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Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16
She liked the Hnsnital

Deaz Uncle Jed: I am going to tell you about my stay at the Backus hospital. One night l was taken sick. The next morning I was taken to the hospital. I had appendicitis. They made me stay three weeks and I liked
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16
The Puritans.

Dear Uncle Jed: Once upon time there were some people in England who were called Puritans.
 The king of England would not le. them worship God as they pleased, and some of them went to Holland.
 They stayed there about thirteen years; but they found their children were learning the language of the Dutch; and so they went to Plymouth. There they stayed and lived peacefully. They became rich.
 GRACE KENNEDY Age 12.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16

Whatever you a1e-Bs that; Sraightforw7rdiy act, ..g Be hca2eSs-5n fact, Be nobody eRse e7zt T1W~
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16
Take 1t To Lincoln S

He Does All Kinds of Light Repairing. Typewriters, Keys Umbrellas, Cam
 eras a speciality. Now located in the Steiner Block, 265 Main St., rooms over Disco Bros.
 Established 1880
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.
Bunny.

Dear Uncle Jed: Last year my brother set trap to catch a skunk. Instead of a skunk he caught grey squirrel.
 He could not carry her home be-
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16
Little Daisy.

Once upon a time there lived a little girl and her name was Little Daisy She had golden hair, blue eyes and wore a blue sack. She walked through her flower garden most every morning.
 Her favorite flowers were daisies and roses. She used to roam through the woods. She liked most every wild flower. There was a buttercup field near her home that she liked to play in.
 Her friends name was Isabel
 One day they were playing hide-and- go-seek Ii title Daisy was it; they were playing in the buttercup field. Little Daisy forgot all about play and began to pick buttercups.
 Pretty soon Isabel began to call her Isabel asked her why she did not look for her, and she said:
 T forgot to, the buttercups were so pretty!"
 Isabel said: You seem to like flow ers.''
 DONALD PECKHAM, Age g.
 South Windham
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16

shook the limb, and down wents the bear, head first.
 It was killed instantly, and Ted climbed down and skinned it. The boys returned soon and they had an armful of bearsllins each.
 They went home and sold the skins and got about $5450 for them all but Ted never forgot his adventure with the bear.
 JAMES s. STEWART, Age 12.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16

There is a great demand for ceiling electric fans in Hong Kong.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-16
she Goes to oyster say.

Mansfield Four Corners.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-24
THE BRIGHT SIDE

Mrs. Knoa1 was greatly puzzled
and not without reason. The fact is,
she happened to meet Mr.. NewIywed
one morning as he was rushing to
Neatch his train, and ventuTed with
her usual soIicitude for other folks
affairs, to hope that Mrs. 'Newlywed
~ wasn't having trouble with his ser
fESSS wants.
ooh, nor said Mr.. Newlywed.
~ We've got three~
tkH Then he dashed of, leaving Mrs.
EAg&<l Knoan gasping Three servants, in
deed! Why, it was common knowl-
~ edge in SuburbviIle that the Newly
;A weds were anything but rich. How
JEElOn earth, then, could they afford to
fs keep three servants? Mrs. Knoal
eEfelt forced to call on the bride that
- 8EafternOon to make Investigations.
as On his return home in the even
- ing, Mr.. Newlywed was greeted with
~ this question:
John, what ever made you tell
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-24

Mrs. Knoal this morning that we
keep three servants?"
John smiled.
''Wel, don't we, my dear?" he ask
ed. ''It seems to me that we always
have one going, one coming, and one
here!"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-24

-fl-Fl
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND
There he stood, apparently wrap
ped in thought, directly under the
three golden balls which hung above
the doorway of the shOp-a seedy,
weedy-lOoking individual.
Presently resolution came to him;
he crossed the threshold and inquired
of the proprietor:
How much viii you give me for
this coat?''
A quarter" retorted the pawnbrOk-
er, cycling the shabby garment with
undisguised contempt.
ooh, make it a doIlar!" exclaimed
the seedy one. 'Hang it all, this
coats worth three dollars, if it's
worth a penny
MY vriend," said the paWnbToker.
'T wouldn't give a dollar for two
oVergoats like that-nO, certainly j.
voUldn'tp'
Come, Gomez replied the seedy
one persuasively. "Ten me candidly,
would you take a quarter if the coat
were yOurs?"
Is, dlu IulIlh L u uOuG WSu'
''Ah, then, that's all Tight~ Here's
your quarter. l found the coat out
side and brought it in just to see
how much it was really WORTH"
Mamma-My dear, what are you
doing? Little Daughter-Making a
pen-wiper for my little sister. Nam
ma-BUt you haven't any little sis
ter. Little Daughter-No, not yet;
but Sally Stuckup has just got one,
and know we always get everything
the StuckUps do.
-O-O
Visitor Ito facetioUs fanmer)-I'd
like to know why on earth you call
that white pig "Ink?" Facetious
Farmer Because he's always run
ming from the pen.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26

