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Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-13
ofieers oF EccIesiasticaI sooietu.

Officers Of Ecclesiastical Society.
 At the annual meeting of the Ec- ciesiastical society of the Congrega- uonal church the following officers were elected: Clerk Edwin B. Moves treasurer Albert Denison: trustees. B |. Holmes. J. w. Macdonald. c. E Wheeler. It was voted to renoyate tbe church during the coming summer. AItef all bills had been paid there is a good sum in the treasury.
 Certificates of Merit for Two PupiIs
 At the prize contest for conpositions on Colonial subjects offered hv the Connecticut Society of Colonial Dan,ee oi America, two pupils of the West Side school, of which Miss Maud Pree- cott IS the teacher, received certificates or merit The pupils are Miss Alwilda HolIy ot the Seventh grade. whose es- say was Washington's Career Before the tI Revolution, and Miss Ethel M way of the Eighth grade. Her essay was on The Story of the Five Nations m lhe contest there were 2SS essays.
 Ten Inning Game.
 The Mystic Giant baseball team went 10 Noank Saturday and was defeated "s lhe -Nodnk team in a ten innine game by a score. of 14-13. Feenev and ROCK were the battery for the Giants.
 Various Interests.
 Postmaster John McGinley of New day. euI
 MT. and Mrs. John Macdonald and Joseph Noble left Sunday by automo. Die Tor a weeks stay in Killingly.
 Roscoe Burrows of Boston Ira rr 1NoYes Of New Haven, Frank N GjU- iiIan of New Britain were guests nj their families over Sunday.
 Harry H. Hoxie of New York is tbe guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs John H. Hoxie. -ii D
 >. s. Brown Mackenzie has returnei from a visit to Boston.
 Fred T. Lane and Miss Edith rare or Norwich have been guests of MT and Mrs. George C. Lane at Willow Point iiio" Mrs. Louis A. Moser and children Theodore and Caroline Moser. are vie iting Mrs. Caroline Moser on East Maj street. -'1 a II
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Made bv THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY. Chicago
 Makers of Fairy Soap (the oval cakss
Obituary Notes.

R. l., spent Sunday at MT. and Mrs $. J. Bottomley's.
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Incal Iaconins.

John R. Ryan of Stonington was in Westerly Sunday
 Ira B. Crandan and Alexander c. Thompson have gone to St. Louis on a business trip.
 Mir and Mrs. Edward Winston of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-04

If there was any likelihood of a
fair chance at Chapman, the rec
ord of $22,5O set by Barney
Dreyfu3s when he bought Marty
O'Toole would be broken.
In fact, Frank Farrell, owner
of the New York American
league club, has said he would
make this price look cheap if
Somers would put his star upon
the block.
But Somers isn't selling Chap
man-riot while the Maps need
men like him-and they do right
now. At the beginning of the
season Olson was the Nap cap
tain, but a little matter of boxing
skill between him and Pitcher
Mitchell resulted in his reduction
to the ranks and the appointment
of the brains of the Cleveland
team-Joe Birmingham.
Chapman is short stop, and a
whirlwind shortstop, too. He
has powerful throwing arm and
the ability to throw from almost
any position. He is so fast that
he gets in front of the ball when
another would be trying for it
with his finger tips.
Every big league scout has
looked at Chapman this summer,
although each knew the time was
wasted.
In 48 games Chapman stole 20
bases, and from his position as
cleanup batter, fourth, scored 81
runs. He made 81 hits, his aver
age being .35l. And best of ALL,
L. I;+c -, +6o ,)ia~1ae H. Gall
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astic inducement and a contract
from the Springfield Three I
league club, finally accepting the
latter.
Lack of experience held him
back, and Springfield was about
to release him, when Davenport,
of the same league, bought him
for $3.50. This was a league
joke, but in short time Chapman
had them all watching him.
Bill Armour, then president of
the Toledo club, bought Chap
man for $1,000 last summer.
Chapman played for Toledo one
month last fall, but it was late
and his skill was overlooked. On
the first trip this spring he start
ed like an explosion of gun cot
ton and has continued at the
same speed since.
Chapman is the real thing, sure
enough, and if he plays the same
game on the big ring that he has
everywhere else his name will be-
come a household necessity be-
fore the peach crop is picked.
OUR PRECISE ARTIST.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29

