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NORWICH, BULLETIN, . SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919
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AU niMa of rrpubllcatloll of aveclal deapatcb
es barrio are al,n -efcerred.
spect for the law. This need not
mean that punishment will not be
meted out as it should be to those
who are guilty of heinous crimes but
it should mean that it will be legally
carried out and the greatest efforts
should be devoted to those states
where there is today the least respect
paid to the law. Such commonwealths
are unquestionably in need of an or
ganized movement that will remove
the blot from their present reputations.
CIRCULATION
WEEK ENDING MAY 17th
10,056
THE PROTEST OF THE JEWS
There can be no wonder that the
Jews in many cities of this country
are adopting or have adopted resolu
tions calling upon this country, the
president or the peace delegation at
Paris to take steps that will help to
put an end to the horrible massa
cres of Jews in Europe with partic
ular reference to Poland, Russia and
Rumania.
The frightful treatment which they
have suffered in that part of the
world is nothing new, but in view ol
the efforts to bring about improved
conditions, to make the world safe for
democracy and to relieve the oppress
ed it is certainly time that attention
THE MAN WHO TALKS
. It is said "Habit 'commences to bind
you with a gossamer thread like the
silken web of a spider, but when -the
job is completed the sinews of habit
have turned to steel. Why do you
look so lonely ? Why so sad ? Why so
worried? Through the mind .Habit
has imprinted the sign where all can
see it. The heart, which likes to
cherish a little song is not guilty" of
giving you away. The habit of the
mind increases the wrinkles on your
brow and removes the light of joy
from your eyes. You cannot look
right unless you think right. You
cannot carry age well if you do not
carry life's burdens well. You miss
the joys of life by becoming too conr
scions of its drawbacks. The elixer
of life lies in the heart, not the ima
gination. Think right, do right and
you'li look right.
You may never have thought of
yourself as a wizard, but since Na
ture is a wizard and you are a child
of nature, there must be something
of the wizard in every one of us,:of
course. And the more we know of
Nature and Nature's laws, the more
of a wizard we become; and it is
through this knowledge that men
come to be known as nature-fakirs,
or as weather prophets. If it is a
law of nature that false thoughts
will physically .impair you, it is no
THE QUAIL TRAP
nr., o aivon in thin ma ttfr Thfi hitzh
ideals that have been put forth will I lke th sood thoughts will repair
COL. CHARLES W. GALE.
Not in a long period of time has
.Norwich experienced a loss that has
called for such a- widespread expres
sion of sincere rrcxet as that caused
by the sudden taking away of Colonel
'liarles W. Gale. He was -one of the
community's leading citizens, a man
highly honored and respected by all
classes, and one whose place in the
community and in the hearts of the
people will he most difficult to fill.
To a man that i.- big enough for a
community to mourn and remember
there are two skip, his public side
and his personal side. Tor a .half cen
tury Colonel Gale was identified with
the financial and business interests of
the city and it was the open and con
scientious manner in which he ad
ministered his duties, the spirit of
fairness and right that was always
displayed and his cordial and demo
cratic nature that won for him the es
teem of all-with whom he had deal
ings. His enthusiasm in public under
takings was inspiring, his efforts re
lentless and his leadership the kind
that obtains results. He had the God
given faculty of being a man among
men.
And what he was publicly he was
likewise personally. Faithful and true
to every duty, considerate and broad
minded, his was a noble, generouy
sympathetic nature that is too well
known by those among whom he lived
and associated to need dilation here,
but all too rarely is a community
blessed with such a personality.
Norwich has sustained' a loss that
will be realized more and more as
lime got 8 on but none could hope for
a greater monument than that which
he. has bullded in the honor and es
timation of his feljpwmen.
, i yuu. Ant; Hume
,'JC " " "" a fool of you. if reversed may make
to sucn treauuuiit ui me ucvvd, ul auj
other people.
