYM
pathetic squeeze.
She let her hand remain in his, some
quite so much adrift and away from
familiar things. In the gathering dusk
the chattering crowd surged by them
unheeding. She was silent for a NOM
ent. Then she laughed.
Il said I was thinking lot about
home lately, but 1 wonder if you'd ever
guess what I've really been thinking
about most.
Search me-, he said genially.
Shoot"
IT guess 1 might as well tell you,
for I woke up thinking of it. and I've
thought about it every time I haven't
been too busy ever since, and it's
made me feel simply. the emptiest thing
on earth She slipped her hand out
of his and clasped her fingers to-
gether tight. 'It's-well- it's straw
berry shortcake as mother makes it,
buttered when it's hot, don't you know,
and with lots and lots of strawberries
and sugar and whipped cream-O, dear
me, am pig and it seems like kind
of complaint, too"
He took advantage of her momentary
excitement to possess himself of her
hand again.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
The Nenana Coal Field. Alaska.

The Nenana coal field, which lies
abcut 200 miles north of Cook Inlet,
Alaska, and will be reached by the
new government railroad from Seward
S64 miles distant, has been examined
by G. C. Martin. of the United States
Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior, whose report on it has just
been published. The field is about 100
miles south of Fairbanks. the inland
terminus of the railroad. and Is more
accessible to the gold mines of the
Tanana Valley than any other coal
field in Alaska.
The coal is a Ignite of good grade
which, when the field is made aces
sible.. will be used as locomotive fuel
on the railroad. for generating power
and for thawing at the gold mines, as
domestic fuel in the region. and as
fuel on the steamboats, that ply on
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
BEING HOMESICK

TITS awful to think so much about
eating, isn't it, when you think what
you soldiers have gone through but
really l don't talk like this to any
body but you"
She fixed her earnest eyes or his.
Its just that with you, somehow,
feel So kind of--at horne. don't you
"Honest pr his voice was eager. DO
you know that's Just how feel about
you kind of like I'd always known
you! I felt that way the very hrst
time ever saw you. AS for thinking
trenches 1 used TO get to thinking
welI-it was pie mostly with me-and
l used to think of ma and then of her
pie and then of ma again.
He laughed and she Joined him, but
in a rather tremulous way.
Its funny, isn't it?" she said. Then
quite suddenly her voice broke and in
another instant her pretty head was
buried on his shoulder.
"Oh, I don't want you to go home"
she walled. IT know it's mean and
selfish of me when you want to go so
badly, but I'm just-going to-die-of
lonesomeness when you're gone
told you l was thinking of strawberry
shortcake when / wasn't really. I
don't care if 1 never see any again,
but I could stand that If you weren't
going. Isn't there some way YOU could
stay? ! just can't bear it if you
don't.
1t had grown quite dark and the
faint lights didn't penetrate to where
they sat, SO. a little awestricken, he
drew her close to him.
why kid" he said. you don't
honest mean that, do your"
"Oh, of course. know you couldn't"
She squirrned around in an effort to
get her handkerchief, but he held her
tight.
And, kid he went on, did you real
ly mean what you said just now about
being lonesome when I'm gone? Be
cause if you did--of course, you're a
whole pile above me, because I know
I'm a kind of roughneck and like that,
but Z could maybe learn to be nice
and refined like you if you'd teach me
and. kid, I'd be awfully good to
you"
She made queer little sound of
protest.
ut isn't that" she said in a smoth-
cred voice, tits just that [ just
about proposed to you-you couldn't
help asking me-
That's all right, kid, just so know"
Chicago News.
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WHY COMBINE IT TO NEW York;

We have been given a lot of reasons
for the high price of coffee and why
the tendency is still upward. We
have been told 1t was due to the price
fixing arrangement that was put into
effect here during the war, to the poor
crop in certain sections of Brazil. to
the control that is held over the com
modify in that South Ameri Fan coun-
try, to the lack of ships and now
comes the latest to the effect that
there are 100000 tons on the docks a:
Rio and Santos. with ships lying
idle in the harbors because the
Brazilian merchants will not send
ti'eil goods to Now YORK witncnt a
qua: antee of wi, erfage.
This last AMI most recently given
r.. SON does not J;be wit.i the ~xr:a
nation offered by the captain of a
III. thantman that recent brought
huge coffee cargo to this country ex-
cept in part He maintained that
there was a great quantity of coffee in
Brazil but he didn't have anything to
say about the lack of wharfage here
or the ships lying idle in Brazilian
harbors. 1t was his statement that
the best coffee was to be had in plen-
ty at ten cents a pound up but the
reason for the high prices was the
difficulty experienced in getting ships
to bring it to this country. Send
down your ships and there need be no
such high price charged for coffee
here was the statement of this skip
per.
But If Brazil isr't restricting the
sale, has plenty Of die ships AMI
wants to do business. it. should un-
derstand that though New York may
be cramped for docking space there
are many other excellent harbors
along the Atlantic seaboard which
can and would be glad to accommo-
date such business, and even though
there might be an additional transpor-
tation charge here to get the coffee to
the warehouses it would not he so
great as to put the price out of sight
when no shortage exists. 1t would he
a good time to encourage the devel-
opment of other harbors except New
York
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.

