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Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-30
TAFTVILLE
Annual Sunday School Picnic of Con- gregational Church Big Success Mir. and Mrs. Working Leave Nor Wch

Saturday was an ideal day for the annual Sunday school picnic of the 'EaftVille Congregational church, and it was merry party of ITO, young people ana old, which set forth at 120 o'clock Saturday after noon in two special cars for Mohegan park, gong by way of the Rockwell street entrance. A grove near the lake made delightful head quarters for the picnickers. Soon after their arrival a ball game between the girls and the boys provided plenty of amusement for all, the contest being decided in favor of the boys by the score of 10 to 6. The swings and other equipment were given generous use by
 the children, and near the pavilion a number of athletic events were, run off, Including separate relay races for the girls and boys, race and others One
 Of the most diverting races was the dash for married women, in which the
 prize was carried off by Miss Katie
 Brown. A number of the boys enjoyed
 the swimming facilities offered by the lake, and refreshments were offered in
 the tempting form of ice cream and
 fancy cakes. The party turned home
 ward at 6.30 o'clock. reaching Taftville
 at 7.15, having made their presence
 known ali the way with horns and oth-
 CT noise producing means. The great
 success which attended the outing is due largely to the work Of the commit tees. Tn charge of he games were
 Rev. Donald B. MacLane. Victor Davis, Miss Amy Pollard and Mrs. Mary Lei
 pold. The refreshment committee was
 made up of Miss Ida c. Lillibridge, Miss Gertrude Young, Miss Susie Whittlesey an-l Rev Mir MacLane.
 Mr. and Mrs. Working Leave Today. Mir and Mrs Frederic J. Working were calling on friends in Taftville on Sunday, before leaving town today for
 Brooklyn N. Y, where during the sum- mer Mir Working will be engaged in Y. M. C. A. work. MT. Working was formerly principal for a number of years of the Wequonnoc school, prior to the consolidation. After October 1st MT. Working will be m the south, at Lexington, Ky, as principal of a nor mai school for colored students.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-30

Sum. Moon Ana f8aea.
 I Sur II Htgh i Moon I Rises. l Sets. fl Water. Ii Rises.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-30

Comparisons. Prediction for Saturday: Generally fair. light westerly winds. Saturdays weather: As predicted. Predictions for Sunday: Fair witt westerly winds.
 Sundays weather: AS predicted
Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-30

THERE is no advert1sinR medium in Eastern Connecticut equal to The 0ul. Ietin for hgAiAess reau1tR
Norwich bulletin., 1913-06-30
THE WEATHER. Teday's Weather Forecast.

For Southern New Englandi Fair and somewhat warmer Monday; Tues day fair light variable winds
 Predictions from the New York Her aid: On Monday it will be generally clear, with light northeast te south east winds and slowly rising temper atures. becoming high in the interior.
 The outlook for Tuesday is fair to partly overcast and warmer, followed by local showers,
 Observations in Norwich.
 The following records, reported from Sevin's pharmacy, show the changes in temperature and the oarometric changes Saturday and Sunday:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17
END OF AN OLD SUPERSTITION
Height Of Present New York Buildings
Discharges Youngsters There to
Seek Fortune.

Said a New York octogenarian:
The height Of buildings in New
York has dealt death blow to an old
superstition that animated many a
country youth who came here to make
his fortune 60 years ago. Heaven
knows how they came by the belief,
but most of those upstate boys came
to the city thinking that II they could
toss a coin over a house they took q
fancy to at the first try, the house
would be theirs some day
1T was one of nv surest convictions,
and l put it to a test Immediately aft
er paying for my first meal in New
York. The only money had left was
an old-fashioned three-cent piece. With
that in my hand walked around look
Ing for desirable piece of property.
Pretty soon corner lot on which
stood wo-story-and-a-half brick
house took my eye.
II had practiced coin throwing in
the country. SO I let my three-cent
piece go for all it was worth over the
front Of the house and ran around to
the back to see where It landed. 1t
went clean over knew then that that
house and lot would be mine in duo
time, and sure enough they were. Peo-
pie don't WOO fortune by Tipping coins
these days. The fellow whose success
depends upon tossing q thrse-eent
piece over the Singer building would
be in a pretty bad 1x."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17
REMNANT OF THE AcaD'1Ns
Small Group Of Maada!en le!ands
Populated BY Descendants Of
Those Unfortunate oeo2le.

