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Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

The shooting of 1epers and a woman who would. not give up the opium halb- It shows that the Chinese republic is still young. but every year should show decrease in that kind Of treat ment Of unfort,natae
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

D. Rockefeller, Jr.. Is giving his in fluence and backing, but the effort for the prevention should not be relaxed for the reclamation of white slaves.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

Who can promise that a century hence the nation will not have found that these days are days of error as regards the use of women in factories and the errors of today the reason why the United States lost it's power and progressiveness and endurance? Iva terbury Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

With Public Utility Commissioner Ford declaring that six for 2 quarter car tickets will be provided when 1t car be proved the companies can do # and make money. f Is ID to the ad- Vocates to produce the proof.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

The Norfolk, Va. man went as far as he could and not take it with him when he left $1o0,000 for a mausoleum for himself and wife.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

steady yearly gain in postal bus- mess shows healthy condition and reflects a similar situation in the Nor wich channels of trade which makes the showing possible.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

A problem which the legislators must wrestle with early is that of mileage. Comptroller Dunn has chance to get in solid by discovering the answer.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

With terrific storms at sea and floods in the Ohio valley winter is causing plenty of trouble even if the weather has been mild.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

4 Btnghan1ton family discovers they are heirs to an English fortune through data in Bible. 4 better acquaintance with the book would have brought its reward earlier
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15
EDITORIAL NOTES,

Happy thought for today: Enjoy these balmy days, but prepare for snow.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

Hereafter there is likely to be a dic- tagraph about when Ettor is speaking Then there will he no doubt as to what he says. As to what he means it will be different
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

The senate has chosen it's officers, so has the house and from now on there is no good reason why the mem bers of both parties should not work for the interests of the state. That is what they were elected for.-New Britain Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

If the boss complains because you are late to the office Monday morn ing, you might tell him that you had to turn over this weeks sheets on those seventeen Christmas calendars New Haven Union.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

New England is recognized ss g rnanusa curing section of the country What it's representa- tives have to say n inc Washington hearings concern ing the tariff and frs operations ought e carry much weight
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Approximately $8s.ooo,ooo in money orders was sent from the United States to persons in the United King dom, according to statistics gathered in London. Our thrifty foreigners Meriden Journal.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

It is announced that Congressman elect Kennedy will stand firm on the democratic platform. If he does, how he will be loved throughout the indus trial heart of the Naugatuck valley AnSOnia Sentinel
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

Every day demonstrates that High way Commissioner Macdonald is gain ing strength in the state, and he all ready has 1egtons of friends. Con scientious and faithful services are bound to be recognized. despite ef- forts of politicians.
 Because of a strike and tieup on the electric lines. and a provision in the city charter that strike breakers cannot be hired. Yonkers is consider ing the purchase of the lines and their operation as a municipal plant, Not being a going concern the good will cannot be figured very high.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

Waterbury's water famine didn't en- tail hardship enough, but now cer- tain factories are alleged to have de- liberately stolen three million gallons of the precious fluid in a single night. City officials are going to keep their eyes open, and if they secure incrim- mating evidence. someone is going. to hear something drop.-Bridgepor Tel egram.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

It is a laudabls erert to which John
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

The consensus of the opinion of men who make fire fighting a business is that every motor is worth far more to it's owners than any amount of money which can be set down to it's credit in tangible figures. And cer- tainly the tangible figures of gain are sufficesstly impressive to stir thought in the mind of anyone who is not de- termined to abstain from thinking about it.-Waterbury American.
 The progressives in the house ap- parently don't consider open voting progressive. They evidently wanted to vote secretly for speaker yesterday Their leader, Representative Bates of Chester, called the ruling in favor of vote by roll call "bunco game" In those days when publicity in public affairs is so strongly demanded, 1t is not very progressive to favor secret voting.-New Britain Record.
 If the members of the general as sembly will take to many of Governor Baldwin's suggestions and recommen- dations as kindly as the newspapers do and will carry them into the stat utes Connecticut will be materially benefited. But unhappily economy is popular only as an oratorical subject. In practice it does not look good to the politician or tho active member
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-15

