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Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-02
DROWNING ACCIDENTS.

The long list Of deaths by drowning which is recorded almost daily and particularly at week ends at lakes. sea- shore and in rivers is the strongest ar- rument that can be made for making The teaching of swimming more gen. ersl. In a4most all cases those who are drowned cannot swim or have little llnowledge Of th- pasrme either in pursuit Of pleasure or as a means 0E fife protection
 While there is rHe Uid-srr-ld ina biuy 10 swim. there generally accom- panies lt @ display of cafelessuess which Is equally at fault A venture some spirit causes many a1ung people 70 take chances iu water tne same as they would on land. regardless of their ability 10 swim. and in their display cf reckiessness their lives are lost and many times the cause of others losing theirs n attempts to save them
 inning Is not difficult to learn It can be easily accomplished in few attempts and once the knack is gained l- sticks forever. Every city is expert encinr it's sad cases s- this time Wher, homes and communities are mourning fre logs of young and promising chil- dren by drowning. and youths and old. err people are also numbered in the lis 0f those who ventured loo far Withou Inc knowledge Of how 10 keep anoat The instances arc sad. Indeed, but regardless of inc number. httio atten tlon seems to bc paid to the lessons.
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HE rARlEE BOARD.

By lack of funds which congress failed to provide. intentionally. the tariff board went out of existence when it handed over to President Taft last week the papers in it's most recent ex- aminations. The end of the board, fol- lowing an existence of two and a half years, is premature, made so by an un- friendly congress and against the ad- vice of the president.
 Organized for the purpose of making a thorough investiga ton of all matters wherein tariff revision is needed it.was it's purpose 10 secure the information which would permit a thorough un- derstanding of conditions before action was taken. rather than plunging ahead needlesslv at reductions. slashing right and left without regard to cost at home and abroad The tariff board provides the material for intelligent action on the revision of the tariff schedule and according to Chairman Emery, it was provided with plenty of power to han dle its work efficiently and would meet effectively the desires of the advocates of a permanent tariff commission. The establishment of a permanent board which would report to congress was advocated by the president but it was refused by congress and it was their desire to proceed blindly that called forth the veto by the president of the recommendations The tariff board has made comprehensive investigations of costs of wood pulp, paper wool and cotton. while leather. sugar and silk has been its latest work, but which was not completed. Nothing should argue for its revival like it's absence.
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CIRCULATION
EARLY c. V. TRAIN NEEDED.

Unouesuonsbly there win be many to be heard before the public utilities commission on the ninth of this month relative to the removal ot the 5l2 a. m. Central Vermont train. This is a matter which concerns eastern Con necticut from the shore line 10 the Massachusetts border. For half cen eriry business had been done over that tIre on that train 10 such an extent tnat it has become a dependency of business houses. factories and the public in inc conduct of trade. It's vithdrswsl has raised havoc all along the road from New London 10 the state line in the matter of mall schedule and SO disrupted a system which has been relied upon for the most important business c0mmunica- tons or the day Delays of as much ss 2f hours are caused in the delivery ,of mall by reason of the taking off of that train. while here the entire car -ler system is put out of joint Busi- ness house. which do an express busi- ness over the line on that train will lose thei- trade. meaning thousands Of dollars
 Not only representatives of local business houses but from every sta ton along tho Central Vermont line there vii doubtless be interests rep resented at the hearing relative to their plaint Every reason exists for the early train and it's fifty years ex- fstencs is evidence that 4 must have paid. The demand is for ,s restoration sud it is believed that tre commission ssn be- shown ila- public necessity requires it Tn it's removal the wants of Connecticut people have been ig- norcd entirely The expresses which have been put on do not accommodate the early morning trade. the travelling public the salesmen or the mail and the rural deliveries Every business man should lend his influence to se- curing the replacement of the train.
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Reducing Fatalities.

