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Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
LIFE IN THE TOP STORY.

Europe contains few more interesting relics than the great palace of the AL hambra, at Granada, in Spain. Trav- elers have told US about the general plan of the historic old pile. In the lower part are the kitchens. ser wants quarters and rooms devoted 70 menial uses Above them are the 1iv- ing apartments, guest chambers and halls where formerly Moorish grandees gave audience to envoys and friends. But far above all rises the great tower to which devout Moslems might ascend to look upward at the stars or to medi- tate on the greatness of God.
 The glorious old palace is built, thus. in three stories. And it is much that way with human life Each one of us lives in a house three stories higE You can discern the kitchen and the drawing room and the watch tower in your own personality if you look for them.
 Many of us spend a good deal of time in the lowest story. The kitchen is an important room and the question of what to eat and drink is an expressing one. The proper care of the physical nature requires an immense amount of attention. You will find some peo-
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
THE BENEFITS OF A VACATION

It has to be admitted that too many people make poor use of a vacation, owing to their lack of purpose or ten dency to indulge in excesses.
 A vacationist was overheard at a widely popular resort to remark: This is mighty fine place for a fellow who has got a lot of money to spend P This is case in which the lubricato Is regarded as the whole. thing.
 Physical exercise in the open air is what gives value to vacation be- cause it gives muscular resourceful- ness-a better appetite and a larger capa city for work in the future
 The usual vacation dissipations which creep into the period of alleged rest usually send the vacationist back to business in poorer shape than when he left it, and he really has to re- cuperate at his employers expense.
 Those who automobile have pleas ure; but no physical exercise to speak of; while those who boat and play golf and go to the wilds for game or for study. work days and sleep nights, improving their lung capacity and appetite and charging themselves with muscular energy.
 The upbuilding of the pleasure seeker is the prime object, and every thing that fmpairs one makes a fail- ure of the purpose for which vacations are taken.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

pie in the kitchen of life practically all the time.
 The second story represents our in- tellectual nature. You get a broadcr view up there and the light is apt to be more abundant. Here we come for the culture of the mind. Many a man during the hard days wrestle for bread and butter is looking forward to the hour when he may settle down with a book beside the evening lamp. The joys of thought and friendship are here on the second story. There i.s a great deal of pure joy to be found in the drawing room of life.
 Highest of all is the third story-the realm of the spirit. The most beau tiful prospect, the best air. and the The noise of the kitchen the chatter of the drawing room cannot reach the watch tower where in the silence God speaks to us.
 He is a wise man who is careful to have a we'll ordered kitchen in his scheme of things; for the basis of life is physical. And if he is to be really alive he must frequently mount to the drawing room. He must feed his mind as well as his body. There ought to be for each of us some interest apart from the daily round to lend us vigor epitaph of the poor fellow upon whose tombstone it was written Born a Man and Died Grocer
 But he is wisest of all who finds his way frequently to the tower room of life. He will remain starved and stunted unless he pauses now and then to feed his spirit. It is good for us to look up at the stars. to reflect or the Power who placed them and us here. It is good for us to feel the breath from the hills upon our fore heads and realize our kinship with the Eternal. One .comes down from the tower room humbled but wonderfully inspired for the work of life.
 Once each week is none too often to mount to the top story to get the view and to breathe the air. When some one asked Oliver Wendell Holmes why he was so regular at church he replied There is a little plant called rever- enee in a corner of my soul garden which I love to have watered about once a week." great many people feel about it as the genial poet felt
 THE PARSON.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
THE VAGARIES OF THE WEATHER