Up IN the center Of the Gulf OF St
dalen islands are populated by three
or four thousand lineal descendants
Of the Acadians under Champlain and
De Monts, who were driven out Of
New France, Nova Scotia, by the Eng
ish.
Since the first settlement in 1853
generations Of the same families have
raised scanty crops in the valleys and
fed sheep and cattle on the high. con-
ical hills which constitute a promi-
nent feature Of IN insuiar landscape
Year after year men have gone out
on the waters Of the gulf in search Of
the cod, mackerel and Holsters on
which livelihood depends. They are
simple, primitive people. these ma
tives Of the Magdalens, laboring all
the while under circumstances that
are most discouragtng
The archipelago contains II or 13
distinct islands, Including several
grim rocks which are not inhabited
and never will be- But the remark
able feature about the physical forma.
ton of the whole group is the way in
which one island is In some instances
connected with another by long
stretch Of sandy beach. enabling per.
son. II ne desires to do so, to go for a
score Of miles or more along the most
barren shore in the world, one that IL
uDinhabited and unrelieved by vegeta.
ton of any kind, and the only animal
life being the thousands Of gulls,
ferns, gannets and other sea fowl
this region.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17
WHAT PUZZLED THE NEwsBoY
He Didn't Understand Primary Cause
Of Trouble, but Motorman Could
Have Told Him.

II was very busy hour On Forty
second street. and the traffic cops"
We're having their hands extremely
as things were starting along after
a complicated blockade, a little news
boy dropped quarter. and darted
out into the street after it, under the
nose of a notorman who had just
started his car
The Indignant mo.c-man threw on
| the brakes With jerk AS the car
cane to sudden stop an 2utomo-
bic directly behind it turned sharply
to one side to avoid collision. 1t
skidded, the hood coming under the
startled noses of a pair of dray hors-
es. One OF the front tires blew up
with loud report -,
This was too much for tie horses.
and they Jumped forward together.
In another minute the heavily loaded
dray was caree.:ing down tie side
walk. the people scattering in terror.
A lamp post was knocked over. and
the dray, thrown violently in the 9TH
er direction, upset finging couple
of heavy boxes through a brilliantly
lighted display window
Tie broken electric lights fixed
for mAute, then the iiimsy trim
nnings Of the window caught fire, and
in few minutes the changing of the
fire department was added to the up
roar, and the crowd extended for a
full block IN either direction.
When the fire was out. and the
wreckage was being cleared away.
the newsboy. with his quarter safe
in his pocket, turned away and start
ed down the street, murmuring to
himself: Gee. wonder what be-
gun all dat fuss!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17

Civil cation. It's months ana months
of, and when you get there. the
people is go awful mean they'd let 6
stranger starve to death without sc
much as Come in The men wear
pants right down to their heels, ant
as to the women
Mother comes in and looks at father
SO he forgets to say about the womer
at Civil cation, but other times he'G
tell, oh. lots of stories. He SAID /,
was worse for the likes of US thar
New Jerusalem.
reckon Tommy died, ard Joan. too
and mother would get gaunt AID dry
rocking herself. 1.-The Lord gave
she'd say, and the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name OF the
Lord"
There was only Pete ana ne left
and father wagging his pipe acrost the
stove ct mother. They'll die. ma am, "
l heard him say, and she Just shifted
IF hadn't taken EN- out doors they'd
be dead now, ma'am"
She called him an iniun. She called
him-I dunno what she didl't call him
I'd been asleep, and when l woke IN
she was cooking breakfast while sha
called him lot more things she must
have forgot to say. But he carried
me- IN his arms out through the little
low door, and it was stabbing cold
with blaze Of northern lights.
He tucked me up warm on the ko-
matik, he hitched up the huslsies, and
mushed, way up the tickle, and
through the soft bush snow, and at
sunup We made his winter tilt On Torn,
gak Creek. We put in the winter
there, Turing, and every time he
came home from the round of traps,
he'd sell me all the pelts. I was sure
ly proud when he took me hunting fur
and cartridges. I was with him to
the fishing, in the fall we'd hunt, all
winteg%~e'd trap till it was time for
the sealing, and only two or three
times in year we'd be back to
mother.
Then I'd see Pete, too, who'd got
pink, with splitting cough. He want
ed to play with me, but wouldn't. 1
just couldn't. hated to be anywheres
near him.
Didn't tell yez?" father would
point at Pete coughing. Didn't l
warn yez?"
But mother set her mouth in a thin
line.
Pete" said she, "is saved"
Next time we come mother was all
alone.
"'The Lord gave,'" she says land
the Lord hath taken away; blessed
be the name Of the Lord but its get,
ting kind of monotonous."
She hadn't much to say then, she
didn't seem to care, but was just
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17
When Artist. Can't Aores.

