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Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-07

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.)
 We all agree as to the value of rain, and during the past few years we dwellers in Norwich have been forced to acknowledge it's need. bul even now when it comes many of us do not welcome it as a friend. We realize the good it does, and claim to be thankful for it, but too often finish our thanks giving by wish that it might have come some other time, as the old nursery jingle used to tell, it.
 However, the earth is thankful for it How eagerly the parched soil drinks it in. How refreshed every growing thing shows itself to be- Dropping heads are lifted, and fading colors are renewed by it's cooling drops and even the grass roots are reached by the lively peIting of the rain, and orous stand, and shows plainly that it's life and work are well supplied with means for future success, and every twig and blade indicates a new-found pleasure in it's daily task.
 Only mankind is uneratefuI, or. if not that, is disturbed and annoyed by the rainy day. We are such selfish mortals that we can realize only our own convenience, and rainy day in terferes so frequently with our plans for business or pleasure. A trip down.
 
 till some other day, for we, think it will be too dark in the stores to favor good judgment in the selection of goods. A picnic has been planned for the day. but of course we cannot go in the rain, and we fiatter ourselves u at we are so sorry for the disap- pointment of our friends. when after all our own grievance is the real ca use ot our displeasure.
 Merchants never want rain except on Sundays, as it lessens their trade. Children never want Saturday to be rainy. for wild flowers and fruit and world, which they claim for their own. And when shall they establish their claims to championship in baseball and football if it rain on Saturday? Even the politicians want pleas weather on election day, and the weather is held responsible for many defeat of one or the other opposing parties.
 Still the former and the latter rain comes and goes in it's appointed time and We are left to recognize the fact that we personally are very small part of the universe.
 Rain. like fire. is a good servant but bad master We read of cloud : bursts and floods which in their ex- cessive downfall and overflow bring destruction upon harvest and village SD that famine and disease and dea h ensue and the land is made desola te indeed. Think of the recent floods in China and their effect on the rice fields and all it means to the poor peo- pie when their rice crop fails. Think sylvania. where the overwhelming water has wrought so great destruction to whole villages and their inhabitants When we read of those disasters we
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amount paid in, by not making the second payment as agreed.
 There was no misrepresentation ownership or purchase price, they fully understanding the terms and condi- tions upon which the land was to be secured, and. failing to meet these conditions as agreed. the previous right to purchase the land was forfeited
 These are the true facts in the case
 EDWARD l.. ROOT.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-07
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE DUTY OF BEING A GOOD
 SPORT

Queer counsel for the parson to be handing us, you say. But bear with me. scoffer, and know my meaning. S4et me tell you what understand by sport
 I do not mean vulgarity, late hours, deep ,potatlons, or any form Of dis 'sipation Whatsoever. For these things the right minded man has adherence. For healthful and even strenuous plstt. on the other hand, he may have the most genuine love. I am merely say ing that if one is to enter the world of legitimate sport at all he should enter it in wholesome fashion. Let him be good, and not a cheap sport.
 We never show quite so clearly what we really are as when we are at play. In the schoolroom or in the kitchen or behind the counter people are un- der authority. They are doing things they are obliged to do. It is when restraint is removed and one does what he chooses that his real nature appears. If I want to set a line on on the playground. And I can judge Jimmies father fully as accurately on the golf course as in his pew at church,
 Now, there are certain characteris- tics that the good sport will exhibit. And the. first is honesty He will obey the rules and not cheat. Ii is almost people take games. They must win at any cost. You can think of oppon ents who will cry outside when you could see your hard-worked for re turn raise the dust at least an inch inside the tape. There are golfers who lose the power to count above six when making that fourth hole the
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WithaI, the aood sport is reax

