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Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Plenty of Small Arms.

If there are those who have taken alarmist literature so seriously as to be apprehensive of the invasion of the United States, such may derive comfort from the knowledge that the invader will not find us unarmed or compelled to fall back on fowling pieces. The Springfield armory is turning out the new service rifles at the rate of 500 a day. We must have now available in the hands of the army and militia and stored against possible emergencies well on toward 500,000 rifles of the best pattern. Our condition of prepared ness' is very different from what it was just before the Spanish war. We then had only enough magazine rifles to supply our small regular army. We did not have S0,00O of these weapons until the fighting with Spain was over This deficiency was not chargeable to this one official or that, but to the failure of congress to provide in peace against the possibility of war.-Boston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
The LethaI Chamber.

Britain's House of Lords has now and has had in times past many niclxnames. Some modern Englishmen call it the chamber of horrors and the '1ethal chamber" When William Pitt fell upstairs" as Lord Chester field put it, and became Earl of Chat ham, Chesterfield spoke of it as that hospital of incura bles." Chatham used to call it 'the tapestry" in allu- sion to it's usual splendid lifelessness Disraeli had the same thought in his mind when, shortly after he had be- come Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Abcr- dare asked him, How do you like this placer" Well, feel that am dead'' said the new peer, adding, with second thought pohteness, but in the elysian fields"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
"NonHINe LIKE SPORT"
MT. Roosevelt and Kermit Are Hunting
 in the Right Place

The cable in todays papers that Ker- init Roosevelt has killed a bongo is, as- suming it's correctness, most interest ing. It constitutes another record No white man had hitherto shot this fabled beast. Fable" is, indeed, too strong a word, for it is known that this beautiful antelope exists in the Ravine forest, which fringes the Wazan Guish plateau, and when I was shooting there three winters since I saw at the fort the skin and horns of a magnificent specimen which had been killed by a native.
 The bongo, as I learned from that hide, is of the species bushbuck, and is as large as a polo pony, the hide beau tiful, with also zebra quarterings, and the tips of the horns are curiosity in nature, appearing to be of ivory and not of bone.
 If Kermit Roosevelt has secured this trophy he is to be heartily congratulat- ed. This antelope is unknown except in the Ravine forest, on the Mau es- carpment; is said to feed only at night and to feed in the dense timber. The few specimens thus far killed by na- tive hunters with poisoned arrows have been at the salt ticks in that lovely forest.
 May add how very interesting to us from England is this expedition of your ex-president? He dwells chiefly on the scientific aspect of his sport But what occurs to us is the enormous strength and cunning of the great Af- rican fauna which he encounters in the forests of the Ravine or on Kenia, the danger of killing the vast beasts in such an environment.
 There is indeed nothing like sport. and there is nothing like that East African sport on this planet The won- derful variety of the fauna and the flora, too; the beauty of the scenery. the perfection of the climate-these experiences are quite ineffaceable.- Moreton Frewen in the New York Tribune.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
What Should Be Done with Them.

This story is said to have been told in the smoking room of a trans-At- lantic liner: The young Marquis of Anglesey, who died in Monte Carlo some five years ago, went to extremes in everything. He was very intelli- castle in Wales there was a slight fire So, lest the priceless pile burn down. he ordered an enormous quantity of hand grenades, or extinguishers, from London. When the grenades arrived they were hung all over the castle, but though it was an enromous place, there were still several dozen grenades left over at the end of the hanging. And what shall I do with them, my lord?" the butler asked Lord Ang lesey coughed-he was already in a pretty bad way-and said dryly to the butler: You may put them in my coffint'
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
The Word "subsidy."

The Merchant Marine league has asked the newspapers not to use the word "subsfdy," since, technically, speaking, no such bill with its recom- mendations is now before congress. But subsidy by any other name would still be a subsidy. Why not call things by their right names? Presi- dent Taft does. Tn his message he refers to a subsidy bill"-Portland Eastern Argus,
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Some of, Those Dukes.

