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Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-27
OBITUARY.
Captain Demorin Libbey.

New York, Aug. 26.-Captain Dem orin Libbey. known to the older gen. eration of good flyers from coast to coast as "The Original Libbey." died today at his home in East Orange, N. J., at the age of ninety-four. For more than fifty years his downtown oyster house. first in Wall street and then in Murray street. was famous.
 MT. Libbey was born in Hampden, Me, of long lived New England fam fly. His brother Joseph, of Cambridge. Mass, is 90 years old. and Robert of Wellf1eet, Mass. is ninety-four. while a sister. Mrs. Nancey Carey, now at Chatham. Mass. is eighty eight
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Condensed .Telegrs AS

The czar Has Become Patron of tho Aero club of St. Petersburg.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-27

The Spanish Expedition under Gen. eral Marina began its advance on the Moors, the start being made for Res
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A. K. Fisher, of the department of agriculture. said the house cats kill thousands of birds and few rats and mice. >
Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-27

j. American Delegates Read Papers al the dental congress in Berlin.
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 The Consular Agents Were Ordered to make collection of commercial laws of the Central South American repub- lies.
 A. K. Fisher, of the department of agriculture, said the house cats kill thousands of birds and few rats and mice. -> T instructions in First Aid to injured will be given by the National Red Cross to employees of large corpora tions. rs
 The Indians Are Displaying a will ingness to work and to cooperate with their white brothers for local improve ment.
 The Spanish Expedton under Gen eral Marina began it's advance on the Moors. the start being made for Res tinga.
 senor Francisco de Ia Barra, the Mexican ambassador. has made final arrangements to sail for Europe on Sept. f.
 President Taft Took coenizance of the charges made against P. S. Glavis, chief of the field division of the gen eral land soffice.
 Acting Secretary of the Interior Pierce designated 50,450 acres more land as coming within the homestead act in Montana.
 Plans Are Afoot to Organize the 5O0,0O0 steel. iron and tinplate workers of the United States into the Order of the Sons of Vulcan.
 Archbishop Farley, Back from Rome, declares the pope does enough work in a week to drive the average New Yorker into a months vacation.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-27

instructions in First Aid to injured will be given by the National Red Cross to employees of large eorpora- tions. s
Norwich bulletin., 1909-08-27
Two Hours and Half Conference with the
 President Yesterday Afternoon
OUR MONETARY SYSTEM DISCUSSED
Only in General Way-Senator Adrich Outlined the Plan and Scope of the Work the Monetary Commission Hopes to Accomplish Question of Bond Issues Came Up-Senator Aldrich Sails for Europe Tomorrow.

,plication to the finances of the Unit
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Traced by a BIuebottIe FIv.

The great objection to the use Of
poison for rats is that they retire to
their homes and die there, to become
nuisance and menace to health.
Friends Of the writer were compelled
to have the floor and wainscoting Of
their dining room removed for this
reason A wiser man, knowing that a
pair Of poisoned rats had got under his
floor, summoned not carpenter, but a
naturalist, to his aid. They knew that
the rats were under the floor, but the
difficulty was to fix the spot. There
seemed to the owner Of the house no
alternative to the removal of the
whole floor; hence his appeal to the
nature detective. The latter would
not hear Of the floor coming up. He
cried out for a bluebottle fly. One was
captured unhurt and turned loose in
the room. After little preliminary
hawking the bluebottle darted to the
floor and remained on one spot, like
pointer which has found game.
''Your rats are under there" said
the naturalist. They cut down through
that board, and there were the rats
New York Mail. ..,.
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The First Pantonnin1e.

John Rich has the credit of produc-
ing the first pantomime ever seen in
England. This was performed on
Dec. 26, 1717, at the theater in Lin
coins Inn Fields. Rich had found him
self unable to compete with the legit-
mate drama at Drury Lane, SO he be-
thought himself Of the comic Mosques
occasionally performed in London and
combined with their scenic and me-
chanical effects the maneuvers Of the
pantomime ballet. The result was
Harlequin Executed which the ad-
vertisement Of that day described as
"a new italian mimic scene, between
a scaramouch, harlequin, country
farmer, his wife and Others" There
was all the business with which we
were familiar from childhood, huts
turned into palaces, shops into gar
dens, houses into trees. OF course the
earnest student of the drama" pro-
tested against this innovation, but
Harlequin, Columbine & Co. have
maintained their hold on public favor
until the present year of grace.
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Guarding q Nall.

