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Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
Cwritten for The Bulletin.)

 It has rained every day for a week brother mine, until yesterday Then, suddenly the sun came out and caught 1 people in their raincoats, with um-
 brellas in hand. Few seem to like the 1 rain, many scold about it; but I love 1 it. To me nothing is more welcome l than one of my pleasant rainy days 1 The harder it pours, the pleasanter 1t IS 1 and the better I like it. A moment ago there came a shower of rain. l sprinkling itself in diamond drops through the sunlight, and giving us the feetingest, palest, most evanescent span of rainbow, like band of molten jewels seen through mist. Now each blade of grass is lifting it's tip to the raindrop upon it, every leaf of the
 naples in drawing in a long, deep breath of the perfumed moisture; all outdoor things are glad to be alive. I'm an outdoor thing, brother mine, and glad I'm alive Indeed, I have always been glad of my life. The other ''T' of me, which I seem to be at times, may be often tired or dis ,couraged and forget to be glad But real I that is all alive and rejoicing, as the blades of grass and leaves Of naples rejoice. Living may not seem easy. Daily there may come hard things to meet and master, harder things to be borne. But life itself is glorious.
 Often I wish I knew all live and liv- ing things as intimately as I know Kit Kat, though I own I do not know him as well as he might be known At this moment I am on the north porch with my writing pad on my knee, writing in the rain and delighting in the sunlight glorying in both. Kit Kat is sitting over against me, with his pretty paws folded and his sleepy eyes half closed. He is resting and purring, rejoicing and delighting and l. la oc fad 10 Sometimes can tell what he is think ing of, but not always; never when he folds his fore-paws under his breast and narrows his eyes to slits and yet no prey is within sight, hearing or scent. And never when he withdraws into himself, regards the outer world from behind the cover of his eyelids and gazes at me with those strange. unseeing. inscrutable, animal eyes that reveal nothing. No, do not even be- gin to understand Kit-Kat, neither the brain nor the heart of him. as, after years of the closest companionship, I might know him, one would think. I have learned some of his little ways and habits. I know when he is ask ing for food, and when he wants the door opened, and that when he arches his back against my feet and purrs he is condescendingly willing to have me talk to him and rub his head and pet him. Suppose it were a child that I had housed and homeG and nourish- ed for half a score of years. Would l know the brain and heart and inner most spirit of him any more intimate ly or any less2 Kit-Kat loves me af- ter his fashion, and has his own ways of showing affection-I would like to say devotion" but the word would not be true. He understands me some what; even as, in some measure. I understand him. If I could fully un- derstand, I might paraphrase Tenny sons lines:
 If I could know thee all in all
 Little flower,
 I should know what God and man is"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
A CLEAR FIELD IN WINDHAM
COUNTY.


 No wonder that the Hon. Charles E. Searles Of Thompson has been sur prised by the way his name has been banded about as a prospective oppon- ent of Congressman Higgins in Wind ham county, for he has no aspirations for the place and sees no necessity for a change The gentlemen who have mentioned him as 8 probable candi- date have done so without conferring with him upon the subject. The Put nam correspondent of The Bulletin has positive knowledge of the conditions In Windham county and he says that the Hon. E. ". Higgins of Norwich will have a clear field in Windham county when the time comes to nom- mate him to succeed himself in his present office. That Mir. SearIes will not be opposed to him is a positive fact"
 Congressman Higgins lets no inter- est lag in his district, and for prompt ness and efficiency in promoting the interests of his constituents, and the communities forming the Third district he has made a record of faithfulness and of accomplishments which will compare with the record of any prede- cessOr
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
The Barnum Centenary.

The Tooth anniversary of the birth of P T. Barnuin occurs on July 5. Bridgeport is preparing for suitable celebration on the Fourth. That seems a peculiarly appropriate day. for it is essentially American, as was Barnum. But isn't there unconscious humor in the statement of the Post of that city when it says the Fourth should be chosen Because it will give an op- portunity for the public to observe the day without making a feature of blowing off arms. legs and heads with cannon and explosives" That does seem rather foreign, because the great P. T. was the original affinity for freaks and armless and legless ones were dear to him. A headless one he would have prized beyond measure. But the memory of Barnum should be honored. He was in many respects a man worth remembering. He devel- oped the art and the courage of adver- Using he contributed vastly to the en- tertainnent Of mankind he set an en- during example for the youth of the hand in fighting against an unkind fate and in overcoming discourage nents, and above all he was a loyal, public spirited and generous citizen Bristol Press.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

enjoys romping with his master wher- ever he may go. He finds most of his pleasure in his masters presence and he will watch for him by the hour, wait by him by the day, and mourn for him long after human griet has ceased to manifest itself. Yet, some people can recognize no good thing about a dog, or really imagine what God made him for.
 The man who laughs at all the the jokes you crack may be an ad- mirer, or just a gamble on you. The chances are that he is shrewdly play ing on your weak side to feather his own nest. The man who stays by and laughs at ones jokes should never be above suspicion-he doesn't deserve to be. Ten chances to one that he pre- tends to enjoy your jokes that he may enjoy your bounty later on. He may just be working himself into your credit side. You do not know you're going to make him a loan when he gets ready to ask for it, but he does. The man who laughs is not always so simple and undesigning as you think. He has a scheme he is laughing to maturity-a good scheme for him and a poor one for you-
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
"NO MORE TWAIN"

