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Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
THE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
IN TRAINING

where her mamma waes how could tell her that her mamma was at the gymnasium trying to develop herself into -Graeco- Roman wrestler? We have boy of eight years. with wist- fu1. earnest eyes. If he asked me where his mamma was. how could l tell him that she was in training with a view to issuing challenge to Jack Johnson
 Mrs. Poppydick also has children with wistful eyes, and if it's all right for her to go to the gymnasium l don't see why it's all wrong for me"
 Mrs. Poppydick be hanged! She's a silly, vain woman, with no other thought than to make herself conspic- uous, and have the gaze of the grand stand focused on her. When she was a little girl her highest ambition was to be bareback rider in a circus, and later she tried to elope with snake charmer. What Mrs. Poppydick does is no criterion for Mrs. Jamesworthy. I have handed down my ultimatum. If you go to that gymnasium and wear dolls clothes and swing on trapeze there is going to be fresh sensation in the divorce court"
 Perhaps we might as well have the sensation anyhow. You veto. every thing suggest, and there's no pleas ure in life for your wife. Yesterday I spoke of taking the children for a trip on the lakes, as Mrs. Tanglewell is going. and you wouldn't hear to it, although you know the trip would do us world of good
 T have reconsidered that matter. and you may have your trip, if l hear no more of this gymnasium nonsense. I really think the trip will do you good and the children need an outing.
 "A woman has to resort to all sorts of expediapts to manage a husband" Mrs. Jamesworthy explained later to Mrs Tangelwell No power on earth would get me to join that gymnasium crowd, but when I pretended that l wanted to join, MT Jamesworthy fairly flew to pieces. We'll be at the wharf early in the morning, and you can meet us there."-Chicag go News.
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Mrs. Poppydick dropped in to see me this afternoon said Mrs. James worthy, in a casual way. She's one of the women you approve, I thinS?'
 Mrs. Poppydhk is fine woman" replied Jamesworthy. with emphasis, T have known her ever since she was q little girl, and I can't recall a fool ish thing that she ever did. She is safe and sane and has horse sense to burn. In these days, when women are taking up every fool fad that comes along, wasting time and money in frivolous ways. it is a refreshment to contemplate such a woman as Saman- tha Poppydick.-
 I'm glad you think so much of her. Her talk about the new woman's gym nasium wouldn't have made any inn pression on me only that I knew how you admire her good sense. So when she urged me to become a member of the physical culture club and share the advantages of the gymnasium. I could not refuse. The initiation fee is $10 and
 Do you mean to tell me in cold blood,'' shrieked Jamesworthy, that you have joined a freak physical cul- ture club? Are you going to put on tights and swing on horizontal bar and make a monkey of yourself?"
 T haven't joined yet. but I put in my application at Mrs Poppydick's S re- quest. She is such a safe and sane woman that I couldn't ignore her ad- vice I suppose that when I'm mem Der I'll do as the other members do, and if they. perform on horizontal bars I'll do the same.
 Now. listen to me-, said Jameswor- thy with awful gravity T can't pre- vent you from joining that three-ringed circus, but if you go to it don't want you to darken my door again. am patient and long suffering. but there's limit to my forbearance. The mother of my children must maintain her dignity or hand in her resignation. We have a sweet little girl ten years old. If that angel child came to my knee and asked
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
WANTS s15o,ooo.
New Britain Water Board Wants Money for Improved Supply.

s1t has been decided by the New Britain water board to ask the board of finance and taxation to recommend n issue of $150.00O worth of bonds for ne departments use The commits sioners state that $50,0O0 will be need ed to complete the contracts now on hand and pay up for the farms pur- chased. They owe the Corbin estate and w. B. Rossberg. who have been holding farms for the city, about $15,- 000- These farms could not be bough. by the city, as the board did not have the power, so the money was advanced until the department was in a position to take them up.
 The Whigville reservoir has proven much more expensive proposition than Engineer Blake's estimate of about $S5,000. Instead of that it has cost, or will cost when completed, be- tween s140.000 and S1500O0 Striking quicksand cost s25,000 extra, and then the construction of the upper part of the dam has proven very expensive. The other $100,000 of the bond issue is wanted for constructing a pipe line from Whigville to the Burlington brook and putting in an intake. The city needs the water from the brook. avail ing itself of the rights granted by the legislature. It will be cheaper to build the intake now and wait until a few years later before building the reser- voir. The pipe line will require four miles of 24-inch pipe.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30