, who wants to make himself solid with his constituents by getting some thing. g."--BristoI Press.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
GAVE, BAD BOYS A CHANCE

in the world and are ready to con-
struct and furnish their own homes.
1T is to be open to all who DEM
onstrate that they realize their social
responsibilities and are in earnest
about the business of life"
The first president of the Preston
School Republic is Henry Hornstein,
a. cadet who was elected after a spir-
tied campaign between the Pro-
gressives'' and the Unions" &
The constitution under which the
republic will be governed, written en-
tirely by the boys, is declared to be
one of the most remarkable docu-
ments ever prepared.
1t is deeply significant, declares
Superintendent Derrick, that the most
enthusiastic citizens of the new re-
public are the members of the for
mer tough companies" who used to
fight the authorities at every turn.
Runaways have dwindled to a negli-
gible number.
"If we'd been taught what it meant
to be real square guys on the out
side. most of us would never be here
at ALL volunteered "the Runt," one
of the most remarkable examples of
regeneration credited to the Derrick
honor regime at Preston. He was
a street prowler, branded as hopeless
by San Francisco police and Juvenile
authorities.
you can't beat it into us, though"
he added, with an echo of his old
defiance.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22

AS the result of a talk with lexi-
coprapher a writer for the New York
sun SAYS that the English language
is growing at the rate of 5000 words
a year.
The English novelist Locke, author
of "The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne,
"Simple Septimus'' and others IN
which a large and flexible vocabulary
is displayed, says that the Englisii
possess the richest language In the
world, but pride themselves upon
keeping their wealth of words De
tween the covers of a dictionary and
expressing themselves In slang
If our language is growing at the
rate of 5000 words a year none of
need hope to acquire any considera-
BILE proportion of the new words as
they find their way into the dictlon-
aries. but a good vocabulary is
great asset to anyone, not merely to
writer's, speakers and teachers, says
the Louisville Courier Journal.
What are you doing as the years
pass to increase your vocabulary IN
other words, to secure your snare OF
the wealth of words?
Reading good literature gives you
easy means of becoming acquainted
with new words. Even in old works
YOU will find many possible and use
full additions TO your vocabulary, but
the surest means of increasing your
store of words, and at the same time
increasing precision-not preciseness
is to get into the habit of consult
ing the dictionary.
OF course, nearly every home boasts
a dictionary. A majority of business
establishments have one for use as
a last resort in emergencies, but COM
paratively few persons recognize the
dictionary as a source of lasting IN
formation-and even of genuine en-
tertainment-as well as friend in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
Oak Leaves Industry

In certain sections of New Jersey
the gathering of oak leaves is late
summer and autumn industry Many
Jewish residents and other farmers
of the foreign element are making
money gathering small punches of
leaves.
Passing through the section where
the industry is carried on one sees
the sides of houses and barns or any
other place out of doors, where the
branches. can hang to dry filled with
row after row of punches of oak.
After drying for two weeks they
are put in bales for shipment. Last
year one man gathered over 300
punches a day and had over twelve
tons for shipment.
The price is about $50 a ton, and
there is a brisk demand in European
cities for the oak branches thus pre-
pared. There are 100 limbs in a
bundle and 100 bundles in a bale,
The leaves are free for the taking,
mostly Still. some owners of wood
land are in the moneY-making game
themselves and charge so much pei
acre for the privilege.
The gatherer does not have to SOW
or cultivate--it seems as il the CROP
were a gilt OF nature Philadelphia
Recop4
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
INCREASE YOUR VOCABULARY

need when a dispute is to be settled
or when there is doubt as to the SPELL
| ing of q word.
The dictionary habit. once formed,
| Is a constant and positive source of
| pleasure as well as of profit.
To reach it's greatest usefulness the
dictionary must be available at the
cost of a minimum expenditure of
energy In the library it should be at
the readers elbow. and, preferably,
where it is not necessary to lift its
weight Upon its availability depends
| to large extent, the readers ac-
/ quirement of the habit of consulting
[ 1t not merely to ascertain the mean
| ing of a word in order that the sell
tence containing 1t may be under
stood, but to discover derivations and
shades of meaning.
The habit of consulting encyclo-
pedias and other reference books is
profitable, and possesses cumulative
interest 1t develops a faculty for
ampiification that gives vitality to q
great deal of the history of today and
yesterday that has little meaning to
those who confine their reading to
headlines and cabiegrams, and the
| further ones acquaintanceship with
reference books progresses the further
| he gets away from the idea that they
are published ma My to give an air of
dignity and solidity to the library;
but ahead of all reference books in
general utility is good dictionary.
| When buying a dictionary at bar
gain be sure that it is not sold at a
bargain because it is printed from old
plates. An abridged dictionary that
| is up to date Is better than one that
is unabridged but out of date.
Don't use the dictionary to make
high seat In low chair for the
youngest child. Use 1t for the benefit
of your mind and your vocabulary.
! 1t will pay for itself ten times.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
Back to wooden Shoes.

