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Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

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 AZ sat alone m my quiet room the other day faint nanmur of voices came to my ears, and 1t chilmed in with my musinGs in q very soothing fashion. At last I found myse1f Wor- derihg where 1t came from, and my curiosity led mo 10 follow ID the china closet To open the door YVES the work of an instant, and then tho voice became clear and distinct had always heard that the voices in China were unusually soft and music- al, and now realized 1t fully; but the ones who were talking ~i1ad heard Eng lish spoken for eo many years. they had no dinIculty in making themselves understood.
 As opened the door my, erand- mothers custard cup was speakins A little white cup with green pattern traced upon 1t. and green border about the Inside at the top. This bore der is of points separated by little green bells, and a faint little. chime rang from them at eveky pause in the story told by the cup. This Is what heard narrated in pensive tones from the cup: T know very few like me ex- ist and do not belong here in Soutl1- ern New England. Should any of my sisters remain, they must be in Mas sachustts and Vermont, though three S Hampshire, for my previous owner t1i- vided us among her daughters. If you ever meet any of my relatives you will not fail to know them for we all so much alike.
 Now the custard cup is very old and fragile, and by this time was forced to rest her voice. and I'll tell you what she looks like while she Is recovering her power of speech. On the outside the decoration Is tiny landscape In green: on one side stands an urn filled and surrounded by flow CTS and foliage. Of. to the right rises church having two tall towers. The center fs occupied by body of water on which rides q Venetian gondola filled by a merry party of pleasure seekers. Altar in the distance rise some very angular mountains. But the faint twinkling of the bells told me that the cup was ready to con- tinue her story, so we will listen to what she has to say.
 T am lonely sometimes without my sisters; we always stood in 8 row In the old Vermont china closet, and that was very sweet smelling place. There was generally some maple sugar there to treat the children who came to the old house to see Grandma. She filled little scalloped tins with sugar, more. there were always eggsheiis filled with tho same delicacy. Never, thought they, did maple sugar taste 90 good as when those eggshelis were peeled off and . delicate. brown egg was revealed. A great mystery 1t seemed how Grandma could get the egg out and tafe sugar into those shells"
 Well" interrupted tart voice from a lower shelf perhaps you think, Miss Greencup. that you are the only mo- table in this closet; undoubtedly you are older than I, but l have had ex- perience of better days. was not al ways as I am now, but had a lovely blue complexion in my youth, but they took me, the last of my race, to bake pies on, and 1t left me with a very cracked face"
 Must have affected your temper.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18
ONLY EIcHr ABLE.

Tho u.emorizing of the Lords pray CT must be out of fashion in Kan sas for not one in twelve of the hon orable senators could repeat it in con- cert with the chaplain the other day, and the east is just looking at Kan Sas in astonisnment.
 This is what the Cleveland Plain Dealer had to say of the matter:
 Eight men out of the upper house in the legislature of q, sovereign state knew the A B c of prayer. Eight men out of the hundred or so chosen for their merit and attainments to make the laws for Kansas were ac- quainted with the words which the ages have decided to be at once the alphabet and the supreme and finished expression of devotion. An negligible percentage of a body of lawmakers could repeat the one classical inter cession that even an intelligent child learns at the knee of an illiterate mother This is not funny--it is i'm credioly startling and stupefying.
 What were the Kansas senators at when they were getting their educa- tion? One does not have to be re- ligionist to ask this question:; one wonders who had charge of their ele- mentary training in English languages and literature. Can such an unfor- tunate thing be the result of exclud- ing the Bible from the schools? Have our forefathers, wise in steering clear of religious prejudice and entangle- ment, taken from the ken of the pub lie school pupil the most vital ele- ments of the letters of his mother tongue?'
 The senators of Kansas have lost their face,' as the Chinese say, and should hasten to regain it.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18
Trusts Here and Ahroad