Q.-Jephthah made vow (see Judges Ri, 30-4o) which led him to burn his only daughter as burnt of fering. Can we believe that just God approved this?
 Answer.-God's law expressly pro- hibited human sacrifices. fSee Deuter- onomy Xii, 30, 31) Besides, Jephthah did not burn his daughter as a sacri- fee. Our Common Version transla- ton of the Scripture you cite is mis- leading. The original properly trans lated reads: 'It shall be that who ever comes forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when 1 return fn peace, from the children of Ammon, shall surely be Jehovah's, and I will offer to Him (Jehovah) a burnt offer ing" Jephthah's VOW meant that his daughter, who met him on his return, should be devoted to the Lords serv- ice as Hannah dedicated Samuel, and that Jephthah would offer to the Lord a burnt offering. Every Jewish wo- man hoped to be the mother of the Messiah. For virgin this would seem impossible. Jephthah's daughters dedication to the Lord meant that she must forever remain a virgin. In proof of this the account reads, and she went forth to bewail her virginity.' sShe returned unto her father, who did with her according to his VOW which he had vowed, and she knew no man" (remained a virgin}. After that it became custom for the daughters of Israel to go once each year and spend four days in lanlenting with, or consoling, this daughter of Jephthah {see verses 39. 4O).
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
FOUR COMETS IN THE SKY.
Brooks Is the Most Brilliant, While keiss' Can Also Be Seen With Ma ksd Eye.

Four comets streaking nights cano- py with four tails of fire, at the same time, are giving sky y-gaZers herea bouts about all the exercise in observation and computation that even the most ambitious could desire. With Brooks Wolf's, keiss' and Enckes comets ca- vorting in paths of radiance across the dark background of the heavens. there is plenty of work cut out for the sharp visioned probers of the celestial depths, and every one of them is talk ing full advantage of this seldom to be met combina tiOn.
 Although perfectly plain to the trained eye of the astronomer, Brooks comet will probably puzzle the lay ob- server. as it's path is at the present time through the Milky Way and it's brilliance is somewhat lost in that glowing mass that belts the zenith.
 The comet is to be picked out with an ordinary opera glass a trifle north Of point directly overhead at 1O.30 o'clock in the evening. It's motion IS toward the west and little north and it can be located a little east of the star Alpha Cygnl Tn the consteiia- ton Cygnus
 The nearest approach to the earth will be in mid October. It will ap- proach nearest to the sun on Novem- Der H. and then the heat of the lat ter body will give the comet greatest 1nCdnu6SCSICc dIlu IIldht IL HUI v SPCC0 tacular than at present.
 This comet was discovered by Brooks on July 20 of this year and since it's discovery has been growing brighter and brighter until it is now visible to the naked eye of the observ- eff the observed knows just where to look
 Another comet which darted into this solar system stranger and which will never return again son it's para bolic orbit, is keisS' comet. This wan derer has been visible to the naked eye for several weeks in the early morning hours al point in the south east and near the horizon. It has gradually gone beyond the vision and will soon be invisible to observers of this latitude.
 The other two comets are periodic and return at regular intervals. Wolf's comet has period of 1-2 years and -Enckes of 3-4 years.
 The former was picked up and def initely plotted by Wolf of Heidelberg in 1898. It passed perihelion on July A. 1898. It was mot seen in 1905 on account of it's unfavorable position with regard to the earth and the sun, out on its subsequent looping the ce- lestia1 loop it was caught on the pho togra phic plate and claimed as one of the regulars. It's nearest point to the earth was about August 1.
 Encke 5 comet. dHOtHeI Ol tiie IcS ulars. was picked out and claimed as a part of the solar system in 1872 And it las shown in the same old place at the same regular intervals ever since first observed.
 Enskes comet is just coming from behind the sun: and will be seen soon in the early twilight in the general di- rec.ion of southwest.
 Wolf's comet is in the south. in the close vicinity of the constellation Lyra but can be seen only with powerful telescope.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
ON GOOD FIGHTING GROUND.

