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Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06

4.. lury that candles having any resenh- plance to those now in use were man. ufactured.
 Before that lime our English ances- tors soaked s2lints of wood in fat, or oil, to obtain their light.
 The candles used by the Greeks and somans were rude torches made by dipping strips of papyrus Gan Egyptian plant and the paper made from it) or srushes into pitch and then coating them with wax These candles were also in use in Europe during the mid heavy.
 A dipped candle made from tallow was Introduced in England in the four teenth century, and wax candles were also made at the same time. These latter were very costly and were con slQered as great. Iuxuries.
 in lS48 a company for the manu- fracture of wax candles was incorporat- ed in London Mold candles are said to De the invention of the Sieur Le Brez of Paris.
 AGNES ABERG, Age 12.
 TaftvilIa ,
Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06
My First Trout.

NY FirSt Fout-
 In spring my father and my broth CT, mother and I go out to a brook that my father leased for a few years. My father asked my mother if she wanted to go and she said "Yes.' When we got up there could hard 1y wait to have my father fix my line.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06
Norwich.
Pure Bred Plymouth Rocks.

Dear Uncle Jed: My name is Rob ert Avery. I live in Ledyard I have two brothers. Ones name is Elmer and the other is Donald. I have three pure bred Plymouth Rock bullets and a rooster.
 ROBERT AVERY. T,edvard
Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06
Feel Fine! Liver Right, Stomach Sweet, Headache Cone" "Cascarets'

 foul  and 1o-eent box
Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06

CahGIe&. It was not until the fourteenth cen-
Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06
s OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

Anna Duryea of Scotland: thank you very much for my beautiful prize book. s.The Little Professor wish all the writers success
 Charles s. Hart of Hope, R. l.: re- ceived the book you sent me l am pleased with 1t. I thank you very much for it.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06

i, letters appear in their turn unless there is a good reason for their oInis- sion. One good reason for some de- lays is that we do not want to have bright writers winning books every week, for that looks too much like favoritism. so good and winning let ters are sometimes held up foI week or two.
 If any letter has failed to appear 1t may have been lost. or there may have been other causes. Uncle Jed does not feel obliged to state why letters are not used-in fact. he always declines to do so.
 Those who do not like the rules are not compelled to abide them, for they can withdraw without single obJec- tfon being raised. We are all going to ave the utmost freedom and no frfc- ton.
 Those who persist in writing are sure in the end to win.
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The evening world., 1913-05-23
rsiieemaa Accidentally Shot.

Policeman Charles Hoffman of the
Ralph avenue station was trying doors
along Broadway. Brooklyn. early to-day
when his foot slipped on . vet step In
mont Of No. 1853. His revolver flew out
~ his pocket and. on striking the pave.
msnt. was discharged. the bullet pass
ing through the calf Of his left leg. He
was taken to the Bush wick Hospital
and later to his home. No. 1919 Hancock
street.
The evening world., 1913-05-23
WILD whistle BLASTS
! FR)MMER STIR CITY;
: sDS TO HELP SHIP
Loud and Repeated Calls Cause
Frenzy on Waterfront
a. lust Waking Crew..

wiz. shrill. loud. long and repeated
East River on the foot Of Dover street
esout I o'clock this morning aroused
Abe entire water front. Even far away
- Broadway the pained appeals w~rs
heard and there was an excited rush to
H-,c the vessel In distress.
~ call after call cut the air. sleeper
after sleeper sprans from bed and
phened to Police Headquarters to speed
all available help to the river.
~ Within twenty minutes mcSs than
twenty-five persons rang up saying that
Judging by the noise an ocean liner
YES laundering within sight of Miss
Liberty. a
People ran to Brooklyn Bridge and
despite the rain hurried out onto The
promenade to see where tho ship was
sinking. The crowds grew big ana OF.
Glued and hampcred the trolley car
trafmc.
Police Headquarters listened and
caught the sound.
Instructions were ut once teieph onsd
I 70 the Oak street station. and Lieut.
John Lake rushed out his reserves. whc
ran to the foot Of Dover street In.
struc.ions to get busy we're also san,
to Lieut.. Keppel Of Harbor Squad A
and sergt. Monahan With . CROW
Jumped into Launch 8 and went OF h,
top speed. making the water fly behind
them. At least twenty policemen We,
on the Job and II was thought to cal
out the Fire Department.
But just then It was discovered tina
the vessel making the noise wac ,
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tug tina,
was to take bsrge out from Pier {:
iikI could not wake the sleeping crew.
The evening world., 1913-05-23

the right imported exclusively b GukDNlS lee Ma Vuk
from r. Nsltcts q Florence, who be- Astes4lg 49,.
cushion sweatband ped which pesvsa q reo q IL 81
from resting on the top Of ones bed, end vaat19 - 6
Hat collection m town.
Panames up TO 49, meudng spesiauy r.a ppsp q.
GIMBELS is ssqssatiosaby THE pses esas a. yeg -
.Skow Hat. No. ~ I,
The evening world., 1913-05-23
AUTO HITS AGED DOCTOR.
Driver naPriss Dr. q. n. MsPpss %
Hospital Uscssssseus.