Long years ago wise woman wrate: What should we have to talk about, if it were not for the weather ?' and the weather is always fruitful subject for thought and talk. but this year it is outdoing itself in expressing the attention of people in all parts of the land. Certainly the summer of 1911 will be remen1bered-by all who live it through. Those who leave home to find rest and comfort return to find comfort and rest at home; and those who remain at home are sure they would be more at ease elsewhere.
 Certainly during the first two weeks of July we have realized what the term, sSweltering humanity means, and if we felt the heat so keenly in leafy trees. what must it have been in closely built, crowded cities? No wonder We read of people overcome in body and mind by the heat, of parks and schoolyards thrown open for sleeping places, Of roofs and fire escapes and yerandas used for the same purpose; and of the many disas- ters resulting from the same cause. The dryness of the air has added to the general discomfort, and, take it all in all, few indeed are they whose philosophy is equal to the strain put I upon it by the heated term. Every paper we taken up tells of some dread full disaster more or less directly the result of the intense heat.
 Perils by land and perIs by sea at one time furnished the limit of dan ger; but to this now must be added the risks encountered under the sea, and under the land. and, last of all, in the sky above" Collisions of va rious sorts, trains derailed, WreckS at sea, explosions in mines, floods and cloudbursts, forest fires and conflagra- tions in cities. victims of ambitious air-fights, suicides, loss of reason; when was there ever such a list of woe? Still, an old uncle of mine al ways insisted upon it that more people died in their own beds than anywhere else. and I fancy he was right.
 The entire year of 1911 has been thus far year of topsy-turvy. We had no January thaw, and our win groundhog did not keep his promise, and the usual almanac days, so-called, the last Friday of the month, belied themselves until their reputation is much impaired. Warm days in March raised our hopes, only to be showed under in April. and our April showers came in June, while the less said about May the better.
 The birds knew their time for nest ing, however and the flowers were mostly on time, though some seemed a little deceived as to date. Cherries were two weeks earlier than often usual or entirely burned up; and now we find it difficult to realize that many kinds of food are not to be had at the season when we generally depend upon them.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
Exhibit for Norfolk Fair.

Dr. Jenkins of the agricultural ex.. pertinent station at New Haven has written Mrs. Dennis, president of the Norfolk Agricultural society, that he will send to the fair to be held by the society this fall a tent containing an exhibit of all the experiments made at the station this year. This tent, which is 60 feet long and the exhibit weighing. two tons, will be sent there direct from the Connecticut state fair The exhibit will also be shown at the state fair at Berlin.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
NO NEED FOR TYPHOID FEVER.
Vaccination Advised by Comedies
 Health Board.

Secretary Joseph IT. Townsend of the state board of health, in the bulle- tin issued for the month of June, which, he says. worked so well during the recent maneuvers on the Mexican frontier that the government has is- sued an order for the vaccination of all enlisted men. He lucidly describes the vaccine and it's use as follows:
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
Aban dons Artesian Well.

Director Flames of the New Haven public works department announced that the artesian well on the green will be abandoned for good and all, owing to the report of Dr. Lewis, the city bacterioIogist, that the water is not healthfuL The old pump has run dry, so that the only way people can get water now on the green is from the Bennett fountain, which has city water
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

The Massachusetts legislature prom ises to get through in a week or two, but Hartford may have ours till Sep tember.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

Mr. Wickersham will soon be aware that it is easier for a man to get him. self in bad odor than to recover his original sweetness.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

The white population of the south is only gaining 16.1 per cent faster than the colored. The idea that the cOlored race would die out like the Indians proves to have been false
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

Since the jackpot got into politics everyone cannot play the game; but now that it has got to go chances for lighter weights are brightening
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

Governor Pothier of Rhode Island is not ambitious to lead another politi- cal campaign. He says he has had enough.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
STEAMER GARDINER

Leaves Norwich for New London, Ocean Beach Pleasure Beach and Crescent Beach 8.o5 A. M., POS P. M., returning, arrives Norwich 1.25 P. M. and 7.25 P. M.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

A western aragrapher advises the man in the moon to hand the new comet, since it is declared to be tramp, a cold lunch, and to tell it to go away
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Happy thought for today: The man who follows his own inclinations when they are right can stand any amount of criticism
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MoNrAuK STEAMBOAT co.

str. "Wyandotte' leaves New London for Greenport. Shelter Island and Sag Harbor weekdays 10 a. m.. 40 D. m. Leaves Sag Harbor, returning. week days, a. m., 12.30 D. jy1d
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

The veterans of Bull Run, while at Manassas this time. realized that Time can make havoc as we'll as war.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

During the recent hot spell the Mas sachusetts Humane society watered in one day at Boston 3s,045 horses, and still 200 died and over 400 were pros trated by the heat.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

The gas meter is always a source of interest and curiosity-we all won der what it's revelations at the end of the month will be-
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

When Jules Verne ina agined the trip around the world in eighty days, no one thought that in 1911 the stunt could be done in sixty days.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

Texas is coming to the front with corn crop of a quarter of billion bushels. and this indicates that corn pone will be plentiful next winter.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

In the past eleven years the sheep have decreased in Vermont 97,000. The vacationists are more profitable
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
Why Trusts Yell.