Notwithstanding the fact that places in the Far West like Reno, New, are said to be densely populated with persons who have gone there to avail themselves of lax divorce laws, and notwithstanding what is periodically said that about one marriage in so many results in a divorce, the wedding bells are ringing as merr1ly as ever this month. There will be just as many happy couples" going off lfber- ally showered with roses and daisies, and-alas-the inevitable rice, you can not prevent Cupid getting in his work matter how sternly you talk about the perils of married estate, nor will any number of painful object lessons prevent those whose hearts have been pierced by his darts from walking rashly by the marriage altar and vow ing one another lifelong feaity.
 The tones may be tremulous, but Mary is dead sure that her John is just the best fellow in the world" while John keeps saying to himself that he does not begin to be half worthy of such a girl a s Mary. whose equal cannot be found around the wide globe. If John were given to poetry he would doubtless say in the ian- guage of pr. Holland:
 You are ali
 You have been a1I-that won1s mood To 1nanhoods want; and in your wom-
 ans love
 And womanS s pain, nave 1oun0 every
 good
 My life has known since first our lives
 were joined"
 While Mary would respond in the language of another gifted American bard. Richard Watson Glider: Not from the whole wide world
 choose thee Sweetheart, light of the land and the
 seal
 The wide, wide world could not en-
 close thee.
 For thou art the whole wide world
 to me"
 What a world it would be if the cynical views of marriage had become so generally prevalent that a June wedding or a wedding in any other season of the year was looked upon by the run Of mankind as a painful event involving the two chief partfci- pants in no end of trouble which they little suspect now fn rhe first moments Of their ecstasy Thank God that youth is hopeful and healthy minded that it does not fear what the croAkers and pessimiSts say, that it still be- ieves in love in cottage, that it is willing to make the supreme ven ture, even if not all the future course is perfectly clear. Blessings then on these June brides and bridegroons. They give a new glory to the summer
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Our contemporary, the Norwich Eve ming Record has just enlarged the pa per several columns and put in a ia st 16-page web press and stereotyping g plant, greatly increasing it's facilities for making an up to date evenin g paper. The Record is receiving com mendation by the press of the state for it's enterprise, and it fully merits the words of praise being said of it. The Record has The Bulletins best wishes for it's future prosperity.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

This is the way the election talk Tan in Iowa. The insurgent states men have not made it clear in respect to the way they propose to increase the profits of the farmer by cutting down his prices. The farmer who re- mains In his field today instead of go- ing to the polls to slug the insurgent eaxGs makes the mistake of his Iife."
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

The English sparrow has a few com mendable qualities. He can fight like a Spanish gamecock; and he clings to the abode of man as if he loved his enemies
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Now George V. is spoken of as king whose clothes do not fit him. H needs an American tailor.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Des Moines is expecting to count UT to the 100000 mark, but she does not claim it because of the Des Moines plan of municipal government.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

June. 1910. is taking her daily batt If she didn't have chills after it to often, who would mind?
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

It is getting so that the republican factions are giving two definitions O 8 republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Those who sit up and take notice do not deny that the way of the trans gressor is hard. but they feel sure that the innocent allied to him appear to do two-thirds the suffering
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

New Haven is booked for a sane and safe Fourth-committed to better things whether she obtains them or not.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Commander Hines gives the Centra Americans notice that to fire on tn American flag is one of life's fatalities
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Happy thought for today: The frs law of nature is self-pr2servation, bu don't try to do it in alcohol
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Vice President Sherman says that a man who votes against republicans is no republican. President David Starr Jordan says the only straight ticket is one with the crooked names marked off"
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

The completion of the Sylvan hill tunnel at Terryville brings Waterbury mile and a half nearer Hartford Cars will be running through it by November 1.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

There are too many people these days developing a champagne thirst on a beer income
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Finding fault with others is the poorest kind of employment and all ways waste of time.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, has appropri- ated $50,000 to make it's light shine abroad. It has been quietly sitting be- meath it's own vine and fig tree now for seventy years.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

An Illinois boy who fell little be- low the standard weight for enlist ment in the navy drank a gallon of water just to pass muster.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Luther Burbank is to the front with two improved flowers. This is not
 such remarkable thing.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

The per capita circulation is 14 per cent. greater than it was a month ago, but every woman's pocketbook will not show it.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

The Boston Transcript notes that Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright are to receive each the degree of LID. from Oberlin. Doctors of Levitation? :?
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

The man who cannot afford liability insurance is not wealthy enough to run an automobile and do justice to all concerned.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Because the ice-man smiles is no evidence that he is pleased with the weather.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

The professor who says this spring is a duplicate of the spring of 1885 is not in much danger of being dis puted.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Old bachelors say a man should not marry until he has common sense: and old maids say a man never has common sense until he has married
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
Champ cIark,s Adxantaae.

