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Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
LETTERING CITY GOVERNMENT.

Just at this time when much atten- ton is being given to charter changes by municipalities. the action of the city of Cincinnati upon such a aues- ton shows that all cities are not eager for such a reform. By the change. had 1t been voted, the city would hava conferred greater power upon the mayor and reduced it's common eoun- ell to a smaller and a single cham oered body, for the purpose of obtain ihs better city government.
 That the plan was defeated by seven thousand majority indicates the feel ing of the people of that city upon the value of such alteration. Many cities are considering a somewhat similar change, few have adopted the city manager plan, Dayton in the same state with Ohio being apparently well impressed by it's venture, while others have been inspired by the commission feFra. No charter can be expected to remain perfect for all time. Progress and the development of weak spots call for the proper remedy, but when 1t comes to serious changes in city charters, barring the removal of some handicaps or complications, 1t all de- nehds upon the kind of government which is heinz obtained under the ex- iating form. With all the various kinds of charters, the fact seems to be borne out that city government rests chiefly with the citizens. more than with tRe tyne of a charter. It is not the plan of government so much as the type of men who are chosen to ad-
 minister it. If the best men are elect ed to office and public opinion gives proper backing to g husinesslike. sound and efficient conduct of city affairs, those results are going to be obtained. Such is apparently cincinnati's view of the question.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
RAISING REEE

Again the price of beef is before the country, It is always a subject of widespread concern and particular ly so now because of the claims that the prices would go down and Stay down just as soon as 1t Was made possible to get it into the country without duty. The trauhle is as it always has been that the supply is insufficient to meet the demand, the great cattle raising country in the west is turning to other things.
 Concerning this situation the Nar.' York Times declares; "The cattle kings of the west are abdieatlng, ,4.e.I horned subjects are going the way of the bisoR. That is why the price of Deef ie htsh, end why it is getting hi4heF,
 sThe Feasens given by pr, Townsend ak xhe KA1ArM Animal bArsaA are
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

1t has always been contended that it is extremely difficult for city polics to make liquor raids because the officers are so we'll known and they find it hard to gain an entrance to the places where the liquor is sold. There does not seem to be any good reason why there should be so much woe in Meriden over the raids if the condi- tions were as the prosecutor said in his remarks to the court, but there should be a thorough inquiry for the somebody" who gave the managers of the picnics assurance that they would not be molested. He ought to be made known for the good of Mer- iden.-New Britain Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
Rathsr a Larna ord.r-

A little boy was asked by his busy mother to telephone the grocer for cer- tain household supplies. This Is the way the message ended: Please charge and send ten cents worth of animal crackers. and please take out all the elephants. because the baby is afreia af thsm~"
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
The Passinn YAara

Richard Cleveland, son of Grover Cleveland, is one of the American delegates to the International Edu- caIional Conference at The Hague. Does it make you feel old? Some of us who do not know we are very far advanced in years can remember when Baby Ruth was a national figure. And there was no Richard Cleveland then. Hartford Times
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
Patr;uta in connrsss.

The Presidents idea of a twentieth century patriot is a man who win stay in Washington, like himself to secure the enactment Of a code of anti trust legislation against which the, business men of the nation are rebel? ling. And they have troubles enough nowi-Boston Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
In Other Days

Senator Penrose jolts the Coloners memory by publishing the telegram in which the Colonel "congratulated and cordially thanked" him for the phe- ncmenal Roosevelt majority in Penn sylvania in 1904. But he was not a wicked boss then and the Colonel and he were in close allianee.-New York World.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
Need the Money.

Nor is it surprising that the Senate refuses to agree to the House cut in the mileage graft. With the contin- ued session of Congress utterly ruin- ing the chautauqua business, the poor senators need all the money they can get-Indianapohs News
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
Williams and His Job.

NIT. Williams performances wers those of a puzzled amateur He did not know enough of his trade to use the letter as the shield for the protec- ton of the spirit of the administra- ton he served not wisely but too Willlamsly.-Bcston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
Anofher EtorN

England is to spend s10,oo0,o 900 on dock for it's merchant marine; but, then. England has a merchant marine. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
Greater Than T. R,

Colonel Roosevelt has been advised by his doctors that respect for the constitution is necessary Nature will accept only limited number of amendments.-Spring Republican.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

The one satisfaction from the Inter- state Commerce Commissions report is that there is no excuse for a con tinuanee of such ills and that con yalescence Is reported.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

