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Evening star., 1909-04-11

scum, SO that motor enthusiasts will have
eight shows in Louisville instead of one.
\ 5000 trophy for an international au-
tomobile race, to be held on the Indianapo-
lis motor speedway some time this season,
has been offered by an indianapolis firm.
The design for the cup is said to be very
unique. Around the base are four plaques,
upon which are engraved an Indian pole
drag. chariot, a stage coach and a tour
ing car. in the order name Above these
are figures of an American Indian and
OF European athlete. The trophy is sur
mounted by a figure representing Victory.
Automobile caps with purses cunningly
concealed in the crowns are a novelty just
put on the market
The duty of the cooling medium is to
keep the cylinder walls cool. to permit of
proper fabrication, without which the pis-
ton could not move up and down in the
cylinder, and to prevent preignition.
Therefore, it is advisable to let the cylin-
der work at as high a temperature as the
lubricating oil will stand without car
bombing. wall temperature of $50 de-
greeS Is generally thought to produce the
most power from gasoline.
The Alaska Y Yukon-Pacifce exposition au-
tomobile race from New York to Seattle
bids fair to result in more good roads
activity than has all the campaigning of
the last half dozen years. Every county
in the state of Washington through
which the course of the transcontnental
racers will run is busy building and re-
pairing its principal highways The
same is to be said of the state OF Idaho.
and word comes from other states on the
western end of the route that similar
work will be begun once the exact route
is indicated.
More than fifteen entries in the Glidden
tour are expected to be made by Detroit,
whence the tour will start
In 1908 there were twenty-one Ameri-
can road races, with 1873 entries. OF
these. one was international, one free
for-all. without any limitation of conse-
quence. several were for stock chases,
several more were cross-country races
with no prepared course, and the re-
mander We're class races in which ma
chimes of some certain price. size or other
characteristic were admitted. Plans out
lined for the coming season show that
at least one internationa race may be
put upon the calendar the second con-
test for the A. c. A. grand prize cup. and
1t may be again held at Savannah. The
Long Island Motor Parkway is being con-
tinued. but little is heard about the Van
derbilt race. and it is hard TO make any
prediction about that event.
Evening star., 1909-04-11

per cent ad valorem on automobiles and
parts bids fair to remain in force. it is
very likely that several prominent Euro
pean manufacturers will arrange to start
branch factories in this country.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
A VISION.

When Boston gets vision of the greater Hartford" eastern Connecticut has reason to become deeply interest ed. The plan for making the capitol of this state the peer of the first cities of the country, provides for thou sand or more factory sites of five acres each every one with water front and railroad tracks, where boats and cars could leave and take their freight from the factory doors. with an abundant supply of water and land enough with in walking distance for the employees to live in comfortable homes.
 The engineer ayers that nowhere else in New England is there an equally favorable opportunity for To- eating factories that would probably employ something like a hundred thousand working. men and add half a million to Hartford's population, "making her the leading city of the nation in the manufacture of that class of goods requiring skilled work men. and a force in the betterment of the world"
 The Boston Transcript, commenting upon this, says that the engineering difficulties are by no means serious, yet it will probably be many years before Hartford will attain her half million"
 Of course. Hartford realizes that such a good vision as this takes time as we'll as millions, but if her spirit of progress is geared high she may make. hguratively speaking, a mile a minute toward the attainment of this desirable and self exalting scheme.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
Mexico Is Timid.

Senor Enrique Creel of Mexico, for mer ambassador to this country, who has come here to help settle the Mica raguan trouble, has a delicate task on his hands. His government would like to cooperate with the United States in peacefully smoothing out all the Central American difficulties. But the Mexicans and the Mexican govern ment are not disposed to jump on the prostrate form of Zelaya too hard.
 If the Central American trouble could be handled with soft gloves, that would suit Mexico to a dot. But Mex leo cannot go along with the United States in this business of using mar ines gunboats and soldiers, if need be. This is for the reason that Mexico pub tic sentiment is jealous of any attempt of the United States to deal summarlly with any of the Latin-American peo- ple..
 It is a case of blood being. thicksr than water, and the last time the Mexican government co-operated with this country in Central American troubles the Mexican officers had to keep explaining to the public for weeks that it was not countenancing any summary measures, or lending itseli to the American "big stick" policy.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS.

