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Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05
His Honor Lost,

His Honor Lost.
Italy boasts of the largest hammer
in the world. How unhappy Senator
Cummins must be! Los AASeIes
Times. H.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Rufus B. Burnham and his guest,
Allen Dodd, of New York, are in town
to spend several days at Mr. Burn
hams home, on Main street.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Miss Mary p. Huntington, who has
been at Block Island for a month, has
returned to her home, on Broadway.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Miss Mary Lanman Huntington of
Broadway has returned from passing
several months in Bedford and Prov
incetown, Mass.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05
PERSONAL

Miss Rose Oliver of Hartford is
spending week at Norwich.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic w. Cary and
of Washington street, nave
returned from stay at Avon, N. j.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05
OBITUARY..
Mrs. Philip Sheridan.

At 9 o'clock on Saturday afternoon
the death of Mrs. Caroline Sheridan,
wife of Philip Sheridan, occurred at
her home, SO Thames street, following
an illness of six weeks duration. Ma
lariaI fever. developing into gastrit1s
was the cause of death
Mrs. Sheridan was a native of Aus
tria but had passed much of her life in
this city. Her first husband, Benedict
Kocurek, died in Norwich about %
years ago. A year later she became
the wife of Philip Sheridan. who sur
wives, with one daughter by the first
marriage, Mrs. Charles Berberfck of So
Thames street. There are no other liv
ing relatives known. She was men,
Der of ST. Patrick's church and was
well known, owing to her long resi-
dence in this city.
John Henry Miner.
At $40 o'clock Saturday night the
death of John Henry Miner occurred at
his home in Bozrah, after an Illness of
two years. He had been to Denver
Col, and Maine for his health. Death
resulted from tuberculosis.
Mr.. Miner was born in Bozrah, Jan
II, 1879, the son Of Charlotte Rogers
and Judge John II. Miner. He receiv-
ed his schooling in that town, and en-
gagged in farming until his health pre-
vented its continuance. He had resid-
ed at Bozrah Center for a number of
years. He married Rhoda Avery, by
whom he is survived togther with one
son, Harry Avery Miner, and he also
leaves his parents and one sister, Mrs.
W. r. Browning of Bozrah. He pos
sessed many attractive qualifications
and was highly regarded by the large
number of his acquaintance. He was
an attendant at the Bozrah Congrega-
tional church and was a young man
whose loss will be greatly felt.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Mrs. Henry Harland, who has been
in Europe since early in the summer,
is at the Harland homestead, Sentry
Hill.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05
UN ( RAILS.


The funeral of Mrs Frank Miller was
held from her home in Poquetanuck
at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at which
there was a very large attendance. a
number being present from New York,
Hartford New London. Pawtucket,
Groton and Norwich The services
were conducted by Rev. w. E. Hooker,
pastor of St. James Episcopal church.
The qlartette from the church, includ-
ing Miss Eva Rist, soprano Miss Jen-
ME Mitchell, alto. Charles Lucas, ten
or and Thomas Thorne bass, sang
Asleep in Jesus and Thy VIII Be Done.
There were many beautiful floral re-
m entrances testifying TO the esteem in
which the deceased was held. Among
the thirtysix pieces were the follow
ing: Pillow. Frank Miller: gates ajar,
brothers and sisters: cross, Mr. and
Mrs Joseph Church; cross, Benjamin
Lucas and family: heart marked
Mamma, Marguerite Miller; pillow, Mr..
and Mrs. Gilbert Church: wreath w
Lucas; crescent, Young Peoples socie-
ty. st. James church: crescent, Mr.. and
Mrs, George Marsfeld crescent, Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Harris.
The bearers were Charles, Henry,
John and William Hazler of Groton,
all uncles of the deceased. Burial was
in the POquetanuek cemetery. where
Rev Mr.. Hooker conducted the COM
charge of the arrangements.
Mrs. Miller was a member of St.
James church and was an active mem
Der Of the Young Peoples society Her
death has cast a gloom over the village
as she was a young woman of charm
ing characteristics and held in the
highest esteem by large number of
friends. The family has the sympathy
of the community in their bereavem emit
Mr.. Miller is to reside with Mr.. and
Mrs. Oliver Church in the village.
Joseph Albert Gallup.
On Friday afternoon the funeral of
Joseph Albert Gallup was held from
the Ladyard Congregational church.
many being present. Rev. w. F. White
conducted the service and there were
numerous choice floral rem entrances.
Miss Ella Louise White sang God BE
With You Till We Meet Again. The
bearers were Herbert w. Gallup of this
city Russell Gallup. Billings T. Avery
and Charles Beckwith of Ledyard.
Burial was in the Ledyard cemetery,
where a committal service was read.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05
OItlf Bullftitr.
VARIOUS MATTERS

