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Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04
THE CHILD AND HER BOY FRIEND

the leading lady of the drama, but the spectator, no less, as tears of com passion would stream down over sler cheeks for the waif she felt herself to be. It was a sorry life she lived, compelled to beg the hard crusts of her daily bread, pushed and jostled and thrust to one side by the busy crowd, little friendless child. alone in a rushing world. But into the depths of her misery streamed one ray of bright white light. She knew that when the long day ended, when the welcome night came. when one by one the street lamps should be ught- ed then, around the corner would come the boy, her friend, to take her by the hand and lead her home To be sure, it was wretched hole of a basement into which she plunged at night, with only bed of rags to sleep on, and only by rare good luck could she slink into 1t unooserved. and so escape the cruel cuffs and blows that were always hers in waiting. But the walk along the gas-lit streets with her hand in his seemed like go- ing home
 A princess she was at times, oc- casionaiiy in disguise, but oftenest veritable princess, the daughter of kingly line. Then she was apparel, ed in rich ibrocades and cloth of gold and wore upon her hair a teweied coronet. She was marveilously fair, angelically kind. She knew every thing, ana Q1u eVeryhHlHB SIle RieW' Mothers pretty sitting room stretch ed away into palace halls, mosaics were beneath her feet, wondrous tapestries yelled the walls, perfumed fountains Spra yed the court, flowers bloomed and full -throated birds trill- ed for her. Mother herself was trans formed into a queenly sceptre. Father was lord supreme of ali the realm, her brothers were courtiers in velvet and gold lace and sweeping plumes. The ma ids and the outdoor man were retainers. And the boy? An, he was the princei
 She was oftener beggar girl than princess, however. Brocade and gems and glitter were far less dramatic than rags and hunger and weeping in the rain. She never loved her and the prince of the court was never so dear to her as the boy her who rounded the corner of the street to rescue her from drudgery and lone Illness and desolation, and to lead her by the hand
 As she grew older. he studied with her and helped her over the hard prob lelns in her lesson books. They never quarreled, not even for the excitement of it. They could not quarrel being so truly one Not that they invar- iably thought alike. He was neither her slave nor satellite. Rather she knew him to be her leader, and glad Iy she followed whithersoever he led. Indeed, sine could not do otherwise. She would not have dared take one step by herself without him, lest she lose her way in loneliness and doubt. Boy though he was, and growing as she grew, he always seemed to be her own better, wiser, nobler self.
 THE RECLUSE.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04
A YEAR OF GREAT FLIGHTS.

The summer of 1910 promises to be a season of achievements in air navi- gation IS has been shown by the three great flights recently made-the flight of Paulhan from London to Manches- ter, England, the flight of Curtiss from Albany to New York city, and the flight of Rolls from England to France and back across the English channel without stopping, in a Wright bipIane. These were all daring and record breaking flights, and they fore shadow a season in this direction without a parallel. It is likely that flights may be attempted from New York to Washington and from New ' ork to Chicago; and it would not be surprising if the Rochester man who announces his intention to fly across Lake Ontario should succeed; or if some one should capture the prize for a flight from New York to St. Louis. There is no foretelling what the fly ing machines may do in the next five months. The biplane ought to work the fairs in the fall, since it would be a great drawing card.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

the others. At last her opposition be- came almost unbearahle, and when the vote one day stood, as it had so many times before, four to one, and she had could not conscientiously vote for the measure, my friend turned toward her and b1andly inquired: Mrs. Blank did you ever hear the little boys replied. "It is that thing in you which says won't" The vivid blush which overspread the woman's face showed that she saw the point.
 One must certainly weigh carefully the evidence and be sure that he is free from all opinionativeness or self will before he sides with the minority. decisions he must put just as far from him the fear that if he follows the right he may stand alone or at least with but few. All the reforms which have lifted mankind started with a man or a group of men who were for a while in the minority. That is equally true as respects such great issues as human slavery, or such mil nor matters as particulars of our wardrobe. The man who carried the first umbrella on the streets of Lon don was hOoted.
 Minorities in the course of the years often become majorities. In his re- position after another that he cham pioned when but few could be rallied to its support, has come to be gener- ally accepted. So let us be ashamed to chamber up on the band wagon when we ought to be showing our colors. Listen to the Roman Catho- lie poet when he sings:
 | Oh. learn to scorn the praise of men, Oh, learn to lose with God,
 For Jesus won the world through
 shame
 7 And beckons thee His road.
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 THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