The Jews are asking for no rights
that ought not to be accorded to other
human beings, but 11" justified in
the effort they arc :v. :; to see that
the barbarism that has been prac
ticed upon the Jews be halted. It is
a curious situation when the allied na
tions have been fighting to put an end
lo such frightfulness as has been
practiced to have those who have been
helped and released from (bondage
turn upon the Jews simply because
they are Jews. Because certain Jews
may have sided with the bolsheviki or
other dangerous elements does not
mean that all of them have and the
many should not be made to pay the
penalty that the few deserve.
The Jews are justified in protesting
against the treatment they have re
ceived and when it comes to getting
justice for humanity there is certainly
an excellent opportunity for putting
forth some timely work in their behalf.
THE BUDGET SYSTEM.
For a number of years there has
been a clamor' for a budget system in
lonncction witli the conduct of na
tional business. It is a system that
has been found ind! it.ensible in town,
t ity and state affa;rs and certainly it
is as Important, if not more so. that
it should be adopted in connection
with Hie federal government.
In spite of Hie cviiienc-j that has
been presented in behalf of such a sys
tern and the revelations concerning
the manner jr. which the business of
the government is being conducted
under pi-csant methods, it has never
been possiVe to bring it about. It
certainly i - a matter which ought not
to be made a political football for it
is a slep the wisdom of which those
of one party can appreciate as well
us (host' of the other if attention i
but t (t.'iitrated upon the importance
of Hiving the government a business
like administration, it has certainlv
been urged long enough to get the se
rious eonsideraiion that it deserves
There i:. evidence, however, that
some progress Is being made and it
will in kept .before congress as one of
the necessary acts of this session. Cer
tainly when other readjustments are
being made it. is time that this mat
ter should get the attention that will
eliminate a, deplorable, condition, it Is
if argument that because the present
" wl ''n in effect for so many
ear? that there should be no change.
jih; -iiniiiv means il:e continuation
of what is known to bo unsatisfac
tory. With both parties favoring
budget, the n imblii ans including it is
i heir programme for the session and
the president recommending it in his
message desired remits ought to be
obtained from the filth congress.
THE LESSON OF MOBILE.
Another southern city, Mobile, has
experienced the efforts of a disastrous
lire by which 200 buildings were de
stroyed, 1GO0 people made homeless
and 'property damage of from three
quarters to a million dollars caused
It was miieh the same kind of a fire
that swept through Atlanta a few
years ago leaving a great expanse of
rain in its wake befpre it could be
checked.
Mobile's fire swept away the older
residence section where there were
few modern buildings, but its business
and industrial districts were threat
ened and it was only by a hard fight
that they were saved.
This .city, like others that have ex
perienced similar trouble, will take
advantage without doubt of the op
portunity to rebuilt the devastated
section on modern lines but it comes
at an unfortunate time for such oper
ations and what makes it all the worse
is that it might have been prevented
by the exercise of due care.
Thi-j like many other fires started in
a pile of rubbish in the rear of a store,
- e li ion which, is very apt to exist
unless the proper attention is given to
e.i.inaaiiii!; such hazards. Where in
flammable material is allowed to ac
cumulate it offers the best possible
makings for a fire. Once it gets start
ed with wooden buildings to prey up
on and a good wind to fan it it means
suffering and hardships if not many
deaths.
But the fact remains nevertheless
that there are many cities no doubt
where just such conditions exist,
where the danger of such lack of pre
caution is realized regarding someone
else, but where the lesson is not
brought home until something
what happened in Mobile occurs.
The same law which makes
you wise. Nature is called a wizard
because she is constantly doing
something we do not Understand. By
a better knowledge of her laws we
do things others do not understand.
A great man shows his greatness
by his lack of conceit and breadth of
human interest and apparent un-
consciousness of his power, not by
an assumed front and .shiny collar
and cuffs. Greatness is ' the reward
for having done little things well an'
all things creditably. All any of us
can attain depends upon our rela
tion to the other fellow. No man
can become distinguished or great
by himself. It is recognition and ap
preciation of what we do that gives
us place and power. We are indebt
ed to the men back of us for twenty
centuries, as well as to our personal
efforts and our instructors for what
we become. No man is born great.