In an effort to cut down the death rate on it's lines one of the leading railroads of this country has cut down the number of fatalities from 887 in 1905 to 5S5 in 1910, and the number of injured has fallen from 794 to 5S2 in the same time. To put these figures in another way: In 1905 the rail road was killing hespassers at the rate of three day for five months of the year, and two d day for the remaining seven months, while in 1910 the number sacrificed had decreased to TWO a day for seven months and one a day for the other five. One phase of the effort referred to above consist ed of campaign of education where in thousands of pamphlets printed in
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more in one meal than I can eat in three I shall never be able to equal him in digestive power; yet I can talk English and he cannot
 You know more about world affairs and books than your cook knows, but she can beat you making a cherry pie.
 Epictetus was a Greek slave. Elm perors were his discipfes
 Pontius Pilate looked down from his throne upon the greatest man born of woman.
 Spinoza ground lenses for a living. Any fat banker in Paris could have bought and sold him
 A wise man will never be proud, be- cause he knows every man he meets is his superior in some way; and he will never be humiliated, because he knows that in some way he is supe- rior to every man he meets.
 Our gifts and capacities divide us and make us enemies.
 Against the superiority of another, said Goethe, there is no remedy but love"
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THE BULLETINS SHORT STORY.
WOOD VIOLETS

Mme Fabia had just finished sing ing. It was the encore, simple little thing with sweet German words which she had rendered in English in the last stanza:
 Thou shalt dream of me--the night
 long
 And be true to me by day
 It was Ellen Wrights song, "Nio- lets" and it brought down the house. Applause thundered through the mag niftcently arched spaces of the great auditorium, dying away into echoes over the heads of some who were too affected for demonstration.
 It was the night of her triumph, and she bowed in gracious recogni- ton of popular appreciation. Then came the flowers. Roses, carnations, orchids, great white lilies, hothouse violets, narcissi, until she stood knee deep in their luscious fragrance. The curtain descended and, flushed with triumph, the great diva went trembling to her dressing room.
 There was one number more, but her evenings work was done. The flowers had preceded her, her maid was already gasping chs and ahs of admiration when she entered. Be quick. Fehce," she commanded. T am tired"
 Yes. madame Under the electric bulb traces of weariness limned them selves on the beautiful face of the prima donna. Her eyes fell on the wealth of floral tributes piled around her and she examined them ustlessly while her maid unfastened the lustrous satin of her gown. Presently one, a modest bouquet among monster pieces, caught her eye and stepping she picked it up.
 There was neither card nor message Just a bunch of woodland violets fresh from their native haunts, tied simply with a cord. What was it, in her hour of triumph, that made the great Madame Fabia start, brought the mist of tears to her eyes, the sensitive drooE to the corners of her mouth? A dream.
 The simple story of a country place where the sun was always shining and these cool sweet scented flowers bloomed always in the little patch o1 woods behind the house. She knew the place well. She could shut hel eyes and behold it now. These-sht
 
 nhaling their elusive ragrance-thest must have come from the very spot How they brought it all back The old love, the 6ld happiness, aye-anC the old pain.
 She had been wicked. cruel. her eye. lids dropped in shame, to desert it all at the call of the world. her wonder. ful genius, to be repaid with only thi. hour of empty triumph, the sounding plaudits of an uncaring multitude What did they all count-aye. wha did they cOunt-besides these woodland flowers? A sudden, swift emotion flushed her cheeks. But she was los in dreamland.
 Then suddenly from the nearer dis tances the voice of Felice. hushed awed and frightened, recalled her Madame" it faltered. listen. please They have just told me that it-th, house-is afire."
 She raised her head, listened With out she could hear, already, feet of tramping crowd, the hoarse shouts O excited throngs that pushed their wa.
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PEAcEMANER WANTED.