The total area of the United King dom of Great Britain is about v. 00O ,000 acres When the last Domesday book was prepared it was found that the peers owned 16,411,9S6 acres, or more than One-fifth of the whole. Now that the land tax has been rejected by the house of lords the radical papers are publishing lists of titled owners with the number of their acres beside their names. to show their reasons for vot- ing against budget which contained a land tax. Here are some of the fig ures:
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

Green-Poor Hilo is in hard luck. He has one arm in a sling, a black eye. two teeth missing and a mortgage on. his home. Brown-You don't say sol How long has he had the auto -Chi- caga N-a<4sR
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

Of course, this may be all a pipe dream. I'm not in the secrets of the mind feminine. But I do know some thing about the other sort of mind and how it works. And I suspect that nine-tenths of all the trouble we have in selecting Christmas Hrssents for others, and -tenths of all the mis- fits we're finally guilty of, come from our inability to put ourselves in the other fellows place. We want to please that other fellow, but we've spent so big a part of our lives think ing about our own likes and dislikes, our own needs, our own tastes, our own whims that 1t has become prac- tically impossible for us to get out side of ourselves. With too, too many of us life is built on and erected with selfishness. And he or she who is consistently selfish 364 days of the year simply cannot blossom out, all at once into perfect flower of altruism on Christmas day. It takes good many long years for even wild apple tree to develop into fruit bearing You can't change it to a Baldwin in a day, though you graft and bud never so cunningly.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Miaht Have Been Worse.

Alfred Austin may not be long on fine verse, but recent events have in a measure justified his appointment as Poet Laureate.-Philadelp Inauir CT.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Those Corpuscles
In your blood, = red and white, - keep you well if they are healthy, cause you sickness if diseased.

To make and keep them abundant and healthy, is to have pure blood, free- dom from disease and vigorous health. The chief purpose of Hoods Sarsa- parilla is to do this, and it's success is attended by thousands of wonderful cures. Cures of all blood diseases, scrofula, eczema, rheumatism, catarrh.
 Get it today in the usual liquid form or in chocolated tablet form called Sarsstahs
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
Babes in the Wood.

It looks as if Forester Pinchot might have found Babe BalIinger in the wood where he ought not to have been.-Philadelph North American.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

One day last summer took my little seven year old niece to the city. We had royal time, after my bothersome business was hurried through with. We trolleyed to the park, we sauntered along the avenue and watched the crowds of daintily dressed youngsters who were mixed up with magnificent gowned elders; we took in' the glories of the great show windows, the contents of a single one of which my whole farm wouldn't begin to buy; we went to the very swellest dining place we could find, where a big waiter in white jacket and with veritable tablecloth of napkin put in his whole time just waiting on us. I don't rememDer all he brought us, but I do know that he earned his tip" and that we finished with two kinds of ice cream, a sherbet. and some sort of glorified cold drink in dainty little glasses, with a French name as long and unpronounceable as could be, which tasted like nectar and ambrosia-and cost like sim Then. with the princess gracious permission, l took ''bang-up" cigar and as I was smoking it the idea suddenly entered my selfish masculine noodle: Why. I've been trying to please Her Majesty my way-just like a man; can it be
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

And so, unless you've been, more or less, accustomed to projecting yourself out of yourself in order to gain both the outlook and the intake of others. you're apt to boggle badly when you make a single try at it. Nevertheless it is the only secret of joyful giving. Put Yourself in His Place" If you can do this successfully you'll at once know what he-or she-would really like. But if you simply continue to stand off on your own ash heap and wonder vaguely about his or her likes and dislikes, you'll arrive nowhere. You'll make yourself lot of trouble, and furrow your own brow with new worry marks, to no good or pleasing purpose.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