Only industry, honesty and honor lead
to true greatness.
For gracefulness of flight and play,
the swallow exceeeds all other New
England birds. When they are not
hunting ephemera above large maple
trees, or over water, they are playing
with one another or playing alone. One
will fly high with a feather, drop it
and dive and catch it before it reaches
the earth, being self-entertaining like
the person who plays solitaire to take
up the time and cultivate his wits.
The other morning among a mass of
swallows I noticed two that flew side,.
hy side like chums for an hour or
more, just because they liked to be to
"'Thee is no long wait between the
flitijig of the winter birds and, .the
coming of our summer friends no
short songless Eden. The visiting
grosbeaks came on Thanksgiving and
did not-leave us till the.'first week in
April when robins, grackles, blue-.
birds and song sparrows were back, in
imposing numbers. Before the last
bunch of southern juncos had passed
by, there were owlet fledglings, early
robins and sparrows were building,
well-feathered hawks nests held incu
bated eggs, starlings were ; feeding
young in crevices of our ash trees anil
in holes in the peak of the roof in
the -old village postoffice and there
were young grackles in the rookery
on? FremoT'l street, Putnam.
From the grosbeaks four months'
stay, from their number, their colorful
grouping, their cheerful chatter, ' and
entire lack of shyness I could almost
endorse the expression of a local ob
server "I tell you what! These pineys
and evenings, beat our. rosybreasts all
hollow." ' Well, not quite, you know.
But when in spring or summer can
you- see a quartette of showy male
birds like tanagers or orioles in a
vision of four male pine grosbeaks, in
nuptial plumage on a flat stone at our
very feet, sunning, faintly chirping,
and preening each otheis feathers,
with no shade of bickering, while in a
circle around thern were twenty sobe.r
females feeding and watching the
mutual admiration of tiieir gaudy
lords. If there was a day without the
pines,' the evenings would appear," and
if neither species was at hand at The
Maples, they could be seen at Pigeon
Inn farm. Here for many hours I have
watched the grosbeaks picking crumbs
from the doorsteps and grass seed on
the barn floor, but ehieflv eatihtr the
4 I maple seeds, till apparently at a given
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signal Liitrj n uum luocii uunuu rtiitx
hurry back to the Maples, their fav
orite stopping place.
For . eight days I watched the
grackle rookery in the tall pine -trees
on Fremont street, Putnam larger
than last year and a greater scourge
to all robins meeting in the vicinity.
Yet the bronze males were an attrac
tion, stalking on the nearby lawns
and scavenging in back yards, while
both sexes were busy at all hours of
the day feeding their squabs, which
surely get a big allowance of insects
and mixed food. It was real comfort
to sce.bluejays make two raids on ex
posed corners of the rookery, and I
saw jays drop grackle eggs on the
granolithic walk May Sth and 9th. It
reminds me of seeing crows raiding
jays nests near Norwich city reservoir,
There's litle honor among thieves', you
know.
A bit of difference in the site of this
! crow-blackbird colony and the one in
the swamp east of Chunkymount.
Fisher's island where 70 pairs of
drag the twenty feet of tugging cling
ing constrictors from their den. The
Townshend boys at their little lake
have done well birdwise by killing a
lot of black snakes, water adders and
garter snakes. -We- have not been able
to corner the monstrous blue racer
that comes a-frogging in the lily pads
from the thick, scrub west of the pond.
The usual raids by visiting goshawks
are reported, but the three species of
buteous now covering their trios of ir
cubated eggs have taken no tribute for
their services in keeping down red
squirrels, chipmunks, meadow mice
and moles. . Foxes are often seen,.. and
one old vixen with pups killed and
partly devoured Mrs. i Rawson's finest
laying hen turkey.