Although John Gunshanan. who Is
well known among the older people as
former baseball star. has been
more closely identified with work in
behalf of stamping out tuberculosis
than he is at the present time. he has
not lost interest in the tremendous
opportunity that exists in such efforts
or the great amount Of good that has
been accomplished in this state since
the determined fight was opened
against the dread disease.
1t is interesting to note in this con-
nection, however, that he declares
that there are more incipient cases in
the state at the present time than
ever before. 1t is fully understood
that there never was a time when the
state was doing more to keep down
the white plague than right now. The
state is maintaining several highly
efficient institutions, more interest Is
being shown in the treatment of such
cases from their earliest stages and
before the year is over another sana-
torium, for the purpose of giving pro-
per treatment to the cases of
bone tuberculosis in children, is to be
opened in this county.
Z But tuberculosis is a disease that
wages persistent warfare. We must
constantly be on our guard and pre-
sent a strong front against its raw
ages. The fact that our efforts are
extensive and our facilities steadily
increasing simply mears that every
advantage should be taken of them
to better conditions. We are in
position to do even better work than
has been done in the past and if Mr..
Gunshanan is correct in his state
ment that is what it called for with
every community and every indivi 1us /
doing its and his part to see that these
growing incipient cases are gwen the
treatment they &C. erve for the good
of those endanssred Ind the ,safer,- OF
the public IN ser't raj.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

mistaken for Parnell. Once. in London
during the O'Shea affair. an Irishman
came up shook him by the hand and
assured him that Ireland was with
him. And on another occasion, when
he had been walking on the Terrace
at Westminster he noted specula-
tions in the press as to what schemes
"Parnell had been weaving during
this solitary pacing.
A site has been found in ST. Mar
tin Misplace, facing the entrance to the
National Portrait Gallery for Sir
Cavel- The memorial takes the form
of a statute of the heroic nurse in
Italian marble, surrounded by groups
of statuary symbolical of the stronger
nations protecting the weaker nations
Sir George Franpton is superintend-
ing the completion of the memorial in
Cornwall, and it is expected that the
work of erecting it in London will be
port to London presents considera-
BILE problem, for the total weight is in
the region of no tons.
81 wonder" sighed Goethe at Wei
mar, what Germany will be like a
century hence," The century is up,
and the stock taking is now possible
at Wefmer itself.
Goethe's dependency was due to his
estimate of the physical and intellect
ual shortcomings of the German peo-
pie. His friend EclSermann suggested
that a second Redeemer was needed to
remove the "monstrous oppressiveness
of the present state of things" The
poet did not agree. Germans did not
need anything so great. If" he said
I'VE could only alter the Germans
after the model of the English: if
we could only have less philosophy
and more power Of action, we might
obtain a good share of redemption"
Parents on the lockout for careers
for their sons must find the newspa per
columns instructive
reading just now. An outstanding fea-
ture is that many of the "brainy' jobs
appear to have been hopelessly out
distanced in the general movement for
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
changes
Changes