1V is an Interesting announcement from Rechester's dental convention that painless extraction is almost an accomplished fact, but no such report can be made upon the personal tax.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

The eonstftutionalists change from the offensive to the defensive is a for nation which is going to be watched with a great deal of sympathetic in terest.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

That weufd-be Chicago policewoman who is making reduction of 25 pounds in weight in five days may yet find her recipe more profitable than swinging a club.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
Have The Bulletin Follow You

Readers of The Bulletin leaving the city for vacation trips can have it foliow them daily and thus keep i'm touch with home affairs. Order through The Bulletin business office.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

The double drowning accident in Waterbury while canoeing is another instance of never giving heed to the dangers from unskilled operators until 1t is too late. It is only one of the many similar reports which will be resolved this summer.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

When Villa warns I. W. W. agitators that they will be shot, he certainly makes it plain that he believes in drastic measures for peace.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

Everyone who risks his life in a canoe should realize that 1t is likely to mean his last vacation.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

Seventeen new peace treaties have been signed and await ratification, but hurried scrutiny doesn't reveal ul- ster in the list.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

The man on the corner says: It is one thing to be happy. and another to find it out before it is too late.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

The abdication of Huerta will never be complete until he gets away from behind the throne.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

The impression seems to prevail that that boot owl in congress was purely psychological.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

There are a great many others be- sides Huerta. who are going to re- member who put a new era in Vera Cruz.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

If your vacation comes within forty days it. might be well to tip off the weather man.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

By the way in which the nrogres- siyes of several states are running to the fountain head for directions it is but natural to wonder what might happen if he were still monkeying in South America
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
What Worries Boston.

Whats the ionesomest sound next to the music of tree-frog ?-Boston Transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

It is being said that the next ap- pointee to the supreme court bench should be democrat. Possibly, but in this tribunal fitness should precede politics
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

ments together and furnishes support 10 the roof when the coal previously left for pillars is removed.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17
OTHER VIEW POINTS

Some fine sarcasm is found in the statement of Senator Mclean. It is apparent that Connecticut's former governor has no ffattering regard for the presidents banking and currency plan or his judgment as to the men who should make up the federal re- serve board.-Waterbury Republican.
 A citizen of Deep River, who claims to be candid and fair" says that both mills in that place, which normally employ 500 or 500 people, have been running four days week from April to June 26, and have been shut down since then. He says 1t is a sad sight to see the employees gathered in groups studying psychology. - Waterbury American.
 A fourteen -years-old girl has suc- ceeded in swimming the Hudson at Yonkers, where the river is more than mile wide and the current is swift If more fourteen-years-ol girls, and their brothers. were taught to swim so that they could support themselves for only fraction of such distance in the water the undertakeFs and the drowning cases in the good old sum- mer time.-Hartford Times
 If President Wilson should desire to appoint MT Taft to the supreme court a great opportunity for public usefulness would be thus opened be- fore one eminently fitted for such ser vice It would be wise and graceful thing for MT. Wilson to offer this great honor to Mir Taft. but we do not believe he would accept it Once his great ambition was to become a mem Der of the supreme court. Today he has other and very important ways for public servtce.-New Haven Times Leader.
 By breaking up all political ma chimes and making 1t possible for the business man and the private citizen to enter into the game of government on even terms or better with the pro- fessiona1 politician, a change for the better is surely invited. Then we may see elections in which Ideas, ideals and character will be the determining qual- ities, rather than an intimate knowl- edge of births, deaths and marriages in the ward and, a discerning sympa- thy for what is wanted by the boys" ranged up against the gleaming brass and polished mahogany.-Bridgepo Standard.
 The stockholders of the New Haven and the owners and managers of hon. estly administered railroads all over the country will have feelings of bit terness towards the la< administra- tors of the New Haven. Such acts affect the public faith at home and abroad in American business prosper ity and the character of American in vestments They prejudice the public and their official representatives ana even public boards against the rail- road companies at time when the roads as a whole deserve more favor
Norwich bulletin., 1914-07-17

able consideration than they have been receiving. Providence Bulletin.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
Sad Time for Erenchmen.

One hundred years ago the conven-
ton of Paris was concluded between
France and the victorious allies. This
convention preceded the drawing up
of the formal treaty which was to
determine the position of monarchical
France in Europe. In general, it re-
stored the boundaries of France as
they had been in 1892, before the
Napoleonic conquests. All the vast
territory outside of France that had
comprised the empire Of Napoleon
was taken from her at one stroke of
the pen. $50 much bloodshed to no
purpose said the historian of the
times, so much wealth spent without
result" Small wonder. then, that the
entire French nation experienced a
painful sense of depression and that
the restoration of the monarchy ex-
cited little interest, much less en-.
thusiasm.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
Tobacco MonopolY.