The democrats in convention at Bal timore need to continue their balloting but a tride longer to establish a new record and beat out .that established in 1852 when Franklin Pierce was nomi-
 mated on the 49th ballot. Apparently there is a hopeless deadlock at the present time Clark has been past the majority and reCeded and now Wilson is approaching that point, but was some distance away on the S9th ballot. Clark's forces will not throw their strength 10 the support of Wilson, holding his delegates. which are in structed for him the same as the Will son men did when the stampede was attempted for Clark. This is but nat uraI in the struggle for supremacy, and Uuderwood's chances are there fore frightened in the possibility of his selection as the compromise candidate
 Bryan has maintained a big influence in the convention but it is evident that his attitude and championship of the Wilson cause has set the Clark adherents firmly against the New Jer- sey governor He has caused a split
 in the party ranks which threatens dire results. and the characteristic democratic blunders are coming to the front at a time when they need har- mony. Bryan has attacked Clark and
 put a kink in the tigers tail but his candidates boom has lost it's bowen and the deadlock is fimer than ever with Underwood in the foreground as a compromise, though he will not lis- ton to second place. The supreme need of the convention is a peacemaker.
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There is more Catarh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed 10 be incurable. For a great many years doctors pro- nounced it a local disease and pre- scribed local remedies, and by con stanuy failing to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be constitu- tiOHal disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment Halls Ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Che ney x Co, Toledo, Ohio. is the only constitutional cure on the market IL is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful It acts di- rectly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails 10 cure Send for circulars and tes lmo- nials
 Address F. J. CHENEY & CO. To- ledo, Ohio.
 Sold by Druggists. 75c.
 Take Halls Family Pills for consti- patton.
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i to the exits. In an instant she com prehended Catching up her jewel box, she thrust it upon the girl
 Here, F'elice," she breathed, take these, Save yourself. You are dressed. Never mind" as the girl would have fingered. Co now. Go, l say!" and Felce obeyed.
 Left alone, she glanced at the filmy garments in which she was arrayed and her heart sank in deadly fear. The rear stairway? The stage en- trance? She would try that She opened the door. Opaque clouds of smoky blackhess repelled her, and hastily she shut them out. The stage? It was her only choice. Pressing the violets closely to her breast, she hur- ried back to the scene of her recent triumph. How changed
 The maddened mob rushed this way and that, trampling, beating, crowd ing frantically for that chance of self preservation that is the inalienable right of every man. She came to the center of the stage. She stood there calm, immovable. Somewhere in that surging throng was the man who had plucked these flowers, somewhere the hand that had tossed them to her feet Across all the years she felt that he had come to her. This was his mes- sage. At last he wanted her, he has asked her simply to come back. And she understood.
 Nowhere in all the wide world but there could these flowers grow, in no heart but his their message be inter preted She waited there an instant, silently hopefully. Then somewhere out there in the torment of sound, the confusion, he turned: his eyes met hers Back, back through those strug- gli1g masses of humanity he threaded his way somehow and stood by her side. Elsie" It was the simple coun- try name, the name she had borne proudly back there where woodland violets grew, when she had been his wife, before the call of genius came; and her soul answered through trem- 1 bling lips.
 Jim" In the old days ne had been | plain, commonplace, name and all. and | secretly she had despised him for it. ! Now, facing danger, having tasted to | it's dregs the cup of success she gloried l in these simple things that reminded l her of the happy past. He was here l He would save her. Now, as ever, in l trouble, she stretched out her hands i to him Save me, Jim" she pleaded 1 piteously
 Why, sure, Elsie" How big and l hearty the voice was, how strORg and | reassuring the grasp of his hands. FoI l an instant she closed her eyes to the tragedy of the great arched spaces of l the magnificent edifice which should
 no more bear witness to triumph o1 | hers: then something was wrapped
 gently around her shoulders. she fell
 herself lifted in strong but tender l hands. and she knew in the depths ot
 her soul that he would fight his way | panting, struggling, dying almost i through that fire, that babel of gToans
 and curses, to escape; would save hel
 and the bunch of wood violets she wa, 1 still clasping above her throbbing l heart.
 And after that, come what might
 she would belong to him and, ''tht
 world forgetting. by the world forgot, l go down there to peace and life req
 life, and love, back to home and Jin 1 and the woodland paths whence haC
 come tonight the message of the vio- lets.-Boston Post
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-02
Notable Illinois Men.

