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Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17
PLAYING THE PEOPLE.

From the manner in which he Is avoiding the issues of the campaign he is conducting, even to the point where he has been challenged to an open debate by Representative A. P. Gardner of Massachusetts on the cam paign issues, Roosevelt is playing the people to gain his object. That he is doing 1t shows how gullible some of the people are some of the time, but there is the strongest belief that all of the republicans as represented at Chicago will have something to say, and it will be against the ex-presi- dent.
 Great as Grant was, he was turned down as a third-term candidate, and the preposterous assumption that there ig a demand for me and my policies" serves as a vehicle to ride in before the people and stir up dissension and discord through the party to end in defeat before the convention.
 Roosevelts policies are no more pro- Rressive than those of President Taft, but he is throwing the bluff and talk ing every advantage of the easy going Taft campaign. The recent develop ments will have their good results. The president could not be expected to chase his predecessor about the land in ar endeavor to cope with his tradition breaking endeayors. Moth ing of the kind will be done, but the friends of the president will pursue a different course and make it plain tha the representations of the Colonel are not as he claims, and 10 the thinking public it is evident that the country would be in dangerous hands with the Colonel and his big stick in charge under his latest proclamations The party staggers. by the tool Roosevelt is making of it, but being aroused by the situation the presidents friends will fight now for everything in sight and they will win.
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an heres mine. Here's the cntin' table; here's the cloth. We're goiF to make 8 few night dresses-6 year old size. I've sot Mis- Griggs patteSn. The better the day, the better the deed!"
 On Thursday night the minister. re- splendent in new suit, sat in his Nor ris chair in the parlor. A pair of slip pers, worked by a faithful follower, adorned his feet
 His wife perched on the edge of a cane seated chair She drew her shiny black skirt to one side to hide the break in the chair seat The five clIiJ- dren hovered about in varied attire.
 The door bell tangled merrily.
 Sounds like Deacon Palmers pull" remarked the minirser as his wife hur- ried to the door. Deacon gave me this chair. I wonder The deacon and family entered, all bearing bundles.
 Where shall we put these?" in quired Mrs. Palmer briskly. Suppose we clear the table and pile them all up on it. We aint going to open any till they all get here she added, as she saw the minister
 They came now in quick succession, young and old, till the house was filled to overfowing and the parlor table had long since given up trying to hold all the bundles.
 Excitement ran high when old MT Fisher, who never attended donation parties and who was not on the best terms with the parson, drove up in his 1 democrat wagon with a huge bundle sticking out under the seat. After much pulling, hauling. puf1ng and resting, he and the minister got it into 1 the house.
 Vba door hoI1 bod ooaro5 to ,ina, 1 Conversation was perky. Only the l minister seemed really at ease, and he | beamed satisfaction.
 1 Bethiah Hicks f1dgeted in her chair. 1 Then she rose and everybody looked at l her. She cleared her throat neryously 1 and the color came in her thin cheeks. l Always before at these parties" she said. it has been the custom that our pastor should open the bundles. At this l one, however we all join in the re- 1 quest that Mis- Bradley should-should 1 perform that office. Mis- Bradley, will ! you please begin?'
 The minister looked about him. Mrs Bradley, nervous and Hurried. vaguely l anxious, hitched her chair up to the table. Someone handed her the scis l sors. MT. Fisher appeared with a l clothes basket for the waste paper. The first bundle was small and
 knobby at the end. As she tore the
 paper off a delightful suueal broke the 1 oppressive silence. Little Lydia
 Palmers voice then pierced the air
 "Oh. ma, That's the rattle I bough' for the baby"
 A new dress for Mrs. Bradley fol. lowed, another and another, g bonnet
 and gloves. year old night gowns
 toys, and games. shoes (for Mrs. Brad l lev and the children).
 Now no one was quiet but the min
 ister. When Mir. Fisher came in witt
 the babys new crib Parson Bradle!
 slipped out of the room.
 It was, indeed, the minister's wife. | party, her first and her last The! 1 never needed to give her another St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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THE TITANIC DISASTER.