Most of our Christmas presents come with wrappings about them, ana one oI the delights of Christmas morning is untving the twines and stripping OH the coverings. Of late years goo9 deal of ingenuity has been expended on making the outside Of the Cnrlsi mas presents as attractive as possl- bIe. Dainty ribbons, pretty boxes and paper. and, latest of all, the bright cheerful Red Cross stamps make the rarnishing of our gifts well worth at Fention. Yet we should do despite 10 the eivers if we put equal value upon the gifts and the wrappings.
 In some such fashion the ioea pc hind the Christmas merrymaking ana eif+ exchanzing has become overlaid with its accessories. If we do not watch out. we shall fail to pierce 1 through them to the reality. When we have read all the beautiful artl- cles and stories and poems about Christmas, when we have hung up our stocking and inventoried thelr con tents, when we have partaken or the turkey and plum pudding, and wlsneo one another many happy returns or the day, have we really toucneu the heart of Christmas?
 At the heart of Christmas IS the | childlike spirit. Only those wno are as teachable and trustful as little cnli- dren. only those who have the cnllo keen zest in living, his eager antlclpa- | tiveness. his quick response to pene | fits conferred, his simplicity ana ms | joyousness, have really entered into the | deeper meaning of Christmas. Tn a l larger sense even than perhaps Dick ! ems meant it is forever true that I'll | is good now and then to be children and never more so than at Christmas when the great founder of Christianity was himself child"
 At the heart of Christmas we me also love- "Only he who loves, hves:
 I do not mean by love, gusn, sentl' | veIoped bump of general benevolence mean what Paul meant when he penned that glowing description of lov' | in the 18th chapter of the First Corln' thians. Read it over again, and set how much of the article there depicted you personally possess. Have vol more today than you had year ago heart of the meaning of Christmas
 You have begun to see through thu coverings into dts real essence.
 There is life, too, at the heart O Christmas. a life, the life, of the cen turies the life which began in thu | manager and ended on the cross, ti life into whose short span of less thai 35 years was compressor so uuOh I divinity, so much of human service
 will persons on the earth a thousand wears from today be celebrating tn
 hirth of Jesus, as his earthly his
 forv recedes further and further int the past. and as science scores stil
 greater achievements, will something
 better and more inspiring than the If
 of Jesus come into view? Indication
 do not point in that direction. Ol
 the contrary. he who was cradled n
 the Bethlehem manager seems to be ae
 quiring a constantly increasing nol upon the aanaaratien and affection Q
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
No pixoros for seoldina,

According to a Missouri judge, a wife has a right fo scold her husband, and that the exercise of that right is no ground for divorce. The full opin- ion of the court is not at hand, but a layman. if he is a married man, knows we'll that the courts decision is based on law that is higher, by precedent and practice, than any mere legislative enactment. It is backed oy both ethics and reason, and Will pre- vail regardless of support or the lack M it from the bench-and there's no shadow of contempt of court in this assertion. Of course the Woman with the Serpent's Tongue is not figured m this consideration of the subject. Sne deserves all she gets, even from the poets. .
 Fair play is a jewel, and in the in- terest of fair play the wife should be permitted to give tit for tat-and good ness knows the man who gives the provocation should be willing to grant her that privilege.
 What the details of the domestic ruc- don back of this Missouri divorce case may be, we have no means of Knowing but it is fair to assume that the Ms souri judge, who insited on peint shown" found ample provocation fol the wife's scolding, and rightly allow. ed her to keep it up. Everybody knows that right here in Connection where divorces come easy, no Judg' would give a man a divorce because his wife scolded. In nine cases out O ten, the wife who scolds has good req
 son for doing it, and in like proportion | doubtless the wife who doesn't scolt | has no less cause but doesn't dare.- | Hartford Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
fWritten for The BulIetln.l

