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Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
IMPROVE THE STREETS.

Coming before the city meeting next week will be several matters relative te street improvement which concern tive of the important streets of the city and in which net only these who use the streets, but these who take pride In the manner In which they are kept are vitaAy interested. Washington street, formerly ene of the handsemest residential streets of the city, has been neglected, 1t needs attention and needs 1t now, Among the business streets, 1t Is time that Franklin street should be included In the list for bet- terment, and there the need is equally urgent.
 Franklin street is the natural outlet for teaming to the north part Of the town, being free of steep hills. It is the street which Is bound to develop businesswise, and 1t Is likely in the not distant future that 1t will see many changes in its undeveloped section Such development is deserving of en- oouragement by street improvement The city at the present time Is under obligation to continue the widening of the street from Durkee lane to Franklin square, in view of the widen ing which was done above that point for that very consideration. Only 8 slight effort has been made towards carrying out that debt on the part ot the city in the past seven years. With the improvement of the street under consideration with a permanent pave ment the proper time is at hand for the completion of the widening, At it's junction with Franklin square the street is choked and congested and never will there be a more favorable time for such an important and neces- sary improvement than the present. The street should be improved and 1t should be widened.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

ic methods and set good example in their signs.
 No. 4-Billboards may be made less objectionable by cleaning up the waste paper and by keeping the boards and surrounding grounds in good cOnd ton.
 Where bills are posted upon old buildings. the owners of the property should see to it that the place must not become a nuisance. The man who permits his property to be used in a manner that injures surrounding prop ertv may well be judged responsible or his acts declared Co be a nuisance by proper legal authorities
 The above suggestions need no argu- ment or defense.
 It gives me pleasure to believe that the requests, if cautiously made, VIII meet with a cheerful response by those | who wish to make this City Beautiful ! A CITIZEN. Norwich. June :. 1912.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE FUN OF BEATING HEREDIrY.

There is no fun, you will admit in realizing that you are obliged to beat heredity before you can amount to any thing in this world. The consciousness of bad blood in his veins Is a fruitful source of depression in any mans life. When this earthly career promises to be little else than a battle with in herited weaknesses or incapacitles 1t takes a moral giant to continue the fight with any heart. One with clean blood In him and generations of vir- tue behind him cannot realize the fight of the man by his side enmeshed as he may be In ancestral evil tendencies Most people have within them i'm pulses from the past that they wish could be ohliterated, Some forgotten old ancestor has left us an unholy leg acy that will burden us to the end The life stream Is not absolutely pure in any Of the sons of men. MT. Moody said that he once started to look up ! his family tree, but, stumbling over a horse thief a few generations back, gave up the quest in dismay. Heredity is q hindrance as well as a help with even the most favored ones. The fla thers have eaten sour grapes and the 1 childrens teeth have been set on edge. Herein is presented 8 serious moral | problem What are we going to do 1 when we come across the bar sinist CT l in our own coat of arms? Are we go- l ing to excuse ourselves for moral i derelictlon by pleading inherited weak i ness? Are we going to take failure ! for granted along some one line?
 1 How many are doing that very thingl l A man turns off slOVeniy work and, 1 being reproved for it. replies: q was ] born needless. It is family failing ! regret, but cannot help"
 Or one enters upon some slippery path by which his forbears have gone l down to doom and is quite angry with ! his friends who remonstrate. Don't ] you know can't help this sort ol i thing It's born in me-" he says.
 Now this argument may serve the ! needy as an excuse, but there is nOth-
 ing in it as far as fact is concerned We are not helpless automotons
 worked by strings held by a lot of 1 buried ancestors Men are not simply
 what the past has made them. They
 are in process of making themselves
 However desperately a man may have
 to work to shake off his cruel legacy fl
 it possible for him to do 1t and tr
 emerge into freedom No one i,
 brought Into this world foredoomed |,
 absolute failure. Love Is seated on tn,
 throne of the universe and Love would
 cast DO iifo as rubbish to the void | That God visits the iniqulties of tn,
 fathers upon the children to the thlr(
 and fourth generations Is to be taker
 only aE statement of the law of bod
 fly and mental inheritance which is st
 plain a fact of physiology It does no ] mean that the Heavenly Father Is an gry with his children or disposed tt
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
Suggestion for "cleaning Up Week.