From the New York Tribune.
With the shortage in the supply of
cattle and the increasing prices of
hides and leather comes some con-
ISOLATION in the information given out
by the United States forest service
that there is an increased call for
beechwood for the manufacture of
wooden shoes. There have been a
few made in glass producing sections
and for workers in steel mills, where
hot CRATES and floors are common,
but now it seems that not only work.
ers in breweries, tanneries and other
cold or wet places are beginning to
use them, but farmers are falling
into line and discarding the Cow
hide boot" and other styles of leather
footgear.
AS a measure of economy the use
of wooden shoes has much to COM
mend it, as they cost only so to rs
cents a pair and they are said to
last for at least two years. Already
the business is reported to have
reached considerable proportions"
and the time may come when, under
the combination of costly leather and
cheap wood Sabotage" will be pos
sible to the dfsgruntled worker here
under the same conditions which
gave rise to the name in Europe. /
While wooden shoes are not likely
to become fashionable, their utility
is not to be doubted, and as almost
anyone with a beech tree and few
tools can make an unlimited supply
of them the wearers of the wooden
shoes will at least be in a measure
beyond the reach of the leather and
shoe machinery trusts.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
October Gpe

All day I've wandered on TIE lonely Shore
And now the shadows fall;
Above the gloomy breakers sulen roar
The curews call;
graceful sea-gull slowly wheels above,
With noisy, shrilling cry;
A little sandpp pauses, chances up,
Then scurres by
wonder where the happy people are
Who lately thronged the place;
Eager, watch and wait for just one glimpse
Of kindly face;
But no one comes; and you, who would not trust
Your happiness tor
Are far away from this lone stretch of sand
And restless
| sometimes start, and think hear your voice
Calling across the sands
| almost see your tender smile again,
And touch your hands
year ago you held me in your
Upon this selfsame shore
How bright Remembrance keeps the happy past,
The days of yore!
The curews and the sandpip and the gull
Have found, each one, his mate;
The Twilight's shadows fold about fair Night,
Who walks in state;
The Ocean woos the Shore; faithful Star
Follows the Moons flight, drear,
Lonely am Hank! Boatman call afar
And you are here!
Annie O'Connor, in the New York Times
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
The porto Rico Governorship.

Women workers in Spain number
1.351,792.
French labor unions have a mem
bership of 1,054,413.
Chinese printers in Manchuria get
90 cents a day.
Germans clothing industry employs
114,132 trade unionists.
International Machinists' Union pays
its president $4,000 a year.
In New York city there are 1900
tenements licensed as factories.
There are thirty-four unionists per
/, 900 inhabitants In Switzerland.
The average of the metal workers
in Russia was $3.50 month In the
year 1912.
Australia has raised by law the
minimum wage OF unskilled labor to
$2.13 day.
The first municipal employment Of
flee in Denmark is now In operation
in Copenhagen.
Jewish independent bricklayers of
Cleveland have amalgamated with
the local union.
Overs in the textile industry in
| Kensington, Philadelphia, have a
union membership of 1000.
A new oregon law, effective No
| yember 8, fixes a minimum wage for
women clerks at 1926 a week of fifty
| hours.
only twenty seven formal griev-
ances came before the board of con-
| Citation, established In 1908 to set
tie disputes between anthracite mine
workers and operators. during the
| March 81, 1912.
The Joint commission now studying
the operation of workmen's compensa-
ton acts in the various states, which
was created by the National civic
Federation, has decided to extend Its
investigation by visiting the States
of Washington, Oregon and Cali
fornia.
A new Swedish law amends and
| combines the old laws relating to the
regulating of the working conditions
| hibits the employment of children
under II years of age In industrie,
and boys under Is years af age IN
the mines.
sydney, Australia, Trade Council II
trying to establish a connection be
| tween the universities and the othel
educational institutions and the trade
unions for the purpose of furtherint
educational and industrial aues
| lions.
The membership of the typographi
cal union for 1913, according to thu
official report of their officers. |!
given as 1854. The average earn
lings per year per member was s1,023
THE total increase n wages iron
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22

large block of government bonds.
| They were portion of the govern
ment bonds which Mr. Vanderbilt
| had bought with the money he re-
ceived in London for sale of twenty
! five millions, par value, of New York
Central stock.
I'm a little while the agent returned
and said that the bank president
would not accept the government
bonds as collateral securities.
Mr.. Vanderbilt was dumfounded.
, There was no better security than
government bonds for a bank loan.
He asked the agent what the reason
was and was still more astonished
when he was told that the bank presi-
dent said that the government bonds
were of too big denomination. Each
of them was for $4,000. He wouldn't
take bonds of that denomination and
wouldn't make the loan unless he
could get bonds of the denomination
of $1,000.
mfr. Vanderbilt did not know
whether to be amused or to be indig-
nant. He was, / think, little of
both. He was capable of acting with
great CELEBRITY when the occasion de-
manded, and he did so in this in
stance. He communicated with an
1
would loan him the money on the Sc
curlty of government bonds each of
the denomination of $4,000, and that
banker replied that he would gladly
| do so.
1.-The transaction was speedily con-
| summated, and Mr.. Vanderbilt was
ready to protect his Reading stock.
He was, in fact, after the first irrita-
ton passed away, so greatly amused
| that government bonds of the demon
| ination of $4,000 would not be ac-
cepted as the security for loans that
he actually forgave the bank presi-
dent for the momentary annoyance"
| Copyright, 1918, by E. ]. Edwards).
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell
"How Lyman Trumbull Took Mental
Relaxation"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22