April 5th was an early record for the
three male orioles which came . to
gether, fluttering, romping and eating
flies and petals of blossoms, in a small;
natural fruit apple tree on Fremont
Ht.j Futnam. The females appearea
as usual a few days later and mated at
once on their arrival. A hummer ap
peared in this tree on the sixth of May
and is an early record. There are few
tree swallows this year, but more barn
swallows. ' There is a most noticeable
increase in song sparrows. Flickers
cannot breed in the Townshend barti
this season as the haymows which
shielded their holes have been taken
away. But a pair are now drilling a
fresh hole in our ash tree below last
Sear's now full of starling squabs.
There is a continued scarcity of ruff
ed grouse, we have not been cheered
by a single whistle from Bob White,
woodcock are almost extinct, but there
is a fair sprinkling of ringneek pheas
ants in East and North Woodstock
A herd of six deer, now with bleating
fawns wintered in the close shrubwest
of our neighborhood near the state
line. C. Li. R.
gether. Swallows usually fly separate
like
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The ambition of the Huns seems to
be to 'have, a 'part of that treaty at
least made in Germany.
grackles nest in the low cedars and
ly and confine themselves to individual maPies. lopstermen once toon, two
achievements and make few combined trout-creels ol their eggs, and three
3 DAYS
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Mon., TueSn YYod,
MAY
26, 27, 23
DJ; GRIFFITH'S MAMMOTH SPECTACLE
tFEeSirth of a Nation
FOUNDED ON, THOMAS DIXON'S PLAY "THE CLANSMAN"
.1- IN 12 "WONDERFUL PARTS - ,
With HENRY WALTHAL, LILLIAN GISH and All Original Cast.'
r - SPECIAL ENLARGED ORCHESTRA
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v portunity. to see this wonderful production.
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Auditorium Theatre
TODAY
FOUR SHOWS
COMPLETE NEW SHOW TODAY
JACK.GORBETT and His Dream Girls
" PRESENTING MUSICAL COMEDIES
. KIN0GRAM
NEWEST NEWS REEL
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TOM MIX
In "TWISTED TRAIL8"
CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN "BEFORE AND AFTER"
HARRY MOREY IN "THE GREEN GOD"
- V " - VITAGRAPH SPECIAL
movements
We are all looking for happiness in
life, and may find it not in the attain
ment of their desires but by making
the most of what they have. Happi
ness depends more upon the mind than
upon materia possessions. It makes
no difference what we succeed in, or
how we live, if we do not think we are
happy we cannot be. Enjoyment is
an emotion never intended to be con
tinuous, for it is the stern experiences
of life that are necessary to build
character, and from character grows
contentment, and this is as ne'ar to
real happiness as most mortals can
hope to get. Happiness is such a good
thing it has its counterfeits, and jthe
happiness of some people ip the end
increases their misery. Real happiness
is the result of sane thought properly
applied to that which we have and
that which we may hope tor.
No matter how long he may live,
man cannot seem to fully acquaint
himself with the full life of a plant or
a bird. I do not know whether or not
they learn more about us than we do
about them. The other day I saw
Robin Redbreast modeling her nest
and she was patiently beating in the
lining with her breast, and dettly
moving around in' it every minute to
give it the cup-shape until It was tin
ished. How they must toil to get the
materials together which represent
miles of flight. They make long days
and sing as though they found joy
ot
buckets . of night heron's eggs from
platforms a little higher up. The
whites of the heron's eggs are leathery,
boiled or fried, but the blackbirds eggs
ae delicious. A populous rookery
once existed on the Broad street side
of the Slater estate, Norwich, and was
not the ax laid to the roots of the fine
evergreen circle in the Yantic ceme
tery because the grackles robbed every
robin's nest on the grounds? The Long
Society burying ground harbored a
colony of these pests, and the Jen
nings' hothouse plant on the East Side
another. I have seen grackles rifle
the redwings' homes in the swampy
fork of the Broad Brook and Volun
town turnpike.