A. gentleman in Jerusalem told me
that he found a Turkish soldier on
guard in some part Of the Church Of
the Holy Sepulcher, where it was not
usual for sentry to be, and inquired
of him why he was there.
He pointed to nail In the wall and
replied, 'It is my duty to watch that
nail.''
Asked why, he. explained that the
Latins or the Greeks-I forget which
had driven the nail with the view of
hanging picture; that rival sect
had furiously objected, saying that it
was an interference with their prop
erty and wanted to pull out the nail;
that thereupon the Turkish govern
ment had interviewed and set him to
watch the nail and see that no picture
was hung upon it and that it was not
pulled out.
To allow the picture to be hung
would have been to admit the claims
Of those who drove, in the nail. To al
low it to be pulled out would have
been to admit the claims Of those who
objected to the driving in Of the nail.
Therefore the nail must be preserved
and the picture must not be hung, and
to see that this was so an armed sem
try must watch day and night. For
aught know he may be watching
still.-Rider Haggard's "a Winter Pill,
grimage." ..ar
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eavarian Distances.

In the Bavarian highlands signposts
along the roads, instead Of stating the
number OF miles or. kilometers to the
various villages, give the amount Of
time which the average pedestrian will
supposedly take to traverse the dis
lance. This is merely an official ex-
preston Of the very general custom of
the peasants in the region, who invari-
ably tell inquirers on the roads not
how far it is to place, but how long
it takes to get there Not only that,
but they make the system still more
unsatisfactory to the stranger by lit
tie additional eccentricity Of their own.
For instance, one asks, ''How far is
It to Oberammergau?''
"a small half hour" will be the an
swer, or perhaps "a good half hour
or "a big half hour
Which is puzzling until the stranger
learns that s'small half hour means
twenty five minutes, "a good half
hour thirty minutes, ga big half hour
thirty-fve minutes, "a small three
quarters Of an hour" forty minutes,
and so on. -.
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dispersed BY THE POLICE
SOCIALISTS Gather at Berlin for Demon
- kion

SOCIALISTS Gather at Berlin for Demon
stration.
Berlin, Jan. ga large crowd OF
socialists, including many women, as
sembled in front of the diet building.
where an Interpolation regarding sur
frage reform was scheduled for hear
ing. Their purpose was to make q
demonstration in favor of reform OF
the electoral system. The police were
on the scene in force, however. and
dispersed the crowd. A strong Gordon
was then established around the
building and further gatherings wore
prevented. The socialists then pro
ceeded to Koeniggnaetz street, with
the intention of entering Inter den
Linden through the Brandenburg gate,
but they found this closed by police
men. There were sporadic gatherings
of socialists in other parts of the city
during the afternoon.
Replying to the Interpolation in the
diet Minister of the Interior Won
Moltke said the government declines
to discuss the matter, because it was
at present engaged in making thor
ough examination Of the question,
which was not yet complete.
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= - $500
His Wonderful m ethod.

You haven't been married very
long, have your" said a guide at the
state capitol to young man who was
signing "Mr. and Mrs" in the register
for visitors at the desk at the en-
trance.
"How did you know?', demanded the
young man.
"Oh, we get used to such people here
and can tell them every time" was
the response. "You haven't written
that name with ''Mrs." very long, have
you? believe can tell how long you
have been married from the sigma
ture," the guide continued.
"Well, we haven't been married very
long, but l don't see how you can tell
from the signature. How long has it
beenY'
well. let me see.'' The guide picked
up the book and scanned the name
closely.
"You have been married five days
today" he said with an air Of GER
tainty.
"That's right, It's five days, but 1
don't see how you can tell.''
The young wife had been sitting on
the marble bench during the colloquy,
and not until the couple went out Of
the building did she tell hubby that
the guide had accosted her in the same
way and that she had told when they
had been married.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
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An Economic Protest.