MT. Editor: This is an old story; put it may well be repeated in view Of the approching cleaning up week.
 It has been said that at one ot the beautiful towns in the Berkshires where village improvement society has been maintaind by public sent- ment for many years, stranger was sitting on the piazza of the inn one morning when his letters were brought to him. He tore open the envelopes and thoughtlessly threw them to the floor. Surprise on the faces Of ms friends made him conscious he was guilty of an impropriety, whereupo" he kicked them to the ground our prise changing to horror, he Weh1 down and threw them into the street On his return he was met Wlth loohs of indivnation, and, realizing the enor- mity of his offense. he meeeNy retrac- ed his steps. picked up the scraps, and put them in his pocket lie was was then greeted with a round or applause and restored to favor
 Let us heed the lesson, and when we have any rubbish that we do not kno" how 10 dispose of let us put IL ID our pockets. ,r.N-
 Norwich Town, June 7, 1912.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
The Point of View.

A Philadelphia minister, deploring the Astor plan Of leaving S5O O000,oo0. says that leaving 2,O0O.OOO should be the maximum. The t2,000.000 limit looks perfectly reasonable and harm less 10 at least 90 per cent. of our population.-M Mllwaukee Sentinel
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Senator duPont of Delaware was re- cGrded as voting with tho Roosevelt men in regard te newspapers at tine committee hearing. though when ne left New York he said I'm fer Tafr." The poiht was hardly 8 vital one, however,
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
Making It Plain.

"The presidency is a big school, and I know whom to trust and whom n1t to trust" says the Colonel That is he thinks he knows which trusts to trust. and which trusts not Co trust Manchester Union.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Roosevelt planes all of the mistakes of his administration upon Taft as his adviser; and ell of Tafts mistakes he attributes to the fact he didn't take his sGvlce
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
Recall for the Recall.

Arizona is to experiment. with the advisory" recall which seems Co in dicate that lts advocates have a shade of doubt as @ their intallible remedy. New York World
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
More Pleasant Things.

"Do you remember what Pittsburgh looked like 25 years ago." asks a newspaper of that city Aren't there enough disagreeable things to think about without that? - Cleveland
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Canada expects to increase her wheat crop by 35,O00, ,OOO bushels this year. This is the kind of progress that is profitable.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

There is one thing good to be said about prunes The price of the fruit never crowds them to a point where the purchase IS evidence of extraVa- gance
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Rhode Island loses her grand old man in the death of ex-Governor Taft, whose family tree includes the family of President Taft
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Attention is called to the fact that s6 for a congressman bath is cheap compared with what it cost congress to whitewash one of it's members.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Bruce Ismay thought the American treatment of him brutal, but the way he is being cudgelled at home shows he finds no mercy among friends
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Horace Johnson will be interested 10 learn that an investigation of Chief Willis L. Moore of the weather bureau nGs been asked.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Boston. on June il, will give it's in- valided and crippled children an au- tomobilc ride, Boston does things which gives evidence of Christian interest in her unfortunate poor.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

If the chambermaids join New York's striking walters. the travelling men may have to learn to make their own beds.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.

garbage in the four quarters of the town.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

While one young woman died from eating too much ice cream, others are dying for the chance to satisfy their 6esires.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

It is not good policy to be certain about too many things the world in general is uncertain about. Tn the matter of statistics there is too much estimating and too little real counting
 so with theories. too many are based upon the Imagination instead Of facts. In belns Just, honest and honorable il Is well 10 be perfectly natural. The good things of life do not need any frills Co set them off, or to make them attractive, The one qualification which promises achievement in the search for truth or happiness Is m open mind
 Some mon make mysteries of Gods simplest riddles, because they have not solved them when others have. The why and the wherefore of things were intended to give continuous diversion to the mind. No man can know all about nightingale may know little about tt thousand things, Many things are not as tncreduieus they seefn- 1 many are not as true as they are made to appear, You know what unenViable
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Baltimore thinks there will be fun enough convention week to go round and everybody is preparing to get their share.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Editor Box is a good follower of his preaching. He is opposed to the tur- key trot and discharged girls in his office who dared to dance it there
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Of course, Senator Lorimer will not resign. He wants all that is coming to him for his money and he ought to get it.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

The Kansas City high school has 250 graduates this year, the largest number ever graduated by 8 high school in that state.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
Eusruhndu is poina It.