Among Champ CIark's other sdvan-
 tages presidential candidate he does not play solf.-I<ansas City Star
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

It is too bad that it can be truthfully said that it is easy for a married man to be polite to a pretty woman who isn't his wife; and the married woman who cannot tell him that he had better keep his politeneSs for home use is slow. I have noticed that it is always easier to do as we please than to do we ought to whichever sex we be- long to. When it comes to faults the Creator saw that the sexes could bal ance themselves if they were given only half chance. It is a great head that knows what to do and just when to do it. Perhaps the genus homo could do better at this if it would just practice more. It has been said to be as much a sign of wisdom to know when to let go an opportunity as when to grasp it. If you do not think that it is, try it.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

Mother love is the most tolerant love there is, and perhaps there is none binder or less appreciated by those whom it holds dear. It has been said without danger of contradiction that a mans idiocies look like real genius to his mother; also that young mother is so wrapped up in her first baby that she is apt to boast of the way it has the measles It is a mighty good thing for humans that this is so, and it is not surprising that mother love is only second in human hearts to Gods love It forgives when all the rest of the world blames-it pities often when all others deride-it forgives when even the culprit realizes that it is more than he deserves-it is merciful to those who have been merciless.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EFT OfffT<k- NV 70. It was the driest May in forty years and to this is attributed the great fire losses.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

That was a neat compliment given the boys of '61 on Memorial day but there was another class in that Gran q and it is the men who had passed the military age and who could not be drafted to go to the front. There were a great many men above 45 who were able and vigorous and patriotic enough to forget that the country had no claim upon them, and to voluntarily assume the hardships, perils and trials of ac- tive military life; and many of them lived through the war and returned won on many a hard fought field. The spirit of adventure may have prom pt ed many boy in his teens to enlist, but it did not call out the grandfathers of '61, for they realized the risks, but love of country and pure grit must be credited to them when they joined the forces whose motto was Give me lib- erty or give me death."
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

So, oven as shall never really know
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11

The angler is pretty good specimen of humanity, if he is given to telling fish stories. He never tells all he knows. When he is in company glory ing over the way the fish bit, you nev- CT knew him to mention the way in which the mosquitoes bit, although if the trout had bitten with the same per- sistent sharpness he would haze come home with his creel full. He forgets the bites for blood in his ecstacy over things of larger interest, and sets a good example to those who stantly complain of the little nettling things of life. He always glows over the trout he saw in the brook, and he never mentions those he saw held in a pri- vate collection in a cold spring to save the successful fisherman from failure. He knows where the reserve is and what God-send it is, and still is mum. He is to be respected rather than de- rided.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
sThe season has arrived when We ga

sThe season has arrived when we can say: Now in my garden the flowers bloom and the butterflies ldance' It is far more true of Natures wifds in whose pastures the gay winged but terflies flirt with the flowers and in whose forest-aisles the little blue but terflies dance, the Hesperidae skip from bloom to bloom, and the wood nymphs fit out from the shade into to quiet resting places on leaves or bark These winged flowers of the air are mute. but their delicate beauty and graceful motion are as pleasing to the eye as songs of birds to the ear They all find their place in na- ture and are true to their instincts How the flutterer and the flower ever became allied the Almighty alone knows, but each species has it's favor to as the botanists of prehistoric times Before man put plants into classes these insects knew they were in families and recognized the allied forms.
 good dog is the best of compan- ions. He doesn't interrupt suggest. but just abides your time He waits with patience, if he often looks on with inquiring eyes. He hears quick CT. sees better and gets more out or his world Of odors than we can com prehend. As celebrated writer de- clares The dog thinks compares. reasons remembers by smells By smell the dog makes his estimate Of character-all his judgments are founded supon smells He has a good memory, can select his medicinal herb from all others in the field. and just
Norwich bulletin., 1910-06-11
THE MAN WHO TALKS