The calling of a special city meet ing by The Bulletin on Friday morn ing was not a flight of the ina gination but just a fluI1e resulting from misdi- rection. The sentiment of the article upon a new charter was the real thing and will apply to the regular meeting just as we'll The Bulletin would apoI- ogize to the citizens who were mis- led, was not walking one Of the health jest exercises known to man. Walk and the world walks with you, wilt and you wilt alone
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little money or little fame make some people very interesting to folks who have neither. It has been said that if you have money those you are introduced to seldom forget your name but. then, your enemies have just as tenacious a memory for your faults and your failings. There is a sort of indelIfbility to the meanness of others the moment that 1t is practiced upon us-only the masterful can forget 1t. There are many better things that could dwell in memory and be more pleasureable and profitable to all of us Only a few have learned to forget the evil acts of others and to cherish the good for goods sake, but all may A1eannesS has to be noticed to keep alive, and it takes two to do it, just a it takes two to make trouble The wise form better partnerships
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

The child was born into a beautiful home- Her baby eyes opened upon lovely surroundings and loving faces, her infancy was less cry than smile. her childhood was a dream of delight in that she was alive, ting lingly alive, in a bright fair beauti- ful world. Perhaps what she enjoyed most was her own inner power of imaging. She was born with wish ing-cap, which no one ever saw but herself, a cap that transported her into all sorts of interesting places. and carried her in and out of wildly exciting adventures, and gave her all the wonders of the earth and heavens to possess and call her own and glory in- No one else knew Often when she was quietest, making her elders no trouble, playing silently and alone, indeed, not seeming to be playing at all, she was really having a beauti- fuP time inside of herself-perhaps journeying in a caravan across the desert, beset by wild beasts or whoop- ing red Indians. perhaps raising on the outspread wings of some fabulous bird high into the upper air, or sailing the opal seas in white winged ship, or walking the tinted clouds of sun set In exalted moments she was an angel, sweeping the golden pavement with her trailing robes.
 Many an hour she was silently play ing with her favorite playmate, the boy friend she liked best, the boy who IlNeQ Tn the wall ana SAW everything she saw, who was always with her when she wanted him, the friend who was hers as she was his, the boy who walked and talked and played with her, and whom no one but herself ever saw or heard. Even her two big little brothers, sons of giants, never saw him. They would have said he did not exist If she had spoken of him, they would have laughed him to scorn and called him sissy" they would have booted both at him and at her. Intuitively the child knew this, and spoke not a, word. The boy was real to her, the dearest friend she had, the only one, in fact, to whom she could tell everything and talk her heart out, and be sure he would understand In their silent way. the boy and the child played all sorts of plays together
 Sometimes she was street waif, tired, cold. hungry. homeless child, without shelter from the rain, ragged and barefoot and friendless. She at dawn to earn or beg Or steal, some how to get bread and scraps of meat and copper coins for the terrible ty- rants who controlled her and had her in their power She was forced to sweep a city crossing for a penny bit, to stand on 6 street corner to beg, or try to sell a bunch of wfthered wild was always stretching out 6 small, bare brown hand for the something or nothing-that might be dropped in- to it. How the child fabricated these pathetic dreams of hers it would be hard to say, for she was not yet six, too young to have read them out of story books She herself was always
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The Republican Record

As an departments the n of
 
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  asa aIancef from year 
  Broxnn in Citizens.
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When you read of the course taken by a balloon don't you wonder why they call the man in it a pilot ?-In- dianapolis News Sure. The way he zigzags here and there he should be called a skipper-Portland Express. Why not call him a chauffeur, since he sits at the wheel ready to take the worst his run has to offer?
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

1t has been estimated that it will take $52,O00, 900 to evangelize the world, and the expectation is that it can be done in five years, or in two years less time than the Panama canal can be built, and for about sixth of the cost, although it is ten times that stunt. If it really can be done for the price of four Dreadnoughts and gunboat, the money ought to be forthcoming at once. The estimate looks low to me because it represents only 25 cents a head for the heather and we have never heard of ones being saved for much less than the average of s4o0. Harmony in all nations and tribes would be worth ten times this amount or $520. 900; and the mill Ienium would not be dear at that price. I do not like to say anything dis courag ging upon so fine a project. We are in favor of it, and We should like to be alive on that great day. If that happens, Halley's comet won't know this old world T5 years hence.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

One day the past week I saw the first humTning bird of the season enter the tube of a yellow lily and his en- erald green throat glistened brighter than ever Then I recalled that I was just as pleased when I saw the first bluebird, and robin, and wren, and oriole, and swallow. If the birds do not add to the gaiety of the nations, they do lend a charm to nature for those who are awake to the beautiful. The first flower, the first toad, are all ways welcome, too. They mark the advance of the calendar toward the more salubriouS and more fruitful part of the year. Cats do not seem to keep the birds away, and I know they do not kill many. The fact is, the well fed domestic cat is too lazy to catch birds or mice. Life to such eats passes from a fer0ciOus pursuit to a dream-a dream of salmon from the can instead of featherless birds in a high nest Cats. too, court a life of leisure
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"Beari1q the Beuv in EnuIand.