Mry Bryan said he wasn't a candl- date. But what of that? A fourth cug of coffee-that's Springfield Re- publican.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

The Toledo Blade says that bosses big and little are ripe for the block. That is rather hard on Roosevelt.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Madero has shown his ability to float loan for 310,000,Oo0 This looks like confidence in his ability to rue.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Win the abolishment of the execu- tive committee mean the return to ac tive debate in the council chamber? :?
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

The Colonel Is disloyal to nothing he can't be! He is it and everything to be right must be loyal to him.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Who can tell why a Whippperwili
 flies in the night instead of in the
 daytime; how 1t came by the color of
 bark and liohens, came te realize that
 nest was unnecessary; or came by
 the weird night cry which gave 1t TWO popular names-the night-tar and the whippoorwillH When the Indians heard his call in May they used to say: Tt is time to plant" because the messenger of summer, wee-co- lis, had arrived; and the early Quakers of Pennsylvania interpreted his pres ence as a notice that it was time to go barefoot The whippoorwill IS most heard and least seen of any of our visiting birds. He hides by day and l hunts insects in the evening and the 1 early morning. lie appears to like to ! haunt the isolated abodes of men, His 1 vocal repetition of whippoorwill is not 1 so plaintive 10 me as it as curious. He l was repeating that before there was q 1 Will to whip. At nightfall l hear him 1 in the distance and wish te came nearer. There is no malice in his notes l they fix his identity but do not eN- ! press desire. Whip poor will might 1 as well be interpreted Barn door | sill,' or "With-you- still" She knows
 a warm place when she sees it on i ground or rock, and therein lays heI : eggs and matches them The whip ! poorwill season is short, from May tC i August. and then away they go. win rerlng in Florida and as far south as Guatemala.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08
Another superstition EspIod.d

The popular superstition that milk is the favurite drink of moilycoddlcs has at last been exploded New York World.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-08

Happy thought for tedayi Too many of us do not know inc future we longed for when t arrives,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-16
valuable Doq-eome Day.

Brother Jimpson says he owns n
dog that moi only points and rctrievcs,
but he mas taught him to spin On his
tail like top when he smells gaso.
line. Brother Jimpson says he's try.
ing to develop 4 brt ed OF ,crs that
Will be Invaluable N warfare, 10 point
hghting aoroplanes trying to sneak
over camp at night.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-16
Seven Pounds e Toothache.

A keeper. who vas attracted tho
other day by tfumpctiEgs and loud
roarings from tie elephant cage in 4
menagerie at Woodbridge. England.
found one Of The cIerhar's in an
agony of iootLacho. lie was unable
to relieve if. and a'cr heard 6 'had
on the floor. l. Wa i9ull tE.t The
elephant had cast Il to.tl weighing.
it is stated, ab0it seven rounds.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-16

he handkerchief and the letter Win
| aim. This was on Monday after
noon. ON Tuesday he called to say
that lie mad hunted up the Gale fam.
lily, and that there was Joe Gale.
Not much could be learned about him,
and for this very reason he might be
suspected OF almost any crime He
could not deny the letter. and the let.
ter spoke of bloody affair When
confronted with it he must break
down and confess everything
Wednesday afternoon the constable
called to say that his plans were al!
laid, and that there was no possible
escape for the wretches. He had an
other constable to assist in the arrest.
and If there was any resistance some
one would be killed He hoped to
make the arrests before nine o'clock.
but might not find time to return and
give the particulars before next morn
ing.
1t was II o'clock Thursday fore
noon when the constable drove ND
again. With him there was a young
man. the same who had been upset
In the snow. The constable did not
seem to be In bounding spirits, and
the young man hung back a little,
though there was a grin on his face
Ladies, both" said tho officer,
when The house had been entered,
this young gent is Mr. Joe Gale !
am sorry 10 say that can't arres,
Linn for murder. because h, Gidn't XIII
Old Sncp. H. never meant 10 XIII
him. He stands hero nm Innocent
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AKA nrlplacc over la.r.
Ice ,n,c h,usb.3 ar ,aaol ana
fct ais position an crmrr. sm. enc.
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llc u+lahie h wonder
~, ladies Mn" coYtiric ,sc con.
stable "hn djd -, = lcltr- from Ire
posuut.ice. ana ho djd lose ii in f,ont
OF mis- house 1hot lotfcr smoke Of Il
bloody affair Ia como ar last uipht
Miss Xollv who fonud if and raye
ipsiic, har Grst clnn Is entitled to
ana el.ll rncoivo al lue credit If
sho lbs nhoto 10 euarc viii see
,hoi :, !, ,n,,,iehod {, ,ho nanors"
"Bu il AIR c,Io uidnr nrrogt ."
,el.d ,ho ,,,..l.a .i,l
"u,ino lo i, ,s innocent no that
that oron,a,o III ,.nl 10 IN heq"
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-16
Live Teleoraph Poles.

