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Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03
Have The Bulletin Follow You

Readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for the seashore, noun taina. rural resorts or for Europe may keep in touch with doings in town by having The Bulletin sent direct to them by mail for any period desired days, weeks or montha Hundreds follow this plan on their annual vacation and return fully informed as to what has been going on during their absence- Orders should be placed with The Bulletin business oIfice.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03

The Quail Trap, August 1, 1912- Have we outgrown egg collecting and checked indiseriminate shooting, only to have a new and serious menace to New England birdlife2 After the gen. eral spring spraying of fruit and shade trees, do not our feathered friends carry infected grubs to their nestlings and so poison scores of young birds, In short, in our present ways and means to have fairer apples, are we not destroying the natural protectors of our orchards? Not owing wholly to the modern use of insecticides. there have been fewer birds in Woodstock than recorded for 12 years. The defi- cit is not confined to wormeaters- the loss Is seen and heard all along the line.
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SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE PERIL OF sNAPsHooTINe.

It is not an interesting picture but I am going to hang it on the wall as a likeness of Jepson. My excellent friend does not grin like that as a rule; neither is he usually eating watermelon. Moreover it is only two or three times a year that he is to be observed in bathing suit. The cam era merely caught him in a moment of vacation hilarity. He who imagines he sees the usual Jepson in this amusing snapshot Is sorely mistaken.
 Instantaneous views are likely to be misleading. Graceful athletes, whose motions seem poetry itself to the spectator, are caught by the sensitive plate in awkward and clumsy atti- tudes. Good looking people may ap- pear positively ugly when the camera takes them in some grimace. The shutter clicks on pastures that are characteristic and on some that are not. No kodak Is under bonds to tell the whole truth.
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Sweeping Price Cuts on Dainty Muslinwear

S1.3s White Petticoats with deep Hamburg fiounce-
 SALE PRICE 9so $1.69 Women's White Golf Skirts, lace and embroidery trimmed
 SALE PRICE $1.15 $2.25 and $2.5O Women's White Pet ticoats, extra full
 SALE PRICE $1.5o s2.00 White Princess Slips, nicely trimmed with embroidery and lace
 SALE PRICE $1.45 Childrens 75c Colored Wash Dresses.
 SALE PRICE 4ao 69c Infants Short White Dresses, both low and high neck
 SALE PRICE 47c
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Profits Have Been Forgotten on These Suits and Dresses

$18.95 to $27.50 Cloth Summer Suits in both women's and misses sizes. in plain and fancy materials
 SALE PRICE sf0 %. S15.0O and S17.50 Ladies' and Misses Suits, in many styles including Nor -' SALE PRICE $7.5o st.9S Ladies' Dresses in gingham and
 SALE PRICE 9sc s2.9S Ladies and Misses Fine Sheer Figured and Striped Lawn Dresses
 SALE PRICE $1.9a $8.9S and $500 Ladies and Misses yoile. Lawn and Dimity Dresses
 SALE PRICE $2.ea $500 Ladies French Linen Dresses in Norfolk styles. in white and colors-
 SALE PRICE $3.99
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Economists are busy with the problems of today, And Scentic Management they say has come to stay, But when it comes to cutting down both bills and house. hold fuss
 I tell YOU what POST TOASTIES are just the food
 >. ? Written by s. sA HAYDEN
 SaiouSA, Lincoln Nebr. the 50 Jinses for which the Postum c0yesS Battle Creek Mich, s1oOoOo in June
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pulling wild carrot in . our boulder strewn lot. says that July strings of wild geese. highhyers with no gaobing. means sudden marching orders with an all-day storm in the immediate wake and are a sure sign of a hard winter long to be remembered.
 c. L. R.
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catch myself wondering how good the world isl How good do you think 1t is? Judging by the talk it Is Chris tian: but from the armaments of the nations 1t doesn't look that way. The Master taught that Love was the d. rect way to peace-the Christian na- tions say by their acts the only as- surance of peace Is complete prepara- ton for war. All that keeps these na- tions respectful to one another Is their financial and numerical strength, their ability to fight. and their dread of war. As Exhibit A of the worlds prog ress in honesty and honor in two thou sand years this does not look good to me. l am inclined to think the world ought to have done better, The love of gold and power as manifested in government is greater than the love of God and fellow man, The age of con quest Is not ended-the savage has not declared allegiance to the Prince of Peace; but the time Is surely coming when man will honor the laws of being and recognize the value of the laws of God.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03