| VARIOUS MA TERS
1t will be a real labor day for the
| trolley crews.
Sale of school needs formed much
| of the business of Saturday.
Miss Katherine Riley resumes the
teaching of music September ), 1910.
adv.
The last of the half holidays in
shops and factories was enjoyed Sat-
urday.
Trains north today will carry many
tourists to Canada for the Eueharistic
congress.
The Stebbins- Geynet aeroplane cxhi-
billions will be the center of all attrac-
ton at the Fair grounds today.-;lGv.
The mugginess of the closing dog
days appeared to be concentrated in
Sunday afternoon.
Dancing at the Broadway dancing
academy this afternoon and evening"
adv.
The condition of Mrs. A. c. Jones
| of Noank, who is at the Norwich State
hospital, is slightly improved.
Owners of pear and peach trees have
! to watch all night with shotgun in
| hand, to be able to save any fruit from
marauding boys
| Connecticut fatalities for the month
i e 1t
accidental, and the remaining Is sui
cides. there being no homicides.
Eleven candidates for teachers GER
tificates were examined last week in
| the supreme court room at the capitol,
including candidates from Somers and
! East Lyme.
Holy Cross college students have
been notified that regular class work
will begin Friday morning for all ex-
cept the seniors, who will not return
until Monday.
September 4 was quarterly pension
| day, but as it fell on Sunday most Of
| the government agents have arranged
to execute vouchers for the old soldiers
| today or Tuesday.
To make Labor day easy, as far
as possible no perishable freight or
livestock which could not be delivered
Sunday night was accepted by most of
the railroads on Saturday.
For the first time in several years.
it is said that bees did not swarm this
year. A man who keeps bees terms it
an off year with the bees, and states
that they Will make up for it in 1911.
An opportunity is now offered the
public to inspect the Stebbins- Geynet
aeroplane at the New London County
Fair.-adv.
The Putnam Phalanx its drum corps
with 10 men and the wives of the
members of the Phalanx, will leave
Hartford September 10 on an excur-
sion until the following Tuesday at
Atlantic City.
Eastern Connecticut branches of ST.
John the Baptist society will send del
egate to the national convention that
will open in Manchester, N. H. today
(Monday) and wifi continue through
Wednesday.
The seventeenth annual state con-
vention of the Retail Liquor Dealers
association of Connecticut is to be held
in Waterbury on September II and
13. Delegates from every city and
town in the state will be present.
At the sessions Of the New England
district conference of the Sunday
school and Christian Endeavor league
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion church, being held in Waterbury,
the Norwich delegate is Miss NJ. s. E.
Esley.
He that humbleth himself shall be
exalted" from the gospel for the six
teenth Sunday after Pentecost, Luke
xiv: Ill, was the text from which the
Rev. William Cavanaugh preached a
convincing sermon on the sin of pride
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Bessie Callahan of Norwich visit,.d |
friends in Noank last week.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Mr.. and Mrs Francis j. Leavens of
Broadway, who have been in the noun
tains of West Virginia and Peninsula
to town.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Of local interest is the announcement
that Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Jones'
who were recently married in Bridge
port are now in London. and will sail
from there for their home in Bermuda
during the latter part of this month
Mrs. Jones was Miss Ethel Spaldfng
daughter of Mrs. Katherine Moody
Spaldng of Bridgeport
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Clarence Whitaker of Maple street
returned Saturday from Deep River.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05
incidents in Society

William r. Jewett Of Norwich Town
is absent on a western trip
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Mrs. Nathan G. Gilbert of Broad
street has returned from q stay in
Bensonhurst and New York city.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Miss Laura S. Luce, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. James G. Luce, was united in
marriage Saturday afternoon at the
Methodist parsonage, Mantle, by Rev.
Jerome Greer, with Frank H. Gorton
of Los Angeles, Cal Mr.. Gorton is
physical director at the Occidental col
lege, Los Angeles, where Mr.. and Mrs.
Gorton will reside
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