did l understand you to ask me If
I wanted work ?" asked Flooding Pete.
THAT'S what you understood, If you
understood anything" answered the
woman with a cold, steely eye and a
square jaw.
You've got some. wood that needs
chopping. suppose"
II have"
Lady, I'm surprised at you. Don't
you know dat de trees gather moisture
gradually an by slowly lettin' it into
de ground keep up steady water sup
ply? Don't you know dat when you
leave de hillsides naked an bare de
water comes down in a freshet, same
as beer from a barrel wit de head
stove in? Don't you know dat future
generations is goin' to miss de UNI
brageous protection overhead an dat
our grandchildr is liable to be at de
mercy Of a parasol trust? An you
want me to chop wood! Lady, I'm
surprised at you" -Washington Star.
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He Knew Them,

This was overheard in the lobby Of
a big hotel in Cincinnati when bus
load Of travelling statesmen came from
the station. Every man Of them as
he signed the register paused to shake
hands with the hotel clerk-fat herly
old fellow who had been there many
years. "Ah," said one Of them to the
clerk, ''it's good thing you're still on
deck, Uncle Dave. I don't think the
house could run without you.''
couldn't it, thought said Uncle Dave.
'fYou fellows would come in here, and
If there was strange clerk you'd
say, Where's Uncle DaveT And the
clerk would say: why, didn't you
hear? He died month ago. And
then you'd say: Well, I'll be darnedl
That's too bad. Say, when IL din.
ner be readyY"
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SHELTERS WILL NOT CLOSE
Decision Of Federal Court in Montana
Case, ~

Helena, Mont, Jan. 26.-Judge Hunt
OF the United States district court
handed down a decision in the so
called smoke case in which he denied
the application of farmers for the
closing of the Washoe smelter at Ana
conda. rf
No damages are awarded to the
farmers whose property is alleged to
have been injured. The court will
make further Investigation as to the
alleged dissemination of arsenic and
If conditions can be improved this will
be ordered done by the companies
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coIoring an Abyssinian Bride.

Western brides have an easier time
than their Abyssinian sisters. On the,
occasion Of her marriage an Abyssil-
ian bride has to change her skin. From.
ebony she has to become the color Of
cafe au lait. To accomplish this the.
expectant bride is shut up in a room
for three months. She is covered with
woolen stuff, with the exception Of her
head. Then they burn certain green
and fragrant branches. The fumes
which they produce destroy the orig
inal skin, and in its place comes the
new skin, soft and clear as a baby's.
The elders Of the family feed the
young woman with nutritive force
meat balls. 81
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WILL Be FILED
IN LEGISLATURE
Charges Against Stephenson
Of Wisconsin.
CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR

Specific Accusations Made Prior to
Time Set for RaIlotine and Those
Behind the Move Claim Considera-
ton Must Be Taken-Use of Money
During Primary Contest Believed to
Be the Specific Charge.
Madison, Wis, Jan. 26-"Deflnite
and specific charges will be filed
against United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson at the next meeting Of
the state senate" This was the
declaration of Senator ]. A. Blaine of
Boscobel. 1.-The charges will be made
by the Republicans" he continued.
Senator Husting, the Democrat who
introduced the resolution for the in
vestigation, said he had no charges
to make. Il am not at liberty to say
who will file or give specific facts, but
I know they will be filed. This mat
ter is of great Importance and with
specific charges before the senate a
u1uSlSut VlSW IL given IA0 ouOJSII.
"Jnst how will those charges be
preferred?" was asked the senator.
II presume by the presentation of
the document from the floor of the
senate" he answered. The senator
also suggested that he believed the
senate could not escape the consid-
Grafton of them.
Both houses will ballot separately
for United States senator at noon.
Isaac Stephenson, Republican, was
the nominee of his party at the fall
primary. winning over S. A. Cook,
William H. Hatton and F. E. Meow
ern. Cook and Hatton spent about
100000 each and McGovern over $780,
900. Stephenson has failed so far to
file his expense account. Neal Brown
was tho Democratic nominee.
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AFTER PROLONGED SIEGE
Members of lid" Organization Cap
tured by Police.