The spirit of federal and state pro
tection laws would not be broken if
now and then a boy should be en
couraged to "get up a collection" of
eggs, provided he orily "collected" eggs
of horned owl, cooper and sharpshin
ned hawks, crow, grackle, bluejays,
starling, cowbird and English spar
row." Not single specimens, but en
tire sets, side-blown and in a series
of a dozen sets of each species. Oo
logically not a remarkable lot, but
these would be some interesting feat
ures. The light blue of the coopers
would contrast with the owls, and
while in plumage cooper hawks are the
exact counterpart of uharpshins, the
eggs are widely different and are the
chief help in separating the species.
Though the sharpshin is the. deadliest
their work. And what trials
strength they have with the angleworm j f op to th; chicken coops and "most per
HOW UllU Uteil. aim Lilt:? j.un mi uo;
their wings like tiny motors to in-
Thcre arc indications that Germany
Is beginning to wake up after its
dream of world conquest.
It requires fast traveling to keep up
with the Smiths. There were 51,000 of
them in the army and only 22,500
Joneses.
Krom all indications Austria fully
appreciates the benefit that is going
to be gained by slipping off the Ger
man yoke.
OUR OWN BARBARITY.
from the rreent Conference that
was held for the purpose of opening
a stronger eampaign. than ever
against the practice of lynching la
this country, it is to be sincerely
hoped that certain forces will be set
in motion that will bring about a re
alization of the enormity of such
crime and send home to those who
participate or give passive encour
agement to such acts the necessity of
uniting their efforts in bringing
about its abolition.
Hut. if there was reason to bring
about increased etTort in this direc
tion as the result of the horrible prac
tices that have been resorted to in the
past it is evident that there is still
plenty of evidence furnished almost
from day to day to give it such atten
tion as never existed before.
It is certainly apparent from the
reports of the way in which people are
taken out and strung up to trees and
burned at the stake that all the bar
barity is not confined to Germany or
other sections of Europe, to Turkey or
darkest Africa. We have conditions
right here at home which need imme
diate and persistent attention. There
is need of an aroused public senti
ment which will insist upon the re-
The man on, the corner says: Straw
hats are having an unusually hard
struggle trying to break into the un
seasonable state of affairs.
As long as a watched kettle .never
boils it is possible that if everyone
had stopped talking about the weather
it would have cleared up sooner.
Secretary Daniels say: that the
Hun ships cannot be uted economi
cally by our navy. That may be so,
but that is no txcus for sinking
them.
from the bids which have been re
ceived for constructing two big
warships, it would be quite a bit more
economical if we could .get along
without new additions to the navy,
Now that Germany has received a
week additional in which to think ove
the terms of the treaty, it will proba
bly be more desirous than ever to open
negotiations.
When the New London city court
fines a man for intoxication after im
bibing freely of 2.75 per cent, beer
there doesn't appear to be any fur
ther need of a beef squad for testing
purposes. t
The date is' rapidly approaching
when the American .orcos will be
moved oyt of northern Russia, and
there will be no weeping or wailing
on the part of the men or those who
aro awaiting them.
If the Germans think that tWey arc
going to frighten fee alliesby refus
ing to sign the, trety and threatening
to.: resist, -they might as well remem
ber that ?hey have been through one
sad experience due to bad judgment.
How hard it is to suit humanity is
pretty well shown by the fact that
criticism Is being offered of eight
members of the Pennsylvania legisla
ture because they didn't introduce a
single bill. Considering the troubles of
a legislature they ought to be thanked
not lound feast wiU.
crease their pun, displaying a spirit
similar to that of the sailor who cries
"Heave ho!" as he pulls. The robin
puts art as well as energy into his
everyday affairs.
It seems strange to hear the Ger
mans tell the Entente what they
have turned Germany into, when they
turned every nation they overrun into
a slaughter-house, and manifested a
desire to make of every garden spot a
desert, and to make of every holy
sanctuary a heap of ruins. They find
no heart in the world responsive to
their appeals because of their own
heartlessness. They are now dem
onstrating to the nations they plotted
to conquer that men who enjoy the
self-conceit of power, cringe to its
just demands, and seek to be excused
for barbarities for which they would
excuse no one. Germany cannot make
good the lives she has destroyed, but
for material damages she should be
made to pay to the last farthing. Ger
many's deaf ear to all appeals for
mercy have made the world deaf to
her.