Had Goethe's conception of German
unity, sketched roughly at Weimar in
1928. found Judgement in Rismarkian
brains. history might have been writ
ing a different chapter. and no nation
al assembly would have been neces-
sary today.
For Goethe's idea was that Berlin
and Vienna, as exclusive centers of
influence, formed a peril to culture He
would have had freedom to move at
will through the SO states without
having his travelling chest opened Dol
lars and groschen should be of equal
value everywhere. There should be no
frontiers and no talk of inland and
outland among the German states. His
idea in short, was that of Germanlc
League of Nations, lone in love-" Good
high roads and railroads-theu
thing of the future-he put in the
front place as empire making mate
rial The Mailed Fist he does not
mention.
HouthuIst Forest, in the sher-pock-
ed recesses. of which President VIII
son and his party halted for lunch
during their visit to the Flanders bat
tlefields. had an evil reputation during
the years of war. Situated on a dom
mating ridge, it overlooked a wilder
ness of mud and water-logged swamp.
and was Improbable only by means OF
tortuous blackboard track.
Railway street. as this track was
named, was the longest wooden road
on the western front. Seven miles it
ran from Boesinghe Station to Pass
chendaele, and. as the enemy's guns
had been registered on every section.
1t became the best hated stretch of
country in Flanders. Where the road
crossed the canal notice board had
the grim wording: ITO Houlthulst-
and He'll"
The law, which defines youth" so
variously, is more consistent about the
term person" When recently the
Royal Astronomical Society decided to
admit women as Fellows the Council
found that, under their charter, it was
impossible to do SO. Those eligible
for election were described in the So
ciety's bylaws as persons" and le-
gal opinion was obtained to the effect
that a person" was strictly of the
masculine sex.
So the society had to get it's charter
altered to make it clear that. so far
astronomers were concered, there
were male and female persons" and
not until this was done was it possible
to grant the honor of fellowship to the
clever women astronomers who had
worthily earned that distinction.
Mr.. Bertram MekennaI, who de-
signed the coinage of the present
reign. and also the new G1 pound
currency note, has been entrusted with
the execution of the memorial to mem
bers of both houses of parliament who
fell in the war. The memorial will
take the form of a group of statuary,
the central figure being Eternity
holding the roll of honor in her hands,
and other figures will inlude the pa
tron saints of the countries forming
the United Kingdom.
The sculptor is one of Australia's
most distinguished sons, and was the
first Colonial to be elected an Asso-
ciate of the Royal Academy.
Mr.. A. G. G. LiddeIi, who is retiring
from the House of Lords where he
has served many chancellors from
Lord Halsbury EDWARDS, is strikingly
handsome man, as may be seen from
the sketch of his head made by Sir
E. Poynter.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
FIGHTING FOREST FIRES.

What a menace the forest fires are
to the timber supply of this coun-
try to say nothing of the danger To
towns and lumber camps Is plainly
disclosed by ravages that ara being
caused by the flames III the valua ole
timber lands of Montana. Idaho and
Washington at the p- assent time. Sc
rious CONGREGATIONS are raging in
several sections of the northwest
over 40 square miles having been
swept over in one section where null
lions Of feet OF pine were iesfroys1
while in the Madison national forest
= fire Is spreading over $4,000 acres,
which are only two of the many
points at which fire fighters are doing
their utmost to block the spread of
the flames.
Under such conditions il Is not sur
prising that the secretary of the inter
ior should ask congress for an appro-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
BRING THEM HOME.

Apparently France is not in such
great need of the supplies in the pos
session of this country and distributed
about France as one might suppose,
if we are to judge from the offer that
has been made for them. And yet on
the other hand it is possible that
France looks at the situation as one
where this country will not undertake
to bring the supplies back home and
that regardless of the need for them
in France a rock bottom price for
them can best be obtained by making
such an offer for them that would
create the impression that France
doesn't care whether it gets them or
not.
There is much military material in
France. II consists of great quanti-
ties of lumber. locomotives. railroad
cars, passenger autos and motor
trucks. besides the docks and the
many miles of railroad track. France
considers that it is liberal when It
offers this country a nth of what the
cost to this country was in obtaining
them, declaring that the docks will
soon have to be rebuilt, that the rail-
road equipment doesn't meet its re-
duirements and that the auto equip
ment could not be dumped on the
market without interfering with the
industry in France, while there would
be no thought of permitting the cars
to be sold there without paying a
duty of over SO per cent.
But it cannot be understood that
this country Is required to make any
such sacrifice on price. To bring
them home for disposal in this coun-
Try would be far more advantageous
than to sell them for a fifth of their
cost. We need locomotives, freight
cars, motor trucks. lumber and rails
and surely they would be worth more
to us than a fifth of their cost and
the additional expense of getting them
back. Just because they are war
supplies is no reason for throwing
them away or junking what lis At for
other use.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
A Real Hair Saver
and Beautifier
Found at last-Shows Results at
Once or Nothing to Pay