Looking after the welfare. of the meadow dwellers, I have repeatedly quartered the long two-miIe stretch below and could find but six new red wings nests, and saw no rail or marsh wrens. Ran across no nests of bobolink or meadow lark, though strong brOods of each species just left our riverneck lot where they were raised on the high upland. Bobolinks have already started on their long journey and many of them will figure as reed birds and ortolan on hotel menus in the sunny south For the fourth successive year I saw the large pure white marsh hawk, and for the twentieth time looked in vain for it's nest. I was keen on finding it's young, to settle q wager with a birdman who bet that the nestlings would prove to be albtnos. picked up a we'll fiedg- ed young American bittern with legs and bill as long as its parents. have often picked up these stiIt-like young
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Amataura ir PoIitics.

That Connecticut progressive con vention at New Haven came pretty near to getting into 8 tangle Anna teurs in politics need steady guiding hand.--Bridgeport Telegram.
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will represents responsiveness and firmness; and the value of it depends upon what you will If you will for good the result is always praisewor thy There are too many audible l wills and I vents, and too few in audible I wills and l vents which tend to strengthen and elevate the human soul. Resolution of the right quality needs be practiced for as much as tone and time on any musical in- strument. It Is not the dead who suc- ceed in life, but the active-those who develop power by true mental pro- cesses. It doesn't pay to be indolent the mind must be exercised to make it alert and to strengthen the under standing and the perception. To keep the physical and the mental well bal anced it Is necessary to will right and do right with persistence.
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As write these notes in the open air at noon on the last day of July, under an overcast sky with an east erly wind, a big V of Canada geese, over seventy in number, went over the camp, flying high and noiselessly, with a large gander slightly ahead, point ing directly southwest. An Iindian,
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 But, per contra, quail were more common than for six years. Beginning on the 18th of June bobwhite's call was heard at the quail trap and else where in town on every hand daily till the third week in July, when the mat ing season was nearly over. If there is the average one-third as many brown males as whistlers in town, then there will be bevies enough in October to delight the hearts of the farmer and scatter-gun shooters. The fine series of photos of nests of quail, grouse and pheasants, half concealing. half revealing the eggs, taken by the help of inverted mirrors on Groton Long Point were burned at the Quail Trap fire. Contrasting sharply with these plain eggs was the large series of eggs in clutches or Pacific coast quail-valley. mountain. sealed, Gam bells, Massena, King and sub species, not shown in the general collection. but packed carefully away and not even inventoried after the blaze. If the list had been given to the insur- ance adjuster, he might have checked it as ''unrecognizaole material" as he did hundreds of sets of bauteos eggs taken from the slopes of and foot groves of Brown and Rixtown noun tains, Mount Misery, Ayers and Hearthstone mountains, Bargytown and Spicer Ledges, Blue Bashan and Me Call hills. Lantern. Candlewood and Rose hills, Hatchet and Pharaoh hills and last, but by no means least, Wau- wecus, plain and Gallow's hills in the town of Norwich.
 In regard to the other local game birds I will add that woodcock are not now boring in the dry cornfields, but young woodcock, fully as large as the old birds, were seen at three spring holes on the Fourth of July. Three old biddy grouse have been reported dusting in the crossroads, with half grown chicken pats" dancing timfd attendance A ringbaek pheasant with seven chicks has been seen crossing the highway in the neighborhood sev- eral times, but not a breeding Hun garian has so far been seen here by anyone,
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About half as many robins as usual passed through here during the spring migration. While six pairs nested in our house lot in 1911. not a single pair were raised here in 1912. Last year we counted thirteen robins eating our white cherries at one time, but this year three is the biggest bunch we have seen on the trees. though they were loaded with fine fruit for three
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A woman on the car said: If wo- men acted as much like fools as the men do on occasions. they would all be locked up!" Perhaps she was a spinster.
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A nalinh+ful Task.