Members of lid" Organization Cap
tured by Police.
St. Louis, Jan. 26.-Thirteen mem
bers of the Belmont Pleasure club, an
alleged cid" organization, surren-
dered after defying the police for six
teen hours. The officers had gone, to
the place to raid it, but found the
doors and windows barred and as the
men inside had been charged only
with misdemeanors the police were
not authorized to break down the bar
riers. There was nothing to prevent
them establishing a siege, however,
and squads of patrolmen were kept on
duty for sixteen hours. In an effort
to drive the men out the police blew
cayenne pepper through the keyholes
and stopped up the chimney. The be-
sieged sneezed and coughed, but by
pressing their faces close to the win
dows managed to get enough fresh air
to neutralize the police tactics until
the clubs larder emptied. Desire for
breakfast caused them to surrender.
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His Saturday NIGHT.

The pretty, broad faced, blue eyed
woman was telling how it happened
that her husband came home SO late
Of a Saturday night. $
when he goes to get shaved for
Sunday" she said, che waits SO long
for the line that gets there before him
that he goes to sleep in the chair while
he is being shaved. Then the barber,
who is a friend Of his, let's him sleep
as long as he likes after he has fin-
ished with him. But I don't see how
he can fall asleep with a dangerous
razor scraping all over his face. I
couldn't. Could your
1T isn't the most plausible excuse I
ever heard" said one to whom the
question was put, "but it ought to pass
on account Of its originality" New
York Press.
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DRESSING the SPONGE,

When sponges are first torn from
the sea bed they are Of dark color
and living. BY tramping and pressing
them with the feet milky substance
oozes ont, whereupon the sponge dies
They are then Immersed in the sea
for space Of eight or ten hours. The
dark, skinny substance is then remov-
ed by scraping, and gradually, through
cleaning, drying and bleaching, they
take on the fine yellow color which
characterizes many of them.
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Virginia Lawyer Ends Life.

Mount Vernon, Va, JAM 26.-As-
semblyman P. G. Mains, lawyer, tele-
phoned his wife to hurry down to his
Office and aid him with some legal
matters. Then. he hung up the re-
ceiver and put bullet through his
head. dying instantly. His wife faint
ed when she stumbled over his body.
The cause of the suicide is unknown.
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In Forty Fathoms of Water.

Marthas Vineyard, Mass, Jan. 90
Captain Sealby and fifty members of
the crew of the Republic were trans
ferred to the derelict destroyer SEN
eca off Vineyard sound lightship and
an hour later the Seneca started for
new York. The captain of the Gresham
stated that the Republic sank nine
miles south by east of Nantucket
lightship in about forty fathoms of
water. .-s 2
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p...oc;o,,. p,,nc+;I;n

$50 you don't believe IN Santa
Claus
II didn't exactly say that" answered
the little Boston girl. ''But don't app
prove Of him. understand that he
calls after o'clock and doesn't wear
evening clothes. Washington Star.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago. May 25.-Wheat-May,
s1.07; July, 97A @97asc; Sept, 94Ac;
Dec, 95c. Corn-Jan., 5SAc; May, 81
@e2Bc; July, 62Ac; Sept, 62asc.
Oats-May, SIX @51Bc; July, 4e11c;
Sept, 39Ac. Pork-Jan., $17.45; May,
s1712k; July, $17.2O. Butter-C Cream
cries, 22@2Sc; diaries, 21k@27c.
Eggs-30c. Poultry Turkeys, 16c;
chickens, 12c; springs, 1876.
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Claims to Be Son of Peer.

Mexico, Mo-, Jan. 26.-Asserting
that he is the eldest son of John
Campbell Gordon, earl of Aberdeen, a
British peer, a prisoner in the Au-
drain county Jail, who has been under
arrest for over a week for an alleged
forgery, has made his first statement
to the police. When arrested the man
gave his name as L. F. Leland and
said he lived in Wyoming. He is
charged with forging a check for $3.50
upon a local merchant
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THREE KILLED; TEN INJURED
Car Dashes Down Incline at Fearful
Rapidly.

