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Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
ELKS MAKE PARTING GIFT OF SIO0
Presented at Farewell Reception to Tom NosIs Going to Live in New York-Has Lived Here 19 Years-Evening Closed With New Engl land Boiled Dinner

Norwich lodge of Elks Thursday evening game farewell reception to Tom Norris at the Elks' home on Main street, and in spite of regret which Is felt by all at the prospect of Mir Norris departure the occasion proved in every respect thoroughly enjoyable one. As token of the es- teem of his many friends in Elkdom MT. Norris was presented purse of five $20 gold pieces. Exalted Ruler Thomas R. Craney made brief and pleasing speech of presentation, and MT. Norris responded in a fitting man. ner. At the close there were three cheers for Tom Norris.
 An old fashioned New England ''boiled dinner" with the addition of an oyster cocktail and English plum duff, was served by the committee in charge to the 100 Elks present The
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
K. O. K. A. BEGIN
 SEASON WITH ENTHUSIASM
Boys of Trinity Church Had Supper
 and Elected Their Officers.

The Knights of King Arthur, at Trinity Episcopal church, opened their season with enthusiasm on Thursday evening with a business and social gathering which began with a supper at 6.30, served in the Sunday school room at the church, The twenty five boys were served an excellent menu, young ladies from Miss Campbell s class serving as waitresses.
 After supper, the rector, Rev. J. Eldred Brown, and Assistant Secretary J. H. Ely of the Y. M. c. A. gave interesting talks.
 IL was decided. to hold meetings each Friday evening and the following of ficers were elected: King, Robert w. Stevens; seneschal, Guy Sullivan; cus- todian, Burton Thomas; heralds, liar old Lindberg, Earl Schlager; consta- ble, Leslie Schlough; Merlin, Walter Gilbert.
 The boys were entertained by ster- eopticon views shown by Percival w. Chapman.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

evening was passed in a pleasant so- cial manner and solos. were rendered by Raymond O'Neil. Exalted Ruler Craney and Matt Bennett
 MT. Norris has resided in Norwich for 19 years and has made many friends during this time. He Is a charter member of Norwich lodge and has been one of the lodges most active workers throughout it's existence. He will be missed by his many friends and acquaintances. He leaves Nor wich Saturday night to make his home in New York city.
 The committee in charge of the pleasant affair was composed of D. Joseph Hayes. Samuel Sanderson and D. J. Lucy. Among those present were Mayor Donovan and Brother Robbins of Meriden. MT. Briggs and son of Hackensack and Haverhill lodges.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
ENGINEER oseooD's TRUMPET
Loaned to Fire Chief Stanton's ColIec.
 tion by ex-Mayor Oseood.

To the collection of old fire trumpets at the office of Chief Stanton at the central fire station one new and valu- able one has been added by a loan from former Mayor Fred L. Osgood. It is a solid silver trumpet which be- longed to MT. Osgood's uncle, B. s. Osgood, chief engineer of the Norwich department in 1858.
 The trumpet was given to him in that year by the citizens and firemen of the city, according to the inscrip- tion on it. In addition to the ex- pression of their high regard for Chief
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
ACTORS WERE HAzING
 AUDITORIUM USHER
Two Tried to Put Nathan Traehten- berg Into City Beautiful Can.

To two frisky members of the sex. tette at the Auditorium the first part of the week, it seemed funny idea to put Nathan Trachtenberg, one of the ushers, into. the City Beautiful can at the Shannon corner Wednes- day afternoon. Nathan, who is only boy and much smaller than his tor mentors, couldn't see the fun and fought back hard. The struggle at tracted a big crowd and there was danger that Nathan would be hurt, until Manager James T. Egan of the Auditorium heard what was happen ing and hurried there to order the hazing stopped.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

Engineer Osgood, the donors also had his picture engraved upon the trum- pet, which is a handsome piece of workmanship in silver.
 Mayor Osgood has desired to have it among the collection at Chief Stanton's office, loaning it for that puTpOSe.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
STRANGLED HER BABY.
Fifteen Year Old New London Girl confesses to Killing Six Days Old Child.

Josephine Spadero. aged 15. was ar rested in the Memorial hospital, at New London, Thursday night, charged with murdering her six days old babe. Santi Nigrelli. aged 25. barber, has been arrested, charged with statutory rape, and is held under $500 bonds.
 It is charged that the young mother
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
BIBLE GLASSES BEGIN.
Y. N. C. A. Will Have Four in Series of Lessons for the Winter.