The senate is just now engaged in the delightful eask of warning foreign nations off America. The coming opening up of the Panams canal isn't the only thing that is to besopened up. -BridEeport Telegram.
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The Rev. s. G. Ohman of New Brit ain says he was made delegate to the bull moose convention without being consulted, and that he is not affiliated with the Roosevelt party.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The queer thing about politics is that it doesn't allow parties to speak well of one another.
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Snap judgments of our fellow men are just as likely to be misleading. How often one is forced to alter opinions that have been made hastily! First impressions are frequently wrong ones, offhand verdicts need revision later.
 Think of these things as you meet new people this summer. Beware of prejudices that rest merely on some observed peculiarity of speech or manner. It Is not safe to set a man down as mumbskull whose dress or conversation may not at once please your taste. On closer acquaintance his brain may prove as brilliant as his hat band. The apparently dighty girl may possess abundance both of mental and moral stamina.
 It is necessary to live with people more than 15 seconds really to understand them. Multitudes do not show at their best in the process of being introduced And, on the oth- CT hand, many make a first impression they are not able to live up to after ward. In either case 1t is wise to sus- pend judgment till time has proved of what quality nature really is. When one shows you his snapshot of another survey it with interest but uO nOt SlIdlSHIWdy dCCcpl IL FIOI d finished photograph. It may simply depict some unnatural pose. Not once perhaps in a hundred times would the victim be caught in that particular mental or moral attitude. What frightful harm may be done by the utterly inadequate judgments one hears in ordinary conversation It may take years to change the popular estimate of one whose caricature has l thus been thoughtlessly exhibited. No- where else are some ordinarily good people so likely to be interruptions as | in this matter of passing along ill., | considered judgments. No casual ex- perience should be allowed to stand l as a basis for a final estimate.
 Conduct in this regard may well | be regulated by the truly golden rule i that we will do unto others as we would that they should do unto us | No one wishes an occasional out burst of irritation, for instance, to be regarded as his permanent mood, any more than that some bizarre vaca | tion rig should be thought his usua 1 dress. We want our friends to think l of us as we are most of the time. 1 The portrait painter may seem tc | idealize his subject, and he does. He l softens the hard lines and accentuates the beautiful ones. After all he is 2 truer artist than the snapshooter. Fol that is what the great Artist is doing for US all Why should wt refuse to our neighbors the same kind. ly treatment3 THE PARSoNz
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The Colonel never wonders what will happen next. for he thinks it is his duty to make things happenl
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is spoken. Dogs were never mean enough to harbor grudges and plot vengeance-that belongs to men of low type The dog never boasts that he has a good memory for base pur- poses-a dog forgets and often re- turns good for evil The dog Is capa- ble of teaching man a few profitable lessons.
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Political eyes; The bull moose par ty looks like a lot of nondescripts to us, and we look like @ lot of hide bound fools to them.
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No dark horse will figure at the next Chicago convention! but the darkey will come in for a status.
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A person has to be about 50 years old before he thinks he knows how to cure the rheumatism.
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When 1t comes to glaring at facts and trying to cough them out of sight the Colonel takes the palm.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03

When a girl resolves to look you out of countenance, let her-it pleases her and doesn't harm you
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Senator Root does not bear witness to Mir. Roosevelts affirmations con- corning the Chicago convention.
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One reason men de not care to see womenAin politics is because they like to meet some one once in while who seems to be sane
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03

