Norwich bulletin., 1912-03-09
AN APR EcIATIVE LETTER FROM
 MARTHA,

Dear Editor and Friends of the So- eial Corner: Is there room for still mother within the Circle? Have en- 1oyed it from Its beginning from the outside. and received help in many ways from the different letters.
 I am certainly proud of our Norwich Bulletin ana think it would be difficult tc find it's equal anywhere as 8 daily. There is so much that is helpful and uplifting. The fairness and upright ness of its editorials. The Man Who worth while. The PsrsOn, who breaches so well. and. by the way, what a congregation he must have. Answers to Bible Questions. The Farmers Talk to Farmers, etc. etc, or. as the auction notices read, 'other things too numerous to mention"
 Bat the Social Corner takes the blue ribbon. don't it2
 quite agree with One of Them in her letter of Saturday last that it is a great opportunity to find out what is what"
 Truly, there is great need of workers who will make the world the better for having lived.
 was glad to see in The Bulletin recently that Lincoln medals had been awarded by the Animal Rescue league of Boston to some children for human ity towards dogs and cats-the rescue of animals in distress; and l wished from my heart that all the dear boys and girls could be interested in the work of this league and become active members. working always everywhere for the prevention of cruelty to cur dumb friends.
 Some Of us whose homes are in the country are glad the trapping season is over. or nearly so. for this winter, for often the traps ara set and neglect ed. causing untold pain to any little helpless animal that may have been caught and not killed outright.
 As one has written How anyone can set comfortably at home on win ter's night knowing that owing to their careiessness such q tragedy may even then be taking place in the woods. is more than one can tell.
 Tn an article by Ernest Harold Baynes in Our Dumb Animals is this about an English writer, Jerome K. Jerome, who once had the misfortune If having one of his own dogs caught in steel trap. This led him to make 2 very careful examination of the power Of these remnants of barbarity'' not only on the body of q dead rabbit but also on his own person. He tells his experience in these words;
 tried placing my own finger within. allowing the trap to close upon it gently. I must ask you to believe that I am fairly plucky at bearing pain. have had my share of it in various forms. and from those who know me could confidently ask for testimonial on this point. I allowed my finger to remain there for three minutes by my watch. For my purpose this was sui Hefent, and l saw no practical good in sustaining longer what I have no hesi- fation in describing as excruciating rufferiug. If any reader thinks ] am employing exaggerated language. I am pTepaFed to listen to him after he has tried 2 similar experiment The sui SeTtng increases with every second. an almost intolersble aching spreads over the whole body. the limb itself becomes one burning center of pain. you long to tear it off. If this be the result of three minutes. imagine three hours thirty hours, and. to this, remember. in the case of the rabbit. must be added the agony of the torn flesh and the crushed bone.
 say nothing of tie terror nothing G' the thirst and hunger that must creep upon the animal left sometimes in these traps for days and nights. I N -Si lO cOhn1e 1liS Scn to PolntS ludJ admit of no argument. Life in the country to those with the slightest feelings of sympathy is made wretched by the thought of al this suffering going on around them. These traps are sofd by the ten thousand, and the pitifdl screams Of their victims are common sounds during a country walk. l am prepared to be denounced as humanitaS$an. My farming neigh bow, when speak to them on the eEek syly gyiAL One sympathetic