To bear the beIi" is . phrase de- rived from the custom Of giving 9 bell as the prize at running matches in England. 4 little golden bell was given at York. England. as a reward of victory a 7Ea
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Worst of the Species,

There are 24000C, different species of insects on the earth. Some are so small that 4,000 of them are only equal in size to grain of sand, but the worst kind weigh about ITS. wear clothes and walk around -Exc change.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

Fortunate is he if it comes only once. With most of us the test comes far oftener as we bear our responsi- bilities, in the home, in business, in the church and in the world.
 The presumption is I admit, that majorities are usually right. On no other theory can we maintain popular government. But the voice of the people is not invariably the voice of God It was not that when in the judgment hall of Pilate 19 centuries ago the tickle populace ragged against n weary. hunted. yet stin kingly Cali lean peasant and shouted necessarily fn their madness: Cruelty him. cru ctfy hint"
 No group or men can keep or bind my conscience. yet on the other hand l must not mistake conscience for obstfnacy and so become a chronic it..s CT 4 member of a state board of charities told me the other day how FH" excellent woman mem Der on that board often hindered or blocked pro- ceedings, saying that her conscience would not permit her to vote with
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If John Bull had taken the good advice that has been given him in the past quarter century he would not now have been regarded as such an easy mark
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Uncle Eber's vlisdom.

De man dat watts to learn by expe- rience." said Uncle Eben. "is liable to put in his precious time gettin cured of mule kick. while de man dat used common sense is gettin' his corn planted"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

A Pekin paper is about to celebrate it's one -thousandth anniversary It is too old to review it's own career. Time and space will not permit.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04

The hours of the city election were not designed to give labor more than a shortcut to the polls. The polls do not open until 9 o'clock Monday
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Coleman and Hall. the twos Massa- chusetts bankRlen who got away with a half-million, should be excused for easy marks
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The Art of Love.

The great art of love is to write little and burn all. Half the scandals of life would be sverted if people only followed this admirable counsel-The Tattler.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Happy thought for today: The man who knows his duty and does it is a good citizen.
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An aviator appears to be in no dan ger of being sunstruck. He usually complains of suffering from the cold.
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Persons who take themselves too seriously create an amusing atmo- phere for others.
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Who can say that the bags of gold hung up for aviators may not bring profitable business to surgeons or un- dertakers?
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Chicago's sane Fourth programme will contain 100 brass bands and 5000 Tinted States regulars besides thou sands Of national guards, to say noth- ing of civic societies.
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Chicago proposes an exclusive club made up of the octogenarians who have seen Haney's comet twice.
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The man who mows the lawn is sur prised to note how the dandeIion shortens up it's stem after renewing it's growth to cast it's seed
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The rich youth who rushes penniless out into the world to get living finds that recognition is not prompt or re- turns sudden.
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There doesn't seem to be so much difference between a professional trust and a labor union. The trust can teach the union how to soak people.
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The first June bride was married at 1902 on Wednesday morning She was college girl who planned to lead the bridal procession in the month of roses
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l suppose we are all victims of the tricks of trade. In the commercial walks of life the men who can do the other fellow Iegftimately and oftenest are the best fellows. While achieve men and tricks often go hand in hand, they are not of the same cloth, for achievement is blighted by trickery; tricl5ery gives man a bad name where real achievement gives him high repute. Commercialfsm is full of penny and two penny tricks-underweig under measure and under-q -qua1ity-and every cay some one in consequence counts illgotten gain. The greedy man thinks If is only a little here and a little there but the burden of the fll-gotten aggre- gate often bears upon his conscience when he has no fear of the law. It is well to be morally clean. since soap and water has no power to make white a man besmirched with little dishonest des.
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When June opened, the open trolley car sought the barn, but the first heat wave will bring it out again.
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President Taft appears to be the great American example to all the Don't Worry clubs.
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What do you think Of the wine e'' Not bad But I know where you can get an even cheaper wine than this!r'- London Opinion.
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If the Culebra cut doesn't behave itself better it will become prob lem for the civil engineers
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Under the law Glenn Curtiss really had no legal claim to that S10,000, for he did the stunt on Sunday
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San Francisco and New Orleans will both celebrate the opening of the Pan- anna canal with an exposition.
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literature are spoken of as mon strous animals" I have no doubt that some husbands are all that You see in looking at the little faults of their wives husbands are likely to overlook big faults of their own, and they do not really know how bad they be. As a bad husband cannot make a good citizen. good citizens may be rarer than we think.
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We know that man abuses his stomach until he invalids himself and he abuses his mind by lending it to unproftable subjects, two of which are hate and fear The scripture says: 'WhatsOever things are true. whatso- ever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure. whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things . The adversities and the grudges and the prejudices and the fears are not worth lending ones mind to. The per son who knows the worth of love does not fool with venom. which is of the serpent. This scriptural quotation tells how to keep the heart and head work ing well together. It is a simple rule. It is the way to know the truth-the truth that makes you free. This pas sage should be accepted as practical sense instead of precious Christian sentiment and then it will prove it's own practicality and force.
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The total absence of frost makes Porto Rico well adapted to fruit growing.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-04
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
WITH THE MINORITY.