There is no real good reason why any person should fret their lives away because of disappointments, instead of l living happy in the consciousness of | in life that render comfort to the mind as well as to the body. If one | thinks seriously of 1ife's disappoint- ments they will discover that a great many of them are the outcome of dreams that did not come true-of ex- pectations which were without founda- tion. What we think the other person should do and what we hope he may accomplish are of our minds, not his. If he felt what we feel he would not so often be a disappointment to us. We do early in life what we think is the best for children. and then later in
 worse. We are all fallable creatures,
 and we go stumbling through life be-
 cause we are plain folks instead of
 sages. Everything that passes for
 wisdom, you know, is not
 There is nothing like having an aim
 in life but one must be careful not to
 aim too high. Life has been made
 they did aim too high You cannot see this; but many a young woman who is
 sitting alone, except when she gathers
 with the left Cvers, realizes the truth
 of this. They get to spinsterdOm to decover that woman cannot have whom
 she will for a mate, or man either most of them take those who will have them. We talk in these times of soul mates, but in the days of Eden it was heipmates The helpmate is the only true mate there is, for this is the basis for cooperation, sympathy and har- mouy, and where these three meet love is in their midst. Too many good things have gone out of fashion in this world since the days of Adam.
 Science has introduced us to the in- habitants of milk which in it's pure state supports a good many varieties. Milk in all stages is populated by about
 700 varieties of bacteria, in size from a 20, booth part to 30oth part of an inch. They are round, spiral and rod like and they become of adult size in 20 minutes-life is short with them and they have to hurry. The honest COW gives down milk bacteria free, but the populour air of the barn pollutes it in a few minutes. They rain into it at the rate of 2,350 germs a minute in the barn, and in the meadow they come at the rate of $50 a minute. Of these 700 species of bacteria, 150 are peculiar to the dairy and some of these give good keeping quality to the butter and some give the fine gilt-edged flavor, so that bacterial culture is prac- ticed for butter making as a means of producing what is commercially known as the best. The COW doesn't worry about these things-the consum- CT ought not to.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-10-13


In week or some such time, Mr..
Field will move into his new place Of
business and he will then be In a
better position than ever to accommo'
date his customers. His new build
ing is fifty feet long, "a feet high and
IL feet wide. It is considerably lar
ger than the old one in cubic volume.
Mr.. Field has beside the store build
ing, q good sized -four house and an
on house with two large tanks. His
stock Of dry goods and groceries has
already arrived and as soon a. the
shelving 70 put in, which viii require
only few days more, the Fields will
be there % wait on you.-Des Laos
Valley Observer.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-10-13
IN THE BoNEYARD.

Some blamed good fellows lie as-
leep down yonder where the tall grass
waves, but no one ever comes to weep,
or plant rosebushes on thir graves.
They calmly rest in pauper's beds,
and wait the judgment, in a row; no
shining COMMISSIONERS DER their heads,
no requiem but the winds that blow.
They were the shiftless, trining lads,
upon weary world turned loose;
they never learned to nail the scads,
and salt them down for winter use.
It's pretty tough that some must sleep
in unmarked bargain counter graves,
because their plunks they cannot
keep; the honor's for the man that
saves. A man whose eyes are wide
apart, whose hands are reaching in
his jeans, who listens rather to his
heart than to the teachings of his
brains, is apt to join the pauper crowd,
and perish after many knocks, and
wear a cheap old fashioned shroud
and slumber in misfit box. Whereas,
If he is shrewd and wise, with lips
that close up like hasp, and little
space between the eyes, and hands
that hang to what they grasp, his
death will fill the town with gloom,
and mourners will bewail the day,
and he will have a corking tomb in
which to loaf the years awav.-Walt
Mason. 81 ~
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-10-13

Walter Houver of Sterling was an
arrival in the city Saturday and
brought with him several old Spring
field bullets, of 500 calibre. They
were found in gopher hole SOUTH
west of Sterling. The first one was
unearthed by the gophers when they
We're digging, and Mr.. Houver then
dug down in the hole himself. He had
gone down nearly three feet and so
far has unearthed Ill OF the bullets.
How they got there or how many
Of them there are altogether, is not
known. Bismarck Tribune.
According to the Bar Association
the Red River Valley Is about the only
place that raises men bright enough to
sit lon the supreme bench, anyway.
Western North Dakota, please take
notice.-New Rockford Tra1seript.
Western North Dakota is recovering
from tho "turrible" blew, Bro. Olsen,
and when we get through with that
bunch Of "Bqackthorns" this fall they
will think they have swallowed 4 case
Of summer complaint. Wlllew CITY
Eagle.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-10-13

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
County of Ward-ss: County Court.
In the Matter of the Estate Of August
A. Litfin, Deceased.
Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given by Robert c.
Blume. administrator Of the estate OF
August A. Ltfin, deceased, to the
creditors Of, and all persons having
claims against said deceased, to pre-
sent them with the necessary vouch-
ers, to the said Robert G. Blume, per
sonally, or at the Office of r. A. Mes
tos, attorney, Minot, N. D., within
four months after the first publica-
ton Of this notice.
Dated this Sth day Of Oct, 1910.
ROBERT G. BLUME.
First publication Oct. IL. 1910.
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