Notable Men of Illinois and Their State" containing reproductions of photographs of leaders in the business. professional, social and public life of this state, together with such bio graphical data have been issued by the Chicago Journal The volume also has information, partly illustrated, about industries centered in Illinois, as well as pictures of various buildings, etc
 Like it's predecessor, Notable Men of Chicago and their City, this vol ume is one to be prized.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-02
IDEAS OF A PLAIN MAN

There is no such thing possible as equality. I am better than some men and worse than others. I excel any given man perhaps in some way, but he will excel me, when 1 come to know him, in ten ways.
 When Titan dropped his paint brush Charles the fifth, master of half the world, picked it up and handed it to him, saying he vas proud to wait upon a supreme genius. He felt him self lower than the artist in the realm of art, and doubtless the artist felt himself lower than the monarch in the realm of politics.
 l have just met a man who can eat
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AsaIcuLTuRAL oPPoRruMITIEs.

time when there IS such a wide sr.aI inclination to take up with the offering nf hYu eads in the north res- u.-.e.Ia-. ross the Canadian -aer and when aere are so many r.-rsa.s coming To ...s country for -lu desired l0 provide oppor- .rH- distribution -9Uernment l.Ht.. H... -H...u prove of #... particularly q. .uose who
 Herring Hs question of leaving -.e. -ndr ..nters for the aea-.a- la aslu,ural
 -". A-r..uI."r. Op- '-... .sI issued .l tHe bureau uH .'E .n. H.t.-a l.tfun.
 ".Hr.".-..H concerning he re- r.aa.t- nI .as-iral char Hf .r. various states set
 .IH ss .H give the rela-
 H a.. localities. forms
 H invaluable. in-
 s'. .- discussed. i'm t.a.... and uaii. with prices
 at tr- Inducements offered
 ..... HEerc are plenty or mites .r .- found a. home for
 IT. 0sngcsted communities .. whore tae advantages are a3 aLuI f1 aud more. 1v1llIDle .uan fin the - distant sections In tho plan oi distribution Of immigrants this forms the Ideal method of setting forth the attractions. and the centers where con gestion sbounds should realize an everlasting benefit therefrom.
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many languages. have been distributed 10 school children and otherwise intro- duced into the home, impressing up- on all the dangers to life while cross ing railroad tracks or trespassing on the lines. An energetic movement against ramps also contributed in a great measure to this decreased death rate.
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The Choice of a Husband

is too important a matter for @ wo- man to he handicapped by weakness, bad blood or foul breath. Avoid these kill-hopes by taking Dr. Kings Life Pills. New strength, fine complexion, pure breath, cheerful spirits things that win men-follow their use. Easy. safe, sure. 25c at Lee & Osgood Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-02

The story that Roosevelt would probably not go on with his plans of running for president if the democrats should nominate Woodrow Wilson does not seem probable. In our opinion Roosevelt would be as unwilling to
 have Wilson president as Taft, or any one else but ME.-Waterbury Ameri- { can.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-02

Some women are giving more atten- tion to the practical problems that properly come within W6man's sphere, such as the improvement of housing conditions, the betterement of the la boring classes and the raising of the standard of living than to the ques- ton of whether women shall or shall not Vote.-Springfeld Union.
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Governor Baldwin was not nominat- ed. but 1t was hitting that his great ability should receive the recognition involved in the presentation of his name to the democratic leaders of inc country by his own fellows Governor Baldwin has been u dignfied and able chief executive Of this snug ltrle state He has raised the dignity of the or1ice itself to a higher degree than 1t has enjoyed in many years. His view of his official obligations has been exalted while his public addresses have GOV cred a wide field of survey and thought and have been treated with ripe Knowledge and judgment New Haven Journal Courier.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-07-02