The president appears to feel quite confident that the special session of congress left the administration upon good fighting ground. He is appar- ently going before the country to ex- plain to the people the exact situation.
 He points out that "tariff for politics only is theiE motto. and he raps the leaders in way which must make them vince. This is what the presi- dent said:
 MT. Underwood and Mr. Clark, in the house, and MT. LaE'ollette and his associates in the senate, had earlier been conspicuous in the support of a measure which was avowedly adopted for the purpose of securing scientific information to assist in revisions of the tariff. Indeed, they earnestly dep- recated any future revision without an accurate knowledge of the facts. But now, in the opportunity presented by the special session and in the desire to play politics, and gratify what was supposed to be d popular desire for the reduction of duties, they did not hesitate to adopt all the alleged defective methods of previous tariff revioions which they had denounced, and to reject as entirely unworthy of consideration the suggestion of delay until investigation by an impartial board should be had. No tariff bill within any ones recollection has ever been passed with so little care They declined to wait 90 days to hear a re. port of full investigation on Sched- ule K. which the previous congress by a united vote of the democrats and republicans, including the insurgents, had directed to be made on December l."
 With reference to the mlsrepresenta- ton of the tariff board, he said:
 Tt is the same board which Messrs. Clark and Underwood and Senator La Toilette and his associates were de- manding, but so hateful has that board become. because I have insisted that we should wait until it reports. that MT Underwood sees fit to denounce it as composed of clerks and hirelings of mine. The statutory board would have reported to me had the bill passed and it could not have made a report any earlier than the present tariff board will now make a report. As to the conclusions of its report. the present board is no more subject to my di- rection than would have been the statutory board. Indeed. the charac- ter of the men on it is the highest possible and they would scorn to yield to executive influence or to render any but the most impartial judgment.
 Tt is really the same board as that provided in the bill and just as in- dependent, but under the present con- d1e1ons 1t irritates these gentlemen of fAD house and senate who have been engaged in passing tariff legislation for politics chiefly to have the report of this board of respectable and inn partial persons referred to as a reason for waiting ninety days in order to secure care in iegisla ton which is of vital interes- to the country and it's industries
 President Taft feels assured that the truth will bear it's own weight, and that the American people may be depended upon to support it.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
NEW HARTFORD MILLS
Purchased by Wealthy New Yorker
 Who Will Manufacture Silk Goods.

Clarence Whitman, a wealthy New Yorker. has purchased the large Greenwoods mills in New Hartford and the Draycott Mills company. a Massachusetts corporation, will occupy the property and employ in the neigh borhood of 1000 when the business has been fully established. The company will manufacture silk goods. The work of remodeling the mills will be com- menced right away. Large weaving sheds will be constructed and some Of the present mills are to be practically rebuilt The new concern will prove a big boom for New Hartford, which was sorely hit when the cotton duck industry moved away and cut in twain the population.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
WAS eUslNEes AssociATG or ROCKEFELLER AMR ABcHBoLD. John H. King, Retired Steel Manufac-
 turev. Died at Wsst Havsn.

New Haven, Conn., Aug. 29,--John H. King, aged q years, g retired steel and iron manufacturer. died at his home insF'air Havep today following an illness of oyer a year. Mir. King was in poor health when he with his family went abroad last year, and upon his return last January his condition became worse. Death was due to chronic nephritfs.
 MT. King was personal friend and business associate of John D. Rocke- feller and John D. Archbold. Their acquaintance began just after the end- ing of the Civil war. MT. King had moved to Titusviile. Pa, from Panama, N. Y., where he was born, and started hardware store with his brother. When the oil industry began to as- sume great proportions the brothers started in the manufacture of ma- chinery used in the business, and it was during this time that King met both John D. Rockefeller and John D. ArchboId. Twelve years or so ago MT. King retired from active business and came to live in Fair Haven. A widow and daughter, Mrs. Sheldon H. Tolles, of Cleveland, survive.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Up to Reason.