Withal, the good sport is reasonable in his pastime After the adage of the ancient sage, he seeks to .do noth- ing too much" He keeps games in their proper place as tributary to the main business of living. He will not be numbered with those who 1n the phrase of Pope. simply pass from a youth of frolics to an old age of cards.''
 The important question to ask re- garding any form of amusement whatever is: Does it send me back to my regular work, stronger. happier and better equipped for service. If we can answer that question in the af- ff1rative. the game is well woft.l the candle. If not, it is harmful, simply adding one more to the unnecessary wastes of life. THE PARSON
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Every generation is, or should be, an advance in civilization and refine ment, and therefore we must expect and the good old days of yore have their counterpart in the present, no doubt, while the future has something equally good in store for those who follow us.
 Meanwhile like the king of Spain in the old rhyme, Well sit and sing and let it rain," and try not to mind a landscape done in water coors AN IDLER
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The record year of 1904 was in cot ton bales 2e0,0 short of the number the south turns out this year.
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TEerc are -four million dollars in the postal savings bank: and it will not Fe denied they are safer than they would be in a chimney-,ole or between ole mattresses
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In Persia the ballot hss been denied tn women because they are soulless; bnt they are still recognized as the mother of men even there
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The postofficc burglars are taking their annual outing in the country and several postoff1ces have been lev led on 10 meet expenses.
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Next Tuesday the voters of Califor- ris will act upen 23 proposed amend - nlents to the constitution. It will be interesting under such conditions to note what the average voter will do
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or money us beneVolent use mas made some men seem divine: but the rich are not crowded with this kind of people. Where money is simply used to sustain vanity the world behelds dwarfed souls. Money enIarges the opportunity for expressing personality and no other material thing so com pletely shows what a man is.
 When woman wants to marry a man for his money it is pretty good evidence that she does not think he has any other asset worth having; and her conduct bears witness she has no virtue money will not buy The girl who has been trained to make speculative match has been deeply wronged and well started ,"to SOW to the wind and reap the Whirlwind. Money cannot prevent home from be- coming hell; but it has often made a palace envy life in the hovel. Money cannot create love or purchase happi- ness: and, perhaps, it drives as many to suicide as want does. Selling one's soul for money is equivalent to selling ones soul to the devil. Too many have found this out, and many more are going to. for life is largely made properly united can make such a sue cess of life that it seems like heaven. Matrimonial matches declared to have been made in heaven generally end somewhere else. There IS not the happiness in s50.oo0 worth of clothes a year the world thinks there is, for this is wealth just putting style on vanity: and vanity is recognized as venial error that carries it's own punishment with it.
 The flowers are farewelling. The frost does not wilt them all, but those flowers which have the power to defy the frost have learned to respect it's decrees The flowers that withstood the freeze of early September have lost their energy and are rapidly mak- ing and preparing to have their seeds distributed by the wind and other nat ural agents. Have you noticed the part blue and gold plays in nature? Of course, it is in the sky the year round. It commences Flora'S procession in the spring in the violet and dandel1on, and ends it in autumn with the gentian and the goldenrod. In symboloSy these two colors are interpreted to signify truth from the celestial regions and the good of love from the Lord, so it is not surprising that man naturally re- gards this particular combination or color heavenly: which makes him in tuitiVely right The last floral fighters of the frost are the red chrysanthe- r1lums and when the snow enguIfs them they take on a silver crown and die: and red signifies the good of love and silver the good of faith, so, you see, truth and goodness are constantly gleamins from Gods creations above and below.
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Governor F'oss' appointments to the bench in Massachusetts are not sat isfactory to ambitious democrats
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The Boston & Maine railroad is selling it's old ties at five cents apiece This makes wood by the cord cheap
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Just think Of this: American cider goes abroad and comes back cham pugne: and American horse is export sd to retiIr. as frsnkfurters
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We are all amused by the polite way Taft has of knocking out a fool of course he isn't travelling west as William Howard Taft of Ohio.
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At the end of five days of the open season, the Maine record is: Dead deer, 10; dead guides, O.
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Happy thought for today: There is 8 little difference between saying mean things and doing them.
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We are all the time being cautioned about money as the root, and seldom hear of money as the revelator Have you ever thought the use made of money by man tells whether he is given to selfiShness and vanity or to I;berality and the promotion of good ness. There is nothing which reveals what We are like money. The way in which we handle it gives us a good name or a bad one. It makes all the difference in life to a person whether h. makes money a servant or 8 master
 Use is all that saves money from be- ing contemptible; and how We use it may save us from becoming contempti- blc. What talks of man better or worse than money. It may be the cause of his losing his character or of his losing his face. There are things every man should love more than money: but there is nothing ex- cept goodness that will make man look more like a god than the right use
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Senator Stephensons s political meth ods were not above reproach, if they were stylish.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-10-07