A North Sea traveller has caught mackere1 24 inches in length, weighing four and a half pounds.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
We people on lonely farms are ant to

we people on lonely farms are apt to get into the way of thinking that we can't have much of a Christmas be- cause we can't afford the rich gifts which we see in city store windows It is a pity that the old country Christ mas should anywhere become deca- dent through such a spirit There's many little lad who would be better pleased with sturdy sled of fathers making, which would cost only a few cents for it's steel shoes and bright paint, than with any factory built gew-gaw affair, which would break the first time he sent it over a real bumper" There's many little maid en who would find unalloyed pleasure in rag doll of mothers construction, even though its eyebrows were only linked on and it's cheeks reddened with nothing costlier than bees-juice. There was once a boy fifty years-it seems five hundred-agO, who used for weeks to look forward to his Christmas pop- corn ball Gas big as his head and with his age deftly pricked out on one side in colored kernals arranged to make the proper Arabic figure) who used to look forward to this confection with greater desire than he has ever since felt for the costliest concoction of Huyler Or Mallard
 The worth of a aft is not measured by it's price. either in dollars or in la Dor, but the happiness it causes. And sometimes seven cent doll carries more happiness than a seven dollar dinner at SherryS.
 THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

An, friends, this approaching Christ nnastde is, after all a festival of child hood. It is the anniversary of a won derful birth, it carries our thoughts back to the infant of Bethlehem, and it's most appropriate observance is that which restores most completely to all of us the spirit of childhood. Gift making is but one feature, but in this one direction, if We would give the greatest happlness-and thereby win to ourselves the greater joy-it must be by emptying ourselves of that self ishness which doth so generally over come us, by denying that spirit of os- tentation which is born of self-glory, by ignoring the commercial tendency to make our gifts just return payments for gifts we have received. That gift alone flowers with perfect beauty which is chosen to satisfy the real longing of another, which fills an oth- erwlse empty corner in anothers need.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
,t it. "shan't wrap it up?v

She got it. "Shan't wrap it up?" asked the saleswoman. No. indeed, it dropped into the hollow of the little arm and, her hand in mine, Her Maj esty started from the store. Could it be possible? Didn't she want anoth- CT? Here was a big blond beauty. Just look at it; what nice dress, too Wouldn't you like this. also? Uncle can afford it. if you do." No. sir-ee. She had found the doll she wanted, and enough was enough. I would never have thought of buying her that doll. It was neither beautiful nor even at tractive to my eyes. There comes in the whole lesson; it was not my old eyes that were to be pleased. but her young ones. I was planning and was perfectly willing to have bought her something costing fifty times as much If I had done so, I should have given her less pleasure. And it was just her pleasure I wanted to magnify, not my own.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

The first American book printed in the colonies was the Bay Psalm Book It was printed in Cambridge, Mass, in 1640
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

Women's Christmas gifts to men have long been the subject of more or less joke making in the alleged fun n.y. papers. I should really like to know just what women actually think about some of mems holiday gifts to them. Men are less adept actors, less able to conceal their real feelings, and they're more apt to let their surprise or disappointment show. When she gives him a pair of slippers which are size too small, he may put on a sickly sort of grin and pretend to ad- mire the shading of the very remark able rose she's embroidered on the front. But his pretense is a poorly ex- ecuted fraud, and she discovers it in- stanter. And then she's apt to wall weepfully, because he's "so unreason- able!" When he, on the other hand, gives her pair of gloves two sizes too big, and of a color which she simply c-a-n-n-o-t wear with any gown or wrap she possesses, she fairly bubbles right over with joy. There just too lovely; they're exactly what I wanted. How did you know what would please me the most?" And then, when she is by herself, she looks at 'em in part surprise and part sorrow and part dis gust and thinks, "Of all the chumps. How can I lose 'em so they'll never be found again?"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
A PerpetuaI Time Keeper.