Mr. Editor: In The Bulletin of Mon day appeared a. very reasonable letter from "Rea son. of NoluEtown, and there is small doubt that if everyone felt as Reason, writes, this world would be all to live in suitable to the most w'himsical; but does Reason act as Reason writes? It is up to 'Rea- son. to answer: "Is it the natural in- clina ton of mankind to do and per or is it the strong arm of the law which induces them to be half so good as they ought to be-" And if 'tis mans main object in view to be good, why does the law of the state have to be so often resorted to so he may be com pelled by such law to be better man?"
 IN SEASON.
 Norwich, Conn.,, Aug. 29, 1911.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
Divorced from Lieutenant.

News has reached New Haven of the granting of a divorce to Mrs. An mabel Lee Morris from Lieut. Robert Morris on the grounds of intolerable cruelty. Mrs. Morriss as AnnabeI Lee was a protegee of Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and a leading spirit in the social set at Short Beach. The court gives Mrs, Morris the custody of her daughter, four years of age.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
MRS. MAckAY BUYS ESTATE.
LitchfieId Property May Be Devoted to
 Her Philanthropic Work.

The sudden departure from Litchfield of the family of Capt. Harold Smith for their winter home in New York has led to the disclosure that the Smith family have sold their fine country property in Litchfield to Mrs. Clarence Mackay. It is understood that Mrs. Mackay will improve the property immediately.
 It is reported that Mrs Mackay will use the estate for philanthropic work
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
TWO PLEASED TOWNS.

Did Lyme and Saybrook are feeling very chipper over the big new half million dollar bridge across the Con- nectfcut river that unites them. The or1oge takes the place of the ancient Terry. It w2s opening day on Thurs day last 1and fifteen thousand people helped the jubiIation along To many who were there probably the most striking feature was the automobile showing. More than one thousand rsachines were in the vicinity, a con- siderable proportion of them taking part in the parade. That was appro- priate, for the new bridge will be more Of convenience to them than to others. It was also appropriate that the newest thing in transportation ignoring the aeroplane-should be on hand in numbers to witness the pass. ing of the ferry boat, a relic of the old and the slow moving days which mod. ern impatience cannot endure.-Bris- tol Press.
 Everybody was surprised by the number of automobiles present; and yet, 1t was the most natural thing in the world that they should be there in large numbers. since the old ferry was a nightmare to automobile travellers and their influence had as much to do with procuring the bridge as the influence of any one class. A thou sand automobiles are not so many when one remembers that 5000 and 10000 have been present at great do- ings in the neighborhood of Boston within d year.
 All eastern Connecticut is pleased
 
 whole state finds real satisfaction in it's completion and the future safety and comfort it assures to all travellers that way
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30

The president is trying to have a two weeks' vacation at Beverly, and those who seek an audience with Pres ident Taft in that time are likely to fail.
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If Harry Atwood did get but $500 on his cross-country flight, the per formance as an object lesson is not very inspiring to others.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30

The Maraschino cherry has had a big run as counterfeit: and still continues in its course. although gov ernment experts pronounce it q fraud.
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Since the Chelsea, Mass s1O0. 900 postoffiee has been in the works, pri- vale citizens and organizations have put up buildings valued at nearly eight millions. The government moves slow.
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The schools open next week; but the pupils have not forgotten that the one-session bell is comfort when there is no other hope
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The recent tariff discussions brought out the fact that everything one buys for calfskin in the shops is not.
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It is now said that the naval experts at Washington favor the building of 40.000-ton battleships. Uncle Sam still appears to be ambitious to beat all creation
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It is generally conceded in Canada that if the province of Quebec cannot defeat Premier Iaurier nothing is like iy to-
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The Indianapolis postmaster has caused fiutter among the young girls who correspond under false names. by hreatening 10 detect them and put stop to it.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
The Aae Limit.

A Chicago girl, aged 30, is unable to get job as stenographer because she is too old So she may have to go into musical comedy.-Pittsburg Gazttte-Time
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
A Public Entertainer.