The treatment of trusts is very diff ferent in this country and over in Europe There the trust is allowed to exist and pursue it's purpose except it must not do so through coercion. force or fraud. The limitation of prod uct or the restraint of trade are not specific objects of prohinitiye legis1a- tion. A trust is regarded much as an Individual. subject only to the penal ties for dishonest and injurious deeds.
 In both Germany and England com binatiop is permitted, and what is here regarded calamity is over there esteemed as q blessing. England is a little more liberal than Germany in this matter, for the latter does super wise a combination some. but the fact of combination itself is not discour- aged in either country. It is regarded as a commercial necessity, and in Ger many it is said to work as a sort of safety valve to the industrial irrepres- sion
 Since the enactment of our anti trust law we have been in much tur- moil in this country, but instead of that fact being an argument against the law, it may be. strong argument for if This country has set it's face against the rule of wealth and Europe has not. and there is the questiOn- which is riEhts-Ohio State Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

written on their religious life, and atl- thorities do not entirely agree on cer- tain po4nts, but tAere is ample evt- dsnce that both men trusted and ington was probably tho more con- ventionally religious. though never in tolerant. He once remarked to q Pres- byterfan minister at whose hand he wished to take the communion: Though q member of the Church of ties" When in camp before Boston in 1775, he had prayer morning and even inw. and was regular in church attend ance. During his first term as prest- dent, he said to . physician attending him in stcialess: . ' am .tr not .1raao a. ro ro hence makes no difference. know that am in the 11and1 of g good Prov idence.,'
 And as to Lincoln, while he was not church member. and while un- ago maintained. many of them, go rixid q standard that . man of Lin- coins free spirit would be ruled out, he was religious in the truest sense of the term, and grew more so as the weight of responsibihties pressed hard upon him. Otherwise he would not have borne up under the strain. Says President T. e. Schurman of Cornell universify: T wish to say, deliberately, after reading many lives of Lincoln and trying to understand the history of tho civil war. that in my opinion tho union could not have been restored without tho unseen, but none the leess real, power that came to the nation throufh Lincoln's belief in God and confidence in his moral government of the world"
 Tn this sense, not only Lincoln and Washington, but the greatest men throughout all the centuries have been religious. One ought not to become religious simply because fle is likely fhercby to attain greatness, but if hc considers himself irreMgious. he ought to ask how it comes about that Q quality which shines out go distinctly in the great and noble of the earth which helped to make them what they were, should be ccnspicuously lacking in himself.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

speclzs out of rotten apples There is nothing the matter with this, if it is the way Of an old-fashioned man, for he is the kind of a fellow who is forg- ing ahead all the time. He may be Q little more polished now and then, but coarse or refined, the Keynote of busi- ness rings true every time. The man of energy can never be satisfied with froth, whatever shape it may appear in. or whatever sound 1t may give forth. Sounds to him must have the real business ring.
 The man who lives by his wits can not have a real exalted opinion of tho mass from whom he wrests a comfort able living. In the first place he be- comes conscious of the fact that he must be mentally sharper than they to accomplish his purpose; and this leaves no doubt with him that they are duller than he. Some men think that anything is fair in business, just war: and so the sharper has no con- science when it comes to doing any of us The man who lives by his wits cannot see wlsat is the use of having a conscience, anyway, unless 1t is to die by; and he figures that he is smart enough to get one when he finds that the sands of life are running out and the art of Skinning his neighbors is played out, and lie needs it. 1 guess this is the point in life where he has recalled to him that sharpness is not the mark of the superior mana and that the conceit of the rogue makes him feel bright when he is really tho duiisst of all people
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
GREAT MEN AND THE REST oE
 US.