Cumberland, Md, JAN 26.-Three
men were killed and ten others in.
jured, three perhaps fatally, in coal
mine accident at Piedmont, w. Va.
Two cars loaded with miners were
ascending the plane at the mine of
the Piedmont and Georges Creek Coal
company at that place. Near the top
The cars became uncoupled and dashed
dashed with fearful rapidity down the
incline and collided with other cars
Ut the bottom.
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st. Paul Union Stock Yards,

St. Paul, Jan. 25.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.00@6.oO; fair tc good,
$45O@5.00; good to choice cows and
heifers, $4.00@5.25; veals, s5.55@6.00.
Hogs-$5.60@6.25. Sheep
$5.10@5.35; yearlings, $6.00@6.50;
lambs, $7.O0@7.25.
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anthracite COAL SUPPLY
Geologist Says It Will Be Exhausted
in Ei9hty-five Years.

in Ei9hty.fiVe Years. g..
indianapolis, Jan. 26.-According to
Professor William Grifiths, mining
expert and geologist of Scranton, Pa,
who is here attending the miners con-
vention, the entire supply of anthra-
cite coal will be exhausted in eighty
five years.
His estimates on the supply are
based on 1905 surveys. The produc-
ton has been averaging just under
80,000.000 tons a year for several
years. In 1907 it was 100000 tons.
Already much territory is entirely
mined out and the empty caverns are
SO numerous and great now that it is
possible for people to walk twenty or
thirty or more miles under the sur
face of the earth In mine passage
ways.
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The Problem Solved.

Newed-My wife has a habit Of talk
Ing money from my pockets when I'm
asleep. Oldwed Mine used to do that
100, but she doesn't any mo4e. Viewed.
How do you prevent it, Oldwed-I
spend every cent have before g
Chicago News.
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, JAM 25-Cattle- Beeves,
s4.1O@7.0O; Texans, s4.20@4.9O; West
ern cattle, $2S5@5.50; stockers and
feeders, $3.15D5.10; cows and heifers,
s1.85@5.35; calves, $5.50@7.25.. Hogs
Light, S5.65@6.S5; mixed, $3.50.
6.55; rough, $5.90@6.10; heavy, $500
@6.60; good to choice heavy, 1910
@6.60; pigs, s460@5.65. Sheep, 49, 81
@b.75; yearlings. $5.s007.00; lambs,
S5.OO@7.75.
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Tho Office BOY .lnstructs.

Contribute should like to leave
these poems with your editor. What
is the usual procedure? I haven't
done any magazine work before. Of
fee Boy-Well, the usual custom is to
leave 'em an call back in day or so
an git 'em. Exchange.
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Duluth Wheat and Flax,

Duluth, Jan. 25.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. hard, $1.0SA; No.
I Northern, $1.07A; No. 2 Northern,
$1.05A; May, $1.07A; July, $1.071a.
Flax-To arrive, on track, May and
July, $1.57; Oct, s1.361s.
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Not 50 Sharp.

That is a sharp young man your
daughter Is going with these days.
s Not SO sharp as be thinks he Is.
He thinks he Is going to stick me for;
a home and puncture my bank account,
but he isn't. Houston Post. So 3
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Savage.

Caller Sir, am collecting for the
poets hospital. Will you contribute
anything? Editor With pleasure. Call
tonight with the ambulance, and / win
have some poets ready. Judge.
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ARTICLES READ TO JURY
Proceedings in Canal Libel Probe at
Washington.

Washington, Jan. 26.-When the
federal grand jury, which is investi-
eating the alleged libels of the New
York World and the Indianapolis
News In connection with the purchase
Of the Panama canal, adjourned it
had been in session for only one hour
Contrary to expectations no witnesses
were heard. The session was occu-
pied with the reading to the jury Of
statements which appeared in the
New York and Indianapolis papers
upon which the alleged libels are
based. The grand jury is not expect
ed to make return in the cases until
early next month. 49,
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EinurAs DON'T Liz,

Hoax Men live faster than women.
Joax That's right. Ny wife and I
were the same age when we were mar
ried, but Tn fifty now, and she's just
thirty Illustrated Bits.
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GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat.

Minneapolis, Jan. -Wheat-May,
SLOTS @1.o7%; July, $1.oS. On track
NO. 1 hard, $110h @11O5s; No. 1
Northern, $1.O9M @1.09%; No. 2
Northern, $1.O7@1.o75s; No. 3 North
ern, $1.04k@106.
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Beware of Ointments for catarrll tllatcontain
Mercury

smell and completely derange the whole sys-
TEN when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be used
sicians. as the damage they do is ten fold to
The good you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
curry. and is taken internally. acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
ally and made in Toledo, O., by r. J. Cheney
& Co. Testimonials free =
Sold by druggists. Price 75c per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.