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Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
HOUSATONIC LODGE RESTS
Closes Season With Third Degree
 Work and Banquet.

Housatonic Lodge, No. 61, F, and A. M. held it's last regular semi-monthly communication before the summer va cation. last Thursday evening. The M. M. degree was conferred upon Sam. Siegel, in the presence of about fifty brothers, including fifteen members of Western Star Lodge, No. 97, of Norfolk, and other visitors.
 At the close of the degree work fine collation. was served, in the ante-room, by the ladies of the Eastern Star Chapter which was greatly enjoyed.
 The visitors included Worshipfu1 Master Walter Collar, E. L. Tucker, w.. o. Snow, Calvin s. Hall. M. N. Clark, Jas. H. Thompson, H. s. Garfield, G. D. Johnson, 0. H. Johnson, Wm. A. Tnurston, W. E. Baker, Will G. Wilcox. Fl. A. Stanard, O. R. Pulver, Perry M. Sylvernale, all of Western Star Lodge, Norfolk; George J. Vogel, Column Lodge, No. 190, Trenton, N. J.; o. w. Thurlough, Eureka, New Bedford, Mass; G. E. Corwin, IT,, Montgomery, Lakeyille I. L. Scott, Wisdom, West Stock ckbridge, Mass; W. G. Simmons, Monun ental, S74, New York; L. W. Farr, Winooski, Waterbury James A. Rutherford, What Cheer. 6s9, Norwood. N. Y; A. P. Evans. Millersville, 4sS, Millersville, Pa; George Roger. Webo- tuck, 4S0, Millerton, N. Y.
 Worshipful Master Collar. of Western Star, who was invited to a seat in the East. by Worshipful Master Sheldon, gracefully extended to Housatonio Lodge his appreciation of the invitation to his lodge to be present, and generously complimented the degree team on their efficiency.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
The CohhIestona VauIt

About 70 tons of cobblestones have been hauled to the Lower Cemetery, to enter into the construction of the new sl,700 cobblestone receiving vault which. by the way, is to be built of cob blestones. The oobblestones are picked up on the old Peirce farm, on the Clay ton road, now owned by Hiram Miller. where cobblestones are plenty. Work on the cobblestone structure will begin at once.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
FIXING THE ROADS
State Road to East Canaan Being Put
 Into Shape

State Road to East Canaan Being Put
 Into Shape
 The work of repairing the state road toward East Canaan is being pushed under direction of Selectman Reel, with a gang of expert road repairers, headed by John VanDeusen. The streets, through the village have been cleared and prepared for the deposits of trap rock and oil which are coming"
 There is considerable discussion of the proposed construction of the stretch of state trunk line, from the East Can- aan School house to the Norfolk line, and plainly there is some misunder- standing as to the part the town is to play in this construction. Sslectman Reel informs The News that it is Commissioner MacDonald's proposition that the selectman put his men on and with the material furnished by the state, do thls work by the day, instead of having 1t let out for contract. The state is to furnish the money to pay for eu0 WOIA AS Ats9u tS~ Ao AS AO1OB 0OOOAN@~~eS to Mir. Reel, and the town will not be expected to pay for the construction and await the state's pleasure for reimburse ment. This is point that is agitating many Canaanltes, who maintain that there would be all kinds of dissatisfac- tion if the selectmen were to advance money for the completion of the state trunk line, and wait for the state to pay it back. ..-
 The new state road from here to East Canaan has been found in bad shape, ''unraveling" itself rapidly and going to pieces in many places. The repairs are expected to put it into something like respectable condition.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
Murderer Tried Suicide.