Nothing in all marine disasters has ever approached the terrible loss of life as the wreck and sinking of the Titanic. Though of the latest pat tern in steamships, the pride of all leviathans, and the pride of the high seas, the result shows that while it was supposed to be unsuitable it was crushed like a shell in the grip of a monster. Ocean going vessels have reached such a stage of perfec- ton, as 10 construction and equip ment, that there was believed to be no danger in transatlantic trips, but such disasters point out too plainly the unreIiability of human provision in a battle with nature The Titanic struck, evidently head on, an iceberg, probably many times it's size and from the fact that it could stay afloat only four hours indicates that it must have been going at full speed and met R resistance like a mountain of stone. That the bulkheads failed to keep the vessel from sinking is ground for the belief that she was sprung from stem to stern. There remains to be gained much information concerning the cir curnstances about which little has been learned; and what a narrowing tale can be told by the survivors who must have waited for hours, lowering over the unmarked grave of the ill., fated Titanic before their rescue.
 It is g catastrophe which one would hardly believe possible, and yet every decade or so some big steamship has disappeared, no doubt meeting sim liar fate. That anything was known of the Titanic's trouble is due to the wireless and it's far-reaching appeal Icebergs have always been the terror of the North Atlantic and many have been reported this spring, so it is pre- stunned Captain Smith had taken the necessary precautions. yet it can but seem as though the endeavor to break transatlantic records was being con- sidered first and the safety of pas sengers given secondary thought when such disasters occur. The longer route would have avoided the ice Hoes, or reduced speed in the ice zone, where possibly fog was encoun- tered, would have been in the inter eats of the passengers, Though botf would have made longer trip, what greater satisfaction there would have been in saving rather than sacrificing those 1900 lives. It is the worst dis aster in modern history and strange 1t is that it should happen to the largest, newest and best of oceaT Ereyhounds, equipped with every known device, a veteran captain witt but one accident in his forty years experience. and on the maiden trip O the ship. The gloom from such 2 disaster is international. the horror i! appalling
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Q.-What is man? Is he half spirit
 uaI and half flsshly, or is he entirely a human or earthly being?
 Answer-There is not a single ex- pression to be found in the Scriptures in which it is stated that man was ere ated in any sense 8 spirit being. On the contrary the Bible distinctly as- serts that man is of the earth earthly" that he was formed of the dust of the ground and that the breath of life was breathed into/ his nostrils and he be- came living soul. I Corinthians xv, 45-47, Genesis ii, '. The Scriptural ex- pression And the spirit returns to God who gave it' has reference to the life principle or spark of life which the Lord imparted to Adam when he was created from the dust of the ground. This breath of life is the active princi- pie that makes the living being and when removed from the body it re- turns to the Creator who is the source or fountain of all life. The Psalmist declares that man was created & little lower than the angels, the lowest of the spirit beings. Man is the highest of the animals or earthly beings, and in the divine arrangements was to be the ruler or the monarch over the earthly realm having dominion over the beast of the field and the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air. In view of this the plain teaching of the Bible on this matter we can understand the words of our Lord and His Apostles that one must be begorten of the holy spirit in order to have a spiritual ex- istence in any sense. The Lord Jesus was the first one to be developed as spiritual new creature from the heshly or earthly condition. Although He was a perfect man. we read that He was made perfect through sufferings (He- brews fl. 10) as a spiritual new crea- ture;" being, indeed, put to death in flesh. but being made alive in spirit Peter iii. IS. Diaglott.
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Brief State News

New Britain-The old fashioned spelling matches are being revived in some of the grades at the East street school.
 West Haven.-Dr. and Mrs. Paul Kumpitsch of Main street have taken apartments at POS Campbell avenue. They will take possession the first of May.
 SufIeId.-Tobacco growers of Suf- field have been ster!lizing their tobacco beds under the supervision of an expert from the United States department of agriculture.
 Msridsn.- Francis Atwater attended the funeral of Clara Barton al Glen Echo, Md Monday. Mir. Atwater had been an intimate friend of the dead woman for many years.
 Naue eatHek.-March, 1912. will go on record as the only month in the his tory of the borough that no marriages took place. The registrars report gives 14 births, but no marriages.
 New Haven.-President Charles San ger Mellen of the New Haven road has presented 8 number Of rare birds in cluding five storks, five cranes and four pelicsns, to East Rock park in New Haven. The birds are from Mir. Mel lens farm in Stockbridge, Mass
 Bridgeport Mayor C. B. Wilson wants B safer celebration of the Fourth, as Monday night in s com munication to the common council he
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17
EMPLo oYMENr OF PRISONERS.