] This evening marks the opening of the Bible classes at the Y. M. c. A., and at 6.30 there will be baked bean supper for the members. Following the supper, the teachers will explain their lines of work for the winter and the pupils will enroll in their various courses. I. c. Elmer will continue his efficient work as instructor of the Nor wich Free Academy class, with Ben sannin M. Bruce in charge of the in termediate class and Robert o. Fletch- CT and Clarence w. Sevin instructors in the junior classes. .....
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
The POrteOus X Mitchell Co.
TABLE LINENS
For the Thanksgiving Table

We are prepared now with big, new line of depend able Table Linens to supply your Thanksgiving needs. We have Linens from every country where Linens made = Ireland, Scotland Germany, Austria and France = all own importations, thereby enabling us to offer them at lowest possible prices. The choicest Pattern Cloths the most beautiful Dam- asks qualities and prices such will appeal to par tcuar housewives who desire the best possible values coupled with dependable qualities. These few hints:
 
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 Price range $500 to s1sso set Table Damask by the yard splendid $2.0O
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 Mats and Pads hsst-D5e for polished tables will removable sizes 46 and inches s8sS to $500 each.
 very cordial Linen complete showing of beautiful Table Linens The POrteOuS & Mitchell Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
Hostess for TeIephone Girls.

Miss Mae Edmond entertained the employees of the local telephone ex- change at her home on Cliff street on Thursday evening, and the occasion proved most enjoyable one. A dainty supper was served in the early even ing and a delightful time was brlghtened with pleasing musical se- lections.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

strangled her child to death at an early hour Thursday morning. She has confessed to Medical Examiner Lee and Coroner F. H. Brown.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

Miss Bertha Hutzler of the Simmons Dchool of Boston is home for the Thanksgiving recess.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

Miss Jean Kellas of the local tele- phone exchange has returned from a weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. I. w. Breckenridge, of New Haven.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

cordial invitation visit Linen Department and very complete showing
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

The POrteOuS & Mitchell Co.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

every dscrpon-Frnged Scaloped Cuny inches-Prce range up $229S
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  eachAsestos $9eS to $500 each.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

Cloths 1x27 2oxSo ment-Prce 12Iac to $1yoo each.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22
The Gold Dust TlUins' X Philosophy X

The kitchen floor, the kitchen sink, th kitchen pots as black as ink, the kitche kettles and the pans, the silver. glass an
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

Sale Begins Saturday Morning November 23rd and contn-
 ues until closing time Saturday. November Both
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

Sale Begins Saturday Morning, November 23rd and contn
 ues until closing time Saturday, November Both.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-22

Napkins dainty patterns size inch range s2.5O to $1ooo dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

soul of them bears the scars that tells of a most unequal struggle for existence. Their fathers were trained even for slav- cry; themselves are not trained even for self-control. Regarded by many as some thing less than quite indisputably human, with few pleasures. accused of gambling because the street cleaning department needs their services. or the sheriffs office needs q fee, having such conceptions of liberty as might filter into the children of Jew, born and brought up in little Rus sia--inourably religious, incurably super stitious, incurably optimistic, but always getting the hot end of the poker, always employed to get the chestnuts out of the fire for the others, the Birmingham Triggers" are "a sign that is spoken against
 But do I hold too cheaplys those great men, those schools, those churches. which have nobly endeavored to make his life more satisfying to the city itself? Not willingly would be chargeable with that offence against truth. But what are all the schools, If the negro children who go there do not learn what they must need to know. but follow feeble imitation of the cirricuum of the whites? And what are the schools, if those who most need the training stay away, or if there is not room enough for all who ought 10 go? What are negro schools without compul- sorry attendance?
 Most curiously we shrink from believing in 'education' for the negroes, and there fore we would not dream of compelling them to take it. But the whites suffer perhaps more than the negroes by the lack of a schools attendance law Moreover, the training that the negroes need does not really reach them, because we have not courage to face the facts and initiate compulsory training for the negro along
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

solder of their material interests as that they shall take light from each other though they take no light from me, for these pleasures promise no manner of profit except an insight into the joys of those upon whom the commend bond presses but lightly.
 There is a celebrated painting by Ingres. a disciple of David, which was exhibited in the year 1908, entitled "Oedipus and the Sphinx,' which, no matter what its merit may be as a work of art, Is. as wide of the spirit of the myth as was that Dutch painters Elephant" of that ani- mal The Dutch artist had never seen an elephant, nor a representation of one, but he received the prize for originality, his elephant" amounting to a sugges- ton to the Creator himself had Ills eeen fit to introduce any new forms of animal life upon this terraqueous sphere.
 The word Sphinx, from the Greek sphiggo, which means to squeeze, or bind, or shut up tight, or hold firmly, is suggestive of the secrecy of nature the great propounder of riddles, who de- stroyed those who addressed themselves to her riddles unsuccessfully, even as in this good day they are, figuratively, de- stroyed who address themselves to the problems of daily life and nature un- successfully, the Sphinx being sym bolical of these problems; Oedipus being the symbol of their happy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