not for profit. It's controlling
purpose will be to promote eff
by the complete stand-
ardization Of the service, which
will be attained by h2rmonizing
equipment, adjusting the per-
sonnet and securing the greatest
possible cooperation in every
quarter.
The prime consideration in
~perfecting the personnel of the
postal service shall be to recog-
nize efficiency and to eliminate
partisanship. It is the earnest
hope that ultimately all positions
win be covered under the CLASH
fed civil service and that merit
and f%aitbfuiness will be the sole
consideration in making appoint
ments as well as promotions.
In speaking Of the parcel post
service, which was put in opera
ton ON January /, 1913, Mr..
Burleson says the growth Of the
business has been phenomenal In
The first six months of its opera
ton practically 300,000,O00 par.
cells were handled.
The popularity Of the parcel
post cannot be doubted, says
the Postmaster General. Its
Facilities are better and its rates
generally lower than those of
Private companies, whose exor-
bitant charges and unsatisfactory
Service finally provoked an agita-
ton SO insistent as to overcome
the legislative inertia behind
which the express monopoly lay
~intrenched.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26


Miss Verna Lohoefner went to
Auilville yesterday to spend
the holidays.
Mrs Clara Moore went to Co.
lumbia, Mo-, yesterday for an
extended visit.
Robert Gruber Of Kansas City
arrived Yesterday to spend
Christmas here with relatives.
+. G. Bruning went TO Kansas
City yesterday to bring back
his daughter, who has been in
Kansas City.
hrs. Roscoe Moorman of Sc
dalia arrived yesterday to
Spend the holidays here with
relatives.
Ike Noyes went to Marshall
yesterday to spend the day on
business.
Mrs. Palmer Sin went to
Pran City, Mo-. yesterday to-
4he holidays
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26
Linen, Jute, and Hemp Indus
tries in the United Kingdom.


Flax is as cheap as cotton or
cheaper, wages in the linen IN
dustry average less than two
thirds of those paid in the cotton
industry and yet finished goods
made from flax average much
higher in price than finished cot
ten goods. Manufacturers state
that this is due to the fact that
flax is a much more difficult
fiber to manufacture than cotton,
as it takes many more operatives
and a much longer time to OBJ
tain the same output, the first
cost Of a factory per spindle or
lper loom is much greater, and
bleaching and dyeing, owing to
the hard and impermeable nature
of the flax fiber, are much more
elaborate and costly operations
Cotton Is linens most formi1abl
competitor, and its growing pro
duction and the ingeasing skill
with which it is Manufactured
tmaking It difficult in many
cases to distinguish from Linen)
tend to prevent expansion n
the manufacture Of the older and
more durable fabric.
The foregoing is quoted frer.
a bulletin recently issued by thl
Duncan Of Foreign and Domestil
Commerce, Ia whieh Commercial
agent w. A Graham Clark de
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26

scribes the linen, iute and hemp
industries Of the United King
As linen manufacture CEN
ters Largely in Ireland and jute
manufacturing in Scotland, es-
pecia1 attention is given 10 these
industries in their respective
fields. Detailed information is
presented as to processes Of man
ufacturej cost Of production wa
ges and conditions Of employ
ment, cost Of constructing and
operating factories, commercial
usages, and foreign trade. Sup
plementing the data as TO the
sute industry IN Scotland, IS q
chapter dealing with the prodnc.
tIon and Manufacture of that
fiber IN India, which country
has paade remarkable strides IN
its ma1ufactare into yarn and
cloth. This part Of the bulletin
is Of particular interest at tht
present time. owing d Ie higl
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26