Will the world ever know the loss of
human life from "war, pestilence and
famine" in the past five years? The
war EWept off ten million human
souls in four and a half years: and the
pestilence swept away many more in
half a year in 1918. America lost half
a million, England a million, Europe
four million, India six millions, with
Africa and Asia entirely left out of
the computation, which may add other
millions. Doubtless a million or two
have perished from starvation: and it
is no misrepresentation to claim above
twenty-five million people have died
during the worlds war, from causes
directly or indirectly chargeable to it.
And man goes right on "sacrificing
lives to Mammon,
The American eim has the merit of
being one of the prettiest of trees in
form though it is short-lived, for i.t
has the graceful lines of a huge bou
quet. It takes 60 days for it to cloth
itself in living green. The earliest the
buds have burst in 17 years was in
1903 on March 15 and the latest April
Sd, 1912: and the earliest it has been
in blossom was March 28, 1903 and
the latest April oth. 1919; and it has
been in full bloom but twice in March
in the past 17 years, and the buds
have burst on the same date but
twice, and not once has. the elm been
in full leafage on the same date. The
earliest this tree has been in full leaf-1
age is May iu, 1910, and the latest
June 6, 1917. It is as constant in the
development of its foliage as the birds
of passage are in their arrival. The
average date for the bursting of the
elm bud is March 30th and for full
leafage May 21st. What is true of
the progress of the elm is doubtless
true of the growth of other trees. It
was Emerson who said: "Nature
shows us only surfaces, but she is a
million fathoms deep."
Some people' see more than we can,
because they know more than we do
Knowledge is power. Lack of knowl
edge kills more people than disease.
Those who get the -vision which is
equivalent to a blessing are . not es
pecially favored with foresight, or a
wonderful visions. God's revelations
sistent feeder on small birds except the
shrike, still its eggs are the . most
beautiful of -all our birds of prey.
Eleven markings on a green or grey
ground would generally be I own in
a series of blue jay sets, relieved now
and then by a set with a fine choco
late ground color like the tint on eggs
of the American bittern. The monot
ony of English sparrows' eggs is
broken by one egg in every set being
lighter than the rest of the clutch. Is
this the first or last egg laid ? A long
series of crows eggs may show a set
of six and rarely a blue egg. The dif
ference in size of lazybirds' eggs will
be noticed und the fact that they look
like street sparrows' eggs. Starlings'
eggs are a novelty to the old time
i ankee collector, but in a series they
run pretty true to type.
Regarding the ground-breeding birds
L. E. Rawson has again been killing
the snakes that hibernate in the an
cient cellar-hole. By a quick grab he
got a good hold of five necks -at once
as' they were sticking out for first
warm sun, but it took both hands and
every ounce of muscle in his arms to
sec and ears to hear have ho excuse
for not finding evidences of Truth
which satisfy and glorify. It has been
truly- pointed out to us that "wherever
simple folk love, pray and trust, be
hold the House of God, the gate of
Heaven." Too many people are not
using the faculties God has given their,
for becoming aware of things which
lend assurance to life. ' ".
IN THE DAY'S NEWS
Lembsrg.
"Already bearing the scars of the
world war, added to the marks of
sieges and captures through the first
five centuries of its municipal exist
ence, even the armistice has not
brought peace to Lemberg, which
Ukrainians are reported to have at
tacked." says a bulletin - of the Na
tional Geographic Society.,
'Residents of the city must walk
with a grim smile through the battle
torn promenades built on the space left
free by the demolition of the fortififi
calions of the inner city of Lemberg
in IS 11, at a time when the citizens
of the Galician capital looked confi
dently for an era of peace. . I
"Lemberg. known as Lwow fn Polish
and Leopolis in Latin, was founded- in
the thirteenth, -century by a Rutheniari
prince. Casimir the Great added it- to
his domain in 1340 and bestowed upon
the city the charter and" privileges
known as the Madgeburg Rights.
