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Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

Claude Grahame- White, the English
man, took two first prizes and a large
share of the first days money at the
Harvard Boston meet Saturday
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

EdfISs August Zine increased cost
Of food has widely agitated northern
France and Belgium. Public assem-
blages around the market places in
F'dench towns have caused the prices
of eatables to be reduced. The police
at Verviers protected the butter SELL
ers from an exasperated crowd until
the price was lowered four cents
pound
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The Two Miles of Corridors of the
State. War and Navy building are to
be painted-for the first time since the
building was constructed in 1875
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The Biggest Tobacco Shipment to
Europa from Boston in years, contain
ing 75,000,000 smokes. went in the hold
Of the Winifredian of the Ley1and line
Saturday.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

Beginning Sept. 4, the Majority of
the print cloth mills at Fall River
will go en- half time, some of the
mills running three days weekly and
others alternate weeks.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28
can Mail Matter

A Bag Of American Mail Matter
which was lost overheard at Plymouth,
Eng, Aug. II, was picked up Saturday
in the Helford river, near Falmouth, so
miles down the English channel.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

Tho New Government of Portugal
proposes to make the legislation of the
church and state conform to that of
Brazil there being no confiscation of
church property.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

Tho New American Ambassadors to
Germany, Italy and Japan, probably
will present their credentials to the
sovereigns of those countries the lat
ter part of October.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The Situation between France and
Germany on the Moroccan question is
tence France has instructed Ambas-
sador Cambon what are her demands.
Both countries are making war prep
arations.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The Rhode Island Democracy opened
their campaign Saturday with a mon
ster dinner at Rocky Point and follow
ed by speechmaking by many promi
nent speakers from Massachusetts and
Rhode Island.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

Franklin EIdred, 70 Years Old, an
inmate of the Utica Masonic home, was
killed by a West Shore milk train
Saturday afternoon. Eldred was walk
ing on the track.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The Late John w. Gates left a sec
ond will. setting aside, in effect, the
great ten-year trust created by the will
drawn in 1910 for the joint benefit of
his wife and son.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The Interstate Commerce commits
sion has postponed the effective date
of it's order in the Duncan case in
order to allow an appeal to the COM
merce court.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The Theft of Jewels Valued at 90 600
from thu Newport, R. l., summer home
Of j. B. Liippincott, the Philadelphia
publisher, was reported by the police
Saturday.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

The High Officials of the navy de-
partment regard the torpedo practice
of the German cruiser Bremen in Buz-
yards bay as a breach of international
etiquette.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

One Hundred Thousand Dollars was
pledged to Archbishop Ireland at the
close of the annual four days retreat
at st. Paul, Saturday, of the Catholic
priests of the diocese by the 260 priests
of the archdiocese.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

Two Sections of the Grandstand at
the Elgin, ILL.,, road races collapsed on
Saturday, carrying 1000 to 1900 spec
tators with it. A large number of the
spectators of the races were slightly
injured.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-28

Middletown, Conn, Aug. 27.-Sixty'
people were injured, four of them at
least seriously, tonight when an ex-
press train on the Valleye division of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad left the rails three and
half miles below this city.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
SELLS NAMES OF pEADBEATs
New Worker Devices Scheme for 0-nS- fit of Dishonest SaIesmen Who
 Work on Commission.

There are tricks in all trades-and some trades are all tricks. I've just heard of brand new scheme for talk ing money out of pockets. the New York correspondent ot the Cincinnati Times-Star writes. It is so essentially New York in device-so throbbingly metropolitan In its chicanery-that it is worth paragraph. It's manipula- tor sells lists of worthless names -o cheating salesmen who work oD com mission. Every now and then a guy blows in here who wants to make some quick money" he explains. He gets a job selling something on com mission. It doesn't matter whother it's books or automobiles. What does matter is that he gets a percentage of his pay when the signature of the purchaser is confirmed by the latter So MT. Salesman comes to me. I have list of 1000 names here. The pos sessor of every name is a man of good outward appearance, every one will sign anything offered to him, and every one is so judgment proof that the supreme court itself couldn't get nickel out of him with a thumb screw. l give my salesman friend two names-selected at random from the list-as a sample package. He goes forth, breaks into their offices, slaps down his prospectus and puts up d little game of talk. Sure, says the other fellow. I'll subscribe. What is it?'
 The salesman, convinced that have a good thing, then buys other names from me. l never let the same man have more than ten or fifteen. or he'd soon have my list and ruin me in the market Anyhow, he doesn't want more than that many By the time he's collected an advance com mission on their signatures he's ready to leave. The men who sign these contracts never refuse to confirm their signatures when the tracer goes around. They always accept delivery of the goods-and they never pay. Sometimes the manufacturer gets his goods back, and sometimes he doesn't. And a good part of these men are known to every one in the city by name. One very prominent manufac- IuASA ID OA my uSl- h4S AauS ID known from the Atlantic to the Pa cific. And a lawyer, whose name has been on the front page of every paper in the United States at some time within the last two years. is another. And there are others of almost equal standing. I wouldn't take $5O,0O0 for that list of dead beats. I am making ten per cent. annual interest on that sum from 1t"
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
stln Wanted That Steer,