Some stocks are so carefully kept by
investors that only a few shares are
dealt in at a time. II We had 900 shares
Of such a highly valued stock, the price
would be sure 10 break were We TO sell
1t in the open market. We should have
TO feed it out gradually. and that
wouldn't be worth while, so far as We
are concerned Consequently. IN making
loans, we prefer to take 1000 shares OF
Steel common rather than 5000 shares OF
Delaware Id Lackawanna as security.
Surprising as IT may seem, professional
SPECTATORS ordinarily have better collat-
eral to offer than have wealthy business
men. We have 800, 900 900 loaned out to-
night. and the stuff is in our safe to
make every cent Of IL good
Peacock Alley Revelations.
There is a man IN this hotel" Mr.
Green continued. as he watched extrava-
gantly dressed women parading back and
forth in the peacock corridor which has
celebrated the place, who is paying $50
a day for a suite OF rooms. with nobody
in them but his wife and himself. He'll
get a notice from our legal department
in the morning that unless he meets the
interest on the money he borrowed OF US
re will be promptly sold out Some OF
the women you see strutting up and down
that corridor can't anord the fnery they
have got on. Their husbands load them
down with jewelry and buy them costly
dresses simply to blum up their own
credit. It's a stupid game A liar is
always found out. Such men come to
me for a loan. They are very glib with
their talk I keep quiet 1t isn't neces-
sary for me to say a word. II I tell
You 1 am a newspaper man and try TO
prove my claim, you will see l am lying
within five minutes. The liar never sue
ceeds in fooling anybody but himself.
Il sat in the grillroom OF this hotel
the other night Several men were around
the table. One of them waved his arm
over his head and said: 7 don't owe a
cent. I have two houses, one in Fifth
Avenue and another at Newport Yet
that wooden-headed buffer owed US
81, 10000. He borrowed the money at
bank. you understand. and the bank
turned the loan over to us, along with
the stocks and bonds left as security.
see women right now whose husbands
have mortgaged their houses, yachts.
and automobiles. II is the people who
can't afford to wear jewels who love to
have and exhibit them
Copyright. 1917. by James b. Morrow
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Noted Men Which Tickle the Fancy and Funny Bone