Lodging complaints against artists
is common diversion Of their fellow
tenants who lack the artistic tenn
permanent, but the most unusual grew
ance and from her standpoint the
most vital has been registered By the
janitress Of building largely occu-
pied by struggling painters.
Let them daub away all they
please in their own rooms" she said !:
that Is nobody's business. but for
goodness sake let them leave the
clothes poles in the backyard alone.
They paint them fresh every few days
because no two Of the artists can
agree on an appropriate color. and
when plain people Who don't mind
looking at plain clothes pole hang
CO. their wash ~. clothes get all
smeared with fresh paint"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17

numb. He wrapped her up warm on
the komatik, with just a sack of
clothes, her Bible, and the album Of
photos from Nova Scotia, yes, and the
china dogs she carried in her arms.
Father broke the trail ahead, took
the gee pole, and when day cam., we
made the winter tilt. There mother
KEEP house just as she would at home.
so clean we was almost scared to step
indoors
It was along in March or maybe
April that father was away in coarse
weather, making the round OF his
traps. He didn't come back. There'd
been a blizzard, wolf-howling hurri-
cane, blowing out lane Of bare
ground round the back Of the cabin,
while the big drift piled higher and
packed harder. until the comb Of It
grew out above our roof like q sea
breaker, froze so you could walk on
the overhang. And just between dark
and duckish fathers husky team came
back without him.
don't reckon l was more'n ten or
eleven years old, but you see. this
Labrador is kind Of serious with us,
and makes even kids act respon.
sible. Go easy, and there's famine
freezing blackleg, all sorts Of rea
sons against laziness. 1t sort OF edu'
Gates.
Mother was worse than silent. There
was something about her that scared
me more than anything outdoors. In
the morning her eye KEEP following me
as If to say. go find your father
Surely 1t was up to me, and If
wasn't big enough to drive the huskiea
or pack fathers gun, thought could
manage afoot to toto his fourpound
ak. She beckoned mo to her and
kissed me-just once In ten years, and
l was quick through the door, out OF
reach. lest she should see me mighty
near cryin'.
1t was all very we'll showing Cd
brave before mother, but when / go,
outside, any excuse would have been
enough for going Dscx. !; wished II
left the matches behind. but hadn't
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17

gale. until he ton on her knees. un.
til she threw herself on The corpse.
and cried, end cried.
(To Be Continued)
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-17

Sunday beds. Then he saw father's
body, with legs and arms stiffened all
ways, and the number-four trap still
gripped on broken bones. on came
his fur cap.
Mother stood, iron-hard. beside the
komatik
Factor" says she, "Tve como to
pay his debt"
Nay, it's the Sabbath. me'am. Ye1l
pay no debts till Monday. Como in
and have some tea-ye puir thing"
you starved his soul to death, and
| now I've brought his body to square
his debts. VIII you Leave that hsss
till Mondsyr
| Mr.. McTavish looked at her, then
whispered to me. by" saad be, I'VE
must make her CRY OF she'll be rsvinl
! mad. Greet, woman. greet By God
I'll make 70 greet!"
He marched up md down he sjde
walk, and through the skir Of sulla
In . storm, swept Q tune that made
the meat shake on my bones.
| Once mother shrieked out trying
to make him stop. but he went on pac
ing in front Of her, to and no. with
his eyes on her all tho time. peerinl
straight through her, aud ali the gr;ei
i OF iii tho world in inc sxiri ana wall
and that hopeless awful tune. She
covered her face with her hands, try
! ing to hold while the ereak anhe shool
her. aud she reeled like : tree in !
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-06