The funniest thing that Bill Nye- my brother-ever said," declared Rep resentative Frank Nye of Minnesota, was about steer that ran away from him. Bill and I were boys when our parents moved to the west. We worked on fathers farm. Bill got to- gether enough money to buy a little steer, which he intended to break to harness and work. Several days after we got the steer home he disappeared and we never saw him again. We spent one entire day in the mountains hunting for him. That night, and 1t was alter midnight when we got home. mother was in the road crying. thinking that we were lost. We had been lost and were hungry, tired and footsore. Twenty-Five years later. when Bill was launching on his news paper career, received letter from him. He was on his way to Europe. He told me that he had been offered a trip around the world by a big daily paper and thought he would accept 1t. For one particular reason I think I will take It. he wrote, and that is to see if can't find that damned old steer"
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
XIcarioua Candy.

Down among the tenements of the old Greenwich village, where factories are becoming unpleasantly plentiful, a group of children was playing in a gutter. A passerby walked slowly, watching the active preparations of a little mother" aged about seven, who was marshaling her charges into or der. apparently in preparation for some urban excursion Something had gone wrong and one small kid was bowling.
 Shut your noise. Tommy Higgins, and be good this minutel" admon- ished the motherlet, with a promis- sorry smack "If you don't stop like I tell you I'll leave you right here in the mud gutter. Yez can't go wid us till yez closes yer noise and be's a good boy. Do you know where we're goin'? Well. we're goin' in the next block to the candy factory to smell the candies cookin' Ands do yer know what they're maxim today? Well, it's chocolate creams an pep'mints."
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
wIId EIephant. In Siam.

No estimate can be made Of the number of wild elephants in the jungles of Siam. In one of the ele- phant drives" in the Aypthia district recently more than two hundred were seen at one time. These drives are held yearly in the various districts of Siam, during which great numbers of the animals are driven into a stock ade The finest specimens are then captured and later tanned and trained for domestic use. The district of Ayp- thia Is famous for it's drives, and the king usually attends when large events are arranged for. Permission to capture wild elephants may be ob- tained from the Siamese government. and for each animal caught a royalty of $150 is paid; but such capture is exceedingly difficult and expensive, and the animal often dies before 1t is properly trained.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Then and Now.

Prior to the last fifteen years, by the time people had attained their first quarter of a century, they con- sidered themselves pretty much formed ss to physical and mental characteristics. If they were ambitious and energetic, they perhaps carried on some kind of exercise for their physical well-being. and guarded against mental deterioration as they advanced in years by occasionally talk ing up new studies or reviewing old ones; as a dear old lady of my ac- quaintance at the age of eighty-nine began to review her algebra to keep her mind active.
 Now everything is changed. We can- not settle down comfortably in the thought of anything in the regular routine of life which we may not be called upon to alter at a moments mo- tice. Most of us have found that few of our established habits are right, and that unless we are willing to be left hopelessly behind our associates we must learn over again all that we required in infancy, and that has since become a matter of automatic action. From the Atlantic.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
COLLECTOR MADE A MISTAKE
Threatened to Bring Action Against Jackson When He Really Wanted
 to See Jones.

Jackson was busy in his front gra den at No, II the other day. when an important individual accosted him.
 Good afternoon!"
 Good afternoon!" was Jackson's re ply.
 I've called from Brown & Co.,. to collect your little account with them"
 You have, have you?'
 Yes. This makes the sixth appli- cation"
 The sixth! You are sure it's the sixth?"
 Quite sure; and I'm instructed to say that if you don't settle up today proceedings to recover will be taker against you"
 "Indeed!"
 Yes. Are you going to pay 1t now?"
 Certainly not I'll see you and Brown & Co. hanged first before I pay you a cent"
 Very well, sir, very we'll YouI' be sorry for this if I'm not mistaken. MT. Jones'
 The debt-collector hurried of. but had scarcely taken 20 steps when Jackson recalled him.
 "Oh. you've thought better of it. have you. MT. Jones?"
 Be good enough to call me by my right name. if you please"
 What. aren't you MT. Jones?"
 No. I'm not MT. Jones. nor was | ever MT. Jones. If you want to know where MT. Jones lives. find out. He doesn't live here"
 And the debt-collector. walked of. figuratively kicking himself for mis. taking No. Il for No. IT.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Pistol MIahtIer Than snuffbos.