The celd water toast Colonel Bryan drank to President Taft did not make his head swim.
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The man who does not care to ad- vertise for mere business might see that it is sensible to advertise to keep what he has.
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Colonel Bryan has decided he will make no speeches during 1911; and now he is being asked to make that resolution cover 1912.
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The Toledo Blade says: If the sherman law was a sunny Jin1- Sher- man law, the trusts would like it bet :. ter'
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Captain Hains has been released from prison, and is new free to com init homicide a third time, if the prov ocations are sufficient.
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Those who go to Maine ia October never omit taking little jell and venison. The season for serving it is here.
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are thankful that our lot is cast in a section where such dire calamitles sel- dom occur and are content with old New England and the safety is usually provides.
 Then there are many people to whom rainy day means much pleasure. What a nice rainy day, say they .'Tli have so much time to myself, W1th no Interruptions, and there are so many things I want to do. the notable housewife brings out the un- finished garment or the alarming baskeL and her swift needle makes quick work and the heap of mending grows less, as the pile of neatly folded garments, ready for closet and bureau. increases. With what sense of relief and sat1s- faction she beholds the lowering, or one pile and the growing of the other. till at last she gathers an armfui ol carefully arranged clothes of various kinds and puts them away in order, ready for use. Another, equally glad for the rainy day, devotes it to letter writing and feels very virtuous at the end of the day as she looks upon the pile of letters ready for the mail.
 
 Those mothers who have charge Of little children find unpleasant days q trial for the little ones miss their outdoor life and it is difficult to keep them happily amused and out of mis- chief. How well I remember I so of ten used to say: Mother. what can l doe" little realizing what a care was making for the patient mother whose resources of suggestion seldom failed, and whose delight was in seeing her children content and happy. Many an hour was happily passed by us chil- dren in doing tasks which we fondly thought to be of great help in the household, but which. I am now in clined to think, were done over after us at some leisure moment What en- joynent we took in reading aloud while the mothers busy needle was doing the work of today's sewing ma chine What great success we made of candy and popcorn on days too stormy for school attendance. for "one session was not then the practice and nc especial reward was offered for per feet attendance.
 Nowadays we hear it said that the matinee is well attended on rainy days and I have heard women say they went to pass away the time Their mothers were too busy providing for the com fort of their households to feel the need of amusement of that sort to pass away the time. and the matinee was not then invented.
 Every generation is, or should be, an advance in civilizat ton and refine ment. and therefore we must expect
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we are told the woods are full of coUns.
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The hunters moon now shining is the coon moon down in Maine; and
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A SKETCH IN WATER COLORS

are thankful that our lot is cast in a section where such dire calamities sell dom occur and are content with old New England and the safety is usually nfoyides
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
ADVERTISING TALKS.