To My Mind They Were Just Tables.
thousand dollars and here was one
per cent of it gone for an outrageous
fraud.
talked it over with Dorothy. Dor
othy was Grandma Turnbull's grand
daughter, and we were as good as
engaged. had asked her ever so
many times, but she had been holding
off and trying to make me jealous by
flirting with Jim Bates, a sort of sec
ond cousin of ours, but belonging to
the poorer branch and generally
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-06
THE OLD FURNITURE
BY Ernest Thwing.

Copyright by W. G. Chapman.)
When Grandma Turnbun got the
collecting mania in her old age, no
body thought very much about it.
But when she brought home photo
graph of Washington crossing the
Delaware, taken by a snapshotter in
the Continental army, for which she
had paid hundred dollars, / felt that
it was time to discourage her foolish
ness. Grandma's capital could not
have amounted to more than ten
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-11-06

looked down upon among US Len
nards.
Poor old thing! Don't say any
thing to hurt her feelings, Harry"
said Dorothy.
But, Dorothy, don't you see?" 1
urged. "She's buying up old furniture
wholesale, and every crook in the
county is bringing her so-called an
tiques. She must have spent five hun
dred in the last month or two. If
that goes on, what will become of her
capital?"
well, it's her capital, isn't it?"
asked Dorothy.
Eyes, but some day it will be yours
and NINE" 1 answered. "And I'd
rather have what's left of the ten
thousand or so than. own a lot of
fraudulent antiques"
Dorothy gave me queer sort of
look, but went on:
'The fact is, Dorothy, grandma is
getting senile. This collecting mania
is one of the first signs. Now I'd like
to move for a guardianship over her.
Why not? Surely you don't sympa-
thize with her, do your"
Harry" said Dorothy, grandma
put you through college when your
father was bankrupt and started you
in business. That's where most of
her money has gone. If you have no
more gratitude than that you needn't
speak to me any more" And she
flounced out of the room.
It's queer how women think! Here
was l, bent only on securing to Dor
othy and myself our rightful inherit
ance of grandma's money, and she
was up in the air.
Things ran on as usual for while,
and then the crisis came. It came
from Boston, inythe shape of deliv-
cry man carrying two tables, for
which grandma had paid a thousand
dollars ani6pn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
Didn't Have to Go

FfOfn IIt-Blts
On one of the Highland passenger
steamers the sailor in charge of the
passengers luggage was having a hot
time. one old lady especially so need
lessly worried the seaman that al
length, in evaporation, he gave her a
cordial invitation to go to Jericho
The indignant old dame stalked to
the captain and breather forth threats
about headquarters knowing, and so on
The captain advised the sailor. for his
own good. to apologize After some per-
suasion the Highlander sidled up to
the aggrieved passenger and looking
sheepishly at her. said in his imper-
feet English
Are you the old lady that was told
to go 10 Jericho?"
Yes she replied.
We'll" with a gulp, 'the captain
says you needn't"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
Firemen's Strike a Factor