It was only a few years ago that the conditions in the graded schools were such that pupils were compelled 10 occupy seats in 4isles and others in basements. New Britain did not like that and as soon as the exact condi- tions were explained new buildings were provided and there has been no complaint since. Now, however the same condition prevails in the high school.-New Britain Herald.
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Mir Roraback of republican political fame in this state. went 36 hours with
 out food and sleep, in Chicago, and knows that no wrong was done, in re- gard to the contested delegates. You have the privilege of putting that ar gument under your own hat and keep ing it cool the balance of the season. for Henry always says something when he talks MiddletoWn Press.
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The democratic declaration against money for campaign purposes from any of the millionaires promintnt in politics must have rejoiced the souls of the wealthy delegates. But poor Mr. Rockefeller is in for at least two dollars and a half-and perhaps sev- enty-five cents more. - Bridgeport Standard.
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Henri's Nindication.

Among those persons who have been fully vindicated the public will include the name of Marse Henry Watterson. St. Louis Times
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New England has never had enough of these kind of summers 10 make them seem natural A way should be in- vented to keep the icebergs within limits.
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lf a foreigner should suddenly drop into the democratic convention at Bal timore he would not he to blame for wondering how so many lunaucs ever got together
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The south has it's grip on the demo cratic nomination at Baltimore, and the acceptance of a candidate south of Mason and Dixon's line is being striven for.
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Would Be More Appropriate,

The national party is suggested But just think how much better the ROose- welt party would sound-to the colonel Atlanta Constitution.
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The alignment against the interests in both parties has proved dead fail ure because there was no sincerity in it Records and actions speak louder than words
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The organizers of demonstrations" and other histrionic features of our national conventions need to consult competent stage managers. Their of ferings are too lengthy. A vaudeville manager runs eight or ten acts off smoothly and sharply and gives it's en- tire bill within two hours and a half. A single act at Baltimore lasts that long and when it is over the delegates are tired out If they had to pay to get in they simply wouldn't stand it. Waterbury Republican,
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Even the commercial travellers find Maine most attractive stateain sum- mer: and as most of the good -ar seek CTS are there. the trade Is something immense iu ,Le summer,
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II a woman can find the style of hat she wants she can always adjust her head to fit it.
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Here is a new definition for falling i'm love, and doubtless the world needs It. 'Jncorkins the imagination and corking' mp ones common sense"
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The motor boats leave such bad smell streak behind them, that the re- vival of ths fish factories will seem to be less of nuisance than it used 10 be
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Massachusetts progressiyes seen to be made up mostly of banquet hal members
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No one could blame the Colonel if he iudulgee in the silence in saving to himself. Never again." but he must maintain his open-air stoicism.
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If the politicians were as fond of imi- tating Lincoln as they seem to be of quoting him, affairs would be less fre- quently at sixes and sevens.
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At Baltimore the northern democrats find they are back to their old place in the band beating the drum and the cymbals,
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

Mr. Bryan is having fun at any rate He is also making history; not of a very important kind. it is true; but of
 the kind which will last through his day on the lecture platform. and that
 is enough for him.-Hartford COurant
 It falls 10 a New Jersey court 10 fix
 the scale of damages for being hit by
 an aeroplane-$150 GOO is asked. The aviator is more Unlucky than the au- tomobilist for he can hardly hope to escape identication.-Spr Springfield Re publican.
 It may be hot, but the vaudeville and motion picture houses are still do- ing business with good crowds in at tendance The theater habit is not one easily broken, particularly in these days of electric fans and iced atmosphere" |" Bridgeport Telegram.
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Colonel Bryan has died in so many last ditches that he is not at all dis turbed by the present situation of his party.
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Bryan says he will stand by the nominee, but makes it plain he doesn't think it will be Clark.
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The rules which govern the demo- cratic convention make a dictator of Champ Clark if he cannot carrytoff the honor himself
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Maine reports the finest hay crop for years. which under present conditions looks better than newly discovered gold mine