Dominiok Trombetts, who killed two people in Waterbury several weeks ago and then shot himself, again-attempted suicide Sunday by jumping from the second story of the hospital in which he has been since his first attempt to take his life. He landed on his head and was rendered unconscious
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
FALL FROM ROOF
Fred Brewer, Painter, Painfully Cut by
 Falling at East Canaan

Fred Brewer, Painter, Painfully Cut by
 Falling at East Canaan
 Fred Brewer, the painter while paint ing on the roof of H. 0. Stevens house at East Canaan, Tuesday, lost his foot ing and slipped over the edge, falling to the roof of a piazza and bouncing off to the ground level, total distance of over 20 feet. He struck, head-frst, i'm box of flower plants covered with glass, placed on the outside cellar door
 The glass inflicted number of pain ful outs on his face and head, one cut requiring & number of stitches. Ills left arm was badly bruised. He was brought to Dr. Lees for treatment None of his injuries is seious.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
Children Die in Eiro

Herbert and Gertrude Warner, aged four and seven years, were burned to death in Naugatuck Sunday afternoon in fire which destroyed the barn in the rear of the house of their parents, MT. and Mrs. Herbert Warner, in Millvllle. Little Ruth Warner. aged five, narrowly escaped being burned to death also, but she was saved, although overcome by smoke.
 It is presumed that the fire started when the children played with matches. They were in the loft at the time the fire started and there was no means of escape.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
Canaan Ranorts First

The Canaan Savings Bank is the first bank to report to the comptroller its list of unclaimed deposits of twenty years The bank reports four &C., counts with total deposit of $109.76. According to the law the reports are due by July 10.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04

Wellesley students have decided to cut out slang. They explain that they have passed it up owing to it's tend ency to get them in bad with people who are not hep to it.-Chicago Record Herald
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04
New Fiavener President

Alexander Troup, manager of the New Haven Union, has been elected president of the Reading, (Pa.,) Printing Oo., pub fishers of the Reading Telegram (eyen- ing) and Reading Times (morning). Walter F. Dumser, recently with the New Haven Union, has been made edi- tor and general manager.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04

Father-"Tom, go and fetch the old horse"
 Tom-"Why the old one, father P'' that's my motto"
 Tom-"Well. father, then you fetch the horse. .'-Punch.
Connecticut western news., 1912-07-04

Dollie-''rhat's perfectly beautiful engagement ring Jack gave you"
 "Mollie-"I didn't know had shown it to you r'
 Dollie-"You didn't. Judge.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06
WHAT A MODERN RATTLE * LIKE

But the correspondent cannot get there
In the first place he is not allowed to-
Secondly, even if he succeeded he could
see nothing which he would survive to
report, for modern battle has the face
OF Medusa-none can look closely into it
and live. And the literary Perseus at least
would waste his time attacking her with
averted head. unaided in these degenerate
days by his very own goddess Athene In
the third place he would see little worth
reporting-nay, much that had much better
not be reported.
But if war correspondents are to be de.
MED the discharge Of their duty by these
restrictions, something very much better
must be substituted than the pitiable de-
vices now in evidence in the Balkan cam
paign.
From Mustapha Pasha across to Kirk
Kilisse, a front of over sixty miles, the
great organ of battle Is opening stop by
stop, manual by manual, here fort, there
battery joining the uproar to the mus
kerry slowly swelling from hollows. fields.
and ridges which yesterday were as quiet
as the grave and to-day are great graves
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

themselves.
Who can spy more than fraction of
combat so colossal? There stands Adrian
ople, the hub of huge wheel with a fort
at every spoke-end. Like an iron tire
shrinking red-hot around its appointed cir
conference, the forces of King Ferdinand
are at this moment glowing about the city,
their fires on every horizon, the flame OF
their artillery on every hilltop.
The thunder OF guns out at Povadia
draws him towards the northern gate;
when no further than the mosque door a
salvo from the great Bashlik redoubt turns
him westward: eastward, now, as a ter
rifed villager from -Yeniie cries out in the
street that the enemy is coming over the
hills with the rising sun. Eastward. Their.
for IL he comes on too far there the cres-
cent moon must fade.
The gunners of a score OF forts on that
side stand to their pieces On the Yenije
and Kavakn roads dense columns of in
fantry trudge northward. Is 1t Abdullah
with his 100000 at last? Eastward, then.
though the western front bellows louder
every moment. and from far Kumanova
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