Although the locomotive iiremen seem
determined to force a strike if they can
not have their own way about the selec-
ton OF an arbitration board, the street
refuses to believe that the trouble will
really culminate in walkout and eonse-
quent railroad blockade throughout the
territory east of the Mississippi and north
of the Ohio. The theory still prevails that
at the last moment an agreement will be
reached between the eontending parties
as to the method to be employed for a
hearing. The finding of the Strauss com
mission which arbitrated the engineers
strike does not suit the firemep. Under
the operation of that ruling the wage
raise applied only to those receiving low
wages--it was raising of the minimum
pay. The award gave about a 5000 600
annual increase to the low paid men and
gave the high price men no increase
whatever, greatly TO their disappointment
and to the dissatisfaction of the active
agitators in labor organizations. In es-
tablishing a new and higher minimum
wage scale a humane act was performed
and one of exact justice. but it hasn't t
suited the men who are doing the leader
ship act against the employing compa-
nies. Ii will be known almost before this
letter is printed just what is going TO be
done in the matter but the trouble is
"
Wall street down TO the last minute, and
which is a market factor of potency.
Agitation over Mexico and the possibil-
ty of locomotive firemens strike have
tended TO discourage buying of securities
and the result has been decline in
values all through the list. Lower prices
than have been seen in many months
were reached and even at these low fig
ures buying has been spiritless. II ap-
parently does not come from influential
quarters and the banks are doing little or
nothing to encourage bullish sentiment
at this writing.
The bulk of the actual buying that has
been done for several weeks is for ac-
count of the small investor commonly
designated .the public There is no
doubt whatever of the genuineness Of
this investment feature. Speculation
seems TO be entirely ouL.-of the market,
but those who have money to invest in
small or moderate amounts and whose
first thought Is income and security as
we'll. are turning In great numbers to IL
vidend paying stocks that win yield them
) or per cent on their money. The
spirit of the masses OF people has been
to save money and the accumulation Of
this kind of capital has been enormous
kindly to the savings banks or the va
rous kinds of associations framed to look
after the interests OF the common peo-
Pile This buying has been the backbone
of the stock market. Without it there
would no doubt have been a glut of Sc
curities and very much lower prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16
Question Is Asked If PEN
rose Is a Progressive,
Who Is Reacti0nary?
GIVES HIS VIEWS ON
PROGRESSIVE IDEAS
Mr.. Rainey Defines Progressive as
Republican Whose Conscience
Hurts Him But Not Enough
to Join Democrats
Dy C. II. STEWART

Washington, February 10 Especial y
Senator Boise Penrose, who was one of
the especial targets of ex-President
Roosevelt, during the recent election, de-
clares tli-.t he is q progressive and always
has been one. Senator Penrose recently
introduced bill pensioning postal EN-
pIoyes and has also given his support to
a radical public utilities bill in Pennsyl-
vania, and n western progressive senator
iocularly expressed-the fear that Sem
ator Penrose might out-progress all the
progressives."
Senator Penrose's claim that he is q
progressive, and that 1t is no recent thing
with him, brings up a new queston--what
is progressive? He has always been
elassed by common consent as the most
reactlonary of the reaetionaries. He has
always had record of standing pat, and
If anything little ''patter' than any of
his colleagues Notwithstanding all this,
when it was suggested to the senator that
he was turning progressive he said:
I am not turning progressive. I've al
ways been a progressive, although l may
not have preached as loudly from the
housetops as | should have done. When
my present term expires in 1915 I Will
have rounded out so years in legislative
bodies, beginning in the house OF represen-
tatives at Harrisburg. All l can say is
that since ] was % years old ] have been
a consistent advocate of all legislation
looking TO the betterment of conditions
in the country and in my state, and of the
advancement of wage-earners and the
community In general.
Il am no new convert to progressive
ism, although | have never pretended to
a monopoly of all righteousness and vir-
fl1e. =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-16

foreign Interference with affairs of the
Western Hemisphere.
The suggestion is full of direful possibll-
tiles and It seems to have made a deep
impression upon the financial and indus
trial lights whose habitat is New York.
The Monroe doctrine has been as formid-
able as a thousand battleships and a
eoastline bristling with cannon and ferti-
fications Its strength las been In its
intangibility and in the refusal of Con-
gress TO define its powers and limitations.
1t is no idle dream to assume that the
governments of the world would like 10
conspire and compel a tangible definition
of the Monroe doctrine. which Is some
thing our statesmen have successfully
fought for three Generations. This back
ground issue has contributed in a marked
degree to the loss of confidence in high
" influential quarters. It is one of those
things that cannot be dismissed with a
word or passed over as of minor impor-
tance. The confessed desire lof President
Taft to stave off Intervention and leave
his successor unembarrassed IS we'll
known and Is an added element Of un-
easiness. 4 lot of damage can be done
by three weeks inaction, il is argued,
and the stock market Is suffering as a re-
suit of this uncertainty.