The advocacy by Governor Baldwin of having convict camps established to give outside work for those in prison, is along the line of similar ex- periments which have been tried in other states, and Windham county in Connecticut is an example of its sue cessful operation at the county jail
 Under the present system prisoners of whom the great majority are la borers are kept indoors, provided with good food and warmth, but languish out of the sunshine and air. Many of them have a better place there than at home and in the majority of cases prisoners would prefer the outdoor work that is proposed. It is healthier and better for the men. It would also mean that where the prisoners at the present time are an expense to the state their correction can probably be better accomplished by such a meth cd than by having them in jail to null over their predicament. Many who go to jail do so purposely for the living they get out of the state, and putting them to work might be the means of inspiring such 8 source of livelihood to them after their sen tence had been worked out. A farm for the men to work is the plan that Windham county is successfully oper- ating.
 The Colorado plan of having the prisoners work the roads is to be tried in New Jersey this year if Governor Wilson concurs the legislature favor ing it. In this state there averages over a thousand prisoners through the year, the average expense of each be- ing s11S, and the average income from each one about S22.54, through the work that is now done inside the jails, showing a loss per prisoner of ss5.4s. In Windham county the average of 27 prisoners earned $9.5s5 in 1909 by out side work, while in the three largest counties of the state the average num- Der of prisoners was 773 and the earnings but $12,960.
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THE BULLETINS SHORT STORY.
THE MINISTER'S WEES PART

And on Thursday evening of this week, at the home of the pastor, the annual donation party. All members of the parish will be gladly welcomed. The usual morning offering will now be received" Thus Parson Bradley ended the notices for the week,
 'fHumph.' sniffed Bethiah Hicks Guess they will now be gladly vel comed. And the things they bring will be, tool"
 Later. as she was folding her lace mitts and carefully pinning them into the crown of her Sunday bonnot she spoke to her sister,
 "Parson Bradley's going to have an other one O them donation parties on Thursday" she snapped
 Do tell" replied Susan. I'm glad you spoke of it. I'll make loaf O that butternut cake he's so fond of. Miss Bradley don't have much time fer fan cy oookin'."
 NO, and if she did have time, she wouldn't have nothin' to cook with The way that man spends money on himself an the rest O the heather an lets his family go so they're a dis grace to the parish is enough to make a body sick"
 Why, Bethiah!" remonstrated Susan.
 T don't care! I'll bet Mis- Bradley ain't had a new dress since she was married, an she admitted to me the other day she didn't have two night gowns for one child in the family"
 Uncle Jabez slowly removed his pipe from his Sunken lips. Why don't you give her 8 donation party" he quaver- ed.
 Bethiah looked at him admiringly. naa haa and her shawl and departed.
 'Bethiahl" shrieked Susan, amazed. Where be you goin'? You ain't had your dinner"
 T don't want any now" called back Bethiah from the gate. You an Un- cle Jabe eat yours, an I'll get a cold bite when I come back
 Where do you suppose she's gone?' asked Susan as she cut the bread.
 T dunno's l know" replied Uncle Jabez, chuckling to himself "an' then again I dunno but 1 know" Bethiah made a great many calls that Sunday afternoon. When she re- turned her sister was cracking butter nuts. She looked up apologetically. Tt might be wicked" she said, but I thought as long as twas for the min ister I could do it on Sunday. I come out here in the shed sos folks wouldn't hear me"
 Bethiah threw the nuts on the wood 1 pile. Then she sat on the choppine | block
 This ain't the minister's party" sht said, firmly. This is the minister wife's party Where's the fruit of tht loom you got down to the store yes terday?"
 Tn the lower bureau drawer" an | swered Susan, beginning to compre 1 bend
 Come upstaris" commanded Beth iah.
 Susan followed meeklv.
 Tn the front room Bethiah droppe on her knees before the lower burea' | drawer.
 Pull down the curtains, Susan sh said briefly. Now here's your shear
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pensioned by Now Haven Road.

John Weber of New Haven, 4S years in service with the New Haven road
 was the other day placed upon the re- tired list of engineers. For SS years he has been an engineer and for the past three years has been at the lever of a switch engine at Belle dock. He was made an engineer of the New Ha- ven road by E. M Reed in 1873 after he had worked for three years in the machine shops of the road at Hartford.
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Fordham Professor for Ysls.

Ralph Waldo Clifford. at present professor of law and pro-dean of the Fordham law school. has been ap pointed Lines professor of testament ary law in Yale Jaw school. Profes sor Clifford was graduated from liar ward law school in 1901. He was for some years a prscticing lawyer in New York city and planned and has since directed the course of study oi the recently organized Fordham law school. Professor Clifford will take up his work at Yale next fall. He succeeds in the professorship Prof William Reynolds Vance, who has be- come dean of the department of law at the university of Minnesota.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17

Orozco made a bad blunder. in try ing to get recognition from the United States, when he had the American prisoner shot. He is liable to get the wrong kind of recognition.
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There is a growing opinion that the day is fast approaching when old parties will be forgotten and the po- htical lineup will be here, as in England-conservat and radicals
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Following closely on Fanny Crosby's recipe for longevity. Dr. Daniel K. Pearsons. philanthropist, offers much similar plan, when he says worry, senseless "stewing" and fretting, are banes of existence
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still confident one good term deserves another. In 1908 he was not favored with the support of Illinois, Pennsyl- vania or New York.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17