bad taste to ask them to Join him in re.
questing Cen Harrison to call Johr
Wanamaker into his Cabinet There
was hesitation on the part Of some OF
those who were present, but all COM
piled with Quay's request Afterward
Quay and wanamaker fell out about the
distribution OF Pennsylvania patronage
and Quay went TO the White House and
demanded the immediate removal of Mr.
Wanamaker from ONCE.
"'You cannot come here. Senator Quay
and play shuttlecock with the members
of my Cabinet President Harrison told
him In the icy tone he used when he
wanted to be particularly impressive.
The break between Harrison and Quay
occurred then and for the reason I have
stated. Quay's friends declared later
that Harrison waved Quay aside, saying:
God. and not you, Senator, Is responsible
for my election No such language was
ever employed.
A BLUR that Didn't Work.
There was feeling that Gen. Har-
rison was an austere and ungrateful
man. that he was even rude at times, "
Senator Carter continued ''On the con-
trary, he was a difiident man and did
a good deal of his thinking while stand
ing up and talking to callers. His state
papers, which rank as classics among
such compositions, were worked out sem
tence by sentence while he was daily
attending to the routine business OF his
office. He would put a thought on pa
per, stick the paper on a spindle and
later would fabricate the thoughts into
paragraphs. His preoccupation naturally
led persons to think that he was cold
and uninterested In their personal az
fairs. After the work OF the day was
done however he was full of warmth
and genuine human nature. telling OF
life as he had seen II. but rarely re-
peating a humorous story. He was one
OF our greatest Presidents and one OF
the most kindly.
Il remember that a bill was before
Congress referring disputes between set
tiers and railway companies over the
ownership of land claimed by the rail-
ways to the United States courts or the
Court of Claims. Coils P. Huntington.
of the Southern Pacific Railroad, called
on me while / was running the Har-
rison campaign in 1892. He spoke or
the bill, said that 1t ought TO be passed.
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to the President, who asked what action
a settler took when the land he lived
on was claimed by a railroad.
First / said, he goes to the local
land agent. then. II necessary, TO the
Commissioner of the General LAM once
and finally to the Secretary OF the In
terror
How much does it cost himT Gen,
About IS, If it is a complicated
case
How much would 1t cost him II the
bill you speak OF were passed?
More. perhaps, than the land Is
worth.
well you may tell Mr. Huntington.
II you see him again. and the Presi-
dents eyes flashed, that ! would rather
veto his bill than be reelected
1.-The little men loo miles away" SEN
ator Carter observed had as good a
chance with Benjamin Harrison as had
the multimillionaire. who was right on
the ground with a campaign contrtbu-
ton"
How Hetty Green Lends Money.
Tall as Abraham Lincoln, girted like
Grover Cleveland. chin elevated, and eyes
specialized. Edward Rowland Robinson
Green. son. heir. and assistant of Hetty,
said that he felt better, when i told him
he looked better than he had year ago.
1T was a new game then" he OBJ
served Our loans in Texas run usually
from IS, 900 to twice that amount When
I came to New York. however. my moth
er would pass applications along to my
desk for loans of $4,000. The new con-
ditions worried me-sort of appalled, me
for a while. But 1t is a pawnbroker S
business after all. People come in, give
US their stuff-meaning shares and bonds
and We give them tickets. That's al
they get-tust tickets. We keep thor
stun, and also their promissory notes.
But you must be judge OF values?
said.
Not at all Prices are fixed day by
day at the Stock Exchange. We don't
lend up to the prices. of course-only,
say, to $50 a share less Meanwhile. We
are careful not to get an oversupply OF
any one kind of stock-plan TO have a
variety of wall paper on our shelves.
Art may suffer by the mixing of kinds
and colors, but safety is enhanced 1t
is contrary to our rule to accept enough
even of the best stock in the United
States TO affect its selling price were we
compelled, in calling a loan, suddenly
to put il on sale
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came to me. a biographical fact. how
ever, that he neglected to mention dur
ing our first interview.
After one of my Sunday afternoon
addresses in Washington. a young fellow
accosted me in the street. I am an
awful sinner he moaned. l took him
TO my hotel, where he wept, fell down
on the floor and otherwise performed.
This is unusual, / told him. True
repentance and a turning from wrong
does not call for such gymnastics and
fearful and oratorical demonstrations
But, the young man groaned. I
stole sl.7o0 from my employer and it's in
my satchel. I was a bookkeeper. An error
in the cash account opened a way for
me to take the money, all in a lump. I
grabbed 1t and fed
go back I said. on the first train
and return the money to the man from
whom you stole it
But that, he whined. would ruin his
brother. who was in business, and dis
grace his sister Moreover his employer
was a hard man and would put him in
jail. In short, his scheme was to pray
the case onto the Lord-and keep the
money, I suppose.
He came to me 1.-THE next day, still
wanting to pray. Again he got down on
his knees. I took him by the collar and
stood him on his feet. Then I talked
to him straight from the shoulder. He
did go back. taking all the money with
him. His employer heard his story. and,
instead of hurrying him of to prison
sent him into the basement that he might
work his way up again. Whenever I
speak in Philadelphia that young man
is always to be found in a front seat
He is often accompanied by his brother.
Furthermore, he is out Of the basement
I invariably recommend praying-after
restitution has been made"
Why Harrison and Quay Quarreled.
The Harrison campaign in 1855 was
managed by Matthew S. Quay. Harrison
was elected. The campaign in 1892 was
managed by Thomas H. Carter who re-
Gently died and was buried with much
solemnity and honor by the Catholic
Church. In the latter year Harrison was
defeated.
1T is reported that Gen. Harrison told
Quay that Providence brought about his
election. Did he ever say that Provi-
dence beat him four years later" l
asked Senator Carter a short time before
his death.
No. Gen. Harrison was not that sort
OF a man. Quay gave a dinner TO the
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Folks Who Trade NTH Us and Some of the Merchandise