"When Constantinople fell its trade
with the east flourished, but it was all
but engulfed in the revolutions and
maraudings., .which swept over .the
Ukraine and . parts of Poland duinng
the last, half of the seventeenth cen
turyan earlier manifestation of Bol
shevism directed by the Cossack het
man, Chmielnicka.
. "Charles XII. of Sweden, took Lem.
berg, along With other Polish cities
when the ill-advised Augustus II was
drawn into the . Great Northern war:
Upon the first partition of Poland, in
1 1 2, , Lemberg was alotted to Austria
"In1 connection with the division of
Polish lands, the Empress Maria The
desa wrote, prophetically in view o
recent events, 'I have yielded, not
wishing -to make war, but quite con
trary to my convictions. I hape that
the monarchy may not feel the ef
fects of this after ray death.'
"Frederick the Great of Prussia; :who
had engineered the partition, did not
take the Austrian monarch's qualm's
seriously. 'She is always weeping and
always taking,' was his comment.
"In the same year Austria came for
ward with additional claims on the
ground that Prussia and Russia were
availing themselves of the opportunity
to acquire certain districts for which
they had long contended. Therefore,
despite her pangs of conscience," the
provident empress gained possession
cf about 1 .500 square miles of territory
to which she gave the tile of the king
dom of Galicia and Lodomcria, and
made Lemberg the capital.
"Twelve years later Joseph II, whose
futile ambitions caused his reign to be.
compared t to a man who constantly
desired to sneeze and could not, es
tablished the University of Lemberg"
This university became one of the best
known Polish institutions of learning.
"One of Lemberg's parks bears the
name of the Polish patriot, Jan Ki
linski, a shoemaker who fought
bravely in 1796. He was captured and
taken to St. Petersburg. Following
his release he returned to his shoe
moker's bench and when custom was
light he wrote his recollections, which
form a valuable record of this period.
"Lemberg, nearly as large as Denver,
Colo., or Rochester, N ,Y., before, the
war began was tl?j fourth city of Aus
tria, it is 60 miles east of Przemysl.
and more than 450 miles northeast of
Vienna. It lies on the banks of th
Peletw -river, which flows into '.the
Bug. Eighty-seven miles to the-east
is Tarnopol, near the Russian, bordfer,
among the first points of attack when
the Muscovites crossed the Galician
frontier. , ...
"Scene of a poular uprising in 184S,
Lemberg became the seat of the Ga
lician diet upon the establishment of
that body in 1861. Before 1914 it man
ufactured iron ware, machinery
matches, candles, liquors, chocolate:,
leather bricks and tiles. Its com.
merce was largely in linen, wool, oiC
flax and- hemp.
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Having caught the bolshevist spirit,
the school children will soon rise and
demand that no one over twelve years
of age be permitted to vote on school
questions. Meriden Journal.
f The, overseas -adventure has not
turned out well-' .The. plaudits of
Paris, London and Pome have died
away .and have ben succeeded by
protests." . At home, the faithful west
of 1916 is 1'eporte.d" on no less au
thority "than that of . the Honorable
Jim Ham Lewis to be "obstinately in
arms against the administration. The
admiring Springtierd Republican re
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t.iorrs "have arisen in the cabinet dur
ing "the 'presidential absence. No
longer can the' White' House whip be
cracked above - a democratic eapitol.
Rubber stamps ' are but of fashion.
The senate .is preparing to assert
the Unitffd- States constitution. M
tbgethtfr it Ms an. auspicious time for
Mr. Wilson to anounce the more
definitely the- befer 'that he cannot
consent to prolong his official tenure
Beyond" "the-"fourth' of March, 1921.
Providnece Jqurnal.
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