Robert Pinkerton once told a story of his father, the founder of the de- tective agency. which illustrates the elder Pinkerton's caution. A noted criminal was detained in Pinkerton's Chicago office. The elder Pinkerton left the room. and when he returned took the precaution of holding a re- volver in front of him.
 He saw the criminal standing by the door with a snuffbox he had picked up from Pinkerton's desk in his hand
 This is good snufi." affably remark ed the crook as he took sniff.
 For the eyes or the nOse?" asked Pinkerton, who knew that the crook had intended to blind him in an effort to escape
 Well" remarked the criminal. I'm sorry to say that the nose gets 1t this time"
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Doc That Guarded 2 Cat.

When my dog was a puppy I got a little kitten to keep him company. They got to be good friends. but as they got older the cat seemed to think she could take care of herself
 When the cat climbed a tree it seemed to puzzle the dog. and he would stand below the tree and look up at the cat and then at me, as if trying to understand how the cat could get up into the tres while he had to stay on the ground.
 When evening came the dog would hunt up the cat and carry her to the kennel where they slept at night The dog kept one of his forelsgs over the cat. and there she had Q stay until morning At last the cat was killed. but I have the dog yet.-Jur News.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
WHEN END OF WORLD COMES Professor Lowell Predicts the Nature But Says Mankind VIII Have
 Many Nears' Warning.

Credulous individuals who are al ways fearful that some of the ends ot the world predicted by sensationa prophets may prove to be true, will find considerable comfort in the as sertion of Professor Lowell that there is good scientific evidence for the be lief that mankind will have many years warning of the great catas trophe that is destined to put an end to al thing on this planet.
 According to Professor Lowell's statements there is somewhere within the remote confines of space a great mass of matter-once a world, but now dead-that is hurling itself toward our sun In time it is certain to reach the goal to which it is tend ing. and when the two come together the globe on which we live is destined to cease to exist.
 Fortunately for our peace of mind, there is at the present moment no such dead world within dangerous proximity and yet any day it may ap- pear Any day the morning newspa- pers may announce that one of these dark bodies has come within the reach of the telescope it may readily be seen by the light of the sun reflected upon it.
 While it would then be certain that the end of the world was in sight. there would still be ample time in which to prepare for the inevitable. If the first view of the intruder were caught at the eleventh magnitude could scarcely come much nearer without being detected-it would not be until 27 years later that it would become visible to the naked eye, and three years more would elapse before 1t appeared to us equal in size to a first magnitude star.
 In two years and three months more 1t would have come as near to us as Jupiter, and by that time 1t would be far the brightest star in the sky. In fact, its effect upon the world would already be felt Our seasons would change and the days would grow long CT. Finally just 145 days later, those who were still alive would witness the beginning of the end. The stranger would not strike the earth, but would pass as close in it's dash to the sun that the earth would turn and follow until together they would drop silent ly into the sun.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Molly on the Make.

There never was such babyl
 Though father said it. who shouldn't, and mother said it, who shouldn't. and everybody said 1t but those who should-wen there never was!
 Molly. my love-" cried daddy, bouncing in upon his seven-year-old, Uncle George has just arrived. and he's enraptured. He said There neve was such baby!' and he offered to buy her for a sovereign an ounce"
 You're not going to sell her. are you?" asked Molly. with wide-open eyes.
 No. my precious" cried the de lighted father. embracing her affec- tionately over this show of proper sentiment
 Because" resumed Molly. she'll be heavier when she's older, and'D fetch more!"-Answers
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Who Owns Shetland IsIandsa

It is not perhaps generally known that an opinion expressed half humor- ously, by Lord Salvesen at the open ing of the Morse Gallery in the Scot tish exhibition in Glasgow with re- gard to the ownership of the Orkney and Shetland islands is fortified by very high authority. His lordship. speaking as a lawyer" is not sure whether the islands do not belong to Norway still, and thinks that legally the crown of Norway, if prepared to pay the money for which they were pledged. with interest flor three hun dred years.' would be entitled to re- deem them. As matter of fact, pleni- potentiaries assembled at Breda in 1865 Ca couple of centuries after the islands had come into the possession of the Scottish crown) decided not only that the right of redemption had not then been barred by the lapse of time, but that it was imprescribable. The islands were pledged in 146S. ? that interest is due for nearly four and a half centuries.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
IRON WILL MAY FAIL
GREAT LEADER eEfs HIS WAY
 BY OTHER METHODS.
Followers Must Be Shown That They All Gain Most by Yielding lm- pIlelt Obedience to the Con-
 ductor's Orders.