We produce a good many ostrich feath-
ers in the United States, but last year We
imported 1900 900 worth of them. and for
| these the ultimate consumers will prob
ably pay sl20o0.dO. They come from
South Africa.
Moving Picture Films.
American ostrich feathers are as good
as any, but there are certain things
which. although largely produced in this
country. we are obliged to go abroad to
get If We want the best quality. For ex-
ample. We must impost our graphite
from CeyIon for making crucibles and
though We grow more hops than we con-
sumo We have TO pay 81 a pound for hun
dreds of tons of Bohemian hops annu-
ally to be used in the manufacture Of
certain very superior beers.
During the last year We imported H.
500. 900 linear feet of moving picture films.
Of this kind as We buy abroad. the bulk
of our output going to England. whence
ii is distributed all over the globe. The
United States is now the principal film
manufacturing country of the world, but
most of our moving picture films gees out
raw and ready for Photographic use.
whereas what We import has already been
exposed.
Finally. in discussing the oddities OF
imports. one should not forget canaries,
10000 of which are fetched from abroad
annually TO supply our market Most
of them are bred in the Harz Mountains
Of Germany and in the Tyrol, the rails
ing of these feathered songsters being
household industry among the peas
ants. who rear them in their humble
cottages. The famous toymakers Of the
Harz exc out their incomes by breed
ing canaries, which are shipped to this
country in tiny wooden cages, Grated
together by hundreds and covered with
burlap. Every day Of the long Jour-
ney the burlap is taken of, the cages
are rearranged. and the birds are fed
and watered.
OF other kinds Of birds we import
about 5000 in a twelvemonth-largely
parrots, which come from Mexico and
South America mainly. The state Of
Tamaulipas. in Mexico. Is the home Of
the ''doubie-yellowhead' parrots, 50 IA
nous for their conversational powers
and which are there found in countless
fiocks. At the breeding season. when
they make their nests in holes in the
trees, dealers In this country send agents
to buy them in quantities at so much
hundred. 1t Is necessary that they
shall be taken as fiedglings from the
nests II they are to become good talk
ers. As for the parroduets-the cunning
little green parrots-they come all the
way from Australia, and being very
peaceably inclined, are shipped In huge
boxes. often as many as 500 Of them
together. RENE BACHE
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29
How Late Dr.. w J MCGEE Got His Name
How Detective Burns Spots Liar.
And Other Intimate Views of
Prominent Persons.

| Twenty-eighth Street, in New York, wait
ing for car that runs Tuesdays.
Thursdays and Saturdays. I noticed a
tall man and a short one studying me
professionally from the opposite curb.
Presently the short one came over and
said: Will you give me Is cents for
two drinks?'
81 began to moralize. You are down
and OUT I said, and seek money from
me with which further to degrade your
self. 1t is a responsibility continued.
that hesitate to assume And so forth
and so on in my most preacher-like
look and voice. Besides observed in
conclusion. you are strong enough to
work.
Friend answered the short man. the
the tall one watching US from across
the street. I have a mother and ne
sighed. and a sister, and here he let a
sob get into confluence with his words,
and a brother, who is a good boy.
Their hearts are breaking for me to-day.
You have moved me. stranger. Remem-
Der when I'm gone that you have touched
the dead conscience of a feilow-man 50
that II lives again, and that your en-
couraging song and dance has a crisp
ness. a newness and a tang that stamps
you as a genius in your line
$50 delivering himself, he stood up
right, and. reaching the climax of his
touch exclaimed: Will you give me
quarter now, and take a chance as TO
what I shall do with it?' He got the
money" Mr.. Smith added, and then con-
tinued with another of his experiences.
A Twinkle that Wa. Helpful.
"A brisk chap stepped up to my desk
one morning and said: I am not here
TO pull your leg. 1 have money where
at he showed thin purse containing
some silver. I have a job he went
on to say. but there's no opportunity
TO advance. After / heard you make
an address before the Y. NJ. c. A. in
Buffalo, came straight to New York,
thinking you might help me IL couldn't
find work place
What are you doing? I asked.
l am bathing dishes and culinary
utensils in the kitchen of the Imperial
Hotel the man answered with gravity,
though his eyes twinkled.
The twinkle settled it. 1 obtained the
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-29