Midway between the celebration of Lincoln's birthday and that of Wash ington, we pause to ask not simply what kind of mon were they, what did they do, but what relation have they to the rest of us, to whom the adjective great could never even by the widest stretch of the fmaEina- ton be applied? Arc we limited simr- ly to the admiration of them from Q distance, to the annual chanting of their praises in concert wftn others, or can we do something better than that
 good as it is--and through study of their efforts and characteristics learn some. useful 1eDons for our own lives? It fs always profitable even to admire great men, but if we can imi- tions in their experiences, they help to lift the level of human life gener- ally. Indeed Harnack the great Ger man theoloEian, has said that the value of a great man consists in the fact that he, by his very greatness, lifts all men.
 Our two most famous prssidsnts were men of very different antece- dents and personal traits. The one was of patrician extraction and WeS accustomed from childhood to com fortable surroundings; the other shared from birth the dubious fortunes | furnished shack" 8 rude and frugal diet little in the way of inherited re- finement-st1ch was Lincoln's fate. But both types of men are needed In 8 re- public. It would be unfortunats ii ideals of public service burned in the breasts only of men who wear. plain clothes and have little money in the bank. Such men,. indeed, can serve the state, and are serving 1t, but on the other hand the republic needs and welcomes the help which such men as Roosevelt can bring 1t out of an en- culture.
 Neither of these two presidents rode in Pullman car to greatness. Each had his peculiar tests and difficulties. When company of little school chil- dren were asked the other day. what trials, a little boy on tho front seat raised his hand and responded: Please, sir, he couldn't tell nei" But if this be true. this deprivation was on1y one of the lesser annoyanceS, :, indeed, the path of both Washington and Lincoln was strewn with entang- ling obstacles. Nor were they them : selves great from birth; they had to achieve it, each in his own way; nor were they uniformly great: they had their of days when they exhibited characteristic far from praiseworthy. when they gave way to discourasemenj or irritability. Never, forget that your hero whoever he is, WAS man of liks passions with you: he had to make his fight for character; lfe had to win hts WAY ggainst odds: he was not 90 psr-; feet as to discourage any imitatioR on
 But the distinctive element In the greatnesr of both Lincoln and Wash- inRton was stheir reliance on someouN SAaasess HaxA taA9. Much has &ee&
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

People who have a notion there is a great reward waiting somewhere for the nartyred are always looking for trouble, and find it; but they miss their purpose
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

In a red shou!dsrsd hawks nest
 doned by squirrels, on our land, were raised last spring three young hawks, and the family kept red squirrels from eating our adopted birds at the cot tage. Could there be. worse nisno
 mer than then hawks' for our usefu. red-tailed and red ed-shouldered bug zards? Of the 27 Orpingtons that we partly raised, rats killed all but seven, hawks killed none. Rats devoured --hawks got none. From the farm house and bungalow in twelve years. there has been no successful raid on our poultry by owls or hawks. The minister of this parish lost about 100 chicks by rats. And all through the neighborhood in this countrywide 1000 chicks are caught yearly by rats to ten by birds of prey. But do not many farmers allow this wholesale deple- tion? They will spend whole days building and hiding under brush -1nouses to shoot hawk on it's eg8S or with young: and farmers boys will trap for hawks or their eegs, or put baited traps on tall poles-a most deadly snare;--yet never will they poison rats for fear a rodent might possibly make a smell in walls of cellar or barn. I actually saw Ledyard farmer wiring nest of broad winged hawk. and sev- eral times was in contact with a North Stoningfon farmer who watched a marsh hawks nest with six eggs till the eggs matched, and then kept pa- tfently on guard till the birds were lusty and large, when he wrunx the necks of the young hawfEs and carried them to the town clerk for . bounty. And all this time the old 1arriers in the aervtce of the farmer were daily bringing all kinds of vermin injurious to the farmer to feed the young. This pair of marsh hawks had bred in this mans bog for a dozen years, and had killed many thousand rats, moles, meadow mice, snakes and corn- steal : ing ground squirrels, and behold mans ingratitude!
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