In Nevada the telegraph poles In
damp. low-lying situations have taken
root and flourtshed They are of cot.
tonwOod. and planted with the bark
upon them. In some parts of Java,
too, a native tree is used Tor the poles,
and this also takes root. thereby re.
sisting the attacks Of the white ants
Or the inroads of natural decay.
Evening star., 1912-09-12
SUES FORMER SENATOR
Dr.. James A. Deane Seeks to
Recover $4,000 on Two
Promissory Notes.

DR.. James A. Deane. a practicng ply
sician and capitalist of Catskill. n. Y.
has filed suit in the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia to recover $1,000
from former Senator John NJ. Thurston
of Nebraska and his son, Clarence l..
Thurston. TIE latter appears as the
maker of two notes for 5000 each, which
are indorsed by his father
The suit involves business transac
ton. Senator Tnurston is reported to
have said between his son and the phys-
clan, the details of which will come out
at the trial.
The plaintiff. through Attorneys Kap-
pier and Merillat, alleges that in Decem-
Der of 1869 he entered into contract
with Clarence l.. Thurston, through the
latters agent, George Vedder of Buffalo.
n. Y, to lend young Mr.. Thurston
$4,000, which was to be secured by
promissory notes and certain stock as
collateral. The notes were made payable
by Clarence l.. Thurston to his father,
and indorsed by the latter to DIR. Deane.
The first note was drawn in December
OF 1909, and the second in January of
1910.
Only the first installment of interest
has been paid on account of the notes, it
is alleged. and in consideration of a
waiver of enforcement of payment. the
plaintiff asserts the elder Thurston in
December. 1910, made written acknowl-
edSment of his liability. Still Dr. Deane
tells the court he has been unable to
collect his claim.
Evening star., 1912-09-12
HAVE TURNED TO TAFT
Former Supporters of Roose-
welt Attend Maryland Re-
publican Convention.

BALTIMORE. Nd. September 1.-THE
republican state convention here yester-
day besides deposing the Roosevelt men
from the list Of presidential electors and
substituting supporters Of Taft adopted
resolutions strongly indorsing the ad-
ministrations of President Taft and Gov
Goldsborough.
Among the delegates who attended
were several who in the state primaries
supported Col. Roosevelt. They have.
however, refused to follow the colonel
outside of the party and are with Presi-
dent Taft. The presence OF these dele
gates, who came from Allegany, Howard
and Frederick counties. was gratifying
to the organization leaders.
In addition to nominating the electors
the convention heard speeches by Will
liam T. Warburton Of Cecil county who
was one of the delegates to the republ-
can national convention. and Miss Helen
v Boswell, chairman of the women's
branch Of the republican national COM
mittee.
While the Taft leaders were fixing
their slate the Roosevelt forces were
holding a conference in their headquar-
ters in the Equitable building and plan
ming for the nomination of Roosevelt
state ticket next week.
Evening star., 1912-09-12
NOW BUY WAISTS!