from the sapodilla plum tree, being ar
emulation thereof.
The stacks of hair women wear or
their heads nowadays could not grow
there, obviously. Accordingly. one is
not surprised to learn that during the
last year We imported from various
countries no less than 1,s72.3S3 pounds OF
human hair representing a wholesale
value of sa.1lL536.
OF this ENORMOUS quantity. 6.ess
pounds come from Austria-Hungary. 49,
on pounds from Germany, and 1S5,907
pounds from Italy. Japan contributed
311.5 pounds. But the great bulk of the
imports OF human hair for the last
tweivemonth were from China, which
shipped to this country $500 pounds,
or nearly 500 tons-Iargely made up of
discarded pigtails, If American women
realized what they were actually wear
ing in the form of cheap rats and
switches they would be horror struck.
Fewer Fireworks.
Speaking of China, it is melancholy
to be obliged to relate that imports OF
fireworks from that country have fallen
in the last three years. from over 5000
pounds to less than one-th!rd this guam
tity. 1t Is the deadly work of the safe
and sane" Fourth of July movement
On the other hand, as a matter equally
of interest to children, IL should be men
toned that We imported nearly $500, 900
worth of toys in the last twelvemonth
-nine-tenths of the total being from
Germany.
Few people have any notion Of the
enormous amount of salt consumed an
.nually in the United States. OF course,
We produce a great deal Of this neces-
sary of life, but last year we were OBJ
liged to import 81. So. 600 pounds Of salt.
On the other hand, of cocoa beans. for
the making of chocolates tmost distinct
ly luxury. we purchased abroad no
less than 13S05s, coo pounds. And. in ad-
dition, we imported 100000 pounds of
manufactured chocolate, not including
confectionery.
Importations of snails. alas, have sadly
fallen of. Formerly we received about
5000 worth of them annually from
France. OF musk We purchased more
than $4,000 worth in the twelvemonth.
1t is a secretion of gland of the musk
deer. and comes from China and Tonkin.
In the last decade We have imported.
chiefly from Southern Asia, 5000. 900
pounds of certain large, round tree seeds
which yield the strychnine Of commerce.
One obtains from this fact a notion of
the extent to which strychnine Is used In
medicine.
We import a million pocketknives every
month in the year, and their average
wholesale value. as reckoned by the Gus
toms authorities. is s cents apiece. Evil
IDENTIFY somebody makes a good proft by
the sale Of such cutlery.
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tive dhows are obliged to anchor miles
of shore. The inhabitants are Of Arab
stock. Money Is not used there. The
fora includes some of the strangest plants
on earth. and the trees have immense
swollen limbs. as IL suffering from q
vegetable elephantiasis. Anciently, the
island was famous for its production of
frankincense and myrrh-gum resins
which were burned in religious rites.
During the last year We imported over
eOc, 900 pounds of dragons blood. One
should not imagine. however. that the
substance in question is actually the
vital fluid OF any reptile, mythical or
otherwise. 1t is resinous emulation,
deep red in color. from a kind of tree
native to the Orient. and is used as
an ingredient OF varnishes, stains. and
dentifrices.
From the Island of Martinique, in the
awful shadow of Mont Pelee, We get
vanilla beans. Corsica, where the great
Napoleon was born, sends us great
quantities OF briar root for pipes, and
also citrons. The latter arrive in casks
of brine. and are put up in cans here.
Malaysia, by way of Singapore, supplies
us with shark liver oil, which sells in
the market under the name of pure
cod liver"
In October the sharks in that part OF
the world swarm into the lagoons be-
tween the atolls and barrier reefs to
pair, and are speared in great numbers
the males first, because the females re-
fuse to leave them. and so fall easy
victims. There are severa. species, from
seven to fifteen feet long,. and their oil
Gefined in Europe), fetches SO a ton,
crude.
Women and Drcks.
We get a good deal OF rattan from
that region. The finest rattan in the
world comes from the little archipeligoes
OF Mas. Peggy, &C., along the west
coast of Sumatra. These are supposed
to have been the Fortunate Isles of the
ancients; and well might they be SO
called, inasmuch as their Inhabitants are
rich without labor, and the women have
a new dress apiece every day in the
year. The dresses. fashioned simply of
banana leaves, are supplemented by he'll
met-shaped hats Of palm leaves or how-
ers. and are both beautiful and becom-
ing. With unlimited fish in the ocean
shadows. pigs running wild in the for
est. and delicious eatables of vegetable
kinds furnished by nature. work is un-
necessary. In fact the folks of these
islands have so few needs that traders
find 1t difficult to sell them anything.
Another such tiny archipelago which
sends us its rattan and cocoanuts is that
of the Keeling Islands, southwest of
Java, Ninety years ago a Scotch sea
captain named Ross squatted there and
undertook to develop the islands with
the help Of the natives, importing add