and Dlskata comes news which thunders
in the ears though only faint buzzer
transmits it.
Now, Prophet! leap upon Al Borak, and
rush with all thy three swords to the sue
cor of the Faithful, for they are in sore
need up the road at Kirk Kilisse. There.
SO they say, the day has gone against the
Sultan, and Abdullahs whole advance
guard, thousands strong. ia stumbling
northward as-prisoners! Is it the finish
al the very beginning? The times are
against the aged: youth will be served.
Has the young oak tree already choked the
old athlete?
Remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to
rend.
Polydamas, too. who stopped charging
lions and racing chariots, was felled at
last by falling stone. But, If the Turk
must go, let him at least take with him
one handshake from another old soldier
Of nation who stood his comrade on the
bloody SHOWS Of Russia, and let that vet
eran look to 1t that he, too. does not
lag supertiuous on the stage"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

prepared the foundation. They have done
great work in establishing working prin-
clples. But principles scientifically per-
feet in their application to the mass are
subject to necessary variations in their
successful application to individuals. The
kind OF individuals in need of vocational
analysis and guidance have urgent need
or human sympathy; they have to be in.
splred with confidence, to be shaken out
OF their lethargy, to be imbued with hope
and enthusiasm.
This is done by making them feel that
while your scientific analysis of them is
correct, you also regard them as your
orothers or your sisters, whose welfare
you have keenly at heart and for whom
your solicitude will be continuous.
Experienced analysts who have proved
the accuracy of their psychic insight
over and over again with every type
OF human being, are beyond the need
or laboratory methods and their appara-
tus. You cannot be mistaken in your
analyses. And, having become familiar
with classes of occupations in the range
OF which there is at least one suited to
the abilities and temperament of every
assist in the immediate redemption of your
waSter.
Recognizing that your attributes are
human and sympathetic, they do not resent
your going at them hammer and tongs. for
the shaking up that is so often necessary.
1t Is sometimes advantageous for you to
greet particularly Respondent applicant
Immediately on his entrance thus:
An, you are a fool! But Well see il
we can't make a decent fool of you, and
place you where decent fools are useful y
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

Or "You are a lion, but you're oolhs q
tackaPs work. You are a lion, DO you un
derstand? Human lions have useiul anu
nobla attributes-but not in 'aeAS
jobi" ~,
You've shaken him up. You've got nus
attention. Go on with your analysis In ue,
tail and he'll believe you MOTE ne -
make almost any sort OF sacrlnce W az
once utilize the knowledge ana opportuhiy
you have given him. He cannot 40 WORSE
than he has been doing-this mlsnt' nine
times in ten he will persist IN the new
course, which he is convinced is the right
one and will be rewarded with prompt I'm
provement in his economic condition.
spirits and ambition.
Here is a youth OF intelligence, good
morals, pleasant address and an ambition
to better himself, but who Is handicapped
by sensitive. nervous disposition. He is
studying stenography as a means OF extri-
eating himself from a mental position-he
is a valet / go at him something like
this:
You see, you are a dummy. and you
are trying to make another sort of dummy
OF yourself. AS valet. or even as butler.
you have to keep ducking your head and
saying, Yes sir No SIR And a
stenographer you would still be in much
the same fix. But you are not to be a
stenographer. do you understand? Cut
that out You're not naturally a dummy.
not even a stenographer dummy-and for
the latter you are too nervous and you
lack concentration. You would go from
bad to worse"
Then / hearten him up a bit: The
most your type could earn as a stenog-
rapher would be s12 or SIS a week. Now.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