The president of Uruguay has SUBJ
mitted to the general assembly for
approval a contract signed by the
minister of finance, for the purpose
of establishing tobacco monopoly.
This contract provides for the conces-
sion to a private company, for term of
25 years, of the sole right to import,
purchase, manufacture and sell tobac-
co in all it's forms. The present man.
ufacturers and dealers may become
stockholders in the new company for
the value of their plants and stocks on
hand plus bonus, or they may dis
pose of their establishments, machin-
cry and stocks to the company at
actual value plus bonus. The COM
pany is to pay the state $1,240,800 an
nually during the first five years, ST.
$4,000 from the sixth to the thir-
teenth year, and from the thirteenth
to the end of the twenty-fifth year 3d.
O6S,000 After 25 years the monopoly
shall revert to the state
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27

tors if there was anything l could
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was nothing that they knew of. l am
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- Mrs. G. H. GRIFFITH, 1905 Madison
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Hanover, Pa. &c suffered from fe-
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
BUTLER'S ONE BIG MISTAKE.
Chestnut Curls, Accidentally Removed
From Head of Guest, Replaced
on Pate of Another.

"Tenafly's jag list contained some
startling errors" said Norbert R. Pen
dergast, the Wall street man whose
residence Is In Tenafly.
Yes, some of the errors in the orig
inal list we're SO remarkable that they
reminded me of Browns dinner party.
Two gentlemen sat side by side, one
with a magnificent head Of chestnut
curls, of which he was inordinately
proud. the other with bald pate so
shapely and shiny that ne was proud,
too.
We'll, as the butler was serving the
soup, he reached over the man with
the superb curls, and his cuff button
caught in curl, and off came the en-
tire crop on the button like huge
fish on hook.
THE butler was Mortified. He
jerked the wig off the button and
clapped 1t, quick as flash, on the
bald head beneath his hand. Unfor-
tunately, though he had moved cou-
pie of steps, and the head he clapped
the wig on was that of the bald man
who was proud of his badness.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
"Read the Eternltlea.u

The only large values are those in
which our ancestors participated.
The Oldest OF wonders is the greatest
life. An iron-clad, as such, is a COM
monplace beside a ship, and society
merely as society is more stupendous
fact than Rome or England. The Had
is less remarkable than speech. and
the aeroplane is only mote In the
sky. Landscape. the family, the ma
tion. religion-their origin are lost in
the silence of gray antiquity The
now-the presents indeed sacred;
but its sacredness is inappreciable to
those who are circumscribed by its
limits: 1t is reserved for minds that
escape its bounds. do not read the
Times!" said Thoreau, in words that
become more memorable the less they
are remembered, read the eternities."
%. w. Firkins in Atlantic.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
Putnam Fadeless Dyes will last until
the goods wear out.
Parenthood,

The blame, then, for the boy who
goes wrong does not rest with the
boy himself, or yet with his remote
ancestors. 1t rests squarely with the
parents who, through ignorance or
NEGLECT, have failed to mold him
ar, It in the plastic days of childhood.
What is needed, especially in this COM
pick civilization of ours, with its myr.
lad indictments and temptations, is
a livelier appreciation of the RESPONSE
bilities as well as the privileges of par
enthood. Most of ALL perhaps, from
the point of view of coping with the
problem of vice and crime, do parents
need to appreciate that it is in the
very first years of their children's
lives that the work Of character build
ing should be begun.-From "The Boy
Who Goes Wrong" by H. Addington
Bruce, in the Century.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
TIME HAPPILY SPENT
LITERARY WORK INVOLVING
ENORMOUS LABOR.
Famous Historians Spent Larger Part
OF Lifetime in Collecting Materials
for Volumes-Scott a Notable
Exception.