Were you ever in the minority? I do not mean did you ever happen to vote for the unsuccessful candidate? All of us have done that more than once But on clean, sharp, moral issue, were you ever on the losing side and did your identification with 1t cost you something? Did you forfeit the temporary regard, or perhaps the per manent good will of some persons whom you respected? Did the crowd jeer at you? Did you suffer in your business or profession because of the stand which you took?
 Well. whether you did or you didn't. my conviction is that every man st least once or twice in his life, ought to experience the inward joy and sat isfaction that go with adherence toa what. at the moment. may be a los ing or an unpopular cause. Lowell has well said:
  Once to every man or nation
 Comes the moment to decide In the strife 'twixt truth and false
 hood
 For the good or evil side.
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Great Britain ranks second in the total number of patents issued.
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The burglar never tries to break in

The burglar never tries 10 break in to society, because when he makes a break he wants it to result in some thing worth while. If burglar had everything that he needed but society perhaps he would take a risk in that direction Society is not the acme of anything but a vain ambition; and it is no better than the character of those who represent it. Society. have found is simply human. if the average human does not feel conscious of the fact that he is society. Good ness never has flocked by itself and never will Goodness much oftener lights up dark places Society is not so much better than other society," it is only different-and oftentimes it is prudent to flee from it. There is no use Of yearnins for society. for if you have the dough you can make it, and it is not likely to be the better or the worse for that. If society has any real use for you it will seek you so whats the use of trying to break in?
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Immigration into this country reach ed the high water mark during 1907.
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wonder il

wonder if any woman ever. dis covered how il is that the perfect husband always belongs to the other W Wolnan. l hear d bright woman say
 Ing now Because distance lends en chantment Co 6he view" and another says; Tt is because Of the imperfec ton Of man-no woman has a perfect husband" These are both very good ans Wers The inperfections of hus- bands are onl3- known to those who IS the best man in all the World-the husband often proves to be the fruit of matrimonial folly. Husbands in
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THE MAN WHO TALKS

There are two definitions of man at present-the religious and the scientif- ic; and it is surprising how far apart they be. The church teaches man is the noblest work of God, a sentiment which las attained a permanent place in the heart and in the conceit of man.
 The scientists teach that physically man is imperfect and is fuel for dis ease. It professes to make man inn mune from disease by artificial means, which. if their theory is correct, God doesn't do. Both definitions are ac- cepted by religious people without mo- ticing the inconsistency, or the fact that if this is true the power of man is exalted above the power of God. What thinking person entertains the thought that God has filled the earth with diseases to menace, affiict and de- stroy his noblest work?
 What difference there is in folks! Although the command is to help one another. some have an irritating manner and some Q soothing manner. Scme people elmbarrass you and others soothe you by their very presence. Some it is good to be absent from, the others it is good to be with Mrs. Blaine said in one of her letters: T would rather quicken my faith by five minutes talk with Anna Potter than by listening to five sermons upon the immortality of the soul.' All this means is that Anna was inspiring tO@ her, and the pulpit wearing. Too much talk, never mind how able or sincere it is, often defeats the purpose of the talker. The mind is not impressed so deeply by glotter as it is by simplicity-the heart that loves us impresses trs more than the heart that would teach us the way. Being on the level is better than being on a hobby horse in any work.
 Perhaps you have not realized how many moons the people have created by analogy. They have the blue moon, the silver moon, the herb moon and the honey mmon. Things that are done once in a blue noon'' are attended to twice a year. The silver moon glftters dn song and has afforded the music loving world much pleasure. The herb moon is the moon of long court Ship-the moon of title tattle, not of accomplishment. The honeymoon is the moon of them all, generally under stood, but really indefinable because there were never two honey moons just alike. Perhaps you have never been delighted by a glade-moon, which makes the lanes on the ocean by which craft appear and disappear to those who sit upon the beach It is generally con ceded that moonglade, for the lane of light on the sea, is one of the prettiest words in the English language.