DR.. Edward n. Morris. vino b eighty
four years old and still practicins. Wiz,
an once ct No. West One Hundred
and rhirty-hfth street, was On his way
70 his home, st Ne. y East One Nun
dred and Twsnty.fourth street. early
ts-day whn. In crossing NTH avenue
At One Hundred aad 0ixtssath street
he stepped In IRON. Of an automobile.
Seeing Ais peril. the ssed physician
jumped bach. but not tar enough. HI
was caught by the mudgard and
kneosed Gown.
In the machine we're Harry BaAowits
Of No. ~ Union avenue. the Bsoax. and
tArsa men Bsrkowits stoppsA AnA With
Policeman isaAcs picked - the unoon.
scious doctor and hurried him to Har-
lem Hospital. whore no va found to
bs suffering from conclusion Of the
brain.
DR.. ko0lade said he thought DR..
Morris would recover desptts his great
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16

man, b., Jones, Charles, Settler, j.
H., Sullivan, John NJ, Thompson, w.
p.
Class B, $72.
Blakeney, III. p, Franks. T. b..
Hughes, c. H., Snow, Andrew j.. Simp-
son, j. NJ, Workman. S. James. vii.
liams, j. III.
Class CT, $4S.
Armstrong, ID. l.. Abercrombie. NJ.
V, Barton. David NJ, Bobo, T. H.,
Bullock, M. L., Burgess, p. W., CLANCY,
M. t, Dillard, j. p, Manning, Ed
ward, Jones, Henry, Garrett, j. p,
Harvey, j. S., Madden, John H., Phil
lips, H. A, Terry, w. H., Woods,
Spencer, Wingate, r. j., Wilbanks,
John S., Wilson, Roland.
Class Cs, $22.1O.
Anderson, w. j., Anderson, G. V,
Allison, w. L., Austin, w. H., Aber-
crombie, j. H., Anderson, j., Bag
well, John b., Bailey, VIM, Brown
II. b., Bishop, G. NJ, Bragg Miles
Babb, William. Cash. J. Matt Currv
NJ, Y, Cooper, William D., Cooley, r,
b., Collier. e. W.. Donnan. w L. Dod
son, w. NJ. Davenport, w. p. Dendv
e. W., Evns. S. p. Gilmore. Andrew
Gilmore, Madison, Fuller, w. S.
Franks, w. H.. Fincher. y. J. Foshoo
John H., Hill, ]. S, Hill. w. r.. Hill
John H., Hellams. w. NJ, Jones, l..
H., Knight, w. NJ. Lawton. r. ~
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16
LAURENS COUNTY
PENSION ROLL FOR YEAR 1918.
Class A, SOC.

CIaSS A, SJB.
Davis, NJ. T., Elmore Maston. Good
man. b., Jones, Charles, Settler, j.
H., Sullivan, John NJ, Thompson, w.
u
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16
Glass b. So.

Class B, $72.
Blakeney, III. p, Franks, T. B..
Hughes, c. H., Snow, Andrew j.. Simp-
son, j. NJ, Workman. S. James, vii.
liams, j. III.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
VOlTURNO'S CAPTAIN TALKS
Story of Burning of His Ship at Sea
Sent by WireIess-Part of Crew
Cut Off.