handkerchiefs, and one OF his
associates said:
eyes, we are rather proud OF
being able to buy these handker-
chiefs at a price which enables
us to sell them at five cents"
The merchant asked-"ARE
THEY ALL LINEN PIT be-
ing a rule of the house to sell
only pure linen.
The manager said, mo, there
is a little cotton in them, but
they are SPLENDID VALUE
for five cents.
The merchant Immediately or
dered the handkerchiefs OFF
SALE, saying:
"For years we have advertised
that THIS STORE NEVER
SELLS ANYTHING BUT PURE
LINEN. Your advertising did
not state that these handker-
chiefs had cotton in them, and
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19

the people who read our an
nouncement would naturally
think we were offering them A
LINEN handkerchief for five
cents.
"We cannot afford to sell
these handkerchiefs at any
price. 1t would DESTROY THE
EFFECT OF OUR PAST AID
VERTISING - people would
LOSE FAITH in our state
ments.
There were a great many
thousand dozen Of these hand
kerchiefs that were never sold
in that store because THEY
WERE NOT UP TO THE
STANDARD the merchant had
set for his store.
1t is due to this policy that
this merchant has builded q
great business and WON THE
CONFIDENCE OF THE PEG
PIE.
Was he not right?
(To Be Continued.)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
PHOTOGRAPHY

c. r. Bosworth. travelling manager
OF q motion picture concern, was tell
ing Manager Hartz OF the opera-house
all about the new films and their
beauty
Huh" exclaimed the Clevelander.
that's nothing Wait until you see
my pictures. and hear them. too. I've
got the real thing In the picture line
talking pictures. Everything else Is
junk-pure Junk. Throw II away,
man"
Bosworth was impressed. you
mean the synchronized motion-talk.
don't your" he inquired. Let me tell
YOU their mechanical fault. Even Mr..
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
From Another Point of View

Has asked whether 1t Is!
What is your ny-swattns percentage'
Looksn is going to last
seeing Iar A
conquering
and noo
when blossoms'
~@Ne
President promised be about time Tor
the to take anot Juarez
other court simply
an
divorce ground
probably
time as Brookins longest flight
Lucas
unde oos
bad Mr. 1t? hundred ana nV uA
cks for Is
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
THE BLooD-LETTINe BRANCH

Not every pun is as good as one
credited TO a Dublin gentleman Oh
long ago by the author OF a recent
book entitled ''In Many Lands.
George w, on his visit to Dublin In
1921, met at a reception Sir. Philip
Champion. treland's great surgeon.
I'm what branch OF the service Is
that magnificent looking man?" asked
his majesty.
The gentleman to whom the Ques'
ton was put was too polite to hin.
that the king was mistaken In suppos-
ing that the distinguished surgeon
was a naval or military officer.
Sire" he replied. he Is a general
In the Lancers "-Aberdeen Register.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19

key He ia also than being
Thomas threw his wife and abused
her shamefuly according to evidence nesnoO rs s
THE FEMALE rare OF judiciary which substantial
JuDIeAnY justice the who best
j much she had suffered and that she msh'
impose the punishment o guilty husband 49, .s,Don
To all those In the court ROOM MIS- AckeS s
.Tom sentence you to tendays separation from me-"
exclaimed the Judge But was ty Iha
other earth did Inc na
est inflicted the majority OF husbands
despite all the family Jars anu
the courts the vast majority on
highly independent
ASSERT ask yourself ~ isn't So -, =, ,,
what Tom would miss most would De nerse
felt hard sentence upon
turned weeping - A.. a.,
rather than which clearly shows that ne
is a mean mans as well mean husband
Mr. Adch of him. he
remark that needed men used
need doesn't embrace the
country some time wish it had ,.v :, calls on
| a
1t calls when Ne"
GOES help AIdrich III New York banks
he with a stern front and uphi'eu hnsei
of warning AThe Country : -- !. -.
Think Of 1.-THE United States OF AmeS
delinquent debtors and
down door, And Just
not Adrichs Mr. Rockefeller wouia
~ A. would be erased from the snieu
r." in place! appalling prospect and MT Aori'
more good to a timely warning But =, ,,. .n,
in the United when the strong arm
think Mr. Adch that old Uncle sam
be hold sack
He is a but he's honest
at the expense OF
with the idea that the couny
do The country
brains and natural wealth and tine county, st
itself VIII snow
prosperity after ano os Ae
-, -. 'uor.. ,ou hut n
should surprised beyond measure 70
the would rise water run dnb
universe.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
~: ]: :::5= Editorial Page Of The Detroit Times
Friday. May l9
1911