This was laid to me by the late
Charles +. Cox. who for many years
was one of the chief executive off,
GERS in the financial department of
the Vanderbilt, railroad systems and
earlier in his life was associated with
Daniel Drew in the banking busi-
ness.
Curiously enough, the experience to
which / have just referred happened
to William H. Vanderbilt. l presume
there are very few bankers in New
York who would not, in ordinary
times. have been glad to discount
Mr. Vanderbilt's note for three or
six months. and for as much as a
million or more. and with no other IN
dorsement on the note than Mr.. Van
derbilt's name But there was one
banking institution in New York
which refused to loan Mr.. Wander
bilt several million dollars unless he
gave it security of a different form
than the United States bonds which
he offered.
ut was at a time when there was
a good deal of disturbance in the
speculative market and when the
Reading Railroad Company was the
object of special attack by specula-
tors who wanted to break the mar
ket. Mr.. Vanderbilt was at that
time heavily interested as a stock
holder in the Reading Railroad Com
pany, and when he learned that the
spectators wee trying to break
down Reading stock he decided to
protect the market.
Mr.. Vanderbilt called a confiden-
tial representative into his office and
asked him to go to the president of a
prominent banking institution in New
York and arrange for a large loan. /
do not remember the precise amount,
but it was several million dollars.
The agent was instructed to tell the
president that Mr.. Vanderbilt would
put up government bonds reasonably
margined as collateral security for
the loan.
After an hour or two the agent re-
turned and told Mr.. Vanderbilt that
he had arranged for loan There
upon Mr.. Vanderbilt went to his safe
deposit vault and took from it a
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22

With the recent Inauguration of the
"honor system at the Preston state
reformatory, at lone, Cal, the self
government code which has made the
George Junior Republic such sue
cess in the regeneration of youthful
outlaws, has received one OF its most
remarkable indications.
The change at Preston within the
past two years regime of Superin-
tendent Calvin Derrick has been a
revelation.
Before that the school 1as noted
for its punishments-foggi chains
and solitary. There was sullen re-
spouse, the officers We're always beat
ing the brush for runaways.
Derrick Immediately made some
radical changes. He established a
boys court in each company,
through which the cadets themselves
enforced discipline. The guards APP
peared only as complaining witnesses
against the offenders, who were SEN
fenced and punished by their fellow
cadets.
THE boys quickly learned that they
were only hurting themselves and
their company by infractions of the
rules" said superintendent Derrick.
"They were impressed with the fact
that they were citizens with respon-
sibilities. The change was wonder
full"
The result is the Preston School
Republic, with a formal dedication of
the first honor cottage"
1t was built by the boys, and will
accommodate from so to 100. Here
the "honor cadets" live free from all
restraint, with parole or outright dis
charge as the next step.
"In having this cottage built and
furnished" said Superintendent Der
rick, IT had in mind a type of home
and club-room which would become
a sort of standard of excellence for
the boys when they have made good
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
Houses Built In a Day.


From Popular Mechanics.
Building monolothic concrete houses
in one day is becoming a common
thing, but Hamilton, Ontario, boasts
of a large brick house that was built
completely in twenty-four hours. 1t
is 2R stories high and cost $4,000.
The construction of the house be-
gan at p. m. on August II, and by
p. m. August 10 the house was
ready for occupancy. The force of
men who accomplished the feat con-
sited of twenty-five carpenters, forty
bricklayers, ten steamfitters, four
GLACIERS. eight electricians. sixty-four
laborers. two tinsmiths and number
of plasterers and painters.
This record is often beaten in Porto
Rico, where many families insist
upon having a new house once a
year and set aside an hour or so at
the end of each summer to gather
material and construct new winter
residence. -Four men can build a
Porto Rican bark house In about fifty
minutes. spending half the time to
gather the material. Its four corner
posts are cut from the trunk of a
fallen COCO palm, q light frame of
saplingS is built about them and the
whole structure is covered with fiat
pieces of the dried bark of a royal
palm bound together with strips of
banana and coco fibre.