New York, n. Y.-Captain Francis
Inch, whose steamer, the Volturno,
was burned at sea, with the loss of
136 lives, told his story of the disas-
ter by wireless. 1t is a plain seaman's
tale, but in it, line by line, the hor-
rors of the disaster and the terrible
ordeal through which passengers and
crew passed are brought out all the
more clearly perhaps, because of the
marked directness and simplicity with
which the story is told.
From its beginning, where the out
break of the fire which spelled the
doom of the Volturno is recorded, the
narrative runs without apparent omis-
sion of any salient fact, on to the point
where the blazing ship was abandoned,
the last remaining passenger taken
off and the captain and what was left
of the crew boarded the waiting
kroonland. Captain Inch, however,
does not say what caused the fire.
Although all possible measures were
at once taken to subdue the fire the
captains story shows that it was even
then too late to save the watch below.
The men were trapped in the fore
castle and burned to death there, their
fellow sailors helpless to aid Them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
DONE WITH HUERTA
UNITED STATES WILL NOT REC
OGNIZE THE OCTOBER ELEC-
TIONS IN MEXICO.
WILSON GIVES UP ALL HOPE
A Personal Note Sent to Mexican Die
tator by the President in Addition
to Secretary Bryan's Message
Other Nations Notified.

Washington, D C.-The United
States government has informed Pro-
visional President Victoriano Huerta
that it looked with adherence and
amazement upon his assumption of
both executive and legislative powers
in Mexico and that in view of his
course could not regard as constitu-
tionaI the elections planned for Octo-
Der e.
Two notes, one strongly phrased
and written by Secretary Bryan, in
curing about the safety of the i'm
prisoned members of the Mexican
congress and the other drawn in
forcefu4 language by President Wilson
himself and said to constitute prac-
tically the last efforts of the Washing
ton government to deal with the
Huerta authorities by diplomatic
means unless there is a decided
change of spirit on the part of officials
in the City of Mexico were dispatched.
The negotiations through John Lind
had proceeded to the point where the
State Department accepted the in
dorsement of FREDERICK Gamboa for
the presidency as meaning the elimi-
nation of Huerta, and where it was
confidently hoped that a fair and free
election would be held on Octobtr 26.
Now, however, President Wilson has
made it clear that the Washington
government, with the events of the
last few days-the imprisonment of
the deputies and the establishment of
a dictatorship by Huerta-lost all
hope of seeing a Constitutional cleo
ton held by the Huerta regime.
The steps taken by the United
States We're formally communicated
to all foreign governments. No fur
Their negotiations are planned through
diplomatic channels and it would not
be Surprising if John Lind, who has
been waiting at Vera Cruz to observe
the manner in which the Huerta of
ficials carried out their promises
should return to the United States
at once.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01

President Wilson Approves Secretary
Redfeids Plan for investigat-
ing Tariff Threats

Washington, D. C--President Will
son has written a letter to Secretary
Redfield of the Department of Com
merce approving in its entirety the
latter's plan for a reorganization of
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce with an annual appropria-
ton TO expenses increased from $685.
SEQ to approximately $3.50. 600
The recommendations which Mr..
Redfield submitted in a memorandum
to the President, and which have
been approved, would provide that
the bureau of domestic and foreign
commerce should have a tariff sec
ton which would investigate when
ever industrial changes shall make
it essential, the cost of producing
articles at the time dutiable in the
United States in leading countries
where such articles are produced" de-
tails of wages, comparative cost of
living and general business operations
abroad.
A force of fourteen commercial at
taches would be authorized under the
plan to act as a supplement to the
consular service. The consular Off
GERS of the State Department would
be required to report directly to the
Secretary of Commerce, with refer
ence to commercial matters.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
TRAPPED IN BURNING MINE
More Than 400 Workmen Believed to
Have Perished in Shaft at
Cardiff, Wales.

Cardiff, Wales.-More than 400
Welsh coal miners persisted, it is be-
ieved from fire and afterdamp in the
Universal colliery near here. An ex-
plosion shattered the works shortly
after 931 men had descended into the
pit.
The rescued miners. the members
of the life-saving gangs and the Of
ficials of the mine declared that they
could hold ont no hope for those of
the miners stiH below.
The men brought to the surface
were found on the east side of the
mine, where the ventilation remained
fairly good On the west side, where
the explosion occurred, fire soon add
ed its horrors. and the rescue parties
were unable to make any progress
Most of the rescued men presented
pitiable appearance. Nearly all were
suffering from burns. shock or the eff
fects of poisonous gases.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
MAY SEND SHIPS TO MEXICO
Foreign Diplomats at the Southern
Capital Ask Their Governments
for Protection

The City of Mexico.-The diploma
tic representatives of Great Britain.
France, Spain, Cuba, Guatemala and
Norway at conference decided to
recommend that their respective gov
ernments send warships to Mexico for
the purpose of affording legation
guards, should conditions so require.
A member of the diplomatic corps
made this statement He also said
that the diplomatic representatives
had recommended temperate atti-
tude in the matter of Mexico's reply
to Washington.
The crisis in the relations between
Mexico and the United States, which
was almost reached recently, is only
temporarily delayed, in the opinion
of Mexicans and foreigners. When
and how the next development will
be reached is a question agitating all
alike.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
MRS. MACkAY FILES ANSWER
New York Suffrage Leader Denies All
Charges Made by Mrs. Blake
in Big Suit.