They tell us an iron will is 8 very fine thing. A great general rules his forces by his will. A parliamentary leader drives recalcitrant members in- to the right lobby by his will, if he has 1t. Napoleon, they say, controlled all France by his will. I have long had doubts.
 Napoleon never had to get an obsti nate donkey out of the way of an ex- press train, for there were no express trains, but had the task confronted him doubt whether the iron will that conquered France would have moved the donkey. Nay, do not doubt; I am certain 1t would not. And since men are great deal more stupid and more obstinate than donkeys I am sure it was not by an iron will alone that Ma poleon ruled the French.
 The iron will only served to rule himself to keep him hard and inces- sanity at the working out of his great idea, the idea of convincing men that he was the ablest among them, that by following him they did best for themselves. A political boss does the same; there is no iron will involved; merely he shows his followers that they all gain by going with him.
 And the same rule holds true in the case of band conductors. A military conductor can get his way because the men under him are punished unless they obey him; an opera or concert conductor may get his way because he can throw out of employment the men who do not obey him.
 But the true born conductor, either military or civil, gets his way and fine results when his bandsmen know that by paying close attention to him and putting their backs into their work they help to secure perform feel proud.
 When Nikisch first came here many years ago we were told how on the continent he was wont to magnetize his men and make them insensibly yield to his will. It is likely enough they did yield; they would have been dismissed if they had not; but the magnetism did not in the least work In England. The men simply paid no attention to it; there might as well nave been no magnetism at all; twas In vain Nikisch essayed to fix them with the glittering eye of which we had read so much; too much; the in human rascals refused to be fixed; the performances were poor and some one must have lost a fair sum of money over the concerts.
 See what happened when Nikisch returned not as master but as servant of the orchestra. The Symphony or chestra engaged him; the glittering eye nonsense and the iron will non sense were dropped, and at once artis- tic results were got. One might disap- prove of many things he did, and espe- cia1ly of his affected readings, but he gained the effects he wanted. and gained them in a legitimate manner, through the faith the men had in him. John F. Runciman, in the London Saturday Review.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Eat Man Erom cIncInnatI.

Bum Helm, one of the fattest men Cincinnati ever produced. was at the ball game one afternoon when all the seats in the grandstand were taken. He took his stand back of the last row, presenting to those who walked along the passageway behind him a vast expanse of black coat and trous- CTS.
 After a little while Bum was an noyed by feeling somebody butt into him. Looking around. he saw that he had been hit by boy who was car rying a tray full of ginger ale bottles and peanuts.
 "'Scuse me, sir" ssad the boy to the irate giant. q thought you wuz de entrance. -Twice-s-Month Popular Magazine
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Letter for 25o Years raaeIIvered.

A letter written in De7amber. 1860. to a prominent member Sf the Body of Friends in Durham, England. has just been found in the Public Record office. having been undelivered. A copy of the letter has been forwarded to the descendants in the eighth gen. eration of those for whom 1t was in- tended. The letter is addressed: For my Loving friend Richard dickson. butcher in Durham. to bee delivered to William Bywaters. Durham. paid cd
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Pats Mistake.

Attorney John J. Sullivan tells 9 story about Milesian wielder of thu pick who had been digging a trench for a gas pipe leading to a private residences one-inch pipe.
 Contemplating the excavation and comparing its capacity with the loose dirt. he shook his head in doubt. Be this and be that" said he. I'm think in I'll not have room in the ditch for awl the dirrt on the pile. bad cess"
 But" said the bystander. why not. Pat?"
 Sure" he made reply. because didn't dig it deep enough!"
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Wouldn't Take Hint.

Wife-I see you're putting on yorI new coat It makes my old hat look awfully shabby
 HHsband-Is that so? We'll. that's soon mended. I'll put on my old coat -F1legende Blaetter.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
on the other Hand

"On the one hand said the teacher, pointing long finger at the map on the blackboard. ''is the far reaching country of Russia; on the other hand" Here he paused and looked sternly at the shock headed boy.
 -On the other hand"
 ''Warts!" hazarded the shock head ed boy. helpless with terror.-The Housekeeper.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Think of That.

Why Is it. doctor" groaned the vic tim. that a tooth has to have a nerve?"
 My dear sir" soothingly answ7re| the man with the forceps. "thers wouldn't be a dental college in all this broad land If 1t wasn't for tue nerves in teeth"
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Extral

I've got a great story" says the new reporter.
 You have?" growls the city editor What Is ft?"
 The only actress who never mar ried Nat Goodwin is engaged to the only man who nsver married Lillian Russell. Life
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-01
Had to praw the Lind.

T hear that Gwennie broke on her engagement with MT. Munly because he tried to limit her enjoyment"
 Yes. She was engaged to two other young men and he objected"