Edison says IL can't be done. | sup
pose you use a double set OF motors.
hooked up together. one for the pic
lures and one for the graphophoney
Well. II won't work and we know IL.
Now"
mix on the graphophone," returned
the manager. II use no machine what
soever. No motor. no graphophonc.
nothing. That's where come in"
But. good land" said the other.
how do you do IT. How can you do
IT,"
Nothing easier" replied Hartz. as
he turned away. 81 simply photograph
the voice. "-Clevelan Leader.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
Gov Crothers letter to Gov Osborn is in part as follows

Gov. Crothes letter part follows
sso that s s q '"
people abroad really little ssS the
s sA rs ws s sss o:: s s at
.sr % s .S, DO
i, ; :'' .'a"
.s
would -wha. sa.s.r
@ g not s S.s"s s sas s
'S"
The newspapers should quick the
Maryland WILL have their hearty
opatn for strikes this newspaper that here campaign with
wise and patriotic object
For instance:
go
% attend the coronation
suppose ALL of the wonders and
~ Of beauties Of their countys
Let take the Mchganders for this
lion part the great that will the facilities for
mediation n great London to a fitted
How these Mchgandes know the delights
or mountains
the Rockies the Catskils Alleghanie the Adirondack
How them suppose have behd the beauties and
the wonderworks Of Nature right at their doorf
How them have crossed the famiae themselves
great building that
Of country history reads like romances
them have visited do suppose the backgrounds Of
where history made where their
died conquered in inspiring causef
peninsula visited the peninsula Of their satel
the Board of Commerce month which to the
would be willing that the 500 Deroiters
along will least $50 citizens who will be
making first trip this section Of Michigan.
think of the beauties the wonders and the health
supplying spots Lie SOUTH and which call
them for viitdurng their times Of rest and play.
going Americans going Lon
begun their OWN country but viii suggest
that to amazing percentage American rail
rds Of day describing faithful pictures
sorting fail placed in their hands all at
once appeal these sketches
trom fairy books and things seen in dreams
vsnton.
We upon subject this column before and have
good American
ptixenship
The ingredient Of good American citizenship must be genuine
pride which let suggest again. the American must
NOW his own, his native land.
who desires to be good citizen who would
his fag must travel first home to
himself with his couns endowments at the hand Of Dame
grandeur with which the stage se-and through
by travel fully appreciate the gOres Of the land and
magniAcence Of his countrys institutions.
You just LITTLE about your
your boys girls geography for tonight and
~ through it.
viii be every bit entertaining could take
road certainly enknng Of patriotic fevor than be od
81 the throng paying indecoous homage Kngshp
umptuouy appointed railroad service Of this country makes it
1sluxn1y q well education to do
s'see Europe if you will, but America FIRST"
Tho I1Toc Nar1y TTndin1ornatic r
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Now Gets Handouts.
THAT ragged man used TO be a
sleight-ofhand artist"
81 see-those We're his palmy'
days"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19

"see Europe if you win, but see
America first"
That is the name Of convention
to be held in Baltimore next JAZZ
nary,
The governors Of the states and
the newspapers of the country have
been invited by Gov. ciothers, Of
Maryland, to cooperate in creating
interest in this movement.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
OBSERVATIONS

Over Hammond real man named iohmas
husband which worse than
a "a. Ia. "a oh,sad
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
See Europe II YOuWill,
but See America First"
IsSound, Patriotic Advice

Patriotic Because the American
Who Wants to Know America
First IL Bound To BE q
Good American-How
Well DO YOU Know
Your Country.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19

her shamefuly, according evidence neighbors gave
before Judge Green. The judge. who seems TO DC
rare part OF the judiciary which favors substanua
justice told Mrs Lckey that she was the one VINO pes
knew how much she had suffered and that she migh