There have been many attempts to solve the secret of perpetual motion. The hearst approach to that ideal though it's inventor makes no claim to have discovered it-is a timepiece de- vised by R. H. Strut, Lord Rayleighs s son. which consists of two leaves of aluminium. an exhausted glass tube, The radioactivity of the radium causes the aluminium leaves to move once a minute, and with a wireless coherer a bell rings at each movement. For 10000 years at least the wonderful en- ergy inherent in the microscopic piece of radium will, it is calcuated, con- tinue to act, and nothing whatever needs to be done to the clock once it is set going.-Westminste Gazette.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18

that she may nave some ideas of her own as to what she'd like to do?" So I began, awkwardly, no doubt. but as cannily as l could, to find out what her idea was about the best way to finish the day. And right there came the revelation.
 She was a little lady, and she had
 accepted with beamng smiles all my cumbrouS attempts at. amusing her. She was also a frank and candid little thing, and she responded promptly to my belated attempt to put myself in her place. It took me but a very few minutes to find out just what she had heen hC ping for all that morning. And then we started instanter for gor- geous "Toyland" shop, where shelves and tables and story after story were piled and heaped with toys and dolls and the like in extravagant profusion. Entering, we declined all offers of guidance from the floor walker. Once or twice when we passed some counter whose exhibit seemed peculiarly fas- ciniting to me, l made feeble attempt to call her attention to it's glories. In vain. Her eyes were already upon the doll department, in the farthest dis tance, and straight to it she led me. There for five minutes we stood-dolls to the right of us, dolls to the left of US, dolls all around us smiled and smirked by the thousand. There were dolls that laughed and cried, dolls with phonograps inside that talked, dolls as big as the little lady herself, dressed in silks and Haunting ribbons and Paris made hats, dolls that cost more mon ey than l could have found in all my pockets that day. She looked them all over. I don't think she missed sin gle one. Then, when l was beginning to wonder how could fix it with the saleswoman while I hurried out to bor- row enough to pay for the wonder I felt sure sne would select-the one I would have selected had the choice lain with me-she walked straight up to certain counter and declared: q want that one" And her finger rested on seven cent doll with flaxen hair and bright red cheeksl
Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-18
A FARMERS TALK TO FARMERS
Little Christmas Talk Based Upon Iifes Experiences How We Blunder in Selecting Presents for Others The Way of Doing Things Right. he Price of Less Consequence than the Happiness the Gift Gre ates.

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 Doubtless many of my readers are. about this time, deeply and more or less secretly engaged in the purchase or preparation of Christmas gifts for next week. It is likely that most of them are women, and 1 hope they won't think it is interfering with their pre- rogative for mere man to mix up in the matter. I'm doing it for two ex- cellent reasons. The first is that good many of their gifts are going to be made to mere men, and I presume they'd honestly be glad of all the light they can get on what sort of things men are glad to have. The second is because I don't think it is sensible for us men to let the women folks have all the fun there is in Christmas giving.
 For there is, generally, a good deal more real pleasure in giving than in being given to. That is, if one has soul as well as stomach. Probably hog wouldn't find any pleasure in giv- ing away part of his breakfast. He would better enjoy having some more swiH given to him. But there's diff ference between men and hogs-L e., between most men and hogs.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-28

Now if you are ready to take up the
clothes question (and it's time you were)
you will find here the most attractive dis
play we've ever had. The new models, pat
terms and colorings are exceptionally hand
some. Soft green's and tans will be much
in demand as will also the blue worsteds in
self colored stripe effects, Every mans
taste is provided for.
Let us show you.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-22
THE THEATRES
POLI'S