cover. Here WAS surely indicated the charmed circle where, with hoadp in . true Fairy ring. they faced t11e night and its terrors, and for the hundfedth time came out scathless.
 The order of march was rapaed on leaving the slumber ring, but when the open order was gained, the dozen parallels were as straight and an even- ly apart as q platoon of soldiers, till bit of likely furze or plants with sseed-bolls were near the park; then there was a common rush and quick mtngling of tracks. For forty rods the covey divided at a brook showing bits of likely green stun, only for the di- visions to come togther at a bogGy bridge to resume the march for | near cover. Then suddenly afl tracks end ed, showing that a real or fancied enemy had put them to flight pick ed up the covey again with all of the bakers doaen still running on tho pret- ty parallels. In two places on their route saw marks of the domestic cat, but pussy was after moro sgnoble game. Thsro were no signs of fights or play, and no wahowing except at the sleeping retreat under the sheep laurel and azaleas. Near this very spot saw a tragedy. before my salad days, when q youth older than I fired at a half broken covey under . spoon wood bush and killed nine helpleas bobwhites at one shot. Nowadays, am glad to think, that no man or boy of Yankee birth would do such brutal murder.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

The deadlock in the New York leg islature costs the taxpayers $2,500 a day. It is expensive electing sena- tors that way.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

Russia is booked for little brush with the Chinese on the Manchurian border because they have forgotten treaty obligations. The quickening of memory will not call for a long con
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Governor Ba1dwin's quotation from Jefferson with reference to newspapers shows that they have greatly inn proved since Jeffersons day.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Since it has. been discovered that rumor is never idle, why do we re- fer to idle rumors?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

It looks strange to. gee the democrats In congress acting to make the polf- c:es sf the Taft administration ef- fectjve This is the way for them to become rood republicans
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18
Children Who Are Sickly.

Mothee1 who value ther own comfoft snd the welfare of their children. should be without box a3 Mother Grsy's Sweet Powders for Children. for use throughout the seascr. They break Colds Heliess Feserishusss. Consdpston. Teething Dis eedera Hsadache and Stomach Trou6iss; Used by TAu. Sold tp all Drug Storss. a5c. oen't ecsspt aay suHetituts sample mailed FBEE Address Allen ., Olusted Ls Roy, N. T.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

A Jersey minister is credited with saying it is profane to shout hello! in the telephone His convictions seem to be sissified
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

Champ Clark is recognized as a big
 man in all parts. of the nation, but he should have been born in d larger |sstate to have realized his ambition.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

The war in Mexico appears to be able to get along without Richard Harding Davis and Poultney Bigelow, and that is why it is not a headliner.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

Kansas young men show signs of good perception. One hundred of them in the agricultural college have re- solved to take a course of table man : ners.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

In Massachusetts the wealthy pat rons of sport offer silver cups to the boys on high school teams who make the greatest batting average.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

Attention is called to the fact that few men ever appear to feel as well as a healthy dog, however much we may despise him.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

A writer in the Montreal Star jusI puts on record that reciprocity is go- ing to be the ruination of that coun- try.
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remedy for backache. rheumatism and urinary Irregularities. They are tonic in action, quick in results and afford q
 prompt relief from all kidney disorders. Leet& Osgo0d Go.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

Births in Missouri are credited with 900 telephone calls on the average How could the happy parents be ex- pected to do less?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

WlUW you want to put your bubi- p1eN befofe the public. there ip no mos Hum sotter than through the Adyertis-
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Makes 1t Easier.

Gov. Wilson of New Jersey has de- crared for open-air politics That at least. will be q relief from hot air politics-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
 Men workers in Japanese cotton mills earn on the average 23 cents a day, the women 1e cents and the children from eight to ten cents
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

There Is enc thing sure besides death and the taxes. and that is the sentinsnt on the face of the valentine.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

The Christian Endeavorers of Bos- ton have a building fund of thirty thousand pledged for immediate use.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

Happy thought for today: Loud
 apparel makes folks look and think
 and what do they think?
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

rho man who is longing for an at- tzck Of spring fever is yearning fol H0hirf net far ;Hork
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18
THE QUAIL TRAP
The Evening Grosbeak Invasion-Crow- Tracks-Snow Sianets of Biddy Grouse-The Squirrels Sign Man. ua1--C Cottontail's Trianale-Toe Talk of Wood Folk-Bobwhites Hieroalyphics