The color issue at the south is apt to creep into the Chicago convention. Duplicate sets of delegates are booked to appear there
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If minister breaches of Bible char acters he Is thogyht to be slow, and if he comes up to date some one tells him he must stop msddlinE
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Happy thought for to-day: Many a man who condemns tyranny would be tyrant if the power .tnd temptation were his.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03
THE QUAIL TRAP
New Obstacle the Increase of BTds-Loca Decrease of Other Game Bnds-Home-lot Perchees and Meadow Skimmers Stakedriver and Harrier- Marrying flares and Social Squirrels

weeks. Bluebirds were rarely seen in any part of the town. and none nestled in the neighborhood. Catbirds. thrash CTS, tanagers and grosbeaks were not abundant; there were no wrens, mar tins or nighthawks, and whippoorwills' call was less in evidence than for twelve years.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03

It does not make Taft look like a back number to us because he does mot think he is the only bright and shining stari
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Dr. Wilson says his speech of ac- ceptance will be short Not if he dis closes a change of heart since he wrote that book.
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The American citizen who mixes acrimony with his politics never gets the best out of politics there Is In 1t.
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will follow him along that line of re- form.
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The Boston Globe says: Even the girl who giggles may possibly get mar ried." She ought to-it is sure curel
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Difference in Tigers.

If 1t growls 1t is the Tammany tiger. If 1t purrs 1t is from Princeton Washington Star.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03

There are goats in all political par ties. They may be the ones who sport on the heights of political eloquence.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-03

A writer about dogs says: Tt is so easy to kick a dog; he doesn't take it to heart; he is used to it; it belongs to the lot of dog" Does it? Where, think you, does the writer get author ity for any such declaration as this
 It is not dog fanciers and keepers who endorse it, for their sentiment is:
 Love me-love my dOgl" The best trained animals are the result of kind ness, patience and persistent teach ing. It is a brutal error to think any animal can get used to abuse any better than man. A cross word spoken to a highbred horse, Rarey noted, in- creased his pulse beats four minute A cross word from the master of a faithful dog will make him sulk for hours unless the more pleasing word
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Clifford Pinchot has asked to have the valuation of his Washington. D. C.. property raised, Few capitalists
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We can be brother to Roosevelt msn H he takes us put to lunchs
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Final Selling of Millinery

Drastic price reductions are now m force on every hat in stock-EVERY HAT MUST BE SOLD.
 Straw Shapes and Ready-to-W Wear Hats that formerly sold rom foc 10 Fo'' SALE PRICE 25c
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ParasoIs

st.OO Parasols. assorted colors with fancy border
 SALE PRICE soc
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Women's and Misses Trimmed Hats that were S6.5O to SsOO-
 SALE PRICE $2.es Women's and Misses Trimmed Hats that were s3.50 to $500
 SALE PRICE $t.es French Flowers, Roses, Bouquets, Foliage, Etc, sold from soc to S1.00--
 SALE PRICE 1ec a bunch
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Every week now the company of swallows grows larger on the phone wires, all tree and barn with no cave or sand. This week there are about fifty birds. last week three families, the week before but one family but in fortnight more there may be a hun dred ready to go across the Sound to join the innunmerable army of hirun- dimes, waiting the storm signals for southern flight, in the beach grass be- yond East Marion, near HOrtOn's Point lighthouse.
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like the cathird because of his ability to initiate the sounds he hears. He mocks and scolds and jeers like his cousin, the mocking bird; and If he cannot, like his cousin, cheep like little chicken in distress, or whistle like the neighbor's boy, he can ap- proaeh the noise of a wheel calling for grease and initiate the mew of a cat. He is sleek and graceful in movement and displays a liking for human com- pany and at times manifests friend ly spirit. He comes year after year like the robin; and we get to regard ing him as an old friend He likes to hector the cat; and it takes her some time to understand him; but he knows her we'll enough not to put himself in the way of becoming an agreeable morsel for her. The catbird seems to be controlled by a spirit of humor and sarcasm, and might be called the jester of the garden which he inhab- it's. He can sing a pleasing song, and when he lets loose the true music of his heart We feel like applauding him. He is usually unpopular with people who have nerves and are disturbed by unusual sounds.
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Wltl LnelT Iu0uy dLleHlplS IO DAlci showing throats big enough to swal- low a good sized frog.
 Of the upland home birds, swallows and fiycatchers. seemed to come best through the migrati0ns. Two sets of barn swallows were raised on the ridgepole of our barn, two sets of phoebes under the cellar floor. and two sets of song sparrows in the lane lead ing up from the house. Three pairs of ruby throats come in the early even ing to our giant trumpet creeper. and 1t is good fun to see them feed, ,frolic and fight The fragrant Missouri cur rant drews hummers in the spring, but trumpet flowers are the surest draw ing card late in July. Two broods of tiny chip sparrows killed by the poi sonous spray were shown, and three deserted nests of kingbird. No vel low breasted chats and crested fly catchers have been heard this summer grosbeaks are not in their usual haunts and we do not begin to have our com plement of tanagers. 1 used to carry game for two crack Watch Hill shots on the beaches between Quonocontaug and the HiIl, and in a few hours would flush over fifty punches of blower and large sandpipers. but last week in a two days tramp across Pleasant and Weekapaug beaches started but two punches of sanderlins.
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Coats and Skirts