HE that humbleth himself shall be
exalted from the gospel for the six
teenth Sunday after Pentecost, Luke
xiv: Ill, was the text from which the
Rev. William Cavanaugh preached a
convincing sermon on the sin of pride
at st. Patrick's church Sunday morn
ing.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Miss Gladys Griswold of Grotoni is
the guest of local relatives for few
days.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

The automobile department at the
state capitol has done a vast amount
of work the past year. Figures show
that $141 900 has been received from
January L to August 81. Before the
year is through it is estimated the
amount will reach 100000.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

At the sessions Of the New England
district conference of the Sunday
school and Christian Endeavor league
of the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion church, being held in Waterbury,
the Norwich delegate is Miss NJ. S. E.
Esley.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

Mr.. and Mrs. William Kane and
child of New York, who have been
guests of Mrs. Keane's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Cornelius Leary of New LoI;-
don, are making a brief visit with
friends in Norwich before returning
home
Norwich bulletin., 1910-09-05

1t will be a real labor day for tn
trolley crews.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11

The air is thin and keen and bracfng.
The primevaI silences are broken only
by the chug of the stamp mills and
the whistle of the shaft engines. The
chapel Of the missionary is crowded
by the ''booZe joints on either side of
the one struggling street.
The missionary had a hard time.
There were no weddings, and the fu-
neEais were mostly without benefit of
clergy.
In ten years there had been no wena-
81 or children in the camp.
Three years ago, said the cid miner,
Mrs. Calkins went UP the mountain
side with her husband. The woman
was treated like Il queen by the rough
miners. After year baby was born.
And thereby hangs the tale which
harks back to the halcyon days Hsrte
rapidly passing.
Miss CaIkins-the miners were glad
the baby was a girl-was born on the
day before holiday.
And the next day the fronts Of the
saloon shanties were decorated with
boughs, anviIs were fired, and the min
ers put on their best wooden shirts.
And the baby's presents!
A dishpan was put beside the crude
cradle, and the miners poured in their
gold dust and dumped their nuggets
until $1,000 was donated.
And the parents were ordered to "get
anything the young baby needs and
charge it to me-"
Bronzed, bewhiskered miners stroked
their boards in silence and took long
look at the red mite in the cradle.
What memories were stirred cannot be
told save by the size of the pile in the
dishpan. Only some. as they turned
away were heard to mutter the name
Of woman.
That" said the old miner, twas the
end of race suicide
Miners wrote to old sweethearts.
Some used the telegraph, marking the
messages 'Tn haste"
And when the roses bloomed again
down the side Of the mountain there
was no TACK Of woman's nursing and
no dearth OF woman's tears"
The moral, you insist?
Goodness gracious, man or woman,
the moral is in the story, and the story
as it lives in my mind is like free
breath Of the glorious air Of the noun
tain heights.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11

- u. ~ i 8 - Aaa Z " 81
should eat or drink Lungs cannot go
long without sustenance, like stomachs.
Bread without oxygen will not make
pure blood.
Therefore down with the conspiracy!
If any man shuts the doors and fails
to pull up the windows. shoot him on
the spot-or words to that effect
In answer to the Vaccinations of the
foul intriguefs leagued to kill you by
shutting OF your oxygen you should
open the Wfndows-at the tops, miRd
you, or the transoms.
Defeat the plotters
Half the race is dying because of the
conspiracy. Get all tho fresh air you
can command. Distand your lungs by
outdoor exercise. Walking is good.
Empty and fill your lungs repeatedly.
God did not make you to be choked by
impure air.
And when you sleep-pay attention,
plecse-open the windows top and bot
tom if possible, but surely st the top!
You are on the defensive against this
general conspiracy. Therefore remem-
Der the cruel LAWS it cruel?-the law
Of the survival of the fttest
Open your windowsI Down with the
conspiracy!
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
nnsan,t Like Drafts.

That the so called draft is only a
concentrated dose Of fresh air and that
millions suffer for want of fresh air
certainly represent profound truths.
Nevertheless they leave us unim-
pressed, for much the same statement
might be said of so many other things.
Lead, for instance, when distributed
through the substance of india rub
Der gloves Is as useful to z ray work
ers as fresh air to ordinary indiVidu-
ais, but when concentrated in the form
Of a bullet exposure to its impact Is
apt to prove inconvenient But, how
ever these things be, we adhere to our
belief that drafts are dangerous.
1t Is not commonly understood that
the draft Is merely the primum mo-
vens, the immediate cause Of the Ill
results experienced, being In some
cases perhaps a micro-organism, in
others perhaps toxin with which the
system would have been able to deal
effectively but for the local depression
Of vitality brought about by exposure
Do concentrated dose Of fresh air.
English Medical Journal.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
THE. SPFNDER
conspiracy