Tor the 'real candy" show Polls is the place for you next week. Let s prove it. In the first place the bill will be headed by that inimitable and incomparable musical comedy star, Frank Lalor, who won such signal prior in Coming Thro' the Rye" and followed it up in Prince Humbug." MT. Lalor has his own musical com edy now It's called Back to Earth" anp for real merit there is nothing III the varieties that will approach it. MT. Labor has taken several of his good people in support in his legitl- mate offerings with him into vaude- ville He will have a support in Back to Earth hard to equal and inn possible to rival anywhere. Frank Labor is perhaps the funniest comed- ian that lives and breathes. It is ali most sufficient for Labor to make his appearance iii that unique makeup @that he affects, to take his audience by storm There will be several mu- sical hits in Back to Earth, some of them the great song hits that made Labor famous in his legitimate pro- nt L0ge of onr L909 tHge Thro the he RJe'', and the "Gogga-You", a bril- liant musical offering in Prince Hum bug", will be among the musical mas terpieces of Back to Earth Mr. l. alor has the part of "FeliX Dlppy, collector of antiques. He has splen- did support in the persons of Miss Florence Morrison, Edward Earle, Miss Violet Arthur, and others. Labor car ries his own musical director for Back to Earth, Arthur Downing, a capable leader Special settings and electrical effects are used by MT. Labor in stag ing his successful musical comedy. "Back to Earth should prove one of the most signal successes at Polls this season.
 There will be other features of un-, usual merit in the next week bill at Polps. Miss Laura Burt, one of the most successful actresses on the stage today will present her comedy suc- cess. 'The Order of the Bath, SUD- ported by a clever company. Bert and Bertha Grant, the charming song sters and dancers, will have skit that will please immensely. Then there will be the Four Floods, the merry making acrobats, in a brand new nov deville conlicalities, will be among the winners Van Camp, 'The Man With the Pig, will be a novelty offering in tbe opening position. The Electro graph will present something new and original in motion pictures.
 
 There are very few performances left for this weeks excellent bill at Polls Hyams & Mcintyre. the brilliant head line offering, are still causing a furore. Miss Florence Hamilton, the capable leading woman, in her sensational race track sketch, is an added feature of merit. The Meredith Sisters, Will H. Fox. Great Richards, and others are real live features.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-22
CONGREGATIONAL MISSIONS
MRS. GEORGE H. SIMOND IS RE- ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
 LOCAL AUXILIARIES

The meeting of the Bridgeport Aux
 llllar1es of the Women's Board of Mis-
 sions was held yesterday in the Park Congregational Church. Mrs. George
 H. Dimond, presided There was an
 interesting talk on "Village. Work in India" by Mrs. Loren Gates. who has
 long ben a worker in that field. Mrs
 Gates inspired her hearers with a. new
 interest in the tremendous work being
 done among the Hindoos. Miss Edith
 Woolsey of New Haven spoke of her tour around the world last year, and her visits to the many mission sta tions. She made a plea for money, saying it would be a shame to have to give up the good work now going on for lack of funds. She was fol- lowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Sheffield Stelle a returned missionary from Chi na. Mrs. Stelle spoke of the habits of the Chinese and the work that was being done by the many Americans there to further them along toward Mrs. Stelle can speak terpreter for the American consul many times. She showed the great advance Christian education had made and the popularity of it's methods which have been extensively adopted by the progressive Chinese. The fol- lowing oncerS were elected: President, Mrs. George H. Dimond; vice-presi- dents, Mrs. John DePeu of North Church, Mrs. Henry H. Tweedy, of South Church, Mrs. F. A. Parsons, Ol- ivet church. Mrs. Sauer, West End church, Mrs. Gerald H. Beard, Park Street church; recording secretary, Miss Sarah E. Hubbard; correspond ing secretary, Miss H. A. Hawley; treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Moore; treasurer of home missions, Mrs. J. J. Rose; ex- ecutive board. First church, Mrs. J H. Moore, Miss Fannie Beecher, Miss Jen- nie Sanderson South Church, Mrs. Edward Sterling, Miss Caleff, Mrs. Ives; Olivet church, Mrs. Robert Knox Mrs. Andrew Tait, Mrs. Thomas Joyce; West End, Mrs. Scott Hurlbert, Miss C. w. Moorehouse, Mrs. F. Ly- man: Park Street, Mrs. David Woes tre, Mrs. George w. Ravens, Mrs. La eye. The Kings Highway church was invited to join and accepted the invitation.