Mr.. Burleson also recommends
legislation which viii permit
post office money orders being
Drawn on and paid at any money
order post office, instead of at
4 specified office as at present.
lie announces that efforts are be-
ing made by the Department to
orange appropriate treaties with
South American countries for the
extension of the international
money order system.
The number of rural routes in
operation at the close of the
fiscal year was 1906.
Mr.. Burleson suggests also
that a comprehensive system be
adopted for Federal aid in the
construction and cooperative cost
Of improvements TO highways up-
on which postal facilities provide
means Of transportation for pro-
ducts OF the farm to consumers ii
the city. Mr.. Burleson believes,
however that the State should
participate in all appropriations
for such purposes to at Least dou-
BILE the amount contributed by
the Federal Government.
The Postmaster General finds
that the experiment in village de-
livery Of mail is not successful.
He indicates, however, that rural
CARRIERS might be utilized in the
building up of a village delivery
service. lie recommends that
the compensation of rural car
%riers, therefore, be changed from
mileage to an eight hour basis
and that these carriers be per-
mitted to deliver mail regardless
of the distance from the post Of
flee or the corporate limits Of
the city.
In the course of the fiscal
year the Department investigated
.2,s79 alleged mail order swim
dies. AS a result SIC persons
We're arrested and 304 convicted.
..The operations Of those ar
rested and convicted, . says Mr..
BurIeson, "are estimated to have
cost the public nearly $54,-
10000"
Mr.. Burleson asks tc have a
law passed which viii bar from
the mails advertisements of I'M
fair or cheating gambling appli-
ances or devices, such as marked
playing cards and loaded dice.
Also he recommends action by
Congress which will allow the De
partment to bar from the mails
all advertising and selling of
rattle cards, punch boards, slot
machines and similar continuance
designed for lottery purposes.
Mr.. Burleson asks for legisla-
ton which VIII permit him to dis
pense with the requirement OF
surety bonds for officers and EN-
.Ployees of the postal service and
substitute for it a guarantee fund
raised by assessment against
those now required to furnish
such bonds. This plan, in Mr.
Burlesonis opinion, viii furnish
the maximum protection to tn,
Government at the minimum cos
to the employee-New York Sun
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26

price of jute bagging used for
covering ms American cotton.
crop.
Copies of this bulletin (Spec-
ial Agents Series No. 74) may.
be obtained from the Superinten-
Debt Of Documents, Government
Printing Office, for rs cents each
Arthur Scott went 70 Rulo, Ne
Ibraska, yesterday Cor q few
days visit.
Mr. and Mrs. B. N. Little
vent to Kansas City yesterday
to spend the holidays.
Miss Jean BrighweII went to
Lawrence, kansas, Tuesday ey-
ening to spend the holidays.
Miss Ethel Slusher went Il
corder Tuesday evening 4
Spend the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Long wen
o Kansas City yesterday Il
spend The holidays.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26
Hopes to Reduce Rates.

The Postmaster General says
The system will be developed to
Just as great an event in the mat,
ter of the size of packages to be
carried and other features as viii
enable the Department to main
tain itself ON a self-supporting
basis. The Postmaster General
expects that the revenues from
this source will be 50 greatly
increased that from time to time
reductions in rates may be made.
The Postmaster General de-
VOTES a section Of his report to
the complaints of the railroads
against the inadequate compensa-
ton they are now receiving in
Ithe carrying Of the mails, espec-
lally the parcel post business.
Mr.. Burleson says that the De
partment is now engaged in
gathering statistics on this sub
Ject which will be laid before
Congress. He contends, however,
that the railroads may not deal
with the Government as they
would with a shipper who uses
their facilities as a common car
rler for profit.
THE general business which
sustains a railway, said he, lis
to a large extent dependent up
ON the mails and their certain
and expeditions transportation
and the carriage of the mails BY
the railroad contributes to it
prosperity to an extent and in /
manner which does not obtail
for any other class OF its bust
ress, From these and other con
siderations it follows that rate
for carrying the mails ON rail
roads should be less than thOs
which might be fixed for com
mercial business"
Mr.. Burleson adds that tn
railroads will Of course be er
titled to additional compensate
for the extra service imposed o
them through the increase in tn
weight of packages carried b
the parcel post.
Aerial Mail Service Urged.
Mr.. Burleson asks for an al
preparation OF $0U,UOO TO pr
vide for an experimental aeri
mail service.
1T is believed, says
THAT there are sections Of Il
country where because Of top
graphical conditions this class
service might be advantageous
employed in some cases.
Urges Higher Second Glass Rat
General Burles
follows in the steps Of the ia
Administration IN urging the
crease Of postal rates on seco'
class mail matter. This reco
mendation on the part Of t
Taft Administrator raised
bitter foght. He recommen
that Congress adopt the findin
of the special commission viii
/ investigated this matter IN 1911
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26
WOUEDLIFT POSTAL
SAVINGS BANK LIMIT
BurlesOn Says $500 Maxi.
mum Keeps More Away
Than Is Deposited.
FAyORS AERIAL SERVICE
Postmaster Reports Department Ilas
First Surplus Since 1883.