"'Tis the night before Christmasl" and. while waiting for Santa Claus and his reindeer to come driving down our chfmney-harkl even now hear the clattering of hoofs and the tinkle- tinkle of little silver bells on my next door neighbours roof, while waiting, I say. I find myself listening to the music of Christmas memories sing Ing in my heart. Tender memories, they are. singing me back to the days of my earliest childhood, when I, the youngest child of three, used to hang my long, small stocking by the open hearth, between those of my two brothers, and lay me down to sleep in simple faith that Santa. Claus would surely come, that he would find them all and, fill them full to overfowing. Of course we tried to akeep awake. We used to take turns at watching, l and my brothers, who, though both older than I, were then still such very little boys-as I know now, having brought up sons of my own. Tre- mendously big and grown-up they seemed to me then, sons of giants when bent upon teasing their long, suffering one small sister; big and bold and manly little fellows both, as I see clearly now, looking back. or course we tried to keen awake, and of course we slept as sound as tops all through the long, cold winter night, only to wake at peep of dawn so surprised and so disappointed at hay. ing missed once more the vision of the reindeer and old Santa Claus jolly face. The one who wakened first was sure to give such a whoop as would set the other two scrambling out oi bed and three pair of bare feet to scampering across the nursery floor to the chimney-side. Such heavy stock ings as we always found, almost toe heavy for small hands to lift down though somehow we managed it bulgy. too, with hard, bumpety, won- l derful things poking out in rounds anc squares and triangles and other sort ! of shapes. Santa Claus wife-did yor | know he had a wife ?-would thought ! fully leave toasted muffin or a. cookie | or two near the top, and l can see my i two brothers now, biting into mulnn | the muffin a half moon between theil l teeth their mouths quite hidden by muffin, while their impatient hand
 dove deeper and deeper into the stock ing legs and rose again to view, fillet
 with treasures rich and rare, beyont
 compare. Away down in the heel O
 the toe, each one of us never failed | to find a shining silver coin.
 Many a happy Christmas has beel
 mine since those merry days. Yea
 bv % wear of a most tenderly cherishe childhood, of a brilliant, beautiful girl
 hood, the Christmas Eyes and Christ
 mas Days are memorable for thei
 joyous family reunions, the hndl
 gifts, for the sleigh-bells ringing, tn
 north wind blowing, the hearth fire
 blazing, for young voices singing an
 youthful feet dancing to the tune e
 the joy of living. Then came tn
 first Christmas love- gift, and next yea inc first Christmas marriage gift, an
 later stilI a wonder-year. when, on tn
 first Christmas Eve of new bright Tiff Santa Claus filled the baby sock hun
 to the arm of a boys high-chal There followed Christmas days in otn CT lands. with the organ roll of Chrisi mas music in the great cathedrals s {
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
ACTIVE, BUT NO LONGER SPEC
 TACuLAR.

The Maine state grange has just held it's annual meeting and the re- ports disclosed that there are 4SS granges in that state and that eight new ones had been organized the past year. As the boys say: That's go- ing some!"
 But the grangers are making less noise than they once did and appar- ently more progress. There are 56,2S0 grangers in good standing in Maine, and quite likely 250.oO0 more in the six New England states. The grang- CTS are force which has to be con- sidered when any important public matter is on foot. As an exchange remarks: ~rhe grange and the Po- mona are the two centers of social commingling in many a New England inland town. and they undoubtedly make for 'uplift.' Probably the grang- CTS are today more effective for the advancement of farming interests than in the era of their more spectacular influence of legislation. Nevertheless 1 the rural politicians find the Patrons of Husbandry worthy of observation l and keep their ears to the ground ] about the grange halls.'
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
Pennywise Peter.