New York.-Mrs. Clarence H. Mac
kay, suffrage leader and wife of the
head of the Postal Telegraph and
Cable Company, broke her silence re-
garding the million dollar suit filed
against her by Catherine K. Blake for
alleged alienation of the affections of
her husband, DR.. Joseph A Blake, sur
geon.
Through her personal counsel, Ar
thur G. Train, Mrs. Mackay denies all
of Mrs. Blake's allegations in a formal
answer filed in the supreme court, and
characterizes Mrs. Blake as one who
has a Jealous disposition, an ungov-
ernable temper" and mo affection or
love for her husband" whom, it is
alleged, she threatened to kill
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
TELEeRAPHIc BRIEFS

The steamship Gear has arrived at
Rotterdam with 102 surviving mem
bers of the crew of the Volturno- Of
ficers of the Gar al1ege that the rule
women and children first was not
observed.
The body of Adolphus Busch, mill
Iionaire brewer of st. Louis, who died
in Germany, was taken to America
by members of his family on board
the steamer, Crown Prinz Wilhelm.
which has sailed for New York
After a fierce struggle the police
arrested Miss Sylvia Pankhurst at
Bow Neaths, in the East End of Lon
don, where she was making speech
But when they got her outside the
building, with the intention of taking
her to Holloway jail, the militants at
tackled the police sayagely and she
escaped
BY the closest vote of the session,
III to log, the House voted to recede
from its conference disagreement and
to concur in the Senate amendment in
the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation
bill, which provides for the removal of
deputy internal revenue collectors and
deputy marshals from civil service
regulations.
The German foreign office has
reached the conclusion that the exist
ing situation in Mexico is such as to
necessitate the presence of a German
warship in Mexican waters
The Russian flagship Taymir and
its consort, the Waygatch, which con-
stitute Russian polar expedition un-
der Commander Whisky, which left
vladivostok June 10 of this year.
| reached ST. Michael storm-bound Octo-
Der 8. and brought to that port news
of the discovery to the north of 81
IBERIA. in latitude 81 north, longitude
104 east, of a new uninhabited noun
| famous land. possibly a continent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
ENTOMBED MINERS DOOMED
All Hope of Rescuing Men in Welsh
Mine Abandoned When Fire
Started Anew.

Cardiff, Wales.-All hope of rescu-
ing more of the miners entombed in
the Universal collieries, where an ex-
p1osion occurred, has been abandoned.
The report that a party of Twenty-Five
men had been found alive in one of
the galleries has proved to be erro-
neous, but a large number of bodies
were encountered.
No official reports have been issued
and this has caused much comment.
Fire broke out anew and still is rag
ing. There are no further signs of
life in the pit Up to a late hour forty
nine bodies had been recovered.
while 36S miners still were entombed.
The shift which went into the mine
just before the explosion numbered 931-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01

There is a protest starting In the
New York press against the class of
plays exploiting the social evil, and
picturing its life in detail on the
stage, a class which threatens to flood
the season unless checked by the re-
buke of popular opinion. This pro-
test is well-timed. and it is to be
hoped there will be prompt popular
response The defense of these plays
is that by showing up the underworld.
the unwary are warned. but stripped
OF pretense. their main object is the
commercialization of the present wide
spread interest in the vice problem.
and its reduction in the mart of public
curiosity to dollars and cents
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
A FOOD DRINK
Which Brings Daily Enjoyment.
A lady doctor writes:

Though busy hourly with my own
affairs, will Eot deny myself the pleas
ure of taking few minutes to tell of
my enjoyment daily obtained from my
morning cup of Postum. It IS a food
beverage, not an irritant like coffee.
L began to use Postum years ago,
not because 1 wanted to, but because
coffee, which 1 dearly loved, made my
nights long, weary periods to be dread
ed and uniting me for business during
the day.
.'On advice of friend, I first tried
Postum, making it carefully as sug-
gested on the package. AS / had al
ways used cream and no sugar. 1
mixed my Postum SO. 1t looked good,
WIS clear and fragrant, and it was
pleasure to see the cream color it as
my Kentucky friend wanted her cot
fee to look-1ike a new saddle
Then tasted it critically, for had
tried many substitutes for coffee. /
was pleased, yes, satisfied with my
Postum in taste and effect, and am yet,
being a constant user of il all these
years. / continually assure my friends
and acquaintance that they win like it
in place of coffee, and receive benefit
from its use l have gained weight,
can sleep and am not nervous
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek. Mich Write for the little book,
THE Road to WellviIle.''
Postum comes in two forms.
Regular Postum-must be well
boiled
Instant Postum is soluble powder.
A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in
cup of hot water and with cream ans
sugar, makes a delicious beverage in.
stantiy. Grocers sell both kinds
There's a reason" for Postum
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01