s10.00 and S12.50 Ladies and Misses Long Coats, in mannish mixtures
 SALE PRICE $500 $500 Ladies Serge and Panama Skirts in black and navy
 SALE PRICE s2.es $500 and s6.9S Linen Wash Suits iu ladies and misses sizes
 SALE PRICE s3.ss
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When we learn that what is going on within us is of as much importance as what is going on without ourselves we are getting a true grip upon life. When we can rule our spirit we shall the better understand why our neigh Dor cannot rule his. Our whole life has it's foundation in our own mind. and we can make it what we will. All which goes to make life worth living goes from the within out All that happens to make life uncomfortable comes from without to agitate the within, and we let 1t. We cannot es- cape the consequences of our own heedlessness and duliness in this dt- rection. Too many people are dead to their own power to protect them selves-blind 10 their own duty with regard to their own spirit, Too many people are on bad terms with them selves. when they should be on the best of terms with their own ego. They make a mess of life because they do not understand themselves or their relations to others. Know myself!
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When one visits the countryside and beholds the well kept acres of the modern farmer it does not seem as if there ever could have been a time when man was a stroller on the earth, a gleaner in Gods wild gardens like other creatures, a robber of birds nests for the eggs, leading a vagrant and uncertain life; and he kept it up long after he had trained the animals to serve him. He has been here on earth so long he cannot tell where man was originally located or with any certainty locate the Garden of Eden which is alleged to have partaken of the atmosphere and ease of heaven. The organization of towns, provinces, states and countries for his protection bears evidence of the savageness and perils of the wandering tribes in their early days. Mans career from the cave to the palace represents harsh experiences and wonderful develop ments. Man in thought has attained heavenly wisdom. but he fails to grasp and make practical the power of God as expressed in love and mercy.
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No owls or hawks have touched feather of our hundred or more chick ems, and Baltimore orioles seem to have lost their taste for sweet tele- phone and Champion of England peas. But young rabbits have eaten the hearts out of our patch of early cab bages and are now beginning on our Lima beans. We hate to use pOisOns on account of our many pets, and shooting irons are always tabooed at the Quail Trap. Skunks were not closely trapped here last winter. and they are very common, raiding nearly all the farmers poultry yards; our chickens have escaped so far because they are housed at night in safe round metal GOODS. The next farm north of us Is also @ gunless Eden, and a pair of grey squirrels have been In and out of the barn all winter, lately rals- ing a litter of young in hole in an apple tree nearby. No one shoots on the Pigeon Inn farm next west of us, and a pair of greys who have been daily seen from the kitchen windows have also brought litter of young to the back door maple trees.