Buckle devoted nearly twenty
years to the collection of material for
his History of Civilization" He
wrote only a portion of the introduc-
ton, which remains a monument to
his literary achievements. If the work
had been finished on the same scale
as begun hundred volumes would
have scarce sufficed.
Bancroft devoted nearly thirty
years to his History of the United
States" which, strictly speaking, is
not history of the country at all,
since 1t ends where the history of the
United States properly begins. Had
the work been continued on the same
scale down to the present he must
have written seventy-five of eighty vol.
umes.
Scott is said to have written IVA
verley'' In less than six weeks. He
composed very rapidly, seldom re-
Tised, and as a consequence his nov
els contain many errors of fact and
anachronisms.
Burns committed his poems to mem.
DRY before he wrote them, and when
he sat down to write he had before
him little labor of composition, since
he had only the task of writing down
that what he had already finished.
A period of 20 years was consumed
by Gibbon In the labor of writing the
Decline and Fall of the Roman EN-
pre-" This was one of the most stu
pendous literary feats ever accom-
plished by one man.
1t took Thomas Moore two years
to search for and prepare the mate
rial necessary to the composition OF
"Lalla Rookh, and two additional
years were required for the actual
writing of that work.
George Eliot Is said to have written
"Middlemarch" in four months. Some
doubt, however, is cast upon this state
ment by the fact that she commonly
worked with. great care and delibera
tion, and made few erasures after the
work was done.
In his preface to David Copper
field" Dickens says he spent two years
In the composition of that work. He
did not usually require SO long time
many Of his novels being finished IL
a year, and most of the short stories
in a few days.
Though 1t is said that Congrev
could prepare a drama for the stag
In few days, four or five times tina
period was given to the work OF Re
vision and reconstruction after tn
play was given to the actors
Nearly five years was taken by Iry
ing In the writing of THE Life O
George Washington though it re
lquired no more than ten days to writ
the first 120 pages of "Bracebridg
Hail." THE Alhambra" was writer
d Iring the three months he spent il
that palace.
Froude consumed seven years in tn,
preparation of materials fol and IL
the writing of his History of Eng
land" He was very accurate, ant
often spent days in an effort to verif,
single date or fact.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
New and Trylnu Position.

Baltimore lawyer tells Of tn.
amusing plight of an Irishman sum
moned as a witness in burglary trial
in the city mentioned.
1t was apparent from the start that
the witness was much alarmed and
ratified by his unsought and undesired
prominence in this trial.
! Remember, Carey" said the judge
presiding, that you have sworn to tel!
the truth, the whole truth, and moth
ing but the truth"
! "Yis. your honor-r," stammered
Carey, his eyes wavering from the
Judge to the jury and back again; IAN
I'll do the best can. But hope we
gentlemin will be trihe aisy on me at
the shtart, for I'm little used to that
sort Of thing, your honor-r."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27
BEST USE OF GREAT WEALTH
Men of Millions Have Shown They
Recognize the Duty of
Benevolence.

A few years ago gift of 100000
for any benevolent object was a sur
prising and experimenting event. A
great advance in ideas of benevolence
and the sense of responsibility for the
use of wealth is marked when 1t is
found that during the year 1913 there
were 2S persons in the United States
who gave 81, 100000 or more to benevo-
lent purposes.
If full list of these were printed
few would be able to tell on what OBJ
jects the majority of these gifts were
bestowed, so common have great gifts
to benevolent purposes become.
The amount in the aggregate OF
gifts during the year, as far as record
ed, was 1902, 100000. OF this. $40,
100000 was for education, and $4,000,
900 for religious and charitable pur
poses, including missions.
The largest beneficiary was the Met
ropolitan Museum of Arts in New
York city, which received $23.000.000
Including an art collection valued al
SIS, 100000 from the benjamin Altman
estate, collection of arms valued al
$5,000,000 from w. M. Riggs, and the
whole estate of ]. M. Hammond, the
typewriter manufacturer, estimated al
S3,000,000 This does not include what
the museum may receive from the
S50,000,000 collection of J. Pierponi
Morgan, part of which is now on loan
exhibition in the museum.
Probably the next largest beneficiary
of the year is the foundation for char
table purposes established by John D
Rockefeller, chartered in the state Of
New York. The amount is not named
and ultimately may exceed the gifts to
the museum.
The $10,000,000 given by Andrew
Carnegie for charitable foundation
in his native town, Dunfermline, Scot
land, comes next. The gifts of Oliver
II. Payne. of $4,250,O00 to Cornell uni
mated at under 100000, to Washing
ton and Lee university of Virginia, are
in the same class.
But the most unique and heart-stir
ring gift Of the whole year was that o
Reed B. Freeman of Binghamton, N
Y, who gave his whole fortune est
mated at $3,000,00O, to the families o
the 30 girls who persisted In the burn
ing of his factory, and at sixty-fiv,
years Of age began business again a
clerk In New York city, poor man
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1914-06-27

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