washington, Dec. lf - fOSI-
master General Burleson reports
the postal service self-supporting
for the first time since 1888. In
his annual report made public
today he says that for the fiscal
year which ended on June 30
last the Department had an &C.
tual surpluslof 1884, 906.
Frank II. Hitchcock, Postmas-
ter=General i'm the Taft Admins
tration, laid claim to the honor
of being the first official since
1888 to put the Department on a
self-sustaining basis. He report
I'd a surplus of 1919, 218 for the
fiscal year 1911. Mr.. Burleson
refers to these figures and with
cut using Hitchcock s name char
acterizes them as misleading. He
contends that the Hitchcock fig
ures did not take into account
the obligations Of the Depart
ment contracted in the course Of
the year and still outstanding ON
June 80.
"There was in reality" says
Mr.. Burleson, "a deficit of APP
proximately $733,O00."
On the same basis ON which
Hitchcock made his estimates the
Post Office Department in the
last fiscal year would have shown
an excess of audited revenues
over audited expenses and losses
Of $4,510,00O. Mr.. Burleson,
however, prefers to stand ON the
actual figures of $9,S41,9 O6,
which make deductions for obliga
tons incurred within the year
out remaining unpaid at the end.
Postal Savings Extended.
Mr.. Burleson reports that the
postal savings system on June
80 Last was in operation in H.,
1853 offices, and since then the
service has been extended to
20 additional offices. The num-
Der Of savings depositors at the
end Of the fiscal year was 3d.
COO and the amount ON deposit
SS3,818,O0o. Postal savings bonds
to the value Of 1896, 900 have
been issued to depositors.
Mr.. Burleson finds that the
limitation ON the amount that a
postmaster may accept from a
single depositor within a month
and the restriction of the deposit
tors maximum balance to $500
have seriously impaired the in
tended utility Of the service. He
recommends they be removed,
which will of consequently
widen the postal savings field.
Mr. Burlesonf says that it has
6een concIrsiyely shown that sub
stantially all the deposits repre-
sent the boarded savings of wage
earners and that thus $50, 0O0, 900
has been called from hiding
places and turned back into the
channel Of trade through the pos
tai savings banks.
The Postmaster General es-
Inmates that owing to the limita-
tons more money has been re-
fused by the postal savings sys
TEN than has been accepted. He
recommends that the postal
savings system shall be per-
mitted to accept any amount
rendered by a depositor, but that.
interest shah not be paid on sim
gle deposits in excess of $1,000.
This restriction in his opinion
would serve to discourage the
transfer Of interest bearing ace
stitutions to the postal savings
counts from private savings in
system.
Service Not for Profit.
In outlining the general policy
Of the Administration toward
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1913-12-26
Service Not for Profit.

In outlining the general policy.
Of the Administration toward
The postal service, Mr.. Burleson
says:
1.-THE dominant policy Of the
present Administration viii be to
conduct the postal service for the
convenience Of the public and
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-11

A young undergraduate was
being taken to task for having ex-
ceeded his leave by two days.
WELL, said the tutor, what
have you to say for yourself? ?"
I'm awfully sorry" replied the
undergraduate. Il really couldn't
get back before ] was detained
by most important business"
The tutor looked at him sternly.
SO you wanted two days more Of
grace, did your" he asked. : No,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-02-11
sir answered the young man, off
his guard for a moment-"of
Marjorie.!,'

A street vender Of fruit and
nuts, wishing to stop people from
handling and pinching the fruit,
thus sOftening and spelling it and
then not purchasing, put up this
notice: If you must pinch the
fruit, please pinch the cocoa
nuts
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-09

mistice expires this week Rumania
therefore has proposed a three days
extension of the compact.
The new frontier between Rumania
and Bulgaria as agreed upon will
start twelve kilometers south of Bait
jik, a port on the Black sea, run
northwesterly to point twelve kilo-
meters south of Dobritch and finish
nine kilometers west of Turtukai on
the Danube, about forty miles south.
east Of Bucharest. 1t is understood
that the allies will abandon their de.
mand for an indemnity from Bulgaria
The disposition Of Kavala in the
vilayet Of Saloniki on the aegean sea
remains the thorniest problem with
which the conference has to deal and
which seems destined to produce an
other war within a few years even
II 1t is settled now without further
hostilities.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-09
MOST INJURIOUS
EVER PRESENTED