The Quail, Trap, Feb. 16, 1S11.-Be-
 cause the mild open winter did not show us more birds than usual it does not follow that there was not plenty of wild life afoot and a-wing if looked for at the right time in little frequent
 ed woods. For days when the ground was bare, I followed the woodpaths without noting flutter above or q rustic in the blanket of leaves. But after a light snow and mild moonlight night. in long wailk Feb. n. over the same route, behold, a revelation. .
 Though for the most part unseen, the presence of hundreds of creatures near at hand was betrayed by a sure and silent witness Lightly drifting the evening before snow had covered footprints of fox-hounds and hunters, leaving virgin surface for chapter from the life histories of the wood- dweIlers. Natures shyest pets were at the confessional, and corrected many of my impressions. Where I had kept tab on but pair of part distinguished birds; where I thought there were about fifteen rabbits, there must have surely been upwards of sew enty, and the nightly prowling about of animals I had never seen in our woods was as plainly shown as if they had posed for a. moving picture cam era. There were two tracks I did not know then, having no key; rather doubtfuIly calling one raccoon, and be- cause the other was near water called it otter. The ground hogs shadow or footmarks were not visible; but clearly indicated were deer, wildcat. fox, skunk, mink, weasel, grouse quail, jay, crow, red and grey squirrels, owls, northern hare, rabbit, rats and mice.
 The morning of the 14th was spent watching the movements of fifteen robins in the lower orchard, listening to a meadow lark, noting tine strings of crows westering from the big roost. and trying in vain to stalk a bunch Of birds that might have been grosbealzs. So far I have seen but five evening grosbeaks. None have appeared at the bungalow. But from our windows we watch with interest chickadees probe the dead curculio punches on the choke cherry bushes on the rockery. Miss Sarah Potter of the Neighfborhood
Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-18

Some Workmen on good terms with their employers have way of tryiua to win favor by saying sweet and com plimentary things to them, instead of sensible words which would impress the employers of their: worth. Fnat was a sensible employer who put this rule in his shop for the improvement and guidance of his employees Don't tell me what like to hear, but what ought to heax. I don't need q valet to my vanity, but do need one to my doliars,r And with it he posted this warning: Don't kick if I kick! It yoa are worth eorfecting you are worth keeping don't waste time cutting
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In the horticultural world man has long been experimenting to produce a blue rose and 8 fra grant dahMa; and in neither case can he be said to have met with marked success. And tflera is an Australian who is not satisfied with the color of horses. He says: Scientists produce all sorts of freak animals by careful methods of select i've and ;eliminative breeding; but win o so far has tried to produce a green horse ?" What do you think of this. And he goes on: For myself, I am tired of tie gamut color from yellow through bay to brown and black, with stray white or piebald ponies; what want is green variety. We have ,scriDtural authority for a green bay tree, why not a green bay horse?'' A man with such a taste might satisfy it by buying white horse and having it dyed with pistache so that the horse could lap himself and think he was eating sweetmeats instead of using the cruder color and having him poison himself. This desire of the spirit to have things different results in the transmutation which gives new forms and new varieties and new forces to life.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-10-06
State Lands at Public Auction

The following described tracts of
land, located in Whitman county, will
be sold at public auction at the court
house in Colfax, Saturday, November
4th, at 10 o'clock:
Lot of section 10, township II
north, range AZ east w. NJ, contain
ing 52.70 acres, more or less, accord
ing to the government survey thereof
appraised at 1927, subject to ease
ment for rights of way for railroad
purposes heretofore granted to the
Oregon. Washington & Idaho Rail
road Company and to the Snake River
Valley Railroad Company, respec-
lively.
Agricultural and pastoral land To-
Gated on Snake river, about one and
one-half miles from Charleston, and
about one mile from Lewiston, Idaho.
Lots ! and of section Is, town
ship II north, range as east w NJ.
containing 10000 acres, more or less.
according to the government survey
thereof, appraised at $1,000, subject
to easement for rights of way for rail-
road purposes heretofore granted to
the Oregon, Washington & Idaho
Railroad Company and to the Snake
River Valley Railroad Company, re-
spectively.
Pastoral land on Snake river. To-
Gated about two miles from Charleston,
and about one and one-half miles
from Lewiston Idaho.