Correct pronunciation, like most 9th
er virtues, should begin in the home.
1t may be too late to leave its begin
ming to the school. The average child
is much more apt to get his basic and
lasting impressions from his parents
than from his teachers. Careless pro-
nunciation around the family table in
variably has its effect upon the young
ster. 1t is exceedingly important, if
we are to attempt to maintain any
thing like a standard of English, that
the home help the school all it can in
giving the child the earlier bent
Amusing experiences often present
themselves in the effort of a teacher te
convince a child that a pronunciation
learned at home is wrong The child.
naturally, thinks father and mother
know as much or more than the
teacher and consciously or unconsci-
ously yields but slowly to a different
instruction. AS matter of fact not
fnfrequently otherwise well-educated
folk are found holding to erroneous
pronunciations acquired in the home,
which all their later schooling and
knowledge have not supplanted. The
original impression often amounts to
a deep-rooted and permanent provin-
cialism
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01

A nlliputian electric dynamo, per-
feet in every detail but weighing only
a quarter of an ounce, was shown at
work before the Paris Academy of
Science. Its constructor is a French
machanician named Trevet- This dyn-
amo is three-ffths of an inch long.
half an inch wide and three-fffths of
an inch in diameter, and is wired with
five and one-half feet of silk insulated
copper wire 1900 inch in thickness. A
tension is indicated of S.5 volts by a
current of OF ampere. but as to its
power there is no instrument sensitive
enough to record it. While at work
the toy machine made a sound like a
humming of a bee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
Didn't Quite Understand.

At diapers shop they employed a.
small boy to run errands. The other
day, while he was waiting in the shop,
a lady came in and asked the assist
ant for yard of silk.
When it was placed before her she
exclaimed:
-Oh, really, must me mad; l want
muslini''
On hearing this the boy rushed out
of the shop, and, seeing a policeman
across the way. ran up to him, shout
ing:
Come over here. There's woman
in our shop gone mad. She wants
muzzling i''-London Tit-Bits.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
S. GIvLER, Publisher.
YouTH AND OLD AGE.

In a memorable passage in memor-
able book Samuel Butler says: "Au-
tumn in the mellower season, and
what we lose ia flowers we more than
gain in fruits" FonfeneIle, at the
age of ninety, being asked what was
the happiest time of his life, said he
did not know that he had ever been
much happier than he then was. but
that, perhaps, his best years had been
those when he was between fifty-hve
and seventy-fEe, and Dr. Johnson
placed the pleasures of old age far
higher than those of youth The com
parative pleasure of old age and
youth has always been favor1te
theme of debate, and there have been
few men who have lived wisely who
have not echoed the opinion OF Fon-
tenelle and Johnson But the joys OF
age are not those of youth To travel
joyfully down the sunset slope you
must have acquired in youth tastes
and interests which do not disappear
as bodily vigor wanes. Excessive de-
votion to the so-called practical actIy-
tiles of life or TO bodily pleasures in
its various terms, leads almost fnev-
itably to a tedious and eIabittered
senility. Count up the happy old men
and women of your acquaintance anu
you will find that they are the ores
who have laid up a rich store OF intel
1ectual wealth. The proper pleasures
of life's autumn are those of the In
tellect, and if you have been too busy
or too lazy to acquire the taste for
such pleasures you can expect your
declining years to be at best merely
a vacant, joyless waiting for the end
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-11-01
WASHINGTON WARNS HUERTA
count by United States If Depu-
ties Are Injured.

Washington, D. Corresponding to
strong representations from Secretary
Bryan, that the United States would
regard with disfavor any stern pun
ishment melted out to imprisoned
Mexican deputies, the Huerta gov
eminent told American diplomatic
representatives that no harm will
come to the legislators The State
Department received the assurance
through the American charge, Nelson
O'Shaughnessey.