which was: What animal is that which is first a quadruped in the morning; is a biped at noon and at night goes upon three legs and oedipus having solved 1t, the Sphinx destroys herself, whereupon her body was put upon the back of an ass and carried away.
 Now "Oedipus." as the Greek word signifies, was maimed in his feet, his father having had his ankles pierced with Iron skewers, and leathern thongs passed through them in his infancy, through fear engendered by a prophecy touching Oedipus before his birth. and fin failing to depict this deformity Ingres is furthest from the spirit of the fable In his great paiting. His Oedipus has the form and proportions of an Adonis, to whom the labors of a man maimed in his feet in ascending to the heights upon which the Sphinx abode would be as nothing. It was foretold of Oedipus that he should slay his own father and should marry his own mother. that Is, that he would become reckless and unmindful of the common ties, the common bond of society and in the solution of the prob 1ems within the limits of permitted in- quiry, he should as 1t were espouse Na- ture, his mother Earth even as tho dream of Julius Caesar that he had vio- lated his own mother was interpreted to mean that he should overthrow his mother, Rome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

shall go on sowing the fearful virus of the open sore especially in their own groups, making the descent to racial ruin faster with every generation. But as they fall how can we escape? The virus is social, and its touch Is like the touch of mildew in those dark, lamp days when all the house reeks with it. Each surface is defaced and going rotten.
 What more can be done than Is being done? Have we not schools and churches for the negro? Are there not denomina- tional and other religious activities alike for his children and himself? And as to his more modern ministers and teachers, are they not real improvement on those of other days? Surely much is being done to heal the open sore,'' Thus the amazed victim of usage among us, accustomed to the negro dereict in every department of community life. and quick to apologize for and defend things as they are, because they are in "the South''
 What futility! These conditions are not Southern" in the old sense of that phrase. These conditions have super vened by 0 changed economic life. The old South is covered by the new indus trialism. On its fair farms and broad plantations the modern city has sprung up. MOse ana Jake ana tnelT slstefS and other relatives their wives and con cubines have stretched unlicensed hands to take the vessels of silver and gold which have been filled with the strong wine of independence. So they have drunk and have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass and Of iron. which see not, nor hear, nor know. but the God in whom their health is," the God of Right and Health and Beauty, have they not known. Sambo is no more. His grandson Adolphus is far smarter, having
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

a steam engine. those who address them selves to inquiries beyond the powers of man perishing, in retribution for their folly. "Canst thou by searching find out God.' says Job. Robinson Crusoe. hav- Ing instructed his man Friday regarding the power, and the majesty. and the goodness of God, depicted to him the de- formities of the devil, and explained his horrid influences upon man, whereupon Friday asked him: Why God no kill devil?" but Crusoe put him off as in- truding upon forbidden ground.
 The lameness of Oedipus lends great force and beauty to the mythus in which the philosophy of the fable Is bodied forth, for 1t Is easy to conceive the labors and difficulties attending the ascent of the Phicean IIlll by a lamp man, there to address himself to the solution of a riddle, the failure to solve which had re- suited In the destruction of so many and from which this same lameness cut off all possibility of escape or retreat.
 Oedipus having solved the riddle by an- swering that man was the animal, as in the morning of fife 1t crawls around on its hands and feet like q quadruped; in middle life. or the noon thereof, stands upon two; and in the evening of life, usingsa staff to assist in the support of his weight, walks, as 1t were. upon three legs; the Sphinx destroyed herself, even as nature oapitulates without
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
THAT OPEN SORE-By George Eaves

lines that will really save him. It is not that he needs more book knowledge, but more practical common sense develop ment.
 The first thing necessary is to enforce on every negro family the decipline of a school which actually saves the children of the home. Chicago hath its problem of the foreign born to nationalize. Bir- mingham hath it's negroes to save. This is as difficult as the other, and both are to most of us dlstasteful. But the laws of nature are irrevocable. Either we must humanize the bestal be dehuinanized by him. No civilization is permanent that rests on injutice or the degradation of single weak one of the sons of men. We need tho skill of all the best from all.
 But authority is required at this stage The old authority was removed, and noth- ing but temptation took it's place: A new authority, compelling every boy and girl of color to be trained for useful and in- telligent life, is called for Such training for the nogres as will enable them to select the right food, the right clothes and to keep the family In the right way authority that will not rest till 1t has morallzed the whole mass of city negroes, will go on and accomplish much TOT the whites as well. We must make good the good for nothing.
 For the open sore is not wholly the black skinned race. The making of that sore is in ignorance fin the unequipment of young people for the tragical and terri be business of living. all around us are children of all sorts, both rural and urban, who have not begun to get restraining sense of lfe's splendors. terrors perils and responsibilities The work of the juvenile court would hardly he ever needed were this not true. Daughters not taught to sew or cut out clothes or plan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