Secrets seem to be the vitals of the ordinary trust, and 1t is little wonder they yell when an attempt is made to extract PhilaoeIpnia Inquir-
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

Those who drink at the bubbling, sanitary fountain know that the clear water is always coming on top.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

There have been three and a half million people to the top of Washing ton monument in the twenty three years that it has been open.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

Billy Sunday has declined an offer of $500 a month to go back to his favorite game of baseball.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

When the president reprimands Wiley the great American public will wonder what in the world a recom- mendation was given to Ballinger fer
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

and the sentiment is. "The devil take the hindmost." There is not much diff ference in getting the best of a man because he knows less than we do, and taking things from him because we are stronger than he is. It seems to me as if the man who profits by the ignorance of his fellow men must feel cheap when he sits alone and thinks his dealings over. Some people, doubt less, school themselves to think that anything that is smart. is creditable, even when it is getting a persons slg- nature to note ne does not owe, and is unaware he is signing. If we take the opportunity to protect the weak we have honored ourselves; and if we grasp it to fleece them we are there after ever in dishonor whether we realize it or not.
 There is no loyalty of more import ance than a mans loyalty to his own conscience. We speak advisedly when We speak of his own conscience. be- cause conscience is often but the an ticipation of the opinions of others, and is not what the individual thinks it is. The conscience is not the oracle of Fear but the oracle of Love; and has been truly said to be the founda- tion of joy.'' It was Fuller who said: "A wounded conscience is able to un paradise itself.' By disloyalty to con science It may De made the source or pain and shame. Napoleon found the hardest men to manage in the state were men whose intentions were hon est but whose consciences were be- witched'; and another notable sen tence Of his was that 'his power end- ed where conscience began It is better to be conscious that conscience has you, than that you have a con- science; that 1t is better to be law abiding than to simply be aware of the law This spark of celestial 1re,'' as Washington called it, burns true and. clear so long as man declines to do evil in it's name.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
MOTOR BOATS FOR OCEAN sERv-

It is the dream of motor-boat en- thusiasts that these speedy little craft will yet become the automobiles of the ocean and that small parties will tour in them to all countries and islands of the seas.
 Their seaworthiness must first be established, and for this purpose the first one to cross the Atlantic left New York this week for Queenstown and her speed will be a matter of much interest.
 The Romania is a high powered craft, fifty feet in length, although her tanks carry 1900 gallons of gasoline Provisions for two months and 180 gallons of water will also be carried. The Romania is manned by Capt John Weller, accompanied by Capt. William Small and three others. Captain We'll CT expects to reach Queenstown, the first port of call, on August 4th, Snd to return by the southern route. The venture is especially interesting, since the Romania is the first of what is generally believed to be an enormous fleet of motor boats that will some day replace steam navigation.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Connecticut legislature in it's shrunken form is likely to continue for some time yet.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

June brides were as numerous as ever, and the schools knew when the time came to close. and we may be
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

But Mrs. CaudIe and her spouse have taken me a long way from my sub- ject. There are still many weeks of weather ahead of us, and with showers all about us, we have good reason for hoping they may reach us in time to furnish the desired relief. How happy we ought to be if tomorrow should find it raining Even then some of us would grumble at having our plans upset by the rain. T wanted to go to the beach today" says one. NOW I cannot go down town, shopping, as I intended,'' says another. What a dismal rainy day!' is the plaint of a third, when we should all thank Heav- en for the gift of rain, plenteous, copi- ous showers, even if they find us like the Caudles. with no unbrella, and I have known people even to return a borrowed umbrella.
 AN IDLER.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22
There is no douht one man,s wea

There is no doubt one mans weak ness is another mans opportunity: but it is usually a selfish man, if not mean one. to take advantage of it.
 That old proverb. Anything is fair in war" has been applied to trade with out doing any injustice to business methods in the competitions of busi- ness where every man is for himself,
Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-22