round pegs which we have taken out of
their old square ones
These insists are of all ages, all types
and all degrees of discomfort and hope
!essness. We consider our time and ef
Iorts best expended on men under thirty
Tor up to that age discomfort due to a
vague consciousness of effort misappHed
and very real conviction of failure have
not destroyed the seeds of energy and
nope. But in several instances men con
siderably above that age have benefited
by the new attitude toward themselves in
quite remarkable way
A man f1fty-two years of age, who was
earning salary of $1,000 a year, came
to me in state of the deepest discon-
tent Clerical work had always been his
rate and he had always detested it. He
felt that his life was wasted. Nothing
was palmer than that this man. really
energetic and resourceful, should have
been his own "boss," instead of mere
wheel In some other mans machine. But
he had never been able to wrest himself
free from the need of fixed income, how
ever modest 1t was impossible for him
to give up his bank position. or he would
have gladly acted. on my advice to take
up some kind of outdoor work on his own
account. So / suggested that he look
about him for that sort of side line"
which would not clash with his bank
duties.
"Beekeeping!" he exclaimed. His mother
owned farm near the city. 1t was near
enough for him to go in and out every
day. He could be his own boss" of an
apiary while continuing to be "bossed' at
his desk in the bank. And he'd soon see
which boss" would win out! Then and
there all his appearance of discomfort over
what he considered his failure in life van
tshed. He seemed a new man.
The other day we received an enthusi.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06
By Capt. Charles r. Paget

NStIn Ihe uENiSn fOTCeS at NtFk NlIiSSe.
I IMAGINE a battlefield fifty miles long
and ten miles wide, with whole brig
AIDES fading into the landscape as
they come under fire and no single pair
of eyes able to see more than detail here
and there.
From the far front, perhaps, comes q
prolonged and irritating rattle like that
OF an urchin drawing his stick across the
area ratings; it is the firing line at work,
either making way or denying it, accord
ng as they are on the attack or defence.
Deep thuds punctuate the chatter, duh
thuds like the falling Of heavy boxes; there
is nothing brisk or ringing about the dis
charge of artillery, but on the contrary
something heavily ominous and sad, the
most mournful OF sounds. The rattle
increases, it swells almost to a yell. the
thuds redouble, coalesce into awful thun-
ders, divide again into the lonely concus-
sions of the beat of muffled drum The
battle is closing. it is getting warm at
the front.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06
Practical and Valuable Work of Prof Bumenha Vocational
Telling Young What They

a negative way-by the public schools. In
the course OF five months nearly six hun
dred discontinued. almost hopeless. insists
have been converted into eager and hope
full members Of society. In no case is there
any further uncertainty about themselves
In the majority Of cases a way to the
indicated vocation has been opened. In
quite large number, employers have cor
roborated the favorable reports of those
thus established in their new and logical
occupations.
A considerable proportion of these prac-
teal benefits Of vocational analysis is due
to the rapidly growing faith of all classes
of employers in the practical value of ap-
piled psychology in determining specific
aptitudes. Heartily cooperating with US
are many business and professional men,
leaders in their respective callngs These
constitute a group of vocational advisers
covering practically the whole range OF
occupations, who are always ready to sup
plement our vocational prescriptions with
definite details, and often to aid us in
promptly placing in round holes" the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

astlc letter from him. He had started mn,
In small way. but had ALREADY incra.Soa
MS STOCK Of bees five-fold. He liked Tho
bees and the bees liked him. He was con.
ndent of such success ultimately az wo,,id
enable him to quit the bank and Give his
whole time to his bee business.
A vital, all alive, alert. resourcefr, y,r,.
man visited me in a mood almost frontio
living 10 the economic necessity that kent
niiu chalned Tor long hours to the routina
uulies OF clerk. He had business nro.
motlon Ideas, but no time in which tn get
Jul ana utlllze them. This was a case of
d man Knowing himself pretty well bnt
a. MS WIS ends how to jump out of his
square mole into round one that would
fit him. "ouA0
Always on your own I told him II
was perfectly obvious. He took the plunge
gong to another city. In a month he
wrote that he was getting along IA.
mously' and in week or two would re-
turn ana start the organization of bust.
ness proposition in New York
could multiply instances where in
tnese lew months, young men who have
presented themselves here pitiful victims
proper niche-discontented and apathetic
and nave gone out alert and confident.
PROVIDED with opportunities suited to their
mental and physical makeup, and who
or their parents for them-have reported
results far beyond their expectations.
But 1t should be remembered that thesa
immediate and almost certain benefits
cannot result from purely theoretical. sci
ent1nc laboratory methods PsychicaI Ia
boratory tests are valuable in ANALYSIS
Munsterberg and others in his class have
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