Like Freddie Gebhard Henry c. Os-
terman was a spender.
Gerhard died before his last dollar
was gone, but Osterman lives to pay
the penalty. The life story of the lat
ter is q romance of fortune making
and spendfng-peculiarly American.
At seven years of age he was a New
York newsboy, at fifteen he was in the
navy, and at twenty he was shoveling
snow in Chicago.
Finding job as lagman, he was pro-
NOTED first to brakeman and then to
conductor.
1t was while railroading that he
worked out his new ideas about cou-
piers and car doors-ideas which rail
road managers could not ignore
Before he was thirty he was presi-
dent Of a company manufacturing his
devices and with the income of a mil
Eonaire.
Stories are told of how in Detroit
he scattered $1,000 bills by ordering
champagne for a whole barroom, pin
ming bills on bellboVs' coats, tipping
walters with weeks pay and lighting
dollar cigars with twenty dollar bills.
He scattered currency as the wind
scRtteCS leaves.
At Walla WaIla, Wash, he decided
one day to have dance that evening.
He hired his. own orchestra, found the
eoupfes, paid the players $3.50 extra
hDR ''hdtting it up Lively" and tipped
everything that wore uniform or q
white apron.
Will. there was an ead.
The directors Of his company insist
81 he should buy their stock or sell
his. He sold for a quarter of mil,
lion dollars and went On distributing
the nRoneV. ....
Finally, his money gone and his
reputation ruined. OSteEman went on
tho witness stand and confessed COM
plicity in a lot of diSCeputable graft.
That was the end. ..s
He was spender. And the spender,
like the miser, gets no good of his
money.
The enc saves his money and has
none to spend; the ether spends his
money and has none to save.
Witch is the bigger food? However
that maE be, the miseC does the lesser
harm.
The spender forces On the public the
spectacle Of his riotous living and cor
rupts society; the miser asks nothing
bet6eg than complete retirement from
all puBGacaty.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11

No. 13,864-In the First Judicial Dis
tr1ct Court of Louisiana: A. M.
Solly VS.. A. C. Pitts.
By virtue of writ of feri facias. To
me directed from the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Par
lsh, Louisiana, in the above numbered
and entitled suit, I have seized and will
offer for sale, at public auction, for cash
according to law, at the principal front
door of the court house of Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana, during the legal hours
for sales, on
SATURDAY, DEC. II, 1910,
Lots six and seven Go and y of the
Town of Rodessa, Caddo Parish. Louis
lana, with all buildings and improve
ments thereon, said sale to be made fer
cash according to law, to pay and sat-
lsty the debt specified in said writ, say
in the sum of $4,000, with s per cent
interest from October 7, 1903, less cred
its of $4,000 paid February 9, 1907, and
$1,000 paid February 10, 1908, and ten
per cent attorneys fees on amount sued
for, together with all costs of this suit,
and recognition of vendors special lien
and privilege. J.P. FLOURNOY.
Sheriff and ex-Oficio Auctioneer,
Caucasian, November 10, 1910.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
STOP III


The saall boyle could not have
been more than six years old-was
crying.
He stOad over sidewalk grating
Near him was larger boy taunting
him.
The small boys grief stopped the
passersE.' A woman said to him,
what is the matter, my SOM"
With a burst of sobbing the little
fellow pointed down below the graf
Ing and said:
HE threw my ball down there"
By this time a small crowd had
gathered. A man. turning to the odd
er boy, said to him:
Shame on you! He is smaller than
yoa. why did you throw his ball
down tAGe?~
Didn't do it. Mother fellow done
it" responded the younsster. But he
quit making fun and stood on the de
feaSive.
The denial stopped the small boys
sobs. His grief was merged into re-
sentiment. He grew suddenly ind1g-
naDt. And with his anger came a
great mcuthfui of. fearful eaths.
The swearing of the tiny lad was
frightfIL Women, shocked, turned
away. The men laughed.
Here was a mere babe uttering i'm
pieus speech with ali the ease Of a
common bargeman.
OF course he had learned his swag-
gering anathemas by listening to his
elders -prcbably in the street, possibly
in his own home.
Have you not heard. such outbursts
from mere children? Stir up the anger
Of the average boy on the streets and
you will receive sample.
It is abhorrent. But
Have you ever set the example for
some infant who scarce knew what he
did when he repeated your unholy dis
course?
If so out of the mouths OF babes
you are condemned.
Swearing is blasphemy. 1t is pecul-
iarIy of the west. You will never
hear a Buddhist use the name of the
Almighty by way of emphasis, and he
cannot quite understand how Chris
tian can take the name of his God in
vain.
Stop 1t, because it is useless habit
which adds nothing to the force OF
English speech. But If for no other
reason
stop it lest when you are dead some
child may go through life repeating
your profanity.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
THE CONSPIRACY.