the food of a home are married daily to sons who have no economic value, no real skill or intelligence. They came from homes where there was no high refine ment; they live and beget new children upon whom no authority is exercised and to whom the parents are quite incapable of imparting noble truths or practical guidance. Meantime the city sits serene and Gods sunshine falls on her stoldity. We must awake and We must care, and we must compel, wherever compulsion is needed to secure for every child In every home wisdom, or at least the knowledge how to live.
 But we have done nothing in this dlreo- ton until we have made the negro boy and girl the subject of a most careful consideration. We know that we all suffer by reason of the present chaos. Born to serve, these have no training for service. A most valuable asset did we have but sense to use them, they are become a peril to our bodies and our minds, yea, our very souls--the open sore of our civiliza- tion. Immoral by the hundreds, they are producing immoral ideas in all who know them, so that a gentleman will speak to a negro woman. foul, dirty. corrupt. in a language more contemptuous than he would use to manRy dog.
 Alas, they are victims of conventions ality, debating with fear and greed. We should be better off without them" says my friend, the philosopher. Perhaps. But we have them! We look this way and that to discover the easiest method of evadng our duty, and showing our re- sponsibility on the generation 70 come. We hear about equal opportunity and much twaddle. But hitherto we have not cared for the life of those dusky neigh hors, save fin few eminent instances,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

struggle when her secrets arc dis covered. and. lastly, that her body was placed upon an ass and carried away, even as the dulest may carry off and enjoy the results of that which is accom- pished by others by dint of the greatest labor, and years of patient preparation and study and investigation without be- ing able to draw a look motion ot intelligence concerning them. The riddle had only the semblance of difficulty, even as the appearances of difficulty in prob
 ems of permitted inquiry vanish like mists before the inquiring mind such problems being practical. confronting us at every turn in life, and are to be dis tingulshed from those secret things in to which we have no right to inquire. and into which the wisest men. wide as may be their vision, have seen but 8 handsbreadth. and Into which they will never see any deeper.
 The common acceptation of the fable is that the Sphinx is the symbol of sci ence. but this Is manfestly wrong. as science Is knowledge or the pursuit of knowledge, of which the searcher, oedi- pus, Is the personihcation, the Sphinx being the sum of problems to be worked out, or the problem of each mans par ticular life, to which latter his problems are of as great moment as are those of the man devoted to the widest sphere of investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

she could afford. She knew nothing ex- cept the man was a stranger who was hungry.
 None were so poor in spirit that they were heartless
 The author found one special friend lounging on the beach at Suez, where Is dumped the offscouring of the world. The man was a real tramp and together they went several thousand miles. Absolutely honest and faithful, the hobo stood every test. showed manly fiber and was loyal comrade.
 We'll
 Is it not worth while 10 travel around the globe to make such 8 discovery?
 Is it not worth while to know that you need only add the letter "e" to the word human to make it read humane?
 Humanity is kind,
 And that makes life tolerable.
 Said Robert Louis Stevenson in his letter to Edmund Gosse; Tt is the hls- tory of our kindness that alone makes the world tolerable. If 1t were not for that. for the effect of kind words. kind locks, kind letters. multiplying spreading. making one happy through another, and bringing forth benefits. some 30. some 50, some a thousand fold, 1 should be tempt ed to think our life practical jest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29

been bred in a city, but Adolphus won't live so long nor end so happily. He may even be a highschool graduate. and yet offer easy gold and much indulgence. He perhaps has only half believed the teach ing of the school, and is tainted, failing, sinking, like his less fortunate brother, steeped in illiteracy.
 How 1t strikes the Englishman is that Alabama disavows slavery but has not even yet repented of its economic sin. and is not freed from any part of the penalty. But the brunt of the penalty still falls upon the negro; though in its more subtle forms the penalty is upon every blunted conscience, upon every soul and mind that apologies for existing wrong. And the most amazing penalty of all is the in difference of thoughtful white men to the necessity of compulsory training and bet torment of the negro. For the bogey of "an educated darkey" has persistently scared southern communities off the road of progress and hope into the black and simy uuagmire of theoretical debate and obstruction.
 Under slavery the negro's value was fn- creased by his being made skillful, whether as a shoemaker, tailor, a house. indlu, cooh- Ialii tiahu' of Si'i N' Probably the old system would have evolved peacefully into conditions more rational and more ethically satisfying if the crisis of the war could have been postponed half century But it was not postponed, and the later generations of negroes have been forced to assume self dependence in a complex civilization with out an atom of training for the difficult task They have been through the pro- cess of induction to this growing indus trial section of new Alabama, but every