William E. Corey finds the a1truistic plans of George w. Perkins "amus- ing" which may remind you that as a public entertainer MT. Corey has some record 1imself-Indianap News
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30

Nantucket takes no pleasure in the prophecy that it's custom house will be abolished. The collector of the port is of importance there.
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The Panama canal is to have great guns to defend it. The 16-inch for a far reacher. supported by 12-inch guns. ought to make hot work for an enemy.
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Missouri has a town of ten thousand souls without an organized govern mont; and there isn't g. saloon in Flat River because moral sentiment is against il.
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An avicide gun is the heavenward shooter which is expected in the future to bring down the airships from the skies.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30

The southern cities are passing mo- wooden -shingle ordinances as a means of reducing the chances for big fires
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Governor Bass of New Hampshire is now being charged with not having made good. and to be d misfortune for that state rather than a successful governor.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

Happy thought for today: The only thing a close listed man ever gives away is himself
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bad example is frequently sucl warning to others that it deters then from going and doing likewise.
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wet. day. It does not wet through in moment.
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The Congressional Record serves a fine purpose on . trolley seat in a
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This is something which happens from time to time in every city in the state. It is happening out Stony brook way just now, where land values are being greatly increased because Nor wich needs the land for reservoir Under the present system of valuins property for taxation. there appears to be no way to get anything that resem- bles proportional or equal valuation It is a go-as-you- please along certain high lines, and pinch upon small properties. The towns may take all the interest they please in the matter, there appears to be no way of making the burden of taxation bear equally upon all the property owners.
Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-30
A TAX REVELATION.

The New London Day. discussing the establishment of the Woman's col lege, says that the trustees have of fered $22.00O for p acres, half in New London limits and the other half in Waterford. The owner is holding out for $40, 900. If the acres are of com mon value. then presumably the own ers valuation of the II acres in New London would be $20,000. The Day has maliciously gone and looked up the taxable value of these II acres. It finds that the owner pays taxes on a valuation of $1,000 for the entire II acres. Think of that-wants $20000 and pays taxes on $1,000. < Think of a system that makes it pos sible for $20.000 worth of real estate to crawl into the tax list at valua- tion which is in fact just five per cent, a years interest, on the actual value No wonder that an interest in tax affairs is spreading. A good many towns are busying themselves over this question of how to make lists conforTl to the laws requirements- Hartford -COurant
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-10-26
DENY Ex-coNvlcT is kIMMEL
Railroad Men Declare He is A. H
White, a Former Conductor

Niles, Mich, Oct. 25.-Bruce Cos
ner, railroad conductor OF Enid,
Okla, and John w. Burt an engin-
eer, have identified the man who
claims to be George A. Kimmel as
A. II. White former railroad con-
ductor, known to his fellow employees
as Turkey" White.
Cosner and Burt were brought to
Niles by Attorney Frederick H. Ba-
con Of ST. Louis, chief counsel for
the receiver of the First National
Bank of Niles, in a suit against the
New York Life Insurance company
to collect a $4,000 policy on the
life OF George A. Kimmel.
The Kimmel claimant refused to
talk to the railroad men, He declar-
ed that conspiracy had been form.
ed to trap him. Cosner and Burt
saw "Kimmel' a; the home of Harry
l.. Fox, whose wife has received Kim
mel as her cousin, and declared with
out reservation that he was the "a.
II. White" who had worked with
them on the railroad in Kansas and
OnieA'bhsa III nNNtidl Ntdits
Cosnei and Burt went to st. Louis
on Sunday and had a conference
with Attorney Bacon. There they
studied photographs of Kimmel and
the ex-conyict who claims to be Kim.
mel. Cosner knew Kimmel at Ar
kansas City, Kan, where he was
cashier of the Farmers State Bank
He declared that the Kimmel claim,
ant bears not the slightest resem.
blance to the real Kimmel.
a clash between Edward OBrlen
attorney for the New York Life In
surance company, and L. Il. Wood OF
Niles, who is acting for Attorney Ba.
con, prevented second meeting to
day between the Kimmel claimant
and the railroad men.