CONTINUED from page two)
inc vigorously against the rates fixed
in this bill.
From an official report OF the Brit
,sh government we learn that In the
cotton industry 16 per cent OF the
mon in England, working full time,
earn less than IS each, with nearly
the same percentage in the wooden
industry. Nearly A per cent OF the
MON IN the cotton industry earn be-
tween IS and $3.50 week. Women
largely predominant in that industry
,n the United Kingdom and IL per
cont Of them, working full time, earn
less than $40 week each, while
90 per cent earn between $2.4o ana
a. GO a week. The average hours
~ labor in the cotton industry IN
England are 55.5 a week.
Must Compete With Asiatie Labor
Those are the wages and the hours
in the country where the highest
wages are paid outside OF the uni
ted States, but in other countries
wages are very much less. japan,
which has taken away our cotton
trade in Manchuria and which, accord
ing to a report of its delegate ut the
recent meeting of the International
Cotton Federation held in Paris, Will
soon control the trade Of China and
has 100000 more spindles In the
course Of erection" pays in wages a
mere fraction of what is paid in the
United States. But Japan will soon
become competitor in our cotton
trade in this country and when the
Panama Canal Is opened, can easily
reach our eastern markets. At that
Paris meeting 1t was said that In
Bohemia yarn prices were so low that
yarns were exported to Germany, the
Netherlands, and even to the United
Kingdom, and Germany reported tha'
in cotton manufacturing its position
was "prejudiced by surplus yarns
from Austria beng offered at prices
below cost" 1t was said that produc
ton in Austria was curtailed one
third and would evidently be further
curtailed, unless a market could be
found for the goods. In England
there has been an increase of l2,OOO,
900 spindles since 1906 and new looms
are being put down at rapid rate
and exports of yarn are increasing
on a rapid scale. Foreign manufac
turers are already preparing to hoot
our markets when this bill becomes
h a law. They have taken large orders
J already in this country for goods Il
be delivered under the new rates
The Senate committee has improves
the cotton schedule to a small eXten
as compared with its condition whei
it left the House, but 1t Is now ate
gether inadequate to protect TIT
workmen in that industry.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-09
DOCK STRIKE
AT DULUTH
Additional Workers Out Estimated at
From 400 to 800. Workers De-
mands Not Yet Pre-.
scented

Duluth, Mimi, Aug. 6.-The dock
laborers strike on the Allouez docks
at Superior spread to the Duluth, Mis-
sabe & Northern docks here today
when the day shift quit. The de-
mands OF the men have not set been
presented; presumably they will be
the same as those of the Allouez work
ers. The number out is estimated at
from 400 to 600.
F. H. Little, a worker for the I.
w. w; who has been involved in
the Allouez strike, has been working
to get the Missable men to go out.
Handbills were a potent factor.
The strike opened here in orderly
fashion. The night shift completed
their work and the day shift refused
to go to work, stopping at the docks.
Officials of the company claim the
men signed an agreement made at
the beginning Of the season to work
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-09

DON'T use a cough medicine cons
tanning opium or morphine. They con-
stipate the bowels and do not cure,
only stifle the cough. Examine the
label and IL the medicine contains
these harmful opiates refuse It. Fol.
eys Honey and Tar Compound con.
tains no opiates. ia healing and sooth.
ing. Cooperative Drug Co. -Adver-
tisement.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-09
DON'T FEEL JUST RIGHT?
READ THISl

Mr.. Jack Maltos. Copperopolis, Cal.
would not make this statement were
It not absolutely true. 81 could hard.
ly stand on my feet and when sitting
down could hardly arise on account Of
pain in my kidneys. ! tried three bot.
ties Of Foley Kidney Pills and they
entirely cured me. and I have had no
kidney trouble since" Ask him.
Cooperative Drug Co. Advertise
ment.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-09

through the season for the scale OF
wages specified at that time.
The demands of the Allouez men.
which propbably will be adopted by
the Duluth men also are s2.75 for
days, SO for night, SO so for Sundays
and 80 cents an hour overtime.
The Two Harbors men, who are
expected to strike we're still working
at II am.