There was half-witted youth in Bridgetown to whom the neighboring farmers liked to offer a penny and nickel.
 "Gathered about him in q circle on market day the farmers, one after an- other, would say:
 "Now which will yer have. Peter? Here's a cent-here's nickel-take yer choice
 And fool Peter would invariably choose the cent rather than the nickel, and the farmers, before such incredi- ble foolishness, would roar with laugh ter double in two and slap their legs noisily with their brown hands. "Peter,' said one day to the luna- tic. why is 1t that you always take the cent instead of the nickel? Peter grinned a very cunning grin
 Suppose I took the nickel said he. would ever get chance to take another one e?'"-Washington Post.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
OUR ANNUAL SACRIFICE.

This is the title of a pamphlet just issued in Boston to awaken the peo- pie to the fearful sacrifice of life made in commemoration of Independence day. If men were as slow to wrath as they be to reform, the fierce side of the struggle of life would be very much improved. The Boston Globe. speaking of this pamphlet says:
 "The startling facts which were compiled for the 1915 movement by Dr. Scannen of the school board. are a terrific indictment of the fathers and mothers of America for their careless ness in permitting their children to handle dangerous fireworks. Do these fathers and mothers realize that the killed and injured at the battle of Bunker Hill were only 1,474. as com pared with 1922 killed and injured while celebrating the Fourth of July in 1909?
 Only 274 was the toll paid for York town and independence; only 25S in the combat where the immortal watch word of I4awrence-Don't give up the ship'-was first heard; only 335 on that day when was fired the shot heard around the world.
 Those were occasions of real patri- otism. The follies of the Fourth are the result of a sham patriotism or a disordered imagination, which would lower Lexington and Concord to the level of a. brutal orgy.
 Besides. the loss caused by fires July 4. 1909. as result of so- -called patriotic celebrations. was $446,50o.
 'Worthily to commemorate the achievements of our ancestors or oul brothers is not only duty. but joy Public fireworks exhibitions, controlled by persons who know the proper use of explosives. are in harmony with the spirit of the event. But who ewoult say that the toll of death and injury paid for Folly's Fourth of July is z worthy tribute to those whose memor, we honor?
 'eWhen barbarous methods of ob' serving the Fourth have been aband' oned then will be opened the way fo a commemoration in which may b. utilized electricity. the wizard whos' wonders outshine the fnarvels of Mer lin and whose awful magnificence | docile even to the touch of a child.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
POPULARITY SUPPOSED.
Animals Not So Sleepy in Winters as
 PopuarIy Supposed.

Tn your issue of Nov. the writer of an article on Information makes several mistakes in his statements. For instance. he writes, "the brown bear still fairly common in our state,
 etc. The fact is that the brown bear is not to be found east of the Missls- sippi, unless tame ones, or an occa- sional spot from the black. In hand ling 5000 or 5000 bear skins taken in Maine and the provinces. have seen but three which differed from the common black bear. These resembled the so-called cinnamon as much as they did the brown or Isabella as they are called by the trade.
 He states that bears "sleep all win ter without waking at all. It is said that he can scarcely be aroused from his torpor." The fact is that they are never torpid. and are rarely, if ever, asleep. Henry Clapp of Brownville kept a pair of cubs two winters. He told me that they had denned in the hay before a ladder, so that he passed over them when he fed his cattle. He told me that he always saw their eyes when he passed over them. A friend who kept one at Sault Ste Marie had the same experience. He always found them awake. I have known several cases where they were found denned in hollow logs and they were awake when found, and when disturb ed those who were in front found the bears quicker than they were. A bear as soon as he gets out so he can use his feet is as quick as cat. l have had the skins of scores taken from dens, and I never heard any hunter complain of their being slow. There is a great deal of nlisapprehensior about bears hit srnating. It is fa- vorite theory among scientists while
 bears fo to den to fat, that this fat l furnishes feed to support life, and that | in the spring they come out poor. The ! fact is they come out fat, as fat. a: | far as can be told, as when they wen | in. | have examined those taken from
 dens from December to the last o1
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
ANOTHER SIGN OF BETTER
 TIMES.