Three Kinds of
Apparatus for
Laboratory
Tests in Applied
Psychology.
Above
Recording
Facial
Expressions
as Different
Words Are
Flashed Upon
the Subjects
Sight-To
Determine
Ability in
Vacations
Demanding
Quick Thought
and Action, as
Driving an
Automobile.
Ataxiagraph
Tests to
Show Direction
of the Body
Sway-Swaying
Sideways Is Not
Normal and
Units the
Subject for
Quick and
Precise
Physical Acts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-06

~ NE of the greatest achievements of
applied science, being OF direct
~ benefit to all humanity, lies in its
demonstration of simple and available
means OF replacing the MASTERS" - the
insists in industrial, business and profess
sional life-with individuals who are con-
tented, prosperous and useful because
each has been guided into the vocation
for which he is fitted by natural endow-
ment OF body, mind and temperament
The centuries have shown that boys and
girls, even grown men and women, are
unable. without expert aid. to obey the
mandate of Socrates, know Thyself." So
1t is an even chance that each young gen.
Grafton turned loose upon the work-a-day
world would suffer the fatal consequences
Of round pegs occupying square holes
In the simple transposition of these hui
man pegs into vocational holes which fit
them lies the secret of replacing failure
with success in life.
The certainty Of being able to accom-
plish this result Is another debt which
humanity owes to science, which solves
the whole problem with applied psychol-
ogy. Whatever you may be in your
physical and mental makeup the practical
psychologist who is a vocational expert
will read you unerringly. inside and out
as readily as you read page of light
fiction, and authoritatively settle the ques-
ton of the kind Of work at which you can
make yourself most useful to the rest OF
humanity and to yourself.
The theory Of applying psychology to
vocational guidance has been demon
strated by laboratory tests in most of the
worlds great centres. 1t is long past the
experimental stage, reaching that Of prac-
teal, Immediate utility-the combining OF
vocational guidance that is continuous,
with opportunities to make 1t available
from the start
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-05-02
DUNCAN J. M'KENZIE DEAD
Former Safe Railroad Commits sioner
Succumbs to Hemhorrage of the
Brain at Home in Park Falls.

Park Falls.--Duncan J. Mckenzie,
former railroad commissioner, died
here from cerebral hemorrhage
Mr.. Mckenzie was born in Glen
garry county, Ontario, July 4, 1S48.
In 1872 he came to Wisconsin, locat-
ing at Chippewa Falls, but removed
to Alma, Buffalo County, in 1875,
where he engaged in the logging bus
mess. He also had a steamboat on
the Mississippi doing large bust
ness in towing logs and lumber. He
learned the lumber business thor
oughly, and was appointed state lum-
Der inspector for the Ninth district
by Gov. Smith in 1878, holding this
Office until 1889.
He held various municipal offices
at Alma, being mayor in 1891, chair
man of the Buffalo county republi-
can committee in 1888 and 1889, and
achieved distinction by securing the
election of the entire republican tick
ct for the first time in the history
of the county. He was elected rail-
road commissioner in 1894 and re-
elected in 1896 by large maiorities,
serving successfully. He issued the
first sectional railroad map of Wis
consin. After retiring from the state
office he moved to Stanley, and came
to Park Falls in 1909