Did you know there is conspiracy
to kill you?
Well, there is
1t is not a deliberate plot, perhaps,
and It includes some of your friends,
but 1t may kill you just the same.
The cry of this coalition ali through
the winter days will be
"Shut the door,
This conspiracy demands that every
bottle In which humans live shall be
corked tight and sealed, and the pur-
pose Of the league is to shut of your
supply of fresh air.
You get little enough oxygen even in
summer. Now the conspirators de-
mand that 1t be superheated and re-
breathed over again until there is not
enough Of the vital element left to sus-
tain canary bird.
You must fight this league, and your
slogan should ever be-
"Open the windowsl'
IL you amount to anything you must
have red eorpuscles in your blood. And
the only way to get them Ia by deep
breathing of pure air.
II Is more Important that you should
ex1Rsnixs your blood thar that you
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
"Pop Goes the Weasel


How many people know the mean
ing Of the words Pop goes the
weasel" in the songl Many Of us
have probably regarded them as a
meaningless tag, having some dim
coekney bearing on the animal Such
bearing they have, but in an unex-
pected way. A writer in London
Notes and Queries ad1rms that the
words refer to purse made of weasel
skin which opened and closed with a
snap. This brings the line out of
Irrelevant jargon into the main sense:
Up and down the city road,
In and out the Eagle;
That's the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel.
The popping or swapping of the
purse is declared to be the equivalent
Of ''bang went saXpence"
But this explanation is not, perhaps,
so inherently probable as another
which makes "wease" a slang term
for silver plate, prize cups, etc.-arti.
cles which, as the result of gadding in
the city road, were pawned OF
popped" This idea is repeated in q
story Of an Islington tailor who
through frequenting the Eagle tavern
had to pop his weasel" an instru,
ment used in the cutting of cloth.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-12-11
Heart toHeart
Talks.
ACTIVE AT ETGHTY-NINE.
BY EDWIN A. NYR.

In the presence of surgeons from all
over the country DR.. D. D. Martin Of
Tulsa, Okla, recently performed an
S<gperation in clinic.
DR.. Martin is eighty-nine years old.
And the report says his eye was as
sure and his hand as steady as when
he set broken bones sixty years ago.
When DR.. Martin began practicing
medicine sixty-nine years ago anti
septic surgery was unknown. People
died from wounds that would be con-
@<sidered triftng now The wounds had
ito fight it out alone
The old doctor says he remembers
when bleeding was a specific for all
Gehe ills Of flesh" and think of it
''Consumptives were kept where no
draft of air could possibly reach themr'
IN that day if you wanted a ply
@sician you did not get him 10y tele-
phone. Some one went for him on a
horse. And he did not come in his au-
EGomobile, but in his "suIky'' or horse
back, and If you lived in the country
me was long time coming.
If the injury was a gunshot wound
he would probe or cut down to it.
There was no x ray to locate the bull
LET. And if the disease was diphtheria
there was 10 antitoxin to keep the pa
etient from choking to death.
What q transformation in the life of
One man!
And this change and betterment have
come about because of the quiet ex-
pertinent of the physician and the pa
%Eient toll Of the man in the laboratory
Certainly the race owes a large debt
@af gratitude to the physician and the
Gnan Of science. Because
When the mechanical inventor ma
"a useful discovery he gets patent for
it and charges royalty for its use.
When the physician or scientist makes
: useful discovery he gives it freely to
TGne race without patent or fee.
And because of that untold suffering
has been saved and years have been
added to the average of human life
But what of old Dr. Martin? How
has he managed to keep clear eye
Sand steady nerve at etghty-nine?
He says he attributes his fine health
Fa5s good care of his body, a desire to
SAelp humanity and, most of all, to his
Gact1vity.
Most men," says DR.. Martin, crust
out rather than wear out" He says
he will be active as long as his legs
'TsEin carry his body. He wants to help
people.
Grand old mani
knd wonderful half century Of
achievement!