There is always a first time. though it comes late in life. Senator Cullom of Illinois had never been defeated until last week in the past 50 years.
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It Is not hard and continuous labor that makes life seem like one grand song.
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The vacuum cleaner has a taking way, but hardly strong enough to cause the man of the house to spend his spring vacation at home.
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EDITORIAL NOTES,

After the recent breaks, machine repairing will be a long and tedious job.
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Colonel Roosevelt defends his seiz- ure Of the Hanal zone in Panama Those who believe might makes right can applaud him.
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The insurgents slang dictionary is having new additions every day. We slugged em through the ropes." is the latest.
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As long as the Mississippi continues to keep full. it is showing how utterly uncomfortable such a condition is.
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Happy thought for today: It is not necessary to speak of our faults our acquaintances and enemies can attend to that.
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There is a vital need in every state where delegates have not been selected and that is to get out the Taft vote.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17

When Colonel Roosevelt is looking for a pelt. he strikes the trail hard, and keeps the game more than guess ing.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17

Mayor Gaynor's idea that there should be a federal constitutional con- vention every 20 years in order that the constitution might be revised is his special contribution to current political discussion. It's a conservative sugges- tion compared with some others Springfield Republican.
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The republican party is getting a shaking up that it richly deserves. Pity it is that it has net a Lincoln in sight instead of a pretender.
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Roosevelt is not the only honest man in the country His Ananias clubs have more than one on him.
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Roosevelt isn't quite sure now but what he had better try some mission ary work among the delegates in structed for Taft.
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Bible Question Box

Your Bible questions will be an- swered in these columns or by mail If seRt to cur Bible Question Rex Editor.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-17

The world stands still but a minute, even with such great tragedy as the Titanic disaster Sad as 1t is, 1t will be forgotten in fortnight.
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Senator Dixon has the style of 8 dead game sport and this leads to the inquiry why the loudest sports are given this title.
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When the returns came In from Pennsylvania the Colonel shouted Bully" Nothing looks fraudulent that is coming his way.
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suggested adding the word revolver to the list of. weapons that are forbid den to be discharged that day. The matter was referred to the committee on ordinances.
 Noroton=AGer 40 years' service in the ministry. Rev. otis Olney Wright has resigned az rector of st. John 8 church and will retire.
 Bridgeport. -Four generations Of the Gouden family were present at the an niversary celebration of the S0th birth day uf samuel Gouden Of Bridgeport
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If the party cannot now win with MT. Taft, it cannot win with anybody. He is in the circumstances, the strong est candidate the party can nominate. Both he ard his managers must re- member that fact and the consequent duty to the party.-Proyidence Tri- bune
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Harmon's friends declare he will have 400 votes in the Baltimore con vention but no one can see where they are coming from.
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Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh is to recommend to congress the adop- ton of smaller sized paper money. Good Provided the new bills are not made too small, the plan proposed will save Uncle Sam something on his pa per bills and permit of less reluctance in the retirement of soiled money New Haven Union.
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Not of Value.

When people ask for bread and are given a stone it Is never a precious stone.-Deseret News.
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The experience of a number of western states shows that convicts can be worked upon honor and with out manacles and armed guards. This being so, the field to road work is open.-Bridgeport Farmer.
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If the Yale graduating classes adopt the practice Of planting class efms, the reforestation Of New Haven with the tree which gave the city a dis tinctive name will not be soon ac- complished but a good beginning will be made and an example set which will be sure to be copied all over the toWn-Wsterbury American.
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OTHER VIEW POINTS

The Mexican revolutionists took lots of trouble and risk to dynamite the Fl Paso bridge, but if anyone had sug- gested that they go blast few stumps out of the cornleld they would have been too tired.-Meriden Journal.
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RECEPTION and SOCIAL
BY DIVISION NO. i, A. o. H., St. Mary's T. A. & B. Hall
 Friday Evening, April 26th.
Langs Orchestra

Tickets admitting Gent and IadN soc; each additional lady. 25c.
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Will the Titanic disaster cause the builders of great and greater ocean steamships to pause in their expand ing and reflect that perhaps the limit of safety has been passed? Probably not. But it must inevitably teach them some lessons. For some beautiful theories went down when the sea en- folded the sinking hull.-New Haven Register.
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The most dependable tabulation of the republican delegates elected thus far stands today: Taft has S4S votes in the convention to Roosevelts IFS. counting in Pennsylvania. It takes 53s to win in the convention: therefore Taft has 1e1 to get and Roosevelt 361. in order to win. "On with the dance, let joy be unconfned, Bridgeport Standard,
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for the N Y N II H. R. R. headquarteT fol these