Tn its hard times this country has not been alone. According to the min ister of finance of Canada, that coun- try ran behind eleven millions last year, but he notes indications of complete revival of business. This is good news in America, for Canada is a liberal patron of this country and money shortage there means less bus mess here and more business adds to our profits and pleasures as well as to theirs. The two countries are So closely allied and their interests so often run counter that we cannot af- ford to have any tiffs. May the neigh borly spirit and good policies of trade which have always characterized our relations continue in force for ages to come.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25

March. and have never seen a poor one.
 In 1861 saw bear taken. from a den March 29. She had two cubs about as large as half grown cats. held one of the cubs in my arms the night after it was taken and it went to sleep trying to nurse my ear. This bear was fat, in spite of having nursed two cubs some two months. l exam ined her inside and stretched the skin and she was fat. Bears have taken cubs in January, usually as early as the middle of the month. Bears vary
 in the time in going to den, the time
 being governed a good deal by the
 food supply. I have known of year when there were no nuts or berries, when I received letters, from all over
 eastern Maine and various parts of the provinces that all the bears went | to den in October and I have known of years when nuts were plenty and the esason held off too late, when they stayed out until late in December. Occasionally one which has been dis
 turbed from his first den will stay out all winter, making temporary dens few nights at time. In such cases they grow poor, but never that have | seen when regularly denned.-M. liar | dy. in The Maine Sportsman.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25
CIRCULATION
CHRISTMAS.

To enjoy Christmas fully we should not only lend ourselves to making others happy, but should become con- sczous of the gift which money can not buy that Is ours through the rev. citations and inspiration of Christ's birth
 The star of Bethlehem guided the wise men of the east to the place where the Saviour lay; and from that day q star of hope has shone into the most squelid homes for He who was born in a stable and gloriied even poverty. He who was the shepherd of the sheep, would not have one go astray, but extended His mercy and love to all He asked nothing of the world but right living, pure thinking and loyalty to the principles which would make of all men sons of God. And what is the price of His pres ence to you and mees It is not with the great and the gifted and the rich that He dwells. He does not answer to the. call of the potentate, or bow before the mighty. or strive to please the influential-no nation, or sect, or cult can claim Him. for where Love is Cod is, and that Is His permanent abode. 7p
 As Henry Drummond puts 1t, "the greatest thing in the world is love" but the world has not yet come to realize It. for If 1t had the price of peace would not be preparedness for war Have you and learned that 'the greatest thing man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children? Oh, this old world is slow in learning this easy lesson.
 Love is unselfsh, it knows not en- vy-yearns not for fame-is filled with charity. Is not easily provoked. for it thinketh no evil, but is gentleness- and this gentleness invites God.
 This raiment of Love was the Saw tours gift to the humblest human soul; and how man has striven to di- vide the raiment. and sects have tried to claim exclusive rights in it; but no men on earth can be robbed of this raiment for it will come to him as the sunlight comes to energize the earth, the moment his heart is open to truth.
 What money cannot buy, the pure in heart can make their own without money and without price.
 What is better for contemplation tor day than this beautiful carol from The Catholic Standard and Times: There was a star whose light,
 Mystical and holy,
 Shone through she quiet night
 Ger a stable lowly.
 Sing praise to God on highl
 And rejoice that He Thus should beatify
 Humble poverty.
 A Merrie Christmas, gentlefolk!
 And may your wealth and pride Be mindful of the humble ones
 This blessed Christmas tide.
 -w There was a Little Child,
 Innocent and holy,
 Born of the Virgin mild
 In that stable lowly.
 Bing praise to God, who gave
 Unto you and me
 Such gift our souls to savei
 O. the charity
 A Merrie christmas, gentlefolki
 And may your wealth and pride Be mindful of the humble ones
 This blessed Christmas tide.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-25

mankind. The reality of his earthly existence is the heart of the Christ mas celebration now going forward throughout the civilized world, and II he means something to us personally, then Christmas will mean something deep and vital, too.
 off, then. with the wrappings of Christmas. Pierce through the things that have grown up around the holy festival to it's very heart. Rise, happy morn, rise holy morn, Draw forth the eastern day from
 night, Oh. Father, touch the world and
 light
 The light that shone when Christ was
 THE PARSON.