The most efficient man is the man with the idea, not the man who with tools constructs things The world calls the man of mind-forms a dream CT and he who puts them into solid material a practical man. It strikes me that they are both practical men. for it takes as much practice to- see new machine or new mansion, or new town in the mind and to make ali interpretable draught of it upon paper as it does to shape material to the mea sure and lines that the man of mind produces for the man who is said to do things. I once went over a court house of granite with cupalo 150 feet from the ground, and all the fittings and the furniture of the various court rooms were made to harmonize with the style of the building; and this great structure of granite and oak was produced upon paper from the mind of a man of B, in all of it's wonderful details: and it seemed al perfect as a song: in fact it struck me as being nearly eauiXAlent to a miracle, and young designers and inventors are do- ing this thing every day. But none of these workers could perfect mind creations without the help of the hew- CTS and matchers and finishers. per feet work is seldom wrought by one man: but the efficient man is he who can take from his dream thing of use and beauty and prepare the way for it's being made visible, useful and permanent.
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thankful for both pupils and teachers that the heated term did not come un- til vacation began
 All looked forward to St. Swithin's day for relief, but no showers came, and, according to the old saying, no rain must be expected for forty days to come. Meantime, we must shrlvel away in the dry air.
 Perhaps, however, like all the rest, St SwitRin may contradict himself, and the rain may come after all. A passer-by expressed his mind forcibly today in my hearing, by saying: T wish we might have a storm. wouldn't mind if it lasted three or four days. I'd be willing to work out in it all the time" Before the time expired, I'll warrant, he would wish for sunshine again, for we are all con- tradictory as the weather is.
 1 presume Mrs. Caude was glad to after her direful prediction of forty days and no umbrella" I've no doubt the children were able to go to school as usual. and that her dear mother could be visited much the same, and that all was peaceful once more in the Caudle family. Evidently Caudle himself was quite philosopher equal to the demand. and rested comfortably in hopes of the cloud rolling by speed fly. Possibly experience had taught him that all things have an end, even Caudle lectures, and he had learned to endure silently what seemed an in curable evil. Would there were more like himi How differently the story would have ended, had he been in clined to argue the question. Perhaps he knew. too, that poor Mrs. Caudle was worn out with a hard days work for him and the dear children and very likely there had been a protracted spell of dry hot weather to try her temper beyond control. Happy are they who have some philosophical companion to whom they may pour out their woes, and upon whom they may vent their spleen when patience and nerves are oVerdone. May the Caudles never be less in number than their featuring mates. and always be able to turn the deaf ear up and sleep soundly even while the shower of
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-23
Big Beer Boss Gets Presents.

Probably the most elaborate COLDER
Wedding anniversary ever celebrated
.ook place in America, with Mr.. and Mrs
Adolphus Busch as the central figures
It was celebrated in the Busch home
he Blossoms, at Pasadena, California,
gu March 7th.
Mr.. Busch's gift to his wife was a
sl00,OO O gold crown studded with dia.
ulouds. The presents received by the
couple altogether are valued at a hall
million dollars. The children gave their
parents a dozen solid gold dinner plates
worth SIS, 900, and the grandchildren
gave a SIS, 900 goldIaower basket. Pres
,dent Taft sent a new $40 gold piece in
an ivory case, and Col. Roosevelt a gold
owing cup, as did Emperor William, of
Germany. The German employees OF the
brewing association gave a 5000 gold
Ease.
At the wedding feast at night there
was rare flowers and decorations valued
at sst, OU. Tx.
""Bud weiser's Friends" can congratu.
late tleu4se.ses Vn the fact tina il was
:heir money that paid for tie crown,
gold plate, basket, vase and flowers, a
very liberal contribution, considering
what they got for it.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-23
International Dry Farming Con-
gress Start Educational Cam
paign Among Farmers.

1t is doubtful if any movement has
ever been instituted in this counts
which will have as important a bearing
upon the agricultural prosperity of a
very large section of the West and South
west as that which has jus. heen ali
nounced by the Agricultural Department
of the Rock Islam | Lines.
Realizing the IMPERATIVE necessity 10,
an active. practical campaign of educa
ton among the farmers in ,ergitory of
light rainfall TO correct evils OF piprope,
%tnetholS, and point the way ~ success.
the work of the department for tire next
three months will be duacted to Dry
Farming.
In orter 10 encourage culture of milo.
malss. which requires bu, little moisture
and which is a sure basis Of success, the
Rock Island Lines have placed at the dis.
possl OF the International. Dry Farming
Congress officials, n special train of eight
cars whicl, will cover the dry farming
territory served by the lock Island
Lines The campaign will be ont
nienced IN eastern Colorado aud will b.
carried into other states in the so.called
semi arid belt. The special feature of
the plan is that the work will I've con luct.
ed during the growing season. When the
warmer Is III the most receptive frame of
mind, and will probably continue until
earl. June. Eminent lecturers from the
Agricultural Colleges of tha severa'
states, VIII" have mastered the science OF
hr. land farming. officials Of tia. DRY
Farming Congress and others will &C.
coinpany the train.
Newspapers t'ankers, grain dealers
tducMoss and business men, generally
are cooperating CLOSELY and /. is conf
IDENTITY predicted hat immediate result,
in increased sgricu turAl products will
demonstrate the s.tire prac,tcahiiity oi
dry farming and insure tile successful
| guilty 'tion Of . great area of territory
nov Lnprodnctiys,