NOW Buy w AlSIS!
ODD SIZES
200 Dutch Neck Lingerie Waists. soc
800 High-neck Lingerie Waists. .35c
ALL SIZES in New $3.50 High-neck
Lingerie Waists: long sleeves. $500
Our Finer Waists-were. $3.50 to $40
at S2.S5.
Entire Stock Ribbed Underwear
SUMMER. FALL AND WINTER
WEIGHTS TO BE CLOSED OFT
AND DEPARTMENT DISCON-
TINTED. SOME EXAMPLES:
25c HIGH-NECK AND LONG
SLEEVE VESTS. Sizes !. ). and
ALL SOC RIBBED vEsTs-2oc.
High neck and long sleeves: sizes ;
and 8: &c. Low neck and no
sleeves: sizes to @. pc.
soc UNION SUITS. Size 4-o5c.
75c VESTS AND TIGHTS: low neck
and no sleeves. .3>c
81 90 Vests. Tights and Union Suits soc
81 30 Vests. Tights and Union suits '1c
$3.50 Ribbed Lisle fights-knee and
ankle length. .........''c
Miscellaneous Items.
ONE-CLASP WHITE WASHABLE
DOESKIN GLOVES Sizes to H..
Reduced from SEQ to. pair. sac
81 90 2-CLASP SILK GLOVES. tan
and pongee. Were 800 Reduced
to. pair. .foc
$500 and $500 White Lace. Hand
bags -. .c1c
o5c Lace Collars. Jabots and other
neckwear 49,. .ioc
Net and Lace Collars. Jabots. Lace
Tabs and Coat Sets in linen and
ratine: also Black Lace Collars.
Were soc to $1.OO. As.............2 ..25c
ROBESPIERRE COLLARS : Black
and Black and White Silk Collars.
with net and lace iabots also
ROBESPIERRE STOCKS in black
and white satin and pique. Special
ALI. LACE PEPLUMs. Were 800 to
$3.50 At just half-s1.O to S.25.
ONYX $1.2j and S1.jO HEAVY SILK
STOCKINGS. black and all colors-
i'm all sizes. A great sale at. rair. .S9c
ALL BOYS AND GIRLS 25c STOCK
INGS-black. white. tan and pink
nearly all sizes. Closing out this de-
partment. pain. .-1jc
Muslin Underwear.
Valenciennes and Linen Lace-trimmed
Drawers: open and closed. Choice,
SOC.
Lace and Embroidery Trimmed Corset
SHORT CIRCULAR SKIRTS, trim
med with linen. lace. also new en-
broidery styles. s......................5 .59c
NEW HIGH-NECk GOWNS. trim
med with embroidery and linen lace
also no styles in Lace and En-
broidery Trimmed Low-neck Gowns.
s1OO.
Evening star., 1912-09-12
CASE AGAINST NOLAN
DEPENDS ON GIRL AGE
His Lawyers Say She Is Eighteen
and That There Was No
Abduction.

NEW YORK. September 12.-The age of
Marian McVicker Foster will be an i'm
portant factor in the CT minal prosecu-
ton of the charge of abduction against
Harry r.. Nolan. recently appointed sec
retary of the American legation at Pan
anna. When she told her story to Dep
uty Commissioner Dougherty she said
she sixteen years cid. When she
was asked her age by Mr. Luther as a
part of the routine incident to her ad-
mission to the Florence Crittenton Mis-
sion she said she was seventeen years old.
Sumner Gerard of Gerard 4 Smith,
counsel for Mr.. Nolan. has been unof-
ficially informed that she has passed her
eighteenth birthday
In the district attorneys Office it is
said that the charge of abduction would
lie in any case where girl under the
age Of eighteen accompanied a man vol
unfairly or otherwise to a hotel, while il
she were over eighteen and Went voiun-
tarily there could he no charge of abduc-
ton
She admits that she Was so fascinated
with Mr.. Nolan that she would nave
gore TO the end of the world with him,
but now so she tells her new friends in
the mission. Iier only wish is to get back
to her fathers home in Scotland as soon
as possible.
Though she is anxious to leave New
York and breads the recital of her re-
lations with Nolan, which she will have
to make in the Tombs court September
IL when he is arraigned on the charge
of abduction. she will appear as wit
ness.
William McVicker. her brother, who
lives in Newport News. was expected in
New York yesterday, but he did not send
any word to his sister. and she does not
expect that either he or James Foster.
the chauffeur she fell in love with and
| married in Newport News August Il, will
visit her here
Evening star., 1912-09-12
ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY.
Negro Falls Five Stories, But I.
Only Slightly Hurt.

AbrasionS of the nose and arm were
the only external injuries shown by Will
liam Johnson. a negro, when he reached
the Emergency Hospital today after he
had fallen from the fifth story of the
Fairmont apartment house at 14th and
Fairmont streets northwest, where he
was employed.
Johnson, who lives at a2lt 9th street
northwest, was suffering from shock and
was unable to recall where or how he
had been injured.
According to report made by the
police, johnson was at work on the top
Of the new apartment house. and in some
manner he fell. going all the way to the
ground.