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Once or Nothing to Pay
If your hair is thinning out, prema-
turely gray, brittle, Efeless, full of
dandrun and your head itches like
mad, quick action must be taken to
save your hair.
Don't wait until the hair root is
dead, for then nothing can prevent
badness.
Get from Lee & Osgood Co., or any
good druggist today a package of Pa
risian Sage-it doesn't cost much and
there's nothing else you could use
that's SO simple, safe and effective
You will surely be delighted with
the first application. Your hair will
seem much more abundant and ra-
diant with life and beauty-all itching
ceases and your scalp feels cool and
comfortable. Partisan Sage is in great
demand by discriminating women be-
cause it is de1icately perfumed, does
not color or streak the hand, and keeps
it lustrous, soft and fluffy.
Be sure you get the genuine Pari-
sian Sage eGiroux's) for this is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction or
nothing to pay.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
REeARArioN COMMISSIONER.

In connection with the matter of the
peace treaty new question has
arisen as to what this country will
do in the matter of participating in
the work Of carrying out the terms
thereof before action has been taken
one way or the other relative to the
acceptance of the treaty.
President Wilson has asked the for
eign relations committee Of the SEN
ate TO sanction the appointment of a
member of the reparation commit
tee to serve with the appointees of
other countries in carrying on the
work assigned to such board, the
appointment to be with the under
standing that it is only temporary
and simply for the purpose of keeping
this country in touch with the prog
ress that is being made and to do it's
part in carrying out the terms. From
this request we are to gather that the
president doesn't consider he has the
authority to act and seeks the sane
ton of a senate committee that the
responsibility for making such a tenn
porary appointment may be placed
thereon, but in view of the fact that
the committee finds that it has no
authority for giving any such appro-
val there can be no surprise in it's
statement to that effect and its refu-
sal to comply with the request. re-
CARELESS of the efforts that will be
made to treat it as a political move
1t seems to be a case of the president
asking the senate committee to do
what he doesn't consider he can do
himself, and it is strange that he
should seek this from a senate COM
mittee when he has shown no dispc-
sition to follow such a course in
such ma tiers in the past
There have been emergencies when
President Wilson, or other presi-
cents. has acted where no authority
2 ppeared to have been provided and
it is not improbable that such can be
{ one in this connection but it is not a
case where the foreign relations COM
mittee which is having trouble to get
in touch with the doings of the peace
conference in order to act on the
peace treaty. should be made the goat
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

higher wages.
Thus you find that, although a fish
frier is offered pounds a week Can
occupation, too, that suggests Tong
intervals for rest, with possibly some
free fish meals). clerks are still in de-
nand at 35s., while the sum of
los. is offered for an experienced
cashier" Which sets us wondering
why some of our out work or
poorly paid clerks do not take off
thei rcuffs and learn how to fry fish.
The London Chronicle.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

threatened to wreck all Frazer's ma
ehinery and blown him and all his
crew up to the pearly gates. After
gave the task UP as hopeless, wish
ed it luck and let it spout. 1t has been
spouting ever since.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

With mothers in-1aw following the
brides who have been brought to this
country by our soldiers. it, is time to
look out for squalls.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

With the farms providing cider and
buttermiik. the country is going to
have great~attractions- for those seek
ing alcoholic rations.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

From the way they are. closing ii
looks as If John Barleycorn was the
chief support of a number Of Boston
hCteiS
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

Having been made i'll by his enter.
tainment in London Field Marsha
Haig will think worse of social affairs
than General Sherman did of war.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

The St. Sw'thin variety of wcs.h~r
cellars with an addition to the wet
stuff already stored there, but il is not
the kind that Isl kept On the snulves.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

Not what one might consider a very
suspicious time for urging the extern
sion of trolley lines.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

The real sport these days is tryin
to locate the six best cellars in I'll
neighborhood.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

I: hasn't been SO dry since tl:s frs
OF July as a 'ot OF people believe
with fear and trembling that it WOO,
be.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

An airship of the airplane type has
been provided for an antartic expe-
dition, but tho is the easiest part OF
the undertaking.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Sunshine is always welcomed but
it gets an extra glad hand just at the
present time.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

The man on the corner says: We
are rapidly approaching the time
when Sunday will be the same as ev-
cry other day.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-25

Tanana River and possibly on some Of
the boats on the Yukon.
The report gives the classification of
the coal land and non-coal land in the
field by sections, contains detailed
maps showing the areas of coal-beaF-
ing rocks, and gives detailed state
ments of the conditions OF mining and
transportation. ..